Timeline 2001 September-December
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2001 Oct 1, New
York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, in an impassioned speech to the
United Nations, said there was no room for "neutrality" in the global
fight against terrorism and no need for more studies or vague
directives.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2001 Oct 1, The Supreme Court
suspended former President Clinton from practicing before the high
court.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2001 Oct 1, The US reported that
some $6 million and 50 bank accounts were blocked as suspected
terrorist assets.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 1-2001 Oct 2, The US gave
Nato "clear and compelling" evidence that Osama bin Laden orchestrated
the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A4)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D7)
2001 Oct 1, Zayd Hassan Abd
al-Latif Masud Al Safarini, jailed in Pakistan for 15 years, arrived in
Alaska and was expected to face a 1991 indictment for the 1986
hijacking of a Pan Am jet in which 22 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 1, In Minnesota some
28,000 state workers went on strike over wage disputes.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 1, Conde Nast said it
would its Mademoiselle (b.1935) fashion magazine would be published for
the last time in November.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 1, Calvin C. Hernton,
black scholar, critic and poet, died at age 69. His books included "Sex
and Racism in America," "White Papers for White Americans," and "The
Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers."
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E4)
2001 Oct 1, The opposition
Northern Alliance of Afghanistan met in Rome with ex-king Zahir Shah
and agreed to form a broad-based government open to cooperation with
the West.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 1, Elections in
Bangladesh for 299 seats in parliament were held pitting Sheikh
Hasina’s allies against those of longtime foe Khaleda Zia. Zia’s
coalition appeared to be headed for a landslide win. Over 150 people
were killed in the weeks prior to the elections. A coalition led by the
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) came to power.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.C12)(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A1)(Econ,
9/30/06, p.54)
2001 Oct 1, Indonesia’s Supreme
Court threw out its corruption conviction of Hutomo Mandala Putra, i.e.
“Tommy Suharto.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 1, In Srinagar, capital
of Jammu and Kashmir, a Pakistani-based suicide squad struck at the
Legislative Assembly and 38 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A17)(AP,
10/1/06)
2001 Oct 1, In the Philippines the
trial of former Pres. Estrada had a brief start and was postponed to
Oct 17. Estrada showed up against his will, without his legal team and
clad in slippers.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 1, Russia claimed to have
killed Abu Yakub, a top aide to an Arab commander allied with rebels in
Chechnya.
(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 1, In Spain suspected
Basque militants exploded a car bomb in Vitoria that caused much damage
to the city center.
(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 2, NATO Secretary-General
Lord Robertson said the United States had provided "clear and
conclusive" evidence of Osama bin Laden's involvement in the attacks on
New York and Washington.
(AP, 10/2/02)
2001 Oct 2, Acting Massachusetts
Gov. Jane Swift unveiled security measures that included a new security
chief at Logan International Airport, where hijackers boarded the two
planes that smashed into the World Trade Center.
(AP, 10/2/02)
2001 Oct 2, The US Federal Reserve
cut interest rates for a 9th time and reduced the federal funds rate to
2.5%, its lowest level since 1962. The DJIA rose 113 to 8,950. The
Nasdaq rose 11 to 1,492.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A1,D2)
2001 Oct 2, A US Treasury Dept
official reported that over $100 million of suspected terrorist assets
had been frozen in domestic and foreign banks since the Sep 11 attacks.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A4)
2001 Oct 2, India demanded that
Pakistan shut down the Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of the Prophet Mohammad)
militant group responsible for the Oct 1 attack in Srinagar that killed
40 people. India also asked the US to outlaw the group and to freeze
its assets.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 2, Palestinian gunmen
attacked an Israeli settlement in Gaza and killed a teenage couple. At
least 15 others were wounded. 2 gunmen were killed by Israeli
sharpshooters.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 2, In Russia Defense
Minister Sergei Ivanov signed a weapons framework agreement with
Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani for as much as $300 million.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 2, Farouk al-Sharaa,
Syrian foreign minister, said Syria is determined to help the int’l.
effort to combat terrorism. He added that to achieve that goal,
terrorism’s roots and causes would have to be addressed.
(WSJ, 10/3/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 2, Cash-strapped Swissair
shut down flight operations and stranded thousands of passengers around
the globe.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.D3)
2001 Oct 3, Pres. Bush endorsed a
$60-75 billion stimulus package to pull the US out of recession.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 3, The Senate approved an
agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2001 Oct 3, Apple introduced the
iPod, a breakthrough MP3 music player that packs up to 1,000 CD-quality
songs into an ultra-portable, 6.5 ounce design that fits in your
pocket, at a cost of $399.
(www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/oct/23ipod.html)(Econ, 10/4/08, p.14)
2001 Oct 3, Near Manchester,
Tennessee, Damir Igric (29), a Croatian passenger on a Greyhound bus,
slit the throat of the bus driver and caused a roll over that killed 7
people including Igric.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C16)(AP, 10/4/06)
2001 Oct 3, In NYC Nathan Powell
killed and dismembered Jawed Wassel, an Afghan émigré and
filmmaker. Powell claimed anger over the Sep 11 attacks and pleaded
guilty in 2003.
(SFC, 6/5/03, p.A3)
2001 Oct 3, In Chechnya rebels
killed 9 federal troops in a number of clashes that included 4 dead
from land mines. 4 militants were also killed.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C8)
2001 Oct 3, Israeli forces in Gaza
cleared a half mile buffer zone and killed 6 Palestinians when tank
shells ripped their cars.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 3, Pres. Putin said
Russia is ready to reconsider its opposition to Nato expansion if the
alliance assumes a broader political identity in which Moscow can be
involved.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 3, In South Africa ANC
leader Tony Yengeni was charged with corruption, forgery and perjury
linked to the country’s $6 billion arms deal with Europe.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C4)
2001 Oct 4, In Texas Barry Bonds
hit his 70th home run to tie Mark McGwire's 1998 record in a 10-2
victory over Houston. Rickey Henderson homered to pass Ty Cobb and
become baseball's career leader in runs scored with 2,246 during San
Diego's 6-3 win over Los Angeles.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/4/02)
2001 Oct 4, The US pledged $320 m
million in aid to Afghanistan refugees.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, Reagan National
Airport re-opened.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A15)
2001 Oct 4, NYC officials
estimated that the Sep 11 disaster would cost as much as $105 billion
over the next 2 years. Depending on the number of jobs permanently
shifted out of the city, the September 11th attacks could cost New York
City as much as $83-95 billion dollars, though the financial loss could
never compare to the horrendous loss of nearly 3,000 lives.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A15)(HNQ, 9/11/02)
2001 Oct 4, Algeria’s Pres.
Bouteflika promised to recognize the Berber language, compensate
victims of police brutality and prosecute police involved in brutality.
(WSJ, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, The British government
released a 16-page document over the Internet that presented details on
Osama bin Laden’s responsibility for the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 4, The EU made a joint
announcement with Spain that the Basque ETA would be put on the list of
terrorist organizations whose assets would be frozen by the EU.
(WSJ, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, In Israel PM Sharon
warned the US that it risked appeasing the Arab nations: "Do not try to
appease the Arabs at our expense." A Palestinian posing as an Israeli
soldier killed 3 Israelis in Afula. A Palestinian was killed during a
2nd day of fighting in Hebron.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.D4)(WSJ, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, Macedonian security
forces, in opposition to external warnings, took control of 3 ethnic
Albanian villages but met with resistance from others.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.D4)
2001 Oct 4, Pakistan announced
that it sees sufficient grounds for an indictment against Osama bin
Laden.
(WSJ, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, In the Philippines
government forces captured 13 members of Abu Sayyaf and killed another
in a southern clash.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.D6)
2001 Oct 4, A chartered Russian
Tupelov-154 airplane crashed in to the Black Sea and 76 people were
killed. The 64 passengers and 12 crew of the Siberian Airlines jet was
bound to Novosibirsk from Tel Aviv. An accidental missile strike from
Ukrainian military forces was suspected but denied by Ukraine
officials. Pres. Putin said terrorists might have been responsible.
Later evidence indicated that flight 1812 was hit by an S-200 missile.
Ukraine and Russia acknowledged that an errant missile was the probable
cause on Oct 12. In 2003 Ukraine agreed to pay $200,000 for each
Israeli killed.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)(WSJ,
11/21/03, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, Swissair resumed
flying following a 2-day shut down propped by a $281 million Swiss
government loan. [see Jan 31, 2002]
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.B4)
2001 Oct 5, Barry Bonds of the SF
Giants hit his 71st and 72nd record home runs at Pacific Bell Park off
of pitcher Chan Ho Park of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers won
11-10. This broke the record of 70 held by Mark McGwire.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.F1)
2001 Oct 5, Moses Malone was
inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
(AP, 10/5/02)
2001 Oct 5, Pres. Bush urged
Congress to pass $60 million in tax cuts to revive the economy.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 5, The US received
permission from Uzbekistan to set up a base of operations against
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 5, The US Labor Dept.
reported that 199,000 jobs were lost in September.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 5, In Alaska Daniel
Carson Lewis (37) was arrested for shooting a hole into the oil
pipeline, which cause the leakage of up to 280,000 of gallons. Some
285,600 gallons spewed out for 3 days until the leak was plugged Oct 6.
The cleanup cost was $7 million.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 5, Georgia’s Supreme
Court ruled that electrocution is an unconstitutionally cruel and
unusual punishment. 441 Georgia inmates had died in the electric chair
since 1924.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.E1)
2001 Oct 5, Mike Mansfield (98),
former Montana Senator and ambassador to Japan, died in Washington, D.C.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.E1)(AP, 10/5/02)
2001 Oct 5, George P. Brockway,
former president of W.W. Norton publishing house, died at age 85. He
created the Norton Anthology series in the 1950s.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.E2)
2001 Oct 5, Bob Stevens (63),
photo editor for the Sun tabloid, died of anthrax. Anthrax spores were
later found on his computer keyboard in Lantana. This was the 1st of a
series of cases in Florida, New York, New Jersey and Washington.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A10)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D7)(AP,
10/5/02)
2001 Oct 5, In Israel PM Sharon
ordered the largest military assault in a year and 5 Palestinians were
killed in Hebron.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 6, Cal Ripken played his
last game in the major leagues as his Baltimore Orioles lost to the
visiting Boston Red Sox 5-1.
(AP, 10/6/02)
2001 Oct 6, Pres. Bush warned
Afghanistan’s rulers that time is running out. The Taliban said it
would release 8 aid workers if the US "stops issuing threats" of
military action.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 6, US and British
intelligence identified Mohammed Atef, a former Egyptian policeman and
close aide to Osama bin Laden, as the key planner of the of the Sep 11
attacks.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 6, Joseph Allen Stein
(b.1912), architect, died in North Carolina. Much of his work was done
in India where he designed the India International Center in Delhi.
(www.virginia.edu/soasia/newsletter/Fall01/stein.html)(SFC, 4/7/07,
p.F6)
2001 Oct 6, In Afghanistan the
Northern Alliance was building an airport outside Golbahar to allow a
US-led coalition to funnel in military supplies.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 6, In Saudi Arabia a bomb
exploded in Khobar. 2 people were killed and 4 were injured.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 7, In SF Barry Bonds hit
his 73rd home run in the final game of the season. Two men, Alex Popov
and Patrick Hayashi, fought over the ball and went to court. In 2002 a
judge ruled that the ball be sold and the cash split. In 2003 the ball
was auctioned off for $450,000.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.B1)(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A1)(SFC,
6/26/03, p.A1)cy
2001 Oct 7, US and British forces
struck 31 targets in Afghanistan. 40 warplanes, 50 Tomahawk cruise
missiles, B-2 Stealth bombers, B-1 lancers, B-52s, F-14 Tomcats and
F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets were used against air defenses,
communication nodes and other large fixed target sites. Airdrops of
food were also made. The Taliban later claimed that 8-20 civilians were
killed in the attacks.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 7, A scheduled peace
demonstration in NYC drew some 10,000 people. Anti-war demonstrations
in SF and Chicago drew some 1,000 each.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 7, The annual Emmy Awards
ceremony was called off.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.G1)
2001 Oct 7, Herbert L. Block
(b.1909), Washington Post cartoonist, died at age 91. He authored
"Herblock: A Cartoonist’s Life" in 1993.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A20)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Oct 7, The Al-Jazeera TV
network from Qatar showed video footage of Osama bin Laden praising
Allah for the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.G1)
2001 Oct 7, In Afghanistan the
Northern Alliance moved its front line artillery and infantry units
against the Taliban.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 7, Hurricane Iris caused
a mudslide in the Dominican Republic that killed 3 people.
(WSJ, 10/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 7, In Pakistan Muslim
clerics called for a holy war to counter the attacks in Afghanistan.
Fazlur Rehman, a top fundamentalist politician, was arrested. Most of
the Arab world appeared relatively calm.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A6)
2001 Oct 7, A Palestinian suicide
bomber, Ahmed Daraghmeh (17), killed himself and 1 Israeli near the
settlement of Kibbutz Shluhot.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.F1)
2001 Oct 8, Tom Ridge was sworn in
to head the new US Office of Homeland Security.
(WSJ, 10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 8, US forces hit
Afghanistan with a 2nd wave of attacks. 40 Taliban commanders along
with 1,200 men switched sides and handed over control of a provincial
road north of Kabul. 4 UN civilian workers were later confirmed as
casualties of the bombing; Abdul Saboor, Safiullah, Najibullah and
Nasir Ahmad worked for a mine clearing agency. The Taliban ambassador
to Pakistan reported 200 civilian casualties.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A3)(WSJ,
10/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 8, NYC celebrated its
57th annual Columbus Day Parade.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 8, Leland Hartwell of the
Seattle Hutchinson Cancer Research Center won the Nobel Prize in
Medicine along with Paul Nurse and Timothy Hunt of London’s Imperial
Cancer Research Fund for their work in the mechanics of cell division.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B3)
2001 Oct 8, A 2nd case of anthrax
was reported in Ernesto Blanco (73), a co-worker of the man who died
Oct 5 in Florida.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 8, Radio commentator Rush
Limbaugh told listeners he was virtually deaf. Limbaugh later had an
electronic device implanted in his skull that restored much of his
hearing.
(AP, 10/8/02)
2001 Oct 8, In Bogota, Colombia,
Luis Alfredo Colmenares, a Representative from Arauca, was assassinated
by gunmen on a motorcycle.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B4)
2001 Oct 8, In the Abkhazia region
of Georgia a UN helicopter was shot down and 9 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B4)
2001 Oct 8, In Belize 17
Virginians were killed when a dive boat capsized during a hurricane.
(AP, 10/8/02)
2001 Oct 8, In Milan, Italy, a
Scandinavian Airlines SAS jet, Flight 686 to Copenhagen, crashed into a
small Cessna on takeoff and 114 people were killed in both planes with
4 killed on the ground. The Cessna had moved onto the wrong runway as
the SAS jet took off under foggy conditions.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 8, In Pakistan violent
protests hit the main cities. At least one protester was killed in
Quetta.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A4)
2001 Oct 8, A Palestinian rally
turned violent as police forces attempted to quell some 2,000 students
supportive of Osama bin Laden. 2 students were killed.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 8, Most of the Russian
atomic-powered Kursk submarine was raised from the Barents Sea in a $65
million salvage operation by the Dutch Mammoet-Smit Int’l. consortium.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D3)
2001 Oct 8, Syria won a seat on
the UN Security Council and was opposed only by Israel.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 9, The Nobel Prize in
Physics was awarded to Eric Cornell, Carl Wiemann and Wolfgang
Ketterlie of the US for their discovery of the Bose-Einstein
condensate, a new state of matter. The condensate, which they created
in 1995, had been predicted by Einstein in 1924.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A17)(SSFC,
8/21/05, p.A3)
2001 Oct 9, The US declared air
supremacy over Afghanistan. In the first daylight raids since the start
of U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan, jets bombed the Taliban stronghold
of Kandahar.
(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/9/02)
2001 Oct 9, Pres. Bush appointed
Richard Clarke as special adviser for cyberspace security.
(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A4)
2001 Oct 9, Letters postmarked in
Trenton, N.J., were sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy; the
letters later tested positive for anthrax.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2001 Oct 9, The 2 anthrax cases in
Florida were reported to probably have been caused by an intentional
release of the deadly bacteria.
(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A4)
2001 Oct 9, Herbert Ross (74),
director and choreographer, died in New York.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2001 Oct 9, Dagmar (Virginia Ruth
Egnor), who parlayed her dumb blonde act into television fame in the
early 1950s, died at age 79 in West Virginia.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2001 Oct 9, Abkhazia accused
Chechen and Georgian fighters of killing 14 villagers and mounting a
helicopter raid.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 9, Hurricane Iris hit
Belize with 140 mph winds. 17 members of a Virginia diving club and 2
local sailors were confirmed dead with 3 missing. Winds nearing 200 mph
left 20 people dead.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A17)(SFC,
10/11/01, p.A21)
2001 Oct 9, Macedonia decreed
amnesty for rebels.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 9, Qatar’s Al-Jazeera
broadcast a taped video of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, an al Qaeda spokesman,
who called on Muslims to attack US interests worldwide.
(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 9, Pakistan cracked down
on continuing violent anti-US protests and 5 people were killed. Some
radical clerics were arrested.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 9, A Pakistani serial
killer, Javed Iqbal, committed suicide rather than face his sentence.
He was to be chopped up and dissolved in acid for having abused and
killed over 100 children.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, The Nobel Prize in
Chemistry was awarded to K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research,
William S. Knowles of St. Louis and Ryoji Noyori of Nagoya Univ. for
their work in developing catalysts to produce compounds of specific
handedness.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A21)(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, The Nobel Prize in
Economics was awarded to George Akerlof of UC Berkeley, Michael Spence
of Stanford, and Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia Univ. Akerlof won in part
for his classic paper explaining how, if sellers know more than buyers,
markets may fail.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.D1)(Econ, 3/28/09, p.88)
2001 Oct 10, U.S. jets pounded the
Afghan capital of Kabul.
(AP, 10/10/02)
2001 Oct 10, An unmanned US spy
plane was lost over southern Iraq, the 3rd since Aug 27.
(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, President Bush
unveiled a list of 22 most-wanted terrorists, including Osama bin Laden
and associates. The FBI issued a list of 22 most wanted terrorists
dating back to 1985 with rewards up to $5 million for tips that prevent
attacks or lead to arrests.
(AP, 10/10/02)(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 10. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of
California was elected House Democratic Whip, the No. 2 House
Democratic leader and the highest post ever held by a woman in Congress.
(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/10/02)
2001 Oct 10, In Florida a 3rd case
of anthrax was identified in a 35-year-old woman who worked in the same
office as Robert Stevens. The strain was reported to match one from
Iowa in the 1950s commonly used by lab researchers.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A4,5)
2001 Oct 10, Tornadoes hit the US
plains and caused heavy damage in Oklahoma and Nebraska.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.C16)
2001 Oct 10, In Alaska a small
plane crashed following takeoff from Dillingham. 10 people were killed
in the Cessna 208 Caravan.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A21)
2001 Oct 10, US warplanes struck
an ammunition dump at the edge of Kandahar and secondary explosions
left some civilian casualties.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 10, In China a state
court sentenced over a dozen key officials in Shenyang for corruption.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 10, In Colombia AUC
paramilitary massacred 24 men in the village of Buga. The bodies of 6
fishermen were recovered near Cartagena, where they had been kidnapped
earlier in the week. A cab driver, who drove outside news
correspondents, was also slain.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.D2)(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, The EU and leaders of
several African nations agreed on a "Marshall Plan for Africa" to
combat poverty and disease and allow access to markets in the
industrialized world.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 10, The 56-member
Organization of Islamic Conference, called by Iran, issued a communique
that sidestepped US action in Afghanistan: "The conference rejected the
targeting of any Islamic or Arab state under the pretext of fighting
terrorism."
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Oct 10, In Sri Lanka Pres.
Kumaratunga dissolved parliament and set elections for Dec 5 after
defections left her coalition in the minority.
(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, Turkey granted the
government the authority to send troops overseas and to allow foreign
troops to be stationed on its soil.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Oct 11, Vidiadhar S, Naipaul
(b.1932), Trinidad-born English novelist, won the Nobel Prize in
Literature. His books included: "A House for Mr. Biswas," "Guerrillas"
(1975), "Among the Believers" (1981), and "The Enigma of Arrival"
(1987).
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.C1)(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A1,W17)
2001 Oct 11, In his first
prime-time news conference since taking office, President George W.
Bush offered the Taliban a chance to stop America's punishing assaults
on Afghanistan by turning over suspected terror mastermind Osama bin
Laden.
(AP, 10/11/02)
2001 Oct 11, The FBI warned that
new acts of terrorism could target Americans over the next few days.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 11, The Bush
administration asked newspapers not to publish full transcripts of
messages from Osama bin Laden due to the possibility of coded messages.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 11, In NYC Mayor Giuliani
rejected a $10 million donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal
due to an attached press release that said the US should re-examine its
policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the
Palestinian cause.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 11, The Pentagon
confirmed the 1st US death in Operation Freedom. Air Force Sgt. Evander
Earl Andrews was killed in a fork lift accident in Qatar.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A16)(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 11, Tom Wales (49), a
Seattle federal prosecutor, was gunned down in his home office.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 11, Abdul Salam Zaeem,
Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, said US bombing in Afghanistan killed
some 100 noncombatants in the Torghar region near Jalalabad. The total
civilian casualties since Oct 7 was estimated at 170.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 11, In Afghanistan that
Northern Alliance claimed to have taken the central province of Gur and
the provincial capital Chaghcharan. American bombing reportedly killed
as many as 200 civilians in Karam and Jalalabad.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A13)(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A1,9)
2001 Oct 11, In Colombia AUC
paramilitary shot and killed 5 men in the town of Samaniego.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 11, The French highest
appellate court ruled that Pres. Chirac is immune from criminal
prosecution for corruption charges for his years as mayor of Paris, but
only while still in office.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D7)
2001 Oct 11, In Kuwait Luc Ethier,
a Canadian employed at the Ahmad al-Jaber airbase, was shot and killed
in Fahaheel. Ethier’s wife was also shot.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Oct 11, In Macedonia police
found a cache of arms in an area held by ethnic Albanian rebels.
(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 11, A Palestinian
militant blew himself up while trying to plant a bomb along a West Bank
road used by Israelis.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.D3)
2001 Oct 12, Kofi Annan, Sec. Gen.
of the UN, and the UN itself won the Nobel Peace Prize.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 12, US Attorney General
John Ashcroft urged federal agencies to resist most Freedom of
Information Act requests made by American citizens. The act was passed
in 1974 during the Watergate scandal.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.D4)
2001 Oct 12, NBC announced that an
assistant to anchorman Tom Brokaw had contracted the skin form of
anthrax after opening a "threatening" letter to her boss that contained
a suspicious powder.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/12/02)
2001 Oct 12, Polaroid Corp. filed
for bankruptcy protection.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2001 Oct 12, Taliban leaders
withdrew over $6 million from the Kabul Da Afghanistan Bank.
(SFC, 1/8/02, p.A11)
2001 Oct 12, The British
government officially announced that 3 Protestant paramilitary forces
in Northern Ireland had ended a 7-year cease fire.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 12, China put limits on
air travel to citizens of 19 countries, mainly in the Middle East.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 12, In Colombia AUC
paramilitary shot and killed 5 men and 2 women in the town of Piamonte.
The army reported that it had discovered14 bodies in a single grave in
the town of Albania.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 12, In Iran anti-American
protests surged on the Afghan border in Zahedan, the provincial capital
of Sistan-Baluchistan.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 12, Iran defeated Iraq
1-0 in a soccer match. Demonstrations erupted after the game against
the Shiite theocracy and continued following successive soccer matches.
At least 2 thousand young people were arrested over the next 2 weeks.
(WSJ, 10/30/01, p.A22)
2001 Oct 12, Israeli and
Palestinian officials resumed peace talks. Thousands of Palestinians
held marches in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 12, In Nigeria the
mutilated bodies of 19 abducted soldiers were found in Benue state.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C16)
2001 Oct 12, In Pakistan
anti-American violence erupted in Karachi.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 12, In Spain a bombing
caused wide damage in Madrid. Basque separatists were suspected.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 12, The US indicated it
would aid Uzbekistan if it were attacked. Uzbekistan was the first
among Central Asian nations to allow the US to use its airspace and
deploy troops on its territory for the anti-terrorism war in
Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks. The United States set up a
military base in southern Uzbekistan, deploying hundreds of troops
there.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A16)(AP, 3/30/04)
2001 Oct 12, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe imposed a price freeze on basic foods following cuts of 5-20% on
basic items.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 13, Anthrax was confirmed
in 3 US states. In Florida 5 more employees tested positive; in Nevada
a letter sent to a Microsoft office tested positive; and in NYC a
letter sent to NBC News tested positive.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 13, The US confirmed that
an errant 2,000-pound bomb hit residential buildings in Kabul and that
4 people were killed.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 13, In Nebraska a school
bus carrying a high school band in Douglas County overturned and 3
people were killed.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 13, In London an
estimated 20,000 people marched against the military strikes in
Afghanistan. Other demonstrations took place in Europe.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 13, Ukraine's defense
minister and air defense chief offered to resign, conceding that the
military was involved in the explosion of a Russian airliner over the
Black Sea Oct. 4 that killed 78 people.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2001 Oct 14, President George W.
Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin
Laden to a third country, saying, "They must have not heard. There's no
negotiations."
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/14/02)
2001 Oct 14, US warplanes hit
Afghanistan targets around Kabul and knocked out the overseas telephone
exchange. Bombs also hit the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar,
Jalalabad and Herat. Abu Baseer al-Masri, al Qaeda fighter and Egyptian
militant, was killed near Jalalabad.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A8)(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 14, Unions in Minnesota
reached a deal with the state to end a walkout by some 23,000
government workers.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E3)
2001 Oct 14, In Argentina
Elections for Congress were held. Rev. Luis Farinello led the Social
Pole Party with an anti-globalization message. The midterm elections
handed a decisive defeat to Pres. Fernando de la Rua’s coalition. The
Peronist Party led nationwide results.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.D4)(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E3)
2001 Oct 14, An Israeli sniper
shot and killed Abed Rahman Hamad, a Hamas leader, hours before the
government announced that it would withdraw troops from Hebron and ease
Palestinian travel restrictions.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E2)
2001 Oct 14, In Nigeria weekend
anti-American protests left 13-200 people dead in Kano.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A5)(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 14, In Pakistan thousands
of Muslims clashed with police in Jacobabad and at least 1 protester
was killed.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 15, US warplanes carried
out their heaviest bombings in 9 days over Afghanistan. The Pentagon
called in the slow moving AC-130 Spectre gunships to targets around
Kandahar.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, Anthrax in a letter
to a Reno Microsoft office was reported to be from Malaysia. 2
anthrax-tainted letters were reported to have been mailed from Trenton,
New Jersey and 2 postal employees there showed symptoms. Anthrax spores
were in a letter deliver to a Senate office. Officials announced that a
letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle had tested positive
for anthrax, and that the infant son of an ABC News producer in New
York had developed skin anthrax.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A16)(AP,
10/15/02)
2001 Oct 15, In Texas the last 2
of 5 escaped convicts were captured after one shot another and freed a
farm couple that was held hostage.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 15, Bethlehem Steel filed
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.D1)
2001 Oct 15, Britain’s PM Tony
Blair said his country favors "a viable Palestinian state, as part of a
negotiated and agreed settlement" during a news conference with
visiting Yasser Arafat.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 15, China executed 2
Muslim separatists in Yili, Xinjiang province.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 15, It was reported that
Croatian officials had suspended the use of Baxter Int’l. filters for
kidney dialysis machines after 23 patients died in a week. A similar
incident in Spain killed 10 people but tests seemed to rule out the
filters.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, India shelled
Pakistani posts along their line in Jammu Kashmir for aiding Islamic
militants. One woman was killed and 25 civilians wounded.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 15, In Indonesia riot
police fought protesters outside the Parliament in what had become
daily battles over US bombing in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, In Israel a hardline
nationalist party withdrew from PM Sharon’s coalition government.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, Japan’s PM Koizumi
visited South Korea and expressed his remorse at Sodaemun Independence
Park for suffering inflicted by Japan’s colonial rule.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 15, It was reported that
Sheik Hamoud bin Uqlaa al-Shuaibi (80), a militant Wahhabi in Buraydah,
Saudi Arabia, called on Muslims to wage jihad on supporters of the US
military action in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Oct 15, Russian troops
claimed to have killed 20 Chechen rebels with a loss of 5 of their own
men.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, In South Africa
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, was
indicted for fraudulent loans of more than $100,000.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 15, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe announced the abandonment of market-based economics and a return
to a socialist-style economy.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 16, A wing of the US
Senate building was closed following confirmation that a letter to Sen.
Tom Daschle, D-S.D., carried anthrax. It was later found that the
anthrax contained the additive bentonite to enhance suspension in air.
12 Senate offices were closed as hundreds of staffers underwent anthrax
tests.
(SFC, 10/17/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/26/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/16/02)
2001 Oct 16, Over 100 aircraft
struck targets in Afghanistan and 2 gunships fired on Taliban and al
Qaeda troops. U.S. bombs struck the Red Cross compound in Afghanistan,
injuring a guard.
(WSJ, 10/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/16/02)
2001 Oct 16, It was reported that
the US strategy in the bombing of Afghanistan was failing because it
contradicted a Pashtun code of honor known as Pashtunwali. Central to
the code is nang, where death is taught to be preferable to a life
without honor. A 2nd tenet called badal, revenge, taught that only way
to redeem honor is to avenge it. A 3rd tenet called melmastiya,
hospitality, was exploited by Osama bin Laden as a guest in the country.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 16, US Customs at JFK
found $140,763 in the luggage of Basam Nahshal who was bound for Yemen.
A 2nd man Ali Alfatimi claimed the money was his and was being smuggled
to Yemen as part of his travel business.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 16, Robert Durst failed
to appear for a court hearing in the dismemberment death of Morris
Black (71) in Galveston, Texas. Durst was also a suspect in the Dec,
2000, shooting death of author Susan Berman. In 1982 Kathleen Durst
(29) had disappeared after spending a weekend at the family cottage in
South Salem. Robert Durst, her husband, reported her missing Feb 5.
Durst was arrested Nov 30, 2001, in Bethlehem, Pa., for shoplifting. A
Texas jury acquitted Durst of Black's murder in 2003.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A15)(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/12/03, p.A1)
2001 Oct 16, Enron Corp. reported
a 3rd quarter loss of $618 million and reduced shareholder equity by
$1.2 billion to account for transactions involving limited partnerships.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A18)
2001 Oct 16, Etta Jones (72), jazz
vocalist, died in Manhattan.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A21)
2001 Oct 16, In Israel PM Sharon
said he would accept the creation of a Palestinian state if Israeli
security needs were met.
(WSJ, 10/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 16, It was reported that
flooding in North Korea had killed at least 81 people and damaged vast
amounts of cropland over the last week. This portended an 8th year of
food shortages.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 17, Peter Carey won his
2nd Booker Prize for his novel "True History of the Kelly Gang," a
fictional account of the 19th century Australian outlaw.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.B3)
2001 Oct 17, Pres. Bush departed
on a diplomatic mission to China following a stop in Sacramento, Ca.
(SFC, 10/17/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 17, Federal officials
reported that the anthrax strains in New York and Florida appeared to
be identical. The House and 6 congressional office buildings were
closed for tests after over 30 Senate staff members tested positive for
exposure to spores.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 17, Researchers at
Lucent’s Bell Labs reported the development of a tiny new transistor
made of a simple cluster of organic molecules.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.D2)(WSJ, 10/18/01, p.B8)
2001 Oct 17, Jay Livingston (86),
film and TV composer, died in LA. He worked with lyricist Ray Evans and
together won 3 Academy Awards for best song, which included "Que Sera
Sera" in 1956.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.D5)
2001 Oct 17, In Afghanistan
Taliban forces seized UN food warehouses in Kabul and Kandahar. Some
100 US land and sea-base planes hit targets that included Kandahar and
Mazar-e-Sharif.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 17, Rehavam Zeevi,
Israeli tourist minister, was shot dead at the Hyatt Regency in East
Jerusalem. The PFLP claimed responsibility and Yasser Arafat promised
to hunt down the perpetrators. Hambi Quran, Basel al-Asmar, Ahmed
Gholmy and Majdi Rimawi were later convicted for the murder. Ahmed
Saadat, head of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, was imprisoned in Jericho. In 2007 Hamdi Quran was sentenced
to 100 years in prison for gunning down the minister as well as bombing
and shooting attacks against Israelis. In 2008 Bassel Asmar was
sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, attempted murder and
belonging to a terror organization.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A1)(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A16)(AP,
3/7/06)(AP, 2/6/08)
2001 Oct 17, In the Philippines
gunmen abducted an Italian priest, Giuseppe Pierantoni (45), in
Dimataling, Zamboanga del Sur. He was freed Apr 8, 2002.
(WSJ, 10/18/01, p.A1)(SFC, 4/8/02, p.A7)
2001 Oct 17, Russia announced
military cuts that would eliminate a navy base in Vietnam and a radar
station in Cuba.
(WSJ, 10/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 18, Pres. Bush arrived in
China for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in
Shanghai. The agenda was economic development and trade liberalization.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 18, CBS News announced
that an employee in Dan Rather's office had tested positive for skin
anthrax.
(AP, 10/18/02)
2001 Oct 18, Two new cases of
anthrax were reported in New Jersey.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 18, The FBI and Postal
Service announced a $1 million reward for information leading to the
arrest of anthrax mailings.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 18, Four disciples of
Osama bin Laden, convicted in the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Kenya
and Tanzania, were sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay $33
million in restitution to victims.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A7)(AP, 10/18/02)
2001 Oct 18, In Afghanistan the
city of Kandahar was reported to have collapsed to "pre-Taliban
lawlessness." The first US Special Forces were reported to have begun
operating on the ground in southern Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 18, Atef Abeiyat, a
militia commander in Arafat’s Fatah, was killed with 2 others when
their car exploded near Bethlehem. 3 other Palestinians were killed by
Israeli fire including an 11-year-old school girl.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A1,18)
2001 Oct 18, Germany issued an
int’l. arrest warrant for Zakariya Essabar (24) for links to the
bombing of the WTC.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 18, Japan’s House of
Representatives approved an anti-terrorism bill that defines a narrow
role for its military to support US attacks in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 18, In Northern Ireland
Protestant politicians announced that they were pulling out of the
power-sharing agreement with Catholics to protest the failure of the
IRA to surrender its weapons.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.D4)
2001 Oct 18, In the Philippines
Pres. Arroyo lifted a moratorium on executions and said she would use
the penalty on kidnappers.
(WSJ, 10/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, Pres. Bush met with
China’s Pres. Zemin on the eve of the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation meeting.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, US special forces
attacked a Taliban stronghold in Kandahar in the 1st known ground
action involving US troops.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, Two US military
personnel were killed in a helicopter accident in Pakistan.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, The FBI identified
the Trenton, NJ, mailbox from which the anthrax letters were sent to
NYC and Washington. Two more people were reported to be infected
bringing the total to 8.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, In Philadelphia
luggage, from a baggage locker that was deposited Sep 29, was found to
contain C-4 plastic explosives.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 19, Enron Corp. froze the
assets in its 401 (k) employee retirement plan and barred employees
from selling company stock trading at $32.20. Employee stock was
unfrozen Nov 19 with shares at $11.69.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A18)
2001 Oct 19, In Afghanistan some
3,500 refugees arrived near the Pakistani border town of Chaman, the
largest number to date. The number had averaged about 2,000.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A6)
2001 Oct 19, EU leaders pledged
their continued support for the US-led campaign in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 19, A refugee ship,
enroute from Indonesia to Australia, carrying some 353 emigrants from
Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine and Algeria, sank off the island of
Java. 44 people survived.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.C1)(AP, 2/3/06)(Econ, 4/25/09,
p.49)
2001 Oct 19, Israeli troops and
tanks invaded Bethlehem and left 6 Palestinians dead. A Palestinian
fighter was killed in Ramallah.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.E1)
2001 Oct 19, Digna Ochoa (38), a
prominent human rights lawyer, was found shot to death in Mexico City.
She was shot once in the left leg and again in the head. In 2003 a
prosecutor said her death was a probable suicide.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A22)(AP, 7/19/03)
2001 Oct 20, During a visit to
Shanghai, China, Pres. Bush challenged Asian leaders to help "save the
civilized world" by joining his war against terrorism.
(AP, 10/20/02)
2001 Oct 20, US commandos struck 2
targets in Afghanistan that included an airfield and a command complex
near Kandahar. Two 500-pound bombs hit a residential center area
northwest of Kabul.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Oct 20, It was reported that
Nat’l. Sec. Advisor, Condoleeza Rice, and Sec. of Defense, Donald
Rumsfeld, had made appearances in the past week on the Al Jazeera
network to repeat that the war on terrorism is not a war on Islam.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 20, It was reported that
the US was using a 40-year-old EC C-130 plane called "Commando Solo" to
broadcast messages and music over Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 20, Traces of anthrax
were found in a US House of Representatives mail room. This became the
3rd Capital Hill building infected.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A3)(AP, 10/20/02)
2001 Oct 20, It was reported that
record flooding around Buenos Aires, Argentina, had damaged some 8.6
million acres of prime farmland. The area was declared a national
disaster and losses were estimated at $300 million.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 20, Israeli tanks and
troops seized control of Kalkilya and Tulkarm and moved into the heart
of Bethlehem. At least 8 Palestinians were killed.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A19)
2001 Oct 20, Pakistan confirmed
that it was holding talks with a senior Taliban commander, Mullah
Jalaluddin Haqqani, on the makeup of a future Afghan government.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A18)
2001 Oct 20, In Yemen some 30,000
people gathered in Amran to protest US airstrikes in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 21, The Arizona
Diamondbacks won the National League championship, defeating the
Atlanta Braves 3-2 in game five.
(AP, 10/21/02)
2001 Oct 21, US warplanes hit
Taliban frontline troops north of Kabul in the fiercest hits to date. A
1000-pound bomb hit near a senior citizens home in Herat. US air
strikes at Thorai killed 21 civilians.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A12)(SSFC,
7/21/02, p.A14)
2001 Oct 21, Thomas L. Morris Jr.
(55), a DC postal worker diagnosed with the deadly inhalation form of
anthrax, died. Officials began testing thousands of postal employees.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/24/01, p.A1)(AP,
10/22/06)
2001 Oct 21, A moratorium against
state collection of Internet taxes expired.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 21, A Taliban official
reported that 5 of their men had been executed as spies.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 21, In Berlin, Germany,
the Social Democrats held on to power in municipal elections, but would
have to form a coalition to govern.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 21, Israeli forces
continued to occupy West Bank territory and 3 Palestinians were killed
including Johnny Thaljieh, a 16-year-old Christian.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 21, In Kazakstan a
3-person Russian-French crew blasted off for the Int’l. Space Station
in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The crew included Claudie Haignere, who
in 1996 became the 1st Frenchwoman in space.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B2)
2001 Oct 21, In Macedonia Pres.
Boris Trajkovski approved a plan to deploy ethnically mixed police
units in areas that had been seized by ethnic Albanian revels.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B2)
2001 Oct 21, In Northern Ireland
Catholic and Protestant groups pelted each other with homemade grenades
in the Limestone Road area of north Belfast.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B2)
2001 Oct 21, Pacific Rim leaders
ended a 2-day economic summit and condemned the Sep 11 attacks against
the US and denounced terrorism in all its forms.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 22, The New York Yankees
routed Seattle 12-3 in game five to win the American League pennant for
the 38th time.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2001 Oct 22, On Capitol Hill, the
House and Senate reopened while their office buildings remained closed.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2001 Oct 22, The Pentagon flew
restricted attacks over Afghanistan using mostly carrier-based
aircraft. Def. Sec. Donald Rumsfeld denied that US and British planes
bombed a hospital in Herat where the Taliban claimed 100 people were
killed. One Pentagon official did say that a US missile had gone astray
near Herat and might have struck a non-military target.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A1,4)
2001 Oct 22, US AC-130 gunships
descended on a farm at Chowkar-Karez outside Kandahar and killed 19
civilians.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A12)
2001 Oct 22, A second Washington
DC postal worker, Joseph P. Curseen (47), died of inhalation anthrax.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/24/01, p.A1)(AP,
10/22/02)
2001 Oct 22, It was reported that
4 key terrorist suspects held in NYC had refused to reveal any
information and law enforcement officials were talking of sidestepping
civil liberties.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 22, Anderson Accounting
learned that the SEC was inquiring into the accounting records of Enron
Corp. Enron disclosed that that the SEC had opened an inquiry into its
limited partnerships.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A12)(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A18)
2001 Oct 22, Indonesia enacted a
bill that granted Irian Jaya sweeping autonomy. It included a name
change to Papua, 80% royalties from logging and fishing and 70%
royalties from mining, oil and gas.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.C3)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 22, Israeli forces held
on to Palestinian territory despite US demands for withdrawal. 3
Palestinians were killed as fighting spilled into Lebanon.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 22, Sinn Fein leader
Gerry Adams urged the Irish Republican Army to begin disarming to save
Northern Ireland's peace process.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2001 Oct 22-24, In eastern Nigeria
soldiers killed up to 200 civilians and caused thousands of villagers
to flee into the bush. The killings were apparently in revenge for 19
soldiers killed in Benue state. Pres. Obasanjo later acknowledged
ordering the attacks and made a formal apology Jan 1, 2003.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C16)(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D3)(AP,
1/3/03)
2001 Oct 22, Pakistan reached a
agreement with the Taliban to accept the return of thousands of
refugees. The Taliban agreed to set up 2 refugee camps inside
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Oct 22, In Venezuela at least
11 people, mostly children, were killed during a stampede into a
bullring for a music concert in Valencia.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 22, It was reported that
Yemen had partially shut down its port of Aden after the breakup of a
big anti-US protest. Militants were commandeering boats to ferry
fighters out of the country and to Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 23, President Bush
announced he had authorized money for improved post office security
following the deaths of two postal workers from inhalation anthrax.
(AP, 10/23/02)
2001 Oct 23, Traces of anthrax
were found at an off-site facility that handled mail for the White
House.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 23, A relieved NASA team
celebrated as the 2001 Mars Odyssey slipped into orbit around the Red
Planet, two years after back-to-back failures by Mars missions. The
$297 million Mars Odyssey spacecraft entered into a stable orbit
following a 6-month voyage.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A13)(SFC, 10/24/01, p.C4)(AP,
10/23/02)
2001 Oct 23, US bombs in Kabul,
Afghanistan, reportedly killed 22 Harkat ul-Mujahedeen fighters from
Pakistan.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 23, John Ashcroft, US
Attorney Gen’l., said 3 men wanted by German authorities, Said Bahaji,
Ramzi Binalshibh and Zakariya Essabar, were part of a terrorist cell in
Hamburg that included 3 men from the Sep 11 attack on the WTC.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 23, US military officers
were sent to the Philippines to assess how the US might help the local
war against terrorism.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 23, David B. Duncan of
Anderson Accounting called a meeting to organize the destruction of
Enron-related records. Duncan was fired in 2002.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A12)
2001 Oct 23, The MacArthur
Foundation announced 23 "genius" award winners. Each would receive
$100,000 over the next 5 years.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A15)
2001 Oct 23, African leaders
gathered in Nigeria for the formal launch of the New Africa Initiative,
aimed at reviving ailing their economies.
(WSJ, 10/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 23, Israel rejected a
request by Pres. Bush to withdraw from Palestinian territory as the
violence continued.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.C3)
2001 Oct 23, The Irish Republican
Army (IRA) began to destroy its arsenal of weapons in a move to save
the Northern Ireland peace process.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.C3)(AP, 10/23/02)
2001 Oct 23, In the Philippines 6
suspected Muslim rebels surrendered and 3 were captured.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 24, The US House passed a
$100 billion economic stimulus package.
(AP, 10/24/02)
2001 Oct 24, The US government
arranged to buy 100 million Cipro tablets from Bayer for 95 cents each.
The tablets were for anthrax. US Postmaster General John Potter told
Americans “There are no guaranties that mail is safe.” He warned people
to wash their hands after handling mail.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.D1)(SSFC, 9/10/06, p.E4)
2001 Oct 24, O.J. Simpson was
acquitted in Miami of grabbing another driver's glasses and scratching
the man's face in a road-rage argument that the former football star
insisted was started by the other guy.
(AP, 10/24/02)
2001 Oct 24, In NYC 14-story
scaffolding collapsed in a courtyard behind 215 Park Ave S. and at
least 5 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C16)
2001 Oct 24, A blizzard hit North
Dakota and Minnesota. The 10 inches of snow broke a 1926 Grand Forks
record. The blizzard killed 6 people in the Midwest with 4 dead in
North Dakota car crashes.
(WSJ, 10/25/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D8)
2001 Oct 24, In Afghanistan US
jets attacked frontline Taliban positions for a 4th day. The Pentagon
accused the Taliban regime of planning to poison relief food supplies
and to blame the US for resulting deaths.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A3, A4)
2001 Oct 24, Some 1500 Afghanistan
leaders met in Pakistan for a 2-day Assembly for Peace and National
Unity in Afghanistan. Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani, a religious leader,
presided.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A12)(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 24, It was reported that
Abdul Haq, a Pashtun opposition leader, had entered southern
Afghanistan with some 100 men to open an ethnic-Pashtun front against
the Taliban.
(WSJ, 10/24/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 24, Britain began tearing
down 4 military installations in Northern Ireland in response to the
IRA’s decision to disarm.
(WSJ, 10/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 24, Chechen leader Akhmed
Zakayev called Putin envoy Viktor Kazantsev to meet in Moscow for talks.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 24, Israeli forces
stormed into Beit Rama and killed at least 5 more Palestinians. 11 were
arrested including 2 who allegedly helped kill an Israeli Cabinet
minister.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A15)
2001 Oct 24, Amid Farik Rizk was
detained in Italy after being found stowed away in a container ship
bound for Canada. Rizk was equipped with electronic gear and had
security passes for airports in Canada, Thailand and Egypt.
(WSJ, 10/26/01, p.A19)
2001 Oct 24, A NATO spokesman said
peacekeepers in Bosnia had disrupted a Bosnian terrorist network.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A14)
2001 Oct 24, In Pakistan some
4,000 armed men blocked and held the Karakoram Highway, the main road
to China, and demanded that Musharraf step down by Nov 7. Some 10,000
Pashtun tribesmen held the hills over the highway.
(WSJ, 10/30/01, p.A17)(SFC, 10/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 24, In Switzerland 2
trucks collided in the 10.6 mile Gotthard tunnel and at least 10 people
were killed. 11 were later confirmed dead with 30 people missing. The
tunnel was expected to stay closed for weeks.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A15)(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D2)(SFC,
10/27/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 25, A day after the House
signed on, the Senate sent President Bush a package of anti-terror
measures giving police sweeping new powers to search people's homes and
business records secretly and to eavesdrop on telephone and computer
conversations.
(AP, 10/25/02)
2001 Oct 25, A State Dept. mail
worker in Virginia was diagnosed with the inhalational form of anthrax.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 25, American warplanes
dropped cluster bombs for the 1st time on Taliban front lines.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.A18)
2001 Oct 25, Operation Green Quest
was the name given to a Treasury Dept. led task force headed by the
Customs Service to crack down on financial sponsors of terrorism.
(WSJ, 10/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 25, The Ford Motor Co.
reached a settlement that would cost as much as $2.7 billion to replace
a $4 ignition device prone to cause stalling.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 25, Microsoft introduced
its new Windows XP operating system.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 25, Israel withdrew from
Beit Rama and pledged phased withdrawals if demands for a total
cease-fire were met. Three Palestinians were killed in Bethlehem.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D2)
2001 Oct 26, Pres. Bush signed a
sweeping anti-terrorism bill into law. It gave police and intelligence
agencies vast new powers to fight terrorism. The USA Patriot Act
included Section 215 that gave the FBI authority to obtain library and
bookstore records without evidence of wrongdoing. It allowed the
government to detain aliens without public acknowledgement.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A3,6)(SSFC, 6/23/02, p.A5)(SSFC,
12/22/02, p.A5)
2001 Oct 26, Anthrax was found in
the offices of 3 lawmakers in the Longworth House Office building on
Capital Hill. The Supreme Court was shut down to test for anthrax
spores.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 26, American Red Cross
President Bernadine Healy announced her resignation.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2001 Oct 26, Lockheed Martin won a
$200 million military contract, the biggest in US history, for a
new fleet of fighter jets for the US and British forces.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.E1)
2001 Oct 26, In Fort Worth, Texas,
Chante Jawan Mallard (25), a nurse's aide, ran into Gregory Biggs (37),
a homeless man, after a night of partying. Biggs was left to die in the
windshield. In 2003 Mallard was convicted of murder and sentenced to 50
years in prison.
(SFC, 6/27/03, p.A13)
2001 Oct 26, US warplanes hit Red
Cross warehouses in Kabul a 2nd time by accident. Afghan officials said
3 children were killed in overnight raids. A human rights group said
that as many as 35 civilians were killed in Chowkar-Karez, near
Kandahar from US air strikes. The Taliban captured and executed Abdul
Haq, a prominent opposition leader, who was attempting to arrange
defections.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 26, In Colombia US
ambassador Anne Patterson said the US would provide counter-terrorist
aid: "Colombia has 10% of the terrorist groups in the world."
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 26, Israel agreed to pull
back from Bethlehem and Beit Jalla as a test of Palestinian guarantees
of security.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 26, North Korea said it
was no longer interested in dialogue with the US due to Pres. Bush’s
recent description of North Korea as "so suspicious and secretive."
