Today in History - March 11
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222 Mar 11,
Varius A. Bassianus (18), Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), was murdered.
(MC, 3/12/02)
537 Mar 11, The Goths lay siege to
Rome.
(HN, 3/11/98)
638 Mar 11, Sophronius of
Jerusalem, saint, patriarch of Jerusalem, died.
(MC, 3/12/02)
843 Mar 11, Icon worship was
officially reinstated in Aya Sofia, Constantinople.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1302 Mar 11, Romeo and Juliet were
married on this day, according to Shakespeare.
(HN, 3/11/98)(MC, 3/11/02)
1513 Mar 11, Giovanni de' Medici
became Pope Leo X. The Medici Pope Leo X led the Catholic Church until
1521.
(OG)(MC, 3/12/02)
1544 Mar 11, Torquato Tasso,
Italian Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1566 Mar 11, The 2nd
Lithuanian statutes went into effect and upheld a democracy of
landowners. The Statute of Lithuania gave the Seimas legislative power.
The parliament had developed since Casimir ascended to the Polish
throne. It was composed of an upper chamber or Council of Lords and
assemblies of noblemen. They assembled in Vilnius or Brest-Litovsk.
(DrEE, 10/5/96, p.5)(LHC, 3/11/03)
1649 Mar 11, The peace of Rueil
was signed between the Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1665 Mar 11, A new legal code was
approved for the Dutch and English towns, guaranteeing religious
observances unhindered.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1669 Mar 11, Mount Etna in Sicily
erupted killing 15,000. [see Mar 25]
(MC, 3/12/02)
1702 Mar 11, The Daily Courant,
the first regular English newspaper was published.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1731 Mar 11, Robert Treat Paine,
Declaration of Independence signer, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1791 Mar 11, Samuel Mulliken of
Philadelphia was the 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1795 Mar 11, Battle at
Kurdla, India: Mahratten beat Moguls.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1801 Mar 11, Paul I (46), Czar of
Russia (1796-1801), was strangled in his bedroom in St. Petersburg
ending 4 years of insane rule. His son Alexander I Pavlovich (23)
succeeded him.
(PCh, 1992, p.360)(SS, 3/23/02)
1810 Mar 11, Emperor Napoleon of
France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
(AP, 3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1811 Mar 11, Urbain Jean Joseph le
Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1811 Mar 11, Ned Ludd led a group
of workers in a wild protest against mechanization. Members of the
organized bands of craftsmen who rioted against automation in 19th
century England were known as Luddites and also "Ludds." The movement,
reputedly named after Ned Ludd, began near Nottingham as craftsman
destroyed textile machinery that was eliminating their jobs. By the
following year, Luddites were active in Yorkshire, Derbyshire,
Lancashire and Leicestershire. Although the Luddites opposed violence
towards people (a position which allowed for a modicum of public
support), government crackdowns included mass shootings, hangings and
deportation to the colonies. It took 14,000 British soldiers to quell
the rebellion. The movement effectively died in 1813 apart from a brief
resurgence of Luddite sentiment in 1816 following the end of the
Napoleonic Wars.
(HN, 3/11/01)(HNQ, 5/14/01)(WSJ, 3/29/04, p.A1)
1812 Mar 11, Citizenship was
granted to Prussian Jews.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1824 Mar 11, The U.S. War
Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A lifelong friend and
trusted aide of Ulysses S. Grant, Ely Parker rose to the top in two
worlds, that of his native Seneca Indian tribe and the white man's
world at large. He went on to become the first Indian to lead the
Bureau.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1832 Mar 11, Franz Melde, German
physicist (Melde test), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1845 Mar 11, Seven hundred Maoris
led by their chief, Hone-Heke, burned the small town of Kororareka in
protest at the settlement of Maoriland by Europeans, in breach with the
1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1850 Mar 11, Woman's Medical
College of Pennsylvania opened as the 1st female medical school. [see
1848, Oct 12, 1850]
(MC, 3/12/02)
1860 Mar 11, Thomas Hastings,
architect of the New York Public Library, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1861 Mar 11, The Confederate
convention in Montgomery, Ala., adopted a constitution.
(AP, 3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1862 Mar 11, Pres. Lincoln
suspended General George McClellan from command of all the Union armies
so that McClellan could concentrate on the Army of the Potomac and
Richmond.
(www.civilwarhome.com/macbio.htm)
1863 Mar 11, A naval engagement
occurred between the CSS Alabama and the USS Hatteras.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1863 Mar 11, Union troops under
General Ulysses S. Grant gave up their preparations to take Vicksburg
after failing to pass Fort Pemberton, north of Vicksburg.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1863 Mar 11, A Lithuanian
ruling group replaced a committee for the lead in an uprising.
(LHC,3/11/03)
1865 Mar 11, General Sherman and
his forces occupied Fayetteville, N.C. Union General William Sherman
considered Judson Kilpatrick, his cavalry chief, "a hell of a damn
fool." At Monroe's Cross Roads, N.C., his carelessness and disobedience
of orders proved Sherman's point.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1867 Mar 11, Great Mauna Loa
volcano eruption in Hawaii.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1874 Mar 11, Charles Sumner (63),
a white civil rights leader, died.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1884 Mar 11, Gen. Gordon learned
that the telegraph cable to Cairo had been cut. Khartoum soldiers
killed 5 Mahdists at Halfaya. Mahdist insurgents in return massacred
150 men from the Khartoum garrison as they were cutting wood.
(ON, 4/02, p.10)
1885 Mar 11, Sir Michael Campbell,
the first motorist to exceed 300 mph, was born.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1888 Mar 11-14, The famous
"Blizzard of ‘88" struck the northeastern United States, resulting in
some 400 deaths. New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington were cut
off for days.
(AP, 3/11/98)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 9/4/05,
p.A7)
1890 Mar 11, Vannevar Bush was
born. He developed the 1st electronic analogue computer.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1892 Mar 11, Raoul Walsh, director
(Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), was born in NYC.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1899 Mar 11, Frederick IX, King of
Denmark, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1900 Mar 11, British Prime
Minister Lord Salisbury rejected the peace overtures offered from Boer
leader Paul Kruger.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1905 Mar 11, The Parisian subway
was officially inaugurated.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1906 Mar 11, The Simplified
Spelling Board was announced with Andrew Carnegie funding the
organization, to be headquartered in New York City. In August Pres.
Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order mandating simplified
spelling in all government administrative documents.
(Econ, 8/30/08,
p.19)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board)
1907 Mar 11, President Roosevelt
induced California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1908 Mar 11, Lawrence Welk,
orchestra leader, was born in Strasburg, ND.
(HN, 3/11/98)(MC, 3/12/02)
1911 Mar 11, The Cadillac Division
of General Motors demonstrated the first electric self starter,
enabling women to drive alone. Charles Kettering created the first
successful electric self-starter for Cadillac. It was introduced in the
1912 model. The perfection of the self-starter by inventor Charles
Kettering enormously expanded the market for the automobile. Kettering,
born in Londonville, Ohio, in 1876, had invented an electric cash
register motor while at the National Cash Register Company in 1906. In
1909 he organized the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, later
known as Delco, and soon made notable improvements in automobile
ignition and lighting systems. His self-starter was introduced in the
1912 Cadillac. He founded the Charles F. Kettering Foundation dedicated
to natural science research and was co-founder of the Sloan-Kettering
Institute for Cancer Research. Kettering died in 1958.
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)(F, 10/7/96, p.67)(HNQ, 3/3/99)
1917 Mar 11, British troops
occupied Baghdad.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1919 Mar 11, A general strike in
Germany was crushed.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1926 Mar 11, Ralph David
Abernathy, civil rights leader, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1927 Mar 11, The 1st armored
commercial car hold-up in US took place in Pittsburgh.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1929 Mar 11, Major Seagrave broke
the auto speed record in Daytona Beach. He reached an average of 223.2
mph in a 450 horse powered Golden Arrow.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1930 Mar 11, Former President and
Chief Justice Taft was the first U.S. president to be buried in the
National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
(HN, 3/11/98)(AP, 3/11/02)
1930 Mar 11, Silvio Gesell
(b.1862), German merchant and theoretical economist, died. He was an
ethical vegetarian, considered himself a world citizen and believed
Earth should belong to all people, regardless of race, gender, class,
wealth, religion. Based on his theories the Bavarian coalmining village
of Schwanenkirchen created an alternative currency in 1931 called the
wara, which obligated its holder to pay a tax. This encouraged all
users of the currency to get rid of it as soon as possible.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell)(Econ,
1/24/09, p.81)
1931 Mar 11, Rupert Murdoch, media
baron, was born in Melbourne, Australia.
(WSJ, 6/5/07,
p.A20)(www.filmreference.com/film/22/Rupert-Murdoch.html)
1931 Mar 11, The USSR banned the
sale or importation of Bibles.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1941 Mar 11, President Roosevelt
authorized the Lend-Lease Act and signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill,
providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis.
(AP, 3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1942 Mar 11, As Japanese forces
continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II Gen. Douglas
MacArthur left Corregidor in the Philippines for Australia. MacArthur,
who subsequently vowed, "I shall return," kept that promise more than 2
1/2 years later. MacArthur relinquished command in the Philippines to
Gen’l. Jonathon Wainwright.
(SFEC, 12/15/96, p.T7)(AP,
3/11/98)(http://tinyurl.com/736ws)
1942 Mar 11, 1st deportation train
left Paris for the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1942 Mar 11, Japanese troops
landed on North Sumatra.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1945 Mar 11, 1,000 allied bombers
harassed Essen with 4,662 tons of bombs.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1945 Mar 11, Flemish Nazi
collaborator Maria Huygens was sentenced to death.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1948 Mar 11, Reginald Weit became
the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1948 Mar 11, Jewish Agency of
Jerusalem was bombed.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1950 Mar 11, Jerry Zucker, film
director and TV producer, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0958387/)
1952 Mar 11, Douglas Adams,
British writer, (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), was born.
(HN, 3/11/01)
1953 Mar 11, F.M. Adams became the
1st US commissioned woman army doctor.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1953 Mar 11, An American B-47
accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, however the bomb
did not go off due to 6 safety catches.
(HN, 3/11/98)(MC, 3/11/02)
1954 Mar 11, The U.S. Army charged
that Wisconsin Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and his subcommittee's chief
counsel, Roy Cohn, had exerted pressure to obtain favored treatment for
Pvt. G. David Schine, a former consultant to the subcommittee. The
confrontation culminated in the famous Senate Army-McCarthy hearings.
(AP, 3/11/04)
1955 Mar 11, Alexander Fleming
(73), English bacteriologist (penicillin), died.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1956 Mar 11, Curtis L. Brown Jr.,
astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95), was born in NC.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1957 Mar 11, Charles Van Doren's
14-week run on the rigged NBC game show "Twenty-One" ended as he was
"defeated" by attorney Vivienne Nearing; Van Doren's take was $129,000.
(AP, 3/11/07)
1957 Mar 11, American explorer
Richard E. Byrd died in Boston at age 68.
(AP, 3/11/07)
1958 Mar 11, A B-47 out of Hunter
AFB in Savannah, Georgia, had just leveled off at 15,000 feet, when a
bomb lock failed and dropped a nuclear bomb on the suburban
neighborhood of Florence, South Carolina. The bomb's high explosives
exploded on impact, wrecking a house and injuring several people on the
ground. The extent of radioactive contamination was never revealed.
(www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Broken_Arrows.html)
1959 Mar 11, The Lorraine
Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun" opened at New York City's Ethel
Barrymore Theater.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1960 Mar 11, Pioneer 5 was
launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1965 Mar 11, "I Lost It at the
Movies," a collection of film criticism by Pauline Kael, was first
published by Little, Brown and Co.
(AP, 3/11/05)
1965 Mar 11, The American navy
began inspecting Vietnamese junks in hopes of ending arms smuggling
to South Vietnam.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1965 Mar 11, The Rev. James J.
Reeb (65), a white minister from Boston, died after whites beat him
during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1966 Mar 11, Three men were
convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1966 Mar 11, In Indonesia army
generals held guns to the head of Pres. Sukarno and forced him to sign
a document transferring power to Gen. Suharto.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A18)
1967 Mar 11, British psychedelic
group Pink Floyd released “Arnold Layne,” their 1st single song.
