Today in History - July 5
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649 Jul 5, St.
Martin I began his reign as Pope.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1201 Jul 5, An earthquake in Syria
and upper Egypt killed some 1.1 million people.
(www.geohaz.org/member/news/signif.htm)
1294 Jul 5, Pietro di Murrone, a
pious hermit, was elected as Pope Celestine V. He was so besieged by
the political, social and religious challenges of the position that
just five months later, on December 13, he became the first pope to
resign, for which he was imprisoned by his successor, Boniface VIII. He
died in the castle of Fumone, May 19, 1296.
(www.newadvent.org/cathen/03479b.htm)
1539 Jul 5, Antonio M. Zaccaria,
Italian physician, saint, died.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1643 Jul 5, 1st recorded tornado
in US was at Essex County, Massachusetts.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1694 Jul 5, Composer Louis-Claude
Daquin was born.
(DataDragon)
1709 Jul 5, Etienne de Silhouette,
French minister of finance, outline portrait artist, was born.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1755 Jul 5, Sarah Siddons, Welsh
actress, gained fame playing Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, was born.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1775 Jul 5, William Crotch,
composer, was born.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1775 Jul 5, The Olive Branch
Petition was adopted by the Continental Congress and professed the
attachment of the American people to George III. It expressed hope for
the restoration of harmony and begged the king to prevent further
hostile actions against the colonies. The following day, Congress
passed a resolution written by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson, a
"Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms," which
rejected independence but asserted that Americans were ready to die
rather than be enslaved. King George refused to receive the Olive
Branch Petition on August 23 and proclaimed the American colonies to be
in open rebellion.
(HNQ, 7/2/99)
1776 Jul 5, The Declaration of
Independence was first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia. 200
copies were prepared July 5-6 and distributed to the states.
(HN, 7/5/98)(HNQ, 7/4/99)(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A3)
1781 Jul 5, Stamford Raffles,
founder of Singapore, was born.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1794 Jul 5, Sylvester Graham,
developed graham cracker, was born.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1801 Jul 5, David G. Farragut
(d.1870), American naval hero, was born in Knoxville, Tenn.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1806 Jul 5, A Spanish army
repelled the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1809 Jul 5, Pope Pius VII was
taken prisoner to France and held there until 1814.
(PC, 1992 ed, p.371)
1809 Jul 5-6, Napoleon beat
archduke Charles at the Battle of Wagram.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1810 Jul 5, P.T. Barnum, American
showman who formed the Barnum and Bailey Circus, was born.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1811 Jul 5, Venezuela became the
first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1814 Jul 5, US troops under Gen.
Jacob Brown and Gen. Winfield Scott defeated a superior British force
under Maj. Gen. Phineas Riall near the Niagara River at Chippewa,
Canada. British casualties exceeded 500 compared to some 300 Americans.
(AH, 10/07, p.53)
1830 Jul 5, The French occupied
the North African city of Algiers.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1832 Jul 5, The German government
began curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a
revolt against Austrian rule.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1833 Jul 5, Joseph Nicephore
Niepce (b.1765), French inventor most noted as the inventor of
photography, died. He is well-known for taking some of the earliest
photographs, dating to the 1820s.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic%C3%A9phore_Ni%C3%A9pce)
1935 Jul 5, President Roosevelt
signed the National Labor Relations Act, which provided for a National
Labor Relations Board and authorized labor to organize for the purpose
of collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was
created by a statute as an independent federal agency that conducts
secret-ballot elections to determine whether employees desire union
representation.
(WSJ, 5/12/97, p.A15)(AP, 7/5/97)
1839 Jul 5, British naval forces
bombarded Dingai on Zhoushan Island in China and occupy it.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1841 Jul 5, Thomas Cook (b.1808)
opened the 1st travel agency.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1849 Jul 5, The sailing ship
Niantic arrived in SF, Ca, and anchored in Yerba Buena Cove. The ship’s
owners soon converted her to a storage and auction house for imported
goods and built a hotel on her deck.
(SFC, 5/9/03, p.E5)(SFC, 2/4/05, p.E16)
1852 Jul 5, Johann Baptist Weigl
(69), composer, died.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1853 Jul 5, Cecil John Rhodes
(d.1902), politician, diamond merchant, was born in South Africa. He
discovered a vast lode of diamonds at Kimberley and founded the De
Beers Mining Co. He ran for Cape parliament in 1881 and was prime
minister of the Cape Colony from 1890-1896. He founded Rhodesia (later
Zimbabwe) for mineral speculation and endowed the Rhodes scholarships
upon his death with £3 million.
(WSJ, 1/11/98, p.R18)(MC, 7/5/02)
1863 Jul 5, Federal troops
occupied Vicksburg, Mississippi, and distributed supplies to the
citizens. The battles of Jackson and Birdsong Ferry, were fought in
Mississippi.
(HN, 7/5/98)(MC, 7/5/02)
1865 Jul 5, The US Secret Service
began operating under the Treasury Department. The Secret Service
Division began in Washington, D.C., to suppress counterfeit currency.
Chief William P. Wood was sworn in by Secretary of the Treasury Hugh
McCulloch.
(MC,
7/5/02)(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1865 Jul 5, Great Britain imposed
world’s 1st maximum speed laws.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1865 Jul 5, William Booth founded
the Salvation Army in east London to serve the poor and homeless. [see
Jul 23]
(AP, 7/5/97)(SFC, 9/15/98, p.A9)
1867 Jul 5, Andrew Ellicott
Douglass, astronomer and archaeologist, was born.
(HN, 7/5/01)
1877 Jul 5, Wanda A. Landowska,
Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne), was born.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1879 Jul 5, Dwight Filley Davis
(d. Nov 28, 1945 at 66), hall of famer, tennis player, presidential
aide, and Sec of War under Coolidge. He donated tennis’s Davis Cup in
1945.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)(MC, 7/5/02)
1880 Jul 5, Jan Kubelik, composer,
was born.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1884 Jul 5, US Congress accepted a
2nd Chinese Exclusion Act.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1889 Jul 5, Jean Cocteau (d.1963),
French artist, writer and actor, was born. “History is a combination of
reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes
the truth.”
(AP, 11/16/00)(HN, 7/5/01)
1891 Jul 5, John Northrop, US
biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946), was born.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1892 Jul 5, Andrew Beard was
issued a patent for the rotary engine.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1895 Jul 5, Gordon Jacob, composer
(William Byrd Suite), was born.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1904 Jul 5, Ernst Mayr, biologist,
was born in Germany. He emigrated to the US in 1931. Mayr helped define
the concept of species as a group of interbreeding populations. He
helped found the modern evolutionary synthesis with Theodosius
Dobzhansky, Julian Huxley and George Gaylord Simpson, that brought
together a genetic understanding of how species adopt to their
environment.
