Today in History - January 22
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1440 Jan 22, Ivan
III (the Great), grand prince of Russia, czar from 1462-1505, was born.
He conquered Lithuania.
(HN, 1/22/99)(MC, 1/22/02)
1506 Jan 22, The Swiss Guard
mercenaries, summoned by Pope Julius II to protect the pope and the
Vatican, arrived in Rome. In 2006 Robert Royal authored “The Pope’s
Army.”
(USAT, 5/6/98, p.6A)(AP, 1/22/06)(WSJ, 4/14/06, p.W5)
1510 Jan 22, Jews were expelled
from Colmar, Germany.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1517 Jan 22, Ottoman Turks under
Selim sacked Cairo. The sharif of Mecca soon surrendered to the Turks
and Selim took the title of caliph. Selim left Egypt under the rule of
the Mameluke beys.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.11)(MC, 1/22/02)(PCh, 1992, p.169)
1528 Jan 22, England & France
declared war on Emperor Charles V of Spain. The French army was later
expelled from Naples and Genoa.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.13)(MC, 1/22/02)
1531 Jan 22, Andrea del Sarto
(44), Italian painter, died.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1552 Jan 22, Edward Seymour, Duke
of Somerset, was beheaded for treason.
(MC, 1/22/02)(MT, Fall 02, p.23)
1561 Jan 22, Sir Francis Bacon
(e.1626), English philosopher, was born in London. He was a statesman
and essayist. Educated at Cambridge, he served under Queen Elizabeth
and King James I. “He wrote the “Essays” throughout his life and these
are filled with pithy wisdom and homely charm. His “Advancement of
Learning” and “Novum Organon” constitute his most important
contribution to knowledge. He held for the inductive method of learning
as opposed to the deductive method. The deductive method, according to
Bacon, failed because the seeker after knowledge deduced from certain
intuitive assumptions conclusions about the real world that might have
been logically correct but were not true to nature. The inductive
method succeeded because the student of nature ascended by what Bacon
called a "ladder of intellect" from the most careful and indeed humble
observations to general conclusions that had to be true because their
foundation was experience. "If a man will begin in certainties he shall
end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall
end in certainties." In 1998 Perez Zagorin published “Francis Bacon.”
(V.D.-H.K.p.140)(AP, 5/1/98)(HN, 1/22/99)
1575 Jan 22, English queen
Elizabeth I granted Thomas Tallis and William Byrd a music press
monopoly.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1689 Jan 22, England's "Bloodless
Revolution" reached its climax when parliament invited William and Mary
to become joint sovereigns. A specially-called parliament declared that
James had abdicated and offered the throne to William and Mary. In 1938
G.M. Trevelyan authored “The English Revolution.” In 2009 Steve Pincus
authored “The First Modern Revolution.”
(HN, 1/22/99)(HNQ, 12/28/00)(Econ, 10/17/09, p.97)
1775 Jan 22, Marshal Oscar von
Lubomirski expelled Jews from Warsaw, Poland.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1788 Jan 22, George Gordon
(d.1824), (6th Baron Byron) aka Lord Byron, English poet, was born with
a deformed foot. His work included “Lara,” “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
and “Don Juan.” He died in Greece at Missolonghi on the gulf of Patras
preparing to fight for Greek independence. In 1997 the biography:
“Byron: The flawed Angel” by Phyllis Grosskurth was published.
(WUD, 1994, p.204,917)(SFC, 6/9/97, p.D3)(SFEC,
11/15/98, Z1 p.10)(HN, 1/22/99)
1798 Jan 22, Lewis Morris (71), US
farmer (signed Declaration of Independence), died.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1807 Jan 22, President Thomas
Jefferson exposed a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the
Southwest.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1813 Jan 22, During the War of
1812, British forces under Henry Proctor along with Indian allies under
Tecumseh defeated a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.
(HN, 1/22/99)(AM, 7/00, p.19)
1813 Jan 22, A combined British
and Indian force attacked an American militia retreating from Detroit
near Frenchtown, later known as Monroe, Mich. Only 33 men of some 700
men escaped the battle of the River Raisin. Over 400 Kentucky
frontiersmen were killed.
(Arch, 9/04,
p.22)(www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/KY_BRR.htm)
1824 Jan 22, A British force was
wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast.
This was the first defeat for a colonial power.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1837 Jan 22, An earthquake in
southern Syria killed thousands.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1859 Jan 22, Brahms' 1st piano
concerto (in D minor) premiered in Hanover.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1862 Jan 22, Confederate
government raised the premium for volunteers from $10 to $20.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1863 Jan 22, In an attempt to out
flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose
Burnside led his army on a march north Fredericksburg, but foul weather
bogged his army down in what became known as "Mud March."
(HN, 1/22/99)
1863 Jan 22, The interim
Lithuanian government in Warsaw announced an uprising against Russian
rule. The uprising aspired to restore the Polish-Lithuanian state and
was supported by large numbers of peasants.
(DrEE, 9/14/96, p.4)(LHC, 1/22/03)
1871 Jan 22, The Paris proletariat
and the National Guards held a revolutionary demonstration, initiated
by the Blanquists. They demanded the overthrow of the government and
the establishment of a Commune. By order of the Government of National
Defense, the Breton Mobile Guard, which was defending the Hotel de
Ville, opened fire on the demonstrators. After massacring the unarmed
workers, the government began preparations to surrender Paris.
(www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/timeline.htm)
1874 Jan 22, D.W. [David Wark]
Griffith, U.S. film director, was born. He was the most influential
figure in early film history, and made "The Birth of A Nation"
and "Intolerance."
(HN, 1/22/99)
1877 Jan 22, Hjalmar Horace Greely
Schacht, president of German Reichsbank, minister of Economics, was
born.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1879 Jan 22, In South Africa
battles at Isandlwana Zulu impis or regiments armed with spears and
shields killed around 1,300 British troops bearing rifles. Private
Samuel Wassall lived through the battle and was awarded the Victoria
Cross along with 14 others.
(AFP, 2/5/07)(Econ, 2/10/07, p.91)
1879 Jan 22-24, Eighty-two British
soldiers with rifles held off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors with
spears at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in South Africa. A large British
troop had just been massacred prior to this battle. The 1964 film
“Zulu” was based on this event.
(HC, 4/9/98)(HN, 1/22/00)
1881 Jan 22, Ancient Egyptian
obelisk, "Cleopatra's Needle," was erected in Central Park.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1890 Jan 22, Fred Vinson, 13th
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1946-1953), was born.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1890 Jan 22, Jose Marti formed La
Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1897 Jan 22, Rosa Ponselle, opera
diva (Norma, La Forza del Destino), was born.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1897 Jan 22, Eighty-two British
soldiers held off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of
Rorke's Drift in South Africa.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1901 Jan 22, Britain's Queen
Victoria died at age 82. She was the monarch of Great Britain and
Ireland and Empress of India, and died after presiding over her vast
empire for nearly 64 years--the longest reign in British history. Born
in 1819, the only child of George III's fourth son, Victoria became
queen in 1837. In 1840, she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Although the match was a political one, the two were devoted to each
other, having nine children before Albert's death in 1861. Through
dynastic marriages, Victoria's descendants are connected to almost all
20th-century Europe's royal houses. During Victoria's long reign the
monarchy lost much of its political power to Parliament, but she was
the beloved symbol of the Victorian Era--a golden age of British
history. In 2000 Christopher Hibbert authored “Queen Victoria: A
Personal History.”
