Today in History - January 25
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1327 Jan 25, King
Edward III inherited the British throne. [see Jan 7,20]
(MC, 1/25/02)
1494 Jan 25, Ferdinand I, cruel
king of Naples, died.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1509 Jan 25, Giovanni Morone,
Italian theologist, diplomat, cardinal, "heretic," was born.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1533 Jan 25, England's King Henry
VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn (who later gave
birth to Elizabeth I) in a service performed by Thomas Cramer.
(AP, 1/25/98)(HN, 1/25/99)(PCh, 1992ed, p.177)
1540 Jan 25, Edmund Campion,
saint, Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes), was born in London.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1579 Jan 25, The Union of Utrecht
brought together seven northern, Protestant provinces of the
Netherlands against the Catholics. Known as the United Provinces, they
become the foundation of the Dutch Republic. The Treaty of Utrecht was
signed, marking the beginning of the Dutch Republic.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.22)(AP, 1/25/98)
1586 Jan 25, Lucas Cranach "the
Younger" (70), German painter, died.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1640 Jan 25, Robert Burton, author
(Anatomy of Melancholy), died.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1721 Jan 25, Czar Peter the Great
ended the Russian orthodox patriarchy.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1726 Jan 25, Guillaume Delisle
(50), French geographer (Atlas geographique), died.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1759 Jan 25, Robert Burns
(d.1796), poet and song writer, who wrote ”Auld Lang Syne” and “Comin’
Thru the Rye," was born in Alloway, Scotland. He took traditional
Scottish songs and fiddle tunes, and improved upon existing words, or
added verses where they had been lost. "Should auld acquaintance be
forgot, and never brought to mind, should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne. For old lang syne, my dear, for old lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for old lang syne."
(EMN, 1/96, p.4,6)(HN, 1/25/99)(SFC, 12/30/99,
p.A13)(MC, 1/25/02)
1775 Jan 25, Americans dragged
cannon up hill to fight the British at Gun Hill Road, Bronx.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1787 Jan 25, Shays' Rebellion
suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays
failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass. Small farmers in
Springfield, Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays continued their revolt
against tax laws. Federal troops broke up the protesters of what later
became known as Shay’s Rebellion. [see Aug 29, 1786]
(AP, 1/25/98)(HN,
1/25/99)(www.sjchs-history.org/Shays.html)
1795 Jan 25, The Royal Chapel at
Carmel, Ca., was dedicated with a Mass of Thanksgiving. A major
renovation was undertaken in 1856.
(SSFC, 1/4/09, p.B3)
1799 Jan 25, Eliakim Spooner of
Vermont received the 1st US patent for a seeding machine.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1802 Jan 25, Napoleon was elected
president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1817 Jan 25, Giocchino Rossini's
opera "La Cenerentola" premiered in Rome. It was based on the
Cinderella story.
(WSJ, 11/2/95, p.A-12)(MC, 1/25/02)
1825 Jan 25, Eli Whitney (b.1765),
cotton gin inventor and gun manufacturer, died.
(ON, 2/03, p.6)
1846 Jan 25, The dreaded Corn
Laws, which taxed imported oats, wheat and barley, were repealed by the
British Parliament.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1851 Jan 25, Sojourner Truth
addressed the 1st Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron. [see May,
1851]
(MC, 1/25/02)
1855 Jan 25, Dorothy Wordsworth
(b.1771), English prose writer and the sister of poet William
Wordsworth (1770-1850), died. In 2009 Frances Wilson authored “The
Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth.”
(WSJ, 2/19/09,
p.A17)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dwordsw.htm)
1858 Jan 25, Britain's Princess
Victoria (the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert),
married Crown Prince Frederick William (the future German Emperor and
King of Prussia) at St. James's Palace. The ceremony's
tradition-setting music, personally selected by the Princess Royal,
included the "Bridal Chorus" from Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin" and the
"Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn.
(AP, 1/25/08)
1861 Jan 25, Pres. Lincoln picked
Ferdinand Schavers, a black man, as his first bodyguard. He appointed
William H. Seward as his Sec. of State.
(Hem., 5/97, p.18)(WSJ, 9/19/97, p.A13)
1863 Jan 25, Maj. Gen. Joseph
Hooker assumed command and undertook the reorganization of the
demoralized Army of the Potomac. He commanded the Army of the Potomac
during the Battle of Chancellorsville. By April, he thought he was
ready to face Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia. [see Jan 26]
(HNQ, 9/20/00)
1863 Jan 25, Battle of Kingston,
NC.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1874 Jan 25, The birthday of
Somerset Maugham (d.1965).
(HFA, '96, p.22)
1877 Jan 25, Congress determined
the presidential election between Hayes and Tilden. Tilden won
the popular votes, while Hays won the electoral votes. [see Jan 29]
(MC, 1/25/02)
1878 Jan 25, Off of San Francisco
the 3-masted clipper ship King Philip, built in Maine in 1856, was
towed by a tug through the Golden Gate and laid anchor to allow the tug
to assist a nearby vessel. The anchor failed and the King Philip
drifted onto sand at Ocean Beach, where it foundered. Remnants of the
ship appeared in 1980 and again in 2007.
(SFC, 5/8/07, p.B5)
1882 Jan 25, Virginia Woolf
(d.1941), English author, critic, was born. She was a member of the
intellectual circle known as the Bloomsbury Group and wrote "Mrs.
Dalloway" and "Orlando." “On the outskirts of every agony sits some
observant fellow who points.” “I read the Book of Job last night, I
don’t think God comes out of it well.” “The compensation of growing old
was simply this: that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one
has gained—at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavor to
existence, the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round,
slowly, in the light.” In 1997 Panthea Reid published: “Art and
Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf.” In 1998 Mitchell Leaska
published: “Granite and Rainbow: The Life of Virginia Woolf.”
(AP, 7/6/97)(IW 12/29/97)(AP, 1/18/98)(SFC, 5/25/98,
p.E6)(HN, 1/25/99)
1886 Jan 25, Wilhelm Furtwangler,
conductor, composer, was born in Berlin, Germany.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1890 Jan 25, The United Mine
Workers of America was founded.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1890 Jan 25, Reporter Nellie Bly
(Elizabeth Cochrane) of the New York World received a tumultuous
welcome home after she completed a round-the-world journey in 72 days,
6 hours, 11 minutes.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1892 Jan 25, In Buganda (Uganda)
the Battle of Mengo took place. Catholics advanced against Anglicans
armed with machine guns just outside what is now Kampala.
(Econ, 2/14/04,
p.16)(www.africa2000.com/UGANDA/tribute.html)
1900 Jan 25, the US 56th Congress
refused to seat Brigham H. Roberts, Mormon Democrat from Utah, because
of his polygamy.
(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1904 Jan 25, J.M. Synge's "Riders
to the Sea," premiered in Dublin. [see Feb 25]
(MC, 1/25/02)
1904 Jan 25, Two-hundred (179)
coal miners were entombed in an explosion in Cheswick, Pennsylvania.
