Today in History - March 7
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322BCE Mar 7, Aristotle (d.322 BCE)
died. His writings included treatises on logic, metaphysics, ethics,
politics, rhetoric and natural sciences. He first described language in
terms of subject and predicate as well as parts of speech. Aristotelian
logic is based on a small number of un-ambiguous constructs, such as,
"if A, then B": the truth of one implies the truth of another. This
celebrated rule gives Aristotelian reasoning the power to establish
facts through inference. The constructs also included A=A, representing
that every entity is equal to itself. He defined politics as the
science of the sciences that looks after well-being. His writings
included “De Generatione Animalum.” His "Historia Animalium" was later
translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson." "Hope is a waking dream." The
opening of his “Metaphysics” began: “All men by nature desire to know.”
(V.D.-H.K.p.44,45)(I&I, Penzias, p.73)(Hem.,
1/96, p.11)(LSA, Spg/97, p.6)(EEE, p.12)(AP, 8/9/98)(WSJ, 9/30/98,
p.A16)(NH, 12/98, p.10)(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A13)
161 CE Mar 7, Marcus Aurelius became emperor on the
death of Antoninus Pius [Titus Aure-lius], age 74, at Lorium. Antoninus
ruled from 138-161.
(HN, 3/7/99)(MC, 3/7/02)
1040 Mar 7, Harold I, King of
England (1035-40), died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1274 Mar 7, Thomas Aquinas (48),
Italian theologian, saint, died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1530 Mar 7, King Henry VIII's
divorce request was denied by the Pope. Henry then declared that he,
not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1574 Mar 7, John Wilbye, composer,
was born.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1644 Mar 7, Massachusetts
established 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1659 Mar 7, Henry Purcell, English
organist, composer (Dido & Aeneas), was born.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1663 Mar 7, Tomaso Antonio Vitali,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1696 Mar 7, English King William
III departed Netherlands.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1707 Mar 7, Stephen Hopkins,
signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1715 Mar 7, Ewald Christian von
Kleist, German lyric poet (Der Freuhling), was born.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1765 Mar 7, Joseph N. Niepce
(d.1883), French lithographer, inventor (photography), was born. Photo
etching was invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce early in the 19th
century. He also invented photography. His partner, L.J.M. Daguerre,
perfected Niepce's process and popu-larized daguerreotypes as the first
commercial photographs.
(V.D.-H.K.p.273)(I&I, Penzias, p.114)(MC, 3/7/02)
1774 Mar 7, A 2nd Boston tea party
was held.
(SFEC,11/23/97, Par p.14)
1774 Mar 7, The British closed the
port of Boston to all commerce.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1778 Mar 7, Capt. James Cook 1st
sighted the Oregon coast and named Perpetua Cape in honor of St.
Perpetua’s Day.
(SSFC, 9/21/08, p.E7)
1785 Mar 7, Alessandro Manzoni,
poet, novelist (Betrothed), was born in Italy.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1799 Mar 7, Napoleon captured
Jaffa, Palestine, and his men massacred more than 2,000 Albanian
prisoners. [see Mar 26]
(HN, 3/7/99)
1804 Mar 7, John Wedgwood, founder
(Royal Horticulture Society), died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1824 Mar 7, Meyerbeer's opera "Il
Crociati in Egitto," premiered in Venice.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1835 Mar 7, HMS Beagle returned
from Concepcion to Valparaiso.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1838 Mar 7, Soprano Jenny Lind
("the Swedish Nightingale") made her debut in Weber's op-era Der
Freischultz.
(HN, 3/7/01)
1844 Mar 7, Anthony Comstock,
anti-vice "crusader,” was born in New Canaan, Ct.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1847 Mar 7, U.S. General Scott
occupied Veracruz, Mexico. Pres. Polk decided to attack the heart of
Mexico. He sent Gen. Winfield Scott, who landed at Veracruz and with
his troops hacked their way to Mexico City. [see Mar 9]
(HFA, '96, p.48)(HN, 3/7/98)
1849 Mar 7, Luther Burbank
(d.1926) American Horticulturist was born in Lancaster, Mass. “For
those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their
prejudices once in a while.”
(AP, 3/7/98)(AP, 4/26/98)
1849 Mar 7, The Austrian Reichstag
was dissolved.
(HN, 3/7/99)
1850 Mar 7, Tomas Masaryk, Pres.
of Czech (1918-35), was born to a Slovak father and Czech-German mother
in the small town of Hodonin in South Moravia, very close to what is
now the border with Slovakia.
(http://archiv.radio.cz/english/czechs/5-1-00.html)
1850 Mar 7, In a three-hour speech
to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Com-promise of 1850 as
a means of preserving the Union.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1854 Mar 7, Charles Miller
patented the 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1862 Mar 7, Confederate forces
surprised the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Ar-kansas, but
the Union was victorious. [see Mar 6]
(HN, 3/7/99)
1862 Mar 7, In the second day of
the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Generals McCulloch and McIntosh perished.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1865 Mar 7-10, Battles were fought
around Kingston, NC.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1872 Mar 7, Piet Mondrian
(d.1944), Dutch abstract painter, was born. He was born in Amers-foort,
near Amsterdam. His two principal styles date from before and after
1907. His Red Tree in 1908 reflects the stance of a Van Gogh. In
1911 he went to Paris and quickly changed his style in response to
Cubism. He emigrated to New York in 1940. His Broadway Boogie Woogie
was done in 1942-1943. He was labeled as a degenerate by the Nazis and
was sent to New York to continue working. He went through a number of
styles i.e. fauvist, neoimpressionist Dutch landscapes, to total
abstractions in a manner of his own that he called neoplasticism. He
was a pioneer of abstract painting.
(WSJ, 6/6/95, p.A-14)(WSJ, 10/3/95, p.A-18)(SFC,
10/4/97, p.E1)(HN, 3/7/98)
1875 Mar 7, Composer Maurice Ravel
was born in Cibourne, France.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1876 Mar 7, US Patent #174,465 was
issued to Alexander Graham Bell (d.1924) for his tele-phone. In 2008
Seth Shulman authored “The Telephone Gambit,” the story behind
Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 telephone patent. Shulman made a case that
Bell stole the critical technol-ogy for making the telephone work from
Elisha Gray, who had filed his own papers just hours after Bell.
