Today in History - July 11
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1174 Jul 11,
Amalric I, king of Jerusalem, died.
(ON, 6/07, p.5)
1216 Jul 11, Hendrik of
Constantinople, emperor of Constantinople (1206-16), died.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1244 Jul 11, The Khwarezmian Turks
attacked Jerusalem. By August 23 they completely razed it and left it
in ruins useless to both Christians and Muslims.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jerusalem_(Middle_Ages))
1274 Jul 11, Robert the Bruce,
King of Scotland (1306-1329), was born in Turnberry, Scotland.
(HN, 7/11/01)(MC, 7/11/02)
1302 Jul 11, An army of French
knights, led by the Count of Artois, was routed by Flemish pikemen.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1346 Jul 11, Charles IV of
Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany. [see Jun 11]
(HN, 7/11/98)
1533 Jul 11, Henry VIII, who
divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was
excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/11/98)
1578 Jul 11, England granted Sir
Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and colonize US.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1593 Jul 11, Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(b.1527), Italian painter, died. Arcimboldo painted representations of
objects, such as fruits and vegetables, on the canvas arranged in such
a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable
likeness of the portrait subject. He painted a portrait of Holy Roman
Emperor Rudolf II composed entirely of vegetables.
(WUD, 1994, p.78)(WSJ, 7/10/97,
p.A13)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo)
1644 Jul 11, A Florentine
scientist described the invention of barometer.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1708 Jul 11, The French were
defeated at Oudenarde, Malplaquet, in the Netherlands by the Duke of
Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1742 Jul 11, Benjamin Franklin
invented his Franklin stove.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1742 Jul 11, A papal decree was
issued condemning the disciplining actions of the Jesuits in China.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1754 Jul 11, Thomas Bowdler, the
famous prude who bowdlerized Shakespeare, was born.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1766 Jul 11, Elisabeth Farnese
(73), princess of Parma, queen of Spain, died.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1767 Jul 11, John Quincy Adams,
the sixth president of the United States (1825-1829), was born in
Braintree, Mass.
(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/11/98)(PGA, 12/9/98)
1774 Jul 11, Jews of Algiers
escaped an attack of the Spanish Army. Jun 11 was also cited for this
event.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1786 Jul 11, Morocco agreed to
stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of
$10,000.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1798 Jul 11, The US Marine Corps
was formally re-established by a congressional act. US Pres. John Adams
signed legislation that established the US Marine Band, composed of 32
drummers and fifers. Continental marines had existed during the
Revolutionary War, but had since been discontinued.
(SFC, 5/20/96, p.A-3)(HNQ, 8/1/99)(AP, 7/11/08)
1799 Jul 11, An Anglo-Turkish
armada bombarded Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops in Alexandria Egypt. The
attack was ineffective.
(HN, 7/11/00)
1804 Jul 11, Vice President Aaron
Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton (47), former first Treasury
Secretary, in a pistol duel near Weehawken, N.J. A warrant for Burr’s
arrest was soon issued in New Jersey and New York, where Hamilton died.
In 1999 Richard Brookhiser wrote "Alexander Hamilton: American." In
2001 Joanne B. Freeman edited his writings and published: Alexander
Hamilton: Writings."
(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/11/98)(WSJ, 2/25/99, p.A16)(WSJ,
12/3/01, p.A17)(ON, 12/08, p6)
1816 Jul 11, Gas Light Co. of
Baltimore was founded.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1836 Jul 11, Pres. Jackson,
alarmed by the growing influx of state bank notes being used to pay for
public land purchases, issued the Specie Circular shortly before
leaving office. This order commanded the Treasury to no longer accept
paper notes as payment for such sales. This led to the financial panic
of 1837.
(www.u-s-history.com/pages/h967.html)(Panic, p.6)
1838 Jul 11, John Wanamaker
(d.1922), US merchant who founded a chain of stores in Philadelphia,
was born.
(HN, 7/11/98)(ON, 12/05, p.6)
1862 Jul 11, President Abraham
Lincoln appointed General Henry Halleck as general in chief of the
Federal army.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1863 Jul 11, The Battle of Fort
Wager began as Union forces assaulted the Confederate battery on Morris
Island at the southern approach to Charleston Harbor.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_the_Battery_Wagner)
1864 Jul 11, Confederate General
Jubal Early's army arrived in Silver Spring, Maryland, on the outskirts
of Washington, D.C., and began to probe the Union line. Confederate
forces led by Gen. Jubal Early began an invasion of Washington, D.C.,
turning back the next day.
(HT, 3/97, p.66)(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/11/98)
1864 Jul 11, Battle of Laurel
Hill, WV.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1864 Jul 11, Battle of Trevillian
Station, VA (Central Railroad).
(MC, 7/11/02)
1870 Jul 11, 1st-stone Amstel
Brewery opened in Amsterdam.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1877 Jul 11, Los Angeles recorded
a temperature of 112 degrees, but it was not recorded as an
all-time-high because official recording only began 20 days later.
(SFC, 6/11/09, p.D8)
1888 Jul 11, Bartomeo Vanzetti,
executed with Nicola Sacco for several murders during a robbery, the
trial created an international storm of protest, was born.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1899 Jul 11, E. B. White (Elwyn
Brooks White, d.1985), writer, author of "Charlotte's Web" and "The
Elements of Style," was born.
(HN, 7/11/98)(PGA, 12/9/98)(MC, 7/11/02)
1909 Jul 11, Simon Newcomb,
celestial mechanics authority, died.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1914 Jul 11, Babe Ruth debuted in
the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. He earned $2,900 in his
rookie season.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1916 Jul 11, Dan Patch (b.1896), a
record-breaking, Indiana-born, harness race horse, died and was buried
in Minnesota. He was the first harness race horse to break the 2-minute
mile. In 2008 Charles Leersen authored “Crazy Good: The True Story of
Dan Patch, The Most Famous Horse in America.” Here Leersen details the
pharmacopoeia used in racing at the turn of the century.
(WSJ, 5/17/08, p.W9)
1917 Jul 11, The Allied assault on
Flanders, Belgium, began and lasted to Nov 10, for a total gain of four
miles and the occupation of Passchendaele. 9 major battles took place
during this period in the Allied attempt to capture Passchendaele. In
preparation for the attack the Allies fired some 4.2 million shells. In
2006 military teams around Flanders still retrieved 2-3 dozen shells
per day.
(AM, 7/04, p.9)(WSJ, 5/24/06, p.A1)
1918 Jul 11, Enrico Caruso joined
the war effort and recorded "Over There", the patriotic song written by
George M. Cohan.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1920 Jul 11, Yul Brynner, actor
(The King and I, The Ten Commandments) , was born.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1921 Jul 11, Mongolia gained
independence from China (National Day). The holiday of Naadam, which
originated in the time of Ghenghis Khan, was later fixed to July 11-13
to the anniversary of the Revolution.
