1236
Jan 14, Henry III married
Eleanor of Provence.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1526
Jan 14, Francis of France, held
captive by Charles V for a year, signed the Treaty of Madrid, giving up
most of
his claims in France and Italy.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1639
Jan 14, (Julian
Calendar) "Fundamental Orders," the first constitution of
Connecticut, was adopted [see Jan 24].
(AP, 1/14/98)(www.constitution.org/bcp/fo_1639.htm)
1690
Jan 14, The
clarinet was invented in Germany.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1699
Jan 14,
Massachusetts held a day of fasting for wrongly persecuting
"witches."
(MC, 1/14/02)
1730
Jan 14, William Whipple,
Declaration of Independence signer, was born.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1741
Jan 14, Benedict Arnold, U.S.
General turned traitor, was born.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9009576)
1742
Jan 14, English astronomer
Edmond Halley, who observed the comet that now bears his name, died at
age 85.
In 2005 Julie Wakefield authored “Halley’s Quest,” in which she covered
Halley’s travels to Brazil to map the Atlantic’s magnetic declinations
and
hopefully solve the problem of calculating longitude.
(AP, 1/14/98)(WSJ, 12/20/05, p.D8)
1776
Jan 14, George Washington
commanded an army that consisted of some 9,000 men, up to half of whom
were not
fit for duty.
(WSJ, 5/19/05, p.W10)
1784
Jan 14, The United States
ratified a peace treaty with England, the Treaty of Paris, ending the
Revolutionary War.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 1/14/98)
1791
Jan 14, Calvin
Phillips, shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2"), was born.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1794
Jan 14, Dr.
Jessee Bennet of Edom, Va., performed the 1st successful Cesarean
section
operation on his wife.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1797
Jan 14, Napoleon Bonaparte
defeated Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1799
Jan 14, Eli
Whitney received a government contract for 10,000 muskets.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1814
Jan 14, Berthe
Morisot (d.1895) French
impressionist painter, was born in Bourges.
(NMWA, 12/04, p.10)
1858
Jan 14, Emperor Napoleon III and
Empress Eugenie escaped unhurt after an Italian assassin threw a bomb
at their
carriage as they traveled to the Paris Opera. The hoop skirt was first
worn by
Empress Eugenie to conceal her pregnancy.
(HN, 1/14/99)(SFEC, 7/23/00, Z1
p.2)(AP, 1/14/08)
1864
Jan 14, Confederate President
Jefferson Davis wrote to General Johnson, observing that troops might
need to
be sent to Alabama or Mississippi.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1864
Jan 14, General
Sherman began his march to the South.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1873
Jan 14,
"Celluloid" was registered as a trademark.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1875
Jan 14, Dr. Albert Schweitzer
(d.1965), French theologian who set up a native hospital in French
Equatorial
Africa (Gabon) in 1913, was born. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
(HN, 1/14/99)(MC,
1/14/02)(AP, 10/30/03)
1878
Jan 14, US
Supreme court ruled that race separation on trains was unconstitutional.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1897
Jan 14, The
6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua in Argentina was 1st climbed.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1898 Jan 14, Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson -- better known as "Alice in Wonderland" creator Lewis Carroll -- died in Guildford, England. In 2008 Robin Wilson authored “Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life.”
(AP,
1/14/98)(Econ, 7/5/08,
p.93)
1900
Jan 14, The Puccini opera
"Tosca" received a mixed reception at its Rome world premiere.
(AP, 1/14/98)
1905
Jan 14, Jane Lathrop Stanford
drank from a bottle of mineral water at her Nob Hill home in SF and
became
violently ill. Analysis of the water revealed strychnine. [see Feb 28]
(Ind, 5/26/01, 5A)
1911
Jan 14, The USS Arkansas, the
largest U.S. battleship, was launched from the yards of NY Shipbuilding
Company.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1914
Jan 14, Ford Motor Company
greatly improved its assembly-line operation by employing a chain to
pull each
chassis along.
(AP, 1/14/01)
1915
Jan 14, The French abandoned
five miles of trenches to the Germans near Soissons.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1916
Jan 14, British authorities
seized German attaché Franz von Papen’s financial records
confirming espionage
activities in the U.S.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1917
Jan 14, The Provisional
Parliament was established in Poland.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1919
Jan 14, Andy Rooney, American
humorist, author and television personality, was born. He appeared on
the TV
program “60 Minutes.”
(HN, 1/14/99)
1920
Jan 14, Berlin was placed under
martial law as 40,000 radicals rushed the Reichstag; 42 were killed and
105
wounded.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1935
Jan 14, The oil
pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean went into use.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1936 Jan 14, American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and Canadian pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon were rescued by the research ship Discovery II. The pair had made the first flight across Antarctica, 2,300 miles from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. They landed when their plane's engine faltered, and waited in the previously constructed shelter at Little America for a month to be picked up. After his earlier attempts to cross Antarctica failed, Ellsworth set out with Hollick-Kenyon in the Northrop Gamma monoplane, Polar Star, and succeeded. Part of the area that Ellsworth and Hollick-Kenyon flew over in 1935 has been named the Ellsworth Highlands.
(HNPD,
1/14/99)(AH,
2/06, p.14)
1940
Jan 14, Julian Bond, civil
rights leader and Georgia state senator, was born.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1942
Jan 14, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt ordered all U.S. aliens to register with the government.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1943
Jan 14, Roosevelt, Churchill,
and DeGaulle met at Casablanca to discuss the direction of the war.
(AP, 1/14/98) (HN, 1/14/99)
1943
Jan 14, Italian occupation
authorities refused to deport any Jews living on their territories in
France.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1949
Jan 14, There
was a Black-Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 died.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1950
Jan 14, US recalled all consular
officials from China.
(www.tibetjustice.org/reports/chron.html)
1951
Jan 14, The US Army’s X Corps
under Major Gen. Edward Almond ordered the methodical destruction of
dwellings
and other buildings forward of front lines in South Korea
and recommended the use of air power.
