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138 Jul 10,
Publius A. Hadrianus (b.76), Roman emperor (117-138), died. He was
responsible for Hadrian's Wall in Britain, begun in 122.
(www.roman-emperors.org/hadrian.htm)
552 Jul 10, Origin of Armenian
calendar.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1057 Jul 10, Lady Godiva rode
naked on horseback throughout Coventry on a dare from her husband, the
Earl of Mercia, who abolished taxation in this year.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1086 Jul 10, Knut IV, the Saint,
king of Denmark (1080-86), was murdered.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1460 Jul 10, Wars of Roses:
Richard of York defeated King Henry VI at Northampton.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1509 Jul 10, John Calvin, founder
of Calvinism, the basis for modern Protestantism, was born.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1520 Jul 10, The explorer Cortes
was driven from Tenochtitlan, Mexico, by Aztec leader Cuauhtemoc, and
retreated to Tlaxcala.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1535 Jul 10, Jacob Van Campen,
Anabaptist bishop of Amsterdam, was beheaded.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1559 Jul 10, Henry II of France
died following a wound to the head by a tournament lance on June 30.
This allegedly fulfilled a prophecy by Nostradamus. Gabriel de Lorges
de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guards, accidentally killed
Henry II as they jousted in front of the Hotel Royal des Tournelles.
The widowed queen, Catherine de Medicis (d.1589), had the royal
residence demolished.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.19)(SFEM, 3/15/98, p.16)
1584 Jul 10, William of Orange
(1533-1584), Prince of Orange (1544-1584), Count of Nassau (1559-1584),
and first stadholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, was
assassinated by Burgundian Balthasar Gerard (25) with a handgun. Philip
II of Spain had called for a volunteer assassin due to William’s
reluctance take a public stand on religious issues. William was
succeeded by his 17-year-old son, Maurice of Nassau. In 2006 Lisa
Jardine authored “The Awful End of Prince William the Silent.”
(TL-MB, 1988, p.23)(WSJ, 4/5/06, p.D8)
1609 Jul 10, The Catholic states
in Germany set up a league under the leadership of Maximillian of
Bavaria.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1627 Jul 10, English fleet under
George Villiers reached La Rochelle, France, a Huguenot stronghold.
(MC, 7/10/02)(WUD, 1994, p.808)
1679 Jul 10, The British crown
claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1690 Jul 10, Domenico Gabrielli
(39), composer, died.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1706 Jul 10, In Virginia Grace
Sherwood (d.1740), aka the Witch of Pungo, was forced to undergo a
trial by water under accusations of being a witch. She floated, a sign
of guilt, and was imprisoned for nearly 8 years. In 2006 the governor
of Virginia officially cleared her name.
(http://tinyurl.com/k42jq)(WSJ, 9/15/06,
p.A1)(http://carolshouse.com/witch/)
1723 Jul 10, William Blackstone
(d.1780), English jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries), was born in
England. He wrote that: "Husband and wife are one, and that one is the
husband." His "Commentaries on the Laws of England" were a dominant
source for the men who ratified the US Constitution.
(WUD, 1994, p.155)(SFC, 7/18/98, p.A15)(WSJ,
1/25/99, p.A19)(MC, 7/10/02)
1747 Jul 10, Persian ruler Nadir
Shah was assassinated at Fathabad in Persia. The Afghans rise rose
again in revolt under the leadership of Ahmad Shah Abdali and retook
Kandahar to establish modern Afghanistan.
(www.afghan, 5/25/98)(HN, 7/10/98)
1775 Jul 10, Gen Horatio Gates,
issued an order excluding blacks from Continental Army. [see Oct 8]
(MC, 7/10/02)
1776 Jul 10, The statue of King
George III was pulled down in New York City.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1778 Jul 10, In support of the
American Revolution, Louis XVI declared war on England.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1779 Jul 10, Alois Basil Nikolaus
Tomasini, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1797 Jul 10, 1st US frigate, the
"United States," was launched in Philadelphia.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1806 Jul 10, George Stubbs
(b.1724), British artist, died. His work included the publication
“Anatomy of the Horse” (1766).
(WSJ, 4/28/05,
p.D8)(www.abcgallery.com/S/stubbs/stubbsbio.html)
1830 Jul 10, Camille Pissarro
(d.1903), French impressionist painter, was born on the island of St.
Thomas in the West Indies. He studied as a child in Paris but spent his
early years as an artist in Caracas, Venezuela. In Paris he became a
devotee of the neo-Impressionist technique.
(WUD, 1994, p.1097)(DPCP 1984)(HN, 7/10/01)
1832 Jul 10, President Andrew
Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United
States.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1834 Jul 10, James Abbott McNeil
Whistler (d.1903), US expatriate painter famous for painting his
mother, was born.
(HN, 7/10/98)(WUD, 1994 p.1628)
1850 Jul 10, Millard Fillmore
(Whig) was sworn in as the 13th president following the death of
Zachary Taylor.
(SFC, 2/21/97, p.A25) (AP,
7/10/97)(HN, 7/10/98)
1851 Jul 10, Louis-Jacques-Mand
Daguerre, French painter (daguerreotype), died.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1862 Jul 10, Helene Schjerfbeck
(d.1946), Finnish painter, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Schjerfbeck)
1863 Jul 10-Jul 16, In the Battle
of Jackson, MS, federals captured Jackson with 1000 casualties vs. 1339
for the Confederates.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1863 Jul 10, Clement Clarke Moore
(83), (alleged author of "'Twas the Night Before Xmas"), died in NYC.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1864 Jul 10, During the siege of
Petersburg, General Ulysses S. Grant established a huge supply center,
called City Point, at the confluence of the James and Appomattox
rivers. After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate
resistance at Petersburg, Va., suddenly collapsed. Desperate to save
his army, Robert E. Lee called on his soldiers for one last miracle.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1866 Jul 10, The Indelible pencil
was patented by Edson P. Clark of Northampton, Mass.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1871 Jul 10, Marcel Proust
(d.1922), French novelist was born. His masterpiece was "Remembrance of
Things Past." In 1998 it was turned into a comic book series. In 1999
Edmund White published the biography "Marcel Proust" for the Penguin
Lives series. "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to
the full."
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.A10)(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.14)(AP,
8/2/99)(HN, 7/10/01)
1873 Jul 10, French poet Paul
Verlaine (1844-1896) wounded Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) with a pistol.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud)
1875 Jul 10, Mary McLeod Bethune
(d.1955), American educator, reformer and founder of the
Bethune-Cookman College in Florida and the National Council of Negro
Women, was born. "Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a
diamond in the rough."
(AP, 7/9/97)(HN, 7/10/98)
1882 Jul 10, Ima Hogg, Texas art
patron, founder of Houston Symphony, was born.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1890 Jul 10, Wyoming became the
44th state.
(AP, 7/10/97)(HN, 7/10/98)
1895 Jul 10, Carl Orff, composer
(Carmina Burana/Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969), was born in Munich,
Germany.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1905 Jul 10, Ivie Anderson, jazz
singer, was born.
(HN, 7/10/01)
1908 Jul 10, William Jennings
Bryan was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention
in Denver.
(AP, 7/10/08)
1913 Jul 10, A temperature of 134
degrees was recorded in Death Valley. It was the highest ever recorded
in the US.