(SSFC, 3/27/05, p.F5)
1924 Jul 11, After 103 roll calls
the Democrats bypassed New York governor Alfred E. Smith and William G.
McAdoo of California and nominated John W. Davis of West Virginia and
Charles Bryan, brother of William Jennings, to run against Calvin
Coolidge. The Democrats won just 29% of the popular vote in a 3-way
race with Coolidge and Senator Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFolette of
Wisconsin who led the Progressive Party.
(Hem., 8/96, p.87)
1927 Jul 11, Theodore H. Maiman,
physicist, was born.
(HN, 7/11/01)
1931 Jul 11, Tab Hunter, actor,
was born in NYC, the son of Charles Kelm and Gertrude Gelien. In 2005
he authored “Tab Hunter Confidential,” co-written with Eddie Muller.
(www.filmbug.com/db/279434)(SFC, 11/7/05, p.C3)
1934 Jul 11, President Roosevelt
became the first chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal
while in office.
(AP, 7/11/97)
1936 Jul 11, Triborough Bridge
linking Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens opened.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1937 Jul 11, George Gershwin
(b.1898 as Jacob Gershowitz), composer, died of a brain tumor at age 38
in Beverly Hills, Ca. His work included "Cuban Overture." He
wrote his first hit, "Swanee," in 1918 for the Broadway show, "Sinbad,"
starring Al Jolson. George Gershwin wrote the scores for such Broadway
shows as "Funny Face," "Porgy and Bess" and "Of Thee I Sing" (his first
musical to win a Pulitzer Prize [1932]). Gershwin played the piano at
the premiere of his widely acclaimed "Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924,
accompanied by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Gershwin’s song hits
included "The Man I Love," "’S Wonderful," "Summertime" and "Love Is
Here to Stay." The lyrics for many of his songs were written by his
brother Ira. He was born September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, NYC, NY. to
Russian Jewish immigrants.
(SFC, 12/4/96, p.E1)(WSJ, 9/24/97, p.A20)(SFEC,
8/16/98, DB p.38)(www.gershwin.com/)
1939 Jul 11, Yanks hosted the 7th
All Star Game. McCarthy started 6 Yanks, AL won 3-1.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1941 Jul 11, The 2nd great roundup
of Jews of Amsterdam took place.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1941 Jul 11, Vichy-French planes
bombed Tel Aviv and killed 20 Jews.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1942 Jul 11, In the longest
bombing raid of World War II, 1,750 British Lancaster bombers attacked
the Polish port of Danzig. The Polish submarine Orzel escaped from
internment and went on to fight the Germans against long odds.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1943 Jul 11, Heinrich Himmler
ordered the liquidation of Polish ghettos.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1945 Jul 11, Napalm was first used.
(HFA, '96, p.34)
1951 Jul 11, Bonnie Pointer,
singer, was born.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1952 Jul 11, The Republican
National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower
for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president. Theodore
Roosevelt McKeldin (1900-1974), the governor of Maryland (1951-1959),
gave the nominating speech.
(AP, 7/11/97)(Econ, 10/10/09,
p.23)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_McKeldin)
1953 Jul 11, Leon Spinks, world
heavyweight boxing champ (1978) , was born.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1953 Jul 11, "Amos 'n Andy," TV
Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1955 Jul 11, The new US Air Force
Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.
(AP, 7/11/97)(PGA, 12/9/98)
1958 Jul 11, Monument Valley,
straddling the Arizona-Utah border, became the 1st Navajo Tribal Park.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.C15)
1960 Jul 11, Katanga province,
with the support of Belgian business interests and troops, broke away
from the new Congolese government of Patrice Lumumba, declaring
independence under Moise Tshombe leader of the local CONAKAT party.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis)
1961 Jul 11, China and North Korea
signed the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.
This committed China to defend North Korea if attacked.
(www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/yzs/gjlb/2701/default.htm)(Econ,
10/14/06, p.25)
1962 Jul 11, The Telstar I
satellite carried the first transatlantic TV transmission. It picked up
broadcast signals from France and bounced them down to an antenna in
Maine, delivering the first live television picture from Europe to
America.
(PGA, 12/9/98)(www.lucent.com/minds/telstar/fit.html)
1962 Jul 11, Cosmonaut Micolaev
set longevity space flight record -- 4 days.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1964 Jul 11, Queen Elizabeth
ordered Beatles to her birthday party and they attended.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1966 Jul 11, Debbie Dunning
(actress: Home Improvement), was born.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1966 Jul 11, "I Am A Rock" by
Simon & Garfunkel peaked at #3.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1969 Jul 11, David Bowie (b.1947),
British musician, released his single “Space Oddity," supposedly in
conjunction with the July 20 Apollo 11 moon landing.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity)
1971 Jul 11, Chile’s Congress
passed an amendment, submitted by President Allende, to nationalize all
mines. On July 16 Chile by law nationalized the US-owned copper mines
based on a calculation of the companies' "excess profits" from 1955 to
1970. It was determined that Chile owed American companies Anaconda and
Kennecott Copper nothing for the mines.
{Chile, M&A, USA}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_nationalization_of_copper)
1972 Jul 11, American forces broke
the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1974 Jul 11, John W. Dean
testified before the US House Judiciary Committee in the impeachment
inquiry of Pres. Nixon.
(www.watergate.info/judiciary/BKIITOW.PDF)
1975 Jul 11, Archaeologists
unearthed an army of 8,000 life-size clay figures created more than
2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi (Shihuangdi). [see
210BC]
(HN, 7/11/01)
1977 Jul 11, The Medal of Freedom
was awarded posthumously to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a White
House ceremony.
(AP, 7/11/97)
1978 Jul 11, Christa Tybus of
London set a 24 hrs hula-hoop record.
(www.recordholders.org/en/list/hulahoop.html)
1978 Jul 11, In Spain 216 people
were killed at a camping site when a tanker truck overfilled with
propylene gas exploded on a coastal highway south of Tarragona.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(AP, 7/11/97)
1979 Jul 11, The abandoned 78-ton
US space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up
in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and
Western Australia. Solar storms were blamed for Skylab’s premature fall
back.
(AP, 7/11/97)(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A6)(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A5)
1980 Jul 11, American hostage
Richard I. Queen, freed by Iran after eight months of captivity because
of poor health, left Tehran for Switzerland.
(PGA, 12/9/98)(AP, 7/11/01)
1982 Jul 11, The Italian soccer
team won its first World Cup in 44 years.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_FIFA_World_Cup)
1985 Jul 11, Houston Astro's Nolan
Ryan became the first pitcher to strike out 4000 batters as he fanned
Danny Heep of the New York Mets.
