Today in History - July 6
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1189 Jul 6, Henry
II (56), King of England (1154-89), died.
(SFC, 10/30/98, p.D4)(MC, 7/6/02)
1253 Jul 6, Mindaugas was crowned
as King of Lithuania.
(www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12845046&PageNum=0)
1415 Jul 6, Jan Huss, Bohemian
(Czech) religious reformer, was burned as a heretic at the stake at
Constance, Germany. He had spoken out against Church corruption.
(NH, 9/96, p.23)(HN, 7/6/98)
1483 Jul 6, England's King Richard
III was crowned.
(AP, 7/6/97)
1519 Jul 6, Charles of Spain was
elected Holy Roman emperor in Barcelona. The Catholic heir to the
Hapsburg dynasty, Charles V, was elected Holy Roman Emperor, combining
the crowns of Spain, Burgundy (with the Netherlands), Austria and
Germany. He was the grandson of Ferdnand and Isabella of Spain.
(V.D.-H.K.p.162)(NH, 9/96, p.18)(HN, 7/6/98)
1533 Jul 6, Ludovico Ariosto (57),
Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), died.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1535 Jul 6, Thomas More (b.1478)
was beheaded in England for treason, for refusing to renounce the
Catholic church in favor of King Henry VIII's Church of England. More’s
sentence to death by hanging was commuted to beheading. He was
canonized by the Catholic Church in 1935. In 1966 Robert Bolt authored
the play "A Man for All Seasons" based on More’s struggle with Henry.
In 1998 Peter Ackroyd published "The Life of Thomas More." Pope John
Paul II named More as the patron saint of politicians in 2000.
(V.D.-H.K.p.161)(AP, 7/6/97)(HN, 7/6/98)(WSJ,
10/22/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 11/7/00, p.A27)
1536 Jul 6, Jaques Cartier
returned to France after discovering the St. Lawrence River in Canada.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1553 Jul 6, Edward VI Tudor (15),
King of England (1547-53), died. Mary Tudor was warned that Edward VI
was already dead and that she was walking into a trap set by John
Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland, Edward’s regent.
(ON, 5/00, p.3)(MC, 7/6/02)
1590 Jul 6, English admiral
Francis Drake took the Portuguese Forts at Taag, Angola.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1669 Jul 6, LaSalle left Montreal
to explore Ohio River.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1685 Jul 6, James II defeated
James, the Duke of Monmouth, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last major
battle to be fought on English soil.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1699 Jul 6, Pirate Capt. William
Kidd was captured in Boston.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1747 Jul 6, John Paul Jones, naval
hero of the American Revolution, was born near Kirkcudbright, Scotland.
As a US naval commander he invaded England during the American War of
Independence.
(HN, 7/6/98)(MC, 7/6/02)
1755 Jul 6, John Flaxman, the
English sculptor who designed much of Wedgwood's original pottery, was
born.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1770 Jul 6, The entire Ottoman
fleet was destroyed by the Russians at the battle of Cesme.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1776 Jul 6, The US Declaration of
Independence was announced on the front page of "PA Evening Gazette."
(MC, 7/6/02)
1777 Jul 6, British forces under
Gen. Burgoyne captured Fort Ticonderoga from the Americans.
(AP, 7/6/97)(MC, 7/6/02)
1781 Jul 6, In Virginia the Battle
of Green Spring took place on the Jamestown Peninsula. It was the last
major engagement of the Revolutionary War prior to the Colonial’s final
victory at Yorktown in October.
(LP, Spring 2006, p.60)
1788 Jul 6, Ten thousand troops
were called out in Paris as unrest mounted in the poorer districts over
poverty and lack of food.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1813 Jul 6, Granville Sharp
(b.1735), biblical scholar and English abolitionist, died.
(ON, 12/08,
p.9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Sharp)
1816 Jul 6, Philipp Meissner (67),
composer, died.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1835 Jul 6, John Marshall, the 3rd
chief justice of the US Supreme Court, died at the age of 79. Two days
later, while tolling in his honor in Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell
cracked. Marshall served on the court for 34 years.
(HN, 7/6/98)(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A8)
1836 Jul 6, French General Thomas
Bugeaud defeated Abd al-Kader's forces beside the Sikkak River in
Algeria.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1854 Jul 6, The Republican Party
was officially organized in Jackson, Michigan. The Republican Party was
formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, by a group of anti-slavery politicians at
the Little White Schoolhouse. [see Feb 28, Mar 20]
(Hem., 7/96, p.28)(HN, 7/6/98)
1858 Jul 6, Lyman Blake patented a
shoe manufacturing machine.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1863 Jul 6, Vincent Strong
(b.1837), US Union brig-general, died from wounds at Gettysburg.
(MC, 6/17/02)(MC, 7/6/02)
1864 Jul 6, Battle of
Chattahoochee River, GA.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1885 Jul 6, French scientist Louis
Pasteur (1822-1895) successfully tested an anti-rabies vaccine on a boy
bitten by an infected dog. Thanks to his vaccine the death rate from
rabies dropped to almost zero by 1888.
(AP, 7/6/97)(ON, 6/08, p.6)
1907 Jul 6, Artist Frida Kahlo was
born in Coyoacan, Mexico.
(AP, 7/6/07)
1908 Jul 6, Robert Peary's
expedition sailed from NYC for north pole.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1910 Jul 6, Dorothy Kirsten, opera
singer, was born.
(HN, 7/6/01)
1917 Jul 6, During World War I,
Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi captured the port of
Aqaba from the Turks.
(AP, 7/6/08)
1920 Jul 6, The Democrats ended
their convention in San Francisco with the selection James Cox of Ohio
and running mate Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Cox and FDR were committed
internationalists and lost the elections due to the isolationism of the
times.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.4)(AH, 10/04, p.56)
1921 Jul 6, Nancy Reagan, wife of
President Ronald Reagan, was born.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1922 Jul 6, Vice-president Calvin
Coolidge gave a speech at Fredericksburg City Park on behalf of a fund
raising campaign to save and restore the Kenmore House, the home of
Elizabeth (sister of George Washington) and Fielding Lewis.
(HT, 5/97, p.44,68)
1923 Jul 6, Wojciech Jaruzelski,
Polish general, pres. (1989-90), was born.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1923 Jul 6, The Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics was formed.
(AP, 7/6/98)
1925 Jul 6, Merv Griffin, singer
(I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts The Merv Griffin Show, Wheel of
Fortune, Jeopardy, hotel owner), was born.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1927 Jul 6, Bill Haley, rock 'n'
roll pioneer, singer of "Rock Around the Clock," was born.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1927 Jul 6, Janet Leigh (d.2004,
film star, was born as Jeanette Helen Morrison in Merced, Ca. MGM named
her Janet Leigh.
(SFC, 10/5/04, p.A2)
1928 Jul 6, A preview was held in
New York of the first all-talking movie feature, "The Lights of New
York."
