Today in History - February 6
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891 Feb 6,
Photius, Byzantine theologist, patriarch of Constantinople, saint, died.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1189 Feb 6, Riots of Lynn in
Norfolk spread to Norwich, England.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1416 Feb 6, A Samogitian complaint
against the Knights of the Cross was read at the Catholic Church
Council at Constance.
(LHC, 2/6/03)
1508 Feb 6, King Maximilian I
(1459-1519) assumed the title of Emperor (1493-1519) without being
crowned.
(TL-MB, p.9)(WUD, 1994, p.886)(MC, 2/6/02)
1626 Feb 6, Huguenot rebels and
the French signed the Peace of La Rochelle.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1665 Feb 6, Anne Stuart, queen of
England (1702-14), was born.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1685 Feb 6, Charles II (54), King
of England, Scotland, Ireland (1660-85), died and was succeeded by his
Catholic brother James II. He made a deathbed conversion to the Roman
Catholic faith. He had earlier ordered Christopher Wren to build an
observatory and maritime college at Greenwich. In 2000 Stephen Coote
authored the biography: "Royal Survivor."
(WSJ, 2/28/00, p.A36)(http://tinyurl.com/hkkln)
1756 Feb 6, America's third vice
president, Aaron Burr, was born in Newark, N.J.
(AP, 2/6/97)(HN, 2/6/99)
1778 Feb 6, The United States won
official recognition from France as the nations signed a treaty of aid
in Paris. The Franco-American Treaty of Alliance bound the 2 powers
together "forever against all other powers." It was the first alliance
treaty for the fledgling US government and the last until the 1949 NATO
pact. Benjamin Franklin signed for the US.
(WSJ, 6/17/96, p.A15)(AP, 2/6/97)(AH, 2/06, p.59)
1778 Feb 6, England declared war
on France.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1788 Feb 6, Massachusetts became
the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
(AP, 2/6/97)(HN, 2/6/99)
1790 Feb 6, The last stone of the
Bastille, torn down by order of the French revolutionary leaders, was
presented to the National Assembly.
(ON, 4/01, p.3)
1804 Feb 6, Joseph Priestley
(b.1733), English-born US writer, philosopher and chemist, died in
Pennsylvania. He became best known for having discovered oxygen.
Priestley also figured out how to manufacture carbonated water and is
sometimes called “the father of the soft-drink industry.” In 2008
Steven Johnson authored “The Invention of Air: A Story of Science,
faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America.”
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9061366)(ON, 10/05,
p.1)(SFC, 1/9/09, p.E3)
1815 Feb 6, The state of New
Jersey issued the first American railroad charter to John Stevens, who
proposed a rail link between Trenton and New Brunswick. The line,
however, was never built.
(AP, 2/6/97)
1820 Feb 6, The American
Colonization Society sent its 1st organized emigration of blacks back
to Africa from NY to Sierra Leone.
(AH, 2/05, p.17)
1820 Feb 6, US population
announced at 9,638,453 including 1,771,656 blacks (18.4%).
(MC, 2/6/02)
1832 Feb 6, A US ship destroyed a
Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1832 Feb 6, There was an
appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1838 Feb 6, Having failed to
obtain land by trickery from the Zulus of South Africa, the Boar leader
Piet Retief was executed as a witch.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1851 Feb 6, Robert Schumann's 3rd
Symphony "Rhenish," premiered in Dusseldorf.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1854 Feb 6, Composer Robert
Schumann was saved from a depression-induced suicide attempt of walking
into the Rhine.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1861 Feb 6, The 1st meeting of
Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1861 Feb 6, English Adm. Robert
Ritzroy issued the 1st storm warnings for ships.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1862 Feb 6, Ulysses S. Grant began
a military campaign in Mississippi. The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn.,
began the Mississippi Valley campaign.
(HN, 2/6/99)(MC, 2/6/02)
1869 Feb 6, Harper's Weekly
published the 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1891 Feb 6, The Dalton Gang
committed its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif. on Southern
Pacific #17. In 1979 Ron Hansen authored “Desperadoes,” a fictional
account of the Dalton gang.
(HN, 2/6/99)(WSJ, 8/1/00, p.A20)(MC, 2/6/02)
1895 cFeb 6, Silas Burroughs
(b.1846), American-born co-founder of the British pharmaceutical firm
Burroughs Wellcome (1880), died in Monte Carlo. His sudden death made
Henry Wellcome the sole owner of the company.
(http://tinyurl.com/7jhqv)
1895 Feb 6, George Herman "Babe"
Ruth, baseball's most dominant player, was born in Baltimore. He played
with the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees and the Boston Braves and
was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season.
(USAT, 1/29/97, p.1D)(AP, 2/6/97)(HN, 2/6/99)
1897 Feb 6, Ebenezer C. Brewer,
British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable), died.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1899 Feb 6, A peace treaty between
the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate.
Spanish-American War ended.
(AP, 2/6/97)(HN, 2/6/99)
1900 Feb 6, President McKinley
appointed W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1900 Feb 6, Battle at Vaalkrans,
South Africa (Boers vs. British army).
(MC, 2/6/02)
1904 Feb 6, Japan's foreign
minister severed all ties with Russia, citing delaying tactics in
negotiations over Manchuria.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1911 Feb 6, Ronald Reagan was born
in Tampico, Illinois. Reagan went on to become a film actor, governor
of California (1967-1975) and the 40th president of the United States
(1981-1989) and was credited with ending the Cold War.
(HN, 2/6/99)(AP, 2/6/08)
1911 Feb 6, 1st old-age home
opened in Prescott, Ariz.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1912 Feb 6, Eva Braun, mistress
(Adolph Hitler), was born.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1913 Feb 6, Mary Douglas Nicol,
later archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, was born in
London. She met anthropologist Louis Leakey in 1933 and joined him in
Kenya.
(SFC, 12/10/96, p.A6)(HN, 2/6/01)
1916 Feb 6, Germany admitted full
liability for Lusitania incident and recognized the United State's
right to claim indemnity.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1916 Feb 6, Ruben Dario (b.1867),
Nicaraguan poet, died. Dario, one of Nicaragua's best-known poets, is
considered the father of the Modernismo movement.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9028777/Ruben-Dario)
1918 Feb 6, Britain granted
women 30 and over the right to vote.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1918 Feb 6, Gustav Klimt (b.1862),
Austrian Symbolist artist, died. He helped found the Vienna
Secessionist art movement (1897) and was chosen as its 1st president.
