532
Jan 13-532 Jan 14, The 2nd
Hagia Sophia cathedral burned down in Constantinople during the Nika uprising, which failed
leaving some 30-40,000 people dead. Justinian and his wife
Theodora had
attended festivities at the Hippodrome, a stadium for athletic
competition.
Team support escalated from insults to mob riots and in the end
Constantinople
lay in ruins. Justinian proceeded to rebuild the city with extensive
commissions for religious art and architecture, including the new Hagia
Sophia.
(ATC, p.33)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia)
1099
Jan 13,
Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1397
Jan 13, John of Gaunt married
Katherine Rouet.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1628
Jan 13, Charles
Perrault, lawyer, writer (Mother Goose), was born in France.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1691
Jan 13, George
Fox (66), founder of Quakers, died.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1733
Jan 13, James
Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrived at Charleston, SC.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1794
Jan 13, President Washington
approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American
flag,
following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union. The
number of stripes
was later reduced to the original 13.
(AP, 1/13/01)
1808
Jan 13, Salmon P. Chase, US
Treasury secretary during the American Civil War and 6th Chief Justice
of the
Supreme Court, was born. His picture was later put on the $10,000
bill.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1813
Jan 24, Theodore Sedgwick (b.1746), former
Massachusetts Senator (1796-1799),
died. In 2007 John Sedgwick authored “In My Blood: Six Generations of
Madness
and Desire in an American Family.”
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000222)
1830
Jan 13, There
was a great fire in New Orleans. It was thought to be set by rebel
slaves.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1832
Jan 13, Horatio Alger, Jr., the
author of more than 100 inspirational books for young people from the
Civil War
to the turn of the 20th century, was born the son of a Unitarian
minister.
Rejected by the Union Army because of asthma, Horatio Alger was a poet,
teacher
and newspaper correspondent before he eventually followed in his
father's
footsteps and became a minister on Cape Cod. Alger is best-known,
however, for
his books with rags-to-riches themes. In Alger's world, everyone, no
matter how
poor or powerless, could succeed through hard work, honesty and high
moral
values. His "pluck and luck" books of hope in the face of adversity
were always bestsellers and almost every home, school and church owned
a large
collection. More than 250 million copies of his books have been sold
worldwide.
His books include "Ragged Dick" and "Tattered Tom."
(HNPD, 1/13/99)
1842
Jan 13, In the
1st British-Afghan War British troops retreating from Kabul were
ambushed and
nearly all slaughtered at the Khyber Pass, even though the Afghans had
promised
them safe passage during their withdrawal from the Afghan capital. Dr. William Brydon, badly wounded, reached
Jalalabad as the only survivor of a 16,000 person retreat from Kabul.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.C8)(MC,
1/13/02)
1846
Jan 13, President James Polk
dispatched General Zachary Taylor and 4,000 troops to the Texas Border
as war
with Mexico loomed. At the outset of the Mexican-American War, the
Mexican army
numbered 32,000 and the American army consisted of 7,200 men. The
American army
had, since 1815, only fought against a few Indian tribes. Forty-two
percent of
the army was made up of recent German or Irish immigrants. In the
course of the
war, the total U.S. force employed reached 104,000. In 2008 Martin
Dugard
authored “The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the
Mexican
War, 1846-1848.”
(HN, 1/13/99)(HNQ, 2/28/99)(WSJ,
5/16/08,
p.W8)
1854
Jan 13, Anthony
Foss patented an accordion. [see 1850, 1852]
(MC, 1/13/02)
1862
Jan 13, President Lincoln named
Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1863
Jan 13, Thomas
Crapper pioneered a one-piece pedestal flushing toilet.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1864
Jan 13, Wilhelm
K.W. Wien, German physicist (Nobel 1911), was born.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1864
Jan 13, Composer Stephen Foster
(37), composer and American song writer, died in a New York City
hospital. Ken
Emerson later authored his biography.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AHD, p. 519)(AP,
1/13/98)(SFC, 4/23/01, p.E4)
1865
Jan 13-14,
Union fleet bombed Fort Fisher, NC.
(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1874
Jan 13, Battle
between jobless and police in NYC left 100s injured.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1883
Jan 13, Fire in
circus Ferroni in Berditschoft, Poland, killed 430.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1893
Jan 13, Britain's Independent
Labor Party, a precursor to the current Labor Party, had its 1st
meeting.
(AP,
1/13/00)
1895
Jan
13, J.R. Seeley (b.1834), English essayist and historian, died. His essay Ecce Homo,
published anonymously in 1866, and
afterwards acknowledged by him, was widely read, and prompted many
replies,
being deemed an attack on Christianity.
(WSJ,
12/8/08, p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robert_Seeley)
1898
Jan 13, Emile Zola's famous
defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, “J'accuse," was published in Paris. The open
letter to French President Felix Faure accused the French judiciary of
giving
into pressure from the military to perpetuate a cover-up in the Dreyfus
treason
case.
(AP, 1/13/98)(MC,
1/13/02)
1900
Jan 13, To combat Czech
nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary decreed that
German would
be the language of the imperial army.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1906
Jan 13, The Golden Gate Hotel
opened on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nev..
(SSFC,
11/13/05, p.F4)
1910 Jan 13, Andrew Jackson Davis (b.1826), American clairvoyant, died. While in a mesmeric (hypnotic) trance, could allegedly communicate with the spirit world and accurately diagnose medical disorders. In 1850, in his book the “Great Harmonia,” Davis talks about how man evolved from animals and that evolution also took place in plants and animals up to man.
1912
Jan 13, A temp.
of 40F (-40C), Oakland, Maryland, set a state record.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1915
Jan 13, An
earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, killed 29,800.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1919
Jan 13, Jackie Robinson,
baseball star, was born. He broke the apartheid ban in 1947.
(SFEC, 10/4/98, p.B14)
1919
Jan 13, Robert Stack, actor best
know for his role as Elliot Ness in the TV series "The Untouchables,"
was born.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1919
Jan 13, California voted to
ratify the Prohibition amendment.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1920
Jan 13, A NY
Times editorial excoriated Dr. Robert H. Goddard, and reported that
rockets can
never fly. In 1969 the NY Times belatedly apologized.
