Today in History - July 2
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311 Jul 2, St.
Miltiades began his reign as Catholic Pope.
(SC, 7/2/02)
419 Jul 2, Valentinian III,
Roman emperor (425-55), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1298 Jul 2, An army under Albert
of Austria defeated and killed Adolf of Nassua near Worms, Germany.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1489 Jul 2, Thomas Cranmer, first
Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533-1556), was born.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1566 Jul 2, French astrologer,
physician and prophet Nostradamus died in Salon.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1625 Jul 2, The Spanish army took
Breda, Spain, after nearly a year of siege.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1644 Jul 2, Lord Cromwell crushed
the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor near York, England.
Cromwell came from minor gentry in Huntingdon and had served in
Parliament before the wars, during which he commanded the Ironsides, a
cavalry regiment famous for its discipline and tenacity. Although he
had had no previous military experience, he showed amazing courage and
tactical brilliance, particularly at the Battle of Marston Moor.
(HN, 7/2/98)(HNQ, 8/8/00)
1644 Jul 2, William Gascoigne
(24), introduced telescopic sights, was killed.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1714 Jul 2, Christoph Willibald
Ritter von Gluck, composer, was born in Erasbach, Germany.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1747 Jul 2, Marshall Saxe led the
French forces to victory over an Anglo-Dutch force under the Duke of
Cumberland at the Battle of Lauffeld.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1775 Jul 2, George Washington
arrived in Boston and took over as commander-in-chief of the new
Continental Army.
(HT, 3/97, p.33)
1776 July 2, The Continental
Congress passed Lee's resolution that "these united Colonies are, and
of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States," and then spent two
days over the wording of Jefferson's document.
(Civil., Jul-Aug., '95, p.61)(AP, 7/2/97)(HN, 7/2/98)
1777 Jul 2, Vermont became the 1st
American colony to abolish slavery. [see Mar 1, 1780]
(SC, 7/2/02)
1778 Jul 2, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(b.1712), Swiss-born writer and philosopher, died in France. He
was considered part of the French Enlightenment along with Voltaire and
Diderot. In 2005 Leo Damrosch authored “Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless
Genius.”
(www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rous.htm)(WSJ, 6/7/00,
p.A24)
1787 Jul 2, The Marquis de Sade
shouted from Bastille that prisoners were being slaughtered.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1798 Jul 2, John Fitch, American
inventor, clockmaker, died.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1807 Jul 2, In the wake of the
Chesapeake incident, in which the crew of a British frigate boarded an
American ship and forcibly removed four suspected deserters, President
Thomas Jefferson ordered all British ships to vacate U.S. territorial
waters.
(AP, 7/2/07)
1808 Jul 2, Simon Fraser completed
his trip down Fraser River, BC. He landed at Musqueam.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1821 Jul 2, Charles Tupper, 6th
Canadian PM (1896), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1822 Jul 2, Denmark Vesey [Vessey]
(b.1767) was executed in Charleston, South Carolina, for planning a
massive slave revolt.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1843 Jul 2, Samuel Hahnemann
(b.1755), German physician and founder of homeopathy, died in Paris.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann)
1849 Jul 2, The leaders of the
Republic of Rome surrendered to French and Austrian forces. Garibaldi,
his wife and some 4,700 men left Rome with the intent to fight a
guerrilla war against Austria.
(ON, 10/06, p.5)
1850 Jul 2, Prussia agreed to pull
out of Schleswig and Holstein, Germany.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1850 Jul 2, Sir Robert Peel
(b.1788), former British prime minister (1834-35 and 1841-46), died. He
founded the Conservative Party and the London Police Force whose
officers were called "bobbies." In 2007 Douglas Hurd authored “Robert
Peel: A Biography.”
(HN, 2/5/99)(Econ, 6/30/07, p.93)
1858 Jul 2, Czar Alexander II
freed the serfs working on imperial lands.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1862 Jul 2, Lincoln signed an act
granting land for state agricultural colleges. [see Jul 1]
(SC, 7/2/02)
1863 Jul 2, Mrs. Lincoln was
thrown from her carriage and spent weeks recovering at the Anderson
Cottage, Washington DC. The seat assembly may have been sabotaged.
(SFC, 5/20/02, p.F10)
1863 Jul 2, The Union left flank
held at Little Round Top during 2nd day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Union Gen. Daniel Sickles was severely wounded and had his leg
amputated. In 2002 Thomas Keneally authored "American Scoundrel: The
Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles."
(WSJ, 3/29/02, p.W10)(SFC, 4/17/02, p.D1)(AH, 2/05,
p.49)
1864 Jul 2, Statuary Hall in US
Capitol was established.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1864 Jul 2, Gen. Early and
Confederate forces reached Winchester.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1865 Jul 2, Lili Braun, feminist,
socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen), was born in Prussia.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1867 Jul 2, The 1st US elevated
railroad began service in NYC.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1872 Jul 2, Jacob W. Davis of
Reno, Nevada, sent Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco a sample of
his work pants and a business proposal for Strauss to apply for a
patent in exchange for a half share in the patent. Davis soon sold his
half share to Strauss and moved to San Francisco to supervise the
manufacture of the work pants.
(ON, 4/05, p.11)
1874 Jul 2, Colonel Custer
departed from Fort Abraham Lincoln with some 1,000 soldiers and 70
Indian scouts on a 1200 mile expedition to chart the Black Hills of
eastern Wyoming western South Dakota, land which belonged to the Sioux.
The expedition returned on August 30.
(AH, 6/03, p.37)
1876 Jul 2, Montenegro declared
war on Turkey.
(PC, 1992, p.537)
1877 Jul 2, Herman Hesse (d.1962),
German philosopher poet and author, was born in Switzerland. His work
included "Steppenwolf" and he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1946.
(HN, 7/2/99)(WUD, 1994, p.666)(SC, 7/2/02)
1881 Jul 2, Less than four months
after his inauguration, James Garfield, the 20th President of the US,
was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, who wished to be appointed
consul to France, at the Washington railroad station. Garfield lived
out the summer with a fractured spine and seemed to be gaining strength
until he caught a chill and died on September 19. Guiteau was
apprehended at the time of the shooting and, in spite of an insanity
defense, was convicted of murder. Chester Alan Arthur became the 21st
President. Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.
(A&IP, ESM, p.96b, photo,110)(HN, 7/2/98)(HNPD,
9/19/98)(AP, 7/2/07)
1885 Jul 2, Canada's North-West
Insurrection ended with the surrender of Big Bear.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1890 Jul 2, Congress passed the
Sherman Antitrust Act. It put some teeth into earlier antitrust law.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.D2)(AP, 7/2/97)
1894 Jul 2, Andre Kertesz,
photographer, was born.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1894 Jul 2, The US Government
obtained an injunction against striking Pullman Workers.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1900 Jul 2, Tyrone Guthrie,
English theater director, was born.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1900 Jul 2, Count Ferdinand Adolf
Heinrich August von Zeppelin (1838-1917) made the 1st successful flight
of his lighter-than-air ship LZ-1 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The 400
foot craft stayed aloft 17 minutes before it crashed.
