Today in History - January 7
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Jan 7, Followers of the
Greek Orthodox faith celebrate Christmas.
(SFC, 1/7/97, p.A9)
1297
Jan 7, Francois Grimaldi (Francois the Crafty)
founded Monaco. The House of Grimaldi celebrated its 700th anniversary
in 1997.
(SFC, 1/8/96, p.C1)
1327 Jan 7, Edward II of England
was deposed. [see Jan 20]
(HN, 1/7/99)
1558 Jan 7, The French, under the
Duke of Guise, finally took the port of Calais from the English.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1584 Jan 7, This was the last day
of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire. The 1582
Gregorian (or New World) calendar was adopted by this time in Belgium,
most of the German Roman Catholic states and the Netherlands.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, Par p.27)(MC, 1/7/02)
1598 Jan 7, Theodorus I (40),
[Feodor Ivanovitch], czar of Russia (1584-98), died. Boris Godunov
seized the Russian throne on death of Feodor I.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1601 Jan 7, Robert, Earl of Essex
led a revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1608 Jan 7, An accidental fire
devastated the Jamestown settlement in the Virginia Colony.
(AP, 1/7/08)
1610 Jan 7, The astronomer Galileo
Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons. Galileo discovered the 1st 3
Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede. He discovered mountains
and valleys on the moon, that Jupiter has a moon of its own, and that
the sun has spots which change. Galileo discovered multiple moons
around Jupiter. He also observed Mars.
(V.D.-H.K.p.200)(SFC, 11/5/96, p.A4)(SFC, 11/29/96,
p.A16)(AP, 1/7/98)(MC, 1/7/02)
1618 Jan 7, Francis Bacon became
English lord chancellor.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1695 Jan 7, Mary II Stuart 32),
queen of England, died [OS=Dec 28 1694].
(MC, 1/7/02)
1714 Jan 7, A typewriter was
patented by Englishman Henry Mill. It was built years later.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1718 Jan 7, Israel Putnam,
American Revolutionary War hero, was born. He planned the
fortifications at the Battle of Bunker Hill and told his men, "don't
fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
(HN, 1/7/99)
1745 Jan 7, Jacques Etienne
Montgolfier (d.1799), French inventor, was born. He and his brother,
Joseph (1740-1810), launched the first successful hot-air balloon in
1783.
(HN, 1/7/99)(WUD, 1994 p.928)
1782 Jan 7, The 1st US commercial
bank, Bank of North America, opened in Philadelphia.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1785 Jan 7, Frenchman Jean-Pierre
Blanchard and the American Dr. John Jeffries crossed the English
Channel for the first time in a hydrogen balloon.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1789 Jan 7, The first U.S.
presidential election was held. Americans voted for electors who,
a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation's first
president.
(AP, 1/7/98)
1800 Jan 7, Millard Fillmore, 13th
US president (1850-1853), was born in Summerhill (Locke), N.Y.
(SFC, 2/21/97, p.A25)(AP, 1/7/98)(HN, 1/7/99)
1807 Jan 7, Responding to
Napoleon's blockade of the British Isles, The British blockaded
Continental Europe.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1830 Jan 7, 1st US Railroad
Station opened in Baltimore.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1830 Jan 7, Albert Bierstadt,
painter (US landscapes), was born in Germany.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1839 Jan 7, Louis Daguerre had the
influential astronomer Dominique-Francois-Argo make an announcement at
the Academy of Sciences in Paris of the daguerreotype, a photographic
process using fumes of iodine to sensitize a silver plate, vapor of
mercury to bring out the image, and common salt to fix the image.
(ON, 10/08, p.9)
1842 Jan 7, Gioacchino Rossini's
"Stabat Mater" premiered in Paris.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1845 Jan 7, Louis III (Ludwig II),
last King of Bavaria (1913-1918), was born at Nymphenburg. He was also
called the "Mad King" for his extravagant castles.
(HN, 1/7/99)(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.T4)(MC, 1/7/02)
1862 Jan 7, Battle of Manassas
Junction, VA.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1865 Jan 7, Cheyenne and Sioux
warriors attacked Julesburg, Colo., in retaliation for the Sand Creek
Massacre.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1873 Jan 7, Adolph Zukor, movie
producer, director, executive (Paramount), was born in Hungary.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1890 Jan 7, William B. Puris
patented a fountain pen.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1894 Jan 7, One of the earliest
motion picture experiments took place at the Thomas Edison studio in
West Orange, N.J., as comedian Fred Ott was filmed sneezing.
(AP, 1/7/98)
1895 Jan 7, The new government of
Hawaii placed the country under martial law following news of a planned
revolt. Queen Lili’uokalani was convicted of treason and sentenced to 5
years in prison. She was released after serving 2 years under house
arrest.
(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1896 Jan 7, Fanny Farmer published
her 1st cookbook.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1898 Jan 7, Art Baker, TV host
(You Asked For It), was born in NYC.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1901 Jan 7, New York stock
exchange trading exceeded two million shares for the first time in
history.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1902 Jan 7, Imperial Court of
China returned to Peking. The Empress Dowager resumed her reign.
(HN, 1/7/01)
1903 Jan 7, Alan Napier, actor
(Alfred-Batman), was born in Birmingham, England.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1904 Jan 7, The Marconi
International Marine Communication Company, Limited, of London
announced that the telegraphed letters “C-Q-D” would serve as a
maritime distress call. It was later replaced by “S-O-S”.
(AP, 1/7/07)
1910 Jan 7, Alain JG de
Rothschild, banker and baron, was born in France.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1912 Jan 7, Charles Addams,
cartoonist whose macabre Addams Family appeared in The New Yorker, was
born.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1914 Jan 7, The first ship
crossed the Panama Canal.
(HFA, '96, p.22)
1918 Jan 7, The Germans moved
75,000 troops from the East Front to the Western Front.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1927 Jan 7, Commercial
transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and
London.
(AP, 1/7/98)
1928 Jan 7, William Peter Blatty,
author and director (The Exorcist), was born in NYC.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1929 Jan 7, "Tarzan," one of the
1st adventure comic strips, 1st appeared.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1934 Jan 7, The Radio Church of
God under Herbert W. Armstrong began broadcasting in Pasadena, Ca. His
program was called "The World Tomorrow" and his magazine was called
"The Plain Truth."
(WSJ, 2/120/00, p.A1)
1934 Jan 7, Six-thousand pastors
in Berlin defied the Nazis insisting that they will not be muzzled.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1939 Jan 7, Tom Mooney
(1882-1942), California imprisoned labor leader, was pardoned by newly
elected Democratic Governor Culbert Olson (1876-1962). Mooney had been
convicted and imprisoned for over 22 years for the SF Preparedness Day
Bombing of 1916.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mooney)(www.atheists.org/Atheism/roots/olson/)
1942 Jan 7, Vasili Alexeyev,
weightlifter (Olympic-gold-72, 76), was born in USSR.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1942 Jan 7, The World War II siege
of Bataan began in the Philippines.
