Today in History - February 22
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896 Feb 22, Pope
Formosa was crowned king Arnulf of Carinthia, French emperor.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1076 Feb 22, Godfried III, with
the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, was murdered. [see Feb 26]
(MC, 2/22/02)
1349 Feb 22, Jews were expelled
from Zurich, Switzerland.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1371 Feb 22, David II Bruce (46),
king of Scotland (1331-1371), died.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1387 Feb 22, Jogaila issued
a proclamation for all Lithuanians to accept Catholicism.
(LHC, 2/22/03)
1403 Feb 22, Charles VII, King of
France (1422-1461), was born.
(HN, 2/22/98)(MC, 2/22/02)
1440 Feb 22, Ladislaus V
Posthumus, King of Hungary and Bohemia, was born.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1512 Feb 22, Amerigo Vespucci
(b.1451), Italian explorer, died in Seville, Spain.
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15384b.htm)
1599 Feb 22, Anthony Van Dyck,
painter, was born in Antwerp, Belgium. [See Mar 22]
(MC, 2/22/02)
1630 Feb 22, Indians introduced
pilgrims to popcorn at Thanksgiving.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1634 Feb 22, Petrus "Pieter" van
Schooten, fortress architect, was born.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1635 Feb 22, King Louis XIII at
the urging of Cardinal Richelieu granted letters patent to formally
establish the Academie Francaise in Paris. The Académie
française was responsible for the regulation of French grammar,
orthography, and literature.
(http://tinyurl.com/4nq46)
1656 Feb 22, New Amsterdam was
granted a Jewish burial site.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1687 Feb 22, Jean-Baptiste Lully,
composer, died in Paris. Lully, Paris Opera director, had stabbed
himself in the foot with a baton and died of blood poisoning.
(SFC, 8/21/99, p.B3)(MC, 2/22/02)
1690 Feb 22, Charles Le Brun (70),
classical painter (Academie de Peinture), died.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1700 Feb 22, Augustus II
(the Strong) with the help of the Saxon army attacked Swedish
controlled Riga. This began the Northern War (1700-1721).
(LHC, 2/22/03)
1727 Feb 22, Francesco Gasparini
(58), composer, died.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1732 Feb 22, George Washington
(1732-1799), first U.S. President (1789-1797), was born in
Westmoreland, Virginia. He is revered as the "Father of His Country"
for the great services he rendered during America's birth and
infancy--a period of nearly 20 years. He spent most of his boyhood at
Ferry Farm, across from the village of Fredericksburg. He later married
Martha Custis, a widow with 2 sons. They had no children together.
Martha Washington is credited with originating the first US bandanna.
He held 317 slaves and once said: “To set the slaves afloat at once
would... be productive of much inconvenience and mischief?”. Washington
commanded the Continental Army that won American independence from
Britain in 1783. In 1787, Washington was elected president of the
Constitutional Convention that created the form of American democratic
government that survives to this day. Washington was also elected in
1787 as the first president of the United States, serving two terms.
One of his officers, "Light-horse Harry" Lee, summed up how Americans
felt about George Washington: "First in war, first in peace, and first
in the hearts of his countrymen." George Washington died at his Mount
Vernon home on December 14, 1799, at the age of 67.
(A & IP, ESM, p.10)(AHD, p.1446)(SFC, 3/8/96,
p.A21)(Hem., 3/97, p.101) (SFC,12/897, p.A27)(HN, 2/22/98)(HNPD,
2/22/99)
1770 Feb 22, Jan Matyas Nepomuk
August Vitasek, composer, was born.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1774 Feb 22, English House of
Lords ruled that authors do not have perpetual copyright.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1775 Feb 22, Jews were expelled
from the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1778 Feb 22, Rembrandt Peale,
American painter who painted excellent portraits of the founding
fathers of the United States, was born.
(HN, 2/22/99)
1784 Feb 22, A U.S. merchant ship,
the "Empress of China," left New York City for the Far East.
(AP, 2/22/99)
1788 Feb 22, Arthur Schopenhauer
(d.1860), German philosopher (Great Pessimist), was born: "Hatred comes
from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite
within our control."
(AP, 12/9/99)(MC, 2/22/02)
1797 Feb 22, The last invasion of
Britain took place when some 1,400 Frenchmen landed at Fishguard, in
Wales.
(HN, 2/22/99)
1819 Feb 22, James Russell Lowell
(d.1891), American essayist, poet, critic, diplomat, abolitionist, was
born: "He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think
security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft."
(AP, 6/29/99)(MC, 2/22/02)
1819 Feb 22, Spain signed the
Adams-Onis Treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.
Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John
Quincy Adams signed the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees
to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida. Spain renounced
claims to Oregon Country. [see 1821]
(AP, 2/22/99)(HN, 2/22/99)
1821 Feb 22, The Adams-Onis Treaty
became final, whereby Spain gave up all of Florida to the US. The
boundary between Mexico and the Louisiana Purchase was established and
the US renounced all claims to Texas.
(AH, 2/06, p.15)
1822 Feb 22, Adolf Kuszmaul,
German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease), was born.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1825 Feb 22, Russia and Britain
established the Alaska-Canada boundary.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1832 Feb 22, Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe (b.1749), poet, (Faust, Egmont) died in Weimar, Germany. Goethe
had served as minister of mines under Bismarck. He completed "Faust"
just before his death: "When Ideas fail, words come in handy." In 1988
Kenneth Weisinger authored "The Classical Facade: A Non-Classical
Reading of Goethe's Criticism." In 2006 John Armstrong authored “Love,
Life, Goethe: How to Be Happy in an Imperfect World.”
(SFEC, 4/26/98, Z1 p.8)(SFC, 8/7/03, p.A19)(SFC,
12/14/04, p.B1)(WSJ, 1/13/07, p.P10)
1835 Feb 22, HMS Beagle with
Charles Darwin left Valdivia, Chile.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1847 Feb 22, In the Battle of
Buena Vista US troops beat Mexican army during the Mexican-American
War. Mexican General Santa Anna (of Alamo infamy) surrounded the
outnumbered forces of U.S. General Zachary Taylor ('Old Rough and
Ready') at the Angostura Pass in Mexico and demanded an immediate
surrender. Taylor refused, reported to reply, "Tell him to go to hell,"
and early the next morning Santa Anna dispatched some 15,000 troops to
move against the 5,000 Americans. The superior US artillery was able to
halt one of the two advancing Mexican divisions. By the afternoon
Taylor had lived up to his word as the Mexicans began to withdraw.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1857 Feb 22, Heinrich Hertz,
German physicist, was born in Hamburg. He became the first person to
broadcast and receive radio waves. The radio wave unit of frequency was
named after him.
(HN, 2/22/01)(AP, 2/22/07)
1857 Feb 22, Lord Robert
Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was born in London.
(AP, 2/22/07)
1860 Feb 22, Shoe-making workers
of Lynn, Mass, struck successfully for higher wages. The strike in Lynn
and Natick, Massachusetts, spread throughout New England and involved
20,000 workers. The strike was for higher wages and included women. The
workers won their major demands.
(HNQ, 8/3/98)(MC, 2/22/02)
1861 Feb 22, Edward Weston left
Boston on a bet to walk to Lincoln's inauguration.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1861 Feb 22, Jefferson Davis was
sworn in as the permanent president of the Confederate States of
America on Washington’s birthday. Davis was sworn in as president of
the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., following his inauguration in Alabama
on Feb 18.
(HN, 2/22/98)(AH, 10/04, p.60)
1864 Feb 22, Nathan Bedford
Forrest's brother, Jeffrey, was killed at Okolona, Miss. Nathan Bedford
Forrest (1821-1877) was a Confederate cavalry general.
(HN, 2/22/98)(WUD, 1994, p.558)
1864 Feb 22-27, Battle at Dalton,
Georgia.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1865 Feb 22, Federal troops
captured Wilmington, N.C. (Fort Anderson).
(HN, 2/22/98)(MC, 2/22/02)
1865 Feb 22, Tennessee adopted a
new constitution abolishing slavery.
(HN, 2/22/98)(AP, 2/22/99)
1879 Feb 22, Frank Winfield
Woolworth's 'nothing over five cents' shop opened at Utica, New York.
It was the first chain store.
(AP, 2/22/99)(HN, 2/22/99)
1888 Feb 22, John Reid of Scotland
demonstrated golf to Americans at Yonkers, NY. Reid converted his lawn
to six hole for golf in Yonkers N.Y., the first golf course in the US.
