01CE
Jan 6, Traditional day of the
Epiphany, the day that the three kings, Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar
brought
to Jesus gifts of Gold, Incense and Myrrh.
(Cafe
1066
Jan 6, (Harald) Harold
Godwinson, Earl of Wessex, was crowned King of England.
(TLC, BTCW, 6/25/95)(HN, 1/6/99)
1215
Jan 6, King
John met with disgruntled barons of northern
(ON, 7/04, p.1)
1367
Jan 6, Richard II, son of Edward
the Black Prince, was born in
(HN, 1/6/99)(MC,
1/6/02)
1412
Jan 6, According to tradition,
French heroine Joan of Arc was born Jeanette d'Arc in the French
(CFA, '96,Vol 179, p.38)(AP,
1/6/98)(HNPD, 1/6/99)
1493
Jan 6, Columbus
encountered the Pinta along the north coast of Hispaniola.
(ON, 8/09, p.2)
1497
Jan 6, Jews
were expelled from
(MC, 1/6/02)
1537
Jan 6,
Alessandro de' Medici (b.1510), Italian monarch of
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_de%27_Medici,_Duke_of_Florence)(AM,
7/05, p.36)
1540
Jan 6,
(HN, 1/6/99)(AP, 1/6/98)
1558
Jan 6, The French seized the
British held
(HN, 1/6/99)
1579
Jan 6, The
Union of Atrecht (French: Arras) was an accord signed in Atrecht
(Arras), under
which the southern states of the Spanish Netherlands, today in Wallonia
and the
Nord-Pas-de-Calais (and Picardy) regions in
France, expressed their loyalty to the Spanish king Philip II
and recognized the
landlord, Don Juan de Austria. It is to be distinguished
from the Union of Utrecht, signed later in the same month. The Peace of Arras ensured that the southern
provinces of The Netherlands were reconciled to Philip II. It joined
the Low
Country Walloons (Catholics) with those of Hainaut and Artois.
(http://en.allexperts.com/e/u/un/union_of_atrecht.htm)(PCh, 1992, p.200)
1617
Jan
6, Pocahontas, American Indian
princess, attended a court masque with King James
I and
Queen Anne.
(ON, 2/07, p.9)
1639
Jan 6,
(MC, 1/6/02)
1663
Jan 6, There
was a great earthquake in
(MC, 1/6/02)
1681
Jan 6, 1st
recorded boxing match was between the Duke of Albemarle's butler and
his
butcher.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1695
Jan 6, Giuseppe
Sammartini, composer, was born.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1759
Jan 6, George Washington and
Martha Dandridge Custis were married. George had 28 slaves and Martha
had 109.
(AP, 1/6/98)(SFEC, 5/2/99, Z1 p.8)
1785
Jan 6, Haym
Salomon (44) died in Philadelphia. He helped finance the US revolution.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1790
Jan 6, Johann
Trier (73), composer, died.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1811
Jan 6, Charles Sumner (d.1874),
leading anti-slavery senator and author, was born in Boston. He was
active in
the movement to outlaw war, opposed the Mexican War and was a founder
in 1848
of the Free-Soil party. A senator from Massachusetts, Sumner was an
ardent
abolitionist and helped organize the Republican party. In c1867
Massachusetts
Senator Charles Sumner popularized the name Alaska for the territory
that had
been known as Russian America in a famous Senate speech supporting the
treaty
to purchase Russian America: "There is the National flag. He must be
cold,
indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without
pride of
country. If in a foreign land, the flag is companionship, and country
itself,
with all its endearments."
(HNQ, 9/28/98)(AP, 6/14/97)(HNQ,
11/17/98)
1822
Jan 6, Heinrich
Schliemann, German polyglot and archeologist (discovered Troy), was
born.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1832
Jan 6, Gustave
Dore, illustrator (Inferno, Ancient Mariner), was born in Strasbourg,
France.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1838
Jan 6, Max
Bruch, composer Scottish Fantasy), was born in Cologne, Germany.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1838
Jan 6, Samuel
Morse (1791-1872) first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in
Morristown,
N.J. In 2003 David Paul Nickles authored "Under the Wire," a history
of the telegraph and its impact on the world.
(AP, 1/6/98)(WSJ, 1/7/04, p.D10)
1850
Jan 6, Franz
Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist and composer (Mataswintha), was born.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1851
Jan 6, Leon Foucault (d.1868),
French scientist, watched a pendulum swing and shift its plane of
motion. This
he realized was due to the rotation of the Earth. In 2003 Amir D. Aczel
authored
"Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science."
(WSJ, 8/28/03, p.D18)
1852
Jan 6, Louis Braille (43) died
of tuberculosis in France. He had been blinded by an accident during
childhood
and spent years developing a system to read by touch. In 1997 Russell
Freedman
wrote "Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille."
(SFEC, 7/6/97, BR p.10)(ON, 10/04,
p.9)( http://www.brailler.com/braillehx.htm)
1857
Jan 6, Patent
for reducing zinc ore was granted to Samuel Wetherill in Penn.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1861
Jan 6, Florida
troops seized the Federal arsenal at Apalachicola.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1861
Jan 6, Governor of Maryland sent
a message to the people of Maryland, strongly opposing Maryland’s
secession
from the Union.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1861
Jan 6, NYC
mayor proposed that NY become a free city to continue trading with the
North
& South.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1872
Jan 6,
Alexander N. Scriabin, composer (Prometheus), was born in Moscow.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1878
Jan 6, Carl Sandburg, U.S.
journalist, poet and biographer who won a Pulitzer Prize in history for
his
biography of Abraham Lincoln, was born. "There are people who want to
be
everywhere at once, and they get nowhere."
(HN, 1/6/99)(AP, 7/13/99)
1880
Jan 6, Tom Mix,
silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin), was born in Mix Run, Pa.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1882
Jan 6, Sam Rayburn, U.S.
congressman from Texas who became the Speaker of the House of
Representatives
(1940-46, 1949-53), was born.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1884
Jan 6, Gregor
Mendel (b.1822), Austrian botanist and Augustine
monk, died at age 61. He is considered
to be the father of genetics.
(NH, 6/01, p.30)(MC,
1/6/02)
1893
Jan 6, Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
(d.1967), writer and poet, was born in Lithuania.
(LHC,
1/6/03)
1893
Jan 6, Great
Northern Railway connected Seattle with east coast.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1903
Jan 6, George Pardee
(1857-1941), former mayor of Oakland
(1893-1895), was inaugurated as governor of
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_California)(SFC,
1/8/09,
p.B1)
1903
Jan 6, Maurice
Abravanel, conductor and composer, was born in Saloniki, Greece.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1904
Jan 6, A Japanese railway in
Korea refused to transport Russian troops.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1907
Jan 6, Maria
Montessori (1870-1952), Italian
physician, educationist, opened her 1st school, Children’s House (Casa
dei
Bambini), in San Lorenzo, Italy.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori)(SFC,
1/6/07,
p.B1)
1910
Jan 6, Wright Morris (d.1998 at
88), author, was born in Central
City, Nebraska. He wrote 33 books over his career.
