Today in History - July 9
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118 Jul 9,
Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city.
(HN, 7/9/98)
455 Jul 9, Avitus, the Roman
military commander in Gaul, became Emperor of the West.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1401 Jul 9, Timur Lenk, Mongol
monarch, destroyed Baghdad.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1536 Jul 9, French navigator
Jacques Cartier returned to Saint-Malo from Canada.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1540 Jul 9, England's King Henry
VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves,
annulled.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1553 Jul 9, Maurice of Saxony was
mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating Albert of
Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1572 Jul 9, 19 Catholic priests
were hanged in Gorcum, Holland.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1595 Jul 9, Johannes Kepler
inscribed a geometric solid construction of universe.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1737 Jul 9, Gian Gastone b.1671),
the last Medici to rule Tuscany, died. With his death Florence ended
its era as an independent state. Tuscany fell to Francis of Lorraine
(later Holy Roman Emperor Francis I), husband of Maria Theresa of
Austria, in exchange for Lorraine, which went to Stanislaus I of
Poland.
(http://tinyurl.com/mylnlb)(SFEC,11/30/97, p.T3)(AM,
7/05, p.39)
1747 Jul 9, Giovanni Battista
Bononcini (76), Italian opera-composer, died.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1755 Jul 9, General Edward
Braddock was mortally wounded when French and Indian troops ambushed
his force of British regulars and colonial militia, which was on its
way to attack France's Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh). Gen. Braddock's
troops were decimated at Fort Duquesne, where he refused to accept
George Washington's advice on frontier style fighting. British Gen'l.
Braddock gave his bloody sash to George Washington at Fort Necessity
just before he died on Jul 13.
(A & IP, ESM, p.11)(HN, 7/9/98)(WSJ, 1/5/98,
p.A20)
1764 Jul 9, Ann Radcliffe,
novelist who wrote Gothic romances set in Italy, was born.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1766 Jul 9, J. Schopenhauer,
writer, was born.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1776 Jul 9, The Declaration of
Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New
York.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1776 Jul 9, New York was the 13th
colony to ratify the Declaration of Independence.
(SFC, 7/7/96, T1)
1789 Jul 9, In Versailles, the
French National Assembly declared itself the Constituent Assembly and
began to prepare a French constitution.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1790 Jul 9, The Swedish navy
captured one third of the Russian fleet at the naval battle of
Svensksund in the Baltic Sea.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1795 Jul 9, James Swan paid off
the $2,024,899 US national debt.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1797 Jul 9, Edmund Burke (b.1729),
Irish- born British statesman, parliament leader, died. His writing
included “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” 1790.
(WUD, 1994
p.198)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke)
1802 Jul 9, Thomas Davenport,
invented 1st commercial electric motor, was born.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1808 Jul 9, A leather-splitting
machine was patented by Samuel Parker of Billerica, MA.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1815 Jul 9, The 1st US natural gas
well was discovered.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1815 Jul 9, King Louis XVIII left
Ghent for France.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1816 Jul 9, Argentina declared
independence from Spain.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1819 Jul 9, Elias Howe (d.1867),
inventor of the sewing machine, was born in Spencer, Mass. Howe, a
machinist, developed his sewing machine in 1843-45 and patented it in
1846. Although Howe's machine sewed only short, straight lines, tailors
and seamstresses saw it as a threat to their jobs. Unable to market his
machine in America, Howe took it to Britain where he sold the rights to
an English manufacturer in 1847. Upon his return to the United States,
Howe discovered that his patent had been infringed upon by other sewing
machine manufacturers, such as Isaac Singer. After a lengthy court
battle, Howe's patent was upheld and royalties from sewing machine
sales made him a wealthy man.
(WUD, 1994, p.689)(HN, 7/9/99)(MC, 7/9/02)
1846 Jul 9, Captain J.B.
Montgomery raised the American flag over San Francisco. Montgomery
claimed Yerba Buena (SF) for US.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W36)(MC, 7/9/02)
1850 Jul 9, Zachary Taylor
(b.1784), the 12th president of the United States, died of cholera at
the age of 65 after serving only 16 months. He was succeeded by Millard
Fillmore. Taylor was a Southerner, a slaveholder and the hero of the
Mexican War in 1848 when he was nominated by the Whig Party as a
candidate for president of the United States. He was an inoffensive
candidate in the anxious years leading up to the Civil War because he
had never taken a position on a political issue or even cast a vote in
his life. During his 16 months as president, Congress addressed the
explosive issue of slavery's expansion to the west with the Compromise
of 1850, but Taylor himself never had the opportunity to act on this
issue.
(WUD,1994,p.1679)(SFC, 9/26/96, p.E10)(AP,
7/9/97)(HN, 7/9/98)(HN, 7/11/99)
1850 Jul 9, Bb, Bahi prophet, was
executed in Tabriz, Iran.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1856 Jul 9, Nikola Tesla,
electrical engineer, inventor (Tesla Coil), was born in Croatia.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1858 Jul 9, Franz Boas,
anthropologist, was born.
(HN, 7/9/01)
1861 Jul 9, Confederate cavalry
led by John Morgan captured Tompkinsville, Kentucky. "The Yankees will
never take me a prisoner again," vowed Confederate General John Hunt
Morgan.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1862 Jul 9, Gen. John Hunt Morgan
captured Tompkinsville, Ky.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1864 Jul 9, An informal force of
Union troops was defeated by Jubal Early at Monocacy, Maryland. Gen’l.
Lew Wallace was able to detain Confederate Lt. Gen’l. Jubal from an
early advance on Washington. Federal casualties numbered 1959 vs. 400
Confederate.
(HT, 3/97, p.66)(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/9/98)(MC, 7/9/02)
1878 Jul 9, H.V. Kaltenborn,
newscaster (Who Said That?), was born in Milwaukee, Wisc.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1878 Jul 9, An improved corncob
pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe in Washington, Mo.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1879 Jul 9, Ottorino Respighi,
composer (Pines of Rome), was born in Bologna, Italy.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1883 Jul 9, Adrien Louis Victor
Boieldieu (67), composer, died.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1887 Jul 9, Samuel Eliot Morison
(d.1976), American biographer and historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea),
was born. "If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the
Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile."