(www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/hallfame/ryan.htm)
1986 Jul 11, President Ronald
Reagan placed the Contras, who were fighting the government of
Nicaragua, under CIA jurisdiction.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1986 Jul 11, Mary Beth Whitehead
christened her surrogate Baby M(b.3/27/86), Sara.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_M)
1987 Jul 11, Australian Prime
Minister Bob Hawke won a third consecutive term, becoming the first
Labor Party leader in the country's history to be elected to three
straight terms in office.
(AP, 7/11/97)
1988 Jul 11, Nine people were
killed when three Abu Nidal terrorists attacked hundreds of tourists
aboard a Greek cruise ship, the City of Poros, which was steaming
toward a marina in suburban Athens.
(AP, 7/11/98)(www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ano.htm)
1989 Jul 11, The American League
won the 60th All-Star Game, defeating the National League 5-3 in
Anaheim, Calif.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1989 Jul 11, Laurence Olivier
(b.1907), British actor, director and producer, died in West Sussex,
UK. In 1991 Donald Spoto authored the biography “Laurence Olivier.” In
2005 Terry Coleman authored the biography “Olivier.”
(AP, 7/11/99)(SSFC, 11/13/05, p.M6)(Econ, 10/15/05,
p.92)
1990 Jul 11, Leaders of the
so-called "Group of Seven" nations concluded their summit in Houston by
encouraging Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to enact reforms in
return for Western aid.
(AP, 7/11/00)
1991 Jul 11, A solar eclipse cast
a blanket of darkness stretching nine-thousand miles from Hawaii to
South America, lasting nearly seven minutes in some places.
(AP, 7/11/01)
1991 Jul 11, A Nigerian Airlines
jet carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, int'l
airport, killing all 261 people on board. The plane was a
Canadian-chartered DC-8.
(AP, 7/11/97)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1992 Jul 11, Undeclared
presidential hopeful Ross Perot, addressing the NAACP convention in
Nashville, Tenn., startled and offended his listeners by referring to
the predominantly black audience as "you people."
(AP, 7/11/97)
1992 Jul 11, In Bosnia it was
later alleged on Dutch TV that Dutch troops deliberately drove an
armored vehicle into a Muslim blockade on this day and killed as many
as 30 people.
(SFC, 8/21/98, p.A14)
1993 Jul 11, President Clinton
wrapped up his visit to South Korea with a visit to the Demilitarized
Zone separating South and North Korea; he then flew to Hawaii, where he
placed a wreath at the site of the sunken battleship USS Arizona at
Pearl Harbor.
(AP, 7/11/98)
1993 Jul 11, In Des Moines, Iowa,
severe flooding shut down a water system serving 250,000 residents.
(AP, 7/11/98)
1994 Jul 11, President Clinton, on
his first official visit to Germany, urged his hosts to take on a
stronger leadership role in global affairs.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 11, Shawn Eckardt was
sentenced in Portland, Ore., to 18 months in prison for his role in the
attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 11, Gary Kildall (52),
pioneer software writer, died in Monterey, Ca.
(www.maxframe.com/kildallr.htm)
1994 Jul 11, Haiti's army-backed
regime ordered the expulsion of international human rights observers.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1995 Jul 11, Full diplomatic
relations were established between the United States and Vietnam
following an order by Pres. Clinton.
(SFEM, 6/9/96, p.9)(HN, 7/11/98)(SSFC, 8/24/03, p.I6)
1995 Jul 11, Srebrenica, a UN
declared "safe area," fell to the Bosnian Serbs. 7,000 Muslim men
supposedly escaped but were never heard from again. Drazen Erdemovic
(24) later admitted that he participated in killing 70 men at
Srebrenica. Victims were shot in the back in groups of 10 by himself
and fellow soldiers in the Bosnian Serb Army’s 10th Sabotage
Detachment. He was told that he would be killed if he refused to follow
orders. In 1998 the book "The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar" was
published with photographs by Gilles Peress and text by Eric Stover.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)(SFC, 7/7/96, A10) (SFC, 6/1/96,
p.A10)(SFEC, 12/20/98, BR p.6)
1995 Jul 11, Videotape showed Gen.
Ratco Mladic entering Srebrenica.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A8)
1995 Jul 11-1995 Jul 16, In
the Srebrenica Massacre buses arrived to take women and children to
Muslim territory, while the Serbs began separating out all men from age
12 to 77 for "interrogation for suspected war crimes". It is estimated
that 23,000 women and children were deported in the next 30 hours while
hundreds of men were held in trucks and warehouses. On 13 July killings
of unarmed Muslims took place in one such warehouse in the nearby
village of Kravica. By July 16 Early reports of massacres emerged as
the first survivors of the long march from Srebrenica began to arrive
in Muslim-held territory. Between July 11 and July 16 more than 7,000
unarmed Muslim men are thought to have been killed by Serbian forces.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/675945.stm)
1996 Jul 11, A report stated that
Malaria infects 300 million people each year and kills 1.5 to 2.7
million. A drug, artemether, derived from a Chinese herb was appearing
to be as effective as quinine.
(SFC, 7/11/96, p.C1)
1996 Jul 11, An Air Force F-16 jet
trying to make an emergency landing slammed into a house in Pensacola,
Fla., setting the home on fire, killing a 4-year-old boy and badly
burning his mother. The pilot ejected safely.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/11/97)
1996 Jul 11, The Argentine
minister of justice, Rodolfo Barra, resigned his post due to his past
association as a teen-ager in the 60s with the anti-Semitic group,
Tacuara.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A14)
1996 Jul 11, Two bombs ripped
apart buses in Moscow and injured at least 23 people. A Chechen link
was suspected but not proven.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A11)
1997 Jul 11, President Clinton was
cheered by tens of thousands of people in Bucharest, Romania, where he
raised hopes for NATO membership.
(AP, 7/11/98)
1997 Jul 11, Uwatec Corp. was sold
to Johnson Worldwide Assoc. (later Johnson Outdoors Inc.) for $33.5
million. A defect in the Aladin Air X Nitrox, an underwater diving
computer, was not disclosed. Injuries and lawsuits followed and the
product was pulled Feb 5, 2003.
(SSFC, 5/25/03, p.A18)
1997 Jul 11, A Cuban An-24
passenger plane with 44 people plunged into the sea after take-off from
Santiago de Cuba onroute to Havana.
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 11, In India a riot broke
out in Bombay after a garland of shoes - a grave insult - was draped
over a bust of Babasaheb Ambedkar, a political leader from Hinduism’s
lowest caste. Police killed ten people including two children on their
way to school.
