Today in History - February 10
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60CE Feb 10, St.
Paul is believed to have been shipwrecked near Malta while enroute to
Rome for trial for practicing Catholicism. The story is told in the
Bible’s New Testament Acts of the Apostles, chapter 27. The event is
marked in Malta every February 10.
(WSJ, 6/21/08,
p.W8)(www.maltamedia.com/artman2/publish/out_about/article_5012.shtml)
1098 Feb 10, Crusaders defeated
Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1258 Feb 10, Huegu (Hulega Khan),
a Mongol leader and grandson of Genghis Khan, seized Baghdad following
a 4-day assault. Mongol invaders from Central Asia took over Baghdad
and ended the Abbasid-Seljuk Empire. They included Uzbeks, Kazaks,
Georgians and other groups. Some 200 to 800 thousand people were killed
and looting lasted 17 days.
(ATC, p.91)(AP, 2/10/99)(SFC, 4/12/03, p.A1)
1324 Feb 10, The pope officially
chastised the Knights of the Cross for ill treatment of Catholics and
for pushing pagans away from Christianity.
(LHC, 2/10/03)
1535 Feb 10, 12 nude Anabaptists
ran through the streets of Amsterdam. [see 1534]
(MC, 2/10/02)
1609 Feb 10, John Suckling,
English Cavalier poet, dramatist, courtier, was born.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1620 Feb 10, Supporters of Marie
de Medici, the queen mother, who had been exiled to Blois, were
defeated by the king’s troops at Ponts de Ce, France.
(AP, 2/10/99)
1670 Feb 10, William Congreve,
English writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World), was born.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1676 Feb 10, In King Philip’s War
Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians raided Lancaster, Mass. Over 35
villagers were killed and 24 were taken captive including Mary
Rowlandson (1637-1711) and her 3 children. Rowlandson was freed after
11 weeks and an account of her captivity was published posthumously in
1682.
(AH, 6/02, p.48)(Econ, 2/21/09,
p.83)(http://tinyurl.com/cvrhcv)
1720 Feb 10, Edmund Halley was
appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1722 Feb 10, Black Bart (b.1682),
Welsh pirate, died. He raided shipping off the Americas and West Africa
between 1719 and 1722.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Roberts)
1728 Feb 10, Peter III Fyodorovich
(d.1762), czar of Russia (1761-62), was born in Germany. He married
Catherine, who succeeded him following a coup. [see Feb 21]
(WUD, 1994 p.1077)(WSJ, 2/14/02, p.A18)(MC, 2/10/02)
1763 Feb 10, Britain, Spain and
France signed the Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years’ War, aka the
French-Indian War. France ceded Canada to England and gave up all her
territories in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered
islands including St. Pierre and Miquelon off the coast of
Newfoundland.
(HN, 2/10/97)(AP, 2/10/97)(AP, 2/10/08)(AH, 2/06,
p.55)
1772 Feb 10, Louis Tocque (75),
French painter, died.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1774 Feb 10, Andrew Becker
demonstrated a diving suit.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1775 Feb 10, Charles Lamb
(d.1834), critic, poet, essayist, was born in London, England. "No one
ever regarded the first of January with indifference. It is the
nativity of our common Adam."
(AP, 12/31/97)(MC, 2/10/02)
1794 Feb 10, Joseph Haydn’s 99th
Symphony in E, premiered.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1799 Feb 10, Napoleon Bonaparte
left Cairo, Egypt, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men.
(AP, 2/10/99)
1814 Feb 10, Napoleon personally
directed lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward
Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.
During the Napoleonic Wars a British naval officer proposed the use of
saturation bombing and chemical warfare to undermine the strength of
Emperor Napoleon.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1824 Feb 10, Simon Bolivar was
named President by the Congress of Peru.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1840 Feb 10, Britain's Queen
Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
(HN, 2/10/97)(AP, 2/10/97)
1841 Feb 10, Upper Canada and
Lower Canada were proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the
British Parliament.
(AP, 2/10/07)
1846 Feb 10, Led by religious
leader Brigham Young, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, began an exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to
Utah.
(AP, 2/10/97)(AP, 2/10/99)
1846 Feb 10, British General Sir
Hugh Gough decisively routed Tej Singh’s Sikhs in the Battle of Sobraon.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1855 Feb 10, US citizenship laws
were amended to include all children of US parents born abroad.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1863 Feb 10, P.T. Barnum’s star
midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, were married.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1864 Feb 10, Konstanty Kalinowski,
the last Lithuanian provincial rebel leader, was captured. He was
hanged a month later.
(LHC, 2/10/03)
1878 Feb 10, Peter Tchaikovsky’s
4th Symphony in F, premiered.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1878 Feb 10, Cuba’s 10 year war
with Spain ended with the signing of the pact of Zanjon. The
nationalist uprising failed.
(WSJ, 9/12/08,
p.W6)(www.cubagen.org/mil/war-hist.htm)
1879 Feb 10, The 1st electric arc
light was used in a California Theater. The first electric arc lights
were installed in Cleveland in this year. Some women complained that
the white light blanched their complexions in a most ghastly manner.
(MC, 2/10/02)(SFC, 11/30/96, p.B5)
1890 Feb 10, Boris Pasternak
(d.1960), Russian novelist and author, was born. His greatest novel,
Dr. Zhivago, was rejected for publication in the USSR “No single man
makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass
growing.” [OS][see Feb 18]
(AP, 10/6/98)(HN, 2/10/99)
1890 Feb 10, Around 11 million
acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians, opened for settlement.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1893 Feb 10, Jimmy Durante,
‘Schnozzel,’ American comedian and film actor, was born in NYC. “Be
nice to people on the way up. They’re the same people you’ll pass on
the way down.”
(HN, 2/10/99)(AP, 2/10/01)(MC, 2/10/02)
1894 Feb 10, Harold MacMillan,
British prime minister from 1957 to 1963, was born.
(HN, 2/10/97)(HN, 2/10/99)
1897 Feb 10, John F. Enders,
virologist, was born.
(HN, 2/10/01)
1898 Feb 10, Bertolt Brecht,
German poet and dramatist, was born. He is best remembered for his
plays “Three Penny Opera” and “Mother Courage. “
(HN, 2/10/99)
1901 Feb 10, Stella Adler, actress
and teacher, was born.
