Today in History - July 14
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1223 Jul 14,
Philip II Augustus (57), King of France (1180-1223), died. Louis VIII
succeeded his father.
(HN, 7/14/98)(MC, 7/14/02)
1420 Jul 14, Jan Zizka
(1360?-1424) led the Taborites in Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill
(Prague). The Taborites beat forces under Sigismund, the pro-Catholic
King of Hungary and Bohemia. This was part of the Hussite Wars
(1419-1436).
(http://user.intop.net/~jhollis/janzizka.htm)
1430 Jul 14, Joan of Arc, taken
prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to Pierre Cauchon,
the bishop of Beauvais.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1456 Jul 14, Hungarians defeated
the Ottomans at the Battle of Belgrade, in present-day Yugoslavia. The
1456 Siege of Belgrade decided the fate of Christendom.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1486 Jul 14, Andrea del Sarto
(d.1531), aka Vanucchi or di Francesco, Italian Renaissance artist
(Recollets), was born. He represented what Vasari called the terza
maniera, the third or modern manner of painting.
(WUD, 1994, p.55)(WSJ, 10/29/96, p.A21)(MC, 7/14/02)
1520 Jul 14, Hernando Cortes
fought the Aztecs at the Battle of Otumba, Mexico.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1536 Jul 14, France and Portugal
signed the naval treaty of Lyons aligning themselves against Spain.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1581 Jul 14, English Jesuit Edmund
Campion was arrested.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1602 Jul 14, Jules Mazarin, French
cardinal, French 1st Minister (1642-61), was born.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1614 Jul 14, Camillus de Lellis
(64), Italian soldier, monastery founder, saint, died.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1634 Jul 14, Pasquier Quesnel,
French theologian, Jansenist (Jesus-Christ Penitent), was born.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1682 Jul 14, Henry Purcell was
appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1771 Jul 14, Father Junipero Serra
founded the Mission San Antonio de Padua in California.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.T4)(MC, 7/14/02)
1776 Jul 14, Jemima Boone (13),
the daughter of Daniel Boone, and 2 friends were kidnapped by a group
of 5 Shawnee and Cherokee Indians near Boonesborough, Kentucky. They
were rescued on July 16 by Daniel Boone and 7 other Boonesborough men.
(ON, 8/08, p.6)
1789 July 14 ,
Bastille Day. Tens of thousands of the citizens of Paris stormed the
Bastille, the Paris fortress used as a prison to hold political
prisoners, and released the seven prisoners inside at the onset of the
French Revolution. Over 100 rioters were killed or wounded. The average
Frenchman was 5 foot 2 and weighed 105 pounds. France’s Louis XIV made
a diary entry that read “Rien” (nothing). Historian Francois Furet
(1927-1997), a leading writer on the French Revolution, was best known
for his work: "Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution." He
refuted Marxist interpretations of the events that preceded and
followed the fall of the monarchy. In 1939 W. Higgins edited "The
French Revolution Told by Contemporaries."
(AP, 7/14/97)(HN, 7/14/98)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R12)(ON,
4/01, p.1)(Econ, 6/25/05, p.52)(SFC, 7/15/97, p.A18)
1789 Jul 14, The French
Revolution. "It was not the literate and cultured minority of Frenchmen
who brought down the government, as had been the case in England and
America. Instead it was the common people, who marched upon the king
and queen in their palace at Versailles. The Jacobins promulgated a
Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen that went beyond the
American Bill of Rights in affirming, "Nothing that is not forbidden by
Law may be hindered, and no one may be compelled to do what the Law
does not ordain," for "Liberty consists in being able to do anything
that does not harm others."
(V.D.-H.K.p.230-231)(SFC, 6/23/96, Z1 p.2)
1791 Jul 14-1791 Jul 17, Riots
took place in Birmingham, England. The houses of Joseph Priestley and
other political dissenters were burned to the ground. Priestley had
rejected various supernatural elements of Christianity, criticized the
Church of England, and supported the French Revolution.
(SFC, 1/9/09,
p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priestley_Riots)
1795 Jul 14, "La Marseillais,"
written in 1792, became the French national anthem.
(http://tinyurl.com/7a4p9)
1798 Jul 14, The Sedition Act, the
last of four pieces of legislation known as the Alien and Sedition
Acts, was passed by Congress, making it unlawful to write, publish, or
utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. president and the
U.S. government, among other things. Violations were made punishable by
up to 2 years in jail and a fine of $2,000.
(AP, 7/14/97)(HN, 7/14/98)(WSJ, 10/29/04, p.W10)
1798 Jul 14, 1st direct federal
tax in US states took effect on dwellings, land and slaves.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1817 Jul 14, Madame de Stael (51),
writer and daughter of former French finance minister Jacques Necker,
died. She was intimate with Benjamin Constant and their intellectual
collaboration made them one of the most important intellectual pairs of
their time. In 2005 Maria Fairweather authored “Madame de Stael.” In
2008 Renee Winegarten authored the dual biography “Germaine de Stael
& Benjamin Constant.”
(Econ, 3/19/05,
p.88)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/stael.htm)(WSJ, 6/23/08, p.A15)
1845 Jul 14, Fire in NYC destroyed
1,000 homes and killed many.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1850 Jul 14, The 1st public
demonstration of ice made by refrigeration took place. James Harrison
of Australia designed an ice-making machine. It was an improvement on
one invented by Jacob Perkins in 1834.
(MC, 7/14/02)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R14)
1853 Jul 14, Pres. Franklin Pierce
opened the 1st industrial exposition in NY. Some 4,000 exhibitors
gathered for a trade show at the New York Crystal Palace (later Bryant
Park).
(WSJ, 9/14/00, p.A24)(MC, 7/14/02)
1853 Jul 14, Commodore Matthew
Perry met with Prince Toda and Prince Ido at ceremony at Kurihama,
Japan, and presented a letter from former Pres. Fillmore to Emperor
Osahito requesting trade relations. Fillmore's term of office had
already expired by the time the letter was delivered.
(ON, 11/04, p.12)(AP, 7/14/07)
1858 Jul 14, Emmeline Pankhurst,
British suffragist and founder of the Women's Social and Political
Union, was born in Manchester, England.
(HN, 7/14/98)(AP, 7/14/08)
1860 Jul 14, Owen Wister (d.1938),
novelist, was born in Germantown, Pa. His 1902 novel "The
Virginian" inspired 5 films.
(HN, 7/14/01)(SFC, 1/9/02, p.D8)(AH, 10/02, p.18)
1861 Jul 14, Union troops tried to
force a crossing at Seneca Falls on the Potomac, northwest of
Washington but were repulsed by the Confederates. A company of the
Louisiana Tiger Rifles helped defend the line.
(HN, 7/14/99)
1861 Jul 14, Gen McDowell advanced
toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA, with 40,000 troops.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1861 Jul 14, Naval Engagement at
Wilmington, NC. USS Daylight established a blockade.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1863 Jul 14, Jews of Holstein
Germany were granted equality.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1864 Jul 14, At Harrisburg,
Mississippi, Federal troops under General Andrew Jackson Smith repulsed
an attack by General Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of Forrest's only two
defeats.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1864 Jul 14, Gold was discovered
in Helena, Mont. Four prospectors discovered gold in a small stream
they called "Last Chance." This marked the birth of Helena, future
capital of Montana. [see 1863]
(Visitor’s brochure, 9/11/97)(MC, 7/14/02)
1865 Jul 14, Whymper, Hudson,
Croz, Douglas & Hadow became the 1st to climb Matterhorn.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1868 Jul 14, Alvin J. Fellows
patented a tape measure.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1877 Jul 14, The Great Railroad
Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and ended some 45
days later after it was put down by local and state militias.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877)
1881 Jul 14, Outlaw Billy the Kid
(21), (born as Henry McCarty) aka William H. Bonney or Kid Antrim, was
shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Billy had been held in Lincoln County Courthouse jail but escaped and
killed two guards. The Kid had fled to Fort Sumner and on a tip,
Garrett set out toward Fort Sumner to find him, with lawmen John Poe
and Thomas C. "Kip" McKinney. According to some, Pete Maxwell had
alerted Poe to the Kid's whereabouts. Many details about Billy the
Kid's death are controversial but, apparently, as he was returning to
Maxwell's house he came upon Poe and McKinney outside, unsure of
whether they were friends or foes. Garrett was awaiting inside, and as
the Kid entered the room, Garrett shot him above the heart.