(SFEC, 7/18/99, Z1 p.8)(MC, 2/22/02)
1889 Feb 22, President Cleveland
signed a bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the
Union. The "omnibus bill" was an act dividing the Dakota Territory into
the states of North and South Dakota, and enabling the two Dakotas to
formulate constitutions. A constitutional convention was held at
Bismarck beginning July 4, 1889. A constitution was formulated and
submitted to a vote of the people of the State of North Dakota on
October 1, 1889, and was adopted.
(AP,
2/22/99)(www.court.state.nd.us/court/history/dakotaterritory.htm)
1891 Feb 22, "Chico" Marx, actor,
comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers), was born in NYC.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1892 Feb 22, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, poet, was born.
(HN, 2/22/01)
1892 Feb 22, "Lady Windermere's
Fan," a melodrama by Oscar Wilde, was first performed, at St. James
Theater in London. It was about suspected infidelity.
(WSJ, 7/29/98, p.A13)(AP, 2/22/99)
1898 Feb 22, A black postmaster
was lynched and his wife and 3 daughters were shot in Lake City, SC.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1900 Feb 22, Sean O’Faolain, Irish
short story writer, was born.
(HN, 2/22/01)
1900 Feb 22, Hawaii became a US
territory. [see Apr 30]
(MC, 2/22/02)
1901 Feb 22, The steamer Rio de
Janeiro piled up on rocks at Fort Point at the bay entrance of San
Francisco and some 130 people died. 80 people were rescued, mostly by
Italian fishing boats and many of the dead were Chinese
immigrants. The ship was being guided by bar pilot Frederick W.
Jordan when it hit submerged rock near Lime Point and 128 of 210
passengers drowned in 300 feet of water.
(PacDis, Fall/’96, p.14)(SFEC, 2/23/96, z-1
p.5)(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W2)(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A17)
1902 Feb 22, A fistfight broke out
in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffered a bloody nose for
accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1903 Feb 22, The US side of
Niagara Falls ran short of water due to drought.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1903 Feb 22, Hugo Wolf (b.1860),
Austrian composer of Slovene origin, died. He is particularly noted for
his German art songs, or Lieder.
(WSJ, 3/27/07,
p.D7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Wolf)
1905 Feb 22, Japan 1st claimed the
volcanic islets they called Takeshima, located between Japan and Korea,
where they are known as Tokdo (Dokdo). Japan illegally incorporated
Dokdo as its territory through an administrative measure of one of its
prefectures.
(Econ, 3/26/05, p.42)(Econ, 4/9/05, p.14)
1907 Feb 22, It was reported that
workers at the refugee camp in San Francisco’s Ingleside district had
agreed the comply with a directive by commander C.M. Wallenberg to work
one day per week for the betterment of the camp or miss their allotment
of free tobacco.
(SSFC, 2/18/07, DB p.58)
1907 Feb 22, The 1st cabs with
taxi meters began operating in London.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1909 Feb 22, The Great White Fleet
returned to Norfolk, Va., from an around-the-world show of naval power.
1st US fleet to circle the globe.
(HN, 2/22/98)(MC, 2/22/02)
1910 Feb 22, In San Francisco the
Sierra Club, under the leadership of Prof. A.G. McAdie, named 2 peaks
of the Sutro Forest. The loftiest peak in the city was named Mount
Davidson in honor of noted English-born geographer George Davidson
(1825-1911), and the other Sutro Crest, in honor of former mayor and
philanthropist Adolph Sutro.
(SSFC, 2/21/10, DB
p.42)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Davidson_%28geographer%29)
1911 Feb 22, Canadian Parliament
voted to preserve the union with the British Empire.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1915 Feb 22, Germany began
"unrestricted" submarine warfare.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1918 Feb 22, Germany claimed the
Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1920 Feb 22, The American Relief
Administration appealed to the public to pressure Congress to aid
starving European cities.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1920 Feb 22, The 1st artificial
rabbit was used at a dog race track in Emeryville, Calif.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1921 Feb 22, An air mail plane
left San Francisco at 4:30 a.m., landing at New York (Hazelhurst Field,
L. I., N. Y.) at 4:50 p.m. on February 23.
(www.airmailpioneers.org/history/Sagahistory.htm)
1921 Feb 22, Jean-Bedel Bokassa,
dictator Central African Republic, was born.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1922 Feb 18, Pres. Harding signed
the Capper-Volstead Act. It exempted farmers from federal antitrust
laws permitting them to share prices and orchestrate supply.
(WSJ, 9/26/06,
p.B1)(www.uwcc.wisc.edu/info/capper.html)
1923 Feb 22, 1st successful
chinchilla farm established in US was in LA, Calif.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1924 Feb 22, Calvin Coolidge
delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House
as he addressed the country over 42 stations.
(AP, 2/22/08)
1924 Feb 22, Columbia University
declared radio education a success.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1925 Feb 22, Edward Gorey,
American writer and illustrator, was born.
(HN, 2/22/01)
1925 Feb 22, Gerard Hoffnung,
artist, humorist, musician (Hoffnung Music Festival), was born in
Berlin, Germany.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1926 Feb 22, Pope Pius rejected
Mussolini's offer of aid to the Vatican.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1927 Feb 22, Baruch Spinosa's
house of mourning opened as a museum in Amsterdam.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1928 Feb 22, Australian Bert
Hinkler ended his 11,250-mile adventure in Darwin, Australia, after
flying 128 hours in less than 16 days. The unassuming Hinkler's
grueling flight was little noted by the press until he reached India,
then the world press got caught up in the drama of another "Lone Eagle"
performance so soon after Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.
As he plotted a course across Asia and the Timor Sea using a London
Times atlas as his navigational chart, a newspaper editor dubbed him
"Hustling Hinkler," a nickname later immortalized by the American Tin
Pan Alley hit song, "Hustling Hinkler Up in the Sky."
(HNPD, 2/7/99)
1929 Feb 22, Marni Nixon, singer
(for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr), was born.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1932 Feb 22, Edward Kennedy,
Massachusetts Senator, was born. He was the brother of John F. Kennedy
who championed the poor.
(HN, 2/22/99)
1932 Feb 22, The Purple Heart
award was reinstituted.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1933 Feb 22, Nazi Herman Goring
formed SA/SS-police.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1934 Feb 22, George "Sparky"
Anderson, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers), was born in SD.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1934 Feb 22, The romantic comedy
"It Happened One Night," starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert,
opened at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
(AP, 2/22/00)
1935 Feb 22, All plane flights
over the White House were barred because they disturbed President
Roosevelt's sleep.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1937 Feb 22, Samuel Whitbread,
English brewer, multi-millionaire, was born.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1940 Feb 22, German air force sank
2 German destroyers killing 578.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1941 Feb 22, Arthur T "Bomber"
Harris became British Air Marshal.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1941 Feb 22, IG Farben started
building Buna-Werke in the Auschwitz extermination camp.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1942 Feb 22, President Franklin
Roosevelt ordered Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines.
(HN, 2/22/99)
1943 Feb 22, The battleship USS
Iowa, the first in the Navy’s 45,000 ton class, was commissioned. The
ship carried Pres. Roosevelt to Tehran in Nov. and was decommissioned
in 1990. Also noted as 1st in the 48,000 ton class.
(SFC, 1/27/98, p.A14)(SFC, 10/13/99, p.A6)
1943 Feb 22, In Germany Christoph
Probst (22), Hans (24) and Sophie Scholl (21), student members of the
Die Weisse Rose (White Rose) resistance, were executed by the Nazis.
(SFC, 9/7/98,
p.A21)(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/rose.html)
1944 Feb 22, Jonathan Demme, film
director (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia), was born in Baldwin,
NY.
(HN, 2/22/01)(MC, 2/22/02)
1946 Feb 22, George Kennan
(1904-2005) sent his “Long Telegram,” actually 5 separate cables, from
Moscow to the US State Dept. in Washington explaining that the Soviet
regime was among other things fundamentally insecure, opposed to the
US, and held designs on the world for violent destabilization.
(Econ, 3/26/05, p.85)
1948 Feb 22, An Arab bomb attack
in Jerusalem killed 50 people.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1951 Feb 22, The Atomic Energy
Commission disclosed information about the first atom-powered airplane.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1952 Feb 22, The U.S. signed a
military aid pact with Peru.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1952 Feb 22, French forces
evacuated Hoa Binh in Indochina.
(HN, 2/22/99)
1954 Feb 22, U.S. was to install
60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain.
(HN, 2/22/99)
1956 Feb 22, Elvis Presley's 1st
hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel."
(MC, 2/22/02)
1956 Feb 22, The US Montgomery
Boycott sparked arrests that included Martin Luther King. He was found
guilty on March 22 and ordered to pay a $500 fine.
(HFA, ‘96, p.22)(SFEM, 1/19/97, BR p.1)(Sm, 3/06,
p.44)
1961 Feb 22, The Broadway play
“Come Blow Your Horn” by Neil Simon opened at the Brooks Atkinson
Theater.