(SFEC, 11/14/99, p.T6)(AP, 7/23/03)
1913 Jul 10, Rumania entered the
Second Balkan War and four days later the Ottoman Empire joined the
general assault on Bulgaria. Faced with four fronts, Bulgarian armies
were defeated piecemeal and the government at Sofia was forced to seek
peace. Atrocities were widespread. For example, in pursuing the
Bulgarian army Greek forces systematically burnt to the ground all
Macedonian villages they encountered, mass-murdering their entire
populations. Likewise, when the Greek army entered Kukush (Kilkis) and
occupied surrounding villages, about 400 old people and children were
imprisoned and killed. Nor did the Serbian "liberators" lag behind in
destruction and wanton slaughter throughout Macedonia. In Bitola,
Skopje, Shtip and Gevgelija, the Serbian army, police and chetniks
(guerrillas) committed their own atrocities.
(www.maknews.com/html/articles/stefov/stefov61.html)
1914 Jul 10, The Boston Red Sox
purchased Babe Ruth (19) from the Baltimore Orioles for 30 pieces of
gold.
(Hem., 4/97, p.105)(MC, 7/10/02)
1915 Jul 10, Saul Bellow, Nobel
(1976) and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and writer of Jewish
moral and social alarm (Herzog, Humboldt's Gift), was born in Montreal.
"A man is only as good as what he loves." In 2000 James Atlas authored
"Bellow: A Biography."
(AP, 9/30/98)(HN, 7/10/98)(SFEC, 10/15/00, BR
p.1)(MC, 7/10/02)
1919 Jul 10, President Wilson
personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate and urged
its ratification.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1920 Jul 10, David Brinkley
(d.2003), broadcaster, was born in Wilmington, NC.
(HN, 7/10/01)(MC, 7/10/02)
1923 Jul 10, Jean Kerr (d.2003),
playwright and author, was born in Scranton, Pa. Her later books
included "Please Don’t Eat the Daisies."
(SFC, 1/7/03, p.A22)
1924 Jul 10, Denmark took
Greenland as Norway ended its claim.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1925 Jul 10, The Scopes "Monkey
Trial," started. It was the result of a conspiracy hatched at
Robinson's Drug Store in Dayton, Tenn. John Scopes, a young high-school
teacher, was to become the test case on the legality of Tennessee's
anti-evolution law. An aging William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska
fundamentalist and politician, was the prosecutor and Clarence Darrow
was Scopes' defense attorney. Earlier in 1925, the Tennessee State
legislature had passed a law making it illegal to teach the theory of
evolution in schools. Many people believed that Darwin's theory
contradicted the idea of biblical creation. The trial, complete with
the spectacle of a cynical Darrow interrogating Bryan on the witness
stand as "an expert on the Bible," aroused national interest and caused
heated controversy over Darwin's evolution theory. Scopes was judged
guilty and fined $100, but later let off on a technicality. The trial
coverage dealt a blow to American anti-evolution forces. It was the
first trial to be broadcast by radio. Bryan died six days later.
(Nat. Hist., 4/96, p.74-76)(TMC, 1994, p.1925)(HNPD,
7/10/98)
1925 Jul 10, The official news
agency of the Soviet Union, TASS, was established.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1927 Jul 10, David Dinkins, first
African-American mayor of New York City, was born.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1931 Jul 10, Alice Munro, Canadian
writer (Open Secrets, Friend of my Youth), was born.
(HN, 7/10/01)
1933 Jul 10, Jerry Herman,
songwriter, was born.
(HN, 7/10/01)
1933 Jul 10, 1st police radio
system began operations at Eastchester Township, NY.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1938 Jul 10, Howard Hughes and the
"Yankee Clipper" began the 1st passenger flight around the world flight
from NYC. [see Jul 14]
(MC, 7/10/02)
1940 Jul 10, During World War II,
the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking
southern England by air. By October 31, Britain managed to repel the
Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses. Reginald Mitchell (1895-1937),
the designer of the Spitfire, and Sydney Camm, the designer of the
Hurricane, were both saviors. Both fighters were necessary to win the
battle. The R.A.F.’s Fighter Command began the Battle of Britain with
about 650 Hurricanes and Spitfires, and lost over 900 of same during
the course of the battle; enormous production of replacements made good
the losses to such an extent that at times during the battle, Fighter
Command had over 900 operational Hurricanes and Spitfires. In his book
"The Air War 1939-1945," Richard J. Overy wrote, ". . . the Spitfire
took two and a half times the man hours that it took to produce a
Hurricane fighter." In overall performance the Spitfire was slightly
better than the Hurricane, but the above production figures give some
clue to the Hurricane’s importance. Re the Luftwaffe heavy bomber: The
Luftwaffe had a couple of four-engine bombers, the Heinkel He-177 and
the Focke Wulf FW-200, but neither were produced in large numbers, and
neither were in the same league as the American B-17, B-24, or B-29, or
the British Lancaster. Hitler was fascinated by high-tech "super
weapons" and attempted to produce them at the expense of more
worthwhile, conventional ones. This was a guy who, when nearly everyone
else knew Germany was finished, wanted to build a 1,500-ton tank and a
long-range rocket to attack the United States!
(AP, 7/10/97)(ON, 3/07, p.2)(ExH, 3/23/98)
1940 Jul 10-1940 Oct 31, The
Battle of Britain in July-October of 1940 was an earth-shakingly
decisive campaign (not just a battle). Hermann Goering’s Luftwaffe
gathered over 2,500 combat planes for a bombing campaign that would be
a prelude to "Operation Sea Lion" (an invasion of Britain). British Air
Marshall Hugh C. Dowding’s Royal Air Force’s Fighter Command could
muster about 650 decent fighters (Hurricanes and Spitfires). The
Luftwaffe came perilously close to wearing down the R.A.F., but at
about that time, a German bomber accidentally dropped bombs on London,
Churchill bombed Berlin, and Hitler switched the Luftwaffe’s attack
from the R.A.F. to London, giving the R.A.F. a breather. The
Luftwaffe’s bombers carried too small a bomb load for a strategic
bombing campaign and were inadequately armed to defend themselves
against R.A.F. fighters. The Luftwaffe’s Me-109 fighter lacked the
range to provide sufficient escort for the bombers, which were
massacred by Hurricanes and Spitfires. The Germans knew that the
British radar installations existed, and did launch some attacks upon
them, but never realized how vital radar truly was in directing R.A.F.
fighters to intercept raiding aircraft. In 1969 the film “Battle of
Britain” starred Laurence Olivier as Hugh C. Dowding.
(ExC, JWL, 3/20/98)(WSJ, 1/9/09, p.W10)
1941 Jul 10, Jelly Roll Morton
(b.1885 as Ferdinand Joseph Le Menthe), jazz musician, died in Los
Angeles, Ca. He was a virtuoso pianist, bandleader and composer who
some call the first true composer of jazz music. Morton was a colorful
character who liked to generate publicity for himself by bragging. His
business card referred to him as the "Creator of Jazz and Swing."
He was born September 20, 1890 in the Creole of Color community in the
Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. He
took the name "Morton" by Anglicizing the name of his step-father,
Mouton. In 2003 Howard Reich and William Gaines authored "Jelly's
Blues: The Life, Music and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton." In 2005
Rounder Records released an 8-CD set titled “Jelly Roll Morton: The
Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax.”
(SFC, 5/24/03,
p.D3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton)(WSJ, 11/23/05,
p.D12)
1941 Jul 10, In Jedwabne, Poland,
some 1600 Jews were herded into a barn by the local villagers and
burned to death. In 2001 Jan Tomasz authored "Neighbors: The
Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne."
(SFC, 3/16/01, p.A16)(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A12)
1942 Jul 10, General Carl Spaatz
became the head of the U.S. Air Force in Europe.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1942 Jul 10, Himmler ordered the
sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1943 Jul 10, Arthur Ashe, first
black tennis player to win the U.S. Championship and Wimbledon, was
born.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1943 Jul 10, US and British forces
completed their amphibious landing in Sicily in Operation Husky.
