Timeline 2001 Jan-Feb
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2001 Jan 1, No. 4
Washington beat No. 14 Purdue 34-to-24 in the Rose Bowl.
(AP, 1/1/02)
2001 Jan 1, It was announced that
Tyson Foods Inc. would buy beef and pork giant IBP Inc. in a deal
valued at $3.2 billion in cash and stock. Tyson later tried to back
out, but IBP sued, and a judge ordered Tyson to complete the deal.
(AP, 1/1/02)
2001 Jan 1, Ray Walston (b.1914),
film and TV actor (My Favorite Martian) died in Beverly Hills, Calif.,
at age 86.
(AP, 1/1/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.106)
2001 Jan 1, In Canada new
cigarette warning labels became effective. 16 rotating labels included
such warnings as "Cigarettes cause mouth disease" with a photograph of
blackened, bleeding gums.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 1, In Canada a new
federal gun control measure went into effect. It called for the
licensing and registration of all shotguns and hunting rifles.
(SFC, 1/5/01, p.A16)
2001 Jan 1, In Israel a car bomb
wounded at least 40 people in Netanya and gunfire killed 4 Palestinians
in the West Bank.
(SFC, 1/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 1, In the Netherlands a
fire in a Volendam café killed at least 8 people and injured
some 200.
(SFC, 1/1/00, p.A12)(SFC, 1/2/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 1, In Mexico rebels soon
called for the closure all 7 military bases near rebel strongholds.
(SFC, 1/2/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 1, Taiwan allowed Chinese
merchants and tourists to sail to Kinmen Island, a move to
decriminalize reality and a possible preparation for wider links.
(SFC, 12/28/00, p.C2)(SFC, 1/2/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 1, A shipwreck off Turkey
killed at least 6 people. The Georgian-flagged Pati cargo ship carried
illegal immigrants and dozens were missing.
(SFC, 1/2/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 2, Pres. Clinton met with
Yasser Arafat and coaxed Arafat to curb the Middle East violence.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 2, Pres.-elect Bush chose
Spencer Abraham of Michigan as Sec. of Energy; Linda Chavez as Sec. of
labor; and Norm Mineta, Pres. Clinton’s Commerce Sec., as Sec. of
Transportation. Chavez ended up withdrawing after it was disclosed she
had given money and shelter to an illegal immigrant who once did chores
around Chavez's house.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A1)(AP, 1/2/02)
2001 Jan 2, Former Attorney
General and Secretary of State William P. Rogers died in Bethesda, Md.,
at age 87.
(AP, 1/2/02)
2001 Jan 2, Ships made the first
legal and direct crossing between China and Taiwan in more than half a
century.
(AP, 1/2/02)
2001 Jan 2, In Afghanistan
opposition troops captured Ghalmin in central Ghor province.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 2, In Cambodia the
legislature voted to create a special tribunal to try leaders of the
1970s Khmer Rouge regime.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 2, In Indonesia Ryaas
Rasyid, the Administrative Reform Minister, resigned and said the
government was moving too slowly to decentralize administrative
policies.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 3, Oklahoma defeated
Florida State, 13-to-2, to win the Orange Bowl and capture college
football's Bowl Championship Series title game.
(AP, 1/3/02)
2001 Jan 3, The 107th Congress
opened with the Senate split evenly down the middle. Because of the
50-50 divide, the Democrats were initially in control, since Vice
President Al Gore could break ties, but the Republicans took over on
Inauguration Day when Dick Cheney became vice president. However, the
Senate reverted to Democratic control when Vermont Sen. James Jeffords
switched his affiliation from Republican to Independent in May.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A3)(AP, 1/3/02)
2001 Jan 3, The US Federal Reserve
under Alan Greenspan, outside its normal schedule of meetings, reduced
interest rates by a half % and sent the Nasdaq up 324 points to 2616.
The Dow rose 299 to 10,945.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A1)(Econ, 10/20/07, SR p.16)
2001 Jan 3, In Delaware a fire at
an Oak Orchard rural home killed 11 Wright-Shelton family members
including 7 children.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.C12)(AP, 1/3/02)
2001 Jan 3, In Prague some 100,000
people gathered in Wenceslas Square to support the striking TV
journalists.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A8)
2001 Jan 3, On the India-Pakistan
border 4 Indian soldiers and 2 civilians were killed at the border post
of Arhayee Mandi.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 3, Iraq denied reports
that Pres. Saddam Hussein was hospitalized with a stroke following a
parade Dec 31.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 3, Yasser Arafat accepted
"with reservations" Pres. Clinton’s outline for an Israeli-Palestinian
settlement.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A8)
2001 Jan 3, In Spain a commuter
train hit a van near Lorca and 12 Ecuadoran farm workers were killed.
(WSJ, 1/04/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 3, In Tanzania 6 armed
men attacked a ferry with 50 passengers in Lake Tanganyika and 3 were
shot to death including a 3-year-old girl. Male passengers were ordered
to jump into the lake and 5 bodies were later recovered. 20 were feared
drowned. 5 gunmen were later arrested.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A10)(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Jan 3, In Turkey suicide
bomber Gultekin Koc (23) killed himself a 2 others in a police station
in Istanbul. At least 7 people were injured. Koc was a member of the
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front, a Marxist group.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A9)(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B3)
2001 Jan 4, It was announced that
George, the politics and lifestyle magazine founded by the late John F.
Kennedy Jr., would fold.
(AP, 1/4/02)
2001 Jan 4, California state
regulators approved raising electricity rates by an average 10% as
state utilities stood near bankruptcy.
(SFC, 1/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 4, Orchestra leader Les
Brown, known for his "Band of Renown," died at age 88.
(AP, 1/4/02)
2001 cJan 4, In Colombia a
right-wing death squad killed 11 people in a northeast town.
(WSJ, 1/05/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 4, India test flew its
1st locally developed jet fighter.
(WSJ, 1/05/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 4, In Indonesia rival
villages clashed on Lombok and 9 people were killed. 7 others were
killed in fighting between rival villages in North Sulawesi.
(SFC, 1/5/01, p.D2)(WSJ, 1/05/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 4, It was reported that
Russia had moved nuclear warheads into storage areas at its Kaliningrad
naval base over the past year. Russia called the charges a dangerous
joke.
(SFC, 1/4/01, p.A8)(SFC, 1/5/01, p.A20)
2001 Jan 4, In Sri Lanka the
defense ministry announced that the civil war left 3,753 people dead in
2000, including 87 civilians.
(SFC, 1/5/01, p.D2)
2001 Jan 5, In a blizzard of
last-minute executive orders, President Clinton banned roads and most
logging in 58.5 million acres of federal forests in 38 states.
(WSJ, 1/05/01, p.A1)(AP, 1/5/02)
2001 Jan 5, US Republicans agreed
to share power in the Senate with Democrats on committees.
(SFC, 1/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 5, In 2007 it was
reported that a French intelligence document dated to this day warned
that al-Qaida was at work on a hijacking plot. The information was
passed on to the CIA. Documents on Osama bin Laden's terror network
were drawn up by the French spy service, the DGSE, between July 2000
and October 2001.
(AP, 4/16/07)
2001 Jan 6, With the vanquished
Vice President Al Gore presiding, Congress formally certified George W.
Bush the winner of the achingly close and bitterly contested 2000
presidential election.
(AP, 1/6/02)
2001 Jan 6, The Episcopal Church
and Evangelical Lutheran Church of America inaugurated an alliance to
share clergy, churches and missionary work. Their combined membership
numbered 7.7 million.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A2)
2001 Jan 6, A NATO meeting was
scheduled in Italy on the use of ammunition with depleted uranium
following the deaths from cancer of 6 Italian soldiers following duty
in the Balkans. 5 Balkan veterans from Belgium along with peacekeepers
from Spain, Portugal and the Czech Republic had died of cancer.
(WSJ, 1/04/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/6/01, p.A7)
2001 Jan 6, The number of Japan’s
national ministries and agencies was cut from 22 to 12 in an effort to
expand efficiency and shift power from bureaucracies to politicians.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.D3)
2001 Jan 6, In Somalia Rahanwein
Resistance Army gunmen attacked government forces escorting officials
and at least 9 people were killed near Teiglow village.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.D2)
2001 Jan 6, In South Africa it was
reported that cholera had recently sickened some 13,000 people in
KwaZulu-Natal and had killed at least 53.
(SFC, 1/6/01, p.D8)
2001 Jan 6, Thailand government
elections pitted PM Chuan Leekpai’s Democratic Party against the Thais
Love Thais (Thai Rak Thai) party of Thaksin Shinawatra (51). Elections
for 500 seats in the lower parliament were scheduled with new laws to
reduce vote-buying. Shinawatra, Thailand’s richest man, won with 248
seats and divested his assets to relatives.
(SFC, 1/6/01, p.A8)(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.D1)(WSJ, 2/2/01,
p.A1)(Econ, 2/5/05, p.11,24)
2001 Jan 7, Pres. Clinton told the
people of Israel that "there is no choice for you but to divide this
land into two states for two people."
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 7, President-elect George
W. Bush's transition team acknowledged that Labor Secretary-designate
Linda Chavez had provided housing and financial aid to an illegal
immigrant. Chavez ended up withdrawing her nomination.
(AP, 1/7/02)
2001 Jan 7, John Kufuor (b.1938)
became president of Ghana.
(Econ, 11/29/08,
p.51)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kufuor)
2001 Jan 7, Iraqi Kurdish
officials reported that at least 500 Turkish troops had pushed 100
miles into northern Iraq in response to a call for help from the PUK.
The PUK was fighting the PKK and had lost 200 soldiers in recent weeks.
Some 10,000 Turkish troops had entered northern Iraq since Dec 20.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 7, In the Ivory Coast
mutinous soldiers attacked the broadcasting facilities and offices of
state television and radio in Abidjan. The coup attempt was reported to
have failed. 32 people were arrested and at least 8 people were killed.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A9)(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Jan 7, In Russia Pres. Putin
pledged to pay all of its Soviet-era int’l. debts.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 8, Mike Dombeck, US
Forest Service chief, outlined a policy to end the cutting of all
old-growth trees in national forests.
(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A3)
2001 Jan 8, Pope John Paul II was
awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
(AP, 1/8/02)
2001 Jan 8, Former Louisiana Gov.
Edwin Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined a quarter
of a million dollars for extorting payoffs from businessmen applying
for riverboat casino licenses.
(AP, 1/8/02)
2001 Jan 8, Donna Bailey (43),
paralyzed from a Ford Explorer rollover crash, settled her suit with
Ford and Firestone for a total in the range of $20-35 million along
with the disclosure of internal memos and reports on tire safety and
rollover issues.
(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A3)
2001 Jan 8, Advanced Micro Devices
announced its new 850 MHz Duron chip.
(WSJ, 1/09/01, p.B7)
2001 Jan 8, In Afghanistan the
Taliban ordered the death penalty for anyone who converts from Islam to
a different religion.
(WSJ, 1/09/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 8, The Taliban massacred
some 150-300 unarmed Hazaras, a Shiite Muslim minority group, in
Yakalang.
(SFC, 2/19/01, p.A9)(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A4)
2001 Jan 8, It was reported that
Britain was culling 20-30 thousand older cows per week in the mad cow
crises and that it would take 3 years to catch up with the backlog for
rendering their remains to powder.
(WSJ, 1/08/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 8, In Montenegro
assassins killed a senior secret-service officer in Podgorica.
(WSJ, 1/09/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 8, Palestinian’s rejected
Pres. Clinton’s formula for a permanent Mideast settlement.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.D2)
2001 Jan 9, Linda Chavez, the Bush
nominee for labor secretary, withdrew following reports that she housed
an illegal immigrant and paid her for house chores.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, The Supreme Court
limited the reach of federal law to protect wetlands.
(WSJ, 1/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, It was reported that
Amory Lovins (53) of Colorado was attempting to build a super-efficient
sport-utility vehicle called the Hypercar with 99 mpg. It would be
powered by fuel cells and built from carbon fiber.
(WSJ, 1/09/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, Astronomers reported
the discovery of a giant object more than 17 times the size of Jupiter
in the constellation Serpens 123 light-years away.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, In Algeria four
Russian engineers went mushroom picking in the forest of Edough and
were found with their throats cut 2 days later.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 9, Biljana Plavsic,
former Bosnian Serb president, left for the Hague to appear before the
UN war crimes tribunal over her role in the 1992-1995 war.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 9, The UN announced that
in Burma Aung San Suu Kyi and the military junta had held more than one
round of talks since October.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 9, In Chechnya Kenny
Gluck, a US aid worker, was kidnapped and a 2nd was wounded.
(WSJ, 1/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, In India the
Mahakumbha Mela (Pitcher Festival), the world’s largest religious
festival, opened in Allahabad at the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna
and Saraswati rivers. The festival dated back to the 10th century and
65 million people were expected.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.T3)(SSFC, 1/14/01, p.D8)
2001 Jan 9, Russia confirmed that
it does not intend to make all of its scheduled payments to the 18
Nation Paris Club.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 10, President-elect Bush
moved quickly in search of a new candidate for labor secretary after
the abrupt withdrawal of his first choice, Linda Chavez. Bush and his
national security team received a top-secret Pentagon briefing on
military challenges around the world.
(AP, 1/10/02)
2001 Jan 10, James Hoecker,
chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), resigned.
The agency had rejected calls to cap soaring energy prices in
California.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 10, LA Mayor Richard
Riordan warned Gov. Davis that he would cut off the sale of surplus
power to the state, unless LA was paid in advance.
(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 10, American Airlines
(AMR) called its plan to acquire Trans World Airlines (TWA) beneficial
to consumers. TWA’s board approved plans for bankruptcy and accept the
buyout offer. TWA had used St. Louis as a hub.
(WSJ, 1/11/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.R12)(Econ,
6/28/08, p.37)
2001 Jan 10, It was reported that
some 18,000 Afghan refugees had crossed the border into Pakistan in
recent weeks.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A8)
2001 Jan 10, China sent rats into
orbit aboard its "Sacred Ship" Shenzhou II, powered by a Long March
rocket.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A16)
2001 Jan 10, In Colombia soldiers
rescued 56 hostages held by ELN guerrillas outside Barbosa.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 10, In the Republic of
Congo 2 freight trains collided near Nvoungouti station and at least 30
people were killed.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A18)
2001 Jan 10, In Germany Chancellor
Schroeder created a new super-ministry for food, agriculture and
consumer protection to combat mad cow disease.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 10, In Indonesia
searchers found a crashed navy plane in the dense jungle of Irian Jaya
and confirmed the death of ten people.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 10, Indonesia extended a
truce in Aceh province after separatists agreed at talks in Switzerland
to halt fighting for a month.
(WSJ, 1/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 10, In Mexico the
government shut down a 3rd military base in Chiapas.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 11, Pres.-elect Bush
chose Elaine Chao, a former head of the peace Corps and United Way, to
serve as secretary of labor after Linda Chavez withdrew. Bush chose
Robert Zoellick to be the US trade representative.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A1,12)(AP, 1/11/02)
2001 Jan 11, James Riady,
Indonesian businessman, agreed to pay an $8.6 million US fine and
pleaded guilty for arranging $500,000 in illegal donations to Pres.
Clinton and others.
(WSJ, 1/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 11, The US Army premiered
its new slogan "An Army of one" on the TV sitcom "Friends."
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.B3)
2001 Jan 11, The US Army blamed
the "fog of war" in apology and acknowledgement that US soldiers
massacred 248 refugees at No Gun Ri in South Korea in 1950.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.D2)(AP, 1/11/02)
2001 Jan 11, The FCC approved the
$106 billion merger of America Online (AOL) and Time Warner.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 11, FedEx agreed to
handle most of the Postal Services air transportation in a $6.3 billion
deal.
(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.R12)
2001 Jan 11, Unisys, Dell and
Microsoft announced an agreement to jointly create an electronic voting
system.
(WSJ, 1/11/01, p.B1)
2001 Jan 11, Researchers in Oregon
reported the 1st genetically altered monkey produced to contain a
jelly-fish gene for florescence.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 11, In Oklahoma Wanda
Jean Allen (41) was executed for 2 murders. This was the 1st execution
of an African American woman since 1954.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A6)
2001 Jan 11, In China state media
reported at least 27 people dead from a New years Day blizzard in inner
Mongolia.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A18)
2001 Jan 11, In the Czech Republic
Jiri Hodac resigned as the chief of television. Over 50,000 protestors
continued to demonstrate in Wenceslas Square for guarantees of
political independence for public television.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A17)
2001 Jan 11, Israeli and
Palestinian high level peace talks resumed as Israel lifted the
blockade of West Bank towns of Qalqilyah and Jenin and reopened the
Palestinian airport in Gaza. Palestinian travel from the West Bank to
Jordan and from Gaza to Egypt was opened.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A16)
2001 Jan 12, The U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights concluded a two-day hearing on Florida's presidential
election, with members accusing Secretary of State Katherine Harris of
presiding over a "disaster" and trying to shift blame to others.