(SSFC, 8/3/08,
p.A16)
1952
Jan 14, NBC’s TV show “Today”
with Dave Garroway (d.1982) and Jack Lescoulie had its debut. Garroway left the show in
1961. The news announcer was James Fleming (1915-1996). The theme music
was
“Sentimental Journey.” Hugh Downs hosted from 1962-1971. Barbara
Walters hosted
from 1974-1976. Tom Brokaw hosted from 1976-1981. Jane Pauley hosted
from
1976-1989. Bryant Gumbel hosted from 1982-1997.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A5)(SFC, 8/19/96,
p.C2)(AP, 4/8/97)(AP, 1/14/98)(SFC, 1/11/02,
p.D19)(MC,
1/14/02)
1953
Jan 14, Josip Broz Tito was
elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament.
(AP, 1/14/98)
1954
Jan 14, NY
Yankee Joe DiMaggio married actress Marilyn Monroe
in SF City Hall. They were
divorced in Oct.
(SFC, 1/1/99, p.A13)(SFC, 2/9/99, p.A21)(MC, 1/14/02)
1956
Jan 14, Little
Richard released "Tutti Frutti."
(MC, 1/14/02)
1957
Jan 14,
Humphrey Bogart (57), actor, died in Los Angeles
of cancer of the esophagus. His many films
included “Casablanca” and “Caine Mutiny.”
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Par p.6)(AP, 1/14/07)
1960
Jan 14, The US
Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1963
Jan 14, George C. Wallace was
sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of "segregation
forever."
(AP, 1/14/98)
1963 Jan 14, President of France Charles de Gaulle announced the French veto on Britain's application to join the European Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union. De Gaulle said the British government lacked 'commitment' to European integration.
(www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/present_timeline_noflash.shtml)
1967
Jan 14, Sonny and Cher’s "The
Beat Goes On" peaked at #6 on the pop charts. In 1999 the TV special
“And
the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story,” written by Sonny Bono
(1935-1998),
was produced.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beat_Goes_On)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0185155/)
1967
Jan 14, NY Times reported that
the US Army was conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
(www.economicexpert.com/a/1967.htm)
1967
Jan 14, The great Human Be-In
was held in Golden Gate Park and drew national attention to the
Haight-Ashbury
scene. Allen Cohen, editor of a paper called the Oracle, came up with
the idea.
It was here that Timothy Leary proclaimed "Turn on, Tune in, Drop
out." At the Gathering of the Tribes Allen Ginsberg is credited with
coining the term "Flower Power."
(SFC, 5/19/96,City Guide, p.5)(SFEC,
4/6/97, p.A11)(SSFC,
1/14/07,
p.A10)
1968
Jan 14, The Green Bay Packers
under Vince Lombardi, after winning its third consecutive NFL
championship, won
the 2nd Super Bowl Football game over the Oakland Raiders. This was
Lombardi's
last game as coach of the Packers. The game drew the first $3 million
gate in
football history. In 1999 David Maraniss authored "When Pride Still
Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi."
(WSJ, 1/28/97, p.A16)(SFEC, 1/9/00,
BR p.5)(Superbowl.com)
1969 Jan 14, An explosion on the US carrier Enterprise, 75 miles from Hawaii, resulted in 28 dead and over 300 injured.
1970
Jan 14, Diana Ross and the
Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel
in Las
Vegas.
(AP,
1/14/00)
1972
Jan 14, "Sanford &
Son" premiered on NBC TV. It starred Desmond Wilson and Red
Foxx
and became the most successful black-oriented series in TV history. The series ended in 1977.
(SSFC, 2/11/01, BR p.1)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0068128/)(SFC,
9/19/02,
p.A24)
1972
Jan 14, Denmark’s King Frederik
IX (b.1899) died.
(SFC, 11/8/00, p.B7)(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9422986)
1975 Jan 14, The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created in 1938 to inquire into subversive activities in the US, was terminated following the efforts of the National Committee to Abolish HUAC, co-founded by Richard Criley (d.2000 at 88). In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security". When the House abolished the committee, its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.
(SFC,
1976
Jan 14, "Bionic
Woman," with Lindsay Wagner, debuted on ABC (later NBC).
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0073965/)
1976
Jan
14, Abdul Razak (b.1922), Malaysia’s 2nd
prime minister, died. His son Najib
Razak (23) was soon elected to parliament.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_Abdul_Razak)(Econ,
11/8/08, p.60)
1978
Jan 14, Blossom
Rock (b.1895), actress, died. She played Grandmamma on the TV Addams
Family.
She was born as Edith Marie
Blossom MacDonald, the sister of the late actress and singer Jeanette
MacDonald.
(www.tv.com/blossom-rock/person/5434/summary.html)
1978 Jan 14, In Japan the 7.0 Izu-Oshima earthquake damaged nine railway and four road tunnels in a limited area. 25 people were killed.
{Earthquake, Japan}
(SFC,
9/6.96, p.A11)(http://tinyurl.com/2uz9wg)
1980
Jan 14, UN voted 104-18 to
deplore the Soviet Afghan acts.
(HN, 1/14/99)
1981
Jan 14, The US
FCC freed radio stations to air as many commercials an hour as they
wished.
1984
Jan 14, Ray
Kroc (b.1902), founder of MacDonalds and owner San Diego Padres, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc)
1986
Jan 14, Donna Reed (b.1921),
actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), died of cancer in Beverly Hills,
Ca., at age
64.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1172)
1986
Jan 14, In Guatemala, Vinicio
Cerezo (b.1942) began serving as president.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A13)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinicio_Cerezo)
1987
Jan 14, Sam Wagstaff, photo
collector, died. His collection of 7,500 prints was sold to the Getty
Museum in
1984 for a reported $5 million.
(WSJ, 1/30/97,
p.A14)(http://tinyurl.com/e9t5m)
1988
Jan 14, With the United States
abstaining, the U.N. Security Council voted 14-0 to call on Israel to
stop
deporting Palestinians and to allow those already expelled to return.
(AP, 1/14/98)
1989
Jan 14, President Reagan
delivered his 331st and last weekly radio address, telling listeners,
"Believe me, Saturdays will never seem the same. I'll miss you." In
2001 Peggy Noonan authored the Reagan biography “When character Was
King.”
(AP, 1/14/99)(WSJ, 11/15/01, p.A24)
1990
Jan 14, The Denver Broncos and
the San Francisco 49ers earned a trip to the Super Bowl by winning the
American
and National Football Conference championships.
