Timeline 2002 July - September
Return to home
2002 Jul 1, It
was reported that the Bush administration had designated 33 toxic waste
sites for funding cuts.
(SFC, 7/1/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 1, A US district judge in
NY ruled that the federal death penalty is unconstitutional because it
creates undue risk of executing innocent defendants.
(SFC, 7/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 1, A US federal
magistrate recommended a $73 million penalty against Zimbabwe's ruling
party for allegedly torturing and killing political opponents.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, Tennesseans found
their government in a partial shutdown after lawmakers failed to pass a
balanced budget over the weekend in a stalemate over how to cover an
$800 million deficit.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, Northrup Grumman
agreed to pay $7.8 billion in stock for TRW Corp. [see Feb 22]
(SFC, 7/2/02, p.B1)
2002 Jul 1, In Afghanistan US Air
Force gunship killed 44-48 members of a wedding party in Kakarak,
Uruzgan province, during a major operation to track down Taliban leader
Mullah Mohammad Omar.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)(SFC, 7/2/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/4/02,
p.A9)(AP, 7/1/03)
2002 Jul 1, A Canadian climber who
had scaled Alaska's Mount McKinley alone died after he fell about 1,000
feet (300 meters) while descending from the peak's upper reaches.
(Reuters, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, Chile's Supreme Court
ruled that former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was suffering from
dementia and dropped all charges against him for human rights
violations during his regime.
(AP, 7/1/03)
2002 Jul 1, In the Hague the
world's first permanent war crimes tribunal officially came into
existence. It was vehemently opposed by the United States.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, In southwestern
Hungary a bus carrying Polish pilgrims to a shrine in Bosnia struck a
stone barrier and overturned in a ditch killing 19.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, Indonesian police
fired water cannon at about 500 demonstrators who knocked down the
gates of parliament to protest against a decision by MPs to reject an
inquiry into a graft scandal.
(Reuters, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, Jordan reported that
11 people, including a Palestinian-Jordanian who fled the American
bombing on Osama bin Laden's stronghold in Afghanistan, have been
detained in connection with an alleged plot to attack American targets.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, In Mozambique health
officials reported that at least 62 people have died of cholera in the
northern province of Cabo Delgado since the latest outbreak of the
disease in February.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, In Peru Vladimiro
Montesinos, once one of the country's most feared men, was convicted of
usurping office, the first of more than 70 criminal charges ranging
from arms smuggling to homicide that the ex-spymaster faces.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, Philippine government
forces using bomber planes and helicopters attacked suspected Muslim
rebel positions in the southern Philippines, inflicting an undetermined
number of casualties.
(Reuters, 7/1/02)
2002 Jul 1, Bashkirian flight 2937
with 45 Russian children headed for a beach vacation in Spain were
among 71 people killed when their chartered Tupolev airliner slammed
into a Boeing 757 DHL cargo plane over southern Germany. The flights
were under Swiss air control. An onboard device told the pilot to climb
but he followed a controller’s order to dive instead. In 2007 four
employees of a Swiss air traffic control company were convicted of
negligent homicide for the crash of flight 2937.
(AP, 7/2/02)(SFC, 7/2/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/2/02,
p.A1)(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.A1)(AP, 9/4/07)
2002 Jul 2, A trial court in
Florida ruled that the state's capital sentencing statute in
constitutional.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 2, The Hayman fire in
Colorado was declared under control. It had burned 137,760 acres over
24 days.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 2, Steve Fossett became
the 1st person to fly a balloon solo around the world. On his 6th
attempt he completed the journey in 13 days, 12 hours, 16 minutes and
13 seconds. He departed from Australia Jun 19 and covered an estimated
19,428 miles.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 2, Ray Brown (b.1926),
jazz bassist, died in Indianapolis.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A21)(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.D6)
2002 Jul 2, In Chile the highest
court halted prosecution of dictator Augusto Pinochet ruling that he
was mentally unfit to stand trial for dozens of political killings by
the notorious "Caravan of Death."
(AP, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, East Timor President
Xanana Gusmao and his Indonesian counterpart Megawati Sukarnoputri
opened a new chapter in ties between the world's newest nation and its
former foe, establishing formal diplomatic links and pledging to work
together.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, Malaysia said it had
not reached any new agreements with Singapore on the sale of water to
the island state and other issues after two days of talks.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, Philippine Vice
President Teofisto Guingona resigned as foreign minister, settling but
perhaps not ending a public row with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
over U.S. military exercises in the south of the country.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, A former South African
policeman killed four people and wounded nine during a shooting rampage
in a small town in the Northern Cape province.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, The Tennessee
Legislature passed a 1-cent sales tax increase, the highest in state
history, and ended a partial government shutdown.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A4)
2002 Jul 3, It was reported that
Operation Xtermination, a drug investigation at Camp Lejeune, NC,
seized over $1.4 million in drugs and convicted over 80 marines and
sailors.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 3, Jean-Marie Messier,
the much-maligned chairman of Vivendi Universal, was formally removed
from his post and replaced by Jean-Rene Fourtou of the pharmaceutical
company Aventis.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2002 Jul 3, Over Australia
balloonist Steve Fossett was forced to spend an extra night in the air
as the winds that helped him become the first person to fly solo around
the world bedeviled the final stage of his voyage.
(Reuters, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, Brazil and Mexico
signed a trade agreement that reduced import duties on some 800
products.
(WSJ, 7/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 3, Chinese police found
Wang Bingzhang, a pro-democracy activist and US resident, in Guangxi
Province. He had been recently kidnapped with 2 others in Vietnam.
(SFC, 12/21/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 3, It was reported that
up to 40,000 companies might collapse in Germany this year.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 3, In Georgetown, Guyana,
police opened fire on demonstrators who broke into the presidential
compound, killing two people and wounding six others during a protest
timed to coincide with the start of a Caribbean summit.
(AP, 7/4/02)
2002 Jul 3, An oil tanker was
reported to have run aground in stormy seas on a reef near Fiji's
popular tourist islands, threatening an ecological disaster if the
cargo leaks.
(Reuters, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, In western Mexico 5
people returning from a political rally, among them a 101-year-old man,
were ambushed and shot to death.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, At least 39 people
were killed and more feared dead when landslides caused by Typhoon
Chata'an destroyed houses on the western Pacific island of Chuuk in
Micronesia.
(Reuters, 7/3/02)(WSJ, 7/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 3, In Pakistan security
forces killed 4 al Qaeda fighters near the Afghan border at Germa. 3
security men were killed. A land dispute broke out in Northern
Waziristan near the Afghan border and 21 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A10)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 3, Peru temporarily
suspended programs to eradicate coca fields and encourage farmers to
grow alternative crops, moves that jeopardize U.S.-backed efforts to
fight the cocaine trade.
(AP, 7/3/02)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 3, Swiss authorities said
a collision-warning system was out of service in the Zurich tower when
it took control of a Russian airliner and a cargo jet shortly before
they collided on July 1 at 35,000 feet, killing 71 people, including 45
children headed for an end-of-school beach holiday. One of 2 required
air controllers was on a break.
(AP, 7/3/02)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 3, Turkey's jittery stock
market fell again following reports that officials discussed a
moratorium on the nation's $30 billion foreign debt.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 4, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet
(41), an Egyptian-born 10-year resident of Irvine, opened fire at
Israel’s El Al airline ticket counter in Los Angeles' airport. Victoria
Hen and Yaakov Aminov were killed before Hadayet, born July 4, 1961,
was shot to death by a guard.
(AP, 7/5/02)(Reuters, 7/5/02)(SFC, 7/5/02,
p.A1)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 4, In central Texas
70,000 cubic feet of water gushed down a spillway from Canyon Lake
toward the Guadalupe River for three days, scraping off vegetation and
topsoil and leaving only limestone walls. The mile-and-a-half-long
Canyon Lake Gorge, up to 80 feet deep, was dug out from what had been a
nondescript valley covered in mesquite and oak trees.
(AP, 10/5/07)
2002 Jul 4, A Cessna 310 plane
crashed at Frank G. Bonelli Regional County Park at San Dimas and 3
people were killed.
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A24)
2002 Jul 4, General Benjamin
Oliver Davis, Jr. (b.1912), the first black general in the US Air Force
and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen, died in Washington.
In 1991 he published his autobiography “Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.,
American: An Autobiography.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis,_Jr.)(AP, 7/4/03)
2002 Jul 4, Winnifred Quick Van
Tongerloo (98), one of the four known survivors of the Titanic sinking,
died in East Lansing, Mich.
(AP, 7/4/03)
2002 Jul 4, In Australia Steve
Fossett launched Independence Day celebrations early when his Spirit of
Freedom balloon ended its record-breaking flight around the world.
(AP, 7/4/02)
2002 Jul 4, In Bangui, CAR, a
Boeing 707 cargo plane crashed in a sparsely populated residential area
in this central African capital, killing at least 20 people.
(AP, 7/4/02)(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 4, In Chile Augusto
Pinochet resigned as senator-for-life.
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 4, In China a blast in
the Fuqiang mine in Songshu trapped 39 miners. There was little hope
for survivors.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 4, American warplanes
bombed an Iraqi air defense system after coming under attack from Iraqi
anti-aircraft artillery.
(AP, 7/4/02)
2002 Jul 4, Italian photographer
Angelo Frontoni (76), known for his work with stars such as Sophia
Loren, Brigitte Bardot and Ava Gardner, died in Rome.
(AP, 7/4/02)
2002 Jul 4, A British ship left
Takahama, Japan, with 550 pounds of defective, near weapons-grade
plutonium, for return to its British supplier.
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 4, The Palestinian police
chief Ghazi Jabali decided to resign and run for president following a
controversy over whether Yasser Arafat had tried to oust both him and
security commander Jibril Rajoub.
(Reuters, 7/4/02)(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Jul 4, An explosion shattered
a white Mercedes, killing two people including Jihad Amerin (38), a
Gaza leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Palestinian police said
their initial suspicions were Israeli agents had planted a bomb.
(AP, 7/4/02)(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Jul 4, In Spain AIDS experts
announced a $4.8 billion prevention plan.
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 5, Pres. Bush telephoned
Afghan Pres. Hamid Karzai to express condolences for the deaths of
Afghan civilians killed in a US bombing 4 days earlier that killed 48
civilians.
(AP, 7/5/03)
2002 Jul 5, The Arkansas state
Supreme Court ruled that a law banning sexual relations between people
of the same sex was an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 5, The Medina River near
San Antonio, Texas, overflowed along with the Guadalupe River and
flooding left at least 7 people dead.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 5, Ted Williams (83),
baseball Hall of Famer, died in Florida.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 5, A bomb ripped through
an open-air market in Larba, 15 miles SE of Algiers on Algeria's
independence day, killing 49 people and wounding 36 others.
(AP, 7/5/02)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A6)(AP, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 5, Twenty vehicles piled
up in early morning fog in southeastern Brazil, killing at least 13
people, including a pregnant woman and six police officers.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, Croatian Prime
Minister Ivica Racan resigned in a political maneuver apparently aimed
at forcing a rival party out of his coalition government.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Chechnya rebel
ambushes killed 11 Russian soldiers and police officers.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A7)
2002 Jul 5, In southern Egypt a
minibus and a truck collided head-on, killing all 18 people aboard the
bus.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Guyana the
Caribbean Community trading bloc wrapped up a summit that was marred
early on by violence and admitted Haiti as its 15th member.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, Former Madagascar
President Didier Ratsiraka fled to the Seychelles with his family,
apparently ending more than six months of turmoil in his island nation.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Mexico Katy Jurado
(78), the actress who played a sultry wildcat in some of the top
American films of the 1950s and gained an Academy Award nomination,
died.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Somalia a mutiny
against a prominent faction leader entered a second day, with street
fighting in the city of Baidoa leaving eight militiamen dead and
injuring 25 others, including civilians.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Spain a judge froze
all bank accounts of Batasuna, the radical Basque political party.
(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A18)
2002 Jul 5, The United States has
forgiven all of the remaining $21.3 million in debt owed by the
Tanzanian government, the U.S embassy said.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Turkey 3 police
officers and a suspected Islamic militant were killed in a shootout
during a raid on an apartment in the southeastern Turkish city of
Elazig.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 6, Serena Williams beat
older sister Venus 7-6 (4), 6-3 to win her first Wimbledon title and
second straight Grand Slam tournament.
(AP, 7/6/03)
2002 Jul 6, In Ingleside, Ca.,
police officer Jeremy Morse was caught on video tape beating Donovan
Jackson (16), who was already subdued and handcuffed. Jackson's father,
Coby Chavis, was being investigation for expired registration tags. The
video led to federal involvement in the case. Mitch Crooks (27), the
man who made the tape, was arrested July 11 on an outstanding warrant
for petty theft. Officers Morse and Bijan Darvish were indicted July
17. Morse was dismissed Oct 14.
(SFC, 7/11/02, p.A3)(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A2)(SFC,
7/18/02, p.A1)(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 6, Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan arrived in Baghdad for a two-day visit Saturday to
discuss steps that could be taken to avert a possible U.S. military
campaign against Iraq.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, Former President
Carter launched a Venezuela peace mission sanctioned by leftist
President Hugo Chavez but met with skepticism by many of Chavez's
opponents.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, John Frankenheimer
(72), film director, died in LA.
(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A23)
2002 Jul 6, Gunmen assassinated
Afghan Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir (48) and his driver in broad
daylight in the capital Kabul. Qadir was a prominent Pashtun
businessman and was suspected of being involved in the opium trade.
(Reuters, 7/6/02)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/8/02,
p.A3)
2002 Jul 6, Asian and European
finance ministers meeting in Copenhagen were presented a study that
called for the creation of a currency basket system and ultimately a
single Asian currency. The study was part of the Kobe Research Project,
an initiative launched by ASEM in 2001.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)(http://tinyurl.com/79d6f)
2002 Jul 6, Greek police, assisted
by American and British agents, raided an apartment and found dozens of
anti-tank rockets they believe were stolen from the army in the late
1980s by the elusive November 17 terrorist group.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, Rebels in Indonesia's
troubled Aceh province freed all 18 hostages held since last month,
including crew from a boat carrying supplies to an Exxon Mobil plant.
(Reuters, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, In Indian-ruled
Kashmir 2 soldiers and two separatist rebels were killed in fighting.
(Reuters, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, Residents of the Ivory
Coast voted in local elections seen as a test of whether President
Laurent Gbagbo's government has turned the page on two years of ethnic
and political turbulence.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, In Latvia hopes were
high at a summit of 10 former communist countries aspiring to join
NATO, and many delegates already were looking ahead to the
responsibilities of membership.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, Randi Hindi (44), a
Palestinian woman, and her 2-year-old daughter were shot to death while
riding in a taxi in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians claimed Israeli troops
were responsible. But the Israeli army said its soldiers did not fire
anywhere in the area.
(AP, 7/6/02)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 6, Trinidad and Tobago
announced plans to run an undersea natural gas pipeline throughout the
Caribbean, saying the project would open new markets in the region.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 7, Lleyton Hewitt crushed
David Nalbandian in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, in the Wimbledon
final to win his second Grand Slam title.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2002 Jul 7, Texas Gov. Rick Perry
saw by helicopter the devastation days of torrential rain had brought
to central and southern Texas.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2002 Jul 7, Afghanistan's vice
president, Abdul Qadir, was buried with full military honors one day
after being assassinated.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2002 Jul 7, Nearly two dozen
people were killed and thousands left homeless as torrential monsoon
rains lashed large parts of Asia over the weekend, worsening floods and
triggering fresh storms and landslides. Monsoon flooding killed at
least 11 in Bangladesh.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)(Reuters, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 7, In southern China 13
people were killed when a wall being demolished at a vegetable market
crumbled after heavy rain, burying vendors and workers under a mound of
rubble.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 7, In Hong Kong tens of
thousands of civil servants staged a huge street protest against a
government plan to pass a law that would cut their pay by up to 4.42
percent.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 7, In Indonesia 53 people
burned alive or jumped to their deaths when fire ripped through a
crowded Palembang karaoke bar on Sumatra island but the final death
toll could be double that.
(AP, 7/8/02)(Reuters, 7/9/02)(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 7, In Northern Ireland
Protestant hard-liners battled riot police after being barred from
parading through the main Catholic section of Portadown.
(AP, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 7, The 14th Int'l. AIDS
Conference opened in Barcelona. Estimates said AIDS had claimed 20
million lives to date and threatened 40 million currently infected.
African cases were estimated at 28.5 million.
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A6)
2002 Jul 7, In eastern Ukraine
rescue workers found the bodies of 35 miners killed in one of two fires
over the weekend in mines.
(AP, 7/7/02)(AP, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 8, WorldCom and its
former auditors clashed over responsibility for nearly 4 billion
dollars in accounting improprieties, as WorldCom's former CEO and
finance chief, Scott Sullivan, refused to testify to a House panel
investigating the debacle.
(AP, 7/8/03)
2002 Jul 8, African leaders
gathered in South Africa to form the new African Union and to bid
farewell to the Organization of African Unity (OAU), a much-criticized
regional body formed nearly four decades ago to usher the continent out
of colonialism.
(AP, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 8, In China a gas
explosion at a coal mine killed 44 miners at the Dingsheng mine in
northeastern Heilongjiang province.
(Reuters, 7/9/02)(SFC, 7/9/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 8, Ralph Nader attended a
dinner with Cuban leader Fidel Castro as the consumer advocate began a
three-day visit to the communist nation.
(AP, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 8, Cuban poet and writer
Cintio Vitier was named winner of Mexico's Juan Rulfo Prize for
literature.
(AP, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 8, In the Ivory Coast
local elections meant to close the door on years of turbulence ended
with complaints by angry crowds that they were not allowed to vote.
(AP, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 8, Typhoon Chata'an
headed towards southern Japan after battering the Philippines, where
officials said it had killed 17 people -- including three South Korean
tourists who died when their boat capsized.
(Reuters, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 8, In Nigeria unarmed
women, from the Arutan and Igborodo communities occupied a
Chevron-Texaco oil terminal, preventing 700 workers, including
Americans, Britons, and Canadians, from leaving. Their number soon
reached as many as 2,000.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 8, Peter Friedrich,
Switzerland's ambassador to Luxembourg, was arrested on suspicion of
money laundering.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 8, In southern Thailand a
bomb tore through a parked passenger railway coach injuring a policeman
and a security guard.
(Reuters, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 8, In Turkey 3 ministers
resigned in a growing push for early elections.
(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 9, To the boos of
disappointed fans, the All-Star game in Milwaukee finished in a 7-7 tie
after 11 innings when both teams ran out of pitchers.
(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, Speaking in New York,
President Bush called for doubled prison terms and aggressive policing
to combat fraud and corruption in corporate America.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A1)(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, The US Senate approved
a nuclear waste burial site at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. The
Senate voted to entomb thousands of tons of radioactive waste inside
Yucca Mountain, rejecting the state's fervent protests. Gov. Kenny
Guinn vowed to continue fighting the plan.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A3)(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, The Women's Health
Initiative announced that estrogen-progestin pills, taken by millions
of women as a hormone replacement therapy, do more harm than good.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 9, WWF Int'l. released
its 4th Living Planet Report and said humans are using 20% more natural
resources each year than can be regenerated.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 9, Rod Steiger (77),
actor, died. His films included "On the Waterfront" and "In the Heat of
the Night."
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 9, African leaders in
Durban, SA, launched the African Union, an ambitious new body intended
to pull the beleaguered continent out of poverty and conflict.
(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, Thousands of
unemployed Argentines, university students and labor activists marched
on the presidential palace to protest the government's failure to end
the country's deep economic crisis.
(AP, 7/9/02)
2002 Jul 9, A Palestinian gunman
opened fire on Israeli police officers just outside the walled Old City
of Jerusalem, wounding one, and a passer-by was killed in the ensuing
gunbattle.
(AP, 7/9/02)
2002 Jul 9, Philippine officials
said they had arrested a Filipino Muslim suspected of helping to
procure more than a ton of explosives for al Qaeda-linked Islamic
radicals accused of plotting to bomb U.S. targets in Singapore. A
U.S-trained Philippine soldier and an undetermined number of Muslim
rebels were killed in fierce fighting on southern Jolo island.
(Reuters, 7/9/02)
2002 Jul 9, NATO troops arrested
Radovan Stankovic (33), a former member of an elite Serb paramilitary
unit, for allegedly running a house where women and girls were raped
during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
(AP, 7/9/02)(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 10, A unified US Senate
approved harsh new penalties for corporate fraud and document-shredding
as part of an accounting oversight bill. The House approved, 310-113, a
measure to allow pilots to carry guns in the cockpit to defend their
planes against terrorists. President George W. Bush later signed the
measure into law.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2002 Jul 10, The Dow Jones fell
282 to 8,813.5 and Nasdaq closed down 35 to 1,346.
(SFC, 7/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 10, The first summit of
the African Union ended with lofty promises of a new era of economic
development and good government on a continent plagued by poverty and
oppression.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2002 Jul 10, It was reported that
Britain planned to downgrade marijuana possession to a Class C crime.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 10, In Cyprus a military
helicopter crashed during a nighttime training exercise, killing the
commander of the east Mediterranean island's military and the air force
chief. Two crew members and a navy officer on board were also killed.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2002 Jul 10, Palestinian gunmen
shot and killed an Israeli army lieutenant on patrol in the southern
Gaza Strip, and Israeli troops fatally shot a 19-year-old Palestinian
in the West Bank.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2002 Jul 10, In the Russian Baltic
enclave of Kaliningrad a man was killed when a sign with an offensive
slogan exploded as he tried to remove it from a park.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2002 Jul 10, Two people were
hacked to death and a police station was overrun by armed tribesmen who
stole ballot boxes and freed prisoners in the latest election-related
violence in Papua, New Guinea.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Lawmakers balked at
moving the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency into
a new Homeland Security Department despite pleas from senior Cabinet
officials to stick to President Bush's blueprint. Both agencies did end
up being included in the new department.
(AP, 7/11/03)
2002 Jul 11, US scientists
financed by the Pentagon announced that they had synthesized a virus
from scratch for the 1st time. They built a polio virus relying only on
genetic sequence information publicly available.
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 11, Bernardas Brazdzionis
(95), Lithuanian émigré poet, died in Los Angeles.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A27)
2002 Jul 11, Former Argentina
junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri was arrested for the torture and
execution of leftists during the military dictatorship (1976-1983).
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 11, Lawmakers in Ontario
passed back-to-work legislation to end a two-week strike by Toronto
garbage collectors that covered the country's biggest city in mounds of
rotting waste.
(Reuters, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, In Colombia
authorities confirmed that the mayors of 28 cities and towns resigned
this week after leftist rebels threatened to kill mayors if they didn't
step down.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Typhoon Chata'an left
5 dead in Japan and moved north.
(Reuters, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, President Kim
Dae-jung picked South Korea's first female prime minister and replaced
six other ministers in a reshuffle seen as a bid to boost the
government's image before December presidential polls.
(Reuters, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Three members of the
Lebanese army intelligence service were killed while trying to make
arrests near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, the Lebanese
army said.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Moroccan soldiers
planted a national flag on Perejil Island (parsley in Spanish), 200
yards off the coast near Ceuta. Spain had claimed control since the
17th century. Moroccans called the 0.58-square mile rocky outcrop Leila
(night in Arabic). Spanish troops swiftly dislodged the Moroccans
without a shot being fired. Under a diplomatic resolution, both sides
agreed to leave it as a no man's land.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A20)(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A10)(AP,
11/3/07)
2002 Jul 11, Peru's prime minister
and finance minister said they resigned Thursday as part of a Cabinet
shake-up designed to stem the plummeting popularity of President
Alejandro Toledo's year-old government.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Solomon Islands
police reported that 10 men who went in search of a rebel warlord to
capture him for a bounty payment had all been killed.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Turkey's foreign
minister resigned, dealing a harsh blow to Prime Minister Bulent
Ecevit, who was struggling to stay in power despite ill health and mass
resignations from his party.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, In Venezuela an
estimated 600,000 people marched demanding that Pres. Chavez abandon
the presidency.
(AP, 7/12/02)(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 12, The Bush
administration expected a $165 billion deficit mainly due to a falloff
in tax revenues from stock market capital gains.
(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 12, The US Senate adopted
a ban on personal loans from companies to their top officials, a
practice that had benefited executives from Enron to WorldCom.
(AP, 7/12/03)
2002 Jul 12, The IRS named Bill
Simon, GOP candidate for California state governor, in a case involving
potentially illegal offshore tax shelters. Dozens of other wealthy
investors were also named.
(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 12, In Canada an Ontario
court ruled that refusing legal recognition to gay and lesbian
marriages is unconstitutional.
(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 12, Chinese officials
reported that nearly 1,000 schoolchildren in northeast China were
rushed to hospital after being vaccinated in late June for encephalitis
and two senior officials were arrested and charged with negligence.
(Reuters, 7/12/02)
2002 Jul 12, A Colombia army
spokesman said clashes across Colombia this week left at least 52
rebels and government soldiers dead.
(AP, 7/12/02)
2002 Jul 12, In India's Kashmir
region at least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded, some critically,
in a shootout. Shops and businesses downed shutters in Srinagar, the
summer capital of India's disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir, in
response to a strike call by separatists to honor Kashmiri "martyrs".
(Reuters, 7/13/02)(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 12, In Indonesia a woman
was killed and four men were wounded when a bomb exploded near Poso,
Central Sulawesi.