(SFC, 10/28/09,
p.D5)(www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=2294)
1961 Feb 22, British Foreign Sec.
Douglas-Home said in a "Top Secret" letter to Defense Minister Harold
Watkinson that, "It must be fully obvious to the Americans that Hong
Kong is indefensible by conventional means and that in the event of a
Chinese attack, nuclear strikes against China would be the only
alternative to complete abandonment of the colony." The document was
made public in 2006.
(AP, 6/30/06)
1962 Feb 22, A Soviet bid for new
Geneva arms talks was turned down by the U.S.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1963 Feb 22, Moscow warned the
U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1967 Feb 22, Barbara Garson's
"MacBird!," a notorious counterculture drama, premiered in NYC. It
satirically depicted President Lyndon Johnson as Macbeth and his wife,
Lady Bird Johnson, as Lady Macbeth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBird)
1967 Feb 22, A report from Africa
indicated that the world's first white gorilla had been found.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1967 Feb 22, More than 25,000 US
and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at
smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border.
(HN, 2/22/99)(AP, 2/22/07)
1972 Feb 22, President Nixon met
with Mao Tse-tung in Peking and Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing.
In 2006 Margaret McMillan authored “Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao.”
(HN, 2/22/98)(Econ, 10/28/06, p.93)
1973 Feb 22, The United States and
Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices.
(AP, 2/22/99)
1973 Feb 22, Winthrop Rockefeller
(b.1912), two-year term Arkansas Governor (1967-1971), died of cancer.
He was the 4th son of John D. Rockefeller.
(http://archive.rockefeller.edu/bio/winthrop.php)
1974 Feb 22, Cesar Chavez began a
UFW march from Union Square in SF to Gallo headquarters in Modesto.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.11)
1974 Feb 22, Samuel Joseph Byck
(1930–1974), an unemployed former tire salesman, attempted to hijack a
plane flying out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport. He
intended to crash into the White House in hopes of killing US President
Richard M. Nixon. Byck killed pilot Fred Jones and a aviation officer
George Neal Ramsburg before he was shot and wounded by gunfire through
the door of a Delta DC-9 airplane. Byck then shot himself in the head.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck)
1974 Feb 22, Pakistan officially
recognized Bangladesh.
(http://pakistanspace.tripod.com/74.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/58uluz)
1976 Feb 22, Sandra Camille found
her husband, David Stegall, a Dallas dentist, dead with slashed wrists
and a bullet in the left temple. Sandra collected insurance and
re-married 2 years later to Bobby Bridewell, who died of cancer 2 years
later. After 2 more years Sandra married Alan Rehrig (29). He was found
shot dead in 1985, and Sandra again collected insurance. Sandra
embarked on a series of frauds and in 2007 at age 62 was held in North
Carolina pending investigations into her past.
(SFC, 7/6/07, p.B9)
1978 Feb 22, The US Dept. of
Defense launched the 1st of a constellation of satellites that later
made the backbone of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Ivan A.
Getting (1912-2003), a military scientist, conceived the idea and
Bradford Parkinson of Stanford helped implement the system.
(SFC, 10/18/03,
p.A22)(http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/Programs/gps.html)
1979 Feb 22, St. Lucia gained full
independence from Britain and Sir John Compton became the first prime
minister.
(PCh, 1992, p.1072)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(SFC, 3/22/99,
p.A10)
1980 Feb 22, In a stunning upset,
the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y.,
4-3. The US team went on to win the gold medal.
(AP, 2/22/01)
1980 Feb 22, Afghanistan declared
martial law following a major uprising in Kabul.
(http://tinyurl.com/34hky9)
1982 Feb 22, Alan C. Nelson
(1933-1997) became US Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization
(INS) and served to 1989. In 1994 he co-authored California’s
Proposition 187, an initiative to deny health and education benefits to
illegal immigrants.
(http://149.101.23.2/graphics/aboutus/history/commrs/nelson.html)(SFC,
2/1/97, p.A23)
1983 Feb 22, Harold Washington
(1922-1987) won Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary.
(www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/washingtonelected.html)
1984 Feb 22, A 12-year-old Houston
boy known publicly only as "David," died 15 days after being removed
from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant. He had spent most his
life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease.
(AP, 2/22/04)
1984 Feb 22-1984 Mar 16, Iran’s
offensive Operation Kheibar captured the Iraqi Majnoon Islands in the
Haur al-Hawizeh marshes. Britain and the US sent warships to the
Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.
(HN,
2/22/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War)
1986 Feb 22, Jordan King Hussein
delivered a televised address in which he denounced PLO leader Yasser
Arafat and accused him of reneging of previous promises made to accept
resolutions 242 and 338.
(http://tinyurl.com/mlurr)
1986 Feb 22, In the Philippines a
group of military officers mutinied against Pres. Marcos and holed him
up with a small force at a military camp in Manila, leading to three
days of protests by hundreds of thousands of citizens that finally
toppled him.
(AP, 8/1/09)
1987 Feb 22, Pop artist Andy
Warhol died at a New York City hospital at age 58. His parents belonged
to the Carpatho-Rusyns ethnic group. David Bourdon wrote a study of
Warhol in 1989.
(WSJ, 4/26/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 4/4/98, p.A24)(AP,
2/22/99)
1987 Feb 22, David Susskind (66),
talk-show host, was found dead in his Manhattan hotel suite.
(AP, 2/22/07)
1987 Feb 22, The Finance Ministers
and Central Bank Governors of six major industrial countries (Canada,
France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, G6) met in Paris
and agreed in the Louvre Accord to bring down the value of the dollar.
(Econ, 4/29/06,
p.82)(www.g7.utoronto.ca/finance/fm870408.htm)
1989 Feb 22, Iran's Ayatollah
Khomeini, who had sentenced author Salman Rushdie to death, said
economic sanctions would not change his stance, and that publication of
Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" was a sign from God that Iran should not
reach out to the West.
(AP, 2/22/99)
1990 Feb 22, Former President
Reagan's videotaped testimony for the trial of former national security
adviser John Poindexter was released in Washington; in his deposition,
Reagan said he never had "any inkling" his aides were secretly arming
the Nicaraguan Contras.
(AP, 2/22/00)
1991 Feb 22, President Bush and
America’s Gulf War allies gave Iraq 24 hours to begin withdrawing from
Kuwait, or face a final all-out attack. Iraq denounced the “shameful”
US ultimatum, aligning itself with a Soviet peace plan the US had
rejected.
(AP, 2/22/01)
1991 Feb 22, The US invaded Kuwait
in the Gulf War Desert Storm and quickly chased out the Iraqi forces.
US soldiers may have been exposed to minute amounts of the nerve gas
agent called Substance 33. Russia had developed the Novichok family of
nerve gases that were designed to be undetectable by American
instruments and they may have been in Iraqi hands at this time. Gen.
Anatoly Diamianovich Kuntsevich was in charge of the secret development
of the gases and post-Soviet disarmament and the information about the
battlefield sensors was revealed by former Soviet scientist Vil
Mirzayanov. Their stories agree.
(TMC, 1994, p.1991)(WSJ, 4/30/96, p.A-14)
1991 Feb 22, US soldiers were
issued the drug pyridostigmine bromide (PB) to counter the effects of
the nerve agents tabun and soman. The drug was prescribed at 3 pills
per day, but produced a physical a rush and was abused by many service
people. It was later suspected as a cause of the symptoms of Gulf War
syndrome. The drug was not fully approved by the FDA and military
personnel were not informed of its effects. In 1999 a 2-year Rand
analysis concluded that the drug pyridostigmine bromide could not be
excluded as a contributor to Gulf War syndrome. The drug was given to
as many as 300,000 US troops during the Persian gulf war.
(SFEC, 3/22/98, p.A4)(SFC, 10/19/99, p.A1)
1992 Feb 22, President Bush
renewed his attack on a Democratic tax plan, saying in a radio address
that congressional Democrats were choosing “politics over duty.”
(AP, 2/22/02)
1992 Feb 22, At the Winter
Olympics in Albertville, France, American speedskater Cathy Turner won
the women's 500-meter race.
(AP, 2/22/02)
1993 Feb
22, The UN passed Resolution 808 that established the Hague Int'l. War
Crimes Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious
Violations of International Humanitarian Law committed in the Territory
of the Former Yugoslavia since 1 January 1991.
(www.helsinki.org.yu/pubs_text.php?lang=en&idteksta=417)
1994 Feb 22, The Justice
Department charged 31-year CIA counterintelligence veteran Aldrich H.
