Today in History - July 12
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c100BCE Jul 12, Gaius Julius Caesar
(d.44BC), Roman general and statesman, was born.
(WUD, 1994 p.208)(AP, 7/12/97)(HN, 7/12/98)
783 Jul 12, Bertha "with the great
feet", wife of French king Pippin III, died.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1096 Jul 12, Crusaders under Peter
the Hermit reach Sofia in Hungary.
(HN, 7/12/99)
1109 Jul 12, Crusaders captured
harbor city of Tripoli.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1191 Jul 12, Richard Coeur de Lion
and Crusaders defeated the Saracens at Acre.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1290 Jul 12, Jews were expelled
from England by order of King Edward I.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1450 Jul 12, Jack Cade was slain
in a revolt against British King Henry VI.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1536 Jul 12, Desiderius Erasmus
(b.1469 in Rotterdam) died, humanist, priest (Novum instrumentum omne),
died. His most famous works included "In Praise of Folly" and a Greek
text of the New Testament. In 1999 Prof. Charles Trinkaus published
"Collected Works of Erasmus: Controversies," an examination of the
religious conflict between humanism and the Reformation.
(V.D.-H.K.p.159-160)(SFC, 9/27/99, p.A26)(WSJ,
1/31/03, p.W13)(MC, 7/12/02)
1543 Jul 12, England's King Henry
VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, who outlived him.
(AP, 7/12/97)
1630 Jul 12, New Amsterdam's
governor bought Gull Island from Indians for cargo and renamed it
Oyster Island. It later became Ellis Island.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1679 Jul 12, Britain's King
Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1690 Jul 12, Due to British
calendar changes in 1752, the July 1, 1690, Battle of Boyne (in
Ireland) was adjusted for celebration on Jul 12.
(SFEC, 9/27/98, BR p.5)(AP, 7/11/05)
1691 Jul 12, William III defeated
the allied Irish and French armies at the Battle of Aughrim, Ireland.
(HN, 7/12/98)
1712 Jul 12, Richard Cromwell
(85), English Lord Protector (1658-59), died.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1730 Jul 12, Josiah Wedgwood,
pottery designer, manufacturer (Wedgwood), was born in England.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1771 Jul 12, James Cook sailed
Endeavour back to Downs, England.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1774 Jul 12, Citizens of Carlisle,
Penn., passed a declaration of independence.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1776 Jul 12, Capt. Cook departed
with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1790 Jul 12, The French Assembly
approved a Civil Constitution providing for the election of priests and
bishops.
(HN, 7/12/98)
1794 Jul 12, British Admiral Lord
Nelson lost his right eye at the siege of Calvi, in Corsica.
(HN, 7/12/98)
1804 Jul 12, Alexander Hamilton
(47), US Sec. of Treasury, died in New York of wounds from a pistol
duel in New Jersey with VP Aaron Burr. In 1920 Frederick Scott Oliver
authored a Hamilton biography. In 2002 Stephen Knott authored
"Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth." In 2004 Ron Chernow
authored the biography "Alexander Hamilton." Lawyer Ambrose Spencer
(1765-1848) said Hamilton “more than any man, did the thinking of his
time.”
(WSJ, 2/4/04, p.A1)(SSFC, 4/25/04, p.M3)(WSJ,
10/20/04, p.D12)
1806 Jul 12, The Confederation of
the Rhine was established in Germany.
(HN, 7/12/98)
1812 Jul 12, United States forces
led by General William Hull entered Canada during the War of 1812
against Britain. However, Hull retreated shortly thereafter to Detroit.
Madison had called for 50,000 volunteers to invade Canada but only
5,000 signed up.
(AP, 7/12/99)(ON, 9/02, p.2)
1817 Jul 12, Henry David Thoreau
(d.1862), essayist, naturalist and poet, was born in Concord, Mass. His
work included "On Walden Pond." He referred to the three Greek
goddesses of fate: Clotho (spinner of the thread of destiny), Lachesis
(disposer of lots) and especially Atropos (who holds the scissors that
will cut endeavor short). "We have constructed a fate, an Atropos, that
never turns aside." He was also the author of the essays "Civil
Disobedience and Slavery in Massachusetts."
(AHD, p.1339)(Civil., Jul-Aug., '95, p.66)(HFA, '96,
p.34)(HN, 7/12/98)
1843 Jul 12, Mormon leader Joseph
Smith said God encourages polygamy.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1849 Jul 12, William Osler
(d.1919), physician, author (circulatory system), was born in Canada.
"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next,
and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."
(AP, 10/15/98)(MC, 7/12/02)
1852 Jul 12, Dr. John Hudson
Wayman camped at the City of Rocks in Idaho and called it “one of the
finest places of its kind in the world.” US Congress named the area a
national reserve in 1988.
(SFC, 7/6/06, p.E2)
1854 Jul 12, George Eastman
(d.1932), inventor of the Kodak camera, was born in Waterville, N.Y.
(AP, 7/12/99)
1859 Jul 12, William Goodale
patented a paper bag manufacturing machine in Mass.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1861 Jul 12, Anton Stepanovich
Arensky, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1862 Jul 12, The US Congress
authorized the Medal of Honor. Between 1861 and 1999 the medal was
awarded to 3,410 members of the US armed forces. The Web site for the
US Army Center of Military History:
www2.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm
(AP, 7/12/97)(SFC, 5/31/99, p.A7)
1862 Jul 12, Federal troops
occupied Helena, Arkansas.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1864 Jul 12, President Abraham
Lincoln became the first standing president to witness a battle as
Union forces repelled Jubal Early's army on the outskirts of
Washington, D.C.
(HN, 7/12/98)
1874 Jul 12, Start of Sherlock
Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott."
(MC, 7/12/02)
1878 Jul 12, A Yellow Fever
epidemic began in New Orleans. It killed 4,500.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1884 Jul 12, Amadeo Modigliani,
painter and sculptor (Reclining Nude), was born in Italy.
(HN, 7/12/01)(MC, 7/12/02)
1895 Jul 12, Kirsten Flagstad,
Norwegian opera singer, was born.
(HN, 7/12/01)
1895 Jul 12, R. Buckminster Fuller
(d.1983), architect and engineer, was born. "The more we learn the more
we realize how little we know."
(AP, 7/1/97)(HN, 7/12/01)
1895 Jul 12, Oscar Hammerstein II,
lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers, was born in NYC.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1904 Jul 12, Pablo Neruda
(d.1973), Chilean poet and political activist (Residence on Earth-Nobel
1971), was born as Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile.
(HN, 7/12/01)(SFC, 7/15/04, p.E11)
1906 Jul 12, French Captain Alfred
Dreyfus was found innocent in France of his earlier court-martial for
spying for Germany. Dreyfus had served over 4 years on Devil’s Island
before a top French court rehabilitated his name in what came to be
called the Dreyfus Affair.
(PC, 1992, p.664)(SFC, 7/13/06, p.A16)
1908 Jul 12, Milton Berle
(d.2002), comedian, was born as Mendel Berlinger in New York City.