(AP, 1/22/98)(HNPD, 1/22/99)(WSJ, 12/29/00, p.W6)
1901 Jan 22, After 63 years
England stopped the sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series &
began the King Edward VII series.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1904 Jan 22, George Balanchine,
composer, choreographer, was born. [see Jan 9]
(MC, 1/22/02)
1905 Jan 22, (New Style calendar)
On what would become known as “Bloody Sunday,” Russian Orthodox Father
George Gapon led a procession in St. Petersburg of some 200,000 who
were marching on the Winter Palace to present their grievances to Czar
Nicholas. Troops on the scene panicked, firing into the crowd and
killing hundreds, thus igniting the Revolution of 1905. Across Russia,
government officials were attacked, peasants seized private estates and
workers’ strikes virtually paralyzed the economy. In St. Petersburg, a
council (soviet) of workers’ delegates threatened to take over the
government. Nicholas consented to the adoption of a constitution
and election of a parliament (Duma). The first Duma met in 1906. [see
Jan 9]
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A27)(HNQ, 10/1/00)(AP, 1/22/07)
1906 Jan 22, Willa Brown-Chappell,
pioneering aviator, was born.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1907 Jan 22, The Richard Strauss
opera "Salome" made its American debut at the Metropolitan Opera in
NYC; its racy content (including the Dance of the Seven Veils) sparked
outrage.
(AP, 1/22/07)
1908 Jan 22, Katie Mulcahey became
the first woman to run afoul of New York City's just-passed ban on
females smoking in public. Declaring, "No man shall dictate to me,"
Mulcahey served a night in jail after being unable to pay a $5 fine.
(AP, 1/22/08)
1909 Jan 22, Hariette Lake (aka
Ann Sothern, d. 2001), film and TV actress, was born in Valley City,
North Dakota.
(SFC, 3/17/01, p.A23)
1909 Jan 22, U Thant, Secretary
General of United Nations General Assembly (1962-1972), was born in
Burma. He played a major role in the Cuban crisis.
(HN, 1/22/99)(MC, 1/22/02)
1911 Jan 22, Bruno Kreisky,
bandleader, chancellor (1970-83), was born in Austria.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1912 Jan 22, Second Monte-Carlo
auto race began.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1913 Jan 22, Turkey consented to
the Balkan peace terms and gave up Adrianople.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1917 Jan 22, President Wilson
pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without
victory." By April, however, America was also at war.
(AP, 1/22/98)
1920 Jan 22, William Warfield,
singer (Show Boat), was born.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1922 Jan 22, Jean-Pierre Rampal
(d.5/20/2000), flautist, was born in Marseilles France.
(Internet)
1922 Jan 22, James Bryce (b.1838),
1st Viscount Bryce, British jurist, historian and politician, died. He
had served as ambassador to the United States from 1907 to 1913. His
books included “The American Commonwealth,” a classic study of the US
Constitution.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9017827/James-Bryce-Viscount-Bryce)
1922 Jan 22, Pope Benedict XV
died; he was succeeded by Pius XI.
(AP, 1/22/98)
1924 Jan 22, J.J. Johnson,
composer, jazz trombonist, was born.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1930 Jan 22, Adm. Richard Byrd
charted a vast area of Antarctica.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1932 Jan 22, Pablo Picasso painted
“Repose.”
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.E5)
1932 Jan 22, British Anglicans
merged with the Old-Catholic church.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1932 Jan 22, Government troops
crushed a Communist uprising in Northern Spain.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1934 Jan 22, Bill Bixby, actor
(Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian), was born in SF, Calif.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1934 Jan 22, In Tucson, Arizona, a
fire broke out at the Hotel Congress, where members of the Dillinger
gang were staying. Firefighters salvaged baggage belonging to the gang
and the next day one of the firefighters spotted one the gang’s mug
shots in an issue of True Detective magazine. Within a few days 5
members of the Dillinger gang were arrested including John Dillinger
and girlfriend Evelyn Frechette. In 2009 Elliot Gorn authored
“Dillinger’s Wild Ride: The Year That Made America’s Public Enemy
Number One.”
(SFC, 7/1/09, p.E3)
1934 Jan 22, Dmitri Shostakovich
premiered his 1932 opera: “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District,” in
Leningrad.
(WSJ, 5/7/02, p.D7)(WSJ, 5/2/03, p.W6)
1938 Jan 22, Thornton Wilder's
play "Our Town," a portrait of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH,
was performed publicly for the first time, in Princeton, N.J. It opened
on Broadway on Feb 4.
(AP, 2/4/97)(AP, 1/22/98)
1939 Jan 22, A Nazi order erased
the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1941 Jan 22, British and
Australian troops captured Tobruk from Italians.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1941 Jan 22, The 1st mass killing
of Jews took place in Romania. [see Jan 9]
(MC, 1/22/02)
1943 Jan 22, Battle of Anzio:
Italy.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1943 Jan 22, Axis forces pulled
out of Tripoli for Tunisia, and destroyed bases as they left.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1944 Jan 22, US troops under Major
General John P. Lucas made an amphibious landing behind German lines at
Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome. Major General Lucas commanded
Operation Shingle, a surprise landing behind German lines in Italy.
General Lucas harbored grave doubts about the chances for success in
this, the most daring operation of the Italian campaign. The seaborne
operation was planned as a way of outflanking German strength on
Italy’s Gustav Line and swiftly capturing Rome, but almost nothing went
according to plan.
(HNQ, 4/4/01)(AP, 1/22/08)
1945 Jan 22, There was a heavy US
air raid on Okinawa.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1945 Jan 22, The Burma highway
reopened.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1946 Jan 22, President Truman set
up the Central Intelligence Group. In late 1945 he had coordinated
various intelligence reform plans considered in the drafting of the
directive that created the CIG. In 1947 it was re-named the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA).
(http://tinyurl.com/l3go2n)
1949 Jan 22, Police broke into Rm.
203 of the Mark Twain Hotel in San Francisco and arrested Billie
Holiday (1915-1959) and her manager, John Levy, on charges of
possession of opium. Her defense attorney, Jake Erlich, fingered Levy
as an informer and persuaded the jury to return a verdict of not guilty.
(SFC, 5/19/96, DB,
p.39)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday)
1951 Jan 22, Fidel Castro, as a
baseball pitcher, was ejected from a Winter League game after beaning a
batter.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1953 Jan 22, The Arthur Miller
drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway.
(AP, 1/22/98)
1957 Jan 22, Suspected "Mad
Bomber" George P. Metesky, accused of planting more than 30 explosive
devices in the New York City area, was arrested in Waterbury, Conn. He
was later found mentally ill and committed to a mental hospital; he was
released in 1973, and died in 1994 at age 90.
(AP, 1/22/98)(AP, 1/22/04)
1957 Jan 22, Israel completed its
evacuation of Egyptian territory, excepting the Gaza Strip and the area
of Aqaba.
(EWH, 1968, p.1242)
1959 Jan 22, USAF concluded that
less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1959 Jan 22, The Adolph Coors Co.
of Golden, Colombia, introduced the aluminum beer can.
(www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/22/a-golden-milestone/)
1960 Jan 22, The Johnburg coal
mine caved in and 417 die.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1961 Jan 22, A Portuguese ocean
liner, the “Santa Maria,” was hijacked in the Caribbean with some 600
passengers aboard; the drama ended eleven days later when the ship
docked in Brazil.