(SFC, 5/1/98, p.D7)
1910
Jan 6, Union leaders asked
President Taft to investigate U.S. Steel practices.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1912
Jan 6, New Mexico became the
47th state of the US.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 1/6/98)
1914
Jan 6, Stock
brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch was founded.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1917
Jan 6, Hendrik
P.G. Quack (82), lawyer and economist (Bank of Netherlands), died.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1918
Jan 6, Germany acknowledged
Finland’s independence.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1918
Jan 6, George Cantor (b.1845),
Russian-born German mathematician, died. He is best known as the
creator of
modern set theory and work with mathematical infinities.
(http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Georg_Cantor)
1919
Jan 6, The 26th
president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay,
N.Y.,
at age 60. "Put out the light" were his last words. In 1920 his
autobiography was published by Scribner. In 1997 H.W. Brands published
the
biography: "T.R.: The Last Romantic." Around 1954 Carleton Putnam
(d.1998), dropped his position as chairman of Delta Airlines and wrote
the
biography: "Theodore Roosevelt", that covered the first 28 years of
Roosevelt’s life. Theodore Roosevelt coined the term "Good to the last
drop," used by Maxwell House Coffee. The original Maxwell House hotel
was
in Nashville, Tenn. In 1980 Edmund Morris authored the Pulitzer Prize
winning
Vol 1: "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt." In 1997 "T.R. The Last
Romantic" by H.W. Brands was published. In 2001 Edmund Morris authored
Vol
2: "Theodore Rex." In 2004 the Library of America published “Theodore
Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches; The rough Riders, an Autobiography.”
(WSJ, 12/18/97,
p.A20)(AP, 1/6/98)(SFC, 3/17/98, p.A20)(SFC, 6/27/98, p.E4)(WSJ,
9/27/99,
p.A32)(ON, 12/99, p.12)(WSJ, 11/20/01,
p.A16)(SFC, 10/21/04, p.E1)
1920
Jan 6, Sun
Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies), was born.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1921
Jan 6, The U.S. Navy ordered the
sale of 125 flying boats to encourage commercial aviation.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1931
Jan 6, Edgar
Laurence Doctorow (E.L. Doctorow), novelist (World's Fair, Ragtime),
was born
in NYC.
(www.albany.edu/writers-inst/doctorow.html)
1936 Jan 6, The US Supreme Court ruled that the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 is unconstitutional.
(SSFC, 1/18/09, p.D6)(http://public.getlegal.com/daily/history/01-06-2009)
1937
Jan 6, The U.S. banned the
shipment of arms to war-torn Spain.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1938
Jan 6, A bronze
memorial statue of Henry Hudson was erected in Bronx.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1939
Jan 6, Alfred Lion recorded his
first Blue Note session with boogie-woogie and blues pianists Albert
Ammons and
Meade Lux Lewis. He had just founded the jazz label in New York. He was
later
joined by his Berlin friend and photographer Francis Wolff.
(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 1/15/98,
p.W10)
1941
Jan 6, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt asked Congress to support the lend-lease plan to help supply
the
Allies. In an address to Congress President Franklin Roosevelt
expressed the
general world aims of the United States as these "Four Freedoms": of
speech and expression; of worship; from want; and from fear. Oscar Cox
had
helped draft the Lend-Lease Act.
(HN, 1/6/99)(HNQ, 3/2/00)(WSJ, 2/18/05, p.W6)
1942
Jan 6, The Pan American Airways "Pacific
Clipper" arrived in New York under Captain Robert Ford. He flew west
from
New Zealand to avoid Japanese attacks and became the first commercial
plane to
make a round-the-world trip.
(AP, 1/6/98)(SFEM, 2/13/00, p.41)
1944
Jan
6, Ida M. Tarbell (b.1857), teacher, author and muckraking journalist,
died in Connecticut.
She is best-known for her 1904 book “The History of the Standard Oil
Company.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Tarbell)
1945 Jan 6, Pepe Le Pew, the cartoon skunk created by Chuck Jones and voiced by Mel Blanc, debuted in Odor-Able Kitty.
(AH, 2/05, p.16)(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037956/)
1945
Jan 6, George Herbert Walker
Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y.
(AP, 1/6/98)
1945
Jan 6, Boeing B-29’s in the
Pacific struck new blows on Tokyo and Nanking.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1946
Jan 6, Ho Chi Minh won North
Vietnamese elections.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1949
Jan 6, Victor Fleming (b.1889),
Hollywood film director, died. He won his only Oscar for directing 60%
of “gone
with the Wind” (1939). In 2008 Michael Sragow authored “Victor Fleming:
An
American Movie Master.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Fleming)(WSJ,
12/11/08, p.A17)
1950
Jan 6, Britain recognized the
Communist government of China.
(AP,
1/6/00)
1950
Jan 6, Isaiah
Bowman (b.1878), Canadian-born geographer, died in Baltimore, Md. He served as the director of the American
Geographical Society 1916-1935 and then became president of John
Hopkins Univ.
(www.bookrags.com/biography-isaiah-bowman/index.html)
1957
Jan 6, Elvis
Presley made another appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1958
Jan 6, Moscow announced a
reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1963
Jan 6, "Oliver!"
opened at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1963
Jan 6, Mutual
of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins began on NBC.
(AP, 1/6/03)(MC, 1/6/02)
1967
Jan
6, Some 16,000 US and 14,000 South Vietnamese troops started their
biggest
attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of
1968
Jan 6, Dr. Norman E. Shumway of
Stanford performed the 1st US adult heart transplant. Mike Kasperak
(54) lived
for 2 weeks before he died of massive bleeding from other organs.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067567)(SFC,
2/11/06,
p.B5)
1971
Jan 6, The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin
resolution, which amounted to a declaration of war against Vietnam, was
repealed by Congress. US Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest
Gruening of
Alaska share the distinction of casting the only votes against the Gulf
of
Tonkin Resolution on August 7, 1964. The resolution supported President
Lyndon
Johnson's military actions against North Vietnam in retaliation for its
attack
on a US spy ship in the Tonkin Gulf. The resolution passed in the House
414-0
and the Senate 88-2.
(www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1888.html)
1973
Jan 6, “You’re So Vain” by Carly
Simon peaked in the top 10 singles.
(http://goodyoldies.com/billboard/1973.htm)
1974
Jan 6, David Alfaro Siqueiros (b.1896),
Mexican artist (muralist), died. His work included the 1933 mural
"Ejercicio Plastico" (Plastic Exercise), completed in Argentina at
the home of newspaper magnate Natalio Botana (d.1941). In 1994 the
650-square-foot work fell into a legal limbo.