(AP, 1/12/02)
2001 Jan 12, The FERC approved a
corporate restructure for California’s PG&E that allowed the parent
company to shield profits from the mounting debts of its utility
subsidiary.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 12, William Hewlett
(b.1913), co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Corp., died in Palo Alto, Calif.
(SFC, 1/13/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Jan 13, In Utah a small plane
crashed into the Great Salt Lake and all 9 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.A2)
2001 Jan 13, In El Salvador a 7.6
earthquake hit near San Salvador. Some 1200 people were not accounted
for in the buried Las Colinas neighborhood. The “slab earthquake”
originated 24-36 miles below the surface. The earthquake death toll
later climbed to over 840. Damages were estimated at $1 billion.
(SSFC, 1/14/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.D1)(AP,
1/13/06)
2001 Jan 13, The Palestinian
Authority executed the 1st 2 Palestinians ever convicted of
collaborating with Israel.
(SSFC, 1/14/01, p.D1)
2001 Jan 14, The matchup for Super
Bowl 35 was decided as the New York Giants shut out the Minnesota
Vikings, 41-to-0, to win the NFC championship and the Baltimore Ravens
beat the Oakland Raiders, 16-to-3, to gain the AFC title.
(AP, 1/14/02)
2001 Jan 14, It was reported that
power generators in California were suspected of shutting down power
plants to sell high-valued natural gas contributing to high costs and
power shortages.
(SSFC, 1/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 14, In Colombia 8 people
were killed by at least 40 gunmen outside Valledupar in Cesar state.
Right-wing paramilitaries were blamed.
(SFC, 1/15/01, p.A15)
2001 Jan 14, In El Salvador
aftershocks continued from the Jan 13 earthquake and the death toll
climbed to over 400.
(SFC, 1/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 14, In Mongolia 9 people
were killed when a Russian-made MI-8 helicopter crashed. The dead
included 4 members of a UN disaster assessment team.
(SFC, 1/15/01, p.A15)
2001 Jan 14, In Portugal Pres.
Sampaio won re-election with 55.8% of the vote. The turnout was a
record low.
(WSJ, 1/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 15, President-elect Bush
marked the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at an elementary school in
Houston, where he promised wary black Americans: "My job will be to
listen not only to the successful, but also to the suffering."
(AP, 1/15/02)
2001 Jan 15, In East Africa the
presidents of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda formed a regional partnership,
reviving one that collapsed in 1978.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 15, The Jan 13 El
Salvador earthquake death toll climbed to over 707 and damages were
estimated at $1 billion [see Jan 13].
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.D1)
2001 Jan 15, The Palestinian
authority offered amnesty to suspected collaborators with Israel.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 15, In the Philippines
flooding of the Balugo River and tributaries drove some 12,000 people
from their homes.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 16, Dave Winfield and
Kirby Puckett were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on their first
try.
(AP, 1/16/02)
2001 Jan 16, Confirmation hearings
for Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft opened in Washington with
Senate Democrats throwing jabs at him over abortion and civil rights.
(AP, 1/16/02)
2001 Jan 16, Leonard Woodcock,
former head of the United Auto Workers union, died in Ann Arbor, Mich.,
at age 89.
(AP, 1/16/02)
2001 Jan 16, In China the Shenzhou
II unmanned space craft landed after 108 orbits.
(WSJ, 1/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 16, In Congo Pres. Kabila
was assassinated by one of his bodyguards, Rashidi Kasereka, who was
immediately killed. In 2003 a military court sentenced 26 people to
death for the assassination.
(SFC, 1/17/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/24/01, p.A12)(SFC,
1/8/03, p.A16)
2001 Jan 16, The Ecuadoran tanker
Jessica with 243,000 gallons of fuel, ran aground on San Cristobal
island in the Galapagos and began leaking fuel 3 days later.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A11)(SFC, 1/22/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 16, In Kashmir 11 people
died when militants attacked the airport at Srinagar. The
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba guerrillas claimed responsibility. The
group was later banned in Pakistan but reappeared under the name
Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
(SFC, 1/17/01, p.A11)(Econ, 7/29/06, p.39)
2001 Jan 16, Luther and Johnny
Htoo, twin adolescent leaders of an ethnic Karen rebel group in
Myanmar, surrendered to Thai border police.
(WSJ, 1/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 16, In the Philippines
the prosecution against Pres. Estrada quit after the Senate voted to
deny access to crucial evidence.
(SFC, 1/17/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 16, In Sri Lanka a
government offensive left 41 people dead including 22 rebels and 18
soldiers.
(SFC, 1/17/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 17, Pres. Clinton created
6 new national monuments that included: The Carrizo Plain, 204,107
acres between San Luis Obispo and Bakersfield in California; the
377,346 acres Upper Missouri River Breaks and the 51 acres Pompeys
Pillar landmark in Montana; the 486,149 acre Sonoran Desert monument in
Arizona; the 63 acre Minidoka Internment National Monument in Idaho;
and the 4,148 acre Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks in New Mexico.
(SFC, 1/17/01, p.A2)
2001 Jan 17, California used
rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people.
Gov. Davis declared a state of emergency and ordered the Dept. of Water
Resources to buy and sell electricity to help alleviate the crises.
PG&E defaulted on $76 million in short term debt.
(SFC, 1/18/01, p.A1)(AP, 1/17/02)
2001 Jan 17, Gregory Corso (70),
Beat poet, died in Robbinsdale, Minn. His poetry collections included
"Gasoline" and "Mindfield" (1989).
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D7)
2001 Jan 17, In Britain the House
of Commons voted 387 to 174 to ban fox hunting.
(SFC, 1/18/01, p.A16)
2001 Jan 17, In Colombia 25 men
were hacked to death by some 50 AUC right-wing paramilitary at Chengue.
30 homes were set on fire and 7 men taken as hostages. Residents had
called for protection 23 months earlier.
(SFC, 1/18/01, p.A14)(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Jan 17, In Congo government
ministers named Joseph Kabila, son of Laurent Kabila, as temporary head
of state.
(SFC, 1/18/01, p.A13)
2001 Jan 17, In Indonesia
separatist rebels took 6 hostages in Irian Jaya. The kidnappers
belonged to a faction of the Free Papua Movement led by Willem Konde.
(SFC, 1/18/01, p.A16)
2001 Jan 17, It was reported that
Norway was lifting its ban on exports of whale meat and byproducts.
(WSJ, 1/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 17, Hisham Miki (54),
head of Palestinian TV, was shot to death by 3 masked men in Gaza City.
(SFC, 1/18/01, p.A13)
2001 Jan 17, In Sudan some 30,000
people fled rebel-held regions in the Numa Mountains.
(SFC, 1/18/01, p.A16)
2001 Jan 18, One year ago:
President Clinton, in a farewell from the Oval Office, told the nation
that "America has done well" during his presidency, with
record-breaking prosperity and a cleaner environment.
(AP, 1/18/02)
2001 Jan 18, Electricity-strapped
California saw a second day of rolling blackouts.
(AP, 1/18/02)
2001 Jan 18, SF sued 13 energy
providers for collusion to fix prices and restrict the energy supply.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 18, Rev. Jesse Jackson
acknowledged that he had fathered a daughter in 1999 through an
extramarital affair with Karin Stanford, former head of the
Rainbow/PUSH Washington office.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.D7)(AP, 1/18/02)
2001 Jan 18, In Algeria 23
shepherds and farmers were killed in the Dahra region by armed
assailants.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 18, The Congo government
announced the death of Laurent Kabila.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.A16)
2001 Jan 18, Ofir Rafum (16) of
Israel was murdered in the West Bank after being lured over by a woman
via an internet relationship.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 18, In Romania there was
a cyanide spill in the Siret River. 72 people were later hospitalized
after eating river fish.
(WSJ, 1/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 18, Pavel Borodin (54),
secretary of the Russia-Belarus Union, was arrested at JFK airport by
FBI agents on a Swiss warrant for money laundering.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.A15)
2001 Jan 18, In Thailand a court
agreed to hear a corruption case against Prime Minister-elect Thakson
Shinawatra.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D4)
2001 Jan 18, In Thailand 2 bombs
exploded in Bangkok and at least 8 people were killed.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.A17)
2001 Jan 19, Pres. Clinton
admitted that he misled prosecutors about his relationship with Monica
Lewinsky and struck a deal with independent counsel Robert Ray to
accept a 5-year suspension of his Arkansas law license and pay a
$25,000 fine.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A1)(AP, 1/19/02)
2001 Jan 19, Pres. Clinton lifted
economic sanctions against Yugoslavia.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 19, The US and Israel
signed an agreement to phase out economic aid by 2008. half the aid
would be replaced by military aid. Separately $80 million was pledged
to a UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 19, Former NFL player Rae
Carruth was acquitted of first-degree murder but convicted of
conspiracy and two other charges in the fatal shooting of his pregnant
girlfriend. Carruth was later sentenced to a minimum of 18 years, 11
months in prison and a maximum of 24 years, four months.
(AP, 1/19/02)
2001 Jan 19, In Afghanistan UN
sanctions began following a 30-day deadline for the handover of Osama
bin Laden. The sanctions coincided with the worst drought in 30 years.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A13)
2001 Jan 19, In Algeria gunmen
killed 11 family members in Medea.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.D4)
2001 Jan 19, The Belgian
government agreed to decriminalize the use of marijuana.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 19, In Congo fighting
between Hema and Lendu tribes people left about 118 Hema dead along
with 159 Lendu.
(SFC, 1/29/01, p.A12,14)
2001 Jan 19, Off Ecuador’s
Galapagos Islands, the tanker Jessica, aground on San Cristobal island,
cracked its cargo hold and began leaking fuel. Some 150,000 gallons of
diesel and bunker fuel were released. It was later learned that the oil
caused the deaths of thousands of marine iguanas.
(SFC, 1/22/01, p.A10)(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A2)
2001 Jan 19, Thousands of people
fled the Ivory Coast for Burkino Faso to escape attacks on foreigners.
As many as 10,000 were arriving each week and others were fleeing to
Mali, Ghana and Niger.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 19, In Liberia Pres.
Charles Taylor said that he has ended support of the RUF in Sierra
Leone and would submit to int’l. scrutiny of his finances.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 19, In Mexico Joaquin
Guzman Loera, aka "El Chapo," escaped from the maximum-security prison
in Jalisco state. Leonardo Beltran, the prison director, and 30
officers were detained for possible involvement in the cocaine
trafficker’s escape. 78 people were later implicated.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.D4)(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 19, In Nigeria Bariya
Magazu (19) was flogged 100 times for having premarital sex under
Islamic law (sharia).
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 20, Michelle Kwan won her
fourth straight U.S. Figure Skating Championship title while Timothy
Goebel won his first men's title.
(AP, 1/20/02)
2001 Jan 20, Pres. Clinton in his
final hours issued 36 commutations and 140 pardons that included Susan
McDougal, Patricia Hearst, Henry Cisneros, John Deutch and Roger
Clinton. It was later revealed that Hugh Rodham, the brother of Hillary
Rodham Clinton, received $400,000 to help 2 felons win clemency.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 20, George Bush, the 1st
president with an MBA, was inaugurated as the nation’s 43rd president
in Washington DC. The "compassionate conservative" vowed to lead
"through civility, courage, compassion and character."
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 20, Pres. Bush suspended
all late-term executive orders issued by Pres. Clinton.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.A5)
2001 Jan 20, Some 25,000
protesters gathered in Washington DC for the inauguration of Pres. Bush
along with some 7,000 police.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.A4)
2001 Jan 20, In Bangladesh a bomb
exploded at a leftist political rally in Dhaka and at least 6 people
were killed.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.D4)
2001 Jan 20, In Indonesia
mudslides in North Sulawesi province killed at least 33 people.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.C14)
2001 Jan 20, In Iraq the
government said US and British warplanes killed 6 citizens in air
attacks over southern Al-Muthana province.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.D4)
2001 Jan 20, In Israel Prime
Minister Barak agreed to a Palestinian proposal for a fresh round of
peace negotiations in Taba, Egypt.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Jan 20, In the West Bank
Israeli soldiers captured Mona Najar (25), suspected in the Jan 18
luring and murder of Ophir Rakhum.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.3)
2001 Jan 20, In the Philippines
Pres. Estrada stepped down as tens of thousands, united by cell phone
messages, marched on his residence. Vice President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo (53), daughter of former pres. Diosdado Macapagal, took over
power.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A1,12)(AP, 1/20/02)
2001 Jan 21, The Roman epic
"Gladiator" claimed best dramatic movie and the 1970's rock-and-roll
story "Almost Famous" won best comedy at the Golden Globes Awards.
(AP, 1/21/02)
2001 Jan 21, Pope John Paul II
elevated archbishops of New York and Washington and 35 other church
leaders to the College of Cardinals.
(AP, 1/21/02)
2001 Jan 21, Byron De La Beckwith
(80), a white supremacist convicted three decades after the fact for
assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers, died in Jackson, Miss.
(AP, 1/21/02)
2001 Jan 21, In Chechnya rebels
fought street battles in Gudermes following weekend raids that left 6
Russian soldiers dead.
(WSJ, 1/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 21, Syria approved
private banking and ended artificial exchange rates.
(WSJ, 1/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 21, In Ukraine 9 miners
died and 15 were injured in a gas explosion in the Donetsk coal region.
(WSJ, 1/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 22, Pres. Bush banned US
funding for overseas abortion counseling. On the anniversary of the
Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Bush signed a memorandum
reinstating full abortion restrictions on U.S. overseas aid.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A1)(AP, 1/22/02)
2001 Jan 22, US police in Colorado
caught 4 escaped Texas convicts. A 5th committed suicide. The 2 at
large were caught a day later.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A3)(SFC, 1/24/01, p.A2)
2001 Jan 22, In Britain the House
of Lords passed legislation that effectively legalized the creation of
cloned human embryos.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 22, Israeli and
Palestinian negotiators met in Taba, Egypt.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 22, In Japan Fukushiro
Nukaga, economics minister, resigned in a bribery scandal and was
succeeded by Taro Aso.
(WSJ, 1/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 22, In Russia Pres. Putin
put his domestic security agency in charge of the war effort in
Chechnya.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.C3)
2001 Jan 23, Spencer Abraham,
energy secretary, extended 2 federal emergency orders forcing power
suppliers to continue selling electricity and natural gas to California.
(SFC, 1/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 23, California energy
officials eked sufficient power out of tight West Coast electricity
supplies to avoid rush hour blackouts as lawmakers scrambled to make
longer-term deals to buy power.
(AP, 1/23/02)
2001 Jan 23, Five people believed
to members of Falun Gong set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square.
One woman and her daughter (12) died. In August 4 people were convicted
of murder for organizing the self-immolation. A judge found that they
had spread the notion that members could achieve nirvana through
self-immolation.
(SFC, 1/24/01, p.A12)(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 23, In Egypt
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were suspended after Palestinian gunmen
executed 2 Israelis, alleged Shin Bet security agents, in Tulkarem.
(SFC, 1/24/01, p.A13)
2001 Jan 23, India extended its
cease-fire in Kashmir for a 3rd month.
(WSJ, 1/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 24, In California the
state received bids for long-term electricity contracts in an auction
to help ease the energy crises.
(SFC, 1/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 24, The last two of seven
escaped convicts from Texas were captured in Colorado after 42 days on
the run; four others were captured earlier, and one committed suicide.
(AP, 1/24/02)
2001 Jan 24, Lucent Technologies
said it would eliminate up to 16,000 jobs.
(AP, 1/24/02)
2001 Jan 24, In Chechnya 14
Russian soldiers were killed.
(WSJ, 1/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 24, The Chinese lunar
calendar marked this as the new year, 4699, Year of the Snake. It is
celebrated in Vietnam as Tet and in Korea as Solnol.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.CN3)(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Jan 25, Richard Clarke, US
top counter-terrorism advisor, presented a strategy document to
Condoleeza Rice with proposal for eliminating the threat from al-Qaeda.
The document was made public in 2005.
(SFC, 2/12/05, p.A5)
2001 Jan 25, Alan Greenspan said
budget surpluses were growing enough to allow a tax cut and still
eliminate the national debt by the end of the decade.