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A15)(AP, 7/12/08)
1908 Jul 12, The Missouri Gazette
began publishing under Joseph Charless.
(SSFC, 1/4/04, p.M5)
1909 Jul 12, "Curly" Joe DeRita
(Joseph Wardell) (The Three Stooges: The Outlaw is Coming, Snow White
and the Three Stooges, Have Rocket, Will Travel; died July 3, 1993),
was born.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1917 Jul 12, Andrew Wyeth, painter
who focused on the northeastern United States, was born in Chadds Ford,
Pa. In 1998 Beth Venn and Adam Weinberg published "Unknown Terrain," a
companion piece to a Whitney Museum exhibition of his art.
(HN, 7/12/98)(MC, 7/12/02)(www.wyethcenter.com)
1918 Jul 12, A Japanese battleship
exploded in the Bay of Tokayama and some 500 people were killed.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1925 Jul 12, Roger Smith, CEO
(General Motors) ("Roger and Me" movie), was born.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1926 Jul 12, Gertrude Bell
(b.1868), British archeologist and intelligence officer, died in
Baghdad. From 1900 to 1913 she journeyed some 20,000 miles from
Istanbul to the Syrian desert and on to Iraq. In 2006 Georgina Howell
authored ”Daughter of the Desert: The Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell.”
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.79)(http://tinyurl.com/p59fy)
1934 Jul 12, Van Cliburn, American
concert pianist, was born.
(HN, 7/12/01)
1935 Jul 12, Alfred Dreyfus,
French officer (Dreyfus Affair), died.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1937 Jul 12, Bill Cosby, comedian,
actor, was born.
(HN, 7/12/98)
1940 Jul 12, Rufus Robinson and
Earl Cooley jumped out of a Travelair plane to fight the a forest fire
in Idaho’s Nez Perce national Forest. The were the first smoke-jumpers.
(SFC, 9/14/96, p.B5)
1941 Jul 12, Moscow was bombed by
the German Luftwaffe for the first time.
(HN, 7/12/98)
1942 Jul 12, Richard Stoltzman,
clarinetist (Tashi), was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1943 Jul 12, The US submarine
Pampanito was christened in New Hampshire. In 1982 the sub opened to
the public at Pier 45 in San Francisco.
(SFC, 9/24/03, p.A23)
1943 Jul 12, Pope Pius XII
received Baron von Weizsacker, the German ambassador.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1943 Jul 12, Russians beat Nazis
in a tank battle at Prochorowka. Some 12,000 died.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1944 Jul 12, US government
recognized the authority of General De Gaulle.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1944 Jul 12, The Theresienstadt
Family camp disbanded and some 4,000 people were executed.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1946 Jul 12, Benjamin Britten's
"Rape of Lucretia," premiered in Glyndebourne.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1948 Jul 12, The Democratic
national convention opened in Philadelphia.
(AP, 7/12/98)
1948 July 12, The Marshall Plan
Conference convened in Paris. It was attended by 16 European nations
and established the Committee for European Economic Cooperation.
(HNQ, 9/28/99)
1951 Jul 12, A mob tried to keep a
black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Ill.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1954 Jul 12, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be
shared by federal and state governments.
(HN, 7/12/98)
1957 Jul 12, The U.S. surgeon
general, Leroy E. Burney (d.1998 at 91), reported that there is a
direct link between smoking and lung cancer. Dr. John Altshuler
(1931-2004) co-researched the "Joint Report of Study Group on Smoking
and Health," published by the US Public Health Service.
(HN, 7/12/98)(SFC, 8/5/98, p.A17)(SFC, 2/7/04, p.A20)
1957 Jul 12, Santa Susana in Los
Angeles County began receiving the nation’s first commercial
electricity from a small, civilian-owned, nuclear reactor. It was shut
down in 1964 and scientists later reported that the plant might be
responsible hundreds of cancer cases. PG&E had teamed with General
Electric to establish the Vallecitos atomic energy plant, the world’s
1st privately owned and operated nuclear facility.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A5)(SSFC, 4/8/07, p.A18)
1966 Jul 12, There were race riots
in Chicago.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1966 Jul 12, D.T. Suzuki (96), Zen
Buddhism scholar, died in Tokyo, Japan.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1967 Jul 12, Blacks in Newark
rioted. 26 were killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1967 Jul 12, Greek regime deprived
480 Greeks of their citizenship.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1971 Jul 12, Kristi Tsuya
Yamaguchi, figure skater, was born in Hayward, Cal. In 1992 she won an
Olympic gold medal.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi_Yamaguchi)
1974 Jul 12, President Richard
Nixon's aides G. Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman and two others were
convicted of conspiracy and perjury in connection with the Watergate
scandal. They were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights
of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.
(AP, 7/12/97)(HN, 7/12/98)
1974 Jul 12, The US Budget Control
Act was signed into law. It stripped away from the president the power
to withhold appropriated spending, and placed it in the hands of
Congress. The Congressional budget Office was formed.
(WSJ, 2/27/00,
p.A1)(http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/index.html?pagenum=28)
1975 Jul 12, The islands of Sao
Tome and Principe achieved independence from Portugal.
(AP, 7/18/03)
1976 Jul 12, Edward Charles
Allaway, a campus janitor, killed 7 people in a library at California
State Univ. at Fullerton. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity
and was confined at a state mental hospital.
(SFC, 12/22/01,
p.A5)(www.spock.com/Edward-Charles-Allaway)
1977 Jul 12, President Carter
defended Supreme Court decisions limiting government payments for poor
women's abortions, saying, "There are many things in life that are not
fair."
(AP, 7/12/97)
1979 Jul 12, "Disco Demolition
Night" at Comiskey Park, caused fans to go wild. It also caused the
White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night)
1979 Jul 12, Pop singer Minnie
Riperton (b.1947), famed for her three-octave range, died of cancer.
”Lovin’ You,” Riperton’s international blockbuster, topped the
Billboard Hot 100 in 1975. She was a member of Stevie Wonder's backup
group, Wonderlove, in 1973.
(http://tinyurl.com/dd5q3)
1979 Jul 12, The Gilbert Islands
gained independence from Britain and became a nation, the Archipelago
of Kiribati. It is a chain of 35 islands that sprawls 1,860 miles from
east to west. Fanning Island was renamed to Tabuaeran.
(www.worldstatesmen.org/Kiribati.htm)(SFC, 7/1/97,
p.A9)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.C22)
1984 Jul 12, Madonna's "Like a
Virgin" video premiered on MTV and became an instant hit.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_Virgin_%28song%29)
1984 Jul 12, Democratic
presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced he had chosen U.S.
Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate; Ferraro
was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.
(AP, 7/12/97)(HN, 7/12/98)
1985 Jul 12, Doctors discovered
what turned out to be a cancerous growth in President Reagan’s large
intestine, prompting surgery the following day.