(http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/albums/arnold.htm)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.D6)
1969 Mar 11, Levi-Strauss started
to sell bell-bottomed jeans.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1970 Mar 11, Iraq’s Ba’ath Party
agreed to an autonomy accord with the Kurd nation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan)
1971 Mar 11, Federal
Communications Commission stated that television networks ABC, NBC and
CBS must have a limited three-hour nightly program service now called
'Prime Time'. Prime Time began in September of 1971.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1971 Mar 11, Philo T. Farnsworth
(b.1906), inventor of television, died in Salt Lake City, Utah. Later
Prof. Donald Godfrey authored "Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of
Television" and Evan I. Schwartz authored "The Last Lone Inventor."
(SFC, 9/7/02,
p.D1)(www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/farnsworth.cfm)
1973 Mar 11, An FBI agent was shot
at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1974 Mar 11, Iraq's "Law for
Autonomy in the Area of Kurdistan" was promulgated. It stipulated that:
"The Kurdish language shall be the official language of education for
Kurds ... Kurdish shall be the official language of education for the
Kurds."
(www.jafi.org.il/education/actual/iraq/4.html)
1977 Mar 11, More than 130
hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed after
ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1978 Mar 11, Palestinian Arab
terrorists led by Dalal Mughrabi killed 37 people in an attack along
the Tel Aviv coastal highway. The terrorists were identified as
belonging to Fatah; 9 were killed and two captured.
(AP,
3/11/98)(www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_terrorism_1970s.php)
1980 Mar 11, Marilyn McIntyre (18)
was beaten, stabbed and strangled to death at her home in Columbus,
Wis. In 2009 Curtis Forbes, a friend of her husband, was charged with
1st degree murder based on DNA evidence.
(SFC, 3/31/09,
p.A6)(www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/11251061.html)
1980 Mar 11, Julius Chan (b.1939)
succeeded Michael Somare as PM of Papua New Guinea.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Somare)
1982 Mar 11, Protesting his
innocence, Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., D-N.J., resigned after 23
years in the Senate, rather than face expulsion in the wake of his
ABSCAM conviction.
(AP,
3/11/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_A._Williams)
1985 Mar 11, The Soviet Union
announced the March 10 death of its leader, Konstantin U. Chernenko.
Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him and
became general-secretary of the Communist party and the Premier of the
Soviet Union.
(TMC, 1994, p.1985)(SFEC, 12/22/96, BR p.7)(AP,
3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1985 Mar 11, Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev visited Lithuania.
(LHC, 3/11/03)
1986 Mar 11, The state of Georgia
pardoned Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who had been lynched in 1915
for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan.
(AP, 3/11/06)
1988 Mar 11, Pres. Reagan directed
that actions be taken to suspend trade preferences available to Panama
under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and the Caribbean
Basin Initiative.
(www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/031188a.htm)
1988 Mar 11, Saying, "The people
have decided," Gary Hart withdrew a second time from the race for the
1988 Democratic presidential nomination. Gary Hart, former US Senator
from Colorado campaigned for the democratic nomination for president
until a photograph of himself with a woman named Donna Rice, not his
wife, appeared. She sat on his lap aboard a boat named Monkey Business.
In 1996 Hart wrote a book using Machiavelli’s "The Prince" format. It
was titled: "The Patriot: An Exhortation to Liberate America From the
Barbarians."
(SFC, 7/14/96, p.C11)(AP, 3/11/98)
1989 Mar 11, Former World Bank
head John J. McCloy, who had advised several presidents, died in
Stamford, Conn., at age 93.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1990 Mar 11, Chile’s General
Augusto Pinochet gave up power after 16 years of rule, but remained
commander of the army.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A20)(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A3)
1990 Mar 11, The Lithuanian
parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore its
independence. The Supreme Council promulgated the historic document:
"On the Re-establishment of the Independent State of Lithuania."
Validity of the 1938 Constitution was briefly reinstated and the
provisional Fundamental Law was adopted. Vytautas Landsbergis was
elected president of Lithuania under the party Sajudis. Landsbergis was
elected Chairman of the Council with Bronislovas Juozas Kuzmickas,
Kazimieras Motieka and Ceslovas Stankevicius as Vice Chairmen, with
Liuvikas Sabutis as Secretary. Four governments were formed under
tenure of the Council. They were led by Kazimiera Danute Prunskiene,
Albertas Simenas, Gediminas Vagnorius and Aleksandras Algirdas Abisala.
Moscow responded with an economic blockade that brought industry and
transportation to a standstill. In June the Lithuanians agreed to
suspend independence.
(DrEE, 10/5/96, p.5)(CSOE)(HN, 3/11/98)(AP, 3/11/00)
1991 Mar 11, Secretary of State
James A. Baker the Third visited Israel, where he met with Foreign
Minister David Levy to discuss prospects for Middle East peace.
(AP, 3/11/01)
1992 Mar 11, Members of the U.N.
Security Council accused Iraq of playing a game of “cheat and retreat”
from its promises to disarm and respect its people's human rights;
Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz lashed back, saying his country
was complying with Gulf War cease-fire resolutions.
(AP, 3/11/02)
1992 Mar 11, Manuel De Dios Unanue
(48), US anti-drug journalist and former editor of El Diario-La Prensa,
was murdered by two bullets to the head in a restaurant in the Jackson
Heights section of the borough of Queens, New York City. His death was
linked to his writing critically about the Colombian Drug Cartel.
(http://tinyurl.com/2f3c4x)
1993 Mar 11, Janet Reno was
unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be attorney general.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1993 Mar 11, Dino Bravo (b.1948),
wrestler (WWF), was shot to death in Laval, Quebec, Canada. Bravo, born
as Adolfo Bresciano, was known as the “World’s Strongest Man.”
(www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/bravo.htm)
1993 Mar 11, North Korea withdrew
from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in a harsh rebuff of Western
demands to open suspected nuclear weapons development sites for
inspection. It later suspended its withdrawal.