(Reuters, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 12, In Mexico farmers
desperate to keep their land from being seized for a new Mexico City
airport threatened to kill about a dozen hostages and spark uprisings
across the country.
(AP, 7/12/02)
2002 Jul 12, Palestinian
free-lance photographer Imad Abu Zahra died of a gunshot wound in the
northern West Bank, and a fellow photographer said the shots came from
a machine gun on an Israeli tank July 11. 2 Palestinians were killed in
an exchange of gunfire in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 7/12/02)(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 12, Ismail Cem, Turkey's
former foreign minister, launched a new political party to topple Prime
Minister Bulent Ecevit, who is fighting to stay in power despite poor
health and a mutiny within his Cabinet.
(AP, 7/12/02)
2002 Jul 12, The UN Security
Council agreed to exempt US peacekeepers from war crimes prosecution
for a year, ending a threat to UN peacekeeping operations.
(AP, 7/12/03)
2002 Jul 13, US governors opened
their summer meeting in Boise, Idaho, with high health care costs the
main topic.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2002 Jul 13, Yousuf Karsh (93),
photographer, died in Boston.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2002 Jul 13, A family of 4 were
found stabbed to death in their home near Whittier, Ca. Jasmine Ruiz
(8) was sexually assaulted before being killed. Alfonso Ignacio Morales
(23) was arrested July 15.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A7)(SFC, 7/16/02, p.A4)
2002 Jul 13, A unanimous UN
Security Council vote to exempt American peacekeepers from prosecution
by the new war crimes tribunal for a year ended a U.S. threat to halt
U.N. peacekeeping but angered many court supporters.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, Dominican
lawmakers voted to reform the country's constitution to allow
presidents to serve two consecutive terms in office.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 13, Outside Jammu,
Kashmir, a grenade and gun attack on a Hindu slum that left 27 people
dead, dozens wounded and rekindled fears of war with nuclear neighbor
Pakistan.
(Reuters, 7/14/02)(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 13, It was reported that
Dr. P.V. Rajiv in southern India saved three sick newborn babies using
a cloned version of the anti-impotence drug Viagra. "We saved the
babies by giving sildenafil citrate, also called Viagra," he said. Dr.
Rajiv first gave the drug orally to a baby suffering pulmonary
hypertension, after consulting international journals which reported
its use to treat adults in a similar condition. Blue babies have a
condition that contracts vessels carrying oxygen-rich blood to the
lungs.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, In southern
Iraq 7 civilians were reported injured in U.S. air raids.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 13, Police in northern
Kenya opened fire on protesters outside a U.N. refugee camp, killing
three people.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, Morocco's King
Mohammed VI publicly celebrated his marriage to a 24-year-old computer
engineer during two days of festivities that showed the 38-year-old
king's desire to modernize the monarchy.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, In Mansahra, northern
Pakistan, 9 foreigners and three Pakistanis were hurt when an
unidentified assailant hurled a hand grenade at a tourist party.
(Reuters, 7/13/02)(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A20)
2002 Jul 13, President Alejandro
Toledo declared a state of emergency Saturday in southeast Peru, where
snow and freezing weather has killed at least 18 people in less than
two weeks.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 14, Joaquin Balaguer
(95), who ruled the Dominican Republic for 22 years and dominated his
country's politics for years after leaving office, died.
(AP, 7/14/02)(SFC, 7/15/02, p.B6)
2002 Jul 14, Maxime Brunerie, a
man described as an emotionally disturbed neo-Nazi, tried to
assassinate French President Jacques Chirac. He pulled a rifle from a
guitar case and fired off a shot before being wrestled to the ground
during a Bastille Day parade. Brunerie, sentenced to 10 years, was
released from prison in 2009.
(AP, 7/14/02)(AP, 8/22/09)
2002 Jul 14, Mexican state
officials freed 10 prisoners in hopes of winning freedom for hostages
held by farmers protesting construction of a new Mexico City airport.
(AP, 7/15/02)
2002 Jul 14, A Palestinian man, on
trial for allegedly collaborating with Israel, was killed by
Palestinian militants after an Israeli airstrike disrupted court
proceedings. Israeli aircraft fired missiles and destroyed a building
in the southern Gaza Strip, injuring about 10 Palestinians.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 14, A bus with 52
passengers, mostly Polish students, crashed in western Romania, killing
five people and injuring 26.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 14, A passenger bus
overturned and burst into flames after hitting a cow, killing at least
18 people in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.
(AP, 7/15/02)
2002 Jul 15, The US Senate
voted 97-0 for a bill to crack down on corporate accounting
abuses.
(WSJ, 7/16/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 15, John Walker Lindh
agreed to serve 20 years in prison for fighting in Afghanistan in a
plea bargain with the government. He was sentenced to 20 years in
prison on Oct 4.
(WSJ, 7/16/02, p.A1)(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 15, A federal agency
approved Navy plans for a sonar system to search out enemy submarines
despite potential injury to whales and dolphins.
(SFC, 7/16/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 15, In Stanton, Ca.,
Samantha Runnion (5) was kidnapped. Her body was found the next day in
Riverside county. An autopsy revealed that she had been sexually abused
and died from a crushed abdomen. A sample of DNA was also found under
her fingernail. On July 19 police arrested Alejandro Avila (27),
previously acquitted for child molestation. In 2005 Avila was convicted
of kidnapping, murder and sexual assault. On May 16 a jury called for
the death penalty. He was sentenced to death on July 22.
(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A2)(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A1)(SFC,
4/29/05, p.A4)(SFC, 5/17/05, p.B8)(SFC, 7/23/05,
p.B7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Runnion)
2002 Jul 15, A Canadian National
freight train derailed and caught fire near Allenton, Wisc., and 34 of
107 cars jumped the tracks.
(SFC, 7/16/02, p.A4)
2002 Jul 15, Osama bin Laden is
alive and planning another attack on the United States, said an Arab
journalist with close ties to the militant's associates.
(Reuters, 7/15/02)
2002 Jul 15, Pfizer Corp. agreed
to buy Pharmacia Corp. for stock valued at $60 billion.
(WSJ, 7/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 15, In Mexico farmers
ended their protest of a proposed new airport for Mexico City and
released 19 hostages after the government promised to reconsider
construction terms.
(SFC, 7/16/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 15, In Nigeria women
occupying a ChevronTexaco oil terminal agreed to end their eight-day
siege after the company offered to hire at least 25 villagers and to
build schools, electrical and water systems.
(AP, 7/15/02)
2002 Jul 15, A court in Pakistan
sentenced British-born Islamic militant Sheikh Ahmed Omar Saeed to
death for the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, drawing
a threat of reprisals and calls for Muslims to respond. A Pakistani
judge convicted four Islamic militants in the kidnap-slaying of Wall
Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl.
(Reuters, 7/15/02)(SFC, 7/15/02, p.A1)(AP, 7/15/03)
2002 Jul 15, Nationwide
demonstrations in Paraguay called for the ouster of Pres. Luis Gonzalez
Macchi, who imposed a state of emergency.
(SFC, 7/16/02, p.A4)(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 15, Philippine gunmen
shot dead four supporters of candidates as Filipinos voted in local
community elections after a bloody campaign that left scores of people
dead. The 90 day election campaign left 71 people dead.
(Reuters, 7/15/02)
2002 Jul 16, The body of Samantha
Runnion (5), who had been kidnapped a day earlier from her home in
Stanton, Calif., was found in a heavily forested area about 50 miles
away.
(AP,
7/16/03)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Runnion)
2002 Jul 16, Belgian banks signed
agreements to pay some $54 million to the country's Jewish community
for property lost during the Nazi occupation.
(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 16, In Chechnya
separatist fighters attacked Russian army convoys and checkpoints and 6
people were killed.
(WSJ, 7/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 16, In Ecuador Julia
Butterfly Hill was arrested with 7 other demonstrators in Quito for
protesting a proposed oil pipeline from the Amazon Basin to the port of
Esmeraldas that would run through the Mindo-Nambillo Reserve. Hill was
deported July 18.
(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A12)(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 16, In Ecuador rains
caused a landslide that buried 11 vehicles including a bus with 40
people.
(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A15)
2002 Jul 18, Greek police reported
the capture of Alexandros Giotopoulos (58), the alleged head of the
November 17 terror group. Police also reported confessions from other
members to bombings and assassinations.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 16, In India-controlled
Kashmir a grenade wounded at least 13 people in Anantnag.
(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A7)
2002 Jul 16, The Irish Republican
Army issued an unprecedented apology for hundreds of civilian deaths
over 30 years.
(AP, 7/16/03)
2002 Jul 16, In the West Bank
Palestinian gunmen ambushed a bus at the Emmanuel settlement left 8
Israelis dead.
(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 17, Sen. Charles Grassley
of Iowa reported that some 200 Army personnel had used government
charge cards to get cash to spend at strip clubs near military bases.
Soldiers ran up a $38,000 bill.
(WSJ, 7/18/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A6)
2002 Jul 17, The National Cancer
Institute published a report that linked estrogen used for hormone
replacement to ovarian cancer.
(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 17, In Britain, a one-day
strike by 750,000 municipal employees closed schools, libraries and
recreation centers in their first national walkout in more than two
decades.
(AP, 7/17/03)
2002 Jul 17, In Israel a double
suicide bombing in Tel Aviv killed two foreign workers and one Israeli.
Over 40 people were injured.
(WSJ, 7/18/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A1)(AP, 7/17/07)
2002 Jul 17, In Nigeria hundreds
of unarmed women of the Ijaw tribe seized control of at least 4 more
ChevronTexaco facilities in the Niger Delta.
(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A17)
2002 Jul 17, In Paraguay Pres.
Macchi announced the lifting of a state of emergency following 2 days
of protests over his economic policies.
(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A15)
2002 Jul 17, Spanish troops
reclaimed the island of Perejil off the coast of Morocco, a week after
it was occupied by Moroccan troops.
(WSJ, 7/18/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A17)
2002 Ju 17, Switzerland formally
requested membership to the United Nations.
(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A15)
2002 Jul 18, Accused Sept. 11
conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui tried to plead guilty to charges that
could have brought the death penalty, but a federal judge in
Alexandria, Va., insisted he take time to think about it.
(AP, 7/18/03)
2002 Jul 18, US Army Sec. Thomas
White defended his sale of $12 million in Enron stock before the
company went bust. Records showed that he had made 77 phone calls to
Enron in the 10 months ending Feb 2002.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 18, The California
Supreme Court ruled that the state's marijuana law can help pot smokers
avoid being tried for drug offenses.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 18, It was reported that
drought in western US states was causing the biggest grasshopper
invasion in 50 years. Nebraska was among the hardest hit.
(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A2)
2002 Jul 18, Bob Pittman stepped
down as chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner in a shake-up at the
world's largest media company.
(AP, 7/18/03)
2002 Jul 18, A Canadian Forces
helicopter crashed in a remote region of Labrador, killing two pilots
and injuring two other helicopter personnel.
(Reuters, 7/18/02)
2002 Jul 18, Rebels attacked a
central Colombian town and clashed with police in an hours long battle,
leaving four civilians and four rebels dead and destroying dozens of
houses and government buildings.
(AP, 7/18/02)
2002 Jul 18, In Germany Chancellor
Schroeder fired defense minister Rudolf Scharping for accepting some
$72,000 in payments from a public relations firm.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A18)
2002 Jul 18, Greek police reported
the capture of Alexandros Giotopoulos (58), the alleged head of the
November 17 terror group. Police also reported confessions from members
Christodoulos Xiros and brother Vassilis Xiros to bombings and
assassinations.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 18, In India legislators
elected Abdul Kalam, father of their nuclear missile program, as the
country's 12th president.
(WSJ, 7/19/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 18, In India separatist
guerrillas ambushed a police convoy in Dijungmukh, Assam state, and 7
police officers were killed.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A16)
2002 Jul 18, In Pakistan Anwar
Kenneth (40), a Christian, was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to
death by hanging. He had called Islam a fake religion and said he was
Jesus Christ.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A16)
2002 Jul 18, In western Uganda a
fuel truck and a bus collided, killing more than 60 people in a fiery
explosion near Lutoto.
(AP, 7/19/02)(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A16)
2002 Jul 19, The Dow Jones
industrials dipped below their post-terrorist attack lows in a
390-point sell-off.
(AP, 7/19/03)
2002 Jul 19, Alejandro Avila was
arrested in connection with the slaying of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion
of Stanton, Calif.
(AP, 7/19/03)
2002 Jul 19, ConAgra Beef Co.
began recalling 19 million pounds of beef, manufactured in Greeley,
Colo., over the last 3 months, due to possible E. coli contamination.
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 19, US and British
warplanes destroyed a military communications facility in southern
Iraq. Iraq said the strike killed 5 people including a couple and their
children.
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A11)
2002 Jul 19, Alexander I. Ginzburg
(65), Russian-born poet, died in Paris. In 1959 he created the 1st
samizdat (self-published journal) of the post-Stalin period. He was
flown to the US in 1979 as part of an exchange for Soviet spies.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A27)
2002 Jul 19, Alan Lomax (87),
musicologist and son of folklorist John A. Lomax, died in Safety
Harbor, Fla. His books included the book "The Land Where the Blues
Began."
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A20)
2002 Jul 19, In Australia Evdokia
Petrov (88), former Soviet Union spy, died in Melbourne. She lived
under the name Maria Anna Allyson. Her husband Vladimir Petrov (1991)
was the third secretary at the Soviet embassy in Australia and also
covertly served as a KGB spy. They defected in 1954.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 19, Britain's government
said it would pay $7 million in compensation to more than 220 Kenyans
who say they are victims of unexploded ammunition left behind by
British troops.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In Britain
authorities reported that family doctor Harold Shipman, Britain's worst
serial killer, murdered 215 of his patients in 23 years as a trusted
small-town practitioner. [see Jun, 1998]
(AP, 7/19/02)(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 19, In Bolivia a crowded
bus plunged into a ravine in an Andean road near La Paz, killing 19 and
injuring 15.
(AP, 7/19/02)
2002 Jul 19, In central China a
downpour of giant hailstones, some the size of eggs, killed 15 people
and left hospitals overflowing with head-wound victims.
(Reuters, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In eastern Guatemala
a passenger bus slammed head-on into a semi truck, killing 16 people.
(AP, 7/19/02)
2002 Jul 19, Tens of thousands of
Iranians took to the streets of the capital condemning President Bush
for criticizing their government with calls of "Death to America" and
"Death to Bush."
(AP, 7/19/02)
2002 Jul 19, Israel introduced
collective punishment on the family of Ali Ajouri, following his role
in the July 17 suicide bombing.
(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Jul 19, Italy took steps to
return the prized Axum obelisk to Ethiopia. The 1,700-year-old monument
was hauled off by Italian forces after their 1937 invasion of the
African country.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In Abiteye, Nigeria,
unarmed women occupying at least four ChevronTexaco facilities took two
hostages in a bid to meet with oil executives.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In Saudi Arabia
a passenger bus collided head on with a truck and caught fire outside
the holy city of Mecca, killing 26 people and injuring 24 others.
(AP, 7/21/02)
2002 Jul 20, Omar Bernal, rebel
commander of the 63rd front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia, or FARC, surrendered Saturday to soldiers in southern
Colombia, saying he had lost faith in the decades-old guerrilla
uprising.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 20, In Greece police
arrested two more alleged November 17 terrorists, Iraklis Kostaris and
Costas Karatsolis, both 36-year-old real estate agents. One was
believed to be a hit man in four assassinations including those of a
U.S. Air Force sergeant and a British brigadier.
(AP, 7/21/02)
2002 Jul 20, A car exploded near a
mosque in an Israeli Arab neighborhood of Tel Aviv, killing the driver.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 20, The number of
Japanese who have died after taking diet pills imported from China has
risen to four and 124 have fallen ill, Kyodo news agency reported
quoting a Health Ministry report.
(Reuters, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 20, Refugees in flight
from Liberia's war surged to 200,000, and those reaching safety in
neighboring Guinea spoke of worsening atrocities by President Charles
Taylor's forces: looting, raping, burning and killing trapped
villagers. Jubilant government troops strutted through heavily looted
Tubmanburg after driving away rebel forces who had controlled it for
close to three months.
(AP, 7/20/02)(AP, 7/21/02)
2002 Jul 20, In southeastern
Nigeria unarmed women occupying at least four ChevronTexaco facilities
said they had freed their two hostages in return for a promise from oil
executives to meet with them.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 20, In Nigeria a huge
fire broke out Saturday at ChevronTexaco's main oil terminal, days
after unarmed village women ended a 10-day siege that crippled the oil
giant's local operations.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 20-2002 Jul 22, In
Nigeria dozens of villagers have been killed, many hacked to death, in
three days of clashes between rival political factions battling for
influence in an oil-rich area of the Niger Delta.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 20, In Lima, Peru, 29
people, a lion and a tiger that were part of the show, died in a blaze
started by bartenders who were doing tricks with fire at Utopia, an
unlicensed night club.
(AP, 7/20/03)
2002 Jul 20, In northeastern
Sicily a passenger train derailed and apparently crashed into an
abandoned house, killing at least eight people and injuring some 30
others.
(AP, 7/21/02)
2002 Jul 20, Sudan signed a peace
deal with southern rebels in Kenya.
(WSJ, 7/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 21, WorldCom filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy about a month after disclosing it had inflated
profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting. With $107
billion in assets, it was the largest US bankruptcy ever.
(SFC, 7/22/02, p.A1)(AP, 7/21/03)
2002 Jul 21, In south central
Oregon an 87,000 acre wildfire burned along a mile-long front.
(SFC, 7/22/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 21, Ernie Els won the
British Open in the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history
of the tournament.
(AP, 7/21/03)
2002 Jul 21, In Iraq executions of
15 political dissidents took place in the Abu Gharib prison, west of
Baghdad, and the bodies were buried at night in a mass grave at
al-Karkh cemetery in Baghdad. The Iraqi opposition group Center for
Human Rights reported this Sep 30.
(AP, 9/30/02)
2002 Jul 21, In Israel an
explosion under a moving passenger train near Tel Aviv moderately
injured one Israeli.
(AP, 7/21/02)
2002 Jul 21, In the Philippines 3
people drowned in floods and a landslide buried alive a family of three
as heavy rains pummeled the main island of Luzon, including Manila.
(Reuters, 7/21/02)
2002 Jul 21, In Russia fighting
started when a vendor at the Moscow Orion market opened fire at a group
of wholesale buyers who allegedly refused to pay him for his goods. The
armed vendor was from the Dagestan region in southern Russia, and the
buyers were from the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 21, A methane gas
explosion tore through a Ukrainian coal mine, killing at least six
miners and leaving more than 28 missing.
(AP, 7/21/02)
2002 Jul 22, The Bush
administration said it would not contribute to a UN program that it
contends provides aid to the Chinese government to coerce women in
getting abortions. $34 million was withheld under the 1985 Kemp-Kasten
law.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 22, Gov. Davis signed a
bill for California air regulators to enact measures by 2009 to cut
vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases believed to contribute to global
warming.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 22, North Dakota's Gov.
John Hoeven was headed to Cuba to promote trade of peas, wheat and
other foods to the communist island from his state. It was only the 2nd
visit to Cuba by a sitting American governor in some 40 years.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 22, Factory worker
Alejandro Avila was charged with murder and kidnapping in the abduction
and slaying of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion of Stanton, Calif.
(AP, 7/22/03)
2002 Jul 22, The DJIA fell almost
234 points to 7,785. Nasdaq fell 3% to 1,283.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 22, At least 12 people
have been killed in clashes between rival Afghan factions fighting for
control of the Sheen Dend district in the western province of Herat.
(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Bosnia forensic
experts discovered a mass grave in the northeast that may contain up to
100 bodies of Muslims killed at the end of the country's 1992-95 war.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Brazil assailants
tortured and killed Bartolemeu Morais da Silva (44), a prominent
activist who had been organizing land occupations by the poor in a
southern Amazon state.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22, Congolese and Rwandan
leaders said that they've reached an agreement to end a four-year war
in Congo, a fight that has defied resolution as it drew in eight
African countries and claimed more than two million lives.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Northern Ireland
Gerald Lawlor (19), a Catholic man, was shot to death after a night of
gun attacks left two others wounded in north Belfast. The Ulster
Defense Assoc. claimed responsibility. UDA attackers selected Lawlor
because he was walking through a predominantly Catholic area and
wearing the green-and-white shirt of Glasgow Celtic, a Scottish soccer
club supported exclusively by Catholics in Northern Ireland.
(AP, 7/22/02)(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A6)(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Indian Kashmir 4
suspected separatist rebels were killed in a shootout with troops while
a policeman and a civilian were wounded in separate blasts.
(Reuters, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 22, Israeli troops killed
2 Islamic Jihad members in a clash near the Gush Katif settlement.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 22, Morocco and Spain,
prodded by the US, agreed to leave Perejil Island empty and free of
symbols of sovereignty and planned for future talks on the issue.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 22, Ahmed bin Salman bin
Abdulaziz (43), the genial Saudi prince who dominated racing the last
two years with Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem and 2001 horse of the
year Point Given, died.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22-24, Flooding in
southeastern Venezuela killed 5 people and left as many as 50,000
homeless in Apure state.
(AP, 7/23/02)(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 23, Pres. Bush signed
legislation designating Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear
waste repository.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, In California the
Davis administration and Oracle Corp. agreed to cancel a $95 million DB
software contract.
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A18)
2002 Jul 23, In California a
growing fire in Sequoia Nat'l. Park consumed 48,200 acres in 3 days.
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, The DJIA fell 82 to
7702. The Nasdaq fell 53 to 1229.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.C1)
2002 Jul 23, Leo McKern (82),
Australian actor, died in Bath, England. He played the barrister in the
TV show "Rumpole of the Bailey."
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, Chaim Potok (73),
rabbi and author of novels that included "The Chosen," died at his home
in suburban Philadelphia. "Literature presents you with alternative
mappings of the human experience."
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, William Pierce
(d.2002), white supremacist author of the 1978 "Turner Diaries," died
in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, Maria Adela Gard de
Antokoletz (90), one of the founding members of the Argentine human
rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, died.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, Welsh archbishop
Rowan Williams was chosen to be the 104th archbishop of Canterbury,
spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2002 Jul 23, A frail Pope John
Paul II walked down the steps of his plane instead of using a lift
after arriving in Canada to join thousands of young Catholic pilgrims
for World Youth Day. Tens of thousands of exuberant young Catholics
massed in Toronto to greet the Pope.
(AP, 7/23/02)(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, In Colombia a bomb
exploded in front of a Medellin restaurant where politicians and
journalists traditionally gather, killing a former congressman and
injuring nine other people.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, An Israeli F-16
warplane fired a missile that flattened a Gaza City apartment building,
killing Salah Shehadeh, the leader of Hamas' military wing, and at
least 14 other Palestinians, including nine children. Shehadeh was at
the top of Israel's most wanted list. The dead included Shehadeh’s wife
and 3 kids. In 2009 a Spanish judge began an investigation into seven
current or former Israeli officials over the 2002 bombing.
(AP, 7/23/02)(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/29/09)
2002 Jul 23, In Nepal floods and
landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 11 people
over the last 2 days, bringing to 67 the number of deaths caused by bad
weather over the past two weeks.
(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23-24, In Turkey floods
and lightning caused by summer storms have killed at least 18 people.
Three other people were missing.
(AP, 7/24/02)
2002 Jul 23, In Zimbabwe at least
15 people illegally mining gold were killed when an abandoned mine
shaft in Mhondoro caved in.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 24, The US House voted
420-1 to oust Rep. James Traficant, an Ohio Democrat. On July 30
Traficant was sentenced to 8 years in prison for bribery and
racketeering.
(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A4)(SFC,
9/2/09, p.A6)
2002 Jul 24, John Rigas (78), CEO
of Adelphia Comm. Corp., was arrested with his 2 sons on charges of
that they looted the company of more than $1 billion.
(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 24, The DJIA rose 488 to
8,191 and Nasdaq rose 61 to 1,290.
(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 24, In Pennsylvania 9
coal miners were trapped by a flood 240 feet underground. All 9 were
rescued Jul 27.
(WSJ, 7/26/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 24, In Houston, Texas,
Clara Harris ran over her cheating husband with her Mercedes after
catching him with his mistress. Harris (45) was convicted of murder Feb
13, 2003.
(SFC, 2/15/03, p.A5)
2002 Jul 24, A truck bomb exploded
in San Juan de Rioseco, Colombia, and 2 police officers were killed.
(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A13)
2002 Jul 24, In Congo Hutu rebels
rejected a peace deal that would force them back to Rwanda.
(WSJ, 7/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 24, The European Union
will give an extra $32 million to the U.N. Population Fund to help
replace the U.S. money being withheld because of concerns about
coercive abortions.
(AP, 7/24/02)
2002 Jul 24, Indonesian
prosecutors demanded that parliament speaker Akbar Tandjung be jailed
for four years over the alleged misuse of $4 million in a politically
sensitive graft scandal.
(Reuters, 7/24/02)
2002 Jul 24, In Russia PM Mikhail
Kasyanov ordered all businesses to adopt international accounting
standards by 2004.
(WSJ, 7/25/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 24, In northern Uganda a
group of Lord's Resistance Army rebels entered Muchwini, 285 miles
north of Kampala, and killed at least 42 people.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 24, The UN voted 35-8 on
a plan to enforce a convention on torture that called for independent
visits to prisons. The US failed to block the vote.