Newspaperman A.J. Fountain awarded Garrett a gold star, which fetched
$100,000 at auction in 2008. Joel Jacobsen later authored "Such Men as
Billy the Kid."
(AP, 7/14/97)(HNPD, 7/14/98)(SFC, 2/2/01,
p.A14)(SFC, 6/17/08, p.B8)
1882 Jul 14, Johnny Ringo, a fast
draw gunman, was found dead in Tombstone, Az.
(SFC, 4/22/00, p.E3)
1895 Jul 14, William Leefe
Robinson, the first man to win the Victoria Cross for shooting down a
German Zeppelin, was born.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1896 Jul 14, The Pacific Mail
$680,000 Steamship Colombia was destroyed on rocks near Pescadero, Ca.
(Ind, 7/20/02, 5A)(Ind, 8/10/02, 5A)
1897 Jul 14, Swede Saloman
Andrée (43) and 2 accomplices, Knute Fraenkle and Nils
Strindberg, in the Ornen balloon were forced down after 64 hours in the
first expedition to fly by balloon across the North Pole. Their attempt
to return ended on White Island. Their fate was only discovered Aug
5-6, 1930, by Norwegian whalers.
(HNQ, 5/22/01)(ON, 11/01, p.11)
1900 Jul 14, European Allies
retook Tientsin, China, from the rebelling Boxers.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1901 Jul 14, Gerald Raphael Finzi,
composer, was born.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1903 Jul 14, Irving Stone,
biographical novelist, was born.
(HN, 7/14/01)
1904 Jul 14, Isaac Singer (1991),
Polish-born American author (Enemies-Nobel 1978), was born. "God is the
sum of all possibilities." "When you betray somebody else, you also
betray yourself."
(AP, 3/30/97)(AP, 6/4/99)(HN, 7/14/01)(MC, 7/14/02)
1906 Jul 14, Tom Carvel, ice cream
mogul (Carvels), was born.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1908 Jul 14, The short film "The
Adventures of Dollie," the first movie directed by D.W. Griffith,
opened in New York.
(AP, 7/14/08)
1911 Jul 14, Terry Thomas, actor
(It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), was born in England.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1912 Jul 14, Woodrow Wilson
"Woody" Guthrie, American folk singer, was born. Woody Guthrie (d.1967)
was born in Okemah, Okla.
(HN, 7/14/98)(SFC, 11/27/98, p.C11)
1913 Jul 14, Gerald Ford (d.2006),
41st vice-president and 38th president of the United States, was born
as Leslie King, Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska, and achieved his highest
prominence as the 38th president of the Untied States. He became
president upon Richard Nixon's resignation from office. Gerald Rudolph
Ford was age two when his mother divorced his father and moved to Grand
Rapids, Michigan. She remarried Gerald Ford, Sr., who adopted the young
boy and gave him his name. Ford assumed the presidency on August 9,
1974, upon the resignation of Richard M. Nixon.
(HN, 7/14/99)(HNQ, 11/24/99)(AP, 12/27/06)
1913 Jul 14, Jimmy Hoffa, missing
labor leader, was born.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1913 Jul 14, Fritz Erler, German
politician (SDP), was born.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1914 Jul 14, 1st patent for
liquid-fueled rocket design was granted to Dr. R. Goddard.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1916 Jul 14, Natalia Ginzberg,
Italian novelist (The Dry Heat, Family Sayings), was born.
(HN, 7/14/01)
1918 Jul 14, Ingmar Bergman,
Swedish film director (The Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander), was born
in Uppsala, Sweden.
(HN, 7/14/01)(MC, 7/14/02)
1918 Jul 14, Arthur Laurents,
writer and librettist, was born.
(HN, 7/14/01)
1921 Jul 14, Italian anarchists
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted for the May 5, 1920
killing of a paymaster and guard at a shoe factory in South Braintree,
Massachusetts. Many claimed there was unsubstantial evidence and that
the two were tried for their radical views rather than any crime. A
defense committee secured a stay of their death sentences and the cause
of Sacco and Vanzetti grew around the world. In 1927 a commission
appointed by the governor of Massachusetts examined the conduct and
evidence of the trial and sustained the verdict. Sacco and Vanzetti
were put to death in the electric chair on August 23, 1927.
(HNQ, 4/26/00)
1927 Jul 14, John William
Chancellor, news anchor (NBC, VOA), was born in Chicago, Ill.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1933 Jul 14, All German political
parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1933 Jul 14, Nazi Germany
promulgated the Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health. It was the
beginning of their Euthanasia program.
(HN, 7/14/00)
1938 Jul 14, Jerry Rubin, activist
(Chicago 7), stockbroker, was born.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1938 Jul 14, Howard Hughes landed
at Floyd Bennet Field in NY with a crew of four after flying around the
world in 3 days, 19 hours, and 17 min., a new record.
(Hem., 2/96, p.44)
1938 Jul 14, Italian Premier
Mussolini published an anti-Jewish and African manifesto prepared by
Italian "scientists."
(http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/Fascism/Race.html)(Econ,
11/21/09, p.55)
1940 Jul 14, Due to beanball wars,
Spalding advertised batting helmet with earflaps.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1940 Jul 14, A force of German
Ju-88 bombers attacked Suez, Egypt, from bases in Crete.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1941 Jul 14, Vichy French Foreign
Legionaries signed an armistice in Damascus, allowing them to join the
Free French Foreign Legion.
(HN, 7/14/99)
1941 Jul 14, 6,000 Lithuanian Jews
were exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1944 Jul 14, SS men Heinrich Boere
and Jacobus Petrus Besteman shot and killed Dutch pharmacist Fritz
Hubert Ernst Bicknese at his home in Breda for suspected activity in
Nazi resistance. Boere was sentenced to death in absentia by a Dutch
court in 1949. This was later commuted to life imprisonment. In 2009
Boere (88) was slated to stand trial for murder in Germany for the
execution-style killings of three Dutch civilians during World War II.
In 2010 a German court convicted Boere (88) of murdering the three
Dutch civilians. He was given the maximum sentence of life in prison
for the killings.
(www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/germ-n02.shtml)(AP, 7/7/09)(AP,
3/23/10)
1945 Jul 14, American battleships
and cruisers bombarded the Japanese home islands for the first time.
The battleship USS South Dakota was 1st US ship to bombard Japan
(HN, 7/14/98)(MC, 7/14/02)
1946 Jul 14, Dr. Benjamin Spock's
"Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was published.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1946 Jul 14, Heart Mountain,
Wyoming, Japanese-American draft resisters were released from McNeil
Island.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.A28)
1948 Jul 14, Israel bombed Cairo.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1951 Jul 14, The George Washington
Carver National Monument in Joplin, Missouri became the first national
park honoring an African American.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1952 Jul 14, SS United States
crossed the Atlantic in 84:12, a record westward.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1953 Jul 14, The freighter Jacob
Luckenbach from SF rammed the Matson freighter Hawaiian Pilot near
Point Montara, 17 miles from the Golden Gate. The Luckenbach sank while
the Hawaiian Pilot limped to SF. Oil leaked from the Luckenbach later
killed numerous birds. In 2002 a $3.5 million plan for cleanup was
begun. A $19 million cleanup ended in Sep.