(AP, 1/22/01)
1964 Jan 22, World's largest
cheese (15,723 kg) was manufactured in Wisconsin.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1968 Jan 22, The TV variety show
"Laugh In" began on NBC with comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. It
continued running to May 14, 1973.
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.B2)(AP,
1/22/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_&_Martin%27s_Laugh-In)
1968 Jan 22, The off Broadway show
"Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" premiered at the
Village Gate Theater. A film version was produced in 1975. Brel
(1929-1978), a Belgian singer, was later buried in the Marquesas Island
of Hiva Oa, in the same cemetery as Paul Gauguin.
(www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/sfla/sfla176.html)
1968 Jan 22, Apollo 5 was launched
to the Moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_5)
1969 Jan 22, In Massachusetts
Francis Sargent (1915-1998) became governor after John Volpe was made
transportation secretary in the Nixon administration.
(SFC, 10/24/98,
p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_W._Sargent)
1971 Jan 22, Communist forces
shelled Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the first time.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1972 Jan 22, The TV series
"Emergency" began with Julie London and Bobby Troup. It ran until 1977.
(SFC, 10/19/00,
p.A29)(www.fancast.com/tv/Emergency!/8541/synopsis)
1972 Jan 22, Britain, Denmark,
Ireland and Norway joined the European Economic Community.
(AP, 1/22/02)
1973 Jan 22, The Supreme Court in
a 7-2 ruling handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized
abortion, using a trimester approach. The court ruled that a woman's
right to privacy encompasses her decision to terminate a pregnancy.
Norma McCorvey, the anonymous Jane Roe, revealed her identity in 1989.
She ended up having her 3rd baby that was the initial focus of the
issue.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 1/22/98)(SFC, 1/28/98,
p.E1)(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A15)(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1973 Jan 22, Former President
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) died at his Texas ranch at age 64. Robert
Dallek in 1998 published the biography “Flawed Giant.”
(SFC, 7/19/97, p.A6)(AP, 1/22/98)(SFC, 3/16/98, p.A2)
1975 Jan 22, The US Supreme Court
in the Goss vs. Lopez case ruled that students had the right to due
process, informal hearings were considered sufficient, when threatened
with suspension of more than 10 days.
(WSJ, 5/4/99,
p.A22)(www.acluprocon.org/SupCtCases/266Goss.html)
1976 Jan 22, A PLO bank robbery in
Beirut netted a world record $20-50 million.
(www.lebaneseforces.com/blastfromthepast001.asp)
1979 Jan 22, Abu Hassan (Ali
Hassan Salameh), the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, was
killed by a bomb in Beirut. He was the chief of operations for the
Black September militant Palestinian group.
(HN,
1/22/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Hassan_Salameh)
1980 Jan 22, Russian dissidents
Andrei Sakharov and Jelena Bonner were banished.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1982 Jan 22, President Reagan
formally linked progress in arms control to Soviet repression in
Poland.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1982 Jan 22, Eduardo Frei Montalva
(b.1911), former Chilean President (1964-1970), died from septic shock
as he recovered from stomach surgery at a Santiago clinic. In 2007 his
family filed a court complaint claiming that Frei had been assassinated
by poisoning after a Belgian university investigation found mustard gas
in the body of the former Christian Democratic leader. In 2009 a
Chilean judge ruled that Montalva was assassinated and that his killing
was covered up by people linked to the dictatorship of Gen. Pinochet.
Six people were charged in the case.
(AP, 1/24/07)(AP, 12/7/09)
1985 Jan 22, A cold wave damaged
90% of Florida's citrus crop.
(http://prop1.org/inaugur/85reagan/850122in.htm)
1986 Jan 22, The body of Yvonne
Coleman (15) was found in a park in Inglewood, California. In 2008 DNA
evidence linked Michael Hughes (51), already in jail for 4 other
murders, to her murder and 3 others.
(SFC, 7/4/08, p.B6)
1987 Jan 22, R. Budd Dwyer, Penn.
State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot
himself to death at a televised news conference.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer)
1987 Jan 22, France named Manuel
Noriega, head of Panama, a Commander of the Legion of Honor (Legion
d’Honneur).
(http://watchingamerica.com/europe1000001.shtml)
1988 Jan 22, A US federal appeals
court ruled that court appointment of independent counsels to
investigate allegations of wrongdoing by high-ranking government
officials was unconstitutional; however, the Supreme Court upheld the
law the following June.
(AP, 1/22/98)
1989 Jan 22, In Super Bowl XXXIII,
the San Francisco 49ers came from behind to defeat the Cincinnati
Bengals 20-to-16 in Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium.
(AP, 1/22/99)
1990 Jan 22, A jury in Syracuse,
N.Y., convicted graduate student Robert T. Morris of federal computer
tampering charges for unleashing a "worm" that crippled a computer
network.
(AP, 1/22/00)
1990 Jan 22, Up to 2 million
Azerbaijanis marched through the republic's capital to mourn those
killed when Soviet troops put down a nationalist revolt.
(AP, 1/22/00)
1991 Jan 22, During the Gulf War,
Iraq fired six Scud missiles into Saudi Arabia; all were either
intercepted, or fell into unpopulated areas. However, in Tel Aviv, a
Scud eluded the Patriot missile defense system and struck the city,
resulting in three deaths.
(AP, 1/22/01)
1992 Jan 22, President Bush named
Andrew H. Card Jr. to be transportation secretary.
(AP, 1/22/02)
1992 Jan 22-30, The space shuttle
Discovery blasted off with seven astronauts. Roberta Bondar was the
first Canadian woman in space. She rode the shuttle Discovery and
performed life and material-science experiments.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.14A)(AP, 1/22/02)
1993 Jan 22, President Clinton
resumed his search for an attorney general, following the early-morning
withdrawal of nominee Zoe Baird in the face of a complaints over her
hiring of illegal aliens. Clinton reversed the federal policy barring
the mention of abortion by doctors in federally financed institutions.
(AP, 1/22/98)(SFC, 9/13/01, p.C7)
1993 Jan 22, On the 20th
anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, President Clinton lifted a
series of abortion restrictions imposed by his Republican predecessors.
(AP, 1/22/98)
1994 Jan 22, "Schindler's List,"
Steven Spielberg's drama about the Holocaust, won Golden Globes for
best dramatic picture and best director.
(AP, 1/22/99)
1994 Jan 22, Jean-Louis Barrault
(83), French actor (La Ronde), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Barrault)
1994 Jan 22, Actor Telly Savalas
died in Universal City, Calif., a day after turning 70.
(AP, 1/22/99)
1995 Jan 22, The Macedonia Baptist
Church in Manning, S.C., burned down. Arson was suspected and
investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun. Four Klansmen were
later arrested and convicted.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)(SFEC, 7/21/98, p.A3)
1995 Jan 22, Rose Fitzgerald
Kennedy died at the family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.
(AP, 1/22/98)
1995 Jan 22, Two Palestinians blew
themselves up at Beit Lid junction in central Israel and killed 21
Israelis. Dozens of others were injured and the Islamic Jihad took
responsibility.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)(AP,
1/22/00)
1996 Jan 22, Clinton declared
Pennsylvania a disaster area after floods on the Susquehanna and other
rivers killed 8 and forced a 100,000 people to leave their homes.
(WSJ, 1/22/96, p.A-1)
1996 Jan 22, The White House
announced that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had been subpoenaed by
the Whitewater special prosecutor to testify before a grand jury
investigating the mysterious discovery of her law firm billing records
in the White House residence.