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 26, In Pakistan some
40,000 marched in Karachi to protest US air strikes. Another 10,000
protested in Quetta.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 27, The Arizona
Diamondbacks defeated the New York Yankees in game one of the World
Series, 9-1.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2001 Oct 27, In Washington, the
search for deadly anthrax widened to thousands of businesses and 30
mail distribution centers.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2001 Oct 27, US warplanes hit
frontline Taliban positions in the heaviest attacks to date. 10 people
were reported killed from an errant bomb in the village of Ghanikhel in
Kapisa province.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 27, Brian Robinson (40)
of San Jose became the 1st person to hike the 3 major National Scenic
Trails, 7,400 miles in 22 states, in a calendar year when he reached
the northern terminus of the 2,168 mile Appalachian Trail atop Maine’s
Mount Katahdin. He had already hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, 2,645
miles, and the Continental Divide Trail, 2,588 miles.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A19)(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.E1)
2001 Oct 27, Over 5000 volunteers
headed into Afghanistan from Temergarah, Pakistan, to help fight a holy
war against the US.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A14)
2001 Oct 27, Ruue Lubbers, the UN
refugee chief, said some 150,000 Afghans had crossed into Pakistan in
recent weeks.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 27, Israel called off a
planned withdrawal from Palestinian territory citing a handful of
shooting attacks.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 27, In Kashmir Islamic
rebels fought Indian troops in several areas and at least 21 people
were killed.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 27, Jamil Qasim Saeed
Mohammed (27), a Yemeni microbiology student, was turned over to US
authorities in Pakistan. He was said to be an active al Qaeda member
and was suspected of involvement in the Oct 12, 2000 bombing of the
Cole in Aden.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 28, The Arizona
Diamondbacks gained a 2-0 lead in the World Series, defeating the New
York Yankees 4-0.
(AP, 10/28/02)
2001 Oct 28, The families of
people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack gathered in New York for
a memorial service filled with prayer and song.
(AP, 10/28/02)
2001 Oct 28, The CDC reported a
13th case of anthrax in a New Jersey postal worker. Spores were found
at the mail center in Landover, Md.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 28, United Airlines
replaced embattled chairman and chief executive James Goodwin with
board member John Creighton.
(AP, 10/28/02)
2001 Oct 28, In California Jeffrey
Fontana (24), a rookie police officer, was shot and killed during an
apparent traffic stop in San Jose’s Almaden Valley neighborhood.
DeShawn Lee Campbell (22) was suspected in the murder. Campbell was
caught Nov 7. In 2009 Campbell, a mentally disabled man, was convicted
of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A13)(SFC,
11/8/01, p.A21)(SFC, 8/8/09, p.C2)
2001 Oct 28, The US expanded air
strikes over Afghanistan and hit targets in Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif,
Herat, Jalalabad, Kandahar and near the Tajik border. 13 civilians,
including 4 children, were reported killed in Kabul.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 28, Israel pulled out of
Bethlehem and Beit Jala. In Hadera suspected Palestinian gunmen sprayed
gunfire and killed 4 women along a main boulevard before they were shot
dead by police. Drive by shooters killed an Israeli soldier near the
northern West Bank frontier.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 28, In Pakistan gunmen
attacked St. Dominic’s Catholic Church in Bahawalpur and shot to death
at least 16 people. In Quetta a bomb on a bus killed 3 passengers. 13
Islamic militants were arrested in connection with the shooting.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A1,8)(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 28, In Zamboanga,
Philippines, a bomb exploded at a food court and at least 6 people were
killed. Abu Sayyaf rebels were blamed.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 28, In Somalia PM Ali
Khalif Galaydh lost a no-confidence vote after a tenure of 13 months.
Pres. Abdiqasim Salad Hassan prepared to nominate a new PM.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 29, Pres. Bush said that
he has created a task force to recommend sweeping changes on
immigration laws to keep out terrorists and deport those already here.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 29, US officials issued a
broad warning that another terrorist attack could occur over the next
week.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 29, A hospital worker in
NY and a woman who handled mail in New Jersey were found to have
anthrax. Since Oct 4 a total of 37 people have tested positive for
exposure and 15 have contracted the disease.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 29, In Tours, France, a
masked gunman, later identified as a state railway employee, killed 4
people. He was arrested and a grudge was suspected.
(WSJ, 10/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 29, Israel said it would
leave Palestinian territory if the cease-fire is maintained.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 29, In Morocco over 150
nations began 12 days of talks aimed at completing the rules of the
Kyoto protocol. The US attended on the sidelines.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 29, In The Hague former
Yugoslav Pres. Slobodan Milosevic was indicted on new charges for
crimes in Croatia in 1991. He refused to enter pleas.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 29, In Sri Lanka a
suicide bomber blew himself up after being stopped by police in
Colombo. 2 others were killed and 18 injured.
(WSJ, 10/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 29, In Sri Lanka Tamil
Tiger rebels attacked a fuel ship with explosive-packed boats. 4 rebels
died along with 3 people aboard the ship. The M.V. Silk Pride, carrying
660 tons of fuel, exploded and sank.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C7)
2001 Oct 30, The New York Yankees
won game three of the World Series, 2-1, cutting the Arizona
Diamondbacks' games lead to 2-1.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2001 Oct 30, Ford Motor Co.
chairman William Clay Ford Jr. took over as chief executive after the
ouster of Jacques Nasser.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2001 Oct 30, NASA's 2001 Mars
Odyssey snapped its first picture of Mars, one week after the
spacecraft safely arrived in orbit around the Red Planet.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2001 Oct 30, The Pentagon reported
that a small number of US ground forces were operating in northern
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 30, Yasser al-Siri, an
Egyptian activist, was charged in London in connection with the
assassination in Afghanistan of Ahmed Shah Massood, a Northern Alliance
leader. [see Egypt, Nov 25, 1993]
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.A4)(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 30, A 5th day of rain on
Caribbean coast force 25,000 people from their homes in Honduras. 4
people were reported killed. Heavy damage was also reported from
Nicaragua with 12 people missing.
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C2)(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C7)
2001 Oct 30, In Tbilisi, Georgia,
the state security ministry sent 30 agents to the independent Rustavi 2
TV station, ostensibly for a tax investigation. The director refused
the examination of financial files and put the standoff on the air
which prompted 5-10 thousand people to gather in protest. Security
Minister Vakhtang Kutateladze was later fired by Pres. Shevardnadze.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Oct 30, In Israel Shimon
Peres reportedly prepared a peace initiative with plans to dismantle
Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the creation of a Palestinian
state.
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C3)
2001 Oct 30, In the Philippines
Marvin Deonzon (27) was arrested following the weekend bomb attack.
Deonzon claimed to be part of the al Qaeda network and warned of
another 40 bombs planted around Zamboanga.
(WSJ, 11/1/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 30, In Russia some 300
young people stormed a Moscow market in a racist rampage that left 2
Caucasus vendors dead.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C7)
2001 Oct 30, Ukraine destroyed its
last nuclear missile silo, fulfilling a pledge to give up the vast
nuclear arsenal it had inherited after the breakup of the former Soviet
Union.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2001 October 31, The New York
Yankees played the Arizona Diamondbacks in game four of the World
Series; the game ended just a few minutes after midnight as Derek Jeter
hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the
Yankees over the Diamondbacks 4-3 and tie the Series at two games each.
(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 Oct 31, US bombing in
Afghanistan was reported to be the heaviest in the 4-week campaign.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 31, The US Commerce Dept.
reported a 3rd quarter 0.4% annualized fall in the GDP. The decline
marked an end to 33 straight quarters of economic growth.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 31, The Bush
administration said it would adopt stricter arsenic standard for
drinking water as proposed in the final days of the Clinton
administration.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 31, The Bush
administration said the Saudi government has issued an order to freeze
assets of people and groups suspected of links to terrorism.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 31, Attorney Gen. John
Ashcroft announced plans to block hostile foreigners from entering the
US.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 31, The US Consulate in
Lahore, Pakistan, received a letter that was later confirmed to contain
anthrax.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A10)
2001 October 31, Former Symbionese
Liberation Army fugitive Sara Jane Olson pleaded guilty to 2 felony
accounts in Los Angeles to the attempted murder of police officers from
activities with the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1975. She was later
sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 October 31, Microsoft and the
Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the historic
antitrust case against the software giant.
(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 Oct 31, In Connecticut Joseph
Ganim (42), the mayor of Bridgeport, was charged in a federal
racketeering indictment with soliciting over $425,000 in bribes.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 31, The SEC inquiry into
Enron Corp. became a formal investigation.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A12)
2001 Oct 31, Halloween this year
came with a blue moon, the 2nd full moon of the month.
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 31, Kathy Nguyen (61), a
NYC hospital worker, died of anthrax. She was the 4th person to perish
in a spreading wave of bioterrorism. The source of infection remained a
mystery.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 October 31, Cold War arms
negotiator Paul C. Warnke died at age 81.
(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 Oct 31, An Israeli helicopter
missile in Hebron killed Jamil Jadallah, a senior Hamas member. 5 other
Palestinians were also killed in West Bank attacks.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 31, In Pakistan Pres.
Musharraf ordered the arrest of anyone using a mosque loudspeaker for
anything other than the traditional call to prayer. He also banned the
use of mosques to "spread sectarian hatred."
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 31, In Peru Congress
unanimously approved embezzlement charges against former Pres. Fujimori.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C7)
2001 Oct, The US Treasury stopped
selling 30-year bonds.
(WSJ, 3/15/05, p.C5)
2001 Oct, The FDA approved
tenofovir (Viread), made by Gilead Sciences, to fight HIV. It blocked a
key enzyme in HIV called reverse transcriptase. Gilead acquired it from
Czech chemist Antonin Holy and turned it into a once-a-day pill.
(SFC, 7/14/04, p.A14)
2001 Oct, Bogdan Dzakovic, former
member of the FAA Red Team, filed a whistle-blower disclosure with the
Office of Special Counsel, an independent US government agency. The Red
Team, which revealed vulnerable area inside airports, had been grounded
shortly after Sep 11.
(SSFC, 7/9/06, p.E1)
2001 Oct, A one-day workshop on
deflecting asteroids was held at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in
Houston. The B612 Foundation formed soon thereafter to promote an
asteroid defense system. B612 is the asteroid home of the Little Prince
in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's child's story The Little Prince.
(SFCM, 10/8/06, p.13)(www.b612foundation.org)
2001 Oct, Oybek Jabbarov, his
pregnant wife and infant son were living as refugees near the
Afghan-Uzbek border when he accepted a lift in a car with soldiers of
the National Alliance, an Afghan military faction long at war with the
Taliban. He says the soldiers kidnapped him, falsely branded him a
Taliban fighter, and delivered him to US troops to collect an easy
bounty. He was transferred to Guantanamo in 2002 and cleared for
release in February 2007, but kept in custody until 2009, when he was
transferred to Ireland.
(AP, 9/27/09)
2001 Oct, New galleries opened at
the Tate Britain Museum.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A19)
2001 Oct, Britain abolished a tax
on betting turnover. The tax, begun in 1966, was replaced with a tax on
the gross profits of bookmakers. Betting firms, which had been moving
rapidly offshore, began to move back.
(Econ, 9/29/07, p.59)(http://tinyurl.com/39lgqm)
2001 Oct, The European Court of
Human Rights ruled in a case against airport noise that people have a
fundamental right to a good night’s sleep.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct, Sayyid Imam
al-Sharif (b.~1950), aka Dr. Fadl, a co-founder of al-Qaida, was
arrested in Yemen and transferred to Egypt in 2004, where he changed
his radical position and published "Document of Right Guidance for
Jihad Activity in Egypt and the World," also transliterated as
"Rationalizing Jihad in Egypt and the World". In it he proclaimed “We
are prohibited from committing aggression, even if the enemies of Islam
do that.” In 1988 in Peshawar, Pakistan, “The Essential Guide for
Preparation” by Dr. Fadl appeared and became one of the most important
texts in training for jihadis.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Imam_Al-Sharif)
2001 Nov 1, The New York Yankees
took a 3-2 games lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks as they won game
five of the World Series, 3-2, in a contest that ended after midnight.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2001 Nov 1, President Bush issued
Executive Order 13233 allowing past presidents, beginning with Ronald
Reagan in 1980, to have as much say as incumbent presidents in keeping
some of their White House papers private.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.D4)(AP, 11/1/02)(SFC, 1/21/08, p.C5)
2001 Nov 1, Pres. Bush extended
sanctions against Sudan for one year.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D5)
2001 Nov 1, US planes made their
heaviest assaults to date in northern Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 1, Anthrax spores were
found in 4 mailrooms in Rockville, Md., a postal facility in Kansas
City, 3 new locations in a Manhattan processing center and a 6th postal
facility in Florida.
(WSJ, 11/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 1, A NY state cell phone
law went into effect. It required motorists to use hand-free systems
for use while driving.
(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 1, United Airlines
reported a record 3rd quarter loss of $1.16 billion.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.B1)
2001 Nov 1, In Colombia Carlos
Arturo Pinto (53), a regional prosecutor, was shot to death in Cucuta
by 2 men on motorcycle. Pinto had replaced Maria del Rosario, who was
shot to death in July.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D5)
2001 Nov 1, In Georgia Pres.
Shevardnadze fired his government as demonstrators took to the streets
and demanded changes.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Nov 1, Israeli helicopter
missiles killed 2 Palestinians in a taxi in the West Bank. Yasser
Asideh was identified as a suicide bomber being driven to a target by
Fahami Abu Eisha.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Nov 1, In Pakistan a
statement attributed to bin Laden accused the government of supporting
a Christian crusade and urged people to defend their faith.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 1, It was reported that
the tri-border area of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil had a
long-standing presence of Islamic extremist organizations.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, President George W.
Bush, saying the war in Afghanistan was unraveling Osama bin Laden's
terrorist network, chided critics for clamoring for more action, and
said the U.S. military campaign would not pause for the Muslim holiday
of Ramadan.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/2/02)
2001 Nov 2, The US government
reported that the nation's unemployment rate had shot up to 5.4 percent
in October and that the US lost 415,000 jobs during the month of
October.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/2/02)
2001 Nov 2, A classified memo to
Congress notified lawmakers that the Bush administration planned a $400
million arms deal with Egypt that included 53 Harpoon Block II
surface-to-surface satellite guided missiles.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 2, The Bush
administration imposed stringent financial sanctions on Hamas,
Hezbollah and 20 other suspected terrorist groups.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 2, The US Justice Dept.
announced a tentative settlement with Microsoft Corp in an anti-trust
suit.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Nov 2, A US helicopter
crashed due to weather in northern Afghanistan. 4 crew members were
injured and retrieved by another helicopter.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 2, A 17th case of anthrax
was reported in a NY Post employee.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, NYC firefighters and
police engaged in a scuffle as firefighters protested a limit to the
number of firefighters working to retrieve their dead at the WTC
disaster site.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, Estimated of the WTC
dead dropped to 4,396. [see Dec 19]
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, It was reported that
Ibrahim Bah, a Libyan-trained former Senegalese rebel, lived in Burkina
Faso and selected diamond dealers to handle deals in Liberia between
rebels from Sierra Leone and the al Qaeda network.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Nov 2, In El Salvador gunmen
killed 10 people in San Salvador in a suspected drug trade execution.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C2)
2001 Nov 2, In Kashmir
Indian forces killed at least 25 suspected Islamic militants who tried
to cross over to Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C2)
2001 Nov 2, In Pakistan some
500,000 Muslims gathered In Raiwind, Punjab, for the annual Tablighi
Ijtimah (Congregation of Preaching). Their movement was founded in 1950
in India.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 3, The Arizona
Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees 15-2 to tie up the World Series
at three games apiece.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2001 Nov 3, Arkansas beat
Mississippi 58-56 in seven overtimes in the longest NCAA college
football game in history, one that lasted four hours and 14 minutes.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2001 Nov 3, U.S. Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld met with his Russian counterpart in Moscow to discuss
nuclear arsenal cuts, American plans for a missile defense system, and
U.S.-Russian cooperation in the campaign against terror. The visit was
part of a 4-day tour with stops in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and
India.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A10)(AP, 11/3/02)
2001 Nov 3, US planes staged
continuous bombing against Taliban positions in Samangan province and
the Northern Alliance pressed toward Mazar-e-Sharif.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 3, E.H. Gombrich
(b.1909), art historian, died in London. His work included "The Story
of Art." In 2002 his work "The Preference for the Primitive" was
published. In 2005 his 1935 book “A Little History of the World,"
originally in German, was published in English.
(WSJ, 11/26/02, p.D8)(AP, 9/16/05)
2001 Nov 3, In the Central African
Republic presidential guard units fought soldiers loyal to the former
army chief of staff a day after government forces tried to arrest the
ousted general.
(WSJ, 11/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 3, In Colombia FARC
fighters besieged the town of Paujil and killed 3 police officers. 8
truck drivers were abducted in Casanare province at a roadblock and 3
technicians in the same region.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 3, The Al-Jazeera TV
network broadcast a videotape from Osama bin Laden. He portrayed that
attacks against Afghanistan as a war against Islam and denounced Arab
leaders who cooperate with the UN for peace negotiations saying that
amounted to a renunciation of Islam.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A5,8)
2001 Nov 3, In Singapore the
ruling party won a large majority in general elections. The People’s
Action Party of PM Goh Chok Tong got 75% of the vote.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 4, NBC's "The West Wing"
took eight honors at the twice-delayed Emmy Awards, including best
dramatic series; HBO's "Sex and the City" won best comedy series.
(AP, 11/4/02)
2001 Nov 4, In Phoenix the Arizona
Diamondbacks beat the NY Yankees 3-2 in game 7 of the World Series.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 4, Tesfaye Jifar of
Ethiopia won the NYC Marathon in record time, 2:07:43. Margaret Okayo
of Kenya set a woman’s record of 2:24:21.
(WSJ, 11/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 4, The US reached a
tentative agreement with Tajikistan for military cooperation in
exchange for tens of millions of dollars.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 4, Ian Wallace attempted
to firebomb 2 buildings at Michigan Tech. Univ. in Marquette, Mi., but
his devices failed. In 2009 he was sentenced to 3 years in prison. In
2008 Wallace admitted in his plea agreement to three other acts,
including the destruction of 500 research trees at a federal lab in
Rhinelander, Wis., in 2000. The value of the trees was estimated at $1
million.
(SFC, 3/24/09, p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/db4zpf)
2001 Nov 4, The US moved more
special operations forces into Afghanistan and continued air strikes on
the Taliban front lines. The Air Force dropped a 15,000 pound fuel-air
explosion bomb called a Daisy Cutter that was last used in the Vietnam
War. Thousands of foreign volunteers were reported moving to the
Taliban front lines.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A1,3)(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 4, It was reported that
both Poland and the Czech Republic would send military forces to assist
the US in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 11/5/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 4, In Colombia gunmen
abducted a judge and 3 lawyers in Antioquia province. Glen Heggstad
(Heregestard) of California was released Dec 7.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A13)(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A5)(SFC,
12/11/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 4, It was reported that
the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur cited bin Laden as possibly
possessing an arsenal of biochemical weapons. US intelligence sources
were cited that bin Laden purchased laboratories from the former
Yugoslavia, Ebola virus from former Soviet stockpiles, botulism from
the Czech Republic, anthrax from North Korea and the assistance of
chemists and biologists from the Ukraine.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A25)
2001 Nov 4, Hurricane Michelle hit
Cuba and forced the evacuation of 750,000. At least 5 people were
killed.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 4, In Israel Khatem
Shweili (24), a Palestinian gunman, fired an M-16 at a school bus in
Jerusalem and killed Shoshana Ben-Yisgai (16) and a boy (13-14). The
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 4, In Nicaragua
elections former leader Daniel Ortega (54) faced Enrique Bolanos (73)
of the governing Constitutionalist Liberal Party. Enrique Bolanos won
the elections.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D1)(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 4, In northern Nigeria
Christian-Muslim fighting over the weekend left about 10 dead. It was
sparked by the imposition of Muslim religious law, Shariah.
(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 4, Pakistan arrested Qazi
Hussain Ahmed, leader of the pro-Taliban Jamaat-e-Islami party, after
he defied a ban on public protests. Ahmed was charged with sedition the
next day.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 5, US bombing continued
to hit Taliban front lines and attacks concentrated on caves and
tunnels. About 2 dozen US commandos were reported to be in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 5, Subash Gurung (27) of
Nepal was arrested at O’Hare Int’l. Airport just before boarding a
plane to Omaha. He passed through checkpoint carrying 7 knives, a stun
gun and a can marked tear gas and was in the US with an expired student
visa.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 5, PG&E Corp., the
parent of bankrupt PG&E, reported a 243% jump in profits during the
3rd quarter.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Nov 5, Baxter said its
dialysis filters appear to have played a role in the deaths of 53
patients in Texas, Nebraska, and 6 countries in Europe, south America
and Asia.
(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 5, Hurricane Michelle
swept past the Bahamas with 85 mph winds, flooding houses and cutting
power.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2001 Nov 5, Domingo Cavallo, the
economy minister, said Argentina planned to restructure $95 billion of
debt to avoid default.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.B11)
2001 Nov 5, Roy Boulting (87), who
with his twin brother, John, produced some of postwar Britain's most
enduring films, died in Eynsham, England.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2001 Nov 5, In the Central African
Republic troops loyal to Gen. Francois Bozize fired mortar shells at
Pres. Patasse’s residence in Bangui and engaged government soldiers for
a 3rd day of fighting.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 5, Israeli tanks pulled
out of Qalqilya and soon after a bomb exploded at the Jewish settlement
of Shaked, 6 miles west of Jenin. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 5, Enrique Bolanos
defeated former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua's
presidential election.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2001 Nov 5, In Russian a military
helicopter hit a radio tower near St. Petersburg and at least 5 crew
members were killed.
(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, Season One of the
television series “24” was first broadcast. It featured Jack Bauer as
the protagonist, in which he has trained and worked in various
capacities as a government agent, including U.S. Army Delta Force, Los
Angeles Police Department SWAT, CIA, and finally the Counter Terrorist
Unit (CTU).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bauer#24_Season_1)
2001 Nov 6, Baseball owners voted
28-2 to eliminate two major league teams by the 2002 season.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, Pres. Bush met with
France’s Pres. Chirac and addressed an anti-terrorism meeting in Poland
via satellite.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, The Federal Reserve
lowered interest rates for the 10th time this year. The half point drop
put the benchmark fed funds rate to 2% and the discount rate to 1.5%,
its lowest level in 40 years. The DJIA rose 150 to 9591. The Nasdaq
rose 41 to 1835.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A2)(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, Attorney Gen. Ashcroft
directed US DEA agents to go after Oregon doctors in assisted suicide
cases. On Nov 8 a federal judge issued a temp block of Ashcroft’s order
good until Nov 20.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 6, Michael Bloomberg,
self-made billionaire, was elected as the NYC’s 108th mayor. He spent
$69 million on his self-financed campaign. He soon introduced “311,” a
form of centralized customer service for the city.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A1)(Econ,
2/19/05, Survey p.11)
2001 Nov 6, In New Jersey Democrat
Jim McGreevey defeated Republican Bret Schundler in the race for
governor.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 6, In Virginia Democrat
Mark Warner defeated Republican Mark Earley in the race for governor.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 6, Playwright Anthony
Shaffer, who'd written the thriller "Sleuth," died in London at age 75.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, US bombs killed a
number of civilians in Kabul. The UN later reported that erroneous
bombing killed 30 civilians in Kabul over the 1st 37 days of bombing.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 6, In Munini, Burundi, 24
civilians were reported dead from fighting between Hutu rebels and the
Tutsi dominated army.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 6, German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder said he would activate 3,900 troops for action in
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 6, In Northern Ireland
David Trimble overcame blocking tactics and was re-elected 1st minister
of the N. Ireland Assembly.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 6, Israeli troops pulled
out of Ramallah. 5 Palestinians were killed along with 1 Israeli
soldier in an attack on an Israeli army post and a car bomb blast.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, In Mexico authorities
in Ciudad Juarez found the bodies of 3 young women. 5 more bodies were
found the next day.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 6, Russia clinched a deal
to build a $2.6 billion nuclear-power plant in Kudunkulam, Tamil Nadu,
India. India reiterated its intention of buying a Russian aircraft
carrier, the Admiral Gorshkov, for the cost of retrofit estimated at
$500 million, along with 2 squadrons of MiG-29C jet fighters.
(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 6, In Madrid, Spain, a
rush hour car bomb blast injured 95 people. The ETA was suspected and a
man and woman were arrested.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 6, In Istanbul, Turkey, 4
leftist militants, participants in a hunger strike, died during a
police raid. The militants had threatened self-immolation.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 7, The Bush
administration targeted Osama bin Laden's multimillion-dollar financial
networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining U.S. suspects
and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in 40 nations.
Federal agents raided 2 money transfer organizations, Al Barakaat and
Al Taqwa that included 10 locations in 4 states.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/7/02)
2001 Nov 7, At the White House,
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, allies in the war
on terrorism, confidently offered back-to-back pledges of victory, no
matter how long it took.