(SFC, 1/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 25, A jury in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., found 13-year-old Lionel Tate guilty of first-degree
murder in the death of a 6-year-old family friend. Tate had said he
accidentally killed the girl while imitating moves by pro wrestlers.
(AP, 1/25/02)
2001 Jan 25, The first World
Social Forum (WSF), originated by Oded Grajew, opened in Porto Alegre,
Brazil, organized by many groups including the French Association for
the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Social_Forum)
2001 Jan 25, Israel and Palestine
continued talks in Egypt as an Israeli motorist was killed in an ambush
by the "Thabet Thabet Brigade."
(SFC, 1/26/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 25, In Venezuela a DC-3
Rutaca Airlines flight 225 crashed and all 24 passengers, American and
European tourists, were killed.
(SFC, 1/26/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 26, Pres. Bush renewed
his pledge to build a missile defense system and to reduce the nuclear
arsenal.
(SFC, 1/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Jan 26, Scientists announced
that they had decoded the genetic blueprint of rice. It was the 1st
important plant to have its genome decoded.
(SFC, 1/27/01, p.A7)
2001 Jan 26, Diane Whipple (33),
Lacrosse coach, died after being mauled by 2 dogs in her San Francisco
Pacific Heights apartment. The dogs, under the control of Marjorie
Knoller, were later found to be owned by 2 Aryan Brotherhood prison
gang members and kept by attorneys Robert Noel (59) and Marjorie
Knoller (45). A few days later Noel and Knoller adopted Paul Schneider
(38) in SF family court. Bane, one of the Presa Canario dogs, was
destroyed following the attack on Whipple. Hera, the 2nd dog, was
impounded. Knoller and Noel were indicted for murder and manslaughter
on Mar 27. Hera was put to death Jan 30, 2001. Knoller was paroled Jan
1, 2004. In 2005 a state appeals court reinstated a murder conviction
against Marjorie Knoller. Knoller was again jailed in 2008 after a
judge reinstated her murder conviction. On Sep 22 Knoller was sentenced
to 15 years to life in prison.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A1)(SFC,
1/31/01, p.A1)(SFC, 2/1/01, p.A11)(SFC, 3/28/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/31/02,
p.A13)(SFC, 1/1/04, p.A19)(SFC, 5/6/05, p.B1)(SFC, 8/23/08, p.B1)(AP,
9/22/08)
2001 Jan 26, In Illinois a
Salvation Army van collided with a truck and 10 people were killed on I
55 near Joliet.
(SFC, 1/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Jan 26, Dr. Charles Merieux,
virologist and founder of the Merieux Laboratory, died at age 94 in
Lyon, France. He helped produce the Salk vaccine cultivated in minced
monkey kidney tissue. He also produced a vaccine against a meningitis
strain that killed 4,000 people in Brazil in 1974.
(SFC, 1/27/01, p.A24)
2001 Jan 26, Joseph Kabila was
sworn in as Congo's president, following the assassination of his
father, Laurent Kabila.
(AP, 1/26/02)
2001 Jan 26, In Germany the lower
house passed an overhaul of the national pension system.
(SFC, 1/27/01, p.C16)
2001 Jan 26, A 7.9 (7.7)
earthquake hit India and Pakistan as India prepared to celebrate
Republic Day. It was an intraplate earthquake along a thrust fault 300
miles south of the boundary between the Indo-Australian and Eurasian
Plates. Some 20,000-50,000 people were killed and over 14,000 injured
across Gujarat state. 10 people were reported killed in Pakistan. The
quake caused an underground river, either the Saraswati or Indus, to
reappear that had disappeared in a 19th century quake. [see Jan 31]
(SFC, 1/26/01, p.A16)(SFC, 1/27/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
1/29/01, p.A1)(SFC, 2/17/01, p.D8)(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.R12)
2001 Jan 26, Benjamin Hermansen
(15), a black teenager, was stabbed to death in Holmlia near Oslo,
Norway. 5 Neo-Nazi Bootboys were soon arrested. In 2002 Joe Erling Jahr
(20) was sentenced to 16 years in prison and Ole Nicolai Kvisler (22)
was sentenced to 15 years. Veronica Andreasen (18) received 3 years as
an accomplice.
(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A11)(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A6)
2001 Jan 26, In the Philippines
Pres. Arroyo forced her Cabinet ministers to sign an 8-point "covenant"
that included pledges to show "respect for others," live a simple
lifestyle and focus on the poor.
(SFC, 1/27/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 26, The 198-foot vessel
Pamyat Merkuriya sank in the Black Sea and at least 14 people were
killed. The ship was enroute to Yevpatoria, Ukraine, from Istanbul.
(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 26, A UN panel criticized
Saudi Arabia for discriminating against women, harassing minors and for
punishments that included flogging and stoning.
(SFC, 1/27/01, p.C16)
2001 Jan 27, Jennifer Capriati
upset three-time winner Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 to win the Australian
Open title and her first Grand Slam tournament championship.
(AP, 1/27/02)
2001 Jan 27, Lynn Swann and Ron
Yary were both elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on in their
14th year of eligibility.
(AP, 1/27/02)
2001 Jan 27, Bill Gates pledged
$100 million for an AIDS vaccine.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.A18)
2001 Jan 27, In New Hampshire 2
Dartmouth professors, Half and Susanne Zantop, were found slain. James
Parker 16) and Robert Tulloch (17), suspects in the murder, were
arrested in Indiana Feb 19. Parker pleaded guilty in 2001 and agreed to
testify against Tulloch. Parker pleaded guilty to being an accomplice
to second-degree murder and is serving a sentence of 25 years to life.
Tuloch pleaded guilty in 2002 to murder and conspiracy and is serving a
sentence of life without parole.
(SFC, 2/20/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A7)(SFC,
4/2/02, p.A4)(AP, 1/27/06)
2001 Jan 27, A small plane crashed
south of Denver and 10 people were killed including passengers
associated with the Oklahoma State Univ. basketball team.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.A13)(AP, 1/27/02)
2001 Jan 27, In Switzerland riot
police prevented some 1,000 protestors from reaching the World Economic
Forum at Davos.
(SFC, 1/29/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 27, The Iran Republic
news Agency reported that 3 intelligence agents were sentenced to death
and 12 others to life in prison for their roles in murdering dissident
writers and intellectuals.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.A22)
2001 Jan 27, Israel and Palestine
ended 6 days of talks in Egypt. They failed to reach a peace accord but
declared that they were never closer.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.A18)
2001 Jan 28, Super Bowl XXXV was
played in Tampa. The Baltimore Ravens defeated the New York Giants 34-7.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.T8)
2001 Jan 28, Marc Rich, fugitive
financier pardoned by outgoing Pres. Clinton, said he would return to
the US to face tax evasion charges.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.D2)
2001 Jan 28, In Algeria an armed
group killed 2 dozen people in Oued Fares in the Chlef region. 16 of
the dead were children.
(SFC, 1/29/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 28, In Colombia gunmen
killed at least 10 people in Hato Nuevo.
(SFC, 1/29/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 28, In Israel state
workers under the Histadrut labor federation expanded their strike with
a walkout by workers at Ben-Gurion airport over pay demands.
(SFC, 1/29/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 28, In Karachi, Pakistan,
masked gunmen ambushed a religious school’s van and killed 5 Sunni
Muslims.
(SFC, 1/29/01, p.A14)
2001 Jan 28, In Peshawar,
Pakistan, an angry mob torched the English language newspaper, the
Frontier Post. It had just published a letter to the editor titled "Why
Muslims hate Jews."
(LSA, Fall/03, p.38)
2001 Jan 28, Only a week after
naming a record-setting 37 new cardinals, Pope John Paul II named 5 new
cardinals, two Germans, and one each from South Africa, Bolivia and
Ukraine. He also revealed the identities of 2 others from the former
Soviet Union.
(SFC, 1/29/01, p.A14)(AP, 1/28/02)
2001 Jan 28, Weekend clashes in
Zanzibar (Tanzania) killed 39 opposition supporters as protesters
demanded new elections.
(WSJ, 1/29/01, p.A1)(Econ, 12/13/03, p.43)
2001 Jan 29, President Bush
promised to "act boldly and swiftly" to address the nation's energy
problems, and directed Vice President Dick Cheney to head a task force
to develop an energy strategy.
(AP, 1/29/02)
2001 Jan 29, Pres. Bush signed an
executive order creating a new white House Office of Faith-based and
Community Initiatives.
(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 29, DaimlerChrysler
announced it was eliminating 26,000 jobs at its money-losing Chrysler
division.
(AP, 1/29/02)
2001 Jan 29, Al DeGuzman (19) was
arrested in San Jose, Ca., after a photo lab clerk reported pictures of
him in front of an arsenal of weapons. A 158-page diary was found
labeled "Plan X2" for a Jan 30 attack at De Anza College in Cupertino.
DeGuzman was found guilty in 2002 of 108 felony accounts. He was
sentenced to 7 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/27/02, p.A1)(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A17)
2001 Jan 29, At least 110 Afghan
refugees froze to death in camps near Herat.
(WSJ, 2/1/01, p.A1)(SFC, 2/2/01, p.D4)
2001 Jan 29, In Chile Judge Guzman
reinstated his case against Gen. Pinochet.
(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 29, In Indonesia some
10,000 protesters marched in Jakarta over corruption scandals that
allegedly involved Pres. Wahid.
(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 29, An Israeli motorist
was killed in the West Bank as Yasser Arafat reversed earlier rhetoric
and sent a message for peace.
(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 29, Demonstrators in
Turin clashed with police following an agreement between France and
Italy to establish a high-speed rail line between Turin and Lyon.
(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 29, Serb thrown hand
grenades hit an ethnic Albanian home in Kosovo. 1 person was killed, 2
injured and NATO peacekeepers broke up an ensuing riot.
(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A11)
2001 Jan 29, Tanzanian police
regained control in Zanzibar following weekend street battles that left
40 people dead.
(WSJ, 1/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 30, Republicans pushed
John Ashcroft's attorney general nomination to the Senate floor by a
narrow 10-8 Judiciary Committee vote; all but one Democrat voted
against him.
(AP, 1/30/02)
2001 Jan 30, Chrysler announced
production cuts of 15% and work force cuts to 20% in the biggest US
auto industry retrenchment in nearly a decade.
(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.R12)
2001 Jan 30, In France thousands
of teachers, hospital workers and police marched to demand pay
increases. Some 17,000 marched in Paris.
(SFC, 1/31/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 30, In the Netherlands a
Scottish court convicted Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan
intelligence officer, of murder in the 1998 bombing of Pan Am Flight
103. A 2nd Libyan, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted.
(SFC, 1/31/01, p.A11)(SFC, 2/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 30, In Turkey Mehmet
Fevzi Sihanlioglu (55), member of parliament, was beaten by fellow
lawmakers in the Grand National Assembly and died of a heart attack.
The attack followed a debate on whether time for speeches should be
extended.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.D18)
2001 Jan 31, The US Federal
Reserve cut interest rates .5% to 5.5%.
(SFC, 2/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 31, The state of Georgia
hoisted its new flag above its statehouse, one featuring a smaller
Confederate battle emblem.
(AP, 1/31/02)
2001 Jan 31, Gordon Dickson,
Science-fiction author of over 80 books, died at age 77 in Richfield,
Minn. His "Lost Dorsai" series spanned from 1400-2400AD.
(SFC, 2/3/01, p.A16)
2001 Jan 31, Michel Navratil, one
of the last known survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, died in
Montpellier, France, at age 92.
(AP, 1/31/02)
2001 Jan 31, Germany announced
plans to destroy 400,000 cattle due to the mad cow crises.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.D4)
2001 Jan 31, In India the death
count from the Jan 26 earthquake reached 12,000 and an additional
13,000 were believed still buried.
(SFC, 2/1/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 31, In the Netherlands a
Scottish court sentenced Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan
intelligence officer, to life in a Scottish prison for the 1998 bombing
of Pan Am Flight 103. A second Libyan was acquitted.
(SFC, 1/31/01, p.A11)(SFC, 2/1/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
2/1/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/19/03)
2001 Jan, Christie’s sold a
miniature portrait of George Washington to an anonymous bidder for $1.2
million. The oval portrait, painted by John Ramage, also contained
plaited strands of Washington’s hair inside its case.
(HNQ, 5/4/01)
2001 Jan, Abdulaziz al-Kohaji,
engineering student and son of a Saudi oilman, went missing from the
Community College of Denver. His body was found in a landfill in Erie,
15 miles north of Denver, a month later and police said he had been
taped to a chair and strangled before being thrown into a trash bin.
Mishal al-Suwaidi, Tariq al-Dossary and al-Yousif, suspects in the
murder, were acquaintances of al-Kohaji and prosecutors said the motive
was robbery. Suwaidi and Dossary fled to Saudi Arabia. Yousif was
convicted in the US and sentenced to life. In 2004 the family of Kohaji
pardoned the Suwaidi and Dossary and save them from execution.
(AP, 1/2/05)
2001 Jan, In Bangladesh journalist
Tipu Sultan was attacked by a crowd of bodyguards of an MP, whom he had
reported as linked to crime and corruption. Sultan was left for dead
and spent months recovering outside the country.
(Reuters, 11/24/05)
2001 Jan, In Brazil Gol Airlines
was launched by the Constantino family, which ran a fleet of buses.
Employee owned Varig had 40% of the market, but was crumbling under
competition from TAM. Varig went into bankruptcy in 2005.
(Econ, 4/28/07, p.76)
2001 Jan, Italy and the US signed
a treaty that requires objects dating between 900 BC and 400 AD be
accompanied by Italian government certification before leaving the
country.
(WSJ, 2/6/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb 1, John Ashcroft won
confirmation as attorney general on a 58-42 Senate vote, completing
President George W. Bush's Cabinet over strong Democratic opposition.
(AP, 2/1/02)
2001 Feb 1, California state
lawmakers enacted legislation to spend up to $10 billion for power.
Gov. Davis ordered large retail outlets to dim lights with penalties
beginning Mar 15.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 1, In Michigan Tony and
Linda Calliea claimed their Big Game lottery win for $107 million. They
selected a $57.7 lump sum option.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.A2)
2001 Feb 1, In Ecuador Ronald Clay
Sander (54), an oil technician from Missouri, was found shot to death.
He had been kidnapped in October and 7 more hostages were still held.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Feb 1, The India earthquake
death toll estimates rose to between 35-50 thousand with injuries to
over 60,000. the damages in Gujarat state were estimated at $4.5
billion.
(WSJ, 2/2/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 1, In Indonesia the
parliament agreed to censure Pres. Abdurrahman Wahid for alleged
involvement in 2 corruption scandals.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 1, In East Timor the
former guerrilla force was transformed into the core of a new national
army.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.D4)
2001 Feb 1, Pres. Milo Djukanovic
of Montenegro visited Washington DC to explain his reasons for
independence, but Sec. Of State Colin Powell refused to see him.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.D4)
2001 Feb 1, In Taiwan the
legislature voted to reverse Pres. Shui-bian’s decision to scrap a
partly built nuclear power plant.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.D4)
2001 Feb 2, Former President
Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said they would pay for $86,000
worth of White House gifts they'd chosen to keep.
(AP, 2/2/02)
2001 Feb 2, Mexico agreed to sell
a small amount of power to California. The Bush administration refused
to impose energy price caps despite pleas by Western governors.
(SFC, 2/3/01, p.A3,8)
2001 Feb 2, Congo’s Pres. Joseph
Kabila called for the armies of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi to withdraw
and promised that troops from Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe would leave
after stability was restored.
(SFC, 2/3/01, p.A8)
2001 Feb 2, Hutu militiamen
backing Joseph Kabila ambushed a bus in rebel-controlled eastern Congo
and killed 11 passengers.
(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 2, Alfred Sirven, former
2nd in command of Elf Aquitaine, was arrested in Manila following 4
years on the lam. He was involved in a multimillion-dollar corruption
case against Roland Dumas, a former French foreign minister.
(SFC, 2/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 3, The 8-member XFL
football league, created by WWF guru Vince McMahon, made its debut on
NBC. The Las Vegas Outlaws beat the New York-New Jersey Hitmen 19-0 in
Las Vegas, and the Orlando Rage beat the Chicago Enforcers 33-29 in
Florida. The XFL folded after just one season.