(SFC, 2/13/99, p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alfaro_Siqueiros)
1975 Jan 6, The NBC TV game show “Wheel of Fortune”, created by Merv Griffin (1925-2007), premiered.
(WSJ, 8/15/07, p.D12)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0072584/)
1976
Jan 6, Ted Turner purchased the
Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million.
(www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/S-Z/Turner-Ted-1938.html)
1977
Jan 6, William Gropper (b.1897),
painter and political cartoonist, died. He worked for the radical
publications
"The Masses" and "Art Front."
(SFC, 2/5/97, p.E1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gropper)
1978
Jan 6, John D.
MacArthur (b.1897), US insurance billionaire and philanthropist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._MacArthur)
1978
Jan 6, The Wild-2 comet was
discovered by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild.
(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A8)(www.solarviews.com/eng/cometwild2.htm)
1980
Jan 6, Indira Gandhi's Congress
Party won elections in India.
1982
Jan 6, Truck driver
William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles of being the
"freeway killer" who had murdered 14 young men and boys.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1984
Jan 6, Texaco offered $125 per
share for Getty oil stock superseding the Pennzoil offer of $112.50 per
share.
It became the biggest merger on record.
(SFC, 1/8/95, p.7)
1985
Jan 6, Dan
White (1946-1985), former SF supervisor and the killer in 1978 of SF
Mayor
Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, was released from prison in Los
Angeles.
(SSFC,
1/3/10, DB p.46)
1985
Jan 6, Robert Welch, co-founder
of the anti-Communist John Birch Society (1958), died. Welch was the
editor and
publisher of the monthly magazine American Opinion and the weekly "The
Review of the News."
(SFC, 8/5/96, p.A5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Welch_Jr.)
1986
Jan 6, In Johannesburg, South
Africa, Impala Platinum fired 20,000 black mine workers.
1987
Jan
6,
The US
Senate voted 88-4 to establish an 11-member panel to hold public
hearings on
the Iran-Contra
affair.
(AP, 1/6/07)
1987
Jan 6, Astronomers reported
sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light years away.
(HN, 1/6/99)
1988
Jan 6, Soviet Foreign Minister
Eduard Shevardnadze was quoted by the Afghan news agency as saying the
Kremlin
wanted to pull an estimated 115,000 soldiers from Afghanistan in the
coming
year.
(AP, 1/6/98)
1989
Jan 6, The United States
presented photographic evidence to the U.N. Security Council to justify
its
shoot down of two Libyan jet fighters as self-defense, evidence the
Libyan ambassador
said was faked.
(AP, 1/6/99)
1990
Jan 6, Defense Secretary Dick
Cheney told CNN the U.S. invasion of Panama should not be viewed as a
new "Bush
doctrine" inclined toward military intervention in countries where
democratic elections had been subverted.
(AP,
1/6/00)
1991
Jan 6, Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein, in a television address, told his country to prepare for a
long war
against what he called "tyranny represented by the United States."
(AP, 1/6/01)
1991
Jan 6, Federal regulators seized
banks owned by Bank of New England Corporation in Massachusetts,
Connecticut
and Maine.
(AP, 1/6/01)
1992
Jan 6, The United
States joined the U.N. Security Council in condemning Israel's
planned deportation of 12 Palestinians.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1992
Jan 6, The US Food
and Drug Administration called on surgeons to stop using
silicone gel breast implants because of safety questions, but stopped
short of
an outright ban.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1992
Jan 6, After two
weeks of fighting, ousted Georgian President Zviad
Gamsakhurdia fled the capital, Tbilisi.
(AP, 1/6/02)
1993
Jan 6, Authorities rescued
Jennifer Stolpa and infant son after her husband found help after an
eight-day
ordeal in the snow-covered Nevada desert.
(AP, 1/6/98)
1993
Jan 6, Jazz trumpeter Dizzy
Gillespie died in Englewood, N.J., at age 75. In 1999 Alyn Shipton
published
"Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie."
(SFEC, 7/27/97, DB p.34)(AP,
1/6/98)(SFEC, 8/29/99, BR p.4)
1993
Jan 6, Ballet dancer Rudolf
Nureyev died of AIDS in Paris at age 54. In 1961 his defection from the
Soviet
Union made headline news. In 2007 Julie Kavanagh authored “Nureyev: The
Life.”
(AP, 1/6/98)(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A20)(SSFC, 10/14/07, p.M3)
1994
Jan 6, Figure skater Nancy
Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in
Detroit.
Four men, including Jeff Gillooly, the ex-husband of Kerrigan's rival,
Tonya
Harding, were later sentenced to prison. Harding, who denied advance
knowledge,
received probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hinder
prosecution.
(AP, 1/6/99)
1994
Jan 6, Virginia
Kelley Clinton (70), mother of Pres Clinton, died
in Hot Springs, Ark.
1995
Jan 6, Haitians housed at Guantanamo
Bay Naval Base in Cuba were sent home by the U.S. military against the
refugees' will and over protests of refugee advocates.
(AP,
1/6/00)
1995
Jan 6, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef and
Abdul Hakim Murad were arrested in Manila, Philippines, when explosives
that
they were mixing blew up and alerted the police. In their apartment
were found
bomb-making manuals and timers and evidence that they intended to blow
up US
jetliners. They were found guilty by a jury in New York on 9/5/96.
(SFC, 9/6/96, p.C5)
1996
Jan
6, President Clinton, bowing to months of Republican demands, offered a
seven-year balanced-budget plan using Congressional Budget Office
figures.
(AP, 1/6/01)
1996
Jan 6, Republican candidates
kicked off the 1996 presidential campaign year by shadowboxing with
absent
front-runner Bob Dole at a televised debate in Columbia, South
Carolina.
(AP, 1/6/01)
1996
Jan 6, In Iraq Saddam Hussein
decreed economic austerity measures to cope with soaring inflation and
widespread shortages caused by UN sanctions.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)
1996
Jan 6, In Gaza Yehiyeh Ayyash, a
Hamas bomb-maker known as "the engineer" was assassinated by an
explosives-rigged cellular phone. The operation was attributed to
Israel.
(SFC, 4/2/98, p.A12)(SFC, 3/23/04, p.A11)
1997
Jan 6, House Speaker Newt
Gingrich met behind closed doors with Republican lawmakers, answering
questions
about admitted ethics violations and appealing for support in the
upcoming
speaker's election.
(AP, 1/6/98)
1997
Jan 6, The Sun erupted with a "coronal
mass ejection." The blast reached Earth on Jan 10, and may have played
a
role in the Jan 11 failure of the $200 million Telstar 401
communications
satellite.
(SFC, 1/23/97, p.A5)
1997
Jan 6, In Pakistan rulers
established a security council to give the army an official role in
running the
country.
(SFC, 1/7/97, p.A9)
1997
Jan 6, In Guatemala three
officers, accused of ordering the 1990 assassination of sociologist
Myrna Mack,
sought amnesty under terms of the new treaty.