(AP, 7/10/97)(HN, 7/10/01)(MC, 7/10/02)
1945 Jul 10, U.S. carrier-based
aircraft began airstrikes against Japan in preparation for invasion.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1947 Jul 10, Camilla Parker
Bowles, lover of Prince Charles, was born.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1947 Jul 10, Arlo Guthrie, singer
(Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans), was born in Brooklyn.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1947 Jul 10, Orenthal James
Simpson (OJ Simpson), football star, acquitted in trial for the murder
of his ex-wife, was born.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1949 Jul 10, 1st practical
rectangular TV tube was announced in Toledo, Oh.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1950 Jul 10, "Your Hit Parade"
premiered on NBC (later CBS) TV.
(www.bookrags.com/history/popculture/your-hit-parade-sjpc-05)
1951 Jul 10, In San Francisco
Dashiell Hammett, mystery writer, was sentenced to 6 months in prison
for refusing to tell where the Communist party got its bail money.
(SFC, 7/6/01, WBb p.8)
1951 Jul 10, In London, England,
Randolph Turpin (1928-1966), a black British boxer, defeated world
champion Sugar Ray Robinson. Turpin lost a rematch 64 days later in NY.
(SSFC, 10/28/07, p.M3)(http://tinyurl.com/2sxhce)
1951 Jul 10, Armistice talks aimed
at ending the Korean conflict began at Kaesong.
(AP, 7/10/97)(HN, 7/10/98)
1953 Jul 10, American forces
withdrew from Pork Chop Hill in Korea after heavy fighting.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1953 Jul 10, In San Francisco The
Chronicle newspaper began calling itself “The Voice of the West” on its
editorial pages. It adopted the name for Page One on August 9, 1953.
(SSFC, 6/7/09, p.W3)
1953 Jul 10, Pravda reported that
Lavrenti P. Beria, Stalin's ruthless chief of intelligence and member
of the Soviet Presidium (1899-1953), had been ousted and arrested. [see
Jun 26]
(WUD, 1994, p.1685)(MC, 7/10/02)
1954 Jul 10, Pres. Eisenhower
signed Public Law 480, the Agricultural Trade Development and
Assistance Act of 1954, which later became known as the “Food for
Peace” program.
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r103:H10MY4-223:)(WSJ, 10/26/05,
p.A1)
1956 Jul 10, 650,000 US steel
workers went on strike.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1958 Jul 10, A largest tsunami on
record was caused by the fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into
Lituya Bay, Alaska, following a local earthquake. The wave washed 500
meters up a mountain on the opposite shore.
(CW, Spring ‘99, p.30)
1962 Jul 10, Martin Luther King
Jr. was arrested during a demonstration in Georgia.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1962 Jul 10, The communications
satellite Telstar, developed by Bell Labs, was launched from Cape
Canaveral, Florida, beaming live television from Europe to the United
States.
(AP, 7/10/97)(HN, 7/10/98)(WSJ, 8/21/06, p.A2)
1971 Jul 10, In Morocco a coup
against King Hassan at the Skhirat palace failed. Nearly 100 guests
were killed. The coup leaders were executed three days later. The army
officers were angered by Hassan's abandonment of thousands of square
miles in an Algerian border war.
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)(SFEC,
7/25/99, p.A19)
1972 Jul 10, During an extended
drought a herd of stampeding elephants killed 24 in the Chandka Forest
of India.
(http://tinyurl.com/3bppys)
1973 Jul 10, The Bahamas became
independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 7/10/97)
1973 Jul 10, Italian Red Brigades
kidnapped and held hostage Jean Paul Getty III (b.1956), nephew of
Gordon Getty. Only after his ear was chopped off and sent to a Rome
paper did his father J. Paul, agree to lend money for a ransom. Getty
senior negotiated a deal and got his grandson back for about $2
million. Paul III was permanently affected by the trauma, and became a
drug addict.
(SFC, 1/8/95,
p.7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty)
1974 Jul 10, The World Football
League played its first games.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Football_League)
1976 Jul 10, There was an
explosion at a factory in Seveso, Lombardy, Italy, owned by ICMESA with
a Swiss parent company. It produced a cloud of Dioxin which settled
over several adjacent communities. The people exposed became
nauseated, experienced eye and throat irritations, developed burn-like
sores on exposed skin, headaches, dizziness and diarrhea -- the same
symptoms recorded by exposed Vietnamese and Cambodian
populations. In the next two days, small animals in the area
began to die. The contamination led to a high incidence of birth
defects.
(www.theveteranscoalition.org/educational_material/agent_orange.htm)(WSJ,2/12/97,
p.A8)
1978 Jul 10, ABC-TV premiered
“World News Tonight” with anchors Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings and
Max Robinson.
(www.museum.tv/archives/etv/J/htmlJ/jenningspet/jenningspet.htm)
1978 Jul 10, John D. Rockefeller
III (b.1906), US billionaire and philanthropist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller_3rd)
1978 Jul 10, In Mauritania Col.
Mustapha Ould Salek overthrew Pres. Moktar Ould Daddah.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1979 Jul 10, Conductor Arthur
Fiedler, who had led the Boston Pops orchestra for a half-century, died
in Brookline, Mass., at age 84.
(AP, 7/10/99)
1980 Jul 10, "True West" by Sam
Shepard premiered in SF and became a stage hit. It was a comic drama of
fraternal rivalry and family angst.
(SFC, 7/10/97,
p.E3)(www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/true_west.html)
1981 Jul 10, Isabel Peron,
ex-president of Argentina, flew in exile to Spain after being paroled
following conviction for corrupt practices.
(http://tinyurl.com/3bygk7)
1982 Jul 10, Pope John Paul II
named Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati to succeed the late
Cardinal John Cody as head of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
(AP, 7/10/02)
1985 Jul 10, Bowing to pressure
from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Company said it would resume
selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke.
(AP, 7/10/00)
1982 Jul 10, Maria Jeritza
[Jedlicka] (b.1887), Moravia-born-US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), died
in New Jersey.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jeritza)
1985 Jul 10, Bowing to pressure
from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Company said it would resume
selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke.
(AP, 7/10/00)
1985 Jul 10, French security
forces sank the Rainbow Warrior, a ship operated by Greenpeace near NZ.
Fernando Pereira, a Dutch photographer, was killed in the sinking.
(SFC, 5/7/99, p.A14)(AP, 7/9/05)
1985 Jul 10, A Soviet Tu-154
crashed in Uzbekistan and all 200 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01,
p.A10)(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19850710-0)
1987 Jul 10, Lt. Col. Oliver North
told the Iran-Contra committees that the late CIA director William J.
Casey had embraced a fund created by arms sales to Iran because it
could be used for secret operations other than supplying the Contras.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1988 Jul 10, Lester Garnier (30),
an off-duty SF vice cop, was shot and killed in a Walnut Creek, Ca.,
parking lot. His murder remained unsolved and a new investigation was
begun in 1998. Sgt. Robert Guinan allegedly spread rumors that
Inspector Vince Repetto was responsible. Repetto sued the police dept.
In 2008 Walnut creek police identified Catherine Kuntz (44) of Florida
as a prime suspect in the murder. Kuntz was deported to Scotland in Dec
2008.
(SFC, 5/21/98, p.A1)(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A17)(SFC,
6/4/08, p.A1)(SFC, 2/2/09, p.A11)
1988 Jul 10, Opposition party
activists in Mexico blocked a bridge linking their country to the
United States, charging that Mexico's recent presidential election was
marked by widespread fraud.
