Today in History - June 19
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240 BCE Jun 19, Eratosthenes
estimated the circumference of Earth using two sticks.
(DT, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/98)
1205 Jun 19, Pope Innocent III
fired Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1269 Jun 19, King Louis IX of
France decreed all Jews must wear a badge of shame.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1312 Jun 19, Piers Gaveston, earl
of Cornwall, was beheaded.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1341 Jun 19, Juliana van
Falconieri, Italian saint, Swedish tenor, died.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1464 Jun 19, French King Louis XI
formed a postal service.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1566 Jun 19, King James I (d.1625
at 59), son of Mary Queen of Scots, was born. James, aka King James VI
of Scotland ruled Scotland from 1567-25 and England from 1603-25.
(WUD, 1994, p.763)(WSJ, 4/16/97, p.A13)(DT,
6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/99)
1586 Jun 19, English colonists
sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C. after failing to establish England's
first permanent settlement in America.
(DT, 6/19/97)(AP, 6/19/97)
1623 Jun 19, Blaise Pascal
(d.1662), French mathematician, physicist, religious writer, was born.
He affirmed that the heart has its reasons, that reason does not
comprehend. The French mathematician invented the roulette wheel in an
effort to create a perpetual motion machine. He formulated the first
laws of atmospheric pressure, equilibrium of liquids and probability."
All the troubles of man come from his not knowing how to sit still."
(V.D.-H.K.p.123)(SFEC, 3/23/97, z1 p.7)(AP,
6/19/98)(AP, 5/28/99)(HN, 6/19/99)
1717 Jun 19, Johann Wenzel Anton
Stamitz, composer, was born.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1747 Jun 19, Alessandro Marcello
(77), composer, died.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1749 Jun 19, Jean-Marie Collot
d'Herbois, French revolutionary (Committee of Public Safety), was born.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1757 Jun 19, The Second Coming of
Christ occurs, according to the followers of Emanuel Swedenborg (the
Church of the New Jerusalem).
(DT, 6/19/97)
1783 Jun 19, Thomas Sully (d.1872)
was born. Painter, British, Queen Victoria portrait painter; other
style says b. Jun 8, 1783 O.S.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1778 Jun 19, General George
Washington’s troops finally left Valley Forge after a winter of
training. Washington left to intercept the British force on its way to
New York City.
(HN, 6/19/98)(MC, 6/20/02)
1786 Jun 19, Gen. Nathanael Greene
died of sunstroke at his Georgia plantation.
(ON, 12/01, p.12)
1794 Jun 19, Richard Henry Lee
(b1732) statesman, Declaration of Independence signer, died.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1811 Jun
19, Samuel P. Chase (b.Apr 17, 1741), Supreme Court Justice
(1798-1811), revolutionary, attorney, Declaration of Independence
signer; died. Chase was served with 6 articles of impeachment by the
House of Representatives in late 1804. Two more articles would later be
added. The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate
began an impeachment trial against Justice Chase in early 1805. He was
charged with political bias, but was acquitted by the Senate of all
charges on March 1, 1805. To this day, he remains the only Supreme
Court justice to be impeached.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase)
1820 Jun 19, Joseph Banks, English
natural historian (Cook, Australia), died.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1821 Jun 19, The Ottomans defeated
the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1825 Jun 19, Gioacchino Rossini's
"Il Viaggio a Reims," premiered. Rossini wrote the "IL Viaggio a Reims"
opera to celebrate the coronation of Charles X. The libretto by Luigi
Balocchi was intended to show all major European nationalities coming
together to celebrate the event.
(WSJ, 9/29/99, p.A20)(MC, 6/19/02)
1829 Jun 19, Sir Robert Peel
founded the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies). [see Sep 29]
(MC, 6/19/02)
1846 Jun 19, The New York
Knickerbocker Club played the New York Baseball Club in the earliest
recorded baseball game under a set of adopted rules at the Elysian
Field, Hoboken, New Jersey. The score was: NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers
1 in 1 inning. It was played under Cartwright Rules.
(DT, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/98)
1856 Jun 19, Elbert Hubbard
(d.1915), US, editor, publisher, author (Message to Garcia), was born.
"The love we give away is the only love we keep." "If you want work
well done, select a busy man -- the other kind has not time." "To
escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
(AP, 7/22/97)(AP, 9/29/97)(AP, 12/12/98)(MC, 6/19/02)
1861 Jun 19, Loyal Virginians, in
what would soon be West Virginia, elected Francis Pierpoint as their
provisional governor.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1862 Jun 19, Slavery was outlawed
in U.S. territories. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his
Emancipation Proclamation. News of the document reached the south and
Texas through General Gordon Granger.
(BEP, 1994)(DT, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/99)
1863 Jun 19, Battle at Middleburg
Virginia (100+ casualties).
(DT, 6/19/97)
1864 Jun 19, Skirmish at Pine Knob
Georgia.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1864 Jun 19, The CSS “Alabama” was
sunk by the USS “Kearsarge” off Cherbourg, France. The Alabama had
captured, sank or burned 68 ships in 22 months.
(DT, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/98)(HNQ, 11/28/00)
1865 Jun 19, Emancipation Day,
also known as Juneteenth, was the day that Union General Granger
informed Texas slaves that they were free. Blacks came to celebrate the
day as Juneteenth Freedom Day.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.D3)(SFC, 6/18/04, p.B2)
1867 Jun 19, The first running of
the Belmont Stakes horserace in the US. It later became part of the
Triple Crown. Oldest of the three U.S. horse races that constitute the
Triple Crown. The Belmont is named after August Belmont. The stakes is
held in early June at Belmont Park, near Garden City, Long Island; the
course is 1.5 mi (2,400 m).
(HFA, ‘96, p.32)(SFEC, 5/30/99, Z1 p.8)(YB)
1867 Jun 19, Mexican Emperor
Maximillian (35) was executed on the orders of Benito Juarez by a
firing squad in Queretaro. The event was immortalized in a painting by
Manet.
(HN, 6/19/98)(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.T10)(PCh, 1992,
p.505)(WSJ, 5/5/00, p.17)
1878 Jun 19, Immigrant English
photographer Edward Muybridge settled a bet for Leland Stanford,
governor of California and horse racing enthusiast. Stanford bet a
friend that a galloping horse kept at least one hoof on the ground at
all times. At the governor's training course in Palo Alto, Muybridge
set up 12 cameras at trackside with shutters activated by tripwires.
The resulting "motion" pictures, seen here in postcard form, proved
that the horse did indeed raise all four hooves off the ground during
its gallop. Muybridge's photographic methods were expanded by Thomas
Edison to develop "an instrument which does for the eye what the
phonograph does for the ear, which is the recording and reproduction of
things in motion...."
(HNPD, 6/19/98)
1881 Jun 19, Muhammad Ahmad became
Mahdi of Sudan. El Mahdi (The One Who is Guided by God), a Muslim
leader, soon united the disparate tribes of Sudan.
(WSJ, 8/25/98, p.A14)(ON, 4/02, p.9)(MC, 6/19/02)
1884 Jun 19, Juan Bautista Alberdi
(b.1810), Argentine politician, writer, died in Paris. His writings
inspired Argentina’s 1853 constitution.
(www.taringa.net/posts/21963/Juan-B.-Alberdi---El-Gran-Pensador.html)(Econ,
3/10/07, p.35)
1889 Jun 19, Start of Sherlock
Holmes adventure "The Man with the Twisted Lip."
(DT, 6/19/97)
1896 Jun 19, Bessie Wallis
Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee, was born.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1897 Jun 19, Moe Howard
(d.5/4/75), comic actor born as Moses Horwitz, one of the Three Stooges
(Curly's & Shemp's brother), was born in Brooklyn.
(HN, 6/19/98)(DT, 6/19/97)
1897 Jun 19, Charles Cunningham
Boycott (b.Mar 12, 1832) English land agent in Ireland, died in
England. He was a faulty estate manager whose tenants "boycotted" him
into poverty; when the crops failed and the farmers went broke, he
unsympathetically gave them the choice of paying immediately or being
evicted. The farmers retaliated and his staff quit. His family was
isolated. This tactic gave us the word whose last name became part of
the English language.
(www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Charles-Cunningham-Boycott)
1900 Jun 19, Laura Hobson,
novelist (Gentleman's Agreement), was born.
(HN, 6/19/01)
1902 Jun 19, The US Senate voted
in favor of Panama as the canal site. US support for a $40 million
purchase was based on Congressional acceptance for a canal in Panama
rather than Nicaragua, and the acquisition of land to serve as a canal
zone.