(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/3/02)
2001 Feb 3, Terry McAuliffe was
elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
(AP, 2/3/02)
2001 Feb 3, Benjamin Varner, a
freshman at Gallaudet Univ. in Washington DC, was found dead with his
throat slashed and face mutilated. Police later arrested Joseph Mesa
Jr. (20), a freshman student from Guam, for the murder of Varner and
Eric Plunkett in Sep, 2000. [see Sep 28, 2000]
(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.A10)(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A6)(SFC,
2/14/01, p.A7)
2001 Feb 3, Mexico followed Canada
and the US in a ban on beef from Brazil due to fears of mad cow
disease.
(WSJ, 2/5/01, p.A17)
2001 Feb 4, In the NHL All-Star
game, the North America team beat the World squad 14-to-12. In the Pro
Bowl, the AFC defeated the NFC, 38-to-17.
(AP, 2/4/02)
2001 Feb 4, Phillips Petroleum and
Tosco boards approved a Phillips acquisition valued at $7 billion.
(SFC, 2/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 4, In France Iannis
Xenakis, composer and mathematician, died at age 78. He is credited
with having invented "stochastic music" based on mathematical
probability systems. His work included the percussion ensemble piece:
"The Pleiades."
(SFC, 2/5/01, p.A21)
2001 Feb 4, In Russia Dr. Kenneth
Gluck, a member of Doctors Without Borders, turned up in good health
after being kidnapped in Chechnya 27 days earlier.
(SFC, 2/5/01, p.A9)
2001 Feb 4, In Spain a crowd of
10-40 thousand marched in Barcelona to protest a tough new against
illegal immigrants.
(SFC, 2/5/01, p.A8)
2001 Feb 5, Flanked by a jumbo
refund-check stage prop, President George W. Bush asked Americans to
get behind his proposed tax cuts.
(AP, 2/5/02)
2001 Feb 5, Pres. Bush met with
Canadian PM Jean Chretien at the White House for a get-acquainted
session.
(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A8)
2001 Feb 5, Four disciples of
Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two
U.S. embassies in Africa. The four were convicted and sentenced to life
in prison without parole.
(AP, 2/5/02)
2001 Feb 5, California clinched
deals for long term power contracts at $60-65 per megawatt hour as
federal assistance ended.
(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 5, Engineering students
from the Univ. of British Columbia dangled the body of an old VW from a
railing of the Golden Gate Bridge. It hung for 4 hours before officials
cut and let it fall into the water.
(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 5, In Illinois William D.
Baker (66), shot and killed 4 employees at the Navistar factory in
Melrose Park and then shot and killed himself. He was about to begin
serving a 5-month sentence for conspiring to steal engines and parts.
(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 5, In Ecuador soldiers
battled Indians opposed to fuel and public transportation increases.
The Red Cross said 4 Indians died.
(WSJ, 2/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 5, In Indonesia
supporters of Pres. Wahid demonstrated in East Java, home of the
Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization. Some 10,000
set fires to branch offices of the Golkar Party in Situbondo and
another 10,000 marched in Surabaya.
(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A9)
2001 Feb 5, It was reported that
severe cold and snowstorms in Mongolia threatened to wipe out a 5th of
the nation’s livestock and threatened tens of thousands of herders with
starvation.
(SFC, 2/5/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 5, In Russia Pres. Putin
dismissed Alexander Gavrin, the energy minister, and ousted Yevgeny
Nazdratenko, governor of the Primorye region due to an energy crises
that has left thousands without heat.
(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A9)
2001 Feb 5, In Russia a bomb went
off in a Moscow subway station and at least 9 people were injured.
(SFC, 2/6/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 6, A trade tribunal
ordered the US to allow Mexican trucks to cross the border following a
NAFTA arbitration process.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 6, Genset released early
test results that showed weight loss in mice injected with famoxin.
(WSJ, 2/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 6, Former Vice Pres. Al
Gore taught his 1st class "The Media and Public Policy in the
Information Age" at Columbia Univ.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 6, Sunbeam, a consumer
appliance manufacturer, filed for bankruptcy and rendered worthless a
large stake held by financier Ronald Perelman.
(WSJ, 6/7/02,
p.A6)(http://money.cnn.com/2001/02/06/news/sunbeam)
2001 Feb 6, Gus Boulis (51),
founder of the Miami Subs restaurant chain and SunCruz gambling
cruises, was shot and killed in Fort Lauderdale. In 2006 it was
reported that Boulis was killed by John Gurino, a man with mob
connections, who was himself killed by a business partner in 2003.
(SFC, 2/8/01, p.A4)(SFC, 6/10/06, p.A9)
2001 Feb 6, In Colombia gunmen
killed 14 people in a northern battle zone.
(WSJ, 2/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 6, Ethiopia and Eritrea
agreed to set up a 16-mile wide UN-patrolled security zone effective
Feb 12.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 6, In Haiti the 15-party
opposition alliance Convergence named Gerard Gourgue as the country’s
provisional president.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 6, In India the Cipla
Ltd. Corp. of Bombay offered to supply triple-therapy anti-AIDS
cocktails to Doctors Without Borders in Africa for $350 per year per
patient.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 6, In Israel Ariel Sharon
won the elections over Ehud Barak 62.6 to 37.2% with a record low
turnout of 62%.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 6, In the Philippines
Pres. Arroyo named Sen. Teofisto Guingona as her vice president. Former
pres. Estrada filed a suit disputing the legal basis for Arroyo’s
presidency.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 6, In Serbia ethnic
Albanian rebels fired mortar from Kosovo shells against government
positions in Serbia.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 6, It was reported that
Thailand planned to open a chain of over 3,000 Thai restaurants
world-wide over the next 5 years with 1,000 slated for the US. The
fast-food branches would be named Elephant Jump, Cool Basil for the
mid-priced, and Golden Leaf for the upscale eateries.
(WSJ, 2/6/01, p.B1)
2001 Feb 6, In Ukraine up to 5,000
protesters marched in Kiev and demanded the resignation of Pres.
Kuchma. Kuchma’s voice on recent private recordings included an order
for a journalist’s abduction and threats to a judge.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 7, The Senate voted to
release $582 million in dues owed the United Nations.
(AP, 2/7/02)
2001 Feb 7, The space shuttle
Atlantis took off with the Destiny module, a laboratory compartment,
for the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 2/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 7, In Washington Robert
Pickett (47), an accountant with a history of mental illness, was shot
in the leg by a Secret Service agent after brandishing a hand gun
outside the White House gates.
(SFC, 2/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 7, Dale Evans (born in
1912 as Frances Octavia Smith), singer and wife of Roy Rogers, died at
age 88. Her compositions included "Happy Trails" and "The Bible Tells
Me So."
(SFC, 2/8/01, p.C2)(NW, 12/31/01, p.110)
2001 Feb 7, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(b.1906), wife of Charles Lindbergh, died at age 94. In 1955 she
authored "Gift From the Sea," a meditation on women’s lives in the 20th
century. In 1999 Susan Hertog authored her biography "Anne Morrow
Lindbergh."
(WSJ, 11/29/99, p.A26)(SFC, 2/8/01, p.C2)(NW,
12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Feb 7, Pres. Aristide took
power in Haiti for a 2nd term and offered a series of national reforms
with plans for new schools, roads, electricity systems and an
independent court in each of the country’s 565 townships.
(SFC, 2/8/01, p.C3)(AP, 2/11/04)
2001 Feb 7, In Israel Ariel Sharon
signaled an end to the peace process begun in 1993 in Oslo and planned
something in the spirit of Oslo on an interim level.
(SFC, 2/8/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 8, President Bush sent
his proposed $1.6 trillion, 10-year tax cut plan to Congress.
(SFC, 2/9/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/8/02)
2001 Feb 8, A House committee
opened hearings into former President Clinton's last-minute pardon of
fugitive financier Marc Rich, with former prosecutors complaining that
they hadn't been consulted before the pardon was granted.
(AP, 2/8/02)
2001 Feb 8, The new Disney theme
park "Disney’s California Adventure" opened in Anaheim.
(WSJ, 1/22/01, p.B1)(SFC, 2/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 8, In China the cabinet
approved a 700-mile rail line to link Lhasa, Tibet, and Qinghai
province.
(WSJ, 2/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 8, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana met with FARC leader Manuel Marulanda at Los Pozos.
(SFC, 2/9/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb 8, In Germany
ex-Chancellor Kohl agreed to pay a fine to close a slush fund
investigation.
(WSJ, 2/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 8, In Israel 2 blasts
from an explosives rigged car injured one woman in Jerusalem. Ehud
Barak announced that he would take over Labor Party negotiations to
join the Sharon government.
(SFC, 2/9/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb 8, In Russia the lower
house voted to reduce advertising interruptions for TV movies.
(SSFC, 2/11/01, p.C1)
2001 Feb 9, The US nuclear
submarine Greeneville struck the Japanese fishing boat, Ehime Maru,
near Oahu with 35 people on board including 13 students. The boat sank
in 5 minutes and 9 men and boys were killed. The sub was practicing a
rapid ascent and had 15 civilian guests onboard. It was later revealed
that civilian visitors sat at 2 of the subs 3 main controls when it
surfaced. Capt. Scott Waddle, the sub skipper, was relieved of duty
pending investigation. Sonar contact with the fishing vessel had been
established over an hour before the accident. Capt. Waddle was later
reprimanded and submitted his resignation.
(SFC, 2/10/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 2/11/01, p.A3)(SFC,
2/13/01, p.A3)(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A2)(SFC, 2/15/01, p.A3)(SFC, 2/21/01,
p.A2)(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 4/24/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/9/08)
2001 Feb 9, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana and FARC commander Marulanda agreed to resume peace
negotiations.
(SFC, 2/10/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 9, In Israel Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon asked Ehud Barak to serve as defense minister. A
Palestinian shepherd was killed by an Israeli bullet.
(SFC, 2/10/01, p.A10)(SSFC, 2/11/01, p.C5)
2001 Feb 9, In Mexico Pres. Fox
inaugurated a $50 million aid plan for Chiapas. Yucatan’s PRI Gov.
Victor Cervera refused to accept a state electoral commission.
(SFC, 2/10/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 2/12/01, p.A18)
2001 Feb 10, The space shuttle
Atlantis' astronauts installed the $1.4 billion Destiny laboratory on
the international space station.
(AP, 2/10/02)
2001 Feb 10, Former New York City
Mayor Abraham D. Beame died at age 94.
(AP, 2/10/02)
2001 Feb 10, In Algeria assailants
killed at least 27 people near Berrouaghia. Half of the dead were
children.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.B2)
2001 Feb 10, Israel said it would
not cooperate with the newly arrived UN human rights mission for a
fact-finding tour of Palestinian areas.
(SSFC, 2/11/01, p.C1)
2001 Feb 11, The East NBA
All-Stars defeated the West squad, 111-to-110.
(AP, 2/11/02)
2001 Feb 11, Ann Bancroft and Liv
Arnesen became the 1st women to cross the Antarctic land mass on skis.
(SFC, 2/13/01, p.D3)
2001 Feb 11, Three Rivers Stadium
in Pittsburgh was demolished to clear the way for new separate baseball
and football stadiums nearby.
(AP, 2/11/02)
2001 Feb 11, It was reported that
scientists had found the human genome to consist of 30,000 genes and
that only some 300 were unique to humans as when compared to mice.
(SSFC, 2/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 11, Two space commanders
opened the door to Destiny, the American-made science laboratory
attached the day before to the international space station.
(AP, 2/11/02)
2001 Feb 11, Gao Zhan, a US-based
scholar, was detained at Beijing airport by Chinese authorities. She
was formally charged as a spy on April 3. [see Mar 27]
(WSJ, 3/28/01, p.A1)(SFC, 4/4/01, p.D14)
2001 Feb 11, In Colombia 9 young
hikers, 6 men and 3 women, were found killed execution style in
southwest Purace National Park. FARC later admitted to killing the 8
hikers.
(SFC, 2/15/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 3/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 11, In Croatia some
100,000 protested the investigation of former general Mirko Norac for
war crimes in 1991.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.B2)
2001 Feb 11, In El Salvador armed
men attacked a bus carrying a local soccer team near Zacatecoluca. The
coach was killed and 3 others injured.
(SFC, 2/13/01, p.D3)
2001 Feb 11, In Thailand troops
fought a gun battle with some 200 Burmese soldiers who crossed the
border chasing Shan rebels.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.B2)
2001 Feb 11, In Ukraine some 5-10
thousand protesters called for the resignation of Pres. Kuchma. Kuchma
fired 2 top security officials amid the growing scandal of a journalist
killed while investigating graft.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 2/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 12, A federal appeals
court upheld a decision against Napster and ruled that the online music
service violated copyright laws.
(SFC, 2/13/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/12/02)
2001 Feb 12, A computer virus
pretending to be a digital photo of tennis star Anna Kournikova
overwhelmed e-mail servers in Europe and North America.
(AP, 2/12/02)
2001 Feb 12, Scientists published
their first examinations of nearly all the human genetic code.
(AP, 2/12/02)
2001 Feb 12, The $224 million
NEAR-Shoemaker probe was scheduled to end its mission with a landing on
the Eros asteroid. The probe completed a 5 year voyage with a
successful landing and continued sending signals.
(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A4)(SFC, 2/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 12, Israeli soldiers shot
and killed 2 Palestinians in the West Bank and dozens of Palestinians
were wounded in a gun battle in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 2/13/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 12, It was reported that
Thailand’s bad loans mounted to 20 billion and accounted for 20% of all
bank lending. Thai Petrochemical Industries (TPI) was the largest
debtor and owed banks over $3.5 billion.
(WSJ, 2/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 12, Ukraine’s Pres.
Kuchma and Pres. Putin met at the Yuzmash rocket plant and agreed to
reconnect their countries’ electricity grids and made 14 other
agreements securing Russian orders from Ukrainian factories.
(SFC, 2/13/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 13, Ivan Lendl was
elected to the tennis Hall of Fame along with Mervyn Rose, an
Australian star from the 1950's.
(AP, 2/13/02)
2001 Feb 13, Pres. Bush nominated
Gov. Paul Cellucci as ambassador to Canada and cleared the way for Jane
Swift to become 1st female governor of Massachusetts.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A7)
2001 Feb 13, US Treasury Sec. Paul
O’Neill urged Congress to accelerate plans for an across-the-board tax
cut and a doubling of the child credit.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 13, In Hawaii 2 Army
Blackhawk helicopters crashed and 6 soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A6)
2001 cFeb 13, Canadian police
arrested at least 2 people in the Toronto area in a scheme to
distribute $25 billion in counterfeit US bearer bonds.
(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.R12)
2001 Feb 13, In El Salvador a 6.6
earthquake killed at least 127 people. It was centered between San
Vicente and San Salvador. The death toll soon rose to 402 with 2432
injured. It struck one month to the day after another quake killed more
than 800 people.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A1)(SFC, 2/15/01, p.A12)(AP,
2/13/02)
2001 Feb 13, Israeli gunships
killed Massoud Ayyad (57), a Palestinian security official, with
anti-tank missiles fired at his car in Gaza.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 13, Yulia Tymoshenko,
Ukraine’s former Deputy Prime Minister and a principal opponent to
Pres. Kuchma, was arrested on charges dating back to 1996 when she was
head of United Energy Systems. Ms. Tymoshenko made her fortune in murky
gas trades between Russia and the Ukraine in the early 1990s.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A14)(Econ, 10/6/07, p.59)
2001 Feb 14, The Kansas Board of
Education approved new science standards restoring evolution to the
state's curriculum.
(AP, 2/14/02)
2001 Feb 14, In Afghanistan the
Taliban confirmed that opposition troops had captured Bamiyan.
(SFC, 2/15/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb 14, Khalil Abu Olbeh
(35), a Palestinian bus driver, drove his bus into a group of Israelis
in Tel Aviv and killed 8 people. The dead included 3 male and 4 female
soldiers and 1 civilian woman. Olbeh, was later sentenced to eight life
terms.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A14)(SFC, 2/15/01, p.A12)(AP,
2/14/02)
2001 Feb 14, In Chechnya rebels
opened fire on Russian positions and 12 Russian soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 2/15/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb 15, President Bush said
the Pentagon should review its policy on civilian participation in
military exercises like the emergency ascent drill a Navy submarine was
performing when it sank a Japanese fishing vessel off Hawaii.
(AP, 2/15/02)
2001 Feb 15, A UN team confirmed
that the Taliban had nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 2/16/01, p.A17)
2001 Feb 15, In Congo the warring
parties met and Joseph Kabila agreed to initiate talks with rebel
groups. The rebel Movement for the Liberation of Congo agreed to
endorse a details withdrawal plan.
(SFC, 2/16/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb 15, Hans-Joachim Klein, a
former German terrorist, was sentenced to nine years in prison by a
German court for killing three people in a 1975 attack on an OPEC
meeting in Vienna, Austria.