(AP, 7/4/97)(HN, 7/9/01)(MC, 7/9/02)
1892 Jul 9, A stray 500-pound
shell from the Sandy Hook, New Jersey, testing range sank the schooner
Henry R. Tilton.
(AM, 7/04, p.35)
1893 Jul 9, Daniel Hale Williams
(1858-1931), an African-American surgeon, performed successful heart
surgery on a teenager in Chicago.
(WSJ, 11/17/07, p.W11)(http://tinyurl.com/37gnkk)
1894 Jul 9, Dorothy Thompson,
journalist, writer and radio commentator, was born.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1900 Jul 9, Queen Victoria signed
The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, uniting 6 separate
colonies under a federal government, effective Jan 1, 1901.
(HN, 7/9/98)(www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/as__indx.html)
1908 Jul 9, Minor White, abstract
photographer, was born.
(HN, 7/9/01)
1916 Jul 9, Edward Heath (d.2005),
later PM of England (1970-1974, was born in Kent county.
(SFC, 7/18/05, p.B6)
1916 Jul 9, The 1st cargo
submarine to cross Atlantic arrived in US from Germany.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1917 Jul 9, British warship
"Vanguard" exploded at Scapa Flow killing 804.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1918 Jul 9, The US Distinguished
Service Cross was established by an Act of Congress.
(AP, 7/9/08)
1918 Jul 9, 101 people were killed
as an inbound local train collided with an outbound express in
Nashville, Tenn.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1926 Jul 9, Mathilde Krim,
geneticist, founder of the AIDS foundation, was born.
(HN, 7/9/01)
1926 Jul 9, Chiang Kai-shek was
appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1932 Jul 9, The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closed at 41.63, down 91% from its level exactly 3
years earlier. Trading volume for the day was 235,000 shares.
(WSJ, 10/11/08, p.W1)
1932 Jul 9, John Paul Getty II,
US-British oil magnate, billionaire (Getty Oil), was born.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1933 Jul 9, Oliver Sachs,
neurologist, was born. In 2001 he authored "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of
a Chemical Boyhood," a memoir of his years from 1943-1947.
(SFC, 7/14/96, Z1 p.3)(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.W13)
1934 Jul 9, SS-Reichs Fuhrer
Heinrich Himmler assumed command of German Concentration Camps.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1936 Jul 9, June Jordan, poet and
author, was born.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1936 Jul 9, David Joel Zinman,
composer, conductor (Balt Symphony-1983), was born in NYC.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1937 Jul 9, David Hockney,
painter, was born in Bradford, England. He moved to LA in 1978.
(HN, 7/9/01)(SFC, 8/18/01, p.B3)
1938 Jul 9, Brian Dennehy, actor
(Check is in the Mail, F/X, Cocoon, Death of a Salesman), was born in
Ct.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1938 Jul 9, Supreme Court Justice
Benjamin Cardozo died in Port Chester, NY, at age 68.
(AP, 7/9/08)
1940 Jul 9, German Evangelist
Church protested against euthanasia programs.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1942 Jul 9, Anne Frank (13), her
family and 4 other Jews went into hiding in the attic above her
father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
(HN, 7/9/01)(MC, 7/9/02)
1943 Jul 9, American and British
forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily. The 'man who never was'
pulled off one of the greatest deceptions in military history--after
his death.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1944 Jul 9, American forces
secured Saipan as the last Japanese defenses fell during WW II.
(AP, 7/9/00)
1944 Jul 9, Raoul Wallenberg, a
Swedish National Guardsman, arrived in Budapest to head the local
office of the US-sponsored War Refugee Board. He had been recruited in
June by a US Embassy official in Stockholm and sent to Nazi-controlled
Budapest under Swedish diplomatic cover. He used US funds to bribe Nazi
officials and saved over 20,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.
(SFC, 5/5/96, p.A-7)(MT, Spg. ‘99, p.18)(WSJ,
2/28/09, p.A7)
1945 Jul 9, Dean R[ay] Koontz, US
author (Star Quest, Beastchild), was born.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1945 Jul 9, A 3rd big Tillamook
fire occurred near the Salmonberry River, and was joined two days later
by a second blaze on the Wilson River, started by a discarded
cigarette. This fire burned 180,000 acres before it was put out. The
cause of the blaze on the Salmonberry River was mysterious, and many
believed it had been set by an incendiary balloon launched by the
Japanese, and brought to Oregon by the jet stream.
(http://www.fact-index.com/t/ti/tillamook_burn.html)
1947 Jul 9, The engagement of
Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1947 Jul 9, Spain voted for Franco.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1948 Jul 9, Satchel Paige (42)
debuted in majors pitching 2 scoreless inning for Cleveland.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1951 Jul 9, President Truman asked
Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and
Germany.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1953 Jul 9, The 1st helicopter
passenger service began in NYC.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1955 Jul 9, Jimmy Smits, actor
(Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, NYPD Blue), was born in Brooklyn.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1956 Jul 9, Tom Hanks, actor
(Bossom Buddies, Forrest Gump, Phila), was born in Concord, Calif.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1956 Jul 9, Fred and Pat Cody
opened Cody’s bookstore in Berkeley, Ca. In 1977 they sold the
operation to Andy Ross. In 2005 Ross planned to open a store in Union
Square, SF. In 2006 Ross sold the company to a Japanese firm. Cody’s
closed its last store in Berkeley on June 20, 2008.
(SFC, 1/7/05, p.C1)(SFC, 6/23/08, p.A7)(SFC,
6/23/08, p.A7)
1955 Jul 9, Scientists in London
issued a manifesto declaring that researchers must take responsibility
for their creations, such as the atomic bomb. Bertrand Russel, British
pacifist philosopher, drafted the manifesto, which served as the
philosophical origin for the 1997 Pugwash Conference (Nova Scotia)
against nuclear arms. It was signed by ten other scientists that
included as Joseph Rotblat (1995 Nobel Peace Prize), Albert Einstein,
Linus Pauling and Frederic Joliot-Curie.
(WSJ, 10/16/95, p. A-15)
1960 Jul 9, Khrushchev threatened
to use rockets to protect Cuba from the US.
(PC, 1992, p.973)
1965 Jul 9, Adelaide Hiebel
(b.1879), American artist, died. Many of her paintings were used for
advertising and calendar prints.