(AP, 7/12/00)
1987 Jul 12, For the first time in
20 years, a delegation of Soviet diplomats arrived in Israel for what
was described as a "technical mission" to document Soviet citizens and
make an inventory of Soviet property.
(AP, 7/12/97)
1988 Jul 12, The American League
beat the National League 2-1 in the All-Star game played in Cincinnati.
(AP, 7/12/98)
1988 Jul 12, Democratic
presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis tapped Texas Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen as his running mate.
(AP, 7/12/98)
1988 Jul 12, Russia’s PHOBOS 2
Flyby and lander was launched. It failed within 480 miles of Mar’s moon
Phobos.
(SFC, 11/19/96,
p.B1)(www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mars/space_missions.html)
1989 Jul 12, President Bush
continued his visit to Hungary, where he held talks with officials and
made a speech at Karl Marx University in Budapest.
(AP, 7/12/99)
1989 Jul 12, A farmer in eastern
France went on a shooting rampage, killing 14 people before being
captured.
(AP, 7/12/99)
1990 Jul 12, CBS introduced the TV
saga "Northern Exposure." The show ran to 1995. Margaret Phillips
(d.2002) played general-store owner Ruth-Anne Miller.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.D5)(WSJ, 7/15/96, p.A9)(SFC,
11/12/02, p.A26)
1990 Jul 12, Russian republic
president Boris N. Yeltsin shocked the 28th congress of the Soviet
Communist Party by announcing he was resigning his party membership.
(AP, 7/12/97)
1991 Jul 12, A Japanese professor
who had translated Salman Rushdie’s "The Satanic Verses" was found
stabbed to death, nine days after the novel’s Italian translator was
attacked in Milan.
(AP, 7/12/01)
1992 Jul 12, In an emotional
farewell speech, Benjamin Hooks, outgoing executive director of the
NAACP, urged the group's convention in Nashville, Tenn., to show the
world that it remained vital.
(AP, 7/12/97)
1992 Jul 12, Albert Pierrepont,
last British hangman (433 men and 17 women), died.
(www.inthe90s.com/generated/obit1992.shtml)
1993 Jul 12, Andrew Lloyd Webber's
musical "Sunset Boulevard" opened in London.
(www.reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/sunset/)
1993 Jul 12, 196 people were
killed when an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 7.8 struck northern
Japan.
(AP, 7/12/98)
1993 Jul 12, In Somalia a mob
avenging a deadly United Nations attack on the compound of Mohamed
Farrah Aidid killed Dan Eldon (22), a US photo-journalist working for
Reuters, and three colleagues. They were stoned and beaten to death at
the scene of a bombing by UN forces of a house believed to be the
headquarters of Gen’l. Aidid.
(SFEM,11/16/97, p.30)(AP, 7/12/98)
1994 Jul 12, The National League
won the US baseball All-Star Game, defeating the American League 8-7.
(AP, 7/12/99)
1994 Jul 12, President Clinton,
visiting Germany, went to the eastern sector of Berlin, the first
president to do so since Harry Truman.
(AP, 7/12/99)
1994 Jul 12, US confirmation
hearings began for Supreme Court nominee Stephen G. Breyer.
(AP, 7/12/04)
1994 Jul 12, The shareholders and
employees of United Airlines approved a deal giving the majority
ownership to the employees (76,000+).
(Hem, Dec. 94, p.13)
1995 Jul 12, President Clinton
spelled out school-prayer guidelines, asserting the First Amendment
already guaranteed adequate freedom of religion.
(AP, 7/12/00)
1995 Jul 12, US public debt said
by the Treasury to be $4.93 trillion.
(WSJ, 7/12/95, p.A-1)
1995 Jul 12, In Bosnia Momir
Nikolic, an intelligence officer, was nearby when 80-100 prisoners were
decapitated and their headless corpses loaded onto trucks. Nikolic was
arrested in 2002 on charges that he was responsible for the killing of
some 1,000 Muslim males (16-60), who were taken from a UN compound in
Jul 1995. He was also charged for the deaths of 6,000 more prisoners
captured while fleeing from Srebrenica. In 2003 Nikolic pleaded guilty
to war crimes. In 2003 Nikolic accepted that he was on duty when 80-100
prisoners were decapitated and their corpses loaded onto trucks.
Prosecutors recommended 20 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/4/02, p.A8)(AP, 5/6/03)(AP, 10/28/03)
1996 Jul 12, The House voted
overwhelmingly to define marriage in federal law as a legal union of
one man and one woman, no matter what states might say.
(AP, 7/12/97)
1996 Jul 12, Hurricane
Bertha hit North Carolina's Cape Fear near Wilmington, then moved on to
batter a string of coastal towns.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/12/97)
1996 Jul 12, Lee Guthrie Jr., a
member of the Aryan Republican Army, was found dead of an apparent
suicide in a county jail in Kentucky. The group advocated killing Jews,
deporting African-Americans and setting up a Bible-based nation.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A7)
1996 Jul 12, John Chancellor
(b.1927), news reporter, died. He had been an anchor reporter on NBC
Nightly News from 1970-1982.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A5)
1996 Jul 12, Gottfried von Einem
(b.1918), Swiss composer, died in Oberduirnbach.
(www.einem.org/en/komp_ll.htm)
1996 Jul 12, The EU warned that it
would freeze US assets and impose visa requirements on Americans if
European companies are penalized for investing in Cuba.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A9)
1996 Jul 12, A divorce settlement
between Lady Diana Spencer and Charles, the Prince of Wales was agreed
upon. Diana would be called "Her Royal Highness" and would receive
about $22.5 mil plus an annual $600,000 to maintain her private office.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A8)
1996 Jul 12, In Libya at least 20
people were killed in Tripoli at a soccer match. Bodyguards loyal to
the sons of Moammar Ghadafi fired at spectators who shouted hostile
slogans. A stampede resulted.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A11)
1996 Jul 12, In Northern Ireland
authorities relented and allowed the Orange Order to march through the
village of Drumcree.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A1)(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A8)
1996 Jul 12, Russian banks were
undergoing a major shakeout. 2,132 banks were operating, a 20% decrease
since 1994.
(WSJ, 7/12/96, p.A8)
1996 Jul 12, In southern Sudan at
least 700,000 people were facing starvation because of the Khartoum
government’s refusal to allow large-scale food aid.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A14)
1996 Jul 12, Venezuela was awarded
a $1.4 billion credit from the Int’l. Monetary Fund.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A10)
1997 Jul 12, In Copenhagen, the
last stop of an eight-day European tour, President Clinton said
political divisions in Europe were closing.
(AP, 7/12/98)
1997 Jul 12, In Berlin, Germany,
several hundreds of thousands gathered for the annual Love Parade, a
big party for fans of the electronic dance music known as techno.
(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.D8)
1997 Jul 12, In Spain, kidnapped
Basque politician Miguel Angel Blanco was found mortally dead shortly
after a deadline set by his militant Basque captors.
