Today in History - March 13
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483 Mar 13, St.
Felix began his reign as Catholic Pope.
(HN, 3/13/98)
607 Mar 13, The 12th recorded
passage of Halley's Comet occurred.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1194 Mar 13, Richard I, King of
England, landed at Sandwich and immediately prepared to march north to
recover his castles.
(ON, 8/07, p.9)
1401 Mar 13, The 1st
Samogitian uprising supported by Vytautas took place against the German
knights. (LHC, 3/13/03)
1519 Mar 13, The Spaniards under
Cortez landed at Veracruz. Cortez landed in Mexico with 10 stallions, 5
mares and a foal.
(SFEC,11/9/97, p.T5)(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A3)(HN, 3/13/98)
1564 Mar 13, Zigmantas
Augustas gave over to Poland his rights to Lithuania and supported the
Warsaw parliament recess and summons for the 1st representatives on
talks regarding union.
(LHC, 3/13/03)
1569 Mar 13, Count of Anjou
defeated the Huguenots at the Battle of Jarnac. Louis Conde, French
prince, co-leader of Huguenots, died in battle.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1599 Mar 13, Johannes Berchmans,
Jesuit, saint, was born in Belgium.
(MC, 3/13/02)(de Winkler Prins encyclopedia)
1610 Mar 13, Galileo published his
observations of the night sky under the title “Siderius Nuncius”
(Starry Messenger).
(CW, Spring ‘99, p.36)
1615 Mar 13, Innocent XII, Roman
Catholic Pope, was born.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1634 Mar 13, Academie Francaise
was established. Its task was to preserve the purity of the French
language, which included maintaining a dictionary. Members came to be
known as the “immortals” and by 1998 they were struggling with
masculine nouns of positions held by women who desired feminine endings.
(SFC, 1/17/98, p.A12)(MC, 3/13/02)
1639 Mar 13, Cambridge College was
re-named Harvard University for clergyman John Harvard.
(AP, 3/13/98)(MC, 3/13/02)
1656 Mar 13, Jews were denied the
right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1660 Mar 13, A statute was passed
limiting the sale of slaves in the colony of Virginia.
(HN, 3/13/99)
1677 Mar 13, Massachusetts gained
title to Maine for $6,000.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1716 Mar 13, Georg Gabriel Schutz
(46), composer, died.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1733 Mar 13, Joseph Priestly
(d.1804), English chemist, author and clergyman, was born. He is
credited with the discovery of oxygen.
(HN, 3/13/99)(WUD, 1994 p.1142)
1741 Mar 13, Jozef II, arch duke
of Austria, Roman Catholic German emperor (1765-90), was born.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1744 Mar 13, David Allan, Scottish
painter, was born.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1752 Mar 13, Josef Reicha,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1764 Mar 13, Charles Earl Grey
(Whig), British Prime Minister (1830-1834), was born.
(HN, 3/13/98)(MC, 3/13/02)
1777 Mar 13, Congress ordered its
European envoys to appeal to high-ranking foreign officers to send
troops to reinforce the American army.
(HN, 3/13/99)
1781 Mar 13, Astronomer William
Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, which he named 'Georgium Sidus,'
in honor of George III. He initially though it was a comet. It is the
7th planet from the sun and revolves around the sun every 84.02 years.
It is 14.6 time the size of Earth and has five satellites.
(AHD, p.1408)(HFA, '96, p.26)(AP, 3/13/98)(HN,
3/13/99)(MC, 3/13/02)
1797 Mar 13, Cherubini's opera
"Medee," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1798 Mar 13, Abigail Powers
Fillmore, First Lady, was born.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1835 Mar 13, Charles Darwin
departed Valparaiso for Andes crossing.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1846 Mar 13, Friedrich Hebbel's
"Maria Magdalena," premiered in Konigsberg.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1848 Mar 13, Metternich was
overthrown by a mob in Vienna. This ended his career as foreign
minister of Austria and Emp. Francis I elevated him to the rank of
prince.
(ON, 5/04,
p.4)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Kossuth)
1852 Mar 13, Uncle Sam made his
debut as a cartoon character in the New York Lantern.
(AP, 3/13/98)
1855 Mar 13, Percival Lowell
(d.1916), astronomer, was born. He predicted the discovery of the
planet Pluto. He also wrote “The Soul of the Far East” and “Occult
Japan.” He predicted the existence of a planet behind Neptune before
Pluto was discovered by Tombaugh in 1930.
(NH, 12/96, p.22)(HN, 3/13/99)
1861 Mar 13, Jefferson Davis
signed a bill authorizing slaves to be used as soldiers for the
Confederacy.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1868 Mar 13, The impeachment trial
of President Andrew Johnson began in the U.S. Senate.
(AP, 3/13/97)(ON, 9/01, p.7)
1869 Mar 13, Arkansas legislature
passed anti-Klan law.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1872 Mar 13, Oswald Garrison
Villard, American journalist, was born.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1881 Mar 13, Alexander II
(b.1818), Tsar of Russia, was assassinated. A bomb was thrown at him
near his palace by the anarchist group People’s Will led by Sophia
Perovskaya. He was succeeded by his son Alexander III (36). A wave of
repression and persecution followed. In 2005 Edvard Radzinsky authored
the biography “Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar.”
(PCh, 1992, p.557)(WSJ, 4/17/03, p.D8)(WSJ,
10/27/05, p.D7)
1982 Mar 13, At the Massacre of
Rio Negro 130 [177] Achi Maya women and children were killed by Xococ
patrolmen. On Nov 30, 1998, three Xococ pro-government fighters, Carlos
Chen, Pedro Gonzalez and Fermin Lajuj, were sentenced to death for
their war crimes in the massacre. In 2003 the PBS documentary
"Discovering Dominga" told the story of a Mayan girl who survived the
massacre and her struggle to discover what happened to her family.
(SFC, 12/1/98, p.A11)(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A11)(SFC,
7/14/00, p.A11)(SFC, 7/4/03, p.E3)
1883 Mar 13, Sergei Degaev (26)
shot and killed Lt. Col. Georgii Sudeikin, security chief of Czar
Alexander III. The 2 men had conspired to undermine both the government
and the Revolutionary People’s Will. Degaev fled Russia to the US where
he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Johns Hopkins and became the 1st
math prof. At the new Univ. of South Dakota, where he taught until he
died in 1921. In 2003 Richard Pipes authored “The Degaev Affair.”
(WSJ, 4/17/03, p.D8)
1884 Mar 13, US Congress adopted
Eastern Standard Time for the District of Columbia.
(AP, 3/13/07)
1884 Mar 13, Siege of Khartoum,
Sudan, began. Gen. Gordon ordered a counter-attack at Halfaya and
troops rescued some 500 from a Mahdist assault.
(ON, 4/02, p.10)(MC, 3/13/02)
1886 Mar 13, Albert William
Stevens, balloonist and photographer, was born.
(HN, 3/13/01)
1887 Mar 13, Chester Greenwood of
Maine patented earmuffs.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1888 Mar 13, Great Blizzard of
1888 raged. During the blizzard a cattle drover killed his biggest ox,
gutted it, and crawled inside to survive the freeze.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, Z1 p.8)(MC, 3/13/02)
1892 Mar 13, Janet Flanner, writer
("Letter from Paris"), was born.
(HN, 3/13/01)
1894 Mar 13, The Dynamite Squadron
of ships, purchased and outfitted in the US, steamed into the harbor of
Rio de Janeiro. Rebel sailors immediately surrendered in exchange for
safe passage to Argentina aboard Portuguese warships. The rebellion
ended a weeks later when the rebel flagship, Aquidbada, was captured
off Desterro by the American crew of the Nictheroy, the former Morgan
steamship El Cid.