(HN, 1/25/99)(MC, 1/25/02)
1905 Jan 25, Largest diamond,
Cullinan (3106 carets), was found in South Africa.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1906 Jan 25, Major Gen. Joseph
Wheeler II (70), Confederate, US General, died. He led a cavalry
division in the Battle of San Juan Hill in 1898. As a Confederate
brigadier and then major general, “Fightin’ Joe” Wheeler commanded the
cavalry of the Confederate Army of Mississippi and, later, the Army of
Tennessee. Captured in May 1865, he went on to have a prosperous
postwar life, serving as a U.S. congressman for eight terms. After his
Spanish-American War service, Wheeler retired from the army as a
brigadier general of U.S. Regulars. He was interred in Arlington
National Cemetery.
(HNQ, 2/13/02)(MC, 1/25/02)
1915 Jan 25, Umberto Giordano,
Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gene" premiered in NYC.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1915 Jan 25, The inventor of the
telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated transcontinental
telephone service in the United States. Bell placed the first
ceremonial cross-continental call from New York to his old colleague
Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
(SFC, 2/3/97, p.D1) (AP, 1/25/98)(HN, 1/25/99)
1918 Jan 25, Austria and Germany
rejected U.S. peace proposals.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1919 Jan 25, The League of Nations
plan was adopted by the Allies.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1921 Jan 25, Karel Capek's "
R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots" (1920), premiered in Prague. The
play introduced the term robot (robota for forced labor).
(www.czech-language.cz/translations/rur-introen.html)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capek.htm)
1924 Jan 25, The 1st Winter
Olympic games opened in Chamonix, France.
(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.A19)(MC, 1/25/02)
1928 Jan 25, The Zamorano Club was
founded in Los Angeles, Ca., “to establish contact and encourage
exchange of thought among its members, who shall be men interested in
Fine Books.” The club was named after Agustin Vicente Zamorano, the
first printer in Alta California.
(www.zamoranoclubla.org/history/)(http://tinyurl.com/s3c77)
1928 Jan 25, Eduard Shevardnadze,
foreign minister of USSR, was born in Soviet Georgia.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1929 Jan 25, Members of the New
York Stock Exchange asked for an additional 275 seats.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1930 Jan 25, New York police
routed a Communist rally at the Town Hall.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1933 Jan 25, Corazon Aquino was
born as Corazon Cojuangco. She defeated the corrupt Ferdinand Marcos to
become the President of the Philippines (1986-1992). Her husband had
been killed by Marcos’ gunmen.
(HN, 1/25/99)(www.answers.com/topic/coraz-n-aquino)
1937 Jan 25, The US radio program
"The Guiding Light," made its debut. In 1952 it became a television
soap opera on CBS.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiding_Light)
1940 Jan 25, Nazis established a
Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1943 Jan 25, The last German
airfield in Stalingrad was captured by the Red Army.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1945 Jan 25, The US Justice
Department's Antitrust Division filed suit in the U.S. District Court
in New York against De Beers, four other British or South African
companies, three Belgian companies and one Portuguese Company which
together produced and sold 95 percent of the world's diamonds,
'charging them with conspiring to restrain and monopolize the foreign
trade of the United States in gem and industrial diamonds in violation
of the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Wilson Tariff Acts.
(www.macha.f9.co.uk/d-Ch5-rationing.html)
1946 Jan 25, The United Mine
Workers rejoined the American Federation of Labor.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1947 Jan 25, American gangster Al
Capone died of syphilis in Miami Beach, Fla., at age 48. While he was
in prison at Alcatraz Capone composed a song titled “Madonna Mia,” and
gave to Vincent Casey, a Jesuit priest, who had visited him regularly.
In 2009 the song was produced and made available on CD.
(AP, 1/25/98)(SFC, 4/17/09, p.A6)
1949 Jan 25, Axis Sally, who
broadcasted Nazi propaganda to U.S. troops in Europe, stood trial in
the United States for war crimes.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1949 Jan 25, “Comecon,” or the
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was the Soviet Union’s attempt
to create a program that would be the Communist equivalent of the
Marshall Plan, an American program to rebuild postwar western Europe.
After the formal division of Germany into east and west, the Soviets
attempted to create the organization to replicate for Eastern Europe
what the Marshall Plan was to do for the west. The Soviet-backed
organization started with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland,
and Romania becoming founding members (in addition to the Soviet
Union). Albania and East Germany joined shortly thereafter. Comecon was
never able to match the effectiveness of the American program because
of the lack of resources in the weaker Communist countries and
inflexible Soviet leadership concerned primarily with strengthening the
Soviet Union. The organization, which sought coordination between the
nations’ centrally-planned economies lasted until 1990 when the
democratization movements in eastern Europe made Comecon's purpose
moot. In 1991, Comecon was renamed the Organization for International
Economic Cooperation.
(HNQ, 6/30/99)(HNQ, 1/22/01)
1951 Jan 25, The U.S. Eighth Army
in Korea launched Operation Thunderbolt, a counter attack to push the
Chinese Army north of the Han River.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1955 Jan 25, Columbia University
scientists developed an atomic clock that was accurate to within one
second in 300 years.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1956 Jan 25, Khrushchev said that
he believed that Eisenhower was sincere in his efforts to abolish war.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1959 Jan 25, American Airlines
opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled
transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707 from LA to NY for $301.
(AP, 1/25/98)(HN, 1/25/99)(MC, 1/25/02)
1959 Jan 25, Pope John XXIII
proclaimed the 2nd Vatican council.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1961 Jan 25, Walt Disney's "101
Dalmatians" was released.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1961 Jan 25, President Kennedy
held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and
television.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1963 Jan 25, Wilson Kettle (102)
died, leaving 582 living descendents.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1964 Jan 25, Beatles 1st US #1, "I
Want to Hold your Hand."
(MC, 1/25/02)
1969 Jan 25, US-North Vietnamese
peace talks began in Paris.
(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1970 Jan 25, The Robert Altman
film "M*A*S*H" premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(film))
1971 Jan 25, Charles Manson and
three female followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and
conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress
Sharon Tate.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1971 Jan 25, The Philadelphia mint
made its 1st trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar.
(www.usmint.gov/search/index.cfm?flash=yes&criteria=&hf=1&group=166)
1971 Jan 25, In Milan, Italy,
firebombs damaged the Pirelli tire factory.
(WSJ, 12/13/07, p.A18)
1971 Jan 25, In Uganda Gen. Idi
Amin (d.2003) led a military coup that seized power while Pres. Obote
was at a summit in Singapore. Obote sought refuge in Tanzania.
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)(SFC, 10/12/05, p.B7)
1972 Jan 25, Pres. Nixon made
public the secret talks from May 31, 1971, that included a
cease-fire-in-place, US withdrawal, and the return of prisoners from
North Vietnam. He made a revised offer with the concurrence of South
Vietnam's Pres. Thieu. Nixon aired the eight-point peace plan for
Vietnam, asking for POW release in return for withdrawal.