(HN, 2/10/01)
1902 Feb 10, Walter Brattain,
physicist, was born. He became one of the inventors of the transistor.
(HN, 2/10/01)
1904 Feb 10, Russia and Japan
declared war on each other.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1906 Feb 10, Britain's 1st modern
and largest battleship, the "HMS Dreadnought," was launched.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1910 Feb 10, Dominique Georges
Pire, Belgian cleric and educator, was born.
(HN, 2/10/01)
1912 Feb 10, Dr. Joseph Lister,
founder of sterile technique in surgical practice, died at age 85. In
1917 Sir Rickman John Godlee authored “Lord Lister.”
(ON, 7/00, p.9)
1914 Feb 10, Larry Adler,
harmonica virtuoso, was born.
(HN, 2/10/01)
1915 Feb 10, President Wilson
blasted the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to
deceive the Germans. He also warned the Kaiser that he would hold
Germany "to a strict accountability" for U.S. lives and property
endangered. In Europe [Lithuania], the Germans encircled and captured
100,000 Russians near Nieman River. When the United States entered
World War I, propagandist George Creel set out to stifle anti-war
sentiment.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1920 Feb 10, Alex Comfort, English
physician and author, was born. His books included “Joy of Sex.”
(HN, 2/10/01)
1922 Feb 10, Harold Hughes,
Governor of New Jersey, was born.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1923 Feb 10, Cesare Siepi, basso
(NY Metropolitan Opera), was born in Milan, Italy.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1923 Feb 10, Wilhelm Konrad von
Röntgen (77), physicist (Nobel 1901), died. In 1971 Robert W.
Nitske authored “The Life of Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen: Discoverer of
the X Ray.”
(ON, 11/04, p.8)
1925 Feb 10, Poland made an accord
with the Vatican and the archdiocese of Vilnius was revived as one of 5
Polish dioceses.
(LHC, 2/10/03)
1927 Feb 10, (Mary Violet)
Leontyne Price, opera singer, was born.
(HN, 2/10/01)
1931 Feb 10, New Delhi became the
capital of India. [see Mar 26]
(MC, 2/10/02)
1933 Feb 10, The first singing
telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Company in New York.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1934 Feb 10, An Admiral Byrd
souvenir stamp sheet was issued, NYC. It was the 1st unperforated
ungummed US stamp.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1934 Feb 10, A Jewish immigrant
ship 1st broke the English blockade in Palestine.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1935 Feb 10, Pennsylvania RR began
passenger service with new electric locomotive.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1939 Feb 10, Pope Pius XI died in
Rome. He was born in Desio, Italy, as Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti.
(www.nndb.com/people/327/000088063/)
1939 Feb 10, Japan occupied the
Chinese island of Hainan located off the coast of French
Indochina (modern day Vietnam).
(HN, 2/10/97)
1940 Feb 10, "In The Mood" by
Glenn Miller hit #1.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1941 Feb 10, London severed
diplomatic relations with Romania. Romania's indigenous fighter, the
IAR 80, saw service in defense of its homeland and against the Soviets.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1941 Feb 10, Iceland was attacked
by German planes.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1942 Feb 10, RCA Victor presented
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra with a "gold record" for their recording
of "Chattanooga Choo Choo," which had sold more than 1 million copies.
(AP, 2/10/99)
1942 Feb 10, The war halted
civilian car production at Ford. Henry Ford opposed America's entry
into World War II until the attack on Pearl Harbor, which inspired him
to begin an all-out effort to manufacture planes and vehicles for the
war effort.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1942 Feb 10, The former French
liner Normandie capsized in New York Harbor a day after it caught fire
while being refitted for the U.S. Navy.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1945 Feb 10, "Rum & Coca Cola"
by the Andrews Sisters hit #1.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1945 Feb 10, B-29s hit the Tokyo
area. It was a B-29 that dropped the bomb that ended World War II.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1949 Feb 10, Arthur Miller's play
"Death of a Salesman" opened at Broadway's Morosco Theater with Lee J.
Cobb as Willy Loman. The play depicting the false dreams of Willy Loman
won a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-12)(WSJ, 5/13/96, p. A-16)(AP,
2/10/08)
1949 Feb 10, Elections in Northern
Ireland showed that at least 2/3 of the population favored continued
union with Great Britain.
(EWH, 1968, p.1166)
1950 Feb 10, Mark Spitz, Modesto
Calif, swimmer (Oly-9 gold/silver/bronze-68,72), was born.
(www.thisdaythatyear.com/feb/people10.htm)
1951 Feb 10, "John & Marsha"
by Stan Freberg peaked at #21.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1954 Feb 10, Eisenhower warned
against US intervention in Vietnam.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1955 Feb 10, Bell Aircraft
displayed a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane. An ingenious blend of
airplane and helicopter features, the Fairey Rotodyne was a case of
almost--but not quite enough.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1957 Feb 10, Southern Christian
Leadership Conference formed.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1960 Feb 10, "Unsinkable Molly
Brown" ended at Winter Garden, NYC, after 532 performances.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1960 Feb 10, Adolph Coors, the
beer brewer, was kidnapped in Golden, Colo.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1961 Feb 10, Niagara Falls
hydroelectric project began producing power.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1962 Feb 10, The Soviet Union
exchanged captured American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph
Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1966 Feb 10, Protester David
Miller was convicted of burning his draft card.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1967 Feb 10, The 25th Amendment to
the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession,
went into effect as Minnesota and Nevada adopted it.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 2/10/08)
1968 Feb 10, Peggy Fleming of the
United States won the gold medal in women's figure skating at the
Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1971 Feb 10, The play "The House
of Blue Leaves" by John Guare (b.1938), American playwright, opened off
Broadway.
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB
p.37)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Blue_Leaves)
1971 Feb 10, Combat photographers
Henri Huet of AP, Kent Potter of UPI, Larry Burrows (b.1926) of Life
Magazine and Keisaburo Shimamato of Newsweek were killed in a
helicopter crash over Laos. In 2003 Richard Pyle and Horst Faas
authored "Lost Over Laos: A True Story of Tragedy, Mystery and
Friendship."