(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A10)(WSJ, 7/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 25, Encouraged by a tinny
tapping sound coming up from the depths, rescuers in Somerset, Pa.,
brought in a huge drill in a race to save nine coal miners trapped 240
feet underground by a flooded shaft.
(AP, 7/25/03)
2002 Jul 25, Zacarias Moussaoui
declared he was guilty of conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks, then
dramatically withdrew his plea at his arraignment in Alexandria, Va.
(AP, 7/25/03)
2002 Jul 25, In Canada Pope John
Paul made his first appearance at a Catholic youth festival before as
many as 200,000 young faithful eager to welcome the aging Pontiff with
prayer and song.
(Reuters, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, Chinese police have
formally arrested Liu Xiaoqing, one of the country's most famous film
stars and 2-time winner of the prestigious Hundred Flowers Best Actress
award, on suspicion of large-scale tax evasion. Liu was queen of
Chinese cinema in the 1980s and is best remembered for playing Qing
Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi in the film "The Reign Behind the Curtain."
(Reuters, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, Some 5,000 women
gathered from all over Colombia, traveling hours by bus, all with one
message: They wanted an end to 38 years of civil war.
(AP, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, Israeli police said
an Israeli policeman has been arrested on suspicion of selling
ammunition to Palestinians, raising to ten the number of suspects
detained in the case.
(AP, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, Torrential monsoon
rains and overflowing rivers worsened flooding in eastern India, Nepal
and Bangladesh and officials said 270 people have died and more than
six million people have been left homeless during the last 5 days.
(Reuters, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 25, Hundreds of Nigerian
women left ChevronTexaco pumping stations in canoes and on foot
following an agreement with company executives.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 25, Palestinian gunmen
shot dead a Jewish rabbi settler in what militants called the first
response to an Israeli air strike that killed 15 Palestinians including
a top militant.
(Reuters, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, In Russia Pres. Putin
signed into law a bill that allowed the sale of farmland, but not to
foreigners.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A17)
2002 Jul 25, The Spanish
government welcomed a British proposal to turn its military base in
Gibraltar into a NATO facility, a move that would open it to all
alliance members including Spain. Spain and Britain came up with the
idea of sharing sovereignty over the Rock. This was rejected
resoundingly in a nonbinding referendum in Gibraltar.
(AP, 7/25/02)(AP, 9/19/06)
2002 Jul 25, In Vietnam the
National Assembly approved a 2nd term for PM Phan Van Khai (68).
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A17)
2002 Jul 26, The US Republican-led
House voted, 295 to 132, to create an enormous Homeland Security
Department, the biggest government reorganization in decades.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2002 Jul 25, Cassandra Williamson
(6) vanished from a suburban St. Louis home; her body was found hours
later at an abandoned glass factory. Johnny Johnson (24), an
acquaintance of Cassandra's father who had spent the night at the house
was later indicted for murder.
(SFC, 7/27/02, p.A3)(AP, 7/26/03)
2002 Jul 26, The SF-based Texas
Pacific Group agreed to buy Burger King from Diageo PLC for $2.26
billion.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.B1)
2002 Jul 26, Hershey Foods in
Hershey, Pa., announced that it would put itself up for sale under
directions by the Hershey Trust Co.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.B3)
2002 Jul 26, In Argentina an new
Evita Museum opened in Buenos Aires on the 50-year anniversary of her
death.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A16)
2002 Jul 26, In Brazil the new
$1.4 billion Amazon Radar Surveillance (SIVAM), developed by Raytheon,
was unveiled. It was to be used to curb crime and gather economic data.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A16)
2002 Jul 26, The Burundian army
claimed it has killed at least 500 Hutu rebels during fighting over the
last two weeks, while suffering only 15 losses.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, It was reported that
the regional Chinese governments of Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan had
agreed to develop an area to be called "The China Shangri-La Ecological
Tourist Zone" across 50 counties next to Meili Snow Mountain.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A15)
2002 Jul 26, In Guayaquil,
Ecuador, South American presidents gathered for a 2nd region-wide
summit in the face of political instability and economic turmoil.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, Indian Vice President
Krishan Kant, 75, died of a heart attack.
(Reuters, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 26, An Indonesian court
sentenced former President Suharto's son Tommy to a total of 15 years
in jail for paying a hitman to kill a Supreme Court judge and other
offences.
(Reuters, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, In Indonesia
bomb-like explosions hit the troubled city of Ambon, injuring 51
people, 10 of them seriously.
(Reuters, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 26, Israel sent tanks and
troops into Gaza City. Troops fatally shot a Palestinian man as he
stood in his kitchen in Qalqilya. Palestinian security officials said
Israeli soldiers were firing live ammunition as they searched houses,
and that the man had been hit in the head.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, Liberian attackers
crossed into eastern Sierra Leone and abducted 18 villagers, in the
second such raid in just over a week.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, Jose Juan Palafox, a
regional director of Mexico's main intelligence agency was slain in the
border city of Tijuana, the 11th person killed this week in what
authorities say is an escalating drug war.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 26, Palestinian gunmen
waiting in ambush fired on two passing Israeli cars near a Jewish
settlement in the southern West Bank, killing four people and injuring
two children before fleeing.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, In Peru 2 buses
collided on a slick highway on the coast and another bus slammed into
them, killing at least 12 people and injuring 37.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 27, John Ruiz retained
the WBA heavyweight title in Las Vegas after his opponent, Kirk
Johnson, was disqualified for hitting low blows.
(AP, 7/27/03)
2002 Jul 27, Five US soldiers were
wounded during a joint recon patrol east of Khost. 2 allied Afghan
militiamen were killed. On Aug 7 Sgt. Christopher James Speer (28) of
Albuquerque died from his wounds. Omar Khadr (15) was arrested for
throwing the grenade that mortally wounded Speer and sent to
Guantanamo. Khadr was born in Canada to a family with deep ties to
al-Qaida. In 2007 a military judge dismissed charges against Khadr.
(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A6)(SSFC, 6/3/07, p.A4)(AP, 6/4/07)
2002 Jul 27, Nearly 60 false
killer whales stranded on an Australian beach died or were euthanize
after failed attempts to return them to the water.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, In Austria a hand
grenade exploded in the X-Large Disco makeshift discotheque in Linz,
frequented by young Serbian and Croatian immigrants, wounding 27
teenage revelers.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, In Iran a hard-line
court outlawed the leading reform-minded opposition party, the Freedom
Movement, and gave its leaders jail terms of up to 10 years and fines
of more than $6,000. The court said Freedom Movement leaders acted
against national security with the intention of "overthrowing the
establishment."
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, New Zealanders gave
Prime Minister Helen Clark a historic second term after she called
early elections to capitalize on a strong economy that pulled the
country through the global slump largely untouched.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, In Pakistan a court
sentenced Wajihul Hassan (27) to death for making derogatory comments
about the prophet Mohammed and Islam.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 27, South American
leaders ended a two-day summit with an agreement to strengthen
cooperation to better negotiate with the United States a free-trade
zone for the hemisphere. In a document called the "Guayaquil
Consensus," the 10 presidents said it was important to fortify
cooperation between the region's two major trade blocs (Mercosur, made
up of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, with Chile and Bolivia
as associated members, and the Andean pact, composed of Venezuela,
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia) to permit South America to proceed
successfully with negotiations for a hemispheric-wide free-trade zone.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, In Lviv, Ukraine, a
fighter jet slammed onto the tarmac and sliced through a crowd watching
an air show, killing 85 people and injured 116.
(AP, 7/28/02)(WSJ, 8/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 28, Aircraft from
U.S.-British air patrols over southern Iraq bombed an Iraqi
communications site, the sixth strike this month in retaliation for
what the Pentagon says were hostile actions by Iraq.
(AP, 7/29/02)
2002 Jul 28, Cycling champion
Lance Armstrong won his fourth straight Tour de France.
(AP, 7/28/03)
2002 Jul 28, In Somerset,
Pennsylvania 9 coal miners, trapped July 24 by a flood 240 feet
underground, were rescued after 77 hours underground in the Quecreek
Mine.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A1)(AP, 7/28/03)
2002 Jul 28, Police in Dallas
found 2 bodies in a tractor trailer from which some 40 suspected
illegal immigrants had escaped earlier.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 28, In Algeria Rachid
Abou Tourab, the head of a violent Islamic group believed to have
killed scores of civilians during a decade-long rebellion, was killed
with 15 associates in a confrontation with government troops.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 28, In Canada Pope John
Paul ended the celebrations of World Youth Day for 800,000 people in
Toronto's massive Downsview Park. Speaking publicly on the church abuse
scandal for the first time, Pope John Paul II told young Catholics that
sexual abuse of children by priests "fills us all with a deep sense of
sadness and shame."
(Reuters, 7/29/02)(AP, 7/28/03)
2002 Jul 28, Myanmar's military
government released 32 political prisoners, among them 14 members of
the opposition, ahead of the visit next month of top U.N. envoy Razali
Ismail.
(AP, 7/28/02)
2002 Jul 28, Jewish settlers went
on a rampage as they returned home from the funeral of an Israeli
soldier, shooting dead a 14-year-old girl and wounding several other
Palestinians.
(AP, 7/28/02)(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 28, Torrential overnight
rains set off more floods in eastern India as the death toll from
floods in India, Nepal and Bangladesh passed 300.
(Reuters, 7/28/02)
2002 Jul 28, A Russian Il-86
cargo plane crashed into a forest shortly after taking off from
Moscow's Sheremetyevo-1 airport, killing 14 people. There were two
survivors, officials said.
(AP, 7/28/02)
2002 Jul 28, Serbs and ethnic
Albanians voted for new, power-sharing local governments in a tense
region near Kosovo.
(AP, 7/28/02)
2002 Jul 29, The Capitol Limited
Amtrak train derailed outside Washington DC and over 100 people were
injured.
(SFC, 7/30/02, p.A4)(AP, 7/29/03)
2002 Jul 29, The DJIA rose 447
points to 8,711. It was the 3rd largest point gain in Dow history.
Nasdaq rose 73 to 1,335.
(SFC, 7/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 29, On a mission to stamp
out Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia, U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell held talks with Thai leaders, who deny their country is facing a
Muslim insurgency.
(Reuters, 7/29/02)
2002 Jul 29, Charles Wysocki (73),
popular painter of early Americana, died in southern California.
(SFC, 8/6/02, p.A20)
2002 Jul 29, In Afghanistan, a man
identified by authorities as a would-be suicide bomber with more than a
half-ton of explosives in his car was stopped by a chance traffic
accident just 300 yards from the U.S. Embassy.
(AP, 7/29/03)
2002 Jul 29, In Canada at least 23
young Cubans from a group who traveled to see Pope John Paul II decided
not to return to the communist-ruled island.
(Reuters, 7/29/02)
2002 Jul 29, In Colombia a small
bomb exploded outside a hardware store in downtown Bogota, killing a
17-year-old girl and injuring 10 other people.
(AP, 7/29/02)
2002 Jul 29, Pope John Paul II
arrived in Guatemala. Thousands of young people packed into a soccer
stadium and spent the night waving candles and chanting "John Paul II,
Guatemala loves you.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 29, The United Nations
indefinitely suspended aid operations in Chechnya after the kidnapping
last week of a Russian aid worker in the breakaway republic.
(AP, 7/29/02)
2002 Jul 29, In Nigeria
presidential bodyguards opened fire on young men who were throwing
stones near the rear of Obasanjo's mile-long motorcade. Some people
were seen falling with multiple gunshot wounds, and at least six limp
bodies were seen being hauled away.
(AP, 7/29/02)
2002 Jul 29, Thousands of
Palestinians defied the Israeli army's around-the-clock curfew for the
second straight day, and took to the streets of Nablus as shops and
banks opened to accommodate them.
(AP, 7/29/02)
2002 Jul 29, Serbia's ruling
coalition moved to oust all 45 members of Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica's party from parliament, the latest threat to Yugoslavia's
political stability.
(AP, 7/29/02)
2002 Jul 29, Sudanese
government-backed forces killed a foreign aid worker and abducted three
others in an oil-rich area of Sudan. A rebel leader said the government
killed some 1,000 civilians in a separate attack in the same region.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 30, WNBA player Lisa
Leslie became the first woman to dunk in a professional game on a
breakaway in the first half of the Los Angeles Sparks' 82-73 loss to
the Miami Sol.
(AP, 7/30/03)
2002 Jul 30, President Bush signed
into law the most far-reaching government crackdown on business fraud
since the Depression. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, named after sponsors Paul
Sarbanes and Mike Oxley, was signed into law in response to corporate
scandals. Its rules included the independence of corporate directors
requirements for better internal monitoring. The law curbed stock
option backdating by requiring prompt reporting of stock option grants.
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCOAB) was established
as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In 2006 the Free Enterprise Fund
filed a suit claiming that the PCOAB is unconstitutional.
(AP, 7/30/03)(WSJ, 7/22/03, p.B1)(Econ, 2/18/06,
p.70)(WSJ, 12/27/06, p.A6)
2002 Jul 30, Expelled from
Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant Ohio Democrat James A.
Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption
and made it clear he intended to run for re-election from his prison
cell — and expected to win. He didn't. Traficant was released from
prison in Rochester, Minnesota, on Sep 2, 2009.
(AP, 7/30/03)(SFC, 9/3/09, p.A6)
2002 Jul 30, At Cape Cod, Mass. 46
pilot whales beached themselves a 2nd time one day after rescuers
managed to return most of a pod back to sea. All the animals died.
(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 30, In Brazil the real
fell 3.3% to 3.3 to the dollar, its 7th consecutive record low.
(WSJ, 7/31/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 30, The leaders of Congo
and Rwanda signed a peace agreement, proclaiming it a key step in
efforts to end a war that has embroiled six African nations and left
2.5 million people dead.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 30, In Egypt a military
court convicted 16 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group,
mostly academics and professionals, on charges of conspiring against
the government and sentenced them to up to five years in prison.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 30, In Guatemala City
Pope John Paul II canonized his 463rd saint, Pedro de San Jose
Betancur, a 17th century Spanish missionary and Central America's first
saint.
(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A2)(AP, 7/30/07)
2002 Jul 30, Rome decided to have
the coins collected from the Trevi fountain every day and not just on
Mondays. The next day Roberto Cercelletta (50), a self-described
unemployed Roman resident, self-inflicted razor cuts on his stomach in
a protest and asked if the money collected has really gone to the
Catholic charity Caritas in past years.
(AP, 7/31/02)
2002 Jul 30, Pope John Paul II
began a three-day visit to Mexico to canonize Juan Diego, the first
Indian saint. He arrived from Guatemala to a greeting by President
Vicente Fox and tens of thousands of people lining Mexico City's
streets.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 30, In the Philippines
some 2,000 leftist protestors slammed a U.S.-led anti-terror exercise,
ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell for talks on
combating terrorism.
(Reuters, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 30, A Palestinian suicide
bomber blew himself up at a central Jerusalem fast-food stand popular
with police, wounding four Israelis. In the West Bank, gunmen killed
two Israeli settlers who had entered a Palestinian village.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 31, The US Senate
rejected a Medicare drug-benefit bill but passed a bill to speed
generic drugs to market.
(WSJ, 8/1/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 31, US court papers
alleged that Russia's Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov (53) used his influence
with members of the Russian and French skating federations to fix the
outcome of the pairs and ice dancing competitions at the Salt Lake City
Winter Olympics last February. Tokhtakhounov was arrested in Italy.
Italy’s highest court denounced an extradition bid and freed
Tokhtakhounov.
(Reuters, 7/31/02)(SFC, 8/1/02,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimzhan_Tokhtakhounov)
2002 Jul 31, In Chicago a mob beat
Anthony Stuckey (49) and Jack Moore (62) to death after their van
veered into over a curb and injured 3 women on the South Side. One
woman later died from her injuries. On August 3, seven people were
charged with 1st degree murder. In 2003 Antonio Fort (16) was cleared
of 34 charges, including first-degree murder. Fort had been charged as
an adult.
(SFC, 8/1/02, p.A3)(SSFC, 8/4/02,
p.A13)(http://tinyurl.com/59zyfm)
2002 Jul 31, In Brunei U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell met his North Korean counterpart for an
informal chat, as easing inter-Korean tensions stole the spotlight at
an Asia-Pacific security forum.
(Reuters, 7/31/02)
2002 Jul 31, Southeast Asian
nations signed an anti-terror pact on with U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell ahead of his visit to Indonesia.
(AP, 8/1/02)
2002 Jul 31, In Israel a bomb
exploded in a crowded cafeteria at Hebrew University during lunchtime,
killing 9 people including 5 Americans and wounding more than 70. Hamas
claimed responsibility. The dead included a peace activist named Dafna,
who was a close friend of Israeli novelist Avraham Yehoshua. His novel
“A Woman in Israel,” translated to English in 2006, was dedicated to
Dafna.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A1)(AP, 7/31/03)(Econ, 8/5/06, p.73)
2002 Jul 31, An Israeli man, his
hands and feet bound, was found shot and killed in his factory office
near the West Bank town of Tulkarem.
(AP, 8/1/02)
2002 Jul 31, In Lebanon a
disgruntled Education Ministry employee opened fire at colleagues at a
ministry office in Beirut, killing eight people and wounding five
before he was apprehended by police.
(AP, 7/31/02)
2002 Jul 31, Thousands of illegal
immigrants headed for Malaysia's ports to meet a midnight deadline for
them to leave the country or risk a caning.
(Reuters, 7/31/02)
2002 Jul 31, Pope John Paul II
canonized Juan Diego, an Indian peasant to whom church tradition says
the Virgin Mary appeared 500 years ago, in a ceremony in Mexico that
drew more than 1 million believers into the streets.
(AP, 8/1/02)
2002 Jul 31, In Mexico 6 masked
gunmen kidnapped a federal congressman from a town in the Pacific coast
state of Guerrero.
(AP, 8/1/02)
2002 Jul 31, In eastern
Niger disgruntled soldiers began a mutiny in N'gourti to protest months
of unpaid salaries, seizing senior officials in the region and taking
control of a radio station.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Jul 31, South Korean
lawmakers vetoed the country's first female prime minister, dealing a
blow to President Kim Dae-jung, who had nominated her to boost his
beleaguered government's image in an election year.
(Reuters, 7/31/02)
2002 Jul 31, Sudanese rebels
claimed that government troops using bombers and helicopter gunships
attacked areas of a town in Sudan's oil-producing Western Upper Nile
Province.
(AP, 7/31/02)
2002 Jul 31, Uruguay prepared to
keep banks closed for a second day in an attempt to stanch the flow of
capital in the midst of a growing financial crisis.
(AP, 7/31/02)
2002 Jul 31, In Ukraine a coal
mine blast killed 19 miners, 3,557 underground.
(SFC, 8/1/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul, Moon rocks stolen from a
NASA safe were recovered at a hotel in Orlando, Fl. 4 men were later
convicted and sentenced to prison terms.
(USAT, 10/30/03, p.7A)
2002 Jul, Alexander Downer,
Australia’s foreign minister, accused Saddam Hussein of developing
weapons of mass destruction. Iraq soon after announced that it would
cut its wheat purchases from Australia. Directors of AWB, Australia's
wheat exporter, flew to Iraq and struck a new deal for wheat shipments.
(Econ, 1/28/06, p.42)
2002 Jul, Customs inspectors in
Belgium noted irregularities in medical shipments from Senegal. It was
determined that some 3 million doses of Glaxo HIV drugs worth $18
million had been diverted from Africa back to Europe for sale.
(SFC, 10/3/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul, A German police
investigation linked Muhammad Sultan to an alleged terror-attack plan.
(WSJ, 1/31/06, p.A6)
2002 Jul, Government-endorsed
cooperative banks collapsed across Haiti, losing the life savings of
thousands, amid allegations the accounts were used to launder drug
money. Violent protests ensue and more Haitians try to reach U.S.
shores.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2002 Jul, North Korea introduced
some economic reforms that included the withdrawal of state subsidies
to state-owned enterprises and the legalization of farmers’ markets.
(Econ, 3/13/04, p.41)
2002 Jul, Minatom, Russia's atomic
energy agency, announced a 10-year, $10-billion plan to build 5 more
reactors in Iran.
(SSFC, 9/1/02, p.A1,17)
2002 Aug 1, The United States and
a bloc of Southeast Asian nations signed a sweeping anti-terrorism
treaty.
(AP, 8/1/03)
2002 Aug 1, Two former WorldCom
executives were arrested on charges of falsifying the books at the
now-bankrupt long-distance company. David Myers, controller, was
charged with securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud
and false filings.
(AP, 8/1/03)(WSJ, 3/24/05, p.A1)
2002 Aug 1, In California 2 girls
(one 16 and Jacqueline Marris, 17) were rescued in Kern County 12 hours
after being kidnapped and raped near Lancaster by Roy Ratliff (37).
Police shot Ratliff dead. Police credited the new Amber alert system,
named after a Texas girl abducted and killed in 1996.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A1,8)(SFC, 8/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Aug 1, In NYC the alleged
ringleader of a massive identity theft operation was indicted along
with 3 associates.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 1, In Atlanta, Georgia, a
35,000 pound billboard collapsed at a suburban shopping center and 3
construction workers were killed.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 1, In Colombia a
helicopter crashed while on an army medical evacuation mission in a
rebel zone killing six people. Also a 14-year-old girl died and five
other people were wounded when suspected rebels threw a grenade at a
bakery in the village of Venecia, 40 miles south of Bogota.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 1, In Ghana the
government raised the cost of electricity by 60%.
(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.D6)
2002 Aug 1, In Iran the Education
Ministry relaxed dress codes for girls in all-female schools for the
1st time in 23 years.
(SFC, 8/3/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 1, Opponents of Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein shot and wounded his younger son, Qusai (35), in
an assassination attempt in Baghdad. The Iraqi National Congress
opposition group reported the event 2 weeks later.
(AP, 8/14/02)
2002 Aug 1, In Northern Ireland a
Protestant construction worker was killed with a booby-trap bomb.
Police blamed the IRA.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A17)
2002 Aug 1, In Mexico Pope John
Paul II beatified Juan Bautista and Jacinto de los Angeles (d.1700) as
part of a trip reaching out to Indians across the Americas, who have
been increasingly converting to rival Protestant faiths. Beatification
is a necessary step on the path to sainthood. Bautista and Angeles had
informed Spanish authorities of an Indian religious rite and were
killed by fellow Indians. Christian officials in response decapitated
and quartered 15 men and staked their body parts by the roadside as a
warning.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Aug 1, In Mexico the
government decided to yield to protests by machete-wielding farmers and
radicals and cancelled plans to build a new international airport on
the eastern outskirts of Mexico City.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 2, A federal judge ruled
the U.S. government had to reveal the names of people detained in the
investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; an appeals court later
sided with federal authorities.
(AP, 8/2/03)
2002 Aug 2, In Louisiana Gov. Mike
Foster declared a state of emergency after West Nile virus killed 4
residents and infected another 58.
(SFC, 8/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Aug 2, The Angolan government
and UNITA rebels declared the official end to their nearly three-decade
old civil war.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 2, Australia and Malaysia
signed a counter-terrorism pact which pledged them to work together to
fight suspected Islamic militants in the region.
(Reuters, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 2, In Greece a cache of
weapons, including automatic rifles, was stolen from a military armory
after thieves tunneled through a wall.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2002 Aug 2, In Gonaives, Haiti,
gunmen broke through the wall of a prison, freeing Amiot Metayer,
a former presidential supporter and head of the Cannibal Army, a
militant communal group. 159 of 221 inmates escaped.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2002 Aug 2, Facing an increasing
possibility of U.S. military action, Iraq gave the first solid
indication in nearly four years that it will allow U.N. weapons
inspectors to return and invited the chief inspector to Baghdad for
talks.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 2, The Israeli army blew
up two buildings with explosives labs and arrested at least 50
Palestinians in house to house searches as troops took control of
Nablus, a city Israel called "the main factory of suicide bombings."
Israelis killed 3 people in Nablus and 3 Palestinians in Gaza including
a woman (85) and a girl (9).
(AP, 8/2/02)(SFC, 8/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 2, A government plan to
buy Swaziland's King Mswati III a $250 million luxury jet, a price five
times the nation's national deficit, drew protests in this South
African nation, which has been plagued by severe food shortages.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 2, In Uruguay the
government sent thousands of police to guard shopping districts, a day
after looters hit stores and supermarkets as the national economic
crisis deepened.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 2, Pope John Paul II
returned to Rome after ending an 11-day pilgrimage to Canada, Guatemala
and Mexico.
(AP, 8/2/03)
2002 Aug 2, In Venezuela gunmen
with high-caliber weapons ambushed a police patrol in a Caracas slum,
wounding at least five people and raising tensions ahead of a Supreme
Court ruling on alleged coup leaders.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 3, The American
Service-Members' Protection Act (ASPA), a United States federal law
introduced by US Senator Jesse Helms as an amendment to the National
Defense Authorization Act, was passed by Congress. The stated purpose
of the amendment was "to protect United States military personnel and
other elected and appointed officials of the United States government
against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to
which the United States is not party." It became known as the “Hague
invasion act.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Servicemembers%27_Protection_Act)(Econ,
3/7/09, p.67)
2002 Aug 3, Barbara Jean Laney
(67), former model and actress (TV’s Sky King), was beaten, strangled
and stabbed to death at her Bradenton, Florida, condo. In 2006 Gary
Michael Cloud (49) was sentenced to life in prison for her murder.