(NH, 5/97, p.8)(SFC, 7/5/04, p.A6)
1909 Jul 5, Andrei Gromyko,
diplomat, USSR President (1985-89), was born. [see Jul 18]
(MC, 7/5/02)
1911 Jul 5, George Pompidou, Prime
Minister of France, 1968, was born.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1923 Jul 5, Edward Robeson Taylor
(b.1838), former mayor of San Francisco (1907-1910), died. Taylor, a
doctor and lawyer, had also served as dean of Hastings College of the
Law and was a founder of the Book Club of California as well as a
published poet.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Robeson_Taylor)
1924 Jul 5, Janos Starker, cellist
(Chic Symph 1953-58), was born in Budapest, Hungary.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1932 Jul 5, Antonio de Oliveira
Salazar became premier and dictator of Portugal.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1934 Jul 5, During the West Coast
maritime strike Mayor Angelo J. Rossi, a former florist, unleashed the
city’s violently anti-union police department on the workers. 33 people
were shot with 2 men killed in what came to be called "Bloody
Thursday." Police fired into a crowd of strikers at Steuart and Mission
streets and killed Howard S. Perry and Nickolas Bordoise. Another 109
strikers were wounded. Police had tried to escort scabs to the docks.
Civil liberties attorneys Ernest Besig (d.1998 at 94), and Chester
Williams were called in from New York. They founded a local American
Civil Liberties Union and sued SF and Oakland for failure to protect
striker’s First Amendment rights.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W31)(SFC, 11/21/98, p.C2)(SFC,
9/27/02, p.D11)(SSFC, 7/5/09, DB p.42)
1935 Jul 5, President Roosevelt
signed the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), which provided
for a National Labor Relations Board and authorized labor to organize
for the purpose of collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) was created by a statute as an independent federal agency
that conducts secret-ballot elections to determine whether employees
desire union representation. This inaugurated the "pink decade"
of Soviet espionage and penetration of America's labor movement by
Communists.
(WSJ, 5/12/97, p.A15)(AP, 7/5/97)(SFC, 11/27/99,
p.C4)(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.M6)
1937 Jul 5, Joe DiMaggio hit his
1st grand slammer.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1937 Jul 5, There was a Republican
offensive by Brunete in Spain.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1940 Jul 5, During World War II,
Britain and Marshal Henri Petain's Vichy government in France broke
diplomatic relations.
(AP, 7/5/97)(HN, 7/5/98)
1941 Jul 5, German troops reached
the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1942 Jul 5, 1st performance of
Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1942 Jul 5, Ian Fleming graduated
from a training school for spies in Canada.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1943 Jul 5, US invasion fleet (96
ships) sailed to Sicily.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1943 Jul 5, The battle of Kursk,
the largest tank battle in history, began as German tanks attacked the
Soviet salient.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1944 Jul 5, The Japanese garrison
on Numfoor, New Guinea, tried to counterattack but was soon beaten back
by U.S. forces.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1945 Jul 5, US General Douglas
MacArthur announced that the liberation of the Philippines from its
Japanese occupiers was complete.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1945 Jul 5, Labour Party won
British parliamentary election.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1946 Jul 5, The bikini bathing
suit, created by former civil engineer Louis Reard, made its debut
during a fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. Model Micheline
Bernardini wore the skimpy two-piece outfit. Its name correlated with
the July 1 American atom bomb test on Bikini Atoll. Réard wanted
his design to have a similar explosive affect. According to New York
Times columnist William Safire, the swimsuit caused more debate,
concern and condemnation than the atomic bomb.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.D17)(TMC, 1994, p.1946)(AP,
7/5/97)(SFEC, 1/17/99, Z1 p.1)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R14)(WSJ, 1/11/99,
p.R14)(HNQ, 4/6/02)
1947 Jul 5, Larry Doby
signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black
player in the American League.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1947 Jul 5, Rancher Mac Brazel
found unusual debris 75 miles northwest of Roswell, NM, scattered over
an area 300 years wide and ¾ of a mile long. This led to rumors
of an alien crash. The military said it was a crashed weather balloon.
(SSFC, 8/1/04, p.D8)
1948 Jul 5, The pilot episode of
“My Favorite Husband,” with Lucille Ball, aired. It was entitled “The
Cugat's Tenth Wedding Anniversary” It became the gifted redhead’s first
regular radio program on CBS. Regular broadcasting began on July 23,
1948 and aired on various nights through March 31, 1951. Through most
of its life it was sponsored by Jello.
(www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/6066/epguhuby.html)
1948 Jul 5, Britain's National
Health Service Act went into effect, providing government-financed
medical and dental care. Aneurin Bevan was its political founder.
(AP, 7/5/98)(Econ, 7/17/04, Survey p.5)
1950 Jul 5, American forces
engaged the North Koreans for the first time at Osan, South Korea.
(HN, 7/5/98)
1950 Jul 5, Private Kenneth
Shadrick of Skin Fork, West Virginia, became the first US serviceman to
die in the Korean War.
(AP, 7/5/00)
1950 Jul 5, Salvatore Giuliano
(b.1922), Sicilian bandit, was shot by police in Castelvetrano.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Giuliano)
1951 Jul 5, Dr. William Shockley
invented junction transistor at Murray Hill, NJ.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1954 Jul 5, Elvis Presley's first
commercial recording session took place at Sun Records in Memphis,
Tenn.; the song he recorded was "That's All Right (Mama)."
(AP, 7/5/97)
1954 Jul 5, The B-52A bomber made
its maiden flight.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1955 Jul
5, By this day, a day before Bill Haley’s 30th birthday, "Rock Around
the Clock" topped the US billboards chart and stayed there for 8 weeks.
The film “Blackboard Jungle,” released in March, helped propel it to
the top.
(www.rockabillyhall.com/RockClockTribute.html)
1956 Jul 5, France raised the
tobacco tax 20% to support war in Algeria.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1959 Jul 5, Ben-Gurion's Israeli
government resigned.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1962 Jul 5, Algeria’s Provisional
Executive proclaimed July 5, the 132nd anniversary of the French entry
into Algeria, as the day of national independence. French Pres. Charles
De Gaulle had pronounced Algeria an independent country on Jul 3
following the July 1 elections. A massacre in Oran, Algeria, left
96 dead.
(www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/a5ky8)
1966 Jul 5, National Guard was
mobilized in Omaha after a 3rd night of rioting.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1969 Jul 5, Wilhelm Backhaus
(b.1884), German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Backhaus)
1969 Jul 5, Walter Gropius
(b.1883), architect, founder (Bauhaus school of design), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius)
1969 Jul 5, Tom Mboya (b.1930) of
Kenya’s Luo tribe was assassinated in Nairobi. He was the expected
successor to Pres. Jomo Kenyatta (1894-1978).
(SFC,12/23/97,
p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mboya)
1975 Jul 5, Arthur Ashe became the
first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy
Connors.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1975 Jul 5, The Cape Verde Islands
officially became independent after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
(SFC, 8/5/9, p.A8)(AP, 7/5/00)
1976 Jul 5, In SF the body of
Wanda Baun (19), a prostitute, was found dead. She had been stabbed
over 50 times. In 2007 Darrell Sweigart was convicted of 2nd degree
murder after DNA evidence linked to the murder. He was already serving
a 25 year to life sentence for rape and robbery.
(SFC, 7/4/07, p.B3)
1977 Jul 5, Pakistan's army under
Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq seized power. The civilian government was
ousted by the military and martial law was imposed.
(SFC, 1/30/97, p.B3)(SFEC, 8/3/97,
p.A15)(www.ppp.org.pk/history.html)
1978 Jul 5, In Ghana Gen’l.
Acheampong resigned as head of state. He was succeeded by Lt.-Col. Fred
W.K. Akuffo.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1978 Jul 5, A Soviet Soyuz
spacecraft touched down safely in Soviet Kazakhstan with its two-member
crew, including the first Polish space traveler -- Major Miroslaw
Hermaszewski.
