69CE
Jan 10, Roman
emperor Galba adopted Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1072
Jan 10, Robert Guiscard and his
brother Roger took Palermo in Sicily.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1429
Jan 10, Order
of Golden Fleece was established in Austria-Hungary & Spain.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1642
Jan 10, King
Charles I and his family fled London for Oxford.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1645
Jan 10, William Laud (71), the
Archbishop of Canterbury, was beheaded on Tower Hill, accused of acting
as an
enemy of the Parliament.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1654
Jan
10, Russia’s Czar Alexander announced a war against Lithuania and
Poland. It
lasted to 1667.
(LHC,
1/9/03)
1663
Jan 10, King
Charles II affirmed the charter of Royal African Company.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1709
Jan
10, Abraham Darby (1678-1717) in Coalbrookdale, England,
began using coke to provide carbon for making iron. This led to the end
of the
use of charcoal for making iron.
(Econ, 8/29/09,
p.69)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Darby_I)
1724
Jan 10, King Philip V shocked
all of Europe when he abdicated his throne in favor of his eldest son,
Louis.
Philip V (1683-1746) was King of Spain from 1700-1746.
(WUD, 1994, p.1081)(HN, 1/10/99)
1738
Jan 10, Ethan Allen was born. He
was the American Revolutionary commander of the Green Mountain Boys in
Vermont.
[see 1738-1789]
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AHD, p.34)
1769
Jan 10, Michel
Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), was born.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1776
Jan 10, Thomas Paine
(1737-1809), British émigré and propagandist, anonymously
published
"Common Sense," a scathing attack on King George III's reign over the
colonies and a call for complete independence. It sold some 120,000
copies in
just a few months, greatly affecting public sentiment and the
deliberations of
the Continental Congress leading up to the Declaration of Independence.
He
advocated an immediate declaration of independence from Britain. An
instant
bestseller in both the colonies and in Britain, Paine baldly stated
that King
George III was a tyrant and that Americans should shed any sentimental
attachment to the monarchy. America, he argued, had a moral obligation
to
reject monarchy.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine)(AP,
1/10/98)
1778
Jan 10, Carolus Linnaeus [Carl
von Linné, b.1707], Swedish botanist, died. His system for
classifying living
organisms in a hierarchy placed kingdoms at the top and species at the
bottom.
(HN, 5/23/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Linnaeus)
1810
Jan 10, French
church annulled the marriage of Napoleon I & Josephine.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1811
Jan 10, An uprising of over 400
slaves was put down in New Orleans. Sixty-six blacks were killed and
their
heads were strung up along the roads of the city.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1834
Jan 10, Lord Acton [John E.E.
Dalberg], English historian and editor of The Rambler, a Roman Catholic
monthly, was born.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1847
Jan 10, General Stephen Kearny
and Commodore Robert Stockton retook Los Angeles in the last California
battle
of the Mexican War.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1860
Jan 10, Ezequiel Zamora
(1817-1860), leader of the Federalist Army in Venezuela, was
assassinated.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_War)
1861
Jan 10, Florida became the 3rd
state to secede from the Union.
(AP, 1/10/98)(HN, 1/10/99)(MC,
1/10/02)
1861
Jan 9, Southern shellfire
stopped the Union supply ship Star of the West from entering Charleston
harbor
on her way to Fort Sumter.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1861
Jan 10, Ft.
Jackson and Ft. Philip were taken over by LA state troops.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1861
Jan 10, US
forts & property were seized by Mississippi.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1862
Jan 10, Battle
of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek).
(MC, 1/10/02)
1862
Jan 10, Battle
of Romney, WV.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1862
Jan 10, Samuel
Colt (47), inventor (6 shot revolver), died.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1863
Jan 10, London's Metropolitan,
the world's first underground passenger railway, opened to the public.
It was
nationalized in 1948. In 2004 Christian Wolmar authored “The
Subterranean
Railway: How the London Underground was Built and How it Changed the
City
Forever.”
(AP, 1/10/98)(HN, 1/10/99)(Econ,
1/22/05, p.81)
1864
Jan 10, George Washington Carver
(d.1943), American botanist and a former slave who became a scientist
and
inventor, gave the world peanut butter, was born. “Ninety-nine percent
of the
failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
(AP, 9/20/98)(HN, 1/10/99)
1870
Jan 10, John D. Rockefeller
(1839-1937) and his brother William incorporated the Standard Oil
Company of
Ohio. The original Standard Oil Company, founded by John D. Rockefeller
and
three partners in 1870, was incorporated in the state of Ohio.
(WSJ, 7/15/97, p.A16)(AP,
1/10/98)(HN, 1/10/99)(HNQ, 1/23/00)
1870
Jan 10, Victor Noir (22), French
journalist, was killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte. Noir "had called on
him
with a companion to present his editor's challenge to a duel because of
a
journalistic dispute concerning Corsican politics.” Public sentiment
over
Noir's death forces Napoleon III to abdicate. A statue of Noir’s
prostrate
figure became a magnet for infertile women rubbing themselves against
him as a
sexual charm.
(SSFC, 10/31/04,
p.F9)(www.alsirat.com/silence/cemtime/time4.html)
1883
Jan 10, Fire at
uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killed 71. General Tom
Thumb of
P.T. Barnum fame escaped unhurt.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1895
Jan 10,
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (45), composer, died.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1898
Jan 10, Sergei
M. Eisenstein (d.1948),
Russian director (Alexandr Nevski) [OS], was born
in Riga, Latvia. He became a renowned film director in Russia. In 1999
Ronald Bergan published the biography: "Sergei Eisenstein: A Life In
Conflict."
[see Jan 23]
(SFEC, 5/2/99, BR p.1,10)(MC,
1/10/02)
1898
Jan
10, In France a court-martial against Major
Ferdinand
Walsin Esterhazy began behind closed doors. The next day the
defendant was found not guilty. Writer Emile
Zola followed this action 2 days later with a 4-thousand word
letter in support of Captain Dreyfus and accusing the French military
of a
conspiracy in the case.
(ON, 2/09, p.6)
1899
Jan 10, Filipino leader Emilio
Aguinaldo renounced the Treaty of Paris, which annexed the Philippines
to the
United States.
(HN, 1/10/00)
1901
Jan 10, The Automobile Club of
America installed signs on major highways.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1901
Jan 10, The Lucas Gusher flowing
at the rate of 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day, blew in. Pattillo
Higgins, a
self-taught geologist, became interested in Spindletop Hill, just south
of
Beaumont, Texas in 1889. Believing that Spindletop covered a vast pool
of oil,
Higgins joined two other men in 1892 to form the Gladys City Oil, Gas,
and
Manufacturing Company--one of the first oil companies in Texas.
Higgins,
lacking proper drilling equipment, failed in his efforts, and the
Gladys City
Company leased land to a team led by Austrian mining engineer Captain
Anthony
Lucas in 1899. By 1902, 285 wells were operating on Spindletop Hill and
over
600 oil companies had been chartered, but overproduction ruined the
field. By
1903 the boom was over and within 10 years Spindletop Hill was
practically a
ghost town. Spindletop enjoyed a resurgence in 1926 when technology
made
possible the recovery of more oil through deeper drilling.