(AP, 1/7/98)
1943 Jan 7, Nicola Tesla (b.1856),
Croatian born inventor and physicist, died In NYC. In 1996 Marc Seifer
authored “Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a
Genius.”
(SFC, 12/29/96, Z1
p.2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla)(WSJ, 3/7/09, p.W8)
1944 Jan 7, The U.S. Air Force
announced the production of the first jet-fighter, Bell P-59 Airacomet.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1945 Jan 7, U.S. air ace Major
Thomas B. McGuire Jr. was killed in the Pacific.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1948 Jan 7, Kenny Loggins, singer
(& Messina-This is it, Footloose), was born in Everett, WA.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1948 Jan 7, US president Truman
raised taxes for the Marshall plan.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1952 Jan 7, French forces in
Indochina launch Operation Violette in an effort to push Viet Minh
forces away from the town of Ba Vi.
(HN, 1/7/00)
1953 Jan 7, President Truman
announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had
developed a hydrogen bomb.
(AP, 1/7/98)
1955 Jan 7, Singer Marian Anderson
made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Verdi's "Un
Ballo in Maschera." She was the first black singer to perform there.
(WSJ, 2/28/97, p.A14)(AP, 1/7/98)(HN, 1/7/99)
1955 Jan 7, The opening of the
Canadian Parliament in Ottawa was televised for the first time.
(AP, 1/7/05)
1957 Jan 7, Katie Couric,
[Katherine], TV news host (Today), was born in Arlington, VA.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1958 Jan 7, Petru Groza (74),
premier and president (Romania, 1945-58), died.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1959 Jan 7, The United States
recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.
(AP, 1/7/98)
1964 Jan 7, Nicolas Cage,
[Coppola], actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon), was born.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1970 Jan 7, Woodstock, NY, farmers
sued Max Yasgur (1919-1973) for $35,000 for damages caused by the
"Woodstock" rock festival.
(www.woodstockpreservation.org/pastpresent/maxtribute.html)
1972 Jan 7, Lewis F. Powell Jr.,
private practice lawyer, and William H. Rehnquist (1925-2005),
Assistant Attorney General for Pres. Nixon, were sworn in as the 99th
and 100th members of the Supreme Court.
(AP, 1/7/98)(AP, 9/4/05)
1972 Jan 7, Poet John Berryman
(b.1914), US poet (Imaginary Jew), leaped to his death from a bridge
above the Mississippi River. He was teaching a graduate course at the
Univ. of Minnesota on America’s character as revealed by its poets.
Carl Rakosi took over the class. His former wife, Eileen Simpson, died
in 2002. Simpson authored her memoir "Poets in Their Youth" in 1982.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berryman)(SFEC,
4/23/00, BR p.1)(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A24)
1975 Jan 7, "Shenandoah" opened at
Alvin Theater, NYC, for 1050 performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_(musical))
1975 Jan 7, Hanoi troops took
Phuoc Binh in new full-scale offensive.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1978 Jan 7, Michael Josselson
(b.1908), Estonia-born director of the Congress for Cultural Freedom,
died. The organization was a CIA front to gain the support of the
non-Communist left for the US. In 2000 Frances Stonor Saunders authored
"The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters."
(SFEC, 7/16/00, BR p.4)
1979 Jan 7, The Vietnamese army
captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh overthrowing the Khmer
Rouge government. The People’s Party, a Hanoi installed Khmer Rouge
faction, took power with Hun Sen as prime minister and Heng Samrin as
president. This finally ended the mass genocide depicted in the 1984
film "The Killing Fields." The Khmer Rouge retreated into sanctuaries
along the Thai border, set up bases and picked up support from Thailand
and China.
(WSJ, 2/27/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 6/14/97, p.A15)(WSJ,
5/3/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A8)(AP,
1/7/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heng_Samrin)
1980 Jan 7, Some 60,000 US oil
refinery workers went on nationwide strike for the 1st time in 11
years. No major disruptions were reported in the walkout.
(SFC, 1/7/05, p.F6)
1981 Jan 7, An operational and
planning assistance team (OPAT) arrived in El Salvador to provide
assistance in protecting the harvest from the guerrillas. By the end of
the Carter Administration, nineteen US military advisors had been
deployed there.
(http://tinyurl.com/3bk6f3)
1985 Feb 7, "New York, New York"
became the official anthem of NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985)
1985 Jan 7, Vietnam seized the
Khmer National Liberation Front headquarters near the Thai border.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1986 Jan 7, US president Reagan
proclaimed economic sanctions against Libya.
(www.iie.com/research/topics/sanctions/libya.cfm)
1987 Jan 7, The US House of
Representatives, by House Resolution 12, established the Select
Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. The US
Senate passed a similar resolution a day earlier. The two Chambers
instructed their respective Committees to work together and charged
them with investigating, among other things, any activity of any
officer or entity of the United States Government relating to the Iran
initiative.
(www.pinknoiz.com/covert/weinberger.html)
1988 Jan 7, Secretary of State
George P. Shultz, seeking to smooth a rift caused by a United Nations
vote, told reporters that overall American support for Israel remained
"unshakable."
(AP, 1/7/98)
1988 Jan 7, British actor Trevor
Howard died in England at age 71.
(AP, 1/7/98)
1989 Jan 7, Emperor Hirohito of
Japan died at age 87 after the longest reign in the history of Japan;
he was succeeded by Crown Prince Akihito. Heisei, which means Peace and
Prosperity, was adopted as the new reign name. For the first time since
1955, the Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority in the Diet's
Upper House. In 1989 Edward Behr authored "Hirohito: Behind the Myth."
In 2000 Herbert P. Bix authored "Hirohito and the Making of Modern
Japan." Hirohito was a marine biologist and collector. His work
included the illustrated book "Crabs of Sagami Bay."
(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 217)(AP, 1/7/98)(WSJ, 8/30/00,
p.A24)(WSJ, 5/29/01, p.A20)
1990 Jan 7, The president of El
Salvador, Alfredo Cristiani, said in a nationally broadcast address
that military men two months earlier had massacred six Jesuit priests,
their housekeeper and her daughter.
(AP, 1/7/00)
1991 Jan 7, Defense Secretary Dick
Cheney canceled plans to purchase the A-12 stealth attack plane for the
Navy.
(AP, 1/7/01)
1991 Jan 7, Pete Rose left an
Illinois federal prison camp and checked into a halfway house in
Cincinnati to complete his sentence for cheating on his taxes.