(AHM, 1/97)(WSJ, 2/120/00, p.A1)(ON, 3/03, p.11)
1902 Jul 2, John J. McGraw became
manager of NY Giants and stayed for 30 years.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1903 Jul 2, Lord Alex
Douglas-Home, British PM (1963-64), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1903 Jul 2, Olav V, King of Norway
(1957), was born in England.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1905 Jul 2, Jean-Rene Lacoste,
tennis champ, alligator shirt designer, was born in France.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1906 Jul 2, Hans Bethe, physicist
(Nobel 1967), peace worker, was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1908 Jul 2,
Thurgood Marshall (d.1993), first African-American US Supreme Court
Justice, was born in Baltimore. He served on the US Supreme Court from
1967-1991. As a civil rights lawyer in the 1950s he maintained a
confidential relationship with the FBI.
(SFC, 12/3/96, p.A3)(HN, 7/2/98)(AP, 7/2/08)
1914 Jul 2, Frederick Fennell,
conductor (Time & the Winds), was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1916 Jul 2, Barry Gray, radio talk
show host, was born.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1916 Jul 2, Ken Curtis Lamar,
actor (Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke), was born in Colorado.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1917 Jul 2, Race riots erupted in
East St. Louis, Illinois. The official death toll was put at 48, but as
many as 200 were believed killed. In 1964 Elliott M. Rudwick authored
Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917.” In 2008 Harper Barnes
authored “Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil
Rights Movement.”
(SFC, 7/18/08,
p.E3)(www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=54020510)
1917 Jul 2, An Arab army led by
Feisal Hussein and Bedouin chief Auda Abu Taiya fought Turkish forces
at Aqaba killing 300 and capturing 160 Turkish soldiers.
(ON, 10/05, p.8)
1918 Jul 2, Robert Sarnoff was
born. He later became president of the National Broadcasting Company
(NBC) and converted the network to the first all-color television
station.
(HN, 7/2/99)
1919 Jul 2, Johnny Bradford, actor
(Ransom Sherman Show), was born in Long Branch, NJ.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1921 Jul 2, J. Andrew White
announced the Dempsey-Carpentier fight in Jersey City and was thereby
credited with being the first professional radio announcer. Dempsey
defeated Georges Carpentier of France in the 1st million dollar gate
($1.7m) boxing match.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.E4)(SFC, 10/14/99, p.C5)(SC, 7/2/02)
1922 Jul 2, Dan Rowan, comedian
(Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), was born in Beggs, Okla.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1924 Jul 2, The 1st day of
transcontinental airmail service brought news to SF mailed from New
York after 34 hours and 45 minutes.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W7)
1925 Jul 2, Patrice Lumumba,
revolutionary, was born in Congo.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1925 Jul 2, Marvin Rainwater,
country singer (Ozark Jubilee), was born in Wichita, Ks.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1926 Jul 2, Medgar Evers, American
civil rights leader in Mississippi, was born. He was murdered in front
of his house by Byron DeLa Beckwith.
(HN, 7/2/99)
1926 Jul 2, Lee Allen Pittsburg,
tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr. Lee), was born in Kansas.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1926 Jul 2, The U.S. Army Air
Corps was created by Congress. The Distinguish Flying Cross was
authorized.
(AP, 7/2/97)(HN, 7/2/98)(SC, 7/2/02)
1927 Jul 2, Brock Peters, actor,
singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1928 Jul 2, Pavel Kohout, Czech
author (Poor Murderer), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1930 Jul 2, Carlos Menem,
president of Argentina (1989-1999), was born. He had Muslim ancestry
and ties to the Syrian-Lebanese community.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A20)(SFC, 7/22/02, p.A6)
1931 Jul 2, Robert Ito, actor
(Sam-Quincy ME), was born in Vancouver, BC.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1932 Jul 2, Sammy Turner, vocalist
(Lavender Blue), was born in Paterson, NJ.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1932 Jul 2, New York Gov. Franklin
D. Roosevelt won the nomination for president on the 4th ballot at the
Democratic convention in Chicago.
(ON, 12/07, p.3)
1935 Jul 2, Gilbert Kalish,
pianist, professor (SUNY Stony Brook), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1935 Jul 2, C. Jackson discovered
asteroid #1357, Khama.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1937 Jul 2, Polly Holliday,
actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo), was born in Jasper, Ala.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1937 Jul 2, Richard Petty, auto
race driver (Daytona 500-1979,81), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1937 Jul 2, Amelia Earhart and
navigator Fred Noonan left Lae in Papua, New Guinea and disappeared
over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first
round-the-world flight at the equator. The two had set out in Earhart's
twin-engine Lockheed Electra, taking off from Oakland, Calif., for
Miami on May 21. They flew across the Atlantic from Brazil to Africa,
then reached Calcutta on June 17, having made 15 stops thus far. They
failed to arrive at their scheduled stop at Howland Island. Radio
operators received messages from Earhart saying that they had to be
close and were circling, searching for land, but radio contact was lost
and the two were never heard from again. Noonan was alcoholic and had
been on a binge the night before. Radioman Leo Bellarts was the last
person to communicate with Earhart. Errors from the US Coast Guard
cutter Itasca were later identified as contributing to the
disappearance.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.A8) (SFC, 5/20/97, p.A12) (AP,
7/2/97) (SFEC, 7/6/97, p.B10) (HNPD, 7/2/99)(SFC, 7/1/00, p.A1,11)
1937 Jul 2, C. Jackson discovered
asteroids #1429, Pemba, & #1456, Saldanha.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1939 Jul 2, John Sununu, US
Secretary of State (1989-91), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1940 Jul 2, Georgi Ivan Ivanov,
1st Bulgarian space traveler (Soyuz 33), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1940 Jul 2, The Lake Washington
Floating bridge in Seattle was dedicated.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1942 Jul 2, Allied convoys QP-13
and PQ-17 passed each other while the German battleships Tirpitz and
Hipper prepared to attack PQ-17 in the North Atlantic.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1943 Jul 2, The U.S. Army Air
Corps 99th Fighter Squadron, the first of the all-black Tuskegee Airmen
to see combat, had been based in Africa for four months when they were
assigned to escort 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers on a routine mission over
Sicilian targets. Lieutenant Charles B. Hall of Brazil, Indiana became
the first Tuskegee Airman to score a confirmed kill when he shot down a
German fighter plane.
(HNPD, 7/5/98)
1946 Jul 2, Ron Silver, actor
(Gary-Rhoda, Dear Detective, Baker's Dozen), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1946 Jul 2, Anthony Overton (81),
publisher, cosmetics manufacturer, banker, died.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1947 Jul 2, An object crashed near
Roswell, N.M. The Army Air Force later insisted it was a weather
balloon, but eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have
been an alien spacecraft.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1949 Jul 2, "Red Barber's
Clubhouse" sports show premiered on CBS (later NBC) TV.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1949 Jul 2, Premier Georgi
Dimitrov (b.1882), the founding leader of Bulgarian communism, died in
Moscow while undergoing medical treatment. His remains were placed in a
marble mausoleum in Sophia. He was succeeded by Vassil Kolarov.
Dimitrov’s remains were buried in 1990. In 2003 Ivo Banac edited "The
Diary of Georgi Dimitrov."