(AP, 7/6/97)
1931 Jul 6, Della Reese, singer,
actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family), was born in Detroit.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1933 Jul 6, The first All-Star
baseball game was played, at Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American
League defeated the National League, 4-2.
(AP, 7/6/08)
1935 Jul 6, Dalai Lama 14,
spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists, was born as Lhamo
Thondup in Hong Ya, a mountain hamlet on the Tibetan Plateau. He was
formally recognized as the reincarnated Dalai Lama at age 2 and was
renamed Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (Holy Lord,
Gentle Glory, Compassionate, Defender of the Faith, Ocean of Wisdom).
He became a Nobel Peace Prize winner (1989) for his efforts to end
China's domination of Tibet.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama)(Econ,
2/28/09, p.44)
1937 Jul 6, Vladimir Ashkenazy,
pianist, conductor (Tchakowsky-1961), was born in Gorki, Russia.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1938 July 6, Delegates from
thirty-two countries met for 9 days at the French resort of Evian to
discuss the problem of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austrian. The
German government was able to state with great pleasure how
"astounding" it was that foreign countries criticized Germany for their
treatment of the Jews, but none of them wanted to open the doors to
them when "the opportunity offer[ed]." The French foreign ministry, the
Quai d’Orsay, sabotaged the Evian conference on European refugees, the
only diplomatic effort to alleviate the fate of “stateless” German and
Austrian Jews.
(http://christianactionforisrael.org/antiholo/evian/evian.html)(WSJ,
11/15/06, p.D14)
1939 Jul 6, Nazis closed the last
Jewish enterprises.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1941 Jul 6, German planes attacked
the SS Devon off the east coast of England. Reginald Earnshaw (14) died
in the attack after serving for several months. In 2010 he was hailed
as the youngest known British service casualty in World War II.
(AP, 2/5/10)
1942 Jul 6, Anne Frank's family
went into hiding in After House, Amsterdam.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1943 Jul 6, In the 2nd day of
battle at Kursk some 25,000 Germans were killed.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1944 Jul 6, Lieutenant Jackie
Robinson of the U.S. Army, while riding a civilian bus from Camp Hoo,
Texas, refused to give up his seat to a white man. Lt. Jackie Robinson
was court marshaled for refusing the order of a civilian bus driver to
move to the back of the bus. He was acquitted.
(SFEC,10/19/97, BR p.14)(HN, 7/6/98)
1944 Jul 6, In Hartford, Conn.,
168 people died when fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In 2000 Stewart O’Nan authored
"The Circus Fire: A True Story."
(AP, 7/6/04)(SFEC, 8/20/00, BR p.3)
1945 Jul 6, President Truman
signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.
(AP, 7/6/97)
1945 Jul 6, B-29 Superfortress
bombers attacked Honshu, Japan, using new fire-bombing techniques.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1945 Jul 6, Operation Overcast
began in Europe--moving Austrian and German scientists and their
equipment to the United States.
(HN, 7/6/01)
1945 Jul 6, Nicaragua became the
first nation to formally accept the United Nations Charter.
(AP, 7/6/05)
1946 Jul 6, George Walker Bush
Jr., Gov-R-TX, US Pres., was born.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1946 Jul 6, Sylvester Stallone
(actor: Rocky series, Rambo series, etc.), was born.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1946 Jul 6, Jamie Wyeth, artist
(An American Vision-Boston), was born in Pennsylvania.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1949 Jul 6, The principality of
Monaco joined UNESCO.
(http://tinyurl.com/bdtj3p)
1957 Jul 6, Althea Gibson
(1927-2003) became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon
singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.
(AP, 7/6/97)(SFC, 9/29/03, p.A1)
1959 Jul 6, Saar became part of
the German Federal Republic.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1962 Jul
6, William Cuthbert Faulkner (b.1897), US writer (Nobel 1949), died in
Oxford, Miss. In 2004 Jay Parini authored “One Matchless Time: A Life
of William Faulkner.”
(WSJ, 10/28/04,
p.A1)(www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/faulkner_william/)
1964 Jul 6, Beatles' film "Hard
Day's Night" premiered in London.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1964 Jul 6, Malawi, a former
British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland, gained independence.
(WUD, 1994, p.867)
1967 Jul 6, The Biafran War
erupted. The war, which lasted more than two years, claimed some
600,000 lives. The Republic of Biafra was proclaimed when the eastern
region of Nigeria, the homeland of the Igbo people, seceded. This was
followed by civil war. The federal troops of Nigeria held most of
rebellious Biafra by the end of 1968 but the Igbos attempted to hold
out in a small and crowded area. The war broke out when the Igbos, led
by Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu of the Nigerian army, launched a
rebellion to form a separate state following allegations of ethnic
cleansing, neglect and marginalization against federal forces.
(AP, 7/6/97)(HNQ, 5/27/98)(AFP, 1/10/07)
1971 Jul 6, Louis Armstrong
(b.1900), jazz and blues musician widely known as "Satchmo," died. His
innovations of early day blues and Dixieland music inspired the swing
eras of the 1920s and 1930s. He invented skat, a technique of singing
jazz improvisations. Louis spoke out against the US government during
the 1957 Little Rock, Ark. school troubles. "The way they are treating
my people in the South, the government can go to hell." A 32 cent
memorial stamp was issued by the Post Office in 1995. Armstrong smoked
marijuana every day of his adult life, was unfaithful to each of his
four wives, was arrested 4 times and consorted freely with prostitutes,
pimps and mobsters. His biographies include: "Louis Armstrong: An
American Genius" by James Lincoln Collier (1983); "Satchmo" by Gary
Giddins (1988); and "Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life" by Laurence
Bergreen (1997). In 1999 Joshua Berrett published "The Louis Armstrong
Companion." In 2009 Terry Teachout authored “Pops: A Life of Louis
Armstrong.”
(WSJ, 9/27/95, p.A-16)(WSJ, 6/26/97, p.A16)(WSJ,
3/10/99, p.A20)(SSFC, 12/13/09, p.E1)
1972 Jul 6, Pierre Messmer
(1916-2007), former member of the French Resistance, began serving as
prime minister of France under President Georges Pompidou.
(AP,
8/30/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Messmer)
1973 Jul 6, Otto Klemperer
(b.1885), German-born conductor and composer, died in Zurich. He had
taken United States citizenship in 1937 and Israeli citizenship in 1970.
(WSJ, 8/20/96,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Klemperer)
1974 Jul 6, Garrison Keillor made
his 1st live broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" from Macalester
College in St. Paul, Minn. In 2003 the show drew some 3.9 million
listeners weekly. The show ended in 1987 and resumed in New York in
1989. It returned to Minnesota in 1993.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.13)(SFC, 12/20/00, p.E5)(SFC,
9/4/03, p.E12)
1975 Jul 6, The state of Comoros
became independent with Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane (1919-1989) as its
first head of state. Three of the four islands between Africa and
Madagascar declared independence from France and became the nation of
Comoros. Mayotte voted to remain a colony.