(SFC, 1/7/97, p.A10)
1997
Jan 6, In Serbia on the Orthodox
Christmas Eve the Yugoslav army announced that it would not interfere
in the
daily protests against Pres. Milosevic.
(SFC, 1/7/97, p.A9)
1997
Jan 6, In Zaire at least 100
lawmakers quit Pres. Seko’s parliamentary alliance to join a new
nationalist
group. Their goal appeared to be to topple Prime Minister Kengo wa
Dondo.
(SFC, 1/7/97, p.A9)
1997
Jan 6, It was reported that
Vietnam’s national Post and Telecommunications "108" information
service responded to citizens questions. Operators handled about 250
calls per
day and the service costs about 2.7 US cents.
(WSJ, 1/6/97, p.B1)
1998
Jan 6, In a bid to expand health
insurance, President Clinton unveiled a proposal to offer Medicare
coverage to
hundreds of thousands of uninsured Americans between the ages of 55 to
64.
(AP, 1/6/99)
1998
Jan 6, A NASA Lunar Prospector,
the 3rd robot mission of the Discovery Program, first scheduled for Jan
5, was
launched.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, p.A14)(SFC, 1/7/98,
p.A3)
1998
Jan 6, In Bangladesh it was
reported that frigid weather killed at least 165 people over the last 2
weeks.
(SFC, 1/6/98, p.A10)
1998
Jan 6, In Guatemala Danita
Gonzalez Plank de Orellana (32) of Philadelphia was kidnapped with her
6-month
old daughter near Quezaltenango. the baby was soon found in a cardboard
box.
The mother’s body was found 8 days later. Police alleged that a gang
under
Rigoberto Antonio Morales (23) was responsible. Morales was recaptured
4 days
after escaping from prison in June.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.A13)
1998
Jan 6, In South Korea thousands
went to their banks to sell and donate gold in a nationwide campaign to
raise
dollars.
(SFC, 1/7/98, p.A8)
1999
Jan 6, The NBA players agreed to
a new contract and a shortened season was scheduled to begin in Feb.
Club
owners won a salary cap.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/7/98,
p.A1)
1999
Jan 6, The 106th Congress
convened with Dennis Hastert as the new House speaker.
(AP,
1/6/00)
1999
Jan 6, The federal government
predicted a $76 billion surplus for 1999.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A3)
1999
Jan 6, It was reported that UN
Sec. Gen'l. Kofi Annan had evidence that UN arms inspectors helped
collect
intelligence used in American efforts to undermine the Iraqi regime.
Kofi
Annan, the chief UN arms inspector and State Dept. officials all denied
the
spying allegations. An electronic eavesdropping system was put into
place in
March by a US spy with the UN inspection team.
(SFC, 1/6/99, p.A6)(SFC, 1/7/99,
p.A8)(WSJ, 1/7/99, p.A1)(SFC, 1/8/99, p.A1)
1999
Jan 6, The Dow Jones closed at a
record 9,544.97.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.B1)
1999
Jan 6, Buckingham Palace
announced that Prince Edward, youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, would
marry
his longtime friend, public relations executive Sophie Rhys-Jones,
later in the
year.
(AP,
1/6/00)
1999
Jan 6, Congo rebel leader Ernest
Wamba dia Wamba said his forces killed about 400 Burundi Hutu rebels
fighting
with the Congolese government troops and promised to investigate the
alleged
New Year murder of 500 civilians.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A10)
1999
Jan 6, The Dominican Republic
considered sending soldiers into parts of Santo Domingo where fighting
between
police and drug gangs had left 48 people dead since late Dec.
(WSJ, 1/7/99, p.A1)
1999
Jan 6, In Israel former military
chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak announced his candidacy for prime
minister.
Separately a man with a toy gun was killed by soldiers.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A10)(WSJ, 1/7/99,
p.A1)
1999
Jan 6, In Kosovo Nebojsa Denic,
a Serbian security guard, was killed by ethnic Albanian rebels during
an attack
on a power plant outside of Pristina.
(SFC, 1/8/99, p.A16)
1999
Jan 6, In Mexico police chief
Alejandro Gertz fired 6 of his top 8 subordinates for failing to reduce
crime
and corruption.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A10)
1999
Jan 6, In Sierra Leone rebels
shot their way into Freetown and captured the presidential state house.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A8)
1999
Jan 6, In Turkey the Justice
Ministry said authorities will no longer be allowed to force women and
girls to
undergo virginity tests.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A10)
2000
Jan 6, Republican presidential
candidates debated in Durham, New Hampshire, with such issues as taxes
and gays
in the military dominating the discussion.
(AP, 1/6/01)
2000
Jan 6, The US Army replaced the
Young & Rubicam ad agency after a 1999 recruit shortfall of 6,290.
Rubicam
held the contract for 12 years and crafted the slogan: "Be all that you
can be."
(WSJ, 1/7/00, p.A1)
2000
Jan 6, Florida lawmakers passed
a bill to give death row inmates the option of lethal injection rather
than the
electric chair.
(SFC, 1/7/00, p.A2)
2000
Jan 6, In Miami hundreds of
Cuban Americans protested the INS decision to return Elian Gonzalez to
his
father in Cuba. At least 135 people were arrested.
(SFC, 1/7/00, p.A3)(AP, 1/6/01)
2000
Jan 6, Two Austrian banks, Bank
Austria and Creditanstalt, agreed to a $40 million settlement with an
estimated
1,000 Holocaust victims or their heirs for having confiscated their
assets.
(SFC, 1/7/00, p.D2)
2000
Jan 6, Buckingham Palace
announced that Prince Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth the
Second,
would marry his longtime girlfriend, public relations executive Sophie
Rhys-Jones, later in the year.
(AP, 1/6/01)
2000
Jan 6, In China the
state-controlled Catholic Church ordained 5 new bishops while the Pope
elevated
12 prelates in St. Peter's Basilica.
(SFC, 1/7/00, p.A14)
2000
Jan 6, In Ecuador police broke
up a march in Quito where people demanded the ouster of Pres. Mahuad
following
a state of emergency and currency plunge.
(WSJ, 1/7/00, p.A1)
2001
Jan 6, With the
vanquished Vice President Al Gore presiding, Congress formally
certified George W. Bush the winner of the achingly close and bitterly
contested 2000 presidential election.
(AP, 1/6/02)
2001
Jan 6, The Episcopal Church and
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America inaugurated an alliance to share
clergy,
churches and missionary work. Their combined membership numbered 7.7
million.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A2)
2001
Jan 6, A Nato meeting was
scheduled in Italy on the use of ammunition with depleted uranium
following the
deaths from cancer of 6 Italian soldiers following duty in the Balkans.
5
Balkan veterans from Belgium along with peacekeepers from Spain,
Portugal and
the Czech Republic had died of cancer.