(AP,
1/14/00)
1991
Jan 14, With time running out
before a United Nations deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait,
Iraq’s
National Assembly voted to give President Saddam Hussein full authority
over
the Persian Gulf crisis.
(AP, 1/14/01)
1992
Jan 14,
Historic Mideast peace talks continued in Washington, with Israel and
Jordan
holding their first-ever formal negotiations, and the Israelis
continuing
exchanges with Palestinian representatives.
(AP, 1/14/02)
1993
Jan 14, Retreating from a
campaign promise, President-elect Clinton said he would continue
President
Bush's policy of forcibly returning Haitian boat people to Haiti.
(AP, 1/14/98)
1993
Jan 14, Talk show host David
Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS.
(AP, 1/14/98)
1993
Jan 14, In Colombia the Galeras
Volcano erupted as 15 people gathered at the crater. Only 6 survived.
In 2001
Stanley Williams and Fen Montaigne authored “Surviving Galeras.”
(WSJ, 4/20/01, p.W12)
1994
Jan 14, In post-Cold War
breakthroughs, President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin
signed
Kremlin accords to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle
the nuclear
arsenal of Ukraine.
(AP, 1/14/99)
1994
Jan 14, In Phoenix, Ariz., Shane
Stant, who admitted to being the "hit man" in the clubbing assault on
figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, surrendered to authorities.
(AP, 1/14/99)
1995
Jan 14, Pope John Paul II
addressed a huge rally in Manila, urging young people to reject
cynicism.
(AP,
1/14/00)
1995
Jan 14, Russian troops in the
breakaway republic of Chechnya captured the Council of Ministers
building, a
key rebel position in the capital Grozny.
(AP,
1/14/00)
1996
Jan 14, The Pittsburgh Steelers
defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 20-to-16, to win the AFC championship.
The
Dallas Cowboys beat the Green Bay Packers, 38-to-27, to win the NFC
championship.
(AP, 1/14/01)
1996
Jan 14, Eric
Briault (84), English educationalist, died.
(http://tinyurl.com/7jbmj)
1996
Jan 14, Several thousand
government, Serb and Croat troops withdrew from their front-line
trenches and
bunkers across central and northeastern Bosnia, beating a deadline to
create
buffer zones.
(AP, 1/14/01)
1997
Jan 14, The House Ethics
Committee's ranking Democrat, Jim McDermott of Washington, removed
himself from
the investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich, bowing to pressure
concerning his
role in the handling of an illegally taped phone call involving the
House
leader.
(AP, 1/14/98)
1997
Jan 14, An agreement was reached
on Hebron. Palestinian police would be allowed to carry limited-range
weapons
in buffer zones between them and Jewish settlers. Israel committed to
reopening
a central road and Palestinian market.
(USAT, 1/15/97, p.9A)
1998
Jan 14, Whitewater prosecutors
questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes
about the
gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political
appointees.
Sources quoted Mrs. Clinton as saying she knew nothing about any such
collection of files.
(AP, 1/14/99)
1998
Jan 14, NBC agreed to pay Warner
Bros. $13 million per episode to retain the highly-rated TV show
"ER."
(AP, 1/14/99)
1998
Jan 14, Internal company documents
revealed that R.J. Reynolds actively advertised to lure teenagers as
young as
12 to smoke cigarettes.
(SFC, 1/15/98, p.A1)
1998
Jan 14, An int’l. agreement on
Antarctica took effect that banned mining and oil drilling for 50 years
and
forbade a wide range of environmental hazards including pesticides and
dogs.
(SFC, 1/17/98, p.C16)
1988
Jan 14, The IMF and Indonesia
agreed to a strengthened economic restructuring plan.
(SFC, 1/15/98, p.A10)
1998
Jan 14, In Montenegro riot
police clashed with some 10,000 protestors who attacked government
buildings
the day before the inauguration of Milan Djukanovic, who favored
autonomy from
Serbia.
(WSJ, 1/15/98, p.A1)
1999
Jan 14, The Clinton
administration planned to propose that the UN lift all limits on Iraq's
ability
to export oil to pay for food and medicine.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.A10)
1999
Jan 14, The Senate began opening
arguments its trial of Pres. Clinton. Before a jury of 100 silent
senators,
House prosecutors demanded President Clinton's removal from office,
charging he
had "piled perjury upon perjury" and obstructed justice.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.A1)(SFC, 1/15/99,
p.A1)(AP, 1/14/00)
1999
Jan 14, In Brazil the markets
slumped for a 2nd day and closed down 10%.
(SFC, 1/15/99, p.A12)
1999
Jan 14, In Colombia right-wing
paramilitary groups announced they were willing to begin peace talks.
(SFC, 1/15/99, p.A15)
1999
Jan 14, The EU voted against
censure after EU Pres. Jacques Santer of Luxembourg pledged to impose a reform program to prevent fraud.
(SFC, 1/15/99, p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Santer)
1999
Jan 14, In Italy police arrested
9 people in Milan who allegedly rigged the Milan Lotto using children
and
tampered balls for drawing wining numbers.
(SFC, 1/16/99, p.A10)
1999
Jan 14, In Japan the ruling
Liberal Democrats under prime Minister Keizo Obuchi formed a coalition
with the
Liberal Democrats, a conservative rival.
(SFC, 1/15/99, p.A15)
1999
Jan 14, Mexican officials authorized
the first extradition of a major drug suspect to the US. Jesus Amezcua
faced
federal indictments for methamphetamine smuggling in California.
(SFC, 1/15/99, p.A15)
1999
Jan 14, In Sierra Leone the
rebel alliance was prepared for a cease-fire after Nigerian led forces
took
control of Freetown.
(SFC, 1/15/99, p.A15)
2000
Jan 14, The US federal
government announced the return of 84,000 acres in northern Utah to the
Ute
Indians. The land was taken in 1916 for the rights to oil shale
reserves.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.A12)
2000
Jan 14, The Dow Jones reached a
peak high.
(NW, 3/17/03, p.44)
2000
Jan 14, In a massive
demonstration demanding the return of Elian Gonzalez, tens of thousands
of
Cuban women marched to the U-S mission in Havana, waving Cuban flags
and
chanting, “Bring back our son!”