(AP, 2/15/02)
2001 Feb 15, In Israel Ehud Barak
agreed to become the defense minister under Ariel Sharon.
(SFC, 2/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 15, In Mexico gunmen shot
and killed 12 villagers in the village of Limoncito de Ayala in Sinaloa
state.
(SFC, 2/16/01, p.D2)
2001 Feb 16, Pres. Bush on his
first foreign trip met with Pres. Fox in Mexico. They announced a joint
agenda to expand trade, protect immigrant rights and reduce drug
trafficking.
(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/16/02)
2001 Feb 16, Two dozen US and
British aircraft bombed 5 radar and other anti-aircraft sites around
Baghdad with guided missiles. A number of new guided bombs, AGM-154A
priced from $250-700k, missed their targets.
(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/16/02)
2001 Feb 16, In California Gov.
Davis began negotiations to purchase 32,000 miles of transmission lines
from the utilities that would allow them to issue bonds to pay off
their debt.
(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 16, Dr. William H.
Masters (b.1915), leading researcher in human sexuality, died at age 85
in Tucson, Ariz. He and Virginia Johnson (Masters and Johnson) authored
the best seller "Human Sexual Response" in 1966.
(SSFC, 2/18/01, p.A24)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Feb 16, Russia test-fired
nuclear-capable missiles from land, sea and air positions.
(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 16, In Serbia Kosovo
militants killed 9 Serbs and injured 43 with a roadside bomb that blew
up a bus in northeastern Kosovo.
(SFC, 2/17/01, p.A12)(SSFC, 2/18/01, p.D1)
2001 Feb 17, Pres. Bush named John
Negroponte (62) as the next US ambassador to the UN.
(SSFC, 2/18/01, p.D5)
2001 Feb 17, Khalid Abdul Muhammad
(born as Harold Moore), national chairman of the New Black Panther
Party and former Nation of Islam official, died at age 53 in Marietta,
Ga. He was known for his harsh rhetoric about Jews and whites.
(SSFC, 2/18/01, p.A2)(AP, 2/17/02)
2001 Feb 17, In El Salvador
another earthquake hit San Salvador. The 5.3 quake killed at least 1
person.
(SSFC, 2/18/01, p.D6)
2001 Feb 17, The
Cambodian-registered East Sea freighter with 912 ethnic Kurds ran
aground off the French Riviera. The crew of the ship fled following the
intentional grounding. Criminal gangs in Turkey and Iraq were reported
to be behind the smuggling.
(SSFC, 2/18/01, p.D1)(SFC, 2/19/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 18, Robert Philip Hanssen
(56), senior FBI agent, was arrested for spying. He had allegedly
passed information to the Russians for 15 years. It was believed that
he had betrayed the construction of a tunnel under the Soviet Embassy
in Washington. He pleaded guilty July 3 to avoid execution. His
disclosures were later reported to have played a role in the execution
or jailing of at least 3 Russians and threatened the identity of
another 50 people. In 2002 David A. Wise authored: "The Bureau and the
Mole." Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison on May 10, 2002.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 3/4/01, p.A6)(SFC,
7/4/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/8/02, p.A16)(AP, 2/18/02)(SSFC, 4/7/02,
p.A14)(SFC, 5/11/02, p.A3)
2001 Feb 18, Balthus (b.1908),
painter aka Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, died at age 92 in
Switzerland. In 2002 His memoir "Vanished Splendors," as told by Alain
Vircondolet, was published.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(AP, 2/18/02)(SSFC, 1/12/03,
p.M3)
2001 Feb 18, Broadcaster Roger
Caras (72) died.
(AP, 2/18/02)
2001 Feb 18, In Florida Dale
Earnhardt (b.1951), race car driver, was killed on his final turn at
the NASCAR Daytona 500. Later this year Joe Menzer authored "The
Wildest Ride," a history of NASCAR racing.
(SFC, 2/19/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/9/01, p.A26)(NW,
12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Feb 18, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
(89) co-author of "Cheaper by the Dozen" died.
(AP, 2/18/02)
2001 Feb 18, Eddie Mathews (69),
baseball Hall of Famer, died.
(AP, 2/18/02)
2001 Feb 18, In Brazil some 15,000
convicts held uprisings in 29 prisons that left 16 people dead. It was
coordinated by Idemir Carlos Ambrosio, leader of the PCC prison-based
gang. Ambrosio was killed in prison in July.
(SFC, 2/19/01, p.A9)(SFC, 5/16/06, p.A7)
2001 Feb 18, In Chechnya rebels
blew a Russian troop train of its tracks and 3 people were killed.
(WSJ, 2/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 18, In Indonesia gunmen
shot journalist Oz Rusli Radja and human rights worker Khairuddin to
death in Aceh.
(SFC, 2/20/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 18, Fresh clashes in
Borneo and separatist violence in Aceh erupted. Fighting between the
Dayaks and immigrants left over 100 people killed.
(WSJ, 2/21/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/22/00, p.A1)
2001 Feb 18, The Iraqi press
referred to Pres. Bush as "son of the snake" and "the new dwarf"
following the Feb. 16 bombing attacks.
(SFC, 2/19/01, p.A9)
2001 Feb 18, In Serbia a suspected
mine ripped a police van and 3 Serbian officers were killed just
outside Kosovo.
(SFC, 2/19/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 19, President George W.
Bush opened a museum commemorating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
(AP, 2/19/02)
2001 Feb 19, Stanley Kramer
(b.1913), Hollywood film producer and director, died in Woodland Hills,
Ca., at age 87. His work included 35 films.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A18)(AP, 2/19/02)(NW, 12/31/01,
p.107)
2001 Feb 19, In Britain an
outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was found in 27 pigs at an
slaughterhouse in Essex. The last outbreak was in 1981. The outbreak
was 1st identified in pigs at Heddon-on-the-Wall.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A12)(SFC, 3/31/01, p.D8)
2001 Feb 19, In Burma a helicopter
crash killed junta Lt. Gen. Tin Oo (67) and left 14 missing.
(SFC, 2/20/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 19, In the West Bank
Mahmoud Madani (25), a Hamas activist, was shot to death from long
range.
(SFC, 2/20/01, p.A9)
2001 Feb 19, In the Philippines
Pres. Arroyo announced a cease-fire with southern separatists. She
hoped Mindanao rebels would reciprocate. Separately 10 people drowned
and a dozen were missing when their illegal ferry capsized as they
tried to reach Malaysia for work.
(SFC, 2/20/01, p.A9)
2001 Feb 19, In Vietnam a rare
earthquake, magnitude 5.3, hit Dien Bien Phu.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 20, The government
announced the arrest two days earlier of veteran FBI agent Robert
Philip Hanssen, accused of spying for Russia for more than 15 years.
(AP, 2/20/02)
2001 Feb 20, Space Shuttle
Atlantis landed at Edwards air Force Base following a 13-day mission to
the Int’l. Space Station. Three straight days of bad weather prevented
the ship from returning to its Florida home port.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A5)(AP, 2/20/02)
2001 Feb 20, In Israel Prime
Minister Ehud Barak withdrew from a proposed position as Defense
Minister under Ariel Sharon.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 20, Hassan Turabi,
Sudan’s top Islamic theologian and former parliamentary speaker, called
for the Sudanese to rise against the government of Omar el-Bashir. He
was arrested the next day.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A20)
2001 Feb 21, In the 43rd annual
Grammy Awards Steely Dan won Album of the year for "Two Against
Nature;" U2 won for Song of the Year for "Beautiful Day;" Sting won
best male pop vocal performance for "She Walks This Earth;" and Macy
Gray won best female pop vocal performance for "I Try." Rapper Eminem
won 3 awards and gave the audience the finger.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.D2)
2001 Feb 21, The US Supreme Court
ruled 5-4 to protect state governments from federal suits for damages
filed by disabled employees under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The court ruled that state workers cannot use federal disability-rights
law to win money damages for on-the-job discrimination.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 2/22/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/21/02)
2001 Feb 21, Pope John Paul II
installed 44 new cardinals. It was the largest number ever installed at
one time.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A13)
2001 Feb 21, In Chechnya some 50
bodies began to be uncovered across from a Russian military base at
Zdorovye.
(SFC, 4/14/01, p.A8)
2001 Feb 22, President Bush held
his first full-fledged presidential news conference, in which he
defended his tax-cutting and budget-tightening plans and gave FBI
director Louis Freeh a vote of confidence following the arrest of
veteran agent Robert Hanssen on spying charges.
(AP, 2/22/02)
2001 Feb 22, The California state
PUC voted to absolve PG&E and Southern California Edison of
responsibility for costs above the revenue they collect from ratepayers.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 22, Jose Juarez Rosales
(24) was arrested in Dallas for alleged multiple sexual assaults and
murders in Ciudad Juarez.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A17)
2001 Feb 22, Ashley Ellerin (22),
former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, was found dead in her
Hollywood Hills home. In 2008 police matched DNA linking Michael
Gargiulo (32), an air conditioning repairman, to her murder and to
another fatal stabbing of a Monterey Park woman in 2005. They also
suspect Gargiulo in the 1993 killing of a high school girl in the
Chicago suburb of Glenview, where Gargiulo lived at the time. Tricia
Pacaccio, a senior at Glenbrook South High School, was found stabbed to
death on her front doorstep, clutching her door key.
(AP,
8/30/08)(www.lapdonline.org/february_2001/news_view/23272)
2001 Feb 22, In Indonesia security
forces fought to disperse crowds in Sampit as ethnic clashes in Central
Kalimantan province of Borneo left over 100 dead.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb 22, A UN tribunal on
Yugoslav War Crimes found 3 Bosnian Serbs guilty of crimes against
humanity for the rape, torture and enslavement of Muslim women in Foca
between 1992-1993. The landmark case established rape and sexual
enslavement as a crime against humanity. They were sentenced to 28, 20
and 12 years, respectively.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/1/07)
2001 Feb 22, India extended a
Kashmir cease-fire.
(WSJ, 2/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 22, Pakistan said it may
put nuclear missiles on its submarines. It recently acquired 3
submarines from France.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A20)
2001 Feb 22, In Spain 2 people
were killed when suspected Basque separatists bombed a train station in
San Sebastian. Separately French police arrested the alleged ETA
military chief.
(WSJ, 2/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 22, In Sri Lanka rebels
extended a unilateral cease-fire and said they wanted peace talks.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A20)
2001 Feb 22, A financial crises in
Turkey forced the government to let the lira float and it dropped 40%
to 960,000 to the US dollar. By the end of the year the economy sank
9.4%.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.D4)(WSJ, 2/23/01, p.A11)(WSJ,
4/2/03, p.A14)
2001 Feb 23, Pres. Bush opened a
two-day summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David.
They endorsed a European rapid-action force as long as it is secondary
to NATO.
(SFC, 2/24/01, p.A3)(AP, 2/23/02)
2001 Feb 23, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld ordered an indefinite moratorium on civilian visitors
operating military equipment, a possible factor in the collision of a
U.S. submarine collision with a Japanese fishing boat.
(AP, 2/23/02)
2001 Feb 23, A US federal appeals
court upheld that the US government mismanaged and neglected Native
American trust funds.
(SFC, 2/24/01, p.A5)
2001 Feb 23, David Edward Attias
(18), a freshman at UC Santa Barbara, rammed his Saab into a crowd in
Isla Vista and killed 4 students, Nicholas Shaw Bourdakis (20),
Christopher Edward Divis (20), Ruth Dasha Golda Levy (20) and Elie
Israel (27). A 5th victim, Albert Arthur Levy (27), was severely
battered. Attias was charged with murder the next day. Attias was
convicted on 2nd degree murder in 2002 and jurors found him insane.
(SFC, 2/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 2/27/01, p.A13)(SFC,
6/13/02, p.A1)(SFC, 6/21/02, p.A17)
2001 Feb 23, Anthony Giacalone,
Detroit mobster, died at age 82.
(SFC, 5/3/01, p.B7)
2001 Feb 23, In Indonesia Madurese
refugees fled Borneo as the death toll from clashes with the native
Dayaks approached 200.
(SFC, 2/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 23, Palestinians
demonstrated against the visit of Colin Powell and one was killed in
clashes with Israeli security forces.
(SFC, 2/24/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 23, In Russia a Moscow
court threw out charges by prosecutors who attempted to ban the
Jehovah’s Witnesses under a 1997 law that prohibited religious sects
that incite hatred and violence.
(SFC, 2/24/01, p.A11)
2001 Feb 24, US Sec. of State
Colin Powell met [in Jerusalem, in Cairo] with Igor Ivanor, the Russian
foreign minister, and pledged a constructive approach to dealing with
Iraq, missile defenses and other points of policy discord.
(SSFC, 2/25/01, p.A14)(AP, 2/24/02)
2001 Feb 24, Fugitive financier
Marc Rich, whose 11th-hour pardon by former President Clinton caused a
wave of controversy, spoke out for the first time, describing the
pardon as a "humanitarian act."
(AP, 2/24/02)
2001 Feb 24, The US Navy and Coast
Guard captured 10 men and 8.8 tons of cocaine on a Belize-flagged
fishing boat 250 miles west of Acapulco.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 24, A tornado in Pontotoc
County, Mississippi, left 5 people dead.
(SFC, 2/26/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 24, Mathematician and
computer scientist Claude Shannon, whose theories about binary code
became the basis for modern mass communications networks, died in
Medford, Mass., at age 84.
(AP, 2/24/02)
2001 Feb 24, In Borneo naval
vessels began evacuating some 24,000 refugees from the island of
Medura, where the death toll had risen to 210.
(SSFC, 2/25/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 24, It was reported that
Japanese physicists created a superconductor using magnesium dibromide
at minus 389º F.
(SFC, 2/24/01, p.A7)
2001 Feb 24, Ugyen Thinley Dorje
(15), the 17th Karmapa Lama, led prayers to mark the Tibetan year of
the iron snake in northern India.
(SSFC, 2/25/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb 24, In Mexico Zapatista
rebel leader Subcommander Marcos began a 2,000-mile caravan to Mexico
City to lobby for Indian rights.
(SSFC, 2/25/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 25, The Chinese-language
film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" became the most lucrative foreign
movie in US history, but tanked in China.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.D2)
2001 Feb 25, US Sec. of State
Colin Powell met separately with Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat seeking
to re-establish Middle East cooperation.
(SFC, 2/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 25, The commander of the
U.S. submarine that struck and sank a Japanese trawler off Hawaii
expressed his "most sincere regret." Cmdr. Scott Waddle stopped short
of an apology.
(AP, 2/25/02)
2001 Feb 25, In Indonesia Borneo
Dayaks extended their area of burning and beheading of Madurese across
Central Kalimantan. 118 Madurese were slaughtered near Parenggean when
police bolted in fear of armed Dayaks.
(SFC, 2/26/01, p.A10)(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 25, In Northumberland,
England, over 800 pigs were destroyed and burned due to foot-and-mouth
disease. New cases appeared at a cattle and sheep ranch in the
southwest.
(SFC, 2/26/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 25, In Moldova Communists
made strong gains in parliamentary elections. They won 70% of the seats
and would name the next president.
(WSJ, 2/26/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 25, Russian military
officials promised to investigate a recently discovered grave in
Chechnya that contained 11 to several score Chechens with many of the
bodies mined. 48 bodies of men, women and children were found with gun
shot wounds. They had been dumped over the course of a year.
(SFC, 2/26/01, p.A10)(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 26, The US State Dept.
issued its annual report on the status of human rights and cited
"unconfirmed but credible" reports from China of continued use of
torture by police to obtain coerced confessions. The report also
faulted both Israel and the Palestinians for the current Middle East
bloodshed.
(SFC, 2/27/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 2/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 26, The UN War Crimes
tribunal in the Hague convicted Dario Kordic, a former Bosnian Croat
leader, for crimes against humanity in the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. Mario
Cerkez (41), a brigade commander of Croatian troops in Bosnia, was also
convicted. They had carried out an "ethnic cleansing" campaign in an
area they wished to be joined to Croatia.
(SFC, 2/27/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 2/27/01, p.A1)(AP,
2/26/02)
2001 Feb 26, Taliban leader Mullah
Mohammed Omar ordered the destruction of all statues including the
Buddha statues carved into the stone cliffs of Bamiyan, Afghanistan. He
called on the Ministry for the promotion of Virtue and the Repression
of Vice as well as the Ministry of Culture to destroy all pre-Islamic
statues and sanctuaries.