(AP, 3/11/98)(AP, 4/24/03)
1994 Mar 11, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher arrived in Beijing, the mood of his trip already
soured by a fresh government crackdown on Chinese dissidents.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1994 Mar 11, Eduardo Frei (b.1942)
began office as president of Chile.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Frei_Ruiz-Tagle)
1995 Mar 11, President Clinton
nominated Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to be CIA director.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1995 Mar 11, Gerry Adams, leader
of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party, arrived in the United States for a
St. Patrick's Day visit.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1996 Mar 11, On Wall Street, the
Dow Jones industrial average rose 110.55 to end the day at 5581
following a 171.24-point plunge the Friday before.
(AP, 3/11/01)
1996 Mar 11, Charles William
Oatley (92), electrical engineer, died. He perfected the scanning
electron microscope.
(www.tecsoc.org/pubs/history/2002/mar11.htm)
1997 Mar 11, In a startling
turnaround, Senate Republicans agreed to a broader investigation of
campaign financing that would include a look at huge "soft money"
donations.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1997 Mar 11, Senate confirmation
hearings for CIA Director-designate Anthony Lake began.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1997 Mar 11, Scientists from
observatories in Chile and Australia were to announce the discovery of
a star in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Dorado that measured
some 370 times the size of the Sun. Stars of this size are believed to
be doomed to collapse and explode as supernovas.
(SFC, 3/11/97, p.A3)
1997 Mar 11, Rock star Paul
McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1997 Mar 11, A gunman, Allen
Griffin, in Detroit killed 3 and wounded 2 before being killed by
police after staging an robbery at the Comerica Bank on the East Side.
(SFC, 3/12/97, p.A3)
1997 Mar 11, A nuclear fuel
reprocessing plant experienced 2 fires and an explosion 70 miles
northeast of Tokyo. There were no injuries. The chief investigator
destroyed photographs of the accident. Debris was also removed and then
replaced.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A12)(SFC, 5/1/97, p.A13)
1997 Mar 11, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin reorganized the government and only kept Prime Minister
Chernomyrdin and top economic deputy Chubais.
(WSJ, 3/12/97, p.A16)
1998 Mar 11, It was announced that
the David and Lucille Packard Foundation would give $175 million over 5
years to protect the California landscape from over-development.
(SFC, 3/11/98, p.A13)
1998 Mar 11, A Florida appeals
court restored Joe Carollo as mayor of Miami after charges of voter
fraud on absentee ballots.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1998 Mar 11, The International
Astronomical Union issued an alert, saying a mile-wide asteroid could
zip very close to Earth on Oct. 26, 2028, possibly colliding with it.
But the next day, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said there was no
chance the asteroid will hit Earth.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1998 Mar 11, In Los Angeles Efren
Saldivar, a respiratory care therapist, claimed to have killed as many
as 50 terminally ill patients from 1989 to 1997 at the Glendale
Adventist medical Center. He later recanted his confession. Exhumations
to verify the claims began Apr 30. In 2001 Saldivar was arrested for
the murder of 6 patients whose remains indicated that they were
murdered. In 2002 Saldivar pleaded guilty to murdering 6 patients. In
2002 Saldivar was sentenced to 6 life terms in prison plus 15 years to
life for attempted murder.
(SFC, 3/28/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.C7)(SFC,
1/10/01, p.A5)(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A7)(USAT, 4/18/02, p.3A)
1998 Mar 11, In Chile Gen’l.
Pinochet could not be removed as head of the army until this date. His
successor would be chosen by Pres. Eduardo Frei from 5 generals
proposed by Pinochet.
(SFC, 12/9/96, p.A18)
1998 Mar 11, In Japan the Tokyo
Public Prosecutor’s Office raided the offices of the Bank of Japan.
Yasayuki Yoshizawa, director of the capital markets division, was
arrested on suspicion of leaking market moving information.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B2)
1998 Mar 11, In Moscow Marino
Yarovov (43) was boiled to death when she fell into a sinkhole of
muddy, boiling water, created from leaking underground hot water pipes
run by Mosenergo. A 10-year old boy died similarly 6 weeks previously.
His father, who tried to rescue him, died 11 days later from severe
burns.
(SFC, 4/8/98, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, The House voted
219-191 to conditionally support President Clinton's plan to send U.S.
troops to Kosovo if a peace agreement was reached.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1999 Mar 11, Defense Sec. William
Cohen announced $3.2 billion in subsidized arms sales to Egypt.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A16)
1999 Mar 11, The US Rodman naval
base in Panama was transferred to Panama.
(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 11, Pope John Paul II met
with Mohammad Khatami of Iran.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, In Germany Oskar
Lafontaine, the finance minister, resigned following an apparent power
struggle with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Hans Eichel. Governor of
Hesse, was expected to succeed him.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 11, In Ecuador Pres.
Mahuad announced tax increases and other harsh measures to fight the
economic crises.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, In northern Italy an
avalanche killed 3 German skiers.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 11, In Kosovo fighting
spread as Yugoslav forces shelled villages near Prizren.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, Norway approved a
$57.7 million package to compensate the nation's Jews for suffering
during WW II.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 11, In Palestine at least
85 people were injured in a 2nd day of clashes in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
2000 Mar 11, Storms in the US
south were blamed for at least 5 deaths.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.A2)
2000 Mar 11, From Argentina it was
reported that researchers had unearthed a pack of large predatory
dinosaurs in Patagonia that dated back to about 100 million years BP.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 11, In Chile Pres.
Ricardo Lagos took power as the 1st socialist president since Salvadore
Allende.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.A19)
2000 Mar 11, in Ukraine a methane
gas explosion at the Barakova mine on the eastern border killed at
least 80 workers.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.A17)
2001 Mar 11, Lawrence Summers,
former Clinton Treasury Secretary, was named as the 27th president of
Harvard. Neil Rudenstine planned to step down in June.
(WSJ, 3/12/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 11, In England 25 new
cases of hoof-and-mouth disease were reported with outbreaks in
Scotland, Wales, Devonshire and Kent.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 11, In Indonesia
anti-Wahid students rallied in Jakarta. A plunging currency added to
the unrest on the streets.
(WSJ, 3/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 11, In Malaysia ethnic
violence between Malays and ethnic Indians continued for a 4th day.