(EWH, 1968, p.1194)(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A12)(WSJ,
6/6/03, p.W9)(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A5)
1952 Jul 2, Linda M. Godwin, PhD,
astronaut (STS 37), was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1954 Jul 2, Wendy Schaal, actress
(It's a Living, Julie-Fantasy Is), was born in Chicago, Ill.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1955 Jul 2, "The Lawrence Welk
Show" premiered on ABC television.
(AP, 7/2/98)
1956 Jul 2, Jeffrey Cooper,
guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1956 Jul 2, Jerry Hall, model,
Mrs. Mick Jagger, was born in Mesquite, Tx.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1956 Jul 2, Julie Montgomery,
actress (Samantha-1, Life to Live, Kindred), was born in KC, Mo.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1956 Jul 2, Former truck driver
Elvis Presley recorded "Hound Dog" by Lieber and Stoller and "Don't Be
Cruel." Presley, began Rock-n-Roll with his song "Don’t Be Cruel,"
written by Otis Blackwell (d.2002 at 70).
(SC, 7/2/02)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(SFC, 5/10/02,
p.A31)
1956 Jul 2, Turkey rejected a
British plan for the eventual self-determination of Cyprus.
(EWH, 1968, p.1250)
1957 Jul 2, Mike Anger, rocker
(The Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1957 Jul 2, The Seawolf, the 1st
submarine powered by liquid metal cooled reactor, was completed.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1957 Jul 2, Grayback, the 1st
submarine designed to fire guided missiles, was launched.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1959 Jul 2, Wendy B. Lawrence, USN
Lt Commander, astronaut, was born in Jacksonville, Fla.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1961 Jul 2, Jimmy McNichol, actor
(Fitzpatricks, California Fever), was born in LA, Calif.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1961 Jul 2, Novelist E. Hemingway
shot himself in the head at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. Boozing and
physical trauma led to depression, electroshock therapy and suicide. In
1964 his novel "A Moveable Feast was published. In
1974 Jose Luis Castillo-Puche published “Hemingway in
Spain.” His novel “True at First Light” was based on his 1953 safari in
Africa and was to be published Jul 21 1999, the centennial of his
birth. His book “The Garden of Eden” and “Islands in the Stream” were
also published after his death. His novel "Dangerous Summer" was based
on the rivalry between two matadors, Antonio Ordonez (d.1998) and Luis
Miguel Dominguin. In 1976 his son Gregory (d.2001) authored
“Papa: A Personal Memoir.”
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A11)(TMC, 1994, p.1961)(AP,
7/2/97)(SFC, 8/5/98, p.E3)(SFC, 8/25/98, p.A2)(SFC, 12/21/98,
p.B5)(WSJ, 6/18/99, p.W13)(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A18)
1963 Jul 2, President John F.
Kennedy met Pope Paul the Sixth at the Vatican, the first meeting
between a Roman Catholic US chief executive and the head of the
Catholic Church.
(AP, 7/2/00)
1964 Jul 2, Dave Parsons rocker
(Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1964 Jul 2, Celia Black recorded
Beatle's "Its For You" with McCartney on piano.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1964 Jul 2, President Johnson
signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress. It
guaranteed voting rights and equal access to public accommodations and
education.
(AP, 7/2/97)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1964 Jul 2, Glenn "Fireball"
Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, died in crash.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1967 Jul 2, The U.S. Marine Corps
launched Operation Buffalo in response to the North Vietnamese Army's
efforts to seize the Marine base at Con Thien.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1969 Jul 2, Barbra Streisand
(b.1942) opened for a 4-week engagement at the Las Vegas International
Hotel.
(www.barbrafile.com/6169.htm)
1970 Jul 2, Jessie Street
(b.1889), Australian civil rights activist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Street)
1973 Jul 2, George Macready
(b.1899), American film and TV actor, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Macready)
1973 Jul 2, Swede Savage (b.1946),
American race car driver, died 33 days after suffering injuries at the
Indianapolis 500.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede_Savage)
1976 Jul 2, The US Supreme Court
ruled to allow states to resume capital punishment. The Supreme Court
ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
(SFC, 1/9/97, p.A4)(AP, 7/2/97)
1976 Jul 2, North and South
Vietnam were officially reunified.
(HN,
7/2/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War)
1978 Jul 2, The Arab League
imposed a boycott on South Yemen.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1980 Jul 2, President Jimmy Carter
reinstated draft registration for males 18 years of age.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1980 Jul 2, Grateful Dead's Bob
Weir (b.1947) & Mickey Hart (b.1943) were arrested in San Diego for
suspicion of inciting a riot following their interference in a drug
related arrest.
(www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0702.htm)
1981 Jul 2, The Continental
Airlines Arena, part of the Meadowlands Sports complex in East
Rutherford, NJ, opened with a concert by Bruce Springsteen.
(www.continentalairlinesarena.com/COArenaFacts.asp?navID=7)
1981 Jul 2, L.E. Gonzalez
discovered asteroid #3495, Colchagua, from the astronomical station of
Cerro El Roble in Chile.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroids_(3001-4000))
1982 Jul 2, Larry Walters
(1949-1993), a Los Angeles truck driver, flew 16,000 feet into the air
with 42 helium balloons attached to a lawn chair. Walters surprised an
airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a
guy in a lawn chair with a gun. The weapon was to shoot balloons and
descend. Walters paid a $1,500 penalty for violating air traffic rules.
Eleven years later, he committed suicide at age 44.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters)(SFC,
7/3/02, p.A17)(AP, 7/10/07)
1982 Jul 2, A bomb exploded
in the hands of Prof. Diogenes Angelakos (d.1997 at 77) in Berkeley. It
was later attributed to the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.4)
1982 Jul 2, DeFord Bailey
(b.1899), harmonica wizard and star of the Grand Ole Opry, died. He was
the first black musician to join the Opry’s regular cast.
(AH, 10/07,
p.74)(www.pbs.org/deford/timeline/index.html)
1982 Jul 2, Soyuz T-6 returned to
Earth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-6)
1985 Jul 2, The European Space
Agency launched the Giotto space probe for a close-up of Halley’s
Comet. It made its closest approach to the comet on March 13, 1986.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)(http://tinyurl.com/2hnfnw)
1986 Jul 2, The US Supreme Court
upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1987 Jul 2, 18 illegal immigrants
were found dead inside a locked boxcar near Sierra Blanca, Texas, in
what authorities called a botched smuggling attempt; a 19th man
survived.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1987 Jul 2, Michael Bennett
(b.1943), Chorus Line director, died of AIDS in Tucson, Az.
(www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=7716)
1987 Jul 2, Karl Linnas, accused
Nazi, died of heart failure in Russia.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1988 Jul 2, 19-year-old Steffi
Graf defeated eight-time Wimbledon winner Martina Navratilova to
capture her first Wimbledon crown.
(AP, 7/2/98)
1989 Jul 2, Andrei Gromyko (79),
former Soviet Foreign Minister died in Moscow.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1990 Jul 2, Some 1402 Muslim
pilgrims were killed in a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leading
to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It was worst hajj tragedy of modern times.