(AP, 7/10/98)
1989 Jul 10, Mel Blanc (81), the
"man of a thousand voices," including such cartoon characters as Bugs
Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester and Tweety, Tazmanian Devil,
Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner, died in Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/10/99)(SFC, 1/16/03, p.A19)
1990 Jul 10, The American League
shut out the National League, 2-to-0, in the 61st All-Star game.
(AP, 7/10/00)
1990 Jul 10, Mikhail S. Gorbachev
handily won re-election as leader of the Soviet Communist Party.
(AP, 7/10/00)
1991 Jul 10, President Bush lifted
economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its "profound
transformation" toward racial equality.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1991 Jul 10, President Bush
announced he was appointing Alan Greenspan to a second term as Federal
Reserve chairman.
(AP, 7/10/01)
1991 Jul 10, Boris N. Yeltsin took
the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian
republic.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1992 Jul 10, A federal judge in
Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, convicted of
drug and racketeering charges, to 40 years in prison. However, a
judge in March, 1998, cut Noriega's sentence by ten years,
meaning he could be eligible for parole in 2000.
(WSJ, 3/28/96,p.A-1)(AP, 7/10/99)
1992 Jul 10, A New York jury found
Pan Am responsible for allowing a terrorist bomb to destroy Flight 103
in 1988, killing 270 people.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1992 Jul 10, The European Space
Agency photographed the nucleus of Haley’s Comet.
(SFC, 10/2/07, p.A6)
1993 Jul 10, President Clinton
ended his visit to Japan, then traveled to South Korea, where in a
speech to the National Assembly he denounced communist North Korea for
raising the specter of "nuclear annihilation."
(AP, 7/10/98)
1993 Jul 10, Kenyan runner Yobes
Ondieki became the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27
minutes.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1994 Jul 10, In the first meeting
of its kind, Russian President Boris Yeltsin joined leaders of the
Group of Seven nations for political talks following their annual
economic summit in Naples, Italy.
(AP, 7/10/99)
1995 Jul 10, President
Clinton embraced mandatory ratings for TV programs and legislation to
put parental-control chips in new sets.
(AP, 7/10/00)
1995 Jul 10, The defense opened
its case at the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/10/00)
1995 Jul 10, In Burma Aung San
Suu Kyi was released after six years of house arrest. She later charged
that the military regime doesn't want democratic reform.
(SFC, 5/22/96, p.C-1)(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-1)
1996 Jul 10, Ross Perot said on
CNN he would make a second run for president if nominated by the Reform
Party, putting him in contention with former Colorado Gov. Richard
Lamm, who'd announced his candidacy the day before.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1996 Jul 10, In a tough speech to
Congress laying out conditions for Mideast negotiations, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that Syria and the Palestinians
stop terrorists from attacking Israel.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1997 Jul 10, President Clinton,
visiting Poland, told a Warsaw square filled with cheering Poles that
"never again will your fate be decided by others." He announced a
successful drive to bring Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into
NATO by 1999.
(AP, 7/10/98)
1997 Jul 10, RJR Nabisco Holdings
said it would phase out the Joe Camel cartoon character used for
advertising their cigarettes.
(WSJ, 7/11/97, p.B1)
1997 Jul 10, The DNA from the arm
bone of Neanderthal man found in 1856 was found to represent a separate
human species. Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal
skeleton supported a theory that all humanity descended from an
"African Eve" 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A1)(AP, 7/10/98)
1997 Jul 10, In Bosnia in
Operation Tango NATO forces captured Milan Kovacevic, a physician who
was the 2nd ranking officer in the Prijedor City Hall during the war.
An attempt to capture Simo Drljaca, a leader of local "ethnic
cleansing" led to a shootout and his death.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A17)
1997 Jul 10, In Britain thousands
of rural people showed up at Hyde Park to defend the sport of fox and
deer hunting. A bill to ban the hunting of foxes, deer, hares and mink
with dogs was being considered.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 10, ASEAN foreign
ministers voted to suspend Cambodia’s membership. The US announced a
3/4 reduction of staff and some aid. More than 50 people were dead
after 2 days of fighting.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A12)
1997 Jul 10, In the Central
African Republic Pres. Patasse reconciled with 300 mutinous soldiers.
(WSJ, 7/11/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 10, Paramilitary police
suppressed protests in Mianyang city in Sichuan province where more
than 100,000 unemployed textile workers demanded government assistance
and accused local officials of stealing their unemployment funds.
(SFC, 7/18/97, p.A12)
1997 Jul 10, In Northern Ireland
the Orange Order canceled plans to march through Catholic neighborhoods
in 2 main cities over the weekend.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 10, A mudslide in Izumi
on Kyushu island, Japan, killed 21 people and injured 14.
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.C1)
1997 Jul 10, In Papua New Guinea
Gen’l. Jerry Singirok, leader of the March revolt against prime
minister Chan, was decommissioned. Elections were completed and a new
government was to be announced at the end of the month.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 10, Torrential rains in
Poland and the Czech Republic killed at least 39 people and forced
thousands from their homes.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 10, In Switzerland a 3
year pilot heroin distribution program was declared a success.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A14)
1998 Jul 10, Bringing to a close
one of the biggest sex scandals ever to hit the Roman Catholic Church,
the Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar
boys who said they had been molested by a priest.
(AP, 7/10/99)
1988 Jul 10, Lester Garnier (30),
an off-duty SF vice cop, was shot and killed in a Walnut Creek parking
lot. His murder remained unsolved and a new investigation was begun in
1998. Sgt. Robert Guinan allegedly spread rumors that Inspector Vince
Repetto was responsible. Repetto sued the police dept. In 2008 Walnut
creek police identified a woman possibly involved in the murder.
(SFC, 5/21/98, p.A1)(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A17)(SFC,
6/3/08, p.B1)
1998 Jul 10, Police in England and
Ireland arrested 9 people and thwarted a plot to bomb central London.
The arrested were members of the 32 County Sovereignty Committee, a
hard-line dissident Catholic group opposed to the peace settlement that
was led by Bernadette Sands. Her husband, Michael McKevitt, was the
reputed leader of the Real IRA.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A1)(SFC, 8/18/98, p.A8)(SFC,
8/20/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 10, Serbian soldiers
killed four Albanian arms smugglers and seized anti-tank mines.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A11)
1998 Jul 10, In South Africa 8
people were gunned down in the Kwa-Zulu-Natal town of Richmond. Pres.
Mandela spoke out against the police after another 15 were killed with
no arrests. 40 people had been killed since May.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A8)(SFC, 7/28/98, p.A8)
1999 Jul 10, In Pasadena the US
women won the Women's World Cup in soccer against the team from China
in a 5-4 kick-off following a 0-0 tie after double overtime.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 10, In Colombia the
government declared a dawn-to-dusk curfew across over 30% of the
country as guerrillas attacked security forces, raided 15 towns and
bombed energy infrastructure. 64 guerrillas, 6 civilians and 3
policemen were reported killed in the last 24 hours.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A19)
1999 Jul 10, In Northern Ireland
the Parades Commission reversed a previous ban and gave the Protestant
Orange Order permission to gather at Ormeau Park on July 12 after the
parade route was altered.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A24)
1999 Jul 10, In India the prime
minister said most of the Pakistani soldiers had been cleared out of
the Indian side of Kashmir.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A26)
1999 Jul 10, In Iran some 25,000
gather to protest against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A17)
1999 Jul 10, In Nigeria clashes
began between the Yorubas, mostly Christians, and Hausas, northern
Muslims, that left at least 60 people dead in the southwestern city of
Sagamu.
(SFC, 8/24/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 10, In Zambia 5 nations
involved in the Congo civil war signed a peace accord.
