Today in History - March 14
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Pi day, the third month and the 14th day (3.14), which
represents the approximate ratio of a circle’s circumference to its
diameter. The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet was 1st used as a
mathematical symbol in 1706 by William Jones.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.C5)(WSJ, 3/15/05, p.B1)
840
Mar 14, Eginhard (69), French nobleman, biographer
(Vita Karoli Magni), died.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1461 Mar 14, In Edward, son of the
Duke of York, claimed the crown and was proclaimed King Edward IV in
Westminster Abbey.
(MH, 12/96)
1559 Mar 14, Jacques d'Auchy,
Walloon Baptist merchant, was executed.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1573 Mar 14, Claude II of
Lotharingen, duke of Aumale, died. He murdered Huguenot leader Adm.
Coligny. (see Aug 24, 1572]
(MC, 3/14/02)
1629 Mar 14, A Royal charter was
granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1644 Mar 14, Roger Williams of
Providence, Rhode Island, was issued a charter in the name of the king,
which connected the towns of Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport under
the title of "the Incorporation of Providence Plantations in the
Narragansett Bay in New England." A March 24 date is also common for
this and reflects later use of the new style calendar.
(www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/rhodeisl_fe.html)
1681 Mar 14, Georg Philipp
Telemann, late baroque composer, was born in Magdeburg, Germany.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1692 Mar 14, Peter Musschenbroek,
Dutch physician, physicist (Leyden jar), was born.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1727 Mar 14, Johann Gottlieb
Goldberg, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1743 Mar 14, The first recorded
town meeting in America was held at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1755 Mar 14, Pierre-Louis
Couperin, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1757 Mar 14, John Byng (52),
British Admiral, was executed by a firing squad on board HMS Monarch
for neglect of duty. Early in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), Byng
was called on to relieve a British fort on the Mediterranean island of
Minorca which was being attacked by French forces. He was sent with a
small, undermanned fleet. Several ship were badly damaged in subsequent
skirmishes with the French, prompting Byng to turn back to Gibraltar.
The fort was eventually forced to capitulate. He was brought home,
court-martialled and executed for breach of Articles of War. In 2007
his descendants sought a posthumous pardon.
(HN, 3/14/99)(Reuters,
3/15/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng)
1768 Mar 14, Vigilio Blasio
Faitello (58), composer, died.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1790 Mar 14, Captain Bligh
returned to England with news of the mutiny on the Bounty.
(ON, 3/04, p.9)
1794 Mar 14, Eli Whitney received
a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's
cotton industry. He paid substantial royalties to Catherine T. Greene
and this makes his claim to the invention suspect.
(AP, 3/14/97)(SFC, 10/4/97, p.E3)
1800 Mar 14, James Bogardus, US
inventor, builder (made cast-iron buildings), was born.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1801 Mar 14, Christian Friedrich
Penzel (63), composer, died.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1803 Mar 14, Friedrich Gottlieb
Klopstock (78), German poet, died.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1804 Mar 14, Johann Strauss
(d.1849), Austrian orchestra conductor and composer, was born. His son
was also named Johann (1825-1899).
(WUD, 1994, p.1405)(HN, 3/14/98)
1812 Mar 14, The US Congress
authorized war bonds to finance War of 1812.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1820 Mar 14, Victor Emmanuel II,
King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), was born.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1821 Mar 14, African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church founded in NY.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1833 Mar 14, Lucy Hobbs Taylor,
first woman dentist, was born.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1854 Mar 14, Thomas Riley
Marshall, 28th U.S. Vice President (Woodrow Wilson), was born.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1854 Mar 14, Paul Ehrlich, German
bacteriologist, was born. He later received the Nobel Prize for
medicine.
(HN, 3/14/99)
1861 Mar 14, Abraham Louis
Niedermeyer (58), composer, died.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1862 Mar 14, Battle of New Bern,
NC. General Burnside conquered New Bern, a strategic port and rail hub.
(AM, 11/04, p.28)
1864 Mar 14, Casey Jones (John
Luther Jones), railroad engineer, was born.
(HFA, ‘96, p.26)(HN, 3/14/01)(MC, 3/14/02)
1864 Mar 14, Rossini's "Petite
Messe Solennelle," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1864 Mar 14, Samuel and Florence
Baker arrived at Lake Luta N’Zige and named it Lake Albert. They soon
found that the Nile entered the lake at a 130-foot waterfall that they
named Murchison Falls (Uganda) after the president of the British Royal
Geographical Society. In 2004 Pat shipman authored “To the Heart of the
Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa.”
(ON, 10/01, p.12)(Econ, 4/24/04, p.87)
1875 Mar 14, Smetana's "Vysehrad,"
premiered.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1879 Mar 14, Physicist Albert
Einstein, mathematician best known for his theories on relativity was
born in Ulm, Germany. He received the Physics Nobel Prize in 1921.
(CFA, ‘96,Vol 179, p.42)(AP, 3/14/97)(HN,
3/14/02)(MC, 3/15/02)
1883 Mar 14, Karl Marx (64),
German political philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), died
in London.
(AP, 3/14/97)(MC, 3/14/02)
1885 Mar 14, Gilbert &
Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premiered in London.
(WSJ, 11/22/00, p.A20)(MC, 3/14/02)
1891 Mar 14, A mob in New Orleans
broke open a jail after a court dismissed charges against 19 Italian
men indicted for the murder of police chief David C. Hemmessey. 11 of
19 defendants were hanged. The book "Vendetta" by Richard Gambino, and
the movie of the same name, covered the event.
(SSFC, 2/1/04, p.M3)
1898 Mar 14, Henry Bessemer
(b.1813), English inventor and mechanical engineer, died. Bessemer
developed the first process for mass-producing steel inexpensively.
(ON, 9/06,
p.6)(www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/bessemer.html)
1900 Mar 14, Congress ratified the
Gold Standard Act for U.S. currency.
(AP, 3/14/97)(HN, 3/14/98)
1901 Mar 14, 1st performance of
Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1903 Mar 14, The Senate ratified
the Hay-Herran Treaty which guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a
canal at Panama. The treaty promised Colombia $10 million plus $250,000
annually for a zone 6 miles wide.