(WSJ, 2/5/96, p.A-19)(HN, 1/25/99)
1972 Jan 25, Shirley Chisholm, the
first African American woman elected to U.S. Congress, announced her
candidacy for president as Democrat.
(HN, 1/25/01)
1974 Jan 25, Ray Kroc (1902-1984),
the head of McDonald's Corp., bought the SD Padres for $12 million and
prevented the team's planned move to Washington DC.
(www.addictsports.com/baseball/archive/index.php/t-28507.html)(SFC,
10/13/03, p.A19)
1974 Jan 25, Bulent Ecevit
(1925-2006) became prime minister of Turkey.
(www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/turkey.htm)
1978 Jan 25, Muriel Humphrey was
appointed to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of her
husband, Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1980 Jan 25, Robert L. Johnson
launched Black Entertainment Television (BET). It began as a
two-hour-a-week service that aired every Friday evening.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Entertainment_Television)
1980 Jan 25, A US-Mexico
Extradition Treaty, signed by Pres. Carter in 1978, went into effect.
It allowed Mexico to refuse extradition of suspects facing the
death penalty in the US.
(http://tinyurl.com/2svjk5)(www.escapingjustice.com/extrafpo.htm)
1980 Jan 25, Paul McCartney
was released from Tokyo jail & deported.
(www.taima.org/en/hemplib3.htm#mccartney)
1980 Jan 25, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
was elected as Iran's first president since the 1979 Islamic
revolution. Though he won an overwhelming majority of the popular vote,
he did not have the support of the predominantly fundamentalist
parliament.
(http://www.80s.com/Icons/Bios/abolhassan_bani_sadr.html)
1981 Jan 25, The 52 Americans held
hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States.
(AP, 1/25/99)
1981 Jan 25, In China Jiang Qing
(1914-1991), Mao's widow, received a suspended death sentence.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Qing)(http://tinyurl.com/3e5c2m)
1983 Jan 25, The IRAS space probe
was launched. It studied infrared radiation from across the cosmos and
exposed stars as they were born from clouds of gas and dust.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)
1983 Jan 25, Klaus Barbie, SS
chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, was arrested in Bolivia.
(www.exilordinaire.org/rubriques/?keyRubrique=klaus_barbie2)
1983 Jan 25, China's supreme court
commuted the death sentence of Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, to life.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1983-1/1983-01-25-ABC-22.html)
1984 Jan 25, President Reagan
endorsed the development of the first U.S. permanently manned space
station.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1988 Jan 25, In his final State of
the Union address, President Reagan declared America was "strong,
prosperous, at peace." Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather
clashed on "The CBS Evening News" as the anchorman attempted to
question the Republican presidential candidate about his role in the
Iran-Contra affair.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1989 Jan 25, Michael Jordan scored
his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season.
(www.nba.com/jordan/mj8889.html)
1989 Jan 25, The US Senate Armed
Services Committee opened confirmation hearings on the nomination of
John Tower to be secretary of defense.
(AP, 1/25/99)
1990 Jan 25, President Bush
proposed to add an additional $1.2 billion to the budget for the war on
drugs, including a 50% increase in military spending.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron/index.html)
1990 Jan 25, An Avianca Boeing 707
ran out of fuel and crashed in Cove Neck, N.Y.; 73 of the 161 people
aboard were killed.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1990 Jan 25, Actress Ava Gardner,
star in 60 films, died in London at age 67. Her 3 husbands included
Mickey Rooney (1942-1943), Artie Shaw (1945-1946) and Frank Sinatra
(1951-1957).
(AP, 1/25/00)(SFEC, 3/12/00, Par p.2)
1991 Jan 25, During the Gulf War
Iraq sabotaged Kuwait’s main supertanker loading pier, dumping an
estimated 460 million gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf.
Missiles fired from western Iraq struck in the Tel Aviv and Haifa
areas, killing one Israeli and injuring more than 40 others.
(AP, 1/25/01)(SFC, 11/20/02, p.A14)
1992 Jan 25, Finance ministers
from the Group of Seven nations met in Garden City, N.Y., agreeing to
intensify their cooperation to stimulate the world's sluggish economy,
while leaving it to each country to decide how.
(AP, 1/25/02)
1992 Jan 25, Mahmoud Riad
(b.1917), Egyptian diplomat and sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79), died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9390991?hook=795127)
1993 Jan 25, President Clinton
appointed his wife, Hillary, to head a committee on health-care reform.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1993 Jan 25, Sears announced it
was closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years.
(www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=2210)
1993 Jan 25, Five commuters were
shot outside the gates of the US CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Two
people died. Mir [Amil] Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani national, was tracked
down for the shooting in 1997 in Afghanistan and returned to the US. He
was convicted of murder in 1997 and was executed Nov 14, 2002.
(SFC, 6/18/97, p.A3)(SFC,11/11/97,
p.A3)(SFC,11/15/97, p.A3)(AP, 1/25/98)(SFC, 11/15/02, p.A3)
1993 Jan 25, Lance Cpl. Anthony D.
Botello (21) of Wilburton, Oklahoma, was killed by a sniper in
Mogadishu, Somalia.
(LCNT, 2/4/93)
1994 Jan 25, President Clinton
delivered his State of the Union address in which he challenged
Congress to pass comprehensive health care reforms.
(AP, 1/25/99)
1994 Jan 25, Singer Michael
Jackson settled a child molestation lawsuit against him; terms were
confidential, although one source put the monetary figure at least $10
million.
(AP, 1/25/04)
1994 Jan 25, The United States
launched Clementine I, an unmanned spacecraft that was to study the
moon before it was "lost and gone forever."
(AP, 1/25/99)
1995 Jan 25, The defense gave its
opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, saying
Simpson was the victim of a "rush to judgment" by authorities who had
mishandled evidence and ignored witnesses.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1995 Jan, 25, Extensive flooding
hit the streets of Las Vegas and many casinos had water dripping onto
gambling tables.
(HFA, '96, p.73)
1995 Jan 25, The top of a Chinese
Long March missile disintegrated as it hit supersonic speeds and
destroyed a Hughes Apstar 2 satellite. The debris killed at least 6
villagers.
(SFC, 6/15/98,
p.A5)(www.christusrex.org/www2/china/Hughes/pg7.html)
1996 Jan 25, With Republicans
bruised by two government shutdowns, the US House overwhelmingly
approved legislation to keep federal agencies running through March
15th, 1996.
(AP, 1/25/01)
1996 Jan 25, Charles Rothenberg
was arrested in the shooting of a 47-year-old man and charged with
attempted murder. He had set fire to his 6-year-old son in 1983 in
southern California and served 7 years in prison.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A17)
1996 Jan 25, Wells Fargo won the
battle to acquire First Interstate of Los Angeles in a $11.6 billion
pact.
(WSJ, 1/2/97, p.R2)(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A10)
1996 Jan 25, Jonathon Larson (35),
composer of Rent, died of an aortic aneurysm.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.E4)
1997 Jan 25, Responding to recent
cases of deadly food poisoning, President Clinton promised to seek $43
million dollars to implement an early warning system for food
contamination.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1997 Jan 25, Astrologer Jeane
Dixon died in Washington, D.C., at age 79.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1997 Jan 25, In Lushnja, Albania,
thousands of people lost money in pyramid investment schemes and took
to the streets in protest. Some one million Kalashnikov rifles were
stolen from government depots.