(WSJ, 8/7/03, p.A1)
1923
Jan 13, Hitler denounced the
Weimar republic as 5,000 storm troopers demonstrated in Germany.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1927
Jan 13, A woman took a seat on
the NY Stock Exchange breaking the all-male tradition.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1929 Jan 13, Frontiersman Wyatt Earp died in LA, Ca., after an illustrious life in the West. Cowboy stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix served as pallbearers. Born in Illinois in 1848, he served as a lawman in Wichita and Dodge City, Kansas, as well as Tombstone, Arizona Territory, where Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil were notorious for violent clashes with outlaws. Western historians have disagreed about the particulars of Wyatt Earp's life, but he is said to have been a freighter-teamster, railroad construction worker, policeman, prisoner, saloon keeper and horse farmer, and he was involved in several gunfights--for reasons that may or may not have been related to law enforcement. When Morgan was killed, Wyatt avenged his death by killing Frank Stilwell, an outlaw he had previously arrested. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp died and was buried in Colma, Ca. In 2003 Lee A. Silva authored Wyatt Earp, A Biography of the Legend, Volume 1, the Cowtown Years.”
(HNPD,
1/12/99)(SFEC, 3/14/99, Z1 p.10)(MesWP)(CHA, 1/2001)(AH, 6/03, p.60)
1931
Jan 13, The Bridge connecting
New York and New Jersey was named the George Washington Memorial
Bridge.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1934
Jan 13, Rip
Taylor, comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show), was born.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1937
Jan 13, The United States barred
Americans from serving in the Spanish War.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1939
Jan 13, Jacob
Ruppert, CEO of the NY Yankees (1915-39), died.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1941
Jan 13, James Joyce, Irish-born
novelist, died in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1983 Richard Ellmann authored
the
900-page "James Joyce" biography. In 1999 Edna O'Brien authored the
pocket bio "James Joyce."
(AP, 1/13/98)(SFC, 12/9/99, p.B1)
1943
Jan 13, General Leclerc's Free
French forces merged with the British under Montgomery in Libya.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1944
Jan 13, Three Reich plane plants
were wrecked; 64 U.S. aircraft were lost in an air attack in Germany.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1945
Jan 13, The Red Army opened an
offensive in South Poland, crashing 25 miles through the German lines.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1947
Jan 13, British troops replaced
striking truck drivers.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1948
Jan 13, T Bone
Burnett, rocker, was born.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1952
Jan 13,
Cornelius Bumpus, keyboardist (Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute), was born.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1955
Jan 13, Chase National and the
Bank of Manhattan agreed to merge resulting in the second largest U.S.
bank.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1956
Jan 13, Lebanon
and Syria signed a defense pact providing for joint retaliation against
Israel
if either was attacked.
(EWH, 1968, p.1241)
1956
Jan 13, Lyonel
Feininger (b.1871), American-German painter, died. His work included
the
woodcut "Kreuzende Segelschiffe" (1919) and the pen and ink wash
"Three Ghosts" (1953). A catalog of his prints was made by Leona
Prasse (1897-1984), late curator of prints at the Cleveland Museum of
Art.
Feininger published comics for the Chicago Tribune from 1906-1907.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyonel_Feininger)(HT,
5/97,
p.60)(WSJ, 1/10/07, p.D10)
1957
Jan 13, The
Wham-O Company produced the 1st Frisbee. It was initially called the
Pluto
Platter.
(SFC, 7/1/02, p.B5)(MC, 1/13/02)
1958
Jan 13, 9,000
scientists of 43 nations petitioned the UN for a nuclear test ban.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1962 Jan 13, Ernie Kovacs (b.1919), comedian and TV star, died at age 42 in a car crash in west Los Angeles. ''Nothing in moderation'' was his credo and appeared on his epitaph.
(AP,
1/13/98)(www.nytimes.com/1990/05/13/books/nothing-in-moderation.html?scp=4)
1963
Jan 13, Togo’s first president,
Sylvanus Olympio, was killed by a military junta led by Gngassigbe
Eyadema.
Nicholas Grunitzky succeeded Olympio.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A12)(EWH,
1st ed., p.1172)
1965
Jan 13, Two U.S. planes were
shot down in Laos while on a combat mission.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1966
Jan 13, Robert C. Weaver became
the first black Cabinet member as he was appointed Secretary of Housing
and
Urban Development by President Johnson.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1967
Jan 13, In Togo
Lt. Col. Etienne Eyadama (29) led an army coup and overthrew Pres.
Grunitzky.
Eyadama suspended the constitution and instituted direct military rule.
(EWH, 1st ed., p.1172)
1968 Jan 13, Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Own_Thing)
1968
Jan 13, The U.S. reported
shifting most air targets from North Vietnam to Laos.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1973
Jan 13, In Bernardsville, N.J.,
Rabbit Wells (21) was shot a killed by a local patrolman. In 1998
William Loizeaux
authored "The Shooting of Rabbit Wells: An American Tragedy."
(www.amazon.com/Shooting-Rabbit-Wells-American-Tragedy/dp/1559703806)(SFEC,
2/8/98,
BR p.5)
1976
Jan 13, Sarah
Caldwell became the first woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan
Opera
House as she led a performance of “La Traviata.”
(AP, 1/13/02)
1976
Jan 13, Argentina ousted a
British envoy in dispute over Falkland Islands War.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1978
Jan 13, Former Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minn., at age 66.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1980
Jan 13, The United States
offered Pakistan a two-year aid plan to counter the Soviet threat in
Afghanistan.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1982
Jan 13, An Air Florida 737
crashed into the capital's 14th Street Bridge after takeoff and fell
into the
Potomac River, killing 78 people.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1985
Jan 13, A train
plunged into a ravine in eastern Ethiopia and killed at least 392
people.
1986
Jan 13, In Guatemala just before
turning over power to Pres. Cerezo, Gen. Humberto Mejia Victores issued
a
blanket self-amnesty for acts committed during the 3-year rule of the
military
government.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A13)(www.cidh.org/annualrep/85.86eng/chap4.a.htm)
1987
Jan
13,
West German police arrested Mohammed Ali Hamadi at the Frankfurt
airport, when customs officials discovered liquid explosives in his
luggage.
The Lebanese man was convicted and served a life sentence in Germany
for the
1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and killing of a U.S. Navy diver. Although
convicted
and sentenced to life, Hamadi was paroled by Germany in December 2005.
(AP, 12/20/05)(AP,
1/13/07)
1988
Jan 13, The US Supreme Court
ruled 5-3 that public school officials had broad powers to censor
school
newspapers, school plays and other "school-sponsored expressive
activities."