(Ind, 3/31/01, 5A)(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A15)(SFC, 5/8/02,
p.A22)(SFC, 10/1/02, p.A13)
1953 Jul 14, There was a Communist
offensive in Korea.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1957 Jul 14, Soviet steamer
"Eshghbad" sank in Caspian Sea and 270 drowned.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1958 Jul 14, In Iraq Gen. Abdel
Karim al-Kassem (Qassim) assassinated Faisal II with his son and
premier. Karim proclaimed a republic. Jordan’s King Hussein succeeded
Faisal. Faisal II, Hashemite King of Iraq (1939-58), was assassinated
at Baghdad and Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, was murdered. Mohammed
Hadid (d.1999 at 92) served as the first finance minister under the
government of Abdel Karim Qassem.
(PC, 1992 ed, p.963)(AP, 7/14/97)(USAT, 3/24/99,
p.18A) (SFC, 8/6/99, p.D4)
1960 Jul 14, Fire raging through a
Guatemala City, Guatemala, insane asylum and 225 were killed with 300
severely injured.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1961 Jul 14, Pope John XXIII
published his encyclical Mater et magistrate.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1962 Jul 14, Borehole for Mont
Blanc-tunnel, between France and Italy, was finished. [see Aug 14]
(MC, 7/14/02)
1964 Jul 14, The United States
sent 600 more troops to Vietnam.
(HN, 7/14/98)
1965 Jul 14, The American space
probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1965 Jul 14, U.S. Ambassador Adlai
E. Stevenson Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956,
died in London at age 65.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1966 Jul 14, In Chicago Richard
Speck murdered 8 student nurses in a Chicago dormitory. He made a
videotape in prison and admitted to the killings. Gloria Davy, Patricia
Matusek, Nina Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann
Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentina Paison; all nursing
students at the South Chicago Community Hospital; were raped then
strangled or stabbed to death by Richard Speck. One survivor,
Cora Amurao, identified Richard Speck, and he was put in jail. He
was serving consecutive sentences of 50 to 150 years and died of a
heart attack in 1991 at age 49. The video shows him having sex and
snorting cocaine in prison.
(USA Today, 5/14/96, p.3A)(TMC, 1994, p.1966)(AP,
7/14/97)(MC, 7/14/02)
1967 Jul 14, The Convention
Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO
Convention, was signed at Stockholm, Sweden, and entered into force on
April 26, 1970. As its name suggests, it established the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). WIPO Convention has 184
Contracting Parties. The Convention is written in English, French,
Russian and Spanish, all texts being equally authentic. The Convention
was amended on September 28, 1979.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization)
1969 Jul 14-Aug 2, In West Papua
the "Act of Free Choice" was conducted by the Indonesian military
forces. In papers released in 2004, it has been revealed that US
Ambassador, Marshall Green in 1969 had fore knowledge that Indonesia
had no intention of allowing a Papuan vote that might prevent Indonesia
from annexing West Papua as a Indonesian province; he further pointed
out that any UN member would unwise to expect free or direct elections.
(http://tinyurl.com/7cxq3)
1972 Jul 14, The US State
Department criticized actress Jane Fonda for making antiwar radio
broadcasts in Hanoi, calling them "distressing."
(AP, 7/14/00)
1974 Jul 14, Bundy victims Janice
Ott and Denise Naslund disappeared at Lake Sammamish, WA.
(http://usersites.horrorfind.com/home/horror/drlarry/bundy3.htm)
1974 Jul
14, Carl A. Spaats (b.1891), 1st chief of staff of USAF, died at age 83.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Spaatz)
1976 Jul 14, Jimmy Carter won the
Democratic presidential nomination by an overwhelming margin at the
party's convention in New York City.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1977 Jul 14, US House Resolution
658 established a permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
{USA, DC, Espionage}
(http://intelligence.house.gov/Faqs.aspx)
1978 Jul 14, Soviet dissident
Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky was convicted of treasonous espionage and
anti-Soviet agitation, and sentenced to 13 years at hard labor. He was
released in 1986.
(AP, 7/14/98)
1982 Jul 14, The US made
assurances to Taiwan regarding arms sales.
(www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/hl808.cfm)
1982 Jul 14, Virginia Hall
(b.1906), a Baltimore native who had worked in France for British
intelligence during WW II, died. In 1942 the Gestapo circulated posters
offering a reward for the capture of "the woman with a limp. She is the
most dangerous of all Allied spies and we must find and destroy her."
Hall’s left leg had been amputated below the knee about a decade
earlier after she stumbled and blasted her foot with a shotgun while
hunting in Turkey.
(AP,
12/11/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Hall)
1982 Jul 14, Iran launched a
"Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq.
(http://tinyurl.com/3xp9jz)
1984 Jul 14, Al Schacht (91),
baseball player, died. He was known as the Clown prince of baseball.
The former Washington Senators pitcher turned top hat jester had
entertained the crowd before twenty-five World Series and eighteen
All-Star Games.
(www.baseball-almanac.com/yearly/yr1984a.shtml)
1984 Jul 14, David Lange
(1942-2005) was elected prime minister of New Zealand. He served until
1989.
(WSJ, 8/15/05,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_general_election_1984)
1985 Jul 14, Carolyn Muncey’s
badly beaten body was found near her home in eastern Tennessee. Paul
House was convicted in 1986 and sentenced to die for the murder. In
2008 DNA evidence indicated he was not responsible for her sexual
assault and a federal judge ordered that he be quickly retried or
released.
(SFC, 5/29/08,
p.A2)(www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/10/60minutes/main660438.shtml)
1986 Jul 14, Richard W. Miller
became the 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Miller_(FBI_agent))
1986 Jul 14, An expedition from
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute filmed the wreck of the Titanic for
the first time.
(SFEC,12/797, DB p.37)
1986 Jul 14, In North Carolina
Harold Gentry’s gunshot-ridden body was found sprawled on the floor of
the home he shared with his wife, Betty Neumar. She collected at least
$20,000 in life insurance, plus other benefits from the military and
sold the couple's house and other items. In 2008 Neumar (76) was
charged with hiring a hit man to gun him down. After arresting her,
authorities realized that five times since the 1950s, she was married,
and each union ended with the death of her husband.
(AP, 6/13/08)
1986 Jul 14, Raymond Loewy (92),
US industrial designer, died. His designs included the 1973 Avanti
automobile.
(www.raymondloewy.com/about/bio3.html)
1986 Jul 14, In Spain Jose Ignacio
De Juana Chaos (b.1955), a former police officer who joined one of
ETA's most active commando units, took part in a Madrid car bombing
that killed 12 Civil Guard policemen. 45 people were wounded.
(AP,
8/2/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C3%B1aki_de_Juana_Chaos)
1987 Jul 14, The National League
took 13 innings to defeat the American League, 2-0, in the 58th
All-Star Game in Oakland, Calif.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1987 Jul 14, Lt. Col. Oliver North
concluded six days of testimony before the Iran-Contra committees.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1987 Jul 14, Greyhound Bus bought
Trailways Bus for $80 million.
(www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/shared_files/decisions/292/292-1069.txt)
1988 Jul 14, Speaking before the
U.N. Security Council, Iran's foreign minister, Ali-Akbar Velayati,
denounced the U.S. downing of an Iranian jetliner as "a barbaric
massacre." Vice President Bush replied that the U.S.S. Vincennes had
fired in self-defense.
(AP, 7/14/98)
1988 Jul 14, The Soviet press
agency Tass reported that Azerbaijan has rejected an attempt by
Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave, to secede and join
Armenia. Some 200,000 demonstrated in Soviet Armenia for the
incorporation of Nagorno-Karabakh.
(http://tinyurl.com/n6dfc)
1989 Jul 14, 16th James Bond
movies "License to Kill" premiered in the US.
