Today in History - July 13
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574 Jul 13, Pope
John III died.
(PTA, 1980, p.122)
1024 Jul 13, Henry II, the Monk,
German King (1002-24), died.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1099 Jul 13, The Crusaders
launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.
(HN, 7/13/99)
1534 Jul 13, Ottoman armies
captured Tabriz in northwestern Persia.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1558 Jul 13, Led by the court of
Egmont, the Spanish army defeated the French at Gravelines, France.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1568 Jul 13, Alexander Nowell, the
Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, perfected a way to bottle beer.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.21)(MC, 7/13/02)
1585 Jul 13, A group of 108
English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke
Island, North Carolina. Roanoke Island near North Carolina became
England's first foothold in the New World. Sir Walter Raleigh sent a
detachment of 108 men to build a fort on the island. The detachment
included two scientists, Thomas Hariot, a surveyor, mathematician,
astronomer and oceanographer, and Joachim Gans, a metallurgist.
(NG, Geographica, Jan, 94)(HN, 7/13/98)
1643 Jul 13, In England, the
Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops
under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1657 Jul 13, Oliver Cromwell
constrained English army leader John Lambert.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1754 Jul 13, At the beginning of
the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small,
circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French,
leaving them in control of the Ohio Valley.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1755 Jul 13, Edward Braddock (60),
British general, died following the July 9, 1755 battle at Fort
Duquesne (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Out of the 1,400 British soldiers
who were in involved in the battle, 900 of them died. Future President
George Washington carried Braddock from the field and officiated at his
burial ceremony. The general was buried in a road his men had built.
The army then marched over the grave to obliterate any traces of it and
continued to eastern Pennsylvania. After the French and Indian War
(1754-1763), the Braddock Road remained a main road. In 1804, some
workmen discovered human remains in the road near where Braddock was
supposed to have been buried. The remains were re-interred on a small
knoll adjacent to the road. In 1913 the marker was placed there.
Braddock was born in Perthshire, Scotland, about 1695, the son of
Major-General Edward Braddock (died 1725).
(www.nps.gov/fone/braddock.htm)
1772 Jul 13, Capt James Cook began
a 2nd trip on the ship Resolution to South Seas.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1787 Jul 13, Congress, under the
Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance,
establishing rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting
new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
(AP, 7/13/97)(HN, 7/13/98)
1789 Jul 13, Parisians rioted over
an increase in price of grain. The mob plundered the armories and
opened the prison gates of St. Lazare. The King at Versailles refused
to withdraw his troops from Paris.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1791 Jul 13, The bones of the
greatest French satirist, philosopher, and writer, Voltaire (Jean-Marie
Arouet) were enshrined in the Pantheon in Paris.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1793 Jul 13, John Clare, English
poet, was born.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1793 Jul 13, Pierre Dupont de
Nemours was ordered arrested in Paris on charges of plotting with
rebels against the French Revolutionary National Assembly.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1793 Jul 13, French revolutionary
writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte
Corday, who was executed four days later. In 1970 Marie Cher authored
"Charlotte Corday, and Certain Men of the Revolutionary Torment."
(AP, 7/13/97)(ON, SC, p.8)
1794 Jul 13, Robespierre boycotted
the Committee of Public Safety and the National convention after being
denounced as a dictator.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1798 Jul 13, English poet William
Wordsworth visited the ruins of Tintern Abbey.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1821 Jul 13, Confederate cavalry
commander Nathan Bedford Forrest was born in Tennessee's Bedford County.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1832 Jul 13, Henry Schoolcraft
discovered the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota. Henry Rowe
Schoolcraft came upon the lake where the Mississippi starts and
intended to call it Veritas Caput, the Latin for "true head." The name
was too long and got shortened at both ends to Itasca.
(SFC, 10/5/96, p.E3)(HN, 7/13/98)
1854 Jul 13, US forces shelled and
burned San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1858 Jul 13, Louis Martin and
Zelie Guerin married in Alencon, France, and for 10 months refrained
from sex in a “Josephite marriage.” Assured by a priest that raising
children was a sacred activity they went on to have 9 children, 5 of
whom joined religious order. Their youngest daughter became famous as
St. Theresa of Liseux, The Little Flower,” canonized in 1925.
(WSJ, 10/17/08, p.W11)
1861 Jul 13, Battle of Corrick's
Ford, VA (Carrick's Ford): Union army took total control of western
Virginia.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1862 Jul 13, Confederate General
Nathan Bedford Forrest defeated a Union army at Murfreesboro,
Tennessee. [see Aug 13]
(HN, 7/13/98)
1863 Jul 13, Rioting against the
Civil War military draft erupted in New York City; about 1,000 people
died over three days. Antiabolitionist Irish longshoremen rampaged
against blacks in the deadly Draft Riots in New York City in response
to Pres. Lincoln’s announcement of military conscription. Mobs lynched
a black man and torched the Colored Orphan Asylum. The 2003 film "Gangs
of New York" focused on this event. In 2006 Barnet Schecter authored
“The Devil’s Own Work,” an account of the riots.
(WSJ, 3/19/96, p.A-12)(AP, 7/13/97)(HN,
7/13/98)(WSJ, 8/2100, p.A14)(WSJ, 1/18/06, p.D13)
1863 Jul 13-15, Battle of Tupelo,
MS (Harrisburg).
(MC, 7/13/02)
1864 Jul 13, Gen Jubal Early
retreated from the outskirts of Washington back to Shenandoah Valley.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1865 Jul 13, Horace Greeley
advised his readers to "Go west young man."
(MC, 7/13/02)
1866 Jul 13, Great Eastern began a
two week voyage to complete a 12-year effort to lay telegraph cable
across the Atlantic between Britain and the United States.
Massachusetts merchant and financier Cyrus W. Field first proposed
laying a 2,000-mile copper cable along the ocean bottom from
Newfoundland to Ireland in 1854, but the first three attempts ended in
broken cables and failure. Field's persistence finally paid off in July
1866, when Great Eastern, the largest ship then afloat, successfully
laid the cable along the level, sandy bottom of the North Atlantic. As
messages traveled between Europe and America in hours rather than
weeks, Cyrus Field was showered with honors. Among the honors was this
commemorative print referring to the cable as the Eighth Wonder of the
World.
(HN, 7/13/98)(HNPD, 7/29/98)
1868 Jul 13, Henry Clay Warmoth
(1842-1931) began serving as the 23rd governor of Louisiana and
continued to 1872.
(www.helium.com/items/1728455-the-origins-of-mardi-gras-in-louisiana)
1878 Jul 13, The Treaty of Berlin
amended the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano, which had ended the
Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. The Congress of Berlin divided the
Balkans among European powers. Austria-Hungary and Britain, alarmed at
the possibilities of growing Russian power, concluded the Treaty of
Berlin, reducing the military and political gains Russia had made with
the San Stefano treaty.
(AP, 7/13/97)(HN, 7/13/98)(HNQ, 2/23/01)
1886 Jul 13, Father Edward J.
Flanagan, catholic priest, founder of Boys Town, was born in Roscommon,
Ireland.