(AP, 1/13/98)
1989
Jan 13, New York City subway
gunman Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for
possessing an
unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he said were about to
rob him.
(He was freed the following September.)
(AP, 1/13/99)
1989
Jan 13, There was a sit-in at SF
General Hosp. by ACT-UP to call attention to the difficulty of
obtaining
foscarnet, a drug to stabilize CMV retinitis, a common AIDS illness
that could
lead to blindness.
(SFC, 3/22/97, p.A13)
1990
Jan 13, L. Douglas Wilder of
Virginia, the nation's first elected black governor, took the oath of
office in
Richmond.
(AP,
1/13/00)
1991
Jan 13, UN Secretary-General
Javier Perez de Cuellar met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in a
bid to
avoid war in the Persian Gulf.
(AP, 1/13/01)
1991
Jan 13, Soviet troops besieged
the Vilnius TV tower and crushed a woman under a tank, but failed to
quash the
drive for independence. The assault claimed 14 lives. The Soviets
occupied
strong points in Vilnius, Lithuania, in an attempt to stop the
independence
movement.
(Wired, Dec., '95,
p.94)(DrEE, 9/28/96, p.1)(AP, 1/13/01)(LHC, 1/12/03)
1991
Jan 13, Forty-two people were
killed in a brawl and stampede during a soccer match in Johannesburg,
South
Africa.
(AP, 1/13/01)
1992
Jan 13, US
serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane in fifteen of
the seventeen
murders he confessed to committing.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1992
Jan 13, Israeli, Palestinian and
Jordanian negotiators began talks in Washington on Palestinian
autonomy.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1992
Jan 13, Japan apologized for
forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for
Japanese
soldiers during World War II.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1993
Nov 13, President Clinton used
his weekly radio address to make yet another pitch for the North
American Free
Trade Agreement, then flew to Memphis, Tenn., where he delivered an
anti-crime
speech to black ministers at the Temple Church of God in Christ.
(AP, 11/13/98)
1993
Jan 13, American and allied
warplanes raided southern Iraq.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1993
Jan 13, The space shuttle
Endeavor blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1993
Jan 13, Marine Pvt. 1st Class
Domingo Arroyo became the first U.S. serviceman to be killed in Somalia.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1993
Jan 13, Former East German
leader Erich Honecker was freed from prison and allowed to leave for
Chile.
(AP,
1/13/00)
1994
Jan 13, President Clinton held
talks in Moscow with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
(AP, 1/13/99)
1994
Jan
13,
In Los Angeles, the judge in the
Erik Menendez murder case declared a mistrial after jurors could not
reach a
verdict.
(AP, 1/13/04)
1994
Jan 13, Authorities in Portland,
Ore., arrested Shawn Eckardt, a bodyguard for figure skater Tonya
Harding, and
Derrick Smith in connection with the attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
(AP, 1/13/99)
1995
Jan 13, The Johnson Grove
Baptist Church in Bells, Tenn., burned down as did the Macedonia
Baptist Church
in Denmark, Tenn. Arson was suspected and investigations by the FBI and
ATF
were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1995
Jan 13, Italy named Treasury
Minister Lamberto Dini its prime minister. He pledged to resign after
approval
of a deficit cutting budget.
(AP,
1/13/00)(WSJ, 10/27/95, p.A-1)
1995
Jan 13, Authorities in the
Philippines said they had unearthed a conspiracy by militant Muslims to
assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit.
(AP,
1/13/00)
1996
Jan 13, President Clinton paid a
front-line visit to American forces in Bosnia, praising the troops as
“warriors
for peace.”
(AP, 1/13/01)
1996
Jan 13, Nine Republican
presidential hopefuls debated in Des Moines, Iowa, where front-runner
Bob Dole
and flat-tax champion Steve Forbes found themselves facing repeated,
bristling
criticism.
(AP, 1/13/01)
1997
Jan 13, Supreme Court justices
aggressively questioned both sides in a battle over whether a
sexual-harassment
lawsuit should be allowed to proceed against President Clinton while he
was in
office. The following May, the justices ruled unanimously that it could.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1997
Jan 13, Seven black soldiers
received the Medal of Honor for World War II valor; the lone survivor,
former
Lt. Vernon Baker, received his medal from President Clinton at the
White House.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1998
Jan 13, The National Football
League completed a blockbuster $9.2 billion deal with the Walt Disney
Co.,
which got to keep "Monday Night Football" for ABC and won the entire
Sunday night cable package for ESPN.
(AP, 1/13/99)
1998
Jan 13, Linda Tripp, a Pentagon
aide, met with Monica Lewinsky while wearing a secret listening device,
and
recorded a conversation concerning Lewinsky’s 1995 alleged affair with
Pres.
Clinton. It was later reported that she had visited the White House
over 3
dozen times after leaving her job there to work at the Pentagon in
1996. Tripp
came forward with allegations that Lewinsky was planning to commit
perjury in
the Jones vs. Clinton case.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A3)(SFC, 2/3/98,
p.A2)(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A12)
1998
Jan 13, Three robbers stole
$1.17 million at the NYC World Trade Center from guards delivering
money to a
currency exchange center. They returned to their Brooklyn neighborhood
where
neighbors reported them and 2/3 were arrested. The robbers were dubbed
the
blundering bandits after authorities said they removed their masks
while under
video surveillance; three suspects were arrested.
(SFC, 1/14/98, p.A3)(SFC, 1/16/98,
p.A3)(AP, 1/13/99)
1998
Jan 13, In SF four to five men
robbed a jewelry salesman in Chinatown near 3 plainclothes police
officers for
some $2 million in jewels and escaped.
(SFC, 1/14/98, p.A16)
1998
Jan 13, It was reported that
scientists at Geron Corp. demonstrated a method to reproduce human
cells
without signs of aging. the process incorporated the use of the
telomerase
protein.
(SFC, 1/14/98, p.A1)
1998
Jan 13, It was reported that
bycatch (unintended catch that is discarded) from overfishing depletes
the
world’s oceans of 20 million tons a year, or roughly one of every four
pounds
caught. This wasted bycatch is equivalent to about 10 pounds of food
for every
person on Earth.
(SFC, 1/13/98, p.A6)
1998
Jan 13, An Afghan Russian-made
cargo plane crashed in southwestern Pakistan with as many as 90 Taliban
militia
and all were killed.