(AP, 11/7/02)
2001 Nov 7, Bridgestone/Firestone
Inc. agreed to pay $41.5 million to head off lawsuits by states over
defective tires.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 7, Small numbers of US
forces prepared to enter southern Afghanistan for special missions.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 7, A special unit of
Afghan and Arab "fidaiyan" fighters, was reported to be ready for
suicide attacks.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 7, British Airways and
Air France resumed Concorde jet flights. Safety changes were made
following the July 25, 2000 crash.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.D1)(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 7, In Colombia FARC
rebels kidnapped Mireya Mejia Araujo, a local peace counselor, and
demanded $217,000 in ransom.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 7, Israeli lawmakers
lifted Parliamentary immunity from Azmi Bishara, a representative of
the Arab party Balad, for statements that allegedly threatened Israeli
security. Israel ended its occupation of Ramallah and Israeli forces
killed 2 Palestinians.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)(WSJ, 11/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 7, Italy pledged an
aircraft carrier and 2,700 troops to help the American campaign in
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 7, Pakistan halted the
news conferences of Afghan ambassador Abdul Salam Zaeef, who used the
event to announce civilian casualties caused by US bombings.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 7, In the Philippines
tropical storm Lingling left at least 68 people dead from floods and
landslides.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 7, In Qatar Abdullah
Mubarak al-Hajiri was killed after he opened fire on US and Qatari
troops guarding the Al Adid air base.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 7, In Spain Judge Jose
Maria Lidon Corbi was shot to death as he drove out of his garage in
Gexto. The ETA was held responsible.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 7, Taiwan ended a
50-year-old ban on direct trade and investment in China.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 8, In a
prime-time address, Pres. Bush called on Americans to defy acts of
terror by strengthening their communities, comforting their neighbors
and remaining vigilant in the face of further threats.
(AP, 11/8/02)
2001 Nov 8, U.S. jets struck
Taliban targets across northern Afghanistan and fierce fighting was
reported around the Taliban-held city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A3)(AP, 11/8/02)
2001 Nov 8, Scientists from Lucent
Technologies’ Bell Labs issued a report on "nanotransistors," so tiny
that 10 million could fit on the head of a pin.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 8, Enron Corp. disclosed
that it had overstated its annual profits by nearly $600 million and
had kept over $1 billion off its books since 1997.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A12)
2001 Nov 8, The European Central
Bank and the Bank of England lowered interest rates by half a percent.
(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 8, Israeli border police
stormed a building in Baka al-Sharkiyeh where a suicide bomber killed
himself and wounded 2 commandos.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 8, Pakistan’s Gen. Pervez
Musharraf stopped in Paris and London on his way to meet with Pres.
Bush. He called for an end to military operations before the month of
Ramadan.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 8, In the Philippines the
toll from tropical storm Lingling climbed to at least 350 people. The
storm left more than 200 dead and moved to Vietnam.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.A1)(SFC,
11/13/01, p.A14)(AP, 11/8/02)
2001 Nov 8, In South Korea Kim Dae
Jung quit as head of the ruling party.
(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 8, A UN helicopter
crashed into the sea off of Sierra Leone. All 7 aboard were presumed
dead.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 9, A federal panel
ordered Amtrak to come up with a liquidation plan.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 9, The US Federal
Election Committee voted 6-0 to recognize the Green Party as a national
committee.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 9, In Afghanistan
Northern Alliance forces under Gen. Rashid Dostum claimed the capture
of Mazar-e-Sharif. Looting and killings were reported.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/14/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 9, Hutu rebels in Burundi
abducted 80 teenage boys and 4 teachers from 3 schools in Ruyigi.
Forced recruitment was believed to be the reason. Hundreds of youths
escaped and at least 3 were left dead.
(WSJ, 11/8/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 9, An Israeli settler was
shot and killed in her car and a Palestinian was shot and killed as he
approached an Israeli army position. In Gaza a 12-year-old Palestinian
boy was wounded and died 3 days later.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A12)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 9, Jordan’s King Abdullah
II said his country would consider sending troops to Afghanistan to
help the anti-terrorism coalition.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 9, In Morocco negotiators
of over 160 countries reached agreement on a climate control treaty and
set mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 9, A Pakistani newspaper
published a Nov 7 interview with Osama bin Laden in which he claimed to
have chemical and nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 9, In Pakistan police in
Dera Ghazi Khan shot and killed 4 protesters during a strike called by
extremist religious parties.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 9, A WTO meeting was
scheduled to start in Qatar. A Sep 27 blueprint called for concessions
from the US, EU and Japan in opening markets for textiles, steel and
agriculture.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 10, Pres. Bush made his
1st address to the UN. He warned that all nations were possible
targets of terrorism and urged them to join with the United States in a
campaign to prevent more attacks. Bush also met with Gen. Musharraf of
Pakistan and pledged to boost aid there.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/10/02)
2001 Nov 10, Traces of anthrax
were reported in offices of the Hart and Longworth government buildings
in Washington DC.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 10, Ken Kesey (b.1935),
author, died in Eugene, Oregon. His books included "One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest" (1962) and "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964).
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Nov 10, Percy Ross,
millionaire columnist, died at age 84. His 1983-1999 "Thanks a Million"
newspaper column helped him hand out an estimated $30 million. He was
the son of poor immigrants from Latvia and Russia and made his fortune
producing plastic film and trash bags.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A28)
2001 Nov 10, In day 35 of US
attacks in Afghanistan the Northern alliance claimed the capture of the
provincial capitals of Shibarghan, Meimanah, and Aybal. Taliban forces
were surrounded near Taloqan and Kunduz.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 10, Algeria found itself
caught in a fierce 36-hour storm that killed an estimated 886 people.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2001 Nov 10, In Australia
conservative PM Howard faced Labor’s Kim Beazley in elections. Howard
and his conservative government won a 3rd term. Howard’s Liberal Party
won 68 seats of the 150 in the lower house. The coalition National
Party won 12 seats. Labor won 67 and independents won 3.
(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 10, China officially
joined the WTO after ministers in Qatar approved its membership.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 10, In Colombia AUC
paramilitary killed 12 villagers in El Choco for collaboration with the
ELN.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 10, In Kashmir Indian
forces battled suspected Islamic militants and 18 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 11, The US costs for the
war in Afghanistan were estimated at $1 billion a month.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 11-2001 Nov 16, In St.
Cloud, Minn., three healthy men died following knee surgeries from
infections of Clostridium sordellii.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 11, In Afghanistan
Northern Alliance forces with help from US warplanes and advisers
captured Taloqan and some 200 Taliban were reported killed. Local
warlords accepted a payment to change allegiance.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 11, Two French radio
reporters and a German magazine journalist were killed when they came
under Taliban fire in Afghanistan.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2001 Nov 11, A 36-hour storm hit
Algeria and 337 people were reported killed. It was the worst flooding
in 20 years. The death toll reached 580.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 11/12/01, p.A1)(SFC,
11/17/01, p.A24)
2001 Nov 11, In Indonesia Theys
Eluay (64), an independence movement leader in Irian Jaya, was found
strangled in his wrecked car and riots erupted. He had spent the
previous evening at dinner with local army commanders. In 2003 7
members of the Indonesia special forces were convicted for involvement
in the murder. Their maximum sentence was 31/2 years.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A12)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A3)(SFC,
4/22/03, A7)
2001 Nov 11, In Mexico Lazaro
Cardena of the leftist PRD won 42% of the votes for governor in
Michoacan state vs. 37% Alfredo Anaya of the PRI.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 11, A Pakistani newspaper
(Ausaf) published the second part of an interview in which Osama bin
Laden was quoted as saying he had nothing to do with the anthrax
attacks in the United States, and declared he would never allow himself
to be captured.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2001 Nov 11, Taiwan officially
joined the WTO after ministers in Qatar approved its membership.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 12, American Airlines
Flight 587, bound for the Dominican Republic, crashed in Belle Harbor
in the Far Rockaway district of Queens just after takeoff from JFK
Airport. All 260 crew and passengers were killed as well as 5 people on
the ground. The A300-600 plane appeared to have fallen apart. The
vertical tail section cracked off when composite fittings failed
possibly due to turbulence from a preceding 747. In 2004 a safety board
said the pilot’s “unnecessary and excessive“ use of the rudder
contributed to the crash.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A19)(SFC,
10/27/04, p.A3)(AP, 11/12/05)
2001 Nov 12, Carrie Donovan (73),
the flamboyant fashion editor with the outsized glasses who had a
second career touting T-shirts and cargo pants in Old Navy commercials,
died in New York.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2001 Nov 12, In Afghanistan
Taliban forces abandoned Kabul and Northern Alliance forces moved in to
the capital. The Taliban took with them 8 foreign aid workers. There
were reports of looting and summary executions. 3 European journalists
died in the fighting.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A1,2,15)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 12, Israeli tanks and
troops raided the West Bank village of Tel and killed Muhammed Reihan
(25), a Hamas member. 45 residents were detained.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 12, In Macedonia 3
policemen were killed in fighting following the seizure of hostages by
ethnic Albanians near Tetovo in response to a police raid.
(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 12, Typhoon Lingling hit
Vietnam and 18 people were reported killed.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 12, In Zimbabwe the
government banned 1000 farmers from cultivating their fields and gave
them 3 months to vacate their homes as part of a "fast track" land
redistribution plan.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 13, Pres. Bush issued an
order to try int’l. terrorists by a special military tribunal.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 13, President Bush and
Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the White House, where they
pledged to slash Cold War-era nuclear arsenals by two-thirds but
remained at odds over American plans to develop a missile defense
shield.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/13/02)
2001 Nov 13, Bishop Wilton Gregory
was elected the first black president of the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2001 Nov 13, US warplanes hit
Taliban convoys leaving Kabul. The Al Jazeera office in Kabul was
bombed. Kabul residents rejoiced at the departure of the Taliban. The
Northern Alliance retreated at Kunduz when a suspected surrender turned
into an attack. Some $5.3 million vanished from the Central Bank Mille
in Kabul.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A1,2,3)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 13, Eight foreign aid
workers, two Americans, two Australians and four Germans, held captive
in Afghanistan for three months were freed from a prison by
anti-Taliban fighters.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2001 Nov 13, An anthrax tainted
letter was received by a pediatrician in Santiago. It was postmarked
from Switzerland and marked for return to Florida. It was actually
mailed from NY through a NY-based subsidiary of the Swiss Post office.
The letter was later believed to have been contaminated in a lab.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A4)(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A9)(WSJ,
11/28/01, p.A4)(WSJ, 11/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 13, Spanish police
arrested 11 people with suspected links to Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 14, Jonathan Franzan won
the national Book Award in fiction for "The Corrections." Andrew
Solomon won the non-fiction award for "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of
Depression."
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A2)
2001 Nov 14, Pres. Bush nominated
Sean O’Keefe, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget,
to head NASA.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 14, Pres. Bush welcomed
Pres. Putin to his Prairie Chapel Ranch. They continued their talks a
day after the two leaders agreed at the White House to reduce their
countries' nuclear stockpiles.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A20)(AP, 11/14/02)
2001 Nov 14, Attorney Gen.
Ashcroft unveiled an overhaul of the INS. Law enforcement and service
operations would be split.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 14, The Microsoft Xbox, a
video game player, went on sale for $299.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.D1)
2001 Nov 14, The rout of the
Taliban in Afghanistan accelerated with the Islamic militia losing
control of Jalalabad in the east, once-loyal Pashtun tribesmen joining
in the revolt in the south, and many of their fighters fleeing into the
mountains to evade U.S. airstrikes.
(AP, 11/14/02)
2001 Nov 14, The Northern Alliance
pushed toward Kunduz and Kandahar. 8 Western relief workers were
rescued including 2 Americans. Mohammed Atef, a top al Qaeda military
strategist, was believed killed by a bomb near Kabul. US air strikes at
Gardez killed 23 civilians.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A3)(SSFC,
7/21/02, p.A14)
2001 Nov 14, The UN Security
Council approved a resolution to fill the political vacuum in
Afghanistan and to provide security in areas freed by anti-Taliban
forces.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 14, Britain pledged 5,000
more troops to Afghanistan in addition to 4,500 already in the war zone.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 14, Palestinian police
arrested a top Islamic Jihad militant and sparked an anti-Arafat
protest in Jenin.
(WSJ, 11/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 14, In Doha, Qatar, 142
nations agreed to launch a new round of world trade (WTO) talks in
negotiations that went 24 hours past the scheduled end. The centerpiece
of the round was freer trade in farm goods.
(WSJ, 11/15/01, p.A1)(Econ, 9/20/03, p.11)(Econ,
10/11/08, SR p.30)
2001 Nov 14, In Stavropol, Russia,
5 men convicted of plotting bomb attacks, were sentenced 9-15 years in
prison. All 5 were said to have attended terrorist camps in Chechnya
run by an associate of Osama bin Laden.
(WSJ, 11/15/01, p.A22)
2001 Nov 15, President Bush and
Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to resolve their dispute over
U.S. missile shield plans but pledged to fight terrorism and deepen
U.S.-Russian ties as their summit, which began at the White House then
shifted to Bush's Texas ranch, came to a close.
(AP, 11/15/02)
2001 Nov 15, The US House and
Senate agreed to make airport screeners federal employees within a year.
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 15, Investigators in
Florida said anthrax was found throughout the 68,000-square-foot
America Media building in Boca Raton, where the 1st case was identified.
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 15, The Philip Morris
tobacco company announced a name change to Altria Group.
(WSJ, 11/16/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 15, United Airlines
announced that it would put stun guns into the cockpits of each of its
500 planes.
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 15, Day 40 of the attack
on Afghanistan: Osama bin Laden’s Brigade 055 dispersed into the
mountains of Afghanistan. US planes struck Taliban positions outside
Kunduz, where as many as 20,000 Taliban fighters gathered. Kandahar
went under siege by opposition forces. Jalalabad was reported to be
under Yunis Khalis of the Northern Alliance. Mullah Omar in a BBC radio
interview warned of a larger strategy: the "destruction of America."
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A1,9)(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 15, Two al-Qaeda
computers were acquired about this time by a Wall Street journalist in
Kabul for $1,100 following US bombing. They were found to contain over
1,750 text and video files of al Qaeda activities including weapons
programs. One file contained the names of 170 al Qaeda members.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A10)(WSJ, 1/16/02, p.A1)
2001 Nov 15, Israeli troops raided
a Gaza Strip refugee camp and a West Bank village. One Palestinian was
killed and 14 were wounded.
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A23)
2001 Nov 15, In Zimbabwe Peace
Corp workers were recalled after the government refused to issue
permits for new volunteers.
(WSJ, 11/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 16, The film "Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" opened to record audiences across the
country.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 16, US Treas. Sec. Paul
O’Neill signed off on a plan for war bonds to be issued as Series EF
with an interest of 4.07%.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 16, An anthrax laced
letter was found in quarantined congressional mail addressed to Sen.
Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.). It was found to contain billions of spores,
enough to kill 100,000 people.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A8)(SFC,
11/26/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 16, A University of
Georgia football fan rushing to catch his flight ran past guards and
through a passenger exit at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport,
forcing officials to halt flights; the man, Michael Lasseter, was later
sentenced to five weekends or 10 days in jail and 500 hours of
community service.
(AP, 11/16/02)
2001 Nov 16, Texas storms abated
and left 9 people dead.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 16, Tommy Flanagan (71),
jazz pianist, died in NYC.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A24)
2001 Nov 16, In Afghanistan US air
strikes killed 20 civilians at Zani Khel and at least 65 at Khost. US
bombing began at Tora Bora.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A14)(NW, 8/26/02, p.38)
2001 Nov 16, The Taliban was
reported ready to abandon Kandahar. The Northern Alliance took over
Radio Kabul and other key city offices.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A1,3)
2001 Nov 16, This was the 1st day
of the annual month of Ramadan, the Islamic commemoration of God’s
revelation of the Koran.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A2)
2001 Nov 16, In Macedonia the
parliament adopted constitutional changes giving ethnic minority
Albanians more rights.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 16, The MDC headquarters
in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, were destroyed by pro-government militants. They
were protesting the recent killing of Cain Nkala, who helped lead
violent occupations of white-owned farms. 6 opposition activists
arrested for an alleged role in the murder were acquitted in 2004.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A20)(SFC, 8/7/04, p.A9)
2001 Nov 17, Lennox Lewis knocked
out Hasim Rahman in the fourth round to get back his WBC and IBF
heavyweight titles.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2001 Nov 17, Two US sailors,
Benjamin Johnson and Vincent Parker, were missing after the oil tanker
Samra sank in the northern Persian Gulf. The ship was suspected of
smuggling Iraqi oil.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A14)(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 17, John M. Dawson,
plasma physics expert, died at age 71. He is considered the father of
computer-simulated plasma models and of plasma-based particle
accelerators.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 17, Former U.S. Sen.
Harrison A. Williams Jr. (81), whose political career was ended by the
Abscam bribery scandal, died in Denville, N.J.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2001 Nov 17, The Taliban confirmed
the death of Osama bin Laden's military chief Mohammed Atef in an
airstrike three days earlier.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2001 Nov 17, In Afghanistan
Burhanuddin Rabbani, the political leader of the Northern Alliance,
returned to Kabul. This complicated efforts for a board-based
government. US warplanes continued to bomb around Kunduz and Kandahar.
(SSFC, 11/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 17, In Canada finance
ministers of the G-20 nations agreed to freeze terrorist assets and to
implement a UN resolution against terrorist financing.
(SSFC, 11/18/01, p.A8)
2001 Nov 17, Israeli troops
withdrew from Tulkarem in the West Bank.
(SSFC, 11/18/01, p.A22)
2001 Nov 17, Kosovo voted in a
symbolic step toward independence. Ibrahim Rugova claimed victory the
next day and issued a call for quick independence. Ex-rebel leader
Hashim Thaci made a strong showing and a coalition was expected.
(WSJ, 11/16/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A13)(WSJ,
11/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 17, In the Philippines
communist guerrillas opened fire on soldiers in Cateel town. 18
soldiers and 10 rebels were killed.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 18, In Georgia thousands
demonstrated outside Fort Benning during the annual march to the post
to protest the School of the Americas training for Latin America
soldiers.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 18, Phillips Petroleum
and Conoco Inc. announced they were merging in a $35 billion deal that
created the third-largest U.S. oil and gas company.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A13)(AP, 11/18/02)
2001 Nov 18, The IMF and World
Bank ended their meeting in Ottawa and made a call for increasing aid
to developing countries.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 18, Northern Alliance
leaders agreed to join UN sponsored talks to form a new government.
Haji Qadir formed a new alliance to govern Jalalabad. US planes
continued strikes around Kunduz and Kandahar. US strikes on a Taliban
convoy were later considered as a marking point for the downfall of the
Taliban.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A1,3)(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A6)
2001 Nov 18, In London some 15,000
people of the Stop the War coalition demonstrated against US-led
bombing in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 18, In Bulgaria Socialist
Georgi Parvanov (44) won 53% of the presidential vote against incumbent
Petar Stoyanov. This signaled discontent with the pace of reforms of PM
Simeon Saxcoburggotski.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 18, Russia dropped all
conditions and opened talks with Chechnya.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 18, In Spain 8 men,
Soldiers of Allah, detained last week were reported to be members of
the al Qaeda network and to have played a role in the Sep 11 attacks.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A5)(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 19, Barry Bonds became
the first baseball player to win four Most Valuable Player Awards.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2001 Nov 19, Pres. Bush signed
airport security legislation that required programs for the inspection
of air travel checked baggage within 60 days. "Safety comes first." It
included a requirement for security screeners to be US citizens within
a year.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.A1)(SFC,
1/18/02, p.A16)(SSFC, 12/7/03, p.D6)
2001 Nov 19, The United States
accused Iraq and North Korea of developing germ warfare programs.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2001 Nov 19, Four foreign
journalists and their Afghan guide were killed in an ambush between
Jalalabad and Kabul: Harry Burton of Australia (Reuters), Azizullah
Haidari, Afghan photographer (Reuters), Julio Fuentes of Spain (El
Mundo, Madrid), and Maria Grazia Cutuli of Italy (Corriere della Sera,
Milan). In 2004 Afghan judges sentenced Reza Khan to death for his role
in the ambush. Khan said he was under orders from militia commander
Mohammed Agha.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A3)(SSFC, 11/21/04, p.A10)
2001 Nov 19, It was reported that
400 Afghan Taliban soldiers were killed while trying to defect last
week. Gen. Dostum led Northern Alliance troops in the area. Defectors
continued to stream out of Kunduz as US war planes continued to bomb
Taliban positions.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/1/02, p.A12)
2001 Nov 19, Some Taliban began
secret negotiations for the surrender of Kandahar. They said outside
forces had taken over their movement and named: the int’l. drug mafia,
int’l. terrorists, the puritanical Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, and
Pakistan intelligence.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 19, In Colombia the
right-wing AUC militia said that it held 6 mayors hostage in Antioquia
state. The mayors were released Nov 20.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 19, Egypt and Syria
confirmed the extradition of Rifai Ahmed Taha, a former aide to Osama
bin Laden, from Syria to Egypt.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 19, In the Philippines
Moro rebels attacked the army near Jolo town. 4 soldiers were killed
along with 51 rebels in a counterattack.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 19, A Russian airliner
crashed 90 miles north of Moscow and all 24 on board were killed. The
Ilyushin-18 was chartered by Israero and was from the Siberian city of
Khatanga.
(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 20, Pres. Bush called on
Americans to support charities of all kinds.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 20, A federal judge
extended a court order blocking an attempt by Attorney General John
Ashcroft to dismantle Oregon's one-of-a-kind law allowing
physician-assisted suicides.
(AP, 11/20/02)
2001 Nov 20, US federal health
officials approved sale of the world's first contraceptive patch,
Ortho-Evra.
(AP, 11/20/02)
2001 Nov 20, The Sep 11 death toll
at the WTC was reduced to just under 3,900.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A2)
2001 Nov 20, Portland police said
they would not cooperate with FBI efforts to interview some 5,000
Middle Eastern men because the questioning violated state laws.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 20, Jeff Hawkins,
inventor of the Palm computer, was reported to hold that the brain
works by anticipating and completing patterns more than it does through
inputs and outputs of information.
(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.B1)
2001 Nov 20, In Afghanistan the
Northern Alliance gave the Taliban in Kunduz 3 days to give up. The
alliance controlling Afghanistan's capital and much of its countryside
agreed to attend power-sharing talks in Germany the following week.
(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/20/02)
2001 Nov 20, Abu Qatada (40), a
Muslim cleric living in London, was named in a Spanish indictment as a
pivotal figure in the al Qaeda network in Europe.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 20, Chinese police on
Tiananmen Square detained some 35 foreigners who protested the
crackdown on the Falun Gong. The protesters were all expelled from the
country.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 20, A speedboat, believed
to be carrying 30 smuggled Cubans, capsized in the Florida Straits and
all were believed drowned.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 20, The Liberal (Venstre)
Party under Anders Fogh Rasmussen (1953) won elections in Denmark. It
formed a minority government with the Conservative People’s Party.
(http://www.andersfogh.dk/807.0.html)
2001 Nov 21, Tiger Woods won his
4th consecutive PGA Grand Slam with a win at Poipu Bay in Hawaii.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Nov 21, Florida disbarred F.
Lee Bailey (68) for payment in a 1994 drug case that was supposed to go
to the government.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 21, A series of 100 waves
broke over Maverick’s Reef in Half Moon Bay, Ca.
(SFC, 1/31/07, p.A1)
2001 Nov 21, Ottilie W. Lundgren
(94) of Oxford, Conn., died of inhalational anthrax in a case that
baffled investigators.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A10)(AP, 11/21/02)
2001 Nov 21, Actor-turned-author
Gardner McKay died in Honolulu at age 69.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2001 Nov 21, In Afghanistan the
Taliban in Kandahar pledged to continue their fight.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 21, India border forces
in Kashmir killed at least 12 suspected Islamic guerrillas trying to
cross a cease-fire line with Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 21, Nepal's Maoist rebel
leader Prachanda (b.1954), the name means fierce, announced a
withdrawal from a 4-month cease-fire agreement. Attacks on police
stations and government installations quickly followed.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A12)(Econ, 8/23/08,
p.33)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prachanda)
2001 Nov 22, Stanford and UCSF
researchers reported a long list of genes responsible for multiple
schlerosis (MS).
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 22, Mary Kay Ash
(b.1918), founder of the Mary Kay cosmetics firm, died in Dallas. By
2001 her 1963 sales force of 11 had grown to over 750,000 in 37
countries.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A29)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Nov 22, In Afghanistan
Northern Alliance engaged the Taliban in heavy fighting outside Kunduz.