(AP, 7/13/07)
1889 Jul 13, Vincent van Gogh
painted "Moonrise." The exact date was determined in 2003 by a
physicist using a computer and moon data from the painting.
(SFC, 7/16/03, p.D2)
1890 Jul 13, John C. "Pathfinder"
Fremont (76), US explorer, governor (Arizona, California), died. He was
buried in obscurity in Sparkill, NY. Fremont (b.1830) was the 1st
Republican presidential candidate in 1856. In 1999 David Roberts
authored "A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Freemont and the Claiming
of the American West." In 2002 Tom Chaffin authored “Pathfinder: John
Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire.” In 2007 Sally
Denton authored “Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the
Couple Whose Power, Politics and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century
America.”
(WUD, 1994, p.567)(SFEC, 2/13/00, BR p.5)(SSFC,
12/22/02, p.M1)(SSFC, 7/1/07, p.M1)
1898 Jul 13, Guglielmo Marconi
patented his radio.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1921 Jul 13, Ernest Gold,
composer, was born.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1921 Jul 13, Charles Scribner Jr.,
music publisher (Scribner), was born.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1925 Jul 13, Will Rogers, an
Oklahoma cowboy, who had been standing in for W.C. Fields in the
"Ziegfeld Follies," impressed the critics.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1928 Jul 13, Robert N.C. Nix, Jr.,
first African-American chief justice of a state supreme court, was born.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1930 Jul 13, David Sarnoff
reported in NY Times that "TV would be a theater in every home."
(MC, 7/13/02)
1931 Jul 13, A major German
financial institution, Danabank, failed, leading to the closing of all
banks in Germany until August 5. By the end of the 1931, approximately
six million Germans are out of work.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1933 Jul 13, David Storey, English
novelist (The Sporting Life), was born.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1934 Jul 13, Wole Soyinka, Nobel
Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, was born.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1935 Jul 13, Jack Kemp, football
player, vice-presidential candidate for the Republican party in 1996,
was born.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1935 Jul 13, Richard Strauss
resigned as chairman of the Nazi Reichskulturkammer.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1939 Jul 13, Frank Sinatra
recorded his first song, "From the Bottom of my Heart," with the Harry
James Band.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1939 Jul 13, Howard Long was
hanged at the New Hampshire State Prison for the sex-killing of
10-year-old Mark Neville Jensen of Alton.
(http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/aug97/0184.html)
1940 Jul 13, Patrick Stewart,
actor (Picard-Star Trek Next Generation), was born in England.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1941 Jul 13, Britain and the
Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, providing the means for Britain
to send war materiel to the Soviet Union. As their escorts turned away,
the ships of the doomed Allied convoy PQ-17 followed orders and began
to disperse in the Arctic waters.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1942 Jul 13, Harrison Ford, actor
(Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Frantic), was born in Chicago, Ill.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1942 Jul 13, 5,000 Jews of Rovno,
Polish Ukraine, were executed by Nazis.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1942 Jul 13, SS shot 1,500 Jews in
Josefov, Poland.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1943 Jul 13, Greatest tank battle
in history ended with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk. Almost 6,000
tanks took part and 2,900 were lost by Germany.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1944 Jul 13, Erno Rubik, inventor
(Rubik's cube), was born in Budapest.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1946 Jul 13, Alfred Stieglitz
(82), US photographer, art dealer (Camera Work), died. He was an art
dealer, curator, publisher, proselytizer for modern art and for
photography as an art. He also married Georgia O’Keeffe and promoted
her art.
(NH, 10/96, p.36)(www.fact-index.com)(Econ,
10/30/04, p.85)
1946 Jul 13, The first Karlovy
Vary Int’l. Film Festival (Mezinárodní
Filmový Festival Karlovy Vary) was held in Czechoslovakia. Its
first two years were non-competitive showcases. The competition was
started in 1948 and with the exceptions of 1953 and 1955 the festival
was held annually until 1958. From 1960 on to 1992 it was alternating
with the Moscow Film Festival, being celebrated annually again since
1994.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Karlovy_Vary_International_Film_Festival/)
1949 Jul 13, The militantly
anti-communist Pope Pius XII excommunicated communist Catholics voters
in Italy, an action aimed at the Italian Communist Party.
(MC, 7/13/02)(AP, 5/5/06)
1951 Jul 13,
Arnold Schoenberg (b.1874), composer, died. He wrote the book "Style
and Idea" and composed such works as the 21 songs of "Pierrot Lunaire"
based on a poem by Albert Giraud translated into German by Otto Erich
Hartleben, "Moses und Aron" and "Erwartung." In 2002 Allen Shawn
authored "Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey."
(LGC-HCS, 1970, p. 562-575)(WSJ, 8/20/96, p.A8)(WSJ,
1/31/02, p.A16)
1953 Jul 13, The 1st Shakespeare
Festival in Stratford, Ontario, organized by Tom Patterson, opened with
Alec Guiness in Richard III.
(WSJ, 7/18/02, p.D10)
1954 Jul 13, In Geneva, the United
States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina,
dividing Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th
parallel.
(HN, 7/13/99)
1954 Jul 13, Frida Kahlo (b.1907),
artist, died in Mexico City. Her final painting was an incomplete
portrait of Joseph Stalin. Hayden Herrera authored her biography in
1983. Raquel Tibol later authored "Frido Kahlo: An Open Life."
(SFC, 4/22/01, p.D3)(WSJ, 7/6/01,
p.W11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo)
1955 Jul 13, Ruth Ellis, last
English woman (murderess), was executed by hanging. Ten days before she
had shot her husband, Ellis suffered a miscarriage after Blakely, the
baby's father, punched her in the stomach.
(MC, 7/13/02)(AP, 9/16/03)
1960 Jul 13, Massachusetts Sen.
John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at his
party's convention in Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1967 Jul 13, Race-related rioting
broke out in Newark, N.J.; by the time the violence ended four days
later, 27 people had been killed.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1971 Jul 13, William Tolbert
(1913-1980), vice-president of Lebanon 1951, succeeded William Tubman
as president and continued Tubman’s policies until his own death in
1980.
(SFC, 4/16/96,
p.A-9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Tolbert,_Jr.)
1971 Jul 13, The Army of Morocco
executed ten leaders accused of leading a revolt.
(HN, 7/13/99)
1971 Jul 13-19, Jordanian troops
proceeded to wipe out Palestinian guerrillas; some 1,500 prisoners were
brought to Amman; Iraq and Syria broke off relations with Jordan.
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)
1972 Jul 13, George McGovern
claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's
convention in Miami Beach, Fla. McGovern defeated Scoop Jackson for the
nomination. McGovern’s campaign was led by Jean Westwood (d.1997 at
73), the first woman to chair a major US political party. McGovern was
nominated as candidate with Sen. Eagleton for vice-president. Sen.
Eagleton later dropped out after it was learned that he suffered from a
serious clinical emotional illness. The Democratic competition for
president included Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, Sen. Ed Muskie, Gov.
Terry Sanford, Sen. Henry Jackson, Mayor John Lindsay, and Rep. Shirley
Chisholm.
(WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A10)(WSJ, 2/26/96, p.A-10)(SFC,
8/23/97, p.A20)(AP, 7/13/07)
1973 Jul 13, In Chile a strike
began that lasted until the September 11 coup. More than a million
workers were on strike demanding that Allende go. American CIA funding
was involved.
(WSJ, 10/30/98,
p.A19)(http://foia.state.gov/reports/churchreport.asp)
1974 July 13, The US Senate
Watergate Committee proposed sweeping reforms to prevent another
Watergate scandal.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1977 Jul 13, A 25-hour power
blackout hit the New York City area and looters rampaged in the city
after lightning struck upstate power lines. Some 9 million people were
affected.
(TMC, 1994, p.1977)(AP, 7/13/97)(SFC, 8/15/03, p.A7)
1978 Jul 13, Lee Iacocca was fired
as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II. Iacocca later
joined Chrysler as its president.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl.)(AP, 7/13/97)
1979 Jul 13, Teradata, a software
company, was incorporated. It had started in a garage in Brentwood,
Calif. The name Teradata was chosen to symbolize the ability to manage
terabytes (trillions of bytes) of data.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teradata)
1979 Jul 13, A 45-hour siege began
at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, as four Palestinian
guerrillas killed two security men and seized 20 hostages.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1981 Jul 13, Simon Gray's
"Quartermaine's Terms," premiered in London.
(www.haroldpinter.org/directing/directing_quartermaine.shtml)
1983 Jul 13, Chrysler under Lee
Iacocca paid off the last of its guaranteed loans totaling $1.2
billion, 7 years ahead of schedule.
(http://tinyurl.com/aabvq)
1985 Jul 13, Live Aid, an
international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney,
took place to raise money for Ethiopia and Africa's starving people. It
was organized by Bob Geldof of Ireland.
(TMC, 1994, p.1985)(AP 7/13/97)(Econ, 6/4/05, p.56)
1985 Jul 13, Lt. Cmdr. Michael
Gershon, a Navy Blue Angel pilot, was killed when 2 planes collided
during an air show at Niagara Falls, NY.
(SFC, 10/29/99,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Cochran)
1987 Jul 13, Jury selection began
in Washington for the perjury trial of President Reagan's former aide
and longtime confidant, Michael K. Deaver. Deaver was later convicted
of lying under oath about his lobbying business; he was fined $100,000
and ordered to perform community service.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1988 Jul 13, Final results of
Mexico's recent presidential election were released, giving the victory
to the candidate of the governing party, Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Opponents called election "stolen."
(AP, 7/13/98)
1989 Jul 13, Washington, D.C.
attorney Thomas L. Root was rescued after ditching his private plane in
the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas; he had suffered a mysterious
gunshot wound.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1989 Jul 13, Cuba executed four
military officers for conspiring to smuggle drugs to the United States.
Antonio de la Guardia, a colonel in the Interior Ministry, was executed
along with army general Arnaldo Ochoa and 2 other officers in a drug
trafficking case. Gen’l. Patricio de la Guardia, Antonio’s twin, was
sentenced to 30 years in prison. Patricio was released in 1997.
Patricio had led an int’l. para-military brigade in Chile during the
Allende years that was estimated at 15,000 men.
(SFC, 3/19/97, p.A14)(WSJ, 10/30/98, p.A19)(AP,
7/13/99)
1989 Jul 13, Abdul Rahman
Qassemlu, Kurd leader in Iran, was murdered.
(http://tinyurl.com/ecm98)
1990 Jul 13, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev closed the Communist Party’s 28th congress by
saying he would welcome Western aid without political strings.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1991 Jul 13, Soviet and American
negotiators meeting in Washington wrangled over a treaty to reduce
long-range nuclear missiles.
(AP, 7/13/01)
1992 Jul 13, Democrats opened
their 41st national convention at New York's Madison Square Garden with
speakers who taunted George H.W. Bush as a failed president ripe for
defeat in November.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1993 Jul 13, The American League
defeated the National League in the All-Star Game, 9-3, in Baltimore.
(AP, 7/13/98)
1993 Jul 13, Race car driver Davey
Allison died in Birmingham, Ala., of injuries suffered in a helicopter
crash.
(AP, 7/13/98)
1993 Jul 13, A.K. Ramanujan
(b.1929), Indian poet and scholar, died in Chicago. In 1999 his
collected essays were published.
(WSJ, 4/4/09,
p.W8)(www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ramanujan.html)
1994 Jul 13, President Clinton
visited flood-stricken Georgia, where he announced more than $60
million in aid for Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1994 Jul 13, Tonya Harding's
ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced in Portland, Ore., to two
years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. He ended
up serving six months.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1995 Jul 13, President Clinton
denounced a base-closing list for the damage it would do to California
and Texas, but then approved the package while promising to save jobs
in those states.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1995 Jul 13, Just six days after
the space shuttle "Atlantis" returned, the shuttle "Discovery" blasted
off on a nine-day mission.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1995 Jul 13, In Michigan six union
locals, representing some 2,500 workers of the Detroit Free Press,
Detroit News and Detroit newspapers Inc., went on a strike that lasted
19 months.
(AP, 7/13/00)(www.pww.org/archives96/96-07-13-3.html)
1996 Jul 13, After battering the
Carolinas, the weakened remnants of Hurricane Bertha moved north,
spawning tornadoes and dumping rain from Maryland to Massachusetts.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1996 Jul 13, Hollywood producer
Pandro S. Berman (1905-1996) died. He produced Top Hat, Morning Glory,
The Blackboard Jungle, Swing Time, The Gay Divorcee, Shall We Dance,
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Gunga Din, Of Human Bondage, National Velvet,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8, Father of the Bride and Move.
(SFC, 7/14/96, p.C8)
1996 Jul 13, Mt. Merapi volcano in
Java was about to erupt.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 13, Winter storms raged
across South Africa and snowdrifts up to 8-feet high blocked the main
road from Johannesburg to Durban.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 13, Tehran, Iran, was
invaded by thousands of lizards and snakes over the past three months.
Military exercises nearby or rising levels of groundwater have been
cited as possible reasons.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 13-14, In Uganda more
than 90 Sudanese refugees were killed in a camp 220 miles north of
Kampala. The Lord’s Resistance Army was blamed.
(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.A1)
1997 Jul 13, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright returned to her Jewish roots in the Czech Republic,
finding names of family members killed by the Nazis inscribed on a
Prague synagogue wall. News reports the previous February revealed that
Albright, who'd been raised a Roman Catholic, had Jewish relatives,
many of whom died in the Holocaust.
(AP, 7/13/98)
1997 Jul 13, In Poland floods
threatened the isle of Ostrow Tumski on the Oder River in the heart of
Wroclaw, whose buildings date back to the 13th century. A 100-year
flood swept through the Sudety Mountains.
(SFC, 7/14/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 8/2/98, p.T8)
1997 Jul 13, In San Sebastian,
Spain, Miguel Angel Blanco (29), a Basque town councilor and
low-ranking member of the Popular Party of Prime Minister Jose Maria
Aznar, died of head wounds from the ETA, Basque Homeland and Freedom, a
Basque separatist group. Almost 800 people have died since the ETA
began fighting in 1968.