(www.bondmovies.com/ltk)
1989 Jul 14, Leaders of the seven
richest nations opened a summit in Paris, which was also celebrating
the bicentennial of the French Revolution with pomp and pageantry.
(AP, 7/14/99)
1990 Jul 14, West German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived in Moscow for talks with Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachev that were aimed at soothing Kremlin
concerns about German unification.
(AP, 7/14/00)
1991 Jul 14, American and Soviet
negotiators in Washington continued work on trying to complete a treaty
slashing long-range nuclear arsenals.
(AP, 7/14/01)
1991 Jul 14, In California a
Southern Pacific tanker car derailed near Dunsmuir and spilled 18,000
gallons of pesticides (19k gallons of metam sodium) into the Sacramento
River. This killed every living thing in the river for 40 miles
downstream including 250,000 trout.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.T7)(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A22)
1991 Jul 14, Leaders of the Group
of Seven nations began gathering in London for their annual economic
summit.
(AP, 7/14/01)
1992 Jul 14, The American League
won the All-Star game, defeating the National League team 13-6 at Jack
Murphy Stadium in San Diego.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1992 Jul 14, The second day of the
Democratic National Convention heard from speakers who included former
President Carter, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and AIDS activist Elizabeth
Glaser.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1993 Jul 14, President Clinton
visited flood-stricken Iowa for the second time in 10 days, telling
flood victims to "hang in there."
(AP, 7/14/98)
1994 Jul 14, A tidal wave of Hutu
refugees from Rwanda's civil war flooded across the border into Zaire,
swamping relief organizations.
(AP, 7/14/99)
1995 Jul 14, Under pressure from
Congress, FBI Director Louis Freeh removed his friend Larry Potts as
the bureau’s deputy director because of controversy over Potts’ role in
a deadly 1992 FBI siege in Idaho.
(AP, 7/14/00)
1995 Jul 14, Physicists announced
that a new state of matter was formed by using lasers and evaporation
to plunge the temp. of rubidium gas to minus 459.67 degrees F. A full
article on the experiment appeared in the journal Science.
(WSJ, 7/14/95, A-1)
1996 Jul 14, Fire crews battled
blazes covering more than 16,000 acres in California, Colorado, Idaho,
Oregon and Utah.
(AP, 7/14/97)
1996 Jul 14, In Afghanistan the
new prime minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, closed movie theaters and
banned music on TV and radio, claiming that they were repugnant to
Islam.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A11)
1996 Jul 14, If elections are to
proceed in Bosnia, Swiss foreign minister Flavio Cotti must determine
that they can be free and fair by this date. He is the chairman of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 14, In Northern Ireland,
a car bomb at the Killyhevlin Hotel in the town of Enniskillen exploded
and injured 17 people soon after the building was evacuated; a group
calling itself "Continuity" claimed responsibility for the blast.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/14/97)
1997 Jul 14, O.J. Simpson's
California mansion was auctioned off for $2.6 million.
(AP, 7/14/98)
1997 Jul 14, The international war
crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced Dusan Tadic, a
Bosnian Serb, to 20 years in prison for turning on his Muslim and Croat
neighbors in a deadly campaign of terror and torture.
(AP, 7/14/98)
1997 Jul 14, In Algeria a bomb
exploded in an Algiers market filled with women and children and killed
21 people and wounded 40. Weekend massacres left 40 villagers dead.
(SFC, 7/15/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 14, In Bangladesh monsoon
flooding killed at least 64 people in the last week.
(WSJ, 7/14/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 14, In El Salvador
regulators seized Financiera Insepro which collapsed and left more than
1000 account holders demanding justice. The $15 million bank failure
led to a call for US investigators and 5 prominent business leaders
were jailed.
(SFEC, 7/20/97, p.A18)
1997 Jul 14, A footbridge over the
Yarkon River collapsed while being crossed by the Australian delegation
to the 15th Maccabiah games. Two died immediately in the accident and 2
died later from complications possibly caused by the pollution in the
river. The games are held every 4 years for Jewish athletes. The bridge
was thrown up in less than a month with no blueprint or foundation. 5
Israelis were convicted in 2000 for criminal negligence. 4 officials
were sentenced to prison terms from 6-21 months.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A6)(SFC, 4/18/00, p.A10)(SFC,
6/6/00, p.A16)
1997 Jul 14, In Kenya thousands of
students fought riot police in Nairobi and demanded constitutional
reforms. Naironi Univ. and Jomo Kenyatta Univ. were closed indefinitely.
(SFC, 7/15/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 14, In Rwanda weekend
clashes between the army and Hutu rebels left more than 170 people dead.
(SFC, 7/18/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 14, In Spain more than 2
million people took to the streets across Spain to mourn the death of
Miguel Angel Blanco and to condemn the Basque separatist guerrillas who
killed him.
(SFC, 7/15/97, p.A10)
1998 Jul 14, The city of Los
Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for $2.5 billion over the dangers of
secondhand smoke.
(AP, 7/14/99)
1998 Jul 14, Flash floods hit
Tennessee and Alabama and 2 people were reported killed. Meanwhile hot
weather in Texas was responsible for some 23 deaths where temperatures
hit over 100 for the last 26 days.
(SFC, 7/15/98, p.A3)
1998 Jul 14, In Puerto Rico the
telephone union gave in after a 26-day strike and agreed to go back to
work.
(SFC, 7/15/98, p.A3)
1999 Jul 14, Major league umpires
voted to resign September second and not work the final month of the
season. The strategy collapsed, with baseball owners accepting the
resignations of 22 umpires.
(AP, 7/14/00)
1999 Jul 14, Race-based school
busing in Boston came to an end after 25 years.
(AP, 7/14/00)
1999 Jul 14, The EU agreed to
resume British beef exports on Aug 1, ending a 3-year ban due to mad
cow disease.
(WSJ, 7/15/99, p.A13)
1999 Jul 14, China announced that
it had developed the design technology to make neutron bombs 11 years
ago and could make miniaturized nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 7/15/99, p.A9)(WSJ, 7/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 14, Iranian hard-liners
answered a week of pro-democracy rallies with one of their own, sending
100,000 people into the streets of Tehran.
(SFC, 7/15/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/14/00)
1999 Jul 14, In Northern Ireland
the Ulster Unionists under David Trimble rejected a compromise for the
creation of a power sharing government.
(SFC, 7/15/99, p.A12)
1999 Jul 14, In Jamaica troops
were deployed in Kingston to control gang violence. Some 500 people had
been murdered since the start of the year.
(WSJ, 7/15/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 14, In Peru army soldiers
captured Oscar Ramirez Durand (46), aka Comrad Feliciano, head of the
Shining Path rebels. He was later sentenced by a military tribunal to
life in prison.
(SFC, 7/15/99, p.A12)(SFC, 8/18/99, p.C2)(SFC,
8/31/99, p.A13)
1999 Jul 14, The Sudanese
government banned aid flights to Western Upper Nile province where 2
factions allied to the government were fighting for control of oil
fields. This soon put 150,000 people to face starvation.
(SFC, 7/29/99, p.A16)
2000 Jul 14, In Florida a
Miami-Dade County jury awarded $144.8 billion in punitive damages to
500,000 Florida smokers. Tobacco executives planned to appeal. In 2003
a state appeals court reversed not only the award but also the class
action unifying hundreds of thousands of sick Florida smokers under a
single lawsuit; the Florida Supreme Court agreed in May 2004 to review
that decision..
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A1)(SFC, 5/22/03, p.A10)(AP,
7/14/05)
2000 Jul 14, In Waco, Texas, a
federal jury decided that federal agents were not responsible for the
deaths of 80 Branch Davidians in 1993.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 14, A powerful flare
erupted on the sun. It was the largest solar radiation event since Oct,
1989, and the associated coronal mass ejection was expected to trigger
geomagnetic disturbances on Earth.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A2)(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 14, Actress Meredith
MacRae of TV’s "Petticoat Junction" died in Manhattan Beach,
California, at age 56.