(AP, 7/12/98)
1998 Jul 12, In Afghanistan
Taliban forces captured Maimana, the provincial capital of the Faryab
province from forces under Gen’l. Rashid Dostum.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 12, In Ecuador Jamil
Mahuad, the mayor of Quito, won the election according to exit polls.
His margin was 51.3% to 48.7 and he promised to fight poverty.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A7)(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 12, In France the French
team beat Brazil, 3-0, for its first World Cup soccer championship.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A1) (AP, 7/12/99)
1998 Jul 12, Honduras, Guatemala
and El Salvador agreed to join forces to build a $2 billion railroad
network to link Central America with Mexico.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 12, It was reported that
Japan burns 38 million tons of garbage a year compared to 34 million
for the US. Japan’s air was reported to contain 10 times more dioxin
that US air. Elections were held.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, Par p.16)(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 12, In Ballymoney,
Northern Ireland a firebomb killed 3 young boys, Richard, Mark and
Jason Quinn, who had been asleep in their beds. Garfield Gilmour (24)
was later arrested, convicted of murder and sentenced to 3 life
sentences for his role. Gilmour admitted that he drove an Ulster
Volunteer Force gang to the house that night, but that he was coerced.
He identified his companions but there was insufficient evidence for
charges.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A1)(AP, 7/12/99)(SFC, 10/30/99,
p.A13)
1998 Jul 12, In Rwanda Hutu rebels
hacked, shot or burned to death 34 people who had gathered in a hotel
to watch the soccer finals.
(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 12, South Korea went on
alert after discovering the body of a North Korean commando and a
submersible boat that could carry five men.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A6)
1999 Jul 12, President Clinton and
Republican congressional leaders held their first face-to-face budget
meeting of the year; the talk was described afterward as positive.
(AP, 7/12/00)
1999 Jul 12, The US Justice Dept.
sued Toyota Corp. for violating clean air standards after Toyota
rejected a settlement for $100 million in penalties. A potential $60
billion in fines was reported.
(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A6)
1999 Jul 12, In St. Louis several
hundred workers and activists of MO-KAN blocked I-70 to demand that
more minorities be hired for state construction jobs.
(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 12, In Argentina stocks
fell nearly 9% as investors worried over the local political and
economic factors.
(WSJ, 7/13/99, p.C16)
1999 Jul 12, In Belgium a new
coalition government under Guy Verhofstadt took office.
(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 12, In Colombia fighting
subsided after a 4-day guerrilla blitz.
(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 12, In Iran student
protests spread to 18 cities across the country. In Tehran security
forces and fundamentalist vigilantes emptied Tehran Univ. in a campaign
to crush the demonstrations.
(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A8)
1999 Jul 12, In Serbia some 7,000
people protested against Pres. Milosevic in Valjevo.
(WSJ, 7/13/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 12, From Sudan it was
reported that heavy fighting had left 150,000 people without food after
they fled their homes.
(WSJ, 7/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 12, In Taiwan Pres. Lee
Teng-hui abandoned the operating "one China" principle in favor of
"state-to-state" relations.
(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A1,12)
1999 Jul 12, In Zimbabwe the trial
for 3 American held on sabotage and weapons charges was scheduled. They
were found guilty on Sep 10 and were sentenced to 1-year prison terms.
They were released on Nov 6 and sent home.
(SFC, 5/22/99, p.A16)(SFC, 9/11/99, p.A9)(WSJ,
9/16/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C14)
2000 Jul 12, The New Hampshire
House of Representatives voted to impeach Chief Justice David A. Brock
for perpetuating misconduct and a culture of secrecy. It the first such
action against an official in the state since 1790. He was later
acquitted in a state Senate trial.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A3)(AP, 7/12/01)
2000 Jul 12, In Philadelphia a
WPVI News camera showed city police beat and kick Thomas Jones (30)
over nationwide TV. Jones had stolen a patrol car and shot at an
officer. Jones later pleaded guilty to carjacking and other crimes, and
was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison. Ballistic tests later showed
that Officer Michael Livewell was shot in the thumb by another officer
during their struggle with Jones. 13 police officers were later
suspended for up to 15 days in connection with the incident.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.A1,16)(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A5)(AP,
7/12/05)
2000 Jul 12, Gemstar, a pioneer in
interactive TV, merged with TV Guide in a stock deal valued at $14.2
billion with Gemstar founder Henry C. Yuen as chairman and CEO. In 2003
the SEC filed fraud charges against Yuen for overstated revenues and
Yuen erased the contents of his hard drive. In 2005 Yuen pleaded guilty
to one criminal count of obstruction of justice. In 2006 a federal
judge found Yuen liable on civil fraud charges and ordered him to pay
$22 million in disgorgement, interest and fine.
(WSJ, 4/25/07, p.A1,9)
2000 Jul 12, In Fiji coup leaders
released the last 18 hostages and ended a standoff that began May 18.
2000 Jul 12, In India at least 71
people were killed after part of Balbati Hill collapsed in eastern
Bombay. The death toll from monsoon rains over 2 days reached 135 for
Maharashtra and Gujarat states.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)(SFC, 7/14/00, p.D2)(SFC,
7/15/00, p.A13) (SFC, 7/13/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 12, Israel cancelled
plans to sell an AWACS-equipped plane to China.
(WSJ, 7/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 12, The Russian-made
Zvezda service module for the Int’l. Space Station was launched from
the Baikonur site in Kazakstan.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A8)(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 12, In Spain a car bomb
exploded at the entrance of the Corte Ingles department store in
Madrid. 10 people were injured.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)
2000 Jul 12, In Togo 36 African
heads of state signed a draft treaty seen as a step toward an African
Union.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)
2001 Jul 12, Abner Louima, the
Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to
an $8.7 million settlement.
(AP, 7/12/02)
2001 Jul 12, In Virginia a woman
delivered 5 boys and 2 girls by C-section. This was only the 3rd set of
septuplets known to have survived birth.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 12, The US space shuttle
Atlantis took off with a crew of 5 to deliver a portal for spacewalks
to the Int’l. Space Station Alpha.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A3)(SFC, 7/14/01, p.C1)
2001 Jul 12, In Bulgaria Simeon
Saxe-Coburgotski (64), the former King Simeon II, was chosen as Prime
Minister. He promised to solve the country's problems in 800 days.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A14)(Econ, 11/1/03, p.46)
2001 Jul 12, In Indonesia
paramilitary officers guarded 2 top police commanders in defiance of
demands by Pres. Wahid that they be arrested.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 12, In Northern Ireland
police fought with rioters following a day of marches by Protestants.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 12, Israeli tanks shelled
police posts in Nablus after Palestinian gunmen wounded Israeli
motorists. One Palestinian police officer was killed.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 12, In Russia Pres. Putin
signed into law a bill that limited private donations to $100 per year
and required political parties to have at least 10,000 members.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 12, In Somalia fighting
broke out between rival subgroups of the Abgal clan in the Suq-Fad’ad
market of Mogadishu and at least 14 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A11)
2002 Jul 12, The Bush
administration expected a $165 billion deficit mainly due to a falloff
in tax revenues from stock market capital gains.