(SSFC, 7/30/06, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/hosx8)
2002 Aug 3, In Indonesia some
5,000 Muslims marched peacefully through Jakarta, calling for the
nationwide imposition of Shariah, or Islamic law, to rescue the country
from its many ills.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2002 Aug 3, In Londonderry,
Northern Ireland, Catholic mail carriers went on strike, over fears
they could be targeted in revenge for the latest killing of a local
Protestant. Chris Whitson (20), a Catholic, was pummeled outside of
Kelly's nightclub in Belfast. He died Aug 13.
(AP, 8/3/02)(AP, 8/13/02)
2002 Aug 3, North and South Korea
opened a fresh round of talks amid moves by the communist North to
improve ties with the United States and Japan and revitalize its
faltering economy.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2002 Aug 3, In Nigeria amid
political wrangling and fears of violence, President Olusegun Obasanjo
said nationwide municipal elections would be postponed for the second
time in six months.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2002 Aug 3, Philippine troops
captured seven suspected members of the Muslim Abu Sayyaf guerrilla
group said to be linked to al Qaeda.
(AP, 8/4/02)
2002 Aug 3, Taiwanese President
Chen Shui-bian declared in a speech that Taiwan was "not someone else's
province" but rather an independent country separate from China. Chen's
comments sparked an uproar both in China and at home, prompting him to
back away from his pointed rhetoric.
(AP, 8/3/03)
2002 Aug 3, Turkey's parliament
approved a reform package aimed at boosting its chances of joining the
European Union by abolishing the death penalty and granting greater
rights to the nation's Kurds.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2002 Aug 4, US Treasury Sec. Paul
O'Neill arrived in Uruguay and announced a $1.5 billion temporary loan
to stabilize the financial crises.
(SFC, 8/5/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 4, It was reported that
low-grade inflammation is worse for human health than high cholesterol
levels. Increases of C-reactive protein from the inflammation could
trigger the release of lumps of plaque and cause arterial clots leading
to heart attacks. Associated factors included high blood pressure,
smoking and chronic gum disease.
(SSFC, 8/4/02, p.A9)
2002 Aug 4, In Dallas, Tx., a man,
woman and 3 children were shot to death. The woman's husband was taken
into custody.
(SFC, 8/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 4, In Bolivia Gonzalo
Sanchez de Lozada (72), a wealthy businessman who grew up in the United
States and former president (1882-1997), was voted by Congress (84-43)
to the presidency for a second time.
(AP, 8/5/02)
2002 Aug 4, Britain's Queen
Elizabeth closed Manchester's hugely successful Commonwealth Games
after 11 days of sport and ceremony.
(Reuters, 8/4/02)
2002 Aug 4, Holly Wells and
Jessica Chapman vanished while walking near their homes in Soham, 12
miles northeast of Cambridge, England. [see Aug 16] On August 17, 2002
a game warden found their partially burned bodies in a six-foot-deep
ditch close to the RAF Lakenheath airbase in Suffolk.
(AP,
8/9/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Huntley)
2002 Aug 4, India's federal
government planned to distribute 7.142 billion rupees ($147 million) to
12 states to tackle problems arising out of a failed monsoon. Much of
India was facing the worst drought in a decade due to erratic monsoon
rains. An outbreak of encephalitis in India's remote northeastern state
of Assam rose to 100 on Sunday, as heavy monsoon rains wreaked havoc in
large parts of the region.
(Reuters, 8/4/02)
2002 Aug 4, In northern Israel a
Palestinian suicide bomber blew apart a bus during rush hour, killing
at least nine people, wounding dozens. 3 more people died in a gun
battle outside the Damascus Gate. 7 Arabs with Israeli citizenship were
later arrested for assisting the bomber.
(AP, 8/4/02)(SFC, 8/5/02, p.A1)(SFC, 8/27/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 4, In southeastern Spain
2 people, including a 6-year-old girl, were killed and several others
were injured when a car bomb exploded in front of a military police
barracks. Twenty-five others were injured.
(AP, 8/5/02)
2002 Aug 5, Donald L. Kohn and Ben
S. Bernanke took the oath of office as members of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The oath was administered by
Chairman Alan Greenspan in the Board Room. Bernanke put aside his book
in progress, “Age of Delusion: How politicians and central bankers
created the Great Depression,” as a condition of government service.
(http://tinyurl.com/d7qy6)(WSJ, 12/7/05, p.A15)
2002 Aug 5, Shell Oil agreed to
pay $28 million to the Tahoe Public Utility District to help cleanup
contamination from the gasoline additive MTBE.
(SFC, 8/5/02, p.A17)
2002 Aug 5, The coral-encrusted
gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the
floor of the Atlantic, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank
during a storm.
(AP, 8/5/03)
2002 Aug 5, Joshua Ryan Evans
(20), soap opera actor, died.
(AP, 8/5/03)
2002 Aug 5, Chick Hearn (85), Los
Angeles Lakers play-by-play announcer, died.
(AP, 8/5/03)
2002 Aug 5, Dr. Sanford L. Palay
(83), neuroscientist and author of "The Cerebral Cortex" and other
books, died in Concord, Mass.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A20)
2002 Aug 5, Matt Robinson (65),
former "Sesame Street" cast member, died.
(AP, 8/5/03)
2002 Aug 5, Winifred Watson (95),
a popular writer of the 1930s who found a new readership in the 21st
century, died in England. His work included the humorous and
risqué novel "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" (1938).
(AP, 8/14/02)
2002 Aug 5, Israel announced a
"total ban" on Palestinian travel in much of the West Bank and sealed
off a chunk of the Gaza Strip with tanks in response to Palestinian
attacks on Israelis that killed 13 people over 24 hours. Israeli
helicopters fired missiles at a suspected weapons factory in Gaza City.
(AP, 8/5/02)(AP, 8/5/07)
2002 Aug 5, Japan launched a
compulsory ID system aimed at bringing government into the electronic
age in the face of stiff protests calling it a violation of privacy and
a temptation to hackers.
(AP, 8/5/02)
2002 Aug 5, In Niger a military
revolt spread to the capital, with mutinous soldiers opening fire
inside three garrisons in Niamey. Prime Minister Hama Amadou said the
city was under control after hours of gunfire.
(AP, 8/5/02)
2002 Aug 5, Six Pakistanis were
killed and at least three people wounded when masked men burst into the
compound of a Christian missionary school near the town of Murree and
opened fire.
(Reuters, 8/5/02)
2002 Aug 5, In Papua New Guinea
lawmakers elected founding father Michael Somare as the new prime
minister, as armed riot police surrounded Parliament.
(AP, 8/5/02)
2002 Aug 5, In northern Uganda
rebels overran a camp for Sudanese refugees, killing an undetermined
number of people and destroying equipment and supplies. Authorities
have found 30 more bodies at a refugee camp attacked and burned by
rebels in northern Uganda, bringing the death toll to 55.
(AP, 8/5/02)(AP, 8/7/02)
2002 Aug 5, The Vatican
excommunicated 7 women who claimed to have been recently ordained as
priests, because they had attacked the fundamental structure of the
Catholic Church. The 7 women, from Germany, Austria and the United
States, had defied an earlier Vatican warning to repent over their
participation in a June 29 ceremony which they claimed made them
priests.
(AP, 8/6/02)(WSJ, 8/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 6, President Bush signed
legislation restoring broad trade negotiating authority to US
presidents. Bush signed the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act
(TAA) offering wage insurance to any trade displaced worker over 50.
(AP,
8/6/03)(www.doleta.gov/tradeact/2002act_index.cfm)(Econ, 1/20/07, p.34)
2002 Aug 6, Surgeons in LA
completed a 22-hour operation on Guatemalan twins, Maria de Jesus Quiej
Alvarez and sister Maria Teresa, joined at their heads. UCLA doctors
donated their services in the $1.5 million operation. They returned to
Guatemala Jan 13, 2003.
(SFC, 8/7/02, p.A1)(SFC, 8/8/02, p.A3)(SFC, 2/7/03,
p.A12)
2002 Aug 6, In northeastern Congo
fighting began between rebels and tribesmen for control of Bunia, an
important trading center, and killed at least 48 people, mostly
civilians.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 6, In eastern India 20
people were feared drowned when a boat overturned in Bihar state.
(SFC, 8/7/02, p.A12)
2002 Aug 6, In Jakarta, Indonesia,
thousands of protesters stormed parliament to demand constitutional
reforms including direct presidential elections.
(SFC, 8/7/02, p.A12)
2002 Aug 6, Israeli troops killed
the suspected mastermind of a Tel Aviv suicide bombing, while U.S.
diplomats said the United States was considering moving consular
offices out of traditionally Arab east Jerusalem due to security
concerns.
(AP, 8/6/02)
2002 Aug 6, Israel agreed to buy
about 1.75 billion cubic feet of water from Turkey annually for the
next 20 years to alleviate the nation's growing water shortage and
ensure the success of an arms deal with Ankara.
(AP, 8/602)
2002 Aug 6, In Kashmir suspected
Islamic militant lobbed a grenade and opened fire on a group of Hindu
pilgrims 175 miles north of Jammu.
(SFC, 8/6/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 6, In western Mexico the
brakes apparently failed on a 26-year-old bus before it plowed through
a highway toll booth and slammed into a concrete wall, killing at least
33 people, 10 of them children, headed for a re-enactment of the Last
Supper. About 20 people were injured.
(AP, 8/6/02)
2002 Aug 6, U.N. officials said
over 24,000 Sudanese refugees will be moved out of northern Uganda due
to rebel attacks. A Ugandan army spokesman raised the death toll in the
attack to 23 people.
(AP, 8/6/02)
2002 Aug 7, Destiny Wright
disappeared at a sleepover with other children in Philadelphia. Abdul
El-Shabazz (18) was arrested the next day and led police to her body.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A5)
2002 Aug 7, Former ImClone Systems
chief executive Samuel Waksal was indicted in New York on charges of
obstruction of justice and bank fraud in addition to previous
securities fraud and perjury charges. Waksal later pleaded guilty to
securities fraud and was sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
(AP, 8/7/03)
2002 Aug 7, Ford Motor Co. and
Canadian fuel cell developer Ballard Power Systems Inc. jointly
unveiled a hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine-driven generator
they said could help pave the way toward the commercialization of fuel
cell technology.
(Reuters, 8/7/02)
2002 Aug 7, A U.S. Air Force cargo
plane crashed on a Puerto Rican mountaintop with at least 10 military
personnel on board, and all were feared dead.
(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Aug 7, Treasury Secretary
Paul O'Neill urged Argentina to adopt a sound recovery strategy. As
O'Neill prepared to leave Argentina, more than 5,000 people rallied
near the president's downtown offices to protest his visit.
(AP, 8/7/02)
2002 Aug 7, In Afghanistan at
least 15 people were killed south of Kabul in a shootout between police
and recently escaped Pakistani members of al Qaeda.
(Reuters, 8/7/02)(SFC, 8/9/02, p.A14)
2002 Aug 7, The first British
Cabinet minister to visit this country in two decades met with Libyan
leader Moammar Gadhafi, saying Libya was making a serious attempt to
move away from its international pariah status.
(AP, 8/7/02)
2002 Aug 7, The IMF agreed to lend
Brazil $30 billion to stem a financial panic. This was its biggest loan
to date.
(SFC, 8/8/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 7, In Colombia a
remote-controlled mortar attack killed 21 people during the
inauguration of Pres. Alvaro Uribe. 69 people were wounded.
(AP, 8/8/02)(SFC, 8/8/02,
p.A1)(www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=2519)
2002 Aug 7, About 30 Israeli tanks
firing heavy machineguns raided the northern Gaza Strip in a sweep for
militants and troops shot dead a Palestinian policeman.
(AP, 8/7/02)
2002 Aug 7, The Palestinian
Cabinet accepted Israel's proposal for a troop withdrawal from some
areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in exchange for Palestinian
security guarantees, even as Israeli troops hunting terror suspects
killed five Palestinians in three raids.
(AP, 8/7/02)
2002 Aug 7, In the Philippines
Marxist rebels vowed all-out resistance against the government's
renewed campaign to crush their revolt after President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo ordered the deployment of troops in their strongholds.
(Reuters, 8/7/02)
2002 Aug 7, Saudi Arabia's Foreign
Minister Prince Saud said his country had made it clear to Washington,
publicly and privately, that the U.S. military will not be allowed to
use the kingdom's soil in any way for an attack on Iraq. Saud said the
longtime U.S. ally does not plan to expel American forces from an air
base used for flights to monitor Iraq.
(AP, 8/7/02)(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Aug 7, In eastern Tajikistan
a dam holding water in a lake in the Pamir Mountains broke and flooded
a village and killing 20 people.
(AP, 8/7/02)
2002 Aug 8, The FCC ordered TV
manufacturers to install tuners for digital signals in new TV sets by
2007.
(SFC, 8/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 8, Bankrupt
telecommunications firm WorldCom said it had uncovered another $3.3
billion in bogus accounting, adding to the $3.85 billion fraud it
revealed in June.
(AP, 8/8/03)
2002 Aug 8, In Oregon the Florence
and Sour Biscuit fires merged and formed the largest active fire in the
nation. The fire soon covered 308,000 acres.
(SFC, 8/9/02, p.A9)(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A5)
2002 Aug 8, Australia's highest
court ruled that Aborigines do not have rights to oil or minerals found
under tribal land now being used by mining companies.
(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Aug 8, The Chinese government
awarded an Australian consortium a 25-year natural gas supply contract
in Australia's biggest-ever foreign trade deal.
(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Aug 8, In Colombia President
Alvaro Uribe pressed ahead with Plan Meteor to equip 1 million citizens
with radios to report on rebel activity.
(AP, 8/9/02)(SFC, 8/9/02, p.A20)
2002 Aug 8, In Indonesia Lorenzo
Taddei (34), an Italian tourist, was shot dead in Central Sulawesi when
gunmen fired on the bus he was traveling in.
(Reuters, 8/9/02)
2002 Aug 8, In Northern
Ireland gunmen shot the son of Protestant extremist Johnny "Mad
Dog" Adair in both legs, an act known as kneecapping.
(WSJ, 8/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 8, Saddam Hussein
organized a big military parade and then warned "the forces of evil"
not to attack Iraq as he sought once more to shift the debate away from
world demands that he live up to agreements that ended the Gulf War.
(AP, 8/8/03)
2002 Aug 8, Israeli troops and
tanks briefly swept into a town in the northern Gaza Strip for the
second time in two days, killing a youth and wounding three others in a
clash with Palestinian stone throwers. Negotiators failed to reach
agreement, but scheduled more talks on a gradual Israeli troop pullback
from some Palestinian areas.
(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Aug 8, In Nigeria police
freed 46 captives many of them chained and badly beaten in raids on
five "torture centers" run by a feared vigilante group.
(AP, 8/9/02)
2002 Aug 8, South Korea said 10
people were dead after four days of torrential rains that North Korea
reported had also caused scores of casualties and destroyed crops in
the hungry communist state.
(Reuters, 8/8/02)
2002 Aug 8, Taiwan said it may
forge ahead with legislation for a referendum on formal independence
from China, but sought to soften the blow with an assurance it would
not hold a vote unless forced into a corner.
(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Aug 8, The bodies of two
Uzbek prisoners, Muzafar Avazov and Khusnuddin Olimov, who died in
custody while jailed for alleged religious extremism were returned to
their families for burial. Both men were jailed for membership in the
banned Islamic group Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Aug 9, Oscar-winning actor
and National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston, 78, revealed
that doctors had told him he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's
disease.
(AP, 8/8/03)
2002 Aug 9, Barry Bonds of the SF
Giants hit his 600th homerun and joined the ranks of Henry Aaron (660),
Babe Ruth (714) and Willie Mays (755).
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 9, The Bush
administration said the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act does not
extend beyond the few miles of territorial waters.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A3)
2002 Aug 9, US officials said they
broke up an int'l. child pornography ring headquartered in Clovis, Ca.
10 Americans were arrested in Operation Hamlet. Lloyd Alan Emmerson
(45), chiropractor, was arrested Jan 26 on a tip from Danish police.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A1,11)(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A13)
2002 Aug 9, Kris Eggle (28),
Arizona park ranger, was killed by a gunman at the Mexican border of
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
(WSJ, 1/22/03, p.A1)
2002 Aug 9, In eastern Afghanistan
a powerful explosion ripped through an Afghan construction firm's
building in the city of Jalalabad, killing 21 people and injuring 85
others.
(AP, 8/9/02)(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A8)
2002 Aug 9, China reported 70
people dead from landslides and flooding in Hunan province.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A9)
2002 Aug 9, In Colombia fighting
among outlaw groups for control of a gold mine and cocaine crops in the
mountainous north killed 50 fighters. 4 policemen were killed in a
rebel ambush in central Colombia in the town of Paz de Ariporo. Army
soldiers killed two rebels in the southern town of San Vicente del
Caguan.
(AP, 8/9/02)
2002 Aug 9, In central Colombia
hundreds of soldiers attacked the Metro Block right-wing paramilitary
force, killing and capturing dozens of fighters outside Segovia.
Paramilitary commander Rodrigo later said that an army soldier executed
24 paramilitary men along a roadside near Segovia.
(AP, 8/10/02)(SSFC, 8/11/02, p.A16)(AP, 8/18/02)
2002 Aug 9, In northeastern Congo
United Nations observers discovered a grave containing the hacked
bodies of 38 women and children outside Bunia.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 9, Makiko Tanaka, former
Japanese foreign minister, resigned as a member of parliament after
failing to clear up allegations she had misused state funds.
(AP, 8/9/02)
2002 Aug 9, Myanmar's junta freed
14 political prisoners, but the move was far short of the release of
all prisoners of conscience that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has
demanded as a precondition for national reconciliation.
(AP, 8/9/02)
2002 Aug 9, Three Pakistani nurses
were killed when militants lobbed two grenades at a crowd of women
leaving a missionary hospital chapel, the second assault on a Christian
target in Pakistan in less than a week.
(AP, 8/9/02)
2002 Aug 9, President Kim Dae-jung
named the head of South Korea's largest business newspaper as prime
minister, the day after the opposition took control of parliament in a
by-election landslide.
(Reuters, 8/9/02)
2002 Aug 9, Rescue workers found
the bodies of 19 people killed swept away by rushing water near
Russia's Black Sea coast after some of Europe's worst flooding in
decades turned rivers and streets into torrents. At least 27 people
died, 21 of them in Russia.
(AP, 8/9/02)
2002 Aug 9, In Zimbabwe a
government deadline for the white farmers to give up their land passed
without incident, and it remained uncertain if police would try to
forcibly evict them.
(AP, 8/9/02)
2002 Aug 10, It was reported that
the Bush administration had begun warning foreign diplomats that they
could lose US military assistance if they join the Int'l. Criminal
Court without pledging to protect Americans from its reach. Article 98
allowed nations to negotiate immunity on a bilateral basis.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A12)
2002 Aug 10, Leaders of Roman
Catholic religious orders, meeting in Philadelphia, approved details of
their plan to keep sexually abusive clergy away from children, while
retaining them in the priesthood, creating review boards to monitor how
their communities handle offenders.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2002 Aug 10, In China rescue crews
pulled the bodies of 7 workers from a flooded mine in the central
Chinese province of Henan. One more was recovered the next day.
(AP, 8/11/02)
2002 Aug 10, China's Science and
Technology Daily reported approval of a home-grown AIDS drug for the
first time that will end the dependence of Chinese with the disease on
imported medicine. Jiduo Fuding was developed by the Northeast General
Pharmaceutical Factory.
(Reuters, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, In rural Upper Egypt
3 gunmen ambushed two vehicles, killing 22 members of a rival family.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, Indonesia's top
legislature approved direct presidential elections for the world's most
populous Muslim country, marking a major step in the nation's messy
transition to democracy.
(Reuters, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, Israeli soldiers shot
dead a Palestinian electricity department worker as he sat in his
city-owned truck and the army expressed its sorrow and said it had
opened an investigation. Gunfire in a Jordan Valley settlement killed a
suspected Palestinian militant and an Israeli woman.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, In Mali a
Constitutional Court reversed the outcome of last month's parliamentary
elections, giving an opposition alliance a comfortable lead.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, In northwestern
Mexico a bus crashed through a railing and into a shallow river near
Hermosillo, killing 16 passengers and injuring two dozen others.
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 10, Kemal Dervis,
Turkey's economy minister and the architect of a $16 billion,
foreign-backed recovery program, to run for parliament and called on
bickering politicians to join forces for a strong government.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, A UNICEF report said
about 2,500 Haitian children are smuggled illegally into the Dominican
Republic each year to work as manual laborers or beggars.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 11, Dr. Steven J.
Hatfill, a bioweapons expert under scrutiny for anthrax-laced letters,
fiercely denied any involvement and said he had cooperated with the
investigation. He was eventually exonerated and given a $5.8 million
settlement from the US government after years of their harassing him.
Investigators on June 27, 2008, announced that the anthrax attacks had
been carried out by another government scientist, Bruce Edwards Ivins,
whom they concluded had acted alone.
(AP,
8/11/03)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hatfill)
2002 Aug 11, US Airways, the 6th
largest US airline, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
(SFC, 8/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 11, Karrie Webb won her
third Women's British Open title.
(AP, 8/11/03)
2002 Aug 11, Jiri Kolar (87), a
Czech poet and artist known mainly for his pioneering work in the art
of collage, died in Prague. His poetry books included "Birth
Certificate" (1941)
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 11, In Congo fighting
around Bunia ended and at least 110 civilians were killed and more than
70 injured. More than 10,000 families were displaced during the
fighting.
(AP, 8/14/02)
2002 Aug 11, In eastern Congo
renovation work uncovered the remains of 38 people buried in a communal
grave at the site where the United Nations began building new
headquarters for its peacekeeping force.
(AP, 12/13/02)
2002 Aug 11, In northern India
monsoon rains killed at least 43 people in Uttaranchal state.
(SFC, 8/12/02, p.A8)
2002 Aug 11, Israeli troops shot
and killed Basil Naji (22), a Palestinian gunman, after he opened fire
on Israeli road workers in the northern Gaza Strip, wounding one of
them.
(AP, 8/11/02)(SFC, 8/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 11, In southwestern
Uganda a minibus and a fuel tanker collided near Omukabale, killing at
least 17 people and injuring two others.
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 11, Yemen reported that 6
suspected Muslim militants were arrested for planning a bombing attack
in the capital San'a. Two more were arrested in connection with a
previous blast.
(AP, 8/11/02)
2002 Aug 12, The INS reported that
a child-smuggling ring, in operation since 1994, had been broken up.
Children from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras were smuggled to the
US to be united with parents residing illegally.
(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 12, US Catholic bishops
and rabbis issued a statement that declared that the Biblical covenant
between Jews and God is valid, and therefore Jews do not need to be
saved through faith in Jesus.
(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A5)
2002 Aug 12 It was reported that a
2-mile thick cloud of pollution covered South Asia and that it was
suspected for causing drought, flooding and the premature deaths of a
half-million people in India each year.
(SFC, 8/12/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 12, In Chile hundreds of
thousands of Santiago residents had to walk to work as a strike took
virtually all the buses off the streets in this capital city of 5.5
million people.
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 12, In Colombia Pres.
Alvaro Uribe, declared a limited state of emergency to fight what the
government described as a "regime of terror" following an upsurge of
violence that has left 100 people dead since he took office.
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 12, Arjan Erkel, a Dutch
aid worker for Doctors Without Borders, was kidnapped and beaten in
Dagestan. He was released Easter Sunday in 2005 following a $1 million
ransom.
(WSJ, 9/22/05, p.A1)
2002 Aug 12, In northeastern Iran
torrential rains began and at least 35 people were drowned in flash
floods that washed away roads and swamped farm land.
(AP, 8/13/02)
2002 Aug 12, Iraq's information
minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf told the Arabic satellite television
station Al-Jazeera that there was no need for U.N. weapons inspectors
to return to Baghdad and branded as a "lie" allegations that Saddam
Hussein still had weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 8/12/03)
2002 Aug 12, In Japan protesters
ripped up and threw away documents printed with new ID numbers. A new
database that stores personal data, names, addresses, dates of birth,
gender and the new ID numbers, for each of Japan's 126 million
citizens, was implemented days earlier.
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 12, Palestinian factions
met to create a "national unity leadership" to include all major
groups, including militant ones such as Hamas. They endorsed a
continuation of their uprising and rejected language to end attacks on
civilians inside Israel.
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 12, In Peru Pres.
Alejandro Toledo defended his wife, Eliane Karp, in a nationally
televised address, trying to head off a political storm sparked by the
revelation that Peru's first lady earns $10,000 a month as a banking
consultant.
(AP, 8/13/02)
2002 Aug 13, President Bush hosted
a half-day economic forum at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he
assured Americans that his administration had a steady hand on the
economy.
(AP, 8/13/03)
2002 Aug 13, American Airlines
said it would eliminate 7,000 and cut flights.
(AP, 8/13/03)
2002 Aug 13, Angola reported the
capture of Augustin Bizimungu, a key figure in the 1994 Rwandan
genocide.
(SFC, 8/14/02, p.A13)
2002 Aug 13, Deaths from flooding
in Bangladesh (157), India (265) and Nepal (422) and reached at least
874.
(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A15)
2002 Aug 13, In Chechnya
explosions rocked a bus in Grozny and Shali, killing at least five
people and wounding several others.