(SFC, 8/2/99, p.A12)
2000 Jul 10, Pres. Clinton moved
to establish an 84 million gallon stockpile of heating oil for the
Northeast.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A7)
2000 Jul 10, Texas Governor George
W. Bush, facing a skeptical audience, told the NAACP convention in
Baltimore that "the party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle
of Lincoln," and promised to work to improve relations.
(AP, 7/10/01)
2000 Jul 10, Justin Pierce (25),
actor, committed suicide by hanging himself in hotel room of the
Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. His last movie, Looking for
Leonard (2002), was not released until two years after his death
because production had been halted due to lack of funds. His character
subsequently disappeared from the film without explanation. He was born
March 21, 1975 in Paddington, London, England.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0682399/)
2000 Jul 10, DASA (minus MTU)
merged with Aerospatiale-Matra of France and Construcciones
Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) of Spain to form the European Aeronautic
Defence and Space Company (EADS). DASA was founded as Deutsche
Aerospace AG on May 19, 1989 by the merger of Daimler-Benz's aerospace
interests (MTU, Dornier and two divisions of AEG). In July 1989 the two
AEG divisions were themselves merged within Deutsche Aerospace to form
Telefunken Systemtechnik (TST). In December 1989 Daimler-Benz acquired
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) and merged it into DASA.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASA)
2000 Jul 10, In Israel Pres. Ezer
Weizman resigned following his alleged improper acceptance of $453,000
from Edouard Sarousi, a French textile magnate.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A9)(AP, 7/10/01)
2000 Jul 10, In Kosovo an Albanian
boy (5) was killed when an American soldier’s rifle discharged
accidentally.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 10, In Mexico Augustin
Vasquez Mendoza was arrested in Tehuacan. In 2005 he was extradited
from Mexico to the United States to stand trial for his role in the
murder of DEA Special Agent Richard Fass in Glendale, Arizona, on June
30, 1994.
(SFC, 7/11/00,
p.A10)(http://crime.about.com/b/a/145527.htm)
2000 Jul 10, In Nigeria over 100
people, many of them children, were burned to death after a damaged
gasoline pipe exploded near the villages of Adeje and Oviri-Court in
the Niger Delta. The toll was later raised to 200.
(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A8)(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 10, In the Philippines a
garbage dump in Quezon City, a Manila suburb, collapsed and burst into
flames. At least 124 people were killed in the Lupang Pangako
shantytown at the Payatas dump. The camp was called the Promised Land.
200 were feared to have died.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A14)(WSJ, 7/111/00, p.A1)(SFC,
7/12/00, p.A10)(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A24)
2000 Jul 10, In Russia Oleg
Belonenko, director of the Uralmashzadov machine-tool manufacturing
operation, was killed by 2 gunmen in Yekaterinburg.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 10, In Togo UN Sec. Gen.
Kofi Annan opened a summit conference of the Organization of African
Unity.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A12)
2001 Jul 10, In Seattle the
American League beat the National League 4:1 in the annual All-Star
game at Safeco Field.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 10, The White House
backed off a plan to let religious groups that receive federal money,
such as the Salvation Army, ignore local laws that ban discrimination
against gays and lesbians.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2001 Jul 10, George Tenet,
director of the CIA, allegedly met with Condoleeza Rice and warned her
of an imminent al-Qaida attack. News of the meeting was only made
public in 2006.
(SFC, 10/2/06, p.A4)
2001 Jul 10, For the second time
in a month, a jury in New York rejected the death penalty for one of
the men convicted in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa,
opting instead for life in prison without parole.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2001 Jul 10, Kenneth Williams, an
FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, issued a memorandum that requested
detailed examination of US flight schools for al Qaeda terrorists.
Mid-level officials rejected the request. [see Jul 5]
(SFC, 5/22/02, p.A18)
2001 Jul 10, In North Carolina 3
Marines were killed in a helicopter crash near Camp Lejeune.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A5)
2001 Jul 10, In England police
confronted white and South Asian gangs in a 3rd night of racial
violence in Bradford.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 10, Protestant militants
withdrew support for the Northern Ireland peace accord.
(WSJ, 7/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 10, Israel destroyed at
least 10 Palestinian structures in Rafah in the Gaza Strip and ignited
a fierce gun battle.
(WSJ, 7/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 10, In Kashmir 25 people
were killed as India pressed an offensive against Islamic insurgents.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 10, In Jedwabne, Poland,
Pres. Kwasniewski apologized for a wartime massacre of Jews.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 10, The South Africa
government ordered the demolition of shacks on the squatter occupied
land in Bredell. 1-2 thousand shacks were expected to be destroyed.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A15)
2001 Jul 10, In Madrid, Spain, a
policeman was killed by a bomb. Basque rebels were blamed.
(WSJ, 7/12/01, p.A1)
2002 Jul 10, A unified US Senate
approved harsh new penalties for corporate fraud and document-shredding
as part of an accounting oversight bill. The House approved, 310-113, a
measure to allow pilots to carry guns in the cockpit to defend their
planes against terrorists. President George W. Bush later signed the
measure into law.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2002 Jul 10, The Dow Jones fell
282 to 8,813.5 and Nasdaq closed down 35 to 1,346.
(SFC, 7/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 10, The first summit of
the African Union ended with lofty promises of a new era of economic
development and good government on a continent plagued by poverty and
oppression.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2002 Jul 10, It was reported that
Britain planned to downgrade marijuana possession to a Class C crime.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 10, In Cyprus a military
helicopter crashed during a nighttime training exercise, killing the
commander of the east Mediterranean island's military and the air force
chief. Two crew members and a navy officer on board were also killed.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2002 Jul 10, Palestinian gunmen
shot and killed an Israeli army lieutenant on patrol in the southern
Gaza Strip, and Israeli troops fatally shot a 19-year-old Palestinian
in the West Bank.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2002 Jul 10, In the Russian Baltic
enclave of Kaliningrad a man was killed when a sign with an offensive
slogan exploded as he tried to remove it from a park.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2002 Jul 10, Two people were
hacked to death and a police station was overrun by armed tribesmen who
stole ballot boxes and freed prisoners in the latest election-related
violence in Papua, New Guinea.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2003 Jul 10, Pres. Bush met with
Pres. Festus Mogae in Botswana. Bush said that AIDS is "the deadliest
enemy Africa has ever faced" and pledged to the nation with the world's
highest AIDS infection rate that it would have a strong partner in his
administration in fighting the disease.
(SFC, 7/10/03, p.A8)(AP, 7/10/08)
2003 Jul 10, The oldest planet
ever detected is nearly 13 billion years old and more than twice the
size of Jupiter, locked in orbit around a whirling pulsar and a white
dwarf located near the heart of a globular star cluster some 5,600
light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius.
(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 10, In Burundi recent
fighting left an estimated 170 people killed according to a UN
estimate. 6,000 to 7,000 others had been forced to flee their homes.
(AP, 7/12/03)
2003 Jul 10, Cuba signed an
operating agreement with the Port of Corpus Christi, an agreement that
could help erode the long-standing US embargo of the island.
(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 10, Lord Shawcross (101),
Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg,
died in Cowbeech, England.
(AP, 7/10/04)
2003 Jul 10, Framers of the
European Union's first constitution finalized their draft charter but
failed to settle differences over how much power national governments
would cede to Brussels.
(AP, 7/10/03)
2003 Jul 10, Unemployment in
Germany was reported to be around 11% with social spending close to 30%
of the gross domestic product.
(WSJ, 7/10/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 10, In Hong Kong a
double-decker bus collided with a truck and plunged off a bridge,
killing 21 people and injuring 20 more.