(SFC, 9/12/97,
p.A12)(www.worldstatesmen.org/Comoros.html)
1975 Jul 6, Otto Skorzeny
(b.1908), German-Austrian SS officer, died. He was the commando leader
who rescued Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from imprisonment after
his overthrow.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny)
1976 Jul 6, US Naval Academy
admitted women for the first time in its history with the induction of
81 female midshipmen.
(www.usna.edu/VirtualTour/150years/1970.htm)
1979 Jul 6, The B-52s, a New Wave
band based in Athens, Georgia, released "Planet Claire."
(SFEC, 1/3/99, DB
p.29)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-52's_(album))
1982 Jul 6, President Ronald
Reagan agreed to contribute U.S. troops to the peacekeeping unit in
Beirut.
(HN, 7/6/98)
1982 Jul 6, Crossan Hoover (17)
beat and killed Richard Baldwin (36), the owner of a car restoration
shop in San Rafael, Ca. Hoover and 2 accomplices robbed Baldwin’s home
and dumped his body into the SF Bay. Mark Richards (29), a contractor
who employed Hoover and another youth, was one of the three involved in
the murder plot and had told his employees that he planned to take
control of Marin County in a paramilitary coup that came to be called
Pendragon. Richards was convicted of murder and sentenced to life
without parole. Hoover was sentenced 26 years to life. In 2007 Hoover’s
murder verdict was overturned and a new trial was scheduled. In 2008 a
federal appeals court reinstated Hoover’s murder conviction.
(http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/29-2/murderincamelot.html)(SFC,
9/14/07, p.B6)(SFC, 1/7/09, p.B3)
1987 Jul 6, The first of three
massacres by Sikh extremists over two days took place in India as
gunmen attacked a bus with Hindu passengers. Seventy-two people were
killed in the attacks in Punjab and Haryana.
(AP, 7/6/97)
1988 Jul 6, Medical waste and
other debris began washing up on seashores near New York City, forcing
the closing of several popular beaches.
(AP, 7/6/98)
1988 Jul 6, In Mexican elections
the PRI declared itself the early winner without an official vote
count. The true results of the election were never made public.
Gortari, candidate for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party,
was losing badly to opposition candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas.
(AP, 3/9/04)
1988 Jul 6, 167 North Sea oil
workers were killed when a series of explosions and fires destroyed a
drilling platform.
(AP, 7/6/98)
1989 Jul 6, The U.S. Army
destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in
Karnack, Texas, under terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear
Forces Treaty.
(AP, 7/6/99)
1989 Jul 6, Janos Kadar, who
helped restore Soviet domination and led Hungary for over 30 years
before being replaced in May 1988, died. This same day Hungary's
Supreme Court finally rehabilitated the 1956 revolutionaries.
(AP, 6/16/09)
1989 Jul 6, A Palestinian grabbed
the steering wheel of an Israeli bus, causing a crash that claimed 15
lives.
(AP, 7/6/99)
1990 Jul 6, NATO leaders concluded
two days of meetings in London, pledging to sharply reduce both nuclear
and conventional defenses in Europe.
(AP, 7/6/00)
1991 Jul 6, President Bush sent a
personal message to Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, urging a
stronger effort to conclude arms control talks.
(AP, 7/6/01)
1991 Jul 6, Steffi Graf won the
women’s singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Gabriela Sabatini 6-4,
3-6, 8-6.
(AP, 7/6/01)
1992 Jul 6, The Group of Seven
industrial nations opened their 18th annual economic summit in Munich,
Germany.
(AP, 7/6/97)
1993 Jul 6, On the eve of the
Group of Seven summit in Tokyo, President Clinton and Japanese Prime
Minister Kiichi Miyazawa expressed optimism about resolving a
contentious trade dispute between their countries.
(AP, 7/6/98)
1994 Jul 6, President Clinton
stopped by Latvia, then traveled to Poland as part of a four-nation
European tour.
(AP, 7/6/04)
1994 Jul 6, Fourteen firefighters
were killed while battling a blaze on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.
(AP, 7/6/99)
1995 Jul 6, The prosecution rested
at the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/6/00)
1995 Jul 6, At 3:15AM The UN safe
area at Srebrenica came under attack by the Bosnian Serb army’s Drina
corps under Genl. Radislav Krstic, and some 7,500 Muslim men and boys
were killed. The acquisition and delivery of arms was organized by
Yugoslav army officer Mirko Krajisnik, brother to Momcilo Krajisnik,
president of the Bosnian Serb assembly. In 1998 Chuck Sudetic published
"Blood and Vengeance: One Family’s Story of the War in Bosnia." The
book focused on the Srebrenica killings. 300 Dutch troops were later
accused of not preventing the Serbs from overrunning the town. Bosnian
Serb Gen’l. Radislav Krstic was arrested in 1998 for genocide in the
1995 takeover of Srebrenica. In 1999 the UN issued a 155-page report
that admitted its failure to block the massacre. Krstic was convicted
in 2001. In 2003 Bosnian Serb officers Momir Nikolic and Dragan
Obrenovic described the massacre as a well-planned and deliberate
killing operation. In 2003 An Int'l. Court sentenced Col. Dragan
Obrenovic (40) to 17 years in prison for his role in the slaughter of
more than 7,000 men and boys in Srebrenica.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)(SFC, 8/12/98, p.A14)(SFC,
12/3/98, p.A16)(SFC, 11/16/99, p.A1)(SFC, 3/14/00, p.A10)(SFC, 8/3/01,
p.A1)(SSFC, 10/11/03, p.A14)(AP, 12/11/03)
1996 Jul 6, President Clinton
announced the biggest changes in the rules governing meat and poultry
safety in 90 years.
(AP, 7/6/97)
1996 Jul 6, A Delta MD-88
jetliner's left engine blew apart during an aborted takeoff from
Pensacola, Fla., sending metal pieces ripping into the cabin, killing a
mother and her son.
(AP, 7/6/97)
1996 Jul 6, Steffi Graf won her
seventh Wimbledon title, defeating Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6-3, 7-5.
(AP, 7/6/97)
1996 Jul 6, The 10th Lithuanian
Song and Dance Festival in the US was held in Rosemont, Ill., at the
Rosemount Horizon and featured 2,000 dancers before an audience of
7,000.
(Dr, 7/96, V1#1, p.5)(SFC, 11/9/96, p.4)
1996 Jul 6, It was reported that a
Brazilian fisherman, Nathon do Nascimento, choked to death when a
6-inch fish jumped out of the water and into his throat during a long
yawn.
(SFC, 7/6/96, p.A17)
1997 Jul 6, Pete Sampras won his
fourth Wimbledon title as he defeated Cedric Pioline of France.