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.C1)
1997 Jul 11, In Thailand a kitchen
fire went out of control at the 450-room Royal Jomtien Hotel in Pattaya
and killed 91 people with 64 injured.
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.A10)(WSJ, 7/11/97, p.A12)(AP,
7/11/07)
1998 Jul 11, Air Force Lt. Michael
Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his
Missouri home after the positive identification of his remains, which
had been enshrined at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Va.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1998 Jul 11, From Australia it was
reported that dingoes from Mount Archer National park near the central
Queensland coast were stalking neighborhoods for food.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 11, Police in Cartagena,
Colombia, seized 7 metric tons of cocaine in cargo containers bound for
Europe.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 11, Some 600,000 people
gathered in Berlin for the annual Love Parade, billed as the largest
celebration of techno music.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 11, In Guinea-Bissau
Radio Bombolon mixed music and junta rhetoric and featured the Iva and
Ichy local hit duo.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 11, In Iran Mayor
Karbaschi gave a 4-hour defense statement at the close of his trial in
Tehran. He was accused of misappropriating public funds.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A17)
1998 Jul 11, It was reported that
fires in southern Italy and Sicily burned 2,500 acres of forest and
grassland.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 11, It was reported that
tens of thousands of rotting fish were left when a section of the
Llobregat River was drained too fast to fill a repaired canal.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A8)
1999 Jul 11, A US Air Force cargo
jet, braving Antarctic winter, swept down over the Amundsen-Scott South
Pole Research Center to drop off emergency medical supplies for Dr.
Jerri Nielsen, a physician at the center who had discovered a lump in
her breast.
(AP, 7/11/00)
1999 Jul 11, In London 2 Egyptian
associates of Osama bin Laden were arrested. The fingerprints of
Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous (42) and Adel Abdel-Meguid
Abdel-Bary (39) were found on statements taking responsibility for the
attacks against US embassies in Africa last August.
(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A8)
1999 Jul 11, In Colombia the
leftists offensive continued. An army statement said 202 guerrillas, 19
policemen, 4 soldiers and 9 civilians had been killed. Rebel sources
said 68 security force members were killed and 32 rebels.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 11, In Congo rebels
dismissed the peace agreement signed by 6 countries involved in the war
and said the war would continue and get worse.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 11, In India and Pakistan
top commanders agreed to the withdrawal of Islamic militants from
Kashmir along with a complete cease fire.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 11, In Gaza Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak met with Yasser Arafat and both promised to work
for peace.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 11, In Iran some 10,000
students demonstrated in Tehran with protests in other major cities.
Two security chiefs responsible for the raid on a student dormitory,
that prompted the demonstrations, were fired.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A8)
1999 Jul 11, In Turkey a bomb
exploded in Van and 16 people were injured.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A9)
2000 Jul 11, In Cincinnati the
African Methodist Episcopal Church, the nation’s oldest black church,
elected Rev. Vashti Murphy McKenzie as its 1st female bishop in its
213-year history.
(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A3)(AP, 7/11/01)
2000 Jul 11, The American League
defeated the National League 6-to-3 in the All-Star Game.
(AP, 7/11/01)
2000 Jul 11, A Middle East summit
hosted by President Clinton opened at Camp David between Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
(AP, 7/11/01)(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 11, In NYC a brownstone
apartment building collapsed in Brooklyn and at least 3 people were
killed.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A7)
2000 Jul 11, Robert Runcie, the
former archbishop of Canterbury, died in Hertfordshire, England, at age
78.
(AP, 7/11/01)
2000 Jul 11, In China it was
reported that 6 members of a Uighur separatist group were executed.
(WSJ, 7/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 11, In Kashmir Muslim
militants killed 3 Buddhist monks at a vehicle check at Rangdum and
escaped with Harfurth Rolf, a German tourist. Rolf’s body was found Aug
3 on a glacier in the Kishtwar mountain range.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 11, In Russia Prime
Minister Kasyanov warned business barons that the immunity they enjoyed
under the Yeltsin government was over. Lukoil was charged with tax
evasion and the offices of Gazprom and media-Most were raided in a
fraud case. Also the head of RAO Norilsk Nickel was told to pay $140
million extra for his controlling stake.
(WSJ, 7/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 11, In Uganda rival clans
of the Karamojong tribe clashed and 63 cattle herders were killed.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.D2)
2001 Jul 11, The Democratic-led
Senate voted to bar coal mining and oil and gas drilling on pristine
federally protected land in the West, dealing a fresh blow to President
Bush's energy production plans.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2001 Jul 11, In NYC the city and
police union made a tentative agreement to pay $9 million to settle a
suit by Abner Louima over his 1997 police beating.
(WSJ, 7/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 11, A wildfire in
Washington state killed 2 male and 2 female firefighters in the Chewuch
River Valley of the north Cascade Mountains.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 11, A new African Union
was born at the closing of the final summit of the Organization of
African Unity (OAU) for all of Africa’s 53 countries. The New
Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) was set up as the economic
development arm of the OAU.
(Econ, 7/25/05, p.37)
2001 Jul 11, An Israeli soldier
shot and killed a Palestinian woman after her taxi evaded a roadblock.
Israeli police in Afula captured a Palestinian would-be suicide bomber.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 11, In Russia Pres. Putin
signed into law a plan to import spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing.
The imports would be subject to approval by a commission chaired by
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Zhores Alferov.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A14)
2002 Jul 11, Lawmakers balked at
moving the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency into
a new Homeland Security Department despite pleas from senior Cabinet
officials to stick to President Bush's blueprint. Both agencies did end
up being included in the new department.
(AP, 7/11/03)
2002 Jul 11, US scientists
financed by the Pentagon announced that they had synthesized a virus
from scratch for the 1st time. They built a polio virus relying only on
genetic sequence information publicly available.
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 11, Bernardas Brazdzionis
(95), Lithuanian émigré poet, died in Los Angeles.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A27)
2002 Jul 11, Former Argentina
junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri was arrested for the torture and
execution of leftists during the military dictatorship (1976-1983).
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 11, Lawmakers in Ontario
passed back-to-work legislation to end a two-week strike by Toronto
garbage collectors that covered the country's biggest city in mounds of
rotting waste.
(Reuters, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, In Colombia
authorities confirmed that the mayors of 28 cities and towns resigned
this week after leftist rebels threatened to kill mayors if they didn't
step down.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Typhoon Chata'an left
5 dead in Japan and moved north.
(Reuters, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, President Kim
Dae-jung picked South Korea's first female prime minister and replaced
six other ministers in a reshuffle seen as a bid to boost the
government's image before December presidential polls.