(SFC, 1/14/98, p.C2)
1998
Jan 13, In Australia a federal
court upheld the armed forces’ right to expel HIV-positive soldiers.
(SFC, 1/14/98, p.C3)
1998
Jan 13, Iraq blocked a UN
weapons inspection tem led by an American.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)
1998
Jan 13, In Israel the Cabinet
adopted a 12-page list of conditions for the Palestinians to meet
before the
transfer of any more West Bank land.
(SFC, 1/14/98, p.C2)
1998
Jan 13, From Rwanda The
government reported that 9 Roman Catholic nuns were killed last week by
Hutu
rebels near the Congo border.
(WSJ, 1/13/98, p.A1)
1999
Jan 13, 60 Minutes II premiered
on TV.
(WSJ, 1/18/99, p.A16)
1999
Jan 13, Michael Jordan announced
his retirement from basketball and the Chicago Bulls.
(SFC, 1/13/99, p.A1)(AP, 1/13/00)
1999
Jan 13, President Clinton's
legal team dispatched a formal trial brief to the Senate, arguing that
neither
"fact or law" warranted his removal from office; House officials sent
the Senate all public evidence in the case.
(AP,
1/13/00)
1999
Jan 13, Lawyers filed suit
against major garment retailers for inhumane working conditions for
thousands
of Asian women on Saipan, a US commonwealth island.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.A1)
1999
Jan 13, The expedition to reach
the South Pole by Jon Muir, Peter Hillary and Eric Phillips, called in
outside
support for food.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.C2)
1999
Jan 13, An explosion on
Smackover, Ark., killed 3 men working on a naphtha tank valve.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.A3)
1999
Jan 13, A KC-135 refueling
tanker crashed while landing near Geilenkirchen, Germany, and 4 US
airmen were
killed. They were attached to an Air national Guard unit based in
Spokane.
(WSJ, 1/14/99, p.A1)
1999
Jan 13, Brazil was forced to
allow its currency to slide and global markets fell in response.
Gustavo
Franco, head of the central bank, quit and was replaced by Francisco
Lopes
('Chico'). Lopes announced a new trading range for the real between 1.2
and
1.32 to the dollar.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.A10)(WSJ, 1/14/99,
p.A1)
1999
Jan 13, Dozens of illegal
refugees on Crete went on a hunger strike to support their demand for
political
asylum. A boat that was to take them to Italy ran aground in a storm
Nov 27.
The refugees were Kurds, Indians and Sudanese.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.A6)
1999
Jan 13, In Kosovo rebels freed 8
Yugoslav soldiers after getting private incentives from int'l.
officials.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.A11)
1999
Jan 13-14, In Moscow agreements
were signed with Iraq to reinforce air defenses and upgrade squadrons
of MiG
fighters. The $160 million deal had been reportedly approved by Prime
Minister
Primakov on Dec 7.
(SFC, 2/15/99, p.A10)
1999
Jan 13-25, Marvin Kalb covered
this period of the Monicagate story in his 2001 book: “One Scandalous
Story:
Clinton, Lewinsky, and 13 Days That Tarnished American Journalism.”
(WSJ,
10/22/01, p.A17)
2000
Jan 13, Bill Gates stepped down
as CEO of Microsoft and handed the leadership over to Steve Ballmer.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.A1)(AP, 1/13/01)
2000
Jan 13, In Algeria the deadline
for the surrender of Islamic militants expired.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.A14)
2000
Jan 13, In Brazil Mexican singer
Gloria Trevi was arrested with her manager Sergio Andrade and Maria
Raquenal
Portillo on Mexican charges of corrupting Karina Yapor (17). Trevi
became
pregnant in May and rape was suspected. Brasilia federal police chief
Paulo
Magalhaes was removed from his post in October.
(SFC, 1/15/00, p.A10)(SFC, 10/18/01, p.C2)
2000
Jan 13, In France a 50 member
surgical team performed the world's first double-hand and forearm
transplant at
Edouard-Herriot Hospital in a 17-hour operation led by Dr. Jean-Michel
Dubernard.
(SFC, 1/15/00, p.A3)
2000
Jan 13, Serbian authorities
charged 144 jailed ethnic Albanians with terrorism in Kosovo during
1999.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.D2)
2000
Jan 13, In Vitina, Kosovo,
Merita Shabiu, an 11-year-old Albanian girl, was raped and murdered. On
Jan 16
American soldier, Staff Sgt. Frank J. Ronghi (35), was charged for the
rape and
murder. Ronghi later confessed and was sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 1/17/00, p.A10)(WSJ, 1/17/00,
p.A1)(SFC, 1/24/00, p.A9)(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A14)
2000
Jan 13, A Swiss Shorts 300-360
airplane carrying Libyan oil workers to a refinery at Marsa el-Brega
crashed
off the Libya coast and at least 15 of 41 people were killed.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.D2)(WSJ, 1/14/00,
p.A1)
2001
Jan 13, In Utah a small plane
crashed into the Great Salt Lake and all 9 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.A2)
2001
Jan 13, In El Salvador a 7.6
earthquake hit near San Salvador. Some 1200 people were not accounted
for in
the buried Las Colinas neighborhood. The “slab earthquake” originated
24-36
miles below the surface. The earthquake death toll later climbed to
over 840.
Damages were estimated at $1 billion.
(SSFC, 1/14/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 1/21/01,
p.D1)(AP, 1/13/06)
2001
Jan 13, The Palestinian
Authority executed the 1st 2 Palestinians ever convicted of
collaborating with
Israel.
(SSFC, 1/14/01, p.D1)
2002
Jan
13, The off-Broadway musical "The Fantasticks" was performed for the
last time, ending a run of nearly 42 years and 17,162 shows.
(AP,
1/13/03)
2002
Jan
13, Pres. Bush lost consciousness briefly after he choked on a cookie
while
watching a football game on TV.
(SFC,
1/14/02, p.A1)
2002
Jan
13, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Don Evans
said on
talk shows they had never considered intervening in Enron's spiral
toward
bankruptcy, nor informed President Bush of requests for help from the
fallen
energy giant.