(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.A14)(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A12)
1997 Jan 25, In Argentina Noticias
photojournalist Jose Luis Cabezas was found murdered in the Atlantic
resort of Pinamar. He had been handcuffed, tortured and burned alive
near a meeting place of the Justicialist Party. It was later revealed
that police officers carried out the murder under orders from Alfredo
Yabran. In 2000 a tribunal found 3 former provincial police officers
guilty in the murder along with a former security guard and 4 civilians.
(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A15)(SFC, 10/2/97,
p.A13)(SFC,12/9/97, p.B10)(SFC, 2/28/98, p.A7)(SFC, 2/3/00, p.A13)
1997 Jan 25, In China it was
reported that winter storms had stranded some 320,000 people in
Xinjiang province and that many were close to starvation.
(SFC, 1/25/97, p.A18)
1997 Jan 25, In Columbia gunmen of
the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia) kidnapped Fernando
Caballero Argaez, president of the Bogota Stock Exchange, in Granada.
(SFC, 1/28/97, p.A8)
1997 Jan 25, In Kenya it was
reported that mass starvation was threatening after a widespread
draught this season.
(SFC, 1/25/97, p.A18)
1997 Jan 25, In Somaliland it was
reported that many wells and bore holes had dried up and that cattle
and goats were dying in large numbers.
(SFC, 1/25/97, p.A18)
1998 Jan 25, "Grease" closed at
Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4610)
1998 Jan 25, In Superbowl XXXII
the Denver Broncos faced the Green Bay Packers. The Broncos led by John
Elway won their first Super Bowl title in four tries, defeating the
Green Bay Packers 31-24.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, p.C1)(AP, 1/25/99)
1998 Jan 25, American astronaut
Andrew Thomas moved from the space shuttle Endeavour into the Russian
space station Mir as the relief for David Wolf.
(AP, 1/25/99)
1998 Jan 25, In Algeria 20 people
had their throats cut in the village of Frenda. Local media reported
that 50 people were killed in Kaid Ben Larbi. Ambushes and bombings
were widespread as the celebration of Leilat El Qadr (night of destiny)
began in recognition of the end of Ramadan. The government reported 29
rebels killed in 3 clashes in the last few days.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.A8)(WSJ, 1/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Jan 25, In Cuba Pope John
Paul II spoke in Revolution Square on his final day in the country. He
urged Castro to respect human rights.
(WSJ, 1/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Jan 25, In Wandhama, India,
north of Srinagar, Muslim separatists killed 23 Hindus.
(SFC, 1/27/98, p.A10)
1998 Jan 25, In Israel the chief
rabbinate proposed that the state recognize Reform and Conservative
converts as Jews.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.A8)
1998 Jan 25, In Italy kidnappers
of industrialist Giuseppe Soffiantini sent a slice of his ear and a
note to a TV news station. The ransom was reportedly reduced to about
$6 million.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.B12)
1998 Jan 25, In Sri Lanka suicide
bombers killed themselves and 8 others as their truck crashed through
the gates of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy. The temple reportedly
held a tooth of the Buddha brought from India in the 4th century.
Enraged Sinhalese burned down a Hindu cultural center in Kandy in
retaliation.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.A9)
1998 Jan 25, In Turkey Prime
Minister Yilmaz disclosed that the Ciller government’s security forces
used death squads against Kurds and engaged in drug trafficking. This
was a result of the 7-month investigation of the Susurluk scandal.
(WSJ, 1/26/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/26/98, p.A15)
1999 Jan 25, The US planned to
notify the World Trade Organization that it planned sanctions on the
European Union and 100% tariffs on a wide range of products due to a
dispute over EU banana import laws.
(SFC, 1/13/99, p.A11)
1999 Jan 25, A US warplane missile
reportedly misfired and Iraq asserted that 11 civilians were killed and
59 injured at al-Jumhuriya. The Pentagon confirmed that an AGM-130
missile had gone off mark.
(SFC, 1/26/99, p.A1)(SFC, 1/27/99, p.A7)(SFC,
2/13/99, p.A9)
1999 Jan 25, The Supreme Court
ruled, 5-4, that the 2000 census could not use statistical sampling to
enhance its accuracy.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1999 Jan 25, The US Supreme Court
upheld rules to let new local phone companies connect to the Bell
companies at low cost.
(SFC, 1/26/99, p.A3)
1999 Jan 25, Jury selection began
in Jasper, Texas, in the trial of John William King, charged in the
dragging death of James Byrd Jr.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1999 Jan 25, William J. McCorkle
(30), "King of the Infomercials," and his wife, Chantal, were sentenced
to 24 years in prison for fraud and money-laundering.
(SFC, 1/26/99, p.A3)
1999 Jan 25, Abecnego Monje Ortiz
(18) was shot in the back by a US DEA agent as he crossed the Rio
Grande in an inner tube with 14 others near Eagle Pass, Texas. In 2001
the DEA agreed to pay Ortiz $1.75 million to help pay medical costs.
The DEA agent was sentenced in 2000 to 15 years in prison.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A14)
1999 Jan 25, In Louisville doctors
transplanted a left hand to Matthew Scott in a 14 1/2 hour operation.
It was the first hand transplant in the United States.
(SFC, 1/29/99, p.A2)(AP, 1/25/00)
1999 Jan 25, In China an explosion
in Yizhang killed 8 people and injured over 60. The area was the site
of recent worker and farmer protests over corruption, unpaid wages and
taxes.
(SFC, 1/29/99, p.E9)
1999 Jan 25, In Colombia a 6.0
earthquake hit in western Valle del Cauca state and at least 273 people
were killed and 900 injured. The cities of Armenia, Pereira, and
Calarca were hardest hit. The death toll went up and it was predicted
that 2,000 died in Armenia alone. A powerful earthquake rocked
Colombia, killing more than 1,000 people.
(SFC, 1/26/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/26/99, p.A1)(SFC,
1/27/99, p.A1)(AP, 1/25/00)
1999 Jan 25, In Rakovina, Kosovo 5
ethnic Albanians, including 2 children, were found riddled with bullets.
(SFC, 1/26/99, p.A12)
1999 Jan 25, In Jordon King
Hussein named his eldest son, Abdullah, as heir to the throne.
(SFC, 1/26/99, p.A12)
1999 Jan 25, In Sierra Leone a
mortuary worker reported that at least 2,000 men, women and children
were killed in Freetown.
(SFC, 2/13/99, p.A8)
1999 Jan 25, In Zimbabwe 3 Supreme
Court justices wrote Pres. Mugabe a letter asking that he confirm that
the army has no power to arrest civilians and that the government will
not tolerate torture.