(ON, 12/06, p.12)
1896 Mar 13, The 1st
telephone station in Vilnius began operating.
(LHC, 3/13/03)
1898 Mar 13, The ship New York,
built in Philadelphia in 1888 as the T.F. Oaks, was caught in the
surf of Half Moon Bay and broke up after a few days. It was 259 days
out of Hong Kong and all 22 aboard under Capt. Thomas Peabody made it
to shore. Most of the cargo was lost.
(Ind, 4/6/02, 5A)
1900 Mar 13, George Seferis
(d.1991), Greek poet, was born.
(HN, 3/13/01)
1901 Mar 13, Benjamin Harrison
(67), 23rd president of the United States (1889-1893), died in
Indianapolis.
(AP, 3/13/97)(MC, 3/13/02)
1905 Mar 13, Margaretha Zelle made
her debut as the oriental dancer “Mata Hari,” in Paris.
(WSJ, 1/16/97, p.A16)(AP, 3/13/97)
1906 Mar 13, Susan B. Anthony
(b.1820), abolitionist and advocate of black suffrage as well as the
rights of women to vote, died at age 85. Eleanor Roosevelt suggested
that Susan B. Anthony should be added to the four faces of Mount
Rushmore. Eleanor Roosevelt later suggested that social reformer
and woman suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony should be included with the
images of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, but
her suggestion was not accepted.
(AP, 3/13/99)(HNQ, 4/17/00)
1908 Mar 13, Walter Annenberg
(d.2002), publisher (Triangle-TV Guide), Ambassador to GB, was born in
Milwaukee, the 6th of 9 children.
(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A2)(AP, 3/13/08)
1908 Mar 13, Jerusalem's
inhabitants saw their first automobile owned by Charles Glidden of
Boston.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1911 Mar 13, LaFayette Ron Hubbard
(L. Ron Hubbard, d.1986), sci-fi writer, scientologist founder of
Scientology (Dyanetics), was born.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.A13)(MC, 3/13/02)
1911 Mar 13, The Supreme Court
approved the corporate tax law.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1913 Mar 13, William J. Casey,
headed CIA during Iran Contra scandal (1981-87), was born.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1913 Mar 13, Kansas legislature
approved censorship of motion pictures.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1913 Mar 15, Lewis Robert
Wasserman (d.2002) was born in Cleveland. In 1946 Dr. Jules Stein
(d.1981), founder of Music Corp. of America hired Lew Wasserman as
director of advertising and public relations. Wasserman went on to
expand the company as MCA Inc. into a major entertainment conglomerate.
(SFC, 6/4/02, p.A18)
1915 Mar 13, Dodgers manager
Wilbert Robinson tried to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane,
but the pilot substituted a grapefruit.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1915 Mar 13, The Germans repelled
a British Expeditionary Force attack at the battle of Neuve Chapelle in
France.
(HN, 3/13/99)
1918 Mar 13, Women were scheduled
to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York due to a shortage
of men.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1920 Mar 13, The Kapp Putsch took
place, involving a group of Freikorps troops who gained control of
Berlin and installed Wolfgang Kapp (a right-wing journalist) as
chancellor. The national government fled to Stuttgart and called for a
general strike. The strike crippled Germany's ravaged economy and the
Kapp government collapsed after only four days on March 17.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic)
1921 Mar 13, Mongolia (formerly
Outer Mongolia) declared independence from China.
(HN, 3/13/98)(MC, 3/13/02)
1922 Mar 13, George Bernard Shaw’s
"Back to Methusaleh V," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1923 Mar 13, Lee de Forest
demonstrated his sound-on-film moving pictures in NYC.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1924 Mar 13, The Reichstag was
dissolved for the fifth time in German history.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1925 Mar 13, The Tennessee
legislature passed the Butler Bill which prohibited the teaching of
evolution in the public schools. [see Mar 21,23]
(Nat. Hist., 4/96, p.74-76)(AP, 3/13/97)
1928 Mar 13, Rudolph Friml's
musical "Three Musketeers," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1928 Mar 13, In California
hundreds of people died when the San Francisquito Valley was inundated
with water after the St. Francis Dam burst just before midnight on
March 12.
(AP, 3/13/08)
1930 Mar 13, The Lowell
Observatory in Arizona announced Clyde Tombaugh’s Feb 18 discovery of a
new planet, later named Pluto.
(HN, 3/13/98)(NH, 6/03, p.20)
1931 Mar 13, Rosalind Elias,
mezzo-soprano, was born in Lowell, Mass.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1932 Mar 13, Hindenburg won 49.6%
of the vote in the German presidential election, Hitler won 30.1%, and
the rest of the votes went to other candidates. Since Hindenburg did
not win a majority, a run-off election was set for April.
(www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp)
1933 Mar 13, Banks began to
re-open after a holiday declared by President Roosevelt.
(AP, 3/13/97)
1933 Mar 13, In Germany Wagner’s
opera “Die Meistersinger” was used to celebrate the first
Nazi-dominated Reichstag and became the Third Reich’s national festival
opera.
(WSJ, 8/2/96, p.A10)(AP, 3/13/97)
1933 Mar 13, Josef Goebbels became
Nazi minister of Information and Propaganda.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1935 Mar 13, Driving tests were
introduced in Great Britain.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1935 Mar 13,
Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming
biblical history.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1936 Mar 13, The first meeting of
the Friday the 13th Club founded by Philip Klein, advertising
executive, was held. Klein requested that the club self-destruct before
the year 2001.
(SFEC, 10/13/96, Parade p.19) (AP, 3/13/97)
1936 Mar 13, William Alexander
Coulter (b.1849), Irish-born maritime artist, died, in Ca.
(SFC, 7/4/05,
p.B1)(www.edanhughes.com/biography.cfm?ArtistID=145)
1938 Mar 13, Clarence S. Darrow
(80), famed attorney in the Scopes Monkey Trial, died in Chicago.
(AP, 3/13/98)(MC, 3/13/02)
1940 Mar 13, The 105-day war
between Russia and Finland ended with the signing of a treaty in
Moscow. Finland capitulated conditionally to Soviet terms, but
maintains its independence. Some 27,000 Finnish soldiers were killed
and 43,000 wounded in a population of 3.7 million. The Soviet Union put
its losses at 217,500 dead or wounded.
(HN, 3/13/01)(AP, 11/30/09)
1941 Mar 13, Hitler issued an
edict calling for an invasion of the USSR
(HN, 3/13/98)
1942 Mar 13, Julia Flikke of the
Nurse Corps became the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1943 Mar 13, There was a failed
assassination attempt on Hitler during the Smolensk-Rastenburg flight.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1943 Mar 13, Germans closed the
Krakow ghetto in Poland.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1943 Mar 13, Japanese forces ended
their attack on the American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville.
(HN, 3/13/99)
1945 Mar 13, Queen Wilhelmina
returned to Netherlands.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1945 Mar 13, Peru declared war on
Germany.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1947 Mar 13, "The Best Years of
Our Lives" won the Academy Award for best picture of 1946; Oscars also
went to its director, William Wyler, lead actor Fredric March and
supporting actor Harold Russell; Olivia De Havilland won best actress
for "To Each His Own"; Anne Baxter won best supporting actress for "The
Razor's Edge."
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.38)(AP, 3/13/97)
1947 Mar 13, The Lerner and Loewe
musical "Brigadoon" opened on Broadway for 581 performances.
(AP, 3/13/97)(MC, 3/13/02)
1951 Mar 13, Israel demanded DM
6.2 billion ($1.5 billion) in German reparations for the cost of caring
for war refugees.