(HN, 1/18/99)(ON, 1/00, p.1)
1902 Jun 19, Guy Lombardo
(d.11/5/1977) Canadian bandleader was born in London, Ontario. He
played the sweetest music this side of heaven with his Royal Canadians
and sold over 100 million records.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1902 Jun 19, John E E Dalberg,
baron van Acton (69), English historian, died.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1903 Jun 19, Henry Louis Gehrig
(d.6/22/1941) was born in New York City. He became first baseman for
the New York Yankees and started 2,130 games consecutively: HALL OF
FAMER; MVP '36; 7x World Series; .341 avg., 493 HRs; 2,721 hits, 1,990
RBIs. He died of a muscle wasting disease amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, now known by his name.
(HN, 6/19/99)
1903 Jun 19, The young school
teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under investigation by police in
Bern, Switzerland.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1906 Jun 19, Earl Bascom (rodeo
showman and inventor: first side-delivery rodeo chute, first hornless
bronc saddle, first one-handed bareback rigging), was born.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1910 Jun 19, Father's Day was
celebrated for the first time in Spokane Washington, initiated by Mrs.
John B. Dodd. [see June 16]
(AP, 6/19/98)
1912 Jun 19, A new labor law is
passed by Congress, extending the 8-hour working day to all workers
under federal contract.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1914 Jun 19, Alan Cranston, former
Sen., D-Calif., was born.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1914 Jun 19, Harry Lauter, actor
(Waterfront), was born in White Plains, NY.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1914 Jun 19, The comic strip
"Captain and the Kids" debut in newspapers.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1917 Jun 19, King George V ordered
the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames.
The family took the name "Windsor." [see Jun 17, Jul 17]
(DT, 6/19/97)(MC, 6/19/02)
1919 Jun 19, Pauline Kael,
American movie critic, was born. She wrote I lost it at the Movies.
(DT, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/99)
1919 Jun 19, Mustafa Kemal founded
the Turkish National Congress at Angora (later Ankara) and denounced
the Treaty of Versailles.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1921 Jun 19, Howell Heflin,
senator from Alabama, was born.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1921 Jun 19, Turks and Christians
of Palestine signed a friendship treaty against Jews.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1922 Jun 19, Aage Nills Bohr,
physicist, study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975), was born in Denmark.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1923 Jun 19, "Moon Mullins", Comic
Strip, made its debut.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1926 Jun 19, The first black
musician, DeFord Bailey, appeared on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry show.
40 years later, Charley Pride, the most successful black country
performer ever, achieved a similar feat.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1926 Jun 19, The opera “King
Roger,” composed by Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937),
premiered in Warsaw.
(Econ, 8/23/08,
p.73)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Roger)
1931 Jun 19, The first commercial
photoelectric cell was installed in West Haven Ct.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1932 Jun 19, Hailstones killed 200
in Hunan Province, China PR.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1933 Jun 19, France granted Leon
Trotsky political asylum.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1934 Jun 19, The first movie of
the sun was taken.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1934 Jun 19, President Roosevelt
signed the US Communications Act. It established the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) to supervise radio, telegraph and
telephone communications.
(WSJ, 11/3/97, p.A20)(AP, 6/19/06)
1934 Jun 19, The US National
Archives and Records Administration was established under Pres.
Franklin Roosevelt.
(HN, 6/19/98)(WSJ, 12/29/05, p.B1)
1936 Jun 19, German boxer Max
Schmeling, World Champion, KO'd Joe Louis.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1937 Jun 19, The town of Bilbao,
Spain, fell to the Nationalist forces.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1937 Jun 19, James M. Barrie
(b.1860), Scottish writer (Dear Brutus, Peter Pan), died. In 2004 the
film "Finding Neverland," was based on Barrie’s life.
(www.angus.gov.uk)(AP, 9/5/04)
1938 Jun 19, In Montana 47 people
were killed when a railroad bridge in Montana collapsed, sending a
train known as the "Olympian Flyer" hurtling into Custer Creek. A
cloudburst caused the bridge to collapse sending a locomotive and 7
passenger cars into the creek.
(AP, 6/19/08)(SFC, 6/19/09, p.D10)
1940 Jun 19, "Brenda Starr," first
cartoon strip by a woman, appeared in Chicago.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1940 Jun 19, German 7th Armour
division under gen-maj Rommel occupied Cherbourg.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1941 Jun 19, US president
Roosevelt signed Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1941 Jun 19, Cheerios Cereal was
invented, O-shaped cereal 1/2-inch diameter, .0025 ounce, 400=1
serving; first called Cheerie Oats.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1941 Jun 19, Romania ordered Jews
to evacuate Darabani.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1942 Jun 19, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill arrived in Washington D.C. to discuss the invasion of
North Africa with President Roosevelt.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1942 Jun 19, In Czechoslovakia PM
Alois Elias, sentenced to death in October 1941 for high treason and
espionage, was executed. In 2006 his ashes were buried with state
honors.
(AP, 5/7/06)
1943 Jun 19, "Sheik Of Araby" by
Spike Jones & the City Slickers made the Pop Chart; will peak at
#19.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1944 Jun 19, The Battle of the
Philippine Sea (Battle of the Marianas), called the "Marianas Turkey
Shoot," began when Japanese naval forces attacked the stronger U.S.
naval forces. 280 Japanese planes were shot down by U.S. carrier- based
planes and anti-aircraft fire from U.S. ships. Americans shoot down 220
Japanese planes while only losing 20.
(BEP, 1994)(DT, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/98)
1944 Jun 19, “Ace of Aces” David
McCampbell (1910-1996) and the Fabled 15 challenged 80 Japanese carrier
based aircraft bearing down on an American fleet. He shot down 7 Zeroes
and the group routed the enemy fliers at the Battle of the Marianas.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.C4)
1945 Jun 19, Aung San Suu Kyi,
Myanmar poet, Nobel peace laureate (1991), was born.
(DT, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/01)
1945 Jun 19, Tobias Wolff,
American writer (This Boy's Life: A Memoir, The Night in Question), was
born.
(HN, 6/19/01)
1945 Jun 19, Millions of New
Yorkers turned out to cheer Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was honored
with a parade.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1946 Jun 19, "Anna & The King
Of Siam", Motion Picture, with Irene Dunne & Rex Harrison, opened
in theaters.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1946 Jun 19, The first heavyweight
boxing championship was televised by WNBT-TV in New York City. Joe
Louis defended his title against Billy Conn. He knocked him out in the
eighth round.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1947 Jun 19, Salman Rushdie,
author of “Satanic Verses,” was born. His life was later threatened in
the Muslim world for what was considered a sacrilegious book.
(HN, 6/19/99)
1947 Jun 19, The Tucker automobile
premiered in Chicago.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1947 Jun 19, The first plane
(F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph) was flown by Albert Boyd in Muroc,
California.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1948 Jun 19, Panama & Costa
Rica recognized Israel.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1948 Jun 19, USSR blocked access
road to West Berlin.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1951 Jun 19, President Harry S.
Truman signed the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which
extended Selective Service until July 1, 1955 and lowered the draft age
to 18.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1952 Jun 19, The celebrity-panel
game show "I've Got A Secret" made its debut on CBS-TV with Garry Moore
as host.
(AP, 6/19/07)
1953 Jun 19, Julius (b.5/12/1918)
and Ethel Rosenberg (b.9/28/1915), convicted of passing U.S. atomic
secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II, were executed at Sing
Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. The Supreme Court had vacated a stay
granted by Justice William O. Douglas and President Eisenhower refused
to intervene, despite a massive worldwide campaign to free them. In
1983 Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton authored “The Rosenberg File.” In
2001 Sam Roberts authored “The Brother,” an account of David
Greenglass, the younger brother of Ethel Rosenberg and star witness
against her and Julius. In 2008 Morton Sobell (91), a former Soviet spy
who had spent nearly 20 years in Alcatraz, fingered Julius Rosenberg as
a fellow Soviet spy, but not Ethel.
(TL, 1988, p.114)(BEP, 1994)(WSJ, 10/1/01,
p.A22)(WSJ, 9/25/08, p.A19)
1953 Jun 19, Egypt was proclaimed
a republic. Lieutenant Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser became premier.