(Reuters, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Three members of the
Lebanese army intelligence service were killed while trying to make
arrests near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, the Lebanese
army said.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Moroccan soldiers
planted a national flag on Perejil Island (parsley in Spanish), 200
yards off the coast near Ceuta. Spain had claimed control since the
17th century. Moroccans called the 0.58-square mile rocky outcrop Leila
(night in Arabic). Spanish troops swiftly dislodged the Moroccans
without a shot being fired. Under a diplomatic resolution, both sides
agreed to leave it as a no man's land.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A20)(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A10)(AP,
11/3/07)
2002 Jul 11, Peru's prime minister
and finance minister said they resigned Thursday as part of a Cabinet
shake-up designed to stem the plummeting popularity of President
Alejandro Toledo's year-old government.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Solomon Islands
police reported that 10 men who went in search of a rebel warlord to
capture him for a bounty payment had all been killed.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Turkey's foreign
minister resigned, dealing a harsh blow to Prime Minister Bulent
Ecevit, who was struggling to stay in power despite ill health and mass
resignations from his party.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, In Venezuela an
estimated 600,000 people marched demanding that Pres. Chavez abandon
the presidency.
(AP, 7/12/02)(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A9)
2003 Jul 11, Pres. Bush met with
Pres. Yoweri Museveni in Uganda. Bush and his wife Laura praised
Uganda's aggressive prevention and treatment programs to combat HIV.
(SFC, 7/11/03, p.A8)(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 11, CIA Director George
Tenet took blame for Pres. Bush's State of the Union discredited claim
that uranium from Africa had been shipped to Iraq.
(SFC, 7/18/03, p.A14)
2003 Jul 11, Thousands marked the
anniversary of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia, burying 282
newly identified victims.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2003 Jul 11, The Canadian
government gave Air Canada the right to operate scheduled passenger
flights to Cuba.
(Reuters, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 11, In China a mudslide
left 50 people missing in Sichuan province.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 11, India and Pakistan
resumed bus service, a transportation link that was disrupted 18 months
earlier due to threats of war.
(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 11, In Iran Zahra Kazemi
(54), a Montreal-based journalist, died of brain hemorrhage from
inflicted blows. [see Jun 23] Iran later admitted that she was murdered
while under police custody. In 2004 a closed trial was held for a
secret agent charged with the murder. Mohammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi
pleaded innocent on July 17 and the trial was abruptly ended the next
day. The Tehran court acquitted Ahmadi.
(AP, 7/13/03)(SFC, 7/17/03, p.A7)(WSJ, 7/31/03,
p.A1)(SFC, 7/19/04, p.A8)(AP, 7/25/04)
2003 Jul 11, Spain, a leading U.S.
ally during the war to oust Saddam Hussein, agreed to send 1,300
soldiers to Iraq.
(AP, 7/12/03)
2003 Jul 11, In western Sudan
about 30 rebels and an undisclosed number of government troops were
killed during fighting near the border with Chad.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 11, The World Trade
Organization ruled that heavy duties on steel imports imposed by the
United States violated global trade rules.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, Joe Gold (82),
founder of Gold’s Gyms fitness chain, died in LA.
(WSJ, 7/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 11, Laurance Rockefeller
(94), conservationist, philanthropist and venture capitalist died in
his sleep in NY. He had a lifelong affinity for the rustic and left a
legacy of parks from Wyoming to Vermont that were expanded on land he
donated.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2004 Jul 11, It was reported that
Jonathan Keith Idema, former US special operations soldier, was
recently arrested along with Brent Bennet and Edward Caraballo for
running a vigilante anti-terrorism campaign in Kabul. They had posed as
government officials and imprisoned innocent Afghan men. Caraballo was
released April 30, 2006, after serving 21 months of a 2-year sentence.
Idema and Bennet continued to serve their 5 and 3 year sentences.
(SSFC, 7/11/04, p.A10)(SFC, 5/1/06, p.A8)
2004 Jul 11, A bomb exploded on a
bustling street of Herat, Afghanistan, killing five people, and
injuring 29.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, A truck crashed into
a house packed with guests at a wedding reception in Indonesia, killing
17 and injuring 13.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, Insurgents ambushed 2
US military patrols north of Baghdad and killed 3 US soldiers and an
Iraqi civilian.
(AP, 7/11/04)(SSFC, 7/11/04, p.A8)
2004 Jul 11, Gunmen killed the
head of a regional office of one Iraq's largest Shiite parties in a
drive-by shooting south of the capital.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2004 Jul 11, Suspected Muslim
guerrillas sliced off the nose, ears and tongue of Mariam Begum, a
14-year-old girl in Indian Kashmir, believing her to be an informer for
the Indian army. Elsewhere in Kashmir, 16 Muslim rebels and four
soldiers were killed in separate gun battles over the weekend.
(Reuters, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, In Japan’s
upper-house elections PM Junichiro Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic
Party LDP won 49 seats, one seat less than the opposition DPJ. Koizumi
and his Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling bloc held on to a majority.
(Econ, 7/17/04, p.41)(AP, 7/11/05)
2004 Jul 11-14, Security forces
raided five villages in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, leaving 15
people dead and homes ransacked and burned.
(AP, 7/15/04)
2004 Jul 11, Palestinian militants
set off explosives hidden in shrubs at a Tel Aviv bus stop, killing a
female soldier and seriously wounding at least five people.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, Boris Tadic (46)
leader of the Serbian opposition Democratic Party, took office vowing
to bring stability to the Balkan republic and push it closer to the EU
and NATO.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, The 15th Int’l. AIDS
conference began in Bangkok, Thailand. UN chief Kofi Annan challenging
world leaders to do more to combat the raging global epidemic.
(SFC, 7/13/04, p.A1)(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, Frances Langford
(b.1913), singer and entertainer, died. The 1935 song “I’m in the Mood
for Love” by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh was her signature piece.
(SFC, 7/12/05, p.B5)
2005 Jul 11, In Afghanistan 4
suspected terrorists escaped from the main US base, the first time
anyone has broken out of the heavily guarded detention facility. Omar
al-Farouq was one of the four suspected Arab terrorists to escape from
the detention facility at Bagram. Born in Kuwait to Iraqi parents, he
was considered one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants in Southeast
Asia until Indonesian authorities captured him in 2002 and turned him
over to the US. On Nov 2 Indonesian anti-terrorism official, Maj. Gen.
Ansyaad Mbai, sharply criticized the US government for failing to
inform him that al-Farouq was no longer behind bars.
(AP, 7/11/05)(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Jul 11-2005 Jul 12, Fighting
between rebels and Afghan and American forces in Zabul province left 17
insurgents dead.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 11, Joao Batista Ramos da
Silva, a Brazilian congressman and an ordained minister of the
evangelical Christian Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, was
detained with 6 other people as they tried to board a private jet with
seven suitcases stuffed with cash. Ramos said the $2.6 million in
Brazilian reals was from tithes collected during religious services
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, It was reported
kidnappers in Brazil were targeting the mothers of top soccer players
with 5 mothers kidnapped in the last 7 months.