(AP, 7/2/00)(AP, 2/1/04)
1990 Jul 2, The Soviet Union’s
28th Communist Party congress opened with an address by President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who conceded mistakes while defending
perestroika.
(AP, 7/2/00)
1991 Jul 2, Actress Lee Remick
(55) died in Los Angeles of cancer.
(AP, 7/2/01)(SC, 7/2/02)
1991 Jul 2, A European
Community-brokered truce between Yugoslavia and the breakaway republic
of Slovenia was shattered as the federal army battled Slovene militias.
(AP, 7/2/01)
1991 Jul 2, The first national
conference of the ANC, since the organization was banned in 1960, began
in Durban, South Africa. Oliver Tambo, whose health was suffering,
handed over the presidency of the ANC to Nelson Mandela and assumed the
largely honorary post of national chairperson. Walter Sisulu was
elected deputy president.
(www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/tambo.html)(http://tinyurl.com/z63lx)
1992 Jul 2, President Bush vetoed
the so-called "motor-voter" registration bill; President Clinton later
signed a revised version into law.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1992 Jul 2, The US Labor
Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate the previous
month had risen to an eight-year high of 7.8 percent, compared to 7.5
percent in May.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1993 Jul 2, The White House
acknowledged that it had erred in firing seven travel office employees
and urging the FBI to investigate them.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1993 Jul 2, Sheik Omar
Abdel-Rahman, some of whose followers were accused in the bombing of
the World Trade Center, surrendered to immigration officials in New
York City.
(AP, 7/2/98)
1994 Jul 2, Conchita Martinez won
the women's title at Wimbledon, defeating Martina Navratilova 6-4, 3-6,
6-3.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1994 Jul 2, A USAir DC-9 Flight
1016 crashed in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport
in North Carolina, killing 37 of the 57 people aboard.
(WSJ, 1/4/96, p.A-8)(AP, 7/2/97)
1994 Jul 2, Colombian soccer
player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin, ten days after
accidentally scoring a goal against his own team in World Cup
competition.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1995 Jul 2, In Denver,
representatives of 34 countries ended an economic summit by endorsing
an open-market zone throughout the Western Hemisphere—excluding Cuba.
(AP, 7/2/00)(www.sice.oas.org/tunit/SGspeech.asp)
1996 Jul 2, Electricity and phone
service was knocked out for millions of customers from Canada to the
Southwest after power lines throughout the West failed on a record-hot
day.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1996 Jul 2, US federal officials
announced the arrest of 12 members of a militia unit, called Viper
Militia, that had planned to bomb government offices in the Phoenix
area. On Dec 19 two members pleaded guilty to explosives and weapons
charges. On Dec 27 three more members pleaded guilty.
(WSJ, 7/2/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/20/96, p.A1)(SFC,
12/28/96, p.A7)
1996 Jul 2, Seven years after they
shot their parents to death in the family's Beverly Hills mansion, Lyle
and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without parole.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1996 Jul 2, Actor Harry Morgan
(81) was charged with a misdemeanor spousal battery against his
70-year-old wife. He had played Colonel Potter in "M*A*S*H."
(SFC, 7/11/96, p.D4)
1996 Jul 2, Israeli planes
rocketed a Palestinian guerrilla base in Lebanon. The base belonged to
the Palestinian National Liberation Organization, a pro-Syrian group
under Col. Abu Musa, that split from the Fatah movement of Yasser
Arafat in the 1980s.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.C3)
1997 Jul 2, The US began a round
of underground nuclear weapons-related tests in Nevada.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A9)
1997 Jul 2, A federal judge in New
York ruled that the military policy, “don’t ask, don’t tell,” is
unconstitutional and only serves to cater to the biases of many
heterosexuals.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 2, A Montana court voided
a 24-year-old ban on homosexual sex, concluding that the government has
no business meddling in the sexual activity of consenting adults.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 2, Two Union Pacific
trains collided 5 miles north of Rossville, Kan., when an engineer
overshot a siding a struck an oncoming train 6 cars behind the
locomotive; the engineer died in the wreck.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 2, Severe thunder storms
tore through Michigan’s lower peninsula and killed at least 7 people.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 2, Actor James Stewart
(b.1908), died in Beverly Hills, Ca., at age 89.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A1)(AP, 7/2/98)
1997 Jul 2, US Aid to Honduras had
dropped this year to $28 million from a high of $229 million in 1985.
The country had the highest AIDS rate in Central America.
(WSJ, 7/2/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 2, In Japan the
Panamanian registered Diamond Grace oil tanker ran aground in Tokyo Bay
and spilled nearly 2 million gallons of oil. The amount spilled was
revised to 390,000 gallons.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.A9)(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 2, A Canadian commission
established to review the actions of peace-keeping troops in Somalia
between 1992-93 concluded that the troops were unprepared and
victimized by commanders who ignored problems that escalated to torture
and the killing of a Somali teenager.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.C2)
1997 Jul 2, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin fired justice minister Valentin Kovalyov due to the sex scandal
of Jun 22.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.C3)
1998 Jul 2, Apologizing to viewers
and Vietnam veterans for "serious faults" in its reporting, Cable News
Network retracted a story alleging U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to
kill American defectors during the war.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1998 Jul 2, The US Treasury Dept.
allowed direct charter flights between Florida and Cuba to resume.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A4)
1998 Jul 2, Algeria agreed to
allow a UN team to investigate the killings and promised free access to
all sources of information.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A16)
1998 Jul 2, Barbados, Trinidad and
Tobago, Guyana and Jamaica reported plans to establish the Caribbean
Court of Justice in 1999 and planned to change their constitutions to
free themselves of the British Privy Council. The effort was pushed to
establish the death penalty.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 2, With Guyana in turmoil
Pres. Jagan met with former pres. Hoyte in St. Lucia to make a deal
that provided the opposition more say.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 2, In Hungary a gangland
car bomb killed 4 and injured 25 people in Budapest. It was directed at
Jozsef Tamas Boros, a restaurateur who was cooperating with a police
investigation. A turf war between Russian, Ukrainian, Romania, Turkish
and Arab gangs had led to 140 bombings since 1991.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 2, The World Bank
approved $1 billion loan to Indonesia as part of its $4.5 contribution
to the $41 billion rescue package.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 2, Japan announced that a
string of bridge banks would be set up to run failed banks as bad loans
are sold and lending is continued.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 2, In Nigeria UN Sec.
Gen’l. Kofi Annan announced that at least 250 political prisoners would
soon be released including Moshood Abiola.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 2, In Northern Ireland 10
Roman Catholic churches were set on fire by arsonists.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 2, In Shawan, Pakistan,
Haji Mohammad Alam Channa, the world’s tallest man at 7 feet 7 and 1/4
inches, died at age 42 from kidney disease.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.C2)
1998 Jul 2, In Russia the
government ordered Gazprom to pay 4.2 billion rubles in unpaid taxes
and to start regular tax payments. Gazprom is 40% owned by the
government and threats were made to seize the company. As part of the
deal the government agreed to pay billions of rubles for oil and gas
used by government agencies. The deal was estimated to be a wash.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.D3)
1998 Jul 2, In Uzbekistan the
state genetics' institute at Tashkent was reported to be working on a
fungus to kill opium poppies. Pleospora papaveracea was a nuisance
fungus that had been under development by Soviets in the 1980s.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A14)
1999 Jul 2, In Skokie, Illinois,
north of Chicago, a driveby gunman, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith (21),
killed Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern Univ. basketball coach.