(SFEM, 1/11/98, p.12)(HN, 3/7/98)(AP, 3/7/98)(WSJ,
1/16/08, p.D10)
1887 Mar 7, Helen Parkhurst,
educator, was born. She developed a technique later known as the Dalton
Plan.
(HN, 3/7/01)
1896 Mar 7, Gilbert and Sullivan's
last operetta "Grand Duke," premiered in London.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1901 Mar 7, Blacks were found to
be still enslaved in certain parts of South Carolina.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1904 Mar 7, Reinhard Heydrich,
German SS Leader and Architect of the "final solution," was born.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1904 Mar 7, The Japanese bombed
the Russian town of Vladivostok.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1906 Mar 7, Finland became the
first country to give women the right to vote, decreeing uni-versal
suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who
were supported by the state. [see Mar 15, 1907]
(HN, 3/7/98)
1907 Mar 7, Rolf Jacobsen,
Norwegian poet, was born.
(HN, 3/7/01)
1908 Mar 7, Anna Magnani, Italian
actress (Awakening, Roma), was born in Rome.
(AP, 3/7/08)
1908 Mar 7, Cincinnati Mayor Mark
Breith stood before city council and announced that, "women are not
physically fit to operate automobiles."
(MC, 3/7/02)
1911 Mar 7, The United States sent
20,000 troops to the Mexican border in the wake of the Mexican
Revolution.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1912 Mar 7, Roald Amundsen
announced the discovery of the South Pole. [see Dec 14-15, 1911]
(MC, 3/7/02)
1912 Mar 7, French aviator, Heri
Seimet flew non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1916 Mar 7, French Defense
Minister Joseph Gallieni resigned from his position.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1918 Mar 7, Pres. Wilson
authorized US Army's Distinguished Service Medal.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1918 Mar 7, Finland signed an
alliance treaty with Germany.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1920 Mar 7, The Bolsheviks opened
major offensive on the Polish front.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1921 Mar 7, Red Army under Trotsky
attacked the sailors of Kronstadt.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1925 Mar 7, The Soviet Red Army
occupied Outer Mongolia.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1926 Mar 7, The first successful
trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, be-tween New
York City and London.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1927 Mar 7, A Texas law that
banned Negroes from voting was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1927 Mar 7, Earthquake measuring 8
on Richter scale struck Tango, Japan.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1930 Mar 7, Lord Snowdon, [Anthony
Armstrong-Jones], photographer, was born in London.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1932 Mar 7, Riots at Ford factory
in Dearborn, Michigan, killed 4.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1932 Mar 7, Aristide Briand
(b.1862), 11-time premier of France (Nobel 1926), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide_Briand)
1933 Mar 7, George Darrow added
some copyrighted art work to the board game Monopoly and began selling
it commercially in Philadelphia. He sold it to Parker Brothers in 1934.
The game had originally been patented in 1904 as the Landlord’s Game by
Elizabeth J. Magie. In Oct 1929 Ruth Hoskins brought a version to
Atlantic City, refined the rules and street names. It was later
introduced to George Darrow.
(HN, 3/7/98)(WSJ, 2/3/05,
p.W12)(http://richard_wilding.tripod.com/history.htm)
1935 Mar 7, In an effort to
reduce street noise, the city of New York revoked the licenses of all
organ grinders .
(HNQ, 7/25/98)
1935 Mar 7, Malcolm Campbell set
an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1935 Mar 7, Saar was incorporated
into Germany.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1936 Mar 7, Adolf Hitler ordered
his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of
Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
(AP, 3/7/98)(HN, 3/7/98)
1939 Mar 7, Guy Lombardo and Royal
Canadians made the 1st recording of "Auld Lang Syne."
(MC, 3/7/02)
1941 Mar 7, British troops invaded
Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
(MC, 3/7/02)
1941 Mar 7, 50,000 British
soldiers landed in Greece.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1941 Mar 7, Gunther Prien, German
U-boat commander and war hero (U-47), died in battle.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1942 Mar 7, Michael Eisner, CEO
(Walt Disney), was born in Mt. Kisko, NY.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1942 Mar 7, Tamara Faye LaValley
(d.2007) was born in International Falls, Minn. She later married
fellow bible college student Jim Bakker. Together they established a
Christian talk vari-ety show, the PTL Club, which collapsed in 1987
amid a sex and money scandal.
(SSFC, 7/22/07, p.B7)
1942 Mar 7, Japanese troops landed
on New Guinea.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1942 Mar 7, 15 Mk-VB Spitfires
reached Malta.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1944 Mar 7, Japan began an
offensive in Burma.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1945 Mar 7, During World War II,
U.S. 9th Armored Division crossed the Rhine River at Re-magen, Germany,
using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge. This marked the
1st incursion of Allied forces into Germany.
(AP, 3/7/98)(SFC, 4/9/03, p.A16)
1945 Mar 7, Cologne was taken by
allied armies.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1945 Mar 7, In Yugoslavia the
Communist government of Tito formed.
(MC, 3/7/02)(AP, 10/20/02)
1951 Mar 7, Lillian Hellman's
"Autumn Garden," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1951 Mar 7, U.N. forces in Korea
under General Matthew Ridgeway launched Operation Rip-per, an offensive
to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese.
(HN, 3/7/99)
1951 Mar 7, Shah Ali Razmara of
Iran was assassinated.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1952 Mar 7, The U.S. signed a
military aid pact with Cuba.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1955 Mar 7, Baseball Commissioner
Ford Frick said he favors legalization of spitter.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1955 Mar 7, Mary Martin was "Peter
Pan" televised.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1959 Mar 7, "Bells Are Ringing"
closed at Shubert Theater in NYC after 925 performances.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1959 Mar 7, Arthur Cecil Pigou
(b.1877), English economist, died. He was known for his work in many
fields and particularly in welfare economics. Pigou advocated taxation
as a way to combat the side effects associated with certain activities.
(Econ, 11/11/06,
p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cecil_Pigou)
1959 Mar 7, Hinsdale Smith (88),
developer of roll-down auto windows, died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1960 Mar 7, Ivan Lendl, tennis pro
(US Open 1985-87), was born in Czechoslovakia.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1961 Mar 7, Max Hymans (60), WW II
resistance fighter, head of Air France, died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1965 Mar 7, A march by some 600
civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state
troopers and posse under Sheriff Jim Clark (d.2007). The Black
community of Marion, Ala., marched to protest the earlier killing of a
demonstrator by a state trooper. John Lewis, later US Representative,
led the march and was hit in the head by a state trooper.