(SFC, 2/8/99, p.A10)
2000 Jan 25, Martina Navratilova
entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
(AP, 1/25/01)
2000 Jan 25, Under government
orders, the Florida relatives of Elian Gonzalez agreed to make the boy
available for a meeting with his Cuban grandmothers at a neutral site.
(AP, 1/25/01)
2000 Jan 25, A snow storm hit the
East Coast and left Raleigh, NC, with over a foot of snow. At least 5
deaths were blamed on the storm.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 25, In Texas a tanker
truck with 9000 gallons of furfural overturned and spilled the toxic
chemical, which is used in manufacturing, into a drainage ditch that
flows into San Martin Lake. An estimated 6 million fish and dozens of
ducks were soon found dead.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A9)
2000 Jan 25, In Bosnia NATO
peacekeepers arrested Mitar Vasiljevic (45), a member of the White
Eagles Bosnian-Serb paramilitary group, on charges of extermination of
Bosnian Muslim civilians between 1992 and 1994. The charges included
helping to burn scores of Muslims to death in Visegrad.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.A9)
2000 Jan 25, The Russian
government announced that 1,055 servicemen had been killed and 3,206
wounded in Chechnya since Oct 1.
(SFC, 1/27/00, p.A13)
2000 Jan 25, A complaint was
submitted in Dakar, Senegal, against former Chad dictator Hissene
Habre. It detailed 97 allegations of political killings, 142 cases of
torture and 100 disappearances.
(SFC, 1/27/00, p.C2)
2001 Jan 25, Richard Clarke, US
top counter-terrorism advisor, presented a strategy document to
Condoleeza Rice with proposal for eliminating the threat from al-Qaeda.
The document was made public in 2005.
(SFC, 2/12/05, p.A5)
2001 Jan 25, Alan Greenspan said
budget surpluses were growing enough to allow a tax cut and still
eliminate the national debt by the end of the decade.
(SFC, 1/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 25, A jury in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., found 13-year-old Lionel Tate guilty of first-degree
murder in the death of a 6-year-old family friend. Tate had said he
accidentally killed the girl while imitating moves by pro wrestlers.
(AP, 1/25/02)
2001 Jan 25, The first World
Social Forum (WSF), originated by Oded Grajew, opened in Porto Alegre,
Brazil, organized by many groups including the French Association for
the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Social_Forum)
2001 Jan 25, Israel and Palestine
continued talks in Egypt as an Israeli motorist was killed in an ambush
by the “Thabet Thabet Brigade.”
(SFC, 1/26/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 25, In Venezuela a DC-3
Rutaca Airlines flight 225 crashed and all 24 passengers, American and
European tourists, were killed.
(SFC, 1/26/01, p.A12)
2002 Jan 25, A senior House
Democrat called for Thomas White, Sec. of the Army and former Enron
executive, to testify on his role at Enron.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan 25, In Cambridge, Mass.,
Thomas Junta was sentenced 6 to 10 years in prison for beating another
man to death at their sons' hockey practice.
(AP, 1/25/03)
2002 Jan 25, In Pittsburgh 2
masked gunmen killed 2 men and a young girl in a sandwich shop.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A17)
2002 Jan 25, J. Clifford Baxter, a
former Enron vice-chairman, was found dead of apparent suicide in Sugar
Land, a Houston suburb. He had reportedly complained about the
company's questionable accounting practices.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A1)(SFC, 4/12/02, p.A14)(AP,
1/25/03)
2002 Jan 25, In Afghanistan
leaders called for an increase in peacekeeping troops as warlords
competed for power outside of Kabul.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A14)
2002 Jan 25, A boat full of
Haitian migrants capsized near the Bahamas and at least 14 people were
drowned.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.AA8)
2002 Jan 25, A bomb in Bogota,
Colombia, killed 4 police officers and a girl (5). FARC rebels were
blamed.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A19)
2002 cJan 25, Chinese PM Zhu
Rongji visited Bangalore, India, and said: Your are number one in
software, and we are number one in hardware. If Indian software and
Chinese hardware work together, we can create a force that will be
number one in the world.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A24)
2002 Jan 25, A Palestinian suicide
bomber sd’d in a Tel Aviv neighborhood and at least 25 people were
wounded following an Israeli missile attack in the Gaza Strip that
killed a senior Hamas commander. Separately 2 Hamas members were killed
by Israeli troops.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A6)
2003 Jan 25, The Sundance Film
Festival in Utah gave the grand jury prize to "American Splendor" and
the documentary grand prize to "Capturing the Friedmans." The audience
award went to "The Station Agent."
(SSFC, 1/26/03, p.A2)
2003 Jan 25, A computer worm
slowed Internet traffic. The "slammer" virus sought vulnerable
Microsoft "SQL Server 2000" software.
(SSFC, 1/26/03, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/28/03, p.A1)
2003 Jan 25, NASA launched a
spacecraft into orbit to measure all the radiation streaming toward
Earth from the sun. The small satellite is called Sorce — for Solar
Radiation and Climate Experiment.
(AP, 1/25/04)
2003 Jan 25, Ivory Coast Pres.
Laurent Gbagbo accepted a peace plan to end the 4-month civil war.
Former PM Seydou Diarra would lead until new elections.
(SSFC, 1/26/03, p.A14)(WSJ, 1/27/03, p.A1)
2003 Jan 25, In Nepal suspected
Maoist rebels gunned down police chief Krishna Mohan Shrestha along
with his wife and bodyguard.
(SSFC, 1/26/03, p.A14)
2003 Jan 25, Pakistan marked its
entry into the space age when its first communication satellite,
PAKSAT-I, formally began operations.
(AP, 1/25/03)
2003 Jan 25, In Venezuela
opponents of Pres. Hugo Chavez launched a 24-hour street demonstration
to protest a court ruling that postponed a referendum on Chavez's rule.
(AP, 1/25/03)
2004 Jan 25, "The Lord of the
Rings: The Return of the King," the final installment of the epic
fantasy trilogy that hadn't yet won most major movie awards, finally
snared best dramatic film and three other trophies at the Golden
Globes. HBO's six-hour adaptation of "Angels in America" won best
miniseries or TV movie.
(AP, 1/26/05)
2004 Jan 25, Outgoing U.S. weapons
inspector David Kay told National Public Radio his inability to find
illicit arms in Iraq raised serious questions about U.S.
intelligence-gathering.
(AP, 1/25/05)
2004 Jan 25, NASA's Opportunity
rover zipped its first pictures of Mars to Earth, delighting and
puzzling scientists just hours after the spacecraft bounced to a
landing on the opposite side of the red planet from its twin rover,
Spirit.
(AP, 1/25/04)
2004 Jan 25, In Greenville, SC, a
fire at a Comfort Inn left 6 people dead.
(SFC, 1/26/04, p.A3)
2004 Jan 25, Mikhail Saakashvili
was inaugurated as Georgia's president.