(AP, 7/5/98)
1980 Jul 5, In Mauritania, a west
African republic, the regime of colonel Ould Haidalla decreed abolition
and the imposition of the Islamic Sharia Law. Slavery was technically
abolished. Prior to the 1980 abolition, slavery had been declared
illegal in 1960 and 1966, but only on paper.
(WSJ, 7/11/96,
p.A10)(www.cwo.com/~lucumi/mauritania.html)
1983 Jul 5, Harry James (b.1916),
American band leader and trumpet player, died, He is best remembered
for his hit "You Made Me Love You." In 1999 Peter J. Levinson authored
“Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James)(SFC,
11/18/08, p.B4)
1984 Jul 5, The Supreme Court
weakened the 70-year-old "exclusionary rule," deciding that evidence
seized with defective court warrants could be used against defendants
in criminal trials.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1986 Jul 5, Statue of Liberty was
reopened after being refurbished.
(http://www.nps.gov/archive/stli/prod02.htm)
1987 Jul 5, Pat Cash of Australia
defeated Ivan Lendl in straight sets to win the Wimbledon men's singles
final.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1988 Jul 5, US Attorney General
Edwin Meese III announced he would resign, saying he had been
vindicated by an independent prosecutor's 14-month probe into his
official conduct.
(AP, 7/5/98)
1989 Jul 5, Former National
Security Council aide Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a
suspended prison term for his part in Iran-Contra. The convictions were
later overturned.
(AP, 7/5/99)
1989 Jul 5, South-African Pres
Pieter Botha visited ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/etc/cron.html)
1990 Jul 5, NATO leaders opened a
two-day meeting in London to revise the alliance’s strategy in light of
easing East-West tensions in Europe and the unraveling of the Warsaw
Pact.
(AP, 7/5/00)
1991 Jul 5, A worldwide financial
scandal erupted as regulators in eight countries shut down the Bank of
Credit and Commerce International, charging it with fraud, drug money
laundering and illegal infiltration into the U.S. banking system. BCCI,
headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, failed. It was
chartered in Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands and had offices in 70
countries. The ruling family of Abu Dhabi was the major investor and
faced huge liability claims from depositors around the world. In 1997 a
British court convicted Pakistani shipping tycoon, Abbas Gokal
-chairman of the defunct Gulf Group, of a 1.2 billion fraud that led to
the collapse. Larry Gurwin later co-authored “False Profits: The Inside
Story of BCCI, The World’s Most Corrupt empire.”
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A9B)(WSJ, 4/4/97, p.A1)(AP,
7/5/97)(SFEC, 10/11/98, p.A2)(WSJ, 5/1/02, p.AD7)
1992 Jul 5, Leaders of the world's
seven richest nations gathered in Munich, Germany, for their 18th
annual economic summit. President Bush, en route to the summit, told
cheering Poles in Warsaw that "America shares Poland's dream."
(AP, 7/5/97)
1992 Jul 5, Andre Agassi won his
first Grand Slam title, defeating Goran Ivanisevic at Wimbledon.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1993 Jul 5, President Clinton left
Washington for a Group of Seven summit in Japan.
(AP, 7/5/98)
1993 Jul 5, Harrison E. Salisbury
(b.1908), US journalist (NY Times), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_E._Salisbury)
1993 Jul 5, A United Nations team
left Iraq after trying for more than a month to persuade the Baghdad
government to allow surveillance cameras at two former missile test
sites.
(AP, 7/5/98)
1993 Jul 5, In eight separate
incidents, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) kidnapped a total of 19
Western tourists traveling in southeastern Turkey. The hostages,
including U.S. citizen Colin Patrick Starger, were released unharmed
after spending several weeks in captivity.
(http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2001/issue4/jv5n4a5.htm)
1994 Jul 5, In an attempt to halt
a surge of Haitian refugees, the Clinton administration announced it
was refusing entry to new Haitian boat people.
(AP, 7/5/99)
1994 Jul 5, President Clinton set
out on a four-nation European trip that included a Group of Seven
summit in Naples, Italy.
(AP, 7/5/99)
1995 Jul 5, More than 100 Grateful
Dead fans were injured when a deck on which they were gathered
collapsed at a campground near Wentzville, Missouri.
(AP, 7/5/00)
1996 Jul 5, An essay by SB Stewart
discussed the history of Betty Crocker and showed the latest 8th Betty
Crocker [General Mills advertising icon]. She was put together from the
features of 75 women from around the country.
(WSJ, 7/5/96, p.A6)
1996 Jul 5, The US government
reported the nation's unemployment rate fell to a six-year low to 5.3%
in June 1996; nervous investors, fearing higher interest rates, gave
the stock market its worst beating in four months, sending the Dow
industrials down 114 points.
(SFC, 7/6/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/5/97)
1996 Jul 5, An LA County woman was
identified as the first person in the US to carry the rare AIDS virus
strain known as Group O. She was discovered by epidemiologists several
months ago. Group O is only detected in 4 of 5 cases with current
testing methods. Blood supply tests will need to be changed.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A5)
1996 Jul 5, A cloned lamb, named
Dolly (d.2003) after Dolly Pardon, was born in Edinburgh Scotland. The
event was not announced until Feb 23, 1997 when it was made public that
researchers under Dr. Ian Wilmut at Edinburgh, Scotland, created a
clone lamb from adult sheep DNA. In 2001 it was reported that Dolly
suffered from arthritis, a sign of premature aging.
(SFEC, 2/23/96, p.C1)(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A2)(SFC,
2/15/03, p.A2)
1996 Jul 5, A report stated that
740 metric tons of cocaine was being produced each year in South
America and that the US took in less than half.
(WSJ, 7/5/96, p.A4)
1996 Jul 5, The world’s 5 most
expensive cities were reported to be in Asia. Tokyo and Osaka kept
their No. 1 & 2 position while Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong
moved into the top 5.
(WSJ, 7/5/96, p.A4)
1996 Jul 5, Vival Exports from
Vlora, Albania, was sending 6 tons a week of live frogs to Lyon,
France. “But how long will this resource last?”
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A12)
1996 Jul 5, In Columbia the
government released Jorge Luis Ochoa, aka The Fat Man, from prison
after 5 1/2 years for drug-trafficking.
(SFC, 7/6/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 5, In South Africa Anglo
American Platinum Corp. fired an additional 7,000 striking workers.
That makes the total 28,261 fired workers since the strike began Jun 25.
(WSJ, 7/5/96, p.A4)
1996 Jul 5, In Tatarstan a new law
was enacted that will charge $800 for insulting the president.
Subsequent offenses could cost $1400. A printed insult could cost
$6,000.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A16)
1996 Jul 5, In Uruguay the Fasano
brothers, editor and publisher of the daily La Republica, were jailed
for 15 days for printing a story that Paraguay’s president Wasmosy took
payments from a hydroelectric project.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A12)
1997 Jul 5, It was reported that
as many as 100 paintings and drawings by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh
(1853-1890) may be fakes.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 5, From Columbus, Ohio,
The United Church of Christ decided to unite with 3 other protestant
denominations that include the Presbyterian Church, the Reformed Church
of America, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, p.B10)
1997 Jul 5, Sixteen-year-old
Martina Hingis became the youngest Wimbledon singles champion this
century as she beat Jana Novotna in the women's finals. (Charlotte
"Lottie" Dod won in 1887 at age 15.)