(SFC, 7/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 11, British investigators
found the images of 4 young men carrying backpacks in King's Cross
station at about 8:30 a.m., 20 minutes before the Jul 7 subway
explosions.
(AP, 7/13/05)(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 11, The Deh Cho First
Nations of the Northwest Territories agreed to a deal with the Canadian
government to get meaningful participation in the environmental
assessment and regulatory review of the $5.7 billion Mackenzie Valley
Pipeline for gas project.
(WSJ, 7/12/05, p.A15)
2005 Jul 11, In China an explosion
in the Shenlong Coal Mine in the far west Xinjiang region killed at
least 76 miners. 7 were still reported missing.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 11, In Iraq US troops
killed 10 more insurgents in the northern city of Tel Afar. 6 civilians
were reported killed in the Tal Afar fighting. Insurgents stormed an
Iraqi army checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing 12 people, including 9
soldiers.
(AP, 7/11/05)(Reuters, 7/11/05)(SFC, 7/12/05, p.A3)
2005 Jul 11, Deputy PM Shimon
Peres said Israel is asking the US for $2.2 billion in additional aid
to help fund its upcoming withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of
the West Bank.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, A judge ordered the
arrest and isolation of 3 senior officers of the Banco di Credito
Cooperativo Sofige Gela, a small bank on Sicily’s southern coast. The
had been under investigation for aiding and abetting the Mafia.
(Econ, 7/16/05, p.72)
2005 Jul 11, Hugo Alberto Wallace
(36), a divorced entrepreneur, was kidnapped as he left a movie theater
in Mexico City. In 2007 Brenda Quevedo was arrested in Louisville,
Kentucky, after Maria Isabel Miranda, the mother of Wallace, received a
tip and tracked her down. Frustrated with investigators' lack of
progress in her son's 2005 kidnapping, Miranda launched her own
investigation, tracking down five suspects. In 2009 Quevedo was
extradited to Mexico.
(www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/world/americas/04kidnapping.html)(AP,
9/26/09)
2005 Jul 11, The Dutch market
research firm, VNU, announced its acquisition of IMS Health, the
leading supplier of research to pharmaceutical firms, for $7 billion.
(Econ, 7/16/05, p.60)
2005 Jul 11, A boat rescuing
flood-hit Pakistani villagers hit a power cable and 14 people,
including eight children, were electrocuted.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, Russian prosecutors
said they have opened a criminal investigation into former PM Mikhail
Kasyanov (Misha 2%), a potential presidential candidate, for abuse of
office.
(AP, 7/11/05)(Econ, 7/16/05, p.48)
2005 Jul 11, Russian news media
reported that Rosoboronexport, Russia’s main arms exporter, has signed
a $300 million deal to sell jet fighter engines to China.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, In Russia at least 20
people were killed after arsonists set fire to a store in the northern
city of Ukhta.
(Reuters, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, A SA government
report said more than 6.5 million of South Africa's 47 million people
could be infected with HIV.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 11, Kurdish guerrillas
kidnapped a Turkish soldier after stopping dozens of cars at a
makeshift roadblock in the southeast.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, Thailand reported the
discovery of 10 new cases of bird flu just as it was about to declare
the country free of the disease.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, In Trinidad a bomb
exploded in a trash bin in downtown Port-of-Spain on Monday, injuring
14 people.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2006 Jul 11, The American League
edged the National League 3-2 in the All-Star Game in Pittsburgh.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2006 Jul 11, The Bush
administration pledged that detainees at Guantanamo will be accorded
basic human rights protections under the Geneva Conventions.
(SFC, 7/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 11, In Chicago, a Blue
Line train derailed and started a fire during the evening rush hour,
filling a subway tunnel with smoke and forcing dozens of soot-covered
commuters to evacuate.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2006 Jul 11, It was reported that
Nielsen Media Research will begin formal ratings for TV commercial
breaks.
(WSJ, 7/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 11, Kathy Augustine (50),
Nevada state controller, died suddenly. Her husband, Chaz Higgs, said
it was a heart attack and chalked it up to the stress of an uphill
election battle for state treasurer. But just days after her death,
Higgs tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists. On Sep 29 Police
arrested Higgs in Hampton, Va., after toxicology tests found a drug in
his wife’s system that would have paralyzed her. Higgs was convicted on
June 29, 2007, of killing Augustine by injecting her with
succinylcholine, a paralyzing drug. He was sentenced to life with a
possibility of parole after serving 20 years.
(AP, 7/21/06)(SFC, 9/30/06,
p.A3)(www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6762551)
2006 Jul 11, Barnard Hughes
(b.1915), film and theater actor, died in New York.
(AP,
7/11/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard_Hughes)
2006 Jul 11, Coalition and Afghan
forces hunting a Taliban commander killed an estimated 30 extremists in
a raid on a hide-out in southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In northern
Bangladesh a train plowed through a bus at an unmanned railway
crossing, killing at least 33 people and injuring about 15 others.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, The Bank of Canada
held its key overnight interest rate steady, as expected, and gave no
sign it was considering further hikes.
(Reuters, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Central American
presidents agreed on a plan to ease border controls and install a
common customs system on the way to negotiating an eventual free-trade
agreement with the EU. The agreement signed by Panama, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Belize would allow
residents to cross borders without passports or visas.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, EU finance ministers
made Slovenia the 13th member of the euro zone. This gave Slovenia 5
months to print and mint euro notes to replace the tolar on January 1.
(WSJ, 7/12/06, p.A10)
2006 Jul 11, A survey, sponsored
by the German development agency GTZ, reported that breast ironing, the
use of hard or heated objects or other substances to try to stunt
breast growth in girls, is widespread in Cameroon. The age-old practice
was said to be traditional in West and Central Africa, including Chad,
Togo, Benin, Guinea-Conakry, just to name a few.
(Reuters, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, China's president
issued an unusual public appeal to a visiting North Korean official to
avoid aggravating tensions with its missile test program, as the US and
Japan urged Beijing to press its ally Pyongyang for concessions.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Andres Pastrana,
Colombia's ambassador to the United States, resigned in anger over
President Alvaro Uribe's selection of Ernesto Samper, a disgraced
former Colombian leader (1994-1998) as ambassador to France.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 11, Police in Kinshasa,
Congo, fired tear gas to break up stone-throwing demonstrators who were
alleging electoral irregularities ahead of the country's first
presidential vote in four decades.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 11, In India 8 explosions
hit Mumbai's commuter rail network during the evening rush hour,
killing over 200 people and wounding over 500. Police said
Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible.