(AP, 7/10/03)
2003 Jul 10, In the southern
Philippines a bomb exploded in a crowded market, killing at least three
people and injuring 26 others, including many children.
(AP, 7/10/03)
2003 Jul 10, Spain's Pres. Aznar
began a visit to 3 US states, California, New Mexico and Texas, to
promote trade and cultural connections.
(SFC, 7/11/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 10, Spain unveiled its
first mosque since 1492 when the Moors were expelled.
(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 10, In southeastern
Turkey suspected Kurdish rebels raided a village, killing four
villagers and injuring another.
(AP, 7/11/03)
2004 Jul 10, President Bush said
in his weekly radio address that legalizing gay marriage would redefine
the most fundamental institution of civilization, and that a
constitutional amendment was needed to protect traditional marriage.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2004 Jul 10, In Iraq US Marines
clashed with insurgents in Ramadi, a city known as a stronghold of
Saddam Hussein supporters, killing 3 of the attackers and wounding 5
others. Saboteurs attacked a natural gas pipeline that feeds into a
northern power station.
(AP, 7/10/04)
2004 Jul 10, Four U.S. Marines
were killed in a vehicle accident while conducting security operations
in Anbar, an area of western Iraq.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 10, In northwest Colombia
suspected leftist guerrillas shot and killed seven rural peasants in an
attack on a small village.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2004 Jul 10, Maria de Lourdes
Pintasilgo (74), the only woman to serve as Portugal's prime minister
(1979), died of heart failure.
(AP, 7/10/04)
2004 Jul 10, Sudan, under
international pressure to take action to end the humanitarian crisis in
Darfur, agreed with Chad to deploy a joint force along their troubled
border.
(AFP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 10, In northern Yemen 5
policemen were killed as security forces continued an offensive against
followers of a Shiite dissident, firing missiles on the militant's
mountain hideout.
(AP, 7/10/04)
2005 Jul 10, Police in LA killed
Jose Raul Pena (34) as well as Susie Marie Lopez (19 months) as Pena
fired at police while holding the child.
(SFC, 7/12/05, p.A3)
2005 Jul 10, Hurricane Dennis
swamped homes, ripped off roofs and felled power lines and trees when
it hurtled into northwest Florida and Alabama with 120-mph (190-kph)
winds. The storm left at least 16 dead in Haiti. Dennis killed at least
16 people in Cuba, damaged or destroyed 15,000 homes and caused an
estimated $1.4 billion in property damage. Dennis killed at least 62
people, the majority in the Caribbean.
(Reuters, 7/11/05)(WSJ, 7/11/05, p.A1)(AP,
7/12/05)(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 10, In Mississippi 2
Canadian National Railroad freight trains collided outside Bentonia and
4 crewmen were killed.
(WSJ, 7/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 10, In eastern
Afghanistan the body of a missing US commando was located in Kunar
province. The location and disposition of the service member's remains
indicate he died while fighting off enemy terrorists on or about June
28.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 10, In Britain a
Pakistani man was killed in a suspected racial attack in the central
city of Nottingham.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 10, In Canada 2 small
biplanes simulating a World War I dogfight collided at an air show in
Saskatchewan, killing both pilots instantly.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 10, China said torrential
rains in the southwest have killed 65 people over the past two weeks
and forced more than 428,000 to flee their homes in flood-prone areas.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 10, Vidal Cerrato (63), a
former vice president of Honduras (1998-2001) and a representative of
the Central American Parliament, died.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 10, In India suspected
Naga rebels bombed an army convoy, killing two soldiers and critically
wounding six others in Manipur.
(Reuters, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 10, In Iraq Abdullah
Ibrahim Mohammed Hassan al Shadad (or Abu Abdul Aziz), another al-Qaida
in Iraq lieutenant, was captured.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 10, A man strapped with
explosives blew himself up at an Iraqi military recruiting center in
Baghdad killing 25 people. 2 US Marines were killed by indirect fire in
Hit. 4 insurgents were killed in Tal Afar. 2 suicide car bombers killed
at least 7 Iraqi customs officials along the Syrian border. 8 members
of a Shiite family, including a 2-year-old, were shot to death in their
sleep. The father suspected it was a sectarian crime. The body of
kidnapped Iraqi karate association chief Ali Shakir was found floating
in the Tigris river southeast of Baghdad. An Iraqi commando brigade
detained 10 Sunnis, who were later found tortured and suffocated in a
container. Attacks left over 50 people dead.
(AP, 7/10/05)(SFC, 7/11/05, p.A1)(SFC, 7/12/05, p.A3)
2005 Jul 10, Kyrgyzstan held
presidential elections. With more than three-quarters of the ballots
counted from 95 percent of the districts, Kurmanbek Bakiev (Bakiyev)
received nearly 89 percent of the vote. He had teamed up with Felix
Kulov, his most serious rival, by promising him the position of prime
minister.
(AP, 7/11/05)(Econ, 7/16/05, p.39)
2005 Jul 10, Luxembourg voters
ratified the EU’s proposed constitution referendum.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 10, In Northern Ireland
police using a steel barricade prevented Protestant hard-liners from
parading through the main Catholic section of Portadown.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 10, Puerto Ricans voted
to do away with half their lawmakers, endorsing a referendum for a
one-house legislature.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 10, In Sri Lanka 4 Tiger
rebels were killed at their LTTE office in Trimcomalee, despite a
ceasefire. Violence in the area quickly escalated. The government
denied responsibility for the attack.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 10, Sudan's new
presidency on Sunday lifted the state of emergency in Sudan, except in
the conflict-torn regions of Darfur and the east.
(Reuters, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 10, On Turkey's Aegean
coast a bomb exploded in a popular resort town of Cesme, wounding about
20 people, including two foreign tourists.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2006 Jul 10, A US presidential
commission urged Washington to spend $80 million to help
nongovernmental groups hasten change in Cuba, but some dissidents here
said the move would do them more harm than good.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, Colorado Gov. Bill
Owens cut a deal with Democratic leaders on a package of bills to deny
some state services to illegal immigrants and to punish employers who
hire them.
(SFC, 7/12/06, p.A8)
2006 Jul 10, In Berkeley, Ca.,
Cody’s flagship bookstore on Telegraph Ave. opened and closed for the
last time, one day after celebrating its 50th anniversary. Its last
store on Shattuck Ave. closed in 2008.
(SFC, 7/10/06, p.B1)(SFC, 6/23/08, p.A7)
2006 Jul 10, In NYC a four-story
townhouse collapsed and burned in an apparent gas explosion after what
witnesses described as a thunderous explosion that rocked the
neighborhood just off Madison Avenue. Dr. Nicholas Bartha (66), owner
of the building, was pulled alive from the rubble. He had recently lost
a $4 million judgement in a divorce case. Bartha died from his wounds
on July 15.
(AP, 7/10/06)(SFC, 7/11/06, p.A4)(AP, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 10, Falling concrete
slabs crushed a car inside one of Boston's troubled Big Dig tunnels,
killing Milena Delvalle (38) and tying up traffic with another shutdown
in the massive building project that has become a central route through
the city. In 2007 the family of Delvalle reached a $6 million
settlement with the epoxy supplier blamed for the accident. In 2008 the
family settled a wrongful death suit for over $28 million.
(AP, 7/11/06)(SFC, 7/12/06, p.A5)(SFC, 12/26/07,
p.A4)(SFC, 10/1/08, p.C5)
2006 Jul 10, Kraft Foods Inc., the
No. 1 US food company, said it will pay about $1.07 billion to acquire
the Spanish and Portuguese units of United Biscuits and reclaim the
rights to Nabisco trademarks in the European Union, Eastern Europe, the
Middle East and Africa.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, Afghan and US-led
coalition forces killed more than 40 suspected Taliban militants as a
warplane dropped 500-pound bombs on a militant compound in Uruzgan
province. Britain announced it would send 900 more soldiers to southern
Helmand province.