(AP, 7/5/98)
1997 Jul 5, NASA scientists
brainstormed to fix problems that left Mars Pathfinder's robot rover
stuck aboard the lander.
(AP, 7/5/98)
1997 Jul 5, An editorial stated
that Governor Fob James had declared Alabama to be a rights-free zone.
In a letter to a federal judge Gov. James stated that the
Constitution’s Bill of Rights does not apply to the states.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.A16)
1997 Jul 5, Cambodia's Second
Prime Minister Hun Sen launched a bloody coup that toppled First Prime
Minister Norodom Ranariddh. The heavy fighting in Phnom Penh indicated
the collapse of the fragile coalition.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, p.A3)(AP, 7/5/98)
1997 Jul 5, From Taiwan it was
reported that the ruling party and the opposition pro-independence
party had joined behind a plan to change the constitution and scrap the
provincial government, a vestige of an old arrangement that considered
Taiwan a part of China.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.C2)
1997 Jul 5, In Tokyo top
electronics manufacturers agreed on standards for a new computer disk.
The new magneto-optical disk will battle against the DVD-RAM disks as
the preferred data storage format. Both disks will feature read and
rewrite capabilities.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.D6)
1998 Jul 5, Pete Sampras won
Wimbledon for the fifth time in six years with a 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (11-9),
6-4, 3-6, 6-2 triumph over Goran Ivanisevic.
(AP, 7/5/99)
1998 Jul 5, Algeria celebrated
independence and put into effect a new law making Arabic the country’s
sole official language. The Berber minority struggled to have the
government recognize their own language, Tamazight.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A13)(SFEC, 7/5/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 5, In Bangladesh a
memorandum of understanding was signed with the US that would allow
Peace Corps volunteers to work here.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 5, In Hong Kong the
73-year-old Kai Tak Airport closed after 73 years of operation.
(SFC, 3/18/98, p.A10)(SFEC, 7/5/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 5, In India the
government announced that it would ban all lotteries.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 5, Voters in Mexico
elected governors in 10 states. The PRI won in Chihuahua with Patricio
Martinez Garcia and in Durango. The PRD won in Zacatecas with Ricardo
Monreal.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A8)(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 5, In Northern Ireland
British forces blocked the Protestant march by the Orangemen outside
the main Catholic neighborhood of Portadown. Some 1,000 members of the
Orange Order began a protest and threatened violence. Rioting erupted
in south-central Belfast.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.A1)(AP, 7/5/99)
1998 Jul 5, In the Philippines
Pres. Estrada announced that a yacht would be equipped as an office to
allow him to spend months in the central Visayas and Mindanao regions.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.A9)
1999 Jul 5, President Clinton
began a four-day, cross-country tour to promote a plan for drawing jobs
and investment to areas that had not shared in the prosperity of the
1990’s.
(AP, 7/5/00)
1999 Jul 5, It was reported that
Norman Nixon (57) of Sarasota, Fla., planned to build a live-at-sea
Freedom Ship to house some 50,000 people. The project was estimated at
$6 billion. As of 2008 he was still working on realizing his dream. He
was also suing several people who fleeced his company out of hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A3)(www.freedomship.com/)
1999 Jul 5, In Fort Campbell, Ky.,
Pvt. Calvin Glover (18) beat to death Pfc. Barry Winchell (21) with a
baseball bat. Glover was later convicted of pre-meditated murder and
sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
(SFC, 12/9/99, p.A1)(SFC, 12/10/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 5, In China a landslide
caused a cave dormitory at a cement factory to collapse in Dengfeng and
17 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/9/99, p.A15)
1999 Jul 5, NATO and Russia
resolved their differences and cleared the way for some 3,600 Russian
troops to arrive in Kosovo.
(SFC, 7/6/99, p.A1)
1999 cJul 5, Russian troops
attacked some 150 militants in Chechnya and a number of people were
killed.
(WSJ, 7/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 5, In Turkey Rusen
Tabanci (19), a PKK suicide bomber, killed herself and injured 17
others in Adana. There were over 30 bombings in the last 2 days.
(SFC, 7/6/99, p.A8)
2000 Jul 5, At the United Nations,
President Clinton signed an international agreement to ban the forcible
recruitment of youths as soldiers in armed conflict, and a companion
accord to protect children from being forced into slavery, prostitution
and pornography.
(AP, 7/5/01)
2000 Jul 5, Thomas Junta, a hockey
father, killed coach Michael Costin (40) following a practice hockey
match in Reading, Mass. Junta went on trial in 2001. In 2001 Junta was
found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. In 2002 Junta was sentenced 6
to 10 years in prison.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A3)(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A3)(SFC,
1/12/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A3)
2000 Jul 5, In Northern Ireland
rioting continued for a 4th day to force authorities to allow the
Orange Order to parade down Garvaghy Road in Portadown.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.A12)
2000 In the Ivory Coast the
military reached an agreement with mutinous soldiers. Lump sum payments
of $1,600 were promised to soldiers, who had demanded $9000.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 5, In the Philippines the
army carried out a large offensive against Muslim separatists and
bombarded the 25,000-acre Camp Abubakar on southern Mindanao.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 5, The UN Security
Council placed a diamond ban on the rebels of Sierra Leone to strangle
their ability to finance the civil war. 90% of the diamond mines were
in rebel hands.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.A12)(AP, 7/5/01)
2000 Jul 5, In Ukraine the
Chernobyl nuclear plant drew pledges of $715 million from Western
nations for a 5-year project to replace the protective tomb built to
close off the 1986 nuclear accident.
(WSJ, 7/6/00, p.A1)
2001 Jul 5, Pres. Bush appointed
Robert S. Mueller III, a US attorney in SF, as the new head of the FBI.
If confirmed he would become the 9th director.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 5, Condoleeza Rice,
National Security Advisor, and Andrew Card Jr., white House chief of
Staff, asked Richard Clarke, head of counter-terrorism, to alert top
officials of the country's domestic agencies on increased terrorist
threats.
(SSFC, 4/18/04, p.A5)
2001 Jul 5, Kenneth Williams, an
FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, wrote to bureau headquarters that al
Qaeda could be sending terrorists to train as student pilots. He urged
the investigation of Middle Eastern men enrolled in American flight
schools. [see Jul 10]
(SFC, 5/17/02, p.A19)(SFC, 5/22/02, p.A18)
2001 Jul 5, The US spy plane from
China arrived at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia aboard a Russian
Antonov-124 transport plane.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 5, Researchers reported
that cloned mice have profound genetic abnormalities not apparent at
birth.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 5, Ely Callaway (b.1919),
founder of Callaway golfing equipment, died. His Big Bertha golf club
was launched in 1991.