(AP, 3/7/98)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A9)(SFC, 11/27/99,
p.C3)(Econ, 6/16/07, p.99)
1966 Mar 7, Charles de Gaulle said
he would pull France out of NATO's integrated military command. French
military personnel stepped down from their positions in NATO on July 1.
(www.charles-de-gaulle.org/article.php3?id_article=181)
1967 Mar 7, Clark Gesner's musical
"You're a Good Man, premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1967 Mar 7, Convicted Teamster
boss Jimmy Hoffa began an eight-year prison term in Penn-sylvania for
defrauding the union and jury tampering. The sentence was commuted by
Presi-dent Nixon Dec 23, 1971.
(HN, 3/7/98)(MC, 3/7/02)
1967 Mar 7, Alice B. Toklas
(b.1877), the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein, died. Her work
included “The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook” (1954). In 2007 Janet Malcolm
authored “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas)(WSJ,
9/25/07, p.D6)
1968 Mar 7, The First Battle of
Saigon, begun on Jan 30 as part of the Tet Offensive, ended.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Saigon)
1972 Mar 7, Republican Richard
Nixon won the New Hampshire primary over Paul McCloskey 67.6 to 19.8%.
Democrat Edmund Muskie won over George McGovern 46.4 to 37.1%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)(http://tinyurl.com/5dndxk)
1973 Mar 7, Pres. Nixon invited
Thomas Pappas, a Greek-American businessman, to the oval office to
thank him for money that was used to buy the silence of the Watergate
burglars.
(SFC,11/1/97, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/3nxt8d)
1973 Mar 7, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
(1920-1975), a leader of the Bangladeshi independence movement and
first prime minister of Bangladesh, won a landslide victory in the
country's first general elections. Rahman and the Awami League won
elections.
(SFC, 6/12/96,
p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladeshi_general_election%2C_1973)
1973 Mar 7, Dr. Lubos Kohoutek,
Czech astronomer, used a double exposure and discovered the comet
Kohoutek then 370 million miles from earth.
(NG, Aug., 1974,
p.223)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Kohoutek)
1974 Mar 7, Duke Univ. and the
North Carolina Department of Archives and History an-nounced the
discovery of the Civil War ship USS Monitor.
(http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/monitor01/finding/finding.html)
1975 Mar 7, The US Senate revised
its filibuster rule "cloture vote," allowing 60 senators to limit
debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds
(67) of senators pre-sent.
(AP, 3/7/98)(Econ, 5/21/05, p.30)
1977 Mar 7, Israeli PM Yitzhak
Rabin met with Pres. Carter in Washington.
(www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/campdavid25/campdavid25_photos.phtml)
1977 Mar 7, Ali Bhutto's Pakistan
People's Party won elections.
(www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A142)
1979 Mar 7, Voyager 1 reached
Jupiter.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1981 Mar 7, Anti-government
guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator
Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1981 Mar 7, Kirill Petrovich
Kondrashin (b.1914), Russian conductor, composer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiril_Kondrashin)
1983 Mar 7, TNN (The Nashville
Network) began on Cable TV.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_TV)
1983 Mar 7, Igor Markevitch
(b.1912), Ukraine-born conductor, composer, died in Antibes.
(http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/665.htm)
1983 Mar 7, In France Claude
Vivier (b.1948), a French-Canadian composer, was found stabbed to
death. A 19-year-old man was convicted of the murder. Vivier left
behind 48 com-pleted scores and part of a 49th. His 1976 "Siddartha"
was a 30 minute orchestral piece written on commission from the CBC
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Vivier).
(SFEC, 1/4/98, DB. p.31)
1985 Mar 7, Victor W. Farris (75),
inventor of paper clip and paper milk carton (1932), died in Palm
Beach, Fla. [see 1824 and Oct 19, 1915]
(www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-fa.htm)
1985 Mar 7, George Schick (76),
Czech conductor (Chicago Symphony), died.
(http://tinyurl.com/ycj6qk)
1985 Mar 7, Robert W. Woodruff
(b.1889), CEO (Coca-Cola), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Woodruff)
1986 Mar 7, Jacob K. Javits
(b.1904), (Sen-R-NY), died in Palm Beach, Fla.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=j000064)
1986 Mar 7, In France thieves made
off with 1.5 million francs in an armored car robbery. In 2007 Jean
Pierre Belkalem, a former Cartier employee, was arrested in San
Francisco on charges of aiding and abetting in the robbery.
(SSFC, 4/1/07, p.D3)
1988 Mar 7, Three Israelis were
killed when three Arab gunmen hijacked a commuter bus in the Negev
Desert; the hijackers themselves were killed when Israeli forces
stormed the vehicle.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1988 Mar 7, Divine (born as Harris
Milstead in 1945), female impersonator (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray),
died.
(www.glbtq.com/arts/divine.html)
1988 Mar 7, Robert Livingston
(b.1904), actor (Lone Ranger), died of emphysema. He was born as Robert
Edgar Randall. There were 51 Three Mesquiteers yarns churned out by
Repub-lic Pictures from 1936-1943, and Livingston appeared in 29.
(www.b-westerns.com/living.htm)
1989 Mar 7, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III met with Soviet Foreign Minister Edu-ard
Shevardnadze in Vienna, Austria. Baker agreed to visit Moscow the
following May to dis-cuss prospects for a summit between Pres. Bush and
Soviet Pres. Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1989 Mar 7, Britain dropped
diplomatic relations with Iran over Salmon Rushdie's book.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_(novel))
1990 Mar 7, Health and Human
Services Secretary Louis Sullivan announced the US gov-ernment would
propose a more informative food-labeling system that would require the
disclo-sure of the fat, fiber and cholesterol content of nearly all
packaged foods.
(AP, 3/7/00)
1991 Mar 7, In the wake of the
allied victory in the Persian Gulf, Secretary of State James A. Baker
the Third left for a tour of the Middle East, seeking to promote a new
Arab-Israeli dia-logue.