(AP,
1/13/03)
2002
Jan 13,
Christian Michael Longo (27), wanted on charges of killing his wife and
three
children in 2001 and dumping their bodies into coastal waters off
Oregon, was
arrested in Mexico. Longo had fled the US and impersonated journalist
Michael Finkel
while abroad. Finkel was fired by the NY Times Magazine in February for
creating a composite character in a story on child slavery in West
Africa. In
2005 Finkel authored “True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa.”
(SFC, 1/15/02,
p.A1)(AP, 1/13/03)(SSFC, 6/5/05,
p.B2)
2002
Jan
13, Ted Demme, film and TV director, died at age 38 while playing in a
celebrity basketball game in Santa Monica.
(SFC,
1/15/02, p.A17)
2002
Jan
13, In India armed militants in Tripura state killed 16 and wounded 10
in the
Singicherra area. The outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura
targeted
Bengali immigrants.
(SFC,
1/14/02, p.A6)
2002
Jan
13, Muslim scholars concluded a 6-day conference in Mecca and issued a
definition
of terrorism as: “all acts of aggression committed by individuals,
groups or
states against human beings, including attacks on their religion, life,
intellect
or property.
(WSJ,
1/14/02, p.A12)
2003
Jan
13, Connecticut
Sen. Joseph Lieberman
jumped into the 2004 race for president.
(AP,
1/13/04)
2003
Jan 13,
The owners of FAO Schwarz filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
(AP,
1/13/04)
2003
Jan
13,
Rock musician Pete Townshend was
arrested in London on suspicion of possessing indecent images of
children.
Townshend acknowledged using an Internet Web site advertising child
pornography, but said he was not a pedophile and was only doing
research for an
autobiography dealing with his own suspected childhood sexual abuse; he was
eventually cleared of possessing pornographic images of children.
(AP, 1/13/08)
2003
Jan 13, US
warplanes struck an anti-ship missile launcher in southern Iraq. US
planes also
dropped leaflets over An Najaf, about 85 miles southeast of Baghdad. It
was the
14th drop in 3 months.
(AP, 1/13/03)
2003
Jan 13, It was
reported that Iraq has experienced a dramatic increase in child cancers
in
recent years. Blame was cast on the US use of depleted uranium during
the 1991
Gulf War.
(SFC, 1/13/03, p.A1)
2003
Jan 13, Dutch
Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer took over as head of the
55-nation
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for 2003. He said
the
Vienna-based OSCE would sharpen its efforts to improve border security
and
police cooperation and cut off the flow of cash to terrorist groups.
(AP, 1/13/03)
2003
Jan 13, UN
inspectors took their hunt for banned arms to science and technology
colleges
in Baghdad, and the top nuclear inspector said his teams' mission would
take
several more months.
(AP, 1/13/03)
2003
Jan 13, An
Indonesia court sentenced Ang Kiem Soei, a Dutch citizen of Chinese
descent, to
death for operating what police say was one of the biggest ecstasy
factories in
Southeast Asia.
(AP, 1/13/03)
2003
Jan 13, Two
Palestinians threw grenades at an Israeli bus in the Gaza Strip and
were shot
dead by Israeli troops, and an Islamic Jihad activist was killed in an
explosion in the West Bank.
(AP, 1/14/03)
2003
Jan 13,
Protesters waved Puerto Rican flags and shouted "Navy get out!" as
fighter jets dropped inert bombs over Vieques in what the Navy says
will be its
last round of training on the island.
(AP, 1/14/03)
2003
Jan 13, Togo's
Pres. Gnassingbe Eyadema, celebrated 36 years in power Monday with a
military
parade, a display derided by opposition groups as "a sheer waste of
time."
(AP, 1/13/03)
2004
Jan 13, The US Supreme Court
endorsed the use of police road blocks as an investigational tool for
finding
witnesses to recent crimes.
(SFC, 1/14/04, p.A3)
2004
Jan 13, A Human Rights Watch
report said more than $4 billion in oil revenue disappeared from
Angolan state
coffers between 1997 and 2002, even as the country was struggling to
recover
from 27 years of civil war.
(AP, 1/13/04)
2004
Jan 13, In Maryland a fiery
explosion killed five on the northbound lanes of Interstate 95. A
tanker
carrying flammable material plunged off an overpass on Interstate 895,
landing
in the northbound lane of I-95.
(AP, 1/14/04)
2004
Jan 13, Canada's PM Paul Martin
met U.S. President George W. Bush officially for the 1st time. Bush
announced
that Canada will be allowed into a second round of bidding for
contracts to
rebuild Iraq.
(AP, 1/13/04)
2004
Jan
13, The European Commission proposed an
initiative aimed at creating a single
market for services within the European Union (EU), similar to the
single
market for goods act of 1986. It came to be known as
Bolkestein Directive after the Dutch
Commissioner Frits Bolkestein (b.1933), who launched it. Trade unions
opposed
it. On 16 February 2006, the
European Parliament in plenary session in Strasbourg voted in favor of
a
compromise proposal that went a long way towards meeting the trade
union
demands.
2004
Jan 13, A US soldier at Abu
Ghraib prison reported US abuses of Iraqi prisoners. Criminal charges
were
lodged against 6 soldiers on Mar 20. In 2005
Spc. Charles Graner was convicted on 5 counts of assault and
sentenced to 10 years in a military stockade. Graner said he had
operated under
orders from superior officers.
(SFC,
5/6/04, p.A17)(AP, 1/13/05)(SSFC,
1/16/05, p.A1)
2004
Jan 13, Hostile
fire brought down a U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter in Iraq,
but the two crew members escaped injury.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2004
Jan 13, In Mexico the 34-nation
Summit of the Americas ended. The United States reached out to its
neighbors on
free trade and battling corruption, smoothing tense relations with
Latin
American leaders.
(AP, 1/13/04)(SFC, 1/14/04, p.A1)
2004
Jan 13, In northern England Dr.
Harold Shipman was found hanged in his Wakefield prison cell one day
before his
58th birthday. He was convicted in 2000 of killing 15 patients and
later was
found to have murdered at least 200 more, mostly by lethal injection.
He always
maintained his innocence.
(AP, 1/13/04)
2004
Jan 13, A Dutch high school
student walked into his school's crowded cafeteria and shot Hans van
Wieren
(49), an economics teacher, point-blank in the head, fatally wounding
him.
(AP, 1/13/04)
2004
Jan 13, A senior Swaziland aide
said King Mswati III has ordered nine palaces built within existing
royal
compounds to house seven of his 10 wives and two future brides. Some
$15 million
of his impoverished kingdom's national budget would be used on the
project.