(AP, 7/6/98)
1997 Jul 6, The rover Sojourner
rolled down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander and began mankind’s
first mobile exploration of Mars. The first rock targeted for
examination was named "Barnacle Bill."
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.A1) (AP, 7/6/98)
1997 Jul 6, In Albania three
people died as the 2nd round of elections were completed. The Socialist
gained 12 more seats versus 5 more for the Democrats.
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 6, In Cambodia Hun Sen
declared victory while Prince Ranariddh planned from France to carry
out a resistance effort.
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 6, In Mexico City
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano, leader of the opposition Party of the
Democratic Revolution, declared victory in the race for mayor. The PRI
lost its majority in the lower house of Congress. The four opposition
parties banded together in a coalition to inaugurate the new Congress
on Aug 30.
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/1/97, p.A14) (AP, 7/6/98)
1997 Jul 6, In Portadown, Northern
Ireland, British troops cleared the streets to allow the Orange Order
to march through the Catholic enclave along Garvaghy Road amidst
scattered violence.
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.A8)
1998 Jul 6, Se Ri Pak, a
20-year-old rookie golfer from South Korea, became the youngest winner
of the U.S. Women's Open, defeating American amateur Jenny Chuasiriporn
in sudden death.
(AP, 7/6/99)
1998 Jul 6, It was reported that a
planned shipment of nuclear rods was to be transported across Northern
California, Nevada and Utah to Idaho for processing before final
storage in South Carolina. The federal government had made 154 secret
shipments of spent nuclear fuel rods over the last 40 years. Four more
shipments from 7 Asian countries were planned to occur by 2009.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.a1)
1998 Jul 6, Roy Rogers (b.1911),
singing cowboy, died at age 86 in Apple Valley, Calif. He was born as
Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati where his father worked in a shoe
factory. Rogers starred in 81 Westerns [87 movies] and 101 episodes for
his TV show.
(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A1,2)(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A20)(AP, 7/6/99)
1998 Jul 6, The new Hong Kong
Int’l. Airport at Chek Lap Kok welcomed its first commercial flight.
Pres. Clinton flew in here a week prior to the official opening. The
$20.6 billion project was built on reclaimed land off the northern
coast of Lantau island. Inefficient coordination led to chaos on the
1st day.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, p.A9,T3)(WSJ, 3/3/05, p.A11)
1998 Jul 6, Kazakhstan and Russia
signed an agreement that divided the northern part of the Caspian
seabed into Russian and Kazak sectors.
(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 6, Mobs battled police
across Northern Ireland for a 2nd day after British authorities blocked
an Orange Order march in Portadown. Protests continued even though the
Parade’s Commission decided to permit a July 13 Protestant march in
Belfast’s Lower Ormeau section.
(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A8)(AP, 7/6/99)
1999 Jul 6, A 3rd day of heat
raised temperatures to 100 degrees in the East and Midwest. Power
blackouts and 8 deaths were attributed to the heat.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 6, In Louisiana Gov. Mike
Foster signed a polite-student law that required students to address
teachers with appropriate titles.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 6, Hillary Clinton filed
with the Federal Election Commission for a campaign for a Senate seat
from New York.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 6, Pres. Clinton signed
Executive Order 13129 to impose sanctions against the ruling Taliban
militia in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A8)(SFC, 5/3/00, p.A12)
1999 Jul 6, In Bosnia British
troops seized Radoslav Brdjanin, who was charged with crimes against
Muslims and Croats around Banja Luka in 1992.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 6, Britain began selling
gold and dumped 50,250 pounds, 3.5% of the UK's 1.6 million-pound
reserve. Gold dropped to $257.80 per ounce.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.B1)
1999 Jul 6, Piseth Peaklica (34),
Cambodian actress, was shot by 2 gunmen in a Phnom Penh market and died
on July 13. It was rumored that she was involved with a high official
(Hun Sen) and ordered killed by a jealous wife (Bun Rany).
(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A15)(http://tinyurl.com/5n83tu)
1999 Jul 6, In Israel Ehud Barak
was sworn in as Prime Minister, pledging to seek peace with neighboring
Arab countries. David Levy became his foreign minister and Avraham
Shochat the finance minister.
(WSJ, 7/6/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/6/04)
1999 Jul 6, In Jamaica Michael
Wallace, musician in the reggae group Third World, was shot dead in a
suspected robbery. Some 22 murders were reported in this one week and
486 murders since the start of the year.
(SFC, 7/9/99, p.D5)
1999 Jul 6, In Kashmir fighting
continued despite a US-Pakistan pact to push for peace. India reported
55 mercenaries killed along with 9 Indian soldiers.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 6, In Mexico it was
reported that Angel Salvador "El Chava" Gomez, leader of the Gulf drug
cartel, was killed execution style.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 6, Thor Alex Kappfjell
(32) was killed during a miscalculated jump in Norway. He had earlier
parachuted from the World Trade Center, Empire State Building and the
Chrysler Building in NYC, after which he pleaded guilty to 3 counts of
reckless endangerment and was sentenced to 7 days of community service.
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.A3)(SFC, 7/9/99, p.D6)
1999 Jul 6, In Spain Joaquin
Rodrigo, classical composer, died at age 97 in Madrid. His best known
work was "Concierto de Aranjuez."
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A19)
1999 Jul 6, In Yugoslavia some
10,000 people demonstrated against Pres. Milosevic in Uzice despite
attempts by the police to stop them.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A8)
2000 Jul 6, Venus Williams beat
her younger sister Serena 6-2, 7-6 (3) to reach the Wimbledon final;
their singles match was the first between sisters in a Grand Slam
semifinal.
(AP, 7/6/01)
2000 Jul 6, The body of
19-year-old Cory Erving, son of basketball star Julius "Dr. J" Erving,
was found in his car at the bottom of a Florida pond; he’d been missing
since May 28th.
(AP, 7/6/01)
2000 Jul 6, A heat wave in
Southeast Europe left 25 people dead as temperatures rose to 113
degrees in some places.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D3)
2000 Jul 6, In China 3 separatists
were executed in Urumqi by firing squad immediately after a public
sentencing.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)
2000 Jul 6, The German parliament
offered a formal apology to Nazi-era slave and forced laborers as it
passed a bill setting up a five billion-dollar compensation fund.
(AP, 7/6/01)
2000 Jul 6, In Malaysia commandos
ended a 4-day standoff and forced the surrender of 27 militants of
Al-Ma’unah (Brotherhood of Inner Power), led by Amin Razali. 2
non-Muslim hostages were slain in the process. 19 cult members were
found guilty Dec 27, 2001.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D6)(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.B9)(SFC,
12/28/01, p.A4)
2000 Jul 6, In Northern Ireland
British authorities banned a 2nd Protestant parade from passing through
Catholic territory.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 6, In Nicaragua a 5.9
earthquake was centered in Laguna de Apoyo. At least 4 children died.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D6)(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 6, In Serbia Pres.
