Today in History: January 9
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1349
Jan 9, In Basel, Switzerland, 700 Jews were burned
alive in their houses.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1401 Jan 9, In Marienburg some 80
Lithuanian barons were baptized to Catholicism.
(LHC, 1/9/03)
1409 Jan 9, Rene' d'Anjou (d.1480)
was born the son and 3rd child of Duke Louis II of Anjou and Yolande of
Aragon at Angers in the Maine-and-Loire region of western France. King
René, poet and wine lover, demonstrated how all our leaders
ought to be.
(http://www.guice.org/reneharr.html)(WSJ, 2/13/04,
p.A12)
1429 Jan 9, The conference at Luck
began (Jan 9-29). Vytautas hosted a grand Congress at Luck ostensibly
to unite the region against threats from the Turks to the south.
Emperor Sigismund of Hungary agreed to the formation of the Kingdom of
Lithuania and dispatched a crown from Hungary.
(DrEE, 11/9/96, p.6)(LHC, 1/9/03)
1493 Jan 9, Christopher Columbus
1st sighted manatees.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1554 Jan 9, Gregory XV,
Roman Catholic Pope was born.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1570 Jan 9, Tsar Ivan the Terrible
killed 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1719 Jan 9, Philip V of Spain
declared war on France.
(HN, 1/9/99)
1768 Jan 9, English cavalry
sergeant Philip Astley staged the first modern circus, performing
elaborate feats on the backs of horses racing around a ring.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1788 Jan 9, Connecticut became the
fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
(AP, 1/9/99)
1792 Jan 9, The Ottomans signed a
treaty with the Russians ending a five year war.
(HN, 1/9/99)
1793 Jan 9, The first US manned
balloon flight occurred as Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a
hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J. He stayed
airborne for 46 minutes, traveled close to 15 miles and set down at the
"old Clement farm" in Deptford, New Jersey. [see Jun 23, 1784, Mar 9,
1793]
(WSJ, 3/31/98, p.A1)(AP, 1/9/99)(ON, 6/09, p.2)
1839 Jan 9, The Daguerreotype
photo process was announced at the French Academy of Science. 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. [See 1765-1833, Nicephore Niepce, French lithographer, and
1816].
(http://www.articleworld.org/index.php/Louis_Daguerre)(http://tinyurl.com/arl5k5)(WSJ,
9/14/95, p.A-16)(ON, 10/08, p.9)
1848 Jan 9, A people's uprising
took place in Palermo, Sicily.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1855 Jan 9, The clipper ship
Guiding Star disappeared in Atlantic and 480 died.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1859 Jan 9, Carrie Lane Chapman
Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters, was born.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1861 Jan 9, Mississippi
became the 2nd state to secede from the Union.
(HN, 1/9/98)(AP, 1/9/99)(MC, 1/9/02)
1861 Jan 9, The Star of the West,
a merchant vessel bringing reinforcements to Federal troops at Fort
Sumter, S.C., retreated after being fired on by a battery in the
harbor.
(AP, 1/9/04)
1870 Jan 9, Alexander Herzen
(b.1812), Russian author, died in France. In 1961 US Prof. Martin Malia
(1924-2004) authored “Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian
Socialism (1812-1855).
(www.bookrags.com/biography/aleksandr-ivanovich-herzen/)(SFC, 11/24/04,
p.B6)
1878 Jan 9, Victor Emmanuel II
(57), king of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), died.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1889 Jan 9, A tornado struck
Brooklyn, NY, when Flatbush was farmland. A twister blew through what
are now the neighborhoods of Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Downtown,
Fort Greene and Williamsburg, blowing roofs off houses and uprooting
trees, but killing no one. 14 people were killed by the tornado in
Pittsburg, Pa.
(http://tinyurl.com/349275)(http://tinyurl.com/395f4q)
1890 Jan 9, Karel Capek, Czech
writer and playwright, was born. He is best remembered for his play
R.U.R. which contained the first use of the word "robot."
(HN, 1/9/99)
1893 Jan 9, Mohara, Arab ivory and
slave trader, died in battle and was eaten.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1894 Jan 9, The "Edison
Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" was released in movie theaters.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1894 Jan 9, Georges Feydeau's "Un
Fil a la Patte," ("Cat Among the Pigeons") premiered in Paris.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1902 Jan 9, Rudolph Bing, opera
manager (NY Metropolitan Opera), was born.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1904 Jan 9, George Balanchine,
dancer, choreographer, ballet producer, was born. [see Jan 22]
(MC, 1/9/02)
1905 Jan 9, (Old Style calendar)
On what would become known as "Bloody Sunday," Russian Orthodox Father
George Gapon led a procession in St. Petersburg of some 200,000 who
were marching on the Winter Palace to present their grievances to Czar
Nicholas. Troops on the scene panicked, firing into the crowd and
killing hundreds, thus igniting the Revolution of 1905. Across Russia,
government officials were attacked, peasants seized private estates and
workers’ strikes virtually paralyzed the economy. In St. Petersburg, a
council (soviet) of workers’ delegates threatened to take over the
government. Nicholas consented to the adoption of a constitution
and election of a parliament (Duma). The first Duma met in 1906. [see
Jan 22]
(HNQ, 10/1/00)
1908 Jan 9, French philosopher and
feminist Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris.
(AP, 1/9/08)
1908 Jan 9, Count Zeppelin
announced plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1908 Jan 9, Italians reported that
Somaliland was under siege by the Abyssinians.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1909 Jan 9, The Silver Dart made
the 1st manned flight in Canada. It was funded by the Aerial Experiment
Association, founded by Alexander and Mabel Bell.
(ON, 1/03, p.5)
1909 Jan 9, A Polar exploration
team led by Ernest Shackleton reached 88 degrees, 23 minutes south
longitude, 162 degrees east latitude. They were 97 nautical miles short
of the South Pole, but the weather is too severe to continue.
(HN, 1/9/01)
1912 Jan 9, Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt announced that he would run for president if asked.
(HN, 1/9/01)
1912 Jan 9, The $18 million
Equitable Life Assurance building in New York was destroyed by fire.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1913 Jan 9, Richard Milhous Nixon,
37th president of the United States (1968-1974) and first President to
resign from office, was born in Yorba Linda, Calif.