(AP, 1/7/01)
1991 Jan 7, Loyalist troops in
Haiti crushed a coup attempt that had threatened the transition of
power to the country’s first freely elected president, Jean-Bertrand
Aristide.
(AP, 1/7/01)
1992 Jan 7, Pitchers Tom Seaver
and Rollie Fingers were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.
(AP, 1/7/02)
1992 Jan 7, President Bush arrived
in Japan on a tough-talk trade mission.
(AP, 1/7/02)
1992 Jan 7, Serb forces shot down
a European Community helicopter in Croatia, killing five truce
observers.
(AP, 1/7/02)
1993 Jan 7, The US claimed that
Saddam Hussein moved surface-to-air missiles into southern Iraq.
Baghdad refused to remove them and allied warplanes attacked the
missile sites and warships fired cruise missiles at a nuclear facility
near Baghdad.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)
1993 Jan 7, US forces in Somalia
unleashed tank, helicopter and rocket fire on two clan camps in
Mogadishu where snipers had been taking potshots at the troops. Cpl.
James Perciavalle of Leetsdale, Pa., became the 1st US Marine wounded
by friendly fire in Somalia.
(AP, 1/7/98)(Sewickley Herald (Pa), 3/3/93, p.11)
1993 Jan 7, A preliminary report
prepared for the European Community said Serb fighters may have raped
about 20,000 women in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 1/7/98)
1994 Jan 7, The US government
reported the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 6.4 percent
in December 1993.
(AP, 1/7/99)
1994 Jan 7, Nancy Kerrigan
withdrew from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, a day
after her right leg was severely bruised in an attack after a practice
session.
(AP, 1/7/99)
1995 Jan 7, Major General Viktor
Vorobyov, a senior commander leading Russian troops in their advance on
the secessionist capital of Chechnya, was killed by a mortar shell.
(AP, 1/7/00)
1996 Jan 7, "Crazy After You"
closed at Shubert Theater, NYC, after 1622 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=2807)
1996 Jan 7, Pres. Clinton and
Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, engaged in a 5th sexual
encounter at the White House.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A13)
1996 Jan 7, Republicans rejected
President Clinton’s budget plan and warned they would close government
programs they didn’t like if there were no agreement on a budget plan
in the next few weeks.
(AP, 1/7/01)
1996 Jan 7, A major blizzard, one
of the worst in the century, paralyzed the Eastern United States. More
than 100 deaths were later blamed on the severe weather.
(WSJ, 1/8/96, p.A-1)(WSJ, 1/2/97, p.R2)(AP, 1/7/01)
1997 Jan 7, Newt Gingrich overcame
dissension in GOP ranks to become the first Republican re-elected House
speaker in 68 years with 216 of 227 Republicans in support.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.A5)(AP, 1/7/98)
1997 Jan 7, Serial killer Henry
Louis Wallace was convicted in Charlotte, N.C., of raping and murdering
9 women over a 20 month period.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.A3)
1997 Jan 7, A 2 day Santa Ana
windstorm subsided in Southern California after causing power blackouts
that affected over a million Edison customers.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.A3)
1997 Jan 7, In Algiers a car bomb
killed 13 and wounded 10.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.A7)
1997 Jan 7, It was announced that
the government’s plan to privatize its 51% of Companhia Vale do Rio
Doce (CVRD) was opposed by former Presidents Jose Sarney and Itamar
Franco, as well as Workers Party leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, all
candidates in the 1998 elections. Vale’s Carajas mine in Para produced
25% of the world’s iron ore and held reserves for some 400 years.
(SFC, 1/7/97, p.A10)
1997 Jan 7, Beryl Brainbridge won
the British Whitbread award for best novel of 1996 for "Every Man for
Himself," a tale of the Titanic disaster. Seamus Heaney won poetry
award for "The Spirit Level."
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.B5)
1997 Jan 7, The Hebron Protocol or
Hebron Agreement began and was concluded from January 15 to January 17,
1997 between Israel, represented by PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and the
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), represented by PLO Chairman
Yasser Arafat, under the supervision of US Secretary of State Warren
Christopher, for redeployment of Israeli military forces in Hebron.
Palestinian authorities gained control of 80% of Hebron.
(SFC, 12/4/08, p.A27)
1997 Jan 7, The Jerusalem Prize
for literature was awarded to Spanish author Jorge Semprun (b.1923).
His works include "The Long Voyage," "Literature for Life," and the
screenplays for the Costas Gavras films "Z" and "The Confession."
(SFC, 1/9/97, p.E3)
1997 Jan 7, In France it was
announced that a 20.6% value-added tax would be placed on telephone
services offered by phone companies outside the European Union. The
charge was directed at "call-back" services mainly in the US.
(WSJ, 1/7/97, p.A14)
1997 Jan 7, In Honduras it was
reported that Chagas disease, a parasitical illness, has infected an
estimated 300,000 out of a population of 5.8 mil. Some 65,000 were in
the late stages.
(SFC, 1/7/97, p.A9)
1997 Jan 7, In South Korea
broadcasting and hospital unions joined the nationwide strike.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.A6)
1997 Jan 7, Russia’s inflation
rate for 1996 was announced to have fallen to 21.8%, down from 133% in
1995.
(WSJ, 1/7/97, p.A14)
1998 Jan 7, The jury in the Terry
Nichols case deadlocked over his punishment when it failed to decide on
how active his role in the Oklahoma bombing was. This saved him from a
death penalty and forced Judge Richard Matsch to decide on a sentence.
(SFC, 1/8/98, p.A1)(AP, 1/7/99)
1998 Jan 7, In Mustang, Nevada,
two blasts at the Sierra Chemical Co. plant left 4 workers feared
killed.
(SFC, 1/8/98, p.A3)
1998 Jan 7, In Afghanistan it was
reported that some 600 civilians were dragged from their homes and shot
by the Taliban army in the northwest, prompting thousands to flee the
area. Most of the victims were said to be Uzbeks.
(SFC, 1/8/98, p.B3)
1998 Jan 7, In Canada the
government apologized to the nation’s indigenous peoples for past acts
of oppression and pledged $245 million for counseling and treatment
programs. The aboriginal population is about 810,000 that includes
38,000 Inuits and 139,000 Metis, people of mixed Indian and white
ancestry.
(SFC, 1/8/98, p.A13)(AP, 1/7/99)
1998 Jan 7, Pres. Mohhamad Khatami
of Iran endorsed cultural relations with the US but no political ties
in a preliminary effort to "crack the wall" of hostility between the
two countries.
(SFC, 1/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jan 7, In Mexico Chiapas Gov.
Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro submitted his resignation due to the massacre in
Acteal.