(AP, 7/14/01)
2000 Jul 14, In Australia John
Roche contacted the Australian intelligence agency, known as ASIO to
discuss information regarding his contacts with al-Qaeda.
(LAT, 6/7/04)
2000 Jul 14, Mark Oliphant, a
physicist who helped split the atom in 1932, died at age 98. He founded
the Australian Academy of Science and was appointed as the governor of
South Australia state (1971-1976).
(SFC, 7/18/00, p.A22)
2000 Jul 14, In Canada a tornado
hit the Green Acres campground near Red Deer, Alberta, and 9 people
were killed. A 10th camper died the next day.
(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.A2)(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 14, In Germany the
Parliament passed a major tax-cut program.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 14, In Durban, South
Africa, Nelson Mandela closed the 13th Int’l. Conference on AIDS with a
call for scientists to set aside differences with Pres. Thabo Mbeki and
to concentrate on fighting the disease.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/14/01)
2001 Jul 14, The US launched a
prototype missile interceptor from the Marshall Islands and
successfully struck a mock warhead launched from Vandenberg Air Force
Base, 4,800 miles away. This was the 4th such Pentagon test. A $100
million prototype radar failed to detect the strike.
(SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A3)(SFC, 7/18/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 14, NASA launched an
unmanned solar-powered plane named Helios over Hawaii.
(WSJ, 7/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 14, Katharine Graham
(b.1917), chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post,
suffered a head injury in a fall in Sun Valley, Idaho. She died three
days later.
(AP, 7/14/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.106)(NW, 12/31/01,
p.106)
2001 Jul 14, China convicted Li
Shaomin (44), a Chinese-born American business professor, of spying for
Taiwan and ordered his expulsion.
(SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 14, Gen. Pervez Musharraf
of Pakistan arrived in India for talks on Kashmir and other issues with
PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
(SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 14, In Spain gunmen shot
and killed a police officer, Mikel Uribe (44), in Leaburu and a bomb
killed a local politician, Jose Javier Mugica (50), in Leiza. The ETA
was blamed.
(SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A18)
2002 Jul 14, Joaquin Balaguer
(95), who ruled the Dominican Republic for 22 years and dominated his
country's politics for years after leaving office, died.
(AP, 7/14/02)(SFC, 7/15/02, p.B6)
2002 Jul 14, Maxime Brunerie, a
man described as an emotionally disturbed neo-Nazi, tried to
assassinate French President Jacques Chirac. He pulled a rifle from a
guitar case and fired off a shot before being wrestled to the ground
during a Bastille Day parade. Brunerie, sentenced to 10 years, was
released from prison in 2009.
(AP, 7/14/02)(AP, 8/22/09)
2002 Jul 14, Mexican state
officials freed 10 prisoners in hopes of winning freedom for hostages
held by farmers protesting construction of a new Mexico City airport.
(AP, 7/15/02)
2002 Jul 14, A Palestinian
man, on trial for allegedly collaborating with Israel, was killed by
Palestinian militants after an Israeli airstrike disrupted court
proceedings. Israeli aircraft fired missiles and destroyed a building
in the southern Gaza Strip, injuring about 10 Palestinians.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 14, A bus with 52
passengers, mostly Polish students, crashed in western Romania, killing
five people and injuring 26.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 14, A passenger bus
overturned and burst into flames after hitting a cow, killing at least
18 people in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.
(AP, 7/15/02)
2003 Jul 14, President Bush,
facing questions about his credibility, said the United States was
working overtime to prove Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass
destruction before the United States invaded Iraq.
(AP, 7/14/04)
2003 Jul 14, Columnist Robert
Novak identified Valerie Plame as a CIA officer. Joseph Wilson, former
American ambassador, had earlier alleged (July 6) that Pres. Bush had
falsely accused Iraq of trying to buy uranium from Niger. Two White
House officials soon called at least 6 Washington journalists and told
them that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was a undercover CIA agent who
had worked in Niger. In 2006 Richard Armitage, former Deputy Sec. of
State, said he had confessed to the FBI on Oct 1, 2003, that he told
Robert Novak about Valerie Plame during a July 8, 2003, meeting.
(Econ, 8/21/04, p.28)(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A4)(SFC,
7/16/05, p.A4)(SFC, 8/29/06, p.A2)
2003 Jul 14, In China Yang
Bin (40), a Chinese-born Dutch citizen, was convicted of fraud and
bribery and sentenced to 18 years in prison. The orchid-selling tycoon
was once ranked by Forbes magazine as China's second-richest
businessman.
(AP, 7/14/03)(SFC, 7/15/03, p.A11)
2003 Jul 14, In China a mountain
on a tributary of the Three Gorges gave way killing 13 farmers. A large
tongue of land was sheered into the water and a resulting wave crashed
over 20 boats killing 11 fisherman.
(WSJ, 8/29/07, p.A12)
2003 Jul 14, The Cyprus parliament
voted unanimously to approve the accession of the Mediterranean island
to the European Union.
(AP, 7/14/03)
2003 Jul 14, Iraq's new governing
council, in its first full day on the job, voted to send a delegation
to the U.N. Security Council and assert its right to represent Baghdad
on the world stage.
(AP, 7/14/04)
2003 Jul 14, It was reported that
Kim Jong Il of North Korea maintained an unpublicized trading network
and slush fund named Division 39 with a cash hoard as large as $5
billion. Its operations included counterfeiting, drug trafficking and
trade in illicit weapons systems.
(WSJ, 7/14/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 14, In Manila Fathur
Rohman al-Ghozi, terror suspect, escaped from prison.
(Econ, 7/19/03, p.34)
2004 Jul 14, The US Senate
scuttled a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. 48 senators
voted to advance the measure, 12 short of the 60 needed, and 50 voted
to block it.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2004 Jul 14, King Sihanouk
reappointed Hun Sen as Cambodia’s premier.
(WSJ, 7/15/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 14, Canada pulled its
ambassador from Iran, which refused to admit observers to the trial of
a policeman over a Canadian journalist’s fatal beating.
(WSJ, 7/15/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 14, In Iraq a suicide
attacker detonated a massive car bomb at a checkpoint near the British
Embassy and the interim government's headquarters in Baghdad, killing
11 people.
(SFC, 7/14/04, p.A12)(AP, 7/14/05)
2004 Jul 14, Militants in Iraq
said they killed a captive Bulgarian truck driver and threatened to put
another hostage to death in 24 hours. Georgi Lazov (30) and Ivaylo
Kepov (32) were kidnapped Jun 29.
(AP, 7/14/04)(USAT, 7/4/04, p.5A)
2004 Jul 14, Gov. Osama Youssef
Kashmoula, a university professor, was gunned down as his convoy
traveled to Baghdad for meetings with police officials on improving
security.
(AP, 7/15/04)
2005 Jul 14, US Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist, ending a two-day stay in the hospital, pledged to
continue working as long as his health permitted. He died in September
3, 2005.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2005 Jul 14, The US budget office
said it expects a 2005 federal deficit of $333 billion, down 20% from a
previous estimate and $79 billion below the record posted for 2004.
(SFC, 7/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 14, A US appeals court
overturned the 2003 “mad cow” ban on beef imports from Canada. The USDA
said it would lift restrictions within days.
(WSJ, 7/15/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 14, US and Afghan
soldiers fought Taliban insurgent near the Pakistan border inside
Afghanistan. Maj. Gen. Rehmatullah Raufi, the top army commander in
Paktia, said the Afghan base was attacked in the Lwara area. The next
day Pakistani troops found the bodies of 24 suspected Taliban
militants. Pakistan protested the US cross-border raid.