(WSJ, 5/22/98,
p.W12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Burrows)(SSFC, 3/23/03, p.M5)
1979 Feb 10, The Metropolitan
Museum announced the first major theft in 110-year history, $150,000
Greek marble head.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1981 Feb 10, Eight people were
killed, 198 injured, when fire broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton
hotel-casino.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1984 Feb 10, Kevin Andrew Collins
(9) was abducted from a SF street corner. The child’s picture was among
the 1st to appear on milk cartons across the country. By 2007 Kevin's
whereabouts were still unknown, and there were no new leads in the 23
year-old case. The strain of Kevin's disappearance and the search for
their son eventually led Kevin’s parents, David and Ann Collins, to
divorce.
(SFC, 2/10/06,
p.B6)(www.crimeandjustice.us/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t26.html)
1986 Feb 10, In Darien, Conn.,
Alex Kelly (18) raped 16-year-old Adrienne Bak Ortolano. Four days
later he raped another girl. While preparing for trial after he was
arrested and out on bail, Kelly fled the country and eluded charges for
8 years. Kelly stayed in Europe for nearly 10 years, presumably
financed by his parents. In 1995, he was captured in Switzerland and
extradited back to the United States to face trial. He faced two
criminal trials in 1997. The first trial resulted in a mistrial. In the
second trial he was convicted of the first rape and sentenced to 18
years in jail. He pleaded no contest to the second rape charge. His
next parole hearing is scheduled in 2008, conditional on good behavior.
(SFC,12/22/97,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Andrew_Kelly)
1986 Feb 10, The largest
Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opened in Palermo, Italy.
The trial ended on December 16, 1987, almost two years after it
commenced. Of the 474 defendants, both those present and those tried in
absentia, 360 were convicted. 2,665 years of prison sentences were
shared out between the guilty, not including the life sentences. A
total of 114 defendants were acquitted.
(HN, 2/10/97)(www.answers.com/topic/maxi-trial)
1988 Feb 10, A 3-judge panel of
the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down the
Army's ban on homosexuals, saying gays were entitled to the same
protection against discrimination as racial minorities. The ruling was
later set aside by the full appeals court.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1989 Feb 10, Ron Brown was elected
chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first black
to head a major U.S. political party.
(AP, 2/10/99)
1990 Feb 10, In Indonesia Mount
Kelud erupted. Some 33 post eruption lahars took place from Feb
15-mar28 and more than 30 people were killed with hundreds injured.
(AP,
11/3/07)(www.springerlink.com/content/x7d7qvad0ct3c9bf/)
1990 Feb 10, South African
President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela
would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.
(AP, 2/10/00)
1991 Feb 10, In a broadcast on
Baghdad Radio, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein praised his countrymen
for withstanding attacks by allied warplanes and rockets.
(AP, 2/10/01)
1992 Feb 10, Bonnie Blair of the
United States won the women's 500-meter speed skating competition at
the Albertville Olympics.
(AP, 2/10/02)
1992 Feb 10, In the Iowa caucus
favorite son Tom Harkin won with 76% of the vote. The rest went to
“Uncommitted” (12%), Paul Tsongas (4%), Bill Clinton (3%), Bob Kerrey
(2%), and Jerry Brown (2%). Clinton ended up winning the Democratic
nomination and the presidency.
(http://correntewire.com/post_iowa_perspective)
1992 Feb 10, Boxer Mike Tyson was
convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black
America contestant.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1992 Feb 10, Alex Haley, author of
“Roots” and co-writer of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” died in
Seattle at age 70. Much of his work was donated to the Univ. of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.C15)(AP, 2/10/97)
1993 Feb 10, The Clinton
administration said U.S. troops could be sent to enforce peace in
former Yugoslavia provided warring factions there negotiated a
settlement.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1994 Feb 10, The US Senate
approved $8.6 billion in relief for victims of the Jan 17 Los Angeles
earthquake. The House approved the measure the next day, and President
Clinton signed it the day after that.
(AP, 2/10/99)
1994 Feb 10, Jeannie Flynn
(b.1966)), the first female combat pilot in the US Air Force, finished
flight training in the F-15.
(http://tinyurl.com/n5ehhg)(NPub, 2002, p.26)
1995 Feb 10, The House passed a
GOP crime bill boosting funding for state prisons but requiring states
to get tougher on violent criminals before they could receive any
money.
(AP, 2/10/00)
1996 Feb 10, President Clinton
signed a $265 billion defense bill, but said he would battle for repeal
of a section forcing the discharge of service members with the AIDS
virus.
(AP, 2/10/01)
1996 Feb 10, World chess champion
Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a match in Philadelphia against
an I-B-M computer dubbed “Deep Blue.”
(AP, 2/10/01)
1996 Feb 10, In Algeria two
car bombs killed 17 and wounded 93 in the capital.
(WSJ, 2/12/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 10, A slab of
mountainside crushed a highway tunnel on the Japanese island of
Hokkaido, killing 20 people.
(AP, 2/10/01)
1997 Feb 10, The 5th annual ESPY
Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall, NYC. The Awards were created
by ESPN in 1993 and are given for Excellence in Sports Performance.
(http://espn.go.com/espy2004/s/espyfacts.html)
1997 Feb 10, A civil jury in Santa
Monica heaped $25 million in punitive damages on O.J. Simpson for the
slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, on top of $8.5 million in
compensatory damages awarded earlier.
(USAT, 2/11/97, p.A1)(AP, 2/10/97)
1997 Feb 10, The US Air Force
suspended all training flights over the Gulf of Mexico and the East
Coast after two new reports of close encounters between F-16s and
commercial aircraft over New Mexico and Texas.
(AP, 2/10/07)
1997 Feb 10, The Army suspended
its top-ranking enlisted soldier, Army Sgt. Major Gene McKinney,
following sexual misconduct allegations.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1997 Feb 10, The National Park
Service took over a small section of Santa Cruz Island, one of the
Channel Islands off of Ventura, Ca. Most of the 60,800 acre island is
owned by the Nature Conservancy.
(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.A15)
1997 Feb 10, The city of
Cincinnati revealed plans for a new $80-million museum for its role in
the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. The museum and freedom
center were scheduled to open in 2002.
(USAT, 2/11/97, p.D1)
1997 Feb 10, From Bolivia it was
reported that heavy rains have destroyed the homes and crops of tens of
thousands of farmers. The rains were the heaviest in 3 decades.