(http://tinyurl.com/lqooq3)(www.askart.com/askart/h/adelaide_hiebel/adelaide_hiebel.aspx)
1969 Jul 9, Howard Luck Gossage
(b.1917), American ad man, died of leukemia. He wrote the essays:
Understanding Marshall McLuhan, Our Fictitious Freedom of the Press,
How to Look at a Magazine and How to Look at a Billboard. In 1995 "The
Book of Gossage," ed. by Bruce Bendinger, was published by The Copy
Workshop.
(www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/fall_01/adv382j/mgautam/PAPER2/luck.html)(Wired,
Dec. '95, p.192)
1971 Jul 9, The United States
turned over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South
Vietnamese units. In 1998 Jerry Lembcke authored "The Spitting Image:
Myth, Memory and Legacy of Vietnam.
(HN, 7/9/98)(SFEC, 10/11/98, BR p.7)
1971 Jul 9, Henry Kissinger
secretly visited China and met with Premier Zhou Enlai.
(www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB66/)
1972 Jul 9, The body Kwame Nkrumah
(1909-1972), former head of Ghana (1952-1966), was returned to Nkroful,
Ghana, for burial.
(http://tinyurl.com/5e95hx)
1974 Jul 9, Earl Warren
(83), former California governor and US Chief Justice (1953-68) died in
Washington D.C. In 1997 Ed Cray authored the Warren biography "Chief
Justice." In 2006 Jim Newton authored “Justice for All: Earl Warren and
the Nation He Made.”
(AP, 7/9/99)(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A18)(SSFC, 12/3/06,
p.M3)
1975 Jul 9, California’s Governor
Jerry Brown signed a bill that reduced the penalty for possession of
marijuana to a $100 fine. The bill was sponsored by Sen. George R.
Moscone and written with the help of attorney Leo Paoli (d.1997 at 65).
(SFC, 12/27/99,
p.A10)(www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/moscone/chap3.htm)
1976 Jul 9, Uganda asked UN to
condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1976-7/1976-07-09-NBC-18.html)
1978 Jul 9, Nearly 100,000
demonstrators marched on Wash DC for ERA.
(www.now.org/issues/economic/cea/history.html)
1978 Jul 9, American Nazi Party
held a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago.
(www.skokiehistory.info/chrono/nazis.html)
1980 Jul 9, In Brazil at least 3
and as many as 7 died in a stampede to see the Pope at a stadium in
Fortaleza.
(http://tinyurl.com/36kdnt)
1980 Jul 9, Pieter Menten (81),
Dutch war criminal and art collector, was sentenced to 10 years in
prison.
(http://tinyurl.com/369gbh)(http://tinyurl.com/3xjlqp)
1982 Jul 9, A Pan Am Boeing 727
crashed in Kenner, La., killing all 145 people aboard and eight people
on the ground.
(AP, 7/9/07)
1984 Jul 9, A fire destroyed the
roof in the south transept of the 12th century York Minster. Around
£2.5 million was spent on repairs. Restoration work was completed
in 1988, and included new roof bosses to designs which had won a
competition organized by BBC Television's Blue Peter program.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Minster)(http://tinyurl.com/353gfq)
1986 Jul 9, The Attorney General's
Commission on Pornography released the final draft of its 2,000-page
report, which linked hard-core porn to sex crimes.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1987 Jul 9, In his third day of
testimony on Capitol Hill, Lt. Col. Oliver North said he had shredded
evidence as part of a planned cover-up of his role in the Iran-Contra
affair.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1988 Jul 9, Teamsters President
Jackie Presser died in Lakewood, Ohio, at age 61.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1988 Jul 9, Dog trainer Barbara
Woodhouse died in Buckinghamshire, England, at age 78.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1989 Jul 9, West German tennis
players Steffi Graf and Boris Becker won the women's and men's singles
titles at Wimbledon.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1989 Jul 9, President Bush began a
visit to Poland.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1989 Jul 9, Two bombs explode in
Mecca, killing one pilgrim, wounding 16. Saudi authorities blame
Iranian-inspired terrorists and later beheaded 16 Kuwaiti Shiite
Muslims for bombings. Iran denied involvement.
(AP, 2/1/04)
1991 Jul 9, The American League
defeated the National League, 4-to-2, in the All-Star Game in Toronto.
(AP, 7/8/01)
1991 Jul 9, Former CIA officer
Alan D. Fiers pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges in the
Iran-Contra affair.
(AP, 7/8/01)
1991 Jul 9, The International
Olympic Committee readmitted South Africa.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9, Poet Adrienne Rich
rejected the US government National Medal for the Arts award due to
radical disparities of wealth and power in America.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.A10)
1992 Jul 9, Democrat Bill Clinton
tapped Tennessee Sen. Al Gore to be his running mate.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9 The space shuttle
Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending a
two-week mission.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9 Eric Sevareid (79), CBS
news commentator, died in Washington.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1993 Jul 9, Leaders of Bosnia's
Muslim-led government rejected a plan to divide the country into three
ethnically separate republics.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1993 Jul 9, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin met with Group of Seven leaders as they concluded their
three-day summit in Tokyo.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1994 Jul 9, Members of the Group
of Seven (G-7) nations concluded their economic summit in Naples,
Italy.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1994 Jul 9, Planned talks between
North Korea and South Korea were put on hold following the death of
North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1995 Jul 9, Pete Sampras won the
men’s singles title at Wimbledon by defeating Boris Becker, 6-7 (7-5),
6-2, 6-4, 6-2.
(AP, 7/9/00)
1995 Jul 9, The Dutch in Bosnia
again asked for air support but it was refused.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1995 Jul 9, French commandos
boarded the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior Two in the South Pacific.
(AP, 7/9/00)
1996 Jul 9, The National League
won the All-Star game, defeating the American League 6-0 in
Philadelphia.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1996 Jul 9, Former Colorado Gov.
Richard Lamm began a drive for the presidential nomination of Ross
Perot's fledgling Reform Party.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1996 Jul 9, Attorney Melvin M.
Belli (b.7/29/07), King of Torts, died at 88 in San Francisco. He
authored the 5-volume work "Modern Trials," a classic on the
demonstrative method of presenting evidence.
(SFC, 7/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 9, "The Iranians: Persia,
Islam and the Soul of a Nation" by Sandra Mackey was reviewed and
panned by Abbas Milani, author of "Tales of Two Cities: A Persian
Memoir."