(AP, 8/13/02)
2002 Aug 13, Vltava River
floodwaters poured into a historic part of Prague, despite the frantic
efforts of rescue workers to save the ancient Czech capital from rising
river levels, which have forced tens of thousands to flee.
(Reuters, 8/13/02)(AP, 8/13/02)
2002 Aug 13, In India separatist
guerrillas ambushed a truck in Meghalaya state and killed at least 15
people.
(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A13)
2002 Aug 13, In Nigeria the lower
house called for the resignation of Pres. Obasanjo.
(WSJ, 8/14/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 13, Turkmenistan's Pres.
Saparmurat Niyazov issued a decree that extends adolescence until age
25 and postpones old age until 85. His edict divides life into 12-year
cycles. Childhood lasts until age 12. Next comes adolescence which will
now last to age 25. Turkmen aged between 25 and 37 are considered
youthful, while those aged between 27 and 49 years are mature. The next
12-year cycles are divided into periods labeled as prophetic,
inspirational and wise.
(AP, 8/13/02)
2002 Aug 14, Aircraft from the
U.S.-British coalition patrolling southern Iraq bombed two Iraqi air
defense sites.
(AP, 8/15/02)
2002 Aug 14, Texas Gov. Rick Perry
denied a reprieve for Javier Suarez Medina and authorities in
Huntsville gave Suarez a lethal injection as he sang the hymn "Amazing
Grace."
(AP, 8/15/02)
2002 Aug 14, Larry Rivers (78),
pop artist pioneer, died in Southampton, N.Y.
(AP, 8/14/03)
2002 Aug 14, In southwest China a
massive wall of mud and rock unleashed by heavy rains slammed into
villages, burying 67 people in the second deadly landslide to strike
the area this week.
(Reuters, 8/16/02)
2002 Aug 14, Republic of Congo
President Denis Sassou-Nguesso promised to fight corruption as he was
sworn after winning this central African nation's first elections since
back-to-back civil wars.
(AP, 8/14/02)
2002 Aug 14, An Indonesian court
sentenced a former East Timor governor to three years in jail over
violence linked to the territory's 1999 independence vote.
(Reuters, 8/14/02)
2002 Aug 14, Israel's military
intelligence chief told parliament that Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat has amassed a personal fortune of about $1.3 billion.
(AP, 8/14/02)
2002 Aug 14, Mexican President
Vicente Fox angrily canceled a scheduled meeting with President Bush
hours after Texas executed a Mexican national for killing a Dallas
police officer despite pleas from the Mexican leadership. Javier Suarez
Medina, a Mexican national, was never told he could contact the Mexican
consulate for help after his 1988 arrest, a violation of the 1963
Vienna Convention of Consular Relations.
(AP, 8/14/03)(AP, 8/15/02)
2002 Aug 14, Black militants armed
with clubs and stones began evicting a white farmer from his land in
northeastern Zimbabwe, the first seizure since a government eviction
order expired last week.
(Reuters, 8/14/02)
2002 Aug 15, President Bush, using
Mount Rushmore as a dramatic backdrop, pressed Congress to give him a
flexible, fast-moving homeland security department.
(AP, 8/15/03)
2002 Aug 15, Some 600 families of
9/11 victims files a $3 trillion lawsuit against Saudi princes, foreign
banks, charities and the government of Sudan for funding the terrorist
networks that launched the 2001 attacks.
(SFC, 8/16/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/15/03)
2002 Aug 15, In NYC WNEW-FM radio
shock jocks Gregg Hughes and Anthony Cumia aired an eyewitness account
of a couple having sex in the vestibule of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Their show was cancelled Aug 23.
(SFC, 8/24/02, p.D4)
2002 Aug 15, In Virginia the
bodies of Michael and Mary Short were found shot to death south of
Roanoke. Bones of their daughter Jennifer (9) were found Sep 25 in
Stoneville, NC, some 30 miles away.
(SFC, 8/17/02, p.A3)(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A5)
2002 Aug 15, Larry Rivers (78),
painter, sculptor, jazz musician and poet, died in Southampton, NY.
Rivers was born as Yitzroch Grossberg in Bronx, NY.
(SFC, 8/16/02, p.A25)(NW, 8/26/02, p.9)
2002 Aug 15, In Afghanistan Ghulam
Sakhi Bashi, deputy head of Gen. Dostum's 70th division, was shot and
killed during his son's wedding ceremony in Charbolak, about 30
kilometers to the west of Mazar-I-Sharif.
(Reuters, 8/18/02)
2002 Aug 15, An Indonesian court
acquitted a former East Timor police chief and five other security
officers of crimes against humanity over East Timor's bloody
independence vote in 1999.
(AP, 8/15/02)
2002 Aug 15, Israeli soldiers
strapped a bulletproof vest on a Palestinian teenager and ordered him
to approach a house where a Hamas militant was hiding, with
instructions to bring out everyone inside. As Nidal Daraghmeh (19)
neared the house in the West Bank village of Tubas he was shot in the
back of the head and killed, though it's not clear who pulled the
trigger.
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 5-year-old
boy in Khan Younis in the central Gaza Strip near an Israeli
settlement. His grandfather and another Palestinian man were critically
wounded.
Israeli soldiers shot and killed two armed
Palestinians who were approaching the fence around Gaza, apparently
planning to attack soldiers or infiltrate into Israel, the military
said. The two were carrying a large bomb, the military said.
(AP, 8/15/02)
2002 Aug 15, Heavy rains caused
the San Luis Potosi and Los Dolores dams to burst, sending a wave of
floodwaters roaring over villages in central Mexico, where authorities
said at least eight people were killed and six others were missing and
feared dead.
(AP, 8/16/02)
2002 Aug 15, A train in Tlaxcala,
Mexico, struck and killed six young people (13-25) as they were walking
along railroad tracks during a religious procession.
(AP, 8/15/02)
2002 Aug 15, Peru's first lady,
Eliane Karp, resigned from a $10,000-a-month consulting job with a
Peruvian bank after the revelation of the contract raised suspicions of
influence peddling.
(AP, 8/16/02)
2002 Aug 15, Uganda has agreed to
withdraw its troops from neighboring Congo, where they were sent four
years ago to support Congolese rebels and root out Ugandan insurgents.
(AP, 8/16/02)
2002 Aug 15, The U.N. Security
Council voted unanimously to strengthen the U.N. presence in Angola to
help consolidate peace in the southwest African nation after 27 years
of civil war.
(AP, 8/15/02)
2002 Aug 16, Major League Baseball
players set a strike deadline of Aug. 30. The two sides finally reached
an agreement with just six hours to spare.
(AP, 8/16/03)
2002 Aug 16, Jeff Corey (88),
blacklisted actor, died in Santa Monica. Corey developed a post
blacklist career teaching and then appeared in over 70 films or TV
shows.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A19)
2002 Aug 16, Stephen P. Yokich
(66), former United Auto Workers president died in Detroit.
(SFC, 8/19/02, p.B6)(AP, 8/16/03)
2002 Aug 16, In Algeria Islamic
insurgents reportedly killed 26 people, including women and children,
in a rural western hamlet.
(AP, 8/16/02)
2002 Aug 16, In Soham,
Cambridgeshire, England, police arrested two people on suspicion of
murdering a pair of 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells (b. 10-4-1991) and
Jessica Chapman (b. 9-1-1991), who vanished from a rural village on
August 4th. On December 17, 2003 Ian Huntley (28), a caretaker at the
local secondary school, was convicted by two eleven-to-one majority
jury verdicts, and on that day began serving two concurrent life
sentences. On September 29, 2005, the High Court announced that Huntley
must remain in prison until he has served at least 40 years, a minimum
term which will not allow him to be released until at least 2042, by
which time he will be 68 years old. His girlfriend Maxine Carr (25), a
classroom assistant, was charged with attempting to pervert the course
of justice. She was given three-and-a-half years for conspiring to
pervert the course of justice but cleared of two counts of assisting an
offender. She was freed and electronically tagged within 30 days,
because she had already spent 16 months in jail.
(AP,
8/17/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham_murders)
2002 Aug 16, In Germany
authorities evacuated thousands of people near Dresden's historic
center as floodwaters in the Elbe River rose to a record high and
spilled into a square close to some of the city's cultural landmarks.
(AP, 8/16/02)
2002 Aug 16, Sabri al-Banna, aka
Abu Nidal (65), Palestinian guerrilla commander and head of the
Fatah-Revolutionary Council, died from gunshot wounds in his Baghdad
home. Iraqi officials said he killed himself.
(Reuters, 8/19/02)(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A18)(AP, 8/21/02)
2002 Aug 16, In central Nigeria
gunmen killed Ahmad Ahman Pategi, Kwara state chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party and a senior official of President Olusegun Obasanjo's
ruling party, along with his police bodyguard.
(AP, 8/17/02)
2002 Aug 16, Russia and Iraqi
officials planned to sign a 5-year $40 billion economic cooperation
agreement.
(SFC, 8/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 16, Pope John Paul II
returned to Poland for a 3-day visit.
(SFC, 8/17/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 16, President Hugo Chavez
railed against a Supreme Court decision to absolve four military
officers accused of leading an April coup but urged Venezuelans to
accept it.
(AP, 8/16/02)
2002 Aug 16, The Zambian
government has rejected donations of genetically modified corn from the
United States, even though a massive food shortage threatens nearly 2.3
million of its people with starvation.
(AP, 8/17/02)
2002 Aug 16, The Zimbabwean
government appeared to be cracking down on white farmers who defied
orders to leave their land, charging seven in court and detaining at
least 27 others across the country.
(AP, 8/16/02)
2002 Aug 17, The new $ 1 billion
Navy destroyer McCampbell, completed in July at the Bath Iron Works in
Maine, was commissioned in SF.
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.A2)
2002 Aug 17, In China 3 days of
floods and landslides caused by mountain torrents swept through
southeastern Zhejiang province, killing at least 21 people.
(Reuters, 8/17/02)
2002 Aug 17, In Indonesia a
home-made bomb wounded 13 people, including two children, as they
gathered to mark Independence Day in Aceh province.
(Reuters, 8/17/02)
2002 Aug 17, In Mexico 8 men and a
woman were lined up against a wall and gunned down with assault rifles
and pistols at a ranch in the western state of Michoacan in what
reports said may have been a drug-related massacre.
(AP, 8/18/02)
2002 Aug 17, In Krakow, Poland,
tens of thousands of adoring Poles gave the ailing Pope John Paul II a
joyous welcome home as began his 9th papal visit to his native country.
(AP, 8/17/03)
2002 Aug 17, Russia troops battled
with Chechen rebels who attacked a number of villages in southern
Chechnya in fighting that has left nine soldiers and five civilians
dead.
(AP, 8/17/02)
2002 Aug 18, Rich Beem beat Tiger
Woods to capture the PGA Championship.
(AP, 8/18/03)
2002 Aug 18, US federal agents
said they had seized over 2,300 unregistered missiles at a
counter-terrorism school, High Energy Access Tools (HEAT), in Roswell,
New Mexico, that was training students from Arab countries and arrested
its Canadian leader.
(Reuters, 8/18/02)(WSJ, 8/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 18, In Britain detectives
announced that two bodies found in a nature reserve almost certainly
belong to a pair of missing 10-year-olds. Holly Wells and Jessica
Chapman had been missing since August 4.
(AP,
8/19/02)(www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/ian_huntley/index.html)
2002 Aug 18, Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev
(b.1969), a former Chechen rebel commander and top official in the
region's rebel government, died of complications from leukemia while
serving a 15-year prison term for terrorism in Yekaterinburg.
(AP, 8/22/02)
2002 Aug 18, Israel agreed to a
partial withdrawal from Palestinian territory in exchange for reduced
tensions in the areas.
(SFC, 8/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 18, In a tearful,
farewell Mass in his beloved Krakow, Pope John Paul II told more than 2
million Poles that he would like to return one day — but that "this is
entirely in God's hands."
(AP, 8/18/03)
2002 Aug 18, In central Russia a
bus drove into a ditch in the republic of Chuvashia and overturned,
killing 22 people and injuring 38.
(AP, 8/18/02)
2002 Aug 19, In San Jose, Ca., an
8-alarm fire consumed about 25% of the new $500 million Santana Row
shopping and residential complex along S. Winchester Blvd.
(SFC, 8/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 19, In Colombia rebels
kidnapped over 2 dozen tourists inside Ensenada Utria national park.
The ELN was blamed.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 19, Japan has launched a
diplomatic offensive to foil South Korea's attempt to rename the ocean
separating the Asian neighbors from "Sea of Japan" to the "East Sea",
saying the weight of history is on the Japanese side.
(Reuters, 8/19/02)
2002 Aug 19, An Islamic high court
in northern Nigeria rejected an appeal by Amina Lawal, a single mother
sentenced to be stoned to death for having sex out of wedlock.
(AP, 8/19/02)(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 19, A Russian Mi-26
military helicopter loaded with troops crashed in Chechnya. 127 were
killed and 32 injured when the troop transport fell into a minefield in
what Russian media called the nation's biggest military helicopter
crash and the biggest single-day casualty count in the Chechen war.
Chechen rebels claimed to have shot the helicopter down.
(AP, 8/20/02)(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/21/03)(AP,
8/19/07)
2002 Aug 19, Eduardo Chillida
(78), Basque sculptor, died. He created monumental works and promoted
peace in the Basque region. His work included "The Comb of the Winds,"
an iron tangle in San Sebastian.
(SFC, 8/21/02, p.A19)
2002 Aug 19, Swedish financier Jan
Stenbeck (59), who developed an extensive network of media and
telecommunications companies, died in Paris.
(AP, 8/20/02)
2002 Aug 20, In Bangladesh the
swollen Jamuna River broke through its mud embankments, flooding a
dozen villages and cutting off thousands of residents.
(AP, 8/20/02)
2002 Aug 20, In Germany 5 members
of the Iraqi Opposition of Germany took over the Iraqi embassy. German
police commandos freed two senior diplomats from armed men who had
stormed the Iraqi embassy, bringing a bloodless end to a five-hour
hostage drama by a previously unknown group opposed to Saddam Hussein.
(SFC, 8/20/02, p.A7)(AP, 8/20/03)
2002 Aug 20, Indian troops killed
14 Muslim rebels trying to sneak into Kashmir from Pakistan.
(WSJ, 8/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 20, Indonesian police
have arrested Ramli, a former soldier, and accused him of masterminding
a series of deadly bombings in the capital over the past few years.
(Reuters, 8/21/02)
2002 Aug 20, An Israeli soldier
was killed by a Hamas sniper. Hamas vowed to undermine the new security
agreement.
(WSJ, 8/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 20, Choking smoke from
forest fires shrouded Indonesia's side of Borneo island, grounding
planes and pushing air quality way above hazardous levels in parts of
the vast region.
(Reuters, 8/20/02)
2002 Aug 20, In Nepal army
soldiers reportedly killed at least 30 Maoist rebels at a remote
training camp.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 20, Palestinian police
were back on the streets of Bethlehem after Israeli forces left the
town as part of a trial that could lead to further Israeli withdrawals
in the West Bank.
(AP, 8/20/02)
2002 Aug 20, In Russia an
explosion tore through a residential building in Moscow, blowing open a
50-foot-wide section and collapsing five stories of apartments. At
least 7 people were killed, and as many as 5 others were feared trapped
in the rubble. A natural gas leak was suspected.
(AP, 8/21/02)
2002 Aug 20, The Swiss government
returned to Peru about $77.5 million linked to former Peruvian spy
chief Vladimiro Montesinos, saying the money came from corrupt arms
deals. The money includes assets of Gen. Nicolas de Bari Hermoza Rios,
Peru's former armed forces chief, who also faces corruption charges.
$33 million linked to Montesinos remained blocked in Swiss banks.
(AP, 8/21/02)
2002 Aug 21, President Bush told
reporters at his Texas ranch that ousting Iraq's Saddam Hussein was "in
the interests of the world" but indicated the United States was in no
hurry.
(AP, 8/21/03)
2002 Aug 21, A jury in San Diego
convicted David Westerfield of kidnapping 7-year-old Danielle van Dam
from her home and killing her. Westerfield was later sentenced to death.
(AP, 8/21/03)
2002 Aug 21, Michael Kopper,
former Enron financial executive, pleaded guilty to charges related to
wire fraud and money laundering. He admitted to large kickbacks to the
CFO, Andrew Fastow, and agreed to return $12 million.
(SFC, 8/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 21, Weldon Spring,
Missouri, was reported open to the public as tourist attraction. The
radioactive site opened after a $1 billion, 16-year cleanup.
(SFC, 8/21/02, p.A2)
2002 Aug 21, A new Lockheed Martin
Atlas V rocket launched a 4-ton French communications satellite into
orbit.
(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 21, In Canada Pres.
Chretien, amid growing rifts within his Liberal Party, said he will not
seek a 4th term and will resign in Feb 2004.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A8)
2002 Aug 21, Israeli troops blew
up two apartment buildings in a Gaza Strip refugee camp, just hours
after undercover forces killed the brother of a radical Palestinian
leader during an arrest raid in the West Bank. Israeli security
officials announced the breakup of a Hamas cell in East Jerusalem.
(AP, 8/21/02)(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 21, In east Nepal a
massive landslide triggered by monsoon rains wiped out a village,
killing at least 60 people.
(AP, 8/21/02)
2002 Aug 21, North Korean leader
Kim Jong Il toured the shop floor of a Russian defense plant, getting a
firsthand glimpse of how Russia's Sukhoi fighter jets are manufactured.
(AP, 8/21/02)
2002 Aug 21, In Pakistan Pres.
Musharraf announced sweeping changes to the Constitution that boosted
the power of his authoritarian regime. His decrees included a security
council that institutionalized the military's role in government; power
to fire the prime minister and dissolve the legislature; a requirement
for all candidates to have university degrees.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.A20)(SSFC,
10/12/02, p.A20)
2002 Aug 22, In Oregon President
Bush proposed to end the government's "hands-off" policy in national
forests and ease logging restrictions in fire-prone areas.
(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/22/03)
2002 Aug 22, The US and Russia
took away 100 pounds of weapons-grade uranium from an aging nuclear
reactor in Belgrade to Russia for re-processing.
(SFC, 8/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 22, Two US helicopter
pilots were reported lost in South Korea. Their bodies were found the
next day 13 miles south of Camp Page.
(SFC, 8/24/02, p.A9)
2002 Aug 22, Researchers reported
a new enzyme to treat victims of an anthrax attack and to help detect
the spores.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 22, In Brazil President
Fernando Henrique Cardoso signed a decree creating the Tumucumaque (the
rock on top of the mountain) Mountains National Park bigger than
Maryland covering a region of virgin rainforest in Amapa state, along
Brazil's northern borders with Surinam and Guyana.
(AP, 8/22/02)(SFC, 8/23/02, p.A2)
2002 Aug 22, China evacuated some
600,000 people around the swollen Lake Dongting in Hunan province.
(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 22, In Nepal a small
plane carrying 18 people, including tourists from Germany, the United
States and Britain, crashed into a mountain in bad weather, killing all
aboard.
(Reuters, 8/22/02)(AP, 8/22/03)
2002 Aug 22, In Peru officials
reported that police had destroyed 57 crude drug laboratories in the
Peruvian jungle and burned 38 tons of coca leaf.
(AP, 8/22/02)
2002 Aug 22, In the Philippines
the heads of two Jehovah's Witnesses were found at Patikul on Jolo
island, two days after the Abu Sayyaf rebels seized the two male
preachers and six other hostages.
(Reuters, 8/22/02)(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 23, U.S. warplanes bombed
an air defense site in northern Iraq after being targeted by an Iraqi
missile guidance radar system.
(AP, 8/23/02)
2002 Aug 23, The United States
imposed symbolic sanctions on a North Korean company and the North
Korean government for exporting medium or long-range missile components.
(Reuters, 8/23/02)
2002 Aug 23, New York publicist
Lizzie Grubman pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that injured 16
people outside a Hamptons nightclub. Grubman ended up serving 37 days
of a 60-day sentence at the Suffolk County, N.Y., Jail, with time off
for good behavior.
(AP, 8/23/03)
2002 Aug 23, Canada confirmed
prairie farmers' worst fears in a report that slashed crop production
forecasts after one of worst growing seasons since the dust bowl of the
1930s.
(Reuters, 8/23/02)
2002 Aug 23, In southern Colombia
a bus veered off a mountain road in Papagayo after one of its tires
burst, plunging 1,000 feet and killing at least 12 people.
(AP, 8/24/02)
2002 Aug 23, An anti-graft court
in the Philippines froze the assets of former president Joseph Estrada
in connection with charges that he illegally amassed over four billion
pesos ($76.48 million) during his 31-month rule.
(Reuters, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 23, Pres. Shevardnadze
accused Russia of bombing inside Georgia's border. One person was
reported killed.
(SFC, 8/24/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 23, North Korean leader
Kim Jong Il capped his second visit to Russia in a year with a long
meeting with President Vladimir Putin and a taste of the consumer
delights that are in short supply in his country. Putin pressed North
Korea on Friday to forge a new Asia-Europe freight route by extending
Russia's trans-Siberian railway across the Korean peninsula to bypass
China.
(AP, 8/23/02)(Reuters, 8/23/02)
2002 Aug 23, Pakistan accused
India of launching a heavy ground an air attack on northern Kashmir.
(SFC, 8/24/02, p.A8)
2002 Aug 23, Russian troops
battled rebels for the fourth straight day outside a Chechen village,
while eight soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours.
(AP, 8/23/02)
2002 Aug 23, In Venezuela subway
and bus workers in Caracas unexpectedly walked off the job, forcing
more than a million people to find other ways to work.
(AP, 8/23/02)
2002 Aug 23, In Yugoslavia
thousands of ethnic Albanians gathered in Pristina to protest the
recent arrests of rebel leaders who fought during Kosovo's 1998-1999
war.
(AP, 8/23/02)
2002 Aug 24, In Oregon City, Ore.,
the FBI uncovered human remains in an outbuilding behind the house of
Ward Weaver III, a suspect in the case of two missing girls who lived
across the street. Authorities recovered the remains of Ashley Pond
(12) and Miranda Gaddis (13). In 2004 Weaver pleaded guilty to
aggravated murder and no contest to other charges of sexual abuse. A
plea bargain allowed him to avoid the death penalty and he was
sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison.
(AP,
8/24/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Weaver_III)
2002 Aug 24, It was reported that
Algerian elite soldiers, backed by artillery and helicopters, killed 16
suspected Islamist rebels during a week-long operation against
guerrillas east of Algiers.
(Reuters, 8/24/02)
2002 Aug 24, Azerbaijani voters
overwhelmingly approved changes to the constitution in a referendum the
opposition charged was marred by fraud.
(AP, 8/25/02)
2002 Sep 24-2002 Sep 25, In the
Canary Islands over a dozen beaked whales beached themselves following
NATO exercises that involved a cluster of warships and submarines. 9 of
the whales washed ashore dead and showed lesions in the brain and
hearing system, consistent with acoustic impact.
(SFC, 9/26/02, p.A20)(SFC, 10/7/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 24, Suspected rebels shot
dead eight Muslim villagers, including three women, in Indian Kashmir
as a U.S. envoy took his peace mission to Islamabad to try to cool
tensions on the subcontinent.
(Reuters, 8/24/02)
2002 Aug 24, A Palestinian militia
shot and killed a Palestinian woman suspected of collaborating with
Israel, then dumped her bullet-riddled body on a street in the West
Bank town of Tulkarem. The next day her son said that Palestinian
gunmen tortured him until he invented a story about his mother's
involvement.
(AP, 8/24/02)(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 25, Louisville, Ky., beat
Sendai, Japan, 1-0 to win the Little League World Series in South
Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
(AP, 8/25/03)
2002 Aug 25, Acclaimed
bass-baritone William Warfield (82), best known for his rendition of
"Ol' Man River" in the musical "Show Boat," died in Chicago.
(AP, 8/25/03)
2002 Aug 25, In England
Investigators said they had found items of clothing they believed were
worn by two slain girls the day they disappeared from their rural
village.
(AP, 8/25/02)
2002 Aug 25, Iran's parliament
approved a bill giving women the right to sue for divorce, a similar
right already guaranteed for men.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 25, Iraq said US and
British bombing killed 8 people near Basra. A U.S.-British air raid in
southern Iraq destroyed a major military surveillance site that
monitors American troops in the Persian Gulf.
(WSJ, 8/26/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/27/02)
2002 Aug 25, Philippine troops
shot dead a notorious leader of a gang of kidnappers and rescued a girl
(4) and her nanny from a week-long captivity.
(Reuters, 8/25/02)
2002 Aug 25, Up to 10 guerrillas
from a Philippine Marxist rebel group blacklisted by the United States
were killed when the military clashed with a 40-man New People's Army
(NPA) band in Rodriguez town, a Manila suburb.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 25, Former Swedish
diplomat Per Anger (88), who'd worked with Raoul Wallenberg in
shielding thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps, died in
Stockholm, Sweden.
(AP, 8/25/03)
2002 Aug 25, In the UAR the roof
of a Dubai warehouse that was under construction collapsed, killing
seven people and injuring 19.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 25, In Zimbabwe President
Robert Mugabe announced his new Cabinet, firing the moderate finance
minister and keeping hard-liners who have spearheaded harsh media
controls and seizures of white-owned farms.