(SFC, 2/27/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 26, In Britain new cases
of hoof-and-mouth disease brought to 12 the number of farms or
slaughterhouses infected. The slaughter of pigs, cows and sheep rose to
some 7,000.
(SFC, 2/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 26, In Indonesia Dayak
fighters declared victory and end to fighting.
(SFC, 2/27/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 26, In Israel the labor
party voted reluctantly to join the incoming government of Ariel Sharon.
(SFC, 2/27/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 26, Russia’s Pres. Putin
arrived in Seoul for economic talks.
(SFC, 2/26/01, p.C14)
2001 Feb 26, In Yugoslavia the
parliament passed an amnesty law to free several hundred Kosovo
Albanians held in Serbian prisons since the 1999 Kosovo war.
(SFC, 2/27/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 27, President Bush went
before Congress with a $1.9 trillion spending plan that would sharply
reduce growth in many government programs while leaving room to give
Americans the biggest tax cut in two decades.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/27/02)
2001 Feb 27, The US Supreme Court
voted that the nation’s health, and not industry costs, must guide
government in fighting air pollution.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 27, A new US law took
effect that granted citizenship to foreign-born children of US citizens.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 27, In Borneo government
soldiers and police clashed with each other. Refugees claimed that
security forces have demanded money in exchange for permission to board
ships.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 27, In Mexico some 30
protesters were injured and another 30 arrested near the meeting of the
World Economic Forum in Cancun.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 27, Rwanda began pulling
back troops from a front-line Congo town.
(WSJ, 2/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 28, A 6.8 magnitude slab
earthquake shook the Northwest and rocked the cities of Seattle and
Portland, Oregon. It was centered 32.6 miles below the surface along
the boundary of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate and the continental
North American plate. Damages were later estimated at $1.5-2 billion.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/5/02,
p.A4)(AP, 2/28/02)
2001 Feb 28, In England a train
crash in North Yorkshire killed 13 people and injured 70.
(AP, 2/28/02)(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A8)
2001 Feb 28, China ratified a
UN-sponsored human rights treaty but backed away from a guarantee of
workers rights.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 3/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 28, In Congo 3,000 troops
from Rwanda and 150 from Uganda withdrew. All warring parties were
scheduled to make way for an 18-mile buffer zone, to be monitored by
the UN, by March 15.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 28, A 5.4 earthquake hit
El Salvador.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 28, Officials in Northern
Ireland confirmed hoof-and-mouth disease in sheep imported from
England. 8 more cases were confirmed in England and Wales.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 28, Flooding continued in
central Mozambique as the death toll rose to 52. 81,000 were made
homeless since the beginning of the year.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A10)(SFC, 3/2/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb, Arthur Levitt, chairman
of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, retired. In 2002 he
authored "Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America
Don’t Want You to Know."
(WSJ, 10/4/02, p.W1)
2001 Feb, Canada established the
8,500 square-mile Sirmilik National Park on the northern tip of Baffin
Island, 450 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It included most of Bylot
Island.
(SSFC, 6/18/06,
p.G1)(www.newparksnorth.org/baffin.htm)
2001 Feb, Romania enacted Law 10
to govern restitution for properties confiscated between 1945 and 1989.
In 2006 Romania passed legislation to return property that had been
confiscated under Communist rule, to former owners and to establish a
fund to pay damages for assets that could not be returned.
(www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/or/64425.htm)(SFC, 5/24/06,
p.A2)
2001 Feb, In Vietnam some 20,000
Montagnards, members of mostly Christian hill tribes, participated in
protests against state land confiscations in the highland cities Buon
Ma Thuot, Pleiku and Kontum. Many were then forced to seek refuge in
Cambodia. Dozens were later imprisoned for organizing illegal migration.
(SFC, 6/26/01, p.A8)(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A12)
2001 Mar 1, Afghanistan's ruling
Taliban, defying international protests, began destroying all statues
in the country.
(AP, 3/1/02)
2001 Mar 1, The UK banned the
Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
(WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A6)
2001 Mar 1, China was reported to
consume a little over 6% of the world’s total 75.5 million barrels per
day of oil.
(WSJ, 3/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 1, In Ecuador 7 foreign
oil workers (a Chilean, an Argentine, a New Zealander and four
Americans), kidnapped last October, were released following a $13
million ransom.
(SFC, 3/2/01, p.A16)(AP, 3/1/02)
2001 Mar 1, The Fiji high court
ruled that the military-backed government was illegal and that the 1997
multi-racial constitution remained in effect.
(SFC, 3/2/01, p.D5)(Econ, 8/14/04, p.40)
2001 Mar 1, In Israel a
Palestinian in a taxi detonated a bomb that killed one passenger,
injured 9 and blew off his own legs.
(SFC, 3/2/01, p.A17)
2001 Mar 2, In Afghanistan the
Taliban began the destruction of the giant Buddha of Bamiyan despite
int’l. protests. The United Nations tried in vain to persuade
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to reverse its decision to destroy a pair
of giant, ancient statues of Buddha and other Buddhist relics that the
regime considered idolatrous.
(SSFC, 3/4/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)(AP, 3/2/02)
2001 Mar 2, In China 37 members of
the banned Falun Gong were sentenced to prison terms of 3-10 years.
Most had been convicted of "using a cult to obstruct the law."
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 2, In France Alois
Brunner, former deputy of Adolf Eichmann, was sentenced to life
imprisonment for war crimes against humanity. He was believed to be
still alive in Syria, where he fled in 1954.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 2, In Indonesian some
7,000 Madurese refugees escaped from Borneo while some 13,000 still
waited in camps for boats. The killing appeared to have stopped.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 2, In Israel the Labor
Party chose 8 members to serve in the Cabinet of Ariel Sharon. Shimon
Peres was named foreign minister and Benjamin Ben-Eliezer as defense
minister.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 2, In the Philippines the
Supreme Court affirmed the legitimacy of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
and denied immunity to former Pres. Estrada.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 2, In Thailand a bomb
blast gutted a Thai Airways Boeing 737-400 in Bangkok just before PM
Shinawatra was to board. One crew member was killed. It was later
reported that the empty center fuel tank of the plane had exploded.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/26/08, p.A12)
2001 Mar 3, John Ruiz became the
first Hispanic WBA heavyweight champion by defeating Evander Holyfield
in a unanimous 12-round decision.
(AP, 3/3/02)
2001 Mar 3, A US National Guard
C-23 Sherpa plane carrying members of an engineering crew crashed in
Georgia and 21 people were killed.
(SSFC, 3/4/01, p.A5)(AP, 3/3/02)
2001 Mar 3, In Argentina Pres.
Fernando De la Rua asked his entire cabinet to submit their
resignations a day after Economy Minister Jose Luis Machinea submitted
his resignation.
(SSFC, 3/4/01, p.A27)
2001 Mar 3, The foot-and-mouth
scare made its way from Britain to mainland Europe with the discovery
of blisters on the snouts of three pigs in northern Belgium, sparking
drastic measures.
(AP, 3/3/02)
2001 Mar 4, President George W.
Bush dedicated a $4 billion aircraft carrier in honor of former
President Reagan. Nancy Reagan christened the ship. It was commissioned
in 2003.
(AP, 3/4/02)(SSFC, 7/12/03, p.A2)
2001 Mar 4, The US Coast Guard
found a record 13 (8) tons of cocaine aboard a 152-foot fishing vessel,
the Svesda Maru, in a Belize-flagged vessel 1,500 miles south of San
Diego. The ship’s crew were from Russia and Ukraine.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A5)(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 4, An oceanside memorial
was held in Hawaii for 9 people from a Japanese fishing boat who were
killed when their vessel was accidentally sunk by a U.S. submarine.
(AP, 3/4/02)
2001 Mar 4, Singer Glenn Hughes,
the biker character in the disco band the Village People, died in New
York at age 50.
(AP, 3/4/02)
2001 Mar 4, Former Ohio 4-term
Gov. James A. Rhodes died at age 91.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A24)
2001 Mar 4, Harold E. Stassen
(93), former Minnesota 3-term Gov. and perennial presidential
candidate, died in Bloomington, Minn..
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A24)(AP, 3/4/02)
2001 Mar 4, In England a bomb
exploded in London outside the BBC studios. It was the work of the Real
IRA and one person was injured.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 3/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 4, In Israel a
Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and 3 Israelis in Netanya.
(SSFC, 3/4/01, p.A27)
2001 Mar 4, Macedonia sealed its
border with Kosovo after 3 soldiers were killed in heavy fighting with
ethnic Albanian rebels.
(WSJ, 3/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 4, In Portugal a bridge
over the Douro River near Penafiel collapsed and at least 70 people in
a bus and 2 cars plunged into the river and were killed.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 3/5/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/6/01,
p.A1)
2001 Mar 4, In Saudi Arabia Muslim
pilgrims climbed Mount Arafat as some 2 million gathered for the annual
hajj to Mecca.
(WSJ, 3/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 4, Swiss voters rejected
membership talks with the EU by 77%.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 5, Vice President Dick
Cheney underwent an angioplasty for a partially blocked artery after
going to a hospital with chest pains.
(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 5, Charles Andrew
Williams (15), a freshman at Santana High School in Santee, Ca., a San
Diego suburb, shot and killed 2 students and wounded 13 others.
Williams was sentenced 50 years to life in prison on Aug 15, 2002.
(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/16/02, p.A3)
2001 Mar 5, China announced a
17.7% increase in defense spending.
(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 5, In Colombia rightists
vowed to prevent the formation of a 2nd leftist sanctuary and fought
rebels in a battle that left 24 dead.
(WSJ, 3/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 5, France banned exports
of animals at risk for hoof-and-mouth disease.
(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 5, In Macedonia heavy
fighting against ethnic Albanian rebels continued for a 2nd day on the
border with Kosovo.
(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 5, Muslim pilgrims began
the stoning of the three pillars symbolizing the devil as part of the
annual hajj to Mecca. 35 people suffocated to death during the stoning
of the devil ritual.
(WSJ, 3/5/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 6, Bill Mazeroski was
elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, along with former Negro League
player Hilton Smith.
(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, Calling it the "most
accurate census in history," the Bush administration refused to adjust
the 2000 head count.
(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, The US Senate voted to
repeal rules issued 4 months ago by former Pres. Clinton that were
intended to reduce workplace injuries. The House followed suit the next
day.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 6, US District Judge
Marilyn Patel ordered Napster to block access to its files of Millions
of downloadable songs protected by copyrights.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Mar 6, Two American women
died when their twin-engine plane crashed after take-off from Iceland.
They were on their way to Britain for a long-distance air race.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 6, In Argentina Federal
Judge Gabriel Cavallo struck down amnesty laws that protected hundreds
of soldiers accused of torture, murder and kidnapping during the
dictatorship of 1976-1983.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 6, It was reported that
Chinese psychiatrists have decided to stop classifying homosexuality as
a mental illness.
(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 6, In China an explosion
at an elementary school in Jiangxi province left 37 students and 4
teachers dead. 42 people, mostly students, were killed in a schoolhouse
explosion in southern China; parents said the students had been forced
to make fireworks by school officials. Teachers, to enhance their
meager salaries, had forced students to make firecrackers during their
lunch breaks. Prime Minister Zhu Rongji said the blast was caused by a
"deranged suicide bomber."
(WSJ, 3/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/9/01,
p.A14)(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, The EU ordered all
livestock markets closed for 2 weeks to contain foot-and-mouth disease.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 6, In Kenya the 1st
experimental AIDS vaccine, specifically designed for Africa, was
administered.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 6, In Nigeria 30 girls
died from a fire at the Gindiri Girls School in Jos. They were
reportedly locked in for the night so as not to mix with boys.
(WSJ, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 6, In Rwanda local
elections were held for the 1st time since the 1994 mass slaughter of
Tutsis.
(WSJ, 3/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 7, Pres. Bush met with
South Korea’s Pres. Kim Dae Jung and said he did not plan to resume
talks with North Korea.
(WSJ, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 7, United States census
2000 results showed that the Hispanic population at 35.3 million, just
above the 34.7 million African Americans.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 7, It was reported that
Bogota, Colombia, Mayor Antanas Mockus called on women to take a night
out and leave men at home to do the chores.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 7, In Congo soldiers
killed some of the 11 Lebanese nationals detained in the aftermath of
the Kabila assassination.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 7, In Israel Ariel Sharon
took office as the nation’s 11th Prime Minister. He insisted that
Palestinians must reduce violence before he would resume negotiations
for peace.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 7, The UN Security
Council imposed an embargo on Liberia’s trade in weapons and diamonds
in an effort to halt arms to rebels in Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 7, In Russia an avalanche
on a Siberian highway in the Yermakov district buried some 200 people.
At least 2 people died.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 7, In Serbia NATO
soldiers moved into the Kosovo village of Mijak to stem the flow of
arms to Albanian guerrillas in Macedonia.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 7, Pres. Mugabe of
Zimbabwe left Europe after meetings in France and Belgium over the
11,000 troops he has stationed in Congo.
(SFC, 3/9/01, p.D3)
2001 Mar 8, The
Republican-controlled House voted for an across-the-board tax cut of
nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, handing President Bush a major
victory only 48 days into his term.
(WSJ, 3/9/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/8/02)
2001 Mar 8, Scott Waddle, the
embattled commander of the Navy submarine that collided with a Japanese
fishing vessel off Hawaii, offered a tearful apology to the families of
some of the victims.
(AP, 3/8/02)
2001 Mar 8, A new AIDS vaccine was
reported to be successful in monkeys.
(WSJ, 3/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 8, The space shuttle
Discovery lifted off with supplies for the int’l. space station in a
new Italian module named Leonardo. The 12-day mission also included a
fresh crew of 3 for the station.
(SFC, 3/9/01, p.A2)(WSJ, 3/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 8, Rev. Arthur Peacocke,
a scientist and Church of England priest, won the annual Templeton
Prize for Progress in Religion. His writings included "Paths from
Science Towards God."
(SFC, 3/9/01, p.D6)
2001 Mar 8, In Afghanistan the
giant Buddha at Bamiyan was destroyed.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 8, Dame Ninette de
Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, died in London at age 102.
(AP, 3/8/02)
2001 Mar 8, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid visited Borneo and fighting erupted right after his departure. At
least 4 Dayak protesters were killed.
(SFC, 3/9/01, p.D2)
2001 Mar 8, In southern Sudan
dozens of gunmen attacked and looted an aid agency. 4 workers were
killed and 2 were kidnapped.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A18)
2001 Mar 8, Flooding in the
Ukraine and northeastern Hungary left at least 5 people dead. Tens of
thousands were driven from their homes as the Tisza and other
Carpathian streams rose.
(WSJ, 3/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 9, Federal regulators
warned power companies that they may have to refund $69 million to
California ratepayers for charging unreasonable prices.
(SFC, 3/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 9, The DJIA fell 213.63
to 10,644, while the Nasdaq fell almost 116 to close at 2052. Intel and
Cisco announced thousands of job cuts.
(SFC, 3/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 9, A judge in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., sentenced 14-year-old Lionel Tate to life in prison
for the 1999 killing of Tiffany Eunick, a 6-year old girl. Tate, who
had been convicted of first-degree murder, said he was imitating
pro-wrestling moves. Tate's first-degree murder conviction and sentence
were later overturned; he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and
received a new sentence of probation, but is now accused of violating
that probation.
(AP, 3/9/02)(AP, 3/9/06)
2001 Mar 9, Attorney James St.
Clair (b.1920), who represented President Nixon at the height of the
Watergate scandal, died in Westwood, Mass., at age 80.
(AP, 3/9/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.110)
2001 Mar 9, In Afghanistan the
smaller giant Buddha at Bamiyan was destroyed.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 9, Ethnic Albanian rebels
launched attacks on Macedonian and Yugoslav forces on the Kosovo
border. 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 3/10/01, p.A8)
2001 Mar 9, In Ukraine tens of
thousands of demonstrators rioted in Kiev to force Pres. Kuchma from
office.
(SFC, 3/10/01, p.A8)
2001 Mar 10, President George W.
Bush told Americans in his Saturday radio address that he thought
support for tax relief was building, while opening the door to
considering a different sort of cut than he had proposed and Democrats
deplored.
(AP, 3/10/02)
2001 Mar 10, In Canada the
Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council of British Columbia signed a treaty with
the federal government.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, p.D2)
2001 Mar 10, In Colombia gunmen
pulled Sintramienergetica union local president Valmore Locarno and his
deputy, Victor Orcasita, off a bus and killed them. The US Drummond Co.
was later charged with paying paramilitaries for the executions. In
2007 a civil trial before a federal jury opened in Birmingham, Ala.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2001 Mar 10, In Japan Prime
Minister Yoshiro Mori announced that he would resign next month.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, p.D1)
2001 Mar 11, Lawrence Summers,
former Clinton Treasury Secretary, was named as the 27th president of
Harvard. Neil Rudenstine planned to step down in June.