Ames and his wife, Rosario, with selling national security secrets to
the Soviet Union. He passed information from 1985 to 1994 that included
the names of US agents. Ames was later sentenced to life in prison; his
wife received a 5-year term. Ames’ disclosures led to the execution of
at least 10 FBI-recruited Soviet and Warsaw Pact agents.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A17)(AP, 2/22/99)(SSFC, 4/7/02,
p.A14)
1995 Feb 22, Ed Flanders (b.1934),
actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), committed suicide.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0281130/)
1995 Feb 22, Security forces in
Algiers crushed a prison uprising by Islamic extremists, resulting in
96 deaths by official count.
(AP, 2/22/00)
1995 Feb 22, France accused four
American diplomats and a fifth U.S. citizen of spying, and asked them
to leave the country.
(AP, 2/22/00)
1996 Feb 22, President Clinton
announced he would nominate Alan Greenspan to a third term as chairman
of the Federal Reserve.
(AP, 2/22/01)
1996 Feb 22, The space shuttle
“Columbia” blasted into orbit on a mission to unreel a satellite on the
end of a 12.8-mile cord.
(AP, 2/22/01)
1996 Feb 22, An oil tanker was
freed that ran aground last week after 19 million gallons were spilled
off the coast of Wales.
(WSJ, 2/22/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 22, A freight train
derailed in the Colorado Rockies and killed two crew members. Two cars
holding 27,000 gallons of sulfuric acid had broken open and some
spilled down the mountain and onto a highway near Leadville.
(WSJ, 2/22/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 22, An F-14 crashed in
the Persian Gulf. It was the 3rd this month and the 32nd since 1991.
The navy says that record is not alarmingly high but ordered the entire
fleet grounded for 72 hours to check for any common threads.
(WSJ, 2/23/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 22, Russia and the head
of the International Monetary Fund reached a deal for a loan of more
than ten billion dollars to back up free-market reforms.
(AP, 2/22/01)
1997 Feb 22, The new welfare law
in the US put tens of thousands of people off of food stamps as of
today. The new law stated that adults under age 50 without children or
jobs could only receive food stamps for 3 months in any 3-year period.
The law authorized states to contract with private companies to provide
welfare services.
(SFC, 2/22/97, p.A12)(WSJ, 3/19/97, p.A1)(AP,
2/22/02)
1997 Feb 22, It was reported that
the Clinton administration was seeking to have the former El Salvador
rebel, Pedro Antonio Andrade, deported as a terrorist.
(SFC, 2/22/97, p.A7)
1997 Feb 22, Albert Shanker, the
leader of the American Federation of Teachers who championed public
school reforms, died in New York at age 68.
(AP, 2/22/02)
1998 Feb 22, Revival of "King
& I," closed at Neil Simon Theater in NYC after 781 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4673)
1998 Feb 22, In Chicago Louis
Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, spoke before a crowd of
10,000 at McCormick Place. The speech capped a weekend celebration of
the birth of founder W.D. Fard Muhammad. Farrakhan had recently
completed a 37-nation world tour.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A6)
1998 Feb 22, In Peoria, Ill.,
United Auto Workers rejected a new contract with Caterpillar Inc. The
dispute was into its 6th year.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A2)
1998 Feb 22, Abraham A. Ribicoff,
the former Connecticut governor and senator who served as President
Kennedy's secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, died in
Riverdale, N.Y., at age 87.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A5) (AP, 2/22/99)
1998 Feb 22, In Rio de Janeiro the
Palace II, built by Sergio Naya, collapsed during Carnival and 8 people
were crushed. The building was built by a construction company owned by
federal deputy Sergio Naya of the Brazilian Progress Party.
Faulty construction was uncovered.
(FT, 3/4/98, p.6)(SFC, 7/8/99,
p.A17)(www.novomilenio.inf.br/humor/0105f002.htm)
1998 Feb 22, The Czech Republic
defeated Russia 1-0 to win men's hockey as the Nagano Winter Olympics
came to a close.
(WSJ, 2/5/98, p.A20)(AP, 2/22/99)
1998 Feb 22, In Chechnya guerrilla
leader Salman Raduyev announced a reconciliation with the Chechen
leadership.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Feb 22, In India clashes
during voting left 12 dead and over 40 injured across the country.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Feb 22, In Indonesia the
government banned rallies until mid-March. Government troops last week
killed 5 people and arrested 921 others during riots.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Feb 22, In Iraq UN
Sec.-Gen’l. Kofi Annan managed to secure an agreement from Saddam
Hussein to allow the inspection process to proceed.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 22, In Sri Lanka rebel
gunboats attacked a 12-ship convoy carrying soldiers to northern Sri
Lanka. Up to 70 people were killed when 2 vessels were sunk. Rebel
casualties were estimated at 30. At least 6 of the 25 rebel boats were
destroyed.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A12)
1999 Feb 22, In NYC Mayor Giuliani
put into effect a plan that allowed police to seize the vehicles of
drunken drivers.
(SFEC, 2/20/99, p.A2)
1999 Feb 22, IBM planned to unveil
a new microchip that included both logic functions and memory functions.
(SFC, 2/22/99, p.B2)
1999 Feb 22, Levi Strauss, falling
victim to a fashion generation gap, announced that it would close 11 of
22 US plants and lay off 5,900 factory workers.
(SFC, 2/23/99, p.A1)(AP, 2/22/00)
1999 Feb 22, The Pinkerton
detective agency was sold to the Swedish company Securitas AB for $384
million.
(SFC, 2/23/99, p.C4)
1999 Feb 22, In Austria it was
reported that McDonald's had opened new experimental sites dubbed
McCafe to compete with the local coffeehouses.
(SFC, 2/22/99, p.A8)
1999 Feb 22, In Bangladesh strikes
began during municipal elections and violence was widespread.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.T14)
1999 Feb 22, In Brussels, Belgium,
some 30,000 farmers rallied to demand that EU agricultural ministers
shield them from farm subsidy cuts.
(SFC, 2/23/99, p.A14)
1999 Feb 22, In Iraq security
forces fought demonstrations for a 3rd day over the slaying of Muslim
cleric Sadeq Sadr. There were unconfirmed reports that as many as 300
people were killed in the riots.
(SFC, 2/23/99, p.A8)(WSJ, 2/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 22, Governor elections in
Quintana Roo were held to replace Gov. Mario Villanueva, whose term was
scheduled to end Apr 5. Federal authorities wished to charge the
governor with drug money laundering, but he was immune while holding
office. His Swiss bank account was said to hold $73 million. The PRI
won the statehouse with just over 43% of the vote. In Hidalgo the PRI
took the governorship with a 50% of the vote. Joaquin Hendricks won the
election in Quintana Roo.
(SFEC, 2/21/99, p.A23)(SFC, 2/23/99, p.A14)(SFC,
4/1/99, p.C2)
1999 Feb 22, From Mexico it was
reported that fisherman found 9 dead gray whales in the Magdalena Bay.
(SFC, 2/22/99, p.A14)
2000 Feb 22, Sen. John McCain beat
Gov. George W. Bush in the Michigan primary 50-43% and in the Arizona
primary 60-30%.
(SFC, 2/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 22, Over 200 truckers
gathered in Washington DC to protest high diesel prices.
(SFC, 2/23/00, p.A3)
2000 Feb 22, The space shuttle
Endeavour and its crew of 6 returned to Cape Canaveral with over a
weeks worth of radar images to map Earth.
(SFC, 2/23/00, p.A2)
2000 Feb 22, In Missouri Jake
Robel (6) of Blue Springs was caught in a seat belt and dragged to
death when Kim L. Davis (34) stole his mothers car.
(SFC, 2/24/00, p.A7)
2000 Feb 22, In Jordan a
15-year-old boy strangled his sister (14) in a "crime of honor" because
he considered her to have shamed his family. An autopsy revealed that
the girl was a virgin.
(SFC, 2/25/00, p.D4)
2000 Feb 22, Cyclone Eline hit
Mozambique and 3 people were electrocuted in Beira from fallen power
cables. Earlier torrential rains killed 67 people and displaced some
211,000.
(SFC, 2/23/00, p.A10)(SFC, 2/23/00, p.A11)
2000 Feb 22, In Nepal police
killed 19 Maoist rebels in the Midwestern mountains. The police
operation followed days after guerrillas killed 15 policemen and
injured another 16 in the bombing of a police station.
(SFC, 2/24/00, p.A14)
2000 Feb 22, In Spain a car bomb
killed Fernando Buesa, a Socialist Party leader in Vitoria, and his
bodyguard Jorge Diez Elorza (27).
(SFC, 2/23/00, p.A14)
2001 Feb 22, President Bush held
his first full-fledged presidential news conference, in which he
defended his tax-cutting and budget-tightening plans and gave FBI
director Louis Freeh a vote of confidence following the arrest of
veteran agent Robert Hanssen on spying charges.