Five people were killed in the last 4 days.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 11, In Mexico some
75,000-100,000 supporters filled the square of Mexico City as the
Zapatista rebels arrived. “We are here to shout for and to demand
democracy, liberty and justice.” Masked Zapatista rebels urged passage
of an Indian rights bill.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/11/02)
2001 Mar 11, In Spain over 100,000
people protested in Madrid against a $23 billion plan to divert water
from the Ebro river to areas in the south.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A14)
2002 Mar 11, At the White House
Pres. Bush outlined a “second stage of the war on terror” in an address
that marked the 6-months since the Sep 11 terrorist attacks. Bush also
unveiled a commemorative stamp to raise money to help Sept. 11 victims
"get their lives back in order."
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A1)(AP, 3/11/07)
2002 Mar 11, Two columns of light
soared skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to
the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2002 Mar 11, It was reported that
the US CIA and State Dept. was interviewing former Iraqi generals for a
possible overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 11, The National Book
Critics Circle (f.1974) awarded top honors to W.G. Sebald (d.2001) for
his novel “Austerlitz.” Nicholson Baker won the nonfiction category for
“Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper.” Martin Amis
won the criticism category for “The War Against Cliché.” Albert
Goldbarth won the poetry category for “Saving Lives.” Adam Sisman won
the biography category for “Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of
the Life of Dr. Johnson.”
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 11, James Tobin (b.1918),
a key Kennedy advisor and economics Nobelist (portfolio theory, 1981),
died in New Haven, Conn. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics,
and advocated government intervention to stabilize output and avoid
recessions. Outside of academia, Tobin was widely known for his
suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange transactions, later known as
the "Tobin tax."
(WSJ, 3/13/02,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tobin)
2002 Mar 11, Israeli forces swept
into the Jabaliya camp in Gaza and 23 residents were killed in heavy
fighting. PM Sharon announced that Arafat was free to resume traveling
about the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 11, In Pakistan Shakeel
Anwar, head of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi extremist group, was killed in a
gun battle with police. He was wanted in the slaying of 38 people
including a former foreign minister.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 11, In Zimbabwe the polls
closed. A request for a 4th day of voting was denied.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A70)
2003 Mar 11, Striking
Broadway musicians settled a contract dispute with theater producers to
end a walkout that shut had down 18 musicals since Mar 7, agreeing to a
smaller number of musicians in the largest theaters.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, California
scientists reported that polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a
family of flame retardants, were found in elevated amounts in the
breasts of Bay Area women.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A4)
2003 Mar 11, Benetton, an
Italian retailer, said it planned to attach salt-grain sized microchip
transmitters to clothing at its 5,000 stores.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.B1)
2003 Mar 11, A US Army
Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Fort Drum, NY, and 11 of 13 soldiers
were killed.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A5)
2003 Mar 11, Kofi Annan
said military action against Iraq without support of the UN security
council would be out of conformity with the UN charter. The US and
Britain considered a short extension past March 17, but rejected a
45-day deadline backed by 6 council members.
(SFC, 3/11/03, p.A1)(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, The 18-judge
world court was inaugurated at the Hague. It had been approved Jul 17,
1998, by the Rome Treaty.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, A top
Australian intelligence adviser resigned to protest the government's
hard-line policy on Iraq. Andrew Wilkie, one of its senior intelligence
analysts argued that, based on U.S. and other intelligence information
he has seen, there is currently no justification for a war on Iraq.
(IPS, 3/12/03)
2003 Mar 11, Talks to unify
the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus collapsed after rival Greek
and Turkish leaders failed to agree on a UN power-sharing agreement.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Iraq destroyed
more Al Samoud 2 missiles raising the total destroyed to 52 of some 100.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Israeli troops
fired a tank shell at a 3-story apartment building, then razed it,
killing a Palestinian gunman who several hours earlier had attacked an
Israeli army patrol.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Russian Pres.
Vladimir Putin bolstered the clout of the Federal Security Service
(FSB) by giving it control over the country's border guards and
government communications.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, In Turkey Recep
Erdogan was confirmed as the prime minister.
(WSJ, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, Striking
Broadway musicians settled a contract dispute with theater producers to
end a walkout that shut had down 18 musicals since Mar 7, agreeing to a
smaller number of musicians in the largest theaters.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, The DJIA fell 44 to
7524, the lowest level of the year, on war concerns and bad corporate
news.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R8)
2003 Mar 11, California
scientists reported that polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a
family of flame retardants, were found in elevated amounts in the
breasts of Bay Area women.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A4)
2003 Mar 11, Benetton, an
Italian retailer, said it planned to attach salt-grain sized microchip
transmitters to clothing at its 5,000 stores.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.B1)
2003 Mar 11, A US Army
Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Fort Drum, NY, and 11 of 13 soldiers
were killed.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A5)
2003 Mar 11, Kofi Annan
said military action against Iraq without support of the UN security
council would be out of conformity with the UN charter. The US and
Britain considered a short extension past March 17, but rejected a
45-day deadline backed by 6 council members.
(SFC, 3/11/03, p.A1)(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, The 18-judge
world court was inaugurated at the Hague. It had been approved Jul 17,
1998, by the Rome Treaty.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, A top
Australian intelligence adviser resigned to protest the government's
hard-line policy on Iraq. Andrew Wilkie, one of its senior intelligence
analysts argued that, based on U.S. and other intelligence information
he has seen, there is currently no justification for a war on Iraq.
(IPS, 3/12/03)
2003 Mar 11, Talks to unify
the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus collapsed after rival Greek
and Turkish leaders failed to agree on a UN power-sharing agreement.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Iraq destroyed
more Al Samoud 2 missiles raising the total destroyed to 52 of some 100.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Israeli troops
fired a tank shell at a 3-story apartment building, then razed it,
killing a Palestinian gunman who several hours earlier had attacked an
Israeli army patrol.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Russian Pres.
Vladimir Putin bolstered the clout of the Federal Security Service
(FSB) by giving it control over the country's border guards and
government communications.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, In Turkey Recep
Erdogan was confirmed as the prime minister.
(WSJ, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2004 Mar 11, The California
Supreme Court halted gay weddings in San Francisco for at least a few
months while it decides whether they are legal.