(SFC, 1/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jan 7, In South Africa the
attorney general announced that former Pres. Peter Botha would be
prosecuted for refusing to appear before the Truth Commission and for
hindering its work.
(SFC, 1/8/98, p.A12)
1999 Jan 7, For the 2nd time in
history, an impeached American president went on trial before the
Senate. Chief Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in to preside over
the trial. Pres. Bill Clinton was ultimately acquitted of charges of
perjury and obstruction of justice.
(SFC, 1/8/99, p.A1)(AP, 1/7/05)
1999 Jan 7, A US jet fired on an
air defense station in Iraq after it was targeted on radar.
(WSJ, 1/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 7, The new Encarta
Africana contained 3,000 scholarly articles on black culture and
history as part of a 2-CD ROM set by Microsoft. It included a timeline
that combines events in Africa and America.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A13)
1999 Jan 7, In Brazil Minas Gerais
state declared a 90-day moratorium on debt owed to the central
government. Former Pres. Itamar Franco, the new governor of Minas
Gerais, had vowed to stop payment on over $15 billion to force a
renegotiation of payment terms. 24 of 27 states had fixed debt
agreements with the federal government.
(WSJ, 1/6/99, p.A17)(WSJ, 1/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 7, In China police
arrested Song Xianggui (36) in Linghai city for setting off explosives
on a bus. 19 people were killed when his plan to stun passengers to rob
them went awry.
(SFC, 1/8/99, p.A16)
1999 Jan 7, In Colombia Manuel
Marulanda, leader of FARC, was scheduled to come down from the
mountains to talk peace with Pres. Pastrana at San Vicente del Caguan.
Marulanda failed to show but sent 3 top commanders in his place.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A8)
1999 Jan 7, In Sierra Leone rebels
rampaged through Freetown as Pres. Kabbah announced an agreement with
jailed rival leader, Foday Sankoh, for a cease-fire.
(SFC, 1/8/99, p.A13)
2000 Jan 7, Pres. Clinton
announced a $91 million program to protect computer security as part of
the 2001 fiscal budget.
(SFC, 1/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 7, US Representative Dan
Burton (Republican, Indiana), subpoenaed Elian Gonzalez to testify
before Congress, a bid to keep Elian in the United States for at least
another month while courts decided whether the six-year-old should be
returned to Cuba. Elian never actually testified.
(AP, 1/7/01)
2000 Jan 7, Johnny Ely (66), a
short-order cook, won the New York State Lottery Millennium Millions
$100 million jackpot. He elected a one-time pay out of $44 million with
$17 million in taxes.
(SFC, 1/8/00, p.A2)
2000 Jan 7, Some 200 million
Orthodox Christians observed Christmas according to the old Julian
calendar.
(SFC, 1/8/00, p.C1)
2000 Jan 7, It was reported that
hijackers in Europe were engaged in killing truck drivers and stealing
their new trucks for resale. One 50-member ring confessed to the murder
of 10 truckers at a charge of $8,500 per head.
(SFC, 1/7/00, p.A14)
2000 Jan 7, In Germany it was
reported that a recent series of tax cuts announced by Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder included a corporate exemption on capital gains taxes
on the sale of shares in other corporations. Current capital gains
taxes were close to 60%.
(WSJ, 1/7/00, p.A14)
2000 Jan 7, In Greece the
government promised tougher border security after a truck carrying 80
illegal immigrants from Turkey crashed and left 6 people dead.
(SFC, 1/8/00, p.A10)
2000 Jan 7, In Kosovo 2 Serbian
women were killed by an ethnic Albanian gang in Prizren. Attacks in the
last 2 days had left 4 Serb men wounded and 1 dead.
(SFC, 1/8/00, p.A10)
2000 Jan 7, Russia announced a
suspension of aerial bombardment in Grozny to allow civilians to
escape. A military shakeup was also announced.
(SFC, 1/8/00, p.A1)
2001 Jan 7, Pres. Clinton told the
people of Israel that "there is no choice for you but to divide this
land into two states for two people."
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 7, President-elect George
W. Bush's transition team acknowledged that Labor Secretary-designate
Linda Chavez had provided housing and financial aid to an illegal
immigrant. Chavez ended up withdrawing her nomination.
(AP, 1/7/02)
2001 Jan 7, John Kufuor (b.1938)
became president of Ghana.
(Econ, 11/29/08,
p.51)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kufuor)
2001 Jan 7, Iraqi Kurdish
officials reported that at least 500 Turkish troops had pushed 100
miles into northern Iraq in response to a call for help from the PUK.
The PUK was fighting the PKK and had lost 200 soldiers in recent weeks.
Some 10,000 Turkish troops had entered northern Iraq since Dec 20.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 7, In the Ivory Coast
mutinous soldiers attacked the broadcasting facilities and offices of
state television and radio in Abidjan. The coup attempt was reported to
have failed. 32 people were arrested and at least 8 people were killed.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A9)(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Jan 7, In Russia Pres. Putin
pledged to pay all of its Soviet-era int’l. debts.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A10)
2002 Jan 7, US planes bombed cave
complexes in Afghanistan as British PM Tony Blair and 9 U.S. senators
swept into Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan for an unannounced visit and
promised Afghan leaders their full support in rebuilding the shattered
country..
(SFC, 1/8/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 1/8/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/7/03)
2002 Jan 7, Louis Pollak, a
federal judge in Philadelphia, challenged the scientific validity of
fingerprint evidence. In March Pollak declared fingerprint id to be the
"bedrock of forensic science."
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 7, Yves Saint Laurent
announced his retirement and closure of the fashion house he'd started
40 years earlier.
(SFC, 1/8/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/7/03)
2002 Jan 7, Scientists reported
that symptoms of Parkinson’s were relieved in rats when stem cells were
injected into their brains.
(WSJ, 1/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 7, Comedian Avery
Schreiber died in Los Angeles at age 66.
(AP, 1/7/03)
2002 Jan 7, In Kandahar 7 Taliban
officials surrendered and were released by the governor. None of the
released were on US wanted lists.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A13)
2003 Jan 7, Pres. Bush put forward
a $674 billion "growth and jobs" economic stimulus plan that would
provide tax relief to an estimated 92 million Americans by accelerating
income tax rate cuts, wiping out all federal taxes on stock dividends
paid to investors and boosting the child tax credit by $400 per child.
(AP, 1/7/03)(SFC, 1/8/03, p.A1)
2003 Jan 7, US Marines, both
active and reserves, were ordered to remain in service for the coming
12 months.
(SFC, 1/10/03, p.A12)
2003 Jan 7, Police in London
announced they had found traces of the deadly poison ricin in a north
London apartment and arrested six men in connection with the virulent
toxin that has been linked to al-Qaida terrorists and Iraq.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2003 Jan 7, In Colombia rebels
ambushed a police convoy near the capital, killing at least 8 officers
and wounding 5 in a bold, daylight attack.