(Econ, 7/29/06, p.39)(AP, 7/11/07)(WSJ, 12/8/08,
p.A6)
2006 Jul 11, Indonesia passed a
law granting tsunami-ravaged Aceh province greater autonomy and paving
the way for elections, cementing the terms of a landmark 2005 peace
accord with separatist rebels. The law allowed local political parties
and for the Acehnese to keep 70% of the revenues from their oil and gas
reserves.
(AP, 7/11/06)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.42)
2006 Jul 11, Sunni Arab
representatives said they will end their boycott of Iraq's parliament
following promises that a kidnapped colleague will be released and a
call for reconciliation by a radical Shiite cleric. Gunmen in Baghdad
intercepted a minivan carrying a coffin to the Shiite city of Najaf,
killing all 10 people on board. Another five people were killed in a
double bombing at a restaurant near the Green Zone. Bombings and
shootings killed at least 50 people Baghdad. An al-Qaida-linked group
posted a Web video purporting to show the mutilated bodies of two US
soldiers, claiming it killed them in revenge for the rape-slaying of a
young Iraqi woman by American troops from the same unit. The Mujahedeen
Shura Council had previously claimed responsibility for killing the two
soldiers, who were seized in a June 16 attack near the town of
Youssifiyah. The bodies were found on June 20. Gunmen kidnapped Wissam
Jabr al-Awadi, an Iraqi diplomat who specializes in relations with
Iran, as he was driving near his home in Baghdad.
(AP, 7/11/06)(SFC, 7/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 11, Israeli leaders
ordered new incursions into the Gaza Strip after the Hamas leader said
he would not free an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In Italy Piaggio
& C. SpA, the maker of the iconic Vespa scooter, defied weak market
conditions that have derailed other planned public offerings recently
to see its shares surge above the IPO price in their debut in Milan.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In Kashmir a series
of grenade attacks killed eight people and wounded more than two dozen
in the Srinagar.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, An officials said
Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry has decided to expel two US diplomats for
"inappropriate" contacts with nongovernment organizations.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, State Department
official Paula Dobriansky held talks with Libyan PM Baghdadi Mahmudi
and announced that the US has lifted sanctions on Libyan air transport.
(AFP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 11, In Mexico a man was
shot to death in front of Acapulco's City Hall and a naval officer was
abducted, the latest violence in this resort city hit by a wave of
drug-related crime. The 2 men slain were later identified as military
officers responsible for the mayor's security.
(AP, 7/11/06)(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 11, With the release of
hundreds of prisoners, wrestling matches and hordes of warriors on
horseback, Mongolia began a once-in-800-year party in honor of its
famed emperor Genghis Khan.
(AFP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Nepal's Maoists
revealed for the first time how many soldiers they have, 36,000, in
published remarks.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In northwestern
Pakistan torrential rains triggered flooding that washed away homes in
a village, killing 13 people and injuring about 300.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, President Mahmoud
Abbas' office said it had received $50 million from the Arab League,
the most international aid Palestinians have gotten since the Islamic
militant group Hamas won legislative elections.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Hundreds of fighters
who were battling Somalia's Islamic militia in Mogadishu surrendered
after a surge of violence that killed more than 70 people and wounded
150.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In South Korea more
than 10,000 workers and activists rallied in the 2nd day of
demonstrations aimed at blocking a free-trade agreement under
discussion with the US.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Four Tamil Tiger
rebels were killed when Sri Lanka's navy retaliated against an
attacking rebel boat in the sea off Northern Jaffna peninsula.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Ukraine's newly
created pro-Russian governing coalition proposed Viktor Yanukovych, a
bitter rival of President Viktor Yushchenko, as the next prime
minister, an appointment that would mark a humiliating defeat for the
president.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, The tiny nation of
Vanuatu, one of the "happy isles of Oceania," has topped a new index,
the UK-based New Economics Foundation (NEF), that measures quality of
life against environmental impact, with industrial countries, perhaps
unsurprisingly, faring badly.
(Reuters, 7/11/06)
2007 Jul 11, Lady Bird Johnson
(b.1912), widow of former US Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969), died
in Austin, Texas.
(SFC, 7/12/07, p.A2)(Econ, 7/21/07, p.85)
2007 Jul 11, In Algeria a suicide
bomber blew up a refrigerated truck loaded with explosives at a
military encampment outside Algiers, killing 10 soldiers and wounding
35.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Manol Velev, a
Bulgarian businessman, was shot and left in a coma. Velev was married
to Bulgaria’s sports minister and had paid for the 2006 re-election
campaign of Pres. Georgi Parvanov. Velev was released from the hospital
on December 6, 2007 and faced extensive rehabilitation.
(http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2007-12-06&article=9058)(Econ,
8/11/07, p.42)
2007 Jul 11, In Canada "Honest Ed"
Mirvish (92), a colorful Toronto character who restored theaters,
produced musicals, and ran a brash and cavernous discount store, died.
(Reuters, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, China's food and drug
agency announced stricter rules for approving new drugs. The government
also ordered small, loosely regulated food producers to clean up their
act.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Nick Young, British
editor of the newsletter China Development Brief, said officials had
ordered the shut down of the newsletter for violating a 1983 law on
gathering statistics. Young had founded the publication in 1995.
(SFC, 7/12/07, p.A11)
2007 Jul 11, Three firefighters
died while battling a blaze in a forest on the Greek island of Crete.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 11, A passenger ship
carrying 70 people disappeared off eastern Indonesia after reporting
engine failure in stormy seas. The bodies of two children were found
drifting in nearby waters along with several survivors.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Jordan's military
court convicted and sentenced two militants to prison with hard labor
for plotting to attack Americans living in the kingdom.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Kurdish leaders spoke
out against a key oil law, raising further doubts over efforts to pass
one of the political benchmarks sought by the United States.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Libya's Supreme Court
upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian
doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS
virus. But the verdict may not be the final word in the case.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, In western Mexico
Honda, Hershey's and other multinational companies temporarily shut
down their factories after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 11, Nigeria's
anti-corruption agency arrested two former governors who had refused to
present themselves for questioning.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 11, Pakistani commandos
cleared the warren-like Red Mosque complex of all its die-hard
defenders, following an assault that ended a bloody eight-day siege and
left more than 80 dead, including a pro-Taliban cleric.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Hamas boycotted the
opening of the Palestinian parliament's new term, effectively allowing
President Mahmoud Abbas to keep his moderate emergency Cabinet in power.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Rwanda’s state-run
radio said the Senate has approved the abolition of the death penalty,
a key step demanded by the international community to transfer genocide
suspects to Rwandan courts.