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.B4)
1996 Jul 9, In Chechnya the
pre-election truce was shattered and the war has resumed.
(WSJ, 7/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 9, The Bosnian
federation approved the merger of the Muslim and Croat armies.
This clears the way for the US to begin training and shipping arms to
Bosnian troops.
(WSJ, 7/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 9, Mexico City’s police
chief announced that every top official in his department was replaced
with military officers. The move was made to break up corruption and
abuse in the old "brotherhood."
(SFC, 7/10/96, p.A7)
1996 Jul 9, Turkey announced a 50%
raise for its 1.5 million civil servants.
(SFC, 7/10/96, p.A8)
1996 Jul 9-1996 Jul 10, In Rwanda
the Tutsi dominated army carried out an operation against Hutu
insurgents in Karago and Giciye villages and 62 people were killed. The
area was the home of the late Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A12)
1997 Jul 9, Boxer Mike Tyson was
banned from the ring and fined $3 million for biting opponent Evander
Holyfield's ears.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1997 Jul 9, In Hawaii medical,
insurance and pension benefits began to be allowed to any 2 adults who
could not legally marry under a law enacted to ward off homosexual
marriages.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 9, Louise Woodward failed
to respond to a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Matthew
Eappen, the baby she was convicted of killing, and this allowed a
federal court to automatically rule against her.
(www.courttv.com/trials/woodward/070998.html)
1997 Jul 9, Leaders of 16 NATO
nations met with 25 other countries in an unprecedented security summit
in Madrid, Spain.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1997 Jul 9, In Algeria Adbelkader
Hachani, Muslim fundamentalist leader, was freed hours after a court
sentenced him to 5 years in prison. He had been held without trial
since 1991 when the military voided a vote that his group was set to
win.
(WSJ, 7/10/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 9, In Cambodia some 30
opposition officials were arrested in Pray Veng Province, 13 in
Battambang, and 20 in Kompong Speu. Prince Ranariddh was in
consultation with the United Nations for support.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.E3)
1997 Jul 9, Cypriot Pres. Glafcos
Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash were scheduled to
meet in a 4-day session in New York to resolve their disputes.
(SFC, 6/12/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 9, In India half of the
Asian elephant population of 60,000 lived in an area of just 168,000
sq. miles.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A7)
1997 Jul 9, In Kenya armed police
shut down the Univ. of Nairobi and clubbed students who demanded free
and fair elections.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.C2)
1997 Jul 9, From Thailand it was
reported that elephants were dying around pineapple orchards, possibly
from chemical poisoning. Only some 500 elephants remained in the
country.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A7)
1997 Jul 9, In Venezuela a 6.7
earthquake hit the northeast coastal region and killed at least 59
people including 27 students trapped inside a collapsed school building.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.E3)(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A11)
1998 Jul 9, Congress sent
President Clinton an election-year bill overhauling the Internal
Revenue Service; Clinton said he would sign it.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1998 Jul 9, Former high school
sweethearts Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson were sentenced in
Wilmington, Del., to prison for killing their newborn son at a motel.
Grossberg received 2 1/2 years; Peterson, who cooperated with
prosecutors, got two years. Grossberg ended up serving nearly two
years; Peterson, 1 1/2 years.
(AP, 7/9/08)
1998 Jul 9, In Algeria a bomb
exploded in a flea market in Algiers and killed 10 people and wounded
21.
(SFC, 7/10/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 9, A 5.8 earthquake hit
the Azores Islands and killed 10 people and injured about a 100. Some
1000 were left homeless.
(SFC, 7/10/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 9, Nigeria’s junta
commuted the death sentence of Gen’l. Oladipyo Diya and five other men
convicted of plotting to overthrow Abacha. The rioting continued and
the death toll was raised to 60. Northern Hausa Muslims were fighting
Yorubas.
(SFC, 7/10/98, p.A14)(WSJ, 7/10/98, p.A1)(SFC,
7/11/98, p.A10)
1999 Jul 9, In LA a jury ordered
GM to pay $4.9 billion to 6 people burned when their 1979 Chevrolet
Malibu fuel tank exploded Dec 24, 1993 following a rear end collision.
In Aug a judge reduced the award to $1.2 billion. A judge later reduced
the punitive damages to $1.09 billion, while letting stand $107 million
in compensatory damages; GM continued to appeal.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A3)(AP, 7/9/00)
1999 Jul 9, In China the number of
AIDS cases was reported to have climbed past 400,000. A government
report in 2000 said 20,711 people had tested positive for AIDS with 397
having died. Health officials estimated 500,000 HIV-positive Chinese.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.C1)(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.D2)
1999 Jul 9, In Iran police and
vigilantes attacked a student rally protesting a ban of the daily Salam
in Tehran.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A10)
1999 cJul 9, In Jamaica Vivian
Blake, alleged leader of the Shower Posse, was extradited to Miami. His
gang was blamed for 1,400 murders in several US states during the 1980s.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.C10)
1999 Jul 9, In Kosovo NATO
peacekeepers identified a site in Ljubenic containing the remains of as
many as 350 victims.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A10)
2000 Jul 9, Top-seeded Pete
Sampras won his seventh Wimbledon title as he defeated Patrick Rafter,
6-7 (10), 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2.
(WSJ, 7/11/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/01)
2000 Jul 9, In Afghanistan Mary
MacMakin was arrested for violating the Taliban ban on employing women.
She led the ngo: "Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Support for
Afghanistan," (PARSA). MacMakin was released 3 days later ordered to
leave the country with accusations of spying and trying to convert
Muslims to Christianity.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A8)(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 9, In Fiji rebels signed
a deal to return their captives in exchange for an end to the country’s
multiracial democracy.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 9, Voters in Haiti cast
ballots for 44 seats of the 83-member Chamber of Deputies. Most voters
ignored the balloting and int’l. observers called the elections
"fundamentally flawed."
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A9)(WSJ, 7/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 9, In Northern Ireland
some 2000 Orange Order marchers held a peaceful march at Drumcree.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 9, In the Philippines
government troops captured the headquarters of the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front at Camp Abubakar in Maguindanao province.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 9, In Russia a bomb
attack at a food market in Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia left 5 people
dead. Another bomb in a department store at the port of Rostov-on-Don
on the Black Sea left 2 people dead.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A9)
2000 Jul 9, The 13the Int’l. AIDS
Conference convened in Durban, South Africa. Pres. Thabo Mbeki opened
the conference and insisted that poverty was a greater enemy than the
AIDS virus. Hundreds of delegates walked out.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/01)
2000 Jul 9, In Zimbabwe 12 people
died in a soccer stampede set off when police fired tear gas at
bottle-throwing fans during a World Cup qualifier between Zimbabwe and
South Africa in Harare. South Africa’s 2-0 victory over Zimbabwe was
ruled official.