(AP, 8/25/02)
2002 Aug 26, US VP Cheney,
speaking at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Tennessee, warned
that there is "no doubt" that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is amassing
weapons of mass destruction for use against America and its allies.
(SFC, 8/27/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/26/03)
2002 Aug 26, In Bangui, Central
African Republic, former military ruler Gen. Andre Kolingba was
convicted in absentia of taking part in a failed 2001 coup and was
sentenced to death.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 26, In San Antonio,
Honduras, Jose Callejas (46), director of a Human Rights Committee, was
killed. Organized crime was blamed.
(SFC, 8/29/02, p.A12)
2002 Aug 26, Israeli troops
arrested Jamal Abdel Salam Abu el-Heijah, leader of Hamas in the Jenin
region in a West Bank raid as Israel's defense minister said a security
deal to ease violence was still in force.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 26, In Nigeria an Islamic
court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning for having an affair,
marking the first time in Nigeria that a man has been sentenced to
death for adultery.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 26, The 4th UN World
Summit on Sustainable Development opened in Johannesburg, SA, with a
call from South African President Thabo Mbeki for coordinated
international action to fight poverty and protect the world's natural
resources. Pres. Bush sent Colin Powell as his stand-in. The 3rd
gathering was in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.A3)(AP, 8/26/03)
2002 Aug 26, As Zimbabwean and
Ethiopian activists staged protests, South African security officials
promised to clamp down on any protesters demonstrating at the U.N.
development summit without government approval.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 27, Pres. Bush met with
Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, who said war with Iraq was
not acceptable and that Saudi Arabia would not cooperate. Bush told the
Saudi diplomat he had not yet decided whether to attack Iraq.
(SFC, 8/28/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/27/03)
2002 Aug 27, Stanley R. Greenberg
(74), writer, died. His work included over 40 plays for stage, film and
TV including the screenplay for the 1973 film "Soylent Green."
(SFC, 8/28/02, p.A19)(MoTV, 1977, p.667)
2002 Aug 27, In northern Colombia
government forces clashed with rebels, killing eight guerrillas. The
eight were among 14 people killed in scattered fighting across the
insurgency-plagued nation.
(AP, 8/27/02)
2002 Aug 27, A Tokyo court
acknowledged for the first time Japan's use of biological weapons
before and during World War II, but rejected demands for compensation
by 180 Chinese who claimed they were victims of the germ warfare
program.
(AP, 8/27/03)
2002 Aug 27, In Macedonia 2
policemen were killed ahead of Sep 15 elections.
(WSJ, 8/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 27, Two Russian border
guards were arrested and confessed to killing eight of their comrades
in Ingushetia to avenge hazing. President Vladimir Putin called for
better discipline and combat-readiness amid a string of deadly
incidents.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 27, In South Africa
delegates to the World Summit on Sustainable Development called for
increased global efforts to bring new agricultural technologies to poor
farmers to help feed the developing world.
(AP, 8/27/02)
2002 Aug 27, In Sudan more members
of the opposition Popular National Congress, including two former
government ministers, were arrested on suspicion of creating
"instability."
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 28, Federal grand juries
charged six men in Detroit with conspiring to support al-Qaeda's
terrorism as members of a sleeper cell.
(AP, 8/28/03)(SFC, 8/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 28, Prosecutors indicted
WorldCom's former chief financial officer, Scott Sullivan, and Buford
Yates Jr., WorldCom's former director of general accounting. Sullivan,
accused of overseeing a long-running conspiracy to hide operating
expenses in order to boost WorldCom's earnings, later pleaded innocent;
Yates later pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy and
agreed to help prosecutors.
(WSJ, 8/29/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/28/03)
2002 Aug 28, Amiri Baraka, poet
known as LeRoi Jones until 1968, was proclaimed the poet laureate for
New Jersey. Gov. Jim McGreevey later regretted the proclamation
following Baraka's poem "Somebody Blew Up America."
(WSJ, 10/3/02, p.D6)
2002 Aug 28, In Texas Toronto
Patterson was executed for the 1995 killing of a cousin when he was 17.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 28, Canadian police
arrested a man in the rape and killing of an 11-year-old aboriginal boy
who was found in a basement storage room in Winnipeg.
(Reuters, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 28, Germany awarded its
Goethe Prize to Marcel Reich-Ranicki, literary critic and Polish-born
Holocaust survivor.
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.D5)
2002 Aug 28, Police in India
reported that 14 people, including 10 Muslim militants, were killed in
clashes between Indian security forces and separatist rebels in India's
Jammu and Kashmir state.
(Reuters, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 28, Nepal's government
announced that it was lifting a state of emergency imposed in Nov, 2001.
(SFC, 8/29/02, p.A12)
2002 Aug 28, Nigeria renewed
warnings that it cannot pay its debt service payments for the year
because of falling oil revenue.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 28, Delegates at the
World Summit on Sustainable Development focused on ways to bring fresh
water and sanitation to hundreds of millions of people who lack access
to either. Negotiators hailed their first breakthrough: a deal to
protect the world's oceans and marine life.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 28, The United Nations
confirmed that Uganda and Zimbabwe have begun their pledged troop
withdrawals from Congo.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 28, U.N. Sec.-Gen. Kofi
Annan urged the United States to resist attacking Iraq, joining calls
from leaders in Germany, China, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for restraint
in considering military action to topple Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 29, The federal
government approved a plan to store Colorado River water under the
Mohave Desert and tap it for use by Southern California during times of
drought.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 29, A judge in Norwalk,
Conn., sentenced Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin, to 20 years to life
in prison for the 1975 murder with a golf club of Connecticut neighbor
Martha Moxley.
(WSJ, 8/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/29/03)
2002 Aug 29, Assailants entered a
home in Artemisa, a village in western Cuba and killed five people,
including four members of a family, apparently by cutting their throats.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 29, Indian soldiers
killed 5 guerrillas after they crossed into the India-controlled
portion of Kashmir.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A19)
2002 Aug 29, Israeli tank shells
slammed into a Bedouin encampment in Gaza, killing four members of a
Palestinian family and wounding four others.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, Hezbollah guerrillas
shelled Israeli positions in a disputed border area, wounding 3
soldiers and drawing fire from Israeli warplanes and artillery.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, In western Macedonia
police killed two ethnic Albanians after gunmen abducted at least five
people from a bus, as tension soared. The 5 abducted people were
released after 2 days.
(AP, 8/30/02)(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 29, In Russia a small
plane disappeared in the Far East region of Khabarovsk. The plane
crashed into a cliff and 16 people were killed.
(AP, 8/29/02)(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Aug 29, Kerim Sadok Chatty,
29, of Tunisian origin was arrested with a gun in his carry-on luggage
at a Swedish airport as he headed to an Islamic conference in
Birmingham, England. He had flunked out of a flight school in South
Carolina in 1996. Chatty was charged with attempted hijacking on Sep 2.
(AP, 9/1/02)(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 29, A joint force of Thai
police and soldiers killed six armed drug traffickers and seized a
million methamphetamine pills after ambushing a drug convoy near the
Golden Triangle.
(Reuters, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, The World Summit on
Sustainable Development focused on ways business and governments could
work together to spread prosperity in the developing world while
protecting the environment.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, Uzbek Pres. Karimov
urged democratic changes.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A18)
2002 Aug 29, In Venezuela
thousands of opponents of President Hugo Chavez took to the streets in
Maracay to protest tax increases they say will further impoverish
Venezuelans in this recession-ridden country.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, In Zimbabwe a bomb
attack gutted the office of a radio station critical of President
Robert Mugabe's government, and authorities raided a human rights group
and a camp for displaced farm workers run by a private charity.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 30, Major League Baseball
players reached agreement with team owners on a four-year labor deal,
narrowly averting a strike that threatened to drive away the sport's
already embittered fans. It was the first time since 1970 that players
and owners had agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement without
a work stoppage.
(Reuters, 8/30/02)(AP, 8/30/03)
2002 Aug 30, In Washington, DC,
some 35,000 gathered for the 39th annual meeting of the Islamic Society
of North America.
(SFC, 8/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 30, J. Lee Thompson (88),
movie director ("The Guns of Navarone"), died in Sooke, British
Columbia, Canada.
(AP, 8/30/03)
2002 Aug 30, For the 6th time in a
week, coalition aircraft bombed an Iraqi defense facility in one of the
no-fly zones patrolled by U.S. and British pilots.
(AP, 8/30/02)
2002 Aug 30, A twin-engine plane
with 31 people crashed while trying to land in heavy rains near Rio
Branco, a northwestern Brazilian city, killing 23 people.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 30, In Burundi the army
reportedly killed 48 Hutu rebels in clashes outside Bujumbura.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)
2002 Aug 30, Floodwaters along the
lower stretches of the Mekong have wreaked havoc in Laos, Cambodia
(18), Thailand (12) and Vietnam (25), claiming at least 55 lives and
leaving thousands homeless across the region.
(AP, 8/30/02)
2002 Aug 30, In the Netherlands 8
men were detained for providing financial and logistical services to al
Qaeda and for recruiting fighters.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 30, It was reported that
North Korea has made changes in its economic system that included a
phase out of its public distribution system, price increases and salary
increases.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A14)
2002 Aug 30, The WTO ruled that
the EU can impose $4 billion in penalties on the US because of an
American tax break that promotes exports. The EU planned to give the US
time to change the law.
(SFC, 8/31/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 31, The Los Angeles
Sparks beat the New York Liberty 69-66 to defend their WNBA
championship.
(AP, 8/31/03)
2002 Aug 31, The Burning Man was
put to flames at Black Rock, Nev. Some 29,000 people attended the
event, which featured a 78-foot Temple of Joy, created by David Best,
that was burned down Sep 1.
(SFC, 8/31/02, p.A3)(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 31, Lionel Hampton (94),
American jazz icon, died in New York City. He pioneered and popularized
the vibraphone as a jazz instrument in a musical career that spanned
six decades beginning in the 1920s.
(AP, 8/31/03)
2002 Aug 31, George Porter (81),
who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work on
light-driven chemical reactions, died in London. He had built a device
to study gaseous free radicals and combustion. Among the practical
results of his research was the development of ways to stop dyes from
fading.
(AP, 9/3/02)
2002 Aug 31, Sheldon H. Harris,
historian, died. His work included the 1994 book: "Factories of Death:
Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up."
(SFC, 9/9/02, p.A22)
2002 Aug 31, In Indonesia
unidentified gunmen shot dead three people, including two Americans,
and wounded up to 14 others in an attack on a vehicle convoy near a
giant gold mine in Papua province. Killed in the 30-minute assault were
Rick Spier, 44, of Littleton, Colo., Ted Burgon, 71, of Sunriver, Ore.,
and an Indonesian teacher. Indonesian soldiers were later implicated in
the attack. In 2006 Antonius Wamang (31), a separatist rebel, was
sentenced to life in prison and his accomplices up to seven years.
(Reuters, 8/31/02)(SSFC, 10/27/02, p.A20)(AP,
11/7/06)
2002 Aug 31, At least 13 people
died and scores more were rescued when an Indonesian ferry carrying
more than 100 passengers caught fire and exploded after leaving Baubau
in southern Sulawesi province.
(Reuters, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 31, Israeli soldiers
arrested Hasan Yousef, the Islamic militant group Hamas' top political
leader, in the West Bank town of Ramallah. An Israeli helicopter fired
three missiles at a Palestinian car, killing three men inside and two
children standing nearby.
(AP, 8/30/02)
2002 Aug 31, Five Kurdish migrants
were found dead in the back of a cargo truck after they apparently
suffocated during a harrowing ferry crossing from Greece to Italy.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 31, Kuwait will buy 16
attack helicopters from Boeing in a deal worth $886 million. Defense
Minister Sheik Jaber Mubarak Al Hamad and U.S. Ambassador Richard Jones
signed the deal.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 31, Malaysia said it has
agreed to temporarily halt deportation of Filipino workers and their
families amid public outrage over reports of their mistreatment.
(Reuters, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 31, It was reported that
Mexican police had arrested Juan Heriberto Carrillo Olivas, a Mexican
citizen. He headed a gang in El Paso, Texas, that used a fleet of
tractor-trailers to transport cocaine to other U.S. cities.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 31, The justice minister
of the Netherlands Antilles said Colombian assassins are behind a
series of execution-style slayings in Curacao, which has seen drug
seizures soar in recent years. There have been 28 killings since the
beginning of the year.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 31, A Palestinian gunman
opened fire in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, seriously wounding
two people before being shot dead.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 31, A Russian helicopter
was downed by a missile in Chechnya, killing two.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 31, In South Africa some
10,000 people marched from a township of tin shacks and open sewers to
the glittering venue of a U.N. development summit to protest that world
leaders are not doing enough to fight poverty.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug, The US resumed aerial
spraying to eradicate coca growing in Colombia and hoped to destroy
some 300,000 acres of coca growth. The US state Dept. said the spraying
does not endanger people or the environment.
(SFC, 9/4/02, p.A13)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A18)
2002 Aug, In Idaho fishermen found
the abandoned, burned-out shell of a car that Lopez Orozco had been
driving near the Snake River in a remote area of Elmore County. The
charred remains of his girlfriend Rebecca Ramirez and her two boys,
Ricardo and Miguel, were inside. Investigators later determined they
had been shot. In 2009 Mexican police captured Orozco.
(AP, 10/8/09)
2002 Sep 1, Secretary of State
Colin Powell said the US should first seek a return of UN weapons
inspectors to Iraq before taking any further steps.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, The California
Legislature approved a $99 billion budget, ending a 2-month-old
standoff.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2002 Sep 1, President Alfonso
Portillo announced plans to cut the size of Guatemala's armed forces by
20% and convert the extra military installations into schools.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Indonesian soldiers
battled an armed band in Papua and killed one insurgent, near where
gunmen shot dead three people, including two U.S. school teachers, and
wounded at least 10 in an ambush the previous day.
(Reuters, 9/1/02)(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A9)
2002 Sep 1, Israeli troops shot
dead four Palestinians not far from a Jewish gravesite near the West
Bank city of Hebron, adding to an already bloody weekend in which seven
other Palestinians, including two children, were killed.
(AP, 9/1/02)(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 1, Israel and Jordan
announced their largest joint project ever, a $800 million pipeline
intended to save the shrinking Dead Sea from environmental devastation.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Typhoon Rusa, the
worst typhoon to hit South Korea in 40 years, left at least 119 people
dead.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2002 Sep 1, In Liberia rebel
forces shelled the northern town of Voinjama in a push to recapture
their former stronghold from government forces.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Mauritania appealed
for international aid, saying lack of rain was causing a food crisis
that has put at risk nearly 1 million people and half of the desert
nation's cattle.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Some 600 Russian
specialists began work on a key phase of an $800 million project to
build a nuclear reactor at Bushehr, Iran.
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A9)
2002 Sep 2, The $195 million Our
Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles was dedicated. It was
designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo.
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A2)
2002 Sep 2, Glenn Tilton was named
chairman, president and chief executive officer of United Airlines
parent UAL Corp.
(AP, 9/2/03)
2002 Sep 2, Consolidated
Freightways Corp. of Vancouver, Wa., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
and laid off 15,500 people nationwide.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A4)
2002 Sep 2, In New Hampshire 7
people were killed when their small plane crashed near Swanzey.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A10)
2002 Sep 2, Jerry Boyd (b.1930),
boxing trainer and author (pen name F.X. Toole), died. Two of his short
stories were adopted for the 2004 film “Million Dollar Baby.”
(SSFC, 8/6/06,
p.M1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.X._Toole)
2002 Sep 2, In Bolivia a bus slid
off a muddy shoulder on one the most dangerous highways and plunged
into a ravine, killing at least 20 people.
(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, Thousands of illegal
Indonesian workers and their families are living in dire conditions in
camps near the country's border with Malaysia and one relief worker
said a few are selling their babies to raise cash.
(Reuters, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, Tens of thousands of
South Koreans heaved shovels to clear mud and debris from homes
devastated by Typhoon Rusa, the worst typhoon to hit the country in 40
years. The death toll from South Korea's worst typhoon in 40 years rose
to 113 as soldiers led a desperate search for 71 people still missing
after the weekend devastation.
(AP, 9/2/02)(Reuters, 9/3/02)(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 2, Russia urged Iraq to
admit U.N. weapons inspectors to avoid a war that could jeopardize
multibillion-dollar economic deals between the trading partners.
(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, The Sudanese
government suspended peace talks with southern rebels because of the
rebel takeover of Torit.
(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, At least 14 people
were killed and more than 20 were missing after their makeshift houses
on the banks of an overflowing stream collapsed after heavy rain in
northern Thailand.
(Reuters, 9/3/02)
2002 Sep 2, Tunisia's highest
court upheld jail terms against opposition leader Hamma Hammami, head
of the outlawed Communist Workers Party, and two officials of his
political party.
(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, At the UN Earth Summit
in South Africa negotiators agreed on a global plan to reduce the use
of oil and switch to other cleaner and more efficient forms of energy.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 3, Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld said the Bush administration had secret information
supporting its claims that Saddam Hussein was close to developing
nuclear weapons.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2002 Sep 3, The US Senate opened
debate on legislation creating a new Homeland Security Department.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2002 Sep 3, McDonald's announced
it will use a new soy-corn oil to reduce the levels of trans fat and
increase polyunsaturated fat in its fried products.
(SFC, 9/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 3, Louisiana State Univ.
fired Dr. Steven J. Hatfill after the Justice Dept. said the school
could not use him on grants funded by the agency. The firing came
following FBI investigations of Hatfill and naming him as a "person of
interest."
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 9/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 3, The DJIA fell 355 to
8308. Nasdaq fell 51 to 1263.
(WSJ, 9/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 3, W. Clement Stone
(100), insurance tycoon who bankrolled former Pres. Nixon's races,
died. Stone's self-help books included "The Success System That Never
Fails."
(WSJ, 9/5/02, p.A1)(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A27)
2002 Sep 3, Iraq said it was ready
to discuss a return of U.N. weapons inspectors, but only in a broader
context of ending sanctions and restoring Iraqi sovereignty over all
its territory.
(AP, 9/3/02)
2002 Sep 3, Israeli tank shells
killed Bahir Eid (22) and Hussein Najar (22) residents of the village
of Burin, a West Bank village.
(AP, 9/3/02)
2002 Sep 3, Russia and China gave
their backing to the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.
(AP, 9/3/02)(WSJ, 9/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, President Bush
promised to seek Congress' approval for "whatever is necessary" to oust
Saddam Hussein including using military force.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Secretary of State
Colin Powell was heckled by dozens of activists on the closing day of
the World Summit in South Africa as he defended America's record on the
environment and helping the developing world.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Texas cocktail
waitress and aspiring pop star Kelly Clarkson was voted the first
"American Idol" at the conclusion of the Fox TV series.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, In California it was
reported that the Phytophthora ramorum microbe, responsible for sudden
oak death, had infected the coastal redwood saplings.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, In Afghanistan Pres.
Karzai announced a new currency to replace the array of inflated
banknotes issued by the Taliban and regional warlords. Warlord
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former US ally, called for a jihad against US
forces.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, China reported that
flooding had killed 1,532 people this year.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 4, Colombian authorities
reported the break up of an international kidnapping ring organized by
the nation's second-largest rebel group to fund its insurgency. The
leader of the ring was captured in July, and authorities have arrested
his successor and other rebels within the last couple of days, said
Gen. Reynaldo Castellanos. The crime network was run out of Bogota by
members of the National Liberation Army. It included leftist groups
from Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico that kidnapped people and stole
cars, among other crimes.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, In Puerto Rico US Navy
security officers fired tear gas at protesters who hurled rocks over a
fence during bombing exercises on the island of Vieques.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, The World Summit on
Sustainable Development closed with just a handful of small victories
and some promising new initiatives. Colin Powell was heckled and the US
was viewed as a key obstacle to setting firm targets on many issues.
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an
anti-corruption scheme to oversee oil production, was launched by UK PM
Tony Blair, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in
Johannesburg, SA.
(AP, 9/5/02)(SFC, 9/5/02,
p.A10)(www.osi-az.org/eitiabout.shtml)
2002 Sep 5, The U.S. military
stated that American and British planes attacked an air defense command
and control facility at a military airfield 240 miles southwest of
Baghdad.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 5, In Illinois Judge
Harold Frobish of Livingston County ruled that prison inmates can
choose to starve themselves rather than endure years of solitary
confinement and that right outweighs the state's duty to keep them
alive.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A4)
2002 Sep 5, Actor Cliff Gorman
(65), who'd won a Tony for portraying comedian Lenny Bruce in the 1971
play "Lenny," died in New York.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 5, Afghan President Hamid
Karzai survived an assassination attempt in the southern city of
Kandahar. The attack, by a man dressed in military uniform, occurred
shortly after a powerful car bomb in the capital killed at least 26
people and wounded 150.
(Reuters, 9/6/02)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 5, In Gabon US Sec. of
State Colin Powell talked into the night with the Pres. Omar Bongo
about the country's commitment to preserve its lush forests, peace
efforts and the IMF.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 5, The Canadian
government said it will spend C$105 million ($66.9 million) in the
first stage of a plan to connect the country's rural residents to
high-speed Internet service by 2005.
(Reuters, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 5, In Colombia gunmen on
motorcycles killed Fernando Mancilla, the new chief of secret police
for Antioquia province, as he drove his car in Medellin.
(AP, 9/6/02)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A17)
2002 Sep 5, In Congo some
6,000 Ngiti and Lendu tribe tribal fighters and their allies attacked
the mission hospital in Nyankunde, slaughtering patients in their beds.
They killed some 650 people from the Bira, Hema and 16 other tribes on
the 1st day of the attacks.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2002 Sep 5, In Greece Dimitris
Koufodinas (44), a main hit man for the November 17 terror group,
surrendered to police.
(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A13)
2002 Sep 5, Palestinian
fighters blew up an Israeli tank in Gaza, killing the driver instantly.
Another Palestinian, linked to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, killed an
Israeli officer and wounded another soldier before he was shot dead.
(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Sep 5, In Somalia militiamen
tied white flags to their weapons as an informal cease-fire halted two
days of fierce fighting in a capital area that has left more than 25
people dead and 50 wounded.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 6, Meeting outside
Washington D.C., for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened
in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Sep 6, US officials reported
that the assets of Wa'el Hamza Julaidan, alleged al Qaeda financier,
had been frozen, and that he had been located in Saudi Arabia.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A8)
2002 Sep 6, A US Navy
helicopter crashed in the Persian Gulf, killing an American television
cameraman and injuring four sailors.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 6, Salvatore Gravano, mob
turncoat aka Sammy the Bull, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In
1998 Gravano, took over his son's failing Arizona drug-dealing
operation, an ecstasy drug ring. Gravano pleaded guilty in 2001.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A6)(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A4)
2002 Sep 6, A jury in Pensacola,
Fla., convicted 13- and 14-year-old brothers of murdering their
sleeping father with a baseball bat in an unusual case in which an
adult friend was acquitted of the crime under a different prosecution
theory. The judge threw out the convictions and ordered mediation; Alex
and Derek King later pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. Alex was
sentenced to seven years and Derek to eight years.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Sep 6, Iran reported the
successful test fire of a Fateh 110 A ballistic missile.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A5)
2002 Sep 6, Israel attacked
a factory in the Gaza Strip with missiles fired from helicopters after
a Palestinian "mega" bomb attempt was thwarted a day earlier.
(AP, 9/6/02)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Sep 6, In India the film "Ek
Chhoti Si Love Story" (A Short Love Story) was released across India
despite a court order and attacks on some theatres, has kicked up a
controversy over its explicit sexual content.
(Reuters, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 6, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim rebels shot dead Sheikh Abdul Rehman, a politician
contesting state elections, in the first killing of a candidate since
the campaign began.
(Reuters, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 6, Jews began Rosh
Hashanah at sunset. This ended their year 5762 and began year 5763.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 6, Mexico said it was
withdrawing from the 1947 Inter-American Reciprocal Defense Treaty
designed to protect the Americas against communism, a year after
President Vicente Fox called the agreement obsolete.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 6, A Yemeni man died when
a bomb he was carrying exploded in a crowded market in San'a, injuring
two bystanders.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 7, Serena Williams easily
beat Venus Williams 6-4, 6-3 to win the U.S. Open and a third straight
Grand Slam title.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Sep 7, Pres. Bush met with
British PM Tony Blair at Camp David, Md., to work out a strategy for
taking action against Iraq's Saddam Hussein. They said the world had to
act against Saddam Hussein, arguing that the Iraqi leader had defied
the United Nations and reneged on promises to destroy weapons of mass
destruction.
(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.A3)(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Sep 7, U.S. Navy fighter jets
dropped dummy bombs and inert missiles on Vieques in military exercises
that have divided this outlying Puerto Rican island for years.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, Uzi Gal (79), the
German-born inventor of Israel's Uzi submachine gun, died in
Philadelphia of a long illness. [see 1954]
(AP, 9/9/02)(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A16)
2002 Sep 7, In Paris over 6,000
people marched through to demand residency permits for France's illegal
immigrants in the largest of a series of recent rallies.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, Indonesian officials
say 35 deportees from Malaysia have died at sprawling makeshift camps
in Borneo as they await the arrival of a navy vessel bringing medical
help.
(Reuters, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, In Nepal over one
thousand Maoist rebels, fighting to topple Nepal's constitutional
monarchy, attacked a police post in the east of the country and killed
49 police officers.