(HN, 3/14/98)(ON, 1/00, p.2)
1903 Mar 14, The 1st national bird
reservation was established in Sebastian, Florida.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1906 Apr 14, Russian writer Maxim
Gorky was in NYC raising funds for the revolt in Russia. He had just
been ordered out of 2 respectable hotels due to his relationship with
Russian actress Mlle. Andreivea.
(SFC, 4/15/06, p.A7)
1907 Mar 14, President Theodore
Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese
laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a
"gentlemen's agreement" with Japan.
(AP, 3/14/07)
1912 Mar 14, An anarchist named
Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempted to kill Italy’s King Victor
Emmanuel III in Rome.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1915 Mar 14, The British Navy sank
the German battleship Dresden off the Chilean coast.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1916 Mar 14, In the Battle of
Verdun Germans attacked on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1917 Mar 14, China broke off
diplomatic relations with Germany.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1918 Mar 14, An all-Russian
Congress of Soviets ratified a peace treaty with the Central Powers.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1919 Mar 14, Max Shulman, novelist
(Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), was born.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1919 Mar 14, Emile Cottin was
condemned to death for the attempt on the life of Clemenceau.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1920 Mar 14, Hank Ketchum,
cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), was born in Seattle, Wa.
(MC, 3/14/02)(http://www.askart.com/Biography.asp)
1923 Mar 14, Diane Arbus [Nemerov]
(d.1971), photographer, innovator (Vogue and Harper's Bazaar), was born
in NYC. In 1984 Patricia Bosworth authored: "Diane Arbus: A Biography."
(MC, 3/14/02)(Internet)
1923 Mar 14, President Harding
became the first chief executive to file an income tax report.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1923 Mar 14, German Supreme Court
prohibited the NSDAP (Nazi Party).
(MC, 3/14/02)
1928 Mar 14, Frank Borman,
astronaut (Gem 7, Ap 8), CEO (Eastern Airline), was born in Gary, Ind.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1932 Mar 14, George Eastman (77),
US industrialist (Kodak-camera), committed suicide.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1933 Mar 14, Michael Caine,
[Maurice J. Micklewhite Jr.], actor (Alfie), was born in London.
(MC, 3/14/02)(SSFC, 2/9/03, Par p.4)
1933 Mar 14, Winston Churchill
wanted to boost air defense.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1934 Mar 14, Eugene Cerna,
American Astronaut who was the last man on the moon, was born.
(HN, 3/14/00)
1936 Mar 14, Hitler told a crowd
of 300,000 that Germany’s only judge is God and itself.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1939 Mar 14, Nash Kelvinator and
IBM were removed from the DJIA. AT&T was again added to the DJIA
along with United Aircraft.
(WSJ, 4/2/04, p.C4)
1939 Mar 14, The republic of
Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation of
Czech areas and the separation of Slovakia.
(AP, 3/14/08)
1940 Mar 14, Rita Tushingham,
actress (Green Eyes, Dr Zhivago), was born in Liverpool, England.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1940 Mar 14, A truck full of
migrant workers collided with a train outside McAllen, Texas. 27 people
were killed and 15 injured.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1941 Mar 14, Xavier Cugat and his
Orchestra recorded "Babalu."
(MC, 3/14/02)
1943 Mar 14, Aaron Copland’s
"Fanfare for the Common Man" premiered in New York, with George Szell
conducting.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1943 Mar 14, The Germans
reoccupied Kharkov in the Soviet Union.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1945 Mar 14, Sgt. 1st Class Marvin
Steinford, a native of Iowa, was part of a 10-man crew of a B-17 bomber
which was hit, while returning to its base in Italy from a mission over
Hungary. In 2004 his remains were found in a grave in the town on Zirc
in western Hungary, where he had been buried with 26 Soviet soldiers.
In 2009 his remains were returned to the US.
(AP, 8/4/09)
1945 Mar 14, Chile declared war on
Germany.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1945 Mar 14, A supreme
Lithuanian independence committee was re-formed in Germany. The
committee was 1st formed Nov 25, 1943, in Lithuania.
(LHC, 3/14/03)
1947 Mar 14, Billy Crystal,
comedian (Soap, SNL, City Slickers), was born in Long Beach, NY.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1947 Mar 14, The U.S. signed a
99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.
(HN, 3/14/98)
1950 Mar 14, The FBI began its "10
Most Wanted" list after a reporter asked for the names and descriptions
of the "toughest guys" the FBI would like to capture.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, Par p.4)
1951 Mar 14, During the Korean
War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1952 Mar 14, J. Fred Muggs, chimp
on the Today show, was born.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1958 Mar 14, RIAA certified its
1st gold record: Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1964 Mar 14, A jury in Dallas
found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused
assassin of President Kennedy, the previous November.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1965 Mar 14, Israel's cabinet
formally approved establishing diplomatic relations with West Germany.
(AP, 3/14/99)
1967 Mar 14, The body of President
Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site
at Arlington National Cemetery.
(AP, 3/14/98)(HN, 3/14/98)
1969 Mar 14, US Supreme Court
Justice Abe Fortas resigned under pressure for the acceptance of an
allegedly illegal payment from a former business associate.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas)
1969 Mar 14, Ben Shahn (1898),
Lithuanian-born American painter and photographer, died in NYC. Much of
his photography of done in New York’s Lower East Side and Greenwich
Village.
(WSJ, 12/1/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 2/1/00,
p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shahn)
1972 Mar 14, Pres. Nixon remarked
"It’s better to chase girls than boys…" after columnist Jack Anderson
reported that Ambassador Arthur Watson had groped flight attendants on
a trip home from Paris. A Congressional investigation prompted Watson’s
resignation.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A3)
1976 Mar 14, Busby Berkeley
(b.1895), US film director and choreographer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley)
1978 Mar 14, An Israeli force of
22,000 invaded south Lebanon, hitting the PLO bases.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_South_Lebanon_conflict)
1980 Mar 14, Pres. Carter signed
Executive order 12201 imposing credit controls to reduce inflation.