(AP, 3/12/04)(SFC, 3/12/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 11, The California Office
of Environmental Health Hazzard Assessment raised the action level for
reporting perchlorate pollution in drinking water from 4 to 6 ppb.
(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A8)
2004 Mar 11, In San Diego 4
Marines were killed when their small UC-35 jet crashed on landing at
Air Station Miramar.
(SFC, 3/12/04, p.B3)
2004 Mar 11, Canadian officials
said a "very sophisticated criminal scheme" bilked the Defense
Department of tens of millions of dollars in computer contracts over 10
years. Public Works Minister Stephen Owen said the government is going
after computer giant Hewlett Packard, the prime contractor in
$160-million worth of military computer hardware and support services.
(AP, 3/11/04)
2004 Mar 11, In Iraq 2 American
soldiers were killed when the Humvee they were riding in struck a
homemade bomb.
(AP, 3/12/04)
2004 Mar 11, In Madrid, Spain, a
series of 10 bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick succession at
3 stations, blowing apart four commuter trains. 191 people were killed
and over 1,450 wounded. Spanish leaders were quick to accuse Basque
terrorists but a shadowy group claimed responsibility in the name of
al-Qaeda. On October 31, 2007, 3 lead defendants were convicted of
murder. Four other top suspects were acquitted of murder but convicted
of lesser charges. In all 21 of the 28 defendants were convicted. On
July 17, 2008, a Spanish court cleared four of the 21 people charged
for crimes related to the train bombings. In 2009 7 people were
indicted for helping the bombers flee.
(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A1)(AP, 3/13/04)(SFC, 3/13/04,
p.A1)(SFC, 3/19/04, p.A3)(AP, 3/23/08)(AP, 10/31/07)(Reuters,
7/17/08)(AP, 11/2/09)
2005 Mar 11, Pres. Bush
picked Johns Hopkins physicist Michael Griffin to lead NASA.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A8)
2005 Mar 11, The US Commerce Dept.
reported the US trade deficit for January hit $58.3 billion. It was
just below the all-time high set in Nov, 2004.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 11, Maurice Greenberg,
president and CEO of AIG Int’l. Group, transferred 1.4 million shares
of AIG stock, valued at $2.68 billion, to his wife. He resigned March
14 amid probes of the company’s accounting.
(SFC, 4/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 11, Crude oil futures
prices climbed over $54 a barrel after the Int’l. Energy Agency
estimated global petroleum demand would grow faster than previously
expected in 2005.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 11, In Georgia Brian
Nichols (33), on trial for rape, shot and killed Superior Court Judge
Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Ann Brandau and Deputy Hoyt
Teasley at the Fulton County Courthouse. He then killed deferral agent
David Wilhelm in Atlanta’s posh Buckhead neighborhood. Nichols was
captured the next day. In 2008 Nichols pleaded not guilty by reason of
insanity. On Nov 7, 2008, Nichols was convicted of murder. On Dec 13 he
was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
(AP, 3/12/05)(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A1)(SFC, 9/23/08,
p.A4)(SFC, 11/7/08, p.A5)(SSFC, 12/14/08, p.A6)
2005 Mar 11, Canada’s Jetsgo
announced in the dead of night that it was going out of business and
grounding all flights immediately as thousands of passengers prepared
to jet away for March break, one of the busiest travel periods of the
year.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Miguel Rodriguez
Orejuela, co-founder of the Cali drug cartel, was sent in handcuffs on
a plane to the US to face trial for drug trafficking and related
charges. The cartel at its peak ruled the world's cocaine industry.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Germany’s parliament
tightened laws against neo-Nazi demonstrations.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 11, In India separatist
rebels threw three grenades in the troubled state of Assam, killing
three people.
(Reuters, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Moldova arrested
Valeriu Pasat, former defense minister, on suspicion of pocketing $10
million during the 1997 sale of 21 MiG-29 fighter jets to the US.
(WSJ, 3/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 11, Nepal freed sacked PM
Sher Bahadur Deuba from house arrest, amid mounting international
pressure on the country's king to relinquish power and restore
democracy.
(Reuters, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Pakistan's highest
Islamic court threw out the acquittal of five men convicted of raping
Mukhtar Mai in 2002 on orders from a village council, saying a lower
appeals court had no jurisdiction to rule on the case.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Garry Kasparov,
Russian chess master ranked No. 1 since 1984, announced his retirement.
His future plans included writing and political action, which included
a lead role in Committee 2008: Free Choice, a group formed by liberal
opposition leaders.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 11, South Africa’s Pres.
Mbeki nominated Pius Langa to become chief justice when incumbent
Arthur Chaskalson retires in May. Langa would be the 1st black to hold
the office.
(Econ, 3/19/05, p.54)
2005 Mar 11, The last Syrian
troops left northern Lebanon but left behind intelligence officers in
nine offices. The UN Mideast envoy said Syria needs to produce a
timetable for a full withdrawal from the rest of Lebanon. Since 1976
some 15,000 Syrian troops were killed in the Lebanese civil war.
Lebanese protests following the Feb 14 assassination of Rafik Hariri,
later dubbed the “cedar revolution,” forced Pres. Assad to withdraw his
army after a 30-year stay.
(AP, 3/11/05)(Econ, 4/2/05, p.41)(Econ, 7/25/09, SR
p.11)
2005 Mar 11, Turkey’s state
institution over religious life issued a sermon to be preached at some
75,000 officially registered mosques on the dangers posed to national
unity by Christian missionaries.
(Econ, 6/25/05, p.49)
2006 Mar 11, Investors began to
recoil from almost any asset class that looked risky.