(WSJ, 7/10/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/01)
2001 Jul 9, The Bush
administration announced that it opposed a UN draft to restrict the
sale of small arms. The US was the leading exporter of small arms.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 9, Wildcard entrant Goran
Ivanisevic won the men's title at Wimbledon by beating Patrick Rafter.
(AP, 7/9/02)
2001 Jul 9, In Chile an appeals
court ruled that Gen. Augusto Pinochet could not be tried on human
rights charges because of his deteriorating health and mental
condition, a ruling that effectively brought the 85-year-old former
dictator's legal troubles to an end.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A7)(AP, 7/9/02)
2001 Jul 9, In Jamaica PM
Patterson ordered the army deployed across the island to restore calm
following 3 days of violence that killed at least 28 people.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A7)(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)(SFC,
7/27/01, p.D6)
2001 Jul 9, The UN ranked Norway
as the country with the world’s highest standard of living. PM Jens
Stolenberg credited the nation’s welfare system. Norway was followed by
Australia and Canada. The US ranked 6th.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A8)
2002 Jul 9, To the boos of
disappointed fans, the All-Star game in Milwaukee finished in a 7-7 tie
after 11 innings when both teams ran out of pitchers.
(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, Speaking in New York,
President Bush called for doubled prison terms and aggressive policing
to combat fraud and corruption in corporate America.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A1)(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, The US Senate approved
a nuclear waste burial site at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. The
Senate voted to entomb thousands of tons of radioactive waste inside
Yucca Mountain, rejecting the state's fervent protests. Gov. Kenny
Guinn vowed to continue fighting the plan.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A3)(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, The Women's Health
Initiative announced that estrogen-progestin pills, taken by millions
of women as a hormone replacement therapy, do more harm than good.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 9, WWF Int'l. released
its 4th Living Planet Report and said humans are using 20% more natural
resources each year than can be regenerated.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 9, Rod Steiger (77),
actor, died. His films included "On the Waterfront" and "In the Heat of
the Night."
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 9, African leaders in
Durban, SA, launched the African Union, an ambitious new body intended
to pull the beleaguered continent out of poverty and conflict.
(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, Thousands of
unemployed Argentines, university students and labor activists marched
on the presidential palace to protest the government's failure to end
the country's deep economic crisis.
(AP, 7/9/02)
2002 Jul 9, A Palestinian gunman
opened fire on Israeli police officers just outside the walled Old City
of Jerusalem, wounding one, and a passer-by was killed in the ensuing
gunbattle.
(AP, 7/9/02)
2002 Jul 9, Philippine officials
said they had arrested a Filipino Muslim suspected of helping to
procure more than a ton of explosives for al Qaeda-linked Islamic
radicals accused of plotting to bomb U.S. targets in Singapore. A
U.S-trained Philippine soldier and an undetermined number of Muslim
rebels were killed in fierce fighting on southern Jolo island.
(Reuters, 7/9/02)
2002 Jul 9, NATO troops arrested
Radovan Stankovic (33), a former member of an elite Serb paramilitary
unit, for allegedly running a house where women and girls were raped
during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
(AP, 7/9/02)(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A8)
2003 Jul 9, Pres. Bush met with
South African President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria for discussions on
AIDS, the war on terror, trade issues and to seek common ground in
their attempts to deal with the political and economic crisis in
neighboring Zimbabwe. Pleading for patience, President Bush, continuing
his Africa tour, said the United States would "have to remain tough" in
Iraq despite attacks on U.S. soldiers. Bush said he was "absolutely
confident" in his actions despite the discovery that one claim he'd
made about Saddam Hussein's weapons pursuits was based on false
information.
(AP, 7/9/03)(SFC, 7/10/03, p.A3)(AP, 7/9/04)(AP,
7/9/08)
2003 Jul 9, Karl Rove, senior
advisor to Pres. Bush, spoke with syndicated columnist Robert Novak
about diplomat Joseph Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame. About this
same time Rove also spoke with Matthew Cooper, Time’s White House
correspondent, and mentioned Wilson and Plame. In 2006 Novak
acknowledged that 3 administration sources, including Rove and CIA
spokesman Bill Harlow, had provided him information.
(SFC, 7/16/05, p.A4)(SFC, 12/12/05, p.A3)(SFC,
7/12/06, p.A3)
2003 Jul 9, US Defense Sec.
Rumsfeld increased the estimate of military costs in Iraq to $3.9
billion a month.
(SFC, 7/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 9, The US cleared $20
million in direct aid to the Palestinians.
(WSJ, 7/10/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 9, Research was released
that said PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers), commonly used in
flame retardants, posed a health hazard.
(SFC, 7/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 9, Winston Graham (93),
author of the hugely popular Poldark novels, died in Sussex, England.
His other novels included "Marnie" (1961).
(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 9, Canada became the 1st
country in the world to start selling marijuana to several hundred
seriously ill people but said the pot project could be halted at any
time.
(Reuters, 7/9/03)
2003 Jul 9, Haiti paid $32 million
in arrears to the Inter-American Development Bank, nearly wiping out
its foreign reserves in its effort to resume frozen international loans.
(AP, 7/10/03)
2003 Jul 9, It was reported that
occupation authorities had eliminated all import taxes in Iraq and
accelerated the closure of hundreds of local factories unable to
compete with foreign goods. At the same time hundreds of millions of
dollars was pumped in as cash payments to government workers. 2 U.S.
soldiers were killed and a third wounded in separate attacks on their
convoys near Mahmudiyah and Tikrit.
(SFC, 7/9/03, p.A1)(AP, 7/10/03)
2003 Jul 9, In northwestern
Somalia 3 days of fighting among hundreds of gunmen from rival
clan-based factions killed more than 40 people and wounded 90.
(AP, 7/10/03)
2004 Jul 9, A US Senate committee
report said that flawed prewar intelligence fueled the Bush
administration position that Saddam Hussein’s regime posed a serious
threat to the US.