(SFC, 2/10/97, p.A8)
1997 Feb 10, Bosnian Croat gunmen
killed a Bosnian Muslim man and wounded 22 others who were among a
crowd of some 200 trying to visit a cemetery in the divided city of
Mostar.
(WSJ, 2/11/97, p.A1)
1997 Feb 10, In Spain a Supreme
Court Justice, Rafael Martinez Emperador, was shot dead in Madrid. In
Grenada a car bomb exploded and killed one person and wounded 7.
Guerrillas of the ETA, Basque Homeland and Liberty, were blamed.
(USAT, 2/11/97, p.5A)
1998 Feb 10, Dr. David Satcher was
confirmed as Surgeon General by the US Senate.
(SFC, 2/11/98, p.A1)(AP, 2/10/99)
1998 Feb 10, Voters in Maine
repealed a gay rights law. Gov. Angus King called it unfortunate.
(SFC, 2/11/98, p.A2)(AP, 2/10/99)
1998 Feb 10, Monica Lewinsky's
mother, Marcia Lewis, testified before the grand jury investigating her
daughter's alleged affair with President Clinton.
(AP, 2/10/99)
1998 Feb 10, Speedskater Hiroyasu
Shimizu won Japan's first gold medal of the Nagano Olympics, in the
500-meter event.
(AP, 2/10/99)
1998 Feb 10, French legislators
approved a reduction in the workweek from 39 to 35 hours.
(SFC, 2/11/98, p.B3)
1999 Feb 10, Resigned to losing
their case, US House prosecutors said public opinion polls had made a
stronger impression on senators than any evidence that President
Clinton committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
(AP, 2/10/04)
1999 Feb 10, A federal judge
ordered American Airlines pilots to end a sickout that had grounded
2,500 flights, stranded 200,000 travelers and left businesses
scrambling for cargo carriers.
(AP, 2/10/00)
1999 Feb 10, Mitt Romney, a
venture capitalist son of George Romney, was proposed as the new chief
of the Olympic Committee for the 2002 games in SLC.
(SFC, 2/11/99, p.A3)
1999 Feb 10, Timothy Schultz (21)
and Sarah Elder (20) of Des Moines, Iowa, split a $10.6 million
Powerball lottery prize.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A3)
1999 Feb 10, US and British jets
again hit Iraqi air defense sites. It was reported that Saddam Hussein
has offered $14,000 to air defense troops who shoot down a US or
British plane.
(SFC, 2/11/99, p.A15)
1999 Feb 10, A Vietnamese
shopkeeper in Westminster, Orange County, Ca., was assaulted and began
a riot when he displayed a poster of Ho Chi Minh in his shop window.
(SFC, 2/11/99, p.A3)
1999 Feb 10, In Afghanistan
Taliban officials exchanged fire with bodyguards of bin Laden in
Kandahar.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A12)
1999 Feb 10, In Germany it was
announced that work on the nuclear waste storage dump near Gorleben
would be halted. The site had been planned to store waste from the
country's 19 nuclear reactors.
(SFC, 2/11/99, p.A17)
1999 Feb 10, In Mexico 4 armed
seized teacher Roberto Mejia Guzman from a classroom at San Pedro
Petlacala and killed him.
(SFC, 2/13/99, p.A18)
1999 Feb 10, In Russia police
headquarters in Samara burned down and killed at least 23 people.
Organized crime was suspected.
(SFC, 2/13/99, p.A17)(WSJ, 2/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 10, In Kosovo Serbian
authorities returned the bodies of 40 civilian Albanians who were
killed at Racak.
(SFC, 2/11/99, p.A14)
1999 Feb 10, In South Africa a
helicopter crashed on the roof of an office building in Cape Town and
all 4 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 2/11/99, p.C2)
1999 Feb 10, In Syria Pres. Hafez
Assad (68) was elected to a 5th 7-year term.
(SFC, 2/11/99, p.C2)
1999 Feb 10, A UN panel eased a
trade ban on ivory. It allowed Namibia and Zimbabwe to sell nearly 34
tons to Japan.
(WSJ, 2/11/99, p.A1)
2000 Feb 10, The Federal Aviation
Administration ordered inspections of MD-80, MD-90, DC-9 and 717 series
jetliners after two Alaska Airlines planes were found to have equipment
damage similar to that on Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed off
the California coast January 31st, killing all 88 people on board.
(AP, 2/10/01)
2000 Feb 10, Gil Garcetti, LA
district attorney, said that as many as 100 cases had been tainted by
planted evidence, false testimony and other police abuses. His office
had found over 40 people wrongly prosecuted by officers of the LAPD
Rampart Division. In 2005 LA said it would pay $70 million to settle
some 214 lawsuits related to the Ramparts Division.
(SFC, 2/11/00, p.A3)(SFC, 2/26/00, p.A3)(SFC,
4/1/05, p.A3)
2000 Feb 10, Steve Forbes,
publisher, announced that he was abandoning his 6-year GOP bid for the
presidency after an investment of $66 million.
(SFC, 2/10/00, p.A3)
2000 Feb 10, Actor Jim Varney,
best known for his comic character Ernest P. Worrell, died in White
House, Tennessee, at age 50.
(AP, 2/10/01)
2000 Feb 10, At Stansted, England,
9 hijackers surrendered and released all hostages of the Afghan
jetliner. Police arrested 21 [22] people and recovered arms. Half the
hostages requested asylum.
(SFC, 2/10/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/11/00, p.A1)(SFC,
2/12/00, p.A10)
2000 Feb 10, In Indonesia former
Pres. Suharto was declared an official suspect of corruption.
(WSJ, 2/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 10, Israeli jets fired 20
missiles in 8 raids in the Zillaya Valley following Hezbollah attacks
on Israeli troops and militia.
(SFC, 2/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Feb 10, In Jammu-Kashmir a
train explosion killed at least 5 people. In northern Kashmir gunmen
burst into 2 homes in Pattan village and killed 6 people with 3 wounded.
(SFC, 2/11/00, p.D2)
2000 Feb 10, In Russia the
government announced that it would raise the minimum price for a bottle
of vodka by 30% at the end of the month.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A10)
2000 Feb 10, In Yemen tribesmen
released Kenneth White (54), an American oil executive, who was
kidnapped a month ago.