(WSJ, 3/12/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 11, In England 25 new
cases of hoof-and-mouth disease were reported with outbreaks in
Scotland, Wales, Devonshire and Kent.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 11, In Indonesia
anti-Wahid students rallied in Jakarta. A plunging currency added to
the unrest on the streets.
(WSJ, 3/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 11, In Malaysia ethnic
violence between Malays and ethnic Indians continued for a 4th day.
Five people were killed in the last 4 days.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 11, In Mexico some
75,000-100,000 supporters filled the square of Mexico City as the
Zapatista rebels arrived. "We are here to shout for and to demand
democracy, liberty and justice." Masked Zapatista rebels urged passage
of an Indian rights bill.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/11/02)
2001 Mar 11, In Spain over 100,000
people protested in Madrid against a $23 billion plan to divert water
from the Ebro river to areas in the south.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 12, A US Navy fighter
dropped an errant 500-pound bomb in Kuwait that hit an observation post
and killed five Americans and one New Zealander. Cmdr. David Zimmerman
was later reprimanded and relieved of command.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/23/01, p.C4)(AP, 3/12/02)
2001 Mar 12, The DJIA fell 436 to
10,208. The Nasdaq fell 129 to 1923. The 61% Nasdaq drop since Mar 10,
2000, was the largest in its 30 year history.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 12, An anonymous donor
pledged a no-strings-attached $360 million to Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI) of Troy, NY, the largest donation to a university in US
history.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A4)
2001 Mar 12, Morton Downey Jr.
(68), abrasive, chain-smoking, pioneer host of "Trash TV" talk shows,
died. "The Morton Downey Show" premiered in NYC in 1987.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A20)(AP, 3/12/02)
2001 Mar 12, Robert Ludlum (73),
suspense novelist, died in Naples, Fla. His books included "The
Scarlatti Inheritance," "The Chancellor Manuscript," the Bourne
trilogy, "The Matlock Paper," "Trevayne" and others.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A25)(AP, 3/12/02)
2001 Mar 12, In Guatemala Judge
Hugo Martinez of Senahu was hacked to death and burned by a mob after
he ruled that there was not sufficient evidence to hold 2 rape
suspects.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.C12)
2001 Mar 12, In India Bangaru
Laxman, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, resigned following
video taped images of bribery.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.C12)
2001 Mar 12, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid insisted he would not step down and warned that his ouster would
lead to the disintegration of the country as over 10,000 demonstrated
in Jakarta for his ouster. The main stock index fell 5% and the rupiah
fell 12%.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 12, Israel sealed off the
city of Ramallah, the unofficial seat of the Palestinian Authority.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 12, In Mexico the Fox
administration announced its " Plan Puebla-Panama," an effort to close
the economic gap between the north and poorer south.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 12, In Mexico Zapatista
rebels invaded the Naha nature preserve in southern Chiapas, home of
Lacandon Indians, and took over some 250 acres of the 7,500-acre
preserve.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 12, Russia and Iran
signed agreements to increase their military and economic cooperation.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 12, In Uganda elections
were held. Pres. Museveni (56) was challenged by Kizza Besigye (44), a
retired army colonel. Vote-rigging charges marred the elections.
Museveni won with 69.3% to Besigye’s 27.8%. Reports were made that 12
million ballots were counted with only 10.6 million registered to vote.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, p.D4)(WSJ, 3/13/01, p.A1)(SFC,
3/14/01, p.C12)(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 12, Yugoslavia and NATO
agreed to use their forces to squeeze Albanian rebels from separate
flanks as the rebels signed a cease-fire.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 13, Pres. Bush backed off
from seeking reductions in carbon dioxide emissions due to projected
higher energy costs from a shift from coal to natural gas.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 13, Ahmed Ressam, an
Algerian national who was arrested with a carload of explosives just
before New Year's Eve 1999, went on trial in Los Angeles on charges of
plotting to bomb Seattle and other U.S. cities during the millennium
celebrations. He was convicted of terrorism the following month.
(AP, 3/13/02)
2001 Mar 13, In China four writers
were detained a few months after they had formed the New Youth Study
Group for discussing political change in China. In 2003 Xu Wei (28) and
Jin Haike (26) were sentenced to 10 years in prison for subverting
state power. Yang Zili (32) and Zhang Honghai (29) were sentenced to 8
years.
(SFC, 5/30/03, p.A16)
2001 Mar 13, In Costa Rica Shannon
Martin (23), a student from Topeka, Kan., was stabbed to death, after
she left a nightclub in Golfito, 100 miles south of San Jose. In 2003
Kattia Cruz, 28, and Luis Alberto Castro, 38, were found guilty of
murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the killing.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2001 Mar 13, France announced its
first case of foot-and-mouth disease, prompting the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to suspend imports of livestock and fresh meat from the
European Union.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/13/02)
2001 Mar 13, Japan’s Nikkei Stock
Average fell 351 to 11,819, a 16-year low.
(WSJ, 3/14/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 13, In Indonesia
supporters and opponents of Pres. Wahid staged protests as police
clashed with students who threw rocks and gasoline bombs in Jakarta.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 13, North Korea cancelled
negotiations with South Korea due to Pres. Bush’s toughened stance on
the North.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 14, Doug Swingley won the
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska for the third straight year.
(AP, 3/14/02)
2001 Mar 14, Inspectors tightened
U.S. defenses against foot-and-mouth disease a day after a case was
confirmed in France.
(AP, 3/14/02)
2001 Mar 14, The DJIA fell 317 to
close at 9,973. The Nasdaq fell 42 to close at 1,972.
(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 14, Bristol-Myers
proposed a $1 a day price per patient for its 2 AIDS medicines to
sub-Saharan African countries.
(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 14, Seven men were killed
by police in a Kingston, Jamaica, suburb during an alleged shootout. 3
of the dead were under 18. In 2003 five police officers were charged
with murder in the deaths of the 7 young men.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C3)(AP, 11/12/03)
2001 Mar 14, In Macedonia the
ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (UCK) extended its fight to
Tetovo, the country’s 2nd largest city.
(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 15, Federal authorities
confirmed that remains found on a Texas ranch were those of missing
atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair and two of her relatives. David
Waters, the key suspect in the slayings, was sentenced to 20 years in
prison on a federal extortion charge in connection with the case.
(AP, 3/15/06)
2001 Mar 15, Ann Sothern (92),
film and TV actress, died in Ketchum, Idaho. Her work included 64
movies and over 175 TV episodes.
(SFC, 3/17/01, p.A23)(AP, 3/15/02)
2001 Mar 15, In Brazil a Petrobras
oil-platform explosion killed 1 worker and left 9 missing at the
40-story offshore facility. The platform was in danger of sinking.
(WSJ, 3/16/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/17/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 15, Britain announced
plans to slaughter up to 100,000 more animals due to possible contacts
with foot-and-mouth disease virus.
(SFC, 3/16/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 15, Chechen men, wielding
knives and claiming to have a bomb, hijacked a Russian plane carrying
174 people after it left Turkey and forced it to land in the holy Saudi
city of Medina. Saudi special forces stormed the plane the following
day; a flight attendant, a passenger and a hijacker were killed.
(SFC, 3/16/01, p.A14)(AP, 3/15/02)
2001 Mar 15, In India defense
minister George Fernandes resigned in a corruption scandal.
(SFC, 3/16/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 15, Israel arrested 3
members of an elite Palestinian security force who allegedly planned a
bomb attack on Israeli West Bank military headquarters.
(SFC, 3/16/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 15, In Macedonia Prime
Minister Ljubco Georgievski said that a direct involvement of NATO
troops might be required to stem rebel attacks.
(SFC, 3/16/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 15, In the Philippines 10
police officers were sentenced to death for accepting $13,265 in bribes
from alleged drug dealers in 1999.
(SFC, 3/16/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 15, A St. Maarten
registered boat carrying illegal migrants sank near St. Martin and at
least 20 people were killed.
(SFC, 3/16/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 16, Rap impresario Sean
"Puffy" Combs was acquitted in New York of taking an illegal handgun
into a crowded Manhattan hip-hop club where three people were later
wounded; he was also cleared of trying to bribe his way out of trouble.
Combs' bodyguard, Anthony "Wolf" Jones, was acquitted of the same
charges.
(AP, 3/16/02)
2001 Mar 16, In Argentina Ricardo
Lopez Murphy, the Economy Minister, proposed $4.5 billion in budget
cuts over the next 2 years to revive the economy.
(WSJ, 3/20/01, p.A19)
2001 Mar 16, Explosions rocked
residential buildings in Shijiazhuang, a mill town in Hebei province.
At least 18 people were killed. The deaths soon mounted to 108 with 38
injured. Police later arrested Jin Ruchao (41), a deaf man, who
reportedly confessed to the bombings.
(SFC, 3/17/01, p.A10)(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.D1)(SFC,
3/24/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 16, In Macedonia Albanian
rebel mortar shells exploded in Tetovo.
(SFC, 3/17/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 16, In Saudi Arabia Saudi
commandos freed over 100 hijacked hostages held by Chechen rebels in a
Russian plane. 3 people were killed including a hijacker, a flight
attendant and a passenger.
(SFC, 3/17/01, p.A10)(AP, 3/16/02)
2001 Mar 17, Ray Rice, one of the
founders of the Art and Architecture movement, died at age 85 in
Mendocino. His work include 40 short films.
(SFC, 4/9/01, p.A17)(http://tinyurl.com/23geum)
2001 Mar 17, In Angola a small
plane crashed into a mountain near Lubango and all but one of 17 people
on board were killed.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.S2)
2001 Mar 17, Colombia suspended
meat and livestock imports from Argentina for 60 days due to fears of
foot-and-mouth disease. Only Israel and Russia still imported Argentine
meat.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 17, In Italy protesters
demonstrated at the third Global Forum in Naples. They clashed with
police and 50 officers and 70 protesters suffered minor injuries.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 17, OPEC decided to
curtail its official output by 4 percent, or 1 million barrels of oil a
day, in an effort to halt a recent slide in oil prices, a decision the
Bush administration called "disappointing."
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.D1)(AP, 3/17/02)
2001 Mar 17, In Spain Santos
Santamaria Avedano (32), a police officer, was killed when a car bomb
went off as he evacuated guests from a hotel in Roses.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 18, John Phillips, who
co-founded the Mamas and the Papas and wrote its biggest hits,
including "California Dreamin" and "Monday," died in Los Angeles at age
65.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A19)(AP, 3/18/02)
2001 Mar 18, It was reported that
the Bush administration planned to sidestep the American Bar
Association in the screening of federal judges, an "indication that
they want to pick judges of the hard right."
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.A5)
2001 Mar 18, It was reported that
the US National Reconnaissance Office was planning a $25 billion
project for some 12 satellites to be deployed by 2005.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 18, An Amtrak train bound
for the Bay Area derailed in Iowa and 1 person was killed with 96
injured.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 18, In Algeria weekend
attacks by suspected Islamic militants left 5 people dead and 23
injured.
(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 18, Chechen rebels killed
at least 21 Russian troops.
(WSJ, 3/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 18, In France mayoral
elections were held in Paris. Bertrand Delanoe, candidate of the
Socialist, Communists and 2-other left-wing parties, won over Philippe
Seguin. Socialists also won in Lyon. This ended a century of nearly
unbroken rule by the right.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A12)(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A8)(AP, 3/18/02)
2001 Mar 18, In Iran the judiciary
banned the nation’s only real opposition group and closed down 4
pro-reform newspapers.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 18, In Macedonia the
government ordered a general mobilization to counter the guerrilla
assault.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A8)
2001 Mar 19, Pres. Bush met with
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. They did not come up with any
specific measures to revive economic growth.
(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 19, California officials
declared a power alert, ordering the first of two days of rolling
blackouts, alternative power generators shut down due to nonpayment by
PG&E and Southern California Edison.
(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/19/02)
2001 Mar 19, In Guyana elections
were held for the presidency and 65-seat National Assembly. Bharrat
Jagdeo (37) and the People’s Progressive Party won a 3rd consecutive
term against Desmond Hoyte (72) of the People’s National Congress. Some
black voters raised accusation of fraud.
(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A8)(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)(SFC,
3/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 19, In Japan Masaru
Hayami, the Gov. of the Bank of Japan, said that a key interest rate
will fall virtually to zero and stay there until consumer prices stop
falling.
(WSJ, 3/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 19, NATO asked for
additional troops in Kosovo to help stop Albanian guerrillas from
crossing into Macedonia. Macedonia moved tanks and troops into Tetovo.
(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 3/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 19, In Turkey the Cabinet
approved a detailed program of political, economic and legal reforms to
secure entry to the EU.
(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 19, A Zimbabwe delegation
wrapped up 2 days of meetings with South Africa to find ways to restore
the economy. South Africa feared a flood of Zimbabweans due to fuel and
food shortages there.
(WSJ, 3/21/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 20, Pres. Bush met with
Israel’s Ariel Sharon and urged him avoid provocative acts.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 20, The skipper of the
USS Greeneville took the stand in a Navy court and accepted sole
responsibility for the Feb. 9 collision of his submarine with a
Japanese trawler off Hawaii that killed nine Japanese.
(AP, 3/20/02)
2001 Mar 20, New York native Lori
Berenson, accused of aiding guerrillas in Peru, received a retrial in
civilian court. She was later convicted of "terrorist collaboration."
(AP, 3/20/02)
2001 Mar 20, The US Federal
Reserve lowered interest rates 0.5% but stocks dropped. The DJIA fell
238 to 9,720; the NASDAQ fell 93 to 1,857.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 20, Power-strapped
California saw a second day of rolling blackouts.
(AP, 3/20/02)
2001 Mar 20, Now-Ruz, the
traditional Afghan New Year, passed without fanfare. The holiday is
also observed in Iran.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.A17)
2001 Mar 20, In Buenos Aires
thousands demonstrated against plans to cut government spending.
Domingo Cavallo was named to succeed Ricardo Lopez Murphy as economy
minister.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 20, The damaged Brazilian
P-36 Petrobras oil platform sank 75 miles offshore. 400,000 gallons of
fuel and crude oil began leaking into the sea. An immediate revenue
loss of $50 million per month was expected.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 3/21/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 20, Britain reported 46
new confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth disease, the largest daily number
to date.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 20, In Haiti violence
flared in Port-au-Prince as Aristide supporters attacked an opposition
party office with firebombs.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 20, Liberia ordered its
security forces to seal its border with Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 20, In Macedonia security
forces began a heavy attack against guerrilla fighters and issued an
ultimatum that weapons be laid down.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.12)
2001 Mar 20, In Spain Froilan
Elespe, Socialist deputy mayor of Lasarte, was shot and killed. The ETA
was blamed.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 20, In South Africa new
AIDS statistics indicated that 25% of the adult population, one of
every 9 people, was infected with HIV.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 21, The US State Dept.
ordered the expulsion of 5 suspected Russian spies and informed Moscow
that as many as 50 intelligence officers using diplomatic cover would
have to leave over the next few months.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 21, The Supreme Court
ruled that hospitals cannot test pregnant women for drug use without
their consent.
(AP, 3/21/02)
2001 Mar 21, In Vermont a flock of
234 sheep were seized by federal agents over fears of infection with a
version of mad cow disease. The sheep had originated in Belgium in 1996.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 21, Space shuttle
Discovery glided to a predawn touchdown, bringing home the first
residents of the international space station.
(AP, 3/21/02)
2001 Mar 21, The Taiwan United
Daily News reported that a senior Chinese colonel had defected to the
US.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 21, In Guatemala the
highest court ordered former dictator Efraim Rios Montt and 5
ruling-party lawmakers to give up their congressional posts to face
impeachment charges.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D2)
2001 Mar 21, In Israel Yitzhak
Mordecai, a former defense minister, was convicted for sexual assault
and harassment of two women.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 21, Pres. Vicente Fox
arrived in California for his 1st foreign trip as President of Mexico.
He appealed to Gov. Davis to allow Mexicans in California greater
access to doors of opportunity.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 21, In Macedonia the
government rejected a rebel cease-fire and planned to proceed with its
military offensive.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 21, In Pakistan the
military rulers arrested at least 20 opposition leaders. 1,600 people
have been jailed in the last 3 days.