(HNPD, 1/10/99)
1903
Jan 10, Argentina banned the
importation of American beef, because of sanitation problems.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1904
Jan 10, Ray
Bolger, actor, dancer (Scarecrow-Wizard of Oz), was born in Dorchester,
Mass.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1911
Jan 10, Two German cruisers, the
Emden and the Nurnberg, suppressed a native revolt on island of Ponape
in the
Carolina Islands [Caroline Islands, east of the Philippines] when they
fired on
the island and land troops.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1912
Jan 10, The World's first
flying-boat airplane, designed by Glenn Curtiss, made its maiden flight
at
Hammondsport. Curtis was the 1st licensed pilot and Orville Wright was
the 2nd.
(HN, 1/10/99)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.B4)
1917
Jan 10, Buffalo
Bill Cody, army scout and Indian fighter, died.
Edward Zane Carroll Judson wrote about Western themes using the name
Ned Buntline. The author is best known for his dime novels about
William “Buffalo
Bill” Cody.
(MesWP)(HNQ, 4/9/00)(MC,
1/10/02)
1917
Jan 10, Germany was rebuked as
the Entente officially rejected a proposal for peace talks and demanded
the
return of occupied territories from Germany.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1918
Jan 10, The US House of
Representatives passed women's suffrage. The 19th Amendment for women's
suffrage was also known as the Anthony Amendment in honor of Susan B.
Anthony.
(HN, 1/10/99)(SFC, 10/11/99, p.E12)
1920
Jan 10, The League of Nations
was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.
(AHD, 1971, p.744)(AP, 1/10/98)
1923
Jan 10, The United States
withdrew its last troops from Germany.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1925
Jan 10,
France-Saarland formed.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1928
Jan 10, The Soviet Union ordered
the exile of Leon Trotsky.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1934 Jan 10, Marinus van der Lubbe (24), a bricklayer and Dutch communist, was executed in Berlin. He had been convicted of arson and high treason for torching the Reichstag parliament building on Feb 27, 1933. On Dec 6, 2007, German prosecutors formally overturned the conviction.
(AP, 1/11/08)
1935
Jan 10,
Sherrill Milnes, baritone (Scarpia, Rigoletto), was born in Hinsdale,
Illinois.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1935
Jan 10, Actress
Mary Pickford married actor Douglas Fairbanks.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1938
Jan 10, Eduard
van Beinum became the 1st conductor of Amsterdam Concert orchestra.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1940
Jan 10, German planes attacked
12 ships off the British coast; three sank and 35 were dead.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1941
Jan 10, The Soviets and the
Germans agreed on the East European borders and the exchange of
industrial
equipment.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1942 Jan
10, Jim Croce, (d.1973) rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle, Workin' At The
Car
Wash Blues), was born in Phila.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Croce)
1943
Jan 10, Russian
offensive began against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1944
Jan 10, The GI Bill of Rights,
first proposed by the American Legion, was passed by Congress. The
Bill, more
formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was
intended to
smooth demobilization for America's almost 16 million servicemen and
women.
Postwar college and vocational school attendance soared as more than 50
percent
of honorably discharged veterans took advantage of education benefits
of up to
$500 a year for tuition, plus a living allowance. When they returned
home to
marry and start families in record numbers, veterans faced a severe
housing
shortage. The home loan provisions of the GI Bill provided more than 2
million
home loans and created a new American landscape in the suburbs. In
1990,
President George Bush summed up the impact of the GI Bill: "The GI Bill
changed the lives of millions by replacing old roadblocks with paths of
opportunity."
(HNPD, 2/28/99)
1945
Jan 10, Rod Stewart, rock
singer, was born in North London, England.
(SSFC, 10/10/04, Par
p.20)
1946
Jan 10, The first manmade
contact with the moon was made as the US Army bounced radar signals off
the
lunar surface from Belmar, NJ.
(www.infoage.org/nyt-01-25-1946p1.html)(AP, 1/10/06)
1946
Jan 10, The first General
Assembly of the United Nations convened in London.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1946
Jan 10, Chiang Kai-shek and the
Yenan Communist forces halted fighting in China.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1947
Jan 10, The musical fantasy
"Finian's Rainbow," with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y.
Harburg, opened on Broadway and ran for 725
performances. It is the tale of an Irishman who
stole a
pot of gold and came to the US to plant it and became rich. Burton Lane
(1912-1996) also did “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.”
(MT, 10/94, p.15)(AP, 1/10/98)(MC,
1/10/02)
1949
Jan 10, George Foreman, world
heavyweight champion from 1973 to 1974, was born. He
lost it to Mohammed Ali and regained it in
1994 at the age of 46.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1949
Jan 10, RCA
introduced the 45 RPM record.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1951
Jan 10, UN
headquarters opened in Manhattan, NY.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1951
Jan 10, [Harry] Sinclair
Lewis (65), American author of 23
novels and 3 plays (Nobel 1930), died in Rome of a nervous disorder. In 2002 Richard
Lingeman authored
“Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street.”
(HNQ, 5/18/98)(WSJ, 1/18/02, p.W8)(MC, 1/10/02)
1956
Jan 10, The US Navy established
its first nuclear power school at Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut.
(AH,
2/06, p.14)
1957
Jan 10, Harold Macmillan became
prime minister of Britain, following the resignation of Anthony Eden.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1958
Jan 10, Jerry
Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reached #1.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1961
Jan 10,
Dashiell Hammett (66), author, died in NYC from throat cancer. In 1983 Diane
Johnson authored his biography. His books included “The Maltese Falcon”
and “The
Thin Man,” both of which were turned into films. He wrote “The Maltese
Falcon”
while living in San Francisco at 891 Post St., which was also given as
the
address of detective Sam Spade.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0358591/)(SFC,
6/7/04, p.C2)
1962
Jan 10,
Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroyed 7 villages and killed
3,500.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1964 Jan 10,
Pres. Johnson held a meeting with
Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara after which he approved covert
operations
against North Vietnam [see Jan 16].
(SFEC, 8/17/97,
BR p.9)
1964
Jan 10, Panama broke ties with
the U.S. and demanded a revision of the canal treaty.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1964
Jan 10, Battles
took place between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1966
Jan 10, Julian
Bond was denied a seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1966
Jan 10, In Mississippi Vernon
Dahmer, a revered civil rights leader, was killed in a firebombing. In
1998
Klansmen Sam Bowers (1924-2006), Deavours Nix (72) and Charles Noble
(55) were
arrested for the murder. 8 men in 2 cars loaded with shotguns and 12
gallons of
gasoline attacked Dahmer’s home. Billy Roy Pitts participated and later
testified how Bowers had called meetings and presided over the planning
of the
bombing. Bowers was convicted in his 5th trial and sentenced to life in
prison
where he died.