(AP, 7/10/06)(SFC, 7/11/06, p.A6)
2006 Jul 10, Fred Wander (b.1917),
writer and Holocaust survivor, died in Vienna. His 1970 novel, “The
Seventh Well,” describes his survival. The German edition was
translated to English in 2007.
(SFC, 12/11/07,
p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wander)
2006 Jul 10, Bolivia's education
minister called for an end to religious education in the country's
schools, drawing criticism from the Roman Catholic Church which could
see its schools affected by the proposed change.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, Britain unveiled a $6
million program to replace Belfast's towering paramilitary wall murals
in the most hard-line Protestant areas with more positive, less
threatening art works.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, Chechen warlord
Shamil Basayev (41) was killed in Ingushetia. He had claimed
responsibility for modern Russia's worst terrorist attacks including
Beslan in 2004. He was killed along with 4 other militant while
accompanying a truck filled with 220 pounds of dynamite that blew up in
the Ingush village of Ekazhevo. Shortly before his death he was
appointed vice-president of Ichkeria, the rebel’s name for their
non-existent state.
(AP, 7/10/06)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.84)
2006 Jul 10, The government of
Colombia announced that it was nominating Ernesto Samper as ambassador
to France. This sparked outrage among many Colombians and allies in
Washington in the war on drugs. In a statement, Pres. Uribe said Samper
had declined the France ambassadorship so as not to harm Colombia's
national interests.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 10, Nobel laureate Jose
Ramos-Horta was sworn in as PM of East Timor in a move aimed at ending
months of political uncertainty and street violence.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, In Honduras a bus
with failing brakes slammed into the back of another bus on the
outskirts of Tegucigalpa, killing 15 people and injuring more than 24.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 10, In Iraq 2 car bombs
struck a Shiite district in Baghdad, killing at least eight people and
wounding dozens. Gunmen also ambushed a bus in the predominantly Sunni
neighborhood of Amariyah in western Baghdad, killing six passengers,
including a woman, and the driver. A bomb exploded in the Shurja market
in central Baghdad, killing 3 people and wounding 18. In Kirkuk a
suicide truck bomber struck an office of one of the main Kurdish
political parties in Iraq, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, killing
five people and wounding 12. A member of the provincial council in
Diyala, Adnan Iskandar al-Mahdawi, was killed and two of his guards
were wounded in a drive-by shooting. A former high-ranking officer from
Saddam Hussein's army, ex-staff Maj. Gen. Salih Mohammed Salih, was
killed in a shootout in the southern city of Basra.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, Israeli aircraft
fired missiles at a car in southern Gaza, killing two Islamic Jihad
militants. Israeli PM Olmert rebuffed criticism of Gaza tactics as 8
Palestinians died.
(AP, 7/10/06)(WSJ, 7/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 10, In Morocco ministers
from 57 European and African countries gathered in Rabat to seek ways
to combat illegal immigration to Europe "with dignity but firmness",
from tightening border controls to stimulating African development.
(AFP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, In eastern Pakistan a
passenger plane slammed into a wheat field and burst into flames
minutes after takeoff. All 45 people on board were killed.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, In the Philippines a
fire destroyed more than 200 shanties in a squatter colony north of
Manila, killing one resident, injuring 6 others and leaving about 5,000
people homeless.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, Somalia's Islamic
militia battled a pocket of resistance, pounding Mogadishu with
machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades and at least 7 people
were killed.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2006 Jul 10, South African writer
Mary Watson was named the 7th winner of the Caine Prize for African
writing her 2004 book “Moss,” a collection interlinked stories. The
prize was created in honor of the late Sir Michael Caine, a British
businessman with a deep interest in Africa who for almost 25 years
chaired the management committee of what is today known the Man Booker
Prize.
(AP, 7/12/06)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.83)
2006 Jul 10, In Taiwan the
son-in-law of President Chen Shui-bian was indicted on insider trading
charges, one of several high-profile corruption cases involving Chen's
family and inner circle.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2007 Jul 10, US President George
W. Bush nominated Army Gen. William Ward, the highest ranking black in
the US military, to lead the new Africa Command and coordinate military
operations on the continent.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 10, Richard Carmona,
ex-Surgeon General (2002-2006), told US Congress that he was kept in an
ideological straightjacket on issues such as stem cells and birth
control.
(WSJ, 1/11/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 10, Delaware Gov. Ruth
Ann Minner signed a law abolishing the state’s 2-year state of
limitations on personal injury lawsuits for victims of child sex abuse.
(SFC, 7/13/07, p.A3)
2007 Jul 10, A judge in Los
Angeles sentenced pizza deliveryman Chester Turner to death for
murdering 10 women and a fetus during the 1980s and '90s.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2007 Jul 10, In Baseball’s
All-Star game the American League beat the National League 5-4 at
AT&T Park in SF.
(www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,2028,00.html)
2007 Jul 10, It was reported that
more than 500 Tennessee streams are polluted with E. coli bacteria,
according to information from the Tennessee Department of Environment
and Conservation.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 10, In Florida a small
plane trying to make an emergency landing crashed into a suburban
Orlando neighborhood, killing both people aboard and starting two house
fires that seriously burned two adults and a 10-year-old boy.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 10, Doug Marlette (57),
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and writer, died in a car accident
near Holly Springs, Mississippi.
(SFC, 7/11/07, p.B5)(AP, 7/10/08)
2007 Jul 10, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber targeted a NATO patrol in a marketplace in Dihrawud,
Uruzgan province, killing at least 17 people, including 13
schoolchildren. 8 Dutch troops were wounded.
(AP, 7/10/07)(WSJ, 1/11/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 10, President Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva said that Brazil will budget about $540 million over
eight years to complete its nuclear program, including uranium
enrichment and possibly building a nuclear-powered submarine.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 10, The Bank of Canada
raised its key interest rate, by one-quarter point to 4.50%, for the
first time in over a year and kept the door open to further hikes,
saying inflation has been persistently higher than it expected.
(Reuters, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 10, Activists said that a
recent UN report showing Canadians use more marijuana than people in
any other industrialized country is more evidence that the drug should
be legalized. The 2007 World Drug Report found that 16.8% of Canadians
between 15 and 64 used marijuana, at least once in the past year.
(Reuters, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 10, China executed Zheng
Xiaoyu (63), former head (1997-2006) of its State Food and Drug
Administration (SFDA), for approving untested medicine in exchange for
cash. Zheng was convicted of taking cash and gifts worth $832,000 when
he was in charge of the state administration.
(AP, 7/10/07)(WSJ, 1/11/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 10, Cyprus and Malta
received approval from EU finance ministers to join the euro.
(Econ, 7/14/07, p.57)
2007 Jul 10, EU finance ministers
agreed to have Dominique Strauss-Kahn at top man at the IMF to replace
Rodrigo de Rato, who will resign in October.
(Econ, 7/14/07, p.12)(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19691259/)
2007 Jul 10, The bulk log carrier
Hai Tong No. 7 went down, 375 miles northwest of Guam, where it ran
into Typhoon Man-yi. 9 of 22 crew members were dead or missing. The
ship, owned by Fuzhou Haijing Shipping, was en route from Papua New
Guinea to China.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 10, Railroad Development
Corp., a Pittsburgh-based railroad company under Henry Posner III,
planned to shut down Guatemala's only train service after years of
fighting thieves, squatters and government-backed lawsuits. Posner
expected to take his case to int’l. arbitration under CAFTA with a
demand for $65 million in lost revenues and investments.