A Kunduz surrender deal was in jeopardy.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 22, Pope John Paul II
issued a papal message via the Internet to Catholics in Australia, New
Zealand and the South Pacific islands that included an apology for
sexual abuse by priests.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 22, In Colombia at least
47 people were confirmed dead following a mud slide at condemned gold
mine site in Filadelfia.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A17)(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 22, Japan confirmed a 2nd
mad cow case and planned to slaughter and incinerate 5,100 cows.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 22, In the Gaza Strip 5
Palestinian boys (6-14) were killed when a bomb exploded beneath them
as a walked to school.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 22, Pakistan ordered the
Taliban to close its embassy in Islamabad.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 22, The Philippine
military bombed rebel positions on Jolo island and hunted for
supporters of Gov. Nur Misuari, who was charged with rebellion. At
least 100 of Misuari’s men were reported killed since the Nov 19 attack.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 22, Talks on Russia-NATO
relations began in Moscow. A plan was proposed that would give Russia
equal status with the 19 permanent members.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 22, The Turkey Parliament
formally recognized men and women as equals effective Jan 1. this
updated a 1926 code that designated the husband as head of the family.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 22, The Zimbabwe justice
minister announced plans to force residents to carry identity documents
at all times.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 23, It was reported that
Hawaii’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s sex offender
registration law, declaring it unconstitutional.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 23, Heavy storms hit
Arkansas and at least 4 people were killed.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 23, Taliban troop
contingents were reported to have dug in at 2 bases near Jalalabad
including an estimated 1,200 at Tora Bora. It was also reported that
Pakistani airplanes were being used to evacuate pro-Taliban Pakistani
fighters in Kunduz.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 23, In Britain PM Blair
endorsed British adoption of the Euro.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 23, In Belgium the UN war
crimes tribunal announced that Slobodan Milosevic, former Yugoslav
president, would stand trial on charges of genocide in the 1992-1995
war in Bosnia. Milosevic died in March 2006 while his trial was in
progress.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A11)(AP, 11/23/06)
2001 Nov 23, In Brazil an oil
pipeline leak near Rio was stopped after some 26,000 gallons spilled
into Guanabara Bay.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 23, In Cambodia PM Hun
Sen shut down the country’s bars, nightclubs, discos and karaoke
parlors. He said they were spawning crime and eroding traditional
values. The action followed a series of shootings at nightspots.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.C13)
2001 Nov 23, A crew dug for bodies
and survivors under mud after a huge landslide swept over gold miners
illegally digging into the side of a mountain in western Colombia,
killing at least 28 people.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2001 Nov 23, Israeli helicopter
gunships near Nablus killed Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a senior Hamas leader.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 23, Japan said it would
send 1,500 troops to help with relief operations in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 23, In Nepal Maoist
rebels killed 14 soldiers and at least 23 police in a wave of attacks.
Authorities believed that some 80 rebels were killed in the gun battles.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 23, Spain set terms for
extradition of 8 men charged with complicity in the Sep 11 attacks that
included trial by a civilian court. 2 policemen were killed in Beasain.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 23, Taiwan announced that
it would allow Chinese living abroad to visit as tourists. This relaxed
a 50-year ban intended to keep out spies from the Chinese mainland.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 23, In Zimbabwe the
Mugabe government accused 6 journalists working for foreign media of
aiding terrorism.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 24, Heavy storms hit the
US and at least 12 people were killed in the lower Mississippi valley.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 24, Thousands of Taliban
fighters surrendered at Kunduz. A few turned out to be suicide bombers,
who killed 5-6 Northern Alliance commanders. Afghan troops captured
Salim Ahmen Hamdan in southern Afghanistan in a car with four other
alleged al-Qaida associates who exchanged fire with the Afghan troops.
Three of the other men in the car, including a son-in-law of Osama bin
Laden, were killed. Hamdan, who was sent to Guantanamo, admitted
working as bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A1)(NW, 8/26/02, p.22)(AP,
12/5/07)
2001 Nov 24, In Brazil a fire at a
dance club in Belo Horizonte killed at least 6 people.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 24, British actress
Rachel Gurney (81), who played Lady Marjorie Bellamy on the popular
television series "Upstairs Downstairs," died.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2001 Nov 24, Tens of thousands of
Palestinians marched in the West Bank and Gaza city to protest the
Israeli killing of Mahmoud Abu Hanoud and 2 assistants. A Palestinian
mortar attack killed one Israeli soldier.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 24, In Switzerland a
Swiss Crossair Jumbolino Avro RJ-100 crashed with 33 people on board.
24 were killed including American pop singer Melanie Thornton.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/26/01, p.A1)(AP,
11/24/02)
2001 Nov 24, Mathew Hardman (17)
killed widow Mabel Leyshon (90) at her home in the north Wales town of
Llanfairpwll. Prosecutors later said he wanted to be a vampire. In 2002
Hardman was convicted of fatally stabbing Leyshon, cutting out her
heart and drinking her blood.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2001 Nov 25, US marines landed
near Kandahar marking the 1st major use of US ground troops in
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 25, Scientists at
Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., said they created the
world’s 1st cloned human embryo, which they let grow for just a few
hours. China’s Dr. Lu Guangxiu later claimed that her Xiangya Medical
College team had cloned a human embryo 2 years earlier.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2001 Nov 25, Taliban troops near
Mazar-e-Sharif staged a prison revolt and hundreds were reported
killed. 5 Americans were injured by an American bomb and 1 CIA agent,
Johnny Michael Spann (32), was reportedly killed.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A8)(SFC,
11/29/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/10/01, p.31)
2001 Nov 25, Ethiopia sent troops
into the northeastern Somali region of Puntland to help Col. Abdullahi
Yussuf regain power. Yussuf was overthrown Aug 26 after his 3-year term
ended. On Nov 21 Yussuf launched an attack on Garoweh, the capital of
Puntland and said it was to crush Islamic terrorists.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Nov 25, In Honduras Pres.
elections Ricardo Maduro (50) led polls over Rafael Pineda of the
governing Liberal Party. Early returns showed Maduro with a 52% lead.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 25, Israeli soldiers shot
and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian youth during a clash in the West
Bank. Israeli forces carried out missile strikes in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 26, President Bush
appealed to Congress to outlaw human cloning after scientists in
Worcester, Mass., reported they had created the first cloned human
embryo.
(AP, 11/26/06)
2001 Nov 26, The US National Board
of Economic Research declared that the US has been in a recession since
March. The recognized arbiter of when recessions begin and end in the
United States, declared that the country had entered a downturn the
previous March.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/26/06)
2001 Nov 26, In Pensacola, Fla.,
Terry Lee King was murdered and his house set afire. His 2 sons, Derek
(14) and Alex (13) confessed to the murder, but later said Rick Chavis
(40), a local handyman, killed the father and had gotten the boys to
take the blame. Derek and Alex were convicted of 2nd degree murder on
Sep 6, 2002. Rick Chavis was acquitted. Derek was sentenced to 8 years
in prison and Alex was sentenced to 7 years.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A3)(AP, 9/7/02)(SFC, 11/15/02, p.A8)
2001 Nov 26, The Taliban
surrendered the border town of Spinbaldak as US Marines directed air
attacks on a column of enemy vehicles. Fighting continued with
prisoners at Qala Jangi and most were reported killed along with 40-50
Northern Alliance soldiers.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A1,10)
2001 Nov 26, Former French
intelligence chief General Paul Aussaressess testified that the orders
he issued to torture and kill prisoners during the Algerian
independence war were justifiable acts of duty.
(AP, 11/26/02)
2001 Nov 26, French and Belgian
police arrested 14 people suspected of organizing the Sep 9
assassination of Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood. Belgium
released 12 of its suspects the next day.
(WSJ, 11/27/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A1,12)
2001 Nov 26, Nepal went into a
state of emergency as the death toll from recent Maoist rebels attacks
mounted to 76.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 26, A Palestinian suicide
bomber sd’d (self destructed) at an Israeli checkpoint on the edge of
the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 27, In Afghanistan the
Northern Alliance declared the Taliban prisoner uprising at Qala Jangi
crushed after 50 hours.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 27, Afghan factions met
in Bonn, Germany, and agreed to give former King Mohammad Zahir Shah a
role in a new Afghan government. 4 factions included 11 delegates from
the Northern Alliance, 11 from the Rome Group, 3 from exiles in Cyprus,
and 3 from exiles in Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 27, Muslim holy warriors
in Indonesia began a 3 day offensive and seized 5 villages. At least 5
Christians were killed. Muslim militants drove away security
forces in central Sulawesi and there were at least 8 confirmed deaths.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A6)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.E1)
2001 Nov 27, Two Israelis were
killed in Afula by 2 Palestinian gunmen, who were killed by police.
Another Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli woman near a Jewish
settlement in the Gaza Strip and he was killed by Israeli soldiers.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 27, In Mexico the Nat’l.
Human Rights Commission issued a 3,000 page report that acknowledged at
least 275 leftists disappeared while in government hands during the
1970s. The names of 74 officials implicated in the forced
disappearances were not made public.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 27, The Philippine
military reported 25 guerrillas killed along with 1 soldier in
Zamboanga. Rebels under Julhambri Missuari, nephew of arrested Gov.
Misuari, later released 89 hostages in exchange for safe passage out of
Zamboanga.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 27, In South Africa the
predominantly white New National Party (NNP) joined into a coalition
with the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 27, Olaf Stromberg, a
Swedish TV journalist, was killed while sleeping in northern
Afghanistan during a suspected robbery attempt. He was the 8th
journalist slain in the conflict.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A10)(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 28, Dynegy Corp. called
off its $8.4 billion merger with Enron and Enron stock fell below $1 in
the heaviest single-day trading volume for a NYSE or Nasdaq stock.
Enron Corp. collapsed after Dynegy Inc. backed out of a deal to take it
over.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A18)(AP, 11/28/08)
2001 Nov 28, Officials recovered
the body of CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann from a prison compound in
Mazar-e-Sharif after northern alliance rebels backed by U.S. airstrikes
and special forces quelled an uprising by Taliban and al-Qaida
prisoners.
(AP, 11/28/02)
2001 Nov 28, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman
(35), a top al Qaeda operative and son of the blind sheik linked to the
1993 WTC bombing, was captured by anti-Taliban forces. The Taliban said
some 600 people including 450 prisoners were killed in the uprising at
Qala Jangi. US bombing continued with intermittent strikes.
2001 Nov 28, French gendarme
Gerard Larroude received 8 bullet wounds in the head and throat in an
attack by ETA separatists in Pau, but survived the attack. In 2008 Ibon
Fernandez de Iradi was found guilty of trying to kill Larroude and was
sentenced to 30 years in prison. Antonio Agustin Figal Arranz, a
suspected accomplice, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(www.cityfmradio.com/detalle_noticia.php?id_noticia=8928)
(SFC, 11/29/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/29/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
11/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 28, German authorities
arrested Mounir El Motassadeq (27), on suspicion of funneling money to
the Sep 11 hijackers.
(SFC, 11/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 28, In Indonesia
detectives raided a mansion in Jakarta and arrested Hutomo Mandala
Putra (Tommy Suharto) for plotting the murder of a Supreme Court Judge.
(SFC, 11/29/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 28, A UN report on AIDS
noted Ukraine as the 1st European nation to report 1% of its adults
infected. Rapid spread was noted across Eastern Europe.
(WSJ, 11/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 28-30, Thousands of
Taliban fighters, who had surrendered at Kunduz were shipped by
container truck to prison camps at Sheberghan. Up to 960 died enroute,
mostly from asphyxiation.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A1)(NW, 8/26/02, p.22)
2001 Nov 29, American warplanes
continued to bomb Taliban positions around Kandahar.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 29, The SEC investigation
of Enron Corp. was expanded to include the Anderson Accounting firm.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A15)
2001 Nov 29, George Harrison
(b.1943), lead guitarist for the Beatles, died of cancer in LA. His
ashes were scattered in the Ganges Dec 4.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A2)(NW,
12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Nov 29, John Knowles
(b.1926), author of the 1959 novel "A Separate Peace," died in Florida
at age 75.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A27)
2001 Nov 29, Int’l.
representatives of the diamond industry agreed that all shipments of
rough stones must contain certificates of origin.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 29, A bomb attack in
northern Israel and shootings in the West Bank left 4 Israelis and 3
Palestinians dead.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 29, The U.N. Security
Council unanimously approved a resolution extending for 6 months the
U.N. humanitarian program in Iraq and setting the stage for an overhaul
of U.N. sanctions against Baghdad the following year. The US and Russia
agreed to overhaul the program before the next vote.
(WSJ, 11/30/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/29/02)
2001 Nov 30, US warplanes
continued airstrikes around Kandahar. US Marine and Navy increased to
around 1,200.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 30, Gary Leon Ridgway
(b.1949) was arrested in connection with 4 of 7 Green River serial
killings in Washington state. Four murders were linked to him through
DNA and three through paint he used at his job. In 2003 he pleaded
guilty to 48 counts of aggravated murder, although the estimates ran
much higher. On December 18, 2003, King County Superior Court Judge
Richard Jones sentenced Ridgway to 48 life sentences with no
possibility of parole and one life sentence, to be served consecutively.
(AP,
11/30/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway#Victims)
2001 Nov 30, In Georgia, former
DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey and two other men were arrested and
charged with murder in the slaying of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, who
had defeated Dorsey in a bitter runoff election. Dorsey was later
convicted and sentenced to life in prison; the two other men were
acquitted of murder in a separate trial.
(AP, 11/30/02)
2001 Nov 30, Enron executives
awarded themselves big bonuses 2 days before the company filed for
bankruptcy (Dec 2). They soon reneged on severance pay promised to
4,500 laid-off employees.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A1)
2001 Nov 30, Robert Tools, the
first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial
heart, died in Louisville, Ky., of complications after severe abdominal
bleeding; he had lived with the device for 151 days.
(AP, 11/30/02)
2001 Nov 30, A French court
convicted 19 Islamic militants for their role in channeling arms and
false Ids to insurgents in Algeria.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov, The 2001 US recession,
the 1st since the early 1990s, ended after 8 months according to a 2003
report by the National Bureau of Standards.
(SFC, 7/18/03, p.B1)
2001 Nov, Juma Namangani, al-Qaeda
member and co-founder of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), died
following critical injuries from US bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.F1)
2001 Nov, Ihsan Khan, a Pakistani
cab driver in Washington DC, won 1 $55.2 million jackpot. His lump sum
payout was over $32.4 million. Khan returned to Pakistan and in 2005
was elected mayor of Batagram, just days before a major earthquake in
the area.
(SFC, 12/9/05, p.A26)
2001 Nov, A treatise by Ayman al
Zawahri was smuggled out of Afghanistan. It was published in Dec by an
Arabic language newspaper in London.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A10)
2001 Nov, China’s 4 largest
producers of Vitamin C formed the Vitamin C Chapter of the China
Chamber of Commerce of Medicines and Health Products.
(WSJ, 2/10/06, p.A16)
2001 Dec 1, In downtown Jerusalem
2 Palestinian suicide bombers self-destructed and killed 11 others. A
car bomb detonated shortly after and another dozen were injured. Hamas
claimed responsibility.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A14)(AP,
12/1/02)
2001 Dec 1, In Afghanistan Farida
Afzali (21) became the 1st woman in 5 years to enroll at Kabul Univ.
Day 56: US bombing continued around Kandahar and over Tora Bora near
Kabul, where 3 villages were hit and a number of civilians killed and
injured. Air strikes at Khan-I-Merjahuddin killed 48 civilians. Air
strikes at Madoo killed 48 civilians.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.A2)(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A14)
2001 Dec 1, In London, England,
the Financial Service Authority (FSA) replaced a plethora of financial
regulators.
(Econ, 9/15/07, SR
p.9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Services_Authority)
2001 Dec 1, In Germany 4 Afghan
factions continued to work on a 20-member "interim authority."
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.A3)
2004 Dec 1, In Indonesia’s Papua
Province Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage were arrested for raising the
Morning Star flag, a symbol of Papuan independence. In May, 2005, a
court sentenced Karma to 15 years in prison and Pakage to 10 years on
charges of treason for having “betrayed” Indonesia.
(www.amnestyusa.org/action/special/karmapakage.html)
2001 Dec 1 A baby girl was born to
Japan's Crown Princess Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito, the royal
couple's first child in eight years of marriage; she was later named
Aiko.
(AP, 12/1/02)
2001 Dec 1, In Russia the Union of
Unity and Fatherland Party united 3 centrist movements: Unity,
Fatherland and All-Russia. Sergei Shoigu, a Putin confidant, was
elected head of 3 co-chairmen.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.A18)
2001 Dec 1, Taiwan held
parliamentary elections. The Nationalist Party lost 42 seats and their
majority in the 225-seat legislature. The Democratic Progressive Party
of Pres. Chen Shui-bian gained 21 seats. The results forced a new
coalition government.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A2)
2001 Dec 2, Nicolas Escude gave
France its ninth Davis Cup, defeating Australian Wayne Arthurs in the
deciding fifth match.
(AP, 12/2/02)
2001 Dec 2, US bombers hit Taliban
defenses around Kandahar. US strikes at Tora Bora reportedly killed at
least 8 civilians.
(SFC, 12/3/01, p.A9)
2001 Dec 2, Enron Corp. under CEO
Kenneth Lay filed for bankruptcy. Employee fury in Nov persuaded Lay to
give up a severance package worth about $60 million. From 1999 to 2001
a group of 29 Enron executives sold 17.3 million shares and received
$1.1 billion. Days earlier Enron paid $55 million in bonuses to some
500 employees. The Enron top corporate structure was published in 2002.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A12)(SSFC,
1/20/02, p.A18)(SFC, 2/11/02, p.A12)
2001 Dec 2, An outbreak of Ebola
virus hit Gabon with the 1st death in Ekata, about 5 miles from the
Congo border. Within weeks at least 15 people died. The virus spread to
Congo and movement in the area was restricted.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 2, The weekend’s 3rd
Palestinian suicide bomber, Maher Habashi (21), sd’d in Haifa and 15
bus passengers were killed. Hamas took responsibility. Israel warned
Arafat of his regime’s annihilation. Arafat condemned the attacks and
declared a "state of emergency" in Palestinian territories.
(SFC, 12/3/01, p.1,3,11)(WSJ, 12/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 3, Tom Ridge, dead of
Homeland Security, ordered a state of high alert across the US to at
least the end of Ramadan in 2 weeks.
(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 3, Sec. of State Powell
met in Romania with officials from 55 nations in a conference on
fighting terrorism.
(WSJ, 12/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 3, Gov. Davis of
California met with Pres. Fox and Mexican legislators in Mexico City to
discuss economic solutions on mutual interests.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 3, In New Jersey Judge
Clarkson S. Fisher began jailing striking teachers, who defied his
back-to-work order.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 3, Enron took steps to
bolster its weak financial footing following its historic bankruptcy
filing, arranging $1.5 billion in financing and slashing 4,000 jobs, or
20 percent of its work force.
(AP, 12/3/02)
2001 Dec 3, Dean Kamen, inventor,
unveiled his battery-powered, 12 mph Segway Human Transporter in NYC.
Kamen had spent $100 million over the last decade to develop the
vehicle. In 2003 Steve Kemper authored "Code Name Ginger," the story of
the Segway's development.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A2)(WSJ, 6/17/03, p.D5)
2001 Dec 3, A test US anti-missile
launched from Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands successfully hit
a dummy warhead from Vandenberg Air Base in California, 4,800 miles
away.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 3, Some 3,000 Taliban
surrendered at Char Dara, 6 miles west of Kunduz. Pashtuns battled
Taliban forces at Kandahar’s airport. The UN evacuated staff at
Mazar-e-Sharif due to Northern Alliance infighting.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A1,15)
2001 Dec 3, In Argentina the
government put a 90-day partial freeze on bank accounts to help stem a
run on banks. Weekly withdrawals were limited to $250.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 3, Israel struck the West
Bank and Gaza Strip and destroyed 3 Palestinian Authority helicopters.
In the wake of bombings that killed 26 Israelis, PM Ariel Sharon
declared war on terror. Arafat was effectively confined to Ramallah
after Israel destroyed his helicopters.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/3/02)(SFC, 11/11/04,
p.A18)
2001 Dec 4, Pres. Bush announced
the seizure of assets and records of the Holy Land foundation for
Relief and Development based in Richardson, Texas, due to suspected
ties with Hamas.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 4, The Bush
administration ordered tons of PCBs removed from the upper Hudson
River. Dredging was expected to cost GE $500 million.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 4, The US Postal Service
reported a $1.7 billion loss for fiscal 2001.
(WSJ, 12/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 4, The Olympic flame
began a 46-state, two-month journey from Atlanta, host city of the 1996
Summer Games, to the opening ceremony of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter
Games.
(AP, 12/4/02)
2001 Dec 4, A. Alfred Taubman of
Sotheby’s auction house was convicted of conspiracy with his
counterpart at Christie’s in a scheme that netted them some $400
million over the years.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Dec 4, The "Goner" computer
worm was reported spreading worldwide disguised as a screen saver.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.B1)
2001 Dec 4, Edwin Huffine, US
forensic scientist, launched a new DNA ID software program developed
with a team of Bosnian experts at the Sarajevo-based Int’l. Commission
for Missing Persons (ICMP). The program used kinship analysis.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 4, In Afghanistan US
bombing continued at Kandahar and Tora Bora. Baglan and Balkh were
noted as a pockets of resistance with up to 3,500 Taliban militiamen.
An interim government was scheduled to take power Dec 22.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Dec 4, Israeli troops moved
into Palestinian-controlled territory in Ramallah and Nablus and closed
off 7 West Bank cities. Israeli warplanes and helicopters bombed at
least 8 targets in 5 cities and towns including a police building near
Arafat’s headquarters. A police officer and a 15-year-old boy were
killed.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A12)(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A1,16)
2001 Dec 4, In South Africa Marike
de Klerk (64), former wife of former Pres. F.W. de Klerk, was found
stabbed and strangled in her luxury apartment near Cape Town. Police
arrested Luyanda Mboniswa (21), a security guard, on Dec 5. The guard
confessed Dec 7. In 2003 DNA evidence linked him to the murder.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A6)(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A6)(SFC,
12/8/01, p.A7)(AP, 4/8/03)
2001 Dec 4, In Sri Lanka the death
toll reached 45, since Oct 21, as elections began for a new 225-seat
Parliament. Poll violence killed 10 and an army blockade kept some
130,000 minority Tamils from casting ballots. The opposition United
National Party won.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A7)(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A1)(SFC,
12/8/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 4, The Zimbabwe high
court reversed a previous decision and ruled that seizures of
white-owned farms are legal. Pres. Mugabe had expanded the court and
replaced many of the justices.
(WSJ, 12/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 5, The FBI arrested
escaped fugitive Clayton Lee Waagner in St. Louis. Waagner was
suspected of mailing as many as 550 anthrax hoax letters to abortion
clinics. He was also wanted for bank robbery and other offenses. In
2002 Waagner was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A13)(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A1)(SFC,
1/26/02, p.A10)
2001 Dec 5, The National Park
Service web site was shut down by court order to keep hackers from
accessing Indian tribal funds.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A1)
2001 Dec 5, NASA launched space
shuttle Endeavour to deliver a new 3-man crew to the Alpha space
station. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Onufrienko flew to replace Doug
Culbertson as skipper.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A2)
2001 Dec 5, The DJIA gained 129 to
finish above 10,000 for the 1st time in 3 months.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Dec 5, Marjorie Dabney (70)
of Bakersfield, Ca., disappeared from the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. In
2008 DNA evidence identified her remains, which were found in a field
15 miles from the airport.
(SFC, 12/8/08, p.A4)
2001 Dec 5, A 2000-pound US bomb
killed 3 American Green Berets near Kandahar along with 18 Afghan
fighters. 20 Americans were injured along with 18 Afghan fighters
including newly appointed Afghan leader Hamid Karzai.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A1,15)(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 5, Sir Peter Blake (53)
of New Zealand, 2-time America’s Cup winner, was killed on the research
vessel Seamaster by gunmen at Macapa, Brazil, near the mouth of the
Amazon. 7 men were arrested 2 days later and an 8th was still sought.
The final 2 suspects were arrested Dec 9.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A2)(SFC,
12/10/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 5, Afghan delegates in
Koenigswinter, Germany, signed an agreement for an interim post-Taliban
government to begin Dec 22.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/5/02)
2001 Dec 5, In Jerusalem another
suicide bomber sd’d outside a hotel and 2 people were injured. Sharon
gave Arafat a 12-hour reprieve to arrest those responsible for the
attacks.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 5, Russia agreed to cut
its oil exports by 150,000 barrels a day to satisfy OPEC demands.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 6, President George W.
Bush dedicated the national Christmas tree to those who died on Sept.
11 and to GIs who died in the line of duty.
(AP, 12/6/02)
2001 Dec 6, The House of
Representatives, by a one-vote margin, gave President Bush more power
to negotiate global trade deals.
(AP, 12/6/02)
2001 Dec 6, Anthrax tainted mail
turned up at a sorting site outside the Federal building in Washington
DC. It had been received Dec 5.
(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 6, In Indiana Robert L.
Wissman, an employee of the Nu-Wood Decorative Millwork plant on the
edge of Goshen killed manager Greg Oswald, wounded 6 others, and then
killed himself. A love triangle was later aid to be the cause.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A7)
2001 Dec 6, In Afghanistan Mullah
Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader, vowed to surrender Kandahar.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 6, An int’l. team of
doctors flew to Congo to investigate the deaths of 17 people with
Ebola-like symptoms in Dekese. Ebola was confirmed in Gabon on Dec 9.
(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 6, Japan went into
recession officially for the 4th time in 10 years as the GDP shrank
0.5%.
(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A14)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Dec 6, In Nepal the
anti-rebel campaign was reported to have left 250 dead since rebel
attacks began Nov 23.