Credit usage plunged and GDP fell by an annualized 8%, the steepest
quarterly drop in 50 years.
(Econ, 10/18/08,
p.85)(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=33144)
1980 Mar 14, A Polish airliner
crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing
all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing
team.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1982 Mar 14, In Guatemala in
Cuarto Pueblo 309 villagers were killed over three days by government
troops.
(SFC, 12/9/96, p.A18)
1982 Mar 14, South African police
bombed the London offices of the African National Congress. Gen'l.
Johann Coetzee commander of apartheid police and 8 officers received
amnesty in 1999. Col. Eugene de Kock testified in 1998 that he blew up
a building belonging to the African National Congress in London and
received a Star of Excellence medal approved by Pres. Botha.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A12)(SFC, 10/16/99,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_in_South_Africa)
1987 Mar 14, President Reagan, in
his Saturday radio address, said he should have listened to Secretary
of State George P. Shultz and Defense Sec. Caspar Weinberger when they
advised him not to sell arms to Iran.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1988 Mar 14, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir arrived in Washington, D.C., with what he
called new ideas for Middle East peace talks, despite maintaining a
hard-line on Israel’s retention of the occupied West Bank and Gaza
Strip.
(AP, 3/14/98)
1989 Mar 14, In a policy shift,
the Bush administration announced an indefinite ban on imports of
semiautomatic assault rifles.
(AP, 3/14/99)
1990 Mar 14, The United States,
the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and West and East Germany held their
first formal meeting on reunifying the German states.
(AP, 3/14/00)
1990 Mar 14, The Soviet Congress
elected Mikhail S. Gorbachev president of the Soviet Congress, a day
after creating the post.
(HN, 3/14/98)(AP, 3/14/00)
1991 Mar 14, Speakers at a Los
Angeles Police Commission hearing demanded the ouster of Chief Daryl F.
Gates in the wake of the videotaped police beating of motorist Rodney
King.
(AP, 3/14/01)
1991 Mar 14, Doc Pomus (b.1925),
American blues singer and songwriter, died. He collaborated with
pianist Mort Shuman to write the hit songs: "Teenager in Love"; "Save
The Last Dance For Me"; "Hushabye"; "This Magic Moment"; "Turn Me
Loose"; "Sweets For My Sweet"; "Can't Get Used To Losing You"; "Little
Sister"; "Suspicion"; "Surrender"; "Viva Las Vegas"; and "His Latest
Flame (Marie's The Name)." In 2007 Alex Halberstadt authored “Lonely
Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Pomus)
1991 Mar 14, The emir of Kuwait
(Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah) returned home after seven months in
exile.
(AP, 3/14/01)
1991 Mar 14, A British court
reversed the convictions of the "Birmingham Six," who had spent 16
years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them
released after a court agreed that the police fabricated evidence.
(HN, 3/14/99)(AP, 3/14/01)
1992 Mar 14, The Associated Press
obtained the names of 22 of 24 of the worst offenders in the check
overdraft scandal at the House bank; topping the list were former Rep.
Tommy Robinson of Arkansas and Rep. Bob Mrazek of New York, both
Democrats.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1992 Mar 14, Soviet newspaper
"Pravda" suspended publication.
(www.hightowertrail.com/VanguardMar05.htm)
1992 Mar 14, Steven Brian Pennell
(34), serial killer, was executed. This was the 1st execution in
Delaware in 45 years.
(www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/pennell.htm)
1992 Mar 14, Jean Poiret (65),
French actor, writer (La Cage aux Folles), died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001144)
1993 Mar 14, An independent
U.N.-sponsored commission released a report blaming the bulk of
atrocities committed during El Salvador’s civil war on the country’s
military.
(AP, 3/14/98)
1994 Mar 14, Associate Attorney
General Webster Hubbell, a longtime friend of President and Mrs.
Clinton, resigned because of controversy over billings he'd charged
while in private law practice.
(AP,
3/14/99)(www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/april97/hubbell_4-2.html)
1994 Mar 14, US Secretary of State
Warren Christopher wrapped up three days of meetings with Chinese
leaders, who rejected attempts to link their human rights record with
preferred trade status.
(AP, 3/14/99)
1995 Mar 14, American astronaut
Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a
Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off aboard a
Soyuz spacecraft, headed for the Mir space station.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1996 Mar 14, During a visit to
Israel, President Clinton pledged $100 million to the fight against
terrorism.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1996 Mar 14, The US approved arms
and equipment for Bosnia. It was the same day that the UN embargo on
small arms for the region was lifted. In the following weeks M-16
rifles, machine guns, field phone systems, and military radio equipment
arrived in Bosnia.
(SFC, 5/24/96, p.A12)
1996 Mar 14, Steve Forbes dropped
his quest for the Republican presidential nomination after spending $30
million of his own money.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1997 Mar 14, Surgeons at Bethesda
Naval Medical Center repaired a painful torn knee tendon in President
Clinton’s right leg. The injury had been caused by a freak
middle-of-the-night stumble at golfer Greg Norman’s Florida home.
(AP, 3/14/98)
1997 Mar 14, The Dow Jones
Industrial Average was updated with 4 new companies. Bethlehem Steel,
Texaco, Westinghouse Electric and Woolworth were taken off the list and
replaced by Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart Stores, Johnson & Johnson,
and the Travelers Group.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A1,15)
1997 Mar 14, Fred Zinnemann (89),
film director, died of heart attack in London, England.
(www.nndb.com/people/538/000032442/)
1997 Mar 14, In Albania chaos and
anarchy spread and some 23 people were reported killed across the
country. The US and Italy were airlifting citizens out of the country.
Near the Macedonian border a $10 million cigarette plant was burned
down.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A10)
1997 Mar 14, In northeastern Iran
a C-130 military cargo plane crashed near Mashad and all 86 people
aboard were believed killed.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)
1997 Mar 14, In Mexico five
Zapatista guerrillas were killed in a clash with the police in Chiapas.
Four were injured and 27 wounded when police dislodged hundreds who had
been squatting on a farm near San Pedro Nixtalucum.