(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 12, The US Senate adopted
a ban on personal loans from companies to their top officials, a
practice that had benefited executives from Enron to WorldCom.
(AP, 7/12/03)
2002 Jul 12, The IRS named Bill
Simon, GOP candidate for California state governor, in a case involving
potentially illegal offshore tax shelters. Dozens of other wealthy
investors were also named.
(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 12, In Canada an Ontario
court ruled that refusing legal recognition to gay and lesbian
marriages in unconstitutional.
(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 12, Chinese officials
reported that nearly 1,000 schoolchildren in northeast China were
rushed to hospital after being vaccinated in late June for encephalitis
and two senior officials were arrested and charged with negligence.
(Reuters, 7/12/02)
2002 Jul 12, A Colombia army
spokesman said clashes across Colombia this week left at least 52
rebels and government soldiers dead.
(AP, 7/12/02)
2002 Jul 12, In India's Kashmir
region at least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded, some critically,
in a shootout. Shops and businesses downed shutters in Srinagar, the
summer capital of India's disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir, in
response to a strike call by separatists to honor Kashmiri "martyrs".
(Reuters, 7/13/02)(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 12, In Indonesia a woman
was killed and four men were wounded when a bomb exploded near Poso,
Central Sulawesi.
(Reuters, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 12, In Mexico farmers
desperate to keep their land from being seized for a new Mexico City
airport threatened to kill about a dozen hostages and spark uprisings
across the country.
(AP, 7/12/02)
2002 Jul 12, Palestinian
free-lance photographer Imad Abu Zahra died of a gunshot wound in the
northern West Bank, and a fellow photographer said the shots came from
a machine gun on an Israeli tank July 11. 2 Palestinians were killed in
an exchange of gunfire in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 7/12/02)(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 12, Ismail Cem, Turkey's
former foreign minister, launched a new political party to topple Prime
Minister Bulent Ecevit, who is fighting to stay in power despite poor
health and a mutiny within his Cabinet.
(AP, 7/12/02)
2002 Jul 12, The UN Security
Council agreed to exempt US peacekeepers from war crimes prosecution
for a year, ending a threat to UN peacekeeping operations.
(AP, 7/12/03)
2003 Jul 12, Pres. Bush met with
Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo in Nigeria. They discussed the circumstances
under which Liberian President Charles Taylor will live in exile in
Nigeria, Wrapping up a five-day tour of Africa, President Bush said he
would not allow terrorists to use the continent as a base "to threaten
the world."
(SFC, 7/7/03, p.A8)(AP, 7/12/04)
2003 Jul 12, Former White House
press secretary Ari Fleischer leaked the identity of a CIA operative
(Valerie Plame) to Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus during a
phone call. Pincus testified to this in 2007 as the first defense
witness in the CIA leak trial.
(AP, 2/12/07)
2003 Jul 12, The USS Ronald
Reagan, the first carrier named for a living president, was
commissioned in Norfolk, Va.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2003 Jul 12, Benny Carter (95),
jazz musician, composer and bandleader, died in Los Angeles. He was
know as "The King." His work included arrangements for the 1943 film
"Stormy Weather."
(SFC, 7/14/03, p.B4)(WSJ, 7/16/03, p.D8)
2003 Jul 12, In Belgium PM Guy
Verhofstadt took office as head of a new center-left government and
immediately agreed to replace a war crimes law that has soured
Belgium's relations with the United States.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 12, In Germany Techno
fans took part in the 15th Love Parade in Berlin. Hundreds of thousands
fans of techno music were expected to join the event.
(AP, 7/12/03)
2003 Jul 12, In southern Chechnya
rebels ambushed a Russian military vehicle and staged hit-and-run
attacks against federal positions, killing 16 soldiers and wounding 13.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 12, Western Sahara's
rebels unexpectedly accepted a peace plan for the mineral-rich region,
but Morocco remained opposed.
(AP, 7/12/03)
2004 Jul 12, President Bush
defended the Iraq war during a visit to the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory in Tennessee, saying the invasion had made America safer.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2004 Jul 12, The Bush
administration announced a new rule to allow the nation’s governors to
help decide whether roadless areas in their states should be opened for
logging or other commercial activity.
(SFC, 7/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 12, Wall Street brokerage
Morgan Stanley settled a sex discrimination suit brought by the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission, agreeing to pay $54 million.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2004 Jul 12, A foot or more of
rain fell in parts of the Northeast. No injuries had been reported in
the stricken areas of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
(AP, 7/13/04)
2004 Jul 12, Winter storms have
violently struck several South American countries in recent days,
leading to eight weather-related deaths in Argentina and Chile. Some
75,000 farm animals died in Peru and record below freezing temperatures
in southern Brazil.
(AP, 7/12/04)(SFC, 7/17/04, p.C8)
2004 Jul 12, Monsoon floods
continued to wreak havoc across South Asia, killing 37 more people and
forcing millions to flee their homes or seek emergency shelter.
Flooding has killed 36 people in Bangladesh this year. A total of 47
people have died in Nepal since June. In India a total of 158 people
have died in flooding since the beginning of June.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2004 Jul 12, The Danish government
upheld the clerical suspension of a Lutheran minister who proclaimed
last year that there was no God or afterlife, and he now could be fired
or fined for declaring his beliefs in the pulpit.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2004 Jul 12, Iraqi police in
Baghdad jailed over 500 criminal suspects in a large anti-crime
offensive. 1 suspect was killed in the crime-ridden Bab al-Sheikh
neighborhood.
(USAT, 7/4/04, p.5A)
2004 Jul 12, A Sri Lankan woman
was beheaded in the Saudi capital for murdering her employer. Bader
el-Nisaa Mibari had been convicted of killing Sara bint Mohammed
al-Haqeel, a Saudi woman, after trying to rob her with the help a male
companion.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2004 Jul 12, Newspapers in Senegal
and the Central African Republic suspended publication to protest the
jailings of leading journalists.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2005 Jul 12, Miguel Tejada and
Mark Teixeira led the American League to a 7-5 win over the National
League in Detroit for the AL's eighth straight All-Star victory.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2005 Jul 12, In Brazil Luiz
Gushiken, Pres. Lula’s communications wizard, was stripped of
ministerial status following reports that his business partners had
been blessed with fat federal contracts.
(Econ, 7/16/05, p.33)
2005 Jul 12, British police closed
Luton's train station and carried out 9 controlled explosions on a
parked car, which the BBC reported contained explosives. At least 3
Britons from Leeds of Pakistani descent were suspected of carrying out
the July 7 attacks that killed 54 and injured 700. Surveillance cameras
captured the men as they arrived in the capital 20 minutes before the
explosions began.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 12, BP said it has sent
teams to fix its 'Thunder Horse' oil platform, which has been listing
since Hurricane Dennis hit the Gulf of Mexico. The platform, located
150 miles (250 kilometers) southeast of New Orleans, was slipping by
around 20-30 degrees following the passing of the storm, but no
injuries or leaks were reported.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 12, In Costa Rica a fire
at the Calderon Guardia Hospital killed 19 people. 2 more people died
later from complications. The building lacked proper fire exits. On Oct
7 the country's top investigator said died the fire was set
deliberately.