Smith wounded 6 Orthodox Jews Chicago and fired on an Asian-American
couple in Northbrook over three-day shooting rampage and then committed
suicide.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A1)(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/2/00)
1999 Jul 2, Mario Puzo (78),
author of "The Godfather," died on Long Island. His last book,
"Omerta," was scheduled for publication in 2000.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A21)
1999 Jul 2, A 3-day UN conference
on population closed after 170 nations agreed on sex education, access
to abortion and parental rights.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.C1)
1999 Jul 2, Congo: Government and
rebel officials said they had reached an accord to end the 11-month war
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rebel forces were to be merged
with the government army.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 2, Two boats off the
Pacific coast of Mexico overturned and over 40 suspected illegal
immigrants from Central America were killed.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A17)
1999 Jul 2, In Northern Ireland
Britain's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern issued a
take-or-leave-it plan for a new local government to begin in 2 weeks
before the IRA gives up any of its guns with disarmament to begin later.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 2, The Pakistani army
reported that 58 Kashmiri civilians had been killed and 158 wounded
over the last 2 month by Indian shelling.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 2, In Rwanda a court
sentenced 9 people to death and 16 others to life in prison on charges
related to genocide in 1994.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 2, In Serbia 5,000 people
demonstrated against Pres. Milosevic in Novi Sad.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A9)
2000 Jul 2, In Chechnya rebels
staged 5 suicide attacks against Russian forces. One bomb killed 31
elite OMON police troops as they slept in their barracks at Argun.
(SFC, 7/4/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 2, France beat Italy
2-to-1 in the European Championship soccer final in Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
(AP, 7/2/01)
2000 Jul 2, In Indonesia 10 people
were rescued from water close to Karakelong Island after 4 days at sea
following the sinking of the Cahaya Bahari.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 2, In Mexico Vincente Fox
(58) and his national Action Party (PAN) claimed victory over the
ruling PRI. This ended the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s 71-year
reign. In 2004 Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon authored "Opening
Mexico: The Making of a Democracy."
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/3/00, p.A8)(AP,
7/2/01)(SSFC, 3/14/04, p.M1)
2000 Jul 2, In Mongolia the
People’s Revolutionary Party won 72 seats of the 76-member legislature.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 2, In Northern Ireland
police block the marchers of the Orange Order at Portadown.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A12)
2001 Jul 2, US Vice President Dick
Cheney returned to work two days after receiving a new pacemaker.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2001 Jul 2, Missouri Gov. Bob
Holden, Democrat, signed legislation to ban the execution of mentally
retarded inmates. This was the 16th state to do so.
(SFC, 7/3/01, p.A4)
2001 Jul 2, In Louisville, Ky.,
the 1st self-contained artificial heart, AbioCor, made by Abiomed was
implanted at Jewish Hospital to Robert L. Tools (59). Tools lived 151
days with the device and died Nov 30.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/22/01,
p.A3)(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 2, In Colombia a
firefight erupted between rival gangs at the La Modelo penitentiary and
10 inmates were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 2, In Indonesia
humanitarian workers found 27 slashed bodies in Aceh. This raised to 50
the number of dead found in the last 3 days.
(SFC, 7/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 2, An Israeli was killed
while shopping near the West Bank and a Palestinian was killed by
Israeli troops. The US scrambled to salvage the cease-fire.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/3/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 2, Mexican President
Vicente Fox married his spokeswoman and longtime love, Martha Sahagun,
a year to the day after his election victory.
(AP, 7/2/02)
2001 Jul 2, In Sri Lanka jets were
sent against rebel bases near Jaffna.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 2, Zimbabwe deployed riot
police ahead of the start of a general strike.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)
2002 Jul 2, A trial court in
Florida ruled that the state's capital sentencing statute in
constitutional.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 2, The Hayman fire in
Colorado was declared under control. It had burned 137,760 acres over
24 days.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 2, Steve Fossett became
the 1st person to fly a balloon solo around the world. On his 6th
attempt he completed the journey in 13 days, 12 hours, 16 minutes and
13 seconds. He departed from Australia Jun 19 and covered an estimated
19,428 miles.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 2, Ray Brown (b.1926),
jazz bassist, died in Indianapolis.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A21)(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.D6)
2002 Jul 2, In Chile the highest
court halted prosecution of dictator Augusto Pinochet ruling that he
was mentally unfit to stand trial for dozens of political killings by
the notorious "Caravan of Death."
(AP, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, East Timor President
Xanana Gusmao and his Indonesian counterpart Megawati Sukarnoputri
opened a new chapter in ties between the world's newest nation and its
former foe, establishing formal diplomatic links and pledging to work
together.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, Malaysia said it had
not reached any new agreements with Singapore on the sale of water to
the island state and other issues after two days of talks.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, Philippine Vice
President Teofisto Guingona resigned as foreign minister, settling but
perhaps not ending a public row with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
over U.S. military exercises in the south of the country.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, A former South African
policeman killed four people and wounded nine during a shooting rampage
in a small town in the Northern Cape province.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2003 Jul 2, The US was reported to
be sending nearly 250,000 metric tons of wheat to Ethiopia to help ease
the country's hunger crisis.
(AP, 7/2/03)
2003 Jul 2, The film "Ken Parks"
by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman received an illegal public screening
in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. The film was about the
dysfunctional lives of skateboarders in the suburbs of Visalia, Ca.,
and was banned due to its explicit sex and violence.
(SFC, 7/7/03, p.D2)
2003 Jul 2, Vancouver, Canada, was
awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics.
(AP, 7/2/04)
2003 Jul 2, In southern India a
train engine and two coaches fell off a bridge and landed on a fish
market and parked taxis, killing at least 18.
(AP, 7/2/03)
2003 Jul 2, A group of 650 Kenyan
women won the right to sue the British Ministry of Defense for rapes by
British soldiers that took place over a 26 year period beginning in
1977.
(SFC, 7/3/03, p.A14)
2003 Jul 2, Palestinian police
moved into the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the second area handed over
by Israel under a U.S.-backed Mideast peace plan.
(AP, 7/2/03)
2003 Jul 2, Russian authorities
detained Platon Lebedev, a close partner of Russia's richest man,
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, on suspicion of defrauding the state of $283
million in the 1994 privatization of the Apatit fertilizer company.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 2, The WHO said Toronto
was no longer SARS infected, leaving Taiwan as the only place in the
world where the disease was not yet fully under control.
(AP, 7/2/03)
2004 Jul 2, In Kansas City,
Kansas, Elijah Brown (21), an employee at the ConAgra Foods
meat-packing plant, went on a shooting rampage that left 5 dead
including himself. A 6th person died overnight.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, China began censoring
telephone text messages to “block the dissemination of illicit news and
information.”