(SFC, 3/17/97, p.A8)
1997 Mar 14, In Zaire after a 3
week siege of Kisangani, rebels attacked the city, the 3rd largest in
the country.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A10)
1997 Mar 15, An art show that
featured 13 oil paintings by Dr. Kevorkian opened in Royal Oak, Mich.
They depicted severed heads, moldering skulls and rotting corpses.
(SFC, 3/17/97, p.A2)
1998 Mar 14, India's Congress
party picked Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated prime
minister Rajiv Gandhi, as its new president.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.A13)(AP, 3/14/99)
1998 Mar 14, In Iran a 6.4
earthquake hit in the southeast and at least 5 people were killed and
thousands left homeless.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.A22)(AP, 3/14/99)
1999 Mar 14, The Clinton
administration conceded the Chinese had gained from technology
allegedly stolen from a federal nuclear weapons lab but insisted the
government responded decisively; Republicans demanded a comprehensive
review of U.S. policy toward China.
(AP, 3/14/00)
1999 Mar 14, In southeastern Congo
rebels reportedly killed over 100 villagers in retaliation for an
attack by pro-government militia. Moise Nyarugabo, head of the rebel
Congolese Democratic Coalition said his forces killed at least 150
Zimbabwean soldiers allied to Kabila at Kabinda. Zimbabwe denied the
report.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A9)(SFC, 3/17/99, p.C3)
1999 Mar 14, In India a fire swept
a New Delhi shantytown and at least 22 people were killed in the Vijay
Ghat district.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 14, In Kosovo heavy
fighting preceded the resumption of peace talks in Paris.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 14, In Turkmenistan the
warring factions of Afghanistan agreed in principle to a peace deal.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 14, In Venezuela Irene
Saez, a former Miss Universe, won the governorship of Margarita Island.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A9)
2000 Mar 14, Pres. Clinton and PM
Tony Blair said that the raw data of human genes "should be made freely
available to scientists everywhere."
(SFC, 3/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 14, Republican George W.
Bush and Democrat Al Gore clinched their presidential nominations in a
sweep of Southern primaries.
(AP, 3/14/01)
2000 Mar 14, It was reported the
Hugh McColl (64), CEO of Bank of America, received over $50 million in
stock and options in 1999 despite low earnings and a plunging stock
price.
(SFC, 3/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 14, Defending champion
Doug Swingley drove his dog team to victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled
Dog Race.
(AP, 3/14/01)
2000 Mar 14, In Florida a state
judge ruled the 1-year-old school voucher program unconstitutional.
(SFC, 3/15/00, p.A3)
2000 Mar 14, 5 convoys of trucks
were reported heading for Washington DC to protest the rising cost of
fuel and low freight rates.
(SFC, 3/14/00, p.A3)
2000 Mar 14, In Chile authorities
arrested former Gen. Eduardo Iturriaga for the 1975 shooting of former
Vice Pres. Bernardo Leighton and his wife, Ana, in Rome.
(SFC, 3/15/00, p.A10)
2000 Mar 14, In China an official
was sentenced to death for embezzling $1.4 million that was meant to
help relocate 1.3 million people displaced by the Three Gorges dam
project.
(WSJ, 3/15/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 14, Doug Swingley won the
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska for the third straight year.
(AP, 3/14/02)
2001 Mar 14, Inspectors tightened
U.S. defenses against foot-and-mouth disease a day after a case was
confirmed in France.
(AP, 3/14/02)
2001 Mar 14, The DJIA fell 317 to
close at 9,973. The Nasdaq fell 42 to close at 1,972.
(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 14, Bristol-Myers
proposed a $1 a day price per patient for its 2 AIDS medicines to
sub-Saharan African countries.
(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 14, Seven men were killed
by police in a Kingston suburb during an alleged shootout. 3 of the
dead were under 18. In 2003 five police officers were charged with
murder in the deaths of the 7 young men.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C3)(AP, 11/12/03)
2001 Mar 14, In Macedonia the
ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (UCK) extended its fight to
Tetovo, the country’s 2nd largest city.
(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A12)
2002 Mar 14, The US Justice Dept.
unveiled a criminal indictment against Arthur Anderson LLP on
obstruction of justice charges in the Enron case.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 14, The Bush
administration demanded that PM Ariel Sharon order a withdrawal from
Palestinian controlled areas.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 14, VP Cheney traveled to
Yemen to press for joint efforts against remnants of al Qaeda.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 14, A New Jersey federal
grand jury indicted Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh for the kidnapping and
murder of journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 14, John C. Polkinghorne,
a British mathematical physicist and Anglican priest, was named winner
of the 2002 $1 million Templeton Prize.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A4)
2002 Mar 14, It was reported that
scientists had developed a brain implant that allowed monkeys to
control a computer cursor by thought alone.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 14, In Georgia a
125-vehicle pileup left 4 people dead on foggy I-75.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 14, PM Ariel Sharon
announced a staged withdrawal from Ramallah ending the 2-week
"Operation Vital Security" and met with US envoy Anthony Zinni.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 14, In Pakistan Pres.
Musharraf said the war in Afghanistan is over. The 12 day Operation
Anaconda left as many as 800 enemy fighters dead.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 14, Yugoslavia was
declared dead as Serbia and Montenegro agreed to rename their
federation: "Serbia and Montenegro."
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 14, Yugoslav military
forces arrested a US diplomat and Yugoslav general outside Belgrade
with accusations of espionage. The diplomat was released after 15
hours. Former Gen. Perisic, deputy Prime minister, was released
Mar 16.
(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A8)(SSFC, 3/17/02, p.A20)
2003 Mar 14, Pres. Bush promised
to reveal a US "road map" to Middle East peace. It was contingent on
the confirmation of a Palestinian prime minister with real authority.
(SFC, 3/15/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 14, Police arrested 80
anti-war protesters in the SF financial district. They included Warren
Langley, former head of the Pacific Exchange.
(SFC, 3/15/03, p.A13)
2003 Mar 14, Actor Robert Blake
was released from jail on $1.5 million bail, 11 months after he was
arrested on charges of murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Blake was
later acquitted at trial.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2003 Mar 14, Christopher Boyce,
whose Cold War spying was immortalized on film in "The Falcon and the
Snowman," was released from a halfway house in San Francisco after
about a quarter-century in prison.