(AP, 3/7/01)
1991 Mar 7, Iraq continued to
explode oil fields in Kuwait.
(www.parstimes.com/spaceimages/fires-kuwait-2.jpg)
1992 Mar 7, Democrat Bill Clinton
picked up additional victories in the South Carolina primary and the
Wyoming caucuses, while fellow Democrat Paul Tsongas won the Arizona
caucuses. President George H.W. Bush won the Republican primary in
South Carolina.
(AP, 3/7/02)
1992 Mar 7, An Israeli security
chief was killed in a car bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey. Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility.
(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)
1993 Mar 7, Authorities said David
Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidians, was becoming irritable and
had rejected proposals to end a week-long standoff at his compound near
Waco, Texas.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1994 Mar 7, The Supreme Court
ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered
"fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1994 Mar 7, The U.S. Navy issued
its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on a combat
ship -- in this case, the USS Eisenhower.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1994 Mar 7, At San Quentin prison
officer Timothy Scott shot and killed inmate Mark Adams. In 1998 a
federal jury awarded the Adams family $2.3 million following a trial
based on wrongful death.
(SFC, 12/1/98, p.A15)
1995 Mar 7, New York Gov. George
Pataki signed a death penalty bill into law. NY became the 38th state
to adopt the death penalty.
(AP, 3/7/00)
1995 Mar 7, In a near-party-line
vote, the House passed, 232-193, a business-backed meas-ure designed to
pressure combatants in lawsuits to settle their differences short of
costly trials.
(AP, 3/7/00)
1996 Mar 7, Bob Dole handily won
the New York Republican primary.
(AP, 3/7/01)
1996 Mar 7, Three US servicemen
were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and sentenced
by a Japanese court to six and a-half to seven years in prison.
(AP, 3/7/01)
1996 Mar 7, The Hubble Space
Telescope photographed the 1st surface photos of Pluto.
(http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1996/09/)
1997 Mar 7, The first
cross-adoption by 2 lesbians whose children were half-sisters took
place in New York. The women had used the same sperm donor for their
children.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A4)
1997 Mar 7, After a week of
embarrassing disclosures about White House fund raising, Presi-dent
Clinton told a news conference, "I'm not sure, frankly" if he also had
made calls for cam-paign cash. But he insisted that nothing had
undercut his pledge to have the highest ethical standards ever.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1997 Mar 7, In Australia it was
disclosed that the reputed Aboriginal painter Eddie Burrup was actually
82-year-old Elizabeth Durack.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A11)
1997 Mar 7, Oxford Univ.
scientists established a blood tie between the 9,000 year-old skele-ton
known as Cheddar Man and an English teacher who lived just half-a-mile
from the cave where the bones were found.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A8)
1997 Mar 7, The former Haiti
police chief, Lt. Col. Michel Francois, was arrested in Honduras for
helping to smuggle 33 tons of Columbian drugs through Haiti into the
US. Francois had fled to the Dominican Republic in 1994.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A10)
1997 Mar 7, Japanese PM Ryutaro
Hashimoto was sued by 5 people, because his smoking had violated the
constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1997 Mar 7, In Peru foreign
officials and local journalists confirmed that the police were dig-ging
tunnels to the residence of the Japanese ambassador where hostages were
being held by the Tupac Amaru rebels.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A1)
1997 Mar 7, In Belgrade, Serbia,
students ended 106 days of daily protests after their rector, Dragutin
Velickovic -A Milosevic supporter, resigned.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A12)
1997 Mar 7, In Ecuador the Supreme
Court charged Bucaram with corruption, embezzlement, nepotism and
influence peddling. When ousted Pres. Abdala Bucaram abandoned the
presi-dential palace in Feb., he walked out with 11 burlap bags
allegedly stuffed with $3 million.
(SFC, 3/10/97, p.A9)
1998 Mar 7, Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright, speaking in Rome, said the United States
wouldn't tolerate any more violence in Kosovo, which she blamed on
Yugoslav President Slo-bodan Milosevic.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1999 Mar 7, Movie director Stanley
Kubrick, whose films included "Dr. Strangelove," "A Clockwork Orange"
and "2001: A Space Odyssey," died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/7/00)
1999 Mar 7, In Austrian state
elections the anti-immigration Freedom Party of Joerg Haider won 42.1%
of the vote in Carinthia.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 7, In El Salvador
presidential elections were scheduled. FMLN candidate Facundo Guardado
was expected to lose to ARENA candidate Francisco Flores (39). Flores
and his Re-publican National Alliance won with about 52% of the vote.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A12)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)(SFC,
3/9/99, p.B10)
1999 cMar 7, An Antonov 32 Indian
air force plane crashed near New Delhi airport killing all 18 onboard
and 3 people on the ground.
(WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 7, Ukraine restarted
nuclear reactor No. 3 at Chernobyl following repairs that began Dec 15.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A16)
2000 Mar 7, In Super Tuesday
primaries Republican George W. Bush won 8 states to 4 for John McCain.
Vice Pres. Gore won 14 states with none for Bill Bradley.
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 7, The DJIA fell 374
points in its 4th largest decline ever. The Nasdaq composite crossed
the five-thousand mark for the first time before retreating.
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.A19)(AP, 3/7/01)
2000 Mar 7, In Baltimore Joseph C.
Palczynski shot and killed 3 people following a breakup with a
girlfriend. The next night he killed another woman and wounded a
2-year-old boy during an attempted carjacking. On Mar 17 Palczynski
took 3 hostages and held off police for 3 days. He was fatally shot by
police on Mar 21.
(SFC, 3/10/00, p.D3)(SFC, 3/20/00, p.A3)(SFC,
3/22/00, p.A3)
2000 Mar 7, Country singer Frank
“Pee Wee” King died in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 86.
(AP, 3/7/01)
2000 Mar 7, In Kosovo 24 civilians
and 16 French peacekeepers were wounded in a street battle that
escalated from a fight between a Serb and Albanian in Mitrovica.
(WSJ, 3/8/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 7, Pres. Bush met with
South Korea’s Pres. Kim Dae Jung and said he did not plan to resume
talks with North Korea.