(Econ, 4/12/08,
p.78)(www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2001/07/05/callaway010705.html)
2001 Jul 5, In the Central African
Republic Jean-Pierre Lhomme, a UN security chief, was shot and killed
in Bangui as he aided a fellow worker.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.B1)
2001 Jul 5, In Germany Hannelore
Kohl (68), the wife of Chancellor Kohl, was found dead from suicide in
Oggersheim. She suffered from a rare light allergy.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Jul 5, Iraq accepted a
5-month UN extension for the oil-for-food program.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D6)
2001 Jul 5, In Macedonia the
government and ethnic Albanian rebels signed a cease-fire agreement
under pressure from Western powers. Fighting continued.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 5, Scientists at Delft
Univ. of Tech. in the Netherlands reported the creation of
nanotechnology transistors built from a single molecule.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.B3)
2001 Jul 5, In Russia top
journalists at Echo Moskvy resigned to protest a takeover by the
Gazprom state monopoly.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D4)
2001 Jul 5, In South Korea 8
people died when a helicopter crashed into a power tower. Among the
dead was Kim Jong-jin, head of the Dongkuk Steel Mill.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D6)
2001 Jul 5, Flooding from Typhoon
Durian killed 25 people in Vietnam.
(WSJ, 7/6/01, p.A1)
2002 Jul 5, Pres. Bush telephoned
Afghan Pres. Hamid Karzai to express condolences for the deaths of
Afghan civilians killed in a US bombing 4 days earlier that killed 48
civilians.
(AP, 7/5/03)
2002 Jul 5, The Arkansas state
Supreme Court ruled that a law banning sexual relations between people
of the same sex was an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 5, The Medina River near
San Antonio, Texas, overflowed along with the Guadalupe River and
flooding left at least 7 people dead.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 5, Ted Williams (83),
baseball Hall of Famer, died in Florida.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 5, A bomb ripped through
an open-air market in Larba, 15 miles SE of Algiers on Algeria's
independence day, killing 49 people and wounding 36 others.
(AP, 7/5/02)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A6)(AP, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 5, Twenty vehicles piled
up in early morning fog in southeastern Brazil, killing at least 13
people, including a pregnant woman and six police officers.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, Croatian Prime
Minister Ivica Racan resigned in a political maneuver apparently aimed
at forcing a rival party out of his coalition government.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Chechnya rebel
ambushes killed 11 Russian soldiers and police officers.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A7)
2002 Jul 5, In southern Egypt a
minibus and a truck collided head-on, killing all 18 people aboard the
bus.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Guyana the
Caribbean Community trading bloc wrapped up a summit that was marred
early on by violence and admitted Haiti as its 15th member.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, Former Madagascar
President Didier Ratsiraka fled to the Seychelles with his family,
apparently ending more than six months of turmoil in his island nation.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Mexico Katy Jurado
(78), the actress who played a sultry wildcat in some of the top
American films of the 1950s and gained an Academy Award nomination,
died.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Somalia a mutiny
against a prominent faction leader entered a second day, with street
fighting in the city of Baidoa leaving eight militiamen dead and
injuring 25 others, including civilians.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Spain a judge froze
all bank accounts of Batasuna, the radical Basque political party.
(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A18)
2002 Jul 5, The United States has
forgiven all of the remaining $21.3 million in debt owed by the
Tanzanian government, the U.S embassy said.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2002 Jul 5, In Turkey 3 police
officers and a suspected Islamic militant were killed in a shootout
during a raid on an apartment in the southeastern Turkish city of
Elazig.
(AP, 7/5/02)
2003 Jul 5, Serena Williams beat
sister Venus for her 2nd straight Wimbledon title.
(AP, 7/5/04)
2003 Jul 5, Caribbean leaders
agreed to establish a commission like the European Union to oversee
their 15-member, single market economy, allowing the free movement of
goods, services and professional workers.
(AP, 7/6/03)
2003 Jul 5, In Ramadi, Iraq, an
explosion struck a ceremony for Iraqi policemen graduating from US
training, killing at least seven recruits and wounding dozens. In
Baghdad a British TV journalist was shot dead near the national museum.
(AP, 7/5/03)(WSJ, 7/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 5, In Kuwait Islamists
and supporters of the royal-led Cabinet kept their grip the all-male
parliament in elections, while liberals urging voting rights for women
suffered major losses.
(AP, 7/6/03)
2003 Jul 5, Police in Namibia
reported the recent death of N!xau, the diminutive bushman catapulted
to international stardom in the film "The Gods Must Be Crazy" — he was
thought to be about 59 years old.
(AP, 7/5/04)
2003 Jul 5, In Russia 2 women
suicide bombers blew themselves up at a giant rock festival in suburban
Moscow, leaving 14 victims killed.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2003 Jul 5, Delegates at a Somali
peace conference agreed to create a federal government.
(AP, 7/6/03)
2003 Jul 5, The WHO removed Taiwan
from its list of SARS-infected areas and declared a provisional victory
over the epidemic, which had killed 812 people over 5 continents. The
economic losses from SARS was later estimated at about $200 billion.
SARS was later classified as one of a number of zoonoses, i.e. diseases
that come from animals.
(SSFC, 7/6/03, p.A3)(Econ, 11/19/05, p.84)
2004 Jul 5, Gov. Ed Rendell signed
laws authorizing 61,000 slot machines in Pennsylvania, more than any
other state except Nevada. Most of the state's share will pay for a $1
billion cut in property taxes a year.
(AP, 7/5/04)
2004 Jul 5, Ernst Mayr,
German-born American biologist, celebrated his 100th birthday. His
books included “Evolution and the Diversity of Life” (1976), “The
Growth of Biological Thought” (1982), “Toward a new Philosophy of
Biology” (1988) and “What Makes Biology Unique” (2204).
(NH, 5/97, p.8)(SFC, 7/5/04, p.A6)
2004 Jul 5, US military families
planned to leave Bahrain in the next few days following reports
terrorists were planning attacks here.
(AP, 7/5/04)
2004 Jul 5, It was reported that
India was logging nearly 1000 new AIDS cases a month and that there
were an estimated 5.1 million people infected with HIV.
(SFC, 7/5/04, p.A8)(AP, 7/6/04)
2004 Jul 5, In India a landslide
swept a busload of pilgrims into a river in Uttaranchal killing at
least 18 people and leaving hundreds of others stranded deep in the
Himalayas.
(Reuters, 7/7/04)
2004 Jul 5, Former army Gen.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) won the first round in Indonesia's
presidential election. A Sep 20 showdown set Megawati Sukarnoputri
against SBY.
(SFC, 7/3/04, p.A14)(AP, 7/5/04)(SFC, 7/7/04, p.A3)
2004 Jul 5, US-led coalition
forces launched an air strike in the restive city of Fallujah on a
suspected safe house used by followers of al-Zarqawi. The attack killed
15 people.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2004 Jul 5, Rwaida Al Shemre (33),
an Iraqi interpreter for the US 3rd Battalion, was assassinated as she
was driven to work.
(SSFC, 8/1/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 5, Italian Premier Silvio
Berlusconi won an endorsement from his EU colleagues for plans to
narrow Italy's budget deficit with $9.2 billion in new spending cuts
and tax measures.
(AP, 7/5/04)
2004 Jul 5, Hugh Shearer (81), a
prime minister (1967-1972) in the early stages of Jamaica's
independence, died. Shearer had succeeded Donald Sangster, who died in
office.
(AP, 7/5/04)
2004 Jul 5, A suspicious fire
gutted Kashmir's oldest educational institution, destroying 30,000 rare
books on Islam, including some of the world's oldest copies of the
Quran.