(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.A11)
1998 Jul 13, A jury in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ruled that the Rev. Al Sharpton and two others had
defamed a former prosecutor by accusing him of raping Tawana Brawley.
Steven Pagones won a $345,000 judgment.
(AP,
7/13/08)(www.cnn.com/US/9807/13/brawley.verdict.02/)
1998 Jul 13, Four young cousins in
Gallup, N.M., died after becoming trapped in a car trunk.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1998 Jul 13, In Azerbaijan Suret
Huseinov, a former prime minister, went on trial for treason.
(SFC, 8/13/98, p.A11)
1998 Jul 13, Ten nations joined
the EU in locking out the leaders of Belarus for the eviction of
foreign ambassadors.
(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 13, The IMF announced a
$17.1 billion rescue package for Russia.
(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 13, In Italy Silvio
Berlusconi, former premier, was convicted for the 3rd time since Dec.
This conviction was for illegal party financing in 1991. A prior
conviction was for bribing tax inspectors.
(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 13, In Japan Prime
Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto resigned after voters rejected his Liberal
Democratic Party.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 13, King Hussein of
Jordan went to the US to receive treatment for cancer.
(SFC, 11/28/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 13, In Chiapas, Mexico, a
technical junior high school in Oventic was inaugurated by Commandante
Ezequiel and Peter Brown of the US. Brown was deported 2 weeks later
for violating Mexican laws, i.e. building a school on a tourist visa.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 13, In Norway delegates
from 21 countries met to draft strategy to keep small arms out of the
hands of terrorists.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A8)
1999 Jul 13, The American League
won the All-Star game for the third straight time, defeating the
National League 4-to-1 at Boston’s Fenway Park.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/13/00)
1999 Jul 13, Angel Maturino
Resendiz, suspected of being the "Railroad Killer," surrendered in El
Paso, Texas. He was subsequently tried, convicted and executed on July
27, 2006 at Huntsville Prison in Texas. He had been suspected of
killings in 15 cases in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1999 Jul 13, In Tehran police
fired tear gas at thousands of protesters as street battles spread
across the city for the sixth day. Tens of thousands of security forces
countered the protesters.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/13/00)
1999 Jul 13, In Kashmir Islamic
militants of the United Jihad Council said they would change positions
but not pull out of the disputed region.
(WSJ, 7/14/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 13, In Russia Nikita
Krivchun (20) stabbed Leopold Kaimovsky (52), director of the Jewish
Cultural Center, numerous times in Moscow.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.C10)
2000 Jul 13, Fellow Democrat Bill
Bradley endorsed Vice President Al Gore for president, four months
after conceding their fight for the White House.
(AP, 7/13/01)
2000 Jul 13, It was reported that
the US and Vietnam had completed a trade agreement for generally
unfettered commerce between the two countries.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 13, In China a mudslide
following heavy rains killed at least 119 villagers in Ziyang county in
Shanxi province. The death toll was later raised to 213 with another 23
killed in the Liangshan area of Sichuan province.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B7)
2000 Jul 13, In Fiji the Great
Council of Chiefs elected Ratu Josefa Iloilo as the new president.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 13, In southern Sudan
rebels reported the killing of at least 92 pro-government fighters of
the Murahilin tribe after 2 days of fighting.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.D2)
2001 Jul 13, Pres. Bush ordered
toughened enforcement of the sanctions against Cuba and promised to
expand support for human rights activists there.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A11)
2001 Jul 13, It was reported that
California was awash with methamphetamines produced by Mexican drug
trafficking cartels. Prices were down to $20 per gram vs. $100 in the
rest of the country.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 13, A judge in San Jose,
Calif., sentenced Andrew Burnett, the man who had tossed a fluffy
little dog to its death in a bout of road rage, to the maximum three
years behind bars.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2001 Jul 13, In Missouri a private
plane crashed into a home in Carterville and all 6 people aboard were
killed.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 13, It was reported that
record droughts persisted in Afghanistan northern China, North Korea,
Mongolia and Tajikistan.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.D4)
2001 Jul 13, The IOC awarded
Beijing, China, the honor of hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 13, In Gaza and the West
Bank 2 Islamic Hamas militants were killed. Israeli soldiers shot and
killed one in Tulkarm. Fawaz Badran (27) was killed when his car
exploded.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A10)
2002 Jul 13, US governors opened
their summer meeting in Boise, Idaho, with high health care costs the
main topic.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2002 Jul 13, Yousuf Karsh (93),
photographer, died in Boston.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2002 Jul 13, A family of 4 were
found stabbed to death in their home near Whittier, Ca. Jasmine Ruiz
(8) was sexually assaulted before being killed. Alfonso Ignacio Morales
(23) was arrested July 15.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A7)(SFC, 7/16/02, p.A4)
2002 Jul 13, A unanimous UN
Security Council vote to exempt American peacekeepers from prosecution
by the new war crimes tribunal for a year ended a U.S. threat to halt
U.N. peacekeeping but angered many court supporters.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, Dominican
lawmakers voted to reform the country's constitution to allow
presidents to serve two consecutive terms in office.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 13, Outside Jammu,
Kashmir, a grenade and gun attack on a Hindu slum that left 27 people
dead, dozens wounded and rekindled fears of war with nuclear neighbor
Pakistan.
(Reuters, 7/14/02)(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 13, It was reported that
Dr. P.V. Rajiv in southern India saved three sick newborn babies using
a cloned version of the anti-impotence drug Viagra. "We saved the
babies by giving sildenafil citrate, also called Viagra," he said. Dr.
Rajiv first gave the drug orally to a baby suffering pulmonary
hypertension, after consulting international journals which reported
its use to treat adults in a similar condition. Blue babies have a
condition that contracts vessels carrying oxygen-rich blood to the
lungs.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, In southern
Iraq 7 civilians were reported injured in U.S. air raids.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 13, Police in northern
Kenya opened fire on protesters outside a U.N. refugee camp, killing
three people.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, Morocco's King
Mohammed VI publicly celebrated his marriage to a 24-year-old computer
engineer during two days of festivities that showed the 38-year-old
king's desire to modernize the monarchy.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, In Mansahra, northern
Pakistan, 9 foreigners and three Pakistanis were hurt when an
unidentified assailant hurled a hand grenade at a tourist party.
(Reuters, 7/13/02)(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A20)
2002 Jul 13, President
Alejandro Toledo declared a state of emergency Saturday in southeast
Peru, where snow and freezing weather has killed at least 18 people in
less than two weeks.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2003 Jul 13, Compay Segundo (95),
a once-forgotten Cuban musician who gained worldwide fame with the
"Buena Vista Social Club," died in Havana.
(AP, 7/14/03)
2003 Jul 13, In Iraq a 25-member
interim Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) of prominent Iraqis from diverse
political and religious backgrounds was named at an inaugural meeting,
the first national body since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The council
abolished a number of old holidays and established April 9, the fall of
Baghdad and Saddam's regime, as a new national holiday.