(SFC, 5/29/98, p.A5)(SFC, 8/17/98,
p.A5)(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A12)(WSJ, 8/24/98, p.A1)
1966
Jan 10, The Tashkent Agreement,
was signed in the Soviet city of Tashkent, and officially ended a
17-day war
between Pakistan and India. It required that both sides withdraw by
February
26, 1966, to positions held prior to August 5, 1965, and observe the
cease-fire
line agreed to on June 30, 1965. The agreement was brokered by Soviet
premier
Aleksey Kosygin and signed by Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri
and
Pakistan President Ayub Khan. The Indian prime minister died the day
after
signing the agreement.
(HNQ, 4/26/99)(www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr65/fkashmir1965)
1967
Jan 10, National Educational Television (forerunner of Public
Broadcasting Service)
operated as a true network for the 1st time as it carried Pres.
Johnson's State
of the Union address.
(AP, 1/10/07)
1967
Jan 10, Edward W. Brooke,
R-Mass., the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote,
took his
seat.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1968 Jan 10, Lyle Menendez was born in NY and grew up in Princeton, NJ. In 1989 he and his brother Erik killed their parents.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm1062652/)
1970
Jan 10, Charles
Olson (b.1910), American poet, died in NYC. Volume Three of his Maximus
Poems
appeared posthumously in 1975.
(SFC, 6/12/06, p.D8)(www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olson/life.htm)
1971
Jan 10, “Masterpiece Theatre”
premiered on PBS with host Alistair Cooke introducing a drama series,
“The
First Churchills.”
(AP, 1/10/01)
1971
Jan 10,
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (b.1883), French fashion designer, died in
Paris.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel)
1972
Jan
10, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
(b.1920) returned to Dhaka from prison in West Pakistan. He soon
promulgated an
interim constitution and was sworn in first as president of Bangladesh,
then as prime minister.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ryydhzeZic)
1973
Jan 10, An empty liquefied natural gas
(LNG) tank in
Bloomfield on Staten Island exploded and 40
workers were killed.
(www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrichmo/history.shtml)
1974
Jan 10, An Advisory
Panel on White House Tapes determined that an 18-m gap
in Watergate tape was
due to erasure and of no consequence.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_tapes)
1976
Jan 10, Howlin’ Wolf, blues
singer born as Chester Arthur Burnett (b.1910), died. In 2004 James
Segrest and
Mark Hoffman authored “”Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of
Howlin’
Wolf.”
(SSFC, 7/4/04, p.M6)(www.britannica.com)
1977 Jan 10, The crater walls of Congo’s Nyiragongo volcano fractured, and a lava lake drained in less than an hour. The lava flowed down the flanks of the volcano at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour on the upper slopes, overwhelming villages and killing at least 70 people.
(SSFC,
1/20/02, p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo)
1978
Jan 10, Diane Feinstein was
elected president of the 11-member SF Board of Supervisors. Harvey Milk
and Dan
White took their seats on the board for the first time.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.A19)(SFC, 1/10/03, p.E6)
1978
Jan 10, In Nicaragua Pedro
Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal (b.1924), journalist and editor of La Prensa,
was
shot dead. His murder sparked the Sandinista-led uprising that later
toppled
Somoza. His wife, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, later became head of the
country
and in 1996 published her autobiography: "Dreams of the Heart." The
murder also inspired Susan Meiselas, photographer, to go to Nicaragua
from NY.
She spent ten years photographing events in the area, later published
as
"Nicaragua." The Sandinista Party was founded by Carlos Fonseca.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Chamorro_Cardenal)(WSJ,
9/11/96,
p.A20)(SFC, 10/23/96, p.A8)
1978
Jan 10, The Soviet Union
launched two cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz capsule for a rendezvous with
the Salyut
VI space laboratory.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1979
Jan 10, Billy
Carter, the brother of US Pres. Jimmy Carter, made allegedly
anti-Semitic
remarks. Billy eventually registered as a foreign agent of the Libyan
government and received a $220,000 loan. This led to a Senate hearing
over
alleged influence peddling which some in the press dubbed
"Billygate."
(http://tinyurl.com/2krnv2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Carter)
1980
Jan 10, The last broadcast of
"Rockford Files" on NBC. It began on the NBC network on September 13,
1974.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rockford_Files)
1980
Jan 10, George Meany (b.1894),
former plumber and president of the AFL-CIO, died in Washington, D.C.
Meany,
president of the AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979, was a NYC plumber before
becoming a
labor leader. He became an apprentice plumber in 1910 and a journeyman
in 1915.
In 1922 Meany was elected business agent of Plumbers Union 463. From
1934 to
1939 he served as president of the New York State Federation of Labor
and in
1940 became secretary of the American Federation of Labor. He was an
architect
of the AFL merger with the Congress of Industrial Organizations and in
1955
became the president of the new AFL-CIO. Meany led a campaign against
corruption in organized labor, which resulted in the expulsion from the
AFL-CIO
of the Teamsters and two other major unions in 1957.
(HNQ, 6/9/98)(AP, 1/10/00)
1984 Jan 10, Clara Peller (1902-1987) 1st asked: "Where's the Beef?," as part of a TV ad for Wendy’s.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where's_the_beef%3F)(AH, 6/07, p.11)
1984
Jan 10, The United States and
the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in
117
years.
(AP, 1/10/98)(HN, 1/10/99)
1988
Jan 10, In Pakistan Farooq
Sattar (28), a founding member of the MQM, became Karachi’s youngest
mayor.
(WSJ,
12/5/07, p.A22)(http://tinyurl.com/36566r)
1988
Jan 10, Soviet media reported on
an interview given to Chinese journalists by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who
praised
the state of Sino-Soviet relations and called for a summit. The Beijing
government turned aside the summit call, saying Soviet-backed
Vietnamese forces
first had to withdraw from Cambodia.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1989
Jan 10, Cuba began withdrawing
its troops from Angola, more than 13 years after its first contingents
arrived.
(AP, 1/10/99)
1990
Jan 10, NCAA
approved the random drug testing for college football players.
(http://tinyurl.com/ghgha)
1990
Jan 10, Chinese Premier Li Peng
lifted Beijing's 7-month-old martial law and said that by crushing
pro-democracy protests the army had saved China from "the abyss of
misery."
(AP,
1/10/00)
1991
Jan 10,
Baseball officially banned Pete Rose from being elected to the Hall of
Fame.
(http://tinyurl.com/czvp5)
1991
Jan 10, Five days before a UN
deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, peace efforts intensified,
with UN
Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar setting off on a mission
aimed at
averting war.
(AP, 1/10/01)
1992
Jan 10,
President Bush returned home from his grueling 12-day journey to
Australia,
Singapore, South Korea and Japan, boasting of “dramatic progress” on
trade issues.
(AP, 1/10/02)
1992
Jan 10, In Algeria an army coup
cancelled elections that were running strongly in favor of the Islamic
Salvation Front (FIS). France supported the move which led to a bloody
struggle
between the Algerian army and Algerian fundamentalist (Armed Islamic
Group,
GIA) guerillas that by 1995 claimed nearly 40,000 lives and numerous
bomb
attacks in France.