(Econ, 6/3/06, p.74)
2006 Mar 11, Rural house fires in
Tennessee and Indiana killed 15 members of two families, and most of
the victims were children.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Afghanistan’s
Helmand province the bodies of 2 policemen, kidnapped from their homes
a day earlier, were found beheaded and dumped in the desert. A roadside
bomb hit a police patrol in Helmand's Nad Ali district, killing a
policeman and wounding five others.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Authorities in
Central African Republic accused exiled former President Ange-Felix
Patasse of forming a rebel movement and recruiting fighters to
overthrow the government.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 11, Michelle Bachelet, a
Socialist pediatrician who suffered prison, torture and exile under
Chile's military dictatorship, was sworn in as the nation's first
female president.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, A Chinese activist
who documented villagers' claims of forced abortions and sterilizations
was detained while trying to report the beating of his cousin. Chen
Guangcheng, his older brother and his cousin were taken away in a
police van and other vehicles from their home village of Dongshigu in
Shandong, as they were on their way to file a police report.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, Police stormed
France's famed Sorbonne University to dislodge students occupying the
building in protest of a new national employment measure, hours after
the demonstrators hurled furniture and ladders from the landmark's
windows.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Iran threatened to
use oil as a weapon if the UN Security Council imposes sanctions over
its nuclear program.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Iraq at least six
people including Amjad Hameed (45), director of Iraq’s public TV
channel and a human rights activist, were killed in drive-by shootings.
(AP, 3/11/06)(SSFC, 3/12/06, p.A10)
2006 Mar 11, Premier Silvio
Berlusconi denounced Italy's judiciary as a danger to democracy and
promised changes to the system as he tries to hold on to the
premiership in next month's election.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Jordan 2 militants
were executed by hanging for the killing in Amman of a US diplomat.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Nepalese officials
said a 15-year-old boy, whose followers believe he is the reincarnation
of Buddha, has disappeared after 10 months of meditation in the jungle.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, In the Netherlands
former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic (b.1941), the so-called
"butcher of the Balkans" being tried for war crimes after orchestrating
a decade of bloodshed during his country's breakup, was found dead in
his prison cell. Milosevic spent nearly five years at a UN detention
facility in Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague. An autopsy showed that
he died of a heart attack. A Dutch toxicologist said he took
unprescribed pills that neutralized heart medication.
(SFC, 3/13/06, p.A3)(WSJ, 3/14/06, p.A1)(Econ,
3/18/06, p.83)
2006 Mar 11, In Lahore, Pakistan,
hundreds of kites filled the skies on the opening day of a traditional
spring festival, despite a ban that followed the deaths of seven people
killed by glass-coated or wire kite strings.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Sudan 5 members of
the main opposition group in eastern Sudan were arrested or detained,
in a move party officials said hindered any chance to start
long-delayed peace talks.
(Reuters, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Turkish and Kurdish
intellectuals gathered under tight security for a major 2-day
conference in Istanbul to discuss a peaceful resolution to the
22-year-old Kurdish conflict.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Zimbabwe lawmaker
Giles Mutseyekwa of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
and seven others were formally charged with violating security laws.
The eight were rounded up on Mar 7-8 after security agents had arrested
one of the suspects identified as Mike Peter Hitschmann over an arms
cache found at his home in Mutare.
(AFP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, Zimbabwe’s Central
Statistical Office said inflation was 782 percent for the 12 months
that ended in February. Moffat Nyoni, acting director of the
government-run Statistical Office, said prices of food and nonalcoholic
beverages rose 824 percent during that time.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2007 Mar 11, The US national debt
was reported to be approaching $9 trillion. Some $240 billion would be
spent this year paying interest on the half that’s held by public
creditors, of which China and Japan are the largest.
(SSFC, 3/11/07, p.D1)
2007 Mar 11, Most of the US
switched to daylight saving time a few weeks earlier than usual.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Halliburton CEO Dave
Lesar announced that his oil services company will soon shift its
corporate headquarters from Houston to the Mideast financial powerhouse
of Dubai.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Hawaii a tour
helicopter crashed on Kauai and one person was killed. This was the 2nd
fatal copter crash on the island in 4 days.
(SFC, 3/12/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 11, Betty Hutton
(b.1921), film star, died in Palm Springs. Her films included “Annie
Get Your Gun” (1950) and “Somebody Loves Me” (1952).
(SFC, 3/14/07, p.A2)
2007 Mar 11, In Bolivia
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez called for a socialist counterattack
against the American "empire," taking his campaign to upstage President
Bush's Latin American tour to a packed gymnasium in a poor, indigenous
Bolivian city.
(AP, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, In northeast China 22
miners were confirmed dead and the lives of seven others were feared
lost in a coal mine flood on the previous day. The flood occurred in a
pit belonging to the state-owned Fushun Mining Group in the province of
Liaoning.
(AFP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Colombia about 150
protesters attacked riot police with rocks and metal barriers and
ripped down lampposts Bogota, just moments after President Bush landed
for a six-hour visit. Bush put fighting poverty at the top of his
agenda in Colombia and promised more aid and a trade deal for Pres.
Uribe.
(AP, 3/11/07)(WSJ, 3/12/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 11, Health Ministry and
World Health Organization officials said a 4-year-old Egyptian boy has
contracted the deadly bird flu virus, bringing to 24 the number of
Egyptians who have tested positive for the disease.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Jacques Chirac,
admired and scorned during 12 years as France's president, announced he
will not seek a third term in elections this spring, a widely expected
move given his low popularity, his age and a conservative rival who has
siphoned off his political base. His popularity had shrunk to 29% as
unemployment stood at 8.6%.
(AP, 3/11/07)(Econ, 3/17/07, p.27)
2007 Mar 11, Iranian TV quoted
government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham as saying Ahmadinejad
"intends to attend a UN Security Council meeting to be held on Iran's
nuclear case in order to defend the rights of the Iranian nation in
exploiting peaceful nuclear energy."
(AP, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, At least 58 people
were killed in a spate of attacks across Iraq, including 31 Shiite
pilgrims who died in a car bombing as they returned from a religious
festival.
(AFP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Voters in Mauritania
went to the polls with hopes that whoever wins the first presidential
election since a coup two years ago will not plunge the country back
into totalitarian rule.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Morocco a man with
explosives hidden under his clothes had a dispute with the owner of an
Internet café in Casablanca and a blast occurred as the two men
were coming to blows. Another man at the scene who attempted to flee
was arrested by police and found to be carrying explosives.
(Reuters, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, Palestinian gunmen
from Hamas and Fatah exchanged fire in the Gaza Strip, killing a local
militia leader and wounding seven people.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Russians voted in
scattered regional ballots marred by complaints that opposition forces
are being frozen out of the country's politics.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Somalia a
13-year-old boy and a woman were killed by stray bullets and five
others were injured as Ethiopian troops protecting government
installations battled with insurgents in Mogadishu.