(AP, 7/13/03)(WSJ, 4/19/04, p.A14)
2003 Jul 13, In Kashmir a bus
skidded off a mountain road after hitting another vehicle and fell into
a river, killing at least 16 people and injuring 19.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 13, Kuwait's emir, Sheik
Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah (76), appointed his brother as prime minister,
separating the post from the crown prince for the first time in a move
seen as a step toward political reform.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 13, Hashim Salamat (61),
founder of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), died in the
Philippines. In the 1960s he was sent to Egypt where he obtained an
Islamic philosophy degree from Al Azhar college in 1967 and a masters
degree two years later.
(WSJ, 8/25/08,
p.A6)(www.newsflash.org/2003/05/ht/ht003629.htm)
2004 Jul 13, The American League
cruised past the National League 9-4 in the All-Star game.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2004 Jul 13, Ken Jennings (30), a
software engineer from SLC, crossed the $1 million mark in a 30-game
winning streak on Jeapardy.
(USAT, 7/4/04, p.1A)
2004 Jul 13, In an Ohio court De
Beers ended a 60-year impasse and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for
the price fixing of industrial diamonds.
(Econ, 7/17/04, p.60)
2004 Jul 13, American troops in
Afghanistan numbered about 17,000 with some 140,000 serving in Iraq.
(WSJ, 7/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 13, Police forces loyal
to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen forced the acting head of state
Chea Sim out of the country in a purge of the ruling party.
(AP, 7/13/04)
2004 Jul 13, Chechnya's acting
president escaped injury in the Chechen capital when an explosion hit
his motorcade, but one person was killed and three were wounded. A
separate clash left 18 soldiers dead.
(AP, 7/13/04)(WSJ, 7/14/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 13, It was reported that
the bid price for a car license plate in Shanghai had surged to $4,133
in May.
(WSJ, 7/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 13, Carlos Kleiber
(b.1930), German conductor, died. He was buried in Slovenia next to his
wife. He was considered as one of the great conductors of the 20th
century.
(www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/obituary/0,12723,1265571,00.html)
2004 Jul 13, A confidant of Osama
bin Laden (Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harby) surrendered to Saudi
diplomats in Iran and was flown to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2004 Jul 13, At least 13 people,
eight Maoist guerrillas, two security men and three civilians, were
killed in revolt-racked Nepal during the last 24-hour period.
(AP, 7/13/04)
2004 Jul 13, The Philippines said
it would withdraw its tiny peacekeeping force from Iraq as soon as it
can. The Philippine government made a direct appeal to insurgents
holding a Filipino hostage, pleading with them to show mercy for the
man they threatened to kill if the country did not agree to pull its
troops from Iraq early.
(AP, 7/13/04)
2004 Jul 13, Overflowing rivers
swamped villages in South Asia, leaving millions of residents stranded
in their flooded homes and 272 people dead in the annual monsoon rains.
(AP, 7/13/04)
2004 Jul 13, The US State Dept.
announced that Uzbekistan had not passed the test for assistance this
year.
(Econ, 7/17/04, p.43)
2005 Jul 13, Bernie Ebbers (63),
former CEO of WorldCom, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his
role in fraud orchestrating the biggest corporate accounting fraud in
US history.
(WSJ, 7/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 13, In Virginia a federal
judge sentenced Ali Timini (41), a prominent Muslim spiritual leader,
to life in prison for inciting his followers for violent jihad against
the US. Timini was convicted in April.
(SFC, 7/14/05, p.A9)
2005 Jul 13, The National Hockey
league and the players’ union reached an agreement in principle on a
6-year labor deal ending a lockout that canceled the last season. It
included a team wage limit of $39 million and a 24% reduction in
current salaries.
(WSJ, 7/14/05, p.D1)(Econ, 7/23/05, p.36)
2005 Jul 13, The Pennsylvania
Health Care Cost Containment Council issued a report that said more
than 11,000 people caught some sort of infection in Pennsylvania
hospitals last year and nearly 1,800 died from them.
(Reuters, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, The White Holly, a
retrofitted WW II Navy freighter, embarked from SF Bay on a 7,000 mile
roundtrip cruise to study coral reef decay.
(SFC, 7/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 13, A fuel gauge that
mistakenly read full instead of empty forced NASA to call off the first
shuttle launch in 2½ years.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2005 Jul 13, It was reported that
a triple-star system, HD 188753, is located 149 light-years away in the
constellation Cygnus. The primary star is like our Sun, weighing 1.06
solar masses. The other two stars form a tightly bound pair,
which is separated from the primary by approximately the Sun-Saturn
distance.
(www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050713_triple_sun.html)
2005 Jul 13, In Afghanistan a
suspected Taliban gunmen killed Saleh Mohammed, a senior pro-government
Muslim cleric in Helmand province.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, PM John Howard said
Australia will send 150 elite troops to Afghanistan by September to
fight a growing tide of violence by remnants of the Taliban and
al-Qaida.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, British police
identified 3 of the July 7 bombers as Shahzad Tanweer (22), Mohammed
Sidique Khan (30), and Hasib Hussain (19), the bomber on the N0. 30
bus. The 4th suicide bomber was identified the next day as Lindsey
Germaine (19), a Jamaican-born Briton.
(SFC, 7/30/05, p.A11)
2005 Jul 13, Opposition movements
from across Egypt's political spectrum joined in opposition to
President Hosni Mubarak with calls for a boycott of September's
presidential vote.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, Egypt announced it
was launching a campaign for the return of five of its most precious
artifacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta Stone in London
and the graceful bust of Nefertiti in Berlin.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, Rudy Therassan,
Haiti's former national police commander (2201-2003), was sentenced to
almost 15 years in prison. He was accused of protecting Colombian
cocaine shipments through his destitute homeland. He pleaded guilty in
federal court in April to conspiring to import at least 22 pounds of
cocaine into the US and laundering money.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 13, In India an Islamic
trust claimed ownership of the Taj Mahal and demanded a slice of
tourist revenue from the 17th-century monument to love, but the
government-run group charged with its upkeep vowed to challenge that
claim in court.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, The US military filed
charges against 11 US soldiers for assaulting detainees in Baghdad. A
suicide car bomb exploded next to US troops handing out candy and toys,
killing more than two dozen people, including 18 children and teenagers
and an American soldier.
(AP, 7/16/05)(AP, 7/13/06)
2005 Jul 13, Israeli troops
reoccupied the West Bank city of Tulkarem early, killing a Palestinian
policeman in a firefight and arresting five Islamic Jihad activists
after the militant group killed four Israelis in a suicide bombing.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, In Brescia, Italy, a
judge convicted two North Africans of belonging to an extremist cell
alleged to have planned attacks, including one against Milan's subway.