(WSJ, 7/11/01,
p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt)
1919 Feb 6, The 1st day of 5-day
Seattle general strike, the first general strike in America, took
effect. During this period Washington was a center for the Industrial
Workers of the World, also known as the "Wobblies." Their agitation led
to the Centralia massacre and the Everett massacre.
(WSJ, 12/3/99, p.A14)(MC, 2/6/02)
1921 Feb 6, The film "The Kid,"
starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, was released.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1922 Feb 6, The Washington
Disarmament Conference came to an end with signature of final treaty
forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years. The US,
UK, France, Italy & Japan signed the Washington naval arms
limitation.
(HN, 2/6/99)(MC, 2/6/02)
1923 Feb 6, Edward E. Barnard
(65), US astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), died.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1926 Feb 6, Mussolini warned
Germany to stop agitation in Tyrol.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1929 Feb 6, Germany accepted
Kellogg-Briand pact.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1931 Feb 6, Rip Torn, actor (Coma,
Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), was born in Tx.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1932 Feb 6, Francois Truffaut,
French film director, was born. His work included “The 400 Blows” and
“Shoot the Piano Player.”
(HN, 2/6/01)
1933 Feb 6, Walter E. Fountroy,
U.S. Delegate to the House of Representatives and civil rights leader,
was born.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1933 Feb 6, The 20th Amendment to
the Constitution was declared in effect. The Lame-Duck Amendment
changed the inauguration date of congressmen from March 4 to January 3.
Moving back the inauguration date for newly-elected congressmen reduced
the time that defeated members, or “lame ducks,” remain in office.
(AP, 2/6/97)(HNQ, 7/27/98)
1933 Feb 6, Adolf Hitler's Third
Reich began to press censorship.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1933 Feb 6, Highest recorded sea
wave, but not a tsunami, was 34 m. in a Pacific hurricane.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1935 Feb 6, Turkey held its 1st
election that allowed women to vote.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1936 Feb 6, Adolf Hitler opened
the Fourth Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1936 Feb 6, All political parties
in Lithuania were forbidden except for the Union of Tautininkai
(Homelander’s Union).
(LHC, 2/6/03)
1939 Feb 6, Spanish government
fled to France.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1940 Feb 6, Tom Brokaw, NBC News
anchorman and best-selling author of "The Greatest Generation," was
born.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1941 Feb 6, The RAF cleared the
way as British took Benghazi, Libya, trapping thousands of Italians.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1941 Feb 6, Maximilien Luce
(b.1858), French anarchist and Neo-Impressionist painter, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Luce)
1943 Feb 6, Crooner Frank Sinatra
debuted on radio's "Your Hit Parade."
(MC, 2/6/02)
1943 Feb 6, A Los Angeles jury
acquitted actor Errol Flynn of three counts of statutory rape.
(AP, 2/6/97)
1944 Feb 6, Kwajalein Island in
the Central Pacific fell to U.S. Army troops.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1945 Feb 6, Bob Marley (d.1981),
reggae superstar, was born in Jamaica. He is best remembered for his
songs "Buffalo Soldier" and "Fire on the Mountain."
(HN, 2/6/99)(SFC, 12/14/04, p.E10)
1945 Feb 6, MacArthur reported the
fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1945 Feb 6, The French government
executed Robert Brasillach, writer and Nazi propagandist. He had been
arrested in January, was tried for treason and convicted. In 2000 Alice
Kaplan authored "The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert
Brasillach."
(SFEC, 8/13/00, BR
p.9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brasillach)
1945 Feb 6, Russian Red Army
crossed the river Oder.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1950 Feb 6, Natalie Cole, vocalist
(Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy, Mona Lisa), was born in LA, Calif.
(www.smoothjazznow.com/birthdays_feb_dates.htm)
1952 Feb 6, Britain's King
George VI died of lung cancer. His daughter, Elizabeth II, succeeded
him.
(AP, 2/6/97)(WSJ, 8/10/00, p.A16)(SSFC, 3/29/02,
p.A3)
1953 Feb 6, US controls on wages
and some consumer goods were lifted.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1956 Feb 6, The Univ. of Alabama
board of trustees voted to suspend Autherine Lucy, the 1st black
admitted to school, on the grounds that the campus was no longer safe
for her.
(http://www.answers.com/topic/autherine-lucy-foster)
1959 Feb 6, The United States
successfully test-fired for the first time a Titan intercontinental
ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral.
(AP, 2/6/97)
1959 Feb 6, Fidel Castro was
interviewed by Edward R. Murrow.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1961 Feb 6, Sargent Shriver
adopted a document, “The Towering Task” by Warren Wiggins (1923-2007),
which helped shape the mission of the newly proposed Peace Corps.
(SFC, 4/16/07, p.B8)
1963 Feb 6, The United States
reported that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1964 Feb 6, Cuba blocked the water
supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State's seizure
of four Cuban fishing boats and fines on Cuban fishermen near Florida.
The US imposed water rationing and built desalination plants in
response.
(HN, 2/6/99)(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A7)
1964 Feb 6, Paris and London
agreed to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1965 Feb 6, A Viet Cong raid on a
base in Pleiku, South Vietnam, killed 7-8 US GIs.
(HN, 2/6/99)(SFC, 11/27/99, p.C3)
1967 Feb 6, Muhammad Ali (b.1942)
TKO’d Ernie Terrell (b.1939) in 15 for the heavyweight boxing title.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Terrell)
1968 Feb 6, Former president
Dwight Eisenhower hit a golfing hole-in-one.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, Z1 p.8)
1968 Feb 6, Charles de Gaulle
opened the 19th Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1969 Feb 6, The Broadway musical
"Dear World," a musical version of Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of
Chaillot, opened with Angel Lansbury at the Mark Hellinger Theater.
(SFEC, 12/8/96, Par
p.18)(www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=202004)
1971 Feb 6, In Wilmington, NC,
Mike's Grocery, a white-owned business, was firebombed. When
firefighters arrived to put out the flames, they were fired upon by
snipers positioned on the roof of Gregory Congregational Church. The
National Guard was mobilized to quell rioting. The violence resulted in
two deaths. Reverend Benjamin Chavis, Jr. of Oxford, North Carolina,
and nine others, eight African American men and one white woman, were
arrested and tried and convicted for arson and conspiracy in connection
with the firebombing. They were sentenced to nearly 28 years in prison.
Chavis Muhammad (b.1948), a member of the Wilmington 10, was sentenced
in 1972 to 34 years in prison. He spent 4 years in prison before his
conviction was overturned on appeal.