(HN, 3/13/98)(MC, 3/13/02)
1951 Mar 13, Alfred Hugenberg,
German RC pres-dir of Krupp, media magnate, died.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1954 Mar 13, Viet Minh General
Giap opened an assault on French forces at Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam. In
2010 Ted Morgan (aka Sanche Armand Gabriel de Gramont) authored “Valley
of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the
Vietnam War.”
(HN, 3/14/98)(Econ, 4/3/04, p.86)(Econ, 2/20/10,
p.80)
1957 Mar 13, The FBI arrested
Jimmy Hoffa on bribery charges.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1957 Mar 13, Bloody battles
followed an anti-Batista demonstration in Havana, Cuba.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1960 Mar 13, NFL's Chicago
Cardinals moved to St Louis.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1961 Mar 13, Pablo Picasso (79)
married his model Jacqueline Rocque (37).
(MC, 3/13/02)
1962 Mar 13, John F. Kennedy met
Cameroon President Ahmadou Ahidjo.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1963 Mar 13, China invited
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to visit Peking.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1964 Mar 13, Some 38 residents of
a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens failed to respond
to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death.
(AP, 3/13/97)
1968 Mar 13, Atlantic Richfield
Company (ARCO) and Humble Oil and Refining Company (now Exxon Company,
U.S.A.) announced the discovery of oil on Alaska’s North Slope (Prudhoe
Bay). The oil companies soon began efforts to construct a pipeline, but
work was suspended due to environmental concerns.
(AH, 2/05,
p.14)(www.alyeska-pipe.com/Pipelinefacts/Chronology.html)
1969 Mar 13, In Vietnam Navy Lt.
John Kerry rescued Jim Rassman on the Bay Hap River while under Viet
Cong fire. In 2004 Kerry became the Democratic nominee for President.
(SSFC, 2/8/04, p.A1)
1969 Mar 13, The Apollo 9
astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the successful
testing of the lunar module.
(AP, 3/13/97)
1970 Mar 13, Cambodia ordered
Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to get out.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1971 Mar 13, Rockwell Kent
(b.1882), artist, illustrator and printmaker, died in New York. He was
a member of the rugged realist school of landscape painters. In the
1930s he created a set of illustrations for "Moby Dick." In 1960 he
donated 80 paintings and 800 watercolors to the people of the Soviet
Union.
(WSJ, 8/15/00, p.A24)(SFC, 8/25/01, p.D12)
1973 Mar 13, George Norman skipped
out of Denver on a 2-year sentence for embezzling more than $500,000
from the now defunct Rocky Mountain Bank. He evaded arrest for 23 years
and made millions by legal means until his capture in Knoxville, Tenn.,
in 1996.
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.A8)
1974 Mar 13, The Dow Jones dropped
to 577.60.
(WSJ, 7/22/96, p.B1)(http://tinyurl.com/4uu3s9)
1975 Mar 13, Bernard Slade's "Same
Time, Next Year," premiered in NYC. In 1978 it was made into a film
starring Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s1314)
1976 Mar 13, In California a jury
convicted 4 Black Muslims for 3 murders and 4 assaults out of a total
of 23 Bay Area crimes that included 14 murders. Jessie Lee Cooks, Larry
Craig Green, Manuel Moore and J.C.X. Simon were given life sentences.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)
1979 Mar 13, European Monetary
System (EMS) entered into force.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1961/index_en.htm)
1980 Mar 13, Ford Motor Chairman
Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1980 Mar 13, A jury in Winamac,
Ind., found Ford Motor Company innocent of reckless homicide in the
fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1981 Mar 13, Pres. Reagan granted
Atlanta $1.5 million to search for the murderer of some 20 black
children.
(http://tinyurl.com/3ytusv)
1981 Mar 13, In the Poletown case
the Michigan Supreme Court allowed Detroit to take 1,000 homes and 600
businesses to make way for a General Motors Corp. plant. The decision
was overturned in 2004 when the court ruled that state and local
governments may not take property from one private owner and give it to
another purely for the purpose of economic development.
(WSJ, 7/30/04,
p.A6)(www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2920831.html)
1982 Mar 13, In Guatemala at the
Massacre of Rio Negro 177 Achi Maya women and children were killed by
Xococ patrolmen. On Nov 30, 1998, three Xococ pro-government fighters,
Carlos Chen, Pedro Gonzalez and Fermin Lajuj, were sentenced to death
for their war crimes in the massacre. In 2003 the PBS documentary
"Discovering Dominga" told the story of a Mayan girl who survived the
massacre and her struggle to discover what happened to her family. In
2008 5 former paramilitary members were sentenced to 780 years each in
prison for massacring 26 people at Rio Negro.
(SFC, 12/1/98, p.A11)(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A11)(SFC,
7/14/00, p.A11)(SFC, 7/4/03, p.E3)(AP, 5/30/08)
1983 Mar 13, "Woman of the Year"
closed at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?id=4104)
1985 Mar 13, Konstantin Chernenko
was buried near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow. Mikhail Gorbachev became
the new leader of the Soviet Union. He oversaw the dismantling of the
Soviet nuclear arms stockpile and the end of the Soviet Union itself.
(HN, 3/13/99)
1986 Mar 13, The US submarine
Nathaniel Green was severely damaged when it ran aground in the Irish
Sea. It was deactivated in May, 1986.
(http://navysite.de/ssbn/ssbn636.htm)
1987 Mar 13, John Gotti was
acquitted of racketeering.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1987 Mar 13, The president of
Ecuador announced his country had suspended payments on its foreign
debt after earthquakes killed hundreds of people and ruptured the
country's main oil pipeline. The quake destroyed nearly 25 miles of oil
pipeline.
(AP, 3/13/97)(SFC, 5/1/03, A8)
1987 Mar 13, Gerald Moore
(b.1899), pianist, died in England. The book: “Am I Too Loud?, Memoirs
of Gerald Moore” was published in 1962.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Moore)
1988 Mar 13, Yielding to student
protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington,
D.C., a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King
Jordan to become the school's first deaf president, replacing Elisabeth
Ann Zinser, a hearing woman..
(AP, 3/13/98)
1988 Mar 13, John Curtis Holmes,
former porn star, died of an AIDS-related illness. In 2003 the film
"Wonderland" starred Val Kilmer as Holmes.
(ST, 10/17/03, p.22H)(http://tinyurl.com/4whfj)
1989 Mar 13, The U.S. Food and
Drug Administration began a quarantine of all fruit imported from Chile
after traces of cyanide were found in two Chilean grapes.
(AP, 3/13/99)
1989 Mar 13, The space shuttle
Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a five-day mission.
(AP, 3/13/99)
1989 Mar 13, In Canada a
transformer failure on one of the main power transmission lines in the
HydroQuebec system precipitated a catastrophic collapse of the entire
power grid. The string of events that produced the collapse took only
90 seconds from start to finish. There was no time for any meaningful
intervention. The transformer failure was a direct consequence of
ground induced currents from a space weather disturbance high in the
atmosphere. 6 million people lost electrical power for 9 or more hours.
(www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/blackout.html)
1990 Mar 13, President Bush lifted
trade sanctions against Nicaragua in a show of support for
President-elect Violeta Chamorro.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1990 Mar 13, The Soviet Congress
of People's Deputies approved Mikhail S. Gorbachev's proposals for a
multiparty political system headed by a powerful president.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1990 Mar 13, Bruno Bettelheim
(86), Austrian-US psychoanalyst, committed suicide. His books included
"The Empty Fortress" (1967), on infantile autism and "the Use of
Enchantment" (1976), a study of fairy tales. In 1996 Richard Pollak
wrote: "The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim." In
2002 Theron Raines authored "Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno
Bettelheim."