(WSJ, 3/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 21, Russia’s Mission
Control took command of the Mir space station and prepared it for its
final descent into the South Pacific.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 22, Pres. Bush met with
Chinese Deputy Premier Qian Qichen and said the US would support
Taiwan’s military needs.
(WSJ, 3/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, In California Jason
Hoffman (18) opened fire at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, San
Diego County. 10 people were injured. Hoffman reached a plea agreement
and faced at least 27 years in prison. Hoffman hanged himself and was
found dead in his cell Oct 29.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A3)(SFC,
9/14/01, p.A28)(SFC, 10/30/01, p.E10)
2001 Mar 22, William Hanna
(b.1910), animation pioneer, died in Los Angeles. Cartoon characters
that he helped create included Fred Flintstone, Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi
Bear, Papa Smurf, as well as Tom and Jerry.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D7)(AP, 3/22/02)
2001 Mar 22, Yevgeny Plushchenko
captured the World Figure Skating Championships crown in Vancouver,
British Columbia.
(AP, 3/22/02)
2001 Mar 22, Two Albanians were
killed by Macedonian police at a checkpoint when they appeared to pull
grenades. The EU urged Macedonia to show restraint and intensify
discussions with Albanian militants.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 22, In Ireland a case of
foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in County Louth, on the border
with Northern Ireland. 40,000 cattle were destroyed.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D5)(WSJ, 3/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, In Mexico the Chamber
of Deputies voted to allow Zapatista leaders to speak before an
informal session of Congress.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D2)
2001 Mar 22, Russia threatened to
expel 50 American personnel in response to US expulsions of Russian
intelligence agents.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, The Russian Duma was
expected to pass a bill to allow the storage of spent nuclear fuel for
projected earnings of some $20 billion.
(WSJ, 3/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, Sabiha Gokcen,
Turkey's 1st woman pilot and the adopted daughter of Ataturk, died.
Armenians held that she was Armenian by birth.
(Econ, 3/27/04, p.52)
2001 Mar 22, UN Sec.-Gen. Kofi
Annan said that he agreed to seek a 2nd five-year term.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D5)
2001 Mar 23, It was reported that
the Bush administration had removed the CIA as a broker between Israeli
and Palestinian security services.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 23, Mississippi Gov.
Ronnie Musgrove signed a law that mandated public schools to display
"In God We Trust" in classrooms, cafeterias and auditoriums.
(SFC, 3/24/01, p.C1)
2001 Mar 23, Newspaper columnist
Rowland Evans died in Washington D.C. at age 79.
(AP, 3/23/02)
2001 Mar 23, David McTaggart (68),
founder of Greenpeace Int’l., was killed in a car crash in Umbria,
Italy.
(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A22)(AP, 3/23/02)
2001 Mar 23, In Britain Prime
Minister Blair ordered the creation of 2-square-mile killing zones
around every farm infected with hoof-and-mouth disease as the number of
daily cases escalated.
(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 23, It was reported that
22 Guam teenagers had committed suicide over the past 26 months.
Members of a secretive club called Prestigious Angels promised to kill
themselves if their friends would follow.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D6)
2001 Mar 23, In Indonesia attacks
by Dayaks in Central Kalimantan left at least 12 people dead.
(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 23, Moscow expelled 4 US
diplomats for "activities incompatible with their status." Russia said
it was expelling 50 U.S. diplomats in retaliation for the expulsion of
50 Russians by the U.S.
(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A10)(AP, 3/23/02)
2001 Mar 23, Russia's orbiting Mir
space station ended its 15-year odyssey with a fiery plunge into the
South Pacific. [see Mar 22]
(AP, 3/23/02)
2001 Mar 24, U.S. skater Michelle
Kwan won her fourth World Figure Skating title; Irina Slutskaya of
Russia was second, and American Sarah Hughes earned the bronze.
(AP, 3/24/02)
2001 Mar 24, EU leaders ended a 2
day meeting in Stockholm announced that they would dispatch a team of
mediators to help the peace process between North and South Korea.
(SSFC, 3/25/01, p.C6)
2001 Mar 24, In Japan a 6.4
earthquake near Hiroshima killed 2 people and injured at least 160.
(SSFC, 3/25/01, p.C1)
2001 Mar 24, Macedonia began using
attack helicopters against ethnic Albanian rebels.
(SSFC, 3/25/01, p.C2)
2001 Mar 24, In southern Russia
near Chechnya three car bombs exploded almost simultaneously, killing
23 people and wounded over 140 in the worst act of terror to hit Russia
outside warring Chechnya in months. Chechen separatists were blamed.
(SSFC, 3/25/01, p.C1)(AP, 3/24/02)
2001 Mar 24, An Air Caraibes Twin
Otter plane with mostly French tourists from St. Maarten crashed on the
Caribbean island of St. Barthelemy and killed all 19 aboard and one
person in the house.
(WSJ, 3/26/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/24/02)
2001 Mar 25, In the Academy Awards
"Gladiator" won 5 Oscars including best picture and best actor for
Russell Crowe. Julia Roberts won best actress for "Erin Brockovich."
"Crouching Tiger" won for best foreign film and best music score.
Steven Soderbergh won best director for "Traffic," which also featured
Benicio Del Toro who won the best supporting actor. Marcia Gay Harden
won best supporting actress for her role in "Pollock."
(SFC, 3/26/01, p.E5)
2001 Mar 25, In Macedonia the
government sent infantry troops backed by tanks and helicopters into
the hills above Tetovo to push back ethnic Albanian insurgents.
(SFC, 3/26/01, p.A8)
2001 Mar 25, In Saudi Arabia the
Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law claimed that
Pokemon games and cards have "possessed the minds" of Saudi children.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.F2)
2001 Mar 26, The Bill Moyers PBS
special "Trade Secrets" focused on the coverup by the American chemical
industry of health problems caused by numerous products including vinyl
chloride and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.A17)
2001 Mar 26, A US Army plane
crashed in Germany and 2 pilots were killed. In Scotland US Air Force
F15C fighter jets were lost during training. The body of one pilot, Lt.
Col. Kenneth John Hyvonen, and F15 wreckage was found the next day.
Wreckage of the 2nd F15 was found after 2 days. The body of Capt. Kirk
Jones was found Mar 30.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.F1)(SFC, 3/28/01, p.A10)(SFC,
3/29/01, p.A11)(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 26, California state
regulators proposed a 40% rate increase to help remedy the state’s
energy crisis.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 26, Regional Comair
pilots went on strike after failing to settle with corporate parent
Delta. The three-month strike began after contract talks with the
regional airline broke off.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.C4)(AP, 3/26/02)
2001 Mar 26, It was reported that
scientists had detected high-energy neutrinos for the 1st time in the
Antarctic Muon and neutrino Detector Array (Amanda).
(SFC, 3/26/01, p.A6)
2001 Mar 26, In Colombia Juan
Gonzalez, head of the right-wing Calima Front of the United
Self-Defense Forces, was killed with 3 others in a bar shootout.
(SFC, 3/28/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 26, In Hebron a
Palestinian sniper shot and killed a 10-month-old Jewish girl. A
15-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and wounded in Gaza.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.F1)
2001 Mar 26, In Kazakhstan the
Caspian Pipeline Consortium began pumping crude oil from the Tengiz
field to Novorossiysk, Russia’s Black Sea port. The 990-mile
Tengiz-Novorossiysk oil pipeline was owned by Kazakhstan, Russia, Oman
and 8 oil companies. Chevron held 15% in the 12-partner consortium.
(WSJ, 2/26/01, p.A14)(SFC, 3/27/01, p.C4)
2001 Mar 26, In Kenya a dorm fire
at the Kyanguli Secondary School in Machakos killed 58 youths. One of 2
doors was bolted shut and arson was suspected. The toll soon rose to 64
as more students died from burns.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.F1)(SFC, 3/30/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 27, A US federal judge
ruled that the Univ. of Michigan racial criteria for accepting minority
students with lower test scores than whites was invalid.
(SFC, 3/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 27, California regulators
approved electricity rate hikes of up to 46 percent.
(AP, 3/27/02)
2001 Mar 27, Robert Lee Massie
(59) became the 9th prisoner to be executed in California since the
death penalty was reinstated in 1997.
(SFC, 12/13/05, p.A13)
2001 Mar 27, An empty train riding
on the wrong side of the tracks crashed into a crowded commuter train
at Pecrot, Belgium, killing eight people.
(SFC, 3/28/01, p.D4)(AP, 3/27/02)
2001 Mar 27, The Brazilian
Electricity Regulatory Agency, Aneel, ordered federal agencies and
state companies to reduce consumption by 10% due to power shortages
caused by poor rains.
(WSJ, 3/28/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 27, In its first specific
accusation against a detained U.S.-based scholar, China said Gao Zhan
had confessed to spying for foreign intelligence agencies. The US
denied employing her as a spy. Gao, who had been detained on Feb. 11,
was released the following July. In 2003 Gao Zhan admitted to illegal
profits of over $539,000 from selling 80 microprocessors to the Chinese
government. [see Feb 11]
(WSJ, 3/28/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/27/02)(SFC, 11/27/03,
p.A3)
2001 Mar 27, China reported that
its population stood at 1.26 billion, an 11.7% increase over the last
decade.
(SFC, 3/28/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 27, In Germany some
20,000 police blocked protesters who sought to block a train delivering
radioactive waste from France. The German nuclear waste was reprocessed
in France and returned.
(SFC, 3/28/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 27, Two bombings in
Jerusalem wounded some 35 people.
(SFC, 3/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 27, Militiamen attacked a
relief convoy and 14 Somalis were killed. 5 kidnapped aid workers were
freed the next day, but 4 remained hostage. 2 Britons were released
April 4.
(SFC, 3/28/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 3/29/01, p.A1)(SFC,
4/5/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 27, In Uganda rebels
ambushed students on a field trip to Murchison Falls and killed 11
people.
(SFC, 3/28/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 28, The EU expressed
concern over Pres. Bush’s abandonment of the Kyoto Treaty for cutting
carbon dioxide emissions.
(WSJ, 3/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 28, The US Senate voted
to double the "hard money" contribution limits to candidates and
political parties.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 28, A federal appeals
court in San Francisco threw out a record $107 million verdict against
anti-abortion activists, ruling that a Web site and wanted posters
branding abortion doctors "baby butchers" and criminals were protected
by the First Amendment.
(AP, 3/28/02)
2001 Mar 28, The authors of a book
on the Oklahoma City bombing revealed that during prison interviews,
Timothy McVeigh had shown no remorse for what happened, and called the
19 children who died "collateral damage."
(AP, 3/28/02)
2001 Mar 28, Bosnian Croat
soldiers deserted by the hundreds following orders by the
self-proclaimed Croat National Assembly led by the nationalist Croat
Democratic Union. Many returned after the defense ministry warned that
they would forfeit wages and benefits.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 28, Two Israeli teenagers
were killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber. Israeli gunships followed
up with missile strikes at Arafat’s personal security forces (Force 17)
and at least 3 Palestinians were killed.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 28, In Jordan an Arab
summit convened. Delegates had already approved a draft resolution for
the UN to allow Baghdad to fund the Palestinian uprising.
(WSJ, 3/27/01, p.A17)
2001 Mar 28, Macedonia began final
assaults on rebels near the Kosovo border as political talks were set
to begin.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 28, In Mexico Zapatistas
told the Mexican legislature that the military phase of their struggle
was over and that political efforts would take precedence.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 28, Russia’s Pres. Putin
replaced his defense and interior ministers. Sergei Ivanov was
appointed the new defense minister and Boris Gryzlov the new interior
minister.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 29, Pres. Bush met with
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who disagreed with Bush’s
opposition to the 1997 Kyoto global-warming accord. It was later
revealed that the 2 men agreed to withhold aid for Russia until
corruption ceased.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 5/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 29, Pres. Bush urged
Israel to use restraint in military actions and instructed Sec. of
State Colin Powell to call Yasser Arafat with the message to stop
Palestinian violence.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 29, James Kopp, the
fugitive wanted in the 1998 slaying of Dr. Barnett Slepian, a Buffalo,
N.Y., abortion provider, was captured in France. Kopp was convicted in
2003 of killing Slepian and is serving a sentence of 25 years to life.
(AP, 3/29/02)
2001 Mar 29, The landmark
Berkeley, Ca., UC Theater, built in 1917, was set to close after its
last show. A fire had gutted the building in the 1940s, and it was
rebuilt in a spartan motif. In 2009 promoters obtained permits and
slated to reopen the building in the Fall of 2010 as a nightclub.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.A12)(SFC, 9/24/09, p.D1)
2001 Mar 29, In Colorado a
chartered jet from southern California crashed near Aspen’s Sardy Field
and all 18 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 29, John Lewis, pianist
and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet, died in Manhattan at
age 80.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A21)
2001 Mar 29, An oil tanker
collided with a freighter in the Baltic Sea and some 550,000 gallons of
oil were spilled and drifted toward Denmark.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 29, In India a power
plant cooling tower collapsed and 6 workers were killed at Parvada.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A19)
2001 Mar 29, Macedonian forces
chased rebels into Kosovo and 3 people were killed from mortar fire in
Kosovo.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 29, In East Timor Xanana
Gusmao said he would not compete in the nation’s 1st presidential
election. Gusmao quit the interim legislature yesterday.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A18)
2001 Mar 30, The Bush
administration suspended a late Clinton rule that directed federal
agencies to assess whether prospective contractors had violated federal
laws.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 30, A Bruce Rozet, a
landlord-developer, admitted to taking part in a $3.4 million fraud
scheme against HUD and agreed to pay $10.2 million in fines and
penalties.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 30, Top environment
officials from North, Central and South America ended two days of talks
in Montreal without a consensus agreement on global warming. A
statement signed by 26 ministers from Latin American and Caribbean
countries faulted a decision by the United States to reject the 1997
Kyoto Protocol.
(AP, 3/30/02)
2001 Mar 30, SAP, a large German
software firm, announced that it would buy bought Top Tier, a small
Israeli software firm founded by Shai Agassi, for $400 million. Top
Tier enabled business partners to access SAP applications using a web
interface. In 2007 Agassi left SAP and founded Better Place, a company
dedicated to building a global network of charging and battery-exchange
stations to make electric cars a mass-market proposition.
(http://irrationalbusiness.com/new/research/shorttakes/4102001.html)(Econ,
5/2/09, p.68)
2001 Mar 30, In Indonesia 2 human
rights defenders and their driver were killed in Aceh province after
leaving the police station in Simpang Tiga Alue Pakuk.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 30, Israeli Arabs
observed Land Day with peaceful marches. Israeli soldiers shot to death
6 Palestinians and wounded over 100.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 30, Macedonia declared a
successful conclusion to their offensive against ethnic Albanian
insurgents.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 31, Pres. Blaise Compaore
asked for forgiveness for abuses over his 13-year rule as part of
Burkina Faso’s 1st “National Pardon Day.”
(SSFC, 4/1/01, p.C10)
2001 Mar 31, In Macedonia rebels
engaged government troops in a firefight.
(SSFC, 4/1/01, p.C5)
2001 Mar 31, In the Netherlands
legislation enacted in 2000 to legalize gay marriages went into effect
at midnight.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 31, In Pakistan a
stampede at a shrine in Pakbattan Sharif left 40 dead as thousands
rushed for the "paradise door."
(WSJ, 4/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 31, In Russia some 20,000
people gathered in Pushkin Square to defend the NTV network from the
government’s 10-month financial and legal campaign against it.
(SSFC, 4/1/01, p.C2)
2001 Mar 31, In Serbia commandos
stormed the residence of Slobodan Milosevic and attempted to arrest him
as the US deadline for cooperation with the UN War Crimes tribunal
approached. But a defiant Milosevic rejected a warrant, reportedly
telling police he wouldn't "go to jail alive." He was taken into
custody the next day.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/31/02)
2001 Mar 31, In Taiwan the Dalai
Lama arrived for a spiritual visit.
(SFC, 4/2/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 31, In Turkey thousands
rallied in major cities to protest a government economic recovery plan
backed by the IMF.
(SSFC, 4/1/01, p.C10)
2001 Mar, Apple Corp. introduced
the Mac OS X.
(SFC, 1/24/04, p.A12)
2001 Mar, In Rotenberg, Germany,
Armin Meiwes (39) killed and ate Bernd Juergen Brandes (43) by
agreement. In 2004 Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced
to 8 ½ years in prison. A Frankfurt court in May 2006 overturned
that conviction and threw out the defense argument that Meiwes had
acted on his victim's request. In 2008 Meiwes was sentenced to life in
prison after a court rejected his appeal.
(SFC, 1/31/04, p.A1)(AP, 10/24/08)
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