(AP, 3/14/04)
2003 Mar 14, Amanda Davis (32),
writing professor at Mills College in Oakland, Ca., was killed in a
small plane crash near Ashville, NC, along with her parents. She was on
a book signing tour for her novel "Wonder When You'll Miss Me."
(SFC, 3/19/03, p.D4)
2003 Mar 14, Hannah Foster (17)
was raped and murdered near Southampton, England. Maninder Pal Singh
Kohli fled Britain days after being named as a suspect. In 2007 a New
Delhi court ruled that Kohli (39) should face trial in Britain for the
2003 rape and murder, in a long-awaited verdict on the drawn-out
extradition wrangle.
(AP,
6/8/07)(www.nriinternet.com/NRI_Murdered/UK/Kohli/kohliIndex.htm)
2003 Mar 14, Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder gave a speech before the German Bundestag outlining the
proposed plans for reform. He pointed out three main areas which the
agenda would focus on: the economy, the system of social security, and
Germany's position on the world market. The agenda came to be called
Agenda 2010, a reference to the Lisbon Strategy's 2010 deadline.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_2010)
2003 Mar 14, In Matamoros, Mexico,
police arrested drug lord Osiel Cardenas Guillen (35), aka "El Loco."
(SFC, 3/15/03, p.A7)
2004 Mar 14, In southeastern
Afghanistan U.S.-led troops surprised eight enemy fighters in a cave
complex, prompting a gunbattle, which left 3 militiamen killed and 5
others wounded.
(AP, 3/15/04)
2004 Mar 14, China took symbolic
steps toward a more capitalist society, amending its constitution to
protect private property rights and formalizing a former president's
once-unthinkable legacy, inviting entrepreneurs to join the Communist
Party.
(AP, 3/14/04)
2004 Mar 14, Georgia's President
Mikhail Saakashvili put the country's military on alert after the
restive Adzharia region barred him from entering.
(AP, 3/14/04)
2004 Mar 14, In Haiti French
troops took over patrols in a slum where U.S. Marines killed at least
two people.
(AP, 3/14/04)
2004 Mar 14, In Israel 2
explosions killed eight people and wounding 18 at the seaport of
Ashdod. Police said 2 Palestinian suicide bombers were responsible.
(AP, 3/14/04)
2004 Mar 14, In South Korea tens
of thousands of demonstrators streamed into the streets of Seoul to
protest the impeachment of Pres. Roh Moo-hyun. Some 50,000 had gathered
the night before.
(AP, 3/14/04)
2004 Mar 14, Russian voters
overwhelmingly handed President Vladimir Putin a second four-year term.
It had long been seen as a foregone conclusion.
(AP, 3/14/04)
2004 Mar 14, Elections in Spain
returned the Socialists to power. Mariano Rajoy (48) of the ruling
conservative Popular Party was the prime minister's hand-picked
candidate to succeed him. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of the Socialist
Party hoped to end eight years of conservative government after
promising to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq and address unaffordable
housing and job insecurity at home. PM Jose Maria Aznar's conservatives
became the first government that had backed Washington in Iraq to be
voted from office. Zapatero led the Socialists to victory.
(AP, 3/15/04)(Econ, 3/20/04, p.49)
2005 Mar 14, The US government in
Operation Community Shield announced the arrests in 7 cities of 103
members of MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha, a street gang rooted in Central
America.
(SFC, 3/15/05, p.A5)
2005 Mar 14, San Francisco
Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer declared California’s ban on
same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
(SFC, 3/15/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 14, U2, The Pretenders,
The O'Jays, Percy Sledge and blues legend Buddy Guy were inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2005 Mar 14, Jim Cramer began
hosting Mad Money, an American business television program, on the CNBC
cable/satellite TV channel.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Money)
2005 Mar 14, Health Day News
reported that an experimental drug that stops cancer cell division and
triggers tumor death has been developed by researchers at Temple
University. The drug, called ON01910, interferes with the activity of a
gene called Plk1.
(HDN, 3/15/05)
2005 Mar 14, Experts said poachers
are killing between 6,000 and 12,000 elephants a year to supply illegal
ivory markets in Sudan to meet growing Chinese demand. Most of the
elephants are killed in southern Sudan, Congo and the Central African
Republic, with some ivory also coming from Kenya and Chad.
(AP, 3/14/05)
2005 Mar 14, Voters in Central
African Republic cast ballots for president in the first poll since
rebels seized the capital two years ago. Gen. Francois Bozize, the
former army officer-turned-insurgent who now presides over the country,
was considered the front-runner in a field of 11.
(AP, 3/14/05)
2005 Mar 14, China's parliament
enacted a law authorizing force to stop rival Taiwan from pursuing
formal independence.
(AP, 3/14/05)
2005 Mar 14, Protesters across
Guatemala denounced a regional free trade deal with the US closed
schools, blocked highways and clashed with police in confrontations
that left 19 people injured and two arrested.
(AP, 3/14/05)
2005 Mar 14, UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan said the United Nations is establishing a register of
property damage caused by Israel's West Bank separation barrier.
Hundreds of Palestinians protested the barrier outside the walled
Palestinian government compound where he spoke.
(AP, 3/14/05)
2005 Mar 14, Akira Yoshizawa (94),
an origami master whose expressive paper gorillas made an art out of
Japan's craft tradition, died of heart failure and pneumonia.
(AP, 4/3/05)
2005 Mar 14, Hundreds of thousands
of opposition demonstrators chanted "Freedom, sovereignty,
independence" and unfurled a huge Lebanese flag in Beirut, the biggest
protest yet in the opposition's duel of street rallies with supporters
of the Damascus-backed government. The “March 14 Forces,” advocates of
Syrian withdrawal, grew from this demonstration.
(AP, 3/14/05)(Econ, 7/29/06, p.43)
2005 Mar 14, The Hague tribunal
indicted former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski for war
crimes.