(SFC, 12/29/96, BR p.1)(SSFC, 9/8/02,
p.M4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bettelheim)
1991 Mar 13, President Bush,
during a visit to Ottawa, Canada, warned Iran against seizing Iraqi
territory in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War.
(AP, 3/13/01)
1991 Mar 13, Exxon pleaded guilty
to criminal charges and agreed to pay $100 million fine in a $1.1
billion settlement of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The deal fell apart
when the Alaska House rejected it. A new settlement was reached later.
(www.epa.gov/history/topics/valdez/02.htm)(HN,
3/13/98)(AP, 3/13/01)
1992 Mar 13, The U.N. Security
Council stood firm in its demand that Iraq comply totally with Gulf War
cease-fire resolutions, rebuffing an appeal for leniency from Saddam
Hussein's special envoy, deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz.
(AP, 3/13/97)
1992 Mar 13, Some 498 died in an
earthquake at Erzincan, Turkey.
(www.uwm.edu/Dept/Geosciences/qketour/qkexampl/qk990817.html)
1993 Mar 13, A deadly blizzard
paralyzed much of the East Coast, leaving more than 100 dead in its
wake. Syracuse, NY, was covered with fresh snow 43 inches thick.
(AP, 3/13/98)(SFC, 3/13/09, p.D8)
1993 Mar 13, The Russian Congress
adjourned after a session that seriously weakened President Boris
Yeltsin's power.
(AP, 3/13/98)
1994 Mar 13, A South African
diplomat took over as leader of Bophuthatswana as the black homeland's
president, Lucas Mangope, was deposed.
(AP, 3/13/99)
1994 Mar 13, The Israeli Cabinet
outlawed two Jewish extremist groups, Kach and Kahane Lives, branding
them terrorist organizations.
(AP, 3/13/99)
1995 Mar 13, Two Americans working
for U.S. defense contractors in Kuwait, David Daliberti and William
Barloon, were seized by Iraq after they strayed across the border;
sentenced to eight years in prison, both were freed the following July.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1995 Mar 13, Istanbul police
killed at least 15 Alawi (Alevi) demonstrators.
(http://tinyurl.com/byu4j)
1996 Mar 13, World leaders,
including President Clinton, held a summit in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt,
where they vowed unequivocal support for the Mideast peace process.
(AP, 3/13/97)
1996 Mar 13, Liggett, the nation's
fifth-largest tobacco company, made history by settling a private
class-action lawsuit alleging cigarette makers manipulated nicotine to
hook smokers. Liggett became the first tobacco company to acknowledge
that cigarettes are addictive and cause cancer. In 1997 Bennet LeBow,
owner of Liggett, revealed that Philip Morris had agreed to pay $10
million per year in legal fees while he kept silent.
(AP, 3/15/97)(SFC, 7/22/97, p.A2)
1996 Mar 13, Thomas Hamilton (43)
killed 16 kindergarten children, a teacher and himself in a classroom
in Dunblane, Scotland.
(WSJ, 3/14/96, p.A-1)(AP, 3/13/01)
1997 Mar 13, Eddie DeBartolo,
owner of the SF 49ers, was awarded a Louisiana casino license one day
after paying former Gov. Edwin Edwards $400,000 in cash.
(SFC, 4/12/00, p.A5)
1997 Mar 13, The UN General
Assembly voted 130 to 2 for Israel to abandon its plan to build new
Jewish housing on Arab land.
(SFC, 3/14/97, p.A12)
1997 Mar 13, In Australia it was
revealed that the 1995 award-winning autobiography of an Aboriginal
woman, “My Own Sweet Time, “ was actually written by a 47-year-old
white man in Sidney named Leon Carmen.
(SFC, 3/14/97, p.A16)
1997 Mar 13, A Jordanian soldier
fired on Israeli junior high school girls on a field trip, killing
seven of them. The soldier, Cpl. Ahmed Daqamseh, was later sentenced by
a military court to life in prison.
(SFC, 3/14/97, p.A13)(AP, 3/13/98)
1997 Mar 13, Four masked,
suspected Islamic gunmen opened fire in a Christian village in southern
Egypt and killed 14 men before escaping.
(SFC, 3/14/97, p.A16)(AP, 3/13/98)
1998 Mar 13, US Sergeant Major
Gene McKinney (47), once the Army's top enlisted man, was cleared on 18
of 19 charges brought against him by women who said he pressured them
for sex. He was convicted for obstruction of justice for trying to
persuade his chief accuser to lie. McKinney was reprimanded and demoted
by one rank.
(SFC, 3/14/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/17/98, p.A1)(AP, 3/13/99)
1998 Mar 13, U.S. Rep. Joseph P.
Kennedy II, D-Mass., announced he would not seek a seventh term.
(AP, 3/13/99)
1998 Mar 13, Canada legalized the
growing of industrial hemp
(SFC, 3/14/98, p.A10)
1998 Mar 13, Israeli and
Palestinian troops made a joint effort to end four days of protests
over the killing of West Bank workers.
(SFC, 3/14/98, p.A9)
1998 Mar 13, In Korea Pres. Kim
Dae-Jung approved an amnesty that cleared the records of 0f 5.5 million
Koreans and freed scores of political prisoners. He also planned to
release 2,300 prison inmates who spent over 2 decades in jail for
supporting North Korea.
(SFC, 3/13/98, p.A14)
1998 Mar 13, In Kosovo 40,000
ethnic Albanians protested against Serbia.
(SFC, 3/14/98, p.A8)
1999 Mar 13, Evander Holyfield,
the WBA and IBF champion, and Lennox Lewis, the WBC champion, kept
their respective titles after fighting to a controversial draw in New
York.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1999 Mar 13, It was reported that
Nasa measurements showed ice sheets in the low-lying areas of Greenland
were melting at the rate of 3-feet per year.
(SFC, 3/13/99, p.A6)(AP, 3/13/00)
1999 Mar 13, Garson Kanin,
playwright and film director, died in New York at age 86.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.D8)
1999 Mar 13, In Indonesia the
National Front Party of prime minister Mahathir Mohamad won elections
in oil-rich Sabah state with 25 of the 48 seats.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 13, In Kosovo 2 bombs
struck in Podujevo and 1 in Kosovska Mitrovica killing 6 people and
wounding 58. The state TV blamed the Albanians, who in turn blamed the
Serbs.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.A17)
1999 Mar 13, Serb government
forces destroyed more than 25 homes of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo,
apparently in retaliation for the killing of Serb civilians.
(AP, 3/13/00)
1999 Mar 13, In Turkey 13 people
were killed in a bomb attack on a shopping center in the Goztepe
section of Istanbul.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.A24)
1999 Mar 13, In Zimbabwe three
Americans appeared in court on charges of terrorism, espionage and
sabotage against Pres. Kabila. They had been tortured and pictures with
the names: Gary George Blanchfield, Jona Lamonte-Dixon, and Joseph
Pettijohn were displayed. The men were associated with Harvestfield
Ministries in Indianapolis.
(SFC, 3/13/99, p.A13)(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A8)(WSJ,
3/15/99, p.A1)
2000 Mar 13, A quarter century
after the end of the Vietnam War, US Defense Secretary William Cohen
arrived in Hanoi to push the pace of reconciliation.
(AP, 3/13/01)
2000 Mar 13, CBS began filming its
“Survivor” show on the Malaysian island of Pulau Tiga. Filming lasted
to April 20 and the last survivor was to be awarded a $1 million prize.
(SFC, 6/2/00, p.C15)
2000 Mar 13, The Tribune Co.
bought the LA Times in a $6.5 billion merger with the Times Mirror Co.