(SFC, 7/3/04, p.A2)
2004 Jul 2, Shanghai police raided
the apartment of Randolph Hobson Guthrie III in a joint US-Chinese
operation against pirated DVDs. They seized 210,000 pirated DVD copies.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A1)
2004 Jul 2, The Dutch government
backed plans for "seals of quality" for well-run brothels and standard
contracts for prostitutes, as well as more support for those who want
to leave the world's oldest profession.
(Reuters, 7/2/04)
2004 Jul 2, Reva Electric Car, an
Indian company that has launched the country's first electric car, has
received 500 orders from Britain and plans to build
environment-friendly mini-buses and small taxis. Its cheapest version
costs 250,000 rupees (US$ 5,500). The company has sold more than 600
cars in India.
(AP, 7/2/04)
2004 Jul 2, In India’s Bihar state
gunmen killed 10 people in the latest outburst of caste violence.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, Scientists from the
United States, Britain and Kenya reported that a skull fragment of a
small adult with some characteristics of Homo erectus was about 900,000
years old. It was found in 2003 in Olorgesalie, 100 miles southeast of
the capital, Nairobi, Kenya.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, A Norwegian strike
began targeting the oil exploration sector. It incidentally affected
two mobile production units, the Petrojarl I, which ceased operations
in early September, and the Petrojarl Varg.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Jul 2, In Panama a
US-registered small jet crashed into an airport hangar during takeoff
and burst into flames, killing seven people.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, Yukos, Russia's
largest oil producer with an output of 1.7 million barrels per day,
warned that it may have to shut down as a result of the legal onslaught.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, In eastern Turkey a
car bomb exploded near a governor's convoy, killing 6 people, including
a 12-year-old boy, and injuring 23 others.
(AFP, 7/2/04)(SFC, 7/3/04, p.A10)
2004 Jul 2, In an eastern Turkey a
5.0 earthquake leveled stone and mud houses, killing 18 people and
injuring 27.
(AP, 7/2/04)(SFC, 7/3/04, p.A3)
2005 Jul 2, Venus Williams beat
top-ranked Lindsay Davenport at Wimbledon 4-6, 7-6 (4), 9-7 for her
fifth major title and her first in nearly four years.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2005 Jul 2, Shasta Groene, an
8-year-old girl kidnapped six weeks earlier, was rescued at a Denny’s
restaurant in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Joseph Edward Duncan III, a
registered sex offender, was arrested and accused of kidnapping Shasta
as well as killing members of Shasta's family. [see May 16, July 4] The
remains of Shasta’s brother, Dylan Groene (9), were found 2 days later
in western Montana.
(AP, 7/2/06)(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A18)(AP, 8/28/08)
2005 Jul 2, Ernest Lehman (89)
Hollywood screenwriter, died. His work included the 1959 screenplay for
Alfred Hitchcock’s film "North by Northwest."
(SFC, 7/6/05, p.B7)
2005 Jul 2, In Afghanistan a
roadside bomb in Paktika province killed 4 policemen traveling in a
convoy. Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan said 25 rebels and six Afghan soldiers
were killed in a raid on a mountainous Taliban hideout in central
Uruzgan province. US and Afghan forces killed 3 rebels after coming
under attack twice near the southern city of Kandahar.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, A case of polio in
Angola was reported by the UN’s WHO.
(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A2)
2005 Jul 2, Australia and New
Zealand agreed on tough new measures to pressure Zimbabwe's President
Robert Mugabe to respect human rights, including a sports ban and
action against him in the International Criminal Court.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, Two trains collided
Saturday in Austria's Salzburg province, killing two people.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 2, A Dhaka-based rights
group said Bangladeshi police and security forces had killed a record
236 people in the first six months of 2005.
(AFP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, Live 8, the biggest
and most ambitious series of rock concerts ever staged, swung into full
action with a concert in London, the centerpiece of a 10 worldwide
concerts aimed at pressuring the industrialized world to end African
poverty.
(AP, 7/2/05)(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 2, A gas explosion at an
illegal coal mine in central China killed 19 workers.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 2, An Egyptian judicial
report was released that alleged the government forged turnout figures
and forced state employees to fabricate results in a May referendum to
allow first-ever multiparty presidential elections.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 2, Ihab al-Sherif, an
Egyptian envoy, was kidnapped in Baghdad, weeks after arriving in the
country. He was expected to become Iraq's first Arab ambassador since
Iraq's new government took office. Al-Qaida later announced it had
killed him.
(AP, 7/3/05)(AP, 7/2/06)
2005 Jul 2, Estonia reigned
supreme once again in the wife-carrying world championship, as Margo
Uusorg sprinted home to win the Baltic country's eighth straight title.
(Reuters, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, The Tour de France got
under way as Lance Armstrong started his quest for a seventh straight
title before retiring from cycling.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, A French woman in Lyon
defied a threat of excommunication by the Roman Catholic Church and
held a ceremony proclaiming herself a priest.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 2, Indian police detained
close to 600 protesters as they demonstrated against moves to start the
dredging of a controversial sea channel through the island chain
between India and Sri Lanka.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, In the southern Indian
state of Tamil Nadu at least 20 people were killed and 15 others
injured in a blaze at a fireworks factory.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, Raging monsoons
continued to submerge vast swaths of Indian countryside and forced the
evacuation of half a million people.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, A suicide bomber
strapped with explosives killed 20 people waiting outside a police
recruiting center in Baghdad. 2 more struck in Hillah, a Shiite city
south of the capital, in attacks that killed another 5 people.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, In Scotland tens of
thousands of protesters clad in white streamed through the cobbled
streets of Edinburgh, demanding that the leaders of the world's richest
nations act to better the lives of the poorest.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, In eastern Turkey a
bomb explosion killed six people and injured eight others on a
passenger train. The second train was bombed as it rushed to help the
first.
(AFP, 7/2/05)(AP, 7/3/05)
2006 Jul 2, US researchers
reported that astemizol, an allergy drug pulled off the market in 1999,
could work to treat malaria. It was marketed under the brand name
Hismanal by Janssen Pharmaceutica, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, and
can kill the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that causes malaria.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Jan Murray (born as
Murray Janofsky in 1916), comedian and film and TV actor, died in
Beverly Hills. He hosted the TV game show “Treasure Hunt” (1956-1959).
(SFC, 7/3/06, p.A2)
2006 Jul 2, In Afghanistan up to
30 extremists, firing guns and mortars, attacked a coalition patrol
that had just found a weapons cache in Sangin. About 20 militants were
killed. Afghan police killed seven insurgents that attacked a police
checkpoint in Nawzad district in southern Helmand province.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 2, Africa's leaders
meeting in Gambia agreed to send troops to Somalia to support regional
efforts at calming the chaotic east African state.
(Reuters, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, In Bangladesh 2 people
were killed and nearly 200 injured in clashes as opposition parties
enforced a countrywide transport shutdown.
(Reuters, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Bolivians voted for a
national assembly that will rewrite the constitution. They voted "yes"
or "no" on a ballot question on whether to offer the country's nine
states greater autonomy in political and financial affairs. President
Morales' supporters failed to win control of an assembly that will
rewrite Bolivia's constitution, leaving him no choice but to compromise
over his ambitious plans to empower the indigenous majority and boost
state control over the economy. Morales allies won 132 seats in the
255-person body. Voters in four of Bolivia's nine states overwhelmingly
chose greater political and economic autonomy for their states.