(AP, 1/14/01)
2000
Jan 14, In Boston investigators
found the bodies of 2 men and a woman believed to be the victims of
mobsters
Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi and James "Whitey" Bulger.
One of the bodies was said to be Arthur "Bucky" Barrett, one of 6 men
who stole $1.5 million in a 1980 bank robbery.
(SFC, 1/15/00, p.A8)
2000
Jan 14, A UN tribunal sentenced
five Bosnian Croat militiamen to up to 25 years in prison for a 1993
murder
rampage that emptied a Bosnian village of every one of its Muslim
inhabitants.
(AP, 1/14/01)
2000
Jan 14, In Israel Lafi al-Rajabi
(20), a Palestinian, died while under Israeli detention near Ariel. His
body
bore wounds, cuts and bruises. He had been arrested 7 months earlier
for ties
to criminal defendants and not carrying an ID card. An Israeli official
said
Lafi hanged himself and dismissed claims that he was abused.
(SFC, 1/20/00, p.C16)(SFC, 1/21/00,
p.D3)
2000
Jan 14, Russia published the
21-page "Concept on National Security" that detailed the scenarios
under which it would use nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 1/15/00, p.A10)
2000
Jan 14, It was reported that
Swiss scientists had found a way to make rice rich in beta carotene,
the source
of Vitamin A.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.A7)
2001
Jan 14, The
matchup for Super Bowl 35 was decided as the New York Giants shut out
the
Minnesota Vikings, 41-to-0, to win the NFC championship and the
Baltimore
Ravens beat the Oakland Raiders, 16-to-3, to gain the AFC title.
(AP, 1/14/02)
2001
Jan 14, It was reported that
power generators in California were suspected of shutting down power
plants to
sell high-valued natural gas contributing to high costs and power
shortages.
(SSFC, 1/14/01, p.A1)
2001
Jan 14, In Colombia 8 people
were killed by at least 40 gunmen outside Valledupar in Cesar state.
Right-wing
paramilitaries were blamed.
(SFC, 1/15/01, p.A15)
2001
Jan 14, In El Salvador
aftershocks continued from the Jan 13 earthquake and the death toll
climbed to
over 400.
(SFC, 1/15/01, p.A1)
2001
Jan 14, In Mongolia 9 people
were killed when a Russian-made MI-8 helicopter crashed. The dead
included 4
members of a UN disaster assessment team.
(SFC, 1/15/01, p.A15)
2001
Jan 14, In Portugal Pres.
Sampaio won re-election with 55.8% of the vote. The turnout was a
record low.
(WSJ, 1/15/01, p.A1)
2002
Jan
14, Two members of Congress released excerpts of a letter to Enron
Chairman
Kenneth Lay the previous August in which Enron executive Sherron
Watkins warned
of the reckless practices that eventually brought down the
energy-trading
giant.
(AP,
1/14/03)
2002
Jan
14, US warplanes began to seal caves near Khost, Afghanistan.
(WSJ,
1/15/02, p.A1)
2002
Jan
14, In Colombia the government and FARC rebels agreed to salvage peace
talks.
(SFC,
1/15/02, p.A9)
2002
Jan
14, An Israeli bomb in the West Bank killed Raed Karmi (27), a
Palestinian
militia leader. A short time later a Palestinian gunmen killed an
Israeli and
wounded another in a roadside ambush.
(SFC,
1/15/02, p.A8)
2002
Jan
14, In Pakistan police continued a round-up of Islamic militants and
increased
the number of detainees to nearly 1,500.
(SFC,
1/15/02, p.A10)
2002
Jan
14, PM Bulent Ecevit of Turkey began a 5-day visit to Washington.
(WSJ,
1/14/02, p.A12)
2002
Jan
14, The World Trade Organization decided the European Union could ask
for punitive
tariffs on U.S. imports.
(AP,
1/14/03)
2003
Jan 14, Kmart
Corporation announced its biggest round of cutbacks yet, saying it
would close
326 more stores and eliminate 37,000 more jobs in hopes of getting out
of
bankruptcy by the end of April 2003. Kmart emerged from
Chapter
11 protection in May 2003.
(AP, 1/14/08)
2003
Jan 14,
Thousands of General Electric Company employees across the country
began a
two-day strike to protest higher health insurance costs.
(AP, 1/14/04)
2003
Jan 14,
Hundreds of American soldiers arrived in Israel for joint maneuvers
with
anti-missile defenses, aimed at protecting against any Iraqi strikes if
the
United States attacks Iraq.
(AP, 1/15/03)
2003
Jan 14, In
England Constable Stephen Oake was stabbed to death during a raid on a
Manchester apartment associated with terror suspects and the poison
ricin.
(SFC, 1/17/03, p.A12)
2003
Jan 14, North
Korea said that it was running out of patience and warned it was
prepared to
exercise "options" in its dispute with the United States over its
nuclear activities.
(AP, 1/14/03)
2004
Jan 14, Pres. Bush proposed a
new space program that would send humans back to the moon by 2015 and
establish
a base to Mars and beyond. Bush said he would seek $12 billion for the
initial
stages of the plan.
(SFC, 1/15/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/15/04,
p.A1)
2004
Jan 14, Andrew Fastow, former
Enron finance chief, agreed to a 10-year prison sentence and to help
prosecutors build a case against Enron's executive officers. His wife,
former
Enron assistant treasurer Lea Fastow (42), received a 5-month prison
sentence.
(SFC, 1/15/04, p.B3)
2004
Jan 14, J.P. Morgan reported
plans to take over Bank One Corp. for $58 billion in stock.
(WSJ, 1/15/04, p.A1)
2004
Jan 14, Former Pres. Clinton
announced an agreement with 5 medical technology companies to reduce
the cost
of tests for HIV-AIDS treatment in Africa and the Caribbean.
(SFC, 1/15/04, p.A1)
2004
Jan 14, The US Army launched an
inquiry into conditions at Abu Ghraib prison a day after photos of
abused
prisoners were passed up the chain of command.
(WSJ, 5/7/04, p.A1)
2004
Jan 14, Joaquin Nin-Culmell
(95), composer and younger brother of writer Anais Nin, died in
Berkeley, Ca.