(AP, 7/10/07)(WSJ, 1/23/07, p.A14)
2007 Jul 10, Extremists unleashed
a barrage of more than a dozen mortars or rockets into the Green Zone,
killing at least three people, including an American, and wounding 18
in an area once considered the safest in the Iraqi capital. Gunmen in
Baghdad kidnapped a senior security official, Abdul Razzaq Aseel
al-Assal, the director of the joint security committee in the city of
Mosul. Hannelore Krause (61), a German woman who was kidnapped in Iraq,
was released after 155 days in captivity, but her son was still held
hostage. Sunni extremists attacked Sherween village northwest of
Baghdad. A US and Iraqi army force moved into Sherween village and
drove out the insurgents in a battle that left at least 19 extremists
dead.
(AP, 7/10/07)(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 10, The Gaddafi
Foundation charity said it has reached an accord with the families of
HIV-infected Libyan children that ends the crisis of the Bulgarian
nurses sentenced to death for infecting them.
(Reuters, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 10, Mexico's government
called a series of gas pipeline explosions a threat to the nation's
democratic institutions and vowed to step up security after a guerrilla
group claimed responsibility for the blasts.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 10, Nigerian troops
foiled an attempt by militants to kidnap workers at a Korean firm in
southern Rivers state, killing one insurgent and injuring several
others. Police said several people were injured and many houses and
vehicles were destroyed in two days of fighting between two rival cult
gangs in southern Ogoniland.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 10, Pakistani troops
flushed out holdouts entrenched inside a women's religious school,
taking control of the sprawling Red Mosque room by room in fighting
that left about 50 militants and eight soldiers dead. Abdul Rashid
Ghazi, the chief cleric of the Red Mosque and brother of Abdul Aziz,
was killed as Pakistani troops flushed out entrenched militants. Umme
Hassan, the wife of Aziz and head of a seminary for female jihadists,
escaped.
(AP, 7/10/07)(Econ, 7/26/08, p.50)
2007 Jul 10, Some 50 Philippine
marines were heading back to camp when they were attacked by about 300
suspected Abu Sayyaf guerrillas in Tipo Tipo town on southern Basilan
island. Troops recovered the bodies of 14 marines, some of them
beheaded.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 10, Russian newspapers
reported that thieves had stolen a collection of rare paintings worth
millions of dollars from retired judge Kamo Manukyan. They were stored
unguarded in his empty apartment. The 13 paintings stolen included
works by Frenchman Georges-Pierre Seurat, the founder of
neo-impressionism, Russian seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky, and
Russian expressionist Alexej Jawlenski.
(Reuters, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 10, Sudan’s head of the
civil defense authority said flash floods across central and eastern
Sudan have killed 20 people and destroyed 15,000 houses, and predicted
worse weather conditions to come.
(Reuters, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 10, Pope Benedict XVI has
reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church,
approving a document that says Orthodox churches were defective and
that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 10, Zimbabwe police said
hundreds more business executives and store managers have been arrested
as part of a crackdown on violations of a government-ordered price
freeze.
(AFP, 7/10/07)
2008 Jul 10, Pres. Bush signed a
bill that overhauls government eavesdropping and grants immunity
to telecommunications companies that help the US spy on Americans in
suspected terrorism cases.
(SFC, 7/10/08, p.A4)
2008 Jul 10, The American Medical
Association issued a formal apology for more than a century of
discriminatory policies that excluded blacks from participating in a
group long considered the voice of US doctors.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, Rocky Aoki (69),
founder of the Benihana steakhouse chain, died in New York from
complications of cancer. Aoki was also a wrestler and avid balloonist.
(SFC, 7/12/08,
p.B5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroaki_Aoki)
2008 Jul 10, Officials said a
decade-long drought in Australia's most important crop-growing region
is worsening and there is little hope for relief from either saving
rains or a new government conservation plan.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, Britons voted in a
by-election triggered when David Davis, a top opposition MP, quit in
protest at government plans to increase the period police can hold
terror suspects before charging them.
(AFP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, Salman Rushdie's
novel "Midnight's Children" was named as the greatest Booker Prize
winner ever, scooping a special "best of the best" award for the second
time.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, In China migrant
workers began a 3-day riot in Kanmen town in coastal Zhejiang province.
Three hundred military police arrived on July 13 and 30 migrant workers
have been detained. A Hong Kong-based rights group said the unrest was
centered around a migrant worker who was beaten by a security guard
while trying to get a temporary residence permit.
(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 10, The European
Parliament called the fingerprinting of Gypsies in Italy a clear act of
racial discrimination and urged the authorities to stop it.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, European Union
lawmakers called for tougher EU sanctions against Zimbabwe, including
putting businessmen who finance Pres. Mugabe's regime on a visa ban
list.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, In France four people
were found shot dead near the southwestern city of Toulouse. A fifth
victim died later in hospital.
(AFP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 10, Indonesia executed
Ahmad Suradji (57), a man convicted of killing 42 women and girls in a
series of ritual slayings he believed would give him magical powers.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 10, In Indonesia Asnawi
Sandri, a 38-year-old father of two, died in the hospital, days after
he came down with symptoms of bird flu. This raised the unofficial toll
in the world's hardest hit nation to 111 in three years.
(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 10, Iran test-fired more
long-range missiles overnight in a second round of exercises meant to
show that the country can defend itself against any attack by the US or
Israel.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, Iraq's Oil Ministry
said that it is close to signing contracts to build two new oil
refineries in southern Iraq. Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan became
the first Turkish leader to visit Iraq in nearly 20 years.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, Israeli troops shot
and killed a teenage Palestinian militant along the country's border
with Gaza. Soldiers thought he was armed but, after inspecting the
body, found that he was not. In the fourth day of operations in the
city of Nablus, Israel closed a clinic and TV station, and raided a
mosque.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, In northern Mexico, 6
bullet-ridden bodies were found inside the auto body shop in Culiacan,
the capital of Sinaloa state, and three more bodies were found on the
street just outside the business. A police investigator was found shot
to death in his truck near Culiacan's police headquarters.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, Nigeria's main
militant group said it would resume attacks in the country's oil-rich
river delta region because of Britain's recent pledge to back the
government in the conflict there. UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari
resigned as chairman of a planned peace summit for the oil-rich Niger
Delta following opposition from regional leaders.
(AP, 7/10/08)(AFP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, North Korea returned
to international talks on its nuclear activities after a nine-month
break, in what host China hailed as a potential turning point in the
disarmament process.
(AFP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, In Pakistan six
mortar rounds appeared to have targeted a military post in Angore Adda
in South Waziristan, seriously wounding six Pakistani troops, lightly
wounding two other troops and also injuring two civilians in a nearby
market.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 10, A Palestinian health
official said a tunnel used to smuggle goods across the Gaza-Egypt
border has collapsed, killing two Palestinians.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, The Interfax news
agency, citing a source in Russia's secret services, reported that the
head of the embassy's trade and investment section, Christopher Bowers,
was believed to be a senior British intelligence officer.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 10, Somali insurgents
killed at least two people in an overnight attack on an army base 15
miles (24 kilometers) northeast of the government headquarters in
Baidoa.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, In Turkey authorities
detained four suspects in connection with the July 9 attack on the US
consulate in Istanbul which left 3 policemen and 3 assailants dead.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 10, In Uzbekistan a fire
at a Soviet-era military base spread to an ammunition depot, igniting a
series of powerful explosions that killed three people and injured 21
others.
(AP, 7/10/08)
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