(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 6, Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat continued a roundup of Hamas militants based on a list of
36 suspects provided by Israel. His crackdown on Islamic militants met
angry resistance as 1,500 Hamas supporters battled Palestinian riot
police outside the home of the group's leader. Israeli warplanes bombed
a Gaza police station and 15 Palestinians were wounded.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/6/02)
2001 Dec 7, Americans held
services on the 60th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2001 Dec 7, The US called to cut
off discussions about enforcing a 1972 Biological Weapons Convention on
the final day of a 3-week conference in Geneva. The conference sought
binding measures and disbanded in chaos.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 7, The US Senate voted 65
to 33 in a procedural vote to defeat an effort to block an automatic
pay raise of 3.4% ($4,900) to $150,000.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A14)
2001 Dec 7, In New Jersey nearly
230 teachers were ordered freed from jail after their union agreed to
end the 9-day strike and go into mediation.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 7, The space shuttle
Endeavour docked with the international space station, delivering a new
three-member crew to relieve a crew in place since August.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2001 Dec 7, The U.S. unemployment
rate jumped to 5.7 percent in November, the highest in six years.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2001 Dec 7, In Afghanistan Taliban
soldiers fled Kandahar and left the city in chaos. Day 62: Assaults
continued around Tora Bora where up to 2,000 bin Laden loyalists were
positioned at a mountain redoubt. Aryana Airline made its 1st domestic
flight since Oct 7 with a flight from Herat to Kabul.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A1,14)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.E6)
2001 Dec 7, Statistics Canada
reported a jobless increase to 7.5%, the highest level since mid-1999.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 7, Israeli helicopters
fired missiles at a Palestinian security compound in Gaza. Arafat said
his forces had arrested 17 of 33 militants wanted by Israel.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 7, Russia and Nato
proclaimed a commitment "to forge a new relationship" following a
meeting in Brussels.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 7, In Sri Lanka Pres.
Kumaratunga called on Ranil Wickremesinghe, head of the United National
Party, to form a government. The UNP promised to pursue peace talks
with Tamil rebels.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 8, Nebraska quarterback
Eric Crouch was awarded the Heisman Trophy.
(AP, 12/8/02)
2001 Dec 8, The U.S. Capitol was
reopened to tourists after a two-month security shutdown.
(AP, 12/8/02)
2001 Dec 8, John Walker Lindh, a
Taliban soldier from Marin County, Ca., was held at Camp Rhino near
Kandahar as a battlefield detainee. He was captured a week earlier
following the prison revolt at Mazar-e-Sharif.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 8, In Ireland the bodies
of 8 illegal immigrants, including 3 children, were found in a shipping
container in Wexford. 5 people were still alive.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 8, Israeli police
arrested 3 teenagers for creating and spreading the "Goner" computer
worm.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Dec 8, Malaysian authorities
said they would expand a policy of caning illegal immigrants to include
1st-time offenders.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Dec 9, The United States
disclosed the existence of a videotape in which Osama bin Laden said he
was pleasantly surprised by the extent of damage from the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2001 Dec 9, US B-52s continued
strikes over Tora Bora. A Northern Alliance helicopter crashed and 18
people were killed including 2 Pashtun commanders. The last province
under Taliban control, Zabul, was handed over to tribal leaders.
(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 9, An Amtrak Acela train
killed 3 people on tracks northeast of Philadelphia.
(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 9, The Friendship Bridge
linking Afghanistan and Uzbekistan was opened for aid transport.
(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 9, In Argentina Domingo
Cavallo announced that he would annul $4 million in business tax cuts
and push for the release of $1.3 billion IMF loans.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 9, An outbreak of the
Ebola virus was confirmed in the Ogoouer Ivindo province of Gabon. 7
deaths were reported.
(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 9, A suicide bomber
injured 9 Israelis in Haifa. Israeli troops killed 4 Palestinian police
officers in their cars. Israeli soldiers also killed a Palestinian taxi
driver trying to enter Jenin, which was sealed off. 30 suspected
militants were arrested in Israeli raids.
(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 9, In Uganda a gasoline
truck crash killed 58 people near Iganga. Many of the victims had tried
to gather up fuel when it ignited.
(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 10, President Bush told
reporters a videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader
talked happily about the Sept. 11 attacks "just reminded me of what a
murderer he is."
(AP, 12/10/02)
2001 Dec 10, Federal authorities
charged Golden State Transportation, a Los Angeles-based bus company,
with illegally transporting thousands of undocumented aliens from
staging areas near the U.S.-Mexico border. Raids over the last 2 days
had picked up 26 of the 32 indicted.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A7)(AP, 12/10/02)
2001 Dec 10, US air strikes
continued at Tora Bora and Afghan fighters moved in on al Qaeda
defenders in fortified caves.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 10, In Philadelphia a
gunman opened fire outside the Great Valley Shopping Center in East
Whiteland Township and killed 2 people. A 3rd was wounded.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A9)
2001 Dec 10, It was reported that
at least 43 Taliban prisoners had died in shipping containers during a
2-3 day transit from Kunduz to Shibirghan.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A17)
2001 Dec 10, Israeli helicopters
fired missiles at a car in Hebron. 2 boys aged 3 & 13 were killed
and 7 people were wounded.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 10, In Kenya Sheikh Ahmed
Salim Swedan, an al Qaeda operative, was arrested in Mandera near the
Somalia border for involvement in the Aug 7, 1998 US Embassy bombing.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A13)
2001 Dec 10, Secretary-General
Kofi Annan accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of himself and the
United Nations.
(AP, 12/10/06)
2001 Dec 10, In Venezuela a
nation-wide 12-hour work stoppage was planned to protest policies of
Pres. Hugo Chavez. Thousands of businesses closed and millions stayed
home as Pres. Chavez countered as host of the annual air force show in
Caracas.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A12)(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 11, The US Federal
Reserve cut short-term interest rates by .25% to 1.75% in the 11th cut
this year. The Dow rose 33 to 9888. the Nasdaq 9 to 2001.
(WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 11, In the first criminal
indictment stemming from Sept. 11, a US grand jury in Virginia charged
Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, with
conspiring to murder thousands in the suicide hijackings. Moussaoui
pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2005 and was sentenced to life in
prison.
(WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A1)(AP,
12/11/06)
2001 Dec 11, US Federal agents
carried out dozens of raids and seized computers in some 27 cities and
21 states suspected of pirating software over the Internet. The "Warez"
network of software pirates was targeted.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 11, US bombers continued
to hit sites at Tora Bora, Afghanistan, as a deadline for al Qaeda
surrender passed.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 11, A federal appeals
court struck a Louisiana law that allowed vocal classroom prayer. The
state had passed a 1976 law that required schools to allow a brief time
in "silent meditation." In 1992 the wording was changed to "silent
prayer or meditation." In 1999 the word "silent" was deleted.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A7)
2001 Dec 11, The chairman of the
militant Jewish Defense League, Irv Rubin, and an associate, Earl
Krugel, were arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Los Angeles
mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman. Rubin died
November 14th, 2002, 10 days after what federal officials described as
a suicide attempt in jail.
(AP, 12/11/02)
2001 Dec 11, The US government
approved Swiss food giant Nestle SA's $10.3 billion purchase of Ralston
Purina.
(AP, 12/11/02)
2001 Dec 11, NASA agreed in
principle to let Russia’s space agency send Mark Shuttleworth, a South
Africa Internet tycoon, to the space station in April for some $20
million.
(WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 11, Australia reported
that an Australian citizen, David Hicks (26), who had trained with the
al Qaeda, had been captured in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A19)(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 11, Israeli helicopter
attacks in the Gaza Khan Younis refugee camp killed 3 people and
wounded 20.
(WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 11, Pakistani officials
said 2 nuclear scientists, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Abdul Majid,
talked with Osama bin Laden last August in Kabul about nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A19)
2001 Dec 12, US federal agents
began a crackdown on student visa violations and arrested 10 foreigners
in San Diego.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 12, In Los Angeles police
arrested Irving David Rubin (56) head of the Jewish Defense League, and
Earl Leslie Krugel (59), for plotting to blow up a local mosque. Rubin
committed suicide in 2002. In 2005 Krugel was sentenced to 20 years in
prison.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A3)(SFC, 9/23/05, p.A3)
2001 Dec 12, Ali-al-Marri, a
citizen of Qatar, was arrested in Peoria, Ill. He had reportedly
entered the USA legally with his wife and five children on 10 September
2001 to pursue post-graduate studies at Bradley Univ. 18 months later,
as he was on the verge of trial for credit card fraud and other
charges, Pres. Bush declared him an enemy combatant and moved him into
military detention. In 2008 the US Supreme Court agreed to decide
whether the president may order that people seized in the US be held
indefinitely and without criminal charges.
(www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21383.htm)(WSJ, 12/6/08, p.A1)
2001 Dec 12, Gerardo Hernandez,
the leader of a Cuban spy ring, received a life sentence in federal
court in Miami for his role in the infiltration of US military bases
and the deaths of four Cuban-Americans in 1996.
(AP, 12/12/02)
2001 Dec 12, David Criswell,
director of the Univ. of Houston Space Systems Operations, proposed a
"Lunar Solar Power System" to collect solar energy on the moon, convert
it to microwaves, and beam it to Earth for electrical power.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 12, A $200 million US Air
Force B-1 bomber crashed into the India Ocean near Diego Garcia Island.
The 4 crewmen were rescued.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 12, In Afghanistan al
Qaeda fighters at Tora Bora were given a new ultimatum to surrender and
turn over their leaders.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 12, Lt. Gen. Abdullah
Hendropriyono, the Indonesia intelligence chief, said that a network of
al Qaeda training camps were located on Sulawesi Island.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 12, Palestinian militants
detonated bombs beneath an Israeli bus in the West Bank and gunned down
passengers as they fled. 10 people were killed. Police killed 1 of 3
militants. Yasser Arafat bowed to long-standing Israeli demands by
ordering closed the offices of the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad. 2
Hamas suicide bombers sd’d near an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip
and injured 4 others.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A1,17)(AP, 12/12/02)
2001 Dec 13, Pres. Bush gave
Russia a formal 6-month advance notice of his decision to withdraw from
the 1972 ABM treaty in order to advance his missile-shield plans. China
and Russia offered muted criticism.
(WSJ, 12/13/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 13, US Congress approved
a $343.3 billion defense bill.
(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 13, The US Defense Dept.
released a videotape of Osama bin Laden talking about the Sep 11
attacks. The tape clearly indicated his advance knowledge of the
suicide attacks. The tape was found weeks ago in Jalalabad.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A7)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
12/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 13, The US military sent
in special operations forces into the Tora Bora area to look for al
Qaeda leaders.
(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 13, Argentine workers
staged a strike, the 8th one against the 2-year-old administration of
Pres. de la Rua. Unemployment was reported to have risen to 18.3% in
October from 16.4% in May.
(WSJ, 12/14/01, p.A11)
2001 Dec 13, In Belgium some
80,000 antiglobalization protesters rallied in Brussels against
an EU summit set to start the next day.
(WSJ, 12/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 13, The Beijing First
Intermediate Court sentenced 6 people to prison for 3 to 12 years for
downloading material from the Internet on the banned Falun Gong
spiritual movement and passing it along.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 13, In India 5 gunmen and
a suicide bomber tried to enter a gate at the parliament building in
New Delhi. 6 policemen and the attackers were killed and 18 wounded.
The Kashmiri Lashkar-e-Tayyaba separatist group was held responsible.
The attack left 14 people dead. In 2006 Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri, was
sentenced to death for his involvement in the conspiracy.
(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/14/01, p.A1)(SFC,
12/15/01, p.A3)(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A14)(Econ, 10/7/06, p.47)
2001 Dec 13, The Israeli
government broke off contact with Yasser Arafat and began hitting
targets in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Israeli forces destroyed
Palestinian TV and radio transmission facilities and divided the Gaza
Strip into 3 parts. In Ramallah Israeli soldiers seized the home and
family of a Palestinian militia commander.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 14, The US vetoed a UN
Security council vote that condemned all "acts of terror" against
Israelis and Palestinians.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 14, American and British
commandos behind a screen of local Afghan fighters contained the last
remnants of al Qaeda forces in the White Mountains of Tora Bora.
American Marines occupied Kandahar airport.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A1,16)
2001 Dec 14, The US shipped a load
of corn to Cuba, the 1st American food shipment there since 1963.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A8)
2001 Dec 14, European leaders
agreed to send 4,000 troops to Afghanistan.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 14, European nations
began distributing a "Eurokit" of euro coins in advance of the Jan 1
day when the euro becomes legal tender.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 14, The German parliament
approved a plan to shut down all nuclear power plants within 20 years.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A8)
2001 Dec 14, W.G. Sebald (b.1944),
German-born British author, died in a car accident. His books included
"The Emigrants" (1996) and "The Rings of Saturn" (1998). His novel
"Austerlitz" (2001) had just recently been awarded The National Books
Critics Award for 2002.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.M4)(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A2)
2001 Dec 14, Israeli troops raided
four Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank, killing eight
Palestinians and arresting dozens of suspected militants.
(AP, 12/14/02)
2001 Dec 15, Evander Holyfield was
denied a fifth heavyweight championship when his third fight against
John Ruiz was called a draw after 12 rounds in Mashantucket, Conn.
(AP, 12/15/02)
2001 Dec 15, Anthony Zinni, US
envoy to Israel, left after his 20 days in the region failed to produce
a cease-fire.
(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A14)
2001 Dec 15, With a crash and a
large dust cloud, a 50-foot tall section of steel, the last standing
piece of the World Trade Center's facade, was brought down in New York.
(AP, 12/15/02)
2001 Dec 15, EU leaders concluded
a 2-day Council at Laeken, Belgium. The adoption of the Laeken
Declaration on the Future of Europe, established the European
Convention. A constitutional convention was planned. This process was
supposed to simplify the EU’s legal architecture. The admittance of 10
new members over the next 2 years was also planned. The EU declared
their nascent joint military force operational.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Councils)(WSJ, 12/17/01,
p.A14)(Econ, 10/27/07, p.16)
2001 Dec 15, Israeli forces swept
into Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip and bulldozed houses and police
outposts. 6 Palestinians were killed and 50 injured from fighting.
(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A14)
2002 Dec 15, The Leaning Tower of
Pisa, Italy, was reopened to the public after a $27 million realignment
that dragged on for over a decade.
(AP, 12/15/02)
2001 Dec 16, Cleveland Browns fans
threw thousands of bottles onto the field after officials overturned a
last-minute call, a decision that helped the Jacksonville Jaguars win
the game 15-10.
(AP, 12/16/02)
2001 Dec 16, The first U.S.
commercial food shipments since 1963 arrived in communist Cuba. The
Mexican freighter N.V. Ikon Mazatlan arrived in Cuba with 26,400 tons
of American corn a day after 500 tons of American frozen chicken parts
were received.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A3)(AP, 12/16/02)
2001 Dec 16, It was reported that
all the anthrax spores mailed to Capital Hill were identical to stocks
from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at
Fort Detrick, Md. (USAMRIID), maintained since 1980.
(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A9)
2001 Dec 16, In Afghanistan 25 bin
Laden soldiers were captured and 200 were killed in the Tora Bora
region. After 9 weeks of fighting, Afghan militia leaders claimed
control of the last mountain bastion of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida
fighters. There was no sign of bin Laden.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/16/02)
2001 Dec 16, The Muslim Ramadan
season came to an end.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 16, In China a weekend
bombing killed 5 people.
(WSJ, 12/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 16, In Chile a
congressional election showed the Coalition for Democracy with 47.8% of
the vote vs. 445 for the opposition Alliance for Chile.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 16, In Colombia a 5-day
battle over cocaine-producing plantations left up to 44 leftist
guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary fighters dead in Antioquia state.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A7)
2001 Dec 16, In Iran Abdullah
Ramezanzadeh, a Cabinet Secretary, was sentenced to 6 months in jail
for "spreading lies" against the conservative Guardian council.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A7)(WSJ, 12/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 16, In Italy a state-run
home for the disabled burned down near Buccino and 19 patients were
killed.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 16, In Madagascar
elections were held but no candidate won a majority.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.C12)
2001 Dec 16, The Mexican freighter
N.V. Ikon Mazatlan arrived in Cuba with 26,400 tons of American corn a
day after 500 tons of American frozen chicken parts were received.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 16, Yasser Arafat
appealed for a halt of armed activities and suicide bombings. He
accused PM Sharon of waging a "brutal war" against Palestinians.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 16, In Portugal the
Social Democratic Party lost heavily to the Socialists in local
elections. PM Antonio Guterres resigned following the results.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A7)
2001 Dec 17, The Bush
administration announced that the anthrax attacks most likely
originated from a domestic source.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 17, Space shuttle
Endeavour returned to Cape Canaveral following A 12-day mission for a
crew change at the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A4)(WSJ, 12/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 17, US Marines raised the
Stars and Stripes over the long-abandoned American Embassy in Kabul,
inaugurating what U.S. envoy James F. Dobbins promised would be a long
commitment to the rebuilding of war-wrecked Afghanistan.
(AP, 12/17/02)
2001 Dec 17, In Afghanistan US
Delta forces pursued some 300 al Qaeda fighters in the White Mountains.
Mullah Omar was reported to have retreated to the mountains near
Baghran.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A1,14)
2001 Dec 17, In Haiti 33 gunmen,
ex-members of the disbanded military, attacked the national
penitentiary, were rebuffed and moved on to the National Palace. At
least 10 people were killed. Opposition buildings were attacked in
response. Pres. Aristide called the attack a failed coup. Opposition
called the attack a staged event to crush dissent. A captured former
soldier later said the attack was a coup attempt and that fellow
conspirators included a former colonel and 2 former police chiefs.
Former Col. Guy Francois was accused of helping plot the attack
and spent two years in prison for his alleged role despite
maintaining his innocence.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A4)(WSJ,
12/18/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A3)(AP, 12/17/02)(AP, 9/15/06)
2001 Dec 17, Israel continued
military sweeps as Hamas and the Popular Front rejected Arafat’s call
to end attacks.
(WSJ, 12/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 18, A federal judge in
Philadelphia threw out Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence for the 1981
shooting of a Philadelphia police officer and ordered a new sentencing
hearing for the former Black Panther alternately portrayed as a vicious
cop-killer and a victim of a racist frame-up. Both sides appealed the
ruling.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/17/02)
2001 Dec 18, It was reported that
malaria scientists have engineered mice that produce vaccine in their
milk.
(WSJ, 12/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 18, Hundreds of al Qaeda
and Taliban fighters were reported to have slipped into Pakistan from
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 18, Canada passed the
Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
(Econ, 10/24/09,
p.42)(www.justice.gc.ca/eng/antiter/index.html)
2001 Dec 18, Cuba reported that
attackers killed a visiting Florida couple, their 8-year-old grandson
and 2 others during a highway robbery in Matanzas province.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A4)(WSJ, 12/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 18, Yasser Arafat closed
6 Hamas offices in a crackdown on militant groups. Israeli forces
arrested 10 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 18, Eduard Kokoity
(b.1964), former champion of the Soviet Union national wrestling team,
assumed office as president of South Ossetia. He had won 45% of the
votes in the first round of elections on November 18 and 53% in the 2nd
round on December 6.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Kokoity)
2001 Dec 18, Yemeni troops
assaulted tribal forces in the Marib region after local leaders refused
to turn over suspected members of al Qaeda. At least 12 people were
killed and 22 wounded.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/19/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 19, Comcast Corp. agreed
to buy AT&T Broadband as part of an agreement valued at $72 billion.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 19, The Sep 11 WTC death
toll was reduced to 3,000. In 2002 a revised tally put the total dead
at 2,795. In 2003 the count was reduced to 2,752.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A1)(WSJ,
9/9/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)(USAT, 10/30/03, p.7A)
2001 Dec 19, The fires that had
burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City for
the previous three months were declared extinguished except for a few
scattered hot spots.
(AP, 12/19/02)
2001 Dec 19-24, Christian Michael
Longo (27) killed his wife and 3 children. The bodies of Mary Jane
Longo and 2-year-old daughter were found in an inlet along the central
Oregon coast a week after the bodies of 2 other Longo children were
found. Longo was arrested in Mexico Jan 13. Longo was convicted and
sentenced to death Apr 16, 2003.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A9)(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A3)(SFC,
4/17/03, p.A10)
2001 Dec 19, In Argentina Pres. de
la Rua declared a state of siege as looters ransacked shops and markets
in Buenos Aires and across the north. Domingo Cavallo, economy
minister, resigned.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A1,3)(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
12/21/01, p.A9)
2001 Dec 19, Britain advised the
UN that it would lead a security force in Afghanistan and contribute
1,500 soldiers to a force of 5,000.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Dec 19, In the Comoros
Islands troops killed 5 of 13 gunmen who posed as American agents
hunting al Qaeda fugitives.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 19, Al Qaeda prisoners in
Pakistan revolted and 14 were killed. Another 18 escaped.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 19, In Sri Lanka rebels
declared a one-month truce.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, Pres. Bush marked the
100-day anniversary of Sep 11 by freezing the assets of 2
Pakistan-based groups suspected of terrorist support.
(WSJ, 12/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, It was reported that
the US economy showed nascent signs of recovery.
(WSJ, 12/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, Bio-Rad Labs and 3
large licensees were reported to have little incentive to sell a rapid
AIDS test domestically because they already dominated the slower
lab-based testing market.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, Microsoft admitted
its new Windows X-P operating system software was vulnerable to hacking.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2001 Dec 20, It was reported that
researchers had identified red wine pigments (polyphenols) as a factor
in inhibiting the production of a peptide that stimulates hardening of
the arteries.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, Comedian Foster
Brooks, known for his "Lovable Lush" fake drunk act, died in Encino,
Calif., at age 89.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2001 Dec 20, In Afghanistan the
1st int’l. peacekeeping forces arrived from Britain as the U.N.
Security Council authorized a multinational force for Afghanistan. A
grenade attack in Mazar-e-Sharif market wounded some 35-100 people. US
air strikes at Asmani and Pokharai killed about 50 civilians.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A24)(WSJ, 12/21/01, p.A1)(AP,
12/20/02)
2001 Dec 20, Argentine President
Fernando De la Rua resigned, hours after his economy minister,
following two days of anti-government unrest that left 22 people dead
and more than 200 injured. The foreign debt stood at $132 billion.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/20/02)
2001 Dec 20, It was reported that
Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, a defector from Iraq, said he worked on
renovations of secret facilities for biological, chemical and nuclear
weapons in Iraq before fleeing a year ago.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 20, Following a 3-day
lull Palestinian police in Gaza clashed with Hamas supporters and one
Palestinian was killed. Another died in a gunfight with Israeli troops
in the West Bank.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 20, Leopold Sedar Senghor
(b.1906), poet and former president of Senegal (1960-1980), died in
France at age 95.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A34)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Dec 20, In Zimbabwe 2
opposition officials, Milton Chambati (45) and Titus Neya (50) were
killed west of Harare. Youth leader Trymore Midzi was assaulted the
next day and died Dec 24.
(SFC, 12/25/01, p.A20)
2001 Dec 21, Pres. Bush met with
Pres. Nazarbayev of Kazakstan and signed documents "related to
transportation connections."
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 21, President Bush signed
the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, which
required the African nation to adopt land ownership protections in
order to continue receiving U.S. aid.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A5)(AP, 12/21/02)
2001 Dec 21, US warplanes attacked
a convoy of trucks heading for the Pakistan border and 65 people were
reported killed. 12 were killed in the convoy and 15 in nearby
villages. The convoy was said to be heading for Kabul.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A19)(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 21, Pennsylvania Gov.
Mark Schweiker announced an agreement on a state takeover of the
Philadelphia school system. Plans called Edison Schools Inc. to help
run the district.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 21, Pfizer agreed to
settle a suit over the diabetes drug Rezulin after a jury awarded $43
million to a Texas woman who said it destroyed her liver.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 21, Dick Schaap (b.1934),
Emmy-winning sports broadcaster and author, died in New York at age 67.
(AP, 12/21/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.111)
2001 Dec 21, In Kabul,
Afghanistan, power was officially transferred from Pres. Rabbani to
Hamid Karzai.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 21, In Argentina Ramon
Puerta, head of the Senate, became president following an extraordinary
session of both houses.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 21, In Bulgaria at least
7 young people were killed when they rushed the entrance of a Sofia
downtown disco.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 21, India recalled its
top envoy from Pakistan and suspended bus and train service between the
2 countries.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 21, Six Palestinian
teenagers were killed in skirmishes with the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas called a halt to suicide bombings and mortar attacks.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A12)(AP,
12/21/02)
2001 Dec 22, It was reported that
a new "thermobaric" bomb had been developed by the Pentagon for use in
caves and tunnels. The BLU-118b was capable of destroying a tunnel’s
contents without collapsing the tunnel mouth.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A19)
2001 Dec 22, Passengers and flight
attendants subdued Richard Colvin Reid on AA Flight 63 from Paris to
Miami. He appeared to have explosive materials in his shoes. The flight
was diverted to Boston and the FBI confirmed that his shoes were packed
with explosives. Reid had trained with lashkar-e-Taiba. French police
identified the man as Tariq Raja (28), a Sri Lankan traveling on a
British passport. The sneakers contained pentaerythritol tetranitrate
(PETN) and triacetone triperoxide (TATP). On Jan 30, 2003 Reid was
sentenced to life in prison. A 2nd plot involved Saajid Badat, who
backed out of similar plan on a different flight. In 2005 a British
judge sentenced Badat (25) to 13 years in prison.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A1,6)(SFC,
1/31/03, p.A1)(SFC, 4/23/05, p.A4)(WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A6)
2001 Dec 22, A cloned cat named CC
(Carbon Copy) was born following a year of experimentation by
scientists at Texas A&M scientists. The $3.7 million research
project was funded by John Sperling (81), founder of the Univ. of
Phoenix. Sperling soon formed the Sausalito firm Genetic Savings to
clone pets.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A1)(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A1)(SFC,
8/6/04, p.A14)
2001 Dec 22, Hamid Karzai was
sworn in as prime minister of Afghanistan.