(WSJ, 7/13/05, p.A1)(AP, 10/8/05)
2005 Jul 12, A raid by hundreds of
Ethiopian bandits on a remote village in northern Kenya, left at least
45 people dead, including more than two dozen children. Kenyan security
forces pursued the bandits, who numbered between 300 and 500, and
killed 16 of them.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 12, French company
Technip SA said it has been awarded a $800 million contract by Chevron
Corp. to develop its largest Nigerian oil project.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 12, India’s Supreme Court
scrapped a controversial immigration law, making it easier for
authorities to crack down on illegal aliens, a move likely to curb
Bangladeshi migrants in the country's northeast.
(Reuters, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 12, In Iraq armed men
stormed a house in Baghdad, killing 4 Iraqi human rights activists and
wounding another.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 12, Antonio Fazio,
governor of the Bank of Italy, informed his friend Gianpiero Fiorani,
head of Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI), that BPI’s bid for the
Antonveneta bank had received a go ahead before making the news public.
(Econ, 7/30/05, p.67)(WSJ, 9/13/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 12, A car bomb hit the
motorcade of Elias Murr, Lebanon's outgoing deputy prime minister,
wounding him and killing at least one other person.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 12, Prince Albert II (47)
was formally instated as ruler of Monaco.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 12, Two gun attacks in
Belfast left one man dead and another critically wounded on the eve of
Northern Ireland's tensest day of the year — the divisive "Twelfth"
holiday of mass Protestant marches.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 12, Mohammed Bouyeri, a
Muslim extremist on trial in the slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van
Gogh, unexpectedly confessed in court, saying he was driven by
religious conviction. Bouyeri was convicted and sentenced to life in
prison.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2005 Jul 12, Sami Abu Khalil (18),
from the West Bank village of Atil, detonated 22 pounds of explosives
strapped to his body outside a shopping mall in Netanya. He killed two
16-year-old girls and a 31-year-old woman. A 50-year-old woman died in
the hospital the next day.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2006 Jul 12, The US government
announced a five-year, 547-million-dollar aid package to Ghana to help
the African nation develop agriculture and alleviate poverty.
(AFP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, A spokesman said
computer break-ins at the US State Department that caused broad
disruptions in recent weeks apparently originated in the East
Asia-Pacific region.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, The US FDA approved
Atripla, a single pill, 3-drug combination, to fight AIDS. 2 of the
drugs were made by Gilead Sciences and the 3rd by Myers Squibb.
(SFC, 7/13/06, p.A2)
2006 Jul 12, An experimental
spacecraft bankrolled by real estate magnate Robert Bigelow
successfully inflated in orbit, testing a technology that could be used
to fulfill his dream of building a commercial space station. Genesis I
flew aboard a converted Cold War ballistic missile from Russia's
southern Ural Mountains at 6:53 p.m. Moscow time.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, The Afghan defense
minister said it would take at least 150,000 troops to secure his
country, more than 5 times what he commanded. In eastern Afghanistan a
suicide attack on a US military convoy killed a boy playing nearby,
while a market bombing in a southern border town left two people dead.
British and Afghan forces repelled a brazen insurgent attack on a
police headquarters in the southern town of Nawzad, killing at least 19
militants. In Musa Qala district insurgents fired rocket-propelled
grenades and machine guns at coalition troops, who returned fire and
killed local Taliban commander Mullah Saeef. In southern Zabul
province, three Afghan border guards were killed in a clash with armed
tribesmen crossing from Pakistan.
(AP, 7/12/06)(AP, 7/13/06)(WSJ, 7/13/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 12, Tony Blair's top
fundraiser, Lord Levy, was arrested in an investigation into whether
Labour Party leaders improperly nominated their financial backers for
seats in the House of Lords.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, In central Chile
flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain left at least 11 people
dead and forced 30,000 to flee their inundated homes.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 12, The EU fined
Microsoft Corp. $357 million and threatened new penalties of $3.82
million a day beginning July 31 because it says the software maker
failed to obey a 2004 antitrust order to share program code with rivals.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, The EU joined the US
in warning Iran it faced UN Security Council action if no solution
could be found to a stand-off over its nuclear program. World powers
agreed to send Iran back to the UN Security Council for possible
punishment, saying the clerical regime has given no sign it means to
negotiate seriously over its disputed nuclear program.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, Hong Kong's supreme
court struck down a ruling that allowed police to carry out
controversial government wiretaps, a move activists hailed as a victory
for freedoms in the Chinese city.
(AFP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, The Iraqi Accordance
Front, the largest Sunni bloc in parliament, lifted its legislative
boycott. It thanked the parliament for its help in seeking the release
of kidnapped legislator Tayseer al-Mashhadani and called for a new
spirit of cooperation. Gunmen stormed a bus station in Muqdadiya,
seizing over 24 people and killing 22 of them. A suicide bomber blew
himself up in a restaurant in the southeastern mixed Sunni-Shiite
neighborhood of New Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 30.
Gunmen on a motorcycles killed a former member of the ousted Baath
Party and a taxi driver in separate attacks in Kut. The US military
said Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants have been on a
hunger strike for nearly a week to protest what the defense says is a
lack of security for their attorneys. At least 45 people were killed
across Iraq.
(AP, 7/12/06)(SFC, 7/13/06, p.A10)
2006 Jul 12, Hezbollah militants
captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid. 3 Israeli
soldiers were killed in the raid along with one Hezbollah militant.
Dozens of Israeli troops crossed the Lebanese frontier with warplanes,
tanks and gunboats to hunt for the captives. 5 more Israelis were
killed in a tank that hit a mine. Two Lebanese civilians were killed in
an Israeli air strike on a coastal bridge at Qasmiyeh.
(AP, 7/12/06)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.45)
2006 Jul 12, Israel killed 18
Palestinians in Gaza including nine members of one family in an air
strike that destroyed a residential building where the army said top
Hamas commanders were meeting.
(Reuters, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, Tens of thousands of
supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador headed to Mexico City, leaving mountain towns and sprawling
industrial cities to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, In Nigeria 2
explosions hit oil installations belonging to an Italian oil company
along two Agip pipelines in Baleysa state.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 12, Protestants will
share power with the Catholics of Sinn Fein "over our dead bodies," Ian
Paisley thundered as tens of thousands of Protestant marchers
celebrated the most divisive day on Northern Ireland's calendar.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 12, Acting on behalf of
Arab nations, Qatar circulated a revised draft UN Security Council
resolution demanding Israel end its offensive in the Gaza Strip and
release the Palestinian officials it has arrested.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, President Vladimir
Putin signed into law a bill cutting the length of military service in
Russia, but also canceling many deferments from the draft. The
legislation reduced the current two-year conscription term to 1½
years beginning next year, then to one year in 2008.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, In South Korea some
70,000 people, including 13,000 farmers, rallied in a plaza in downtown
Seoul on the third straight day of anti-FTA demonstrations.