(AP, 1/22/01)
1996 Jan 22, O.J. Simpson
testified for the first time since the killings of his ex-wife Nicole
and her friend, Ronald Goldman, as he gave a videotaped deposition for
a wrongful death lawsuit.
(AP, 1/22/01)
1997 Jan 22, The US Senate
confirmed Madeleine Albright as secretary of state, the first woman to
hold that office. William Cohen, a Republican, was ratified as
secretary of defense.
(SFC, 1/23/97, p.A3) (AP, 1/22/98)
1997 Jan 22, A jury in Florida
ruled that Owens-Corning Fiberglass Co. must pay $31 million to a
Mississippi man dying of cancer from exposure to asbestos.
(SFC, 1/23/97, p.A3)
1997 Jan 22, Canada and Cuba
announced a 14-point agreement. They pledged cooperation on human
rights and sought to shield foreign investors targeted for punishment
by Washington.
(SFC, 1/23/97, p.A8)
1997 Jan 22, In Rwanda gunmen
killed at least 20 civilians. In Kigali a special court sentenced 2
Hutu men to be executed for their roles in the 1994 mass killings.
(WSJ, 1/23/97, p.A12)
1998 Jan 22, Theodore J. Kaczynski
pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to the Unabomber killings in
return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. In Dec.
co-authors Chris Waits and Dave Shors published “Unabomber: The Secret
Life of Ted Kaczynski. His 25 Years in Montana.”
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A1)(AP, 1/22/99)
1998 Jan 22, Microsoft under court
pressure signed an agreement giving PC makers the freedom to install
Windows 95 without an Internet Explorer icon.
(WSJ, 11/8/99, p.A30)
1998 Jan 22, The Endeavour space
shuttle shot up on its way to meet with the Mir space station.
Astronaut Andrew Thomas traded places with David Wolf for a 4-month
stint.
(SFC, 1/23/98, p.A5)
1998 Jan 22, Goran Jelisic (29)
was detained by UN peace troops in Bijeljina. An indictment against him
held that he commanded the Luka prisoner camp in Brcko in May 1992 and
killed 16 Muslims, and that he was responsible for the deaths of
countless detainees. In 1999, he was found guilty on all counts of
crimes against humanity and violating the customs of war. He was
acquitted on the charge of genocide as the court did not believe the
prosecution had proved this beyond reasonable doubt. On May 29, 2003,
Jelisić was transferred to Italy to serve the remainder of his sentence
with credit for time served since his arrest.
(SFC, 1/22/98,
p.E2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goran_Jelisi%C4%87)
1998 Jan 22, On the first full day
of his visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass, preaching the
message, "Be not afraid."
(AP, 1/22/99)
1998 Jan 22, In Pristina, Serbia,
ethnic Albanians clashed with Serbian police. There was one death and 2
were injured.
(SFC, 1/24/98, p.A10)
1999 Jan 22, Sen. Robert C. Byrd,
D-WVa, abruptly called for dismissal of charges against President
Clinton to "end this sad and sorry time for our country." President
Clinton called for spending $2.8 billion to protect the nation from
cyber terrorism and chemical and germ warfare.
(AP, 1/22/00)
1999 Jan 22, More twisters hit the
South and 3 more people were killed in Arkansas and one in Tennessee.
The 100 year-old Quapaw district of Little Rock was hit hard as was the
historic district of Clarksville, Tenn.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/25/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 22, Charles Brown, blues
legend, died in Oakland at age 78.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 22, Pope John Paul II
began a 5-day pilgrimage to Mexico and St. Louis. He was greeted by
Pres. Zedillo some 2 dozen official sponsors who would help defray the
$2 million costs of the 4-day visit.
(SFC, 1/22/99, p.A1)(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A10)
1999 Jan 22, A 2nd member of the
Int'l. Olympic Commission resigned as part of the bribery scandal on
the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 22, The International
Monetary Fund (IMF) determined that members having more than 85% of the
total of Fund quotas have consented to increases in their quotas under
the Eleventh General Review of Quotas.
{IMF}
(www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/1999/pr9904.htm)
1999 Jan 22, In Argentina a
federal judge indicted 7 former military officials for the
disappearances of over 200 babies during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.C1)
1999 Jan 22, In Beijing
telecommunications authorities issued a circular clamping down on the
use of phone lines for telephone sex.
(SFC, 1/25/99, p.A7)
1999 Jan 22, In eastern Congo
government and rebel authorities accepted UN care for hundreds of
thousands displaced by war.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A11)
1999 Jan 22, France convicted 107
people for supporting insurgents in Algeria.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.C1)
1999 Jan 22, In Manoharpur, India,
Graham Stewart Stains (58), an Australian missionary, and his 2 sons
(10 & 8) were burned to death by activists of the radical Bajrang
Dal. Dara Singh led some 30 men in the attack. Singh was captured in
Jan 2000. In 2003 Mahendra Hembram (23), a security guard, stood by the
statement he gave in a lower court in 2002 that he burned the
missionary's jeep, killing the missionary and young sons as they slept.
In 2003 13 men were convicted for the murders.
(SFEC, 1/24/99, p.A14)(SFC, 2/2/00, p.A17)(AP,
3/24/03)(AP, 9/15/03)
1999 Jan 22, In Indonesia order
was restored on the island of Ambon after 45 people died in 4 days of
rioting.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A10)
1999 Jan 22, In Jordon King
Hussein informed his brother Hassan that he would be removed as
successor and would be appointed as a deputy. Hussein desired to move
his own sons in line for the Crown.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A10)
1999 Jan 22, In Mongolia the
parliament repealed its law authorizing casinos.
(WSJ, 1/25/99, p.A18)
1999 Jan 22, In Romania miners
halted a violent strike after reaching a settlement with Prime Minister
Rady Vasile.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.C1)
2000 Jan 22, Elian Gonzalez’s
grandmothers met privately with US Attorney General Janet Reno as they
appealed for help in removing the boy from his Florida relatives and
reuniting him with his father in Cuba.
(AP, 1/22/01)
2000 Jan 22, Food writer Craig
Claiborne died at a New York hospital at age 79.
(AP, 1/22/01)
2000 Jan 22, In Chechnya Russian
forces claimed control over a third of Grozny. Russian commander Viktor
Kazantsev said Pres. Aslan Maskhadov was wounded in fighting in the
Argun Gorge.
(SFEC, 1/23/00, p.A27)
2000 Jan 22, In Ecuador Vice
President Gustavo Noboa took over as president under int'l. pressure
against the civilian-military junta.
(SFEC, 1/23/00, p.A21)
2000 Jan 22, In Turkey the body of
Konca Kuris, described as a Muslim feminist, was exhumed in Konya, 220
miles northwest of Mersin. Her body was one of 33 found at properties
used by Hezbollah, a radical group dedicated to overthrowing the
Turkish state and establishing an Islamic republic.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.A9)
2001 Jan 22, Pres. Bush banned US
funding for overseas abortion counseling. On the anniversary of the
Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Bush signed a memorandum
reinstating full abortion restrictions on U.S. overseas aid.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A1)(AP, 1/22/02)
2001 Jan 22, US police in Colorado
caught 4 escaped Texas convicts. A 5th committed suicide. The 2 at
large were caught a day later.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A3)(SFC, 1/24/01, p.A2)
2001 Jan 22, In Britain the House
of Lords passed legislation that effectively legalized the creation of
cloned human embryos.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 22, Israeli and
Palestinian negotiators met in Taba, Egypt.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 22, In Japan Fukushiro
Nukaga, economics minister, resigned in a bribery scandal and was
succeeded by Taro Aso.