(HN, 1/9/98)(AP, 1/9/08)
1915 Jan 9, Les Paul, guitarist
inventor (Les Paul), was born.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1915 Jan 9, Pancho Villa
signed a treaty with U.S. General Scott, halting border conflicts.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1923 Jan 9, Katherine Mansfield
(34), NZ-British writer (Dove's Nest), died.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1924 Jan 9, Ford Motor Co.
stock was valued at nearly $1 billion.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1924 Jan 9, Sun Yat-sen
appealed to the U.S. to seek international pressure for peace in China.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1927 Jan 9, Fire in Laurier Palace
cinema in Montreal killed 78 children.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1928 Jan 9, Judith Krantz, author
(Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle), was born in NYC.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1928 Jan 9, Eugene O'Neill's
"Marco Millions," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1930 Jan 9, Johannes ("John")
Charles, Siberian contra-basso, snake handler, faith healer, grandson
of Rasputin, was born.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1930 Jan 9, Earth rumbling
awakened Chicagoans- no earthquake, seismologists said. The stockyards
sprang a leak and a foul stench covered the city three hours.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1930 Jan 9, Maria Innocente (33)
died. She claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1935 Jan 9, Bob Denver, actor
(Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island), was born in New Rochelle, NY.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1937 Jan 9, Italian regime banned
marriages between Italians and Abyssinians.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1941 Jan 9, Joan Baez, American
folk singer and Vietnam War protester, was born.
(HN, 1/9/99)
1941 Jan 9, Some 6,000 Jews were
exterminated in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania. [see Jan 22]
(MC, 1/9/02)
1942 Jan 9, US Joint Chiefs of
Staff became established.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1943 Jan 9, Soviet planes dropped
leaflets on the surrounded Germans in Stalingrad requesting their
surrender with humane terms. The Germans refused.
(HN, 1/9/99)
1944 Jan 9, Antanas Smetona
(b.1874), former 1st and 6th Lithuanian president, died in Cleveland,
Ohio.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanas_Smetona)
1945 Jan 9, Maj. Raymond Cromley,
head of the top secret "Dixie Mission," sent a cable to US military
headquarters in Chunking that said Mao Tse-tung would like send a group
to Pres. Roosevelt to explain the situation in China. Ambassador
Patrick J. Hurley, who opposed the meeting, intercepted the message and
failed to pass it to Pres. Roosevelt.
(WSJ, 5/30/02, p.A2)
1945 Jan 9, American forces began
landing at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines, 107 miles from Manila.
MacArthur finally mounted his invasion of Luzon.
(HN, 1/9/99)(AP, 1/9/99)
1947 Jan 9, French General
Leclerc broke off all talks with Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1952 Jan 9, Jackie Robinson
became the highest paid player in Brooklyn Dodger history.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1956 Jan 9, George Christopher was
sworn in as mayor of SF. He served to 1964.
(SFC, 1/6/06, p.F6)
1956 Jan 9, The first Dear Abbey
column appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. It was written by
Pauline Phillips under the pen name Abigail Van Buren. She began her
career as advice columnist "Dear Abby" under editor George Stanleigh
Arnold (d.1997 at 78). In 2002 her daughter took over the column.
(SFC, 5/30/97, p.A26)(SFC, 1/24/09, p.E1)
1957 Jan 9, British PM Anthony
Eden resigned in the wake of the Suez crises.
(AP, 1/9/99)(Econ, 7/29/06, p.23)
1958 Jan 9, President Eisenhower,
in his State of the Union address to Congress, warned of the threat of
Communist imperialism.
(AP, 1/9/08)
1959 Jan 9, The TV show "Rawhide"
with Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates premiered on CBS.
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052504/)(SSFC,
5/17/09, DB p.50)
1960 Jan 9, The foundation stone
for Egypt’s Aswan High Dam was laid.
(www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020116/2002011626.html)
1964 Jan 9, Anti-U.S. rioting
broke out in the Panama Canal Zone, resulting in the deaths of 21
Panamanians and three U.S. soldiers. U.S. forces killed six Panamanian
students protesting in the canal zone. Violent clashes between
Panamanians and American soldiers, which resulted in the deaths of 21
Panamanians and four American soldiers, began when U.S. students’
attempted to raise the American flag at the Canal Zone high
school. An order banning the flying of any flags in front of
Canal Zone schools had been issued on December 30, 1963, because of
Panamanian sensitivity to U.S. control of the Zone. These events led to
attempts to renegotiate the Canal Zone’s status.
(HN, 1/9/98)(AP, 1/9/99)(HNQ, 6/10/99)
1966 Jan 9, Ronald Reagan appeared
on Meet the Press and was asked why he had not disavowed the John Birch
Society. Reagan said a committee had looked into the group and found
"nothing of a subversive nature." In 1960 an informer reported to the
FBI that Reagan was a Beverly Hills chapter member.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1968 Jan 9, The TV show "It Takes
A Thief" with Robert Wagner began on ABC. It written and produced by
Leslie Stevens (d.1998) and ran to 1970.
(SFC, 8/13/97, Z1 p.3)(SFC, 4/29/98, p.C2)
1968 Jan 9, The Surveyor VII space
probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American
series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
(AP, 1/9/99)
1972 Jan 9, Reclusive billionaire
Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in
Hollywood, said his purported biography by Clifford Irving was a fake.
(AP, 1/9/99)
1972 Jan 9, The RMS Queen
Elizabeth, the world’s largest ocean liner, sank after a major fire in
Hong Kong harbor. It had been purchased by Tung Chao-yung at a
bankruptcy sale in Florida. He had hoped to turn it into a floating
school. Arson was blamed and it was scrapped.
(WSJ, 2/6/97,
p.B1)(www.ocean-liners.com/ships/queenelizabeth.asp)
1974 Jan 9, Cambodian Government
troops opened a drive to avert insurgent attack on Phnom Penh.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1979 Jan 9, The Bee Gees performed
“Too Much Heaven,” released in late 1978, as their contribution to the
"Music for UNICEF" fund. It became part of their 13th album and topped
the record charts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Much_Heaven)
1979 Jan 9, The Act of Montevideo
was signed in Uruguay pledging Argentina and Chile to a peaceful
solution and a return to the military situation of early 1977. Cardinal
Antonio Samore (1905-1983), Vatican representative, mediated the Beagle
conflict.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_conflict)
1980 Jan 9, Saudi Arabia beheaded
63 people in towns across the country for their roles in the November
1979 raid on the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
(AP, 1/9/00)(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.C3)
1982 Jan 9, A 5.9 earthquake hit
New England & Canada; the 1st since 1855.
(http://tinyurl.com/32vvon)
1987 Jan 9, The White House
released a memorandum prepared for President Reagan in January 1986
that showed a definite link between US arms sales to Iran and the
release of American hostages in Lebanon.
(AP, 1/9/07)
1989 Jan 9, The Supreme Court
agreed to consider the Webster abortion case the same day that Surgeon
General C. Everett Koop advised President Reagan he would not issue a
report on the health risks of abortion.
(AP, 1/9/99)
1990 Jan 9, The space shuttle
Columbia was launched on a 10-day mission that included retrieving a
drifting scientific satellite.
(AP, 1/9/00)
1991 Jan 9, Secretary of State
James A. Baker the Third and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz met for
six hours in Geneva, but failed to resolve the Persian Gulf crisis.