(AP, 7/5/04)
2004 Jul 5, Pres. Fox named Emilio
Goicoechea Luna, a business chamber leader and senator, as the new
chief of staff, and Ruben Aguilar Valenzuela, a presidential analyst,
as media relations chief. The 2 positions were held by Alfonso Durazo
who resigned saying that the first lady's political ambitions are out
of control and Fox is acting like the autocrats he replaced.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2004 Jul 5, Voters in Zacatecas,
Mexico, elected Amalia Garcia (PRD), the country's first female
governor since the end of one-party dominance. Pres. Fox's National
Action Party lost badly in Chihuahua and Durango. It finished a distant
third in Zacatecas,
(AP, 7/5/04)
2004 Jul 5, Animal rights
activists protested in Pamplona, Spain, on the eve of the start of the
famous running of the bulls 'San Fermin' festival.
(Reuters, 7/5/04)
2004 Jul 5, In Sierra Leone a
UN-sponsored war crimes court opened the first trials for rebel
military commanders accused in the 10-year campaign for control of the
diamond-rich country.
(AP, 7/5/04)
2005 Jul 5, President Bush thanked
Iraq war ally Denmark during a stopover in Copenhagen while en route to
an international economic summit in Scotland.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2005 Jul 5, A survey of US
sheriffs was released in which most considered methamphetamine as the
most serious problem facing their departments.
(SFC, 7/6/05, p.A2)
2005 Jul 5, Police in Torrance,
Ca., arrested 2 men for robbing gas stations. Investigations soon
revealed that they were associated with Kevin James, an inmate at
California State Prison in Sacramento, a founder of Jamiyyat Ul-Islam
Is Saheeh (JIS). The group was planning terrorist attacks in the LA
area. Another participant was arrested Aug 2. In 2007 Kevin James (31)
and Levar Haley Washington (28) pleaded guilty to conspiring to levy
war against the US.
(SFC, 9/1/05, p.A4)(SFC, 12/15/07, p.A3)
2005 Jul 5, At its Synod in
Georgia(US) the United Church of Christ voted to use "economic
leverage" to promote peace between Israel and Palestinians and to call
for the dismantling of the Jewish state's security fence.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 5, A judge in Kentucky
authorized a $120 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Covington and hundreds of victims in child-molesting cases.
(SFC, 7/6/05, p.A3)
2005 Jul 5, Tropical Storm Cindy
moved ashore, pelting the Louisiana coast with sideways rain and
intermittent squalls.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2005 Jul 5, James Stockdale (81),
ex-POW and 1992 vice-presidential candidate with Ross Perot, died in
Colorado. His 1984 autobiography was titled “In Love and War.”
(SFC, 7/6/05, p.B7)
2005 Jul 5, An alliance of Russia,
China and central Asian nations called for the US and coalition members
in Afghanistan to set a date for withdrawing from member states,
reflecting growing unease over America's regional military presence.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization includes China, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2005 Jul 5, It was reported that
French and South African researchers had found that circumcision
reduces the risk of AIDS by 70%.
(WSJ, 7/5/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 5, Albania's opposition
party headed by Sali Berisha, the country's former president
(1992-1997), took the lead in parliamentary elections, but foreign
monitors criticized the vote as falling short of international
standards.
(AP, 7/5/05)(Econ, 7/25/05, p.43)
2005 Jul 5, In Brazil a top
official of the ruling Workers' Party stepped down, the second ally of
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to resign this week amid new
allegations regarding a bribes-for-votes scandal.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2005 Jul 5, Workers began removing
a field of crosses at Berlin's former Checkpoint Charlie after a
privately run museum lost a court battle to keep the memorial to people
killed at the East German border during the Cold War.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2005 Jul 5, In India a suicide
bomber blew up a security fence and gunmen used the breach to storm the
Ram Janmabhoomi shrine complex in Ayodhya, setting off a two-hour
gunbattle that left all six attackers dead. A Hindu mob razed a mosque
at the site on Dec 6, 1992. Police later said that the 5 gunmen who
attacked the site in Uttar Pradesh state were Islamic militants who
came from Pakistan, adding that two gun-runners linked to the assault
have been arrested in Kashmir.
(AP, 7/5/05)(WSJ, 7/6/05, p.A1)(AP, 7/15/05)
2005 Jul 5, At least 100 suspected
insurgents, including foreigners, were arrested in a new military
operation by US and Iraqi security forces. Insurgents mounted attacks
against Arab and Muslim diplomats in Iraq, wounding Bahrain's top envoy
in a kidnapping attempt. Pakistan's ambassador also escaped an assault
on his convoy.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2005 Jul 5, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
issued an audiotape announcing the formation of the Omar Brigade to
kill Shia. Sunni clerics had recently accused the Shia Badr Brigade of
sending hit squads against Sunnis.
(Econ, 7/16/05, p.41)
2005 Jul 5, A US soldier from Task
Force Liberty was killed and two were wounded by a roadside bomb
northeast of Baghdad.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2005 Jul 5, In Kashmir suspected
Islamic militants shot dead five people, two of them Indian soldiers
guarding the de facto border with Pakistan. The soldiers were killed
during a clash with militants near the Line of Control (LoC) that
divides Kashmir.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 5, In Pakistan police
arrested 7 men in Chaniot, Punjab province, who a week earlier
allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped a married woman in retaliation for
her cousin's affair with one of the suspect's daughters.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 5, Hamas rejected an
invitation from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to join his government.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2005 Jul 5, A Peruvian judge
ordered the arrest of 118 current and retired military officials for
their alleged involvement in the May 14, 1988, massacre of peasants in
an Andean village and subsequent violations in the area.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 5, In the southern
Russian region of Dagestan an explosion tore through a police post,
killing at least one officer and wounding 3.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2005 Jul 5, Sudan and two Darfur
rebel groups signed a "declaration of principles" aimed at helping
bring peace to Darfur, but failed to reach a comprehensive deal to stop
the violence that has left tens of thousands dead.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 5, Thousands of poor
ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos were living without shelter in northern
Thailand, forced from their homes under a Thai campaign to pressure
them to return to their native land. Landlords said the government had
set a July 4 deadline for them to evict the some 6,500 refugees from
their bamboo shelters.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 5, The United Arab
Emirates (UAR), under international pressure to stop child abuse in a
traditional desert sport, banned the use of underage riders in camel
racing.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2006 Jul 5, Pres. Bush met with
Pres. Saakashvili and backed Georgia’s bid to join NATO.
(WSJ, 7/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 5, Japan, the United
States and Britain readied a UN Security Council resolution demanding
that nations withhold all funds, goods and technology that could be
used for North Korea's missile program.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2006 Jul 5, New Jersey's casinos
ushered the last of the gamblers away from slot machines and tables,
and janitors locked the doors behind them as a state government
shutdown claimed its latest victims.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2006 Jul 5, Greg Anderson, weight
trainer for Barry Bonds, was sent to federal prison fro refusing to
testify before a grand jury investigating Bonds and steroid use.
(SFC, 7/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 5, Crude oil for August
delivery jumped to a record close of $75.19 per barrel. The previous
high was $75.15. The DJIA closed down 76 to 11,151.
(SFC, 7/6/06, p.C1)
2006 Jul 5, Researchers reported
that carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, from industrial
emissions was raising the acidity of the world’s oceans and threatening
organisms that form the base of the entire marine food web.
(SFC, 7/6/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 5, Kenneth Lay (b.1942).
Enron Corp. founder and chief executive, died of a heart attack at his
vacation home in Colorado. He was convicted in May for his role in the
in the Houston-based company's downfall.