(WUD, 1994, p.1685)
1954 Jun 19, Kathleen Turner
(actress: Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, voice
of Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit), was born.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1954 Jun 19, The Tasmanian Devil,
a Cartoon Character, made its debut in 'Devil May Hare' by Warner Bros.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1955 Jun 19, Mickey Mantle hit his
career HR # 100.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1956 Jun 19, Jerry Lee Lewis's
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" debuted on the national pop music charts.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1956 Jun 19, Jerry Lewis and Dean
Martin no longer wished to film together after 16 films.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1956 Jun 19, Marilyn Monroe &
Arthur Miller were married.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1957 Jun 19, 40 years ago, Walt
Disney's movie "Johnny Tremain" was released in movie theaters.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1958 Jun 19, "The Lux Show
Starring Rosemary Clooney", TV Variety; last aired on NBC.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1958 Jun 19, In Washington, D.C.
nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional committee’s
questions on communism.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1958 Jun 19, Entrepreneurs Richard
Knerr and Arthur Melin sought a trademark for a plastic cylinder based
on a similar toy in Australia. Wham-O began selling the Hula Hoop
following a demonstration of a rattan hoop imported from Australia.
After one year teenagers in the US purchased some 100 million hoops at
a suggested retail price of $1.98.
(SFC, 7/1/02, p.B5)(SFC, 6/19/08, p.C3)
1960 Jun 19, Grand Ole Opry member
Loretta Lynn made her debut on the country charts with her first single
release, "Honky Tonk Girl," on the Zero label.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1961 Jun 19, R.C., "Little Egypt
(Ying-Yang)" by The Coasters peaked at #23 on the pop singles chart.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1961 Jun 19, R.C., "Peanut Butter"
by The Marathons (The Vibrations) peaked at #20 on the pop singles
chart.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1961 Jun 19, R.C., "Rama Lama Ding
Dong" by The Edsels peaked at #21 on the pop singles chart.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1961 Jun 19, The U.S. Supreme
Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring
state officeholders to profess a belief in the existence of God.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1961 Jun 19, Kuwait regained
complete independence from Britain along with Qatar, Bahrain
(NG, 5/88, p.662)(DT, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/98)
1963 Jun 19, Soviet cosmonaut
Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days
as the first woman in space.
(DT, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/98)
1964 Jun 19, The Beatles release
the EP "Long Tall Sally."
(DT, 6/19/97)
1964 Jun 19, The Civil Rights Act
of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in the US Senate, and was
approved by a vote of 73-27. Pres. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act
that guaranteed the vote for everyone and that prohibited segregation
in public places. Sex was added to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
and outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex in the labor market.
(TMC, 1994, p.1964)(LSA, Spg/97, p.19)(AP, 6/19/06)
1965 Jun 19, R.C., "I Can't Help
Myself" by Four Tops peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1965 Jun 19, Air Marshall Nguyen
Cao Ky became South Vietnam’s youngest premier at age 34.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1965 Jun 19, Col. Houari
Boumedienne (1932-1978) overthrew Pres. Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's
first civilian president. Abdelaziz Bouteflika was Boumedienne's
right-hand man.
(SFEC, 4/18/99,
p.A22)(www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107272.html)
1967 Jun 19, Beatle Paul
McCartney, having admitted in Life Magazine that he had taken LSD,
repeated the admission on television.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1968 Jun 19, Some 50,000 marched
on Washington, DC, to support the Poor People's Campaign. Rev. Jesse
Jackson preached “I Am Somebody” at Resurrection City, a tent city set
up in front of the White House. In 1971 he turned the speech into a
poem for Sesame Street.
(http://cheyannescampsite.blogspot.com/2008_06_15_archive.html)(SFC,
7/5/96, BR, p.6)(HN, 6/19/98)
1969 Jun 19, R.C., "Jumping Jack
Flash" by the Rolling Stones peaked at #1 on the U.K. pop singles chart.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1970 Jun 19, "The Tim Conway
Show", TV Comedy, last aired on CBS after 13 episodes.
(www.tvrage.com/The_Tim_Conway_Show_1970)
1970 Jun 19, Edward Heath
(1916-2005) began serving as Britain’s prime minister and continued to
1974. Derek George Rayner (d.1998 at 72), later Lord Rayner, soon
joined the government to centralize defense procurement for PM Edward
Heath.
(Econ, 3/19/05, p.32)(SFC, 7/18/05,
p.B6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Heath)
1970 Jun 19, A. Nikolayev and V.
Sevastyanov returned after 18 days in Russia’s Soyuz 9.
(www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz9.htm)
1971 Jun 19, The song "Rainy Days
And Mondays" by the Carpenters peaked at #2 on the pop singles chart.
(http://tinyurl.com/5caxet)
1971 Jun 19, R.C., "It's Too Late"
by Carole King peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart and stayed there
for five weeks.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Too_Late_(Carole_King_song))
1972 Jun 19, Ronald L. Ziegler,
the president's Press Secretary, characterized the break-in that had
occurred two days earlier at the Democratic National Committee in the
Watergate, "a third-rate burglary." Links between the burglars and
White House consultant E. Howard Hunt and the Committee to Reelect the
President soon surfaced, leading to the Watergate scandals that
resulted in the resignation of President Nixon on August 9, 1974.
(HNQ, 6/19/98)
1972 Jun 19, Two days after the
botched Watergate break-in, FBI official W. Mark Felt secretly assured
Bob Woodward that The Washington Post could safely make a connection
between the burglars and a former CIA agent linked to the White House,
E. Howard Hunt. Woodward’s secret source for information became known
as Deep Throat, and Felt’s name was not made public until 2005. In 2006
Mark Felt and John O’Connor authored “A G-Man’s Life: The FBI, Being
“Deep Throat,” and the Struggle for Honor in Washington.”
(http://tinyurl.com/cva26)(SSFC, 5/21/06, p.M3)
1972 Jun 19, The US Supreme Court
voted 5-3 to confirm lower court rulings in the Curt Flood case, which
upheld baseball's exemption from antitrust laws.
(http://supreme.justia.com/us/407/258/)
1973 Jun 19, Pres. Nixon met with
Russia’s leader Leonid Brezhnev at the White House.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev)
1973 Jun 19, The US Congress
passed the Case-Church Amendment which forbade any further US military
involvement in Southeast Asia, effective August 15, 1973. The
veto-proof vote was 278-124 in the House and 64-26 in the Senate. The
Amendment paved the way for North Vietnam to wage yet another invasion
of the South, this time without fear of US bombing.
(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1973 Jun 19, The stage production
of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opened in London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Show)
1974 Jun 19, Pres. Nixon returned
from a 9-day visit to the Middle-East, where he met with leaders of
Egypt, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=4267)
1975 Jun 19, Sam Giancana
(b.1908), Italian-American mob boss, was murdered at his home in Oak
Park, Ill. He had a romance with Phillis McGuire, of the McGuire
Sisters vocal group, and was credited with assisting John F. Kennedy in
efforts to win the presidential election. A movie was made in 1995 that
depicts the Giancana-McGuire romance.
(WSJ, 11/16/95,
p.A-18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Giancana)
1976 Jun 19, Bette Midler's
concert at the Cleveland Music Hall became HBO's premiere "Standing
Room Only" presentation.
(www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4921414-1.html)
1976 Jun 19, The US Viking 1 went
into Martian orbit after a 10-month flight from earth.
(www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/Mars/exploration.html)
1977 Jun 19, Pope Paul VI
proclaimed a 19th-century Philadelphia bishop, John Neumann, the first
male US saint.
(AP, 6/19/07)
1978 Jun 19, America's favorite
lasagna-loving cat, Garfield, created by Jim Davis, first appeared in
newspapers as a comic strip.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield)
1978 Jun 19, "Best Little
Whorehouse..." opened at 46th St NYC for 1584 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4066)
1979 Jun 19, In Mali presidential
and general elections were held. Moussa Traore was elected President
and Mady Sangare was elected as Speaker of the National Assembly.
(www.etat.sciencespobordeaux.fr/_anglais/chronologie/mali.html)
1981 Jun 19, Boeing commercial
Chinook 2-rotor helicopter was certified.
(http://avia.russian.ee/helicopters_eng/bvertol_234.php)
1981 Jun 19, European Space
Agency's Ariane carried two satellites into orbit.
(www.arianespace.com/site/news/feature_12_19_05.html)
1982 Jun 19, Asia's first album
topped the album charts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number-one_albums_of_1982_(U.S.))
1982 Jun 19, In a case that
galvanized Asian-Americans, Vincent Chin (27), a Chinese-American
engineering student, was beaten to death outside a nightclub in
Highland Park, Mich., by autoworker Ronald Ebens. Two unemployed auto
workers mistook Chin for being Japanese. Each one was sentenced to 3
years probation.
(AP, 6/19/97)(SFEC, 2/6/00, Rp.10)
1984 Jun 19, The first live TV
appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline).