(AP, 3/14/05)
2005 Mar 14, A group of
Muslim-extremist inmates accused of carrying out some of the
Philippines' worst terrorist attacks agreed to surrender after a
botched jailbreak left at least 5 people dead. The deal later broke
down when the inmates demanded dinner first.
(AP, 3/14/05)
2005 Mar 14, The U.N. tribunal for
Rwanda sentenced Vincent Rutaganira, a former local leader, to six
years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a charge of extermination by
omission under a plea bargain with prosecutors.
(Reuters, 3/14/05)
2005 Mar 14, Zimbabwe's Supreme
Court quashed a ban on the independent Daily News newspaper, known for
its anti-government line, but upheld a controversial media law that has
forced three other newspapers to close down.
(AP, 3/14/05)
2006 Mar 14, A Washington DC judge
ruled that the slaughter of horses for meat may continue in the US.
(SFC, 3/15/06, p.A3)
2006 Mar 14, In California scores
of FBI agents and local police raided 14 homes and arrested 9 members
of the drug trafficking Project Trojans gang in Contra Costa County.
(SFC, 3/15/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 14, In Hawaii an
1890s-era plantation dam failed in the rugged hills above northern
Kauai, sending water and mud surging through two homes and wiping out
the only highway. Searchers found one person dead and were looking for
at least seven others, some of them children who hadn't been seen since
the deluge. The torrent of water killed seven people.
(AP, 3/15/06)(AP, 3/14/07)
2006 Mar 14, Afghanistan's
president demanded greater cooperation from Pakistan in the fight
against terrorism following claims the neighboring country has been
supporting militant attacks here. Islamabad criticized the remarks and
said Afghanistan must do more to battle terrorism.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, A spokesman said NATO
peacekeepers in northern Afghanistan had found the biggest weapons
cache in recent years including 80 tons of TNT and 25,000 landmines.
The weapons were stored underground in old Soviet bunkers.
(Reuters, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, The WHO said it
believed test results showing three young women in Azerbaijan had died
of bird flu were reliable, but it awaited final confirmation from a
British laboratory.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, Belarus authorities
arrested more opposition activists as Belarusians cast early ballots
for the March 19 presidential election.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, In Brazil military
officials said weapons stolen from an army barracks have been found.
The theft triggered a massive search of Rio de Janeiro's crime infested
shantytowns.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, Premier Wen Jiabao
vowed to crack down on seizures of farmland for redevelopment, a source
of rising rural anger in China, but stopped short of saying whether the
communist government might allow farmers to own land. The 10-day
session of the National People’s Congress closed as delegates approved
a budget that promised more cash for farmers and a new 5-year economic
plan.
(AP, 3/14/06)(Econ, 3/18/06, p.42)
2006 Mar 14, China refused to take
back 39,000 citizens who have been refused entry to the US and are
languishing in detention centers.
(WSJ, 3/15/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 14, China and Russia
objected to a tough UN Security Council statement backed by the United
States, Britain and France calling for a report in two weeks on Iran's
compliance with demands that it suspend uranium enrichment.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, EU trade chief Peter
Mandelson told China to remove barriers on imports of European goods if
it wants to be recognized as a market economy by the 25-nation bloc.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, Lennart Meri
(b.1929), Estonia’s former president (1992-2001), died overnight in
Tallinn. The writer, film director and statesman’s relentless struggle
against communist oppression helped the Baltic nation break free from
the Soviet Union in 1991. Among his most well-known films is the 1977
documentary "The Winds of the Milky Way," describing the lives of
Finno-Ugric people, which won a silver medal at the New York Film
Festival but was banned in the Soviet Union for its culturally
sensitive content.
(AP, 3/14/06)(Econ, 3/25/06, p.90)
2006 Mar 14, Hungary’s PM Ferenc
Gyurcsany said Hungarian researchers have devised a vaccine for humans
against the current form of the H5N1 bird flu virus. “If the virus were
to mutate, we would not have to experiment with new technology but
would be able to manufacture a real vaccine within eight weeks.”
(AFP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, A marine researcher
said rising sea temperatures caused by global warming could kill off
the Indian Ocean's coral reefs in the next 50 years, threatening vital
marine life.
(AP, 3/15/06)
2006 Mar 14, Iraqi police over the
past 24 hours found the bodies of at least 87 people killed by
execution-style shootings, a gruesome wave of apparent sectarian
reprisal slayings. 29 of the bodies, dressed only in underwear, were
dug out of a single grave in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad.
(AP, 3/14/06)(AP, 3/14/07)
2006 Mar 14, Israel’s acting PM
Ehud Olmert pledged to annex the Ariel Jewish settlement deep in the
West Bank, a message aimed at appeasing settlers alarmed by his plans
to withdraw from large parts of the West Bank over the next four years.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, Israeli forces
driving bulldozers and firing tank shells and missiles burst into a
Palestinian prison and removed dozens of inmates in a raid targeting
prisoners convicted of killing an Israeli Cabinet minister. Palestinian
gunmen kidnapped an American teacher at a university in the West Bank
following the raid by Israeli forces. A UN aid agency and the
International Committee of the Red Cross said they were temporarily
pulling all foreign staff out of the West Bank and Gaza, after gunmen
kidnapped nine foreigners in just a few hours.
(AP, 3/14/06)(Econ, 3/18/06, p.49)
2006 Mar 14, In Italy 2 local
trains collided head-on outside a station near Milan, killing at least
two people.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, Jordan indicted Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, and 7 others for the
November bombings in Amman.
(SFC, 3/15/06, p.A3)
2006 Mar 14, Mexico announced a
new deepwater oil discovery that could exceed the declining reserves at
the giant offshore Cantarell field.
(WSJ, 3/14/06, p.A11)
2006 Mar 14, South Korea's PM Lee
Hae-chan resigned after drawing a firestorm of criticism for playing
golf March 1, rather than overseeing the government's response to a
railway strike.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2006 Mar 14, Thailand's PM Thaksin
Shinawatra vowed to declare an emergency if anti-government protests
turned violent, as tens of thousands marched on his office to demand
his resignation for alleged corruption.