(WSJ, 1/04/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/6/01,
p.A7)
2001
Jan 6, The number of national
ministries and agencies was cut from 22 to 12 in an effort to expand
efficiency
and shift power from bureaucracies to politicians.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.D3)
2001
Jan 6, In Somalia Rahanwein
Resistance Army gunmen attacked government forces escorting officials
and at
least 9 people were killed near Teiglow village.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.D2)
2001
Jan 6, In South Africa it was
reported that cholera had recently sickened some 13,000 people in
KwaZulu-Natal
and had killed at least 53.
(SFC, 1/6/01, p.D8)
2001
Jan 6, Thailand government
elections pitted PM Chuan Leekpai’s Democratic Party against the Thais
Love
Thais (Thai Rak Thai) party of Thaksin Shinawatra (51). Elections for
500 seats
in the lower parliament were scheduled with new laws to reduce
vote-buying. Shinawatra,
Thailand’s richest man, won with 248 seats and divested his assets to
relatives.
(SFC, 1/6/01, p.A8)(SSFC, 1/7/01,
p.D1)(WSJ, 2/2/01, p.A1)(Econ, 2/5/05,
p.11,24)
2002
Jan
6, US envoy Zinni wound up his 2nd mission to the Middle East with
little
progress on peace talks.
(WSJ,
1/7/02, p.A10)
2002
Jan
6, Christa Worthington (46), fashion writer, was found dead at her home
in
Truro on Cape Cod, Mass. Her 2-year-old daughter was next to her,
covered in
blood but unharmed. In 2005 DNA evidence identified Christopher
Mccowen, a
local trash collector, as the murderer. In 2006 Mccowen was convicted
and
sentenced to life without parole.
(SFC,
4/16/05, p.A5)(SFC,
11/17/06, p.A4)
2002
Jan
6, Anti-Taliban troops in Afghanistan planned to starve out 7 al Qaeda
members
holed up in a Kandahar hospital.
(SFC,
1/7/02, p.A8)
2002
Jan
6, Argentina devalued its currency 29% with an official exchange rate
of 1.4
pesos to the dollar and promised to ease limits on cash withdrawals.
This ended
a decade-long policy pegging the currency one-to-one with the U.S.
dollar. In
the year that followed, the peso lost 70 percent of its value against
the dollar.
(SFC,
1/7/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/7/02, p.A3)(AP, 1/6/03)
2002
Jan 6, It was reported that Costa
Rica required medical professionals to serve a year treating
disadvantaged
communities. Mandatory community service programs were in place for
high school
students.
(SSFC, 1/6/02,
p.A3)
2002
Jan
6, Construction began to expand Camp X-Ray at the US Guantanamo base in
Cuba to
house detainees from Afghanistan. The 1st prisoners arrived Jan 11. As
the
number of prisoners rose Camp Delta was added.
(WSJ, 1/26/05, p.A10)
2002
Jan 6, It was reported that
Egypt required female graduates of secondary schools, exempt from the
military
draft, to spend 6 months in a service program.
(SSFC, 1/6/02,
p.A3)
2002
Jan
6, India shot down an unmanned Pakistani spy plane. Pres. Vajpayee met
with PM
Tony Blair in New Delhi.
(SFC,
1/7/02, p.A3)
2002
Jan
6, Italy’s Premier Berlusconi named himself interim foreign minister.
(SFC,
1/7/02, p.A5)
2002
Jan 6, It was reported that
Malaysia authorities had arrested 13 suspected members of extremist
groups
since Dec 9 with possible links to the Sep 11 attacks.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A8)
2002
Jan 6, It was reported that
Mexico had a national service program that required participation by
all
university graduates and that medical students were required to work in
disadvantaged
communities for one year before being licensed.
(SSFC, 1/6/02,
p.A3)
2002
Jan 6, It was reported that
Nigeria had a National Youth Service Corps that required participation
by all
university graduates under age 30.
(SSFC, 1/6/02,
p.A3)
2003
Jan 6, US
Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona called obesity the fastest growing
cause of
illness and death in the US.
(SFC, 1/7/03, p.A1)
2003
Jan 6, U.S.
warplanes bombed two Iraqi anti-aircraft radars that threatened pilots
patrolling
the southern no-fly zone.
(AP, 1/7/03)
2003
Jan 6,
Thousands of Marines, sailors and soldiers headed for the Persian Gulf
region,
shipping out from California, Georgia and Maryland as the buildup for a
possible war with Iraq accelerated sharply.
(AP, 1/6/04)
2003
Jan 6,
California Gov. Davis promised to create 500,000 new jobs over the next
4
years.
(AP, 1/7/03)
2003
Jan 6, The WSJ
reported that Int'l. Steel offered about $1 billion to buy most of the
assets
of Bethlehem Steel, creating the largest US steel company.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R8)
2003
Jan 6, Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein accused U.N. inspectors of engaging in
"intelligence
work" instead of searching for suspected nuclear, chemical and
biological
weapons in his country.
(AP, 1/6/04)
2003
Jan 6, Rebels
in western Ivory Coast attacked French troops and French officials said
30 rebels
were killed and nine soldiers wounded.
(AP, 1/6/03)
2003
Jan 6, In Kenya
12 people were killed when members of the outlawed Mungiki sect
attacked
minibus operators over control of bus stops in Nakuru, 84 miles
northwest of
Nairobi. 38 people were soon arrested.
(AP, 1/7/03)
2003
Jan 6, In
Mexico a bus with failing brakes swerved off a mountain highway and
into a deep
ravine in Zacatecas state, killing 18 people and injuring 23.
(AP, 1/7/03)
2004
Jan 6, A design consisting of two reflecting
pools and a paved stone field was
chosen for the World Trade Center memorial in New York.
(AP, 1/6/05)
2004
Jan 6, The Ohio Lottery awarded
$162 million to Rebecca Jemison (34). Elicia Battle (40), who initially
claimed
to have lost the Dec 30 winning ticket, recanted on Jan 8.
(SFC, 1/9/04, p.A2)
2004
Jan 6, In Afghanistan a time
bomb in an apple cart blast killed at least 17 people, including 8
children, in
the southern city of Kandahar. 12 civilians were executed in Helmand
Province.
(SFC, 1/7/04, p.A10)(SFC, 1/9/04,
p.A12)(AP, 1/6/05)
2004
Jan 6, China began a mass
eradication of some 10,000 civet cats to stem a suspected link to SARS.
(SFC, 1/7/04, p.A14)
2004
Jan 6, PM Pierre Charles (49) of
Dominica, who slashed public spending in a bid to help his island's
economy and
was a critic of U.S. policy in the Caribbean, died of an apparent heart
attack.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2004
Jan 6, India and Pakistan agreed
on talks to formally tackle all issues including Kashmir.
(WSJ, 1/7/04, p.A1)
2004
Jan
6, Egypt and Iran agreed to restore diplomatic ties sundered in 1979.