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1984-6/1984-06-19-ABC-10.html)
1985 Jun 19, In El Salvador 4
off-duty US Marines and 9 others were killed at sidewalk restaurants in
the Zona Rosa section of San Salvador. Pedro Antonio Andrade Martinez
(aka Mario Gonzalez), a Marxist guerrilla, was one of the reputed
masterminds of the massacre. Andrade later became an informant for the
CIA and sought US asylum. Andrade was deported from the US in 1997.
(SFC, 11/22/96, p.A21)(SFC,11/6/97, p.C3)
1986 Jun 19, Artificial heart
recipient Murray P. Haydon (59) died in Louisville, Ky., after 16
months on the man-made pump.
(AP, 6/19/06)
1986 Jun 19, University of
Maryland basketball star Len Bias, the first draft pick of the Boston
Celtics, suffered a fatal cocaine-induced seizure.
(AP, 6/19/06)
1986 Jun 19, Argentina beat West
Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup in Mexico.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FIFA_World_Cup)
1987 Jun 19, The US Supreme Court
in Edwards vs. Aguilard (7-2) struck down a Louisiana law requiring any
public school teaching the theory of evolution to also teach
creationism science as well.
(www.positiveatheism.org/writ/berra.htm)(Econ,
7/30/05, p.31)
1987 Jun 19, Vermont’s Ben &
Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice
Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia.
(www.foodreference.com/html/html/june19.html)(http://tinyurl.com/ptccd)
1987 Jun 19, In Spain an ETA car
bomb in the parking lot of the Hipercor department store in Barcelona
killed 21 and wounds 45. This was ETA’s bloodiest attack. In 2003 two
top members of the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA were sentenced
to 790 years in prison.
(AP, 3/22/06)(AP, 7/26/03)
1988 Jun 19, Leaders of the
world's seven wealthiest industrial democracies opened a three-day
economic summit in Toronto.
(AP, 6/19/98)
1989 Jun 19, Cincinnati Reds
manager Pete Rose sued baseball, arguing that Commissioner A. Bartlett
Giamatti should be prevented from hearing allegations that Rose had
gambled on baseball games.
(AP, 6/19/99)
1989 Jun 19, The government of
Burma renamed the country Myanmar. Rangoon was renamed Yangon.
(SFC, 5/7/02, p.A9)
1990 Jun 19, Opening statements
were presented in the drug and perjury trial of Washington DC Mayor
Marion S. Barry Junior. Barry was later convicted of a single count of
misdemeanor drug possession, and sentenced to six months in prison.
(AP, 6/19/00)
1990 Jun 19, NYC's Zodiac killer
shot a 4th victim, Larry Parham, who survived.
(http://karisable.com/skazzodiac.htm)
1991 Jun 19, Newly elected Russian
President Boris Yeltsin lobbied Congress during a Washington visit as
he sought closer ties.
(AP, 6/19/01)
1991 Jun 19, Two of Mia Farrow's
daughters were arrested in Danbury, Conn., for shoplifting lingerie.
(http://tinyurl.com/phgu8)
1991 Jun 19, Actress Jean Arthur
died at age 90.
(AP, 6/19/01)
1991 Jun 19, Pablo Escobar, head
of Colombia’s Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities.
(AP, 6/19/01)
1992 Jun 19, "Batman Returns",
Motion Picture, opened with $47.7 million for the weekend with a record
breaking $16.8 million in its first day. It starred Michael Keaton,
Danny Devito, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1992 Jun 19, "A Perfect Score" TV
Game Show debut on CBS.
(www.televisionheaven.co.uk/atozp.htm)
1992 Jun 19, "The Hollywood Game"
(TV Game Show) debut on CBS.
(http://tinyurl.com/b8ayd)
1992 Jun 19, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin addressed the Canadian Parliament, saying his country had
abandoned totalitarianism for democracy.
(AP, 6/19/97)
1993 Jun 19, R.C., "Touch My
Light" by Big Mountain peaked at #51 on the pop singles chart.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1993 Jun 19, R.C., "Come Undone"
by Duran Duran peaked at #7 on the pop singles chart.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1993 Jun 19, R.C., "Have I Told
You Lately" by Rod Stewart peaked at #5 on the pop singles chart.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1993 Jun 19, Sir William Golding
(b.9/19/1911), English Nobel Prize-winning author (1983), died at his
home in Cornwall, England, at age 81. His work included "Lord of the
Flies."
(AP, 6/19/98)(DT, 6/19/97)(MC, 6/19/02)
1994 Jun 19, Former President
Jimmy Carter, just returned from North Korea, said he believed the
crisis with Pyongyang was over following talks with North Korean
President Kim Il Sung on how to resolve the nuclear issue.
(AP, 6/19/99)
1995 Jun 19, The Richmond Virginia
Planning Commission approved plans to place a memorial statue of tennis
professional Arthur Ashe.
(HN, 6/19/00)
1995 Jun 20, US Air Force Captain
Jim Wang, a radar officer, was cleared of wrongdoing in a friendly fire
attack on 2 US helicopters over northern Iraq in 1994 that resulted in
26 deaths.
(AP, 6/20/00)
1995 Jun 19, Murray Dickie
(b.1924), opera singer, director, died.
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/theatre.html)
1995 Jun 19, Chechen rebels and
more than 100 human shields rode a convoy of buses back to Chechnya
following the end of a hostage drama at a Russian hospital.
(AP, 6/19/00)
1995 Jun 19, Chinese-American
human rights activist Harry Wu was detained as he tried to enter China;
he was jailed for 66 days before being expelled.
(AP, 6/19/00)(SFC, 5/19/96, Z1, p.3)
1996 Jun 19, Chief executives from
seven states, police, state attorneys general and members of Congress
met with President Clinton at the White House to discuss ways of
stopping the recent torching of black churches.
(AP, 6/19/97)
1996 Jun 19, New York City police
announced that a shooting suspect in custody had been linked to the
"Zodiac" shootings that terrorized New Yorkers in the early 1990's.
(AP, 6/19/97)
1996 Jun 19, In Angola a new
national army began to be formed.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 19, A new mandated
manpower list revealed that the Honduran army is comprised of 12,115
troops, including 12 generals and 2,013 officers. Soldiers in Honduras
are not allowed to vote.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A9)
1996 Jun 19, The European Union
approved a British plan for wiping out “mad cow” disease.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 19, In Malaysia a court
order stopped work on the $5.4 billion Bakun Dam due to violation of
environmental laws.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 19, Mexico will repay
$4.7 billion of the $10.5 billion in US Treasury borrowings from last
year.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 19, A pending application
for membership in the International Air Transport Association by North
Korea could be accepted as early as next month.
(WSJ, 6/18/96, p.A10)
1996 Jun 19, Boris Fyodorov,
former leader of Russia’s National Sports Fund, was shot and stabbed on
a Moscow street. He had been arrested on drug charges last month. He
was also chairman of the National Credit Bank, which used tax breaks
that cost the government $2 billion, to import cigarettes and liquor.
The Sports Fund has ordered an audit.
(WSJ, 6/20/96, p.A14)
1997 Jun 19, President Clinton
welcomed world leaders to Denver on the eve of an economic summit.
(AP, 6/19/98)
1997 Jun 19, McDonald's won a
libel case in London against two vegetarian activists, even though the
judge said he agreed with some of the defendants' sharpest criticisms
of the fast-food giant.
(AP, 6/19/98)
1997 Jun 19, In Michigan three
teenagers from Highland Township and Davisburg hopped a train and got
off in Flint. They ran into some strangers who shot, raped and robbed
them. One boy (15) was killed. Six people were later arrested.
(SFC, 6/24/97, p.A2)
1997 Jun 19, In New Orleans 2 men,
identified as the “Assault Poetry Unit,” delivered unmarked boxes of
manifestos, poems and innocuous objects to 14 prominent people. The
targets feared for bombs and the 2 men were arrested for terrorizing.
(SFC, 8/18/97, p.A3)
1997 Jun 19, In Algeria a bomb in
an Algiers movie theater killed 2 and wounded 20.
(WSJ, 6/20/97, p.A1)
1997 Jun 19, From Cambodia the
report of Pol Pot’s surrender was rescinded.
(SFC, 6/20/97, p.A19)
1997 Jun 19, China executed 38
people. In Sichuan 24 died for drug dealing and 14 were executed in
Beijing.
(SFC, 6/20/97, p.A22)
1997 Jun 19, In Russia the
legislature gave a preliminary nod to a new tax code.
(SFC, 6/20/97, p.A20)
1997 Jun 19, In the Ukraine Pres.
Kuchma removed prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko under pressure from
Western donors who saw him as an opponent to free-market policies.
(SFC, 6/20/97, p.A22)
1997 Jun 19, In Zimbabwe delegates
to the UN Convention on Int’l. Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
approved the applications by Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana to sell an
annual quota of their collective ivory stockpile, but only to Japan.