(AP, 7/15/05)(WSJ, 7/18/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 14, In Colombia commandos
acting on a tip seized Jose Aldemar Rendon, as he was jogging outside
Medellin. Rendon was a suspected leader of the Norte del Valle cartel
drug cartel believed to have trafficked half the cocaine sold in the
United States in the 1990s. In Maria la Baja the local paramilitary
group disbanded and handed over its weapons under a peace agreement
with the government.
(AP, 7/15/05)(Econ, 3/24/07, p.41)
2005 Jul 14, The body of Jacques
Roche, a well-known Haitian journalist, was found shot to death with
signs of torture, 5 days after he was seized while driving in the
capital.
(AP, 7/15/05)
2005 Jul 14, Indian troops
recovered the bodies of 5 Islamic militants as they hunted rebels high
in the rugged Himalayas in northern Indian Kashmir. 7 people died in
other violence. A spokesman identified one of the slain rebels as Abu
Lukman, a senior member of the region's main rebel group Hizbul
Mujahedin.
(AFP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 14, In Iraq 2 US Marines
were killed by roadside bomb near the Jordanian border.
(AP, 7/15/05)
2005 Jul 14, In Iraq 2 suicide
bombers struck near the Green Zone in central Baghdad, but a third was
wounded and captured by US and Iraqi security forces, officials said.
At least 9 people were wounded in the blasts. Gunmen killed five Iraqi
employees of an American base in Baqouba. At least 9 policemen also
were killed in separate attacks nationwide.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 14, In central Kenya
Luigi Locati (76), the bishop of Isiolo diocese, was shot to death in
what appeared to be an attempted robbery.
(AP, 7/15/05)
2005 Jul 14, In southern Thailand
at least 60 insurgents plunged Yala city into darkness by destroying
electrical transformers, then roamed the streets with fire-bombs,
explosives and guns, targeting an area near a hotel, convenience
stores, a restaurant and the railway station. Suspected Islamic
separatists set off 5 bombs and exchanged gunfire with security
personnel in an attack, killing a police officer and wounding 19 other
people.
(AP, 7/14/05)(AP, 7/17/05)
2006 Jul 14, A US federal appeals
court reversed a ruling that struck down Nebraska's same-sex marriage
ban, which was approved by voters in 2000.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, The US Court of
International Law slapped an injunction on the United States government
preventing it from handing over any more duties from Canadian softwood
lumber imports to US industry competitors.
(Reuters, 7/17/06)
2006 Jul 14, US Gen. Bantz
Craddock, head of the US Southern Command, was announced as the next
chief of NATO.
(WSJ, 7/15/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 14, The Dow Jones fell
106 to 10,739 and Nasdaq closed down 16 to 2,037. Crude oil for August
delivery closed at a record $77.03. Spurred by Mideast fighting, oil
prices rose to an intraday record $78.40 a barrel.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.D1)(AP, 7/14/07)
2006 Jul 14, The Sawtooth Complex
fire in southern California merged with the Millard fire creating a
69,000-acre blaze. Some 1,800 firefighters battled the fire which so
far had destroyed 45 homes.
(SFC, 7/15/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 14, Actress Carrie Nye
died in New York at age 69.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2006 Jul 14, A suicide bomber was
the sole victim in a failed attack on an Afghan police convoy in the
Gurbuz district of southeastern Khost province, bordering Pakistan.
Skirmishes between coalition and Taliban militants raged throughout the
southern Uruzgan province. An estimated 31 enemy extremists were killed
during engagements in Chora, Kala Kala, and Khorma villages. Afghan and
coalition soldiers also killed two male "foreigners" wearing burkas,
the body-shrouding veil worn by women, and detained five Taliban in
Uruzgan's Dihrawud district. The Afghan army killed eight rebels in
Sangin.
(AP, 7/14/06)(AFP, 7/15/06)
2006 Jul 14, The World Bank said
it and Chad had resolved a dispute over oil revenues that will result
in significant increases in government spending on projects that
benefit the poor.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, In China Qiu Xinhua
(47) killed the abbot of the Tiewadian temple in the northern city of
Ankang, five staff members and four pilgrims. He reportedly believed
the abbot had flirted with his wife. Xinhua was executed on Dec 28.
(AP, 12/28/06)
2006 Jul 14, East Timor's
President Xanana Gusmao swore in a new government as his tiny nation
looked for a return to political order after several weeks of unrest.
(AFP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, Militants forced open
a border gate between Egypt and Gaza, wounding an Egyptian officer and
letting hundreds of Palestinians who had been trapped on the Egyptian
side of the border to get into Gaza.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, India's PM Singh said
the Bombay train bombers were "supported by elements across the border"
and that Pakistan must rein in terrorists before a peace process can
move ahead.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, A bomb struck a Sunni
mosque in Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding five, while
mortars barraged a Shiite mosque north of the capital, leaving five
wounded. At least 26 people were killed across Iraq, including 13 Iraqi
soldiers in an attack on their checkpoint near the northern oil hub of
Kirkuk.
(AFP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, Israel tightened its
seal on Lebanon, blasting its air and road links to the outside world
and bringing its offensive to the capital for the first time to punish
Hezbollah and with it, the country for the capture of 2 Israeli
soldiers. Israel destroyed the home and office of Hezbollah's leader,
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. Lebanese guerrillas fired a barrage of at least
60 Katyusha rockets throughout the day, hitting more than a dozen
communities across northern Israel. Israeli warplanes destroyed the
building housing the headquarters of Hezbollah guerrillas in southern
Beirut. Hezbollah guerrillas attacked an Israeli warship that had been
firing missiles into southern Beirut. A senior Israeli intelligence
official said Iranian troops helped Hezbollah fire a missile that
damaged the warship off the Lebanese coast. He also said about 100
Iranian soldiers are in Lebanon and helped fire the Iranian-made,
radar-guided C-102 at the ship that killed one and left three missing.
Deaths in 3 days of fighting rose to 61 people in Lebanon and 10 in
Israel.
(AP, 7/14/06)(AP, 7/14/07)
2006 Jul 14, Japan’s central bank
raised a key interest rate for the first time in six years, ending an
unorthodox experiment meant to jump-start the country after a decade of
economic doldrums. The rate increased from zero to .25%.
(AP, 7/14/06)(Econ, 7/22/06, p.65)
2006 Jul 14, In Kazakhstan police
under Mayor Imangali Tasmagambetov moved in to destroy the illegal
Shanyrak settlement on the outskirts of Almaty. 30-40 people on each
side were injured. A policeman died after being doused with petrol and
set on fire.
(Econ, 8/5/06, p.39)
2006 Jul 14, Kyrgyzstan and the US
resolved a payment dispute that had threatened the future of the US
military base near Bishkek.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, In Karachi, Pakistan,
a suicide bomber killed a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric and two other
people in an attack that was likely to heighten sectarian tensions.
About 80% of Pakistan's 150 million people are Sunni; most of the rest
are Shiite.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, Malaysia's government
declassified documents on negotiations with Singapore over an aborted
bridge in a bid to counter criticism from defiant ex-premier Mahathir
Mohamad.
(AFP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, Poland's Pres. Lech
Kaczynski (57) swore in his identical twin brother, Jaroslaw, as prime
minister, along with a socially conservative Cabinet made up largely of
the same ministers who resigned in a shake-up days earlier.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, In St. Petersburg,
Russia, authorities detained more than 200 anti-globalization activists
hoping to protest the G-8 summit, as protest organizers vowed to hold a
march despite a ban on demonstrations.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, In Serbia criminal
charges were filed against 9 people accused of helping UN war crimes
suspect Ratko Mladic evade justice. The 9 were indicted for "hiding and
helping hide Mladic although they knew that he was charged" with war
crimes.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, Somalia's nearly
powerless interim government said it would boycott weekend peace talks
with the Islamic militia that has seized control of nearly all the
nation's south, accusing the group of civilian massacres and ties to
foreign terrorists.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, Sri Lankan government
troops clashed with Tamil Tiger rebels in the worst fighting since a
cease-fire halted the civil war in 2002, leaving as many as 16 dead.