(SFC, 2/25/97,
p.A10)(www.notablebiographies.com/Ch-Co/Chavis-Muhammad-Benjamin.html)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Ten)
1971 Feb 6, Alan Shepard hit a
golf ball on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
(www.astronautix.com/flights/apollo14.htm)
1974 Feb 6, The Committee on the
Judiciary of the House of Representatives was authorized to begin
determining grounds for the impeachment of Pres. Nixon. Public hearings
began on May 9.
(http://www.watergate.info/judiciary/)
1975 Feb 6, President Gerald Ford
asked Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1976 Feb 6, Vince Guaraldi
(b.1928), jazz pianist, died in Menlo Park, Ca. He wrote "Cast Your
Fate to the Wind" and composed for the Charley Schulz "Peanuts" cartoon
specials.
(SFEC, 10/18/98, DB
p.44)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0345279/)
1977 Feb 6, Queen Elizabeth marked
her Silver Jubilee.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1978 Feb 6, Muriel Humphrey took
the oath of office as a US senator from Minnesota, filling the seat of
her late husband, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
(AP, 2/6/97)
1981 Feb 6, Beatles McCartney,
Starr & Harrison recorded "All Those Years Ago," a tribute to John
Lennon.
(www.440.com/twtd/archives/feb06.html)
1982 Feb 6, Civil rights workers
began a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1982 Feb 6, In Concord, Ca., Tara
Burke (2 3/4 years old) was kidnapped by Luis “Tree Frog” Johnson (33)
and Alex Cabarga (17). She was molested and held captive in a van for
ten months before being freed on Dec 18. Johnson was sentenced to 527
years in prison and Cabarga served 25 years.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.A1,4)
1987 Feb 6, No-smoking rules took
effect in US federal buildings.
(http://tinyurl.com/kjge6)
1987 Feb 6, Wall Street Journal
reporter Gerald Seib was released after being detained six days by
Iran, accused of being a spy for Israel; Iran said the detention was a
result of misunderstandings.
(AP, 2/6/07)
1988 Feb 6, Presidential hopefuls
stormed through a final weekend of campaigning before Iowa's precinct
caucuses, with a poll for the Des Moines Register giving Bob Dole the
lead among Republicans and Dick Gephardt a narrow lead among Democrats.
(AP, 2/6/97)
1989 Feb 6, Lech Walesa began
negotiating with Polish government.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Round_Table_Agreement)
1989 Feb 6, Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian Barbara W. Tuchman died in Greenwich, Conn., at age 77.
(AP, 2/6/99)
1990 Feb 6, Soviet Communist Party
leaders decided to extend a two-day party session by an extra day amid
controversy over Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's proposals to
revamp the country's political structure.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1991 Feb 6, Jordan’s King Hussein
tilted sharply toward Iraq in the Gulf War, describing the conflict as
an effort by outsiders to destroy Iraq and carve up the Arab world.
(AP, 2/6/01)
1991 Feb 6, Danny Thomas (79),
comedian and television performer died in Los Angeles.
(AP, 2/6/01)
1992 Feb 6, President George H.W.
Bush unveiled a health care plan for most Americans.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1992 Feb 6, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton denied he'd tried to avoid the
Vietnam draft, saying he gave up a draft deferment in the fall of 1969
because he “didn't think it was right” to keep it.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1992 Feb 6, Sixteen people were
killed when a C-130 military transport plane crashed in Evansville, Ind.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1993 Feb 6, Tennis Hall-of-Famer
and human rights advocate Arthur Ashe died of AIDS in New York at age
49. He was the first black man to win the Wimbledon tennis match.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A3)(AP, 2/6/97)
1994 Feb 6, A day after a mortar
shell killed 68 people in a Sarajevo marketplace, President Clinton
called for a United Nations probe.
(AP, 2/6/99)
1994 Feb 6, Actor Joseph Cotten
died in Los Angeles at age 88.
(AP, 2/6/99)
1994 Feb 6, Jack Kirby (76),
cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0456158/)
1995 Feb 6, President Clinton
unveiled his $1.61 trillion budget for 1996, mixing mild tax relief and
spending reductions.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1995 Feb 6, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig
Ali, the alleged mastermind of a campaign of violence, pleaded guilty
in New York to plotting urban terrorism.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1995 Feb 6, The space shuttle
Discovery flew to within 37 feet of the Russian space station Mir in
the first rendezvous of its kind in two decades.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1995 Feb 6, Pres.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide disbanded the Haitian army and replaced it with
a civilian police force.
(AP, 2/11/04)
1996 Feb 6, Patrick Buchanan won
the Louisiana Republican caucus, upsetting Phil Gramm.
(AP, 2/6/01)
1996 Feb 6, A Turkish-owned Boeing
757 jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Puerto
Plata shortly after takeoff from the Dominican Republic, killing 189
people, mostly German tourists.
(WSJ, 2/8/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(AP,
2/6/01)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1997 Feb 6, President Clinton sent
Congress a $1.69 trillion budget for fiscal 1998, saying it would erase
deficits by 2002 and for 20 years beyond. Though citing costly new
programs and phantom savings, Republicans said they were ready to
bargain.
(AP, 2/6/97)
1997 Feb 6, Miami strip club owner
of “Porky’s,” Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg, was charged with trying to
broker the sale of a Russian nuclear submarine to Columbian drug
barons. He had already purchased 6 Russian helicopters for drug
traffickers.
(SFC, 2/7/97, p.A13)
1997 Feb 6, The Congress of
Ecuador voted to remove Pres. Abdala Bucaram from office on the grounds
of “mental incapacity.” Fabian Alarcon was chosen by Congress to
replace him. Bucaram’s vice-president, Rosalia Arteaga, said she was
assuming the presidency.
(SFC, 2/7/97, p.A1,19)
1997 Feb 6, In South Africa mixed
race rioters protested in Eldorado Park. One died and more than 100
were injured.
(SFC, 2/7/97, p.A17)
1998 Feb 6, President Clinton and
British Prime Minister Tony Blair redoubled their pledge to use
military force against Iraq if necessary; during a joint news
conference in which the subject of Monica Lewinsky came up, Clinton
said he would never resign.
(AP, 2/6/99)
1998 Feb 6, President Clinton
signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1998 Feb 6, Two US warplanes
collided in the Persian Gulf and one of the pilots was killed.
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 6, Mayor Brown of SF left
for Manila and was expected to sign agreements with Mayor Alfredo Lim
for workshops on AIDS, student exchange programs, and other deals, and
celebrate 100 years of Philippine independence. Mayor Brown was to
continue on to Hanoi.