Milosevic changed the constitution to allow himself to run for
re-election. He also reduced Montenegro’s power in the Yugoslav
federation by changing how delegates are selected for the upper house.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 6, In Spain a bus enroute
to a summer camp for teens collided with a truck hauling pigs near
Soria and at least 25 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D6)
2000 Jul 6, In Sri Lanka the
military reported 50 guerrillas killed in commando attacks on northern
Tamil bases. Tamil rebels reported 35 dead.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D6)
2001 Jul 6, The United States
turned over to Japanese authorities an American serviceman accused of
rape. Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland was convicted of rape and
sentenced to two years and eight months in prison.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2001 Jul 6, Former FBI agent
Robert Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 criminal counts and agreed to give
a full accounting of his spying activities for Moscow.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2001 Jul 6, US Rep. Gary Condit
(D-Ceres) admitted to authorities that he had a sexual relationship
with Chandra Levy before she disappeared.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Jul 6, US unemployment jumped
to 4.5% from 4.4% in June.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 6, Stanford researchers
reported evidence for a built-in kink in the universe known as
"charge-parity (CP) violation." This favored the production of certain
forms of matter over anti-matter counterparts.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 6, Eight-year-old Jessie
Arbogast was badly injured in a shark attack off the Florida coast.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2001 Jul 6, In France a tree
crashed on music spectators at the Chateau Pourtales near Strasbourg
and 10 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.B1)
2001 Jul 6, In Russia Pres. Putin
called for multilateral talks to eliminate 10,000 warheads over the
next 7 years.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 6, In Belgrade Radomar
Markovic, the former Yugoslav secret police chief, was sentenced to a
year in jail with 3 other top security aides for revealing state
secrets.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.B1)
2002 Jul 6, Serena Williams beat
older sister Venus 7-6 (4), 6-3 to win her first Wimbledon title and
second straight Grand Slam tournament.
(AP, 7/6/03)
2002 Jul 6, In Ingleside, Ca.,
police officer Jeremy Morse was caught on video tape beating Donovan
Jackson (16), who was already subdued and handcuffed. Jackson's father,
Coby Chavis, was being investigation for expired registration tags. The
video led to federal involvement in the case. Mitch Crooks (27), the
man who made the tape, was arrested July 11 on an outstanding warrant
for petty theft. Officers Morse and Bijan Darvish were indicted July
17. Morse was dismissed Oct 14.
(SFC, 7/11/02, p.A3)(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A2)(SFC,
7/18/02, p.A1)(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 6, Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan arrived in Baghdad for a two-day visit Saturday to
discuss steps that could be taken to avert a possible U.S. military
campaign against Iraq.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, Former President
Carter launched a Venezuela peace mission sanctioned by leftist
President Hugo Chavez but met with skepticism by many of Chavez's
opponents.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, John Frankenheimer
(72), film director, died in LA.
(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A23)
2002 Jul 6, Gunmen assassinated
Afghan Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir (48) and his driver in broad
daylight in the capital Kabul. Qadir was a prominent Pashtun
businessman and was suspected of being involved in the opium trade.
(Reuters, 7/6/02)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/8/02,
p.A3)
2002 Jul 6, Asian and European
finance ministers meeting in Copenhagen were presented a study that
called for the creation of a currency basket system and ultimately a
single Asian currency. The study was part of the Kobe Research Project,
an initiative launched by ASEM in 2001.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)(http://tinyurl.com/79d6f)
2002 Jul 6, Greek police, assisted
by American and British agents, raided an apartment and found dozens of
anti-tank rockets they believe were stolen from the army in the late
1980s by the elusive November 17 terrorist group.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, Rebels in Indonesia's
troubled Aceh province freed all 18 hostages held since last month,
including crew from a boat carrying supplies to an Exxon Mobil plant.
(Reuters, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, In Indian-ruled
Kashmir 2 soldiers and two separatist rebels were killed in fighting.
(Reuters, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, Residents of the Ivory
Coast voted in local elections seen as a test of whether President
Laurent Gbagbo's government has turned the page on two years of ethnic
and political turbulence.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, In Latvia hopes were
high at a summit of 10 former communist countries aspiring to join
NATO, and many delegates already were looking ahead to the
responsibilities of membership.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 6, Randi Hindi (44), a
Palestinian woman, and her 2-year-old daughter were shot to death while
riding in a taxi in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians claimed Israeli troops
were responsible. But the Israeli army said its soldiers did not fire
anywhere in the area.
(AP, 7/6/02)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 6, Trinidad and Tobago
announced plans to run an undersea natural gas pipeline throughout the
Caribbean, saying the project would open new markets in the region.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2003 Jul 6, Roger Federer became
the first Swiss man to win a Grand Slam title, defeating Mark
Philippoussis 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (3) in the Wimbledon final.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2003 Jul 6, Joseph Wilson, former
American ambassador, criticized the Bush administration for the way it
used intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. He alleged that Pres.
Bush had falsely accused Iraq of trying to buy uranium from Niger. Two
White House officials soon called at least 6 Washington journalists and
told them that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was an undercover CIA
agent who had worked in Niger. A State Dept. memo was soon sent to
Colin Powell on how Wilson got sent to Niger and the role of his wife.
(Econ, 8/21/04, p.28)(SFC, 7/16/05, p.A4)
2003 Jul 6, Dennis Schmitt and 5
companions stepped on a 120-foot-long pile of dirt at 83°42’
latitude, Earth’s farthest north piece of known land. The Arctic site
was 432 miles from the North Pole and under the jurisdiction of
Greenland. In 2004 Danish authorities discounted the find in favor of a
larger island called Kaffklubben.
(SFC, 6/17/04, p.B1)(SFC, 6/18/04, p.B10)
2003 Jul 6, Buddy Ebsen (95),
Hollywood actor who achieved stardom and riches in the television
series "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones," died.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2003 Jul 6, Kathleen Raine (95), a
poet and scholar whose verse explored the realms of nature and the
spirit, died in London. "Stone and Flower" (1943), illustrated by
Barbara Hepworth, was her first published collection, followed by
"Living in Time" (1946) and "The Pythoness" (1949).
(AP, 7/10/03)
2003 Jul 6, Corsicans voted in a
historic referendum to give local officials more say in running the
Mediterranean island, an attempt to end years of attacks by separatists
fighting French rule.
(AP, 7/6/03)
2003 Jul 6, In Liberia Pres.
Charles Taylor announced that he would leave the country and accept
refuge in Nigeria.
(SFC, 7/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 6, Mexican voters issued
a severe judgment on Pres. Vicente Fox's first three years in office,
electing another divided Congress in which his party will have fewer
seats and increasing the power of the former ruling party and the
leftist opposition.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2003 Jul 6, The annual Wife
Carrying World Championship took place in Sonkajarvi, Finland. An
Estonian team was again favored to win.