(SFC, 2/11/00, p.D2)
2001 Feb 10, The space shuttle
Atlantis' astronauts installed the $1.4 billion Destiny laboratory on
the international space station.
(AP, 2/10/02)
2001 Feb 10, Former New York City
Mayor Abraham D. Beame died at age 94.
(AP, 2/10/02)
2001 Feb 10, In Algeria assailants
killed at least 27 people near Berrouaghia. Half of the dead were
children.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.B2)
2001 Feb 10, Israel said it would
not cooperate with the newly arrived UN human rights mission for a
fact-finding tour of Palestinian areas.
(SSFC, 2/11/01, p.C1)
2002 Feb 10, Snowboarder Kelly
Clark won America's first gold at the Salt Lake City Olympics in
women's halfpipe. Claudia Pechstein of Germany shattered her own world
record in the three-thousand-meter speedskating event, crossing the
line in 3:57.70.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2002 Feb 10, The Western
Conference defeated the Eastern Conference, 135-120, in the NBA
All-Star Game.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2002 Feb 10, A spokeswoman said
former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay would refuse to answer questions when
he appeared before Congress under subpoena.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2002 Feb 10, Convict-author Jack
Henry Abbott (58) committed suicide in his cell.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2002 Feb 10, Dave Van Ronk,
folksinger and mentor to Bob Dylan, died in NY at age 65.
(WSJ, 2/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 10, Vernon A. Walters
(85), former UN ambassador and aide to 7 presidents, died in West Palm
Beach, Florida.
(WSJ, 2/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 10, In Mexico Sinaloa
state police reportedly shot and killed drug boss Ramon Felix Arellano
(37).
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 10, Two Palestinian Hamas
gunmen attacked Israeli soldiers at Beersheva. 2 soldiers were killed
before the gunmen were slain.
(SFC, 2/11/02, p.A3)
2003 Feb 10, Clark MacGregor (80),
former Minnesota Congressman who'd led the Nixon re-election campaign
in 1972, died in Pompano Beach, Fla.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2003 Feb 10, Ron Ziegler (b.1939),
former press secretary for Richard Nixon, died in Coronado, Ca.
(SFC, 2/11/03, p.A19)
2003 Feb 10, Afghanistan became
the 89th nation to join the International Criminal Court.
(AP, 2/11/03)
2003 Feb 10, In Kabul,
Afghanistan, Germany and the Netherlands took control of the 22-nation
peacekeeping force charged with keeping order, replacing Turkey.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2003 Feb 10, A Chinese court
convicted U.S.-based dissident Wang Bingzhang on spying and terrorism
charges and sentenced him to life in prison.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2003 Feb 10, France, Germany and
Belgium blocked NATO efforts to begin planning for possible Iraqi
attacks against Turkey.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2003 Feb 10, Iraq agreed to allow
U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by
U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons; President Bush, however,
brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2003 Feb 10, Israeli troops killed
2 suspected Palestinian militants, including an unarmed fugitive, in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2003 Feb 10, Mexican army troops
seized 2.2 tons of cocaine from a plane that landed in northern Mexico
after it reported mechanical problems. The three men onboard were
arrested.
(AP, 2/11/03)
2003 Feb 10, Moscow appointed a
new prime minister of Chechnya. Anatoly Popov replaced Mikhail Babich,
who resigned under pressure 2 days earlier after a dispute with his
superior, the chief of the Moscow-backed administration, Akhmad Kadyrov.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2004 Feb 10, The White House
released documents on Pres. Bush's time of service in the Air National
Guard. Questions remained over his service in Alabama in 1972.
(SFC, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 10, Democratic
presidential front-runner John Kerry rolled to dominating wins in
Virginia and Tennessee, scoring a Southern sweep that knocked rival
Wesley Clark out of the race and put the nomination within reach.
(Reuters, 2/11/04)
2004 Feb 10, NYC said nearly 4% of
men age 40-49 in the city have AIDS or are infected with HIV.
(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 10, Edward Jablonski
(81), writer, died in NYC. Noted for his biographies of composers, his
over 2 dozen books also covered aviation and aerial warfare.
(SFC, 2/14/04, p.A22)
2004 Feb 10, OPEC met in Algiers
and agreed to reduce its official production by 1 million barrels-a-day
beginning Apr 1. Current production was 24.5 million.
(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 10, The US broke ground
for a new U.S. Embassy compound in the Chinese capital, billed by the
American government as the largest State Department project ever built
on foreign soil.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2004 Feb 10, French legislators
voted 494-36 to ban religious emblems such as Muslim head scarves from
state schools.
(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 10, French prosecutors
launched a money-laundering probe into the alleged transfers of $11.5
million dollars to accounts held by the wife of Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat.
(AP, 2/11/04)(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 10, In Haiti government
supporters in Cap-Haitien, the second largest city, built flaming
barricades to keep rebels out. UN aid officials warned of a looming
humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2004 Feb 10, An Iranian Fokker-50
plane carrying mostly foreign workers crashed as it approached Sharjah
airport in the United Arab Emirates, killing 43 people aboard. 3
survived.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2004 Feb 10, In Iskandariyah,
Iraq, a car bomb exploded at a police station south of Baghdad as
dozens of would-be recruits lined up to apply for jobs, and a hospital
official said at least 53 people were killed and 50 others wounded.
(AP, 2/10/04)(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 10, Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi met with Libya leader Moammar Gadhafi, and the United
States said it had restored diplomatic contacts with the country. In
London, Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks with the Libyan foreign
minister.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2004 Feb 10, In Nicaragua Carlos
Guadamuz, the former director of the state-run radio program, was shot
and killed, days after he said he received death threats. In 1969, he
had dressed up as a woman and tried to hijack a plane to Cuba. He was
then jailed for many years under former President Anastasio Somoza
Dabayle.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2005 Feb 10, New York civil rights
lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted of smuggling messages of violence
from one of her jailed clients, radical Egyptian sheik Omar
Abdel-Rahman, to his terrorist disciples on the outside. In 2006
Stewart was sentenced to 28 months in prison.
(AP, 2/10/06)(SFC, 10/17/06, p.A5)
2005 Feb 10, Arthur Miller
(b.1915), the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, died. His most famous
fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" (1949), came
to symbolize the American Dream gone awry.