(WSJ,
1/7/04, p.A1)
2004
Jan 6, Iraqi police opened fire
on hundreds of stone-throwing former Iraqi soldiers demanding monthly
stipends
promised by the U.S.-led coalition, and reporters saw at least four
protesters
shot in the southern town of Basra.
(AP, 1/6/04)
2004
Jan 6, In Liberia the LURD and
MODEL rebel groups demanded the resignation of Gyude Bryant, interim
government
head.
(Econ, 1/31/04, p.48)
2004
Jan 6, North Korea offered to
refrain from producing nuclear weapons in order to rekindle talks over
its arms
programs.
(SFC, 1/6/04, p.A3)
2004
Jan 6, President Bashar Assad
began the first-ever visit to Turkey by a Syrian head of state, hoping
to
further improve ties forge a joint position on growing Kurdish
autonomy.
(AP, 1/6/04)(WSJ, 1/7/04, p.A1)
2004
Jan 6, The Sudanese government
and southern rebels agreed on how to share the country's wealth,
including oil
revenues, solving a key issue and taking a major step toward ending
their
20-year conflict.
(AP, 1/6/04)
2004
Jan 6, Mijailo Mijailovic confessed to the
fatal stabbing of Swedish Foreign
Minister Anna Lindh in September 2003.
(AP, 1/6/05)
2005
Jan 6, The US Congress
certified President Bush's
re-election.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2005
Jan 6, US Attorney
General-nominee
Alberto Gonzales, under scorching criticism at his confirmation
hearing, condemned torture as an interrogation tactic and promised to
prosecute
abusers of terror suspects.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2005
Jan 6,
Andrea Yates' murder conviction for drowning her children in the
bathtub on
June 20, 2001, was overturned by a Texas appeals court. On July 26, 2006,
after three days of deliberations, Yates was found not guilty by reason
of
insanity, as defined by the state of Texas.
(AP, 1/6/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Yates)
2005
Jan 6, Edgar
Ray Killen (b.1925) was arrested in Philadelphia, Miss., as a suspect
in the
1964 abduction and killing of 3 voter-registration volunteers. He was
found
guilty on June 21, 2005, the 41st anniversary of the murders, along
with Cecil
Price (deputy sheriff of Neshoba at the time), of three counts of
manslaughter
and gathering the group of men who hunted down and killed two Jewish
New
Yorkers: Andrew Goodman (20) and Michael Schwerner (24), and one black
Mississippian, James Chaney (21).
(SFC, 1/7/05, p.A1)(www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/21/mississippi.killings/)
2005
Jan 6, The Chicago-based
Pritzker family settled a family suit giving both Matthew (22) and
Liesel
Pritzker (20) control of $450 million. The family fortune was estimated
at over
$15 bil.
(WSJ, 1/7/05, p.B1)
2005
Jan 6, In South Carolina a freight
train carrying
chlorine gas struck a parked train, killing eight people and injuring
more than
240 others, nearly all of them sickened by a toxic cloud that at
nightfall persisted
over the small textile town of Graniteville.
(AP, 1/7/05)
2005
Jan 6, In
Bangladesh a fire at the Sun Knit garment factory in Siddhirganj killed
22 people.
Most of the exits were found locked.
(SFC, 1/8/05, p.A3)
2005
Jan 6, A baby boy delivered in
Beijing became
China's 1.3 billionth citizen.
(AP, 1/6/05)
2005
Jan 6, Chinese
authorities bulldozed Silk Alley, a 20-year-old landmark in Beijing.
Traders
felt the motive was to eliminate competition for a new indoor complex
soon to
open next to the alley, to be named Xiushui, which was the name of the
old
market.
(Econ, 1/15/05, p.39)
2005
Jan 6, A
tsunami aid conference convened in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the UN
asserted
control over the massive relief campaign.
(WSJ, 1/7/05, p.A1)
2005
Jan
6, In Iraq 7 US soldiers were killed in Baghdad when their Bradley hit
a car
buried bomb. 2 Marines were killed in western Iraq.
(WSJ,
1/7/05, p.A1)
2005
Jan 6, President Vicente Fox
announced that all
Mexican children with cancer will receive free treatment as long as
they need
it.
(AP, 1/6/05)
2005
Jan 6, In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 10
alleged gang
members were convicted in the killings of 12 women, some of the
hundreds who
have been found slain there in recent years. The Los Toltecas members
were
arrested in 1999, after the reputed leader of their group, Jesus Manuel
Guardado, alias "El Tolteca," was identified by a 14-year-old girl as
the man who sexually assaulted and tried to kill her.
(AP, 1/7/05)
2005
Jan 6, In
South Africa former Pres. Nelson Mandela announced that his son,
Makgatho
Mandela, had died of illness related to AIDS.
(SFC, 1/7/05, p.A10)
2006
Jan 6, Al-Qaida's
No. 2 official, Ayman al-Zawahri, said in a videotape that a recent US
decision
to withdraw some troops from Iraq
represented "the victory of Islam."
(AP, 1/6/07)
2006
Jan 6, The
115-year-old Pilgrim Baptist Church of Chicago was destroyed by fire.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2006
Jan
6, In Florida Martin Lee Anderson (14) died a day after
he was
brutally beaten at a juvenile detention boot camp. Videotape showed
that he was
punched and kicked. A 2nd autopsy on Mar 13 indicated that
(AP, 2/17/06)(SFC, 3/15/06,
p.A4)(SFC,
10/13/07,
p.A4)
2006
Jan 6, Lou Rawls (72), singer, died
in Los
Angeles. He started as a church choir boy and went on to sell more than
40
million albums. He won three Grammy Awards in a career that spanned
nearly five
decades and a range of genres. His 1st solo release was the 1962 jazz
album
“Stormy Monday” recorded with the Les McCann Trio.
(AP, 1/6/06)(SFC,
1/6/06, p.B5)
2006
Jan 6, Hugh
Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing
Vietnamese
civilians during the My Lai massacre, died in Alexandria, La., at age
62.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2006
Jan
6, Bulgarian officials said Gazprom was pushing it to switch to a
system in
which it pays transit fees and charges Sofia market prices. Bulgaria
rejected the
offer and said its current is good to 2010.
(WSJ,
1/9/06, p.A11)
2006
Jan 6, In China a farmer angry over
a court ruling
set off a bomb in a courthouse in Gansu province, killing himself and
four
other people. Qian Wenzhao (62) was angry over a ruling in a property
dispute
involving the house of his late son and daughter-in-law.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006
Jan 6, A study published in
Britain's leading
medical journal said war-ravaged Congo is suffering the world's
deadliest
humanitarian crisis, with 38,000 people dying each month mostly from
easily
treatable diseases.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, An Indian Supreme Court
panel accused
France of violating an international treaty on hazardous waste movement
by
sending an asbestos-laden warship to be scrapped in an Indian shipyard.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, A suicide car bomber struck
a police patrol
in Baghdad, killing one officer.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, Israel’s PM Ariel Sharon had
emergency
brain surgery for five hours after doctors detected further bleeding
and
increasing pressure.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, The Kazakhstan Parliament voted to ditch the Central Asian state's old
national anthem
in favor of "My Kazakhstan," a song written in 1956 and adapted by
Pres. Nazarbayev.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, Liberia's President-elect
Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf agreed to pay out benefits and pensions to widows of
soldiers
killed in a civil war after they blocked roads in the capital Monrovia
in
protest.