(AP, 1/25/05)
2004 Jan 25, In northern Iraq a US
helicopter crashed while searching for a river patrol boat that had
capsized on the Tigris. A soldier and 2 pilots were missing. 4 Iraqi
policemen manning a checkpoint outside Ramadi west of Baghdad were
killed in a drive-by shooting. Gunmen also killed three policemen at
another checkpoint in Ramadi. US soldiers arrested nearly 50 people and
confiscated weapons in several raids in Iraq's volatile Sunni Triangle.
Another soldier died of wounds from the previous day's attacks.
(AP, 1/25/04)(AP, 1/26/04)
2004 Jan 25, Rescuers in the
Philippines launched a massive search for 53 fishermen missing after
their boats were pounded by strong winds and high waves off three
northwestern provinces. At least two fishermen died.
(AP, 1/25/04)
2005 Jan 25, The US Congressional
Budget Office predicted the government will accumulate another $855
billion in deficits over the next decade. Administration officials
detailed President Bush's request for $80 billion to pay for military
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year.
(AP, 1/25/05)
2005 Jan 25, SF and dozens of
other US cities undertook a tally of their homeless competing for
nearly $1.5 billion in federal funds to care for the homeless.
(WSJ, 2/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 25, Legislators in San
Francisco, Ca., voted 8-3 to ban smoking in public parks, becoming the
first major American city to embrace such an expansive ban on tobacco
use.
(Reuters, 1/26/05)(SFC, 1/26/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 25, The Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation pledged $750 million over 10 years to support the
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.
(WSJ, 1/25/05, p.D6)
2005 Jan 25, Georgina Mace told a
meeting of zoologists in London that 0.5% of the area of natural
habitats on land is lost each year, largely due to conversion to
farmland.
(Econ, 2/5/05, p.74)
2005 Jan 25, Philip Johnson
(b.1906), architect, died in Conn. His buildings included 101
California St. in SF and the AT&T building in NYC.
(SFC, 1/27/05, p.A2)
2005 Jan 25, Ethiopia’s government
said it has began giving free doses of life-prolonging drugs to about
14,000 HIV-infected Ethiopians in a US-funded program.
(AP, 1/25/05)
2005 Jan 25, Paris' new memorial
to the Holocaust was inaugurated, with President Chirac bowing before
the wall inscribed with the names of 76,000 Jews sent to Nazi death
camps from France.
(AP, 1/25/05)
2005 Jan 25, In western India
thousands of Hindus panicked during a religious procession, when fire
broke out in roadside stalls. The resulting stampede killed at least
258 people near the village of Wai.
(AP, 1/25/05)(AP, 1/26/05)
2005 Jan 25, In Iraq gunmen
assassinated a senior judge. Roy Hallums, an American hostage kidnapped
in November, pleaded for his life with a rifle pointed at his head in a
newly released video. Hallums was rescued by coalition troops on Sept.
7, 2005. 11 Iraqi police died in clashes. 6 US soldiers died, including
5 in a vehicle crash north of Baghdad.
(WSJ, 1/26/05, p.A1)(AP, 1/25/06)
2005 Jan 25, Irish Prime Minister
Bertie Ahern prepared to meet with Sinn Fein leaders, in his first
talks with the IRA-linked party since the Dec 20 bank theft.
(AP, 1/25/05)
2005 Jan 25, The top Hamas leader
said his militant group is prepared to suspend attacks if Israel stops
targeting militants and agrees to release thousands of Palestinian
prisoners.
(AP, 1/25/05)
2006 Jan 25, Republicans John
McCain and Tom Coburn said they're putting their colleagues on notice:
They will challenge special projects that senators insert into spending
bills until the practice stops.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2006 Jan 25, US authorities
discovered what they say is the largest and most sophisticated tunnel
under their border with Mexico, one that was used by drug trafficking
gangs. The tunnel began near Tijuana’s airport and ended 2,400 feet
away in a warehouse on the US side of the border. The find included 2
tons of marijuana.
(AFP, 1/27/06)(SFC, 1/27/06, p.B14)
2006 Jan 25, Hattie McDaniel, the
first black actress to win an Academy Award, was honored with a U.S.
Postal Service commemorative stamp. McDaniel became the 29th person
honored in the Postal Service's long-running Black Heritage stamp
series.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2006 Jan 25, "Survivor" Richard
Hatch was convicted in Providence, R.I., of failing to pay taxes on his
$1 million winnings. He was later sentenced to more than four years in
prison.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2006 Jan 25, Ameriprise Financial
Inc. said it has notified about 226,000 people that their names and
other personal data were stored on a laptop computer that was stolen
from an employee's vehicle.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2006 Jan 25, Konami Digital
Entertainment reported that West Virginia school officials had struck a
partnership to use Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution video game in all of
its 765 public schools to attack a youth obesity problem.
(SFC, 1/25/06, p.C1)
2006 Jan 25, Microsoft offered to
license access to its source code for Windows in an effort to fend off
pressure from US and EU authorities.
(WSJ, 1/25/06, p.A3)
2006 Jan 25, The US-based UPN and
WB television broadcast networks agreed to merge.
(SFC, 1/26/06, p.E1)
2006 Jan 25, Heart device maker
Guidant Corp. agreed to be bought by Boston Scientific Corp. for $80
per share, or about $27 billion, and terminated an agreement to be
acquired by Johnson & Johnson.
(Reuters, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, It was reported that
Wyoming rancher Allen Cook (57), with no connection to the University
of Pittsburgh, has given the school 4,700 acres of land littered with
dinosaur fossils.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, In Florida a car full
of siblings headed home was crushed between a truck and a stopped
school bus, killing the seven adopted children just two miles from
where they lived.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2006 Jan 25, In Australia
emergency crews rushed to clean up 10,000 liters of fuel oil that
fouled mangroves off Gladstone City near the Great Barrier Reef after
two vessels collided.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, The older daughter of
former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was detained upon arrival in
Washington after failing to obey a summons by a Chilean judge, who
indicted her on tax evasion charges.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, Google Inc. launched
a search engine in China that censors material about human rights,
Tibet and other topics sensitive to Beijing, defending the move as a
trade-off granting Chinese greater access to other information.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, In Haiti 2 French
missionaries and two Haitians were kidnapped near Cite Soleil, a
volatile slum outside Port-au-Prince. Last month, there were 162
reported kidnap cases in Haiti, and January has seen 37 so far. The
actual number is probably much higher because victims' families often
prefer to negotiate with kidnappers rather than notify police.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2006 Jan 25, Iran's top nuclear
negotiator said that Tehran views Moscow's offer to have Iran's uranium
enriched in Russia as a positive development but no agreement has been
reached between the countries.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, The Iraqi Ministry of
Justice said it would release 5 of 8 female detainees as part of a
larger release program. Police in Baghdad reported the discovery of 10
blindfolded men in water-holding tanks at a sewage treatment facility.
Insurgents in Kirkuk killed 2 city officials.