President Bush, in Washington, accused Iraq of "a total stiff-arm, a
total rebuff." Mr. Baker told Mr. Aziz that America would throw Iraq
out by force if it did not leave Kuwait.
(AP, 1/9/01)(Econ, 5/24/08, p.19)
1991 Jan 9, Microsoft announced
Excel 3.0
(Wired, 12/98, p.197)
1992 Jan 9, President Bush
declared his trade visit to Japan a success, saying Japanese officials
had agreed to increase imports of American cars, auto parts, computers
and other goods. However, U.S. auto executives traveling with Bush
sounded less enthusiastic.
(AP, 1/9/02)
1993 Jan 9, Felix Grucci (87),
fireworks expert, died of Alzheimer's disease.
(www.inthe90s.com/generated/obit1993.shtml)
1993 Jan 9, In France Jean-Claude
Romand killed his wife and children in an effort to saved his pride
following years of lies. Romand also killed his parents rather than
face his lies. In 2001 Emmanuel Carrere authored “The Adversary: A True
Story of Murder and Deception.”
(www.truecrimeink.com/bkreview01.htm)(WSJ, 6/9/07,
p.P8)
1993 Jan 9, Two Red Cross
officials visited a camp of Palestinians who had been deported by
Israel to a no man's land in southern Lebanon.
(AP, 1/9/03)
1994 Jan 9, President Clinton
began the first European trip of his administration in Belgium, where
-- on the eve of a NATO summit -- he warned of a rising mood of
nationalism in Russia that he said threatened Eastern Europe's march of
democracy.
(AP, 1/9/99)
1995 Jan 9, In New York, trials
began for Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 11 other defendants accused of
conspiring to wage a holy war against the United States. Nine were
convicted of seditious conspiracy, and two reached plea agreements with
the government.
(AP, 1/9/00)
1995 Jan 9, Severe flooding forced
people to flee resort communities in the hills north of San Francisco.
(AP, 1/9/00)
1995 Jan 9, Peter Cook (57),
English comic and actor (Bedazzled, Beyond the Fringe, The Wrong
Box), died.
(AP, 1/9/05)
1996 Jan 9, President Clinton and
Republican congressional leaders broke off budget talks. President
Clinton vetoed a Republican welfare overhaul bill.
(AP, 1/9/01)
1996 Jan 9, US House Speaker fired
Christina Jeffery as historian for the House under political pressure
based on knowingly false allegations of anti-Semitism by Rep. Charles
Schumer (D., N.Y.).
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. A-18)
1996 Jan 9, Felix Gonzalez-Torres
(b.1957), Cuban-born artist, died in Miami of AIDS related
complications. He was known for his quiet, minimal installations and
sculptures.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Gonz%C3%A1lez-Torres)
1996 Jan 9, Benin’s President
Nicephoro Soglo's government said that, in an effort to "correct an
injustice," it was formally recognizing voodoo as a religion. He
declared Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday.
(www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/34/011.html)
1996 Jan 9, Chechen rebels under
Salman Raduyev seized a hospital in the southern Russian city of
Kizlyar and took up to three-thousand hostages. The rebels released all
but about 160 hostages the next day, using the remaining captives as a
shield against Russian troops. At least 40 people were killed.
(WSJ, 1/10/96, p. A-12)(SFC, 7/17/99, p.A14)(WSJ,
3/13/00, p.A1)(AP, 1/9/01)
1997 Jan 9, The sliver of a new
moon rose over the Muslim world and began the fast of Ramadan for the
world’s 1 billion Muslims.
(SFC, 1/10/97, p.A19)
1997 Jan 9, A Brink’s truck
overturned in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami and spilled cash and
foodstamps. $400,000 in cash and $300,000 in food stamps was quickly
gathered up by residents and pocketed.
(SFC, 1/10/97, p.A1)
1997 Jan 9, A Comair Brazilian
made Embraer 120 commuter plane crashed 18 miles southwest of Detroit
and killed all 29 onboard. Icing was blamed for the crash.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.A7)(AP, 1/9/99)
1997 Jan 9, Ronald Small (20), a
Tamalpais High School football star, was shot and killed during a
birthday party at 59 Cole Drive in Marin City, Ca. Darrell Hunter was
arrested a week later and in 1998 Iman Kennedy (20) and Rodwell
Cutkelvin (25) were arrested. An Int’l. search went into effect for
Joseph Michel (26), aka Jo Jo Koulibaly, who was suspected of pulling
the trigger on Small. Hunter was found guilty of 1st degree murder in
2000. Charges against Kennedy and Cutkelvin were dropped due to lack of
evidence. In 2005 Michel was extradited from Germany. In 2008 Darrell
Hunter was cleared of all charges and released from prison.
(SFC, 11/19/98, p.A22)(SFC, 11/21/98, p.A20)(SFC,
2/22/99, p.A15)(SFC, 2/3/00, p.A18)(SFC, 2/9/00, p.A18)(SFC, 8/24/05,
p.B1)(SFC, 5/2/08, p.B7)
1997 Jan 9, The government of the
Republic of Georgia informed the US that diplomat Gueorgui Makharadze
would be recalled following his Jan 3 involvement in a car crash that
left a 16-year-old Washington girl dead. Police evidence strongly
suggested that he had been drinking. He was later sentenced to 7-21
years in US prison.
(SFC, 1/10/97, p.A2)(SFC,12/20/97, p.A12)
1997 Jan 9, In Haiti former Pres.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide began forming a new political party called the
Lavalas Family. Lavalas means flash flood and is synonymous with
democracy.
(SFC, 1/10/97, p.A15)
1997 Jan 9, In Israel a pair of
pipe bombs were exploded in Tel Aviv and 13 people were injured.
(SFC, 1/10/97, p.A14)
1997 Jan 9, Tamil rebels attacked
2 northern military bases and killed at least 60 soldiers with 232
wounded. A later count had 223 soldiers and 350 guerrillas dead.
(WSJ, 1/10/97, p.A1)(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A17)
1997 Jan 9, In South Korea workers
clashed with riot police. The Federation of Korean Trade Unions with
1.2 million members said it will begin a 2-day strike on Jan 14.
(SFC, 1/10/97, p.A14)
1997 Jan 9, Christoph Meili, night
watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland, salvaged an armful of books
and papers that contained bank records from the Nazi era that were
about to be shredded. His dismissal from the security company for which
he worked, effective at the end of April, was announced Feb 24.
(SFC, 1/17/97, p.E1)(SFC, 2/24/97, p.A14)
1997 Jan 9, From Zaire Pres. Seko
returned to France, apparently for cancer treatments.
(SFC, 1/10/97, p.A15)
1998 Jan 9, Anatoly Karpow,
defending champion, defeated Viswanathan Anand in the FIDE World Chess
Championship.
(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A4)
1998 Jan 9, Barry Switzer's era
with the Dallas Cowboys ended with the announcement of the coach's
resignation.