(Reuters, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, Comandante Ramona (47), a
leader of Mexico's
Zapatista rebel movement and an advocate for women's rights, died after
a
decade-long struggle with a kidney disease.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, Morocco's King Mohammed,
under pressure
from human rights groups to apologize for more than four decades of
past
repression by the state, offered his sympathy for the victims.
(Reuters, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, Nigeria’s government
anti-AIDS agency said
it will double the number of centers where AIDS patients can get free
drugs in
the next three months as part of a major drive to widen access to
treatment.
(Reuters, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, Stalinist North
Korea demanded
billions of dollars in compensation for alleged atrocities against its
prisoners of war and spies formerly held in South
Korea. The demand sparked
outrage among
politicians in Seoul.
(AFP, 1/8/06)
2006
Jan 6, Venezuela said it will
expand a program to
provide discounted home heating oil to low-income Americans, bringing
savings
to some Indian tribes in Maine.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, Vietnam said it was prepared
to join some
UN peacekeeping operations for the first time in a move seen as a major
shift
in its attitude towards the world body.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2006
Jan 6, In Yemen 5 Italian hostages
were freed in
good health after six days in captivity when their kidnappers
surrendered to
government troops.
(AP, 1/6/06)
2007
Jan 6, New Orleans considered a
curfew as 8 slayings took place in the 1st week of the new year.
(SSFC,
1/7/07, p.A10)
2007
Jan 6, In Colorado a huge snow
slide knocked two cars off the
road in a high pass and buried them.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007
Jan 6, The body of Calvin Jenks
(24), a Tennessee
state trooper, was found beside his patrol car near the intersection of
state
highways 14 and 54. He was shot during a traffic stop. The next day
police
arrested two people they believed were responsible for the killing.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007
Jan 6, In Knoxville, Tenn.,
Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were last seen as they left a
friend’s
apartment. Newsom’s shot and burned body was found the next day along
some
railroad tracks. Christian’s body was discovered 2 days later in a
trash can at
a house rented by one of the suspects. Both had been sexually
assaulted. 4
black suspects and an accessory faced murder trials.
(SFC, 5/19/07, p.A4)
2007
Jan 6, The body of Cha Vang
(30), a Hmong man, was found hidden under a log in a Wisconsin wild
life
refuge. Vang had been shot and stabbed 5 times. On Nov 28 James Nichols
(29)
was sentenced to 69 years in prison for Vang’s murder.
(SFC, 11/29/07, p.A3)
2007
Jan
6, Pete Kleinow, film effects artist and guitarist for the Flying
Burrito
Brothers, died in Petaluma, Ca.
(SFC, 1/16/07, p.B5)
2007
Jan 6, In southern Afghanistan a
roadside bomb
struck a NATO vehicle, wounding one soldier.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, In Bangladesh at least 41
people were
burned to death after fire engulfed a bus packed with migrant workers.
(AFP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, Belarus stepped up its
dispute with Russia
over energy sales by announcing Saturday it has started a customs case
against
Transneft, Russia's pipeline operator.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, In southeastern Brazil officials
said mudslides and flash floods triggered by torrential downpours
killed at
least 31 people and drove thousands from their homes during the past
five days.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, David Whelan (60) and his
son Andrew (35)
trawled through a farmer's field near Harrogate, in northern England,
when
their metal detector squealed. The pair discovered a Viking trove of
coins and
jewelry was buried more than 1,000 years ago, a collection of items
from
Ireland, France, Russia and Scandinavia that testified to the raiders'
international reach.
(AP, 7/1907)
2007
Jan 6, China unveiled its Jian-10
multi-role
indigenous fighter jet, marking a "historic leap forward" and
narrowing a technological gap with major military powers.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, Cardinal Frederic
Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi
(b.1930), Congo's top Roman Catholic prelate, died in a Belgian
hospital. He
had warned of what he called international meddling in the country's
recent
landmark elections.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007
Jan 6, Cindy Sheehan, American
"peace
mom," called for the closure of the US military prison in Guantanamo
Bay,
Cuba. She and other activists arrived to draw attention to the nearly
400
terror suspects held at the remote site.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007
Jan 6, Riots erupted overnight in a
maximum-security prison in western El Salvador, leaving 21 inmates dead.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007
Jan
6, Hong Kong reported that a wild bird found a few days earlier had
tested
positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
(WSJ, 1/8/07, p.A5)
2007
Jan 6, In northeast India
suspected separatist
rebels fatally shot 13 sleeping migrant workers before dawn, adding to
a string
of attacks over two days that killed a total of 48 people and wounded
at least
19.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, The Iraqi army reported
killing 30
militants in a Sunni insurgent stronghold in the center of Baghdad. In
Baghdad two car bombs killed four civilians. Across the country
at least 8 more people were reported killed or found dead
as a
result of sectarian violence. 27 bodies were discovered in a heavily
Sunni
district just north of the Green Zone. Most of the victims showed signs
of
torture. A US soldier died after coming under fire in Baghdad.
(AP, 1/6/07)(AP,
1/7/07)
2007
Jan 6, Mexican federal and state
police manned checkpoints
within Tijuana’s city limits as local police suspended their patrols
because
soldiers sent to crack down on drug gangs and corruption seized most of
their
guns on suspicion they aided traffickers.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas
declared Hamas' paramilitary militia in the Gaza Strip illegal, raising
the
stakes in his standoff with the Islamic movement.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, Philippine troops killed six
members of the
al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group, including one wanted by the US for
involvement in the kidnapping of Americans.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, Seven people were killed in
shootings
across Puerto Rico, prompting the US territory's police chief to plead
for
tougher gun laws.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007
Jan 6, Somalia's interim government
indefinitely
postponed plans to forcibly disarm Mogadishu as hundreds of people
burned
tires, looted vehicles and said they wouldn't give up their guns. Two
people
were reported killed and at 17 people wounded.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007
Jan 6, In Meetiyagoda, Sri Lanka,
an explosion inside a passenger bus killed 15 people. Officials blamed
the
Tamil Tiger rebels, but the group denied any involvement.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2008
Jan
6, In southeastern
(AP,
1/7/08)
2008
Jan
6, Adam Gadahn, Al-Qaida's American spokesman, urged
fighters to
meet President Bush with bombs when he visits the
(AP,
1/7/08)
2008
Jan
6, Martha Arguello (b.1917), the cartoonist known as Marty Links, died
in
(SFC,
1/9/08,
p.B9)
2008 Jan 6, In Afghanistan 3 Taliban militants were killed in a battle between police and NATO troops in the Zhari district of Kandahar.