(Reuters, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 7, In Portugal the town
of Reguengos de Monsaraz openly flouted a new bullfighting law, killing
a bull in the ring without government permission, and selling the beef
for human consumption afterward. The matador and the festival
organizers will be arraigned in the first legal test of the new
anti-bullfighting law. Killing in the bullring had been banned since
1928. However, Parliament voted in July to allow bulls to be put to
death, but only in cities and towns that have carried on the
bullfighting tradition for 50 years or more.
(AP, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 7, In Turkey 17 people
were killed in separate bus crashes Saturday, including two members of
a professional Turkish soccer team.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, The U.N. Security
Council has decided to keep U.N. peacekeepers in Ethiopia and Eritrea
six more months to give the countries time to mark their border.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, Katrin Cartlidge (41),
the spirited English actress who distinguished herself in the movies of
Mike Leigh and in the London theater, died of septicemia resulting from
pneumonia.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 8, Pete Sampras beat
Andre Agassi (news) 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 to win his 14th Grand Slam title
and the U.S. Open for the fifth time.
(AP, 9/8/03)
2002 Sep 8, The US government
reported that violent crime rate had dropped by 10 percent the previous
year, reaching lowest level since 1973.
(AP, 9/8/03)
2002 Sep 8, In San Francisco Ray
D. Jimmerson Jr. (25), a key witness in a case against the Big Block
gang, was shot to death on Buchanon St. In 2005 Dennis Cyrus Jr., a
leader of the Page Street Mob, was indicted for the slaying. In 2009
Cyrus was convicted of murdering 3 men and sentenced to life in prison
without parole.
(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/27/05, p.B4)(SFC,
6/27/09, p.B1)
2002 Sep 8, Authorities closed
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) indefinitely
following weeks of student unrest.
(Reuters, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 8, In southeast China
typhoon Sinlaku was weakening as it churned inland after triggering
fierce winds and heavy rain that killed 23 people, toppled homes and
uprooted trees.
(Reuters, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 8, In Guatemala local
media reported that anthropologists digging under a school in Rabinal,
in Guatemala's northern highlands, had unearthed the remains of 47
people killed during the country's 1960-1996 civil war.
(AP, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 8, The leaders of the two
main Kurdish factions, KDP and PUK, that control northern Iraq signed a
reconciliation agreement as the United States tries to forge a united
front against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 8, In eastern Pakistan 4
suspected militants, including two linked to a bloody attack on a
church last year, were killed in a shootout with the police.
(Reuters, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 8, Philippine troops
shelled retreating Muslim guerrillas after capturing two rebel camps in
fighting on southern Jolo island that left at least 22 dead.
(Reuters, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 8, A Russian prosecutor
said that the bodies of seven Chechen residents who disappeared several
months ago were found in a common grave near Goragorsk.
(AP, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 8, Georges-Andre
Chevallaz (87), a former Swiss president (1980) and member of the
ruling cabinet for 10 years, died in Lausanne.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, The US State
Department cleared the way for giving $41.6 million in arms and
equipment to Colombia, certifying that the country's military has met
human rights requirements in three areas.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, Allied aircraft struck
Iraq for the third time in a week, bombing a military facility
southeast of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, In Burundi 183
civilians were killed by uniformed men in an area of heavy fighting
between government troops and rebels. On Sep 18 the government promised
an investigation.
(AP, 9/18/02)
2002 Sep 9, In El Salvador a small
plane crashed into the slopes of a mountain, killing four prominent
Guatemala businessmen and the pilot.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, In Egypt a military
court convicted 51 men in one of the country's biggest cases against
Muslim militants in years and sentenced them to two to 15 years in
prison. The group was dubbed al-Wa'ad (the Promise).
(AP, 9/9/02)(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 9, The Rajdhani Express
train derailed in Bihar state and fell into a river, killing at least
118 people. An Indian railway official said that it was an act of
sabotage.
(AP, 9/10/02)(WSJ, 9/10/02, p.A1)(Reuters,
9/11/02)(AP, 9/9/03)
2002 Sep 9, Iraq challenged the
United States to produce "one piece of evidence" that it was producing
weapons of mass destruction. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the
Security Council must be allowed to have its say on a possible attack
against Iraq.
(AP, 9/9/03)
2002 Sep 9, In Nepal Maoist rebels
launched an overnight attack on a remote Nepali town targeting several
government offices. At least 57 soldiers and police were killed and a
counterattack was launched.
(Reuters, 9/9/02)(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 9, An earthquake struck
just off Papua New Guinea's north coast, killing 3 people and causing a
tidal wave that washed away at least 40 homes.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, Tens of thousands of
Sri Lankans rallied in the capital Colombo in a show of support for
peace talks with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels aimed at ending one of
Asia's longest-running wars.
(Reuters, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 10, The Bush
administration raised the nationwide terror alert to yellow, its
second-highest level, closed nine U.S. embassies overseas and
heightened security at federal buildings and landmarks in America on
the eve of the Sept. 11 anniversary.
(AP, 9/10/03)
2002 Sep 10, It was reported that
US forces in Afghanistan had launched Operation Champion Strike in the
Bermel Valley aimed at re-entering al Qaeda.
(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A5)
2002 Sep 10, Martin Strel of
Slovenia finished swimming the 2,360-mile length of the Mississippi. He
began July 4 and covered 11-12 miles per day.
(WSJ, 9/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 10, In the Florida
Democratic primary Bill McBride won over former Attorney General Janet
Reno by some 8,196 votes for a chance to unseat Gov. Jebb Bush. McBride
was certified as winner on Sep 17. Polling stations opened late and
problems cropped up with new touchscreen voting machines.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 9/13/02, p.A1)(WSJ,
9/18/02, p.A1)(AP, 9/10/03)
2002 Sep 10, In Argentina
thousands of people staged a 10-minute demonstration in Buenos Aires to
protest a crime wave that has engulfed this country as it falls deeper
into economic crisis.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 10, Colombia stepped up
its emergency powers to battle growing insurgency violence, announcing
it can detain people without warrants, restrict travel and impose
curfews.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 10, In southeastern
France authorities said flooding and heavy rain had claimed the lives
of 26 people. Rescuers were searching for dozens of others reported
missing.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 10, In Indonesia soldiers
arrested nurse Joy Lee Sadler (57) and academic Lesley McCullough (40)
in Aceh province on charges of violating tourist visas by meeting with
Aceh rebels. Sadler struck a commander who tried to take her friend's
computer. Sadler was released Jan 10, 2003.
(SFC, 12/18/02, p.A21)(SFC, 1/10/03, p.A17)
2002 Sep 10, Radical farmers in
San Salvador, Mexico, have declared this town outside Mexico City to be
autonomous, two months after they forced the government to abandon
plans for a new airport.
(AP, 9/11/02)
2002 Sep 10, In South Africa the
highest court ruled that gay couples have the right to adopt children
and laws that prevent them from doing so violate their constitutional
rights.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 10, Switzerland became
the 190th member of the UN, preserving its historic neutrality but
stepping more actively onto the world stage.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 11, With words of comfort
and resolve, President Bush joined the nation in remembering "how it
began and who fell first" in the terrorist attacks one year earlier.
Memorial ceremonies were tinged with fear the anniversary could spark
repeat attacks.
(Reuters, 9/11/02)(AP, 9/11/03)
2002 Sep 11, Kim Hunter (79), film
actress, died. She won a 1951 supporting Oscar for her role as Stella
in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A26)
2002 Sep 11, Johnny Unitas
(b.1933), Hall of Fame football quarterback, died in Baltimore. In 2006
Tom Callahan authored “Johnny U, The Life and Times of John Unitas.”
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/06, p.F3)
2002 Sep 11, George Shiynyuy (38),
a prominent Cameroon separatist leader, died in state custody,
hospital. Newspapers reported he was tortured to death.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 11, The Guatemala
Congress enacted a law that prohibited racial discrimination.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 11, The 21-member
Palestinian Cabinet resigned after Yasser Arafat lost a showdown with
parliament, the most serious challenge to the Palestinian leader since
he returned from exile in 1994.
(AP, 9/11/02)
2002 Sep 11, In Karachi, Pakistan,
2 al Qaeda suspects were killed and 5 captured after police stormed an
apartment. Key al Qaeda member Ramzi Binalshibh, who is wanted by
Germany for his alleged role in planning and carrying out the hijacked
plane attacks on the US, was arrested after a long running gun battle
in Pakistan.
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A3)(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 11, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir Islamic militants killed Mushtaq Ahmad Lone (44), a state law
minister and legislative candidate. 15 others were killed in 2 other
attacks.
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A5)
2002 Sep 11, In Russia Pres. Putin
threatened military strikes on Georgia to defend itself from terrorist
attacks.
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A7)
2002 Sep 12, Pres. Bush addressed
the UN and laid out his case against Iraq's Pres. Saddam Hussein. Bush
told skeptical world leaders at the United Nations to confront the
"grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or to stand
aside as the United States acted. Bush was expected to announce US
plans to rejoin Unesco, headquartered in Paris. France favored a demand
for weapons inspectors in Iraq along with force if Iraq resisted.
(WSJ, 9/12/02, p.A1,4)(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A1)(AP,
9/12/03)
2002 Sep 12, L. Dennis Kozlowski
(55), former CEO of Tyco Int'l. was indicted along with Mark Swartz,
financial adviser, for a $600 million racketeering scheme. 3 former
Tyco International executives were charged with looting the
conglomerate of hundreds of millions of dollars; all three pleaded
innocent at their arraignment in New York.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.B1)(AP, 9/12/03)(WSJ, 10/30/03,
p.C1)
2002 Sep 12, In Union City, Ca., 3
people were found slain at a rented home in Compton Court. Arrests in
2006 linked the triple slaying to a feud over ecstasy trafficking.
(SFC, 8/14/06, p.B2)
2002 Sep 12, Tahitian authorities
found a 55-foot catamaran, the Hakuna Matata, that belonged to former
NBA star Bison Dele (b.1969 as Brian Carson Williams). His brother,
Kevin Williams (Miles Dabord) was seen docking the catamaran on July 16
in Taravao, Tahiti. Williams met his girlfriend on July 8 in Papeete
and described a scuffle that left 3 people dead. He was last seen Sept.
5 in Phoenix, when he tried to pick up an order for $500,000 in
American Double Eagle coins using his brother's passport. A comatose
Williams was arrested Sep 19 at a San Diego hospital and died Sep 27.
(SFC, 9/14/02, p.A15)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A1)(SFC,
9/19/02, p.A7)(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A1)(SFC, 9/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 9/28/02,
p.A5)
2002 Sep 12, In Maine 14 guest
workers from Honduras and Guatemala were drowned when their van fell
off a bridge into the Allagash Wilderness Waterway.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 12, The World Bank
pledged $120 million to help Angola rebuild after more than two decades
of civil war, but told its leaders they must take measures to dispel
suspicion of high-level corruption.
(AP, 9/12/02)
2002 Sep 12, In western Guatemala
heavy rains loosened a mountainside, burying about 30 homes and killing
at least 17 people. Officials said that nearly two dozen others were
missing.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 12, In Nicaragua
prosecutors have filed new corruption charges against Amelia Aleman,
sister of former President Arnoldo Aleman, accusing her of embezzling
funds from a state-owned construction company and ordering its work
force to handle her private home-improvement projects.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, President Bush said
it was "highly doubtful" that Saddam Hussein would comply with demands
that he disarm and avoid a confrontation with the world community. And
he mocked Democrats and other lawmakers who wanted UN action before a
congressional vote on confronting Saddam.
(AP, 9/13/03)
2002 Sep 13, Argentine police
arrested Luis Ramirez Pineda (77), a retired Chilean army general, at a
Buenos Aires hotel on an international warrant for alleged involvement
in human rights abuses stemming from the 1973 coup in Chile.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, It was reported that
political theater in Brazil had taken on a new grass-roots form called
the Theater of the Oppressed, wherein spectators stepped into scenes in
"interventions" to take the part of the underdog.
(WSJ, 9/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 13, In Guatemala Miguel
Angel Orozco (33), a policeman who had shot a woman, was seized and
burned to death by an angry mob in Coatepeque. Radio stations quoted
witnesses as saying Orozco had been drunk at the time.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 13, Four Palestinians
were killed in Gaza, including three in an explosion at a home believed
to harbor a bomb workshop. Elsewhere, a Palestinian gunman died in a
firefight with Israeli soldiers.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, Iraq will pay up to
$5,000 each to Palestinians whose home is demolished in the Israeli
campaign against suspected militants, a pro-Iraqi group said Friday,
hinting also that Iraq is supplying weapons to the Palestinians.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, A top Iraqi official
said Baghdad opposes the return of U.N. weapons inspectors and
President Bush's speech to the United Nations was "full of lies." Iraq
will attack Israel if it takes part in a U.S. strike against President
Hussein's government, an Iraqi minister said in published remarks.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, In Nepal 9 police
officers were killed when their jeep drove over a land mine. The 6-year
Maoist insurgency has left nearly 5,000 people dead.
(SFC, 9/14/02, p.A10)
2002 Sep 13, Peru's Pres.
Alejandro Toledo signed a $50 million loan agreement with World Bank to
provide fresh water and sanitation facilities to more than a million
people in rural areas of Peru.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, Foreign ministers of
the U.N. Security Council's permanent five nations said that Iraq's
refusal to obey past U.N. resolutions "is a serious matter and that
Iraq must comply." Russia, Europe and key Arab states piled pressure on
Iraq on Friday to readmit U.N. weapons inspectors to avert possible
U.S.-led military action.
(AP, 9/13/02)(Reuters, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, In South Africa the
Italian ship, the Jolly Rubino, that ran aground within the
boundaries of the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park, began leaking oil and
was in danger of breaking up, according to conservation officials and a
salvage company.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 14, President Bush said
the United States was willing to take Iraq on alone if the United
Nations failed to "show some backbone" by confronting Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2002 Sep 14, In Lackawanna, New
York, 5 men of Yemeni descent were charged with supporting foreign
terrorist organizations. They trained in an al Qaeda camp run by Osama
bin Laden's al-Qaida network in the spring of 2001. A 6th member of the
cell was arrested in Bahrain. All 6 were indicted Oct 21. In 2003
Mukhtar al-Bakri was sentenced to 10 years, Yasein Taher to 9 years.
All terms ranged from 7-10 years.
(AP, 9/15/02)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A12)(SFC, 10/22/02,
p.A7)(SFC, 12/5/03, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/18/03, p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, Lolita Torres (72), a
singer and one of the top actresses of Argentina's golden era of
cinema, died of complications from a lung infection.
(AP, 9/15/02)
2002 Sep 14, In China 38 (49)
people died and hundreds were hospitalized with food poisoning after
eating breakfast snacks, sesame cakes, fried dough sticks and fried
glutinous rice balls, in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. A man
jealous of a business rival later confessed to spiking his competitor's
breakfast snacks with rat poison.
(Reuters, 9/14/02)(Reuters, 9/17/02)(WSJ, 9/17/02,
p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, In Congo DRC it was
reported that some 1,200 people had died from a cholera epidemic and
that another 18,000 were infected.
(SFC, 9/14/02, p.A20)
2002 Sep 14, In Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, demonstrators threw homemade firebombs at police
who retaliated with tear gas during a fourth day of violent protests
over electricity blackouts that have left 2 dead.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In France Tim
Montgomery, American sprinter, set a 9.78 second record in the
100-meter dash at the IAAF Grand Prix in Paris. In 2004 he admitted to
using steroids and a growth hormone. In 2005 he was banned from track
for 2 years and his 2001-2005 records were expunged.
(SFC, 6/24/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/14/05, p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, In Italy tens of
thousands of protesters rallied in central Rome, accusing conservative
Premier Silvio Berlusconi of using political power for his personal
benefit, and saying opposition parties were not doing enough about it.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Ivory Coast’s
Azagny National Park there were only 39,000 western chimpanzees left of
an original 600,000. The western chimpanzee, one of four subspecies of
the common chimpanzee, was already extinct in the wild in Benin, Gambia
and Togo. It was almost extinct in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea,
Guinea Bissau and Ghana.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, President Emile
Lahoud said Lebanon will start pumping water from a shared border river
for its southern villages despite Israeli military threats.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Liberia Pres.
Charles Taylor lifted the state of emergency he imposed eight months
ago, declaring that the rebel insurrection against his government had
been all but crushed.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Macedonia an
ethnic Albanian was killed and two were wounded in a clash with police,
as tensions soared on the eve of key elections.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, South and North Korea
have set a date to begin mine clearing and establish a military hotline
during reconstruction of railway links across their fortified border
divided for 50 years.
(Reuters, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Syria 2 buses
collided in the northeast, killing 13 people and injuring four others.
(AP, 9/15/02)
2002 Sep 15, U.S. and British
warplanes bombed Iraqi installations in the southern no-fly zone. Major
air defense sites were being targeted.
(AP, 9/15/02)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A12)
2002 Sep 15, In Knoxville,
Tennessee, a Norfolk Southern train derailed near and one car with
93,000 pounds of sulfuric acid ruptured. The liquid acid vaporized
creating a toxic cloud.
(SFC, 9/16/02, p.A7)
2002 Sep 15, Thousands of Muslims
gathered at a radical Islamic conference in London to confront what
organizers said was a choice between accepting life under a
"colonialist world view" or being labeled terrorists.
(AP, 9/15/02)
2002 Sep 15, Jews in Israel marked
Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year.
(AP, 9/15/02)
2002 Sep 15, In Macedonia the
opposition led by Branko Crvenkovski swept the ruling coalition from
power in the country's first elections since last year's armed
uprising. Premier Ljubco Georgievski confirmed the nationalists' defeat.
(AP, 9/16/02)(WSJ, 9/16/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 15, At least 5 Iraqi
agents graduated from a 2-week course in surveillance techniques at the
"Special Training Center" in Moscow.
(SSFC, 4/13/03, p.A1)
2002 Sep 15, Sweden's voters
bucked the conservative trend in Europe, reaffirming support for the
country's generous welfare system. The ruling Social Democrats claimed
victory in the national elections.
(AP, 9/16/02)
2002 Sep 15, Derek Davies (71),
who ran the Far Eastern Economic Review for 25 years and turned the
magazine into a leading source of English-language news and analysis
about Asia died in France.
(AP, 9/17/02)
2002 Sep 16, In Argentina a bus
filled with Catholic pilgrims fell into a deep gorge some 50 miles from
Catamarca, killing 38 and injuring 27.
(AP, 9/16/02)
2002 Sep 16, In Chechnya a land
mine planted at a busy intersection in the capital Grozny exploded as a
passenger bus drove by, and 19 people were killed and 20 others
wounded. 3 suspects in the blast were detained.
(AP, 9/16/02)(AP, 9/17/02)
2002 Sep 16, European political
and business officials gathered for a two-day summit on the lagging
economy and the last snags to expanding the European Union into eastern
Europe.
(AP, 9/16/02)
2002 Sep 16, Indian-ruled Kashmir
ended the first stage of state assembly elections against a backdrop of
violence and in the shadow of a tense confrontation between nuclear
powers India and Pakistan. Indian troops killed 9 suspected Islamic
rebels in a border sweep hours before the elections. A 44% turnout was
reported.
(Reuters, 9/16/02)(WSJ, 9/16/02, p.A1)(SFC, 9/17/02,
p.A10)
2002 Sep 16, Iraq said it would
allow UN weapons inspectors unconditional access to suspected weapons
sites. Naji Sabri, Iraq's minister of foreign affairs, addressed the
letter to UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan. The inspection commission, headed by
Hans Blix, is responsible for overseeing the destruction of Iraq's
chemical and biological weapons and the long-range missiles to deliver
them. Core staff: 63 people from 17 nations.
(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/17/02, p.A3)(AP, 9/18/02)
2002 Sep 16, In Lagos, Nigeria, an
accidental factory fire complex fire left at least 15 dead. Thousands
of rioters soon burned and looted the factory. 45 bodies were later
recovered.
(AP, 9/17/02)(WSJ, 9/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 16, In Singapore
authorities announced the arrests of 21 men they identified as members
of an extremist Islamic organization. The men were initially detained
in August and linked to Riduan Isamuddin, an Indonesian militant.
(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A12)(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A14)
2002 Sep 16, Sri Lanka's
government and Tamil Tiger rebels began peace talks brokered by Norway
in Thailand.
(Reuters, 9/16/02)(SFC, 9/16/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 9/17/02,
p.A1)
2002 Sep 16, In Ukraine, some
15,000 demonstrators marched in Kiev and tens of thousands of others
gathered in public squares around the country, demanding that President
Leonid Kuchma resign or call new elections.
(AP, 9/16/02)
2002 Sep 17, US Constitution Day:
Article 1, Section 8: "The power to declare war rests with Congress."
(SFC, 9/15/02, p.D4)
2002 Sep 17, The United States and
its key global partners in Middle East peacemaking agreed to try to
establish a provisional Palestinian state next year.
(AP, 9/17/02)
2002 Sep 17, The US "Religious
Congregations & Membership: 2000" study was released. It counted
some 62 million Catholics as the top of 15 faiths and listed the
Mormons as the fastest growing with 4.2 million members.
(SFC, 9/18/02, p.A3)
2003 Sep 17, NBA star Patrick
Ewing announced his retirement as a player.
(AP, 9/17/03)
2002 Sep 17, Elizabeth Coblentz
(66), Amish cooking columnist, died. Her cook books included "The Amish
Cook Cookbook" and "An Amish Christmas."
(SFC, 9/23/02, p.B5)
2002 Sep 17, The foreign
secretaries of Belize and Guatemala announced a proposed border
settlement in their countries. The proposal retains the border between
the two countries established in a 1959 treaty, which Guatemala has
rejected, and suggests a series of measures aimed at sharing resources.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 17, UN Weapons inspectors
and Iraqi officials agreed to meet in Vienna in 10 days to complete
arrangements for the inspectors' return. The UN said Iraq had abandoned
its illegal surcharges in the oil-for-food program.
(AP, 9/17/02)(WSJ, 9/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 17, Kim Jong-il
apologized to Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi for abductions of Japanese
citizens and offered concessions on security issues of global concern.
Both leaders exchanged apologies. Of 11 Japanese on an official North
Korea list of those who were kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s, only 4
were still alive. Details of the kidnapped were made public Oct 2.
North Korea announced that it will indefinitely extend its moratorium
on missile testing as part of the North Korea-Japan Pyongyang
Declaration signed during a meeting between Japanese PM Junichiro
Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
(AP, 9/17/02)(SFC, 10/3/02,
p.A8)(www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron.asp)
2002 Sep 17, In Paraguay police
fired tear gas and water cannons to clear thousands of anti-government
demonstrators from the capital's main square, injuring at least 40
protesters.
(AP, 9/17/02)
2002 Sep 17, Rwanda began
withdrawing troops from eastern Congo as part of an agreement signed
with the Congolese government to end the four-year civil war in
Africa's third-largest nation.
(AP, 9/17/02)
2002 Sep 18, The Bush
administration pressed Congress to take the lead in authorizing force
against Iraq, with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asserting, "It
serves no U.S. or U.N. purpose to give Saddam Hussein excuses for
further delay."
(AP, 9/18/03)
2002 Sep 18, Bob Hayes (59),
former Olympic gold medal sprinter (1964) and Dallas Cowboy, died.
(WSJ, 9/20/02, p.A1)(NW, 9/30/02, p.15)
2002 Sep 18, A French appeals
court ordered wartime collaborator Maurice Papon freed, accepting his
lawyers' arguments that the 92-year-old is too sick to finish his
10-year sentence for helping send Jews to Nazi death camps.
(AP, 9/18/07)
2002 Sep 18, In Srinagar, Kashmir,
2 ruling party workers were gunned down and a ruling lawmaker was
attacked ahead of the second round of voting in a state election dogged
by anti-poll violence that left 13 people dead.
(Reuters, 9/18/02)(SFC, 9/19/02, p.A10)
2002 Sep 18, A Palestinian suicide
bomber blew himself up at a bus stop in the Arab-Israeli village of Umm
al-Fahm in northern Israel, wounding several people.
(AP, 9/18/02)
2002 Sep 18, Abu Salem, alleged
terrorist mastermind, Mafia boss and one of India's most wanted men,
was arrested in Portugal. Salem is accused by Indian police of being
involved in the country's worst bombing attack, which killed 257 people
in Bombay in 1993, as well as a string of murder and extortion cases.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 18, The World Bank
reported that the Vietnamese natural environment, which supports one of
the world's most biologically diverse ecosystems, has deteriorated
rapidly over the past 10 years.
(AP, 9/18/02)
2002 Sep 19, President Bush asked
Congress for authority to "use all means," including military force if
necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he
did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon all weapons of
mass destruction.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2002 Sep 19, Kansas City first
base coach Tom Gamboa was attacked without warning by two fans, a
father and son, who came out of the seats at Comiskey Park. The father,
34-year-old William Ligue Jr., and his 15-year-old son later received
probation.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2002 Sep 19, Scientists urged
stronger warning labels for acetaminophen, a painkiller used in
numerous products including Tylenol. Overdose caused liver damage and
annual deaths numbered some 100.
(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 19, In Colombia Army
troops killed 21 guerrillas on 23 fronts and freed 2 kidnapped
civilians. A 3rd hostage died in the fighting.