(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 9, An appeals court
rejected Nevada’s claim against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste
repository, but ordered leak plans beyond 10,000 years.
(WSJ, 7/12/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 9, Cpl. Wassef Ali
Hassoun (24) arrived in Germany from Lebanon, where he had turned up at
the US Embassy in Beirut a day earlier. He had been missing since June
20 from his base near the troubled Iraqi city of Fallujah. The Pentagon
announced that Hassoun would be charged with desertion, larceny and
wrongful disposition of military property in connection with his
service-issued M9 pistol that disappeared with him and never turned up.
On January 4, 2005, he was again labeled a deserter after failing to
return to his base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from authorized
leave. He was reportedly in Lebanon.
(AP, 7/10/04)(SFC, 7/9/04,
p.A1)(www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/05/hassoun.case/index.html)
2004 Jul 9, Geraldine Williams
(67) of Lowell, Mass., accepted a lump sum payment of $168 million for
her July 3 win in the $294 million lotto.
(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A2)
2004 Jul 9, Isabel Sanford (86),
actress, died Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2004 Jul 9, A U.N.-backed body
barred the Republic of Congo from the legitimate world diamond trade,
accusing it of blatantly sending millions of dollars in smuggled gems
onto the global market.
(AP, 7/10/04)
2004 Jul 9, In Egypt President
Hosni Mubarak's cabinet resigned and the longtime leader appointed
technocrat Ahmed Nazief (Nazif), a relative outsider, to replace Atef
Obeid as prime minister, further consolidating his power at a time of
growing calls for political, social and economic change. Half of the 26
regional governors were also replaced.
(AP, 7/9/04)(Econ, 7/17/04, p.47)
2004 Jul 9, In Baghdad, Iraq, 2
mortar shells targeting a hotel housing foreigners in the capital hit a
house instead, killing a child and wounding three others.
(AP, 7/9/04)
2004 Jul 9, The Int’l. Court of
Justice ruled that Israel’s separation barrier in the occupied West
Bank violates freedom of movement and should be demolished.
(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 9, Paul Klebnikov (41),
the American editor of Forbes Magazine's Russian edition and author of
a book about tycoon Boris Berezovsky, was shot to death. Klebnikov was
also the author of “Conversation with a Barbarian,” about organized
crime in Russia’s continuing war in Chechnya. In Nov. Muslim Ibragimov,
aka Kazbek Dukuzov, was arrested in Belarus. He was later extradited to
Moscow in 2005 and accused of involvement in the slaying. Russian
prosecutors later determined that Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, a former
separatist Chechen official who was the subject of a book by U.S.
journalist Paul Klebnikov, ordered the murder.
(AP, 7/9/04)(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A8)(WSJ, 2/24/05,
p.A13)(AP, 6/16/05)
2004 Jul 9, In Peru 2 passenger
buses collided head-on on a coastal highway, killing at least 36 people
and injuring two dozen.
(AP, 7/9/04)
2005 Jul 9, Pres. Bush signed the
Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005, supported by business interests, which
made it easier for companies to send out junk faxes.
(SFC, 7/13/05, p.C1)
2005 Jul 9, Minnesota Gov. Jim
Pawlenty signed a temporary spending plan and lawmakers agreed on the
outline of a 2-year budget.
(SSFC, 7/10/05, p.A3)
2006 Jul 9, A panda cub, later
named Tai Shan, was born at the National Zoo in Washington.
(AP, 7/9/06)
2005 Jul 9, It was reported the
world’s 439 nuclear reactors produce about 16% of the world’s
electricity. US reactors numbered 103 plants with capacity utilization
at over 90%.
(Econ, 7/25/05, p.59)
2005 Jul 9, Hurricane Dennis left
at least 32 people dead in the Caribbean and moved toward Pensacola,
Florida.
(SSFC, 7/10/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 9, The US military
released another batch of 76 Afghan prisoners as part of ongoing
efforts to promote national reconciliation. A purported Taliban
spokesman said that the group has beheaded a missing American commando,
but he offered no proof. The body of the commando was found the next
day.
(AP, 7/9/06)
2005 Jul 9, Suspected Taliban
gunmen ambushed an Afghani government border patrol in the desert near
the frontier with Pakistan, killing 10 soldiers and beheading their
bodies.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 9, The leader of Brazil's
governing Workers Party stepped down, the third ally of President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva to resign this week amid charges of buying votes
in Congress.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 9, In Congo DRC Rwandan
rebels burned 39 people alive, mostly women and children, when they
torched the village of Mtulumamba in eastern Congo in what some locals
said was punishment for supporting UN peacekeepers.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 9, It was reported that a
recent Internet announcement said that Ibrahim Youssef al-Shammari
would serve as official spokesman for the Islamic Army of Iraq and the
Army of the Mujahideen, 2 groups thought to be linked to the former
Baath Party.
(Econ, 7/25/05, p.39)
2005 Jul 9, Khamis Farhan Khalaf
Abd al-Fahdawi (known as Abu Seba), a senior lieutenant of al-Qaida in
Iraq, was arrested following operations in the Ramadi. He was a key
suspect in the kidnap-slaying of an Egyptian envoy and attacks on
senior diplomats from Pakistan and Bahrain.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 9, North Korea said it
will rejoin six-nation nuclear arms talks on July 25.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2005 Jul 9, The 110-ton barge left
Magadan, Russia, on a two-day journey to Okhotsk, sent out a distress
signal during severe weather, then lost communication. 6 of 10 sailors
were rescued 3 days later.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 9, In Sudan John Garang,
the former rebel leader who spent 21 years fighting Khartoum's
government, was sworn in as first vice president. Garang and Pres. Omar
el-Bashir signed into being Sudan's new constitution.
(AP, 7/9/05)(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 9, In southeastern Turkey
a land mine believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels killed 3
soldiers. Two other land mines injured seven people in separate
explosions.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2006 Jul 9, Freescale
Semiconductor, a former division of Motorola, announced the commercial
availability of a chip called Magnetoresistive random-access memory
(MRAM), which is fast to read and write and can keep data without
power. In September the Blackstone Group offered $17.6 billion for
Freescale.