(AP, 1/7/03)
2003 Jan 7, In Congo a military
court convicted and sentenced 26 people to death in the Jan 16, 2001
assassination of Congo's president, Laurent Kabila.
(AP, 1/7/03)(SFC, 1/8/03, p.A16)
2003 Jan 7, In Egypt Orthodox
Christmas was marked for the first time as a national holiday in this
predominantly Muslim nation.
(AP, 1/7/03)
2003 Jan 7, Israeli troops
exchanged fire with Palestinian militiamen for 4 hours, killing 3
gunmen before withdrawing from the outskirts of a refugee camp. The
Israeli government put new restrictions on travel by Palestinians.
(AP, 1/7/03)(SFC, 1/8/03, p.A11)
2003 Jan 7, In South Africa a
passenger train collided with a freight train, killing 10 people and
injuring 49.
(AP, 1/7/03)
2003 Jan 7, In northeastern Uganda
rival tribesmen armed with spears and guns clashed over cattle, leaving
at least 52 people dead in two days of fighting. At least 35 Pokot and
17 Karamojong were killed.
(AP, 1/10/03)
2004 Jan 7, Pres. Bush presented a
plan to grant legal status to foreigners working in the United States.
(AP, 1/8/04)(WSJ, 1/8/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 7, Digital radios went on
sale in the US.
(SFC, 1/7/04, p.B8)
2004 Jan 7, In Georgia Jerry
William Jones (31) killed 3 former in-laws and his infant daughter and
fled with 3 girl hostages. The girls were found safe and Jones shot
himself following a police chase.
(SFC, 1/9/04, p.A3)
2004 Jan 7, L. Paul Bremer, the
top American civilian official in Iraq, said U.S. authorities will
release 506 low-level Iraqi prisoners while increasing the bounties for
fugitives suspected of major roles in attacks against coalition forces.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2004 Jan 7, In Colombia FARC
rebels killed 8 peasant farmers because they refused to sell them their
coca crops.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 7, Dominica's main
political party chose Roosevelt Skerrit (31), the education minister,
as the next leader of this Caribbean country.
(AP, 1/8/04)
2004 Jan 7, Guatemala signed an
accord to let UN prosecutors handle organized crime and human-rights
cases.
(AP, 1/8/04)(WSJ, 1/8/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 7, In southwestern
Guatemala men with automatic weapons hijacked a minibus carrying 13
American tourists, killing one passenger. In 2005 Henry Giovanny
Vicente (27), and Marvin Sebastian Berganza (29) were convicted by a
3-judge panel of being accomplices in the killing of Brett Richards, a
52-year-old architect from Ogden, Utah, who died during a confrontation
with bandits who hijacked a bus of Mormon tourists visiting Mayan ruins.
(AP, 1/8/04)(WSJ, 1/8/04, p.A1)(AP, 11/30/05)
2004 Jan 7, Haiti university
students marched against Pres. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, sparking clashes
that left at least 2 dead amid a swelling opposition movement against
the leader.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2004 Jan 7, In Iran a 57-year-old
man was pulled from the rubble of Ban's earthquake, barely conscious
but still alive because he had a source of water during the 13 days he
was buried. He died 4 days later.
(AP, 1/8/04)(AP, 1/11/04)
2004 Jan 7, L. Paul Bremer, the
top American civilian official in Iraq, said U.S. authorities will
release 506 low-level Iraqi prisoners while increasing the bounties for
fugitives suspected of major roles in attacks against coalition forces.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2004 Jan 7, Israeli soldiers
patrolling West Bank towns shot and killed 3 Palestinian militants
during an ongoing sweep of the area.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2004 Jan 7, Najib Razak, a veteran
politician, was named as Malaysia's deputy PM.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2004 Jan 7, Mauritania armed
security force members stopped racers from the famed Paris-Dakar Rally,
demanding $65 from each vehicle to pass the border. The 26th
Paris-Dakar race crosses 6,920.4-miles, seven countries and the Sahara
Desert, ending Jan. 18 outside the Senegalese capital, Dakar
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 7, Morocco pardoned 33
prisoners, including a prominent journalist.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2004 Jan 7, In Scotland Stephen
Gough (44) was convicted of breaching the peace and sentenced to three
months in jail for trying to walk the length of Britain naked to
promote public nudity.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2004 Jan 7, Ingrid Thulin
(b.1926), Swedish actress, died in Stockholm. Her films included
"Foreign Intrigue" (1956).
(SFC, 1/9/04, p.A21)
2005 Jan 7, A military jury at
Fort Hood, Texas, acquitted Army Sgt. Tracy Perkins of involuntary
manslaughter in the alleged drowning of an Iraqi civilian, but
convicted him of assault in the January 2004 incident.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2005 Jan 7, The nuclear submarine
USS San Francisco ran aground 350 miles off the Pacific Ocean territory
of Guam, injuring about 20 crew members. One died the next day.
(AP, 1/8/05)(AP, 1/9/05)
2005 Jan 7, Conservative columnist
Armstrong Williams was dropped by a major syndication service because
he'd accepted a payment from the Bush administration to promote the No
Child Left Behind law.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2005 Jan 7, Brad Pitt and Jennifer
Aniston announced they were separating after four years of marriage.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2005 Jan 7, Rosemary Kennedy (86),
the mentally retarded oldest sister of President Kennedy and the
inspiration for the Special Olympics, died at a Fort Atkinson, Wis.,
hospital.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2005 Jan 7, Congo’s electoral
commission hinted that elections scheduled for June would be postponed.
(Econ, 1/22/05, p.44)
2005 Jan 7, Authorities raised
Indonesia's death toll by 7,000, bringing the overall total killed by
the disaster to more than 147,000.
(AP, 1/7/05)
2005 Jan 7, In northern Italy a
passenger train and a freight train collided in thick fog on the
Bologna-Verona line, killing 17 people and injuring dozens.
(AP, 1/7/05)(WSJ, 1/10/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 7, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir police said militants stormed a government building, setting it
on fire with 70 employees still trapped inside. Three people were
killed in the fighting.
(AP, 1/7/05)
2005 Jan 7, Palestinian militants
attacked a group of Israeli civilians outside the West Bank city of
Nablus, wounding four people, including one who was in critical
condition.
(AP, 1/7/05)
2006 Jan 7, US Representative Tom
DeLay (R-Texas), facing corruption charges, stepped down as House
majority leader.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2006 Jan 7, In East Palo Alto,
Ca., police officer Richard May (38) was gunned down after responding
to a report of a fight at a taqueria. Alberto Alvarez (23) was arrested
the next day. In 2009 a jury convicted him of first-degree murder and
recommended that he be executed. On Feb 8, 2010, a judge sentenced
Alvarez to death.