(WSJ, 1/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 22, In Russia Pres. Putin
put his domestic security agency in charge of the war effort in
Chechnya.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.C3)
2002 Jan 22, Kmart Corp., the
discount chain that gave America the BlueLight Special, filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2002 Jan 22, Stanley Marcus
(b.1905), former president and chairman of the Texas based Nieman
Marcus department store chain, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Marcus)
2002 Jan 22, Jack Shea (91), a
gold medal-winning speedskater and patriarch of the nation's first
family with three generations of Olympians, died in Lake Placid, N.Y.,
of injuries suffered in a car accident.
(AP, 1/22/03)
2002 Jan 22, US officials reported
that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a former head of al Qaeda training in
Afghanistan, had provided information on an alleged plot to blow up the
US Embassy in Yemen a week earlier.
(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 22, The Burmese army was
charged by Amnesty Int’l. of killing and torturing hundreds of ethnic
Shan villagers. Some 300,000 Shan villagers have been forced to flee
their homes in the past 2 years.
(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 22, At least 4 police
officers were killed when 2 gunmen opened fired at the American Center
in Calcutta. 19 people were wounded. 3 Bangladeshis and 3 teachers from
an Islamic school were later arrested and charged with murder. Gangster
Aftab Ansari was later arrested in Dubai and said his motive was to
punish police for killing his friend, Asif Raza Khan, last year.
Harkat-ul Jihadi-e-Islami (HUJEI) was later implicated. In 2005 7
people were sentenced to death for the killings.
(SFC, 1/22/02, p.A8)(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A4)(SFC,
1/24/02, p.A7)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A14)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A20)(AP, 4/27/05)
2002 Jan 22, In Indonesia troops
shot and killed Abdullah Syafei, commander of the Free Aceh Movement.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 22, Israeli troops killed
4 Hamas militants in Nablus. Yousef Soragji (42), mastermind of several
suicide bombings, was among the dead.
(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A6)(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 22, In Israel a
Palestinian gunman killed 2 women in Jerusalem and wounded 14 others
before he was killed by police.
(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 22, Pres. Putin said that
Russian fitness and sports infrastructure had so declined in the last
decade that only 1 in 10 citizens exercise of play sports.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A13)
2003 Jan 22, Opponents and
supporters of abortion rights rallied on the 30th anniversary of the
Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling.
(AP, 1/22/04)
2003 Jan 22, Maryland's new
governor, Robert Ehrlich, declared an end to a moratorium on executions
instituted by Gov. Glendening.
(WSJ, 1/23/03, p.A1)(SFC, 1/31/03, p.A9)
2003 Jan 22, Bill Maudlin
(b.1921), WW-II era cartoonist, died in Newport Beach, Ca. In 1945 he
won a Pulitzer Prize for his war cartoons and later authored "Up
Front," a collection of cartoons and an essay on war. In 2008 Todd
DePastino authored “”Bill Maudlin: A Life Up Front.”
(SFC, 1/23/03, p.A2)(WS, 2/22/08, p.W6)
2003 Jan 22, In Colombia ELN
rebels kidnapped Scott Dalton, photographer and native of Conroe,
Texas; and Ruth Morris, a British reporter in Arauca state. They were
released Feb 1.
(AP, 1/23/03)(AP, 2/1/03)
2003 Jan 22, France and Germany
joined forces to prevent any U.S.-led war on Iraq. Countering blunt
talk of war by the Bush administration, France and Germany defiantly
stated they were committed to a peaceful solution to the Iraq crisis.
(Reuters, 1/22/03)(AP, 1/22/04)
2003 Jan 22, In the Netherlands
voters rejected an anti-immigration party and gave 44 seats to the
Christian Democrats and 42 to the Labor party.
(SFC, 1/23/03, p.A10)
2004 Jan 22, US Congress approved
an $820 billion spending bill. It included a labeling law for the
seafood industry for "country of origin."
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A3)(SFC, 2/4/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 22, South Dakota
politician Bill Janklow was sentenced to 100 days in jail for an auto
accident that killed a motorcyclist and ended Janklow's career in
disgrace.
(AP, 1/22/05)
2004 Jan 22, Enron Corporation's
former top accountant, Richard Causey, surrendered to federal
authorities; he pleaded innocent to conspiracy and fraud charges.
(AP, 1/22/05)
2004 Jan 22, It was reported that
Kodak, headquartered in Rochester, NY, planned to cut its work force by
as much as 21% by the end of 2006.
(WSJ, 1/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 22, NASA said it lost
contact with the Mars spirit rover.
(WSJ, 1/23/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 22, Ann Miller (81), tap
dancing film actress, died in Los Angeles.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A2)(AP, 1/22/05)
2004 Jan 22, In Cambodia gunmen
assassinated Chea Vichea, a prominent labor leader linked to the main
opposition party, as he read a newspaper on a capital street.
(AP, 1/22/04)
2004 Jan 22, The Chinese New Year
(Lunar Year 4702) ushered in the Year of the Monkey. In Korea the event
is called Solnal and in Vietnam it is called Tet. The Chinese New Year
marked a traditional time of settling debts. Migrant workers in the
Chinese construction industry were reportedly owed over $40 billion in
back pay.
(WSJ, 1/19/04, p.A1)(SFC, 1/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 22, In Iraq gunmen firing
from a van killed two Iraqi policemen and wounded three others in an
attack on a checkpoint between Fallujah and Ramadi.
(AP, 1/22/04)
2004 Jan 22, Israeli soldiers shot
and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy as he and six other unarmed
teenagers tried to sneak from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
(AP, 1/22/04)
2004 Jan 22, A Philippine tribunal
ordered the immediate transfer to the government of $683 million in
illegally accumulated funds from Swiss bank accounts of former dictator
Ferdinand Marcos.
(AP, 1/22/04)
2004 Jan 22, In Tanzania Judge
William Sekule said the tribunal found Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda (51),
former minister for culture and higher education, guilty of genocide
and extermination for his role the 1994 Rwanda genocide. He was
acquitted of eight other charges of crimes against humanity.
(AP, 1/22/04)
2004 Jan 22, In southern Thailand
a Buddhist monk was hacked to death. Muslim extremists were blamed.
(WSJ, 1/23/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 22, Zimbabwe's only
independent daily newspaper brought out a slim edition that was
snatched up by readers after a court ordered police to allow the
popular Daily News to resume publishing.
(AP, 1/22/04)
2005 Jan 22, Donald Trump (58)
married Slovenian model Melania Knauss (34) with all the glamour, glitz
and gold that money and star power can buy.
(AP, 1/23/05)
2005 Jan 22, On the 32nd
anniversary of Roe vs. Wade rival sides of the abortion issue staged
dueling marches on Market St. in SF. Some 6,000 antiabortion activists
were jeered by some 3,000 advocates for abortion rights.
(SSFC, 1/23/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 22, Rose Mary Woods (87),
President Nixon's former secretary, died in Ohio.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2005 Jan 22, In India actress
Parveen Babi, who played the siren in dozens of Bollywood films, was
found dead at her suburban Bombay apartment. Babi, famed for her
unconventional western looks, starred in more than 50 Hindi films
mostly in the 1970s and early 1980s.