(WSJ, 7/2/03, p.A1)
2004 Jul 6, US Democratic
presidential candidate John Kerry selected former rival John Edwards to
be his running mate.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2004 Jul 6, A US fighter pilot
who'd mistakenly bombed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002,
killing four, was found guilty in New Orleans of dereliction of duty;
Major Harry Schmidt was reprimanded and docked a month's pay.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2004 Jul 6, The Archdiocese of
Portland, Ore., filed for bankruptcy due to the financial impact of
sexual abuse claims.
(SFC, 7/7/04, p.A3)
2004 Jul 6, President Thomas
Klestil (71), who helped distance Austria from its Nazi past and
strengthened the country's ties with emerging Eastern European
democracies, died two days before he was to leave office.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2004 Jul 6, Actress Angelina Jolie
(29) arrived in Cambodia. PM Hun Sen had offered her citizenship in
recognition of her nature conservation work in the country’s northwest.
(SFC, 7/7/04, p.E3)
2004 Jul 6, In Ethiopia a major
summit of the two-year-old African Union opened in Addis Ababa in the
presence of about 40 heads of state and government. The crisis in
Darfur took centre stage.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2004 Jul 6, A group of armed,
masked Iraqi men threatened to kill Jordanian militant Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi if he did not immediately leave the country, accusing him of
murdering innocent Iraqis and defiling the Muslim religion.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2004 Jul 6, In Iraq a car bomb
exploded in the town of Khalis, killing 13 people attending a wake for
the victims of a previous attack.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2004 Jul 6, Khaled Sallah, an
American-educated computer science professor, and his son were killed
during an arrest raid by Israeli commandos in the Ein Beit Ilma refugee
camp in the West Bank city of Nablus. West Bank and Gaza fighting left
6 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier dead.
(AP, 7/6/04)(WSJ, 7/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 6, Samir Naqqash (66), an
Israeli author and playwright who wrote almost exclusively in the
Arabic of his native Iraq, died of a heart attack.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2004 Jul 6, Sudan ordered an end
to restrictions on the movement of aid to the Darfur region.
(WSJ, 7/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 6, President Hugo Chavez
announced that Venezuela has granted citizenship to 216,000 immigrants
since May under a fast-track nationalization plan.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2005 Jul 6, NY Times reporter
Judith Miller was jailed for refusing to name her CIA-leak source
(2003) for a never-written article on CIA officer Valerie Plame. She
was freed after 85 days when Lewis Libby (55), chief of staff for VP
Cheney, released her from a claim of confidentiality. She agreed to
testify before a federal grand jury.
(WSJ, 7/6/05, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/05, p.A4)
2005 Jul 6, Crude oil for August
delivery rose $1.69 to settle at a record $61.28 per barrel.
(SFC, 7/7/05, p.C1)
2005 Jul 6, L. Patrick Gray III
(88), acting FBI director during Nixon’s Watergate crisis, died in
Florida.
(SFC, 7/7/05, p.A15)
2005 Jul 6, Author Evan Hunter
(78) died in Weston, Conn.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2005 Jul 6, Brazil’s Pres. Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva named 3 cabinet ministers from a centrist party to
shore up support for his governing coalition, mired in charges of
buying votes in Congress.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 6, London was awarded the
2012 Olympics, upsetting European rival Paris in the final round of
voting to take the games back to the British capital for the first time
since 1948. Costs for the 2112 Olympics were originally estimated at
£2.4 billion. By 2006 the costs rose to £4.7 billion.
(AP, 7/6/05)(Econ, 11/25/06, p.57)
2005 Jul 6, Canada asked
Washington to persuade a US court to dismiss a lawsuit against Talisman
Energy Inc. that alleges the Calgary-based oil company aided genocide
in southern Sudan. The suit was filed in a New York district court in
2001 by the Presbyterian Church of Sudan. Talisman sold its 25%
interest in Sudan's main oil project for $771 million in 2003.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 6, A Chilean court
stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution for his
alleged role in the killing of 119 dissidents in the early years of his
dictatorship.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 6, China unveiled its 1st
index of manufacturing-purchasing activity.
(WSJ, 7/7/05, p.A11)
2005 Jul 6, In northeastern China
a bomb exploded in a shopping mall, injuring 47 people but causing no
deaths. Xinhua News said Ma Yuanxi, had fled China after being
suspected of murder but sneaked back into the country seeking revenge
in a dispute with another man.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 6, In Haiti hundreds of
peacekeepers stormed Cite Soleil, part of an effort to clamp down on
politically aligned gangs that have been accused of waging a campaign
of violence to destabilize Haiti ahead of October and November
elections. Gang leader Emmanuel "Dread" Wilme was killed in the raid.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2005 Jul 6, In Iraq gunmen killed
4 policemen and wounded at least 9 more in separate attacks in Baghdad.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 6, In Jordan over 170
leading Muslim scholars in Amman concluded an Int’l Islamic Conference.
They affirmed their authority and announced a mutual recognition
between Islam’s 8 main schools of legal interpretation: 4 Sunni, 2
Shia, the Ibadis of Oman and the small but prestigious Zahiri school.
(Econ, 7/30/05, p.41)(www.asmasociety.org/home/)
2005 Jul 6, In Kashmir Indian
troops shot dead, Hizbul Mujahedin, a self-styled divisional commander
of the region's main rebel group in the northern district of Baramulla.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 6, In Mexico Omar
Pimentel (37), Nuevo Laredo's new police chief, survived his 1st day on
the job with 3 bodyguards shadowing his every move, but one of his
police officers was killed and 2 other policemen badly wounded by shots
fired from a truck at their private car.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 6, In Acapulco, Mexico,
gunmen fired a spray of bullets at Jose Ruben Robles Catalan, a former
Guerrero state official as he entered a hotel lobby with his 6-year-old
grandson, killing him and his chauffeur.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 6, Monaco’s Prince Albert
admitted that he had fathered a boy with a French-Togolese women in
2003.
(SFC, 7/7/05, p.A20)
2005 Jul 6, Myanmar's military
government released about 240 prisoners, including political detainees
and opposition politicians.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 6, A shootout between
police and gunmen with automatic weapons left a bystander and two of
the gunmen dead in the southern Russian region of Dagestan.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 6, In Scotland G-8
leaders scaled back goals for relieving African poverty and combating
global warming under US opposition to British PM Tony Blair's ambitious
objectives. Riot police with attack dogs beat back demonstrators as
thousands marched near the site of the Group of Eight summit, demanding
action from the world's leaders on poverty reduction and climate change.
(AP, 7/6/05)(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 6, Sudan's National
Assembly unanimously passed a new constitution that steps away from
complete Islamic rule and paves the way for a Christian former rebel
leader to be inaugurated as first vice president later this week.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 6, Hikmet Fidan,
prominent Kurdish politician and critic of Abdullah Ocalan, was killed
in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Police said he was killed by the PKK.