Trade in ivory was shut down in 1989 due to extensive poaching.
(SFC, 6/20/97, p.A20)
1998 Jun 19, A study published in
the British medical journal The Lancet said smoking more than doubles
the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
(AP, 6/19/03)
1998 Jun 19, Pope John Paul II
began his third visit to Austria for 3 days.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.B3)(AP, 6/19/99)
1998 Jun 19, In India suspected
separatist guerrillas shot and killed 25 male members of 2 Hindu
wedding parties in Jammu and Kashmir state.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.D1)
1998 Jun 19, In Mexico the 37th
annual US-Mexico Parliamentary Session opened.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 19, Switzerland's three
biggest banks offered $600 million to settle claims they'd stolen the
assets of Holocaust victims; outraged Jewish leaders called the offer
insultingly low.
(AP, 6/19/99)
1998 Jun 19, In Yemen a 40% price
increase for gasoline, kerosene and cooking gas led to protests for the
next 4 days.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1999 Jun 19, The USA beat Denmark
3-0 on the opening day to the Women's World Cup in Giants Stadium, New
Jersey. 78,992 people watched in the largest ever attendance at a
woman's sporting event in the world to date.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup)
1999 Jun 19, The Dallas Stars won
the Stanley Cup by defeating the Buffalo Sabres 2-to-1 in game six,
which had gone into triple overtime and ended past midnight.
(AP, 6/19/00)
1999 Jun 19, In Franklin, Ind.,
Ronald Lee Shanabarger smothered to death his 7-month old son, Tyler,
in revenge against his wife, Amy, who had refused to cut short a
vacation in 1996 when his father died. It was later learned that
Shanabarger had a $100,000 insurance policy for the boy.
(SFC, 6/29/99, p.A2)(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A5)
1999 Jun 19, The G7 nations
pledged billions in aid to help Russia.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 19, NATO reached a
tentative agreement with leaders of the KLA for the rebel force to
gradually disarm, disband and cease military activities in 30 days.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 19, Britain’s Prince
Edward (35) wed Sophie Rhys-Jones (34) in Windsor, England.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.A2)(AP, 6/19/00)
1999 Jun 19, In Chile some 100
Mapuche Indians completed a 24 day walk to Santiago to demand more land
and greater autonomy ahead of a planned demonstration the next day.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 19, In Colombia the
government agreed to start formal peace talks with the 15,000 strong
FARC on July 7.
(SFC, 6/21/99, p.A10)
1999 Jun 19, Turin, Italy, was
chosen as the site of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
(AP, 6/19/00)
1999 Jun 19, The Bologna process
for the creation of the European Higher Education Area started. 29
European Ministers responsible for higher education signed the Bologna
declaration in which they undertake to create a European Higher
Education Area.
(www.aic.lv/ace/ace_disk/Bologna/about_bol.htm)
1999 Jun 19, Mario Soldati
(b.1906), Italian writer and film director, died at age 92. He started
publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with “America primo
amore” (1935), a diary about the time he spent teaching at Columbia
University. He won literary awards for the work.
(SFC, 6/24/99,
p.A25)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Soldati)
2000 Jun 19, The Los Angeles
Lakers won their first championship in 12 years, defeating the Indiana
Pacers 116-to-111 in game six of the NBA Finals. The post-game
celebration, however, was marred by violent fans.
(SFC, 6/21/00, p.A3)(AP, 6/19/01)
2000 Jun 19, The Clinton
administration moved to lift trade sanctions against North Korea.
(SFC, 6/20/00, p.A12)
2000 Jun 19, The US Supreme ruled
that cities and states may not boycott companies that do business with
Burma and that only the president and Congress have the authority to
set foreign policy.
(SFC, 6/20/00, p.A3)
2000 Jun 19, The Supreme Court
reaffirmed, 6-to-3, that praying in public schools had to be private,
barring officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer
before football games.
(AP, 6/19/01)
2000 Jun 19, In Colombia Guillermo
Valencia Cossio, the brother of peace negotiator Fabio Valencia Cossio,
was abducted. Carlos Castano, head of the feared Self-Defenses Forces,
later confirmed that he ordered the kidnapping.
(SFC, 6/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 19, EU leaders in
Portugal approved Greece’s bid to join the euro beginning Jan 1, 2001.
(WSJ, 6/20/00, p.A23)
2000 Jun 19, In Haiti militant
supporters of Pres. Aristide shut down the 3 largest cities and
demanded the release of election results. The Elections Council in
response announced that Aristide’s party won control of the Senate.
(SFC, 6/20/00, p.A12)
2000 Jun 19, In Indonesia
sectarian fighting killed as many as 161 people in the Maluku Islands,
also known as the Moluccas or Spice Islands. Thousands of Muslims
attacked Christians in the village of Duma.
(WSJ, 6/20/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/21/00, p.A13)
2000 Jun 19, Noboro Takeshita,
former leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and premier from
1987-1989, died at age 76.
(SFC, 6/19/00, p.E2)
2000 Jun 19, Representatives of
Nigeria said they found bank accounts in Liechtenstein with over $150
million held by family members of former dictator Gen Sani Abacha.
(SFC, 6/20/00, p.A13)
2000 Jun 19, In Zimbabwe officials
said elections would not be monitored by foreign nongovernmental
organizations.
(WSJ, 6/20/00, p.A1)
2001 Jun 19, The Gates foundation
announced a $100 million donation to the Global AIDS and Health Fund.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.B1)
2001 Jun 19, A jury in San Jose,
Calif., convicted Andrew Burnett of tossing a little dog to its death
on a busy highway in a bout of road rage. He was sentenced to three
years in prison for the death of Leo, a fluffy white bichon frise.
(AP, 6/19/02)
2001 Jun 19, It was reported that
scientists at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory had found that neutrinos
ejected from the sun shifted form.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A2)
2001 Jun 19, Juan Raul Garza (44),
Texas drug kingpin, was executed by injection in Terra Haute, Ind. He
was strapped to the same padded gurney on which Oklahoma City bomber
Timothy McVeigh was executed 8 days earlier. He was the 2nd federal
inmate to die since 1963.
(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/19/02)
2001 Jun 19, A tornado struck in
Siren, Wisconsin, and 3 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A5)
2001 Jun 19, Algeria banned
protests in the capital following 2 months of unrest that had left at
least 55 dead.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 19, Argentina adopted a
dual exchange rate.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 19, Iraq claimed that 23
civilians were killed when Western planes bombed a soccer field during
a match in the northern town of Tall Afar. US and Britain denied
responsibility and blamed a malfunctioning Iraqi anti-aircraft missile.
(WSJ, 6/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/21/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 19, Israel reached an
agreement with Lockheed to purchase 50 F-15 fighters for $2 billion.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A6)
2001 Jun 19, It was reported that
Papuan intellectuals had come up with a “special autonomy” plan Irian
Jaya.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 19, Syria completed a
pullout of its forces from Beirut.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)
2002 Jun 19, The space shuttle
Endeavour returned to Earth with one Russian and two American crewmen
who'd spent six and a-half months aboard the international space
station.
(AP, 6/19/03)
2002 Jun 19, American adventurer
Steve Fossett launched his latest solo round-the-world balloon trip
from Australia, his silver balloon rising over this western farming
town after a long delay caused by surface winds.
(AP, 6/19/02)
2002 Jun 19, Rod Langway, Bernie
Federko, Clark Gillies and Roger Neilson were elected to the Hockey
Hall of Fame.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2002 Jun 19, In Afghanistan the
9-day grand council ended with the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as
president and the approval of his new Cabinet.
(SFC, 6/20/02, p.A6)
2002 Jun 19, Air traffic
controllers in France and other nations went on strike to protest a
plan to dramatically reorganize the use of Europe's skies.
(AP, 6/19/02)
2003 Jun 19, In Iraq The special
"Task Force 20" commando team was joined in the convoy operation by an
AC-130 gunship and other air support, attacking by ground and air along
a known escape and smuggling route near the western city of Qaim.
(AP, 6/24/03)(SFC, 6/25/03, p.A18)
2002 Jun 19, Israel launched
Operation Determined Path and announced it will gradually reoccupy
Palestinian areas until terrorism stops in a major policy change
prompted by a deadly bus bombing. Israeli troops raided three West Bank
towns from which dozens of terror attacks have been launched. Seven
Israelis were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up
at a crowded bus stop in northern Jerusalem. About 50 people were
injured. Hamas declared a war on buses.