(SFC, 1/16/04, p.A1)
2004
Jan 14, Uta Hagen (84),
German-born Broadway actress, died. Her work included the role of
Martha in the
1962 Albee play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe."
(SFC, 1/16/04, p.A23)
2004
Jan 14, Ron O'Neal (66),
actor, died in Los Angeles.
(AP, 1/14/05)
2004
Jan 14, In Canada a freight
train traveling over a bridge east of Toronto derailed sending massive
containers plummeting onto the road, killing two women in a van who
were
driving by.
(AP, 1/15/04)
2004
Jan 14, In Iraq a suicide bomber
detonated a bomb at a police station in Baqouba that killed 2
passers-by and
wounded 26 others.
(SFC, 1/15/04, p.A8)
2004
Jan 14, A UN agency said Libya
has ratified the nuclear test ban treaty. The treaty is 12 nations
short of the
44 ratifications needed for it to enter into force. Once it comes into
force,
the treaty bans any nuclear weapon test explosion in any environment.
(AP, 1/14/04)
2004
Jan 14, Reem al-Reyashi (22),
Palestinian mother of two, blew herself up at the main crossing point
between
Israel and the Gaza Strip, killing at least 4 Israelis and wounding 7
other
people.
(AP, 1/14/04)(SFC, 1/15/04, p.A3)
2004
Jan 14, In Spain Mohammed Kamal
Mustafa, imam of the southern town of Fuengirola, was given a suspended
sentence of to 15 months in prison. Spanish women's associations hailed
the
conviction of the Islamic cleric who advised Muslims how to beat their
wives.
(AP, 1/15/04)
2005
Jan 14, The US Justice
Department's Office of the Inspector General released an unclassified
summary
of its investigation into the March, 2002, termination of Sibel
Edmonds. She
had discovered and reported several problems inside the FBI, including
shoddy
translation work, a large backlog of untranslated documents and
employees with
questionable alliances. The report concluded that Edmonds was fired for
reporting serious security breaches and misconduct in the agency's
translation
program, and that many of her allegations were supported.
(www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel05/011405.htm)
2005
Jan 14, Army
Specialist Charles
Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu
Ghraib
prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees.
He was
later sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(AP, 1/14/06)
2005
Jan 14, Oracle
Corp. announced that it would fire some 5,000 employees of PeopleSoft
following
the recent $10.3 billion merger.
(SFC, 1/15/05, p.A1)
2005
Jan 14, In
Park City, Utah, 5
people were feared buried by a massive avalanche.
(AP, 1/15/05)
2005
Jan 14,
Charlotte MacLeod (82),
mystery writer, died in Lewiston, Maine.
(AP, 1/14/06)
2005
Jan 14, The European space probe Huygens landed on
Saturn's moon Titan, sending back images of what scientists were
calling the
strangest landscape in the solar system. Pictures showed a pale orange
surface
covered by a thin haze of methane and what appears to be a methane sea
complete
with islands and a mist-shrouded coastline.
(AP, 1/14/06)(http://huygens.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=36280)
2005
Jan 14, Brian Blackburn (62), a
retired British
policeman who killed his terminally-ill wife in a suicide pact, walked
free
with a suspended jail sentence after the court called him a "loving
husband."
(AP, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 14, A mentally disturbed
soldier killed five of
his fellow troopers during a shooting spree at an army base in
southwest
Colombia.
(AP, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 14, A strike brought the
capital of the
Democratic Republic of Congo to a standstill as public transport shut
down and
businesses remained closed in protest at the possible postponement of
elections.
(AFP, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 14, Prague Mayor Pavel Bem got
a close-up look
at how the city's notorious taxi drivers operate this week when he went
undercover for a ride and was overcharged by some 500 percent.
(Reuters, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 14, Assailants robbed and
severely beat two
reporters for Haiti's largest newspaper while the journalists were
covering a
cleanup effort by U.N. peacekeepers in a slum.
(AP, 1/15/05)
2005
Jan 14, An Iraqi bus collided with
a U.S. tank that
was on patrol, killing six of the bus passengers and injuring eight.
(AP, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 14, Attackers fired on a bus
carrying Iraqi
national guard members west of Baghdad, kidnapping 15 guardsmen and
leaving the
bus in flames.
(AP, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 14, Israel sealed off the Gaza
Strip but
signaled it will hold off on harsh retaliation for an attack by
Palestinian
militants.
(AP, 1/14/05)
2005
Jan 14, In
Kosovo a Nigerian UN peacekeeper was killed when his car exploded as he
drove
to work.
(WSJ, 1/14/05, p.A1)
2005
Jan 14, Over 750 Mexican federal
police and
soldiers seized control over the nation's top-security prison amid
reports of a
planned escape, possible murder plots and a jailhouse alliance between
two
reputed drug trafficking kingpins.
(AP, 1/14/05)(SFC,
1/15/05, p.A3)
2005
Jan 14, Nicaragua’s feuding leaders
vowed to try to
solve a political crisis, a day after Congress passed a law restricting
the
powers of President Enrique Bolanos.
(AP, 1/15/05)
2005
Jan 14, A Rwanda official estimated
1 million
Rwandans, an eighth of the population, are expected to be tried in
traditional
"gacaca" village courts for alleged participation in the 1994
genocide.
(AP, 1/16/05)
2005
Jan 14, President Hugo Chavez said
that diplomatic
and commercial relations with Colombia would be put on hold until it
apologizes
for paying bounty hunters to abduct a rebel leader from inside
Venezuela.
(AP, 1/14/05)
2006
Jan 14, Johnny
Weir won his third straight title at the US Figure Skating
championships; Sasha Cohen won
the women's division; Michelle
Kwan was given a berth on the U.S. Olympic figure skating team.
(AP,
1/14/07)
2006
Jan
14, It was reported that Dr. Alexandra Imre
and
colleagues of the Univ. of Notre Dame, Indiana, had constructed logic
gates
from tiny magnets. Until this time electrical charge was used for data
processing, while electrical spin was used for data storage.
(Econ, 1/14/06,
p.78)
2006
Jan
14, Christopher Penley (15) was shot by a SWAT team in a Longwood, Fl.,
middle
school when his pellet gun was mistaken for real pistol. Penley died
the next
day.