(Econ, 7/23/05, p.48)
2006 Jul 6, A US federal rule was
published designating some 36,750 square miles in the Bering Sea and
Gulf of Alaska as critical habitat for right whales. The rule takes
effect Aug. 7.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 6, New Jersey’s governor
and lawmakers reached a deal on a new state budget. The deal included
an increase in sales tax from 6 to 7%, half of which would be used to
lower property taxes, which were among the highest in the US.
(SFC, 7/7/06, p.A7)
2006 Jul 6, New York's highest
court ruled that gay marriage is not allowed under state law, rejecting
arguments by same-sex couples who said the law violates their
constitutional rights.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, Emmanuel "Toto"
Constant (49), an elusive former strongman from Haiti, accused of
sanctioning rape to silence dissent there in the early 1990s, was
arrested in a mortgage fraud scheme on Long Island, NY.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 6, Alan Newton (44) of
NYC was released from prison after DNA evidence cleared him of a 1985
rape conviction. He had served 20 years of a 40 year sentence.
(SFC, 7/7/06, p.A6)
2006 Jul 6, The Amalgamated Santas
gathered in Branson, Missouri, for their first annual convention. In
2007 the group started to splinter following internal squabbles.
(WSJ, 7/10/08, p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/5mw4kv)
2006 Jul 6, The space shuttle
Discovery docked with the international space station, bringing with it
European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter, who began a six-month
stay aboard the station.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2006 Jul 6, Ralph Ginzburg
(b.1929), journalist, magazine publisher and photographer, died in NYC.
His magazine included Eros (1962), Avant Garde (1968) and Fact (1964).
In 1962 he wrote “100 Years of Lynchings,” a chronicle of racist
hangings in the South. He was at the center of two First Amendment
battles in the 1960s and served 8 months in federal prison for
obscenity.
(AP, 7/6/07)(SFC, 7/7/06, p.B9)
2006 Jul 6, Kasey Rogers (80),
film and TV actress, died in Los Angeles. Her films included “Strangers
on a Train” (1951).
(SFC, 7/15/06, p.B6)
2006 Jul 6, In southern
Afghanistan a US-led coalition soldier and five militants were killed
in a clash in the Baghran Valley in Helmand province.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 6, An Australian
consortium led by Macquarie Bank said it has agreed to a friendly 1.59
billion US dollar takeover of US utility Duquesne Light Holdings.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, Brazilian police broke
up an international drug ring and arrested Luciano Geraldo Daniel, a
man suspected of being the country's top cocaine trafficker.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, China’s state media
said torrential rains and a tornado killed at least 30 people as storms
battered eastern China this week, with millions more affected by
flooding and other storm damage.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, China and India
reopened the 14,000-foot Nathu La pass, an ancient Silk Road pass high
in the Himalayas, more than 40 years after it was shut by war.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, The European Central
Bank held its key interest rate steady at 2.75% as was widely
anticipated but pledged to exercise "strong vigilance" on inflation.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, Four former officers
in Georgia's Interior Ministry were convicted of causing bodily harm
leading to death in the case of a banker, Sandro Girgvliani (28), whose
beating and stabbing death became a political scandal in this former
Soviet republic.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, In Iraq a suicide car
bomb tore through buses carrying Iranian pilgrims near a Shiite shrine
on the outskirts of Kufa, killing 14 people and wounding 38.
(AP, 7/7/06)(SFC, 7/7/06, p.A10)
2006 Jul 6, Israeli forces took
over the remains of three abandoned Jewish settlements in the northern
Gaza Strip and entered a nearby Palestinian town, creating a temporary
buffer zone to prevent Palestinian militants from firing rockets at
Israel. At least 21 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed in
the fighting.
(AP, 7/6/06)(SFC, 7/7/06, p.A3)
2006 Jul 6, Israel signed a
contract with Germany for 2 new Dolphin submarines capable of carrying
nuclear warheads.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Jul 6, It was reported that
African scholars have launched the continent's first bible commentary
which tackles issues like female circumcision, HIV/AIDS and ethnic
violence to make the scriptures more relevant for Africans. The African
Bible Commentary was launched this week in Kenya and is meant to
interpret the bible for Africans by using local proverbs and tradition
and by applying Christian teaching to contemporary problems on the
poorest continent.
(Reuters, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, PM Vlado Buckovski
conceded defeat to the nationalist opposition in Macedonia's
parliamentary elections, a vote considered crucial for the tiny Balkan
nation's aspirations to join the EU and NATO. Nikola Gruevski led the
winning VMRO-DPMNE party.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, Felipe Calderon won
the official count in Mexico's disputed presidential race, a
come-from-behind victory for the stiff technocrat. But his leftist
rival refused to concede and said he'd fight the results in court.
Calderon won 35.9% of the vote against Obrador’s 35.3%.
(AP, 7/7/06)(Econ, 11/18/06, Survey p.4)
2006 Jul 6, In Moldova an
explosion ripped apart a small bus in Tiraspol, capital of the
separatist region of Trans-Dniester, killing eight people and injuring
46. The blast was caused by a bomb carried onboard by a passenger.
Transdniestrian politicians blamed Moldovan provocateurs.
(AP, 7/8/06)(Econ, 8/5/06, p.48)
2006 Jul 6, A general strike in
Niger demanding lower prices for basic goods paralyzed the capital of
one of the world's poorest nations, following a similar attempt last
month that was met with inaction from the government.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, In Nigeria a Dutch oil
worker was kidnapped by armed men from a Royal Dutch Shell gas plant.
He was released July 10.
(AP, 7/6/06)(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 6, A defiant North Korea
threatened to test-fire more missiles and warned of even stronger
action if opponents of the tests put pressure on the country.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, Members of the radical
Islamic group that controls Somalia's capital met African, Arab and
European officials and repeated their opposition to the deployment of
peacekeepers to stabilize the lawless country.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, A delegate from
Spain's ruling party met with the leader of an outlawed Basque
separatist group in historic talks hailed by both sides as a possible
step toward peace.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, Ukraine's pro-Russian
opposition ended a 10-day parliament blockade and lawmakers elected a
speaker. The pro-Western coalition was sent into a tailspin by a ballot
that in a surprise move saw its smallest faction, the Socialists, join
with pro-Russian parties to elect its leader Olexander Moroz as speaker.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2006 Jul 6, A UAE freighter sank
in strong winds in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa, killing
seven crew members. The ship was owned by al-Hufuf Maritime Co., based
in the United Arab Emirates, but it sailed under the flag of Panama.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2007 Jul 6, In Las Vegas Steven
Zegrean (51) opened fire on gamblers at the New York-New York casino
and wounded 4 people before he was tackled by off-duty military
reservists. On Oct 19, 2009, Zegrean was sentenced to 26-90 years in
prison.