(AP, 1/9/99)
1998 Jan 9, The US Dow Jones stock
market average dropped 222 points or 2.9% over fears about the
financial crises in Asia.
(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Jan 9, It was reported that
the oceans have risen 6 inches this century and that the Alaska
permafrost was melting.
(WSJ, 1/9/98, p.A1)
1998 Jan 9, In Algeria another 35
people were killed.
(SFC, 1/12/98, p.A1)
1998 Jan 9, In Wuhan, China, a
thousand factory workers marched after being laid off with little
compensation.
(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A9)
1998 Jan 9, The decapitated head
of Danish Little Mermaid was returned.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1998 Jan 9, In France Prime
Minister Jospin pledged $160 million to help the unemployed, in an
attempt to end over a month of sit-ins at unemployment offices across
the country.
(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A8)
1998 Jan 9, In Northern Ireland,
the British secretary, Mo Mowlam, met with prisoners at the Maze prison
and got their endorsement for the Ulster Democratic Party to return to
peace talks. Talks with the Progressive Unionist were scheduled for the
next day.
(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A8)(AP, 1/9/99)
1998 Jan 9, From Pakistan it was
reported that investigators have uncovered a pattern of secret payments
by foreign governments for business favors during the 2 terms when
Benazir Bhutto served as Prime Minister. These included a $10 million
payment, deposited into a Asif Zardari account by a Middle East gold
bullion dealer, for a monopoly contract to sustain Pakistan’s jewelry
industry. Officials said $80 million may be in Swiss banks.
(SFC, 1/9/98, p.A8)(WSJ, 1/9/98, p.A1)
1999 Jan 9, Presidential advisers
prepared a public and legal defense in President Clinton's impeachment
trial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice; Senate Majority
Leader Trent Lott, meanwhile, pledged "above all, fairness" to the
president.
(AP, 1/9/00)
1999 Jan 9, New postal rates took
effect. The H stamp, for Uncle Sam’s hat, represented the 33 cent rate,
a one cent increase.
(SFC, 11/9/98, p.A2)(SFC, 1/8/99, p.A5)
1999 Jan 9, Near Foca, Bosnia,
French troops shot and killed Dragan Gagovic (38), the former police
chief of Foca and a war crimes suspect.
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.A17)
1999 Jan 9, In Colombia The United
Self-Defense Forces, right-wing death squads, killed 27 people in
Playon de Orozco, and 14 people in San Pablo. Meanwhile leftist rebels
released Norbert Reinhart, a Canadian mining executive, and Osmar
Brohha, a German tourist.
(SFC, 1/11/99, p.A8)
1999 Jan 9, In Indonesia 4
separatist supporters were beaten to death in Aceh province.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.A1)
2000 Jan 9, Pres. Clinton had
dinner with Israeli PM Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk
al-Sharaa. It was the 1st time in half a century that the Israeli and
Syrian leaders had shared a meal but no agreement on peace talks was
expected.
(SFC, 1/10/00, p.A10)
2000 Jan 9, The controversial
"Sensation" art exhibit ended its three-month run at the Brooklyn
Museum, which had gotten into a fight with New York City Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani over what the mayor called the exhibit’s offensive
anti-Catholic content.
(AP, 1/9/01)
2000 Jan 9, In Chechnya rebels
attacked Russian positions in Argun, Shali and Gudermes as Russia
continued a bombing halt for the Orthodox Christmas.
(SFC, 1/10/00, p.A10)
2000 Jan 9, Iraqi TV reported that
US and British air strikes in southern Iraq wounded 3 people.
(SFC, 1/10/00, p.A11)
2000 Jan 9, Park Tae-joon, the
leader of the United Liberal Democrats, was appointed South Korea’s
prime minister.
(AP, 1/9/01)
2001 Jan 9, Linda Chavez, the Bush
nominee for labor secretary, withdrew following reports that she housed
an illegal immigrant and paid her for house chores.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, The Supreme Court
limited the reach of federal law to protect wetlands.
(WSJ, 1/10/00, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, It was reported that
Amory Lovins (53) of Colorado was attempting to build a super-efficient
sport-utility vehicle called the Hypercar with 99 mpg. It would be
powered by fuel cells and built from carbon fiber.
(WSJ, 1/09/00, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, Astronomers reported
the discovery of a giant object more than 17 times the size of Jupiter
in the constellation Serpens 123 light-years away.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, In Algeria four
Russian engineers went mushroom picking in the forest of Edough and
were found with their throats cut 2 days later.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A9)
2001 Jan 9, Biljana Plavsic,
former Bosnian Serb president, left for the Hague to appear before the
UN war crimes tribunal over her role in the 1992-1995 war.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 9, The UN announced that
in Burma Aung San Suu Kyi and the military junta had held more than
round of talks since October.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 9, In Chechnya Kenny
Gluck, a US aid worker, was kidnapped and a 2nd was wounded.
(WSJ, 1/11/00, p.A1)
2001 Jan 9, Russia confirmed that
it does not intend to make all of its scheduled payments to the 18
Nation Paris Club.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A10)
2002 Jan 9, The Bush
administration and the auto industry agreed to promote development of
pollution-free cars and trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
(AP, 1/9/03)
2002 Jan 9, The US Supreme Court
ruled that jurors weighing a death sentence must be told if a life term
excludes parole.
(WSJ, 1/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 9, Lawyers advised the
Pentagon that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the Taliban or al
Qaeda and that the President has the authority to suspend the Geneva
Conventions.
(SFC, 6/23/04, p.A13)
2002 Jan 9, Ashley Pond (12) was
last seen in Oregon City, 20 miles south of Portland, Or. Miranda
Gaddis (13) disappeared from the same neighborhood on Mar 8. The
remains of Gaddis were found Aug 24 behind the house of Ward Weaver
(39), who lived across the street. Weaver was arrested Aug 13 for the
rape of his 19-year-old son’s girlfriend. Pond’s remains were found Aug
25.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.A7)(SFC, 8/26/02, p.A3)(SFC,
8/27/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 9, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana gave FARC 48 hours to retire from their designated safe haven.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 9, In Israel 2 Hamas
gunmen attacked a military post and killed 4 Israeli soldiers. Israel
halted work on a mosque next to the Christian Basilica of the
Annunciation.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/9/03)
2002 Jan 9, A US KC-130 aerial
refueler crashed at Kharan, Pakistan, and all 7 marines aboard were
killed.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 9, In the Philippines
Gen. Diomedio Villanueva said some 100 US military advisers will be
allowed to join front-line Philippine troops fighting Abu Sayyaf rebels.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 9, In Zimbabwe the
military chiefs put their support behind Pres. Mugabe saying they would
only accept a president who fought in the war for independence.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A8)
2003 Jan 9, The Bush
administration said federal airport security screeners will not be
allowed to unionize so as not to complicate the war on terrorism.