Moroccan Mohamed Rafik was sentenced to four years and eight months in
prison and Tunisian Kamel Hamraoui to three years and four months.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, In Kenya in an
apparent revenge attack, men believed to be from the Gabra tribe killed
10 members of the rival Borana tribe as they were being driven to a
seminar in Marsabit, 250 miles northeast of Nairobi.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 13, In southern Pakistan
3 trains collided in a deadly chain reaction after a train driver
misread a signal, killing 133 people and injuring hundreds in the
country's worst crash in more than a decade.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 13, Thousands of
Peruvians protested against a proposed US-trade pact that a UN
investigator warned would put medicines out of reach of millions of
poor people.
(Reuters, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, Pressure grew for
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to quit as her opponents
staged the largest rally against her so far.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, Russian President
Vladimir Putin signed a decree stripping the security services of
control over a number of detention centers, satisfying a long-standing
request by Europe's top human rights body.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2006 Jul 13, President Bush met
with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Stralsund, Germany, while on
his way to the G8 summit in Russia.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Former CIA officer
Valerie Plame sued Vice President Dick Cheney, presidential adviser
Karl Rove and other White House officials, saying they orchestrated a
"whispering campaign" to destroy her career.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2006 Jul 13, Tongsun Park (71), a
South Korean businessman accused of being an Iraqi agent and trying to
influence the oil-for-food program, was convicted of conspiracy in New
York federal court. Park, arrested last year, was the first person
tried in the scandal. He will be sentenced in October and could face
more than a dozen years in prison for his role in the decade-long
conspiracy.
(AP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 13, The Massachusetts
Turnpike authority said it found as many as 240 potential defects in
ceiling bolts on Boston’s Big Dig tunnel. Gov. Mitt Romney filed
emergency legislation and called for the resignation of the head of the
Turnpike Authority in the wake of falling concrete slabs that killed a
woman on July 10.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 13, Hazleton, Pa., passed
Mayor Louis Barletta’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act in an effort to
get rid of undocumented immigrants. In August federal lawsuits were
filed against Hazleton and other local governments for attempting to
regulate immigration. A 1976 US Supreme Court decision said regulation
of immigration is exclusively a federal power. In 2007 a federal judge
struck down the Hazleton anti-illegal immigration law.
(SFC, 8/16/06, p.A5)(SFC, 7/27/07, p.A13)
2006 Jul 13, The Dow Jones fell
166 to 10846 and Nasdaq closed down 36 to 2,054. Crude oil for August
delivery closed at a record $76.70.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.D1)
2006 Jul 13, The Sawtooth Complex
fire in southern California grew to 40,000 acres and remained out of
control. It looked to soon merge with the 2,500-acre Millard fire.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 13, Red Buttons (87),
comic film and TV star, died at his home in Century City, Ca. His over
30 films included “Hatari” and “The Poseidon Adventure.” Buttons was
born as Aaron Chwatt in NYC on Feb. 5, 1919.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.B9)
2006 Jul 13, A collaborative
effort to study malaria went public via the Web site Africa@home.
Project leaders planned to use spare computing capacity to study
malaria. By July 19 it reached the stable level of some 5000 computers
needed at this stage for MalariaControl.net.
(Econ, 7/15/06,
p.79)(http://africa-at-home.web.cern.ch/africa%2Dat%2Dhome/index.htm)
2006 Jul 13, British and Afghan
forces battled Taliban holdouts after repelling a brazen insurgent
attack on a police headquarters a day earlier. Afghan and US-led
coalition forces killed nine militants after suspected Taliban fighters
attacked two army checkpoints in the latest fighting to rock southern
Afghanistan. More than 30 enemy extremists were killed in an operation
in Uruzgan province.
(AP, 7/13/06)(AP, 7/14/06)(AFP, 7/15/06)
2006 Jul 13, In Belarus Alexander
Kozulin (50), an opposition leader, was convicted of organizing an
unauthorized rally against the disputed election of Pres. Lukashenko
and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in jail.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, In Brazil gangs
torched buses and attacked banks and police stations across Sao Paulo,
deepening crime fears as a wave of rampant violence entered its third
day.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, The NatWest British
bankers David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby were extradited
to the US for a $20 million fraud linked to the collapsed Enron Corp.
Many viewed the March, 2003, US and British extradition treaty as
imbalanced and favoring US interests.
(Econ, 7/15/06, p.12, 56)
2006 Jul 13, The Guardian
newspaper said PM Tony Blair wants China, India, Brazil, Mexico and
South Africa to join the G8 to secure multilateral deals on trade,
climate change and Iran.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Three Canadian
military personnel were killed and four others injured on after their
helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a search and rescue
training exercise off Canada's east coast.
(Reuters, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Canada confirmed its
second case of mad cow disease in as many weeks, and the 7th since 2003.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, A Chinese reporter
who posted essays on foreign Web sites criticizing the ruling Communist
Party was sentenced to two years in prison on subversion charges.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, The EU criticized
Israel for using "disproportionate" force in its attacks on Lebanon
following the cross-border raid by Hezbollah guerillas who captured 2
Israeli soldiers.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Indian police
detained about 350 people for questioning in the Bombay train bombings
amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the attacks
that killed at least 200 people. Officials said they believe the
bombings were the work of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a Pakistan-based Islamic
militant group.
(AP, 7/13/06)(SFC, 7/14/06, p.A17)
2006 Jul 13, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad shrugged off a decision by world powers to refer Iran to
the U.N. Security Council over its atomic program, saying Tehran would
never abandon its "right to exploit peaceful nuclear technology."
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, British and
Australian forces handed over security duties for a relatively peaceful
southern province to Iraqis in the first such transfer of an entire
province. Gunmen killed the coach of Iraq's national wrestling team in
a botched abduction attempt but a player escaped. A suicide car bomber
struck a police patrol in the northern city of Mosul, killing five
people and wounding five. At least 19 people were killed in attacks
nationwide.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, An Israeli warplane
bombed the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, collapsing part of the
structure and causing widespread damage in the area.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Israel unleashed a
furious military campaign on Lebanon's main airport, highways, military
bases and other targets, retaliating for scores of Hezbollah guerrilla
rockets that rained down on Israel and reached as far as Haifa, its
third-largest city, for the first time. The death toll in two days of
fighting rose to 57 people. Lebanese guerrillas fired three rockets at
the northern Israeli town of Safed, wounding seven people. Israel
imposed a sea and air blockade on Lebanon to cut off supply routes to
Lebanese militants. Israel hit hundreds of targets in Lebanon as part
of its effort to force the release of two soldiers captured by
Hezbollah guerrillas. Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television broadcast
pictures of the Iranian supplied 333mm Raad-1 rocket used in an attack
on the Israeli army base near Safed.
(AP, 7/13/06)(SFC, 7/14/06, p.A14)
2006 Jul 13, In the northern
Philippines a powerful Asian storm strengthen to a typhoon after
killing at least nine people.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, In Thailand a top
court decided to accept a case that accuses PM Thaksin Shinawatra's
ruling party and its main rival of electoral fraud.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, The presidents of
Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia formally opened a pipeline designed to
bypass Russia and bring Caspian oil to Europe, a route that President
Bush said would bolster global energy security.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2007 Jul 13, A US jury in Chicago
found Conrad Black guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice.