The military said 13 soldiers were missing.
(AP, 7/14/06)
2006 Jul 14, In Trinidad a
high-court judge convened a special hearing that stayed an arrest
order against Satnarine Sharma, the chief justice of Trinidad, who was
charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice by helping
former PM Basdeo Panday.
(Econ, 7/22/06, p.40)
2007 Jul 14, The Los Angeles
archdiocese agreed to a landmark $660 million clergy abuse settlement.
Over 500 claimants will get an average payout in excess of $1.3 million.
(AP, 7/15/07)(SSFC, 7/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 14, In Algeria about 50
members of the Al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb attacked
two police stations in Yaourene village in Tizi Ouzou province, about
100 km (60 miles) east of Algiers. The Algerian army halted the attack
and killed 4 in the northeastern Kabylie region.
(Reuters, 7/15/07)
2007 Jul 14, In London an Indian
doctor arrested the same day his brother allegedly drove a Jeep
Cherokee loaded with gas bombs into Glasgow's main airport was charged
with a terrorism offense. A distant cousin in Australia was also
charged in the failed attacks in London and Glasgow.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 14, Egyptian police said
authorities have arrested 35 men suspected of membership in an
al-Qaida- inspired group that planned to carry out attacks in Egypt.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 14, In southern France
Pascal Payet (43), who was serving a 30-year sentence for a holdup on
an armored truck that left a guard dead, escaped by helicopter from the
Grasse prison. Payet had escaped from the Luynes prison in October
2001. In 2003, he helped organize the helicopter escape of three fellow
inmates from the same prison. In September Payet was arrested along
with 2 accomplices in Mataro, Spain.
(AP, 7/17/07)(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Jul 14, PM Nouri al-Maliki
said that the Iraqi army and police are capable of keeping security in
the country when American troops leave "any time they want," though he
acknowledged the forces need further weapons and training. A car bomb
in Baghdad leveled a two-story apartment building, and a suicide bomber
plowed his explosives-packed vehicle into a line of cars at a gas
station. The two attacks killed at least eight people. A group of 24
Iranians escaped from detention in an Iraqi police station in the
southern town of Badra. Four were quickly recaptured, but the remainder
may have fled across the nearby border.
(AP, 7/14/07)(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 14, Lebanon's political
factions including the pro-Syrian opposition Hezbollah began two days
of talks in France to try to ease the deadlock paralyzing the nation.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 14, UN inspectors arrived
in North Korea to monitor the communist country's long-anticipated
promise to scale back its nuclear weapons program. North Korea said it
had shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, hours after a ship
cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country's
pledge to disarm.
(SSFC, 7/15/07, p.A4)(AP, 7/14/08)
2007 Jul 14, Islamic militants
launched a deadly suicide attack, detonated a roadside bomb and fired
rockets as thousands of Pakistani troops deployed to the northwestern
frontier to thwart the launch of a holy war. A suicide bomber struck in
North Waziristan, his explosives-laden vehicle killing at least 26
soldiers and wounding 29 others in a military convoy.
(AP, 7/14/07)(AP, 7/15/07)
2007 Jul 14, Palestinian PM Salam
Fayyad resigned as head of an emergency government and was immediately
appointed to lead an interim Cabinet.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 14, Russia suspended its
participation in a key European arms control treaty that governs
deployment of troops on the continent. Under the moratorium, Russia
will halt inspections and verifications of its military sites by NATO
countries and will no longer limit the number of its conventional
weapons. The treaty, between Russian and NATO members, was signed in
1990 and amended in 1999 to reflect changes since the breakup of the
Soviet Union, adding the requirement that Moscow withdraw troops from
the former Soviet republics of Moldova and Georgia. Russia has ratified
the amended version, but the United States and other NATO members have
refused to do so until Russia completely withdraws.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 14, Sri Lankan troops
used war planes and long-range weapons to attack suspected Tamil Tiger
positions as fresh fighting broke out. The clash with Tamil Tiger
rebels killed at least 10 Sri Lankan soldiers and left 34 wounded.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 14, Sudan arrested 14
alleged plotters including retired army officers. The next day the
interior ministry accused an opposition leader of heading a plot to
overthrow the regime by creating armed chaos that would lead to
international intervention.
(AFP, 7/15/07)
2007 Jul 14, A miner (29) died in
western Uganda from the deadly Marburg virus, first discovered in 1967.
(Econ, 8/18/07, p.40)
2007 Jul 14, Alexandre Robert
(15), a French-Swiss youth, was raped by 3 UAR nationals in Dubai. The
case went to court in November. On Dec 12 a panel of judges sentenced
two Emirati men to 15 years in prison each in connection with a
kidnapping and sexual attack on the French-Swiss boy.
(Reuters, 11/7/07)(AP, 12/12/07)
2008 Jul 14, Pres. Bush lifted the
presidential moratorium on offshore drilling, however Congress has
renewed its ban on drilling every year since 1981 and top Democrats
said it will do so again this year.
(SFC, 7/15/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 14, David Remnick, editor
of The New Yorker magazine, defended the newest satirical cover of the
magazine by cartoonist Barry Blitt, which depicted Sen. Barack Obama in
Muslim garb and his wife as an Afro-sporting gun packer.
(SFC, 7/15/08, p.A10)
2008 Jul 14, Thousands of Univ. of
California workers faced suspension and other disciplinary action for
walking off their jobs despite a judge’s ruling barring them from doing
so. The employees had been without a contract since January.
(SFC, 7/15/08, p.B1)
2008 Jul 14, In Pennsylvania Luis
Ramirez (25), an illegal Mexican migrant worker, died in Shenandoah
after being beaten by white youths. Four young men were charged and
found responsible for the fight, but most of the federal charges
against them were dropped. Local police were later accused of tampering
with evidence and witnesses or lying to the FBI.
(AP, 12/16/09)(www.maldef.org/luis_ramirez_petition/)
2008 Jul 14, In eastern
Afghanistan seven insurgents were killed in fighting in Wanat, Nuristan
province, where 9 US soldiers were killed a day earlier. An "Arab
terrorist" was captured during the operation.
(AP, 7/15/08)
2008 Jul 14, Britain vowed to
increase pressure on Zimbabwe's leaders by pushing for tougher EU
sanctions and hunting down their assets around the world, after failing
to secure bolstered UN action.
(AF, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 14, Three British Muslim
men pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause explosions, part of a plan
prosecutors say would have involved smuggling liquid bombs onto
airliners with the intention of blowing them up mid-flight.
(Reuters, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 14, At Britain’s
Farnborough International Airshow Etihad Airways, the national carrier
of the United Arab Emirates, said it had agreed to buy 45 Boeing
passenger jets worth 9.4 billion dollars (5.9 billion euros).
(AFP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 14, A Chinese migrant
worker at the Shuangqiao Garden Plaza in Wenshan county killed one
person and stabbed nine others after discovering his savings of 2,600
yuan ($380) had been swapped for counterfeit notes while he visited a
prostitute.
(Reuters, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 14, An explosion at a
mine in northern Hebei province killed 34 miners and a rescue worker.
In November, 2009, officials at the mine were charge with moving dead
bodies, destroying evidence and paying journalists 2.6 million yuan
($380,000) not to report the explosion. In 2010 a journalist was
sentenced to 16 years in prison for taking bribes to help cover up the
disaster, which took place just 3 weeks before the Beijing Olympics.
(www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/world/asia/01mine.html?_r=1)(AP, 1/6/10)
2008 Jul 14, Greek police said 9
British women faced prostitution charges after being arrested at the
weekend for taking part in an oral sex competition in the Greek holiday
island of Zakynthos. Six British and six Greek men, including two bar
owners, were also charged in the incident, which took place at Laganas
beach.