This ended 119 years of ownership of the LA Times by the Otis and
Chandler families.
(SFC, 3/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 13, In Costa Rica 2
American women were found shot to death near Cabhuita. Emily Howell of
Kentucky and Emily Eagen of Michigan were attacked while driving an
SUV. A 16-year-old boy was later arrested and 2 other suspects were
sought. Jorge Alberto Urbina (19) was arrested Mar 28. The 16-year-old
was sentenced to 14 ½ years in prison.
(SFC, 3/15/00, p.A10)(SFC, 3/28/00, p.A12)(SFC,
3/29/00, p.A15)(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Mar 13, In Japan the
government reported that the economy swung back into recession at the
end of 1999.
(SFC, 3/13/00, p.A11)
2000 Mar 13, In Taiwan the Taipei
market dropped 617 points in fear of an election win by Democratic
Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian.
(SFC, 3/14/00, p.A8)
2000 Mar 13, In Mongolia the Red
Cross reported that winter blizzards had killed over 1 million head of
livestock and that some 300,000 people were short of food. The dead
animal number was soon raised to 1.8 million, or 1 in every 15 in the
nation.
(SFC, 3/14/00, p.A10)(SFC, 3/27/00, p.A12)
2001 Mar 13, Pres. Bush backed off
from seeking reductions in carbon dioxide emissions due to projected
higher energy costs from a shift from coal to natural gas.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 13, Ahmed Ressam, an
Algerian national who was arrested with a carload of explosives just
before New Year's Eve 1999, went on trial in Los Angeles on charges of
plotting to bomb Seattle and other U.S. cities during the millennium
celebrations. He was convicted of terrorism the following month.
(AP, 3/13/02)
2001 Mar 13, In China four writers
were detained a few months after they had formed the New Youth Study
Group for discussing political change in China. In 2003 Xu Wei (28) and
Jin Haike (26) were sentenced to 10 years in prison for subverting
state power. Yang Zili (32) and Zhang Honghai (29) were sentenced to 8
years.
(SFC, 5/30/03, p.A16)
2001 Mar 13, In Costa Rica Shannon
Martin (23), a student from Topeka, Kan., was stabbed to death, after
she left a nightclub in Golfito, 100 miles south of San Jose. In 2003
Kattia Cruz, 28, and Luis Alberto Castro, 38, were found guilty of
murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the killing.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2001 Mar 13, France announced its
first case of foot-and-mouth disease, prompting the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to suspend imports of livestock and fresh meat from the
European Union.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/13/02)
2001 Mar 13, Japan’s Nikkei Stock
Average fell 351 to 11,819, a 16-year low.
(WSJ, 3/14/01, p.A14)
2001 Mar 13, In Indonesia
supporters and opponents of Pres. Wahid staged protests as police
clashed with students who threw rocks and gasoline bombs in Jakarta.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 13, North Korea cancelled
negotiations with South Korea due to Pres. Bush’s toughened stance on
the North.
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A10)
2002 Mar 13, President Bush
declared at a news conference that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a
menace "and we're going to deal with him," and said Osama bin Laden had
been reduced to a marginal figure in the war on terrorism.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2002 Mar 13, The US Senate
rejected higher fuel economy standards for cars.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 13, Pres. Mubarek of
Egypt said he would press Iraq to readmit UN weapons inspectors and had
received indications of agreement.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 13, In India a high-court
panel ruled that no religious ceremony may be held in Ayodhya at the
67-acre site of the former Babri Masjid mosque, destroyed by Hindus in
1992. Mahant Paramhans Ramchandra, head of the Ram temple movement,
vowed to defy the court order.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A7)(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A16)
2002 Mar 13, In Indonesia Sjahril
Sabirin, governor of the central bank, was convicted of corruption and
sentenced to 3 years in prison. In 1999 some $80 million intended for
the bailout of PT Bank Bali was used to help finance the election
campaign of then Pres. Habibie.
(WSJ, 3/14/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 13, Palestinians set off
a bomb next to an Israeli tank escorting a convoy in Gaza and 3
Israelis were killed. 2 Palestinians stabbed an Israeli husband and
wife in Nachliel. An Italian photographer was killed by fire from an
Israeli tank.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 13, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe was declared the winner with 1.6 million votes to Tsvangirai’s
1.2 mil. The opposition apposed the results and many observers
described the process as deeply flawed.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A7)
2003 Mar 13, Forced into a
diplomatic retreat, U.S. officials said President Bush might delay a
vote on his troubled United Nations resolution or even drop it, and
fight Iraq without the international body's backing.
(AP, 3/13/04)
2003 Mar 13, The Senate voted
64-33 to ban a procedure that critics called partial birth abortion.
(AP, 3/13/04)
2003 Mar 13, In Alaska Robert
Sorlie of Norway won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race in nine days, 15
hours, 47 minutes.
(AP, 3/13/04)
2004 Mar 13 Iran froze inspections
of its nuclear facilities after the U.N. atomic agency censured Tehran
for hiding suspect activities. Tehran relented two days later.
(AP, 3/12/05)
2003 Mar 13, Israeli soldiers
mistakenly killed 2 Israeli security guards.
(SFC, 3/14/03, p.A13)
2003 Mar 13, Nepal and Maoist
rebels agreed to release all prisoners of war and set guidelines for
peace.
(WSJ, 3/14/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 13, The UN Human Rights
chief excoriated the US Guantanamo policy. He said the world shouldn't
have territory "where no law applies."
(WSJ, 3/14/03, p.A1)
2004 Mar 13, Near Barstow,
California, robotic vehicles began a 200-mile road race sponsored by
DARPA. The Pentagon sponsored race ended without a winner, as none of
the autonomous vehicles built by the 15 qualifying teams was able to
travel farther than 7 miles from the starting line.
(SFC, 3/13/04, p.A1)(AP, 3/14/04)
2004 Mar 13, In Afghanistan
Taliban armed with rockets and heavy machine guns attacked a government
office near the Afghan-Pakistan border, sparking a firefight that
killed one Afghan soldier and three Taliban.
(AP, 3/14/04)
2004 Mar 13 Iran froze inspections
of its nuclear facilities after the U.N. atomic agency censured Tehran
for hiding suspect activities. Tehran relented two days later.
(AP, 3/12/05)
2004 Mar 13, In Tikrit, Iraq, a
roadside bomb killed two American soldiers and wounded three. 3
American soldiers died in two bomb explosions in Baghdad. A 4th died
from his injuries the next morning.
(AP, 3/13/04)(AP, 3/14/04)
2004 Mar 13, Israeli soldiers shot
and killed two Palestinian militants in an off-limits military zone
between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 3/13/04)
2004 Mar 13, In Pakistan the India
cricket team beat a Pakistan team at Karachi's National Stadium in a
match that came down to the final ball.
(SSFC, 3/14/04, p.A15)
2005 Mar 13, The Disney Corp.
board of directors named Robert Iger to succeed Michael Eisner in
October.
(WSJ, 3/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 13, In southern Brazil a
tourist-filled bus crashed into a logging truck, killing seven people
and injuring at least 20.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 13, Paul Schaefer (83),
former head of a secretive German colony in southern Chile, was flown
to Santiago after his arrest in Argentina. Schaefer founded Colonia
Dignidad, or Dignity Colony, a commune-like enclave in 1961, and is
accused in the disappearance of a dissident under dictator Gen. Augusto
Pinochet.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 13, In India at least 19
people were killed and 15 injured when a bus skidded off a mountain
road into a deep gorge in Uttaranchal.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 13, Israel's Cabinet
adopted a report on the state's complicity in setting up 105 illegal
West Bank settlement outposts and decided to dismantle 24 of them.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 13, Kyrgyzstan held
parliamentary runoff elections amid rising tension over signs the
longtime leader plans to extend his rule beyond constitutional limits.