(SFC, 7/10/06, p.A3)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.73)
2006 Jul 9, In Washington DC Alan
Senitt (27), a British volunteer for the potential presidential
campaign of former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner, was killed in the
Georgetown neighborhood by robbers who slashed his throat and tried to
rape his female companion. Within three hours of the attack, police
arrested and charged two men, and two other suspects surrendered a few
hours later. On May 21, 2007, Christopher Piper and Jeffery Rice
pleaded guilty to robbing and killing Alan, and committing other
robberies in the city. They were sentenced August 24, 2007, to 37 and
52 years respectively in prison.
(AP,
7/10/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Senitt)
2006 Jul 9, In Missouri 5 youths
(10-17) including 4 siblings drowned in the Meramtec River during a
church outing at Castlewood State Park. One had become caught in an
undertow and the others jumped in to help.
(SFC, 7/11/06, p.A3)
2006 Jul 9, In southern
Afghanistan a Canadian coalition officer died of wounds suffered in
fighting near an opium-rich insurgent stronghold. At least 15 militants
were killed. A coalition patrol found the bodies of 10 militants killed
in an airstrike in Panjwayi.
(AP, 7/9/06)(SFC, 7/10/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 9, Roger Federer ended a
five-match losing streak to Rafael Nadal, winning 6-0, 7-6 (5), 6-7
(2), 6-3 to earn his fourth straight Wimbledon title.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2006 Jul 9, India test-fired its
nuclear-capable Agni III missile for the first time. The missile
plunged into the Bay of Bengal short of its target. 14 more people were
reported to have died in rain-related incidents in northern India,
taking the nationwide death toll since the beginning of the monsoon
season in May to 286. Supporters of Shiv Sena, a Hindu fundamentalist
party, went on a rampage in Mumbai protesting the defacing of a statue
of Meenatai, the wife of the movement’s founder, Balasaheb Thackeray.
(AFP, 7/9/06)(AP, 7/10/06)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.39)
2006 Jul 9, Masked Shiite gunmen
stopped cars in western Baghdad and grabbed people off the streets,
singling out the Sunni Arabs among them and killing at least 42. Gunmen
killed an Iraqi intelligence officer in the Shiite city of Karbala, one
of several deadly shootings targeting security forces. Iraqi troops
launched a pre-dawn raid on Kadhimiya, a mainly Shi'ite district next
to Shula, killing nine militants and capturing seven.
(Reuters, 7/9/06)(AP, 7/9/06)
2006 Jul 9, Top officials said
Israel will push forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip until
Palestinian militants release a captured Israeli soldier and halt their
rocket attacks.
(AP, 7/9/06)
2006 Jul 9, Italy beat France 5-3
in a shootout following a 1-1 tie in the World Cup final. Zinedine
Zidane, captain of the French team, was sent off for head-butting an
Italian player.
(SFC, 7/10/06, p.A1)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.49)
2006 Jul 9, A Russian Airbus 310
passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked Siberian runway and plowed
through a concrete barrier, bursting into flames. At least 125 of 203
people on board were killed.
(AP, 7/9/06)(AP, 7/9/07)
2006 Jul 9, In Somalia 20 people
were killed in bloody fighting as Islamic fighters fought supporters of
Abdi Awale Qaybdiid, who refused to disarm.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2007 Jul 9, President Bush
directed former aides to defy congressional subpoenas, claiming
executive privilege in resisting Congress' investigation into the
firings of US attorneys.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2007 Jul 9, Alaska’s former state
Rep. Tom Anderson was convicted of taking thousands of dollars from a
corrections company consultant in exchange for his help in the
Legislature.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 9, US Sen. David Vitter,
R-La., acknowledged that he was on the list of phone records just
released by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged “D.C. Madam.”
(SFC, 7/11/07, p.A6)
2007 Jul 9, The NAACP meeting in
Detroit held a public burial for the N-word (nigger) racial slur. In
1944 the NAACP held a symbolic funeral in Detroit for Jim Crow.
(SFC, 7/10/07, p.A3)
2007 Jul 9, Northwest
Biotherapeutics, a US-based biotech company, said it had won approval
for commercial use of the world's first vaccine against brain cancer in
Switzerland.
(AFP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Researchers said a
pill developed by Pfizer to help people stop-smoking appears to also
help curb heavy drinking by targeting a pleasure center in the brain.
The drug called varenicline, began selling in the US last August under
the brand name Chantix.
(SFC, 7/10/07, p.A2)
2007 Jul 9, Novartis said the
first skin patch to treat the dementia that can plague Alzheimer's
patients has gained federal approval. The drug in the patch, called
Exelon or rivastigmine, is the same as that now available in capsule
form but provides a regular and continuous dose throughout the day.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Charles Lane (b.1905),
film actor, died in Santa Monica. He appeared in well over 250 roles on
film and TV. His final screen appearance was in the 1995 TV movie “The
Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.”
(SFC, 7/11/07, p.A2)
2007 Jul 9, Afghan troops and the
US-led coalition conducting a nighttime raid killed a Taliban leader
but also two children caught in the crossfire. An exchange of small
arms fire at an army base in Herat killed four Afghan soldiers.
(AP, 7/9/07)(Reuters, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, A London jury
convicted four Muslim militants of plotting to bomb London's public
transport system.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2007 Jul 9, Buenos Aires
experienced its first major snowfall since June, 1918.
(WSJ, 1/10/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 9, Canada announced plans
to increase its Arctic military presence in an effort to assert
sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, a potentially oil-rich region
the United States claims is international territory.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, The UN-backed Okapi
radio station said that Floribert Chui Bin Kositi, a former Congolese
rebel leader, was beaten to death in Congo’s restive eastern Kivu
region. He held a senior position in a state-run body monitoring food
imports and recently ordered a large consignment of rice to be
destroyed on the grounds that it was unfit for human consumption.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 9, The EU's top justice
official said EU citizens will be protected by the US Privacy Act under
an anti-terror deal with Washington on the sharing of trans-Atlantic
air passenger data.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 9, In India’s Chattisgarh
state an hours-long battle between police and Maoist rebels armed with
machine guns and mortars ended with the deaths of 25 rebels and 24
police. The Maoist insurgency is now spread across 13 of India's 28
states and the rebels are believed to have 10,000-15,000 fighters in an
increasingly well-armed force.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 9, In Indonesia
prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit against former dictator Suharto
(1921-2008), toppled in 1998, seeking $1.54 billion in damages and
funds allegedly stolen from the state during his 32 years in power. He
allegedly forced state banks and others to contribute millions to the
Supersemar Foundation, much of which was siphoned off to companies run
by members of his family and cronies.