(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A12)
2002 Sep 19, German police stormed
homes and froze bank accounts across the country after outlawing 16
more groups linked to a jailed Islamic militant accused of plotting an
airplane attack in Turkey.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19, Ivory Coast's former
junta leader, Gen. Robert Guei, was killed after heavily armed forces
attacked government and security installations in Abidjan and other
cities in the West African country.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19, In Nigeria Ijaw tribe
militants captured seven foreign-owned oil facilities and threatened to
invade dozens more in a bid to force the government to change election
boundaries they say favor a rival tribe.
(AP, 9/20/02)(SFC, 9/21/02, p.A6)
2002 Sep 19, North Korea announced
it had made the city of Sinuiju on its border with China a "special
administrative region," a move South Korean media said was the first
step towards creating a new economic zone.
(Reuters, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19, A Palestinian blew
himself up on a crowded bus in downtown Tel Aviv, killing at least five
other people and wounding 49. It was the second suicide bombing in two
days after a six-week lull.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19-20, The Colombian air
force bombarded two rebel camps in northwest Colombia, killing an
estimated 200 insurgents.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 20, President Bush
appealed to a reluctant Russian President Vladimir Putin to back a new
U.N. resolution that would threaten Iraq with war if it did not disarm;
Russian officials indicated there might be room for compromise.
(AP, 9/20/03)
2002 Sep 20, It was reported that
cancer in Melanoma patients went into remission following injections of
their own T-cells.
(WSJ, 9/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 20, Scientists urged
stronger warning labels for aspirin, ibuprofen and similar painkillers
due to the risk of ulcers.
(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 20, William Rosenberg
(86), founder of the Dunkin' Donuts chain, died in Mashpee, Mass.
(AP, 9/20/03)
2002 Sep 20, A riot in an
overcrowded Dominican prison left at least 27 inmates dead and 48
others injured, 12 critically. Most of the deaths were by smoke
inhalation.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 20, In India one man was
killed and 5 others injured when police opened fire to disperse groups
of Hindus and Muslims fighting in western Gujarat state.
(Reuters, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 20, Israel tightened its
siege on Yasser Arafat, using tanks to destroy a stairwell in his
compound, digging a deep trench and running coils of barbed wire around
his offices.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 20, Rebel soldiers dug in
at two Ivory Coast cities, reinforcing positions with heavy weapons and
handing out uniforms and guns to recruits, a day after the government
said it had crushed a bloody coup attempt.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 20, In southern Russia a
collapsing glacier triggered an avalanche of ice and mud, burying the
village of Nizhny Karmadon in the southern republic of North Ossetia,
and killing as many as 100 people.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 20, Necdet Kent (91),
Turkish diplomat in France (1941-1944), died in Istanbul. He gave
Turkish citizenship to dozens of Turkish Jews living in France who did
not have proper identity papers to save them from deportation to the
Nazi gas chambers.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 20, In Yemen 2 suspected
members of al-Qaida were killed in a gunbattle and three others were
arrested after security forces raided several homes looking for members
of the terrorist network.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 21, Erika Harold, Miss
Illinois, was crowned in Atlantic City, NJ, as Miss America 2003.
(SSFC, 9/22/02, p.A2)
2002 Sep 21, Angelo Buono Jr.,
whose gruesome killing of young Los Angeles women in the 1970s earned
him the nickname Hillside Strangler, died in a California prison; he
was 67.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2002 Sep 21, In Indonesia 10
people were killed and 15 wounded in an explosion at a fireworks
factory in the town of Slawi in Central Java province.
(Reuters, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, Iraq rejected U.S.
efforts to secure a U.N. resolution threatening war, with Iraqi
state-run radio announcing Baghdad will not abide by unfavorable new
resolutions adopted by the U.N. Security Council.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, In Liberia government
forces and rebels battled for at least three northern and northwestern
towns in a new outbreak of fighting near the border with Guinea.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, Explosions rocked
Yasser Arafat's compound, including one that showered him with debris,
as the Israeli army systematically blew up or bulldozed nearly every
building around him in the Palestinian Authority's headquarters.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, In Slovakia Vladimir
Meciar, the authoritarian former prime minister, appeared to edge out
his rivals in elections, but he was without the support needed to
catapult him to power in the face of united opposition.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 22, The White House drama
"The West Wing" won its third consecutive Emmy as best drama series;
Jennifer Aniston won for best actress in Friends, which won for the
best comedy series.
(SFC, 9/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 22, Gerhard Schroeder's
Social Democrats held onto power in Germany's closest postwar election,
but the chancellor will face a tougher opposition as he tries to reduce
unemployment and revive the economy. The parliamentary elections pitted
center-left Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder against conservative
challenger, Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber.
(Reuters, 9/22/02)(AP, 9/23/02)
2002 Sep 22, In the Ivory Coast
thousands of angry civilians marched through a rebel-held city of
Bouake, screaming anti-government slogans and cheering the insurgents
behind this West African nation's bloodiest military uprising.
(AP, 9/22/02)
2002 Sep 22, In Kashmir 6 police
were wounded and one Muslim militant killed following an attack on a
police compound in Srinagar.
(SSFC, 9/22/02, p.A12)
2002 Sep 22, In Nepal Maoist
rebels fighting the constitutional monarchy have called for a three-day
countrywide strike aimed at disrupting general elections slated to
begin on November 13. The army killed 76 rebels over the last 2 days.
(Reuters, 9/22/02)(SFC, 9/23/02, p.A8)(SFC, 9/24/02,
p.A13)
2002 Sep 22, Thousands of
Palestinians, many defying military curfews, poured into West Bank and
Gaza streets to protest Israel's assault on Yasser Arafat's
headquarters, and 5 demonstrators were killed by army fire.
(AP, 9/22/02)(WSJ, 9/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 22, Switzerland held a
referendum on the use of tons of "excess" gold sold weekly from the
vaults of Switzerland's central bank. The government wants to split the
money three ways: a third to Swiss cantons, or states, a third to its
social security program exclusively for Swiss residents and a third to
be divided evenly between self-help projects for use at home and abroad.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 23, The Bush
administration asked a federal appeals court to strike down Oregon's
assisted-suicide law.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 23, A 24-count indictment
charging conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud was filed against
the founding family and two executives of bankrupt cable company
Adelphia Communications Corporation.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2002 Sep 23, Governor Gray Davis
signed a law making California the first state to offer workers paid
family leave.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A1)(AP, 9/23/03)
2002 Sep 23, Hong Im Ballenger, a
beauty shop manager in Baton Rouge, La., was shot to death. Her murder
was later attributed to John Allen Muhammed, the Washington area sniper.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 23, Rachel Burkheimer
(18) of Marysville, Wa., was shot to death by her boyfriend John
Anderson. On Oct 5 Matthew Durham led police to her body. 8 people were
later arrested for her murder. In 2004 Yusef Jihad, head of a gang
involved in the killing, was convicted of 1st degree murder. Anderson
was convicted of aggravated 1st degree murder on May 19, 2004. In 2004
Tony Williams (22) was sentenced to 9 years in prison and Maurice Rivas
(20) to 26 years.
(ST, 4/6/04, p.B5)(ST, 5/20/04, p.B1)(ST, 7/29/04,
p.B1)
2002 Sep 23, In Inner Mongolia,
China, a staircase guardrail gave way at a school, killing 21 students.
(Reuters, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 23, Georgia's president
sought to defuse an explosive war of words with Russia, offering to let
Moscow send unarmed military observers to the mountain valley where
Russia says terrorists are operating.
(AP, 9/23/02)
2002 Sep 23, War fever drove U.S.
oil prices to a new 19-month high as dealers took fright at the growing
threat of a U.S. assault on Iraq.
(AP, 9/23/02)
2002 Sep 23, Twenty five leaders
from Asia and the European Union gathered for a two-day summit expected
to focus on North Korea, the fight against international terrorism and
economic cooperation.
(AP, 9/23/02)
2002 Sep 23, Hurricane Isidore
left two dead and 300,000 homeless in Mexico's Yucatan and moved toward
the U.S. Gulf coast.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 23, In Kashmir Muslim
separatists killed 10 people in grenade attacks on polling stations to
frighten voters.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A13)
2002 Sep 23, Nepali troops fought
a fierce battle with Maoist rebels and killed 24 guerrillas. The death
toll from the fighting took the number of insurgents killed in the last
five days to 143.
(Reuters, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 23, A defiant Yasser
Arafat dug in at his besieged West Bank compound, rejecting Israel's
demand to hand over the names of all those holed up inside.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2002 Sep 23, A Palestinian gunman
opened fire on visitors attending Jewish holiday celebrations In
Hebron, killing a man and wounding three of his sons.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 24, The US Census Bureau
reported a rise in the poverty rate to 11.7%, with 32.9 million people
classified as poor. It was the 1st rise in 8 years.
(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 24, The annual $500,00
"genius award" MacArthur grants were given to 24 men and women
including David B. Goldstein, energy specialist at the Natural
Resources Defense Council in SF for his work on energy-efficient
refrigerators.
(SFC, 9/25/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.B1)
2002 Sep 24, The Dow Jones
industrials dropped nearly 190 points to hit a four-year low. The
Federal Reserve voted to keep U.S. interest rates steady for now
despite rare dissent within its ranks.
(AP, 9/24/02)(Reuters, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 24, British Prime
Minister Tony Blair asserted that Iraq had a growing arsenal of
chemical and biological weapons and planned to use them, as he unveiled
an intelligence dossier to a special session of Parliament.
(AP, 9/24/03)
2002 Sep 24, Youssouf Togoimi,
rebel head of the Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad and a
former minister in the government of President Idriss Deby, died from
wounds suffered after his vehicle struck a land mine Aug 28. Togoimi
died in a hospital in neighboring Libya where he was flown for
treatment.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 24, The Danish government
announced that the US will return to Denmark a section of the U.S. air
base at Thule in northern Greenland that was created in 1953.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 24, In India commandos
stormed the Swaminarayan Hindu temple in Gandhinagar to try to flush
out gunmen who killed 32 Hindus and wounded over 70. Two attackers were
killed the next day after a 14-hour siege.
(Reuters, 9/24/02)(SFC, 9/25/02, p.A11)(WSJ,
9/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 24, Iraq dismissed a
British government report that said Saddam Hussein is pursuing
chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 24, Allied aircraft
struck Iraqi air defense facilities again in a double strike at two
southeastern installations. Precision-guided weapons were aimed at a
radar facility near Al Amarah about 165 miles southeast of Baghdad and
a defense communications facility at Tallil, about 170 miles southeast
of the capital.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 24, Israel defied a
U.N. Security Council demand to end its six-day siege of Yasser
Arafat's devastated West Bank headquarters. 9 Palestinians were killed
in an Israeli strike against alleged munitions factories and other
targets in Gaza City. Israeli troops demolished three houses of
Palestinian terror suspects, while Jewish settler leaders inaugurated a
new Jewish settlement near the Palestinian city of Nablus.
(AP, 9/24/02)(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 24, In Spain a
booby-trapped sign bearing the logo of the armed Basque separatist
group ETA exploded, killing one police officer and wounding three
others.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 24, Tropical Storm Lili
unleashed a mudslide that buried a woman and three of her children in
St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 25, The annual Alaska oil
dividend was announced to be $1,540.76.
(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A7)
2002 Sep 25, US military C-130s
and US troops landed in Ivory Coast to rescue Americans. American
schoolchildren escaped a rebel-held Ivory Coast city that was under
siege as US special forces and French troops moved in to rescue
Westerners caught in the West African nation's bloody uprising.
(AP, 9/25/02)(AP, 9/25/07)
2002 Sep 25, Tropical Storm
Isidore drenched the Gulf Coast.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2002 Sep 25, Explosives (pentrite)
were discovered on a Moroccan jet after passengers left the flight at
an airport in eastern France. There was no detonator attached to the 3
1/2 ounces of explosives discovered in the passenger section of a Royal
Air Maroc airplane after it landed at the Metz-Nancy-Lorraine airport.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 25, Indian forces killed
five suspected Islamic militants trying to cross into Indian Kashmir
from Pakistan as new tensions were stoked between the nuclear rivals
over an attack on an Indian temple.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 25, Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi urged the United Nations to come up with a "new,
strongly worded, unambiguous and exacting" resolution on Iraq that
could authorize the use of force if Baghdad fails to comply with it.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 25, In Pakistan the
Islamic Martyrs Brigade (Lashkar Fedayan-e-Islami) held a secret
meeting in Peshawar and announced planned suicide attacks against
American troops in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A18)
2002 Sep 25, In Pakistan 2 gunmen
burst into the offices of a Christian welfare organization in the city
of Karachi and opened fire, killing six people, three of them
Christians, and wounding two others.
(Reuters, 9/25/02)(SFC, 9/26/02, p.A22)
2002 Sep 25-2002 Sep 26, Over 800
passengers and crew were believed to have perished when the Senegal’s
crowded MS Joola, a state-run ferry, heaved to its side shortly before
midnight in a storm off the coast of Gambia. There were only 62 known
survivors. The toll was later raised to 1,863 dead. The ship had been
pushed into service while still needing vital repairs.
(WSJ, 9/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/3/03)(SFC, 3/24/06,
p.A12)(Econ, 2/24/07, p.58)
2002 Sep 26, WorldCom former
controller David Myers pleaded guilty to securities fraud, saying he
was told by "senior management" to falsify records in what became the
largest corporate accounting scandal in US history. Myers was later
sentenced to one year and one day in prison.
(AP, 9/26/07)
2002 Sep 26, Gap Inc, 6 other US
firms and 23 local manufacturers settled a class-action lawsuit over
alleged sweatshop abuses on Saipan. The deal created a $20 million fund
for back wages and a monitoring system.
(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 26, In Norfolk, Nebraska,
3 men shot and killed 4 bank employees and a customer at a US Bank
branch. Jose Sandoval, Jorge Galindo and Erick Fernando Vela were
arrested after a few hours 75 miles away. A 4th suspect was arrested
later. 3 were convicted of first-degree murder while a fourth pleaded
guilty.
(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A4)(AP, 9/26/07)
2002 Sep 26, US immigration
officials seized Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, after his name
popped up on a watch list at JFK. US officials refused to allow legal
council or a phone call. The CIA questioned him and then handed him
over to Syrian intelligence where he was held and tortured for 10
months before being released. The case came to be called an instance of
"torture by proxy." In 2006 a Canadian government report said the US
"very likely" sent the software engineer to Syria, where he was
tortured, based on the false accusation by Canadian authorities that he
was suspected of links to al-Qaida.
(SSFC, 1/4/04, p.D1)(AP, 9/19/06)
2002 Sep 26, A new edition of the
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary was published and contained such new
words as: Jedi, Klingons, Grinches, gearheads, bunny-huggers and
bunny-boilers.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 26, In Colombia
prosecutors accused 71 police officers, including a former top
anti-drug official, of taking more than $2 million in U.S. aid.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 26, In Guyana gunmen
opened fire at a bar popular with some ruling party members, killing
three people and injuring seven others, including the country's chief
prosecutor who was involved in a high-profile treason trial.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 26, Israeli helicopter
gunships fired missiles into Gaza City, killing two Palestinians in an
escalation of violence. The attack was bid to kill Hamas bomb maker
Mohammed Deif.
(AP, 9/26/02)(WSJ, 9/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 26, Zerah Warhaftig (96),
a signer of Israel's declaration of independence and a rescuer of
Jewish refugees during World War II, died.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 26, In Mexico Martha
Sahagun de Fox launched a conference of first ladies of the Americas
with a promise to forge creative answers to the problem of child
poverty.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 26, NATO planned to
issued invitations in November to Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Expansion would commit the current 19
members to defend the borders of the new members.
(SFC, 9/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 26, In Pakistan a
passenger train derailed as it crossed a weakened bridge in the
southwest, killing 16 people and injuring 70 others.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 26, A Russian military
helicopter was shot down in the Russian republic of Ingushetia near the
border with Chechnya, killing two crewmen. At least 14 Russian
servicemen were killed in fierce fighting with rebels.
(AP, 9/26/02)(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A10)
2002 Sep 26, In Venezuela
thousands took to the streets of Caracas to protest a decree giving the
government the authority to ban protests in several areas.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 27, President Bush said
the UN should have a chance to force Saddam Hussein to give up his
weapons of mass destruction before the US acted on its own against
Iraq, but told a Republican fund-raising event in Denver that action
had to come quickly.
(AP, 9/27/03)
2002 Sep 27, In Washington DC some
1,500-2,000 activists protested the start of the annual meetings of the
World Bank and IMF. About 650 were arrested.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 27, Three U.S. lawmakers,
all Democrats, arrived in Baghdad to gauge the possible effects of war
on ordinary Iraqi citizens. The visit by Rep. Jim McDermott of
Washington and fellow House Democrats David Bonior of Michigan and Mike
Thompson of California followed a Sept. 14 visit by a delegation led by
Rep. Nick Rahall, a West Virginia Democrat.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, The federal
government increased the flow of water into the Klamath River from
Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon following the die-off of some 12,000
salmon in northern California.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A2)
2002 Sep 27, The DJIA fell 295 to
7701.45. Nasdaq fell 22.45 to 1199.16.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.B1)
2002 Sep 27, All West Coast ports
shut down when the Pacific Maritime Assoc. locked out some 10,500
longshoremen in retaliation for work slowdowns. Contract negotiations
had recently deteriorated.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 27, Charles Henri Ford
(94), poet and novelist, died in Manhattan. His work included "The
Young and Evil" (1933), considered by some as the 1st gay novel, and
"Water From a Bucket: A Diary, 1947-1957."
(SFC, 10/1/02, p.A18)
2002 Sep 27, In Australia a
federal judge formally gave control of a remote chunk of the northwest
slightly bigger than Greece to an Aboriginal tribe, marking the end of
six years of negotiations.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, Lord Ashdown (b.1941)
began serving as the international community's High Representative for
Bosnia and Herzegovina. He ended his term May 30, 2006.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown)
2002 Sep 27, East Timor, the first
country to be born in the 21st century, gained a seat at the United
Nations, swelling the membership roll to 191.
(Reuters, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, In Lebanon tens of
thousands marched through the streets of Beirut chanting "death to
Israel" and "death to America," in support of Palestinians' third year
of uprising.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, Police in Lebanon
arrested Muhammad Sultan on charges of forging passports and supporting
a terrorist group based on German police investigations. Sultan was
released in 2004 after serving a 3½ year sentence.
(WSJ, 1/31/06, p.A6)
2002 Sep 27, A Mexican military
court charged three army officers (Gen. Francisco Quiros Hermosillo,
Brig. Gen. Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro and Maj. Francisco
Barquin) with homicide in the killings of 143 leftist activists
and revolutionaries, the first prosecution of soldiers for crimes
committed during the so-called "dirty war" of the 1970s.
(AP, 9/27/02)(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A6)
2002 Sep 27, In Morocco 26
parties, nearly a dozen of them formed in the past two years, contested
parliamentary in elections. A fundamentalist party that wants to apply
Islamic law, performed strongly in elections. The socialists of Prime
Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi finished first with 50 seats, Jettou
said. The conservative Istiqlal Party, the socialists' coalition
partner in the previous parliament, won 48 seats.
(AP, 9/26/02)(AP, 9/28/02)(AP, 9/29/02)(AP, 10/2/02)
2002 Sep 27, Russian troops used
artillery overnight to block suspected rebels from crossing into
Chechnya through a forested part of the republic of Ingushetia after
firefights that left at least 17 Russian servicemen dead.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, In Sudan a thunder
storm killed 26 people in two separate accidents in Khartoum when a
Ferris wheel collapsed and a pleasure boat sank.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 28, In Washington DC the
World Bank and IMF agreed to speed efforts to develop a new "sovereign
bankruptcy" procedure for countries in debt crises. Thousands
demonstrated, but only 5 arrests were reported.
(SSFC, 9/29/02, p.A1,9)
2002 Sep 28, U.S. jets raided the
Basra civilian airport for the second time inside a week, targeting its
radar systems and the passenger terminals.
(AP, 9/29/02)
2002 Sep 28, Patsy Mink (74),
12-term Hawaii state representative, died in Honolulu.
(WSJ, 9/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 28, In India at least 14
people died when they thousands stampeded to board a train following a
political rally in Lucknow.
(SSFC, 9/29/02, p.A24)
2002 Sep 28, Iraq rejected a
U.S.-British plan for the United Nations to force President Saddam
Hussein to disarm and open his palaces for weapons searches.
(AP, 9/28/03)
2002 Sep 28, Kuwait closed its
last fiscal year with a $1.94 billion surplus, the National Bank of
Kuwait reported.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 28, In South Africa a
commuter bus veered off a road and flipped several times down a
mountain pass, killing 21 people and injuring 52 in the Eastern Cape.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 28, In South Korea
torches from 44 diverse lands converged and rival South and North
Korean teams marched together as Asia kicked off its biggest festival
of sport.
(Reuters, 9/29/02)
2002 Sep 28, Sri Lanka and Tamil
Tiger rebels exchanged prisoners of war as part of the ongoing peace
process, and the rebels claimed they had no more prisoners in custody.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 28, About 50,000 Taiwan
teachers marched through the capital to demand the right to form labor
unions in the island's biggest protest in years.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 28, In Turkey
paramilitary police reported the seizure of 35 pounds of uranium near
the Syrian border and arrested two Turks who they said planned to sell
the weapons-grade substance. The amount was later changed to 3 ounces
and then found to be inert.
(AP, 9/29/02)(SSFC, 9/29/02, p.A12)(AP, 9/30/02)
2002 Sep 28, Zimbabweans in rural
areas voted in elections for local councils, and the main opposition
party said hundreds of its candidates were barred from running for
office.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 29, West Coast ports
faced the 2nd lockout in 2 days as talks failed between the Pacific
Maritime Assoc. and the ILWU.
(SFC, 9/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 29, In Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, Charlie Young Jr. (36) was beaten to death by a mob of
youths after he punched and knocked out the tooth of a 14-year-old who
hit him with an egg.
(ADN, 10/8/02, p.A4)
2002 Sep 29, In Cambodia 2 nuns
and a monk burned to death in bathtubs of gasoline and three suffered
multiple stab wounds in Wat Thmar Sar. Police later detained Dem Mam
the leader of an extremist Buddhist cult.
(Reuters, 10/2/02)
2002 Sep 29, Cuba struck deals to
buy more than $66 million of American food during a mammoth
agribusiness show aimed at bringing more U.S. farm products to the
communist island. More contracts were expected.
(AP, 9/30/02)
2002 Sep 29, In Guatemala a bus
carrying at least 45 passengers plunged into the Selegua River, and 23
of them drowned.
(AP, 9/30/02)(AP, 10/3/02)
2002 Sep 29, Israel withdrew
forces from Yasser Arafat's headquarters compound Responding to U.S.
pressure, but said the hunt for men inside whom it accuses of terrorism
would continue. Some 250 Palestinian militiamen were granted
conditional freedom.
(AP, 9/29/02)(SFC, 9/30/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 29, Hurricane Lili
killed 3 people in Jamaica and headed for Cuba.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2002 Sep 29, Serbian voters picked
a new president from among 11 candidates. Vojislav Kostunica (31%) will
face Deputy PM Miroljub Labus (28%), a pro-Western candidate, in a
runoff vote Oct 13 in Serbia's 1st presidential election since the
ouster of Slobodan Milosevic.
(AP, 9/29/02)(AP, 9/30/02)(SFC, 9/30/02, p.A16)
2002 Sep 29, A Saudi prince signed
deals worth $330 million to export Sudanese livestock and build a
five-star hotel in Sudan's capital.
(AP, 9/29/02)
2002 Sep 29, Rafael Santos
Torroella (88), an art historian and one of the world's leading experts
on Salvador Dali, died in Barcelona.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2002 Sep 29, Hans Peter Tschudi
(88), twice Swiss president (1965, 1970) and interior minister for 14
years, died.
(AP, 9/30/02)
2002 Sep 30, Sen. Robert
Torricelli, D-N.J., withdrew from his race for re-election over
allegations of accepting expensive gifts. NJ law barred parties from
replacing candidates less than 51 days before elections. Gov. James E.
McGreevey announced on Oct 1 that former Sen. Frank Lautenberg (78)
would replace Torricelli. The state Supreme Court ok'd the replacement
Oct 2.
(SFC, 10/1/02, p.A3)(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A7)(SFC,
10/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 30, The DJIA fell 109 to
7591.90. The Nasdaq fell 27.1 to 1,172.
(SFC, 10/1/02, p.B1)
2002 Sep 30, The National
Intelligence Council said China, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and Russia
will have 50-75 million HIV-infected people by 2010, more than any
other 5 countries.
(SFC, 10/1/02, p.A5)
2002 Sep 30, It was reported that
asparagine, a naturally occurring amino acid, formed acrylamide, a
suspected carcinogen, when heated with certain sugars. This reaction
was believed to occur in the making of fried foods such as potato chips
and french fries.
(SFC, 9/30/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep, In Austria the Ars
Electronica Center in Linz held its annual 6-day festival with prizes,
installations, lectures, seminars and concerts featuring the latest in
digital and electronic media.
(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.D8)
2002 Sep, Hungary’s governing
coalition swept elections, winning the mayoral races in 17 of 23 big
cities, including Budapest, and a majority in 15 of 19 county
assemblies.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2002 Sep, In Ivory Coast a
nine-month civil war began. It pitted northern rebels, led by Guillaume
Soro, against President Laurent Gbagbo and fueled anti-foreigner hatred
in the south. Fighting killed more than 3,000 people, uprooted more
than 1 million others and split the country into the rebel-held north
and loyalist south.
(AP, 4/14/04)(Econ, 3/10/07, p.43)
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