(AP, 3/14/06)
2007 Mar 14, President Bush,
speaking from Mexico, said he was troubled by the Justice Department's
misleading explanations to Congress of why it fired eight US attorneys,
but said the firings were "entirely appropriate."
(AP, 3/14/08)
2007 Mar 14, The Pentagon released
the transcript of a military hearing in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
said he "was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z."
(AP, 3/14/08)
2007 Mar 14, The US Treasury
Department said it would order US banks to sever ties with Banco Delta
Asia in Macao for allegedly helping North Korea launder money. This was
a move to unfreeze North Korean assets in the Macao bank.
(AP, 3/15/07)(WSJ, 3/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 14, A US judge in
Virginia ruled that Sudan should pay damages to the families of 17
sailors killed in the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole.
(Reuters, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, A US appeals court
ruled that a California woman with an inoperable brain tumor may not
smoke marijuana to ease her pain even though California voters have
approved its medicinal use.
(Reuters, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, John Sununu, US
senator from New Hampshire, became the 1st Republican to say that
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign over the firing of 8 US
attorneys.
(Econ, 3/17/07, p.31)
2007 Mar 14, New York Gov. Eliot
Spitzer signed legislation authorizing “civil confinement” of certain
sex offenders who have finished their prison terms, but were still
considered a threat.
(Econ, 3/17/07, p.37)
2007 Mar 14, Bank of America
agreed to pay $26 million to settle SEC allegations that from 1999 to
2001 its securities unit made improper trades using advanced knowledge
of the firm’s stock research.
(WSJ, 3/15/07, p.C3)
2007 Mar 14, Chiquita Brands
Int’l., a Cincinnati-based banana company, agreed to pay a $25 million
fine after admitting that it paid a Colombian terrorist group (AUC) for
protection in a volatile farming region. Chiquita sold it Colombian
banana operations in June, 2004.
(SFC, 3/15/07, p.A5)(WSJ, 8/2/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 14, Regents of the Univ.
of California voted to raise student fees by 7% and professional school
fees by 12%. CSU trustees voted a 10% increase. This marked the 5th
tuition hike in 6 years.
(SFC, 3/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 14, In California part 1
of a 2-part, $3 million evaluation of education in state public schools
indicated deep flaws in the system.
(SFC, 3/15/07, p.B1)x
2007 Mar 14, In NYC David Gavin
(32), with a fake beard and carrying 100 rounds of ammunition, fatally
shot a pizzeria employee and two unarmed volunteer police officers in
Greenwich Village before other officers shot him to death. Gavin was a
former employee at the pizzeria.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Mar 14, In eastern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber struck near a police convoy killing 5
people with 38 wounded. Attacks elsewhere left 4 more dead. At least
six people were killed in an explosion in Kabul caused by gunpowder in
shops selling ammunition for hunting rifles. 9 others were injured. An
Italian journalist kidnapped in Afghanistan last week appeared in a
video shown on television appealing to Premier Romano Prodi to work for
his release.
(AFP, 3/14/07)(AP, 3/14/07)(AP, 3/14/07)(SFC,
3/15/07, p.A9)
2007 Mar 14, In Argentina police
clashed with protesters and ousted Gov. Angel Maza from his offices,
after he refused to leave despite his suspension over corruption
allegations. The La Rioja provincial legislature had voted the night
before to suspend him and start impeachment proceedings over
allegations that he manipulated bids for mining concessions.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Mar 14, It was reported that
wild camels in drought-stricken Australia were in plague proportions,
damaging the environment and property. Australia claimed the world's
largest wild camel population. An estimated one million feral camels,
whose numbers double every eight years, competed for food and water
with native animals and livestock.
(Reuters, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, In Brazil a
twin-engine plane was carrying $2.6 million worth of Brazilian reals
crashed near the city of Salvador. Locals made off with bags of cash
before rescuers arrived on the scene.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Mar 14, Britain’s Parliament
approved PM Tony Blair's program to replace the nation’s fleet of four
nuclear-armed submarines.
(AP, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, In Denmark 7 people
who raised money for Colombian guerrillas and Palestinian militants
through T-shirt sales were charged under Denmark's anti-terror law.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Mar 14, In Egypt a published
decree said Mukbil Shakir, head of the Supreme Judicial Council, has
named the country's first female judges despite opposition from
conservative Muslims. Shakir appointed 31 women to judge or chief judge
positions in Egypt's courts.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Mar 14, Lucie Aubrac
(b.1912), a hero of the French Resistance, died. She helped free her
husband from the Gestapo. In 2000, Aubrac published "The Resistance
Explained to my Grandchildren" about her experiences. She is also the
author of the 1984 book "They'll Leave Exhilarated." French director
Claude Berry made the hit 1997 movie "Lucie Aubrac," starring Carole
Bouquet in the title role. Two other films, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969
"The Army of Shadows" and the 1991 "Boulevard of the Swallows" by Jose
Yanne, were also based on Aubrac's story.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Mar 14, Farmers in eastern
India angered by government plans to build an industrial park on their
land fought police with rocks, machetes and pickaxes. At least 14
people were killed in Nandigram, West Bengal state.
(AP, 3/14/07)(SFC, 6/18/07, p.A13)
2007 Mar 14, In northern Iraq
suicide bombers struck a market and an Iraqi military checkpoint in
Baghdad, killing at least 10 people. An Iraqi general warned extremists
that they will be "smashed under the foot of the Iraqi people" if they
resist efforts to end the violence in the country. A US soldier was
killed in fighting in Anbar province. A Marine assigned to Multi
National Force-West also died in Anbar in a non-combat-related incident.
(AP, 3/14/07)(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Mar 14, A Japanese court
overturned a landmark ruling ordering the Japanese government and a
company to compensate Chinese who were forced to work as slave laborers
in Japan during World War Two. The Tokyo High Court acknowledged that
the state and the firm had violated the human rights of the 11 Chinese,
but rejected the plaintiffs' demand for compensation because a 20-year
statute of limitation had expired.
(Reuters, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, Israeli and
Palestinian envoys said that improving the economy can revive the peace
process as they got to work on a Japanese initiative to create jobs in
the West Bank.