(SFC, 2/5/98, p.A18)
1998 Feb 6, The Olympic Games
began in Nagano, Japan, and for the first time curling was played as a
medal sport.
(WSJ, 2/6/98, p.A20)
1998 Feb 6, In California Gov.
Wilson declared a state of emergency in 22 counties as El Nino storms
pounded the state.
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A8)
1998 Feb 6, In Kentucky a 3-day
snow storm left 9 people dead. A record 21 inches fell in Louisville.
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A8)
1998 Feb 6, Washington became the
27th state to ban same-sex marriages.
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A3)
1998 Feb 6, Carl Wilson (51), a
founding member of The Beach Boys, had died in Los Angeles from
complications of lung cancer.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.D8)(AP, 2/7/99)
1998 Feb 6, In Bosnia government
agents arrested Goran Vasic, the suspected gunman of the 1993 murder of
deputy prime minister Hakija Turaljic. Serb hard-liners then
seized 2 UN buses, several cars and an unknown number of Muslim
hostages and demanded the release of Vasic.
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A12)
1998 Feb 6, In Corsica Claude
Erignac, the French governor, was shot a killed by 2 gunmen. In 2003
French police arrested Yvan Colonna for the murder.
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A11)(SSFC, 7/6/03, p.A3)
1998 Feb 6, Pres. Fujimori took
personal control in Piura to shore up the waters of the Ica River which
burst its banks. Recent weather related deaths had reached 150.
Mudslide damaged parts of the famous Nazca Lines.
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A10)(SFC, 2/9/98, p.A12)
1998 Feb 6, In Rwanda Hutu rebels
hacked to death 48 civilians in the village of Biyahe in the Gisenyi
region.
(SFC, 2/9/98, p.A12)
1998 Feb 6, Saudi Arabia imposed a
ban on livestock imported from Somaliland, allegedly due to the threat
of Rift Valley Fever.
(SFC, 4/15/98, p.C2)
1998 Feb 6, In Sri Lanka a suicide
bomber killed 10 people in Colombo and rebels pressed attacks on
government near Jaffna.
(WSJ, 2/9/98, p.A1)
1999 Feb 6, The public finally got
to see and hear Monica Lewinsky as excerpts of the former White House
intern's videotaped testimony were shown at President Clinton's
impeachment trial.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1999 Feb 6, President Clinton
requested legislation to require background checks on buyers at gun
shows.
(AP, 2/6/00)
1999 Feb 6, The Stardust
spacecraft lifted off aboard a Delta II rocket for its 7-year journey
to gather particles from the Wild-2 comet.
(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A8)(SFC, 2/8/99, p.A2)
1999 Feb 6, Wassily Leontief,
Russian-born US economics Nobel winner, died at age 93.
(WSJ, 2/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 6, The Harta Rimba, a
ship not licensed for passenger use, sank in the South China Sea,
killing about 325 people.
(AP, 2/3/06)
1999 Feb 6, In Cuba the Health
Ministry said 14 people died from food poisoning in Manguito. They had
all eaten products from a food vendor who also died.
(SFC, 2/8/99, p.A11)
1999 Feb 6, Ethiopia and Eritrea
resumed their clash after an 8-month lull. Heavy casualties were
reported.
(WSJ, 2/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 6, In Paris the 16-member
Albanian delegation sat down with the 13-member Serbian delegation at
Rambouillet. Robin Cook, British foreign secretary, co-chaired the
talks designed to last a maximum of 2 weeks. The Albanians were to be
asked to accept less autonomy in exchange for protection by NATO ground
troops.
(SFEC, 2/7/99, p.A17)(SFC, 2/8/99, p.A10)
2000 Feb 6, The NFC defeated the
AFC 51-to-31 in the Pro Bowl.
(AP, 2/6/01)
2000 Feb 6, First lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton launched her successful candidacy for the US Senate.
(AP, 2/6/01)
2000 Feb 6, In Afghanistan an
Ariana Airlines Boeing 727 was hijacked with 186 people. It flew from
Kabul to Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and Russia before landing in Stansted
near London the next day with 179 hostages.
(SFC, 2/7/00, p.A12)(AP, 2/6/01)
2000 Feb 6, In Algeria army troops
killed 27 Islamic militants. 23 were killed near Sidi Bel Abbes and 4
along with one government soldier near Ain Defla.
(SFC, 2/8/00, p.a14)
2000 Feb 6, Social Democrat Tarja
Halonen edged out her rival Esko Aho 51.5-48.4% in a run-off to become
Finland’s first female president.
(SFC, 2/7/00, p.A14)(AP, 2/6/01)
2000 Feb 6, Nine people were
killed when a train filled with Alpine ski vacationers derailed south
of Cologne, Germany.
(AP, 2/6/01)
2000 Feb 6, In Japan Fusae Ota was
elected governor of Osaka, and the 1st woman governor in Japan.
(SFC, 2/7/00, p.A14)
2000 Feb 6, In southern Lebanon a
roadside bomb and attack killed one Israeli soldier and injured 7
others.
(SFC, 2/7/00, p.A14)
2000 Feb 6, In Mexico City police
raided the main campus of the university and arrested some 632 striking
students including 8 student leaders.
(SFC, 2/7/00, p.A14)(WSJ, 2/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 6, In Northern Ireland
suspected IRA members bombed a Mahon's Hotel in County Fermanagh.
(SFC, 2/7/00, p.A14)
2000 Feb 6, In Peru riots began in
the Yanamayo prison by Shining Path rebels loyal to Oscar Ramirez
Durand. One guard and one rebel were killed and rebels held a number of
guards as hostages.
(SFC, 2/8/00, p.A14)
2000 Feb 6, In Russia acting Pres.
Putin announced that federal forces had scored a major victory in
Chechnya.
(SFC, 2/7/00, p.A1)
2001 Feb 6, A trade tribunal
ordered the US to allow Mexican trucks to cross the border following a
NAFTA arbitration process.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 6, Genset released early
test results that showed weight loss in mice injected with famoxin.
(WSJ, 2/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 6, Former Vice Pres. Al
Gore taught his 1st class “The Media and Public Policy in the
Information Age” at Columbia Univ.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 6, Sunbeam, a consumer
appliance manufacturer, filed for bankruptcy and rendered worthless a
large stake held by financier Ronald Perelman.
(WSJ, 6/7/02,
p.A6)(http://money.cnn.com/2001/02/06/news/sunbeam)
2001 Feb 6, In Colombia gunmen
killed 14 people in a northern battle zone.