(AP, 1/13/04)
2004
Jan 13, Thai and Malaysian
military forces began joint land and air patrols along their jungle
border for
the first time since the 1970s.
(AP, 1/14/04)
2004
Jan 13, In Tashkent, Uzbekistan,
a domestic airliner crashed on approach to the airport. All 37 people,
including the top U.N. official for Uzbekistan, were killed.
(AP, 1/13/04)
2005
Jan 13, US
baseball owners and players agreed to a more stringent drug policy. It
would suspend first-time offenders for 10 days
and randomly tested players
year-round.
(SFC, 1/13/05, p.A1)(AP,
1/13/06)
2005
Jan 13, The FBI said it may have
to scrap a costly computer system overhaul.
(WSJ, 1/14/05, p.A1)
2005
Jan 13, The European-built space
probe Huygens
entered the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
(Reuters, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 13, A Black Hawk helicopter
crashed during a
counternarcotics mission in the jungles of southwest Colombia, killing
all 20
soldiers aboard.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2005
Jan 13, Sir Mark Thatcher pleaded
guilty to
unwittingly helping to finance a foiled coup plot in oil-rich
Equatorial
Guinea, accepting a $506,000 fine and suspended jail sentence.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2005
Jan 13, In Iran a malfunctioning
heater in an
Iranian school ignited a barrel of kerosene, touching off a blaze that
killing
13 children.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2005
Jan 13, In Iraq gunmen opened fire
on a minibus
picking up a Turkish businessman from the Bakhan Hotel in central
Baghdad,
killing six Iraqis and kidnapping the Turk, who reportedly ran a
construction
company that worked with U.S.-led occupation authorities.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2005
Jan 13, In Iraq's western Anbar
province 2 U.S.
Marines were killed in action, and a soldier died near the restive
northern
city of Mosul. Gunmen killed three officials of a leading Kurdish
political
party in an ambush in the volatile northern city of Mosul.
(AP, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 13, In
Iraq 28 prisoners held
by Iraqi authorities for common crimes escaped as they were being
transported
by bus from the Abu Ghraib prison to another facility. 10 were quickly
recaptured.
(AP, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 13, Israel's foreign minister
said the planned
sale of advanced Russian missiles to Syria will disrupt regional
stability and
Moscow should call off the deal.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2005
Jan 13, Nepal's PM Sher Bahadur
Deuba said he would
call elections and intensify a crackdown against Maoist rebels after
they
turned down his offer of peace talks.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2005
Jan 13, Palestinian militants
killed six Israeli
workers at a Gaza crossing. 3 Palestinian attackers were also killed.
(AP, 1/14/05)(SFC,
1/14/05, p.A3)
2005
Jan 13, In Poland an anti-terrorism
law that allows
authorities to shoot down hijacked planes as a last resort took effect,
part of
efforts to protect the country from attacks similar to those of Sept.
11.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2005
Jan 13, A Russian passenger plane
with 10 people on
board went missing on a flight over Siberia.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2005
Jan 13, Saudi judicial officials
said a religious
court has sentenced 15 Saudis, including a woman, to as many as 250
lashes each
and up to six months in prison for participating in a protest against
the monarchy.
(AP, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 13, In Spain an explosion
killed seven workers
at a warehouse in the northern city of Burgos. A gas leak was suspected.
(AP, 1/13/05)
2006
Jan
13, President
Bush met with Germany's new chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the White
House. German's security services faced
the
prospect of a parliamentary inquiry, triggered by reports that German
agents in
Baghdad had helped the United States pinpoint bombing targets on April
7, 2003.
Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier confirmed that Germany had 2 agents
in
Baghdad, who helped American with coordinates for non-targets.
(Reuters,
1/13/06)(WSJ, 1/13/06, p.A1)(Econ, 1/21/06,
p.49)(AP,
1/13/07)
2006
Jan
13, US attorneys general
in 12 states said that the Bush administration's plan to ease rules on
reporting legal toxin releases would compromise the public's right to
know
about possible health risks in their neighborhoods.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, NBC's Nashville affiliate
closed "The
Book of Daniel" after the show, whose main character is a pill-popping
Episcopal priest with a gay son and a pot-dealing daughter, drew
thousands of
complaints.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, North Dakota State
University's North
Central Research Center, Basin Electric Power Cooperative and other
partners
described plans for a station in Minot to refuel hydrogen-powered
vehicles
using wind power.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan
13, The population of New Orleans was
estimated at 40%
of its original 460,000.
(WSJ, 1/13/06, p.A1)
2006
Jan
13, Eldon Dedini, cartoonist, died in Carmel, California. His ribald
drawings appeared
in the New Yorker and Playboy magazines.
(SFC,
1/19/06, p.B7)
2006
Jan
13, In the Bahamas the
Compleat Angler Hotel on North Bimini Island was destroyed by fire. The
hotel's
owner Julian Brown helped the guests escape before disappearing in the
flames
to fight the fire. The hotel claimed to be a one-time writing
headquarters for
Ernest Hemingway and advertised room No. 1 as the place where Hemingway
worked
on "To Have and Have Not."
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, Bolivia's president-elect
ended an
around-the-world tour with a promise to respect foreign investments and
vowed
not to nationalize the Bolivian operations of Brazil's state oil
company
Petrobras SA.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan
13, A battle for
livestock between Ethiopian and Kenyan nomads left 38 people dead in
drought-stricken northern Kenya, in the remote village of
Lokamarinyang, along
the Kenya-Ethiopia border. The fighting killed 30 of the Dongiro
raiders and
eight Kenyans, all of them women and children. A drought that has
impoverished
some 11.5 million people in the area, most of them nomads, has
exacerbated
tensions between the tribes.
(AP, 1/19/06)
2006
Jan
13, Maimuma Taal-Ndure, Gambia’s director
of aviation, was arraigned on
charges of economic crime, mostly related to the improvement of Banjul
Airport.
Taal-Ndure had resisted efforts transfer aviation agency funds to
another
government agency. Her case was dismissed following a trial that
stretched over
18 months.
(WSJ,
12/24/07, p.A8)
2006
Jan
13, Iran threatened to
block inspections of its nuclear sites if confronted by the UN Security
Council
over its atomic activities. The hard-line president reaffirmed his
country's
intention to produce nuclear energy.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, A US Army reconnaissance
helicopter was
shot down by insurgents in the northern city of Mosul, killing its two
pilots.