(AP, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, Spain unveiled a
towering monument to those killed three years ago in the bombings that
ripped apart rush-hour commuter trains, a glass oval containing
messages of condolence written in the aftermath of Europe's worst
Islamic terror attack.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Sri Lanka's president
chided his top police officers over a new wave of "execution-style"
killings and demanded immediate action to end a climate of terror.
(AFP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Zimbabwe's main
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested as riot police
thwarted a planned mass demonstration in Harare against President
Robert Mugabe's government. Top opposition leaders were assaulted and
tortured by police who broke up a prayer meeting planned to protest
government policies. Tsvangirai suffered head injuries while in police
custody. Opposition militant Gift Tandare was killed as police
disbanded the prayer meeting. President Robert Mugabe (83) said in an
interview that he intends to stand in the country's next presidential
elections if they are held as scheduled in 2008.
(AFP, 3/11/07)(Reuters, 3/12/07)(AP, 3/19/07)
2008 Mar 11, The US Federal
Reserve and other central banks said they will pump $200 billion into
the financial markets, using the Term Securities Lending Facility
(TSLF), to help ease the strain from the credit crisis. Wall Street
rebounded with its biggest rally since 2002 at the DJIA rose 416.66 to
12,156.81. Gas prices rose to a record national level of $3.2272 per
gallon.
(AP, 3/11/08)(SFC, 3/12/08, p.B1,B3)(Econ, 3/15/08,
p.89)
2008 Mar 11, Sen. Barack Obama
picked up five more delegates than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in
Mississippi's Democratic primary.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said 26% of US teen girls are infected
with at least one sexually transmitted disease. The rate was highest
among blacks.
(AP, 3/11/08)(WSJ, 3/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 11, The SF Board of
Supervisors passed a law requiring chain restaurants to post nutrition
information on their menus.
(SFC, 3/12/08, p.C1)
2008 Mar 11, The Pacific Fishery
Management Council said it would have to ban all salmon fishing, due to
depleted spawning, unless a request is made for an emergency exception.
(SFC, 3/13/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 11, The US space shuttle
Endeavour blasted off from a seaside Florida launch pad to deliver part
of a long-awaited Japanese space laboratory and a Canadian-built
robotic system to the International Space Station.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, In western
Afghanistan police backed by NATO-led troops killed four suspected
criminals after a spate of kidnappings and robberies. The ministry said
an Afghan soldier was killed in Kapisa province, just north of Kabul.
Taliban militants attacked a district administrative compound in
southern Zabul province, and the ensuing one-hour gunbattle left one
Taliban dead and three wounded. 5 militants set fire to the generator,
fuel tank and antenna of the tower in the Obe district of Herat
province. The tower belonged to the Areeba company. Afghan and US-led
coalition forces killed nearly a dozen suspected militants in Helmand
during a clash in Garmsir district.
(AP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 11, Bangladesh's
military-backed government backed down from a policy to ensure equal
property rights to women amid angry protests by Muslim clerics that the
move would override Islamic law.
(AFP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, The Belgian
government and banks agreed to pay $170 million to Holocaust survivors,
families of victims and the Jewish community for their material losses
during Word War II.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, The Bank of England
said it would inject a further 10 billion pounds into money markets
amid the ongoing credit crunch.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Some 600,000 poor
Chileans will receive monthly pensions starting in July under a law
signed by President Michelle Bachelet that plugs gaps in Chile's widely
copied private pension system.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, China unveiled plans
to revamp bureaucratic government ministries and create new agencies to
help it tackle pressing issues such as nuclear energy, food and drug
safety, environmental protection and the Internet.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Thousands of Chinese
security personnel fired tear gas to try to disperse more than 600
monks taking part in a second day of rare street protests in Tibet.
(Reuters, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, Three generals
regarded as national heroes in Croatia went on trial at the Hague,
accused of orchestrating the killing of at least 150 Serbs in a 1995
military campaign that unleashed widespread murder and pillage.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, EU regulators cleared
Google's $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick, saying the
acquisition won't curb competition for online ads.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, At least 42 people
were killed across Iraq. A roadside bomb hit a bus traveling in
southern Iraq, killing at least 16 civilians, while gunmen opened fire
on another bus in the capital, leaving one person dead. The Pentagon
said up to 90% of the foreign fighters in Iraq cross from Syria.
(AFP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)(WSJ, 3/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 11, In Japan authorities
arrested in Osaka arrested Hatsue Shimizu (64) and Yoshiko Ishii (55),
two sisters, for allegedly hiding millions of dollars worth of cash in
their garage to evade inheritance taxes. Their father, who was in the
real-estate lease business, died in 2004, leaving $72.9 million to his
family.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, Top leaders
Malaysia's opposition-ruled states will no longer follow a longtime
affirmative action program that benefits the majority Malays, in the
wake of an election upheaval that clipped the ruling coalition's powers.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Mexico's federal
attorney general's office announced an investigation into allegations
of corruption against Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, a
confidant of the president who holds the government's second highest
profile job.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, State media said
Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza has sacked three senior members
of his government, including his foreign minister.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Nigerian soldiers
hunting Niger Delta gang leader Ateke Tom said they had found a huge
cache of arms and ammunition, along with an illegal pipeline used to
tap stolen oil, in a raid on one of his bases.
(AFP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, In Lahore, Pakistan,
massive suicide bombs ripped through a seven-story police headquarters
and a business, killing 27 people and wounding more than 200 others in
attacks that deepened the security crisis. The wounded included 32
girls who were hit by flying debris at a school near the police
building.
(AP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, Palestinian militants
in Gaza launched a rocket at the Israeli city of Ashkelon, causing no
injuries but threatening to upset a recent period of calm.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, In Peru a helicopter
ferrying passengers from the La Granja copper mine owned by the Rio
Tinto Group crashed in the Andes with 10 people aboard. The wreckage
was found the next day.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 11, Serbia and Russia
demanded that the UN administration in Kosovo halt the transfer of
authority to the European Union, calling a handover illegal and
declaring they will never recognize the independence of the Serb
province.
(AP, 3/12/08)
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