(AP, 12/22/02)
2001 Dec 22, A fishing boat from
North Korea, suspected of spying, exchanged fire with Japanese coast
vessels and sank after a 6-hour chase. 15 crewmen were lost. 2 bodies
were later recovered. North Korea later denied any links to the fishing
boat and accused Japan of a "smear campaign."
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A15)(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A4)(SFC,
12/27/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 23, Time magazine named
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as Person of the Year.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A2)
2001 Dec 23, It was reported that
Hazrat Ali, an Afghanistan eastern alliance commander, had negotiated a
deal to release al Qaeda troops in the Tora Bora region. The new
cabinet met in Kabul for the 1st time.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A20)(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A10)
2001 Dec 23, In Argentina Adolfo
Rodriguez Saa, governor of San Luis province, was sworn in as the new
interim president until elections on March 3. He said he would not
devalue the peso. Saa said he would suspend payment on the foreign debt.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A13)(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 23, The Union of Comoros
was saved by a new constitution which gave each island its own
president.
(Econ, 3/22/08,
p.55)(www.worldstatesmen.org/Comoros.html)
2001 Dec 23, India troops moved
closer to the Pakistani border and heavy fire was exchanged. 2 Indian
soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 23, In Israel Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres and Ahmen Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian
parliament, drafted a new Middle East peace plan that called for Israel
to recognized a Palestinian state within 8 weeks.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 23, Israel barred Yasser
Arafat from making his annual Christmas Eve visit to Bethlehem, the
traditional birthplace of Jesus.
(AP, 12/23/02)
2001 Dec 23, In Nigeria Bola Ige
(71), justice minister and attorney general, was shot and killed
at his home in Ibadan, Osun state. Pres. Obasanjo sent troops to Ibadan.
(SFC, 12/25/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 23, In the Philippines
police rescued a Canadian hostage, Pierre Belanger (51), held for 2
months by the Pentagon gang in the village of Buena Vista.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 23, Sri Lanka's Premier
traveled to India to press for greater involvement in peace talks with
the Tamil rebels.
(WSJ, 12/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 24, Officials said
President Bush had created a formal line of succession at several key
federal agencies in case a Cabinet secretary were to be killed or
incapacitated.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2001 Dec 24, A West Virginia woman
kidnapped 16-month-old Jasmine Anderson from a Chicago bus station in
order to pass the child off as her own; Sheila Matthews and Jasmine
were found by FBI agents three days later in West Virginia. Matthews
was later sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2001 Dec 24, In Afghanistan Hamid
Karzai and Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim named Gen. Rashid Dostum as
deputy defense minister.
(SFC, 12/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 24, In Argentina Pres.
Saa planned a new works program to create a million jobs.
(SFC, 12/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 25, From Mazar-e-Sharif
to Kandahar in Afghanistan and the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the
Arabian Sea, American forces celebrated Christmas with carols, touch
football and turkey dinners.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 25, India and Pakistan
armies exchanged artillery fire in the mountains of Kashmir.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 25, Arab gunmen ambushed
Israeli troops along the Jordan border. One Israeli soldier was killed
along with 2 of the gunmen. Israel lifted a blockade around Jericho.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 25, Burundi Maj. Gen.
Gahiro reported that 515 Hutu rebels and 28 soldiers had been killed in
the Tenga region since Nov 26. He said fighting the area was liberated
but that fighting continued.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A8)
2001 Dec 25, Salman Raduyev, a
Chechen warlord, was sentenced by a Russian court to life in prison for
terrorism and murder.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 25, Grigory Pasko (39),
Russian military journalist, was sentenced to 4 years in prison plus
credit for time served for passing state secrets to Japan. He had
reported on the Russian navy practice of ocean-dumping old weapons and
nuclear waste. In 2002 the Supreme Court struck down the 1996 military
secrecy order used to convict Pasko. In 2002 a military court upheld
the verdict.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A5)(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A16)(SFC,
6/26/02, p.A10)
2001 Dec 25, In his traditional
"Urbi et Orbi" message, Pope John Paul II turned his thoughts at
Christmas to children — Palestinian, Israeli, American, Afghan and
African — declaring that humanity's hope depends on helping them.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 26, The Al Jazeera Arab
network broadcast a new video-taped statement from Osama bin Laden that
appeared to have been made in late Nov or early Dec. "Our terrorism is
benign." The al-Qaida leader condemned the United States as a nation
that committed crimes against millions of Afghans.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 26, Argentina planned a
new currency, the argentino, to circulate along with the peso and
dollar.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 26, In Brazil rescue
workers searched for victims of earth slides and flooding that killed
at least 49 people in Rio de Janeiro state.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 26, Actor Sir Nigel
Hawthorne (72) died in Hertfordshire, England.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 26, In France some 550
Iraqi Kurds, Afghans, Iranians and other refugees from the Sangatte Red
Cross center near the 33-mile Channel Tunnel attempted to reach asylum
in Britain. All were captured by French police.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A4)(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 26, India deployed
missile batteries and increased jet fighter patrols along its border
with Pakistan.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 26, Israeli troops shot
dead 1 Palestinian, Walid Saadi (50), in Jenin while in pursuit of
gunmen. Some border restrictions were eased.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 27, Pres. Bush
permanently normalized trade relations with China.
(WSJ, 12/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 27, The US announced
plans to hold Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay
naval base in Cuba.
(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 27, US warplanes
destroyed a compound in eastern Afghanistan believed to used by a
Taliban intelligence chief. Local villagers said as many as 40
civilians were killed. Qari Ahmadullah (40), former Taliban chief of
intelligence, was killed while fleeing US bombardment near Naka village
in Paktia province.
(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A22)(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A1)
2001 Dec 27, In NYC a van lurched
out of control in Herald Square at 34th ST. and 6th Ave. and killed 6
pedestrians. A 7th died the next day.
(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 27, In El Salvador
forensic scientists found human bones buried under the national police
headquarters. The were believed to belong to people who disappeared
during the 1980s civil war.
(WSJ, 12/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 27, India banned
Pakistan’s national airline from entering its airspace and ordered
Pakistan to withdraw half of its diplomats from New Delhi. Pakistan
followed suite.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A22)(AP, 12/27/02)
2001 Dec 27, In Israel defense
minister Gen. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (65) took over leadership of the
Labor Party. Israeli troops raided Palestinian territory for a 2nd day
and arrested 7 suspected militants.
(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 27, Zambia held national
elections. Early returns showed a virtual tie between Levy Mwanawasa of
the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy and Anderson Mazoka
(d.2006) of the United Party for National Development. Mwanawasa won
with 29% of the vote.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A21)(Econ, 7/2/05, p.43)(Econ,
6/17/06, p.56)
2001 Dec 28, A WSJ editorial
pointed out how the IMF systematically impoverished foreigners and
suggested how it might promote growth.
(WSJ, 12/28/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 28, The US consumer
confidence index rose to 93.7% from 84.9% in Nov, the 1st gain in 6
months.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 28, The FDA informed
ImClone Corp. that its application for the cancer drug Erbitux would
not be accepted. The stock had fallen 8.4% the previous day and sellers
included Martha Stewart (3,928 shares), and ImClone insiders including
Sam Waksal and family members.
(WSJ, 6/19/02, p.A8)
2001 Dec 28, Buffalo, NY, dug out
from a 5-day storm that left nearly 7 feet of snow.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 28, In Pennsylvania a
30-50 car crash on snow-slickened I-80 left 5 people dead near
Williamsport. Another 50 cars were involved in 2 pileups that left at
least 2 people dead.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 28, Lawrence Singleton
(74), rapist, died at a Florida prison hospital where he was awaiting
execution for a 1997 murder. Singleton had raped Mary Vincent (15) in
1978 and chopped off her forearms. He was paroled in 1987.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A1)
2001 Dec 28, Gen. Mohammad Fahim,
Afghanistan’s new defense minister, called for an end to US bombing.
Meanwhile al Qaeda remnants in the Tora Bora region fired missiles at a
joint Afghan-American command base.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 28, In Argentina
thousands of people flooded banks as the government eased a 5-day bank
holiday. Demonstrations ensued and riot police used rubber bullets and
tear gas to quell violence at the Government House known as Casa Rosada.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 28, In Australia bush
fires reached within 12 miles of Sidney. Some 150 home were already
destroyed by over 100 fires across new South Wales. 80% of the Royal
National Park had burned. A number of blazes were due to arson, and 3
teenagers and 2 men had been arrested.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 28, The EU expanded its
list of terrorist organizations to include Irish, Basque, Greek and
Middle Eastern extremist groups.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A11)
2001 Dec 28, Israeli troops killed
a suspected Palestinian bomber in the Gaza Strip. The blockade of
Bethlehem was eased. The body of a Jewish settler, missing for over a
week, was found in a West Bank cave near the village of Jaba.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 28, Japan’s Nikkei closed
at its lowest year-end mark since 1983: 10,542.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.B1)
2001 Dec 28, Pakistan arrested
some 50 leading members of 2 Islamic militant groups: Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
and Jaish-e-Mahammed.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 29, US airstrikes in
Afghanistan’s Paktia province were later reported to have killed up to
100 villagers.
(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A6)
2001 Dec 29, Thousands of
Antarctic penguins were reported dead or dying due to giant icebergs
that cut the birds off from their food supply.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A2)
2001 Dec 29, In Argentina at least
12 police officers were injured during protests in Buenos Aires. The
entire cabinet offered to step down.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 29, A fireworks shop
exploded and caused a fire in downtown Lima that spread over 4 downtown
blocks. At least 290 people were killed.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A12)(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)(WSJ,
1/2/02, p.A1)
2001 Dec 29, Philippine troops
raided a camp of Muslim rebels linked to Osama bin Laden and killed 13.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 30, Rev. Jack Brock of
the Christ Community Church and his wife Sharon burned Harry Potter
books in Alamogordo, NM, after calling them "a masterpiece of satanic
deception."
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A2)
2001 Dec 30, Ralph Sutton (79)
stride pianist, died in Aspen, Colo. He was a founding member of the
World’s Greatest Jazz Band (1968-1975).
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A10)
2001 Dec 30, Four Afghan soldiers
were killed near Herat as they stacked boxes of ammunition.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 30, In Argentina Pres.
Saa resigned after one week in office. Senate leader Ramon Puerta
resigned his post so as not to become interim president again. Eduardo
Camano, Peronist lawmaker, was next in line. Saa returned to San Luis
province and with his brother began producing films with financing from
the San Luis Ministry of Progress.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 2/24/05, p.A1)
2001 Dec 30, Colombia seized $41
million in counterfeit US currency.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 30, Israeli forces killed
6 Palestinians in 2 incidents in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 30, Pakistan arrested
Hafiz Saeed, leader of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (Army of the Pure) as India
moved more troops to the border.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 30, Russian troops
mounted an offensive south of Grozny after 6 Russian soldiers were
killed by rebels.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 30, In South Africa an
open truck carrying families on a pilgrimage to ancestral graves,
overturned on a steep hill and 48 people were killed.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A7)
2001 Dec 31, Notre Dame tapped
Tyrone Willingham to be its football coach, replacing George O'Leary,
who'd resigned because of misstatements about his academic and athletic
achievements on his resume; Willingham became the first black head
coach in any sport for the Irish.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2001 Dec 31, The US designated 6
more entities as suspected terrorist organizations. 5 groups were
active in the UK, the 6th was active in Spain. Lashkar-e-Taiba was
designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A8)(WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A6)
2001 Dec 31, It was reported that
federal pay raises ranged from 4.5 to 5.4% with the largest increase
going to workers in San Francisco.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 31, The US planned to
deploy elements of the 101st Airborne Division to replace Marines near
Kandahar. US troops moved by helicopter to Helmand province, the region
where Mohammed Omar was suspected to be.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 31, New York City Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani spent his final day in office praising police,
firefighters, and other city employees, and said he had no regrets
about returning to private life. In 2005 Fred and Harry Siegel authored
“Prince of the City,” an account of the Giuliani’s years as mayor of
NYC.
(AP, 12/31/02)(WSJ, 6/23/05, p.D8)
2001 Dec 31, Actress Eileen
Heckart died in Norwalk, Conn., at age 82.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2001 Dec 31, In Caracas,
Venezuela, street vendors began selling pre-recorded CDs of banging
pots to help drown out the long-winded speeches of Pres. Chavez.
Earlier protests included the banging of pots and pans and became known
as "cacerolazes." Approval ratings for Chavez had dropped from 80% to
just over 50% in recent months.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A2)
2001 Dec 31, Pakistani high
command planned to pull some 50,000 troops off the Afghan border and
redeploy them along the India border.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A10)
2001 Dec 31, It was reported that
Zimbabwe planned to publish the names of nearly 100,000 black citizens
to be given portions of some 20 million acres of now farmland owned by
whites.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec, Pres. Bush began meeting
with Gen. Tommy Franks and his war cabinet to plan a US attack on Iraq.
(SFC, 4/17/04, p.A1)
2001 Dec, Ayman al-Zawahiri
(b.1951), Egypt-born co-founder of al-Qaida, published his memoir
“Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri)
2001 Dec, In Afghanistan US air
strikes in late Dec. at Niazi Qala killed 52 civilians.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A14)
2001 Dec, Argentina halted
payments on its $88 billion in bonds. In 2005 Paul Blustein authored
“And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out),” an account of 2001 the debt
moratorium.
(WSJ, 1/14/04, p.A1)(Econ, 3/5/05, p.82)
2001 Dec, William Stobie, former
British soldier and police informer, was shot dead in Belfast. He was
the only man charged in connection with the 1989 murder of Patrick
Finucane.
(SFC, 4/18/03, p.A3)
2001 Dec, Airbus announced the
development of a huge double-decker jet, the A-380, capable of carrying
up to 1,000 passengers.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D2)
2001 Dec, In Indonesia Muslim and
Christian leaders signed a peace accord in the Sulawesi town of Malino.
(Econ, 9/11/04, p.40)
2001 Dec, Oscar Wyatt (81),
chairman of Coastal Corp., agreed to a surcharge of about $200,000 to
be paid to bank account in Jordan controlled by officials of Iraq’s
State Oil Marketing Organization. This was in violation of the UN’s
oil-for-food program. Wyatt was arrested in 2005 at his home in
Houston. In 2007 Wyatt was sentenced to over a year in jail after
admitting approval of the surcharge.
(SFC, 10/22/05, p.A3)(WSJ, 11/28/07, p.B10)
2001 Dec, The World Bank approved
$175 million in financing for the construction of a $550 million power
project on the Nile River in Uganda by AES Corp. of Arlington, Va. The
African Development Bank was to provide an additional $55 million. Some
$370 million in loans were suspended in June, 2002, over an alleged
1999 bribe to an Ugandan official.
(WSJ, 7/3/02, p.A4)
2001 Michael Richards, sculptor
and victim in the 9/11 WTC, completed his sculpture "Tar Baby vs. St.
Sebastian." The work was based on a body cast of the artist and
featured his figure pierced with airplanes." It was created as a
tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen of WW II.
(SFC, 12/4/03, p.F3)
2001 David Allen authored “Getting
Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity.”
(www.davidco.com/)
2001 Stephen Ambrose authored "The
Wild Blue," an account of the men who flew B-24 bombers during WW II.
(WSJ, 8/24/01, p.W8)
2001 Jack Beatty edited
"Colossus," an account of the rise of the corporation and its impact on
America.
(WSJ, 4/11/01, p.A16)
2001 Benson Bobrick authored "Wide
As the Waters," a popular history of the English Bible and Reformation.
(WSJ, 4/4/01, p.A18)
2001 Jean-Charles Brisard and
Guillaume Dasquie authored “Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil
Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden.” The book contained false
defamatory allegations about Sheikh Khalid Bin Mahfouz and Sheikh
Abdulraahman Bin Mahfouz alleging support for terrorism. In 2006 the
authors issued a public apology. The apology also covered Brisard’s
22002 report entitled “Terrorism Financing.”
(Econ, 11/4/06, p.47)
2001 Stephen Cohen authored
“India: Emerging Power.”
(Econ, 3/8/08, p.94)
2001 Jim Collins authored “Good to
Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t.” The book
that became a business management classic. He used a team of 21
business students from the Univ. of Colorado to study 11 companies. His
1994 book “Built to Last” sold over a million copies.
(USAT, 5/18/04, p.B1)(Econ, 7/24/04, p.76)
2001 William Easterly, a member of
the World Bank, authored "The Elusive Quest for Growth," an analysis of
economic growth.
(WSJ, 7/18/01, p.A16)
2001 Dave Eggers authored the
memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” He used the
proceeds to establish a SF publishing house named “McSweeneys.”
(Econ, 1/8/05, p.75)
2001 Barbara Ehrenreich authored
"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America." It focused on the
difficulties of living on unskilled wages.
(SFC, 8/13/01, p.A17)
2001 Cynthia Eller authored "The
Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory."
(WSJ, 4/20/01, p.W17)
2001 Niall Ferguson authored "The
Cash Nexus," in which he argued that political events and institutions
often dominate economic development.
(WSJ, 3/29/01, p.A12)
2001 John O. Fox authored "If
Americans Really Understood the Income Tax."
(WSJ, 4/16/01, p.A16)
2001 James Franklin authored "The
Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal.
(WSJ, 7/23/01, p.A13)
2001 Todd Gitlin authored "Media
Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives."
(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A14)
2001 Bernard Goldberg authored
“Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.”
(WSJ, 1/21/06, p.P11)
2001 Larry Goodson authored
"Afghanistan’s Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics and the
Rise of the Taliban."
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A22)
2001 John Steele Gordon authored
"The Business of America," a collection of his columns from American
Heritage Magazine.
(WSJ, 8/14/01, p.A12)
2001 Andrew S. Grove, former head
of Intel, authored "Swimming Across," a biography that covers his early
years and arrival to America.
(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.W8)
2001 The new Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians (NG2) was published in a 29 volume reference set
($4850). The 1st 1980 edition had 20 volumes.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, DB p.49)
2001 David Halberstam authored
"War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals." It covered
the ethnic violence in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, DB p.60)
2001 Donna Halper, Boston-based
historian and radio consultant, authored “Invisible Stars: A Social
History of Women in American Broadcasting.”
(www.amazon.com/Invisible-Stars-American-Broadcasting-Communication/dp/0765605813)
2001 Paul Halpern authored "The
Pursuit of Destiny." It traced the predictive efforts of science and
other disciplines through history.
(WSJ, 1/10/01, p.A20)
2001 Michael Hardt and Antonio
Negri authored “Empire,” a disquisition on globalization and its
discontents. In 2004 they authored the sequel “Multitude.”
(WSJ, 8/3/04, p.D8)
2001 Jeffrey Hart authored
"Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe." It was an examination of
the Western culture and tradition. "The mind of the West was born amid
tension and contradiction and draws strength from refusing to be
either-or but rather both-and."
(WSJ, 9/25/01, p.A16)
2001 Dr. Julie Holland authored
"Ecstasy: The Complete Guide." The drug was being touted as a potential
anti-depressant.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Ricky Jay, magician and
actor, published his "Jay’s Journal of Anomalies," a concentrated form
of his "Jay’s Journal of Anomalies."
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.M2)
2001 Philip Jenkins authored
"Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way," in which he
examines the motives and methodologies of radical biblical scholars.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A16)
2001 Vernon E. Jordon Jr., former
Urban League president and NAACP director, authored his memoir "Vernon
Can Read."
(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A12)
2001 Hal Kane authored "Triumph of
the Mundane: The Unseen Trends That Shape Our Lives and Environment."
(SSFC, 3/11/01, BR p.5)
2001 David Kessler, former FDA
commissioner, authored "A Question of Intent." He called for the
dismantling of the tobacco industry.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Nancy F. Koehn authored
"Brand New," a history and biography of property branding. Her essays
covered Josiah Wedgwood, Estee Lauder, Marshall Field, Howard Shultz,
Michael Dell, H.J. Heinz.
(WSJ, 4/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Michael Korda, editor in
chief of Simon & Shuster, authored "Making the List: A Cultural
History of the American Best Seller."
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Tomas Larsson authored "The
Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization."
(WSJ, 12/5/01, p.A18)
2001 Mark Lilla authored "The
Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics."
(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A20)
2001 David Limbaugh authored
"Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice
Department."
(WSJ, 5/22/01, p.A24)
2001 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian
writer, authored “The Feast of the Goat,” a portrayal of the last days
of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic.
(WSJ, 9/1/07, p.P9)
2001 Bjorn Lomborg authored "The
Skeptical Environmentalist" in which he presents data that shows the
environment to be improving.
(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A17)
2001 Myron Magnet edited "Modern
Sex: Liberation and Its Discontents."
(WSJ, 10/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Ian McEwan, a British writer,
authored his novel “Atonement.” In 2007 it was made into a film
starring James McAvoy and directed by Joe Wright.
(SFC, 12/4/07, p.E1)
2001 Darrin M. McMahon authored
"Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the
Making of Modernity."
(WSJ, 11/1/01, p.A19)
2001 Ed Michaels, Helen
Handfield-Jones and Beth Axelrod of McKinsey authored “The War for
Talent,” a directive to management to recruit and promote the best
available talent.
(Econ, 10/7/06, Survey p.3)
2001 Walter Russell Mead authored
"Special Providence," a study of why American foreign policy is so
successful. He posits 4 factions responsible for shaping policy:
Hamiltonians: who see the 1st task of the American government as
promoting the health of American enterprise at home and abroad.
Wilsonians: who think that the US has both a moral and a practical duty
to spread its values throughout the world. Jeffersonians: who argue the
US should perfect its own democracy and not go abroad. Jacksonians: who
believe that the US should not seek out foreign quarrels, but should
clobber anyone who messes with it.
(WSJ, 11/29/01, p.A16)
2001 Jacob Needleman, philosophy
prof. at SF State Univ., authored "The American Soul: Rediscovering the
Wisdom of the Founders."
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.M2)
2001 Andy Oram edited
"Peer-To-Peer," a collection of articles by 24 specialists on the
computing power of shared computers.
(WSJ, 4/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Sumner Redstone, CEO of
Viacom, co-wrote his memoir with Peter Knobler "A Passion To Win."
(WSJ, 6/8/01, p.W11)
2001 Arundhati Roy authored "Power
Politics." It covered dam development in India and included the role of
Enron Corp. in Maharashtra state projects.
(PP, 2001)
2001 Richard Russo of Camden,
Maine, authored his novel "Empire Falls." He won a Pulitzer prize for
the work in 2002.
(SFC, 6/28/02, p.D18)
2001 Eric Schlosser authored “Fast
Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.”
(SSFC, 8/8/04, p.M2)
2001 Daniel Schorr, newsman,
authored his memoir "Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism."
(WSJ, 5/2/01, p.A30)
2001 David Sinclair authored "The
Pound: A Biography."
(WSJ, 1/15/01, p.A21)
2001 Bradley A. Smith authored
"Unfree Speech," a defense of the First Amendment.
(WSJ, 4/9/01, p.A26)
2001 George Soros, financier,
authored "Open Society," a synthesis of his economic views.
(WSJ, 1/09/01, p.A20)
2001 Thomas Sowell authored "Basic
Economics."
(WSJ, 3/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Ronald H. Spector authored
"At War At Sea," a history of naval warfare in the 20th century.
(WSJ, 5/24/01, p.A20)
2001 Stuart Stevens authored "The
Big Enchilada," an account of the 2000 George W. Bush presidential
campaign.
(WSJ, 8/20/01, p.A13)
2001 Ian Stewart authored
"Flatterland," a tour of the mysteries of advance math and physics.
(WSJ, 5/18/01, p.W13)
2001 Barry Werth authored “The
Scarlet Professor.” It was an account of 1960s scandal involving Prof.
Raymond Joel Dorius (19019-2006) of Smith College in Massachusetts over
magazines in his possession depicting nude males.
(SSFC, 2/19/06, p.B7)
2001 Shakira, Colombian pop star,
made a hit with her “Laundry Service” album, mostly in English, selling
13 million copies. Her previous 4 albums in Spanish sold some 12
million copies.
(Econ, 7/23/05, p.62)
2001 Elton John composed his opera
"Aida" with lyrics by Tim Rice.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.E1)
2001 The first commercial
alternate reality game (ARG), called “The Beast,” was produced as part
of a promotional campaign for Steven Spielberg’s film “A.I.: Artificial
Intelligence.”
(Econ, 3/7/09, TQ p.16)
2001 Lawrence Lessig (46),
Stanford professor and cyberlaw expert, founded Creative Commons, which
offered an alternative to standard copyrights through various
gradations of permission for use.
(Econ, 12/8/07, p.31)
2001 Jacqueline Novogratz set up
the Acumen Fund, a “social venture capital” outfit. The fund took
donations from philanthropists and lent or took stakes in private
ventures that somehow served the poor. In 2009 she published her
autobiography “The Blue sweater.”
(Econ, 5/23/09, p.72)
2001 Pres. Bush promoted his No
Child Left Behind education reform program.
(Econ, 6/11/05, p.28)
2001 US Congress the Ambassador
Fund to provide modest financial support of archeological activities in
countries around the world.