(WSJ, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 7, United States census
2000 results showed that the Hispanic population at 35.3 million, just
above the 34.7 million African Americans.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 7, It was reported that
Bogota, Colombia, Mayor Antanas Mockus called on women to take a night
out and leave men at home to do the chores.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 7, In Congo soldiers
killed some of the 11 Lebanese nationals detained in the af-termath of
the Kabila assassination.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 7, In Israel Ariel Sharon
took office as the nation’s 11th Prime Minister. He insisted that
Palestinians must reduce violence before he would resume negotiations
for peace.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 7, The UN Security
Council imposed an embargo on Liberia’s trade in weapons and diamonds
in an effort to halt arms to rebels in Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 7, In Russia an avalanche
on a Siberian highway in the Yermakov district buried some 200 people.
At least 2 people died.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 7, In Serbia NATO
soldiers moved into the Kosovo village of Mijak to stem the flow of
arms to Albanian guerrillas in Macedonia.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 7, Pres. Mugabe of
Zimbabwe left Europe after meetings in France and Belgium over the
11,000 troops he has stationed in Congo.
(SFC, 3/9/01, p.D3)
2002 Mar 7, The US House passed
417-3 a bill cutting taxes and extending unemployment benefits.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2002 Mar 7, Brazil’s 4-party
coalition collapsed with the pullout of the Liberal Front Party.
Ro-seana Sarney (40), Gov. of Maranhao state and PFL presidential
candidate, was involved in a scandal over a consulting firm she owned
with her husband. Sarney called the government in-vestigation a
witch-hunt.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A13)(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 7, In Burma Aye Zaw Win
(54) and 3 adult sons, 4 relatives of former dictator Ne Win, were
arrested and some military officers were dismissed for planning a coup.
Later Ne Win and his daughter were put under house arrest. Aye Zaw Win
and his 3 sons were con-victed and sentenced to death Sep 26.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A15)(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A7)(SFC,
9/27/02, p.A11)
2002 Mar 7, In India the death
toll from Hindu-Muslim violence in the region climbed to 665, and was
expected to climb if construction begins Mar 15 on a Hindu temple in
Ayodha.
(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 7, Irish voters narrowly
rejected an abortion proposal that would have tightened a near total
ban.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 7, Venezuela sent some
2,000 troops to its border with Colombia to block fleeing rebels.
(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.A1)
2003 Mar 7, The US and its
allies moved to set March 17 as the final deadline for Saddam Hussein
to prove he has given up his weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 3/8/03)(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 7, Pres. Bush
invoked economic sanctions against Pres. Robert Mugabe of Zim-babwe and
dozens of officials of his government on grounds they undermined the
country's democratic institutions.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 7, The US Labor
Dept. reported that US jobs fell 308,000 in Feb.
(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 7, Virtually every
musical on Broadway shut down as musicians went on strike, and actors
and stagehands said they wouldn't cross their picket lines; the walkout
lasted four days.
(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A3)(AP, 3/7/04)
2003 Mar 7, Kazem al-Sahir
(41), Iraqi pop singer with over 30 million records sold, scheduled a
benefit concert at the Berkeley Community Theater. His US tour was set
to raise medical and school supplies for Iraqi children.
(SSFC, 3/2/03, A28)(SFC, 3/6/03, p.F1)
2003 Mar 7, Jose Marcio Ayres
(49), Brazilian biologist and senior Wildlife Conservation Soci-ety
(WCS) biologist, died in NYC. In 1996 he set up the Mamiraua
Sustainable Development Reserve to protect a 4,300 square-mile area of
the Amazon rain forest.
(Econ, 6/19/04, p.77)
2003 Mar 7, International
officials froze assets linked to top Bosnian-Serb war crimes fugitive
Radovan Karadzic. A panel of Bosnian and int'l. judges ordered Bosnia's
Serb Republic to pay $2.25 million in compensation for the 1995
massacre at Srebrenica.
(AP, 3/7/03)(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A7)
2003 Mar 7, In Bulgaria Ilya
Pavlov, owner of the energy and tourism-related company Multi-group and
Bulgaria's richest man, was killed by a sniper in Sofia. Pavlov, a
former wrestler, was instrumental in the demise of the Kremikovtzi
steel plant.
(AP, 10/26/05)(http://tinyurl.com/hju8l)(WSJ,
8/4/08, p.A8)
2003 Mar 7, Heavy snow set
off avalanches along the cease-fire line dividing Kashmir be-tween
India and Pakistan, killing at least 17 people, mostly soldiers, and
stranding hundreds.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 7, Nai Shwe Kyin
(90), a veteran guerrilla leader from Myanmar's Mon ethnic minor-ity,
died. He founded the Mon Freedom League in 1947. He also helped found
the Mon Peo-ple's Front in 1952 and the New Mon State Party in 1958.
The party signed a cease-fire agree-ment with Myanmar's military
government in 1995.
(AP, 3/8/03)
2003 Mar 7, In Nigeria the
"Oba," or king, of Lagos Island, Adeyinka Oyekan II (92), died. Rit-ual
human sacrifice was feared and a week of mourning left streets deserted.
(AP, 3/14/03)
2003 Mar 7, Pakistan's
Baluchistan provincial home minister said that two sons of Osama
bin Laden, Saad and Hamza bin Laden, were arrested in southwestern
Afghanistan. The report was later proved false.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 7, Mohamed
ElBaradei, UN chief nuclear weapons inspector, expressed frustration at
the quality of US information on Iraqi weapons and charged that some
documents may have been faked.
(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A11)
2004 Mar 7, An investiture
ceremony was held in Concord, N.H., for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal
Church's first openly gay bishop.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2004 Mar 7, Seattle's mayor said
the city will begin recognizing the marriages of gay employ-ees who tie
the knot elsewhere, although it will not conduct its own same-sex
weddings.
(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, Paul Winfield (62), an
Academy Award-nominated actor who was known for his versatility in
stage, film and television roles, died of a heart attack.
(AP, 3/9/04)
2004 Mar 7, In Austria Joerg
Haider Haider's Freedom Party won 42.4 percent of the vote, compared to
just over 38 percent for the rival Socialists in Carinthia province.
(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, in China's Muslim
Xinjiang region the No. 2 Mine of the Hami Coal Co. flooded. 25 managed
to escape while rescuers worked desperately to save survivors. Rescue
workers saved 15 coal miners trapped in a flooded shaft, but seven
miners were still missing.