(WSJ, 1/10/03, p.A1)
2003 Jan 9, Peter Tinniswood (66),
British author of plays for TV, radio and stage, died from cancer.
(AP, 1/10/03)
2003 Jan 9, Six Russian soldiers
and police officers were killed in Chechnya in the last 24 hours.
Another 9 Russian soldiers died when their convoy came under rebel fire
in Grozny. Two rebels were killed in the fighting.
(AP, 1/10/03)(AP, 1/11/03)
2003 Jan 9, In northeast Colombia
rebels detonated a car bomb that killed 4 people in a 2nd attack in 2
days.
(WSJ, 1/10/03, p.A1)
2003 Jan 9, India's PM Vajpayee
announced the introduction of legislation for dual citizenship for
people of Indian origin in "certain countries."
(SSFC, 1/12/03, p.A4)
2003 Jan 9, UN weapons inspectors
said there's no "smoking gun" to prove Iraq has nuclear, chemical or
biological weapons, but they demanded that Baghdad provide private
access to scientists and fresh evidence to back its claim that it had
destroyed its weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 1/9/08)
2003 Jan 9, A Peruvian airliner
carrying 46 people, including eight children, disappeared amid
cloud-covered mountains in the Amazon jungle. On Jan 11 rescue workers
found the wreckage of TANS Airlines Flight 222, a Fokker 28 near the
jungle town of Chachapoyas. There were no survivors.
(AP, 1/9/03)(AP, 1/11/03)
2003 Jan 9, In southeastern Turkey
2 Turkish F-4 warplanes collided in heavy fog during a training flight
killing the four crew members.
(AP, 1/9/03)
2003 Jan 9, Thousands of
Venezuelan bank workers stayed home to support a nationwide strike
seeking new presidential elections.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, The US terror alert
level was lowered one step, to yellow. However, airports and airlines
kept their high alert status.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, US Officials said
Pentagon lawyers had determined that former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein
was a prisoner of war since his capture.
(AP, 1/9/05)
2004 Jan 9, Federal officials
arrested 2 people in southern California for conspiring to perform
genital mutilations on 2 girls. It was the 1st prosecution under the
1995 federal Female Genital Mutilation Act.
(SFC, 1/10/04, p.A3)
2004 Jan 9, An Ohio woman who'd
claimed to have lost a lottery ticket worth $162 million was charged
with filing a false police report. Elecia Battle was later convicted of
the misdemeanor and put on one year's probation.
(AP, 1/9/05)
2004 Jan 9, Royal Dutch/Shell
announced that it overstated its proven reserves and planned to slash
estimates by 20%.
(WSJ, 4/20/04, p.A12)
2004 Jan 9, A new Swen-style
Trojan horse, dubbed Trojan.Xombe and posing as a critical update from
Microsoft, was detected on the Internet.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, An inflatable
speedboat packed with Albanian migrants trying to sneak into Italy sank
in up to 20-foot high waves and strong winds off Albania's coast,
killing 21 people.
(AP, 1/10/04)
2004 Jan 9, In southeastern Brazil
floodwaters swept a bus carrying 30 orange pickers off a road, and at
least eight people drowned.
(AP, 1/10/04)
2004 Jan 9, In Colombia a FARC
rebel, aka Jeremias, suspected of killing a Japanese hostage last year
died in a shootout with the army outside Bogota.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, In Ecuador about 20
women inmates stripped off clothing and protested from their Guayaquil
Prison roof, claiming they've been held for more than a year without
trial and should be freed.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, Estonian prosecutors
said they have launched an investigation into whether Michael Gorshkow,
an 80-year-old former U.S. resident, took part in the massacre of 3,000
Jews during World War II. Gorshkow (19) allegedly helped murder Jews in
the Slutsk ghetto of Belarus in 1943 while serving as an interpreter
and interrogator for the Gestapo.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, The German Neuzeller
Kloster Brewery announced plans to introduce its "Anti-Aging-Bier" this
year and sell it in grocery and drug stores.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, In Baqouba, Iraq, an
explosion ripped through a busy street as worshippers streamed out of a
Shiite Muslim mosque, killing 5 people and wounding dozens of others.
US soldiers in Kirkuk killed 2 Iraqi police officers.
(AP, 1/9/04)(SFC, 1/10/04, p.A8)(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.A7)
2004 Jan 9, Israeli troops swept
into the West Bank town of Jenin, making arrests and trading gunfire
with militants.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, Norberto Bobbio (94),
an Italian liberal philosopher, essayist and senator for life, died in
Turin. One of his most important books is the 1955 "Politica e Cultura"
("Politics and Culture"). A 1994 essay, called "Destra e Sinistra"
("Left and Right"), was his best-selling work.
(AP, 1/10/04)
2004 Jan 9, In Kashmir a hand
grenade exploded at a mosque, wounding at least 15 worshippers who had
gathered for prayers.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, Libya signed a $170
million compensation accord with families of people who died in the
1989 bombing of a French jetliner.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 9, Russia and Kazakhstan
extended Moscow's lease of the launching pad in Baikonur until 2050. It
served as the only link to the troubled International Space Station.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2005 Jan 9, More heavy rain spread
across parts of California and snow piled deeper in the mountains as
the state sat under a storm system that left at least 7 dead.
(AP, 1/9/05)(SFC, 1/10/05, p.B1)
2005 Jan 9, American troops opened
fire after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb at a checkpoint
south of Baghdad, killing at least 8 people.
(AP, 1/9/05)(SFC, 1/10/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 9, In Iraq 7 Ukrainian
soldiers and one Kazakh serving with the U.S.-led coalition were killed
in an explosion while loading bombs that could be used by warplanes.
(AP, 1/9/05)
2005 Jan 9, Stanley Fischer,
Zambian-born vice-chairman of Citigroup, accepted the nomination to be
the next governor of the Bank of Israel.
(Econ, 1/15/05, p.69)
2005 Jan 9, A French officer
serving with U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon was killed by Israeli
shelling, shortly after a Hezbollah bomb attack killed an Israeli
soldier and wounded three others near the southern border.
(AP, 1/9/05)
2005 Jan 9, At least five Maoist
rebels fighting to overthrow Nepal's constitutional monarchy were
killed, three days before a deadline for the guerrillas to begin peace
talks.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2005 Jan 9, Palestinians held
their 1st presidential election in nine years, choosing a successor to
longtime leader Yasser Arafat. Mahmoud Abbas was elected Palestinian
Authority president by a landslide, giving the pragmatist a mandate to
resume peace talks with Israel.
(AP, 1/9/05)(AP, 1/10/05)
2005 Jan 9, Saudi police killed
four terrorists believed linked to al-Qaida after the militants fled
their desert tent while throwing hand grenades at surrounding forces.