(AP, 6/19/02)(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Jun 19, President Vicente Fox
is releasing nearly 80 million secret intelligence files collected over
decades, vowing that Mexico's government will never again use spying
and violence against its critics.
(AP, 6/19/02)
2002 Jun 19, In Peru government
officials said they would suspend the sale of two state-owned
electricity companies following 6 days of violent protests.
(AP, 6/19/02)
2002 Jun 19, In the Philippines
witnesses reported that 17 people were killed in a shootout between
members of a cult and security forces moving in to arrest their leader
on a remote southern Philippine island.
(Reuters, 6/19/02)
2002 Jun 19, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez made an offer for a referendum on his rule in 2003.
(SFC, 6/19/02, p.A8)
2003 Jun 19, The FBI put cosmetics
heir Andrew Luster aboard a plane in Mexico and flew him back to
California, five months after he'd been convicted in absentia of
drugging and raping three women.
(AP, 6/19/04)
2003 Jun 19, Federal authorities
said an Ohio truck driver who met Osama bin Laden and admitted plots
against trains and Brooklyn Bridge had pleaded guilty to felony charges.
(AP, 6/19/04)
2003 Jun 19, The U.S. Air Force
dropped manslaughter and aggravated assault charges against two fighter
pilots who'd mistakenly bombed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan in
2002. One pilot was waiting trial on a charge of dereliction of duty.
(AP, 6/19/04)
2003 Jun 19, In Arizona a wildfire
burned up to 250 homes on Mount Lemon, north of Tucson.
(SFC, 6/20/03, p.A3)
2003 Jun 19, Thousands of
Colombians marched on the presidential palace to defend their jobs
against what they described as a drive to turn the country's public
services into multinational corporations.
(AP, 6/19/03)
2003 Jun 19, The Congolese
government and two rebel factions agreed to halt fighting in an eastern
region and pull back from newly occupied areas, hours after a battle
for a key town there killed dozens of people.
(AP, 6/19/03)
2003 Jun 19, European leaders
gathered at a secluded Greek seaside resort for a three-day summit to
discuss Middle East peace, illegal immigration, and the contentious
draft of a first-ever European Union constitution.
(AP, 6/19/03)
2003 Jun 19, A team of Australian
researchers reported that bananas and taro were cultivated ion the
highlands of Papua New Guinea as long as 7,000 years ago.
(AP, 6/19/03)
203 Jun 19, In France more
Iranians set themselves on fire to protest a crackdown on an Iraq-based
anti-Tehran group.
(WSJ, 6/20/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 19, In Iraq The special
"Task Force 20" commando team was joined in the convoy operation by an
AC-130 gunship and other air support, attacking by ground and air along
a known escape and smuggling route near the western city of Qaim.
(AP, 6/24/03)(SFC, 6/25/03, p.A18)
2003 Jun 19, An Israeli shopkeeper
was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber.
(WSJ, 6/20/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 19, In northeastern
Nigeria 30 miles north of the city of Umuahia, fuel gushing from a
vandalized pipeline exploded, killed at least 105 villagers as they
scavenged gasoline.
(AP, 6/21/03)
2004 Jun 19, In Chechnya rebel
attacks killed seven Russian soldiers and police officers over the last
24 hours.
(AP, 6/19/04)
2004 Jun 19, A US military plane
fired missiles into a residential neighborhood in Fallujah, killing 26
people and leveling houses. The target was a hideout of Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi's terror network. 23 of the 26 killed were foreign
terrorists. 3 Iraqis were among the dead.
(AP, 6/19/04)(SFC, 6/21/04, p.A7)
2004 Jun 19, In Nepal rebels
ambushed a police truck with a bomb and gunfire, also hitting a nearby
passenger bus in an attack that killed 14 policemen and 4 civilians,
including at least one child.
(AP, 6/19/04)
2004 Jun 19, Sudanese President
Omar Hassan al-Bashir ordered "complete mobilization" to disarm all
illegal armed groups in the western region of Darfur, including the
Arab militias who have been harassing African villagers.
(AP, 6/19/04)
2005 Jun 19, Michael Campbell
answered every challenge Tiger Woods threw his way for a two-shot
victory in the U.S. Open.
(AP, 6/19/06)
2005 Jun 19, Fourteen Formula One
drivers refused to participate in the United States Grand Prix because
of unresolved concerns over the safety of their Michelin tires. The
race was won by Michael Schumacher, one of six drivers who raced using
Bridgestone tires.
(AP, 6/19/06)
2005 Jun 19, In southern
Afghanistan US warplanes and helicopters opened fire on a group of
suspected rebels after the ambush of a coalition convoy, killing 15-20
militants.
(AP, 6/19/05)(SFC, 6/20/05, p.A3)
2005 Jun 19, China’s Xinhua news
agency reported that the China Regulatory Commission had approved 42
more companies to take part in a state share reform program. 4 maiden
companies were named a month earlier.
(WSJ, 6/20/05, p.C16)
2005 Jun 19, Top Croatian
financial officials left for Washington to present a package of fiscal
proposals that should shore up this year's budget and save the stand-by
arrangement with the International Monetary Fund.
(AP, 6/19/05)
2005 Jun 19, Local Cuban media
reported that the communist government has revoked some 2,000 licenses
from self-employed workers across the island, part of a campaign to
reassert state control over the economy.
(AP, 6/20/05)
2005 Jun 19, A new, domestic
French low-cost airline, Air Turquoise, took to the skies, opening
budget routes from the northeast city of Reims to Bordeaux, Marseille
and Nice.
(AP, 6/19/05)
2005 Jun 19, Guinea-Bissau began
its first presidential election since a 2003 coup, with 13 contenders
vying to become the West African country's leader. The candidates
include the man the military ousted two years ago.
(AP, 6/19/05)
2005 Jun 19, A suicide bombing
ripped through a popular Baghdad kebab restaurant at lunchtime, killing
23 people and wounding 36. A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi
military checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and one
civilian, officials said. Thirteen others were wounded.
(AP, 6/19/05)(SFC, 6/20/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 19, Israel publicly
apologized to the US over arms exports to China that have drawn
criticism from Washington and strained U.S.-Israeli security ties.
(AP, 6/19/05)
2005 Jun 19, In Lebanon voters
cast their ballot in the last round of elections. The anti-Syrian
opposition secured a majority in the Lebanese parliament, after
opposition candidates swept all seats in the last round of elections.
(AP, 6/20/05)
2005 Jun 19, Mauritius expected
that by year's end, or soon afterward, to become the world's first
nation with coast-to-coast wireless Internet coverage, the first
country to become one big "hot spot."
(CT, 6/19/05)
2005 Jun 19, Mexico City
introduced metrobus, a new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system.
(SSFC, 8/7/05, p.A11)
2005 Jun 19, A South Korean
soldier threw a grenade at his commander and then opened fire on fellow
soldiers near the border with communist North Korea, killing 8 and
injuring 2 others.
(AP, 6/19/05)
2005 Jun 19, Palestinian militants
fired light arms and rocket-propelled grenades at Israelis near an army
post on the Gaza-Egypt border, wounding 3 Israelis. One militant was
killed in the attack.
(AP, 6/19/05)
2005 Jun 19, Voters in Spain's
northwest Galicia region were deciding whether to extend the 15-year
rule of Manuel Fraga (82), the last surviving politician of Gen.
Francisco Franco's regime.
(AP, 6/19/05)
2005 Jun 19, Eastern Sudanese
rebels launched a major offensive near the country's main port,
capturing government troops in what Khartoum charged was an operation
mounted with the complicity of Eritrea.
(AP, 6/20/05)
2005 Jun 19, Vietnam’s PM Phan Van
Khai (71) arrived in Seattle. The first visit to America by a prime
minister from Vietnam in 30 years was greeted by demonstrators shouting
"Down with communists!" and calling for an end to political and
religious persecution in Vietnam. Khai hoped to strengthen ties with
Washington during his weeklong US tour.
(AP, 6/20/05)
2007 Jun 19, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice warned North Korea it would face consequences if it
test-fired a missile thought to be powerful enough to reach the West
Coast of the United States.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2006 Jun 19, The US Supreme Court
rolled back coverage of the Clean Water Act, but did not agree on how
to define the waters protected by the act.
(WSJ, 6/20/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 19, US Interior Chief
Kempthorne set new rules making it harder for snowmobiles and off-road
vehicles to get permission to ride in national parks.
(WSJ, 6/20/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 19, New Orleans Mayor Ray
Nagin asked the state to send National Guard troops to help patrol the
city streets under a growing crime problem. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen
Blanco said she would send National Guard troops and state police to
patrol the streets of New Orleans after a bloody weekend in which six
people were killed.