(SFC, 1/9/06, p.A1)(SFC, 11/26/09, p.C2)(SFC,
12/23/09, p.C2)(SFC, 2/9/10, p.C2)
2006 Jan 7, In Afghanistan a
roadside bomb blew up as a van packed with police cadets and trainers
was driving through the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing a passer-by
and wounding a police colonel and driver.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, In eastern Australia a
21-year-old woman died after a shark attack near North Stradbroke
Island. A camper on a nearby beach said the woman had been scuba diving
in waist-deep water at the time of the attack.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, Heinrich Harrer (93),
an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who became a friend and tutor
of the young Dalai Lama, died. Actor Brad Pitt played Harrer in the
1997 film "Seven Years in Tibet," which was based on Harrer's 1953
memoir of his time in Tibet.
(AP, 1/7/06)(Econ, 1/21/06, p.83)
2006 Jan 7, A study reported by
Brazilian media said more than 1,000 children have been living
underneath highway overpasses, inside tunnels and on city squares in
Sao Paulo.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, The World Bank under
Paul Wolfowitz halted all lending to Chad saying the country broke a
deal to use oil money to cut poverty.
(WSJ, 1/7/06, p.A1)(Econ, 3/4/06, p.69)
2006 Jan 7, China's ruling
Communist Party called on its members to do more to fight widespread
corruption and politically explosive problems such as unpaid back wages
for migrant workers.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, In Haiti Brazilian Lt.
Gen. Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, commander of UN peacekeepers,
was found dead in an apparent suicide in a room at the Montana hotel in
Port-au-Prince.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, In Iraq gunmen
kidnapped Jill Carroll, a female American journalist, and killed her
Iraqi translator in western Baghdad. Carroll was freed almost three
months later.
(AP,
1/7/07)(www.csmonitor.com/2006/0110/p01s04-woiq.html)
2006 Jan 7, Talib Enezy Ghadban,
an Iraqi detainee held at the US-controlled Abu Ghraib prison in
Baghdad, died in custody. The military said he died of complications
from an apparent stroke and an investigation was under way.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2006 Jan 7, A US Black Hawk
helicopter crashed in northern Iraq, killing all 12 Americans believed
to be aboard. 2 US Marines were killed by roadside bombs in separate
incidents.
(AP, 1/8/06)
2006 Jan 7, The French engineer,
Bernard Planche (52), was pushed out of a car near a checkpoint in a
Baghdad suburb. He had been kidnapped Dec 5.
(AP, 1/8/06)
2006 Jan 7, Visiting Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw has said it was hoped Britain's 8,000 troops would
start to withdraw from Iraq in a matter of months.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, Japanese police
arrested William Oliver Reese (21), an American sailor, on charges of
robbing and beating a Japanese woman to death. Reese was accused of
robbing Yoshie Sato (56) of $129.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, Environmentalists
continued attempts to thwart Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, as
both sides accused each other of underhand tactics in the high-seas
struggle.
(AFP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, Cross border firing at
a Pakistani village near the Afghan border killed eight people in
Saidgi village. Pakistan protested the incident to the US military.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 7, In Pakistan assailants
armed with rockets and assault rifles attacked a newly built checkpoint
near the Afghan border before dawn, killing all eight security forces.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, In Pakistan some 50
survivors of the Oct 8 earthquake commandeered 2 UN relief helicopters
to flee the disaster zone.
(WSJ, 1/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Jan 7, In Sri Lanka an
explosives-rigged fishing boat rammed a navy patrol, killing 13 sailors
in a suspected rebel attack.
(AP, 1/7/06)
2006 Jan 7, American singer Harry
Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny
Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West in a meeting
with Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 1/8/06)
2007 Jan 7, Newly elected House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, interviewed on CBS' "Face the Nation," said
Democrats running Congress would not give President Bush a blank check
to wage war in Iraq.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2007 Jan 7, The North American
Int’l. Auto Show opened in Detroit. China’s Changfeng Group Co., made
its first appearance at the international auto show in Detroit, Mich.
China numbered over 100 automakers and industry consolidation was
expected.
(Econ, 1/6/07, p.54)(WSJ, 1/3/07, p.B1)
2007 Jan 7, Bobby Hamilton (49),
NASCAR driver, died. He had won the 2001 Talladega 500.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2007 Jan 7, In eastern Afghanistan
a roadside bomb ripped through a vehicle, killing a woman, her two
newborn twin babies and the children's grandmother.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007 Jan 7, Activists and police
clashed in Bangladesh, injuring at least 50 people at the start of a
three-day transport blockade aimed at derailing upcoming general
elections.
(Reuters, 1/7/07)
2007 Jan 7, Staff at a logistics
company in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province, found a human
torso in a box seeping blood but marked as carrying medicine. Two days
later, police in Beijing and Jiangyin, in eastern Jiangsu province,
found a man's head and arms. On Jan 15 state media said Chinese police
have detained a man and a woman suspected of killing a man and posting
his body parts to three different cities.
(Reuters, 1/15/07)
2007 Jan 7, A helicopter crashed
into the garden terrace of a restaurant in southeastern France, killing
three people on the ground and severely injuring a fourth.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007 Jan 7, Suspected separatists
fatally shot eight people in India's northeast as army, police and
paramilitary forces swept through a remote corner of the region after
earlier militant attacks killed dozens.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007 Jan 7, Three US airmen died
in a car bombing in Baghdad, among at least 17 people killed in
violence across Iraq as Iraqi troops launched a fresh battle to oust
militias and pacify the capital. Two American soldiers were killed
north of Baghdad.
(AP, 1/7/07)(AP, 1/8/07)
2007 Jan 7, In Israel former PM
Ehud Barak announced his political comeback, saying he will run for the
leadership of the Labor Party in a first step toward a possible bid at
regaining the country's top office.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007 Jan 7, In Jamaica the
Accompong Maroons, descendants of freed African slaves, vowed to fight
any plans for bauxite mining in the forested region where they have
lived in semiautonomy for centuries. Sydney Peddie, the group's leader,
said opening up the territory to mining would breach a treaty signed
between the Maroons and the British in 1739, which gave the group
nearly 25,000 acres in Cockpit Country, an inhospitable terrain of
rocky cliffs and limestone towers.
(AP, 1/8/07)
2007 Jan 7, A senior Kenyan health
official said about 75 people have died of Rift Valley fever
(hemorrhagic fever) during the past three weeks and another 183 are
infected with it. The last outbreak of the disease in East Africa was
between 1997-1998, when 478 people died in Somalia and Kenya. Currently
there was no human vaccine.