(Reuters, 7/5/06)(Econ, 7/8/06, p.81)
2006 Jul 5, Prince Tu'ipelehake
(56), a Tongan prince known for promoting political reform in his South
Pacific island nation, died in a car crash along with his wife,
Princess Kaimana (46) and driver Vinisia Hefa when a teenage driver,
Edith Delgado (18), slammed into them on Highway 101 in Menlo Park, Ca.
In 2007 Delgado was sentenced to 2 years in jail and 3 years probation.
(AP, 7/7/06)(SFC, 7/7/06, p.B3)(SFC, 11/6/08, p.B2)
2006 Jul 5, In Afghanistan 3 bombs
targeting government workers and security forces exploded in Kabul,
killing one bystander and wounding at least 47 other people. A
coalition soldier and eight rebels were killed in new clashes in
Paktika province. A British soldier and six more militants were killed
and six captured in two separate incidents southern Zabul province. The
family of Abdul Khaliq, a legislator from Uruzgan province, was fired
upon killing Khaliq’s brother-in-law. Khaliq put the blame on American
and Australian troops.
(AP, 7/5/06)(AFP, 7/6/06)(SFC, 7/8/06, p.A3)
2006 Jul 5, Afghan President Hamid
Karzai met Japanese Emperor Akihito in Tokyo and said he wanted to
build peace in the war-torn nation so he could some day invite the
emperor and empress. Tokyo has provided about $1 billion in assistance
for security and development, and in January pledged another $450
million.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 5, In El Salvador
violence broke out after police fired tear gas to disperse students
protesting against a hike in electricity rates and public
transportation fees. Two officers were killed and 10 others were
wounded by gunshots. The next day police arrested Luis Antonio Herrador
Funes (37), who allegedly was captured on tape shielding a man who was
shooting an M-16 rifle. Police were still looking for the shooter.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 5, A France court
convicted 38 people in a vast party financing scandal centered on Paris
City Hall from 1987 to 1993, when Jacques Chirac was mayor.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2006 Jul 5, France beat Portugal
1-0 and will play Italy for Soccer’s World Cup on July 9.
(WSJ, 7/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 5, Germany's Cabinet
approved a 2007 budget that foresees trimming the deficit to comply
with EU rules, and the finance minister said Berlin likely would hit
the target this year.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2006 Jul 5, In India heavy rains
kept schools and colleges shut for a third day and meteorologists
forecast more downpours in Bombay, as the nationwide death toll rose to
more than 250 since the monsoon began in June.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2006 Jul 5, An Iraqi vice
president said kidnappers of a Sunni legislator have demanded the
release of all detainees, a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign
troops and an end to attacks on Shiite mosques in exchange for her
freedom.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2006 Jul 5, Israeli leaders
authorized troops to move into residential areas of the Gaza Strip as
they increase pressure on militants holding an Israeli soldier and look
to create a security zone to prevent Palestinians from firing rockets
into Israel.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2006 Jul 5, Italian prosecutors
said they had arrested two Italian intelligence officers and were
seeking four more Americans as part of an investigation into the
alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2006 Jul 5, Macedonia held
parliamentary elections. President Branko Crvenkovski urged a free and
fair vote in a country struggling to ease tensions between majority
Macedonian Slavs and the ethnic Albanian minority, which makes up about
a quarter of the nation's population.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 5, Mexico’s recount of
election results put Lopez Obrador ahead of Louis Calderon with 83% of
the votes tallied.
(WSJ, 7/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 5, North Korea test-fired
a long-range missile that may be capable of reaching America, but it
failed seconds after launch. North Korea also tested shorter range
missiles in an exercise the White House termed "a provocation" but not
an immediate threat. The early morning tests came as the US celebrated
the Fourth of July and just minutes ahead of the US launch of the space
shuttle Discovery.
(AP, 7/4/06)(AP, 7/5/06)(SFC, 7/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 5, In southwestern
Pakistan security forces backed by helicopter gunships targeted
hideouts of tribal militants accused of blowing up gas pipelines and
attacking officials, killing 25 suspects in a 2-day operation.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2006 Jul 5, Venezuela marked its
Independence Day showcasing recent arms deals that have alarmed
Washington. Pres. Chavez proposed that Mercosur members: Brazil,
Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay and Paraguay, should one day join their
militaries to guarantee the region's security.
(AP, 7/5/06)
2007 Jul 5, In a setback to
President Bush's war strategy, GOP stalwart Sen. Pete Domenici said he
wanted to see an end to combat operations and US troops heading home
from Iraq by spring 2008.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2007 Jul 5, Captain America was
laid to rest in the latest issue of Marvel Comics' "Fallen Son." He
landed on newsstands in March 1941, nine months before Pearl Harbor,
delivering a punch to Hitler on the cover of his first issue.
(AP, 7/1/07)
2007 Jul 5, It was reported that
SF faced a $4.9 billion unfunded liability for health care for retiring
city workers. Other local governments and school districts in
California also faced unfunded costs.
(SFC, 7/5/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 5, In Cleveland, Ohio,
Terrance Hough (35), an off-duty fireman angered by a noisy Fourth of
July party, shot and killed 3 people.
(SFC, 7/6/07, p.A7)
2007 Jul 5, Kerwin Mathews 81,
film star, died in SF. His 32 films included “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad”
(1958) and “The 3 Worlds of Gulliver” (1960).
(SSFC, 7/8/07, p.B6)
2007 Jul 5, Kingsley Wightman
(91), longtime math and astronomy teacher at Chabot Space & Science
Center in Oakland, Ca., died (www.chabotspace.org).
(SFC, 7/9/07, p.C4)
2007 Jul 5, A suicide bomber in
southern Afghanistan blew himself up at a checkpoint, killing 10 police
and wounding 11. A roadside bomb and clashes in the east left 3 NATO
soldiers dead. In Uruzgan province 33 Taliban fighters were killed.
(AP, 7/6/07)(AFP, 7/6/07)(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 5, Ali Asgar Lobi, a
former Bangladeshi MP who dodged more than 2.4 million dollars in
unpaid tax, was sentenced to eight years in jail.
(AFP, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 5, A Belgian court
sentenced Bernard Ntuyahaga (55), a former Rwandan army major, to 20
years in prison on for the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an
undetermined number of Rwandan civilians at the start of the 1994
genocide.
(Reuters, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 5, British media reported
that a Scottish house had been used as a makeshift bomb factory to
carry out the terror attacks in London and Scotland. Three
"cyber-jihadis" who used the Internet to urge Muslims to wage holy war
on non-believers were jailed for between six-and-a-half and 10 years in
the first case of its kind in Britain. Morocco-born Younis Tsouli (23),
an al-Qaida-inspired computer expert who dubbed himself "the jihadist
James Bond," was sentenced to 10 years in prison for running a network
of extremist Web sites. Accomplices Tariq al-Daour and Waseem Mughal
also got prison terms.
(AP, 7/5/07)(AFP, 7/5/07)(Econ, 7/14/07, p.29)
2007 Jul 5, Two thieves showed up
at a London jeweler in a flashy car and made off with an even flashier
haul, stealing about $20 million worth of diamonds and gems.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 5, The Bank of England
raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.75
percent, the fifth increase this year, in an attempt to curb inflation.
(AP, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 5, George Melly, English
jazzman and writer, died in London of lung cancer.