(WSJ, 10/26/95, p.A-22)(SFC,
11/14/96, p.A12)(SFC, 1/8/96, p.A7)
1993
Jan 10, An unidentified
62-year-old man at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
underwent the
world's second baboon liver transplant. The man died less than a month
later
without regaining full consciousness.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1994
Jan 10, On the first day of a
two-day NATO summit in Belgium, leaders signed a document inviting
nations of
the former Warsaw Pact to join in a "partnership for peace."
(AP, 1/10/99)
1994
Jan 10, Talks between Israeli
and Palestinian negotiators resumed in Taba, Egypt.
(AP, 1/10/99)
1994
Jan 10, In Manassas, Va., Lorena
Bobbitt went on trial, charged with malicious wounding of her husband,
John.
She had cut off her husband's penis and was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.
(AP, 1/10/99)
1995
Jan 10, President Clinton
declared flood-stricken areas of California major disaster areas.
(AP,
1/10/00)
1995
Jan 10, Russia announced a
48-hour truce in breakaway Chechnya, but the cease-fire fell apart
after a few
hours.
(AP,
1/10/00)
1996
Jan 10, Chechen rebels seized as
many as 3,000 hostages in the Russian Republic of Dagestan.
(WSJ, 1/2/97, p.R2)
1996
Jan 10, Russian troops allowed a
convoy of Chechen rebels and 160 hostages to head for Chechnya, then
surrounded
them in the village of Pervomayskaya. After a five-day standoff,
Russian troops
launched a massive military assault that resulted in the deaths of most
of the
rebels and some of the hostages.
(AP, 1/10/01)
1997
Jan 10, Dallas police ended
their investigation into Dallas Cowboys stars Erik Williams and Michael
Irvin,
saying a woman's claim that Williams raped her while Irvin held a gun
to her
head was false.
(AP, 1/10/98)
1997
Jan 10, The NASA Near Earth
Tracking Program detected an asteroid, AC11, that was about 600 feet
across
with a sun orbit of 9.5 months. It was the 24th Aten asteroid, a group
whose orbits
all lie within that of the Earth.
(SFC, 2/1/97, p.A8)
1997
Jan 10, Sheldon
Leonard (b.1907), film actor, producer and TV director (Dick Van Dyke),
died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0502766/)
1997
Jan 10, In Bulgaria protestors
trapped legislators of the ruling Socialist Party inside parliament.
The
economy was still 90% state-owned and inflation last year topped 300%.
(SFC, 1/11/97, p.A8)
1997
Jan 10, From Tokyo it was
reported that scientists had successfully implanted micro-robotic
backpacks
onto cockroaches in experiments to control their movements.
(SFC, 1/10/97, p.B2)
1997
Jan 10, In Japan the Nikkei had
fallen more than 16% over the last five weeks due to gloomy economic
news and
the government’s recent vow to reduce its role in the economy.
(WSJ, 1/10/97, p.A1)
1997
Jan 10, In Nicaragua Arnoldo
Aleman began a 5-year term as president.
(SFC, 1/11/97, p.C1)
1998
Jan 10, In his weekly radio
address, President Clinton denounced Chicago physicist Richard Seed's
expressed
desire to clone humans, calling it "morally unacceptable."
(AP, 1/10/99)
1998
Jan 10, Michelle Kwan won the
ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Philadelphia; Tara Lipinski
came in
second and Nicole Bobek, third.
(AP, 1/10/99)
1998
Jan 10, In China a 6.2
earthquake hit Zhangbei County in northern Hebei province and 50 people
were
reported killed and over 11,440 injured. The quake reportedly left
cracks in
the Great Wall.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, p.A15)(SFC, 1/12/98,
p.A12)(SFC, 1/22/98, p.E3)
1998
Jan 10, In Zambia a court filing
accused Kenneth Kaunda of paying army officers $270 to stage an October
coup,
promising another $13,300 if the insurrection was successful.
(SFC, 1/12/98, p.A1)
1999
Jan 10, Republicans and
Democrats disagreed over whether to call witnesses in President
Clinton's
impeachment trial, with Republicans pressing to hear testimony from
Monica
Lewinsky and others, and Democrats saying such testimony could
unnecessarily
prolong the proceedings.
(AP,
1/10/00)
1999
Jan 10, In Chechnya Pres. Aslan
Maskhadov planned to adopt a constitution based on the Koran and phase
in
sharia law over 3 years.
(SFC, 1/11/99, p.A10)(USAT, 9/2/04, p.13A)
1999
Jan 10, In Colombia The United
Self-Defense Forces, right-wing death squads, killed 8 people in
Toluviejo, and
20 people in La Hormiga.
(SFC, 1/11/99, p.A8)
1999
Jan 10, Congo allies bombed Kisangani
and aid workers said 40 people were killed.
(WSJ, 1/12/99, p.A1)
1999
Jan 10, In New Delhi
3 rich young men crashed
into seven people standing along an empty street. They were charged with
barreling down a street and hitting 3 police officers and 3 laborers
while
driving home after an all-night party in what became called the
BMW case
. In 2008 a court convicted
Sanjeev
Nanda (30), the son of a wealthy Indian arms
dealer, of manslaughter and sentenced him to 5 years in prison. 3 other
defendants faced charges of destroying evidence.
(SFC, 5/5/99, p.C5)(AP,
9/5/08)
1999
Jan 10, In Kazakstan
presidential elections were scheduled. Nazarbayev won another 7-year
term in
rigged elections tinged with repression.
(WSJ, 1/7/99, p.A16)(SFC, 1/11/99,
p.A10)
1999
Jan 10, In Sierra Leone Myles
Tierney (34), an AP TV producer, was killed in Freetown by a rebel
fighter.
Another AP journalist was wounded.
(SFC, 1/11/99, p.A10)
1999
Jan 10, In Zimbabwe journalists
Ray Choto and Mark Chavunduka wrote that 23 officers had been arrested
for
plotting a coup.
(SFC, 2/8/99, p.A10)
2000
Jan 10, Peace talks between
Israel and Syria recessed in West Virginia without agreement on new
borders or
any other major elements of a land-for-peace treaty.
(AP, 1/10/01)
2000
Jan 10, Time Warner agreed to be
acquired by AOL in a merger valued at $160-162 billion. In 2003 Alec
Klein
authored "Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of
AOL
Time Warner." In 2004 Nina Munk authored "Fools Rush In," an
account of the merger.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.A1)(AP, 1/10/01)(WSJ,
6/20/03,
p.W10)(WSJ, 1/23/04, p.W5)
2000
Jan 10, In Florida Judge Rosa
Gonzalez ordered that Elian Gonzalez remain in the US until a March
court date
to hear arguments by the boy's relatives in Miami for Elian to remain
in the
US.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.A1)
2000
Jan 10, Ecuador announced that
its currency, the sucre, would be replaced with the US dollar. The
sucre
recently plunged to 29,000 to the dollar.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.A12)
2000
Jan 10, India agreed to dismantle
its largest single barrier to agriculture, textile and consumer product
imports
in a deal negotiated with the US. India agreed to lift over 1,400
specific
restrictions, half of which would be implemented within 3 months.