(SSFC,
1/15/06, p.A5)
2006
Jan 14, Shelley Winters
(b.1922), Hollywood film star born in St. Louis as Shirley Schrift,
died in
Beverly Hills. Her 99 films included “A Patch of Blue” (1965) and
“Lolita”
(1962).
(SSFC, 1/15/06, p.B7)
2006
Jan
14, In Afghanistan
gunmen killed Mohammed Khaksar, a former Taliban leader. He had
renounced the
hard-line Islamic regime after it was ousted in late 2001 and had since
supported
Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government.
(AP, 1/14/06)
2006
Jan 14, In southern China scores of
protesters were
wounded and a girl was killed as hundreds of police used electric
batons and
tear gas to quell a land protest.
(AP, 1/15/06)(WSJ,
1/17/06, p.A1)
2006
Jan 14, Egypt and France were
locked in legal
wrangling over a decommissioned aircraft carrier containing asbestos,
leaving
the French warship stranded off the Egyptian coast for the third day
running.
(AFP, 1/14/06)
2006
Jan 14, The European Commission
cleared 3 types of genetically modified corn made by Monsanto Co. for
use in
the EU.
(WSJ, 1/16/06, p.A13)
2006
Jan 14, The chief judge in Saddam
Hussein's trial (Rizgar
Mohammed Amin) submitted his resignation.
He was succeeded by Raouf
Rasheed Abdel-Rahman. An
Iraqi sailor was killed and nine were captured by an Iranian Navy
vessel during
a skirmish in the Gulf near the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Iraqi
coast
guardsmen were pursuing suspected oil smugglers in disputed territorial
waters.
(AP, 1/17/06)(SFC,
1/18/06, p.A7)(AP, 1/14/07)
2006
Jan 14, Tens of thousands of women
marched through
Milan to demand Italy keep its liberal abortion law intact while gays
rallied
in Rome to push for legal recognition for homosexual couples.
(AP, 1/14/06)
2006
Jan
14, Japan’s Fire and
Disaster Management Agency said the death toll from heavy snow reached
87 as
relatively mild weather over the weekend sparked several avalanches.
(AFP, 1/14/06)
2006
Jan 14, In Bamako, Mali, China
unveiled plans to
boost its ties with Africa, outlining a new relationship with the
continent
based on a "win-win" concept of economic and military cooperation.
(AFP, 1/15/06)
2006
Jan 14, In Nepal Maoist rebels
assaulted two police stations
on the outskirts Kathmandu, killing 12 and wounding six.
(AP, 1/14/06)
2006
Jan 14, Sadatu Abubakar Rimi, the
wife of a senior
Nigerian opposition figure, was hacked to death in the early hours by
suspected
hired assassins.
(Reuters, 1/14/06)
2006
Jan
14, Pakistan condemned a
purported CIA airstrike on a border village, and said it was protesting
to the
U.S. Embassy over the attack that killed at least 18 people.
(AP, 1/14/06)(WSJ,
1/16/06, p.A1)
2006
Jan 14, In southwestern Romania 7
miners were
killed and five injured in a gas explosion at a mine. Union leaders
blamed it
on a lack of investment in safety measures.
(AP, 1/14/06)
2007
Jan 14, President Bush, facing opposition from both
parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said on CBS' "60
Minutes" that he had the authority to act no matter what Congress
wanted.
On "Fox News Sunday," Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that
lawmakers' criticism would not influence Bush's plans and he dismissed
any
effort to "run a war by committee."
(AP, 1/14/08)
2007
Jan
14, In Oklahoma a
minivan carrying 12 people skidded off an icy highway and slammed into
an
oncoming tractor-trailer, killing seven.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan 14, Scientists said they have
pinpointed a new
gene (SORL1) linked to Alzheimer's disease, the incurable brain
disorder that
is the top cause of dementia in the elderly.
(Reuters, 1/15/07)
2007
Jan
14, Darlene Conley (72),
a veteran stage, film and television actress, died in Los Angeles. She
entertained daytime audiences for nearly two decades as the feisty
fashion
mogul Sally Spectra on "The Bold and the Beautiful."
(AP, 1/16/07)
2007
Jan
14, Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton ate breakfast with soldiers from New York and Indiana at the
main US
base in Afghanistan before meeting with the top American general in
Afghanistan
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. After leaving Kabul, Clinton went to
Lahore,
Pakistan, where she met with the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez
Musharraf. A
suicide bomber blew himself up near a convoy of foreign construction
workers
and Afghan soldiers in southern Afghanistan, wounding one civilian.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan 14, ASEAN leaders meeting in
the Philippines signed an agreement to liberalize the trade in services
between
China and ASEAN countries.
(Econ, 1/20/07, p.54)
2007
Jan 14, Australia's Environment
Minister Ian
Campbell told national radio that Japanese whaling ships on their
annual hunt
in the Antarctic are banned from docking in Australia and should use
restraint
in looming clashes with protesters.
(AFP, 1/15/07)
2007
Jan 14, Belarus held local
elections. Government
loyalists appeared to sweep the local elections, as President Alexander
Lukashenko retained a firm grip over the former Soviet nation. Belarus
opposition and human rights activists denounced the vote as rigged, and
the
United States and the European Union said it failed to meet democratic
standards.
(AP, 1/15/07)
2007
Jan 14, France's interior minister,
Nicolas
Sarkozy, formally clinched the ruling conservatives' presidential
nomination.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan 14, Guatemala's Pres. Oscar
Berger declined to
read his state-of-the nation speech to Congress, instead sending a
written
version to lawmakers after violent clashes erupted between protesting
teachers
and police outside the legislative building.
(AP, 1/15/07)
2007
Jan
14, The US military said
5 Iranians arrested in northern Iraq last week were connected to an
Iranian
Revolutionary Guard faction that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq. At
least 78
people were reported killed or found dead, including 41 bullet-riddled
bodies
discovered in Baghdad. The US military also said two American soldiers
died
from roadside bombs in Baghdad.
(AP, 1/14/07)(AP,
1/15/07)
2007
Jan
14, A court convicted
Sheik Talal Nasser Al Sabah, a member of Kuwait's ruling family, for
drug
trafficking and condemned him to death.