(Econ, 7/14/07,
p.92)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Melly)
2007 Jul 5, China's Foreign
Minister Yang Jiechi visited Indonesia and said their countries should
cooperate to defend the interests of developing nations as they work to
enhance bilateral ties.
(AFP, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 5, Over a million people
marched in Bogota, Colombia, to protest kidnappings and the recent
killing of abducted politicians.
(SFC, 7/6/07, p.A10)
2007 Jul 5, France’s Agriculture
Ministry said 3 swans found dead in a pond in eastern France have
tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
(AP, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 5, Regine Crespin (80),
the French opera great who took her personal magnetism and soprano
voice to the world's leading stages, died.
(AP, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 5, Shares of top
real-estate firm DLF, which raised 2.24 billion dollars in India's
biggest ever public share offering, leapt 36% on their first day of
trade before retreating.
(AP, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 5, Human Rights Watch
released a report saying Indonesian security forces have killed and
beat unarmed civilians, and on two occasions raped women during recent
operations against separatists in Papua province. The 96-page report
detailed 8 alleged killings by police and military officers in the
province's central highlands since 2005 and several vicious beatings.
(AP, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 5, In northern Iran Jafar
Kiani, a man convicted of adultery, was stoned to death in Aghchekand,
the first time in years that the country has confirmed such an
execution.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 5, In southern Baghdad 18
people died after a car bomb blew up outside a photo shop where a
wedding party waited as newlyweds had their pictures taken. Security
forces found 24 bodies around Baghdad. US forces killed one militant
and wounded 6 others in Sadr City. A bomb in Baghdad killed 2 US
soldiers. 2 US Marines were killed in western Anbar province and a US
soldier died in Baghdad.
(SFC, 7/6/07, p.A3)(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 5, Israeli troops crossed
into the Gaza Strip and engaged Hamas militants in a fierce gunbattle
that drew in Israeli aircraft, tanks and bulldozers. 11 militants were
killed. A cameraman for Hamas TV, who lay wounded on the ground, came
under more fire during a clash with Israeli troops. The shooting was
captured on film and broadcast on al-Jazeera satellite television. Imad
Ghanem had to have both legs amputated as a result of his injuries.
Israel repatriated 4 Jordanian infiltrators who were serving life
sentences in Israeli prisons for killing Israeli soldiers.
(AP, 7/5/07)(AP, 7/6/07)(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 5, Japanese police
arrested an American sailor on suspicion of attempted murder after two
women were stabbed near a naval base south of Tokyo. In 2008 a Japanese
court found sailor Joshua David Williams (20) guilty of stabbing the
two Japanese women sentenced him to eight years in prison.
(AP, 7/5/07)(AP, 6/19/08)
2007 Jul 5, Mine workers across
Mexico waged a 24-hour strike, hoping to achieve better safety
standards and to improve collective labor's footing in the industry.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 5, In Mexico a small
cargo jet failed to take off in Culiacan and barreled onto an adjacent
highway, killing at least 9 people, including two soldiers assigned to
the Mexican president's security detail.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 5, In Nigeria kidnappers
snatched the 3-year-old daughter of a British worker as she was being
taken to school.
(AP, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 5, Peruvian public school
teachers walked off the job to protest an education reform proposal
that would require them to pass periodic competency exams. Education
Minister Jose Antonio Chang called the effort a failure, saying only
15% of Peru's approximately 350,000 teachers failed to show up for work
in the country.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 5, In the southern
Philippines 9 inmates fled jail after attacking guards. Pursuing police
officers fatally shot three of the escaped convicts and recaptured four
others. Two other inmates from the jail in southern Cagayan de Oro city
remained at large.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 5, Larisa Arap, a member
of a Russian opposition group, was hospitalized in a psychiatric
facility for criticizing a clinic's use of violence against mentally
ill patients.
(Reuters, 7/30/07)
2007 Jul 5, Thailand's military
junta unveiled a new outline constitution with controversial proposals
that could limit the role of any future elected prime minister.
(AFP, 7/5/07)
2008 Jul 5, Kent Couch (48), a gas
station owner, flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons
more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert, landing in a field in
Idaho. He used his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth.
(AP, 7/6/08)(www.couchballoons.com/)
2008 Jul 5, In Afghanistan a clash
killed seven Taliban and two police in Helmand province. Five other
officers were wounded during the fight in Nawa district. A Canadian
military medic was killed when an explosive device detonated in the
Panjwayi District.
(AP, 7/6/08)(Reuters, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 5, Argentina's lower
house of Congress approved a package of grain-export taxes that have
sparked nationwide farm protests and food shortages.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, A small boat packed
with at least 148 illegal immigrants from Africa landed on a beach in
the Canary Islands.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, In northern China an
apparent blast at a coal mine killed 21 workers at the Wujiu coal mine
outside Datong city in Shanxi province. In central China a four-story
building under construction in a suburb of Wuhan city collapsed and
killed eight people.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 5, Dagestan's Interior
Ministry says three policemen were wounded when a bomb went off near
their vehicle in the town of Khasavyurt.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, In northern India
flooding, house collapses and lightning strikes from heavy rains killed
at least 14 people, raising the reported death toll in the annual
monsoon season to 79.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 5, In Ingushetia a police
officer was killed and another was injured when their armored vehicle
came under grenade fire.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, An Iranian government
spokesman says the country's nuclear program remains unchanged,
indicating that Tehran has no plans to stop enriching uranium.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, The last major remnant
of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated
natural uranium, reached a Canadian port to complete a secret US
operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship
voyage crossing two oceans. In Iraq one American soldier died of a
non-combat cause.
(AP, 7/6/08)(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, In northern Japan more
than 1,000 people marched to protest an upcoming summit of the G8
industrialized countries. Police arrested four protesters after a brief
scuffle.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, In Kashmir thousands
of protesters clashed with police in Srinagar over allegations that
government forces set fire to Jenab Sahib, a local Muslim shrine.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, Macedonia’s leading
party said PM Nikola Gruevski has agreed to form a coalition government
with the main ethnic Albanian party to aim at getting its NATO and EU
bids back on track.
(Reuters, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, Nigerian officials
said radioactive materials in abandoned mining fields in central
Nigeria's Plateau state pose a serious health hazard to two million
people. Police said Nigeria has deployed troops in the remote
southeastern state of Ebonyi after 14 people were killed and scores of
buildings destroyed in clashes between rival groups feuding over land.
(AP, 7/5/08)(Reuters, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, Pakistan's Foreign
Ministry insisted that its nuclear proliferation case was closed, a day
after the disgraced architect of its atomic program claimed the army
under President Pervez Musharraf helped spread the technology to North
Korea in 2000. A government official said Pakistani security forces
have eased an operation against insurgents in a tribal region near the
border with Afghanistan as local elders try to negotiate peace with a
militant leader.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, South Korean police
said about 50,000 people protested in Seoul against a US beef import
deal and the policies of the new president, whose government has faced
weeks of street rallies.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, In Sri Lanka clashes
were reported in several villages in Vavuniya district where 12 rebels
were killed. 3 rebels were killed in Mannar and 4 rebels and a soldier
were killed in Welioya.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 5, In southern Thailand
suspected insurgents shot up a bustling cafe, killing three customers
and injuring four others.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 5, In northern Yemen an
explosion at the main post office building of Saada killed at least
five people.
(AP, 7/5/08)
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