(SFC, 6/20/06, p.A1)(AP, 6/19/07)
2006 Jun 19, It was reported that
cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder had purchased the Gustav Klimt
portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I” (1907) for a record $135 million. This
eclipsed the 2004 sale of Picasso’s “Boy With a Pipe” for $104.1
million.
(SFC, 6/19/06, p.E2)
2006 Jun 19, In Raleigh, NC, the
Carolina Hurricanes blunted an historic comeback bid by the Edmonton
Oilers with a 3-1 Game Seven win to lift their first Stanley Cup.
(Reuters, 6/20/06)
2006 Jun 19, Faheem Khalid Lodhi
(36), a Pakistani-born architect was convicted of plotting a terrorist
attack in Australia. He was arrested in April 2004 at his home in
suburban Sydney. The jury convicted Lodhi of charges relating to maps,
chemical inquiries and bombmaking instructions. On August 23 he was
sentenced to 20 years in prison.
(AP, 6/19/06)(AP, 8/23/06)
2006 Jun 19, Egyptian authorities
detained 31 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, bringing to
nearly 700 the number of members arrested since a crackdown began in
March.
(AP, 6/19/06)
2006 Jun 19, A parked car bomb
struck an Iraqi army convoy, killing five people and wounding nine. An
umbrella group linked to al-Qaida in Iraq claimed that it had kidnapped
two American soldiers reported missing south of Baghdad, where 8,000
Iraqi and US troops were conducting a massive search. Hundreds of
American and Iraqi troops backed by a US gunship pushed into an
insurgent-infested section of eastern Ramadi. The bodies of two US
soldiers, Pfc. Kristian Menchaca (23) of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L.
Tucker (25) of Madras, Ore., were found. The men were "killed in a
barbaric way." Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility, and said the
successor to slain terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had "slaughtered"
them. The US Army said it has charged three soldiers in connection with
the May 9 deaths of 3 Iraqis who were in military custody in northern
Iraq. The US military captured a senior al Qaeda in Iraq member near an
area where the group's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a US
air strike two weeks ago. Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi, known as Abu
Humam or Abu Rana, was captured north of Baghdad.
(AP, 6/19/06)(AP, 6/20/06)(Reuters, 6/23/06)AP,
9/6/06)
2006 Jun 19, It was reported that
the Iraqi government was pumping millions of barrels of an oil refinery
byproduct called “black oil” into a mountainous area called Makhul near
the Tigris River where it was burned. The insurgency prevented the
substance from being exported for further refining at more modern
facilities.
(SFC, 6/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 19, Israel's defense
minister has ordered a review of the route of Israel's separation
barrier to better reflect Palestinian concerns, a decision that could
have significant implications for Israel's future borders.
(AP, 6/19/06)
2006 Jun 19, In Onitsha, Nigeria,
204 prison inmates were set free by the "hoodlums" who invaded the
building at around 2:00 am. The attack on Onitsha prison came less than
24 hours after troops were deployed and a curfew imposed on the
troubled city. Clashes between the banned Movement for the
Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), a separatist
group, and police were reported to have left several people dead at the
weekend.
(AP, 6/20/06)
2006 Jun 19, In Norway the prime
ministers of 5 nations gathered at the northern island of Svalbard to
lay the cornerstone for the Svalbard Int’l. Seed Vault. The site will
hold millions of seed varieties to restock the planet in the case of a
global catastrophe.
(SFC, 6/19/06, p.A3)
2006 Jun 19, In Pakistan militants
in South Waziristan shot dead Nazimuddin Gangikhel, a senior Pakistani
tribesman with close ties to the US-backed Afghan government.
(AP, 6/19/06)
2006 Jun 19, Sri Lanka invited
Tamil Tiger rebels to negotiate peace and save their collapsing
ceasefire as 2 more soldiers were killed in a weekend of violence that
left over 50 people dead.
(AP, 6/19/06)
2006 Jun 19, The Sudanese
government and the Eastern Front under Eritrean mediation signed a
ceasefire agreement and pledged to work for a comprehensive settlement
of their dispute.
(AFP, 10/10/06)
2006 Jun 19, Swiss chocolate-maker
Nestle AG said it will fatten up its weight-loss business by buying
Jenny Craig Inc. for $600 million.
(AP, 6/19/06)
2006 Jun 19, The UN inaugurated
its new Human Rights Council. The 47-member council replaced the Human
Rights Commission, which became discredited in recent years as
rights-abusing countries conspired to escape condemnation. Muslim
countries and various non-democracies held a majority of the 47 seats.
(AP, 6/19/06)(Econ, 3/24/07, p.68)
2007 Jun 19, President Bush and
visiting Israeli PM Ehud Olmert sided emphatically with Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas in his standoff with the militant group Hamas.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2007 Jun 19, The US announced the
transfer of six Guantanamo Bay prisoners back to their home countries,
including one who, according to his lawyers, now may face abuse in
Tunisia for nonviolent political activities. 4 men returned to Yemen
and two to Tunisia.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, Thomas Ravenel,
treasurer of South Carolina, was indicted on federal cocaine
distribution charges.
(WSJ, 6/20/07, p.A1)
2007 Jun 19, After some six years
as a Republican, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg (65) announced that he has
left the Republican Party and become unaffiliated in what many believe
could be a step toward entering the 2008 race for president.
(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, International Lease
Finance Corp., the world's largest airline leasing company, ordered 63
Boeing jets with a total list price of $8.8 billion.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, Sterlite
Industries, the flagship company of India’s Vedanta Resources,
went public on the NYSE for over $2 billion.
(Econ, 7/28/07,
p.72)(www.stockhouse.com/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19859)
2007 Jun 19, In Austin, Texas, 3-4
people beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently
struck and injured a child.
(AP, 6/20/07)(SFC, 6/22/07, p.A5)
2007 Jun 19, James Cockayne (21)
of New Hope, Pa., was beaten and stabbed to death in the Virgin
Islands. 3 men, Anselmo Boston, Kamal Thomas and Jahleel Ward, were
arrested after the parents of Cockayne appeared on US news programs and
accused Virgin Islands detectives of botching an investigation into
their son's death. On Oct 10, 2008, Ward was found guilty of
first-degree murder and other charges. Anselmo Boston and Kamal Thomas
were found guilty on two counts each of third-degree assault, among
other charges.
(AP, 10/6/08)(AP, 10/10/08)
2007 Jun 19, Fierce clashes
between Taliban militants and NATO and Afghan forces left more than 100
people dead over the last three days in Uruzgan province. Police
clashed with insurgents and retook control of Miya Nishin district in
Kandahar. Hours later provincial police chief forces lost Ghorak
district in the same province to the militants. A mosque attack
occurred in Ismail Kheil in Khost province. Two unidentified men
entered the building and fatally shot three people while wounding four
others.
(AP, 6/19/07)(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, The Algerian
government approved a plan to set up an academy of the Amazigh
language, spoken by the Berber minority, many of whom live in Kabylie
in the mountainous north of the country.
(AFP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, "The Lord of the
Rings" musical, the most expensive production in West End history,
opened at London's Theatre Royal to mixed reviews, with some critics
praising it as brilliant and others calling it corny and "a thumping
great flop."
(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, China’s state media
reported that the worst drought in 30 years in northeast China's
Liaoning province has left more than 1.2 million people short of
drinking water.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, In Dubai a Canadian
UN official, who advised the Afghan government on eradicating opium
poppy crops, was sentenced to four years in prison for smuggling and
drug possession. Bert Tatham (35) of Vancouver, British Columbia, was
arrested April 23 during a one-hour stopover at the Dubai International
Airport, after being caught with a half a gram of hashish, and two
poppy bulbs.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, The European
Parliament decided that if it isn't distilled from grains or potatoes,
it really isn't vodka. It also overwhelmingly approved a ban on trade
in products containing cat or dog fur.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, Georgia border agents
blocked a car trying to smuggle radioactive plutonium and beryllium
from Azerbaijan.
(WSJ, 6/20/07, p.A1)
2007 Jun 19, Ghanaians reacted
with a blend of excitement and foreboding to the news of a major oil
find off the coast of their west African nation, some viewing it as a
boon and others fearing it could turn out to be a curse.
(AFP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, Indian police said
they have discovered a stash of hundreds of human skulls and thigh
bones and arrested a gang for allegedly smuggling them to the Himalayan
kingdom of Bhutan for use in Buddhist monasteries.
(Reuters, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, A truck bomb struck
the Shiite Khillani mosque in central Baghdad, killing at least 87
people and wounding more than 200. About 10,000 US soldiers used
heavily armored Stryker and Bradley fighting vehicles to battle their
way into an al-Qaida sanctuary in Baqouba. The troops, under cover of
attack helicopters, killed at least 22 insurgents in the offensive. A
Task Force Lightning soldier was killed by an explosion near his
vehicle. In all 142 people were killed or found dead in sectarian
violence.