(AP, 1/22/05)
2005 Jan 22, Iran's state-run
television reported that the hard-line constitutional watchdog has
decided that women can run for president in June elections.
(AP, 1/22/05)
2005 Jan 22, Insurgents said they
had executed 15 kidnapped Iraqi National Guardsmen for cooperating with
U.S. forces. Insurgents decided to release 8 Chinese construction
workers taken hostage in Iraq after China pledged to discourage its
citizens from traveling to Iraq.
(AP, 1/22/05)
2005 Jan 22, In Italy a war within
the Camorra, the regional mafia of Naples, was reported to have claimed
35 lives over the last 4 months.
(Econ, 1/22/05, p.46)
2005 Jan 22, In Japan the world's
nations ended their tsunami conference and agreed to work together to
better guard their people against natural disasters.
(AP, 1/22/05)
2005 Jan 22, Maldivians cast votes
to elect a parliament, three weeks after the election was postponed
because of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Police arrested 20 opposition
backers.
(AP, 1/22/05)(WSJ, 1/24/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 22, Consuelo Velazquez
(84), whose song "Besame Mucho" became a standard in many languages and
styles of music, died in Mexico City.
(AP, 1/25/05)
2005 Jan 22, Nepali troops killed
at least nine Maoist guerrillas including four women in weekend
gunbattles in the west of the revolt-torn Himalayan kingdom.
(Reuters, 1/23/05)
2005 Jan 22, Thousands of poor
Russians demonstrated across Russia as part of a campaign of protest
against abolition of some benefits that has dented Pres. Putin's
popularity.
(Reuters, 1/22/05)
2005 Jan 22, Somalia's government
vowed to bring to justice militiamen who exhumed hundreds of skeletons
from an Italian colonial-era cemetery and dumped them near Mogadishu's
airport.
(Reuters, 1/22/05)
2005 Jan 22, South Sudan leader
John Garang arrived in his southern bastion for the first time since a
peace accord ended Africa's longest-running civil war.
(Reuters, 1/22/05)
2005 Jan 22, Turkey’s large debt
was reported to amount to about 74% of its GDP.
(Econ, 1/22/05, p.47)
2006 Jan 22, Kobe Bryant scored 81
points, the second-highest in NBA history, in the Los Angeles Lakers'
122-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2006 Jan 22, The Pittsburgh
Steelers won the AFC title game over the Denver Broncos 34-17. The
Seattle Seahawks claimed the NFC title over the Carolina Panthers 34-14.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2006 Jan 22, In Massachusetts the
bodies of Rachel (27) and 9-month-old daughter Lillian Entwistle were
found in their home in Hopkinton. Rachel was shot in the head and the
young baby in the body. They had been killed as much as 3 days earlier.
On Jan 27 Neil Entwistle (27) was seen leaving his parents home in
Worksop, Nottinghamshire, accompanied by two plain-clothes detectives.
He was soon extradited back to Massachusetts. In 2008 Entwistle was
convicted of murder.
(AP, 1/27/06)(SFC, 6/26/08, p.A2)
2006 Jan 22, An Afghan boy and
four men, including staff of a US security firm, were freed after being
briefly kidnapped by Taliban rebels.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 22, In Afghanistan 7
Taliban rebels escaped from Policharki Prison, the main high-security
prison outside Kabul. 10 prison guards suspected of aiding the escape
were arrested.
(AP, 1/24/06)
2006 Jan 22, An
opposition-sponsored strike closed shops and shut down public transport
across Bangladesh as authorities deployed thousands of security forces
to deter violence.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 22, Evo Morales,
Bolivia's first Indian president, took office with a promise to lift
his nation's struggling indigenous majority out of centuries of poverty
and discrimination.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 22, Cambodia held its
first Senate election. PM Hun Sen's ruling party secured a landslide
victory. Only 123 parliamentarians and 11,261 members of commune
councilors, local administrative bodies, were able to vote.
(AFP, 1/29/06)
2006 Jan 22, Xinhua News reported
that US-based General Electric has won an 196-million-dollar bid to
help build China's West-East Gas Pipeline.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 22, Georgia began
receiving natural gas late in the day from Azerbaijan following
explosions on pipelines in southern Russia that cut off delivery of gas
to Georgia and its neighbor Armenia during a cold snap.
(AP, 1/23/06)
2006 Jan 22, Iran said it was not
withdrawing its foreign currency reserves from European banks, despite
reports late last week that it already had begun the process.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 22, The US military
confirmed that the last of 2 Reuters journalists detained by US
military in Iraq was freed after nearly eight months without being
charged. 2 others were released Jan 15.
(AP, 1/23/06)
2006 Jan 22, Bomb blasts,
shootings and rocket-propelled grenade attacks killed at least 13
people throughout Iraq, including a policeman's four children. Sunni
Arab leaders opposed anyone linked with sectarian violence being given
ministries in the next government. 2 American airmen died in a roadside
bombings near Taji. Another car bomb exploded on a highway about 20
miles south of Baghdad, killing one Iraqi civilian and wounding four
others. Drive-by gunmen shot dead a doctor who worked at the Iraqi
Health Ministry as he drove to work in Baghdad's Saydiyah neighborhood.
(AP, 1/22/06)(AP, 1/23/06)
2006 Jan 22, An Israeli aircraft
fired at three Palestinian gunmen trying to infiltrate Israel from the
Gaza Strip, killing one man and wounding the other two.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 22, In Nepal an electoral
candidate in Janakpur was murdered.
(Econ, 1/28/06, p.40)
2006 Jan 22, Thousands of angry
Pakistanis protested against a US airstrike that killed civilians,
chanting "Long live Osama bin Laden!" as anti-American rallies in the
country entered their second week.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 22, Portugal voted in a
presidential election. Anibal Cavaco Silva (66), a former centre-right
prime minister (1985-1995), won over his five left-wing rivals. He has
pledged to help lead Portugal out of an economic slump and supports
deeper European Union integration.
(AP, 1/23/06)
2006 Jan 22, Explosions hit
pipelines running through southern Russia, cutting the natural gas
supply to Georgia and Armenia during a cold snap.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 22, Sudanese President
Omar Hassan al-Bashir urged the world to provide more equipment and
other support for cash-strapped African forces monitoring a tentative
truce in Sudan's violent Darfur region.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2006 Jan 22, Sudanese police
raided a human rights meeting, seized documents and laptops and briefly
detained participants on the eve of an African summit in the country.
(AP, 1/23/06)
2006 Jan 22, The UN refugee agency
said a smuggler's boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, killing at
least 22 people. Twenty-eight were reported missing.
(AP, 1/22/06)
2007 Jan 22, The US Supreme Court
struck down a California sentencing law because it allowed judges to
add years to a prison term based on their own fact finding. The court
said juries must rule on any evidence used to justify longer prison
terms.
(SFC, 1/23/07, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/23/07, p.A1)
2007 Jan 22, It was reported that
federal officials had arrested 119 people in Contra Costa County, Ca.,
in a weeklong immigration crackdown that was part of “Operation Return
to Sender.” Immigration officials arrested over 750 illegals in the Los
Angeles area. The operation has arrested 13,000 nationwide people since
June 2006.
(SFC, 1/23/07, p.B8)(WSJ, 1/24/06, p.A1)
2007 Jan 22, Intel and Sun
Microsystems announced a major partnership under which Sun would begin
selling business computers running on Intel’s Xeon microprocessors,
while Intel will endorse and support sun’s Solaris operating system.