(AP, 6/29/06)(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 2, EADS's French co-chief
executive Noel Forgeard and Airbus's German head Gustav Humbert
tendered their resignations over delays to deliveries of the A380
superjumbo that has wiped billions of euros (dollars) off EADS's share
price. Louis Gallois became the new EADS co-CEO; Christian Strieff was
named the new president and CEO of Airbus.
(AFP, 7/2/06)(WSJ, 7/3/06, p.A2)
2006 Jul 2, Pirates in the Strait
of Malacca off Indonesia's coast boarded two UN-chartered ships
carrying construction material for the reconstruction of the
tsunami-hit Aceh. They stole and damaged equipment on the first ship
and robbed the crew of cash and personal belongings on the other.
(AP, 7/4/06)
2006 Jul 2, Israeli aircraft sent
missiles tearing through the office of Palestinian PM Ismail Haniyeh in
an unmistakable message to his ruling Hamas group to free an Israeli
soldier.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Iraq’s largest Sunni
Arab bloc in parliament said it was suspending its participation in the
legislature until a kidnapped colleague was released, dealing a blow to
efforts to involve the disaffected minority in the political process. A
roadside bomb in Baghdad killed Col. Muthanna Faeq Abdul-Razzaq, the
assistant commander of the Iraqi army's 7th Division, and wounded his
driver. 2 policemen were killed and six were wounded in a shootout
between gunmen and Iraqi police. A bomb struck a house in Baqouba,
killing two people and wounding four. Clashes between insurgents and
Iraqi police southwest of Kirkuk left one policeman and two insurgents
dead.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Liechtenstein remained
on the list of uncooperative tax havens because, unlike 33 other
jurisdictions, it had not made a commitment to the OECD to improve
transparency and to establish effective exchange of information for tax
purposes with OECD countries. The population stood at some 34,600.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Mexico held
presidential elections. Felipe Calderon (43) calling himself “the
candidate of jobs,” faced Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador: “For everyone’s
good, the poor first.” Lopez Villanueva, head of the Francisco Villa
Popular Front, arranged to have 10,000 members as poll watchers for
Lopez Obrador. A tight race delayed the results to July 5. The per
capita GDP was $10,000. Oil production was 3.35 million barrels per
day. On July 6 Calderon was named the winner by 234,000 votes. The
final outcome rested with the electoral court, Trife, and its decision
was due by September 6.
(Econ, 6/10/06, p.36)(WSJ, 6/28/06, p.A1)(Econ,
7/15/06, p.35)(AP, 7/7/07)
2006 Jul 2, In Nicaragua Herty
Lewites (b.1939), former mayor of Managua (2000-2004) and recent
presidential candidate, died of a heart attack. He broke with the
leftist Sandinista party to run against its leader Daniel Ortega.
(http://tinyurl.com/omz5w)(AP, 7/3/06)(Econ,
11/4/06, p.45)
2006 Jul 2, A Peruvian rescue team
found the bodies of 3 American mountaineers killed during an icy climb
high in the Andes. They located Kristen Yoder (21), her brother Dustin
Yoder (23) and Brennan Larson (24) in a 100-foot-deep crevasse on the
Artesonraju peak.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 2, Senegal's President
Abdoulaye Wade said his country would try Chad's former leader Hissene
Habre, wanted by Belgium for trial on charges of war crimes and crimes
against humanity.
(AFP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Sri Lanka’s Tamil
Tigers, claiming they have just trained 6,000 civilians in armed
combat, accused the UN of exaggerating the number of child
fighters in the rebels' ranks. Police said Sampath Lakmal, a freelance
Sri Lankan journalist, has been gunned down near the capital Colombo.
(AFP, 7/2/06)(AP, 7/2/06)
2007 Jul 2, US President George W.
Bush commuted a 30 month jail term imposed on a former top White House
aide Lewis 'Scooter' Libby for lying to federal investigators, sparking
outrage from opposition Democrats.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, Russia’s Pres. Putin,
while visiting Pres. Bush in Maine, proposed an alternative missile
shield system to be jointly developed by the NATO-Russia Council.
(SFC, 7/3/07, p.A3)
2007 Jul 2, Arizona Gov. Janet
Napolitano signed a bill imposing stiff penalties on employers who hire
illegal immigrants.
(Econ, 7/7/07,
p.35)(www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0702sanctions02-ON.html)
2007 Jul 2, Michael Woodbury (31),
released May 4 from the Maine State Prison after serving five years for
robbery and theft, killed three men during a botched robbery in Conway,
NH. In August he pleaded guilty and was given a mandatory sentence of
life in prison without parole.
(AP, 8/17/07)
2007 Jul 2, Beverly Sills (b.
1929), American opera star, died in Manhattan.
(SFC, 7/3/07, p.B5)
2007 Jul 2, In southern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb destroyed a police vehicle on patrol,
killing all 7 policemen on board. A doctor at Kandahar's main hospital
said NATO forces killed one man and wounded 3. Taliban militants
ambushed a police patrol in the Mizan district, killing one policeman.
A 30-minute gun battle ensued, leaving 3 suspected Taliban dead.
(AP, 7/2/07)(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, Police in Australia
arrested a 27-year-old Indian doctor over the foiled terror attacks in
London and Glasgow, and were interviewing a second doctor in the case.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, Australia's second
largest retailer Coles said it had agreed to a 22 billion dollar (18.7
billion US) buyout offer from conglomerate Wesfarmers, the largest
corporate deal in Australian history.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Researchers said the
first test-tube baby created from an egg matured in the laboratory and
then frozen has been born in Canada, in a breakthrough offering hope to
women with cancer and others unsuited to normal IVF treatment.
(Reuters, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Brahim Deby (27), the
son of Chad's president, was found dead with a head wound in the
basement of his apartment building in a Paris suburb. Authorities
treated the case as a murder investigation.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Thomas Mooney (45), a
senior American diplomat who disappeared four days ago with his car,
was found dead on Cyprus in a rural area outside the capital.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, The European high
speed train operators Deutsche Bahn, SNCF, SNCB, NS Hispeed, ÖBB,
SBB and Eurostar UK and the high speed subsidiaries Thalys, Lyria and
Alleo today announced the actual formation of Railteam. Its aim is to
offer travelers seamless high-speed train travel across international
borders in Western Europe.
(www.railteam.eu/en/press-corner.php)
2007 Jul 2, Egyptian security
sources said Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer who was convicted
in 2002 of spying for Israel, has died in jail of a possible heart
attack while serving a 15-year sentence.
(Reuters, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Count Gottfried von
Bismarck (44), whose life of privileged excess as a descendant of
Germany's "Iron Chancellor" was clouded by two deaths at his decadent
parties, was found dead at his $10 million apartment in London's
Chelsea district.