(WSJ, 2/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 6, Ethiopia and Eritrea
agreed to set up a 16-mile wide UN-patrolled security zone effective
Feb 12.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 6, In Haiti the 15-party
opposition alliance Convergence named Gerard Gourgue as the country’s
provisional president.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 6, In India the Cipla
Ltd. Corp. of Bombay offered to supply triple-therapy anti-AIDS
cocktails to Doctors Without Borders in Africa for $350 per year per
patient.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 6, In Israel Ariel Sharon
won the elections over Ehud Barak 62.6 to 37.2% with a record low
turnout of 62%.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 6, In the Philippines
Pres. Arroyo named Sen. Teofisto Guingona as her vice president. Former
pres. Estrada filed a suit disputing the legal basis for Arroyo’s
presidency.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Feb 6, In Serbia ethnic
Albanian rebels fired mortar from Kosovo shells against government
positions in Serbia.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Feb 6, It was reported that
Thailand planned to open a chain of over 3,000 Thai restaurants
world-wide over the next 5 years with 1,000 slated for the US. The
fast-food branches would be named Elephant Jump, Cool Basil for the
mid-priced, and Golden Leaf for the upscale eateries.
(WSJ, 2/6/01, p.B1)
2001 Feb 6, In Ukraine up to 5,000
protesters marched in Kiev and demanded the resignation of Pres.
Kuchma. Kuchma’s voice on recent private recordings included an order
for a journalist’s abduction and threats to a judge.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A14)
2002 Feb 6, A federal judge
ordered John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," held
without bail pending trial.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2002 Feb 6, John Rusnak (37), a
currency trader at Allfirst, a Baltimore subsidiary of Allied Irish
Banks, was accused of stealing $750 million.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.B1)
2002 Feb 6, Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II reached a bittersweet milestone, somberly marking 50 years
as monarch on the anniversary of the death of her father, King George
VI.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2002 Feb 6, Max Perutz (b.1914),
Austrian-born molecular biologist, died in England. He won the Nobel
Prize in chemistry in 1962 for his work on the structure of hemoglobin.
In 2007 Georgina Ferry authored “Max Perutz and the Secret of Life.”
(Econ, 8/25/07,
p.77)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Perutz)
2002 Feb 6, In the Republic of
Congo a new death from Ebola raised fears that it had spread from Gabon.
(WSJ, 2/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 6, Egypt won a pledge for
$10 billion in aid from 37 donor nations.
(SFC, 2/8/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 6, German unemployment
figures for January rose to 4 million.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A11)
2002 Feb 6, The PLO issued a
17-page document that listed their actions to stop terrorism.
Meanwhile, Hamas gunman, Mohammed Ziad Khalili (26), killed 2 Israelis
in Hamra, a mother and daughter, before he was killed by commandos.
Israel responded with 2 missiles shot at a Palestinian prison and
government complex in Nablus.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A10)(SFC, 2/8/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 6, The Philippine
opposition made a legal move that gave Pres. Arroyo 10 days to justify
the presence of US troops.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A12)
2003 Feb 6, Edging closer to war,
President Bush declared "the game is over" for Saddam Hussein and urged
skeptical allies to join in disarming Iraq.
(AP, 2/6/04)
2003 Feb 6, ABC's "20/20" aired a
British documentary on Michael Jackson in which the King of Pop
revealed he sometimes let children sleep in his bed.
(AP, 2/6/04)
2003 Feb 6, An inter-African
committee on female genital cutting called for an annual observance of
Feb. 6 as an international day of zero tolerance of the practice.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2003 Feb 6, Belgium asked the
European Union to call an emergency meeting to discuss a peaceful way
out of the Iraq crisis.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2003 Feb 6, Lord Aberconway (89),
a shipbuilding magnate born as Charles Melville McLaren, died in
London. He secretly met with Adolf Hitler's aide Hermann Goering weeks
before the German invasion of Poland. He inherited his title and the
chairmanship of the shipbuilding giant John Brown and the mining
company English China Clays when his father died in 1953.
(AP, 2/8/03)
2003 Feb 6, Medical experts headed
to northern Republic of Congo to investigate a feared outbreak of Ebola
after 16 suspicious deaths.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2003 Feb 6, Pre-emptive attacks on
North Korea's nuclear facilities would trigger a "total war," the
communist state warned after Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
labeled the North's government a "terrorist regime."
(AP, 2/6/03)
2003 Feb 6, Turkey's parliament
voted to allow U.S. troops to renovate Turkish bases for use in a
possible war with Iraq.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2004 Feb 6, Pres. Bush created a
bipartisan commission to investigate the quality of intelligence used
to justify the war in Iraq. Conclusions were set for March, 2005.
(SFC, 2/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 6, It was reported that
John Barr, a Wall Street banker, was named president of the
Chicago-based Poetry Foundation. He replaced Joseph Parisi.
(WSJ, 2/6/04, p.A6)(SSFC, 6/27/04, p.M2)
2004 Feb 6, Delaware Agriculture
Secretary Michael Scuse said that the bird flu strain, identified as
H7, is different from the one that has swept Asia, and isn't a threat
to human health. The state has ordered the slaughter of some 12,000
chickens.
(AP, 2/8/04)
2004 Feb 6-7, G7 finance ministers
met in Boca Raton, Florida, and agreed that more flexibility is
desirable for currencies that “lack such flexibility.”
(Econ, 2/14/04, p.70)
2004 Feb 6, Mechanic Joseph P.
Smith was charged with murder after authorities in Sarasota, Fla.,
found the body of 11-year-old girl Carlie Brucia. Her kidnapping had
been captured by a carwash surveillance camera.
(AP, 2/6/05)
2004 Feb 6, Robbers handcuffed 15
workers at a cargo shed on the grounds of London's Heathrow Airport and
stole some $3.2 million in British pound notes.
(AP, 2/7/04)
2004 Feb 6, In Indonesia
earthquakes measuring 7.1 and aftershocks hit the remote Papua
province, flattening houses and leaving at least 34 people dead and
hundreds injured.
(AP, 2/6/04)(WSJ, 2/9/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 6, Chinese state-run
media reported regulators have given preliminary approval for a private
airline to be set up in the southwestern city of Chengdu.
(AP, 2/6/04)
2004 Feb 6, International donors
pledged $520 million to start the long process of turning Liberia from
a failed war-ravaged state into a democracy with a thriving economy.