(AP, 1/13/06)(SFC,
1/14/06, p.A6)
2006
Jan 13, In Lithuania Mykolas
Burokevicius (78),
former Communist Party leader, was freed from Lukiskes Prison after
serving 12
years for murder and other crimes.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan
13, Raul Anguiano (b.1915), Mexican painter, sculptor and muralist,
died in
Mexico City.
(SFC,
1/17/06, p.B5)
2006
Jan
13, Mongolia’s Parliament voted to
dissolve the government of PM Tsakhilganiin Elbegdorj.
(AP, 1/14/06)
2006
Jan 13, A Hong Kong newspaper
reported that North
Korea's secretive leader Kim Jong Il is on a two-day visit to the
southern
Chinese province of Guangdong.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, A local lawmaker said a US
airstrike on a
Pakistani village near the border with Afghanistan killed at least 17
people,
including women and children. The American military said it had no
reports of
an attack. The provincial government said at
least
four foreign terrorists died in the purported US airstrike aimed at
al-Qaida's
No. 2 leader in Damadola. The strike destroyed three houses and killed
18
people. The US
missile strike in Pakistan killed a relative of
al-Qaida's No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri and a terror suspect.
(AP, 1/17/06)(AP,
1/13/07)
2006
Jan 13, A Philippine judge issued
arrest warrants
for four US Marines charged with rape, putting pressure on the United
States to
hand them over to Philippine authorities.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, In southern Russia a bus
transporting
workers after their shift at a local factory collided with a train,
killing at
least 21 people and severely injuring five.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, South Korea agreed to
resume imports of
some American beef, banned two years ago over fears of mad cow disease.
The US
government pressed South Korea to accept all US beef imports.
(AFP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, Sudan rejected a suggestion
by UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the United States and Europe help set
up a
possible mobile force in Darfur to supplement African troops now on the
ground.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, Ukrainian President Viktor
Yushchenko said
that his country should produce its own nuclear fuel for power plants.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2006
Jan 13, Venezuela’s President Hugo
Chavez on blasted an attempt
by the US to block Spain from selling Venezuela 12 military planes with
American parts.
(AP, 1/13/06)
2007
Jan 13, The North Carolina
state
attorney general's office agreed to take over the sexual assault case
against
three Duke University lacrosse players at the request of embattled
Durham
County District Attorney Mike Nifong. All three players were
later
exonerated.
(AP, 1/13/08)
2007
Jan 13, In SF the Muni Metro
T-Third line began operations.
(SFC,
1/13/07, p.B1)
2007
Jan 13, It was reported
that Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor, had purchased the 1912
old
armory building on Mission St. in San Francisco for $14.5 million.
(SFC,
1/13/07, p.B1)
2007
Jan 13, In Huntington, W.Va, 9 people were killed
in an
apartment building fire.
(AP, 1/13/08)
2007
Jan 13, In McDowell County,
W.Va., 2 miners were killed
when a roof
collapsed inside the Brooks Run Mining Company's Cucumber coal mine.
(AP, 1/13/08)
2007
Jan 13, It was reported that the
Asian vulture had declined by up to 99% in the last decade due to
poisoning
from diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug for cattle. In 2006 India,
Pakistan
and Nepal banned the making and importing of the drug.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.39)
2007
Jan
13, In Afghanistan British
marines, supported by Dutch and British attack helicopters, staged a
pre-dawn
attack on a mud-brick compound atop a barren hill where insurgents were
thought
hiding, setting off a battle that killed 16 suspected militants and one
marine
in Helmand province. US warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan 13, ASEAN leaders meeting in
the Philippines signed an agreement to regulate migrant workers.
(Econ, 1/20/07, p.54)
2007
Jan 13, It was reported that
thousands of birds had dropped dead over the past 3 weeks in Western
Australia.
(SFC,
1/13/07, p.B8)
2007
Jan
13, Bangladeshi police
and soldiers arrested more than 2,500 people overnight and raided the
homes of
several political leaders after a new caretaker government was sworn in
to
quell unrest ahead of elections.
(AP, 1/13/07)
2007
Jan
13, A Bolivian air force
plane crashed in a southern state, killing all eight people on board.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan
13, In Canada groundbreaking took place in Calgary on the 58-story
Encana
tower, The Bow. In Dec 2008 construction was halted due to falling oil
prices.
(Econ, 1/17/09, p.40)(http://highriseconstruction.wordpress.com/2008/07/)
2007
Jan
13, China said Wang
You-theng, founder of the Rebar Asia Pacific Group, left China for the
US.
You-theng had vanished earlier this month amid accusations he stole
millions of
dollars from his Taiwan company.
(Reuters, 1/19/07)
2007
Jan 13, Pranab Mukherjee,
India’s foreign minister, visited Islamabad to discuss Sir Creek and
other
disputes. 2 days later Indian and Pakistani surveyors began mapping the
creek
in preparation for settling their maritime border there.
(Econ, 1/20/07, p.52)
2007
Jan
13, In Iraq at least 11
people were killed or found dead, including a Sunni cleric who was shot
to
death near his home in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad and five who
were
slain in separate attacks in northern Iraq.
(AP, 1/13/07)
2007
Jan 13, An Italian military
tribunal gave life
sentences in absentia to 10 German former SS men for massacring about
800
Italian villagers in 1944. They had laid waste to the villages of
Marzabotto,
Grizzana and Vado di Monzuno near Bologna, as the Germans retreated
before
Allied troops.
(Reuters, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan 13, It was reported that
swarms of locusts had descended on the Mexican state of Yucatan and
threatened
over 12,000 acres of vegetation.
(SFC,
1/13/07, p.B8)
2007
Jan 13, Suspected avian influenza
was recorded in
northern Nigeria's Sokoto State, a day after the disease reportedly
infected
5,000 birds in nearby Kastina state.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan
13, Somali lawmakers
authorized the government to declare martial law as the country's
internationally recognized leaders struggled to assert their authority
after
battling an Islamic movement that had controlled much of southern
Somalia.