(SFC, 1/26/06, p.A10)(SFC, 1/27/06, p.A10)
2006 Jan 25, Kamal Said Qadir
(48), an Austrian citizen sentenced by a court in northern Iraq to 25
years in prison last month after being convicted of dishonoring the
Kurdish cause, was released from custody. After moving to Austria a few
years ago, he wrote articles that accused the powerful Kurdistan
Democratic Party of corruption.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2006 Jan 25, In Iraq a US soldier
was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb blast south of
Baghdad, while three Iraqi police died in a similar attack.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2006 Jan 25, Iraqi police shot
dead a Sunni cleric at a checkpoint north of Baghdad. Gunmen killed a
policeman in the capital's Sadr City neighborhood.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, The UN said that
thousands of refugees were without help after riots forced it to
curtail operations in Ivory Coast.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2006 Jan 25, Juana Barraza (48)
was arrested while fleeing from a home where an elderly woman was
slain. She was suspected to be the serial murderer known as the
"Mataviejitas," or "Little Old Lady Killer." Barraza's fingerprints
matched those left at the scene of 10 other murders, plus at the scene
of an attempted murder.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2006 Jan 25, Mongolia's president
and parliament approved Mieagombo Enkhbold (41), the chairman of the
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, as the new prime minister, a
major step toward rebuilding the former communist country's collapsed
government.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, A minibus struck a
land mine in southwestern Pakistan, killing six passengers and wounding
five.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, Palestinians cast
ballots in their first parliamentary election in a decade. Hamas won a
huge majority in parliamentary elections as Palestinian voters rejected
the longtime rule of the Fatah Party, throwing the future of Mideast
peacemaking into question. Hamas counted up to 6 leaderships: notional
chief Khaled Meshal in exile in Damascus; Ismail Haniyeh and other
heavyweights in the Gaza Strip; members in the West Bank; convicted
prisoners in Israeli jails; unconvicted prisoners detained in Israeli
military jails; and heads of the armed wing.
(AP, 1/26/06)(Econ, 6/17/06, p.51)
2006 Jan 25, Sri Lanka's president
and the leader of Tamil Tiger rebels agreed on to resume peace talks.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, The World Economic
Forum opened in Davos, Switzerland. 15 heads of state, top business
leaders and celebrities attended the session to brainstorm on key
issues facing the globe, including high oil prices, Iran's nuclear
ambitions, new business models and the shifting balance of power in
Asia.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, An Arctic weather
front wreaked more havoc across a wide swath of eastern Europe, killing
53 people overnight in Ukraine alone and severely disrupted transport
networks in half-a-dozen countries.
(AFP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, Pope Benedict XVI
said in his first encyclical, "God is Love," that the Roman Catholic
Church has no desire to govern states or set public policy, but can't
remain silent when its charity is needed to ease suffering around the
world.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, In Venezuela
thousands of activists marched through Caracas demanding an end to the
war in Iraq and shouting slogans against U.S. imperialism at the
opening of the World Social Forum backed by President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 1/25/06)
2006 Jan 25, Venezuela’s VP Jose
Vicente Rangel said that some Venezuelan military officers have been
detained after they allegedly passed information to US officials.
(AP, 1/26/06)
2007 Jan 25, A rare late work by
Rembrandt depicting the Apostle James in prayer was sold in NYC for
$25.8 million.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, Ford Motor Co. lost
$5.8 billion in the fourth quarter amid slumping sales and huge
restructuring costs, pushing the automaker's deficit for the year to
$12.7 billion, the largest in its 103-year history.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 24, Scientists reported
that they had built the densest memory chip to date. It measured about
100 million bits per square centimeter, about 40 times as much as
current memory chips. The chip was about the size of a white blood cell
and held about 160,000 bits.
(SFC, 1/25/07, p.C2)
2007 Jan 25, Officials said
Afghanistan's heroin-producing poppies will not be sprayed with
herbicide this year despite a record crop in 2006 and US pressure to
allow the tactic. In southern Afghanistan a NATO airstrike destroyed a
Taliban command post, killing a suspected senior militant leader. In
eastern Afghanistan border police clashed with suspected militants in
Gomal district in Paktika province, leaving 10 suspected Taliban and
one police dead.
(AP, 1/25/07)(AP, 1/26/07)
2007 Jan 25, Australia’s PM John
Howard announced multibillion-dollar water reforms aimed at easing
Australia's record drought.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, China reported that
its sizzling economy grew at 10.7% in 2006, its fastest rate in a
decade, as the government struggled to contain the strains of an
export-driven boom.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, Guinea’s Health
Ministry said battles between security forces and protesters earlier
this week killed at least 59 people, almost double the toll previously
reported.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, Guyana's president
hired former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik as a state
security adviser despite criticism in this South American country over
his record of alleged ethics violations.
(AP, 1/26/07)
2007 Jan 25, In India an angry
crowd severely beat up two suspects who are accused of sexually
assaulting and killing up to 20 children and women. The crowd pounced
upon the two as they were being taken to a lockup by police after a
court in Ghaziabad, a town on the outskirts of New Delhi, sent them to
police custody for 15 days.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, Iraq's prime minister
told parliament that the coming US-Iraqi security sweep in Baghdad,
dubbed "Operation Imposing Law," would not be the last battle against
militants. A suicide car bomber struck a predominantly Shiite
neighborhood in central Baghdad, killing at least 19 people and
wounding 23. At least 3 policemen were among the dead.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, Israel’s President
Moshe Katsav, who insists he is the victim of a conspiracy, stepped
aside after a parliamentary committee voted 13-11 to grant his request
to do so. He preserved his immunity by taking a leave rather than
resigning.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, International donors
pledged $7.6 billion in aid and loans at a conference to raise money
for Lebanon's U.S.-backed prime minister and his economic reform
program. The US pledged to more than triple its economic aid to $770
million including $220 million in military aid. Government and
opposition supporters clashed at a Beirut university campus. At least 3
people were reported killed.
(AP, 1/25/07)(WSJ, 1/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Jan 25, Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi chaired a meeting of African presidents and other top officials
to prepare for an African Union summit as conflicts rage on the
continent.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, In southern Nigeria
gunmen stormed the local offices of a major Chinese oil company,
abducting seven Chinese employees and stealing a large amount of cash.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, Nigeria divested
24.87% of its equity in the ailing Peugeot Automobile of Nigeria (PAN),
while the French government also conceded to shed 30% interest in the
company, which was turned over to ASD Motors Nigeria.
(AFP, 1/26/07)
2007 Jan 25, In northwestern
Pakistan a car bomb exploded in the shopping district of Hangu, killing
at least two passers-by and wounding four other people.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, Russian President
Vladimir Putin arrived in India, hoping to use the two nations'
decades-long friendship to push for deals in civilian nuclear
cooperation, military hardware and trade expansion. Putin sealed a deal
to construct more nuclear power plants in India.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, In southern Somalia
gunmen attacked Ethiopian soldiers stationed there, killing one and
wounding another.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2007 Jan 25, Ukraine’s PM
Yanukovych said that he is working to completed a pipeline to carry
Caspian-region oil directly to the EU.
(WSJ, 1/27/06, p.A4)
2007 Jan 25, Uruguay’s left-wing
government under Pres. Tabare Vazquez signed a trade and investment
“framework agreement” with the US.