(AP, 7/4/07)
2007 Jul 2, In Ghana African Union
leaders gathered behind closed doors for a debate on how to beef up its
continental system of government with Libya's Moamer Kadhafi leading a
push to create a confederation of states.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, About 1,500 residents
of a remote Guatemalan village rioted over the purported kidnappings of
two children, burning down a police station and holding their mayor and
another man hostage.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Iran’s President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated an English-language satellite
television channel to counter what he claims is the West's influence in
covering news.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, A US military
Kiowa attack helicopter was shot down by insurgents south of Baghdad.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, Nigerian university
lecturers called off a more than three-month strike to press for
improved working conditions.
(AFP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, President Gen. Pervez
Musharraf's attempt to remove Pakistan's chief justice received a
setback when a Supreme Court judge rejected government evidence and
ordered a sweep of courts and judges' homes for spying devices.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, The UN and other
agencies offered aid and helicopters to Pakistan after floods unleashed
by a cyclone and days of torrential rain devastated 1.5 million people
leaving over 600 people dead.
(AFP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Hamas arrested the
spokesman of a shadowy group holding British reporter Alan Johnston, a
move that could give it a bargaining chip to secure the Briton's
release.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Somali gunmen shot
dead a senior government official in Mogadishu. A teenager died when
munitions left behind by African Union peacekeepers exploded.
(Reuters, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, A South Korean court
sentenced tycoon Kim Seung Youn to 18 months in prison over a beating
attack earlier this year against bar workers involved in a scuffle with
his son. The sentence was shelved on Sep 11, due his deteriorating
health.
(AP, 7/2/07)(SFC, 9/12/07, p.C5)
2007 Jul 2, In Yemen a suicide
bomber plowed his car into people visiting a temple linked to the
ancient Queen of Sheba, killing seven Spaniards and two Yemenis. A
wounded Spanish woman died July 14. The suicide bomber was later
identified as Abdu Mohammed Saad Ahmed (21), a Yemeni citizen.
(AP, 7/3/07)(AP, 7/15/07)(AP, 8/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon reissued a report on the Western Sahara that eliminated
controversial recommendations on the future of the disputed region.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2008 Jul 2, The US lifted a
moratorium on applications to build solar power plants on public lands
in 6 Western states.
(WSJ, 7/3/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 2, In Vermont the body of
a missing girl (12), whose uncle (Michael Jacques) allegedly planned to
force her into a sex ring the day she disappeared, was found in
Randolph, not far from his house.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In California Hans
Florine (44) and Yuji Hirayama (39) broke a World Record for the
fastest climb up the Nose of El Capitan (2:43:33) in Yosemite National
Park. On Oct 12 they broke the record again with a time of 2:37:5.
(SFC, 7/3/08, p.A1)(SFC, 10/13/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 2, In central Afghanistan
a roadside blast killed five Afghan soldiers in Logar province. Gunfire
brought down a US UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in the same province, but
no US personnel were hurt. In the northwest Afghan and international
troops killed 25 Taliban after militants ambushed an Afghan patrol in
Muqur district.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 2, President Alexander
Lukashenko said he acceded to Western and opposition demands for
greater democracy ahead of elections.
(WSJ, 7/3/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 2, The British government
said police have arrested more than 500 suspects in a crackdown on
human trafficking in the sex trade. Police made 528 arrests in the
operation, codenamed Pentameter 2, after raiding 822 premises, of which
157 were massage parlors and 582 houses and flats. The operation began
in October and involved 55 police forces.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Colombian spies
tricked leftist rebels into handing over presidential candidate Ingrid
Betancourt (kidnapped in 2002), three US military contractors (captured
in 2003), and 10 other hostages in a helicopter rescue so successful
that not a single shot was fired. In 2009 Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes
and Marc Gonsalves authored "Out of Captivity," a memoir of their 5
½ year captivity by Colombia's leftist rebels.
(AP, 7/2/08)(AP, 2/26/09)
2008 Jul 2, Deutsche Bank acquired
the Dutch corporate banking arm of ABN AMRO from Fortis, a Benelux
bank, for $1.1 billion in cash.
(Econ, 7/12/08, p.83)
2008 Jul 2, In India an estimated
four million truckers went on strike to press for uniform diesel prices
and to protest against an increase in taxes.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Iraqi security forces
arrested two locally prominent supporters of radical Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr as part of their crackdown against Shiite militias in
the southern city of Amarah. Police said Abdul-Jabar Wahid Humaidi,
head of the provincial council in Maysan, where Amarah is the capital,
and Fadhil Niama, head of the council's security committee, were
suspected of supporting Shiite militias. A string of mortar shells hit
the residential area of al-Amil in western Baghdad, killing one
civilian and wounding eight others. In eastern Diyala province,
US-allied Sunnis killed two al-Qaida terrorists south of Baqouba.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In Israel Hussam
Dwayat (30), a Palestinian man from Arab east Jerusalem plowed, an
enormous construction vehicle into cars, buses and pedestrians on a
busy street, killing at least 3 people and wounding at least 45 before
he was shot dead by security officers. Palestinian witnesses said an
angry crowd in the Gaza Strip has stormed a border crossing with Egypt
throwing rocks at Egyptian troops.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Italian Premier Silvio
Berlusconi pledged to end the garbage crisis in Naples and the
surrounding area by the end of July.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Japan and Middle
Eastern leaders agreed on a project to bring thousands of badly needed
jobs to the West Bank, voicing hope it would lay the groundwork for a
Palestinian state.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In Kashmir the Indian
army said 11 Muslim rebels and an Indian soldier have been killed in
two days of fierce fighting in a district bordering the Pakistani part
of the disputed state.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Stanley Ho, casino
entrepreneur in Macao, agreed to sell a 25% stake from some $500
million in his SJM Holdings, which owned 19 or Macao’s 29 casinos.
(Econ, 7/5/08, p.75)
2008 Jul 2, In Mexico 4
decapitated bodies were found on a street in Culiacan, blocks away from
their severed heads. Four gunmen were killed hours later, after opening
fire on federal police patrolling Culiacan, a center for the powerful
Sinaloa drug cartel. Under attack, police shot back at the home where
the gunmen were holed up, killing the four assailants and capturing two
others.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 2, The Moroccan news
agency said 35 alleged recruiters for Al-Qaeda operations in Algeria
and Iraq were arrested by police in Morocco, where they were also
accused of planning attacks. The suspects allegedly belong to a
Salafist group, Salafiya Jihadiya.
(AFP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 2, The Nigerian
government charged two former aviation ministers with misusing a
$165-million fund set up to improve air safety after three airplane
accidents.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In South Korea tens of
thousands of auto workers went on strike to oppose the government's
lifting of a ban on US beef imports.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In Sri Lanka a series
of battles between government forces and Tamil Tiger fighters on the
front lines of the civil war killed 26 rebels. The fighting took place
throughout the day, killing two rebels in the Vavuniya area, 12 in
Mannar and 12 in Welioya. Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan disputed
those figures, saying three of his fighters and 11 soldiers were killed
in the fighting.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 2, Zimbabwe opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai rejected an African Union decision to keep
South Africa's president alone in charge of efforts to resolve
Zimbabwe's political crisis. The European Commission insisted that
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai should be named at the
head of any new government. South African President Thabo Mbeki
rejected the EU position.
(AP, 7/2/08)(AFP, 7/2/08)
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