(AP, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, In Italy 5 former
members of Argentina's military were convicted in absentia of murdering
three Italians during the Argentina’s "dirty war" (1976-83).
(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Mar 14, Italy and Russia said
they wanted talks between Moscow and the European Union on a new
strategic partnership agreement to start as soon as possible.
(AP, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, In northwestern
Pakistan 2 men and a woman were stoned and shot to death on the orders
of a tribal council that found them guilty of adultery.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Mar 14, Philippine police
stormed a courtroom to end a 24-hour hostage standoff, freeing all four
captives who were held by a movie stuntman and his common-law wife. The
gunman was killed when he dropped a grenade during the confrontation.
(AP, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, The Russian state-run
company building a nuclear plant in Iran warned that Iranian payment
delays may cause "irreversible" damage to the project, another strong
signal of Moscow's annoyance with Tehran.
(AP, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, Thai prosecutors said
they would charge the wife of deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra with
tax evasion. In southern Thailand suspected Muslim insurgents opened
fire on nine Buddhists who were riding in a commuter van, killing all
of them execution-style.
(AP, 3/14/07)(AFP, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, The chief UN nuclear
inspector returned from a one-day trip to Pyongyang saying that North
Korea was "fully committed" to an agreement that requires it to shutter
its main nuclear reactor and let in inspectors as soon as the U.S.
drops financial sanctions.
(AP, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 14, In Zimbabwe Morgan
Tsvangirai (54), the country's main opposition leader, said that police
beat him repeatedly in the head, back, knees and arm and that he lost a
lot of blood in an attack that seemed intended "to inflict as much harm
as they could."
(AP, 3/14/07)
2008 Mar 14, The near-collapse of
US investment giant Bear Stearns and its Federal Reserve bailout
heightened fears that the worst is not over for the spreading global
credit crunch. The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan Chase & Co.
offered to extend loans for 28 days. The US dollar hit a record low
against the euro, closing at 1.567 per euro.
(AFP, 3/14/08)(SFC, 3/15/08, p.C1)(WSJ, 3/15/08,
p.A1)
2008 Mar 14, In Mississippi
Richard Scruggs, chief architect of the $206 billion tobacco settlement
in 1998, pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a judge with $50,000 in
a dispute over legal fees.
(SFC, 3/15/08, p.A2)
2008 Mar 14, Robert Soloway (28),
dubbed "the King of Spam," faced a possible 26-year jail sentence after
pleading guilty in Seattle to charges of fraud and tax evasion. On July
22 Soloway was sentenced to 47 months in prison.
(www.pcworld.com/article/id,143483-c,spam/article.html)(http://tinyurl.com/6a645b)
2008 Mar 14, A tornado his
downtown Atlanta, Georgia, and left 27 people injured. Workers cleaning
debris found one dead body on March 22.
(SSFC, 3/23/08, p.A3)
2008 Mar 14, In Pleasanton, Ca.,
Ernest Scherer (60), a real estate investor, and his wife Charlene
Abendroth (57), an accounting lecturer, were found bludgeoned to death
inside their home. In 2009 their son, Ernest Scherer III (30), was
arrested in Las Vegas and charged with the murders.
(SSFC, 3/23/08, p.B1)(SFC, 2/25/09, p.B4)
2008 Mar 14, Afghan and foreign
troops clashed with Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, leaving
three suspected militants dead and two wounded. The US-led coalition
killed "several" militants in an operation in eastern Khost province.
(AP, 3/14/08)(AFP, 3/16/08)
2008 Mar 14, In Australia Milton
Orkopoulos (50), a former New South Wales state minister, was convicted
on child sex and drugs charges after being described as a "sordid
genius" by prosecutors.
(AFP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 14, Five Burundi
insurgents and a government soldier were killed in a clash with the
army in the north of the war-wracked central African country's capital.
(AFP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 14, It was reported that
China had likely surpassed the US last month in its number of Internet
users.
(WSJ, 3/14/08, p.B3)
2008 Mar 14, In China a gas
explosion at a southwestern Yunnan coal mine killed 14 miners and
injured four.
(AP, 3/15/08)
2008 Mar 14, Iranians voted in
elections. About 4,500 candidates nationwide ran for parliament's 290
seats. With final results reported from all races except those in
Tehran, 113 of parliament's 290 seats went to conservatives.
(AP, 3/14/08)(AP, 3/17/08)
2008 Mar 14, The Bush
administration's Mideast envoy pushed Israel and the Palestinians to
speed up peace negotiations at the first meeting the US has attended
since talks resumed nearly four months ago.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 14, Russian forces raided
a forest camp in the volatile North Caucasus province of Dagestan,
leading to a shootout in which six suspected militants, a police
officer and an Interior Ministry servicemen died.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 14, In Senegal members of
the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference moved to create a
battle plan, including legal action, to defend Islam from political
cartoonists and bigots.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 14, Hundreds of Serbs
stormed a UN courthouse in northern Kosovo, took control of the site,
and raised a Serbian flag.
(WSJ, 3/15/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 14, Sri Lanka’s pro-rebel
TamilNet Web site said rebels beat back advancing troops on three
fronts in Mannar and Welioya regions, killing 22 soldiers.
(AP, 3/16/08)
2008 Mar 14, In northern Syria a
bus carrying high school students rammed into a house and flipped over,
killing at least 24 people and injuring 34.
(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 14, In Tibet angry
protesters set shops ablaze and gunfire in Lhasa as the largest
demonstrations in two decades against Chinese rule turned violent
months ahead of the Beijing Olympics. 18 people died in the
conflagration or from physical assaults. The government later said
losses amounted to 280 million yuan ($41 million).
(AP, 3/14/08)(Econ, 2/6/10, p.43)
2008 Mar 14, The UN General
Assembly adopted a resolution demanding the "immediate, complete and
unconditional" withdrawal of all Armenian forces from Azerbaijan's
territory in a vote in which more than 100 countries abstained.
(AFP, 3/15/08)
2008 Mar 14, In Zimbabwe the
teacher’s union said thousands of teachers state schools have ended a
3-week strike after being awarded a 754% salary increase by the
government.
(AFP, 3/14/08)
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