(AP, 2/11/05)(SFC, 2/12/05, p.A12)(Econ, 2/19/05,
p.84)
2005 Feb 10, In central Argentina
a riot broke out at the San Martin Prison housing 2,000 prisoners,
leaving at least three inmates dead and two dozen guards hostage.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2005 Feb 10, Britain's Prince
Charles announced he would marry his divorced lover, Camilla Parker
Bowles, in April.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2005 Feb 10, Vancouver, Canada,
began a trial program giving addicts free heroin on condition that they
accept treatment.
(Econ, 2/12/05, p.36)
2005 Feb 10, Chile raised its key
interest rate to 2.75% from 2.5%.
(WSJ, 2/11/05, p.A9)
2005 Feb 10, In Haiti police
hunting a rebel leader stormed a compound used by the disbanded army,
exchanging gunfire with defenders. A grade school girl was killed in
the crossfire.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2005 Feb 10, A car bomb detonated
by remote control exploded in a crowded central Baghdad square moments
after an American military convoy passed, killing at least two Iraqis
and wounding two others. Insurgents attacked Iraqi police in Salman Pak
and killed at least 6.
(AP, 2/10/05)(SFC, 2/11/05, p.A20)
2005 Feb 10, North Korea announced
for the first time that it has nuclear arms and rejected moves to
restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying it needs the weapons as
protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
(AP, 2/10/05)
2005 Feb 10, Police in Nepal's
capital arrested 12 rights activists and quashed a rally to protest the
king's emergency rule, while rebels in the southwest killed five
policemen and freed comrades from a jail during a raid on a town.
(AP, 2/10/05)
2005 Feb 10, Heavy rains caused
the Shakidor Dam to burst in southwestern Pakistan, releasing a torrent
of water that killed at least 135 people. The country's total number of
dead from weeklong rains and avalanches soon grew to 278.
(AP, 2/11/05)(AP, 2/12/05)
2005 Feb 10, Palestinian militants
fired dozens of mortar shells and homemade rockets at Jewish
settlements in the Gaza Strip, prompting Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas to order his security forces to move quickly to preserve a new
cease-fire with Israel. Abbas fired his top security commanders
following the attacks.
(AP, 2/10/05)(WSJ, 2/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 10, In Peru President
Alejandro Toledo said the government is considering subsidizing some of
this Andean nation's poorest people with direct monthly cash payments.
(AP, 2/10/05)
2005 Feb 10, Male voters converged
at polling stations in the Riyadh region to participate in city
elections, marking the first time Saudis are taking part in a vote that
largely conforms to international standards. Women were banned from
casting ballots.
(AP, 2/10/05)
2005 Feb 10, Saudi Arabia
confirmed a 2nd case of polio from 2004 and feared pilgrims to Mecca
might spread the disease.
(SFC, 2/11/05, p.A13)
2005 Feb 10, Togo turned away a
plane carrying Nigerian peacemakers, drawing threats of sanctions and
accusations from Nigeria that it was blocking efforts to resolve a
crisis widely condemned as a military coup.
(Reuters, 2/11/05)
2006 Feb 10, Former federal
disaster chief Michael Brown told a Senate committee he had alerted the
White House to how bad things were in the wake of Hurricane Katrina,
and agreed with senators who said he'd been made a scapegoat for
government failures.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2006 Feb 10, The FBI and the
California attorney general’s office said they had begun investigations
in the theft by an int’l. counterfeiting ring of debit card numbers
belonging to as many as 200,000 consumers.
(SFC, 2/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 10, J Dilla (32), a
founding member of hip-hop act Slum Village, died in Los Angeles. The
Detroit-hailing rapper/producer succumbed to complications from lupus.
(Reuters, 2/13/06)
2006 Feb 10, Dr. Norman Shumway
(83), who performed the first successful heart transplant in the U.S.,
died in Palo Alto, Calif.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2006 Feb 10, In Afghanistan 8
soldiers were killed in an area NATO peacekeepers were set to enter.
(WSJ, 2/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 10, Tens of thousands of
Muslims demonstrated against cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in
Afghanistan, Kenya, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
Indonesia, Philippines, Egypt, Israel and Jordan.
(SFC, 2/11/06, p.A12)
2006 Feb 10, The presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiated one-on-one on ways to end the 18-year
conflict over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, but reached no
conclusion and planned more talks.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, Azerbaijan’s Health
Ministry said a British laboratory had confirmed the H5N1 strain of
bird flu in wild ducks and swans on its Absheron Peninsula. WHO said 88
people have died from bird flu since 2003.
(SFC, 2/11/06, p.A8)
2006 Feb 10, Sam Rainsy, an exiled
Cambodian opposition leader, returned home to cheering crowds of
supporters after a royal pardon ended his long feud with PM Hun Sen.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, China's Ministry of
Health said a woman had died of bird flu in the central province of
Hunan, the eighth person killed by the virus in the country.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, Volkswagen announced
that it would cut up to 20,000 jobs over the next 3 years from its
western German workforce of 103,000, as well as demanding longer hours
for no extra pay. The company share price rose 15% on the announcement.
(Econ, 2/18/06, p.57)
2006 Feb 10, Greece and Italy said
they had found swans with the H5N1 bird flu virus, the first known
cases in the European Union of wild birds with the deadly strain of the
disease.
(Reuters, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 10, Hong Kong’s
government announced that a dead chicken and Japanese White-eye found
in Hong Kong have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird
flu.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, In northern India
Swami Sadanand Sant Gyaneshwar, a Hindu religious leader, and seven of
his followers were shot and killed near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh
state.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 10, A car bomb exploded
outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad, killing at least 8 people.
Masked gunmen appeared at the scene later, killing one woman and
wounding several other people near the blast-damaged building.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, Opening ceremonies
were held in Turin, Italy, for the 20th Winter Olympics. Cross-country
skier and gold medalist Stefania Belmondo lit the caldron.
(SFC, 2/11/06, p.A1)(AP, 2/10/07)
2006 Feb 10, A leading marine
conservation organization said Japan's stock of whale meat from hunting
for scientific research is so large that the country has begun selling
it as dog food.