(AP, 1/13/07)
2007
Jan 13, In southern Thailand a
Buddhist man and his
wife were working at a rubber plantation in Yala province when a group
attacked
them, shooting the man three times in the chest before beheading him
and
killing his wife. Another Buddhist was killed in a drive-by shooting in
a
separate attack in Yala. The Islamic insurgency, that flared in January
2004,
has killed more than 1,900 people.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2008
Jan
13, The NY Times reported
that at least 121
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008
Jan 13, Ken Kelley (58), former
editor of the Ann Arbor Argus and the SF-based SunDance magazine, died
in
(http://hotweir.blogspot.com/2008/01/goodbye-to-my-friend-ken-kelley.html)(SFC,
4/22/08,
p.B3)(http://bentley.umich.edu/exhibits/sinclair/)
2008 Jan 13, In Abu Dhabi, UAR, President Bush said that Iran is threatening the security of the world, and that the United States and Arab allies must join together to confront the danger "before it's too late."
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008
Jan
13, William Wood,
(AP,
1/13/08)(AP, 1/14/08)
2008
Jan
13, Two young adventurers completed a 62-day paddle of
more than
2,000 miles to become the first people to travel from
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008 Jan 13, In Chile Patricia Troncoso (39), an imprisoned Indian-rights activist who has been on a hunger strike for 93 days, was sent to a hospital because of her deteriorating condition. Troncoso, imprisoned in 2002, is serving a 10-year sentence for participating in a group that set a fire on a farm claimed by Mapuche Indian activists who say the property belonged to their ancestors.
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008
Jan
13,
(Reuters,
1/13/08)(AP, 1/13/08)
2008 Jan 13, Delegation chief Kambasu Ngeze said at a Congolese peace conference that renegade general Laurent Nkunda's Kivu movement vowed to continue its armed struggle "with neither remorse nor regret."
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008
Jan
13, French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed plans to
sign a
nuclear cooperation agreement with the
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008
Jan
13, In
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008
Jan
13, Indian PM Manmohan Singh arrived in
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008
Jan 13, In
(SFC,
1/14/08,
p.A19)
2008
Jan
13, Irish PM Bertie Ahern arrived in
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008
Jan
13, King Abdullah II of
(AFP,
1/13/08)
2008
Jan
13, A UN humanitarian agency said floods
in
(AP,
1/13/08)
2008 Jan 13, In Sri Lanka Japan's peace envoy opened talks, hinting international donors may hold back much-needed foreign aid if the island's decades-long ethnic conflict escalates. Government soldiers crossed the front lines, destroying three bunkers and killing six rebels. Troops killed a 7th insurgent when he went to inspect the front lines north of rebel-held territory.
(AP,
1/13/08)(AP, 1/15/08)
2008
Jan
13, In
(AP,
1/15/08)
2009 Jan 13, President George W. Bush declared his administration had achieved "a good, solid" record and gave thanks to both his closest aides and Americans across the country.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 13, The Pentagon said that 61 former detainees from its military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.
(Reuters, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 13, The city of Los Angeles, plagued by 23,000 violent gang crimes since 2004, including 784 murders and 12,000 felony assaults, announced that it had won its first civil judgment, for $5 million, against a criminal gang that had dominated the heroin trade downtown for decades.
(CSM, 1/15/09)(http://tinyurl.com/85n3cl)
2009 Jan 13, Citigroup announced that it will spin off its SmithBarney retail brokerage into a joint venture with Morgan Stanley. Plans were also afoot for Citigroup to shrink by a third.
(WSJ, 1/14/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 13, Patrick McGoohan (b.1928), Emmy winning TV and film actor, died. He created and starred in the cult classic TV show “The Prisoner” (1967). The British show premiered in the US in 1968.
(SFC,
1/15/09, p.A2)
2009 Jan 13, Nancy Bird-Walton (93), Australian aviation pioneer, died from natural causes. She was the first woman in Australia to operate a commercial aircraft. Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, the first man to fly across the mid-Pacific, taught Watson how to fly in 1933, when she was just 17 years old. Two years later, she obtained a commercial pilot's license and began taking paying passengers for joyrides around the country.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 13, In Austria Umar Israilov (27), a Chechen refugee, was shot dead on a Vienna street. Officials said they had no proof the killing was political, but human rights activists said his death was linked to his opposition to Chechnya's pro-Moscow president. On Jan 28 Austrian authorities arrested seven suspects, all Chechens, in the killing. On February 19 Polish police arrested Turpal Ali J. (31), a man suspected of killing Israilov.
(AP,
1/28/09)(AP, 2/22/09)
2009 Jan 13, China's government reported that exports fell at their fastest rate in a decade as the country's trade slump worsened again in December, a decline that's led to masses of layoffs and growing fears of social unrest.
(AP,
1/13/09)
2009 Jan 13, Ethiopia handed over security duties in neighboring Somalia to a joint force of Somali government security forces and Islamic militiamen, a shift some fear will leave a power vacuum in the lawless African nation.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 13, Iran’s judiciary announced that 2 men were stoned to death last month for adultery.
(WSJ,
1/14/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 13, Israeli ground troops closed in on downtown Gaza City, battling Palestinian militants in the streets of a densely populated neighborhood, destroying dozens of homes and sending terrified residents running for cover as gunfire and explosions echoed in the distance. Some 15 rockets and mortar shells were fired toward Israel, causing no injuries. Egyptian mediators pushed the militant Palestinian Hamas group to accept a truce proposal for the embattled Gaza Strip in talks. The UN secretary-general headed to the region to join the multitrack diplomatic efforts for a cease-fire in Israel’s 18-day offensive, in which more than 900 Palestinians have been killed, half of them civilians.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 13, In Latvia a protest against economic reforms that drew thousands in Riga turned violent as small pockets of rioters clashed with police and attacked government buildings.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 13, Pirates attacked a Norwegian cable ship off the coast of Nigeria but failed to seize the boat despite gunfire, leaving the crew of 52 unhurt.
(AFP,
1/13/09)
2009 Jan 13, Russia and Ukraine hotly blamed each other as Russia restarted natural gas supplies but little or no gas flowed toward Europe. EU officials watched in dismay and criticized both nations for their intransigence.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 13, A Russian warship helped foil an attack on a Dutch container ship by suspected Somali pirates in the dangerous Gulf of Aden.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 13, Sudanese army planes bombed near Muhajiriya in south Darfur, targeting rebels who had rejected a 2006 peace agreement and the unconditional ceasefire declared by Bashir last year.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 13, Swedish truck maker AB Volvo said it will lay off more than 1,600 employees in Sweden as it slows production amid falling demand for trucks.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 13, The WHO said Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has killed more than 2,000 people and almost 40,000 have contracted the normally preventable disease in Africa's worst outbreak in nearly a decade.
(Reuters, 1/13/09)