(AP, 1/8/07)(WSJ, 1/9/07, p.A1)
2007 Jan 7, Tens of thousands of
Fatah supporters packed Gaza's main soccer stadium in a show of
strength to boost the movement in its increasingly violent struggle
against the Islamic militant group Hamas.
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007 Jan 7, Stanislaw Wielgus,
Warsaw's new archbishop, resigned over his involvement with the
communist-era secret police. The Vatican said his past actions had
"gravely compromised his authority."
(AP, 1/7/07)
2007 Jan 7, Russia stopped pumping
oil into a pipeline network that crossed Belarus. The line
delivered 12.5% of the EU’s oil needs.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.44)
2007 Jan 7, An American AC-130
gunship began attacking suspected al-Qaida positions in southern
Somalia. The US airstrikes were the first offensive in the African
country since 18 US troops were killed there in 1993. The main target
was Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who allegedly planned the 1998 attacks on
the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed
225 people.
(SFC, 1/11/07, p.A4)(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 7, Eight Taiwanese banks
took charge of a failing subsidiary of the country's Rebar
conglomerate, just a day after the financial regulator rescued a
private bank owned by the same group.
(AFP, 1/7/07)
2008 Jan 7, Jerry Fitch, a
Mississippi businessman, must pay more than 750,000 dollars in damages
to the man whose wife he wooed away, after the US Supreme Court
declined to hear an appeal in the case.
(AFP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, The Stanford Center
for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (www.inequality.com) announced
the launch of its new quarterly publication, Pathways, an online and
hardcopy magazine dedicated to examining poverty and inequality in the
United States.
(SFC, 1/29/08, p.E1)
2008 Jan 7, Starbucks ousted CEO
Jim McDonald and Howard Schultz, current Chairman and former CEO
(1987-2000), took over. Starbucks faced added competition as McDonald’s
planned to install coffee bars selling espresso.
(WSJ, 1/8/08, p.A1)
2008 Jan 7, Tornadoes were
reported or suspected in southwest Missouri, southeastern Wisconsin,
Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma. Two people were killed in Missouri.
(AP, 1/8/08)
2008 Jan 7, In Alabama Lam Luong
(37), a shrimp fisherman and drug addict, threw his 4 young children
into the Intracoastal Waterway from the Dauphin Island bridge. He
initially reported the children missing and then confessed. On March 5,
2009, Luong pleaded guilty and asked to be put to death. On April 30 he
was sentenced to death.
(SFC, 1/10/08, p.A3)(SFC, 3/6/09, p.A6)(SFC, 5/1/09,
p.A8)
2008 Jan 7, Bill Belew (b.1931),
costume king, died in Palm Springs, Ca. He created the outfits worn by
Elvis Presley and other pop stars.
(WSJ, 2/2/08, p.A12)
2008 Jan 7, In southern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a border police
patrol, killing a policeman. In neighboring Helmand province, police
discovered and tried to defuse a remote-controlled roadside bomb in Nad
Ali district, but it exploded, killing two policemen and two civilians.
In eastern Afghanistan as roadside bomb killed two soldiers from the
US-led coalition.
(AP, 1/7/08)(AP, 1/8/08)
2008 Jan 7, Australians battled
both fires and some of the worst flooding in decades that stranded
residents in several communities after days of intense summer heat and
storms.
(AP, 1/8/08)
2008 Jan 7, Britain’s PM Gordon
Brown announced plans for a new national screening program to combat
some of the country's biggest killer diseases.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, Chadian air force
planes attacked a Chadian rebel base across the border, southwest of
El-Geneina in the Darfur region of Sudan.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, China’s state media
said authorities in central China have expelled 500 people from the
Communist Party for defying the country's one-child policy. Wei Wenhua
(41), a passer-by who filmed a streetside fracas between villagers and
authorities, was beaten and killed in Hubei province. His death touched
off protests in central China, in the latest incident to underscore
public anger over abusive treatment by government employees.
(AP, 1/7/08)(AP, 1/9/08)
2008 Jan 7, Colombia’s army
captured Carlos Marin Guarin, who uses the nom de guerre "Pablito," a
senior commander of the ELN, Colombia’s second largest rebel group.
(AP, 1/9/08)
2008 Jan 7, Philip Agee (72), a
former CIA agent who became an outspoken critic of Washington's Cuba
policy, died in a Havana hospital following ulcer surgery. Agee quit
the CIA in 1969 after 12 years working mostly in Latin America at a
time when leftist movements were gaining prominence and sympathizers.
His 1975 book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary," cited alleged CIA
misdeeds against leftists in the region that included a 22-page list of
purported agency operatives.
(AP, 1/9/08)
2008 Jan 7, President Mikhail
Saakashvili said his re-election demonstrates that Georgia is on the
road to becoming a European democracy, while his opponents denounced
the vote as fraudulent and vowed to renew street protests.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad presented Iran's budget to parliament, promising it would
curb a sharp rise in inflation and redistribute Iran's abundant oil
revenues among the country's 70 million people.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, In Iraq a double
suicide attack outside an agency that cares for Sunni mosques and
shrines killed a prominent leader of a US-backed group fighting
al-Qaida and at least five others. 12 people died in the twin bombing.
In eastern Baghdad, a roadside bomb detonated near a technology
university, killing four people, including a student, and wounding 11
others. In Baghdad's Jadriyah neighborhood, two roadside bombs went off
minutes apart, killing one civilian and wounding four other people,
including three policeman. Gunmen kidnapped 8 members of a newly-formed
US-backed Shiite armed group in northern Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood.
(AP, 1/7/08)(AP, 1/8/08)
2008 Jan 7, Police in Naples
clashed with protestors over a mafia-linked rubbish disposal crisis as
the Italian government convened an emergency meeting to try and resolve
the row.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, Kenya's opposition
leader canceled nationwide protests, saying he wanted to avoid new
violence and give mediation a chance to resolve the election dispute
that has killed nearly 500 people in political and ethnic bloodletting.
The chief US envoy for Africa said the vote count from Kenya's election
was rigged, but both parties could have been involved, declining to
blame either President Mwai Kibaki or the opposition leader who ran
against him.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, Kosovo's rival parties
struck a power-sharing deal to form a government that is expected to
declare independence from Serbia this year.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, A shootout between
Mexican authorities and suspected criminals just across the border from
Texas left three people dead and eight injured.
(AP, 1/8/08)
2008 Jan 7, The National Institute
of Disaster Management (INGC) said 6 people have died and more than
20,000 others have been displaced by Mozambique's rising waters, the
worst since the deadly flooding of 2000 to 2001.