(SFC, 1/23/07, p.D3)
2007 Jan 22, Nickel prices surged
to an all-time peak above $37,000 per ton in London trading owing to
concerns over dwindling stockpiles of the metal.
(AFP, 1/22/07)
2007 Jan 22, Scientists warned
that glaciers will all but disappear from the Alps by 2050, and that
most would be gone by 2037.
(SFC, 1/23/07, p.A4)
2007 Jan 22, Brazil’s government
announced a growth acceleration package.
(Econ, 1/27/07, p.34)
2007 Jan 22, Hundreds of
scavengers swooped onto a beach in southwest England and carted away
motorcycles, wine barrels, car parts and tennis shoes spilling from a
container ship damaged in recent storms and listing about a mile off
shore.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2007 Jan 22, The EU threatened
Sudan with sanctions if it refused to allow UN peacekeepers into
war-torn Darfur, but rights groups and analysts said the warning was
not enough to stop the killings.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2007 Jan 22, Abbe Pierre (b.1912),
a French priest praised as a living legend for devoting his life to
helping the homeless, using prayer and provocation to tackle misery,
died in Paris. He founded the international Emmaus Community for the
poor. Abbe Pierre, born as Henry Groues, served as a spokesman
for France's conscience since the 1950s when he persuaded parliament to
pass a law, still on the books, forbidding landlords to expel tenants
during winter months.
(AP, 1/22/07)(Econ, 2/3/07, p.87)
2007 Jan 22, In Guinea security
forces fired on protesters marching on the presidential palace. At
least 30 people were killed and over a hundred injured.
(Econ, 1/27/07, p.48)
2007 Jan 22, In Indonesia 16
people, including a policeman, were shot dead and others wounded in a
shootout with residents on Sulawesi, as police searched for suspected
militants in the restive town of Poso.
(AFP, 1/22/07)(Econ, 1/27/07, p.42)
2007 Jan 22, Iran barred 38
nuclear inspectors on a UN list from entering the country in what
appeared to be retaliation for the UN sanctions imposed last month.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2007 Jan 22, A suicide bomber
crashed his car into a central Baghdad market crowded with Shiites just
seconds after another car bomb tore through the stalls where vendors
were hawking DVDs and used clothing, leaving 88 dead in the bloodiest
attack in two months. An Egyptian embassy worker was kidnapped in
Baghdad while on a trip outside the compound. 137 people were killed or
found dead across Iraq. Two US soldiers were killed in Iraq, one in
fighting in Anbar province and the other in a roadside bombing.
(AP, 1/22/07)(AP, 1/23/07)
2007 Jan 22, Leftist Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega, who took power earlier this month, said that
he was slashing his salary and those of Cabinet members.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2007 Jan 22, In Northern Ireland a
report was published that detailed how some in the old Royal Ulster
Constabulary (RUC) protected a band of loyalist paramilitary killers.
(Econ, 1/27/07, p.56)
2007 Jan 22, Pakistan's military
lodged a protest saying US-led forces in Afghanistan mistakenly fired
at a Pakistani border post and killed a soldier. A suicide car bomber
attacked a military convoy in northwestern Pakistan, killing himself
and at least four soldiers.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2007 Jan 22, Rosoboronexport chief
Sergei Chemezov said Russia had fulfilled a contract to sell air
defense missiles to Iran. This included 29 sophisticated missile
systems under a $700 million contract signed in December 2005.
(AP, 1/23/07)
2007 Jan 22, Voting results in
Serbia indicated that the ultra-nationalist Radicals won the most votes
in parliamentary elections, but several pro-democratic groups collected
enough seats to form a new government if they can unite.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2007 Jan 22, Klas Bergenstrand
(61), the head of Sweden's intelligence agency, died from an apparent
heart attack.
(AP, 1/23/07)
2007 Jan 22, In Turkey police said
Yasin Hayal, a nationalist militant convicted of bombing a McDonald's
restaurant in 2004, had confessed to inciting the killing of an ethnic
Armenian journalist last week. Hayal said he provided a gun and money
to the teenager who is suspected of carrying out the Jan 19 shooting.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2007 Jan 22, In northern Uganda a
minibus with 21 people collided with a truck. The dead included 6
foreign missionaries, an American couple, a Dutch couple and two
Kenyans.
(Reuters, 1/23/07)
2007 Jan 22, UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon announced that an external audit would be conducted of the
UN Development Program in North Korea after the US alleged the program
had funneled millions of dollars to Kim Jong Il's regime.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2008 Jan 22, In a surprise move
the US Fed move cutting its key lending rate a steep three-quarters of
a percentage point reducing the federal funds rate to 3.5%, a week
before its regularly scheduled meeting. It was aimed at fears troubling
the financial markets from the US subprime crisis was spreading to the
broader economy.
(AP, 1/22/08)(SFC, 1/23/08, p.C1)
2008 Jan 22, A US official said
thousands of Vietnamese living illegally in the US now face deportation
after the two countries completed an agreement following a decade of
work on the pact.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, The NYC Board of
health voted to require restaurant chains to state the number of
calories in everything on their menus. Full enforcement began in July.
(www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr008-08.shtml)(Econ, 8/30/08, p.64)
2008 Jan 22, Heath Ledger (28), an
Australian-born actor, was found dead at a Manhattan apartment. He
received an Oscar nomination for his role as a troubled gay cowboy in
the 2006 film, "Brokeback Mountain." The NYC medical examiner later
said Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping
pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs.
(AP, 1/22/08)(AP, 2/6/08)
2008 Jan 22, In Afghanistan Sayed
Parwez Kaambakhsh (23) was sentenced to death by a three-judge panel in
the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing a report he
printed off the Internet to fellow journalism students at Balkh
University. The judges said the article humiliated Islam, and members
of a clerics council had pushed for Kaambakhsh to be punished. A media
group said he is actually being punished for reporting by his brother
about abuses by northern warlords. On appeal the death sentence was
reduced to 20 years. In 2009 Kaambakhsh was freed and left the country
following a pardon signed by President Hamid Karzai.
(AP, 1/23/08)(Reuters, 9/7/09)
2008 Jan 22, The Bank of Canada
held back in the face of an aggressive interest rate cut by the US
Federal Reserve, shaving just a quarter-point off its own key rate, but
it signaled more cuts to come as US recession worries spiral.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, The foreign ministers
of China and Germany said that ties between their countries had
normalized after months of stony silence over Berlin receiving the
Dalai Lama.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, A new survey said
war, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month
in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million
victims in nearly a decade.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, The French government
unveiled proposals to slash youth unemployment in the high-immigrant
suburbs that exploded into rioting in 2005, pledging to create tens of
thousands of new jobs.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, In India officials
said an outbreak of bird flu in India's most densely populated state
could spiral out of control, as the disease spread to a seventh
district in West Bengal.
(Reuters, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, Iraq's parliament
passed a law to change the Saddam Hussein-era flag, meeting the demands
of Iraq's Kurdish minority who threatened not to fly the banner during
a pan-Arab meeting in the Kurdish-run north next month. A suicide
bomber detonated his explosives in front of a high school in Baqouba.
One 25-year-old male bystander was killed and 21 people were wounded,
including 12 students and eight teachers. Gunmen broke into a house and
killed six men in a family for cooperating with the Iraqi army. The men
had given information on al-Qaida movements to local Awakening Council
members. A US soldier was killed and another was injured when their
vehicle rolled over in the northern city of Kirkuk.