(WSJ, 1/10/00, p.A2)
2000
Jan 10, In Peru a passenger bus
plunged into the Mantaro River 90 miles northeast of Lima and at least
27
people were killed.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.A11)
2000
Jan 10, In South Africa there
was a rock fall at the African Rainbow Minerals gold mine. 9 miners
were
rescued after 4 days, but 4 were found dead and two were feared dead.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.D2)
2000
Jan 10, In Switzerland a
Crossair Saab-340 airplane crashed after takeoff from Zurich and all 10
people
aboard were killed.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.A11)
2001
Jan 10,
President-elect Bush moved quickly in search of a new candidate for
labor secretary
after the abrupt withdrawal of his first choice, Linda Chavez. Bush and
his
national security team received a top-secret Pentagon briefing on
military challenges
around the world.
(AP, 1/10/02)
2001
Jan 10, James Hoecker, chairman
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), resigned. The
agency had
rejected calls to cap soaring energy prices in California.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A1)
2001
Jan 10, LA Mayor Richard Riordan
warned Gov. Davis that he would cut off the sale of surplus power to
the state,
unless LA was paid in advance.
(SSFC,
12/16/01, p.A1)
2001
Jan 10, American Airlines (AMR)
called its plan to acquire Trans World Airlines (TWA) beneficial to
consumers.
TWA’s board approved plans for bankruptcy and accept the buyout offer.
TWA had used St. Louis as a hub.
(WSJ, 1/11/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.R12)(Econ, 6/28/08, p.37)
2001
Jan 10, It was reported that
some 18,000 Afghan refugees had crossed the border into Pakistan in
recent
weeks.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A8)
2001
Jan 10, China sent rats into
orbit aboard its “Sacred Ship” Shenzhou II, powered by a Long March
rocket.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A16)
2001
Jan 10, In Colombia soldiers
rescued 56 hostages held by ELN guerrillas outside Barbosa.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A14)
2001
Jan 10, In the Republic of Congo
2 freight trains collided near Nvoungouti station and at least 30
people were
killed.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A18)
2001
Jan 10, In Germany Chancellor
Schroeder created a new super-ministry for food, agriculture and
consumer
protection to combat mad cow disease.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A14)
2001
Jan 10, In Indonesia searchers
found a crashed navy plane in the dense jungle of Irian Jaya and
confirmed the
death of ten people.
(SFC, 1/10/01, p.A9)
2001
Jan 10, Indonesia extended a
truce in Aceh province after separatists agreed at talks in Switzerland
to halt
fighting for a month.
(WSJ, 1/11/01, p.A1)
2001
Jan 10, In Mexico the government
shut down a 3rd military base in Chiapas.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A14)
2002
Jan
10, Todd Eldredge won his 6th US Figure Skating Championship title.
(AP,
1/10/03)
2002
Jan
10, The White House revealed that Enron Corp. had sought the
administration's
help shortly before collapsing with the life savings of many workers.
(AP,
1/10/03)
2002
Jan
10, A US military transport took off carrying al Qaeda and Taliban
prisoners to
the US Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Prisoners were set up in an
area
called Camp X-Ray. In 2004 David Rose authored “Guantanamo: The War on
Human
Rights.”
(SFC,
1/11/02, p.A5)(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A10)(SSFC, 11/21/04, p.E6)
2002
Jan
10, US Energy Sec. Spencer Abraham said he found the Nevada site at
Yucca
Mountain “scientifically sound and suitable” as a nuclear waste
repository.
(SFC,
1/11/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/11/02, p.A1)
2002
Jan
10, A CIA report said China, North Korea and Iran will probably have
long-range
missile capable of reaching the US by 2015.
(SFC,
1/11/02, p.A7)
2002
Jan
10, Ethan Zohn (27) was the latest million dollar “Survivor” winner.
(SFC,
1/11/02, p.A2)
2002
Jan
10, An F-16 crashed near the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. The
pilot
ejected safely.
(SFC,
1/11/02, p.A5)
2002
Jan
10, In Afghanistan gunmen attacked the Kandahar airport as a US
military transport
took off carrying al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners to the US Guantanamo
Bay naval
base in Cuba. Prisoners were set up in an area called Camp X-Ray.
(SFC,
1/11/02, p.A5)(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A10)
2002
Jan
10, In Argentina thousands of middle-class families protested in Buenos
Aires.
The government had ordered checking deposits of $10k and savings over
$3k
switched to fixed-term deposits and out of reach for at least a year.
(SSFC,
1/13/02, p.A17)
2002
Jan
10, In Chechnya Russian troops lifted a weeklong blockade of Argun.
(WSJ,
1/11/02, p.A1)
2002
Jan
10, In Colombia Pres. Pastrana sent troops to the demilitarized zone
occupied
by the FARC.
(SFC,
1/11/02, p.A6)
2002
Jan
10, In Gabon a medical team fled the site of an Ebola outbreak
following
threats after they insisted that villagers not touch corpses at
funerals.
(WSJ,
1/11/02, p.A1)
2002
Jan
10, Israel demolished dozens of Palestinian homes in Rafah. The Islamic
Jihad
said it would resume attacks as Palestinian police arrested 2 of its
members
(SFC,
1/11/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/11/02, p.A1)
2003
Jan 10, The US
Labor Dept. reported that 101,000 jobs were lost in December with 8.6
million
(6%) officially unemployed.
(SFC, 1/11/03, p.A1)
2003
Jan
10, With just three days left in office, Illinois Gov. George Ryan
pardoned
four death row inmates he said had been tortured by Chicago police into
falsely
confessing to murders in the 1980's.
(AP,
1/10/04)
2003
Jan 10, An
Australian euthanasia campaigner complained that customs officials
seized a
machine he designed to help people kill themselves as he prepared to
board a
flight to the United States.
(AP, 1/10/03)
2003
Jan 10, Benin's
National Voodoo Day drew about 12,000 people.
(AP, 1/10/03)
2003
Jan 10,
Djiboutians chose a new 65-seat parliament in elections. Parties allied
with
Pres. Ismael Omar Guelleh swept Djibouti's first multi-party
legislative
elections. The bloc of four parties known as the Union for the
Presidential
Majority, or UMP, won 62.7 percent of the vote to 37.3 percent for the
four-party opposition alliance known as the Union for a Democratic
Alternative.
(AP, 1/10/03)(AP,
1/11/03)
2003
Jan 10, The
European Union proposed a diplomatic initiative to avoid war against
Iraq and
increased pressure on Washington to pursue a peaceful solution to the
crisis
over Iraq's arms programs.
(AP, 1/10/03)
2003
Jan 10, Iraq
blocked all e-mail services following a batch of messages from
disguised US
agencies urging dissent and military defections. Some service was
restored the
next day.
(SSFC, 1/12/03, p.A14)
2003
Jan 10, North
Korea announced that it was pulling out of the Nuclear
Non-proliferation
Treaty.
(SFC, 1/10/03, p.A1)
2003
Jan 10, It was
reported that an estimated 3,000 Pakistani boys are sold each year to
the gulf
states to work as camel jockeys.
(SFC, 1/10/03, p.A17)
2003
Jan 10, In
Venezuela opponents of President Hugo Chavez took to the streets as a
bank
strike prompted authorities to suspend dollar auctions for a second day
in a
row after Venezuela's currency fell.