(AP, 1/15/07)
2007
Jan 14, Gunmen burst into the home
of Jaime Meraz
Martinez, a political leader in the northern Mexican state of Durango,
and
fatally shot him, two family members and an employee.
(AP, 1/15/07)
2007
Jan 14, In Nicaragua Iran's Pres.
Ahmadinejad, touring Latin
America in search of an alliance of "revolutionary countries," said the
US is trying to hide its failures in Iraq by accusing his nation of
funding
insurgents there.
(AP, 1/15/07)
2007
Jan
14, In Nigeria 12 chiefs
from various delta communities were killed overnight when assailants
attacked
their boat.
(AP, 1/16/07)
2007
Jan
14, Hurricane-strength
winds whipped across southwestern Sweden, leaving more than 100,000
households
without power and causing major disruptions in train and boat traffic
across
Scandinavia.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan 14, An African Union delegation
was in
Somalia's capital to discuss the deployment of peacekeepers, as the
government
struggled to disarm Mogadishu residents reluctant to give up their guns
after
years of fending for themselves amid chaos.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan 14, Two passenger trains
collided near a beach
resort town south of Bangkok, killing three people and injuring more
than 100
others.
(AP, 1/14/07)
2007
Jan
14, Gulbakhor Turayeva,
an Uzbek doctor and rights advocate, was arrested for allegedly
possessing
banned literature. She claimed to have seen hundreds of bodies in the
bloody
crackdown of the 2005 Andijan uprising.
(AP, 1/17/07)
2008
Jan
14, The trial of
(SFC,
1/14/08,
p.A2)
2008
Jan
14, The NASA space probe Messenger skimmed 124 miles above Mercury in
the first
of 3 passes before it settles into orbit in 2011.
(SFC,
1/14/08,
p.A20)
2008
Jan
14, A 30-year-old Boeing 747, outfitted by NASA with a
telescope,
stopped at
(SFC, 1/15/08, p.B3)
2008
Jan
14,
(SFC,
1/25/08,
p.B1)(http://tinyurl.com/2nojd2)
2008
Jan
14, In
(SFC,
1/16/08,
p.A4)(AP, 1/20/08)
2008 Jan 14, Richard Knerr (82), co-founder of the toy company that popularized the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, died. Knerr started Wham-O in 1948 with his childhood friend Arthur "Spud" Melin.
(AP,
1/17/08)
2008
Jan
14, In
(AP,
1/15/08)
2008
Jan
14, The British government said all
visitors to
(AP,
1/14/08)
2008
Jan
14, A Chinese cargo ship sank in high waves off western
(AP,
1/14/08)
2008
Jan
14, Alvaro Colom (56) was sworn in for a four-year term
as
president of
(AP,
1/14/08)
2008
Jan
14, In
(AP,
1/14/08)
2008
Jan
14, In
(AP,
1/14/08)(SFC,
1/15/08,
p.A15)
2008
Jan
14, PM Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel
that
(AP,
1/14/08)
2008
Jan
14,
(AFP,
1/14/08)
2008 Jan 14, In Mexico Tijuana District Commander Jose de Jesus Arias Rico and his assistant Elbert Escobedo Marquez were riddled with bullets as they traveled in a private vehicle after finishing their shift. A car chase and shootout between Tijuana municipal police and at least two people who allegedly tried to rob an armored car after it made a cash pickup at a bank. One suspect was killed and another was wounded.
(AP,
1/15/08)
2008 Jan 14, Pakistani security forces killed 23 Taliban fighters and lost seven of their own men during clashes, while a Taliban spokesman said 17 troopers were captured. A bomb killed 10 people in Karachi as Pres. Musharraf was visiting, sparking violent protests. Six British detectives left Pakistan bound for London with evidence collected from their investigation into the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
(Reuters,
1/14/08)(AP, 1/14/08)(AFP, 1/15/08)
2008 Jan 14, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said no more visas will be issued for new British Council expatriate employees in Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, accreditation renewals for existing employees will be blocked and a tax inquiry will be launched against the Saint Petersburg office after a British cultural organization reopened offices in defiance of an order to close. Russia last month ordered the closure of the two regional offices of the British Council, a nonprofit organization that acts as the cultural arm of the British Embassy, saying they were operating illegally.
(AFP,
1/14/08)(AP, 1/14/08)
2008 Jan 14, In Saudi Arabia President Bush, on his first visit to this oil-rich kingdom, delivered a major arms sale to its ally in a region.
(AP,
1/14/08)
2008 Jan 14, The Serbian government said has adopted a secret plan to implement "in case of a unilateral declaration of independence" by Kosovo.
(Reuters,
1/14/08)
2008 Jan 14, In South Africa Johan Nel (18), wearing camouflage and carrying a rifle, began firing on a group of children as he took a path through the settlement just outside the village of Swartruggens. His shooting rampage in the black settlement left four people dead, including a mother and her infant. His father handed him over to police. In November Nel pleaded guilty as his trial started.
(AP,
1/24/08)(AP, 11/17/08)
2008 Jan 14, In Sri Lanka Japanese mediator Yasushi Akashi met with Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama and President Mahinda Rajapaksa during the envoy's three-day visit. Government fighter jets attacked a Tamil Tiger intelligence and military base in Kombavikulam in a rebel-held area. A second air raid destroyed a rebel artillery position in a village in Mannar. The military said a wave of pitched battles, bombings and an airstrike killed at least 22 guerrillas and 2 soldiers in northern Sri Lanka. Rebels said they held off a major military offensive in Mannar in a battle that killed at least 30 soldiers and three rebels.
(AP,
1/15/08)(AFP, 1/15/08)
2008 Jan 14, A rebel chief said Sudanese warplanes have been bombing rebel positions around the town of Geneina for the past three days in a bid to break the siege on the West Darfur state capital. Local media said gunmen stormed a Darfur prison, setting free at least 90 detainees, as sporadic violence continued to erupt throughout the western Sudanese region. A UN official in South Darfur said the attack appeared to have been conducted by fighters from the Salamat tribe of nomadic Arabs, who escaped with several of the detainees also believed to be Salamat. The Salamat and other Darfur nomadic tribes are among the groups suspected of belonging to the janjaweed.