Black and the others had been accused by US prosecutors of pilfering
$60 million in payments that should have benefited Hollinger
International, once the world's third-largest English language
newspaper chain, and its shareholders. Black was sentenced to a 6
1/2-year sentence and began serving it at a federal prison in Florida.
(Reuters, 7/13/07)(AP, 7/13/08)
2007 Jul 13, In southern
Afghanistan NATO-led and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban militants,
leaving 10 suspected militants dead.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, A court in Brazil
issued an arrest warrant for self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris
Berezovsky on charges of money-laundering, but he denied any
involvement. The case dates back to 2004, when MSI spent millions of
dollars acquiring new players, which raised the interest of Sao Paulo
state prosecutors. They wanted to know more about the investment group,
its Iranian-born president, Kia Joorabchian, and the origin of the
money he and his unidentified partners injected into the club.
Brazilian prosecutors said they have also issued an arrest warrant for
Joorabchian, a British citizen.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, began hosting the Pan American Games. An estimated 5,500
athletes from 42 countries participated in 38 sports. The games ended
July 29.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Pan_American_Games)
2007 Jul 13, China’s General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said
on its Web site that frozen poultry products from Tyson Foods Inc., the
world's largest meat processor, were found to be contaminated with
salmonella. AQSIQ said other imports barred included frozen chicken
feet from Sanderson Farms, Inc. tainted with residue of an
anti-parasite drug, as well as frozen pork ribs from Cargill Meat
Solutions Corp. containing a leanness-enhancing feed additive.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 13, French legislators
approved a measure lowering the cap on tax burdens to 50% of income,
despite resistance from leftists and even within the ruling
conservative coalition.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, A French gendarme
shot a superior officer dead in a Paris suburb before killing his own
twin children and finally turning the gun on himself.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, The International
Atomic Energy Agency said Iran has agreed to answer lingering questions
about its nuclear experiments and will let UN inspectors return to a
plutonium-producing reactor it is building.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, In northern Iran at
least 18 people were killed and 24 others injured in a road accident
when a truck slammed into a bus full passengers.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, US forces battled
Iraqi police and gunmen, killing six policemen, after an American raid
captured an Iraqi police lieutenant accused of leading a cell of Shiite
militiamen. 7 gunmen also died in the fight. A volley of at least four
mortars were fired from the city's dangerous southern districts at the
Green Zone. The mortars hit near the home of a senior Iraqi military
official, killing two Iraqi soldiers. Khalid W. Hassan (23), an Iraqi
journalist for The New York Times, was shot to death on his way to
work. A US soldier was killed by small arms fire near Rusdi Mulla.
(AP, 7/13/07)(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 13, A powerful typhoon
pounded Japan's southern Okinawa island chain, cutting power to tens of
thousands of households and grounding flights with winds up to 100 mph.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, In north Lebanon
Islamic militants fired back volleys of rockets at the Lebanese army as
troops pounded the remaining suspected hideouts of the Fatah Islam
fighters holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, Roman Robles-Cota
(32), a police chief in the northern Mexican town of Sonoyta pleaded
guilty to charges that he bribed a US Border Patrol agent in 2005 in an
effort to help a smuggling operation.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, The main US
development fund signed a $506.9 million aid agreement with Mozambique
to promote economic growth and reduce poverty.
(Reuters, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, In Nepal landslides
in two mountainous districts killed at least 26 people and injured 17
more.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, In Pakistan Muslim
protesters burnt effigies of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and
American icon "Uncle Sam" in mass rallies against this week's deadly
Red Mosque army raid.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, Some 4,000
Palestinians remained stuck on the Egyptian side of the border with
trouble finding food and shelter, shortages they blamed on local
authorities who are indifferent to their plight.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, The Great Canary
Telescope, one of the most powerful in the world, began spying on the
universe, using its 34-foot wide mirror to search for planets similar
to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands. The
Canary Island observatory said institutes in Mexico and the US
collaborated in the project, involving more than 1,000 people in nearly
100 companies.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 13, Andrew Natsios, the
US envoy to Sudan, accused the country's government of resuming bombing
civilian positions in its troubled Darfur region, and warned of a
"disturbing" trend of Arab groups resettling in the area.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, UN officials said
they are investigating allegations that Indian peacekeepers in Congo
traded food and even military intelligence with Rwandan Hutu rebels in
return for gold.
(Reuters, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, Authorities in
Zimbabwe announced the arrest of hundreds more retailers and executives
as part of an ongoing price crackdown as it emerged the head of the
central bank had warned against the blitz.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2008 Jul 13, The US Securities and
Exchange Commission said it would immediately conduct investigations
aimed at preventing the intentional spreading of false information
intended to manipulate securities prices. the Federal Reserve and the
Treasury Department announced steps to brace slumping mortgage giants
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
(Reuters, 7/14/08)(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 13, Terry Childs (43), a
San Francisco computer engineer, was arrested on felony charges for
allegedly plotting to hijack the city’s computer system. Childs, who
continue to draw his $127,735 annual salary, refused to provide
passwords to the network system and was held in lieu of a $5 million
bail. Mayor Newsom met with Childs on July 21, who provided system
code. Cisco engineers had the system back under control by July 22. On
April 27, 2010, Childs was convicted of felony computer tampering. On
April 27, 2010, a Superior Court jury concluded that his crime cost the
city over $200,000, making him eligible for a maximum state sentence of
5 years.
(SFC, 7/16/08, p.B1)(SFC, 7/23/08, p.B1)(SFC,
4/28/10, p.C1)
2008 Jul 13, Belgian-based brewer
InBev announced it will buy Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion.
(http://www.kansascity.com/382/story/703682.html)
2008 Jul 13, In southern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to a
police patrol killing 24 people in Uruzgan province. A two-day battle
sparked by an insurgent attack killed at least 40 militants in Helmand
province. A NATO soldier died in a roadside blast in Helmand province.
In Kunar province, fighting erupted when militants attacked a NATO
security force outpost. In eastern Logar province gunmen kidnapped
parliament member Abdul Wali and his driver. Well-armed militants got
inside a remote military outpost in the village of Wanat in the
mountainous northeastern province of Kunar. 9 American soldiers were
killed in the deadliest assault on US forces in Afghanistan in three
years. In 2010 the US Army reversed a decision to punish three officers
for command failures that led to the deadly firefight.
(AP, 7/13/08)(AP, 7/14/08)(AP, 6/23/10)
2008 Jul 13, Algeria’s government
newspaper El Moudjhaid said a consortium of British-based oil services
company Petrofac and Indonesian engineering company IKPT provisionally
won a contract to build an LNG plant in western Mediterranean port of
Arzew.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, Pope Benedict XVI
arrived in Sydney, after a stop in Darwin, for one of the largest
Christian gatherings on Earth, starting a visit set to be marked by his
apology for sexual abuse by priests in Australia.
(AFP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy urged the disparate and conflicted countries around the
Mediterranean Sea to make peace as European rivals did in the 20th
century as he launched an unprecedented Union for the Mediterranean. 43
nations, including Israel and Arab states, pledged to work for a Middle
East free of weapons of mass destruction at the close of a summit to
launch an unprecedented Union for the Mediterranean aimed at securing
peace across the restive region.