(AP, 1/9/05)
2005 Jan 9, Sudan's VP Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha and John Garang, the country's main rebel leader, signed
the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to end Africa's longest-running
conflict. The treaty said: The 10 states in southern Sudan will be
secular, while the north will practice Islamic law; Former rebels will
hold 30 percent of national posts, the south will be autonomous; Oil
revenues from the south will be split 50-50 between the north and
south: The south will vote on independence in 2011; UN observers will
monitor a cease-fire and demobilization of troops.
(AP, 1/9/05)(AP, 1/10/05)(Econ, 12/3/05, p.24)
2005 Jan 9, In Basel, Switzerland,
central bankers, joined by commercial counterparts and financial
regulators from around the globe, opened a 2-day meeting to discuss
ways to ensure smooth economic growth amid worries over widening U.S.
deficits.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2005 Jan 9, In Thailand a 6-story
building caught fire and collapsed in Bangkok, trapping five
firefighters inside the wreckage.
(AP, 1/9/05)
2005 Jan 9, The Zimbabwe Standard
reported that a maize-meal shortage has become acute.
(http://allafrica.com/stories/200501100537.html)(Econ, 1/15/05, p.44)
2006 Jan 9, The US charged a
husband and wife Florida Int’l. Univ. employees, one a teacher, with
spying for decades for Castro’s regime in Cuba.
(WSJ, 1/10/06,
p.A1)(www.voanews.com/english/2006-01-10-voa7.cfm)
2006 Jan 9, The US sent 15
migrants back to Cuba after officials concluded that the section of the
partially collapsed bridge where they landed did not count as dry land
under the government's policy because it was no longer connected to any
of the Keys.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006 Jan 9, Confirmation hearings
opened in Washington for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2006 Jan 9, "The Phantom of the
Opera" leapt past "Cats" to become the longest-running show in Broadway
history.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2006 Jan 9, The US DJIA rose 52.59
to close at 11,011.9, its 1st close above 11,000 since Jun 7, 2001.
(SFC, 1/10/06, p.E1)
2006 Jan 9, Howard Stern began his
new Sirius Satellite radio show.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, Don Stewart (70), soap
opera actor (Guiding Light), died in Santa Barbara, Calif.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2006 Jan 9, Taliban leader Mullah
Omar purportedly warned of a coming surge in violence, clearly
rejecting the Afghan president's proposal a day earlier to "get in
touch" if he wants to talk peace.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, Bolivian
President-elect Evo Morales met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in
Beijing and called China an "ideological ally," a day after he invited
the communist country to develop Bolivia's vast gas reserves.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, In Chile a judge
granted bail to former military strongman Augusto Pinochet in the case
of nine dissidents who disappeared during his dictatorship, but the
general will remain under house arrest while another court reviews the
decision.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, China and Japan agreed
to hold new talks to resolve a dispute over gas deposits in the East
China Sea that could help ease their increasingly strained relations.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, China’s
state-controlled oil company CNOOC Ltd. said it is paying $2.3 billion
for a 45 percent stake in a Nigerian oil field.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, The US launched a
diplomatic initiative to try to mark the contested border between
Ethiopia and Eritrea, a dispute that led to a 2 1/2-year war in an area
where both countries are again massing troops.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, In Haiti business
ground to a halt in a general strike called to protest a wave of
kidnappings that has terrified people and cast a shadow over already
troubled efforts to restore democracy.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, Experts urged the
Indian government to enforce laws against prenatal gender checks and to
work to change attitudes after a study showed up to 10 million female
fetuses may have been selectively aborted in India over the past two
decades.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, Iran state TV reported
that 14 alleged members of an Islamic extremist group had been
detained. The group in late December grabbed and held nine soldiers
hostage.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006 Jan 9, In northwestern Iran a
small military passenger jet crashed, killing at least 13 people,
including the commander of the ground forces of Iran's elite
Revolutionary Guards.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, In Iraq insurgents
exploded a suicide car bomb and launched two mortar shells at the
Interior Ministry during National Police Day celebrations, killing 29
people and injuring 18.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, Israel permitted
Palestinian politicians to campaign in disputed Jerusalem, reversing an
initial ban and clearing an obstacle to holding Palestinian parliament
elections on Jan. 25.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, The death toll from
snowstorms that have blasted northern and central Japan since early
December rose to 71 after three people died while clearing snow.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2006 Jan 9, Diplomats from Mexico,
Central America, Colombia and the Dominican Republic demanded guest
worker programs and the legalization of undocumented migrants in the
United States, while criticizing a US proposal for tougher border
enforcement.
(AP, 1/10/06)(Econ, 1/14/06, p.40)
2006 Jan 9, In Turkey a Health
Ministry official said preliminary tests showed five more people have
been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.
(AP, 1/9/06)
2007 Jan 9, The Bush
administration barred Bank Sepah, Iran’s oldest bank, from doing any
future business in the US, accusing it of transferring Iranian missile
payments to North Korea. Germany’s Commerzbank AG said it will stop
handling dollar transactions for Iran at its new York branch by Jan 31.
(AP, 1/10/07)(WSJ, 1/10/07, p.A3)
2007 Jan 9, Pres. Bush lifted a
ban on oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Bristol area.
(SFC, 1/10/07, p.A5)
2007 Jan 9, Mike Beebe, Democrat,
was sworn in as the 45th Governor of the State of Arkansas.
(www.governor.arkansas.gov/gov_biography.html)
2007 Jan 9, The National Park
Service announced that it signed a 60-year lease with San Francisco
developer to restore Fort Baker and build a hotel called “Cavallo
Point, the Lodge at the Golden Gate.”
(SFC, 1/10/07, p.B1)
2007 Jan 9, Steve Jobs introduced
the iPhone at the annual Macworld Expo in SF. The 4GB version would be
sold for $499 starting in June. A television set add-on called Apple TV
was planned to hit stores in February for $299. Apple dropped the word
“Computer” from its name.
(SFC, 1/10/07, p.C1)(WSJ, 1/11/07, p.C1)(Econ,
1/13/07, p.57)
2007 Jan 9, Rex Farrance (59), a
longtime editor for PC World, was shot to death during a robbery at his
home in Pittsburg, Ca. Farrance had let his son grow medical marijuana.
In September Tremaine Amos (25), Darryl Hudson (23) and Montrell Hall
(23) were charged with murder in the commission of a robbery. In 2009
Hudson was convicted of murder, robbery and assault. Amos pleaded no
contest to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for testifying against
Hall and Hudson. A mistrial was declared in Hall’s case. In a retrial
Hall was convicted on Oct 9, 2009, of murder, assault, robbery and
burglary.
(SFC, 1/23/07, p.A1)(SFC, 9/26/07, p.B1)(SSFC,
6/21/09, p.B2)(SFC, 10/12/09, p.C4)
2007 Jan 9, An Australian zoo put
a group of humans on display to raise awareness about primate
conservation, with the proviso that they don't get up to any monkey
business.