(AP, 2/22/02)
2001 Feb 22, The California state
PUC voted to absolve PG&E and Southern California Edison of
responsibility for costs above the revenue they collect from ratepayers.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 22, Jose Juarez Rosales
(24) was arrested in Dallas for alleged multiple sexual assaults and
murders in Ciudad Juarez.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A17)
2001 Feb 22, Ashley Ellerin (22),
former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, was found dead in her
Hollywood Hills home. In 2008 police matched DNA linking Michael
Gargiulo (32), an air conditioning repairman, to her murder and to
another fatal stabbing of a Monterey Park woman in 2005. They also
suspect Gargiulo in the 1993 killing of a high school girl in the
Chicago suburb of Glenview, where Gargiulo lived at the time. Tricia
Pacaccio, a senior at Glenbrook South High School, was found stabbed to
death on her front doorstep, clutching her door key.
(AP,
8/30/08)(www.lapdonline.org/february_2001/news_view/23272)
2001 Feb 22, In Indonesia security
forces fought to disperse crowds in Sampit as ethnic clashes in Central
Kalimantan province of Borneo left over 100 dead.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A16)
2001 Feb 22, A UN tribunal on
Yugoslav War Crimes found 3 Bosnian Serbs guilty of crimes against
humanity for the rape, torture and enslavement of Muslim women in Foca
between 1992-1993. The landmark case established rape and sexual
enslavement as a crime against humanity. They were sentenced to 28, 20
and 12 years, respectively.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/1/07)
2001 Feb 22, India extended a
Kashmir cease-fire.
(WSJ, 2/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 22, Pakistan said it may
put nuclear missiles on its submarines. It recently acquired 3
submarines from France.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A20)
2001 Feb 22, In Spain 2 people
were killed when suspected Basque separatists bombed a train station in
San Sebastian. Separately French police arrested the alleged ETA
military chief.
(WSJ, 2/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 22, In Sri Lanka rebels
extended a unilateral cease-fire and said they wanted peace talks.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.A20)
2001 Feb 22, A financial crises in
Turkey forced the government to let the lira float and it dropped 40%
to 960,000 to the US dollar. By the end of the year the economy sank
9.4%.
(SFC, 2/23/01, p.D4)(WSJ, 2/23/01, p.A11)(WSJ,
4/2/03, p.A14)
2002 Feb 22, An Alabama jury found
Monsanto and its corporate successors (Solutia Inc.) guilty of
releasing tons of PCBs in Anniston between 1935-1979. In 2004 some
18,447 plaintiffs were scheduled to an average of $7,725, while 27
lawyers were scheduled to receive over $4 million each.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A7)(SFC, 3/24/04, p.A5)
2002 Feb 22, The California state
Supreme Court struck down the “Son of Sam” law that required felons to
turn over profits from books and movies to their victims.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 22, Police in San Diego
arrested David Westerfield in connection with the disappearance of
7-year-old Danielle van Dam. Westerfield was later sentenced to death
for Danielle's murder.
(AP, 2/22/07)
2002 Feb 22, A New Jersey teenager
(16) was arrested for killing 6 people in a 2-day shooting spree on the
outskirts of Philadelphia that began Feb 4.
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 22, Chuck Jones, cartoon
animator, died at age 89. His work included Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and
Road Runner. His books included “Chuck Amuck” (1989).
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A2)(SFC, 2/27/02, p.D2)(WSJ,
3/1/02, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/12/05, p.P14)
2002 Feb 22, In Angola government
troops reportedly killed UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi (67) in
Moxico province.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 22, Colombia began to
airlift some 34,000 soldiers of the elite Rapid Deployment Force into
San Vicente del Caguan, the largest town in the FARC territory.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A9)(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A18)
2002 Feb 22, Madagascar declared a
3-month state of emergency after the main opposition leader, Marc
Ravalomanana, declared himself president following a 2-month dispute.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A11)
2002 Feb 22, In Nepal rebels
attacked a police post and killed at least 32 officers. They killed 5
bus passengers in a separate attack. The army said 10 rebels were
killed in other fighting. Rebels called a 2-day nationwide general
strike.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A12)(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A20)
2002 Feb 22, In Russia an AN-26
military cargo plane crashed in Lakhta and 17 people were killed.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 22, Pakistan complained
over the US sale to India of surveillance radar, the AN/TPQ-36
Firefinder system.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 22, Sri Lanka and Tamil
Tiger rebels signed a Norwegian long-term cease-fire plan. The death
toll stood at more than 65,000 when the cease-fire was signed.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A9)(AP, 7/3/06)
2003 Feb 22, Pres. Bush told
Spain’s PM Aznar that nations like Mexico, Angola, Chile and Cameroon
must know that the security of the United States is at stake. Bush
threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN
resolution backing the Iraq war. A transcript of a meeting on this day,
one month before the US-led invasion of Iraq, was published in the El
Pais daily in 2007.
(AFP, 9/26/07)
2003 Feb 22, Jesica Santillan, the
teenager who'd survived a botched heart-lung transplant long enough to
get a second set of donated organs, died two days after the second
transplant at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.
(AP, 2/22/04)
2003 Feb 22, In northern
Afghanistan at least six civilians were killed when factional fighting
broke out between 2 rival warlords in Faryab province.
(AP, 2/23/03)
2003 Feb 22, Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Turkmenistan invited India to join their $3.2-billion
natural gas pipeline project, indicating the plan would not be
economically viable without New Delhi's participation.
(AP, 2/22/03)
2003 Feb 22, Israeli troops
opened fire on a crowd in Nablus after clashes erupted while soldiers
were searching door to door for militants. 2 Palestinians were killed
in the gunfire.
(AP, 2/22/03)
2003 Feb 22, In Rome,
Italy, some 2,000 cat lovers marched in the city's 1st Cat Pride march
and demanded protection for the many, local stray cats.
(SSFC, 2/23/03, A2)
2003 Feb 22, In southern
Pakistan gunmen opened fire inside a Shiite mosque, killing at least 9
worshippers and injuring at least 10 others.
(AP, 2/22/03)(SSFC, 2/23/03, A17)
2004 Feb 22, The final TV episode
of "Sex and the City" aired after a 6-season run.
(SFC, 2/23/04, p.A2)
2004 Feb 22, Ralph Nader announced
that he would run for the US presidency.
(SFC, 2/23/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 22, In San Jose, Ca.,
Ranbir Singh (43) opened fire a group of Sikh men playing cards and
killed 3. Singh was killed after the group turned on him.
(SFC, 2/23/04, p.A1)(SFC, 2/24/04, p.A15)
2004 Feb 22, US and British
special forces reportedly had cornered Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
in a mountainous area in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan
border.
(AP, 2/22/04)
2004 Feb 22, In Angola a tanker
truck carrying gasoline exploded near the capital of Luanda, killing 18
people and injuring 87.
(AP, 2/23/04)
2004 Feb 22, At least 66 people
died in weekend clashes among Colombian troops, leftist rebels and
right-wing paramilitary forces.
(AP, 2/23/04)
2004 Feb 22, In southeast Congo a
militia led by a commander named "Cut-Throat" massacred more than 100
civilians and soldiers.
(AP, 2/24/04)
2004 Feb 22, Giorgio Armani signed
a $1 billion hotel venture with Dubai’s Emaar Properties.
(Econ, 2/28/04, p.61)
2004 Feb 22, In Haiti rebels
attacked the government's last major stronghold in the north,
Cap-Haitien, and witnesses reported hearing gunfire on the outskirts of
the city.
(AP, 2/22/04)
2004 Feb 22, In Iran hard-line
Islamic candidates appeared likely to take control in the liberal
stronghold of Tehran and held a wide lead nationwide after
parliamentary elections from which hundreds of liberal candidates were
barred.
(AP, 2/22/04)
2004 Feb 22, Gunmen attacked
Iraqi police in two northern Iraqi cities, sparking clashes that killed
two attackers. Meanwhile, jailed former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
wrote a letter to his family for the international Red Cross to deliver.
(AP, 2/22/04)
2004 Feb 22, In Israel a suicide
bomber blew himself up on a crowded Jerusalem bus, killing eight people
and wounding 59.
(AP, 2/22/04)
2004 Feb 22, Japanese authorities
confirmed the nation's 10th case of mad cow disease since the first
sick animal was discovered in September 2001.
(AP, 2/22/04)
2004 Feb 22, In Nepal a land mine
exploded beneath a bus carrying Nepalese soldiers, killing three people
and injuring 15 others.
(AP, 2/22/04)
2004 Feb 22, An Islamic state in
Nigeria that is at the heart of a spreading Africa polio outbreak
declared it would not relent on its boycott of a mass vaccination
program which it called a U.S. plot to spread AIDS and infertility
among Muslims.