(AFP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, A UN official said
rebels in Darfur are fighting each other with the Sudanese military
apparently supporting one faction, sometimes with aircraft disguised as
relief planes.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 12, UNESCO, meeting in
Vilnius, Lithuania, added 8 sites added to its World Heritage list
including a panda refuge in China and an agave producing region in
Mexico.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2007 Jul 12, A Bush administration
assessment said Iraq had achieved only limited military and political
progress toward a democratic society; Iraqi leaders responded by
insisting they were making progress.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2007 Jul 12, Defying a White House
veto threat, the US House of Representatives approved legislation to
bring combat troops out of Iraq by April 1, 2008.
(Reuters, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, A US government
report was released saying undercover investigators, working for a fake
firm, had obtained a license to buy enough radioactive material to
build a "dirty bomb," amid little scrutiny from federal regulators.
(Reuters, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, In New Jersey former
Newark Mayor Sharpe James (71) was indicted on corruption charges.
James stepped down as mayor in 2006 to serve as a state senator.
Prosecutors alleged that James arranged the sale of 9 city-owned
properties at a discounted rate to former girlfriend Tamika Riley from
2001 to 2005. Riley quickly sold the properties at a profit without
required rehabilitation work. On April 16, 2008, James and his
ex-mistress were convicted of corruption charges.
(SFC, 7/13/07, p.A5)(WSJ, 4/10/08, p.A2)(SFC,
4/17/08, p.A4)
2007 Jul 12, The city of Oakland,
Ca., sued garbage hauler Waste Management in an attempt to force the
company to pick up trash during its 11-day lockout of truck drivers.
Isaac Haqq, founder and principal of Oakland’s University Preparatory
Charter Academy (2001), resigned amidst a cheating scandal. Several
Uprep teachers blamed him for a culture of cheating and intimidation.
(SFC, 7/13/07, p.B9)(SFC, 7/13/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 12, In Oakland, Ca.,
Michael John Wills, a sous chef, was shot and killed. Police later
determined that his killer used an AK-47 assault rifle linked to Your
Black Muslim Bakery. In 2009 an indictment accused Yusuf Bey IV
(23), the leader of the bakery, of murder for allegedly ordering the
killing.
(SFC, 10/15/07, p.A1)(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A1)
2007 Jul 12, Robert Quill (52) of
Florida filed a federal lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by Rev. Francis
G. DeLuca, who worked for the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware,
for 35 years. The suit alleged that church officials knew DeLuca was
abusing boys as early as 1958.
(SFC, 7/13/07, p.A3)
2007 Jul 12, Philip Lum Jr.,
former mayor of Colma, Ca., was sentenced to 18 months in federal
prison for failing to report numerous free airline tickets from the
Lucky Chances Casino in 1999 and 2000.
(SFC, 7/13/07, p.B6)
2007 Jul 12, A coalition of US and
Canadian cities along the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River, including
Toronto and Chicago, vowed to cut water consumption 15% by 2015.
(Reuters, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, Jim Mitchell,
co-founder of the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theater in SF, died of an
apparent heart attack in Sonoma County, Ca. He and his brother Artie
had opened the adult theater in 1969 and went on to pioneer
pornographic films. In 1991 Jim shot Artie to death in Corte Madera and
served just under 3 years at San Quentin Prison for voluntary
manslaughter.
(SFC, 7/14/07, p.A7)
2007 Jul 12, Arthur J. Kobacker
(83), discount shoe store entrepreneur, died at his home in Florida. He
set up his first dozen self-service shoe stores in 1960 starting with
one in Pittsburgh. “I’ve run into customers who say they have 200 pairs
of shoes in their closet because of us.”
(WSJ, 1/21/07, p.A4)
2007 Jul 12, Anglo-Australian
miner Rio Tinto launched a 38.1-billion-dollar offer for Canada's
Alcan, trumping US rival Alcoa in a mammoth bid to create the world's
largest aluminium company.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, In eastern
Afghanistan US-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with suspected
Taliban militants, killing 11 rebels in Uruzgan province. A roadside
bomb targeting a police patrol vehicle left 6 officers dead in Khost
province. In an overnight operation in the Girishk district of Helmand
province, the Afghan army and air strikes by multinational forces
killed 20 rebels. A British soldier was killed and two others were
wounded during an operation in southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 7/12/07)(AFP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, Burkina Faso and
Taiwan renewed a commitment to boost their diplomatic ties during a
visit to the west African nation by Taiwan's Foreign Minister James
Huang.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 12, China’s state media
said nearly a half-million people fled a flood zone surrounding the
swollen Huai River, while high waters in the south unleashed a plague
of an estimated 2 billion field mice that were ravaging crops.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, French legislators
approved a measure championed by President Nicolas Sarkozy that would
encourage people to work beyond the 35-hour workweek by cutting taxes
on overtime pay.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, France told Serbia
its EU bid depends on letting Kosovo break away.
(WSJ, 1/13/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 12, In Athens, Greece, a
suburban passenger train collided with a freight train, injuring at
least 53 people.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, An influential and
conservative Islamic theological school in India said marriages of
Muslim couples using Internet Web cameras were acceptable and legal.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, Iranian artillery
shelled near Iraqi Kurd villages as Iranian troops clashed with Kurdish
guerrillas making an incursion across the border.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, US troops raided a
Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad in a hunt for militiamen linked to Iran,
sparking exchanges of fire and a mortar attack. Officials said 19
people were killed, and residents said some of the casualties were
caused by US helicopter fire. An Iraqi photographer and driver employed
by Reuters news agency were killed in Baghdad in an area where US
forces were battling militants. In southern Iraq, clashes erupted
between Shiite militants and the Iraqi army, killing a soldier and a
civilian in the city of Diwaniyah. Aircraft struck a group of militants
planting a roadside bomb before dawn, killing five of the militants. A
suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt near a wedding party in Tal
Afar. 5 people were killed and five wounded. Robbers overnight stole
about $680,000 from a bank in central Baghdad. The theft at the private
Dar al-Salam bank was discovered by the bank manager when it opened in
the morning, and suspicions fell on overnight guards. A detainee died
from injuries after apparently being assaulted by other inmates at a US
detention facility in Baghdad.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, Israeli forces moved
into the Gaza Strip in a hunt for weapons and wanted militants,
sparking a fierce battle with Hamas militants that killed one Israeli
soldier.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, The Lebanese army
pounded a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery fire, but the
military denied reports that the action was part of a final assault on
the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants barricaded inside.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, News reports said
Mexico’s Pres. Felipe Calderon has dispatched a new 5,000- strong elite
military unit to guard strategic sites, including oil refineries and
dams in the wake of recent guerrilla attacks on pipelines operated by
Pemex.