(Reuters, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 9, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
turned into a battlefield as protesters, demanding the scrapping of
national elections, hurled bombs and rocks at police who responded by
firing tear gas and rubber bullets. The parties demanded the
postponement of January 22 elections, alleging that they cannot be fair
without massive changes to the voter list.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 9 Britain’s Royal Mail
released a set of six stamps depicting the iconic Beatles' album covers.
(Reuters, 12/28/06)
2007 Jan 9, Freddy Munoz, a
reporter for a state-controlled television network in Venezuela, was
released from a Colombian jail, 52 days after his arrest on accusations
of plotting bomb attacks with leftist rebels.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 9, Mikhail Prokhorov
(41), chief executive of Russian mining giant OAO Norilsk Nickel, was
detained in France for questioning as part of a crackdown on a
suspected prostitution ring at an upscale ski resort.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007 Jan 9, A landslide in a
western Indonesian village killed up to 13 people, burying several
homes and a small mosque.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 9, Iraqi and US soldiers,
backed by American warplanes, battled suspected insurgents for hours in
central Baghdad, and 50 militant fighters were killed. A cargo plane
carrying Turkish construction workers crashed during landing at an
airport near Baghdad, killing 32 people and injuring two. 4 members of
a family died when their house in Baghdad's Sadr City section was
destroyed. Police initially said the attack was from two mortar shells,
but later a police official and witnesses said the home was fired on by
US aircraft.
(AP, 1/9/07)(AP, 1/10/07)
2007 Jan 9, Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert arrived in China for a visit centered around boosting trade
ties and discussions on Iran's nuclear program.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 9, Carlo Ponti (b.1912),
Italian film producer and longtime husband of Sophia Loren, died in
Geneva. His productions included such films as “La Strada” and
“Blowup.” In 1965 he joined with David Lean to produce “Doctor
Zhivago.” Ponti first married Sophia Loren using lawyers in a proxy
marriage in Mexico in 1957. They remarried again in France in 1966.
(SFC, 1/11/07, p.B5)
2007 Jan 9, Japan launched its
first full-fledged defense ministry since World War II as part of Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to build a more assertive nation.
(AFP, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 9, Jordanian police
killed one suspected al-Qaida member and detained a second in a
crackdown that foiled a terrorist plot against Jordan.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 9, In Mexico Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has refused to accept his slim loss to
President Felipe Calderon in July's election, launched a weekly TV show
mocking the government's battle against crime and unemployment and
promising to promote a law targeting Mexico's monopolies.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007 Jan 9, Nigeria started paying
more than 1,000 Biafran police pensioners, 37 years after the west
African country ended a bloody civil war.
(AFP, 1/10/07)
2007 Jan 9, More than 100 Indian
fishermen left for home after Pakistan set them free in a goodwill
gesture to its longtime rival.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 9, Philippine troops
killed Binang Sali, a senior al-Qaida-linked militant, who allegedly
led an urban terror unit of the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007 Jan 9, In Somalia US AC-130
strikes were reported to have killed 10 al-Qaida suspects. Local
officials said the toll was much higher and included civilians.
(AP, 1/9/07)(WSJ, 1/10/07, p.A1)
2007 Jan 9, Armed Basque
separatist group ETA claimed responsibility for the bomb attack at
Madrid airport that killed 2 people last week but said its ceasefire
still held and it wanted peace.
(AFP, 1/9/07)
2007 Jan 9, St. Lucian lawmakers
made history in the Caribbean island when they selected two women to
lead Parliament.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2008 Jan 9, The US imposed
sanctions on Mishan Jaburi, owner of Al Zawra television in Syria, and
Brig. Gen. Ahmed Foruzandeh, leader of the Iranian Quds Force, for
broadcasting attacks on American troops and calls to violence. Jaburi,
a former parliamentarian in Iraq, had fled to Syria in 2006 amid
charges that he had embezzled millions from Iraq’s treasury. The BBC
said the station was last seen July 27.
(SFC, 1/10/08, p.A13)
2008 Jan 9, Members of US Congress
increased their salaries to $169,300 this year, up $4,100, or 2.5%,
after forgoing a raise in 2007.
(WSJ, 1/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Jan 9, Muir Woods in northern
California was listed on the national Registry of Historic Places on
its 100th anniversary as a national monument.
(SFC, 1/10/08, p.B1)
2008 Jan 9, A Survey of teen
sexual behavior in Europe and North America found that a “substantial
minority” of 15-year-olds have had intercourse.
(WSJ, 1/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Jan 9, Some 70 cars crashed
on a highway blanketed by fog and smoke from a brush fire in central
Florida. 4 people were killed.
(AP, 1/9/08)(SFC, 1/10/08, p.A3)
2008 Jan 9, In Washington, DC, the
bodies of 4 girls, ages 5-17) were found by federal marshals delivering
eviction papers. They had been dead for about seven months. Banita
Jacks (34) was later convicted of killing her 4 daughters and in Dec
2009 was sentenced to 120 years in prison.
(SFC, 12/19/09, p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/ya5qebf)
2008 Jan 9, Afghan authorities
said that at least 34 people had been killed in days of heavy snowfall
across the country. A NATO vehicle struck a mine in southern
Afghanistan, killing one soldier and wounding another, while a militant
attack in the east left a policeman dead.
(AFP, 1/9/08)(AP, 1/10/08)
2008 Jan 9, British police and
animal welfare authorities rescued 84 neglected horses from a farm
where they had found 31 dead horses, ponies and donkeys.
(AP, 1/9/08)
2008 Jan 9, Sir John Harvey Jones,
British corporate manager and TV star, died. He served as chairman of
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) from 1982-1987. In 1990 he became
the presenter of the pioneering BBC TV show “Troubleshooter”
(1990-1992) which “aimed to interest the general public in the
nitty-gritty of running a business.” From 1989 to 1994 he served as
chairman of The Economist.
(Econ, 1/19/08, p.94)
2008 Jan 9, French legal
plaintiffs said police have arrested Marcel Bivugabagabo (53), a former
officer in the Rwandan army accused of taking part in the 1994
genocide. Bivugabagabo was commander of the Ruhengeri sector in western
Rwanda from April to July 1994.
(AFP, 1/9/08)
2008 Jan 9, The WHO, based on
door-to-door surveys of nearly 10,000 households, estimated that
151,000 Iraqis had died from the start of war in March, 2003, to June,
2006. 2 policemen were found dead inside their vehicle in the
al-Azizyah area, 35 miles southeast of Baghdad. 4 bodies were retrieved
from the Tigris River in Suwayrah, 25 miles south of Baghdad. 6 US
soldiers were killed and four were wounded in a booby-trapped house in
Diyala.