(Reuters, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, Kosovo lawmakers
elected Fatmir Sejdiu (54), a moderate new president, paving the way
for the start of talks on the province's future status.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, In Myanmar government
officials said Win Aung, a former foreign minister ousted in a Cabinet
reshuffle by the country's ruling military junta, has been put on trial
for corruption charges.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, In western Nepal
communist rebels clashed with soldiers, leaving seven people dead, as
the royal government announced its mostly uncontested candidates swept
discredited local elections.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, The editor of a small
Christian newspaper in Norway apologized for offending Muslims by
reprinting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in January.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, In northwestern
Pakistan Shiites and Sunnis battled each other with rockets and
gunfire, raising the death toll of two days of Muslim sectarian
violence to 38.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, FBI agents in Puerto
Rico searched five homes and a business to thwart what the agency said
was a "domestic terrorist attack" planned by militants favoring
independence for the US island territory.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, In southern Russia 2
days of fighting in a town in the Stavropol region, 25 miles north of
Chechnya, left 12 suspected rebels and seven policemen dead.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 10, In Sicily NATO
defense ministers sought to calm Islamic anger over cartoons of the
Prophet Muhammad at a counterterrorism meeting with Arab countries
including Israel, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan and
Mauritania.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, In Turkey a Syrian
was charged with masterminding suicide bombings that killed 58 people
in Istanbul, and Turkish prosecutors claimed that Osama bin Laden
personally ordered him to carry out terror attacks in this pro-Western
country. Loa'i Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa (32) was accused of serving as
a point man between al-Qaida and homegrown militants behind the series
of suicide bombings in Istanbul in 2003, said the indictment. It said
al-Saqa gave the Turkish militants about $170,000. He was captured in
Turkey in August after an alleged failed plot to attack Israeli cruise
ships in the Mediterranean.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 10, The UN said
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has sent Ivory Coast President Laurent
Gbagbo a $3.6 million bill for UN property and equipment damaged or
lost during January riots.
(Reuters, 2/10/06)
2007 Feb 10, Democrat Barack Obama
announced in Illinois that he is running for the White House in 2008.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 10, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a NATO convoy outside
Kandahar city, killing himself but hurting no one else.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 10, Azerbaijan’s
population, at about 8 million, was mostly Shia Muslim.
(Econ, 2/10/07, p.49)
2007 Feb 10, It was reported that
researchers in Bolivia had found that the more education a Tsimane
villager had, the longer he was willing to delay gratification in
return for a bigger reward.
(Econ, 2/10/07, p.86)
2007 Feb 10, Canadian National
Railway Co. said that 2,800 of its conductors and yard-service workers
at its operations in Canada began a strike, a work stoppage that could
affect the country's key shipments of grain, timber and other
commodities.
(Reuters, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 10, A group of scientists
and nature lovers exploring tunnels on Tenerife in the Canary Islands
became trapped underground and at least 6 of them died after apparently
inhaling toxic gases.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 10, In Guinea at least
four people were killed in Conakry as protesters rioted against the
president's decision to appoint a political ally as prime minister.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 10, In Indian Kashmir 2
suspected Muslim rebels and a civilian died in a gunbattle with troops
when militants opened fire on an army patrol.
(AFP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 10, The death toll from
massive flooding in Indonesia rose to 80.
(AFP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 10, In Iraq Gen. David
Petraeus (b.1952) took command of the 135,000-strong US force. Gunmen
ambushed two Shiite houses south of Baghdad, killing three members of
one family and wounding two of their neighbors. Gunmen killed eight new
recruits for the police border forces as they were returning to their
homes near the border with Syria.
(AP, 2/10/07)(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 10, Russian President
Vladimir Putin, while visiting Munich for a security conference, warned
that the increased use of military force by the US is creating a new
arms race, with smaller nations turning toward developing nuclear
weapons.
(AP, 2/10/07)(WSJ, 2/12/07, p.A1)
2007 Feb 10, In Somalia mortar
attacks in a residential area and on a hotel in Mogadishu killed five
people and injured 10. In Kismayo two people were killed after an
explosion hit a rally in support of foreign peacekeepers, prompting
government troops to fire into a crowd of thousands.
(AP, 2/10/07)(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 10, UN police in Kosovo
fired teargas and rubber bullets during clashes with ethnic Albanians
protesting against a UN plan on the fate of the breakaway Serbian
province.
(Reuters, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 10, In South Korea a fire
at a detention center killed 10 people and injured 17 others, mostly
Chinese, who were waiting deportation for illegal entry to the country.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2008 Feb 10, In the Grammy Awards
Amy Winehouse won five of the six awards for which she was nominated.
Album of the Year went to jazzman Herbie Hancock for his Joni Mitchell
tribute album. Barack Obama won best spoken word album for the audio
version of his book "The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The
American Dream."
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 10, Barack Obama added
the Maine Democratic presidential caucus to the three contests he swept
a day earlier against rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 10, Steve Gerber (80),
the comic book writer and creator whose signature character was the
alienated, cigar-chomping Howard the Duck, died in Las Vegas. Gerber,
who also co-created Marvel's "Omega the Unknown" and created the 1980s
animated series "Thundarr the Barbarian," suffered from pulmonary
fibrosis.
(AP, 2/15/08)
2008 Feb 10, Roy Scheider
(b.1932), actor and a one-time boxer, died. His broken nose and
pugnacious acting style made him a star in "The French Connection." He
later uttered "You're gonna need a bigger boat,” one of cinematic
history's most memorable lines in "Jaws.”
(AP, 2/11/08)(SFC, 2/11/08, p.A2)
2008 Feb 10, Ray J. Wu,
Chinese-born professor at Cornell Univ. and creator of a transgenic
rice, died.
(WSJ, 2/16/08, p.A6)
2008 Feb 10, State media reported
that China has lost about one tenth of its forest resources to recent
snow storms regarded as the most severe in half a century.
(AP, 2/10/08)
2008 Feb 10, The Africa Cup of
Nations, a biennial soccer tournament held this year in Ghana, ended
with Egypt’s defeat of Cameroon 1-0.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_African_Cup_of_Nations)
2008 Feb 10, In northern Iraq car
bombs and gunmen struck new US allies, police and civilians. At least
80 people were reported killed or found dead in a spasm of violence
that coincided with a visit by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates to
Baghdad. A US soldier was killed in a roadside bombing. 8 masked gunmen
wielding machine guns stormed the Sultan Palace Hotel in Basra and
seized a British reporter and his Iraqi interpreter.