(AP, 7/13/08)(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 13, Iranian state TV said
the country is exploring a newly discovered oil field believed to
contain more than 1 billion barrels of crude oil.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, In Iraq gunmen
attacked a soccer game near Duluiya killing a police officer and a
Sunni Muslim allied with the US against al-Qaida. A roadside bomb in
Fallujah killed 4 police officers. A bomb hit a truck near Baquba. The
driver and his assistant died of their wounds at a nearby hospital.
Some 70 women graduated in the first Daughters of Iraq, a group of
female security volunteers.
(SFC, 7/14/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 13, Thousands of Japanese
rallied against the permanent basing of the nuclear-powered USS George
Washington aircraft carrier near Tokyo, saying a recent onboard fire
made it unsafe.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, In Indian Kashmir 10
people were hurt when police had to fire shots in the air and use tear
gas to disperse a crowd that was attacking pro-India politicians.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, In Mexico gunmen
opened fire on four cars on a busy street in Guamuchil, killing eight
people. Among the victims were a girl (11), two 17-year-old boys and
two women aged 18 and 19. On July 16 Mexico's government offered a
reward of nearly US$100,000 for information leading to the capture of
the gunmen.
(AP, 7/14/08)(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 13, In Poland Bronislaw
Geremek (76), former foreign minister (1997-2000), died in a car
accident near Lubien. He was an icon in the struggle against communist
rule and a founding member of the Solidarity trade union.
(AFP, 7/13/08)(Econ, 7/26/08, p.98)
2008 Jul 13, In Sierra Leone a
passenger plane loaded with 1,540 pounds of cocaine was found abandoned
at the main airport.
(SFC, 7/14/08, p.A11)
2008 Jul 13, A World Food Program
contractor was gunned down in Somalia, the 5th agency worker to be
killed this year.
(SFC, 7/16/08,
p.A15)(www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-15-somalia_N.htm)
2008 Jul 13, In Sudan thousands of
protesters chanting "Down, Down USA!" rallied in Khartoum after reports
that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may seek the arrest of
Sudan's president for alleged war crimes. A stampede among crowds of
people attending a military graduation ceremony killed 17 people at the
al-Merriekh Stadium in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum. The dead
were mostly women and children with 3 dozen others injured.
(Reuters, 7/13/08)(AP, 7/14/08)
2009 Jul 13, The US Fisheries
Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a
ban on krill fishing within 200 miles of the Pacific coast of
California, Oregon and Washington due to concerns that commercial krill
fishing threatened food sources for fish, whales and seabirds.
(SFC, 7/14/09, p.A4)
2009 Jul 13, In southern
Afghanistan 2 US Marines were killed in a hostile incident. An
insurgent attack in eastern Nuristan province killed a US soldier. The
police chief of Jalrez district in Wardak province was killed along
with 3 officers in a roadside blast.
(AP, 7/14/09)(SFC, 7/14/09, p.A3)
2009 Jul 13, British and Israeli
officials said Britain has revoked several licenses granted to British
companies to sell weapons parts to Israel because of concerns over
their use in Israel's recent war in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, In China police shot
dead two Uighur men and wounded a third on the streets of Urumqi, where
tens of thousands of troops are stationed to restore calm a week after
deadly ethnic riots.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, China's Health
Ministry ordered a hospital to stop using electric shock therapy to
cure youths of Internet addiction, saying there was no scientific
evidence it worked.
(AP, 7/14/09)
2009 Jul 13, In Cuba the body of
Rev. Mariano Arroyo Merino (74) was discovered in his room at the
parish he served in the coastal neighborhood of Regla, situated on
Havana Bay across from the capital. Authorities were still
investigating the death of another Spanish priest, the Rev. Eduardo de
la Fuente Serrano, whose body was found in a remote, sparsely populated
area just outside the capital in mid-February.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, In Germany retired
auto worker John Demjanjuk was formally charged with 27,900 counts of
acting as an accessory to murder, one for every person who died at
Sobibor during the time he is accused of serving as a guard at the Nazi
death camp.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, German automobile
group Daimler said it sold 40 percent of its stake in US electric car
maker Tesla Motors to United Arab Emirate's Aabar Investments group to
boost development of low-emission vehicles.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Munich Re, the
world’s largest reinsurance group, invited 20 large companies to join
it in forming a consortium called Desertec to build a legion of solar
power stations in Africa and Arabia and connect them to Europe.
(Econ, 7/11/09, p.83)
2009 Jul 13, In Indonesia a
policeman's body was found at the bottom of a ravine near the
Indonesian operations of US mining conglomerate Freeport, raising the
death toll from a series of weekend ambushes in restive Papua province
to three.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Iraqi authorities
imposed vehicle bans in two mostly Christian towns and increased
security around churches in Baghdad after attacks targeting the
Christian minority. An Iraqi soldier was killed when a bomb attached to
his private vehicle exploded at noon in an area of northern Mosul.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Japan passed a law
that will allow children to receive organ transplants for the first
time, reversing a ban that doomed many young patients or forced them to
seek medical care abroad.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Former Lebanese PM
Amin al-Hafez (83) died. He served a turbulent two-month term in 1973
before he was forced to resign.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Mexican prosecutors
said they found the bound, blindfolded and tortured bodies of a dozen
people on a roadside near La Huacana in the western state of Michoacan.
The 12 bodies were soon identified as federal agents investigating
organized crime.
(AP, 7/14/09)(AP, 7/15/09)(SFC, 7/15/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 13, Mexico and the US
announced that they were working on a protocol for sharing information
in arms trafficking cases.
(AP, 7/14/09)(AP, 8/6/09)
2009 Jul 13, Pakistan began
sending home about two million people displaced two months ago by the
army's assault on Taliban militants in the Swat valley. An explosion in
Punjab province destroyed a house used as a religious seminary, killing
at least nine people, seven of them children, and leaving many others
in critical condition.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, In Russia 5 suspected
militants and two law enforcement officers were killed in separate
attacks in the south. The militants were killed in two separate
gunbattles in Chechnya, while Interior Ministry troops in Dagestan died
in an ambush by insurgents.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, South Korea reported
that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (67) has life-threatening
pancreatic cancer, days after fresh images of him looking gaunt spurred
speculation that his health was worsening following a reported stroke
last year.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Turkey and four EU
countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary) formally agreed to
route the Nabucco natural gas pipeline across their territories,
pushing ahead with a US- and EU-backed attempt to make Europe less
dependent on Russian gas.
(AP, 7/13/09)(Econ, 7/18/09, p.47)
2009 Jul 13, Uganda said it would
arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he enters the country, an
unusual stance after a summit of African leaders denounced the
international arrest warrant against al-Bashir.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, The UN’s highest
court set travel rules for the Nicaraguan river that borders Costa
Rica, affirming freedom for Costa Rican boats while upholding
Nicaragua's right to regulate traffic.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, In Zimbabwe militants
from President Robert Mugabe's party disrupted the start of a national
conference aimed at drawing up a new constitution.
(AP, 7/13/09)
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