(Arch, 1/05, p.4)
2001 US Attorney Gen. John
Ashcroft proclaimed that the 2nd Amendment refers to individuals rather
than groups aligning himself with gun-rights advocates.
(WSJ, 12/16/03, p.A4)
2001 The National Bureau of
Economic Research said in 2003 that the US recession ended in late 2001.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R10)
2001 The US EPA recommended that
strict regulations on perchlorate. The chemical, a key component in
munitions, had seeped into drinking water supplies. A strict limit
meant that defense contractors would have to clean up scores of water
sources in 35 states.
(WSJ, 12/29/05, p.A1)
2001 The US National Archives
signed a secret agreement with the CIA permitting the spy agency to
withdraw from public access records it considered to have been
improperly declassified. A similar agreement was signed with the Air
Force in 2002. This news was only made public in 2006.
(SFC, 4/18/06, p.A10)
2001 Arkansas passed a Covenant
Marriage Act.
(Econ, 2/12/05, p.31)
2001 The Hawaiian Kingdom
Government was founded in Honolulu as a native organization claiming
sovereignty over the Hawaiian Islands.
(SFC, 6/20/08, p.A5)
2001 Amtrak lost $1.1 billion in
this year.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A4)
2001 In Portland, Oregon, the
Metropolitan Area Express (MAX), a light rail system, extended
operations from downtown to the airport. This was the first train to
the plane on the west coast.
(WSJ, 12/2/99, p.A1)(Econ, 9/2/06, p.28)
2001 Chris Anderson, Silicon
Valley publisher, sold his Business 2.0 magazine for a reported $68
million.
(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.A4)
2001 Cargo tycoon Lynn Fritz sold
his Fritz Cos. to United Parcel and banked some $200 million. He soon
joined with Robert Prieto, chairman of engineering giant Parsons
Brinckerhoff, and Uwe Doerken, CEO of DHL, to establish the Disaster
Resource Network, a group of multinationals that donate time and
expertise to combat nature’s worst strikes.
(WSJ, 11/22/05, p.A12)
2001 Ben Kacyra (b.1949),
Iraqi-born founder of SF Bay Area firm Cyra Technologies, sold the
company’s new laser mapping tool to Leica Geosystems of Switzerland.
The device was created to produce digital blueprints of 3-dimensional
objects.
(SSFC, 7/22/07, p.C3)
2001 MGA Entertainment introduced
the Bratz line of dolls based on a design by Carter Bryant, a designer
from Mattel. The doll became very popular and threatened the Barbie
franchise of Mattel. In 2008 the 2 companies faced each other in court.
A jury ruled that the Bratz dolls were conceived while Bryant was
employed by Mattel. On August 26 a federal jury in Riverside, Ca.,
awarded Mattel $100 million in damages. On Dec 3 a federal judge banned
MGA Entertainment Inc. from making and selling Bratz dolls after the
holiday season. In January, 2009, a federal judge said the company can
continue to sell the toy line through 2009.
(WSJ, 5/23/08, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/18/08, p.B1)(SFC,
8/27/08, p.C3)(SFC, 12/4/08, p.A9)(SFC, 1/8/09, p.C2)
2001 Robert Mondavi backed the
opening of Copia, the $50 million American Center for Wine, Food and
the Arts, in Napa, Ca.
(USAT, 6/17/98, p.2D)(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.G8)
2001 A scheme called Project Alpha
inflated the cash flow of Dynegy Corp. by $300 million. In 2004 Jamie
Olis, a mid-level Dynegy finance executive, began a 24-year jail
sentence for his role in the scheme.
(Econ, 6/12/04, p.59)
2001 McCall’s Magazine ceased
publication after 125 years and was replaced by Rosie, named after talk
show hostess Rosie O’Donnell.
(WSJ, 4/27/01, p.W17)
2001 Mental Floss magazine was
launched by Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur at North Carolina’s
Duke Univ.
(SSFC, 12/12/04, p.D2)
2001 Rubbersidewalks Inc. of
Gardena, Ca., began grinding old tires into crumbs, adding chemical
binders, and baking the material into sidewalk sections that weigh
under 11 pounds per square foot, or a quarter of the weight of concrete.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2001 Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer
co-founded TerraCycle, an environmentally friendly consumer products
firm, at the end of their freshman year at Princeton, NJ. In 2009 Tom
Szaky (27) authored “Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is
Redefining Green Business.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraCycle)(WSJ,
3/11/09, p.A13)
2001 Goldman Sachs grouped Brazil,
Russia, India and China together as the 4 biggest emerging economies
under the acronym BRICs.
(Econ, 9/16/06, Survey p.12)
2001 Keyhole released the first
commercial geobrowser. Google bought Keyhole in 2004 and launched
Google Earth in 2005.
(Econ, 9/8/07, TQ p.18)
2001 Martin Tytell (d.2008 at 94),
master of typewriter technology, closed his shop in Manhattan after 65
years in business. During WWII he turned Siamese keyboards into 17
other Asian languages.
(Econ, 9/20/08, p.106)
2001 Infospace bought WebCrawler.
(SFC, 2/2/08, p.C1)
2001 Jimmy Wales (35), a retired
futures and options trader, founded Wikipedia, an Internet
encyclopedia. In 2009 Andrew Lih authored “The Wikipedia Revolution:
How as Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia.”
(SFC, 12/6/05, p.A10)(WSJ, 3/18/09, p.A13)
2001 The WPP Group bought the
consulting firm of Mark Penn (47) and turned him into a
multimillionaire. He later went on to become the chief strategist for
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
(Econ, 8/25/07, p.34)
2001 The New Orleans Regional
Transit Authority installed plastic railroad ties for the 1st time on
its St. Charles line. Plastic tie manufacturers included Polywood Inc.
and the TieTek unit of North American Technologies Group. Each mile of
track laid with plastic ties was said to save 800 oak trees.
(WSJ, 10/19/04, p.B8)
2001 The US National Institutes of
Health began its Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) project to isolate
each of the estimated 30,000 human genes along with a full set of mouse
genes.
(SFC, 4/23/01, p.B1)
2001 Researchers identified a
“skimmed milk” gene in a cow. In 2007 a biotech company in New Zealand
announced that it had bred a cow to produce low-fat milk.
(SFC, 6/2/07, p.B6)
2001 The FOXP2 gene was identified
as the 1st gene definitively linked to human language.
(http://tinyurl.com/38gea)
2001 Northfield Laboratories
quietly shut down the trial of a blood substitute called PolyHeme,
begun in 1999, after 10 of 81 patients, who received the fake blood,
suffered a heart attack within 7 days. 2 of the heart attack patients
died.
(WSJ, 2/22/06, p.A1)
2001 A fish epidemic struck
Atlantic salmon farms. The 2-year epizootic killed most of the young
fish in 36 farms. Canadian scientists developed a vaccine, Apex-IHN,
that protected the fish and in July, 2005, Canada licensed the product
for sale.
(WSJ, 9/23/05, p.B1)
2001 In West Virginia DuPont’s
Spelter smelter closed. During more than 90 years of operation, the
smelter produced more than 4 billion pounds of slab zinc and 400
million pounds of zinc dust for use in rustproofing products, paint
pigments and battery anodes. By 1971, a toxic waste pile stood 100 feet
tall and covered nearly half of the 112-acre site. Dust often blew from
the site into homes in nearby communities. In 2007 10 plaintiffs won a
class-action lawsuit against DuPont over long-term exposure to toxins
from the site.
(AP, 7/30/09)
2001 The FBI tracked 8,322 US bank
robberies this year, up 17% from 2000.
(WSJ, 10/8/02, p.A1)
2001 The average cost of housing
criminals in the US this year was $22,650.
(WSJ, 12/21/05, p.A1)
2001 In South Carolina Christopher
Pittman (12) killed his grandparents with a shotgun and then torched
their rural home. He later blame the anti-depressant zoloft for his
actions. In 2005 he was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in
prison.
(SFC, 2/16/05, p.A4)
2001 Winston Link (86), NYC
photographer, died. He spent the years 1955-1960 photographing the last
steam railroad in America, the Norfolk & Western RR. In 2004 a
museum dedicated to his work opened in Roanoke, Va.
(WSJ, 8/5/04, p.D8)
2001 Richard Evans Schultes
(b.1915), considered the father of ethnobotony, died. In 1997 Wade
Davis authored "One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon
Rain Forest," a biography of Schultes.
(NH, 2/02, p.22)
2001 David Sylvester (b.1924), art
critic, died. In 2003 a posthumous collection of his writings was
published as: "London Recordings."
(Econ, 11/15/03, p.78)
2001 Dare Wright (b.1914), author,
died. He books included “The Lonely Doll.“ In 2004 Jean Wright authored
“The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll.“
(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.M1)
2001 The Generation IV
International Forum (IGF) was established to coordinate the development
of new nuclear reactors. Members included America, Argentina, Brazil,
Britain, Canada, China, France, Japan, Russia, South Africa, South
Korea, Switzerland and Euratom, the EU’s nuclear body.
(Econ, 12/12/09, TQ p.15)
2001 In Argentina Doug Tompkins,
founder of Esprit Corp., purchased a 153,000-acre Patagonian sheep
ranch and donated it to the government. Pres. Nestor Kirchner named it
Monte Leon National Park.
(SFCM, 9/10/06, p.12)
2001 Bangladeshi economist
Muhammad Yunus restructured Grameen Bank to emphasize savings and
relying less on joint liability for groups.
(Econ, 10/21/06, p.78)
2001 In Belgium a 3-block
tolerance zone for prostitution was established in Antwerp as a test
case for national legalization of prostitution.
(WSJ, 5/26/05, p.A1)
2001 In Brazil an 840-pound
emerald was discovered in Bahia. It was sold to Americans for $60,000
and then transferred among a number of people, who moved it to San
Jose, Ca., then to Louisiana, where it was trapped in a flooded
warehouse, and then back to California. In 2009 it came under police
control as courts attempted to unravel ownership of the mineral, now
said to be worth nearly $400 million.
(WSJ, 2/28/09, p.A1)
2001 Britain’s 2001 anti-terrorism
act explicitly banned the bribing of foreign officials by British
citizens and companies no matter where the offense took place.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.83)
2001 The UN said 170,000 people in
Cambodia had HIV. About 2.7% of the adult population was infected with
AIDS.
(Econ, 11/22/03, p.41)
2001 Kay Kimsong, along with two
Americans working for the Cambodian Daily, were sued over two articles
published in early 2001 that said Foreign Minister Hor Namhong had
played an active part in running a Phnom Penh prison camp during the
Khmer Rouge's brutal 1975-79 reign. An appeal by Kimsong in 2005 was
rejected and he was fined $7,500.
(AP, 8/31/05)
2001 In China Zhengzhou city in
Henan province unveiled plans for a new city and hired Japanese
architect Kisho Kurokawa to design Zhengdong New District and its main
showcase buildings. Completion was scheduled for 2015 at a cost of $25
billion.
(Econ, 1/7/06, p.40)
2001 Amnesty Int’l. reported in
2002 that at least 3,048 people were executed in 31 countries in 2001.
China accounted for at least 1,781. 90% of the executed were from
China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the US.
(SFC, 4/10/02, p.A12)
2001 Shi Zhengrong, a Chinese
solar engineer, started Suntech to manufacture solar cells. By 2007 the
company was the world’s 3rd largest in the field.
(Econ, 6/2/07, SR p.16)
2001 There were some 720,000
passenger vehicles sold this year in China. Sales were expected to
climb to 900,000 units in 2002.
(WSJ, 7/3/02, p.A9)
2001 Some 5,670 Chinese miners
died in accidents in this year.
(SFC, 4/3/03, p.D1)
2001 A grape genetically identical
to California’s zinfandel was discovered growing wild in Croatia.
(SFC, 9/7/05, p.F8)
2001 The Djibouti government gave
the US military free land, free rein and full secrecy for a forward
base to fight al Qaeda and other terrorists.
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A6)
2001 An EU directive gave member
nations until 2006 to comply with an art sale levy, droit de suite
(right of continuation), allowing artists to claim a sliding scale
royalty on the resale price of their works selling for over 1000 euros.
(WSJ, 1/13/06, p.P14)
2001 The EU began work on the
Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals
(REACH). The final package was expected to come into force in April,
2007.
(Econ, 12/9/06, p.70)
2001 El Salvador adopted the US
dollar as the official currency.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A18)
2001 Manu Herbstein (b.1936), a
South African resident of Ghana, authored “Ama: A Story of the Atlantic
Slave Trade.”
(www.nathanielturner.com/amastoryofatlanticslavetrade.htm)
2001 Oil revenue in Equatorial
Guinea reached $140 million.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A10)
2001 The population in
Equatorial Guinea was about 475,000.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A10)
2001 A UN world population report
showed that Estonia was one of the fastest shrinking nations on earth,
with a fertility rate of 1.3.
(WSJ, 10/20/06, p.A1)
2001 The French firm Alcatel won a
contract from Costa Rica telecoms and electricity firm ICE. In 2004
Pres. Rodriguez was charged with accepting a share of a $2.4 million
payment made by Alcatel for the contract.
(Econ, 11/27/04, p.38)
2001 Pernod Ricard SA acquired the
Polish vodka Wyborova, Czech bitters Jan Becher and Seagram’s Martell
cognac and Chivas scotch.
(WSJ, 9/7/05, p.B2)
2001 The crime rate in France
topped the US this year. Over 25,000 cars were burned in French cities
as violence increased primarily due to immigrant gangs from sub-Saharan
Africa, Romania and the former Yugoslavia.
(SSFC, 4/28/02, Par p.9)
2001 Traffic accidents in France
killed over 8,000 people this year. Speed cameras were installed on
roads beginning in 2003 and by 2005 the number of deaths fell to just
above 5,000.
(Econ, 10/21/06, p.61)
2001 Lam Sai-wing, Hong Kong
jeweler, opened his doors to a glittering golden bathroom complete with
two 24-carat solid gold toilets. The company earned two places in the
Guinness World Records by constructing the world's "most expensive
bathroom," and "most expensive toilet," made almost exclusively out of
gold.
(http://tinyurl.com/5urw7t)(WSJ, 7/7/08, p.A1)
2001 Gurdharan Das authored "India
Unbound," an examination of why India is so impoverished.
(WSJ, 3/19/00, p.A19)
2001 The Indian film "Lagaan"
(Land Tax) starred Aamir Khan (36), who also produced it. It was set in
1893 and focused on a cricket match between villagers and colonial
masters over an unjust tax. It was the 1st Indian film to receive an
Oscar nomination on 14 years.
(WSJ, 3/27/02, p.A14)
2001 Arun Shourie was appointed as
India’s minister of disinvestment.
(Econ, 3/13/04, p.68)
2001 In India the children’s
Development Bank was stated by a children’s advocacy group led by Rita
Panicker as a means for street kids in New Delhi in safely save their
money. The idea spread across South Asia and by 2007 some 6,400 boys
and girls in India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal had accounts.
(SSFC, 8/19/07, p.A17)
2001 In India Enron Corp. and
other investors shut down the Dabhol Power project in Maharashtra state
after the state’s electricity authority fell $240 million behind in
payments.
(Econ, 5/1/04, p.66)
2001 A census in India reported
that the Parsi population, also known as Zoroastrians, had declined to
69,601 from 76,382 a decade earlier. Their numbers worldwide were less
than 200,00 with most in India and Iran.
(WSJ, 2/6/06, p.A1)
2001 India changed the name of
Calcutta to Kolkata.
(SSFC, 10/29/06, p.G2)
2001 Fighting in Aceh, Indonesia,
this year killed 60 government soldiers, 94 GAM fighters and some 1,006
civilians.
(SFC, 4/20/02, p.A8)
2001 Indonesia outlawed commercial
logging in Aceh.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.A20)
2001 Ansar al-Islam, blamed for
attacks in Iraq and supported by a network of members in Europe, was
founded in late 2001 in Kurdish part of northern Iraq by Mullah Krekar,
who had lived as refugee in Norway since 1991.
(AP, 1/8/05)
2001 Rome declared the ruins of
the Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary to be a cultural heritage.
(SFC, 11/15/02, p.J1)
2001 In Jamaica some 1300 people
were killed this year.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A17)
2001 Hiroya Masuda, governor of
Japan’s northern Iwate prefecture, sent out a bold new message: “Just
give up.” It was an effort to improve the local quality of life.
(WSJ, 6/30/04, p.A1)
2001 Shuji Nakamura sued his
employer, Japan’s Nichia Corp., for a larger share in the profits from
his invention of the blue LED. He had originally received a 20,000 yen
bonus. In 2004 a court ordered Nichia to pay him 20 billion yen. A deal
in 2005 gave him 840 million yen.
(WSJ, 1/12/05, p.A9)
2001 Vodaphone took control of
J-Phone, Japan’s 3rd largest operator. In 2003 J-Phone was renamed
Vodaphone.
(Econ, 3/11/06, p.56)
2001 Takashi Tokuyama, a Japanese
brewer of sake, patented his inventions of rice extracts for skin care
products. By 2006 sake was being displaced by shochu, a distilled drink
made from barley, rice, or sweet potatoes.
(Econ, 8/5/06, p.55)
2001 Evidence gathered in 2004 by
the UN suggested that North Korea supplied Libya with nearly 2 tons of
uranium in 2001.
(WSJ, 5/24/04, p.A1)
2001 Liechtenstein was removed
from the money-laundering list of the Paris-based Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2001 In Macao the gambling
franchise of tycoon Stanley Ho was scheduled to expire. Half of the
government revenue was derived from gambling. American firms soon
stepped in to build new facilities.
(SFEC, 5/16/99, p.A24)(Econ, 7/29/06, p.40)
2001 A Malaysia bank introduced a
corporate bond that complied with Islamic prohibitions on interest. The
bonds were benchmarked to interest rates, but technically based on
profit sharing, leasing or trading By 2007 the global Islamic
bond market reached an estimated $50 billion in outstanding securities.
(WSJ, 4/4/07, p.A1)
2001 Tony Fernandez (b.1964),
Malaysian entrepreneur, acquired AirAsia and soon re-launched it as a
low-cost domestic carrier with 2 B737 planes purchased from a Malaysian
conglomerate. Ryanair signed on with a 5% stake. By 2009 the company
had 76 planes. By the end of 2004 the low cost airline planned to have
30 planes.
(Econ, 3/13/04, p.63)(Econ, 2/7/09, p.35)(Econ,
3/21/09, p.72)(http://tinyurl.com/cxf3hz)
2001 In Moldova Vladimir Voronin,
a former baker and member of the Communist Party, was elected
president. He stepped down after serving the maximum two terms.
(AP, 5/12/09)
2001 Sam Nujoma, president of
Namibia, authored his 476-page autobiography “Where Others Waivered.”
In 2005 it was made into a film.
(Econ, 5/21/05, p.49)
2001 KaZaA, an internet
file-sharing program, was founded in Amsterdam by Niklas Zennstrom of
Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark. In 2004 they launched Skype software
for internet telephony.
(Econ, 7/3/04, p.54)
2001 In Paraguay Benigna
Leguizamon (17) was allegedly raped by Fernando Lugo, head of diocese
of San Pedro. In 2009 she said Pres. Lugo was the father of her
6-year-old child and told Magnificat radio in Ciudad del Este that she
was a 17-year-old cleaning woman for the diocese of San Pedro at the
time of the initial rape.
(AP, 6/24/09)
2001 Peru moved to create
autonomous regional governments and to give them more revenues. Mayor
Wenceslao Alderete of Huayre, hoping to attract tourists, spent
$158,000 to create an erotic sculpture park in the central plaza. In
2006 the town still lacked paved streets and a sewage system.
(SFC, 11/23/06, p.A33)
2001 Anna Politkovskaya authored
"A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya."
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.M6)
2001 In Russia Tatyana Tolstaya
authored her experimental novel "Kys."
(WSJ, 2/25/02, p.A1)
2001 Reality TV arrived in Russia
in the shape of “Behind the Glass,” created by Grigory Lubomirov.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.72)
2001 Russia slashed taxes by a
third and simplified its tax code.
(Econ, 2/24/07, p.19)
2001 Russia sold Myanmar 10 MiG-29
fighter aircraft for $130 million.
(WSJ, 1/3/02, p.A6)
2001 Alexander Gorlov, a Russian
civil engineer who worked on the Aswan High Dam, won the Edison patent
for his invention of a turbine that could extract power from
free-flowing currents.
(Econ, 3/8/08, TQ p.12)
2001 Samoa’s population was
about 171,000.
(SFCM, 10/14/01, p.19)
2001 In Singapore Joshua "J.B."
Jeyaretnam (74), head of the Workers’ Party, was declared bankrupt
following a late payment for a $13,535 monthly installment owed in a
libel suit.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A11)
2001 In Singapore Jack Sim
founded the World Toilet Organization. In 2007 the World Toilet
Association held its inaugural conference in South Korea.
(SFC, 11/23/07, p.A2)
2001 The new Maria Valeria Bridge
over the Danube reunited Sturovo, Slovakia, with Esztergom, Hungary.
Germans had blown up the old bridge in 1944.
(WSJ, 4/5/05, p.A15)
2001 At Washington’s request the
UN Security Council ordered that the assets of Yassin Qadi, a Saudi
businessman and multimillionaire, be frozen soon after the Sep 11
attacks in NYC. He was alleged to be a financier of Islamic terrorism
with close links to al-Qaida. The EU froze the assets of Yasin al-Qadi,
a Saudi businessman, and the Al-Barakaat International Foundation, a
Sweden-based charity suspected of funding al-Qaida terror groups. In
2008 the EU's highest court overturned the decision saying the order
failed to offer those on a terror blacklist any legal rights to a
judicial review under European law. Also frozen were the assets of Omar
Mohammed Othman, also known as Abu Qatada, an extremist Muslim preacher
from Jordan. In 2009 an EU court voided the freeze on Othman due to
lack of proper judicial review. Othman has lived in Britain since 1993,
has been arrested several times there under anti-terrorist legislation
and currently faced deportation to Jordan.
(WSJ, 8/29/07, p.A1)(AP, 9/3/08)(AP, 6/11/09)
2001 Turkey’s police knocked out
the home-grown Hizbullah, an Islamic terrorist group.
(Econ, 7/19/08, p.36)
2001 Turkmenistan’s Pres. Niyazov
published "Rukhnama" (Spiritual Revival, or Book of the Soul), a book
of his historical and philosophical musings. It became required reading
in schools. A 2nd volume was scheduled for 2004.
(SSFC, 8/11/02, p.A14)(Econ, 7/24/04, p.42)
2001 Boris Shikmuradov,
Turkmenistan former deputy prime minister, defected and began calling
for the overthrow of Pres. Niyazov.
(SFC, 8/28/02, p.A12)
2001 Vietnam and the US signed a
bilateral trade agreement.
(Econ, 6/25/05, p.34)
2001 Worldwide deaths from
earthquakes this year totaled 21,436.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A4)(WSJ, 1/11/02, p.A1)
2001-2002 The US Navy Engineering Logistics Office
issued at least 10 classified contracts to US aviation companies to fly
terror suspects to countries known to practice torture. The CIA also
played a role in the operations.
(SSFC, 9/25/05, A4)
2001-2002 Argentina’s financial crisis during this
period involved institutional breakdown, a huge monetary devaluation,
destruction of the financial system and a default on the public debt.
(Econ, 4/5/08, p.20)
2001-2003 The US Lewis Doctrine, formulated by Prof.
Bernard Lewis, called for seeding democracy in failed Mideast states to
defang terrorism.
(WSJ, 2/3/04, p.A12)
2001-2003 Canadian citizens Abdullah Almalki, Muayyed
Nureddin and Ahmad El Maati were labeled as terrorists and arrested on
separate visits to Syria where they were imprisoned and tortured and
then released without charge. In 2008 a federal inquiry said Canadian
officials indirectly contributed to their torture by wrongly sharing
intelligence information with Syria. The men later sued the Canadian
government demanding apologies, compensation and the removal of their
names from any watch lists.
(SFC, 10/22/08, p.A2)
2001-2003 Cuba ran up an oil debt to Venezuela of
some $752 million.
(WSJ, 2/2/04, p.A1)
2001-2004 US Sen. Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican,
received some $150,000 in donations from Jack Abramoff, his firms and
his clients during this period. On May 23, 2001 Burns voted against a
bill favorable to Abramoff’s clients in the Northern Mariana Islands.
The bill would have phased out a non-resident contract worker program
benefiting the Mariana’s garment industry.
(SFC, 12/7/05, p.A6)
2001-2004 An economic crises caused up to 15% of
Uruguay’s population to leave the country in search of work.
(SSFC, 9/19/04, p.D7)
2001-2005 Some 80 million pinõn trees died in
Arizona and New Mexico due to drought.
(WSJ, 7/31/06, p.A1)
2001-2005 Transparency International ranked
Bangladesh at the bottom of its global corruption index.
(Reuters, 11/24/05)
2001-2005 Property prices in South Africa rose by an
average of 20% a year.
(Econ, 5/6/06, p.46)
2001-2005 Ruud Lubbers (b.1939), former Dutch prime
minister (1982-1994), served as the head of the UNHCR.
(Econ, 9/6/08,
p.67)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Lubbers)
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