(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, In Greece Costas
Karamanlis (47) led the New Democracy party over former Foreign
Minister George Papandreou's Socialists 45.4 percent to 40.6 percent.
The result gave New Democracy 165 seats in the 300-member parliament.
The Socialists (Pasok) received 117 seats, Greece's Communist Party got
12 and the Coalition of the Radical Left won six.
(AP, 3/8/04)(Econ, 3/13/04, p.51)
2004 Mar 7, In Haiti U.S. Marines
shot and killed one of the gunmen who fired at a huge dem-onstration of
protesters celebrating the flight from Haiti of President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide. That raised the toll to six dead and more than 30 injured in
the protest.
(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, In Iraq insurgents in
a car fired rocket-propelled grenades at a police station in Mosul, and
two Iraqi civilians were killed.
(AP, 3/7/04)
2004 Mar 7, Israeli troops traded
heavy gunfire with Palestinians in a raid near Bureij Refugee Camp,
killing 14 Palestinians. Among the dead were 11 militants and three
boys between the ages of 8 and 15, and 81 people were wounded.
(AP, 3/7/04)(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, In central Japan a
helicopter chartered by a TV news station crashed while film-ing a
highway accident, killing all four aboard,
(AP, 3/7/04)
2004 Mar 7, The Samson, a ferry
carrying 113 people, vanished after it was caught in a cy-clone as it
sailed between the Indian Ocean islands of Comoros and Madagascar.
There were 2 survivors. The drownings brought the death toll from
Cyclone Gafilo to 154.
(AP, 3/10/04)(AP, 3/11/04)
2004 Mar 7, Zimbabwean authorities
seized a US-registered cargo plane at Harare carrying 64 "suspected
mercenaries" and military equipment. Equatorial Guinea later said the
men were mercenaries from South Africa en route to stage a coup. Twenty
South Africans, 18 Namibians, 23 Angolans, two Congolese and one
Zimbabwean carrying a South African passport were ar-rested when their
aging Boeing 727 was impounded. Another 15 suspects were arrested in
Equatorial Guinea the next day. In 2006 Adam Roberts authored “The
Wonga Coup,” an ac-count of the attempted coup.
(AP, 3/8/04)(WSJ, 3/10/04, p.A1)(AP, 3/10/04)(WSJ,
7/26/06, p.D11)
2005 Mar 7, President Bush named
John R. Bolton (56), undersecretary of state for arms control and
international security, as US ambassador to the UN.
(AP, 3/8/05)(SFC, 3/8/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 7, Sony Corp. picked Sir
Howard Stringer (63), Welsh-born head of its US opera-tions, to replace
chairman and CEO Nobuyuki Idei.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 7, United Defense
Industries, maker of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, agreed to merge with
British defense firm BAE Systems in a $4 billion deal.
(SFC, 3/8/05, p.D1)
2005 Mar 7, China said it will
keep controversial exchange-rate controls and hold down indus-trial
investment this year as it tries to rein in surging growth and restrain
inflation.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, An international human
rights group said militiamen and renegade soldiers have raped and
beaten tens of thousands of women and young girls in eastern Congo, and
nearly all the crimes have gone unpunished by the country's broken
judicial system.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, In the Dominican
Republic rival gangs fighting for control of a provincial prison set
pillows and sheets ablaze, starting a fire that killed 136 inmates
after rescuers were thwarted by a jammed entrance.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 7, It was reported that
Indonesia’s army had killed 30 Aceh separatists over the past week.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 7, In Iraq guerrillas
launched a series of attacks that left 33 people dead and doz-ens
wounded.
(AP, 3/7/05)(SFC, 3/8/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 7, The presidents of
Lebanon and Syria announced that Syrian forces will pull back to
Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley by March 31, but a complete troop
withdrawal will be de-ferred until after later negotiations.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, Authorities said
Nigerian police have rescued more than 100 children from child
traffickers over the last 3 days, including 56 discovered at a
checkpoint in a frozen food truck.
(Reuters, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, Officials in South
Africa's capital voted to rename the city Tshwane, retaining the name
Pretoria for the city center only.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, A Turkish alcohol
company ordered the recall of millions of bottles of Turkish liq-uor as
the death toll from a bootleg version of the drink rose to at least 17.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2006 Mar 7, The Bush
administration drew a hard line on Iran, warning of "meaningful
conse-quences" if the Islamic government did not back away from an
international confrontation over its disputed nuclear program.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2006 Mar 7-2006 Mar 8, The NYSE
under John Thain consummated its purchase of Archipel-ago Holdings, an
electronic trading system partly owned by Goldman Sachs. It began
trading as a for-profit public company, NYSE Group Inc., on Mar 8 under
the symbol NYX. Thain was for-merly employed by Goldman.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.C1)(Econ, 5/27/06, p.67)
2006 Mar 7, Gordon Parks (93),
black photographer, writer and film director, died in NY. His
semi-autobiographical novel “The Learning Tree“ became a best seller in
1963. His films in-cluded “Shaft” (1971) and “Leadbelly” (1976).
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A2)
2006 Mar 7, In Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Mayor Anibal Ibarra was removed from office over allegations
that poor government safety regulation contributed to the death of 194
people in a December 2004 nightclub fire.
(AP, 3/8/06)
2006 Mar 7, Britain unveiled a new
system for screening immigrants. Entry would depend on points
accumulated in any one of 5 proposed tiers.
(Econ, 3/11/06, p.52)
2006 Mar 7, In Colombia the
70-member La Gaitana company of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC), handed over 63 weapons and a small aircraft during a
ceremony near Alvarado, a town 50 miles west of Bogota.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Nobel Peace laureate
Oscar Arias was declared Costa Rica's president-elect.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2006 Mar 7, In France protesters
opposed to a government plan to reduce joblessness by making it easier
to fire young workers rallied throughout the country, disrupting
airports, schools and the Paris Metro.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, In Varanasi, India,
explosions rocked a packed railway station and crowded Hindu temple in
Hinduism's holiest city. At least 10 people died in the explosions at
the train station, and five were killed in the blast at the temple.
Five people died overnight in hospitals. Indian police shot dead Salar,
an Islamic militant suspected of links to a triple bombing. He was
found with a pistol and 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds) of explosives after
he was shot on the out-skirts of the Uttar Pradesh state capital
Lucknow, 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of Varanasi.