(AP, 1/22/08)(AP, 1/23/08)
2008 Jan 22, Israel eased a 5-day
blockade of Gaza for a day, allowing in shipments of fuel and medicine.
But tensions erupted over Egypt's closure of its Gaza border, with
Palestinian protesters breaking through the crossing and clashing with
Egyptian guards.
(AP, 1/22/08)(WSJ, 1/23/08, p.A1)
2008 Jan 22, In Lithuania Michael
Campbell (35), a prominent IRA dissident, was arrested along with a
female companion in a sting operation while allegedly trying to
purchase weapons and explosives.
(www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jan/24/northernireland.uknews4)
2008 Jan 22, In Mexico 11 alleged
hit men for a powerful drug cartel were captured at two Mexico City
mansions stocked with grenades and automatic weapons, a day after
Mexican authorities reported nabbing one of the cartel's reputed
leaders.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, North Korea accused
the US of failing to meet its commitments toward the communist nation,
blaming Washington for the slow progress in a nuclear disarmament deal.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, North Korea said it
will close its embassy in Australia because it can no longer afford it.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, An influential group
of retired officers from Pakistan's powerful military urged President
Pervez Musharraf to immediately step down, saying his resignation would
promote democracy and help combat religious militancy. Islamic
militants in Pakistan attacked a fort near the Afghan border, one of
two clashes with government forces that left seven troops and 37
fighters dead. In Europe, President Pervez Musharraf said border
attacks were "pinpricks" that his government must manage.
(AP, 1/22/08)(AP, 1/23/08)
2008 Jan 22, Serbia agreed to a
multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project as part of an energy deal
with Russia. This would boost Moscow’s control over gas supplies to
Europe.
(WSJ, 1/23/08, p.A4)
2008 Jan 22, According to
anti-Khartoum Sudanese rebels armed militias backed by Sudan's
government killed 21 people in an attack on Sureif Judad, a village in
West Darfur.
(Reuters, 1/27/08)
2008 Jan 22, The UN Security
Council's permanent members and Germany agreed on a new draft
resolution on sanctions against Iran, strengthening existing measures
over the country's refusal to suspend its nuclear program.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2008 Jan 22, A UN report said a
newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving
until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola
and Afghanistan.
(AP, 1/22/08)
2009 Jan 22, President Obama
signed an executive order to shutter Guantanamo within one year,
fulfilling his campaign promise to close a facility that critics around
the world say violates the rights of detainees. Obama also banned the
CIA from operating secret prisons.
(AP, 1/22/09)(WSJ, 1/23/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 22, Pres. Obama named
George Mitchell as envoy to the Mideast and Richard Holbrook as envoy
to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
(WSJ, 1/23/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 22, US federal agents
raided Kuchera Industries and Kuchera Defense systems, 2 small
Pennsylvania defense contractors. They were given millions in federal
funding by Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the defense appropriations
committee. In 2007 the WSJ identified Murtha as the largest earmarker
in the House.
(WSJ, 1/23/09, p.A6)
2009 Jan 22, John Thain (53),
former head of Merrill Lynch, was forced out of top job at Bank of
America, after it was revealed that he had approved multi-million
bonuses for Merrill executives in the wake of big quarterly losses
ahead of its acquisition by Bank of America.
(WSJ, 1/23/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 22, In Bangladesh the
Awami League won a landslide victory in the country’s 481 upazilas
(subdistricts). Three people were killed, 150 injured and voter
intimidation was rife.
(Econ, 1/31/09, p.50)
2009 Jan 22, In Bolivia the
government of President Evo Morales began publishing its own newspaper
"Cambio" (Change). Morales grew so irked at the local press last month
that he said he would no longer hold press conferences for local
reporters and said that only 10 percent of journalists are "honorable.”
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, Asian economic gloom
worsened when China said growth plunged in the final quarter of 2008
while Japan said exports fell at a record pace in December amid
weakening Western consumer demand.
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, A Chinese court
condemned two men to death and gave a dairy boss life in prison in the
first sentences handed down in the tainted milk scandal, which ignited
public anger and accusations of cover-ups.
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, Congolese and Rwandan
troops advanced on the headquarters of Tutsi rebel leader, Laurent
Nkunda, as Kinshasa used its neighbor to smother a rebellion in eastern
DR Congo. Rwanda arrested Congo rebel leader Laurent Nkunda after he
fled a joint operation launched by the armies of the two nations.
(AP, 1/22/09)(AP, 1/23/09)
2009 Jan 22, Estonia said it will
end its nearly six-year military mission in Iraq after it failed to
agree with the Iraqi government on terms for its troop deployment.
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, European Union
antitrust regulators said they raided Slovakia's main telecom operator
last week on suspicion of monopoly abuse.
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, In Germany Klaus
Zumwinkel (65), the former chief executive of Deutsche Post, admitted
in court that he evaded taxes by squirreling money away in
Liechtenstein, calling it the greatest mistake of his life. A court on
Jan 26 convicted Zumwinkel of tax evasion, giving him a two-year
suspended sentence and a hefty fine.
(AP, 1/22/09)(AP, 1/26/09)
2009 Jan 22, In Iraq gunmen killed
eight members of a Sunni family and kidnapped two others in a tense
area northeast of Baghdad where Shiite militiamen still operate. A US
soldier was killed in a non-combat vehicle accident.
(AP, 1/23/09)
2009 Jan 22, Israel said it is
lifting restrictions on foreign journalists entering the Gaza Strip, a
ban that had drawn strong criticism from news media.
(AP, 1/23/09)
2009 Jan 22, Mexico inaugurated
one of the world’s largest wind farms, a $550 million project built by
Spain’s Acciona Energia.
(SFC, 1/23/09, p.A4)
2009 Jan 22, In Mexico a man
accused of helping a drug kingpin dispose of hundreds of victims by
dissolving their bodies in caustic soda was arrested in the border city
of Tijuana. Authorities said Santiago Meza Lopez confessed to disposing
of at least 300 bodies over a decade. Army troops acting on a tip
raided a chili-drying warehouse, belonging to the brother of Zacatecas
state Sen. Ricardo Monreal, and found people loading marijuana onto
trucks. More than 11.4 tons of the drug were seized at the plant, near
the city of Fresnillo.
(AP, 1/23/09)(AP, 1/29/09)
2009 Jan 22, NATO's Secretary
General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said President Barack Obama's plan to
nearly double American troop numbers in Afghanistan needs to be matched
by a similar surge in development workers and aid funding.
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, Hundreds of workers
toiled in southern Gaza to repair dozens of tunnels dug under tents or
fake greenhouses while smugglers brought in food and fuel just days
after Israel ended a barrage of bombs and missiles aimed at cutting off
the supply route from Egypt.
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, Russia's Central Bank
said it will widen the ruble's trading range to allow an effective 10
percent devaluation of the national currency.
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, The Sri Lankan
military shelled a village and a makeshift hospital inside a
government-declared "safe zone" for civilians in the north, killing at
least 30 people and injuring scores of others, according to local
health officials.
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, Sudanese troops
battled with rebels in southern Darfur, and the fighting killed five
rebels and two soldiers.
(AP, 1/22/09)
2009 Jan 22, Turkey’s police
detained 39 more suspects in a new wave of arrests connected with
Ergenekon, an alleged secularist plot to bring down the Islamic-rooted
government.
(AP, 1/22/09)(Econ, 1/31/09, p.58)
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