(AP, 2/22/04)
2005 Feb 22, A Virginia man was
charged with plotting with al-Qaida to kill President Bush. Ahmed Omar
Abu Ali was convicted on all counts in November 2005.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2005 Feb 22, The DJIA fell 174
points to 10,611 as oil prices soared to $51.15 per barrel. The Euro
closed up at $1.326.
(SFC, 2/23/05, p.C1)
2005 Feb 22, Supermarket giant
Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., which has struggled to compete with Wal-Mart
Supercenters and other grocery chains, said it has filed for bankruptcy
reorganization.
(AP, 2/22/05)
2005 Feb 22, Researchers at Texas
Tech Univ. reported that the rocket fuel perchlorate has been found in
women’s breast milk at 5 times the average level found in dairy milk.
(SFC, 2/23/05, p.A6)
2005 Feb 22, PM John Howard said
Australia will send an extra 450 troops to Iraq to help protect a
Japanese humanitarian mission and bolster the country's transition to
democracy.
(AP, 2/22/05)
2005 Feb 22, In Belgium a Nato
summit announced a 12-year program to destroy Soviet-era weapons in
Ukraine. Ukraine’s Pres. Viktor Yushchenko attended.
(WSJ, 2/22/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 22, Britain said it will
impose new penalties on Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked
party, as punishment for the IRA's alleged robbery of a Belfast bank.
(AP, 2/22/05)
2005 Feb 22, Buckingham Palace
said Queen Elizabeth III would not attend the civil marriage ceremony
of her son Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, but that her
absence should not be interpreted as a snub.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2005 Feb 22, In Colombia
government soldiers killed eight rebels over the past 2 days and
discovered a large cache of weapons in dense southern jungles.
(AP, 2/22/05)
2005 Feb 22, A US human rights
advocacy group said the Egyptian government had shown a "shameless"
lack of accountability by failing to name the 2,400 people it had
detained for the Oct 7 Sinai terror attacks. Relatives were not told
where they are held.
(AP, 2/22/05)(WSJ, 2/23/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 22, The EU intends to end
its ban on arms sales to China, French Pres. Jacques Chirac said after
talks with Pres. Bush, who highlighted Washington's security concerns.
(AP, 2/22/05)
2005 Feb 22, In Indonesia Aceh
separatists announced they are ready to accept increased autonomy
rather than independence.
(WSJ, 2/23/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 22, In central Iran’s
Kerman province a 6.4 earthquake flattened villages and collapsed
mud-brick homes, killing over 500 people and injuring nearly 1,000.
(AP, 2/23/05)(SFC, 2/24/05, p.A11)
2005 Feb 22, Interim Iraqi Vice
President Ibrahim al-Jaafari was chosen as his Shiite ticket's
candidate for prime minister after Ahmad Chalabi dropped his bid.
(AP, 2/22/05)
2005 Feb 22, Montenegro's
President Filip Vujanovic and PM Milo Djukanovic proposed the peaceful
disintegration of Serbia-Montenegro, suggesting that the two former
Yugoslav republics recognize each other as sovereign states.
(AP, 2/23/05)
2005 Feb 22, It was reported that
Norway finished 2004 with the world’s best performing equities market,
based on nominal return on equity investment in dollar terms.
(WSJ, 2/22/05, p.C20)
2005 Feb 22, Palestinian Prime
Minister Ahmed Qureia promised a drastic overhaul of his Cabinet,
signaling the start of long-sought reform.
(AP, 2/22/05)
2005 Feb 22, Zdzislaw Beksinski, a
surrealist painter who was one of Poland's leading contemporary
artists, was found stabbed to death at his Warsaw home.
(AP, 2/22/05)
2006 Feb 22, South Dakota’s Senate
advanced a law banning abortion in virtually all cases, with the
intention of forcing the Supreme Court to reconsider its 1973 decision
legalizing the procedure. The law, which would punish doctors who
perform the operation with a five-year prison term and a $5,000 fine,
awaits the signature of Republican Gov. Michael Rounds and people on
both sides of the issue say he is unlikely to veto it.
(Reuters, 2/22/06)(WSJ, 2/23/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 22, In Lincoln, Nebraska,
8 workers at a meat processing plant claimed the record $365 million
Powerball jackpot.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, A Rhode Island jury
found 3 companies, Sherwin-Williams, NL Industries and Millennium
Holdings, liable for creating a public nuisance by selling lead paint
decades ago, and that the companies should pay to clean it up from
homes and buildings in the state.
(WSJ, 2/23/06, p.D7)
2006 Feb 22-2006 Feb 25, The
annual Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference took place in
Monterey, Ca., with over 900 participants.
(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 22, In northern
Afghanistan a bomb exploded near a NATO peacekeeping convoy, killing
one Afghan civilian and wounding 12 people.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, Former US President
Bill Clinton and Australia announced plans to combat AIDS in China,
Vietnam and Papua New Guinea, warning that 40 percent of all new
infections could be in the Asia-Pacific region by 2010.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, Bulgaria's parliament
endorsed a government decision to send a 120-member non-combat unit to
Iraq.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, In China Yu Dongyue,
a man who was jailed for throwing paint on Mao Zedong's portrait
overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square during pro-democracy protests in
1989, was released after nearly 17 years in prison.
(AP, 2/24/06)
2006 Feb 22, Wu Hao, Chinese
filmmaker, was detained for allegedly working on a documentary film on
Christian churches not recognized by the Chinese government. Wu had
returned to China in 2004 after 12 years in the US. He was released on
July 11.
(WSJ, 7/3/06, p.A1)(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Feb 22, In Costa Rica results
from the Feb 5 elections indicated that Oscar Arias, a free trade
proponent, had won Costa Rica's presidential election by 18,167 votes,
one of the country's closest races ever.
(AP, 2/22/06)(WSJ, 2/23/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 22, In Ecuador 2 dozen
pipeline workers held hostage by protesters escaped as soldiers and
police battled to end violent demonstrations that have interrupted the
flow of crude through the country's two main pipelines.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, Imprisoned Egyptian
opposition leader Ayman Nour asked US Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice to look into whether Egypt can benefit from a US offer to help
developing countries develop nuclear energy.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, In England thieves
impersonated police officers and robbed the equivalent of up to $85
million from Securitas Cash Management Ltd., a cash center at Tonbridge
in Kent county, in one of the largest heists in British history. In
2008 five men were convicted over country's biggest cash robbery, which
saw some 53 million pounds stolen in southeast England. In 2009 Paul
Allen (31) was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the
robbery. Allen had fled to Morocco after the robbery and was extradited
last year.
(Reuters, 2/23/06)(AP, 2/27/06)(AP, 1/28/08)(AP,
10/5/09)
2006 Feb 22, Michaela Giersberg, a
nursing assistant, was convicted in Bonn, Germany, of killing 9 women
she had been caring for from 2003-2005. She was sentenced to life in
prison.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, Indonesia said a
27-year-old woman died of bird flu earlier in the week in Jakarta and
authorities prepared to scour the capital for infected poultry.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, In Indonesia's Papua
province production at the world's largest gold and copper mine, run by
a local unit of New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Inc, was suspended after illegal miners blocked the road leading to the
site.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, Iran offered to help
finance a Palestinian Authority run by the Hamas militant group, state
radio said in a report that brought a quick warning from Israel that it
would do all it could legally to stop the Palestinians from receiving
the money.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, In Iraq suspected
Sunni extremists dressed as police set off a large explosion that
heavily damaged the golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, one
of Iraq's most famous Shiite shrines. The attack spawned mass protests
and triggered reprisal attacks against Sunni mosques. The shrine
contains the tombs of the 10th and 11th imams, Ali al-Hadi, who died in
868 A.D., and his son Hassan al-Askari, who died in 874 A.D. and was
the father of Al-Mahdi, the hidden imam. Atwar Bahjat, a well-known
Iraqi TV journalist, was abducted while covering the bombing. In 2009
police arrested Yasser Mohammad al-Takhy in southwest Baghdad along
with three others for the rape and murder of Bahjat.
(AP, 2/22/06)(WSJ, 2/23/06, p.A1)(AP, 8/5/09)
2006 Feb 22, In Iraq 7 US soldiers
were killed by a roadside bombs in Hawija north of Baghdad.
(AP, 2/23/06)(SFC, 2/24/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 22, A Tokyo court
convicted and sentenced Fusako Shigenobu (60), a founder of the
Japanese Red Army terrorist group, to 20 years in prison for kidnapping
and attempted murder in a 1974 attack on the French Embassy in the
Hague.