(AFP,
1/14/08)(AP, 1/14/08)
2008 Jan 14, Taiwan reported that Malawi has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of relations with China, which has been using its rising political and economic clout to reduce the number of countries who recognize the island. Chinese state media said Beijing and Malawi had established diplomatic relations late last month.
(AP,
1/14/08)
2008 Jan 14, In southern Thailand suspected Muslim insurgents killed eight soldiers, leaving one beheaded, in a bomb and shooting attack.
(AP,
1/14/08)
2009 Jan 14, The US stimulus plan’s price tag, originally estimated at $775 billion, neared $850 billion as a result of negotiator’s decisions to emphasize investments to spur job creation.
(WSJ, 1/15/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 14, In Atlanta, Georgia, a federal appeals court upheld the state’s voter ID law.
(WSJ, 1/30/09, p.A13)
2009 Jan 14, Trammell Crow (b.1914, Texas real estate developer, died. His projects included the Dallas Decorative Center (1955) and the 10-million square foot Dallas Market Center. In the 1970s and 1980s Crow was the nation’s biggest real estate developer. In 1981 he founded Wyndham Co., which became one of the nation’s largest hotel chains.
(WSJ, 1/17/09, p.A5)
2009 Jan 14, Ricardo Montalban (b.1920), the Mexican-born actor, died at his home in Los Angeles. His 1980 autobiography was titled "Reflections: A Life in Two Worlds." He became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV's "Fantasy Island" (1978-1984).
(AP, 1/15/09)
2009 Jan 14, Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, In Afghanistan 2 British NATO soldiers were killed in a blast in southern Helmand province.
(AFP, 1/15/09)
2009 Jan 14, In Brazil Cesare Battisti (54), a leftist fugitive who wrote police thrillers while evading a life sentence for two political murders, was granted refugee status in Brazil and an official said he could go free this week. Italy's government protested the decision. Battisti escaped from an Italian prison in 1981 while awaiting trial on four counts of murder allegedly committed when he was a member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism. He fled to France and reinvented himself as a mystery writer. Battisti has repeatedly insisted on his innocence.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Canada’s Nortel Networks Corp, North America's biggest telephone equipment maker, filed for bankruptcy, hoping to save a once high-flying business whose decade-long decline has accelerated with the global economic crisis.
(Reuters, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Jan Kaplicky (b.1937), a British-based Czech architect, died in Prague just hours after his wife Eliska gave birth to their daughter Johanka. He designed the award-winning media center at Lord's cricket ground in London.
(AP, 1/15/09)
2009 Jan 14, The developer of a Dubai skyscraper set to soar two-thirds of a mile said it's halting work on the project for a year as the boomtown grapples with the financial crisis.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 12, In Dubai Kabir Mulchandani, chairman of the Dynasty Zarooni development company, was arrested on charges of fraud and embezzlement. He was accused of defrauding investors of more than $100 million. He has been under investigation in India for the past 10 years by the excise department, directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI), enforcement directorate (ED), and income tax authority.
(WSJ, 1/24/09, p.C3)(http://tinyurl.com/amevml)
2009 Jan 14, A French court acquitted six doctors and pharmacists in the deaths of at least 114 people who contracted a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Shares in Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, slumped after it announced massive losses for the fourth quarter and new terms for its takeover of giant retail lender Postbank.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, In Iraq two people were killed and two wounded in a suicide car bombing in the northern city of Mosul.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Italian police arrested Giovanni Setola, a top Mafia fugitive, who had eluded capture earlier this week by climbing through a trap door and into a sewer below his hideout.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Guerrillas in Lebanon rocketed northern Israel for the second time in a week, drawing Israeli artillery fire and threatening to drag the Jewish state into a second front as diplomatic efforts to broker a truce in Gaza intensified. Gaza health ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said the offensive has killed 1,000 Palestinians, about half of them civilians, including 300 children. The Israeli navy intercepted an Iranian ship loaded with medicine, food and clothing destined for Gaza and forced the vessel to Egypt instead. Palestinian surveyors estimated that Israel's fierce assault on Gaza's Hamas rulers has destroyed at least $1.4 billion worth of buildings, roads, pipes, power lines and other infrastructure.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said they have arrested Mohammed Ahsan Dar, the founder and commander of the region's largest rebel group, calling it a major setback for the separatists.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Pakistan reopened a supply route for NATO and US forces in Afghanistan after tribesmen ended a three-day blockade. Thousands of people protested in Quetta after four police officers were shot dead in what an official said was a sectarian attack against Shiites.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Philippine officials said weeklong rains have triggered flash floods, landslides and sea surges across the Philippines, leaving at least 11 people dead and another 8 missing.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Russia and Ukraine wrangled over gas supplies again. Bulgaria and Slovakia, cut off by the row for a freezing week, launched missions to plead for Russian gas flow to be restored.
(Reuters, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric was quoted as saying it is permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who think they're too young are doing the girls an injustice.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, In Somalia Islamic insurgents fired mortar rounds at the presidential palace and clashed with government forces, leaving at least five civilians dead a day after Ethiopian troops handed over security duties.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, South Africa’s health ministry said the death toll from a cholera outbreak has risen to 15, with more than 2,100 cases registered in a spillover from Zimbabwe's epidemic. The UN said the death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has risen to 2,106.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper said North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reportedly ordered a crackdown on street markets in an apparent move to reassert control over the economy amid an influx of foreign goods into the isolated country.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Sri Lankan defense officials said troops have established total control over the northern peninsula of Jaffna after flushing out the last remaining pockets of rebel resistance.
(AFP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Sudanese security officers arrested iconic opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi (76) two days after he urged the head of state to surrender to the International Criminal Court. Al-Turabi was freed on March 9.
(AP, 1/14/09)(Reuters, 3/9/09)
2009 Jan 14, The UN Security Council authorized 5,200 UN peacekeepers to replace a 3,300-strong EU force in Chad and Central African Republic, which have been seriously affected by fighting in neighboring Sudan's Darfur region.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Venezuelan lawmakers approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely, the final step before the proposal goes before voters in a referendum.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Jan 14, Venezuela and Bolivia broke off diplomatic relations with Israel to protest its military offensive in Gaza.
(AP, 1/14/09)