(AP, 1/10/03)
2004
Jan 10, Michelle Kwan won her
seventh straight title and eighth overall at the U.S. Figure Skating
Championships
in Atlanta; Johnny Weir skated to his first men's title.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2004
Jan 10, Spalding Gray (62),
morose humorist, disappeared in NYC. His body was found in the East
River in
March.
(SFC, 2/09/04, p.A2)
2004
Jan 10, Alexandra Ripley (70), novelist, died in
Richmond, Va.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2004
Jan 10, Fiona Thornewill (37), a
British woman, completed her unaided solo hike to the South Pole in
record
time. She walked 700 miles in 42 days broking the previous record of 44
days
for an unaided individual or team for walking or skiing.
(AP, 1/12/04)
2004
Jan 10, China reported a 3rd
suspected SARS infection involved a 35-year-old man in Guangdong
province.
(AP, 1/11/04)(WSJ, 1/13/04, p.D5)
2004
Jan 10, In Ghana the United
Nations launched a yearlong commemoration of the anti-slavery movement.
The
International Year for the Commemoration of the Struggle Against
Slavery and
its Abolition coincides with the 200-year anniversary of Haiti, the
first
independent black state in the Western Hemisphere.
(AP, 1/11/04)
2004
Jan 10, A US anti-terror team
arrived in Mauritania. The US had received information of threats
against
American interests in the West African nations of Mauritania and
Senegal.
(AP, 1/12/04)
2004
Jan 10, North Korea said it had shown its
"nuclear deterrent" to an
unofficial U.S. delegation that visited the disputed Yongbyon nuclear
complex.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2004
Jan 10, Panamanian officials
arrested Arcangel de Jesus Henao Montoya, a top leader of the Colombian
Norte
de Valle drug cartel, in the southern city of Torti and took him to
Panama
City. He was soon handed over to US officials.
(AP, 1/11/04)(SFC, 1/15/04, p.A1)
2004
Jan 10, In the Philippines 3
rebels and 4 soldiers died when the guerrilla New People's Army
attacked a
power plant south of Manila.
(AP, 1/10/04)
2004
Jan 10, A conference on
U.S.-Islamic relations began in Qatar. Washington's support for Israel
is at
the root of differences between the United States and Islamic nations.
(AP, 1/10/04)
2004
Jan 10, In South Korea
prosecutors arrested six lawmakers and the head of a conglomerate in a
broadening investigation of corruption allegations.
(AP, 1/10/04)
2002
Jan 10, Pres. Mugabe enacted
sweeping security and election laws to clamp down on critics and limit
election
monitoring. Iden Wetherell, editor of the Zimbabwe Independent, was
arrested
along with 2 staff members on charges of defaming Mugabe.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A5)(WPR, 3/04, p.29)
2005
Jan 10, CBS
issued a damning independent review of mistakes related to a "60
Minutes
Wednesday" report, aired by Dan Rather, on President
Bush's National Guard
service and fired three news executives and a producer for their
"myopic
zeal" in rushing it to air.
(SFC, 1/11/05, p.A1)(AP, 1/10/06)
2005
Jan 10, Gov.
Schwarzenneger proposed an $85.7 billion California state budget with
cuts in
programs to the poor, elderly and disabled to help close a $9.1 billion
deficit.
(SFC, 1/11/05, p.A1)
2005
Jan 10, Randall W. Harding pleaded
guilty to money laundering and wire fraud charges as part of a
scam that authorities say bilked investors from Palm Springs to Orange County, including church
members at Crossroads Christian Church in Riverside, Ca.
(SFC, 8/14/06, p.A2)(http://tinyurl.com/qhm4u)(http://home.att.net/~fcwriter/news29.htm)
2005
Jan 10, A mudslide at La
Conchita in Ventura County, Ca., crushed over 15 homes and killed 10
people.
(SFC, 1/12/05, p.A1)(SFC, 1/13/05,
p.A3)
2005
Jan 10, GlaxoSmithKline PLC said
that Bayer
Healthcare AG has paid more than 200 million euros ($260 million) for
sole
marketing rights outside the United States for the erectile dysfunction
drug
Levitra.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2005
Jan 10,
Spencer Dryden (66), former
Jefferson Airplane drummer, died
in Petaluma, Calif.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2005
Jan 10, The African Union's (AU)
Peace and Security
Council wrapped up its inaugural meeting unexpectedly quickly here with
a
series of resolutions on the continent's main flashpoints, including
Ivory
Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan's Darfur region.
(AFP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 10, Canada and Nigeria agreed
to terms under
which the Canadian International Development Agency is to provide 24.9
million
Canadian dollars (20.4 million US) for health projects in the west
African
country.
(AP, 1/11/05)
2005
Jan 10, Congo security forces fired
bullets and
tear gas at demonstrators burning tires in Congo's capital, killing at
4 people
among thousands protesting a government decision to delay upcoming
national
elections.
(AP, 1/10/05)(Econ,
1/22/05, p.44)
2005
Jan 10, Cuba said it was resuming
formal ties with
all of Europe, ending a deep freeze in relations following a 2003
crackdown on
dissidents and the firing-squad executions of three men who tried to
hijack a
ferry.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2005
Jan 10, India’s Supreme Court
granted bail to
Jayendra Saraswathi, one of Hinduism's most venerated clerics, after he
spent
nearly two months in jail in connection with the murder of a temple
official.
Former monastery official Sankaraman, said to be a bitter critic of the
top
cleric, was hacked to death in an ancient temple in Kanchi in September.
(Reuters, 1/10/05)
2005
Jan 10, A bus driver apparently
lost control of his
vehicle and it plunged into a canal killing 57 people in southern India.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2005
Jan 10, In Iraq gunmen assassinated
Baghdad's
deputy police chief and his son. A huge roadside bomb in southwestern
Baghdad
destroyed a U.S. armored vehicle and killed two American soldiers.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2005
Jan 10, New
Italian legislation went into effect to stop smoking in restaurants and
bars. Officials
extended the initial Jan 1 date for the benefit of New Year revelers.
(SFC, 12/21/04, p.A7)(WSJ, 1/10/05, p.A10)
2005
Jan 10, In
Kuwait a shootout killed
two policeman and a suspect they were chasing in a suburb of the
capital.
(AP, 1/10/05)
2005
Jan 10, Ukraine's
Election
Commission declared Viktor Yushchenko the winner of the presidential
vote.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2005
Jan 10, Venezuela's President
Chavez declared that
farmland nationwide would be inspected and some of it given to the
poor,
expanding agrarian reforms with a pledge to fight "the large
estates."
(AP, 1/11/05)
2006
Jan 10, Oil magnate Boone
Pickens donated $165 million to Oklahoma State Univ. for the
development of new
sports facilities. The 100-acre site under consideration in Stillwater
faced
problems with low-income residents.