(SFC, 7/13/07, p.A10)
2007 Jul 12, Authorities announced
a major crackdown on organized crime in Amsterdam's Red Light District,
for the first time bringing national police investigators and tax
authorities to bear on what had long been seen as a local problem.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 12, In Nigeria the
3-year-old son of town chief Eze Francis Amadi was grabbed by gunmen
who smashed a window of his father's SUV in the fourth child kidnapping
in the oil-rich south in less than two months. The boy was returned the
next day.
(AP, 7/12/07)(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 12, Tens of thousands of
Protestant hard-liners marched without trouble through Northern
Ireland's streets in an annual event that once ignited conflict with
Catholics, but passed peacefully this year, thanks to a succeeding
peace process. An estimated 75,000 Orangemen accompanied by
fife-and-drum units popularly known as "kick the pope" bands paraded
through Belfast and 17 other cities and towns.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, In Pakistan a suicide
bomber blew himself up, killing three people and wounding three more in
Miranshah. A bomb killed 5 people, including 3 police, and wounded
several others outside a religious centre in the Himalayan tourist town
of Mingora. Islamist protests broke out in several parts of Pakistan
following the army raid on the pro-Taliban Red mosque.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, A Philippine ferry
sank southeast of Manila. At least 129 people survived the sinking of
the MV Blue Water Princess. 15 bodies were recovered and divers said
they found many more.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 12, In Somalia insurgents
fired more than two dozen mortar shells at government targets in
Mogadishu overnight, including the president's home, in an apparent
attempt to disrupt this weekend's reconciliation talks. At least 3 men
were killed.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, South Africa banned
the import of poultry products from Germany after an outbreak of the
potentially fatal H5N1 strain of bird flu.
(AFP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, In Spain charging
bulls gored 7 people and seriously injured several others as this
year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona served up its longest and most
dangerous run yet.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, Spanish Civil Guards
heightened a battle over a $500 million treasure of gold and silver
coins from a shipwreck when they seized the Ocean Alert, a vessel
belonging to a Tampa, Fla.,-based company. The ship was released a week
later.
(AP, 7/12/07)(Econ, 7/21/07, p.51)
2007 Jul 12, Sudan’s Interior
Ministry said flash floods across central and eastern Sudan have killed
30 people and destroyed 25,000 houses.
(AFP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, In the Swiss Alps 6
soldiers on an alpine training exercise were killed when an avalanche
sent them plummeting thousands of feet into a valley.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 12, In southern Thailand
suspected rebels killed five people.
(AFP, 7/12/07)
2008 Jul 12, Les Crane, pioneer
talk radio and TV host, died in Marin, California. In 1964 he hosted
the “The Les Crane Show,” a late night TV talk show on ABC that ran for
4 months.
(SFC, 7/17/08, p.B5)
2008 Jul 12, Bobby Murcer (62),
former Yankee baseball player and broadcaster, died from a malignant
brain tumor in Oklahoma City. The only person to play with Mantle and
Mattingly, the popular Murcer hit .277 with 252 home runs and 1,043
RBIs in 17 seasons with the Yankees, San Francisco and the Chicago
Cubs. He made the All-Star team in both leagues and won a Gold Glove.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 12, Tony Snow (53), a
conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with
reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President
Bush's press secretary, died of colon cancer.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 12, In central
Afghanistan Taliban militants executed two women just outside Ghazni
city after accusing them of working as prostitutes on a US base. A
soldier serving with ISAF died of wounds caused by an explosion in
northern Afghanistan. NATO troops killed Bismullah Akhund, an insurgent
leader in Helmand's Naw Zad district.
(AP, 7/13/08)(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 12, NATO said a recent
border clash that wounded several Pakistani and Afghan security
personnel was sparked by insurgents in Afghanistan who fired at targets
in both countries, apparently to stoke cross-border tensions.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 12, The Arab League said
it will hold crisis talks on Sudan after reports the International
Criminal Court may seek Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir's arrest,
amid fears for peace efforts in Darfur. It would mark the first-ever
bid by the ICC, based in The Hague, to charge a sitting head of state.
The African Union said that plans by the ICC could jeopardize peace
efforts in Darfur.
(AFP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 12, Ethiopia said it has
arrested eight "Eritrean-trained" rebels suspected of carrying out
bombings that rocked the capital Addis Ababa and killed eight people
earlier this year.
(Reuters, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 12, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy met his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, kicking off
a round of diplomacy with Middle East leaders ahead of an
EU-Mediterranean summit. Sarkozy said that Syria and Lebanon will open
embassies in each other's countries for the first time. Syria's leader
cautioned there was still work to be done before that could happen.
(AP, 7/12/08)(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 12, In Jakarta,
Indonesia, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged cooperation on biofuels during talks
in a bid to take advantage of surging oil prices.
(AFP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 12, In western Nepal
about 500 riot policemen took senior officers hostage in a revolt over
ill treatment and poor food. They released their captives and
surrendered after a two-day standoff.
(AP, 7/13/08)(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 12, In Nigeria a truck
drivers strike to protest soaring fuel prices entered its 2nd day. At
least 17 people died at a prayer meeting in rural Nigeria after
apparently breathing noxious fumes from their power generator while
asleep. Their bodies were discovered on July 15.
(AFP, 7/12/08)(Reuters, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 12, North Korea agreed to
completely disable its main nuclear facilities by the end of October
and to allow thorough site inspections to verify that all necessary
steps had been taken as the latest round of six-nation disarmament
talks concluded in Beijing.
(AFP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 12, In northwestern
Pakistan at least 13 paramilitary forces and three militants were
killed in an ambush and shootout when militants attacked a Frontier
Constabulary convoy in the Zargari area of Hangu district. Provincial
police in Hangu arrested half a dozen Taliban including Rafiuddin, a
lieutenant of Baitullah Mehsud. The militants in response captured
29-49 hostages.
(AP, 7/13/08)(SFC, 7/19/08, p.A5)
2008 Jul 12, In Sri Lanka 18
rebels and a soldier were killed in Mannar district; 7 rebels and a
soldier were killed in Vavuniya and six guerrillas died in Welioya.
Each side often exaggerates the casualties and damage inflicted on its
enemy while underreporting its own losses.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 12, Pope Benedict XVI
left Rome on a flight to Australia for a 10-day pilgrimage. The Pope
said he will use his visit to Australia to apologize for sexual abuse
by priests and to examine how the Church can "prevent, heal and
reconcile".
(AFP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 12, President Hugo Chavez
said that he is expanding his Venezuela's Petrocaribe oil-supply pact
to include Guatemala.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 12, Thousands of
Venezuelans protested in the capital demanding that the Supreme Court
overturn a "blacklist" blocking key opponents of President Hugo Chavez
from running in upcoming elections.
(AP, 7/12/08)
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