(AP, 3/8/06)(AFP, 3/8/06)
2006 Mar 7, A four-year-old
Indonesian boy became the latest suspected human casualty of bird flu
as the virus spread in Nigeria and Poland. A Russian virus expert
warned that a human pandemic was highly likely and told the government
to get ready.
(AFP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, In central Indonesia a
66-foot-high mountain of sand collapsed onto diggers, kill-ing at least
11 people in Cipatat village near West Java's provincial capital of
Bandung.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Iran’s President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the IAEA, the UN nuclear agency, to
compensate Iran for suspending its nuclear activities since 2003.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Iraq's president
postponed a decision on when to call the new parliament into session
after the dominant Shiite alliance requested a delay to resolve a
deadlock over the composition of the government. Bombings, gunfire and
mortars across Iraq left at least 11 peo-ple dead and more than a dozen
wounded.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, A US military patrol
and Iraqi police discovered 18 bodies, many of them hand-cuffed and
strangled, in an abandoned minibus in Baghdad. Bombings, mortar blasts
and gun-fire killed 19 people. Police also reported finding four
bullet-riddled bodies, two with their eyes gouged out. A US soldier was
killed and 4 others wounded by a bomb explosion in Tal Afar. A US
Marine was killed by insurgents in Anbar province.
(AP, 3/8/06)(SFC, 3/9/06, p.A9)
2006 Mar 7, Iraqi forces captured
Mohammed Hila Hammad Obeidi, also known as Abu Ay-man, the prime
suspect in last year's kidnapping of Italian journalist Giuliana
Sgrena. His cap-ture was not announced until April 6 due to DNA tests
to verify his identity.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Mar 7, The Irish Supreme
Court ruled that Brendan "Bik" McFarlane, a legendary Irish Republican
Army figure who in 1983 oversaw the biggest prison breakout in British
history, should stand trial for kidnapping.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Ehud Olmert, the
acting Israeli premier, pledged a drastic cut in spending on Jewish
settlements in the West Bank.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Ali Farka Toure
(b.1939), a traditional African musician who won two Grammy Awards,
died in his home in Bamako, Mali, after a long illness.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Malaysia said it has
lifted a ban on US beef imports in place for more than two years, to
make up for a shortage after it restricted access to Australian and New
Zealand beef.
(AFP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, More than 20,000 union
workers marched in downtown Mexico City, accusing the government of
meddling in the affairs of the national miners union by seeking to oust
its leader.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, In Nuevo Laredo,
Mexico, heavily armed assailants killed a state police chief and an
officer and wounded two more officers in a brazen midmorning ambush.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Hundreds of communist
rebels attacked security bases overnight and bombed government
buildings in eastern Nepal, sparking battles that left at least 13
people dead.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, The World Bank
announced a $42 million grant to the Palestinian Authority, which was
plunged into a financial crisis by a drop in revenues after the Islamic
militant group Hamas won Palestinian parliament elections in January.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, In Sweden masked
gunmen crashed through an airport fence at the Landvetter airport
outside Goteborg, held up luggage handlers unloading crates of foreign
currency from an airliner, and left behind a suspicious package that
looked like a bomb.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Venezuela's solidly
pro-Chavez National Assembly gave final approval to changes in the flag
proposed by the socialist president: an eighth star and a turnabout of
the horse that until now has galloped to the right.
(AP, 3/8/06)
2007 Mar 7, At least two people
woke on their way to becoming millionaires. Someone bought a winning
ticket for the record $370 million Mega Millions jackpot in Dalton,
Ga., and another winning ticket was purchased in Woodbine, N.J. Ed
Nabors (52), a Georgia truck driver, stepped forward to claim half of a
$390 million jackpot, the richest lottery prize in US history. He
elected to take his winnings in a lump sum instead of annual
installments, and will get over $80 million after taxes.
(AP, 3/7/07)(AP, 3/8/07)
2007 Mar 7, Sex offender John
Evander Couey was found guilty in Miami of kidnapping, rap-ing and
murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2007 Mar 7, In NYC 9 people,
including 8 children, died inside their burning Bronx house. An-other
child died the next day.
(AP, 3/8/07)(SFC, 3/9/07, p.A8)(SSFC, 3/11/07,
p.A2)(AP, 3/7/08)
2007 Mar 7, In Afghanistan NATO
forces fought Taliban militants in the second day of the al-liance's
largest-ever offensive. Mullah Abdul Qassim, a top Taliban commander in
Helmand province told The Associated Press that his group has 4,000
fighters bracing to rebuff NATO's largest-ever offensive in southern
Afghanistan. Suicide bombers are ready, land mines have been planted
and helicopters will be targeted.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Britain’s House of
Commons voted 337-224 to introduce elections to the House of Lords.
(SFC, 3/8/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 7, In China a government
directive said all pet dogs will be killed in a district of the
southwestern city of Chongqing as part of an anti-rabies campaign.
Residents of the city's Wanzhou district had until March 15 to hand
over their dogs.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Ecuador’s highest
electoral court voted to dismiss 57 congressmen for allegedly
interfering with a referendum on whether to rewrite the constitution,
in an escalating fight over Ecuador's charter.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, In France a new law
took effect that makes it a crime for anyone, who is not a professional
journalist, to film real-world violence and distribute the images on
the Internet. Crit-ics call it a clumsy effort by authorities to battle
"happy slapping," the youth fad of filming violent acts, which most
often they have provoked, and spreading the images on the Web or
between mobile phones.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, A packed Garuda
Indonesia jetliner crash-landed and erupted in flames at Yogyakarta
airport, killing 22 people trapped inside the burning wreckage. More
than 115 others escaped through emergency exits as black smoke billowed
behind them.
(AP, 3/7/07)(Econ, 3/10/07, p.40)
2007 Mar 7, In Iraq at least 11
Shiite pilgrims were killed by bombs and gunfire as they streamed
toward a Muslim shrine ahead of a weekend holiday. Three American
soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb. An Iraqi TV cameraman working
for a privately owned Shiite station was among 22 people killed in a
car bombing at a police checkpoint in south Baghdad. A sus-pected
financier of insurgents was captured in Kirkuk province. A suicide
attacker blew himself up in a cafe northeast of Baghdad, killing 30
people.