(AP,
1/7/08)
2008
Jan
6, In
(Reuters,
1/6/08)
2008
Jan
6, In
(AP,
1/6/08)
2008
Jan
6, Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi (80), inventor of a low-cost
prosthetic
foot that has helped millions of people in developing and war-torn
countries,
died in
(AP,
1/8/08)
2008
Jan
6, Five Iranian Revolutionary
Guard
boats harassed and provoked three US Navy
ships
in the
(AP,
1/7/08)(AP, 1/14/08)
2008
Jan
6, Two Iraqi soldiers threw themselves on a suicide
bomber who
slipped into a crowd celebrating
(AP,
1/6/08)
2008
Jan
6,
(AP,
1/6/08)
2008
Jan
6, In northwest
(AP,
1/7/08)(SFC,
1/8/08,
p.A14)
2008
Jan
6, The head of
(AP,
1/6/08)
2008
Jan
6, In northern
(AP,
1/6/08)
2008
Jan
6, In Zurich Sonntag newspaper reported that Credit
Suisse faces a fresh assets write-off of 2.5 billion Swiss francs (1.5
billion
euros, $2.3 billion) from the
(AP,
1/6/08)
2008
Jan
6,
(AP,
1/6/08)
2009
Jan 6, Pres. Bush designated
parts of 3 Pacific island chains as national monuments to protect them
from oil
and gas extraction and commercial fishing. The areas totaled some
195,274
square miles and included the Mariana Trench as well as waters and
coral
surrounding 3 islands in the Northern Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in
American
Samoa and 7 islands along the equator in the central Pacific Ocean.
(SFC, 1/6/09, p.A4)
2009 Jan 6, Roland Burris of Illinois, President-elect Barack Obama's appointed successor, was turned away when he appeared at the US Capitol to take his in the convening of the 111th Congress.
(AP, 1/6/09)
2009 Jan 6, North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven reported a budget surplus and plans to grow reserves to between $800 million and $1.2 billion.
(Econ, 1/31/09, p.43)(http://governor.nd.gov/media/speeches/090106.html)
2009 Jan 6, Hal Ellis (b.1931), co-founder of the Grubb & Ellis real estate company (1958), died at his home in Oakland, Ca.
(SFC, 1/8/09, p.C1)
2009 Jan 6, In southern Afghanistan a NATO serviceman was killed in a hostile incident. In eastern Afghanistan US-led coalition forces killed 32 armed insurgents during a clash in Laghman province. The troops also destroyed two caches of weapons and roadside bomb-making materials that were too unstable to move to another location. Residents reported that some civilians died when buildings collapsed as the cache was destroyed. In western Farah province, Afghan army and coalition troops killed six militants in raid on a compound.
(AP, 1/6/09)(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 6, In Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wajed was sworn in for her second spell as prime minister, restoring democracy to the impoverished country after almost two years of rule by an army-backed regime.
(AFP, 1/6/09)
2009 Jan 6, Bahrain’s credit outlook was downgraded by Moody’s Investors Service amid tumbling crude prices and the global financial crises.
(WSJ, 1/7/09, p.A7)
2009 Jan 6, Ethiopia's parliament adopted a controversial bill imposing heavy restrictions on foreign-funded humanitarian groups operating in the war- and famine-ravaged country. Under the new law, any group that draws more than 10 percent of its funding from abroad will be classified as foreign, and thus banned from working on issues related to ethnicity, gender, children's rights and conflict resolution.
(AP, 1/6/09)(AFP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 6, A natural gas crisis loomed over Europe, as a contract dispute between Russia and Ukraine shut off Russian gas supplies to six countries and reduced gas deliveries to several others. Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Croatia and Turkey all reported a halt in gas shipments.
(AP, 1/6/09)
2009 Jan 6, Signs mounted that the conflict in Gaza is starting to spill over into violence in Europe's towns and cities, with assaults against Jews and arson attacks on Jewish congregations in France, Sweden and Britain.
(AP, 1/6/09)
2009 Jan 6, A cease-fire initiative to halt the increasingly bloody Israeli offensive in Hamas-ruled Gaza won support from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on rival sides to follow up on the proposal. A Hamas rocket hit Gedera, 20 miles from Tel Aviv, the farthest one has reached to date.
(AP, 1/6/09)(AP, 1/7/09)(Econ, 1/10/09, p.24)
2009 Jan 6, In Mexico masked gunmen opened fire and tossed a grenade at a television station in Monterrey as it aired its nightly newscast, leaving behind a message warning the station about its coverage of drug gangs. Gunmen in Tijuana opened fire from several cars, killing a 22-year-old standing with his family outside his house. Two bodies were found wrapped in blankets and dumped on the street near a cemetery.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 6, In southern Nigeria armed men robbed an offshore oil platform operated by a subsidiary of US oil giant ExxonMobile although the attack did not disrupt oil production.
(AFP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 6, In Papua New Guinea Police a woman was tied to a wooden pole, surrounded by rubber tires and set on fire. Rumors said she was suspected of spreading witchcraft through the South Pacific island nation.
(AP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 6, In Senegal 9 men, including a prominent activist, were convicted of homosexual acts and sentenced to eight years in prison. Senegal, a primarily Muslim nation in West Africa, is one of 38 countries on the continent that criminalize homosexual acts.
(AP, 1/8/09)
2009 Jan 6, In Somalia 3 masked gunmen fatally shot a Somali aid worker. The UN envoy to Somalia said the UN should create a Baghdad-style Green Zone in the African country so he can base all his aid workers there. Aid workers Keiko Akahane (32), a Japanese doctor, and Dutchman nurse Willem Sools (27), were released after being held by Somali gunmen for 108 days.
(AP, 1/6/09)(AP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 6, South Korea said it will invest 50 trillion won ($38.1 billion) over the next four years on environmental projects in a "Green New Deal" to spur slumping economic growth and create nearly a million jobs. Opposition lawmakers ended their violent, 12-day siege of the parliament after successfully delaying a key vote on a US free trade deal and other legislation.
(AP, 1/6/09)
2009 Jan 6, Sri Lankan forces overran the Tamil Tigers' northernmost defense line and took full control of Muhamalai, forcing the rebels to fall back about 600 yards to another defense line. Armed men attacked a private Sri Lankan television station, tossing hand grenades, shooting out TV screens and starting a fire that caused heavy damage. Reporters Without Borders said the attack follows accusations by state media that the Maharaja Organization's television and radio stations were not "patriotic" enough in their coverage of the government's recent victories.
(AP, 1/6/09)
2009 Jan 6, Turkey held a shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran saying it contains equipment that can make explosives.
(WSJ, 1/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 6, The WHO said at least 1,732 people have died in Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic and the number of cases diagnosed has risen to 34,306.
(AP, 1/6/09)
2009 Jan 6, Venezuela ordered Israel's ambassador expelled from the country in protest over the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 1/6/09)