(AP, 2/8/04)
2004 Feb 6, In Mexico deputy
ministers from 34 nations in the Americas failed to reach agreement on
a framework for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, stymied by
differences on the contentious issue of U.S. farm subsidies.
(AP, 2/6/04)
2004 Feb 6, Nigeria ordered an
investigation into allegations that a Halliburton Co. subsidiary paid
$180 million in bribes to land a natural gas project (1995-2002), while
US Vice President Dick Cheney was head of Halliburton.
(AP, 2/6/04)(WSJ, 2/5/04, p.A6)
2004 Feb 6, A bomb ripped through
a Moscow subway car during rush hour morning, killing 41 people and
wounding 134. Chechen rebels were blamed.
(AP, 2/6/04)(SFC, 2/7/04, p.A1)(AP, 2/12/04)
2005 Feb 6, The New England
Patriots became a full-fledged dynasty with their third Super Bowl
victory in four years, beating the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21.
(AP, 2/7/05)
2005 Feb 6, In Bangladesh a police
officer was killed and five were injured in a clash with demonstrators
during a continuing nationwide general strike in protest at a deadly
grenade attack on an opposition party rally.
(AP, 2/6/05)
2005 Feb 6, Four Egyptians working
for a mobile phone company were abducted by gunmen in Baghdad, and
Islamic militants threatened to kill an Italian journalist Feb 7 unless
Italy agrees to withdraw its troops.
(AP, 2/6/05)
2005 Feb 6, In Kashmir an
overcrowded bus skidded off a mountain road and crashed into a ravine,
killing at least 28 passengers and injuring 33.
(AP, 2/6/05)
2005 Feb 6, Lazar Berman (74),
acclaimed Russian pianist, died in Florence, Italy.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2005 Feb 6, Mexico's main leftist
party, the Democratic Revolution Party, ended 76 years of rule by the
Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in the Pacific coast state
of Guerrero. Democratic Revolution held on to the governorship of Baja
California Sur, while the PRI held on to Quintana Roo, the site of
Cancun.
(AP, 2/7/05)
2005 Feb 6, The bodies of 18
victims of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty gas heater were
found at a cottage near the village of Todolella in Spain’s Castellon
province.
(WSJ, 2/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 6, The African Union
accused military commanders in Togo of taking advantage of the death of
the country's longtime leader to stage a coup and raised the
possibility that its 53 members will not recognize the West African
nation's new government.
(AP, 2/6/05)
2005 Feb 6, Thailand voters handed
PM Thaksin Shinawatra a 2nd term with an expanded mandate. In his 1st
term he broadly managed to keep 3 promises centering on cheap health
care, debt forgiveness for farmers and micro-credits for villages.
Under his tenure public debt fell from 54% of GDP to 39%.
(AP, 2/6/05)(Econ, 2/5/05, p.11,23)
2006 Feb 6, President George W.
Bush proposed a $2.77 trillion budget for 2007 that cuts domestic
programs from Medicare to community policing while bolstering security
spending, even as he seeks to tame a soaring deficit. The budget
reduced funding for the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps,
created by Pres. Clinton in 1993, from $27 million to $5 million with
the goal of closing it down.
(AP, 2/6/06)(SFC, 3/1/06, p.A5)
2006 Feb 6, US Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales defended the Bush administration's eavesdropping
program before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Terrorist conspirator
Zacarias Moussaoui disrupted the opening of his sentencing trial in
Alexandria, Va., and was tossed out of court.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2006 Feb 6, Prosper.com, an
Internet company to link borrowers and lenders, went live with its
website. Chris Larsen, co-founder of Pleasanton’s E-Loan, co-founded
Prosper backed by $20 million in venture capital. Puerto Rican bank
Popular Inc. purchase E-loan for $300 million in 2005.
(SFC, 3/6/06, p.C1)(Econ, 2/25/06, p.79)
2006 Feb 6, Royal Caribbean Intl.
announced that it has ordered the world’s largest and most expense
cruise ship. The $1.24 billion ship, capable of holding 6,400
passengers, will be built by Norway’s Aker Yards.
(SFC, 2/7/06, p.C1)
2006 Feb 6, Afghan security forces
opened fire on demonstrators, leaving at least four dead, as
increasingly violent protests erupted around the world over published
caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. European and Muslim
politicians pleaded for calm.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, A US soldier was
killed when his patrol came under attack in central Afghanistan while a
militant was killed in a separate incident in the east.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, Police investigating
the deaths of 13 hospital patients in eastern Australia on Monday
recommended charging Dr. Jayant Patel, an Indian-born American surgeon,
with four counts of manslaughter and six counts of grievous bodily harm.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, Australian police
arrested three men over a shipment of almost 46 kilograms (101 pounds)
of crystal methamphetamine hidden in a speedboat imported from Canada.
(AFP, 2/7/06)
2006 Feb 6, In Canada Stephen
Harper, dismissed less than two years ago as unelectable, was sworn in
as the country's 22nd PM.
(CP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, China’s banking
watchdog said it unearthed irregularities involving some $95 billion at
mainland banks in 2005.
(WSJ, 2/7/06, p.A13)
2006 Feb 6, In Costa Rica with 78%
of the votes counted, former president Arias had 40.7% compared to 40
percent for opposition figure Otton Solis of the Citizens' Action Party.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, Analysts and companies
said the boycott of Danish goods called by Islamic countries to protest
the publication of Prophet Muhammad caricatures was costing Danish
businesses more than $1 million a day.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, El Salvador said it
will send another contingent of 380 soldiers to Iraq, making it the
country's sixth group to serve six-month rotations in the war-torn
nation.
(AP, 2/7/06)
2006 Feb 6, Isabelle Dinoire, the
Frenchwoman who'd received the world's first partial face transplant,
showed off her new features at a news conference.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2006 Feb 6, Public employees in
the southern German state of Baden Wuerttemberg walked off the job in
protest of plans to make them work longer without increasing their pay.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, India's benchmark
stock index charged past the 10,000 mark for the first time, but
couldn't hold the level and ended at 9,980.42, still a record close.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, Austrian and Danish
embassies in Iran were attacked in protests over the publication of
Prophet Muhammad caricatures.
(WSJ, 2/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 6, Police uncovered the
bullet-riddled bodies of two Sunni brothers in Baghdad. Gunmen also
shot and killed a retired teacher, aged 60, and wounded his son in
another drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad. Drive-by gunmen and
roadside bombs killed at least 11 people across Iraq.