(Reuters, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 14, Police in the
Adriatic city of Pescara arrested Otttaviano Del Turco, the governor of
Italy's Abruzzo region, in a health care corruption investigation.
Prosecutors said at least 35 people are being investigated.
(AP, 7/14/08)(Econ, 7/19/08, p.60)
2008 Jul 14, Malaysian police
locked down Parliament with roadblocks and massive security to prevent
opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and his supporters from attending a key
debate.
(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 14, In Mexico commander
Gerardo Valdes, the head of kidnapping and organized crime
investigations in the border state of Coahuila, was seized by at least
six men when he was driving in Saltillo. An unidentified man called
police and said that Valdes had been grabbed by the Juarez Cartel.
(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 14, In Peru a new law
went into effect allowing couples who agree upon alimony, child custody
and division of assets to seek divorce from a qualified notary or
municipality.
(AP, 7/15/08)
2008 Jul 14, Russia agreed to
write off $242 million in Tajikistan debt and take control of the Okno
mountaintop station, operational since 2004. It was designed to track
satellites and even fragments of space debris.
(AP, 7/15/08)
2008 Jul 14, South Korea said it
will recall its ambassador from Japan over a rekindled debate about
disputed islands between the countries, as the new Seoul government
seeks to lift its sagging popularity at home with an appeal to
nationalism.
(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 14, Spain's biggest bank,
Santander, said it had reached agreement to buy British lender Alliance
and Leicester in an all-share deal worth 1.26 billion pounds (1.57
billion euros) as it continues its push into the British market.
(AFP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 14, Spanish construction
giant Martinsa-Fadesa announced in a filing with Spanish stock market
regulators that it is seeking protection from creditors.
(AP, 7/15/08)
2008 Jul 14, The prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court filed genocide charges against Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir, accusing him of masterminding attempts to
wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and
deportation. The filing marked the first time prosecutors at the
world's first permanent, global war crimes court have issued charges
against a sitting head of state.
(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 14, In Turkey prosecutors
indicted 86 secular Turks, including high-ranking ex-military
officials, on terrorism charges for their alleged involvement in plots
to topple the Islamic-rooted government. They were suspected of being
part of Ergenekon, an ultra-nationalist gang bent on overthrowing the
AKP government.
(AP, 7/14/08)(Econ, 7/19/08, p.34)
2008 Jul 14, In Vietnam Dayana
Mendoza, Miss Venezuela, was crowned Miss Universe 2008 in a contest
marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening
gown competition for the second year in a row.
(AP, 7/14/08)
2009 Jul 14, President Barack
Obama unveiled a $12 billion initiative to boost community colleges and
propel the United States toward his goal of having the highest
proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.
(AP, 7/14/09)
2009 Jul 14, Episcopalians meeting
in Anaheim, NY, declared gays and lesbians eligible any ordained
ministry.
(SFC, 7/15/09, p.A6)
2009 Jul 14, Exxon Mobil said it
would put $300 million into an effort to create a new generation of
biofuels, and to add $300 if plans with Synthetic Genomics, a San Diego
firm under Craig Venter, proved successful.
(Econ, 7/18/09, p.78)
2009 Jul 14, In San Francisco Rev.
Floyd Lotito (74), founder of St. Anthony’s Dining Room (1981) died
after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. The St. Anthony
free-meal program currently served nearly 2,600 meals per day.
(SFC, 7/20/09, p.C5)
2009 Jul 14, The Int’l. Accounting
Standards Board (IASB) proposed to put all financial assets into 2
buckets. Loans and securities would be in one and held at cost; all
others would be in another and held at fair value.
(Econ, 7/18/09, p.74)
2009 Jul 14, In Afghanistan a
NATO-contracted helicopter was shot down killing six Ukrainian crew
members on board and an Afghan child on the ground in Helmand province.
A roadside bomb killed one Italian soldier and wounded three others in
western Afghanistan. Another roadside blast hit a civilian vehicle in
Uruzgan province, killing three people and wounded six others. US
coalition and Afghan forces searched compounds in Kandahar and found
bomb-making materials, mortar rounds, AK-47 rifles, rocket-propelled
grenades and 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of opium.
(AP, 7/14/09)(SFC, 7/15/09, p.A2)(AP, 7/26/09)
2009 Jul 14, The European
Parliament elected ex-Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek as its
president, making him the first leader from a former Soviet bloc
country to hold one of the top European Union posts.
(Reuters, 7/14/09)
2009 Jul 14, Iran’s official IRNA
news agency reported that authorities in the southeastern city of
Zahedan hanged 13 members of a Sunni Muslim rebel group convicted of
bombings and killings in the area. The report said Abdulhamid Rigi,
brother of Abdulmalik Rigi, leader of the group known as Jundallah or
soldiers of God, had been scheduled to be hanged along with the 13 men,
but his execution was postponed.
(AP, 7/14/09)
2009 Jul 14, In Iraq one person
was killed and 9 others were wounded when a bomb exploded near an
Internet cafe late at night in south Baghdad. Two traffic policemen
were killed in eastern Baghdad by 2 gunmen who refused to stop at a
checkpoint near the fortified Green Zone.
(AP, 7/15/09)
2009 Jul 14, Lithuania's
Parliament approved a censorship bill that sharply curbs the spreading
of public information that lawmakers say could harm the mental,
physical, intellectual and moral development of youngsters. The bill
comes into law on March 2010 at the latest.
(www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4487209,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf)
2009 Jul 14, In Nairobi, Kenya,
authorities seized over 660 pounds of illegal ivory and black
rhinoceros horn, some of it still bloody, on a Mozambique-to-Asia plane.
(SFC, 7/15/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 14, Nigeria's main
militant group declared a 60-day truce, effective July 15, in its "oil
war" with the government after the release of its leader Henry Okah
under an amnesty deal.
(AFP, 7/15/09)
2009 Jul 14, In Pakistan fighting
overnight in the lawless tribal belt killed 23 Taliban militants. An
attack in the Khyber region destroyed an oil tanker supplying NATO
forces based across the border in Afghanistan and left 2 civilians
dead. Troops killed 13 militants in the latest clashes in the Swat
Valley, underscoring the region's fragile security even as refugees
displaced by fighting return home.
(AFP, 7/14/09)(AP, 7/15/09)
2009 Jul 14, In Russia 6 men
emerged from three months of isolation in Soviet-era metal tubes after
completing an experiment simulating a mission to Mars.
(AP, 7/14/09)
2009 Jul 14, In Somalia two French
officials working as security advisers to the Somali government were
kidnapped in Mogadishu. Agent Marc Aubriere managed to escape on August
26.
(Reuters, 7/14/09)(AP, 8/26/09)(SFC, 8/27/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 14, South Korean police
said hackers extracted files from computers they contaminated with the
virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and
South Korea, a sign that they tried to steal information from the
victims. North Korea has supposedly trained an elite group of hackers
at Mirim College, its military school.
(AP, 7/14/09)(Econ, 7/11/09, p.62)
2009 Jul 14, In Tanzania Tharcisse
Renzaho, the former prefect of Rwandan capital Kigali, was sentenced to
life for genocide-related crimes by the UN-backed war crimes court
trying masterminds of the country's 1994 massacre.
(AFP, 7/14/09)
2009 Jul 14, Venezuela's oil
minister Rafael Ramirez said workers at the state oil company must
support President Hugo Chavez's endeavors or be suspected of conspiring
against his socialist revolution.
(AP, 7/14/09)
2009 Jul 14, Zimbabwe's
constitution talks, violently disrupted by militant backers of
President Robert Mugabe, resumed with calls for tolerance in work on a
charter meant to pave the way to fresh polls.
(AFP, 7/14/09)
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