President Askar Akayev (60) won an overwhelmingly loyal Parliament in
runoff elections. The opposition won 6 of 75 seats and said the vote
was riddled with abuses.
(AP, 3/14/05)(SFC, 3/15/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 13, Vigilantes in Oaxaca,
Mexico, killed a state police officer setting him on fire in revenge
for the shooting of a taxi driver in a barroom brawl.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 13, Saudi police killed
an alleged Islamic militant and arrested three others in a shootout at
a suspected terror cell hideout in the Red Sea city of Jiddah.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 13, In Musina, South
Africa, thousands of protesters held an 18-hour vigil on the border
with Zimbabwe to demonstrate against mounting repression in the
neighboring country two weeks before a key parliamentary election there.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 13, Pope John Paul II was
released from the hospital and returned to his Vatican apartment
overlooking St. Peter's Square.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2005 Mar 13, Venezuela announced
that it would seize parts of 4 large estates, some 270,000 acres of
farmland, after finding irregularities in their ownership status.
(WSJ, 3/15/05, p.A18)
2006 Mar 13, The US Agriculture
Dept. confirmed that a cow in Alabama had tested positive for mad cow
disease. The animal had not entered the food supply for people of
animals. This case of the disease, as well as one from Texas in 2005,
was later reported as atypical.
(SFC, 3/14/06, p.A3)(SFC, 6/12/06, p.A6)
2006 Mar 13, Deadly tornadoes
raked the Midwest while wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2006 Mar 13, The Cleveland Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Black Sabboth, Blondie, Miles Davis,
Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Sex Pistols at a ceremony in NYC.
(SFC, 3/14/06, p.A2)
2006 Mar 13, The National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force announced a merger with the Institute for Welcoming
Resources, a religious group representing 1,400 Protestant
organizations that unconditionally welcome gays and lesbians.
(SFC, 3/14/06, p.A2)
2006 Mar 13, US Credit-card issuer
Capital One Financial Corp. said it has agreed to buy North Fork
Bancorp. Inc. in a stock and cash deal worth about $14.6 billion.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, The McClatchy Co.
said it has reached a deal to buy Knight Ridder Inc., the
second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher, for about $4.5 billion in cash
and stock. McClatchy will also assume about $2 billion in Knight
Ridder's debt.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, South Korea’s Kia
Motors Corp. said it will build a $1.2 billion factory in West Point,
Ga., its first in the US. Toyota said it will build a plant in
Lafayette, Ind.
(SFC, 3/14/06, p.D3)
2006 Mar 13, Heart researchers
said clogging of arteries by plaque was reversed through aggressive use
of an anticholesterol statin.
(WSJ, 3/14/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 13, Peter Tomarken (63),
former host of the 1980s TV game show "Press Your Luck," and his wife,
Kathleen Abigail Tomarken (41), were killed along with 2 others when
their small plane crashed into Santa Monica Bay, Ca.
(www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18559,00.html?fdnews)
2006 Mar 13, Maureen Stapleton
(b.1925), film and stage actress, died in Lenox, Mass.
(SFC, 3/14/06, p.B5)
2006 Mar 13, Abdul Rahim Wardak,
Afghanistan's defense minister, said the national army will be fully
operational within four to five years and ready to take over more
responsibility for security from international troops.
(Reuters, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, A UN agency said bird
flu has been found at two sites in Afghanistan and there's a high risk
that tests could prove it to be the deadly H5N1 strain.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Bangladesh riot
police fired tear gas in Dhaka to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing
activists who tried to march in support of a general strike.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Rana Abdel Rahim
Koleilat (39), a fugitive bank executive wanted for questioning in the
U.N. probe of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's
assassination, was arrested in Brazil on an unrelated charge. She
offered officers up to $200,000 to release her and was arrested on a
charge of attempted bribery. In 2003 Koleilat made headlines in Lebanon
and Europe in connection with questions about her role in the
disappearance of $300 million from the private Medina Bank where she
worked. The funds' disappearance was the worst financial scandal at a
Lebanese bank since the country's 1975-90 civil war.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Defense Secretary
John Reid said Britain will cut its forces in Iraq by 10 percent, a
reduction of about 800 troops, by May because Iraqi security forces are
becoming more capable of handling security.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, In London 6 men
participated in a drug trial and soon became seriously ill. The men had
been given does of TGN1412, a monoclonal antibody developed by TeGenero
AG of Wuerzburg, Germany, for treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory
diseases and leukemia.
(AP, 3/16/06)(Econ, 4/8/06, p.78)
2006 Mar 13, Newly inaugurated
President Michelle Bachelet said that all Chileans older than 60 will
immediately begin receiving free care at public hospitals.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, News reports said the
world industrial-standards association has rejected China's
controversial wireless encryption standard for global use.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Liu Zhijun, China’s
minister of railways, announced $25 billion plans to build two new
high-speed train lines linking Shanghai with Beijing (1320km) and
another linking Shanghai and Hangzhou (175km). Plans included the use
of magnetic levitation technology that can reach speeds of 260 mph.
(AP, 3/13/06)(Econ, 3/25/06, p.69)
2006 Mar 13, Germany's public
sector strikes entered their sixth week developing into a test of union
strength and exposing cracks between the parties in Chancellor Angela
Merkel's coalition government.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Merck KGaA, a maker
of pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals, launched a 15-billion-euro
(18-billion-dollar) hostile takeover bid for Berlin-based rival
Schering, opening the way for a bitter bidding battle.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Indonesia's state-run
oil and gas company Pertamina and Exxon Mobil Corp. agreed to jointly
operate the country's largest untapped oil field, ending a five-year
dispute that had shaken foreign investors' confidence in the sprawling
archipelago.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Iranian lawmakers
approved spending $15 million to investigate alleged American
intervention in the country.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Iraqi officials
received a report alleging that American soldiers had killed a family
of 4 in the Khasir Abyad area, about 6 miles north of Mahmoudiya.
Police found four hanged men dangling from electricity pylons in a
Baghdad Shiite slum, hours after car bombs and mortars shells ripped
through teeming market streets, killing at least 58 people and wounding
more than 200. An armed group that says it was created with government
backing to drive al-Qaida fighters out of a restive Iraqi province
claimed that it had killed five top members of the terrorist group. 2
US soldiers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 28th
Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, were killed in
fighting in Anbar province.
(AP, 3/13/06)(AP, 3/15/06)(AP, 7/1/06)
2006 Mar 13, The Tokyo Stock
Exchange said shares of disgraced Japanese Internet startup Livedoor
Co. will be delisted from the exchange next month over alleged
securities law violations.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Leaders of Lebanon's
rival factions resumed talks after a weeklong break in an attempt to
agree on the biggest issues that divide the country, the fate of the
pro-Syrian president and the U.N. call for Hezbollah's disarmament.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Mexico’s attorney
general said he will close a special prosecutor's office dedicated to
investigating atrocities committed by the government during its
two-decade campaign to weed out suspected guerrillas and leftists.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Myanmar reported its
first case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Nepal's royal
government offered amnesty, cash, jobs and land to communist rebels who
surrender in the next three months.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, In Nigeria and
official report said ethnic and religious fighting, land disputes and
communal conflicts have driven more than three million Nigerians from
their homes since the return to democracy in 1999.
(Reuters, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, A Spanish judge
indicted 32 people for allegedly plotting to drive a truck packed with
explosives into a courthouse that has been the hub for anti-terrorism
investigations. Authorities suspected that Mohamed Achraf was planning
to ram a truck loaded with 1,100 pounds of explosives into the court in
downtown Madrid.