(AP, 2/6/06)(AP, 2/7/06)
2006 Feb 6, In Iraq 3 US Marines
were killed by a bomb blast in Hit, 85 miles west of Baghdad. Another
Marine died from wounds caused by a bomb blast a day earlier in an
unspecified location within Anbar province.
(AP, 2/7/06)
2006 Feb 6, In Rome, Italy, a bus
loaded with Turkish tourists veered off a road in the Italian capital
and slid about 50 feet down a ravine, killing 12 people.
(AP, 2/7/06)
2006 Feb 6, Israeli forces fired a
missile at a car in the northern Gaza Strip after nightfall killing two
Palestinian militants, including a man described as a senior commander.
(AP, 2/7/06)
2006 Feb 6, In Ivory Coast 12
villagers were shot and hacked to death in an apparent grudge attack
over a pay dispute not far from the western town of Guiglo.
(Reuters, 2/7/06)
2006 Feb 6, Japanese electronics
maker Toshiba Corp. said that it was buying nuclear plant builder
Westinghouse Electric Co., the US-based unit of the British
government's British Nuclear Fuels PLC, for $5.4 billion.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, In Morocco police
broke up an international network helping Indians migrate illegally to
Europe with 70 arrests.
(AFP, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, John Sawyers,
political director of the British foreign office, told a group of
Kosovo Serbs that the contact group of 5 western countries had decided
that Kosovo should have independence.
(Econ, 2/18/06, p.50)
2006 Feb 6, Sudanese officials
said some seven people were killed in southern Sudan in recent clashes
between renegade armed militias and the south Sudan army, despite a
2005 peace deal to end Africa's longest civil war there.
(Reuters, 2/6/06)
2006 Feb 6, UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan announced he was establishing a foundation for agriculture
and women's education in his home continent of Africa as he received a
500,000-dollar environment prize.
(AFP, 2/6/06)
2007 Feb 6, Defense Secretary
Robert Gates announced to the Senate Armed Services Committee that
President George W. Bush had given authority to create the new African
Command. US Navy Rear Admiral Robert Moeller was named as Executive
Director, head of the transition team for AFRICOM, with initial
quarters in Germany.
(AP, 2/6/07)(Econ, 6/16/07,
p.55)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command)
2007 Feb 6, An official said Lisa
Marie Nowak (43), a NASA astronaut accused of trying to kidnap a
romantic rival for a space shuttle pilot's affections, will remain in
jail because authorities planned to charge her with attempted
first-degree murder.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2007 Feb 6, The San Mateo, Ca.,
Board of Supervisors adopted a ban on smoking at 17 parks, trails and a
beach managed by the county.
(SFC, 2/7/07, p.B1)
2007 Feb 6, It was reported that
thieves have long targeted car stereos, air bags, high-intensity
headlights, even pocket change from the ashtrays. But now they are
slithering under vehicles and cutting away the catalytic converters.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2007 Feb 6, In Kentucky a fire
engulfed a home in Bardstown killing 10 people.
(SFC, 2/7/07, p.A3)
2007 Feb 6, Frankie Laine (1913),
pop singer born as Francesco Paolo LoVecchio in Chicago, died in San
Diego. His songs included “Mule Train,” Cool Water” and the theme song
for “Rawhide.” He had started in jazz but was sidetracked by arranger
Mitch Miller.
(SFC, 2/7/07, p.A2)
2007 Feb 6, More than 20,000
miners from across Bolivia marched into the capital, tossing sticks of
dynamite that sent booming explosions echoing through the streets in a
protest of President Evo Morales' plans for a steep hike in mining
taxes.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2007 Feb 6, In Sao Paulo, Brazil,
suspected gang members torched 3 buses and shot at police, raising
concerns the violence could mushroom into a repeat of last year's crime
wave.
(AP, 2/7/07)
2007 Feb 6, An underground
explosion in a central Colombia coal mine killed eight workers, just
days after a similar blast in the nation's northeast killed 32 miners.
(AP, 2/7/07)
2007 Feb 6, Church officials said
The Episcopal Church has named a woman as bishop in Cuba, the first
such appointment by the church in the developing world.
(AP, 2/7/07)
2007 Feb 6, In France nearly 60
nations pledged not to use children to wage war and to disarm and
rehabilitate underage soldiers. The Paris Commitments agreement was
seen as a strong moral step against the problem, though it carried no
legal weight. They also signed a treaty that bans governments from
holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of
its key European allies were not among them.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2007 Feb 6, In Honduras 3
Americans on a charity mission were killed and 17 other people were
injured in a traffic accident.
(AP, 2/7/07)
2007 Feb 6, Iraqi and US forces
set up more checkpoints in preparation for a security sweep in Baghdad
amid complaints that the operation was moving too slowly.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2007 Feb 6, In Mexico more than a
dozen armed assailants staged and videotaped simultaneous attacks
against two offices of the state attorney general in Acapulco, killing
five agents and two secretaries.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2007 Feb 6, Dutch media reported
that the parties of the incoming centre-left Dutch government agreed to
grant amnesty for some 30,000 failed asylum seekers who came to the
Netherlands before April 2001.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2007 Feb 6, In Pakistan a suicide
attacker detonated a bomb in a parking area at the international
airport in Rawalpindi, which serves Pakistan's capital, wounding at
least two police and killing himself.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2007 Feb 6, China’s President Hu
Jintao vowed to forge a partnership of equals with South Africa as he
held talks with his counterpart Thabo Mbeki.
(AP, 2/6/07)
2008 Feb 6, The US SEC settled
with David Li, head of the Bank of East Asia, charges of insider
trading regarding last year’s acquisition of Down Jones by News Corp.
Michael Leung, another Hong Kong tycoon, and his family also settled
for $8.1 million in disgorged profits and a similar amount in fines.
(Econ, 2/9/08, p.83)
2008 Feb 6, The play “Betrayed” by
George Packer opened at Manhattan's Culture Project. It was based on
his article in the New Yorker concerning Iraqis, who have worked with
American forces.
(www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=betr6202)
2008 Feb 6, Samba group Beija Flor
was declared Brazil's carnival champion for the fifth time in six
years. While Beija Flor's dancers were topless, the judges drew the
line at going bottomless, penalizing the rival Sao Clemente group for
breaking a rule against display of genitalia during its 80-minute
parade.
(AP, 2/7/08)
2008 Feb 6, PM Gordon Brown
announced that evidence gathered through wiretapping will be allowed in
British courts for the first time under proposals aimed at bringing
more terrorism suspects to justice.
(AP, 2/6/08)
2008 Feb 6, In China the Year of
the Pig ended at midnight making way for Year of the Rat.