(AFP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, In South Korea fire
tore through a refrigeration warehouse under construction in an
industrial district south of Seoul, killing 40 people and sending toxic
fumes into the air.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, According to new
military figures gunbattles between government troops and Tamil Tiger
rebels have brought the death toll for four days of fighting to 81.
Violence intensified following the government's Jan 2 announcement that
it would formally withdraw from a 2002 cease-fire accord.
(AP, 1/7/08)
2008 Jan 7, Armed men opened fire
on a UN/African Union supply convoy in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region,
the first attack on the newly formed joint peacekeeping mission.
On Jan 10 Sudan admitted that its troops had opened fire on a joint
UN/African Union peacekeeping convoy in Darfur saying the attack was
the result of a "shared mistake."
(Reuters, 1/8/08)(Reuters, 1/10/08)
2008 Jan 7, The Tunis-based Arab
League Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization said nearly one
in 3 people in the Arab world is illiterate, including nearly half of
all women in the region.
(AP, 1/8/08)
2008 Jan 7, In Turkey an accused
Kurdish rebel suspected of detonating a deadly car bomb last week in
Diyarbakir was captured. Six other suspects also were detained.
(AP, 1/8/08)
2009 Jan 7, The United States said
it has released another $99 million as part of an aid package to
support Mexico's police and soldiers in their fight against drug
cartels. The US released $197 million in December as part of the $1.3
billion US anti-drug package, known as the Merida Initiative.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, The SEC charged Joseph
S. Forte of Broomall, Pennsylvania, an investment fund manager, with
running a Ponzi scheme since at least 1995. Losses to investors were
estimated at $50 million.
(WSJ, 1/28/09,
p.A12)(www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2009/lr20847.htm)
2009 Jan 7, US health officials
said an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning has made 388 people sick
across 42 states, sending 18 percent of them to the hospital.
(Reuters, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, A new federal report
said Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate,
displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, In Oakland, Ca.,
demonstrations over the New year’s killing of Oscar Grant (22) by a
BART police officer turned violent. BART Officer Johannes Mehserle quit
his job avoiding an interview with police internal affairs
investigators.
(SFC, 1/8/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 7, Bank of America Corp.
raised more money to cope with US economic turmoil by selling part of
its stake in China Construction Bank Ltd., China's second-biggest
commercial lender, for $2.8 billion.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, Afghan locals said
that operations by the NATO-led force in the southern province of
Helmand had killed 19 civilians.
(AFP, 1/8/09)
2009 Jan 7, In Argentina an
Italian climber and an Argentine guide both died when a storm trapped
five mountaineers just below the summit of the Aconcagua peak, the
highest mountain in the Americas. The three others survived.
(AP, 1/8/09)
2009 Jan 7, In China a court in
Hangzhou, a prosperous city in eastern Zhejiang province, sentenced
Wang Rongqing (65) to 6 years in jail on charges of subverting state
power for organizing the banned China Democracy Party.
(AP, 1/8/09)
2009 Jan 7, The EU said Russia and
Ukraine will accept using international monitors to verify the transit
of natural gas from Russia through Ukraine's pipelines. Russia's gas
giant Gazprom completely stopped sending gas to European consumers at
7:44 a.m. (0544 GMT). 80% of Russian gas shipped via Ukraine.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, Freezing temperatures
and exceptional snowfall caused travel delays across Europe and were
blamed for at least 12 deaths, including that of a man in Milan who was
crushed when a canopy collapsed under the weight of snow.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, In Hungary a masked
gunman shot to death Jozsef Takacs (62), a school principal, and Laszlo
Papp (32), a teacher, at a school in the Budapest neighborhood of
Csepel. 2 suspects were arrested the next day. Police said a security
guard shot the two men, hours after he and an accomplice, a 36-year-old
former administrator at the school, were fired by the principal on
suspicion of embezzling up to 4 million forints ($20,000, euro14,600).
(AP, 1/7/09)(AP, 1/8/09)
2009 Jan 7, B. Ramalingu Raju, the
chairman of India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd., quit after admitting
the company's profits had been doctored for several years, shaking
faith in the country's corporate giants as shares of the software
services provider plunged nearly 80 percent. Raju was arrested 2 days
later as Indian authorities fired the remaining board members and
launched an accounting review of the company.
(AP, 1/7/09)(WSJ, 1/10/09, p.B1)
2009 Jan 7, In northern Iraq a
female suicide bomber allegedly planning to blow herself up among
Shiite pilgrims was arrested, as millions joined processions across the
country to honor the martyrdom of one of their most revered saints.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, Israel ordered a
three-hour pause in its Gaza offensive to allow food and fuel to reach
besieged Palestinians, and said it welcomed a cease-fire proposal as
long as Hamas halts rockets and weapons smuggling. About 300 of the
more than 670 Palestinians killed so far were civilians. French
President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Israel and the Palestinian
Authority have accepted an Egyptian-French plan for Gaza.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, Wildlife activists
said the box turtle is disappearing across Malaysia because of
increased illegal hunting for its meat and use in traditional Chinese
medicine.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, In Mexico four
decapitated bodies were found in the Otay Mesa neighborhood of Tijuana.
The victims' heads were left inside a black bag at the scene.
(AP, 1/7/09)
2009 Jan 7, Pakistan’s PM Yousuf
Raza Gilani fired national security advisor Mahmood Ali Durrani after
he gave media interviews on national security issues without consulting
Gilani. The move came hours after Durrani and other top officials told
reporters that the sole surviving Mumbai attacker was a Pakistani
citizen.
(AP, 1/8/09)
2009 Jan 7, Sri Lanka officially
outlawed the Tamil Tigers, ruling out for now the possibility of peace
talks to end a 25-year civil war.
(WSJ, 1/8/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 7, Taiwan’s central bank
unexpectedly cut its key interest rates by half a percentage point and
urged banks to increase corporate lending. The finance ministry had
just reported that ex[ports in December had fallen 41.9% from a year
earlier.
(WSJ, 1/8/09, p.A8)
2009 Jan 7, Turkey’s state news
said police had detained about 40 people, including 3 retired generals,
in a probe of an alleged plot to overthrow the Islamist-rooted AK Party
government.
(WSJ, 1/8/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 7, Venezuela's Citgo
Petroleum Corp. announced its fuel oil aid program would continue, just
two days after its partner nonprofit group, Boston-based Citizens
Energy, said Citgo had halted the free fuel shipments due to the world
economic crisis.
(AP, 1/8/09)
2009 Jan 7, In Zimbabwe seven
members of the main opposition party were the first of dozens of jailed
dissidents to be formally charged, and they pleaded not guilty in a
bombing plot. Zimbabwe delayed the opening of schools by two weeks,
amid fears that teachers may not show up for classes due to the
country's worsening humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 1/7/09)(AFP, 1/7/09)
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