(AP, 3/21/06)
2006 Mar 13, Jan Egeland, the UN
humanitarian chief, said increasing violence has left hundreds of
thousands of civilians in Sudan's Darfur region without food and facing
the prospect of widespread disease and death within weeks.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, Pope Benedict XVI and
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks at the Vatican about Iran,
Iraq and the prospects for lasting peace in the Middle East.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2007 Mar 13, Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales admitted mistakes in how the Justice Department
handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but said he wouldn't
resign.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2007 Mar 13, Federal agents in
Connecticut raided New Haven police headquarters and charged the head
of the narcotics division with stealing thousands of dollars planted by
the FBI during sting operations.
(AP, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 13, In Alaska Lance
Mackey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, in nine days, five hours,
eight minutes.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2007 Mar 13, New Mexico got an
official state neckwear, a real Western icon, the bolo tie.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, The US Mortgage
Bankers Association reported that 13% of subprime borrowers were behind
in their payments. It was estimated that 13% of all adjustable rate
mortgages originated between 2004 and 2006 and were headed for
repossession in the next few years.
(Econ, 3/24/07, p.79)
2007 Mar 13, Viacom filed a $1
billion suit against YouTube and parent company Google, to stop the
publication of Viacom videos without authorization.
(SFC, 3/14/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 13, Environmental group
Greenpeace launched a fresh attack on genetically modified maize
developed by US biotech giant Monsanto, saying that rats fed on one
version developed liver and kidney problems.
(Reuters, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Scientists reported
the discovery of what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably
methane or ethane, on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, with
one about as big as Montana.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Entrepreneur Marc
Hodosh (34) was named senior director of the Archon Genomics X Prize.
His job was to offer $10 million to the first team of researchers that
can accurately map the genetic codes of 100 people in 10 days for a
cost of $10,000 or less per genome. The competition was launched in
2006 year by the nonprofit X Prize Foundation of Santa Monica, Calif.,
which also has sponsored races to build commercial spacecraft and
fuel-efficient cars.
(http://tinyurl.com/2vfp9b)(Econ, 12/8/07, p.94)
2007 Mar 13, In Boston Raymond
Echavarria (23) dragged his ex-girlfriend, Xiomara Rhodes (21) into an
elevator in the office building where she worked and ignited a can of
gasoline. Investigators treated the slaying as a murder-suicide.
(SFC, 3/16/07, p.A8)
2007 Mar 13, A suicide bomber
crossed the border from Pakistan into southern Afghanistan and blew
himself up in a crowded pedestrian area, killing three civilians and
wounding eight.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Australia and Japan
signed a groundbreaking defense pact in Tokyo that the leaders of both
countries stressed was not aimed at reining in China, but the road
ahead for a two-way trade deal looked rougher.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, The British
government published its climate-change bill.
(Econ, 3/17/07, p.60)
2007 Mar 13, Brazil announced that
it will build a wall on a small portion of its border with Paraguay in
an effort to combat contraband and smuggling.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Canada said it had
the highest population growth rate among G-8 industrialized nations
between 2001 and 2006, thanks to the arrival of 1.2 million immigrants.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, In Colombia Trino
Luna, the governor of Magdalena province, surrendered to federal
prosecutors, becoming the first opposition politician arrested as part
of the widening scandal over links between the country's political
elite and far-right militias.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Some 20 lawmakers
fired last week by Ecuador's top electoral court for allegedly
interfering with plans for a constitutional referendum forced their way
past dozens of police guarding Congress and took up their seats.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Five Europeans,
kidnapped in Ethiopia and held captive for 13 days, were released in
good health in Eritrea. 8 Ethiopians kidnapped with the group were
still missing.
(AP, 3/14/07)(WSJ, 3/14/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 13, France's highest
court rejected as unlawful the first marriage by a gay couple in
France, annulling the union of the two men.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Iraq's Shiite prime
minister made a groundbreaking and unannounced visit to Ramadi, the
Sunni insurgent stronghold in Anbar province. A roadside bomb hit a
minibus carrying Industry Ministry employees in northern Baghdad,
killing two workers and wounding six. In Suwayrah police dragged two
bodies out of Tigris River. The bodies showed signs of torture. In Kut
gunmen killed Ibrahim Sasa, an interpreter working for coalition troops.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, In Jamaica Cricket’s
World Cup began with the 1st match between Pakistan and the West
Indies. The ICC Cricket World Cup was hosted by the West Indies from
March 13 to April 28, 2007.
(http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/03/12/cricket.schedule/index.html)
2007 Mar 13, In Mexico Pres. Bush
met with Pres. Felipe Calderon in Merida. Bush sought to soothe
strained ties by promising to prod Congress to overhaul tough US
immigration policies, but Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized
US plans for a 700-mile border fence. Hundreds of demonstrators marched
to the US Embassy in Mexico City, attacking riot police with concrete
blocks, metal bars and tearing down barricades to protest Bush's visit.
(AP, 3/14/07)(AP, 3/13/08)
2007 Mar 13, A Hamas military
commander was killed in a shootout with Fatah gunmen shortly before the
leaders of the two groups met to try to bridge their differences over a
power-sharing deal.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Russian President
Vladimir Putin and Pope Benedict XVI met for the highest-level
Kremlin-Vatican talks in more than three years, focusing on easing
tension between Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians and finding
common ground in denouncing intolerance and extremism.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, In Serbia former
customs chief Mihalj Kertes, a key aide to late President Slobodan
Milosevic, was charged for allegedly siphoning off millions of dollars
of state money.
(AP, 3/17/07)
2007 Mar 13, Somalia's president
came under mortar attack in his palace, hours after arriving for a rare
visit to the increasingly violent capital, witnesses said. A
12-year-old boy was killed and three of his siblings were wounded in
the shelling.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Alice Amafo,
Suriname's youngest-ever Cabinet member, resigned amid reports she used
thousands of dollars in government funds to pay for her 30th birthday
party.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 13, Vietnam's former
deputy trade minister and his son went on trial for accepting bribes
for quotas to export textiles to the US, in a major graft case with 14
defendants.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2008 Mar 13, The US House
Republicans’ campaign committee said it is missing several hundred
thousand dollars, and possibly more, after discovering suspected
fraudulent activity by former treasurer Christopher Ward, who was
dismissed on Jan 28.
(WSJ, 3/14/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 13, US gold futures
rallied to a record high of $1,000 an ounce, fueled by a combination of
a weakening dollar, strong investment demand and inflation fears due to
rising crude oil prices.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 13, The Florida Senate
passed a bill that could mean suspensions for students with droopy
britches. Orlando Sen. Gary Siplin, a Democrat, has said the fashion
statement has a back-story -- it was made popular by rap artists after
first appearing among prison inmates as a signal they were looking for
sex.
(Reuters, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, AOL said it will
acquire Bebo, a social Web site, for $850 million.
(SFC, 3/14/08, p.C1)
2008 Mar 13, In Afghanistan a
remote-controlled bomb hit a police vehicle in Saydabad district of
Wardak province, killing one policeman and wounding four others. A
suicide bomber in Kabul targeting US troops killed 6 Afghan civilians.
(AP, 3/13/08)(SFC, 3/14/08, p.A17)
2008 Mar 13, Canada’s Parliament
voted to extend its mission in Afghanistan to 2011, provided NATO
supplies more troops and equipment to back up its forces in the
volatile south.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, Chad accused Sudan of
sending anti-government rebels across their border into its territory
as international mediators struggled to broker a fresh peace accord
between the two neighbors. The presidents of Chad and Sudan signed a
non-aggression pact, vowing not to support rebel attacks against each
other, many of which were launched from troubled Darfur.