(http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=ncf&id=2286807)(WSJ, 3/30/06, p.A1)
2006
Jan 10, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs unveiled an iMac computer
based on Intel
chips.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2006
Jan 10, Bruce Sutter became the 4th relief pitcher elected to the
Baseball Hall
of Fame.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2006
Jan
10, Australia said it
will send an extra 110 troops to Afghanistan to bolster the fight
against
Islamist militants, increasing its presence in the country to about 300.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan 10-2006 Jan 11, The bodies of
24 Haitian migrants, who
apparently suffocated crossing the border in a sealed truck, were found
in the
Dominican Republic. The victims were among 69 Haitians, mostly adult
men, who
were driven across the border illegally at the northern Dominican town
of
Dajabon.
(AP, 1/12/06)
2006
Jan
10, European airlines
lost a legal bid that aimed to strike down new EU rules guaranteeing
passengers
compensation for flight delays or cancellations.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan
10, The European Commission ordered that
Greece allow
genetically modified corn seed (GMO) to be planted there despite
objections by
Greek farmers.
(WSJ, 1/11/06, p.A13)
2006
Jan 10, Iran removed UN seals on
uranium enrichment equipment and resumed nuclear
research Tuesday, defying demands it maintain a two-year freeze on its
nuclear
program and sparking an outcry from the US and Europe.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan 10, North Korean leader Kim
Jong-il passed
through China on the way to Russia, a source with knowledge of the
stopover
said. South Korean and Japanese media said Kim was making a secret
visit to
China.
(Reuters, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan 10, A battle between Pakistani
security forces
and suspected Islamic militants firing rockets and assault rifles left
21 dead
in a tribal region near the Afghan border.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan
10, Panama's
agricultural minister resigned, accusing the US of pressuring the
Central
American country to accept lower agricultural inspection standards.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan 10, Peru's National Election
Board formally
rejected a bid by jailed former President Alberto Fujimori to run in
April's
presidential race, citing a congressional ban on his holding public
office.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan 10, Spanish police arrested 20
people, mostly
Moroccans, linked to Islamic terrorism and violence in Iraq in raids
across
Spain.
(AFP, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan 10, In Thailand protesters
pushed through a police
barricade outside a hotel where negotiators were trying to hammer out a
US-Thai
free trade pact, as demonstrations against the deal gained momentum but
failed
to disrupt the talks.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan 10, Preliminary tests showed
another person in
Turkey has tested positive for a deadly strain of bird flu, raising the
number
in the country to 15. The number of people hospitalized with symptoms
climbed
to about 70.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2006
Jan 10, Ukraine’s Parliament fired the Cabinet because of a new deal with
Russia that
nearly doubled what Ukraine pays for natural gas. PM Yuri Yekhanurov
and the
justice minister, however, said the vote was nonbinding and vowed that
the
current Cabinet would continue working.
(AP, 1/10/06)
2007
Jan 10, Pres. Bush said that an
additional 21,500 US
troops will head to Iraq soon to try improve the security situation
mainly in
Baghdad and the western province of Anbar. Bush’s plan became known as
“the
surge.”
(AP, 1/15/07)(Econ, 1/13/07, p.11)
2007
Jan 10, The Democratic-controlled US House voted
315-116 to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 per hour.
(AP, 1/10/08)
2007
Jan 10, The US Postal Service
honored Ella
Fitzgerald (1917-1996), the First Lady of Song, with her own postage
stamp.
(AP, 1/10/07)(SFC, 1/10/07, p.E8)
2007
Jan 10, California State coastal regulators
voted to impose restrictions on the US Navy's
use of sonar, which has been
linked to harmful effects on whales and other marine mammals.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 10, California’s Gov. Schwarzenegger
released a proposed $143.4 billion budget.
(SFC,
1/11/07, p.A1)
2007
Jan 11, NATO forces overnight
fought two large
groups of suspected Taliban militants crossing the border from
Pakistan, and
scores of insurgents were killed. Some 150 militants under Jalaluddin
Haqqani
were killed by the US 10th Mountain Division.
(AP, 1/11/07)(WSJ, 11/7/07, p.A16)
2007
Jan 10, Belarus lifted a duty it had imposed on Russian
fuel
transiting the country.
(SFC,
1/11/07, p.A7)
2007
Jan 10, Bolivian President Evo
Morales renewed his
pledge to nationalize his country's mining industry, saying he would
complete
the task this year.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, Bosnia's state court jailed
a Swede, a Turk
and a Bosnian for up to 15 years four months for planning a suicide
attack in
Europe. All 3 men were Muslims and wanted to pressure Bosnia and
European
governments to withdraw forces from Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Reuters, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, In England 2 RAF training
helicopters collided in
mid-air in Shropshire, with some reports claiming that one person was
killed
and three injured.
(AFP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, China said 2006 its global
trade surplus
jumped nearly 75% from the previous year to a record $177.5 billion.
Lan
Chengzhang, who worked for the China Trade News, was beaten while
visiting a
mine in Hunyuan county in the northern province of Shanxi and died of
an
apparent brain hemorrhage the next day. His death sparked a media
outcry and a
police investigation. On June 27 the Intermediate People's Court of
Linfen city
in Shanxi province convicted Hou Zhenrun, the head of a small
unlicensed mine
outside the northern city of Datong, for organizing a gang of five men
to beat
reporter. Zhenrun sentenced to life in prison. The five men who beat
the
reporters received jail terms of 5-15 years. A sixth was sentenced to a
year in
jail for harboring the suspects.
(AP,
1/10/07)(Reuters, 1/17/07)(AP, 6/28/07)
2007
Jan 10, Cuban dissident Manuel
Valdes Tamayo (50)
died. He was one of 75 activists jailed in a massive crackdown in 2003
and
released a year later for health reasons.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 10, In Guinea shop, government and business workers held
a general strike, heeding a union call for protests after President
Lansana
Conte decided to free two corruption suspects. Unions demanded that
Mamadou
Sylla and Fode Soumah, who have been charged with embezzling public
funds and
imprisoned in Conakry on December 6, be put back in jail. The strike
threatened
the world’s surplus of alumina, used to make aluminum. Guinea accounted
for 10%
of the world’s bauxite exports and 30% of its reserves.
(AFP, 1/10/07)(WSJ,
1/25/07, p.A13)
2007
Jan 10, Former Guinea-Bissau PM
Carlos Gomes Jr.
sought asylum at the local UN office, three days after he said
President Vieira
was behind the assassination of an ex-military commander last week.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, In northern Indian a
4-story building under
construction in Allahabad collapsed, killing 10 workers and injuring at
least
25.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, A 14-year-old Indonesian
boy died from bird
flu, just days after being hospitalized. It was the first H5N1 fatality
in the
country in six weeks.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, In central Iran a truck
smashed into a bus,
killing at least 14 people.
(AP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 10, Bombings and shootings
across Iraq killed
at least 99 people, including a US soldier who died from a gunshot
wound in
Diyala province. A suicide bomber killed four civilians in a crowd
outside a
police station in the northern city of Tal Afar.