(AP, 2/23/06)
2006 Feb 22, Kazakhstan's
intelligence chief resigned after several of his subordinates were
arrested on suspicion of involvement in the slaying of an opposition
leader. Erzhan Utembaev, the top administrative official of the Senate,
was arrested for ordering the murder of opposition leader Altynbek
Sarsenbayev.
(AP, 2/22/06)(Econ, 3/4/06, p.40)
2006 Feb 22, In Nepal police
raided the house of Krishna Sitaula, a senior opposition leader
instrumental in organizing anti-government protests, and arrested him
two days after he was freed by the Supreme Court on similar charges.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, In Nigeria at least
20 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in the eastern Nigerian city of
Onitsha. Gangs of rioters armed with machetes and shotguns poured
through the streets of the mainly Christian southern city as the death
toll from days of Christian-Muslim violence across Nigeria rose to at
least 93.
(AP, 2/22/06)(Reuters, 2/22/06)(SFC, 2/23/06, p.A13)
2006 Feb 22, In the Philippines
thousands of activists seeking President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's
ouster clashed with riot police in Manila as they tried to march to a
monument to the 1986 "people power" revolt.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, Serb security
officials insisted that top war crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic had
been located and that authorities were trying to persuade him to give
himself up.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, Spanish PM Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero expressed reticence about a takeover bid for leading
domestic electricity group Endesa by E.ON of Germany, saying national
interest was paramount. In July Spain’s energy regulator (CNE) imposed
19 conditions on the bid for Endesa. On Aug 25 EU regulators warned
that government restrictions on E.ON’s bid were illegal.
(AP, 2/22/06)(Econ, 9/2/06, p.58)
2006 Feb 22, A secret list
compiled for the UN Security council said Sudan's interior and defense
ministers and its national intelligence chief are among 17 people the
UN Security Council should punish for blocking peace in Darfur.
(Reuters, 2/22/06)
2006 Feb 22, Pope Benedict XVI
named 15 new cardinals, including John Paul II's longtime private
secretary and prelates from Boston and Hong Kong, adding his first
installment to the elite group of churchmen who will elect his
successor.
(AP, 2/22/06)
2007 Feb 22, The Bush
administration announced its plan to have US inspectors oversee Mexican
trucking companies that carry cargo across the border. Mexico
responded to the US announcement by saying it will allow trucks from
100 US companies to travel across the border. The news that Mexican
trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into the US drew an angry
reaction the next day from labor leaders, safety advocates and members
of Congress.
(AP, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 22, The US General
Accountability Office said it will cost at least $ 12 billion to clean
up contamination from tens of thousands of gasoline storage tanks that
were leaking underground.
(SFC, 2/23/07, p.A9)
2007 Feb 22, A US federal judge
ordered Microsoft to pay $1.52 billion to Alcatel-Lucent SA for
infringing a patent on a fundamental technology for digital music.
(WSJ, 2/23/07, p.A3)
2007 Feb 22, Tongsun Park (71), a
South Korean businessman, was sentenced in NY to 5 years in prison for
accepting at least $2 million to work on Iraq’s behalf to influence the
UN oil-for-food program.
(SFC, 2/23/07, p.A3)
2007 Feb 22, Police clashed with
demonstrators protesting the visit of Vice President Dick Cheney hours
before he arrived in Australia to thank one of Washington's staunchest
supporters in the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.
(AP, 2/22/07)
2007 Feb 22, Female tennis stars
hailed an announcement that women would receive the same prize money as
men at this year's Wimbledon tennis championships after years of dogged
campaigning.
(AFP, 2/22/07)
2007 Feb 22, Britain's Ministry of
Defense announced that Prince Harry, a second lieutenant in the British
army, would be deployed to Iraq. Officials later reversed the decision
because of insurgent threats.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2007 Feb 22, In Colombia Jorge
Noguera, a former director of the secret police under President Alvaro
Uribe, was arrested and charged in connection with the murders of labor
leaders and academics while collaborating with far-right militias
responsible for some of Colombia's worst massacres. In Cali, Colombia,
confused hit men on the lookout for two men in a white sedan gun down
the wrong people. Then they spot their intended targets, in the same
traffic jam 20 yards away. And killed them, too. It was all caught on a
traffic camera.
(AP, 2/23/07)(AP, 2/24/07)
2007 Feb 22, Estonia's president
vetoed legislation calling for the removal of a Soviet war memorial,
averting at least temporarily a confrontation with Russia. Estonia
chose Baltic herring over the pike in a government-sponsored contest to
find a fish suitable to join the blue, black and white flag, the blue
cornflower, limestone, and chimney swallow as national symbols.
(AP, 2/22/07)(http://tinyurl.com/2l7acu)
2007 Feb 22, Abdel Kareem Nabil
(22), an Egyptian blogger, was convicted of insulting Islam and
President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison in
Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger. Nabil was convicted for calling
Islam a brutal religion in a piece he wrote in 2005 after Muslim
worshippers attacked a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria. In 2009
an Appeals court upheld his 4-year sentence.
(AP, 2/22/07)(AP, 12/22/09)
2007 Feb 22, Gambia expelled
Fadzai Gwaradzimba, the UN chief representative in the country, after
she expressed doubts over President Yahya Jammeh's claims to cure AIDS.
Jammeh had claimed to have mystical powers and herbs to treat HIV/AIDS
and asthma within three days.
(www.aegis.com/news/afp/2007/AF070285.html)(Econ,
4/28/07, p.54)
2007 Feb 22, Lothar-Guenther
Buchheim (89), the German author and art collector best known for his
1973 autobiographical novel, "Das Boot," died. In 1981, the book was
turned into an acclaimed German film starring Juergen Prochnow that
detailed the hopelessness of war and its effect on sailors living in
the cramped confines of their submarine.
(AP, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 22, In Guatemala a top
police official and three other officers were arrested in the killings
of three Central American Parliament members, including the son of the
alleged founder of El Salvador's death squads.
(AP, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 22, A fire broke out on
an Indonesian ferry carrying 300 passengers. The number of dead, soon
climbed to 49. Scores of passengers jumped into the sea and 120 people
remained missing.
(AFP, 2/23/07)(AP, 2/26/07)
2007 Feb 22, The UN nuclear
watchdog agency said Iran had ignored a Security Council ultimatum to
freeze uranium enrichment, and instead had expanded its program by
setting up hundreds of centrifuges.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2007 Feb 22, An official said 4
Iraqi soldiers have been accused of raping a 50-year-old Sunni woman on
Feb 8 and the attempted rape of her two daughters in the second
allegation of sexual assault leveled against Iraqi forces this week.
Issa Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed (22), a suspected al-Qaida-linked insurgent
leader accused of financing attacks and recruiting fighters, was
captured in southern Iraq. 3 US soldiers were killed in combat in Anbar
province.
(AP, 2/22/07)(AP, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 22, The Israeli daily
Haaretz reported that Syria has embarked on an "unprecedented" effort
to bolster its armed forces with Iranian and Russian help.
(AP, 2/22/07)
2007 Feb 22, A court ordered
Malaysia's government to pay a 69-year-old British man $857,000 for
seizing his passport and preventing him from leaving the country in
Dec, 1981.
(AP, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 22, In Mozambique roofs
were blown off, trees uprooted and power lines cut by the force of a
tropical cyclone which slammed into coastal regions. The storm killed
four people and injured at least 70 in the resort town of Vilanculos,
where thousands of homes were destroyed along with the hospital and
power grid.
(AFP, 2/22/07)(Reuters, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 22, Russia’s government
approved a five-year financing plan aimed to decrease mortality from
diseases including diabetes, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and cancer. The
news came as the state statistics agency said Russia's population
dropped by more than 560,000 last year to 142.2 million, a new
post-Soviet low.
(AP, 2/22/07)
2007 Feb 22, Sam Hinga Norman
(67), a former government minister on trial for allegedly overseeing a
militia accused of torturing and mutilating civilians during Sierra
Leone's 1991-2002 civil war, died at a Senegalese hospital.
(AP, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 22, Extremists in Somalia
threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union
peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days.
(AP, 2/22/07)
2007 Feb 22, The UN Security
Council voted unanimously to extend the UN mission in East Timor for a
year and beef up the international police force ahead of upcoming
elections.
(AP, 2/22/07)
2008 Feb 22, Arizona Republican
Rep. Rick Renzi was indicted on charges of extortion, wire fraud, money
laundering and other matters in an Arizona land swap scam that
allegedly helped him collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in
payoffs.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, John Heath (81) was
sentenced In Los Angeles to 28 years in prison in an investment scam
that prosecutors say seeped across half the country and bilked 1,800
people, many of them elderly, of about $190 million.