(SFC, 7/7/07, p.A5)(SFC, 10/20/09, p.A5)
2007 Jul 6, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
(b.1939), author of steamy genre novels, died in Princeton, Minn. She
was widely credited with having founded the historical romance in its
modern carnal incarnation. “The Flame and the Flower” (1972) was the
1st of her 13 novels.
(SFC, 7/13/07, p.B8)
2007 Jul 6, Lois Wyse (80),
advertising whiz, died in Manhattan. Her 65 books included “Funny, You
Don’t Look Like a Grandmother” (1989).
(SFC, 7/9/07, p.C4)
2007 Jul 6, Afghan and US-led
coalition troops, using artillery and airstrikes, killed 33 Taliban
fighters after the insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in southern
Uruzgan province. Officials said fighting in three separate regions of
Afghanistan left more than 100 militants dead. About 60 militants died
in a battle in Kunar province, but reports of civilian deaths were not
confirmed. The next day a Kunar provincial deputy police chief said
that 25 civilians and 20 militants were killed in clashes over three
days.
(AP, 7/6/07)(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 6, Australia kicked off a
round-the-world series of Live Earth music concerts designed to
highlight climate change with a traditional Aboriginal welcome
ceremony. Former US vice-president Al Gore appeared on video screens to
launch the worldwide initiative.
(AFP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 6, Austrian authorities
arrested Michael Berger (35), an investment banker wanted by the FBI,
who fled after being convicted of securities fraud in NYC more than
five years ago.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 6, Canada named a former
government security adviser to head the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
the first time a civilian has held the post.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 6, Chile's securities
regulator fined Sebastian Pinera, a leading right-wing politician and
former presidential candidate, for insider trading of LAN Airlines SA
stock.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 6, A former department
head at China's drug regulation agency was sentenced to death on
bribery charges. Cao Wenzhuang was given a two-year reprieve because he
provided evidence that helped with the investigation of other cases.
Chinese cat lovers mobilized online to save a truck load of cats from
the cooking pot. A standoff continued for hours while cat lovers spread
word of the incident online, eventually raising $1,320 in donations to
buy the whole load of some 800 cats.
(AP, 7/6/07)(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 6, EU officials said they
have asked Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to join patrols of Europe's
border control agency in a bid to stop massive clandestine immigration.
(AFP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 6, In France some 50
masked attackers smashed cars and clashed with police in northeast
Paris. Three officers were injured.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 6, India’s Health
Ministry released a report saying the number of Indians infected with
HIV is between 2-3 million, half of what experts had previously
estimated, and about 0.3% of the 1.1 billion population.
(SFC, 7/7/07, p.A3)
2007 Jul 6, A suicide bomber
detonated a booby trapped car at a funeral in the Shiite Kurdish
village of Zargoush, in the Sadiya region of Diyala province, killing
22 people. Four soldiers were killed in two roadside bomb attacks on
their patrols, both in the capital. A suicide car bomber struck the
Kurdish village of Ahmad Maref killing 26 people. A US soldier and an
Iraqi interpreter were killed when an explosively formed penetrator
exploded near their patrol in southeastern Baghdad. A US soldier died
of non battle-related cause and his death was under investigation.
(AP, 7/7/07)(SFC, 7/7/07, p.A7)(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 6, Israeli forces pulled
out of the Gaza Strip. Their military incursion left 11 Palestinian
militants dead and pushed Gaza's rival factions together in urging
their people to fight back.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 6, In rural southern
Nepal 9 children and two adults died when a tractor pulling a trailer
carrying guests in a wedding procession skidded off a road and into a
canal.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 6, The head of a radical
mosque besieged by government forces in the heart of Pakistan's capital
rejected calls for an unconditional surrender, saying he and his
die-hard followers were ready for martyrdom.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 6, A Peruvian consumer
protection agency closed a popular restaurant and imposed a stiff fine
for repeatedly turning away dark-skinned people. The upscale suburb of
Miraflores complied with the agency's request to close Cafe del Mar for
60 days. The restaurant also was fined $76,000 for its "discriminatory"
entrance policy.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 6, Russian lawmakers
passed a bill that cracks down on dissent and expands police
surveillance authority ahead of 2008 elections.
(WSJ, 1/7/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 6, In Somalia 5 children
who stopped to play with a land mine on the way to prayers died when
one of them threw the device against a wall, causing a blast that sent
their bodies flying through the air.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 6, In Sri Lanka soldiers
intercepted a group of Tamil Tigers, killing 15, as they fled the
jungle area of Thoppigala in the eastern district of Batticaloa. 4
people were killed elsewhere in the embattled island.
(AFP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 6, Turkey's foreign
minister said his government and military have agreed on plans for a
possible cross-border operation against Kurdish rebels based in
northern Iraq.
(AP, 7/6/07)
2008 Jul 6, In Afghanistan the
chief government official in the Deh Bala district of Nangarhar
province said villagers reported that as many as 27 people walking in a
group toward a wedding were killed in a bombing. Up to 10 others were
wounded. The US-led coalition said an airstrike killed or wounded 20
militants in Nangarhar. An official investigation later found that the
US-led air strikes struck a wedding and killed 47 Afghan civilians.
(AP, 7/6/08)(AFP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 6, In Iraq a car bomb in
northern Baghdad killed six people and injured 14 others, including
three policemen. Ali Abdul Ridha al-Badri, the head of an awakening
council in Iskandariyah, and was killed by a bomb attached to his car
after meeting with US forces. A roadside bomb in Diyala province killed
a high-ranking member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan along with 7
others. 2 civilians were killed in Baquba when police clashed with
members of the Awakening Councils.
(AP, 7/6/08)(SFC, 7/7/08, p.A5)
2008 Jul 6, Israel re-opened its
border crossings with the Gaza Strip after closing them because of
Palestinian rocket fire.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 6, In northern Mexico a
plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed s it was trying to land,
killing the pilot and severely injuring the co-pilot.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 6, Myanmar's state-run
newspaper said the overwhelming election victory by Aung San Suu Kyi's
party in 1990 has been nullified by the approval of a military-backed
constitution and her National League for Democracy party should prepare
for a new vote in 2010.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 6, In Pakistan a
two-story apartment building collapsed in the port city of Karachi,
killing eight people, including a toddler. A suicide attacker detonated
explosives near a police station in Islamabad, killing at least 15
people and wounding dozens.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 6, In Somalia gunmen
opened fire on people leaving a mosque in Mogadishu, killing one of the
country’s senior UN officials.
(SFC, 7/7/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 6, South Korea said it
was implementing a multi-stage contingency plan aimed at reducing
energy consumption before the skyrocketing oil prices push Asia's
fourth-largest economy into a full-fledged crisis.
(Reuters, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 6, Sri Lankan fighter
jets bombed a Tamil Tiger rebel position in their northern stronghold.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 6, The United Arab
Emirates canceled all its Iraqi debt and moved to restore a full
diplomatic mission in Baghdad by naming a new ambassador.
(AP, 7/6/08)
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