(AP, 3/13/08)(AFP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, Chile said it has
agreed to receive 117 Palestine refugees from Iraq who have spent
months living in tents along the desert border with Syria.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, In China an avalanche
buried 12 workers at a mountainous construction site for a pipeline in
the far northwest.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 13, A human rights group
said Chinese sales of assault rifles and other small arms to its ally
Sudan have grown rapidly during the Darfur conflict despite a UN arms
embargo.
(Reuters, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 13, A deployment of 100
Sudanese soldiers arrived in Comoros, ahead of a likely African
Union-backed operation against the rebel island of Anjouan.
(AFP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, Cuba and Mexico
declared their once-chilly relations fully restored, and Cuba's foreign
minister said he will soon deliver a formal invitation for Mexico's
president to visit the island.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, In Egypt A Muslim
Brotherhood leader said more than 90 percent of Egyptian Islamist
candidates have been prevented from registering for April local
elections due to a crackdown by the regime and a campaign of
obstruction.
(AFP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 13, In Ethiopia a bus hit
a landmine near the disputed Ethiopian-Eritrean border, killing at
least eight people and wounding 27 others.
(AFP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, Volkswagen, the
biggest European car maker, vowed to become "the best auto manufacturer
in the world" and welcomed a looming takeover by luxury sports car
maker Porsche.
(AFP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 13, Indian police
arrested 100 Tibetan exiles trying to walk to their homeland as part of
a major protest ahead of the Beijing Olympics, although the
demonstrators vowed the march would go on.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 13, A parked car bomb
exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad, killing 18 people
and wounding 57. 5 members of an Awakening Council were killed when
gunmen attacked two separate checkpoints near Tikrit. A female suicide
bomber attacked an Awakening Council gathering in the village of Zab
outside Kirkuk and 3 people were killed with seven others wounded.
(AP, 3/13/08)(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, The militant Islamic
Jihad group in Gaza fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel
after Israeli undercover forces killed one of its West Bank leaders,
shattering a recent lull in Gaza fighting.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 13, In central Mexico 6
people were shot and killed inside a private law office in Guadalajara.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, The Dutch parliament
voted unanimously to outlaw bestiality and pornography involving
animals.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 13, In Pakistan more than
1,000 tribesmen protested against the killing of eight civilians by
Pakistani forces this week in the lawless Bajaur tribal region.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 13, Serbian President
Boris Tadic disbanded parliament and called an early general election
for May 11.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2009 Mar 13, The Obama
administration dropped the use of the term “enemy combatant” for
suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay and slightly modified
the legal standard used to justify their continued imprisonment.
(WSJ, 3/14/09, p.A3)
2009 Mar 13, California said it
faced a new $8 billion shortfall by July 2010 due to declining tax
revenues.
(WSJ, 3/14/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 13, Alan W. Livingston
(91), the music executive who created Bozo the Clown and signed the
Beatles during his tenure as president of Capitol Records, died ion
Beverly Hills. He came up with the Bozo the Clown character for the
1946 album "Bozo at the Circus," which became a hit and spawned a
cottage industry of merchandise and the television series featuring the
wing-haired clown.
(AP, 3/15/09)
2009 Mar 13, Betsy Blair (85),
Oscar-nominated actress and teenage bride (1941-1957) of Gene Kelly,
died in London. In the late 1940s Blair took parts in "The Guilt of
Janet Ames," and "A Double Life." But her movie career stalled after
her enthusiasm for leftist causes landed her on Hollywood's blacklist.
The New Jersey-born actress later married film director Karel Reisz.
(AP, 3/20/09)
2009 Mar 13, Dozens of popular
tourist beaches on Australia's northeast coast were declared a disaster
zone, with their once-pristine sands fouled by a massive oil and
chemical slick. Queensland state's marine safety authority said up to
100 tons of fuel, 250,000 liters, were now believed to have spilled
from the Hong Kong-flagged ship Pacific Adventurer amid cyclonic
conditions on March 11.
(AP, 3/13/09)(Econ, 3/21/09, p.45)
2009 Mar 13, Terra Firma, a
London-based private equity firm, announced it would buy 90% of
Consolidated pastoral Company, the Australian cattle holdings of the
Packer family, which encompass 12 million acres of land.
(Econ, 3/21/09, p.67)
2009 Mar 13, In Bangladesh a fire
at Dhaka’s 22-story Bashundhara City mall killed at least 7 people as
helicopters plucked survivors from the roof.
(SFC, 3/14/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 13, Thousands of people
across Britain took part in events for Red Nose Day, with money going
towards helping the disadvantaged in Africa and Britain.
(AFP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 13, In Burundi an albino
man was murdered and dismembered overnight by suspected smugglers with
links to Tanzanian witch doctors, the fourth such case in a month in
the central African nation.
(AFP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 13, Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao said Beijing is willing to hold talks with the Dalai Lama if
Tibet's exiled spiritual leader abandons his separatist cause, as he
defended his government's hard-line policies toward the region.
(AP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 13, In Greece dozens of
youths carrying sledgehammers and iron bars smashed cars, banks and
storefronts in an upscale district of central Athens. Leaflets
identified the attackers as members of local anarchist groups. A
similar attack also occurred in the northern city of Thessaloniki,
leaving three banks damaged.
(AP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 13, Japan said it could
shoot down any threatening object falling toward its territory, after
North Korea said a planned rocket launch would send it across Japanese
territory.
(AP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 13, In Kyrgyzstan Medet
Sadyrkulov, a key opposition figure to Pres. Bakiyev, was killed in an
alleged car crash that left him and 2 passengers burned beyond
recognition.
(WSJ, 3/14/09, p.A6)(Econ, 1/9/10, p.45)
2009 Mar 13, In southern
Nigeria an attack took place on Chevron Nigeria Limited’s 16-inch
Makaraba-Utonana pipeline. The attack forced Chevron cut its crude oil
production by 11,500 barrels per day.
(AFP, 3/17/09)
2009 Mar 13, Pakistani officials
appealed to the opposition to join talks aimed at resolving the
country's political crisis, even as police stepped up a crackdown on
activists trying to reach the capital for a planned anti-government
protest.
(AP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 13, Tristan Anderson (38)
of Oakland, Calif., was wounded in the West Bank village of Naalin,
during a protest against Israel's separation barrier. He remained in
serious condition after undergoing surgery.
(AP, 3/14/09)
2009 Mar 13, Russia’s Kontinental
Management said it has closed for good its Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill,
located on the southern edge of Lake Baikal. It halted production in
October. The plant has polluted the world's largest freshwater lake
with chemical effluent for decades.
(AP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 13, A spokeswoman for
Doctors Without Borders says 35 of its foreign staff are leaving Darfur
after the abduction of three colleagues.
(AP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 13, The Swiss government
said it would cooperate on cases of international tax evasion, breaking
with a long-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused
of hiding billions of dollars in the Alpine nation.
(AP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 13, Taiwan’s economic
stimulus package was reported to include a $104 shopping voucher for
every one of the island’s 23 million people to be used between the
Chinese New year and the end of April. Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin added
$150 food vouchers for the poor along with job training programs,
financial incentives for new hires and loan guarantees for small
businesses.
(SFC, 3/13/09, p.C1)
2009 Mar 13, In Thailand suspected
Muslim militants killed 3 soldiers in an ambush in southern Narathiwat
province.
(SFC, 3/14/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 13, In Uganda a building
collapsed in the capital, Kampala, when nearby construction loosened
the foundation. At least five people were killed and dozens remained
trapped under the rubble.
(AP, 3/13/09)
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