(AP, 2/23/08)
2008 Feb 22, In Texas 3 British
bankers were sentenced to just over three years in prison for their
roles in a fraudulent scheme with former Enron Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Fastow, and they're hoping to serve some of that time back home.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, The US FDA granted
accelerated market approval for Genentech’s drug Avastin to treat
advanced breast cancer. The drug cost was bout $7,700 per month.
Avastin was already approved for colorectal and lung cancer.
(WSJ, 2/23/08, p.A3)
2008 Feb 22, Canadian Foreign
Minister Maxime Bernier pledged $555 million in fresh aid to Haiti, as
he wrapped up a three-day visit to the impoverished Caribbean nation.
(Reuters, 2/23/08)
2008 Feb 22, In China 4 men
pleaded guilty in a Yunnan court to producing bogus receipts valued at
$147 billion. The scam operated in 9 provinces. In 2007 almost 3,000
cases of printing fake receipts were uncovered.
(Econ, 3/1/08, p.70)
2008 Feb 22, The European Space
Agency (ESA) said on Ulysses, a US-European space scout that has been
orbiting the Sun for 17 years, almost four times its expected lifetime,
is on the brink of dying.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, The German finance
ministry threatened to tax all financial transfers to Liechtenstein
unless the Alpine principality relaxed its banking secrecy codes and
helped trace tax evaders.
(AFP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, An angry mob in
Guatemala, that took 29 policemen hostage a day earlier, released the
officers in exchange for talks with the government on legalizing their
lands and possibly dropping charges against a jailed farm leader.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, Muqtada al-Sadr
announced that he has extended a cease-fire order to his Shiite Mahdi
Army by another six months. A bomb hidden under a horse-drawn cart
exploded in downtown Baghdad, killing three civilians. 2 policemen died
when a booby-trapped car exploded in Tikrit.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, In New Zealand a key
conference on cluster bombs ended in Wellington with most of the 122
governments represented backing a draft treaty banning the deadly
weapons.
(AFP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, North Korea opened
its main nuclear reactor to foreign media for the first time in a bid
to show that it is complying with a disarmament accord to disable the
facility.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, In Pakistan roadside
bomb exploded as a wedding party was passing nearby in the volatile
northwest, killing at least 10 people and wounding four others.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, Majed Barghouti (44),
a Hamas preacher, died in the custody of the Palestinian intelligence
service. The next day his family alleged that he had been tortured by
interrogators from the rival Fatah faction.
(AP, 2/23/08)
2008 Feb 22, Serbs protesting
Kosovo's independence for a fifth straight day Friday attacked UN
police guarding a key bridge in northern Kosovo with stones, glass
bottles and firecrackers.
(AP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, South Africa and
India agreed to allow businessmen traveling between the two countries
multiple entry visas, as part of several agreements signed in Pretoria.
(AFP, 2/22/08)
2008 Feb 22, In Sri Lanka clashes
broke out in at least six locations in northern Jaffna, Mannar,
Vavuniya districts and Welioya, leaving 31 rebels and one soldier dead.
(AP, 2/23/08)
2008 Feb 22, In Tunisia 2 Austrian
tourists were kidnapped. Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa later claimed
responsibility and warned western tourists to stay away. The 2 tourists
were released on October 31.
(AFP, 3/11/08)(WSJ, 3/11/08, p.A1)(AP, 10/31/08)
2009 Feb 22, The film "Slumdog
Millionaire," a tale of hope amid adversity and squalor in Mumbai, came
away with 8 Oscars, including best picture and director for Danny
Boyle. Sean Penn won his second best-actor Oscar, this one for playing
slain gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk in "Milk," while Kate Winslet took
best actress for "The Reader," in which she plays a former
concentration camp guard. Heath Ledger (d.2008) won as best supporting
actor in “The Dark Knight”; Penelope Cruz won as best supporting
actress for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
(AP, 2/23/09)(SFC, 2/23/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 22, Mississippi Gov.
Barbour said he would join Louisiana Gov. Jindal in turning down
federal incentives to expand unemployment insurance coverage.
(WSJ, 2/23/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 22, In eastern Algeria 9
members of a private security firm were killed when Islamist militants
attacked their base near Jijel.
(AFP, 2/23/09)
2009 Feb 22, In Brazil bubbles,
feathers and glitter swirled on the first night of parades in Rio's
Carnival, as the city's samba schools battled it out for top honors in
what many bill as the world's largest party.
(AP, 2/23/09)
2009 Feb 22, In Brisbane,
Australia, Father Peter Kennedy (71), a rebel Catholic priest who was
sacked for blessing gay couples and allowing women to preach, defied
his archbishop and led mass.
(AFP, 2/22/09)
2009 Feb 22, In northern China a
gas explosion ripped through a coal mine outside Taiyuan, capital of
the main coal-producing province of Shanxi, killing at least 77 miners
and trapping dozens in the deadliest Chinese coal mine accident in more
than a year.
(AFP, 2/22/09)(AP, 2/25/09)
2009 Feb 22, In Egypt a group of
French teenagers on a school trip was hit hard by a bombing at Cairo’s
famed 14th century Khan al-Khalili bazaar. The attack killed a
17-year-old French girl and wounded another 24 people: 17 French, three
Saudis, three Egyptians and a German. Egyptian police soon arrested
three suspects. On May 23 Egyptian authorities said they had arrested
seven people for being part of an al-Qaida linked group accused of
carrying out the attack. They included two Palestinians, two Egyptians,
a British-Egyptian, a Belgian-Tunisian and a French-Albanian woman,
some of whom had entered Egypt as students.
(AP, 2/23/09)(AP, 5/23/09)
2009 Feb 22, The bodies of four
people were found in a smuggling tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border, a
day after another body was discovered in the area. Border officials
said about 1,000 university students and holders of foreign residency
permits were eligible to cross, and by mid-afternoon, about 600 people
had made the trip.
(AP, 2/22/09)
2009 Feb 22, The heads of Europe's
largest economies agreed on the need for greater regulation of
financial markets and of products such as hedge funds, as they met in
Berlin to hammer out a joint European position for the G20 meeting in
London on April 2.
(AFP, 2/22/09)
2009 Feb 22, In Greece Vassilis
Palaiokostas (44) and his Albanian accomplice Alket Rizaj staged a 2nd
getaway by helicopter. Palaiokostas was serving a sentence for robbery
and kidnapping when he first escaped with Rizaj in 2006 in a
helicopter. On Nov 16 Alket Rizaj was arrested with a female companion
at an isolated house near the town of Marathon.
(AP, 2/23/09)(AP, 11/16/09)
2009 Feb 22, Iran's official news
agency says the country's first nuclear power plant will begin
preliminary phase operation on Feb 25 after a series of delays.
(AP, 2/22/09)(SFC, 2/23/09, p.A2)
2009 Feb 22, A military official
said Iraqi authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Sunni
lawmaker accused of masterminding a series of high-profile attacks,
including mortar strikes on the Green Zone and a 2007 suicide bombing
inside the parliament building. Lawmaker Mohammed al-Dayni denied the
allegations.
(AP, 2/22/09)
2009 Feb 22, In Mexico gunmen in
Chihuahua city shot at a convoy carrying the governor of Chihuahua, a
violence-wracked border state, killing one of his bodyguards and
wounding two other agents. Police arrested two suspects March 31 in the
northern city of Chihuahua, who then led them to 2 more suspects.
(AP, 2/24/09)(AP, 4/5/09)
2009 Feb 22, In Pakistan a top
official said the local government the North West Frontier Province
will distribute 30,000 rifles to villagers to help security forces
fight the growing strength of Taliban and al-Qaida militants.
(AP, 2/22/09)
2009 Feb 22, Gunmen in northern
Somalia kidnapped a Pakistani. Islamic insurgents claimed to have
carried out a suicide attack on an African Union peacekeeping base in
Mogadishu. 11 Burundi peacekeepers in Somalia were killed and another
20 injured in a suicide attack by a Somali contractor who delivered
supplies and had easy access to the base.
(AP, 2/22/09)(AP, 2/23/09)
2009 Feb 22, In Turkey Aydin Dogan
(72), chairman of Dogan Sirketler Grubu Holdings AS, a conglomerate
that controls 7 newspapers, 28 magazines and 3 Turkish television
channels as well as energy interests, accused PM Erdogan of seeking to
muzzle criticism. Dogan was recently hit with a corporate tax bill of
around $500 million. Most of the bill centered on the 2007 sale of a
stake in Dogan to Germany’s Axel Springer AG.
(WSJ, 2/23/09, p.A9)
2009 Feb 22, The United Arab
Emirates said it will spend $10 billion to bail out Dubai, whose huge
construction and financial sector expansion plans slowed under the
world wide downturn.
(WSJ, 2/23/09, p.A1)
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