(AFP, 2/6/08)
2008 Feb 6, Congo arrested and
turned over for trial Mathieu Ngudjolo, an army colonel and former
rebel leader accused of leading a deadly 2003 attack on a village in
the country's lawless east. Ngudjolo was expected to arrive at the
International Criminal Court in the Hague the next day.
(AP, 2/7/08)
2008 Feb 6, Ecuador's Tungurahua
volcano shot columns of ash miles into the air, as officials ordered
the evacuation of 3,000 villagers living near its slopes.
(AP, 2/6/08)
2008 Feb 6, In France 7 doctors
and pharmacists went on trial for the deaths of more than 100 young
people who died of a brain-destroying disease after being treated with
tainted human growth hormones.
(AP, 2/6/08)
2008 Feb 6, Iraqi and US officials
said videotapes seized during US raids on suspected al-Qaida in Iraq
hide-outs show the terror group training young boys to kidnap and
assassinate civilians. A roadside bomb exploded near a police convoy
transporting suspected Shiite militia fighters south of Baghdad,
killing four passers-by and wounding nine other people. At least 19
people were killed or found dead across the country. The US military
said that its troops, along with Iraqi forces, had killed seven
suspected insurgents and detained 45 others in five days of raids
across Iraq. The US military said videos seized from suspected al-Qaida
in Iraq hideouts show militants training children who appear as young
as 10 to kidnap and kill. A US soldier killed by a roadside bomb in
western Baghdad.
(AP, 2/6/08)(AP, 2/7/08)
2008 Feb 6, Israel launched
airstrikes against militants firing rockets from the Gaza Strip on and
vowed to maintain a war "on all fronts" until the territory's Hamas
rulers halt attacks. Hamas rockets wounded two young sisters at Kibbutz
Beeri.
(AP, 2/6/08)(SFC, 2/7/08, p.A4)
2008 Feb 6, Italy's Pres. Giorgio
Napolitano dissolved parliament, clearing the way for early elections
just two years after the last parliamentary vote. Premier Romano Prodi
will continue as caretaker premier until the election.
(AP, 2/6/08)
2008 Feb 6, The Mozambican
government announced that it was scrapping a planned increase in bus
fares as the death toll from riots sparked by the price hikes rose to
three.
(AFP, 2/6/08)
2008 Feb 6, In Nigeria armed men
killed a policeman in an overnight attack and kidnapped the wife of a
prominent politician in Port Harcourt. She was released 2 days later.
(AFP, 2/6/08)(AFP, 2/9/08)
2008 Feb 6, A coalition of Taliban
militants in northwestern Pakistan declared an "indefinite" cease-fire
in fighting against security forces. The government said it was
preparing for peace talks. A Pakistani army helicopter crashed in the
same region, killing three generals and five other soldiers. Gunmen on
a motorbike shot dead a ethnic Pashtun politician in the southern
Pakistani port city of Karachi, raising tensions ahead of elections
later this month.
(AP, 2/6/08)(AFP, 2/6/08)
2008 Feb 6, A Russian court
suspended the trial of Vasily Aleksanian, an ailing former executive of
the dismantled oil giant Yukos, but refused to release him from jail to
be treated for AIDS-related cancer and tuberculosis.
(AP, 2/6/08)
2008 Feb 6, In eastern Switzerland
2 paintings by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) worth nearly five million
Swiss francs (4.5 million dollars, 3.1 million euros) were stolen from
a museum. The two oil paintings, "Tete de Cheval" from 1962 and "Verre
et pichet" from 1944, were stolen from a cultural centre in the eastern
town of Pfaeffikon.
(AFP, 2/8/08)
2008 Feb 6, Thailand made an
uneasy return to democracy with the swearing-in of a Cabinet dominated
by loyalists to the prime minister ousted nearly 17 months ago in a
military coup. Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a bomb near a
Chinese shrine in southern Thailand, killing one soldier and wounding
six other people.
(AP, 2/6/08)
2008 Feb 6, Ukraine's main
opposition party vowed to continue its blockade of parliament, a day
after fist fights and protests over NATO membership caused the
president to cancel his state of the nation speech.
(AP, 2/6/08)
2009 Feb 6, The US FDA approved
the first drug made with materials from genetically altered animals.
Atryn, developed by GTX Biotherapeutics, was made from the milk of a
genetically altered goat and would be used to treat a rare
blood-clotting disorder known as hereditary antithrombin deficiency.
(WSJ, 2/7/09, p.A4)
2009 Feb 6, California ordered
200,000 employees, 90% of the state work force, to take an unpaid day
off amid a fiscal crises.
(WSJ, 2/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 6, In Ohio Gertrude
"Trudy" Steuernagel, a Kent State University professor, died a week
after she was severely injured in a Jan 29 beating by Sky Walker (18),
her autistic son.
(AP, 2/25/09)
2009 Feb 6, Phil Carey (b.1925),
film and TV actor, died in NYC. He was best known for his role as
business tycoon Asa Buchanan in the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live."
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 6, It was reported that
Canada has granted Lai Changxing a work permit. Chinese authorities
have accused Lai Changxing of masterminding a network that smuggled as
much as $10 billion of goods with the protection of corrupt government
officials. Before fleeing to Canada in 1999, Lai lived a life of luxury
in China complete with a mansion and a bulletproof Mercedes.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 6, Nigeria’s government
reported that 84 infants and children have died after swallowing My
Pikin Baby Teething Mixture, a teething syrup laced with diethylene
glycol. A failed bid to smuggle a bus filled with rice into Nigeria
from Niger left seven people dead including two customs officers set
ablaze with petrol.
(SFC, 2/7/09, p.A2)(AFP, 2/8/09)
2009 Feb 6, A Pakistani court
freed nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. He had admitted to selling
weapon technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
(WSJ, 2/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 6, Pakistani forces
killed 52 Islamic militants in the northwest.
(WSJ, 2/9/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 6, The UN agency for
Palestinian refugees suspended aid to Gaza, accusing the Hamas rulers
of stealing a delivery of humanitarian supplies for the 2nd time in a
week. Jamil Shaqqura (51) died in a hospital of wounds from beating and
torture, a week after he was picked for interrogation by Hamas'
internal security.
(SFC, 2/709, p.A3)(AP, 2/14/09)
2009 Feb 6, Russia granted transit
rights to nonlethal US military supplies headed to Afghanistan, but
only after pressuring Kyrgyzstan to close an air base leased to the US.
(SFC, 2/7/09, p.A3)
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