(AFP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Serbia rejected a new
US-backed UN draft resolution on Kosovo, saying it would only lead to
the province's independence.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, In southern Thailand
suspected separatists over the last 24 hours shot dead 4 people
including a government official, as the Thai premier began a two-day
visit to the region.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Turkey's ambassador
to Washington said that US weapons have been turning up in the hands of
Kurdish guerrillas staging attacks in Turkey.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2008 Jul 11, US banking regulators
seized IndyMac Bancorp Inc., Pasadena-based mortgage lender, after
withdrawals by panicked depositors led to the second-largest banking
failure in US history. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said that their
finances were sufficiently sound to withstand the housing crisis as
government officials scrambled to restore confidence in the country's
two largest mortgage finance companies.
(Reuters, 7/12/08)(SFC, 7/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 11, Gregg Bergersen (51),
a former US Defense Department analyst, was sentenced in Virginia to 57
months in prison for passing classified information about Taiwan to a
Chinese government agent.
(Reuters, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, Apple introduced its
next generation iPhone in 22 countries. Unprecedented demand caused
initial service problems.
(SFC, 7/12/08, p.C1)
2008 Jul 11, Oil prices touched
$147 a barrel before beginning a decline.
(Econ, 8/9/08, p.70)
2008 Jul 11, Dr. Michael DeBakey
(b.1908), the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon, died. He pioneered
such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of
devices to help heart patients. He was among the first to link lung
cancer to smoking in a medical journal article in 1939.
(AP, 7/12/08)(SSFC, 7/13/08, p.B6)
2008 Jul 11, In San Francisco
Armando Estrada (30) of Rodeo, Ca., was shot and killed at 20th and
Mission streets. In 2009 Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez and Guillermo Herrera,
alleged members of the MS-13 street gang, were charged with the murder.
(SFC, 10/23/09,
p.A12)(www.sfgov.org/site/police_index.asp?id=91505)
2008 Jul 11, In Australia the
official program for the Catholic church's World Youth Day began, but
was partly overshadowed by the launch of an investigation into sexual
abuse allegations against a disgraced priest. Thousands of pilgrims
converged on Sydney as it braced for the weekend arrival of Pope
Benedict.
(AFP, 7/11/08)(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Brazilian President
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised to support East Timor during talks
in Dili with Timorese leaders including President Jose Ramos-Horta.
(AFP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, In Cambodia Khim Sam
Bo (47), a journalist working for a pro-opposition newspaper, was
killed along with his son (19) in a drive-by shooting in Phnom Phen. A
gunman on a motorcycle shot five times at the victims as they were
leaving a sports stadium on a motorcycle.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, Officials said the
bodies of four Africans have been found in a small boat packed with
migrants trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands. It was the third such
tragedy in a week.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, President Raul Castro
warned Cubans to prepare for a "realistic" brand of communism that is
economically viable and does away with excessive state subsidies
designed to promote equality on the island.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, The Czech Republic’s
Industry and Trade Ministry announced that Russia has reduced its oil
shipments to the country without providing an explanation. The cutback
was announced three days after the nation signed a military agreement
with Washington that the Kremlin strongly opposes. Russia later said
the supplies dropped because 2 Russian firms had decided to refine more
crude at home.
(AP, 7/11/08)(WSJ, 7/15/08, p.A9)
2008 Jul 11, Ethiopia's Ogadeni
rebels accused the regime in Addis Ababa of deliberately blocking
international aid to their war-wracked and drought-stricken region.
(AFP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, In Iraq the US
military detained nine people suspected of involvement in the al-Qaida
in Iraq group in raids in Baghdad and the cities of Beiji and Mosul.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Israeli police
revealed stinging new allegations against PM Ehud Olmert, accusing him
of pocketing tens of thousands of dollars by deceiving multiple sources
into paying for the same trips abroad. Israeli troops killed a
Palestinian gunman who opened fire in the early morning on an Israeli
civilian driving in the West Bank.
(AP, 7/11/08)(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, International donors
pledged more than half of the euro1.5 billion ($2.36 billion) in aid
requested by Kosovo to build up its infrastructure and democratic
institutions.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Lebanon's PM Fuad
Saniora announced a new national unity Cabinet in which Hezbollah and
its allies have veto power over government decisions.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, A fishing boat,
carrying eight Taiwanese, one Chinese and six crew members from
Madagascar, sank after reporting engine problems.
(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 11, In the Netherlands
health authorities announced a Dutch woman, infected during a holiday
to Uganda by the contagious Marburg virus, had died overnight. The
Marburg virus is similar to Ebola and causes heavy bleeding. About 100
people who may have had contact with the woman were under surveillance.
(AFP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, A senior military
official said the Nigerian navy has arrested 15 Filipinos after
intercepting a vessel carrying a significant quantity of stolen crude
oil off the coast of the Niger Delta. Gunboats intercepted the MV Lina
Panama in the waters off Brass, home to a major oil export terminal in
the southern state of Bayelsa. One security source said the vessel was
thought to be carrying tens of thousands of tons of stolen oil.
(Reuters, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, A North Korean
soldier fatally shot a South Korean woman tourist (53) at a mountain
resort in the communist North, prompting the South to suspend the
high-profile tour program. Park Wang-ja had strayed a half-mile
into a fenced off military area and was shot twice from behind.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, In Serbia a bus
carrying Polish tourists overturned north of Belgrade, killing six
people and injuring nearly 40.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Somali troops shot
and killed 7 civilians in southern Mogadishu after accusing them of
being part of an Islamic insurgency.
(SFC, 7/11/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 11, In southern Sri Lanka
suspected rebel gunmen ambushed a crowded passenger bus as it traveled
down a small rural road. The attack killed a boy and three women and
wounded 25 others. Clashes broke out in the Mannar, Vavuniya and
Welioya regions surrounding the rebel stronghold killed 17 rebels.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, Thai prosecutors
filed new corruption charges against ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra for
alleged abuse of authority to benefit his family business.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, A Turkish news agency
reported that army troops clashed with Kurdish rebels in the southeast
and that 10 of the rebels were killed.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, The UN commemorated
World Population Day.
(www.unfpa.org/wpd/)
2008 Jul 11, Venezuela's Hugo
Chavez and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe mended relations after months of
sniping that threatened trade and unleashed a diplomatic crisis.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Zimbabwe’s opposition
Movement for Democratic Change said a total of 113 MDC supporters have
now been killed in politically-related violence. Zimbabwe's ruling
party and opposition held a second day of talks in South Africa. A UN
Security Council bid to pass sanctions against Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe
was vetoed by Russia and China.
(AP, 7/11/08)(AFP, 7/11/08)(AFP, 7/12/08)
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