(Econ, 2/3/07, p.39)
2007 Jan 25, Pope Benedict XVI met
with Vietnam's PM Nguyen Tan Dung. Their talks marked an important step
toward establishing diplomatic relations following decades of tension.
(AP, 1/25/07)
2008 Jan 25, In Miami Moises
Maionica (36) of Venezuelan pleaded guilty in a scheme to cover up the
source of $800,000 seized in a suitcase in Argentina that was allegedly
sent by Venezuelans as a donation to Cristina Fernandez's presidential
campaign.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, Goldman Sachs Group
and Credit Suisse Group said they will cut about 2,000 job worldwide as
a credit crisis puts a damper on fixed-income trading and corporate
deal making.
(Reuters, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, Gold and platinum
prices reached new highs after mine stoppages in South Africa, a
leading producer of the precious metals, led to buying on supply
concerns. An ounce of gold for February delivery spiked to $924.30, a
fresh record, on the New York Mercantile Exchange before easing back to
settle at $910.70, up $4.90. April platinum peaked at a new high of
$1,694.90 an ounce. Prices later settled at $1,670, up $57.
(AP, 1/26/08)
2008 Jan 25, Richard Darman
(b.1943), former budget director (1989-1992) under Pres. George H.W.
Bush, died. He was the chief architect of the landmark 1990 deficit
reduction plan.
(WSJ, 1/26/08, p.A8)
2008 Jan 25, In Afghanistan US-led
coalition and Afghan troops clashed with insurgents while searching a
compound near the Pakistani frontier, leaving one coalition soldier
dead.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, Scottish &
Newcastle, the UK's largest brewer, announced it has agreed to be
bought by Carlsberg and Heineken, for around 7.6 billion pounds.
(AFP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, Egyptian guards with
riot shields formed human chains along the Egypt-Gaza border, but were
unable to stop hundreds of Palestinians from rushing into Egypt after a
bulldozer wrecked another section of fence along the frontier.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, Ethiopia's
administration for refugee and returnee affairs said that more
than 450 Eritreans, including 234 soldiers, fled their country into
Ethiopia in January alone.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, In France tens of
thousands of civil servants demonstrated to protest job cuts and press
for higher salaries in what the government dismissed as a "labor union
ritual."
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, India and France said
they would push their military ties beyond weapons sales and open up
nuclear power cooperation as soon as New Delhi is able to enter the
global atomic energy market.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, Iraq’s PM al-Maliki
announced that the government was preparing to strike back against
al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul after two days of deadly
bombings killed nearly 40 people. He promised the fight "will be
decisive." The US military said that American and Iraqi killed an
estimated 41 suspected al-Qaida in Iraq militants.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, In Kenya street
battles engulfed the western city of Nakuru, tense with ethnic
rivalries, leaving bodies in the roadways with gashes in their heads
and arrows lodged in their torsos in the latest fighting set off by the
disputed presidential election. Overnight, half the town of Total
Station was burned down and at least two people were killed.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, A car bomb ripped
through eastern Beirut, killing Capt. Wissam Eid, Lebanon's top
anti-terrorism investigator, as he returned from a meeting on the probe
into the 2005 assassination of a former prime minister. Three others
died in the blast.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, In Lithuania a
specially established commission on image creation, chaired by PM
Gediminas Kirkilas, approved a strategic marketing concept for the
presentation of Lithuania around the world.
(www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/19740/)
2008 Jan 25, North and South Korea
held working-level military talks, the first dialogue between the two
countries this year, as Seoul's conservative president-elect prepared
to take office with calls for a tougher stance toward Pyongyang.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, Pakistani troops
battled Islamic militants during a search for several hijacked trucks
full of ammunition, with up to 30 rebels and two soldiers killed.
Militants said only a few fighters were killed along with 6 Pakistani
soldiers.
(AFP, 1/25/08)(SFC, 1/26/08, p.A6)
2008 Jan 25, Russia's lower house
of parliament annulled an agreement with Ukraine on using Soviet-built
military radars, citing Kiev's bid to join NATO.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, In South Africa gold
production ground to a halt as the industry became the latest victim of
a spiraling electricity crisis which the government labeled a national
emergency.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, At Davos,
Switzerland, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced at the World
Economic Forum that his foundation would give $306 million to use green
technology and farming techniques to boost millions out of hunger and
poverty.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, A World Trade
Organization (WTO) accession committee approved Ukraine's membership
bid, clearing the way for the former Soviet republic to join the body.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2008 Jan 25, The commander of US
forces in Central Asia met with Uzbek President Islam Karimov, the
first visit by a high-level US military officer since the authoritarian
leader evicted American troops amid Western criticism of a bloody
government crackdown.
(AP, 1/25/08)
2009 Jan 25, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai condemned a US operation he said killed 16 civilians,
while hundreds of villagers in Laghman province denounced the American
military during an angry demonstration.
(AP, 1/25/09)
2009 Jan 25, Bolivians easily
approved a new constitution aimed at increasing their strength while
allowing leftist President Evo Morales a shot at staying in power
through 2014. The proposed document grants new rights to more than 5
million indigenous inhabitants of 35 distinct “nations.” It would
create a new Congress with seats reserved for Bolivia's smaller
indigenous groups and eliminates any mention of the Roman Catholic
Church, instead recognizing and honoring the Pachamama, an Andean earth
deity.
(AP, 1/25/09)(SSFC, 1/25/09, p.A6)(AP, 1/26/09)
2009 Jan 25, In China a Richter
scale 5.0 earthquake hit an area inhabited by the Xibe people. It
destroyed nearly 200 homes and damaged nearly 3,000 buildings. The
community, originally from Manchuria, had established a frontier
garrison in Xinjiang during the Qing dynasty.
(Reuters, 1/26/09)
2009 Jan 25, Indian police shot
dead two suspected militants from Pakistan in a pre-dawn car chase near
New Delhi.
(AP, 1/25/09)
2009 Jan 25, Liberia’s Ministry of
Agriculture said it has set up a command post and called on
international experts to help fight an invasion by millions of
crop-devouring caterpillars that are eating their way across the
country with dire economic consequences.
(AP, 1/25/09)
2009 Jan 25, In Mexico Chiapas
state Attorney General Raciel Lopez said Mariano Herran has been
charged with embezzling funds while working as Chiapas economy
secretary last year. Herran was Mexico's drug czar from 1997 to 2000,
replacing Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, who was convicted of aiding a
top drug lord.
(AP, 1/26/09)
2009 Jan 25, Sri Lankan troops
overran the last town controlled by Tamil rebels, striking a major blow
in Asia's longest-running ethnic conflict.
(AFP, 1/25/09)
2009 Jan 25, An avalanche slammed
into a group of Turkish hikers on a trip to a remote mountain plateau,
dragging them more than (1640 feet) 500 meters into a valley and
fatally burying 10 of them.
(AP, 1/25/09)
2009 Jan 25, A small ferry
overloaded with holiday shoppers sank in central Vietnam, killing at
least 40 people ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year. Most of the
dead were women and children.
(AP, 1/25/09)
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