(AP, 2/11/08)(SFC, 2/11/08, p.A14)(AP, 2/12/08)
2008 Feb 10, In Nigeria 6 people,
including three policemen, were killed in a gun battle with robbers in
Nigeria's commercial city Lagos.
(AFP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 10, Norway closed its
embassy in the Afghan capital because of terror threats.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 10, In South Korea a fire
destroyed the 610-year old wooden structure at the top of the Namdaemun
gate. The two-tiered wooden structure was renovated in the 1960s, when
it was declared South Korea's top national treasure. The next day
police arrested a man, who admitted to the arson. Chae Jong-ki (69) was
later convicted of violating the Cultural Properties Protection Law and
sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(AP, 2/11/08)(SFC, 2/12/08, p.A16)(AP, 4/24/08)
2008 Feb 10, The UN refugee agency
said up to 12,000 "terrified" refugees from Sudan's Darfur region have
fled across the border to neighboring Chad after the latest air strikes
by the Sudanese military and thousands more may be on their way.
(AP, 2/10/08)
2008 Feb 10, In Switzerland armed
robbers stole paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth
$163.2 million from the E.G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich, one of
Europe's finest private museums for Impressionist and
post-Impressionist art.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 10, President Hugo Chavez
threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an "economic
war" if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of
dollars in Venezuelan assets.
(AP, 2/10/08)
2009 Feb 10, Timothy Geithner, US
Treasury Secretary, outlined the government stimulus package. As much
as $2.5 trillion, including $350 billion from the bailout fund, would
come from the Federal Reserve and private investors. The US Senate
approved an $838.2 billion stimulus bill with 3 Republicans joining
Democrats in the 61-37 vote.
(SFC, 2/11/09, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/11/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 10, The US Postal Service
announced that the price of a first-class stamp will rise to 44 cents
on May 11. The Postal Service said it lost $2.8 billion last year and,
unless the economy turns around, is headed toward much larger losses
this year.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, General Motors Corp.
said it will cut 10,000 salaried jobs, citing the need to restructure
itself with a government deadline looming and amid some of the worst
sales in the auto industry's history.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, Teens in Kalamazoo,
Michigan, beat a 50-year-old bicyclist leaving the man critically
injured. On March 26 five teens were charged in the beating.
(SFC, 3/27/09, p.A8)
2009 Feb 10, In Oklahoma an
unusual cluster of twisters ripped across the state killing eight
people. The eight confirmed deaths included seven people in Lone Grove
and a truck driver who was driving through the area.
(AP, 2/11/09)
2009 Feb 10, The Utah state
Department of Agriculture said Africanized honey bees have been found
for the first time in the Beehive State. The bees, long the subject of
lore as "killer bees," were recently discovered in Utah's Washington
and Kane counties.
(AP, 2/12/09)
2009 Feb 10, The first-ever
collision between two satellites occurred over Siberia when a derelict
Russian military communications satellite crossed paths with a US
Iridium satellite.
(AP, 2/12/09)
2009 Feb 10, In Afghanistan a bomb
struck a NATO convoy, killing two soldiers and wounding one. Police
spokesman Wazir Pacha said the attack in Khost province was carried out
by a suicide bomber in a vehicle. But a NATO spokesman blamed the
attack on a roadside bomb.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, The British
government banned Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders from visiting
the country to show his anti-Islam film "Fitna" at the Houses of
Parliament. In a telephone interview Wilders called the government's
decision "cowardly" and vowed to defy it.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, In England William
Foxton (65), died from a single bullet wound to the head in the
southern port city of Southampton. He killed himself after losing his
life savings in an alleged $50 billion fraud run by Wall Street
financier Bernard Madoff. Foxton had served in the British Army and
more recently worked as a defense contractor in Afghanistan.
(AP, 2/14/09)
2009 Feb 10, The European Union
announced that it has signed a pact with 17 social networking providers
including Facebook, MySpace and Google to improve safeguards against
the bullying of teenagers online.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, EU ministers demanded
the reopening of negotiations with Liechtenstein on fighting fraud.
(Econ, 2/21/09, p.53)
2009 Feb 10, A tanker burst into
flames after colliding with a container ship in a shipping channel off
the coast of Dubai. The Maltese-flagged tanker, Kashmir, was carrying
about 30,000 tons of oil condensate.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, President Nicolas
Sarkozy made the first-ever visit by a French head of state to Iraq,
seeking to reassert French influence in the country even as the US
prepares to draw down its forces.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, In Israel
front-runners moderate Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and former PM
Benjamin Netanyahu made last-minute appeals to voters as polls opened
in a close general election whose outcome could determine the course of
Mideast peace negotiations.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, In Mexico a drug gang
kidnapped and killed six people near a town in the US-Mexican border
region, prompting a series of gunbattles with soldiers that left 15
others dead. The violence started when gunmen kidnapped nine alleged
members of a rival drug gang in Villa Ahumada and executed six of them
along the PanAmerican Highway outside of the town.
(AP, 2/11/09)
2009 Feb 10, Nigerian union
officials said a 2-day-old strike by freight and forwarding agents to
protest high charges was worsening cargo congestion in Lagos, the
country's main seaport.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, Pakistan called for a
new strategy of dialogue to combat militancy and urged Washington to
reconsider military action on its territory in its first talks with US
envoy Richard Holbrooke.
(AFP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, An unmanned Russian
cargo ship lifted off from Kazakhstan carrying supplies and a space
suit to the international space station and its three-member crew.
American astronauts Michael Fincke and Sandra Magnus are aboard the
station along with Russian Yuri Lonchakov. The crew size will be
doubled to six members later this year.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, Sri Lanka's military
spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said Tamil Tiger guerrillas shot dead 19
civilians and wounded 75 others fleeing territory still under rebel
control. The Red Cross loaded some 240 sick and wounded onto a boat to
evacuate them from the war zone.
(AFP, 2/10/09)(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, A Sudanese government
delegation met Darfur rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement in
the Qatari capital for their first peace contacts since 2007.
(AFP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 10, Taiwan's former first
lady admitted to laundering $2.2 million and forging documents, the
latest in a judicial process that has seen her husband stage a
jailhouse hunger strike, her daughter lash out at media, and her son
plead guilty to similar charges.
(AP, 2/10/09)
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