(AP, 1/10/07)(SFC, 1/11/07, p.A15)
2007
Jan 10, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert,
midway through an
official visit to Beijing, said he received a candid assurance from
China that
it opposes Iran having a nuclear arsenal.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, Lebanese trade unions
threatened to escalate
protests unless the government drops plans to raise taxes, adding to
troubles
for Lebanon's US-backed prime minister amid an opposition campaign to
bring him
down.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, A new report alleged that Myanmar's
military junta is allowing gold mines to pollute the world's largest
wild tiger
reserve and has promoted development that is destroying ethnic Kachin
communities.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, In Nicaragua former
revolutionary Daniel Ortega took
office in a ceremony attended by more than a dozen world leaders.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, Khaled Meshaal, the leader
of Hamas, said Hamas
acknowledges the existence of Israel but formal recognition by the
group will
only be considered when a Palestinian state has been created.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan
10, In Russia Liana Askerova
said she was detained as part of the investigation into the killing of
Andrei
Kozlov, the Central Bank first deputy chairman who was shot point-blank
on
Sept. 13 as he left a soccer game in Moscow.
(AP, 1/12/07)
2007
Jan 10, Militants kidnapped nine
South Korean oil
workers and one local worker in the Niger Delta region of southern
Nigeria,
bringing the total number of foreigners currently held hostage there to
18.
(AFP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan
10, US forces launched a
third day of airstrikes in southern Somalia. At least four separate
strikes
were reported around Ras Kamboni, on the Somali coast near the Kenyan
border.
Unknown insurgents attacked a transitional government barracks and
soldiers
responded by sealing portions of Mogadishu and searching house to house
for
guns.
(AP, 1/10/07)(SFC, 1/11/07, p.A4)
2007
Jan 10, In the southern Philippines
a bomb exploded
across the street from a public market, killing six people and wounding
22
others. A second blast in the region hours later wounded two people
near a
police outpost.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2007
Jan 10, Sudan and rebel groups,
prodded by New
Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, agreed on a 60-day ceasefire, plus
diplomatic
efforts by the UN and African Union, to end the conflict in Darfur.
(AFP, 1/11/07)
2007
Jan 10, Zimbabwe’s central
statistics office (CSO) said
inflation had hit a new record high of 1,281%, puncturing government
hopes of
reining in the galloping rate which has left households struggling to
make ends
meet.
(AP, 1/10/07)
2008
Jan
10, A
(AP,
1/10/08)
2008
Jan
10, California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
proposed an austere state budget to close a projected $14.5 billion
deficit.
(SFC,
1/11/08,
p.A1)
2008 Jan 10, Ed Jew resigned from his seat on the SF Board of Supervisors effective as of noon on Jan 11.
(SFC, 1/11/08, p.A1)
2008
Jan
10,
(AP,
1/10/08)
2008
Jan
10, In
(AP,
1/10/08)
2008
Jan
10,
(Econ, 1/12/08, p.49)
2008
Jan
10, British media reports said 3 swans found dead on a
nature
reserve in south-west
(AFP,
1/10/08)
2008
Jan
10, Helicopters sent by
(AP,
1/11/08)(Econ,
1/19/08,
p.39)
2008
Jan
10, In
(AP,
1/11/08)
2008
Jan
10,
(AP, 1/10/08)(SFC, 1/11/08, p.C1)
2008
Jan 10, In
central
(AP,
1/10/08)(AP, 1/11/08)
2008
Jan
10, A cargo boat laden with 500 tons of garbage from
(AP,
1/10/08)
2008
Jan
10,
(AP,
1/10/08)
2008
Jan 10, An African
Union statement said former
UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan is taking over mediation in
(AP,
1/10/08)(AFP, 1/10/08)
2008
Jan
10, In
(AP,
1/11/08)
2008
Jan
10, Sir Edmund Hillary (88), the first person to stand
atop the
world's highest mountain, died in
(AP,
1/11/08)
2008
Jan
10, In eastern
(AP,
1/10/08)(WSJ, 1/11/08,
p.A1)(AFP, 1/12/08)
2008
Jan
10, In the West Bank President Bush predicted that a
(AP,
1/10/08)
2008
Jan
10,
(AP,
1/10/08)
2008
Jan
10, Government officials and rebels said soldiers
and Shiite rebels are fighting again in northern
(AP,
1/10/08)
2009 Jan 10, President-elect Barack Obama made public a detailed analysis by his economic advisers that estimates the $775 billion plan of tax cuts and new spending would create 3.5 million jobs over the next two years.
(AP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 10, A winter storm left large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast covered in snow and freezing rain. 10 inches of snow forced some 100 cancellations at Chicago’s O’Hare Int’l. Airport. At least 8 inches fell on lower Michigan and Ohio.
(SSFC, 1/11/09, p.A14)
2009 Jan 10, In Argentina 6 children died in Buenos Aires after a fire ripped through a former bank being used as a home by poor families.
(AP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 10, Australian police said a Canadian man has been charged with trying to smuggle more than two million dollars (1.4 million US) worth of cocaine inside forklift battery cells into Australia from Mexico.
(AFP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 10, Two British climbers, including the youngest Briton to conquer Everest, fell hundreds of meters to their deaths on Mont Blanc in the French Alps.
(AFP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 10, In Guinea-Bissau a boat carrying passengers on the Geba River capsized in strong winds, leaving 42 people missing.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 10, Israeli forces pounded rocket-launching sites and smuggling tunnels in Gaza and planes dropped leaflets warning of an escalation in attacks, as Palestinian militants fired at least 10 more rockets at Israel. The Israeli military said more than 15 militants were killed in overnight fighting. An Israeli tank shell killed nine people in a garden outside a home in the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya. In Cairo, Egypt, Palestinian Authority Pres. Mahmoud Abbas urged both Israel and Hamas to agree to an Egypt-brokered truce. Syria-based Palestinian militant groups including Hamas rejected the idea of deploying international observers or troops in Gaza.
(AP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 10, In Nigeria leaders of ECOWAS, West Africa's regional economic body, suspended Guinea's membership following a military coup in the country.
(AP, 1/11/09)
2009 Jan 10, In northwestern Pakistan at least 40 people were killed over the last 24 hours in clashes between Sunnis and Shiites in villages of the Hangu district.
(AP, 1/10/09)(SFC, 1/12/09, p.A8)
2009 Jan 10, In northern Peru a bus ran off a slick mountain road into a ravine, killing at least 33 people.
(AP, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 10, Russia and the EU took a step toward securing the resumption of gas flows to Europe when the two signed a deal on monitoring the supplies through Ukraine. PM Vladimir Putin said Russia will restart gas supplies to Europe once an EU-led monitoring mission begins to track gas transit via Ukraine.
(AP, 1/10/09)(Reuters, 1/10/09)
2009 Jan 10, South Korean officials arrested Park Dae-sung (31), a blogger writing under the pseudonym Minerva. They charged that his postings had led to a plunge in the value of the won, forcing the government to intervene in trading. In April 20 Park Dae-sung was cleared of spreading false information.
(WSJ, 1/13/09, p.A11)(Econ, 1/17/09, p.45)(AP, 4/20/09)
2009 Jan 10, In Sri Lanka government soldiers captured a guerrilla camp in the village of Aiyamperumal in Mullaittivu. A pro-rebel TamilNet Web site reported that four civilians were killed in a government artillery assault on a rebel-held village in Mullaitivu.
(AP, 1/11/09)