(AP, 7/9/07)(Econ, 7/14/07, p.48)
2007 Jul 9, Attacks in Baghdad
killed 13 people as prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on
Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of
violence that claimed more than 220 lives. A roadside bomb exploded
near an Iraqi military bus north of Baghdad, killing 9 Iraqi soldiers
and injuring 21. British warplanes struck the southern town of al-Majar
al-Kabir near the Iranian border, killing three militants suspected of
smuggling weapons into Iraq.
(AP, 7/9/07)(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 9, An appeals court freed
Moldova's former defense minister, overturning his conviction for
abusing his position in the 1997 sale of 21 fighter planes to the
United States.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, In Nigeria gunmen
attacked two southern oil installations, kidnapping two senior Nigerian
employees of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and two foreigners.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Pakistan’s President
Gen. Pervez Musharraf gave clerics more time to persuade defiant
militants to lay down their arms and surrender a mosque they have
defended against thousands of government troops.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Poland’s PM Jaroslaw
Kaczynski fired his deputy, Andrzej Lepper, over corruption
allegations, throwing the future of Poland's conservative governing
coalition into doubt and raising the possibility of early elections.
Kaczynski also fired Sports Minister Tomasz Lipiec, of his own Law and
Justice party.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Zimbabwe police said
more than 1,300 shop owners and business managers have been arrested as
part of a crackdown on firms accused of flouting government-imposed
price controls. Thousands of students were evicted from Zimbabwe's main
university campus after they protested at the weekend against a
decision to deny them food for not paying their fees.
(AFP, 7/9/07)
2008 Jul 9, A grand jury in
Anchorage indicted Sen. John Cowdery, an Alaska legislator, on bribery
and conspiracy counts in a federal investigation of corruption that
already has led to convictions against three former state lawmakers.
Federal prosecutors allege that Cowdery conspired with executives of
oil field services company VECO Corp. to bribe another unnamed state
senator for votes to support oil and gas legislation.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 9, The California state
Board of Education voted to make algebra mandatory in the eighth grade
beginning in 2011, in order to bring the state into compliance with the
federal No Child Left Behind program.
(SFC, 7/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 9, Michigan Gov. Jennifer
Granholm signed legislation approving a compact by 8 states surrounding
the Great Lakes. Michigan was last of the 8 states to approve the
agreement, which outlaws diversions of Great lakes water from natural
drainage basins with rare exceptions.
(WSJ, 7/10/08, p.A2)
2008 Jul 9, In western
Pennsylvania the bodies of 22-year-old Ashley Guarino, her 2-year-old
daughter Dreux and 11-month-old son Orlando Jr. were found by
relatives. Orlando Maurice Guarino (38) was arrested the next day and
charged with the murders of his wife and children.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 9, It was announced that
the Abu Dhabi Investment Council had purchased a 90% stake in NYC’s
Chrysler Building for $800 million.
(WSJ, 7/10/08, p.C3)
2008 Jul 9, In northwestern
Afghanistan a group of villagers used a machine gun, sticks and stones
to kill two Taliban militants and chase 10 others away. NATO-led forces
in central Logar province killed a Taliban militant involved with
suicide bombing networks. 9 British soldiers were injured in Helmand
province when an Apache helicopter opened fire after mistaking them for
the enemy.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 9, China convicted and
then executed two ethnic Uighur men and imprisoned another 15 for
alleged terrorist links in the western region of Xinjiang.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 9, German investigators
carried out raids on 600 homes in Austria, Switzerland and Germany
seeking chemicals used to produce an illicit date-rape drug.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Grenada Tillman
Thomas, former political detainee, was sworn in as the new prime
minister.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, Iran test-fired nine
long- and medium-range missiles during war games that officials said
aimed to show the country can retaliate against any US and Israeli
attack.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Iraq a suicide
bomber killed 8 civilians in an attack on a military convoy in Mosul. A
bomb in Fallujah killed four police officers and one civilian. A bomb
killed a US soldier in Samarra. In total bombs and bullets killed 20
Iraqis.
(AP, 7/9/08)(SFC, 7/10/08, p.A7)
2008 Jul 9, In Ingushetia police
said three officers have been killed and four kidnapped in separate
attacks.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, An Israel-Hamas truce
has boiled down to a simple trade-off: For a day of calm, Israel adds
five truckloads of cows and 200 tons of cement to the barest basics it
ships to Gaza, but rocket fire from the territory reseals the border
for a day.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Italy police in
Naples arrested 44 suspected mobsters in a crackdown on drug
trafficking. The latest raids led to the confiscation of apartments,
cars, motorcycles, farmland and companies worth nearly $480 million.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Japan G8 leaders
reiterated their commitment for doubling aid to Africa by 2010 and
instituted new accountability procedures to ensure that wealthy
countries fulfill their promises of aid there. They also agreed to
combat global warming but developing nations declined o endorse
emissions targets.
(SFC, 7/10/08, p.A7)(WSJ, 7/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 9, In northern Lebanon
heavy fighting erupted between government supporters and Hezbollah's
allies, killing at least 4 people and shattering a truce that lasted
just two weeks.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, Tribal elders and
Pakistani authorities struck a deal aimed at bringing peace to a
militant-infested northwest region where a paramilitary offensive has
tried to flush out insurgents. Police captured Rafiuddin, an aide to
top commander Baitullah Mehsud, along with four associates they
traveled in a vehicle through the town of Hangu in the South Waziristan
region.
(AP, 7/9/08)(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Peru tens of
thousands of union workers took to the streets across the country to
protest rising food and fuel prices they blame on the free market
policies of President Alan Garcia.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, A Spanish patrol boat
rescued 33 people and recovered one body from the boat off the coast of
southern Almeria province. 15 African migrants, most of them small
children, died of hunger, thirst or exposure as they drifted across the
Mediterranean on the small, overcrowded boat.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Istanbul, Turkey,
men armed with pistols and shotguns attacked a police guard post
outside the US consulate, sparking a gunbattle that left 3 attackers
and 3 officers dead.
(AP, 7/9/08)(Reuters, 7/9/08)
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