(AP, 3/7/07)(AP, 3/8/07)(AP, 3/11/07)(AP, 3/7/08)
2007 Mar 7, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir cable operators said 4 foreign television channels have been
pulled from the air after Islamic militant groups demanded cable
companies stop air-ing "obscene" shows.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Israeli troops raided
the Palestinian military headquarters in Ramallah and ar-rested 18
fugitives who had sought shelter there.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, The Israeli air force
unveiled its newest unmanned aircraft, saying the plane can fly longer,
faster and higher than any other surveillance aircraft.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, A Nigerian court
cleared Vice President Atiku Abubakar to take part in next month's
presidential poll, overturning a decision by the electoral commission
to disqualify him.
(AFP, 3/8/07)
2007 Mar 7, North Korea reported
that it has slaughtered hundreds of cows and pigs after an outbreak of
foot and mouth disease. The report said the sickened cows had been
imported from Tieling, China.
(AP, 3/8/07)
2007 Mar 7, In Pakistan senior
officials from India and Pakistan wrapped up the first meeting of a
joint panel on counterterrorism set up in September under a peace
process begun in 2004. They pledged to share information and help each
other prevent terrorism. In southwestern Pakistan a bomb attached to a
motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying pro-government tribal
elders, killing one of them and wounding 12 others.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Russian nuclear energy
officials hosted an Iranian delegation for talks on the construction of
a Russian-built plant that has fallen behind schedule because of what
Moscow said were delays in payments by Tehran.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, In Russia Vladimir
Nikolayev, the mayor of Vladivostok, was ordered arrested amid a
criminal investigation into suspect land deals and embezzlement in the
latest bout of corruption to hit the long-troubled port.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, In Somalia a gunman
shot dead two policemen south of Mogadishu, close to the airport where
hundreds of African Union peacekeepers have begun deploying.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Han Myung-sook,
South Korea's prime minister, stepped down saying she would think about
running for the nation's top job. Han was the first woman to hold the
government's No. 2 position, although the job is largely ceremonial in
a country where power is concentrated around the president.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 7, In Timor-Leste a
three-judge panel found Rogerio Lobato, a former interior minis-ter,
guilty of fueling violence a year ago that ultimately led to the
downfall of the government and sentenced him to 7 1/2 years in prison.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Turk Telekom blocked
access to Google's YouTube video-sharing site after a court ruling over
videos deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern
Turkey.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2008 Mar 7, Pres. Bush called an
impromptu new conference to calm fears following news of a 63,000 job
loss nationwide in February. The January job loss was 22,000. The
Federal Re-serve said it plans to make $100 billion available to banks
in March to ease the credit crises.
(SFC, 3/8/08, p.C1)
2008 Mar 7, US Congressman
questioned ex-corporate CEOs on executive compensation as their
companies lost billions in the subprime debacle.
(SFC, 3/8/08, p.C1)(WSJ, 3/8/08, p.A3)
2008 Mar 7, The IRS said it will
spend nearly $42 million on letters alerting taxpayers to com-ing
rebates.
(WSJ, 3/8/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 7, Texas oilman David
Chalmers was sentenced to two years in prison after admit-ting to
paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to Iraq in connection with the
UN oil-for-food pro-gram.
(AP, 3/8/08)
2008 Mar 7, David Gale (b.1921),
UC mathematician, died. In 1962 he and UCLA Prof. Lloyd Shapley
proposed a solution to the “stable marriage problem.” The paper proved
a fertile con-tribution to real cases of “two-sided matching.”
(WSJ, 3/28/08, p.A6)
2008 Mar 7, Algerian authorities
seized 2 tons of cannabis on the border with Morocco. 2 more tons were
seized Mar 3. The total was valued at around 4 million euros.
(AP, 3/9/08)
2008 Mar 7, Captain Paul Watson of
the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a protest ship harassing
Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, said he was shot in a high-seas
clash and his crew members pelted with flash grenades, injuring one.
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith and Japanese officials
insisted only warning devices were fired.
(AFP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Australian officials
said police have rescued 10 South Korean women who were forced to work
in a Sydney brothel by a sex slavery syndicate that lured them to
Australia with promises of legitimate jobs.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, The Belarusian Foreign
Ministry said it has demanded that the US ambassador leave the country
and recalled its ambassador in the US over Washington's economic
sanctions against the ex-Soviet nation.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Francis Pym (86),
former Northern Ireland secretary (1973-74) under Edward Heath, died
after a long illness. He also served as former PM Margaret Thatcher’s
foreign sec-retary during the Falklands War (1982) but was fired in
1983 and became a Thatcher antago-nist.
(AP, 3/8/08)
2008 Mar 7, A flight crew
prevented an apparent attempt to crash a China Southern flight from
Urumqi. Officials later said a Uighur woman attempted to start a fire
on board the flight to Beijing. No passengers were injured. In northern
Hebei province 10 people were killed in a colli-sion between a bus and
a truck loaded with coal.
(AP, 3/9/08)(AP, 3/7/08)(Econ, 3/22/08, p.29)
2008 Mar 7, At a summit in the
Dominican Republic the presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador
agreed to end a bitter dispute triggered by a Colombian cross-border
raid with testy handshakes and an apology.
(AP, 3/8/08)
2008 Mar 7, An official said Egypt
is building a 13-foot high concrete and rock wall inter-spersed with
watch towers along its narrow boundary with the Gaza Strip to prevent
Hamas militants from breaching the border.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Bombings in the
northern city of Mosul killed at least 4 people and wounded 46. Twin
bombings in the central part of the city killed one person and injured
14 others. An Ameri-can soldier was killed during an operation in
Diyala province.
(AP, 3/7/08)(AP, 3/8/08)
2008 Mar 7, Mexican soldiers
seized assault rifles, grenades, marijuana and bulletproof vests
bearing police insignia after a brief shootout in the border city of
Tijuana. Police commander Ri-cardo Rodriguez was shot dead in a city
plaza by gunmen who opened fire with assault rifles from a moving car.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Both of Spain's major
political parties called off all election campaigning nation-wide after
Isaias Carrasco, a former city councilman, was shot dead in the Basque
region just two days before general elections.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Suspected Kurdish
rebels killed a civilian and took another hostage in a southern Turkish
province near the border with Syria.
(AP, 3/7/08)
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