(SFC, 1/10/08, p.A9)(AP, 1/9/08)(AP, 1/10/08)
2008 Jan 9, The Israeli military
fired at Palestinian militants in Gaza, killing three people, after a
rocket hit a house in a battered Israeli border town just as President
Bush, with an entourage of some 800 people, began his Mideast peace
mission. Bush, seeking to pull Israel and the Palestinians toward
serious negotiations, said that despite ongoing land squabbles and
fears of violence he has high hopes that a Mideast peace pact can be
achieved before he leaves office at the end of the year.
(AP, 1/9/08)(Econ, 1/5/08, p.39)
2008 Jan 9, African Union chief
John Kufuor met Kenyan leaders to try to break a political deadlock
following disputed presidential polls that sparked widespread violence
and left at least 600 dead. Hundreds of Kenyans tried to flee the
country's west amid escalating opposition anger after the president
named half of a new Cabinet, a line-up packed with his allies.
(AFP, 1/9/08)(AP, 1/9/08)
2008 Jan 9, Hashim Thaci (39), a
former rebel leader, was elected Kosovo's prime minister, vowing that
the province is only weeks away from independence and calling on Serbia
to give up its claim to the territory.
(AP, 1/9/08)
2008 Jan 9, The latest round of
UN-led peace talks between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario
Front ended in stalemate, with the two sides agreeing to try again in
March to resolve a 32-year dispute for control of Western Sahara.
(AP, 1/9/08)
2008 Jan 9, Norway and Sweden
dropped plans to send some 400 troops to the UN peacekeeping force in
Darfur because of opposition by Sudan.
(WSJ, 1/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Jan 9, A natural gas blast
ripped through an apartment building in Russia's Tatarstan region,
killing at least seven people.
(AP, 1/9/08)
2009 Jan 9, The US House of
Representatives voted 390-5 for a bill declaring “unwavering
commitment” to Israel.”
(Econ, 1/17/09, p.48)
2009 Jan 9, The US Labor
Dept. reported that unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent in December,
the highest level in 16 years, as nervous employers slashed 524,000
jobs. The labor market is expected to remain weak as mass layoffs
continue.
(AP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 9, The US government
began collecting DNA samples from all immigrants arrested and detained,
despite concerns that the move violates their privacy rights.
(SFC, 1/9/09, p.A3)
2009 Jan 9, California officials
said they will close state offices two Fridays a month as the state
faced a $42 billion budget gap.
(WSJ, 1/12/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 9, The Illinois House
voted to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented step in state
history.
(AP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 9, Baltimore Mayor Sheila
Dixon (55) was indicted on charges that she accepted illegal gifts,
including travel, fur coats and gift cards intended for the poor that
she allegedly used instead for a holiday shopping spree. Her trial
began on Nov 9.
(AP, 1/10/09)(SFC, 11/10/09, p.A8)
2009 Jan 9, In Miami Charles
Taylor Jr. (31), the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor,
was sentenced to 97 years in prison for mutilations and executions
carried out in Liberia, in the first US prosecution for torture
committed abroad.
(Reuters, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 9, Jon Hager (67), who
performed in the musical comedy duo The Hager Twins on "Hee-Haw," died
in Nashville. His brother Jim died in May, 2008. The syndicated TV
show, which debuted in 1969, satirized country life with a mixture of
music and comedy.
(AP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 9, In southern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body
inside a produce shop, killing 10 civilians and 2 policemen. 3 US
soldiers were killed in southern Zabul province.
(AP, 1/9/09)(WSJ, 1/10/09, p.A6)
2009 Jan 9, Lloyds TSB Bank said
it has agreed to pay a 350-million dollar penalty to settle a probe
that it illegally handled financial transfers from 1995 to 2007 for
Iran and Sudan in violation of US sanctions.
(AFP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 9, In Worcestershire,
England, four armed robbers shot and killed Craig Hodson-Walker (29), a
postmaster's son, during a robbery in Fairfield near Bromsgrove. His
father was wounded in the leg.
(AFP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 9, Cambodian judges
denied that they paid kickbacks to government officials to secure jobs
on a genocide tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders.
(AP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 9, In Germany Commerzbank
AG issued a euro5 billion ($6.8 billion) bond, the first to be backed
by the government's massive stabilization package.
(AP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 9, In India some 55,000
white collar workers at state-run oil companies called off a three-day
strike, after causing a severe fuel shortage in India.
(AP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 9, In Iraq a roadside
bomb targeting worshippers on their way to pray at a Shiite mosque in
Baghdad killed three people.
(AP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 9, Israeli jets and
helicopters bombarded Gaza and Hamas responded with a barrage of
rockets on at least two cities as both sides defied a UN call for an
immediate cease-fire. By the afternoon 22 Palestinians had been killed,
pushing the death toll to 776 and in the two-week-old conflict.
(AP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 9, Kenya’s government
said 10 million people risked going hungry after harvests failed
following a drought.
(WSJ, 1/10/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 9, Lithuania’s FlyLAL
airline, privatized in 2005, announced that SCH Swiss Capital Holdings,
a Switzerland-based firm, has purchased it for $1 million and debt of
about 1 million euros. On Jan 17 FlyLAL airline said it has suspended
its operations after a buyout deal by Swiss investment firm SCH Swiss
Capital Holdings failed.
(AP, 1/9/09)(AP, 1/17/09)
2009 Jan 9, Pakistan’s PM Gilani
said his intelligence agency has given India information about the
Mumbai attacks, as US Vice President-elect Joe Biden arrived in
Pakistan for talks with the country's top leaders. A series of blasts
have gone off near a theater in the eastern city of Lahore, but there
has been no immediate word on casualties.
(AP, 1/9/09)
2009 Jan 9, A Russian helicopter
owned by the state gas giant Gazprom crashed while on a hunting trip in
the mountains of Western Siberia, killing eight aboard. 3 people
survived. The crash involved government officials on an illegal hunt.
(AP, 1/11/09)(WSJ, 4/28/09, p.A8)
2009 Jan 9, Somali pirates
released the MV Sirius Star, an oil-laden Saudi supertanker seized on
Nov 15, after receiving a $3 million ransom. Five of the Somali pirates
drowned with their share of the $3 million ransom after their small
boat capsized.
(AP, 1/9/09)(AP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 9, Somali pirates
released a captured Iranian-chartered cargo ship. The ship Delight was
carrying 36 tons of wheat when it was attacked in the Gulf of Aden Nov.
18 and seized by pirates. All 25 crew were in good health and the
vessel sailed toward Iran.
(AP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 9, Sri Lankan troops
captured Elephant Pass, the Tamil Tigers' last stronghold on the Jaffna
peninsula, seizing control of a symbolic highway and isolating the
retreating rebels in a shrinking slice of northeastern jungle.
Government soldiers seized a rebel training camp near the village of
Mulliyaweli, in Mullaitivu.
(AP, 1/9/09)(AP, 1/11/09)
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