(AP, 6/19/07)(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, Former Israeli PM
Ehud Barak took over as defense minister. Hundreds of terrified Gazans
fleeing Hamas rule were trapped at a main crossing with Israel, hoping
to gain permission to pass through Israeli territory to sanctuary in
the West Bank. Israeli security officials said they have arrested 12
members of a PLO cell that planned to kidnap American citizens.
(AP, 6/19/07)(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, A Lebanese soldier
was killed in clashes with al-Qaida-inspired militants in a Palestinian
refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, Antonio Aguilar (88),
Mexican mariachi singer and actor, died. He recorded more than 150
albums and began his acting career during Mexico's "Golden Era" of
cinema. He appeared in 167 films, including "The Undefeated" starring
John Wayne.
(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, In Nigeria a top
militant leader freed on bail said that armed groups in the restive
south will halt attacks on oil installations to give the new government
a chance to deal with the region's problems.
(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, Students at a
Northern Ireland high school were receiving counseling after three
15-year-old classmates hanged themselves over the past month.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, A US envoy said North
Korea has finally received millions of dollars at the heart of a
dispute that stalled nuclear disarmament negotiations, and must quickly
shut down its only reactor.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, In Pakistan an
explosion killed at least 26 Taliban allies in the North Waziristan
tribal region. Security officials said it appeared to be a missile
attack from Afghanistan targeting a training camp for foreign
militants. A Pakistani military spokesman said the explosion was from a
bomb being made by the militants.
(SFC, 6/20/07, p.A3)(WSJ, 6/20/07, p.A1)
2007 Jun 19, In Romania hundreds
of retirees took to the streets in Bucharest and about 20 other towns
to demand that pensions be raised to at least 45% of the average
national salary and other benefits. Romania numbered 6 million retirees
out of a population of 22 million.
(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, A new survey reported
that Moscow is the world's most expensive city for the second year in a
row, thanks to an appreciating ruble and rising housing costs.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, A Russian court
sentenced four men to prison terms of between seven and 14 years for
the racially motivated killing of a Congolese student. The slaying of
Roland Epassak in St. Petersburg two years ago prompted outrage and
protests among Russian and foreign exchange students and other young
people.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, Sri Lanka government
troops killed up to 44 Tamil rebels in clashes in northern and eastern
Sri Lanka while destroying three small camps in the insurgents' last
eastern stronghold.
(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 19, President Jakaya
Kikwete said Tanzania will shut camps housing 150,000 refugees from
Burundi by the end of this year as the war in the neighboring central
African country is over.
(AFP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, Police charged ousted
PM Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife with concealing assets and ordered
the exiled leader to return to Thailand.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, It was reported that
political troubles in the Ukraine were being aggravated by soaring
bread prices as the worst drought in a century hit the region.
(WSJ, 6/19/07, p.A1)
2007 Jun 19, The Vatican issued a
set of "Ten Commandments" for drivers, telling motorists not to kill,
not to drink and drive, and to help fellow travelers in case of
accidents.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2008 Jun 19, Barack Obama, US
presidential candidate, announced that he would not use public funds
for his campaign, contrary to a 2007 promise to use public funds. This
would allow him to outspend John McCain by a wide margin.
(Econ, 6/28/08, p.37)
2008 Jun 19, Two former hedge fund
managers at investment bank Bear Stearns were arrested after a federal
criminal probe into the collapse of funds they oversaw.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, Bradley Birkenfeld, a
former UBS executive, pleaded guilty to helping clients hide hundreds
of millions of dollars and evade US taxes in a case that is part of a
probe into whether the Swiss banking giant did the same for other
wealthy individuals.
(AP, 6/19/08)(Econ, 7/5/08, p.79)
2008 Jun 19, Researchers reported
the survival of an Oregon man with advanced skin cancer following an
experimental treatment that revved up his immune system.
(SFC, 6/19/08, p.A8)
2008 Jun 19, Afghan officials said
a swift offensive by Afghan and NATO forces drove Taliban militants
from a strategic group of villages outside Kandahar and killed 56
insurgents. Two Afghan soldiers and one civilian also died. The
militants had planted hundreds of land mines in the area before
fleeing. 2 soldiers from the US-led coalition were fatally wounded in a
shooting incident in Helmand province.
(AP, 6/19/08)(AP, 6/20/08)
2008 Jun 19, In central Bosnia a
helicopter carrying two Spanish pilots of the EU peace force and two
German officers crashed, but it was not clear if there were any
casualties.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, It was reported that
Bristol has been designated as Britain's first "cycling city" as part
of a 100 million pound scheme aimed at getting people to exercise by
using bicycles.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, Canada's national
police laid criminal charges against former Nortel Networks Corp chief
executive Frank Dunn and other onetime executives, claiming the men
fraudulently misstated the telecom equipment maker's results.
(Reuters, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, China’s government
raised its base price for gasoline by 17% and 18% for diesel in an
effort to diminish the nation’s appetite for fuel.
(WSJ, 6/19/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 19, Colombia's chief
prosecutor ordered the arrest of a cashiered navy rear admiral on
charges he helped drug traffickers. Rear Adm. Gabriel Arango was fired
in August over accusations that traffickers paid him for information on
the movements of drug patrols off Colombia's Caribbean coast.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, The EU agreed to lift
its 2003 diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposed tough
conditions on the communist island to maintain sanction-free relations.
(AP, 6/20/08)(Econ, 6/28/08, p.44)
2008 Jun 19, In France a man
suspected of stealing $15 million of historic treasures from churches
was arrested. The 30-year-old suspect was taken into custody by police
in Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, after he allegedly asked an antiques
dealer to sell an object stolen from a church in Normandy.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, In India officials
said soldiers and rescue workers rushed to provide relief to hundreds
of thousands of people stranded in eastern India by monsoon floods that
have killed at least 38 people in the past week.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, Iraqi troops arrested
Rafia Abdul-Jabbar, the top official in Amarah, a Muqtada al-Sadr
loyalist, drawing swift condemnations from followers of the anti-US
cleric as a military operation against Shiite militias got under way.
Iraqi troops arrested 11 people on the wanted list who were believed be
members of armed groups and seized an unspecified number of weapons
during overnight raids in Basra. US troops captured six suspected
insurgents, including a wanted man believed to have ties to local
al-Qaida in Iraq leaders. 15 others were captured during operations
targeting al-Qaida elsewhere in northern Iraq.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, Guns went quiet as a
six-month truce between Israel and Gaza Strip militants took effect,
but there was widespread skepticism about its ability to hold.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, A Moroccan court
ordered a newspaper to stop publishing testimony given by victims of
years of repression under late king Hassan II to a royal truth
commission.
(AFP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, Nigeria's most
prominent militant group claimed responsibility for an attack on
Shell's main offshore oilfield and said it had kidnapped a US oil
worker. The attack shut down a tenth of the country's oil output in a
rare attack on a deepwater facility. The Movement for the Emancipation
of the Niger Delta (MEND) said US captain Jack Stone from oil services
company Tidex was freed in the afternoon.
(AFP, 6/19/08)(Reuters, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, Philippine officials
said Indanan township mayor Alvarez Isnaji and his son Jun, who
negotiated with al-Qaida-linked rebels for the release of an abducted
TV news anchor and three other people, have been arrested as suspects
in the June 8 kidnappings.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, Serbia's Supreme
Court sentenced Radomir Markovic, late strongman Slobodan Milosevic's
security chief, to 40 years in prison for organizing a deadly attack on
a prominent dissident. He was convicted of trying to kill opposition
leader Vuk Draskovic in October 1999.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, In South Korea about
6,500 truck drivers ended their strike after transportation companies
agreed to increase fees for hauling freight, but another 6,500 remained
off the job.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 19, In Sri Lanka fighting
between the government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels along the northern
front lines killed 26 rebels and three government soldiers.
(AP, 6/20/08)
2008 Jun 19, The UN adopted
Resolution 1820 affirming that sexual violence as a weapon of war
affects international peace and security, and could trigger sanctions.
(Econ, 2/21/09, p.61)(http://tinyurl.com/64taeu)
2008 Jun 19, Zimbabwe’s Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition said 4 more opposition activists
and the wife of an MDC politician have been killed, blaming the deaths
on ruling party supporters. The MDC youth members were abducted Jun 17
and their bodies were discovered in various locations in Chitungwiza,
southeast of Harare.
(AFP, 6/19/08)
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