Timeline of 2002 July
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, Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
(89), leader of the all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and
the first black general in the Air Force, died in Washington.
(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)
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