Today in History - July 19
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64CE Jul 19, The
Circus Maximus in Rome caught fire.
(MC, 7/19/02)
711 Jul 19, The Muslim troops
crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and defeated the Visigoth king Rodrigo
at the battle of Guadalete. Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupied
Northern Spain. The Umayyads with the help of the Berbers in North
Africa moved across the Strait of Gibraltar and began the conquest of
Spain and Portugal. The word Gibraltar comes from the term
Jabal-al-Tarik, which means the hill of Tarik. Gebel-al-Tarik means
"Rock of Tarik."
(ATC, p.79)(SFEC, 9/29/96, Z1
p.2)(www.sispain.org/english/history/visigoth.html)
1510 Jul 19, In Berlin 38
Jews were burned at the stake.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1525 Jul 19, The Catholic princes
of Germany formed the Dessau League to fight against the Reformation.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.13)(HN, 7/19/98)
1545 Jul 19, A French fleet
entered The Solent, the channel between the Isle of Wight and
Hampshire, England, and French troops landed on the Isle of Wight. King
Henry VIII of England watched his flagship, Mary Rose, capsize in
Portsmouth harbor as it left to battle the French. 73 people died
including Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose. The Mary Rose
was raised in 1982.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.17)(HN,
7/19/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose)
1553 Jul 19, 15-year-old Lady Jane
Grey, daughter of John Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland, was deposed
as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the
daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed Queen.
(WSJ, 9/12/96, p.A14)(AP, 7/19/97)
1631 Jul 19, Cesare Cremonini
(b.1550), Italian philosopher and lecturer at Padua Univ., died. His
skepticism influenced the culture of the late Renaissance. In 2007
Edward Muir authored “The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance.”
(WSJ, 5/5/07, p.P10)
1788 Jul 19, Prices plunged on the
Paris stock market.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1814 Jul 19, Samuel Colt, inventor
of the first practical revolver, was born.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1821 Jul 19, The coronation of
George IV of England was held. His wife, Caroline, was refused
admittance. She died Aug 7.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom)
1834 Jul 19, Hilaire Germain Edgar
Degas (d.1917), French impressionist painter, was born. His mother was
a Creole and he journeyed to New Orleans in the 1870s. His work
included "The Millinery Shop," "Combing the Hair," "Nude Fixing Her
Hair," "Two Dancers" (c1890-1898), "Frieze of Dancers" (1893-1898),
"Self Portrait" (c1863-1865 & c1895-1900) and "Blue Dancers"
(1895). He also collected art and by the time of his death had amassed
more than 500 paintings and 5,000 prints. The collection was auctioned
off in Paris from Mar 1918 to Jul 1919. His time in New Orleans is
covered in the 1997 book "Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the
Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable" by Christopher
Benfey.
(WUD, 1994, p.380)(WSJ, 10/2/96, p.B5)(SFC,
10/22/96,p.E8)(WSJ,10/21/97,p.A20)(SFEC, 1/4/98, BR p.9)(HN, 7/19/98)
1848 Jul 19, The first women’s
rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York. Organized by
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the two-day convention
discussed such topics as voting, property rights and divorce. It
launched the women’s suffrage movement. The convention issued a
"Declaration of Sentiments" based on the Declaration of Independence.
"The ideal newspaper woman has the keen zest for life of a child, the
cool courage of a man and the subtlety of a woman." Elizabeth Cady
Stanton made her first public speech at the Woman's Rights Convention.
After Cady Stanton was denied participation in an anti-slavery
convention and was told that women were "constitutionally unfit for
public and business meetings," she and four other women, including
abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott, planned a convention to challenge
that notion. They drafted a "Declaration of Sentiments and
Resolutions," 11 resolutions calling for equal rights for women,
including the right to vote. After lengthy debate, the document was
amended and signed by 68 women and 32 men of the approximately 300
attendees, setting the American women's rights movement in motion.
Susan B. Anthony joined the movement in 1852.
(HNPD, 7/19/98)(SFEC, 7/20/97, Par p.8)(SFEM,
6/28/98, p.30)(SFC, 7/6/98, p.D8)
1849 Jul 19, F.A. Alphonse Aulard,
French historian, was born.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1860 Jul 19, Lizzie Borden,
teacher, famous 1892 murder suspect, was born.
(HN, 7/19/01)
1862 Jul 19, Nathan Bedford
Forrest made his 1st raid.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1864 Jul 18-20, Battle of
Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot).
(MC, 7/19/02)
1865 Jul 19, Charles Horance Mayo
(d.1939), American surgeon and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic Foundation
for Medical Education and Research, was born. "I have never known a man
who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt."
(HN, 7/19/98)(AP, 12/11/00)
1867 Jul 19, The US enacted
reconstruction.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1870 Jul 19, The Franco-Prussian
War began. Napoleon declared war on Bismarck. Emperor Napoleon III of
France declared war on Germany under Otto von Bismarck. Napoleon was
defeated in three months and abdicated.
(WSJ, 3/14/95, p.A-16)(V.D.-H.K.p.260)(AP, 7/19/07)
1893 Jul 19, Vladimir Mayakovsky,
Russian poet, was born.
(HN, 7/19/01)
1896 Jul 19, A.J. Cronin, Scottish
novelist (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom), was born.
(HN, 7/19/01)
1905 Jul 19, Boyd Neel, conductor
(Story of an Orch), was born in Blackheath, Kent England.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1918 Jul 19, German armies
retreated across the Marne River in France.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1922 Jul 19, George McGovern, 1972
Democratic candidate for president of the United States, South Dakota
senator, was born.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1927 Jul 19, Jan Myrdal, Swedish
writer, journalist (Albania Defiant), was born.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1938 Jul 19, Richard Jordan, actor
(Dune, Old Boyfriends, Gettysburg), was born in NYC.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1940 Jul 19, Hitler ordered Great
Britain to surrender.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1941 Jul 19, British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in
Europe. The BBC World Service began regular broadcasting
throughout Europe with the opening four notes of Beethoven's
Fifth Symphony, which in Morse Code spell V for "Victory."
(AP, 7/19/97)(MC, 7/19/02)
1942 Jul 19, German U-boats were
withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to effective
American anti-submarine countermeasures.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1943 Jul 19, More than 150 B-17
and 112 B-24 Allied bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
(AP, 7/19/97)(HN, 7/19/98)
1944 Jul 19, The Democratic
National Convention convened in Chicago with the renomination of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt considered a foregone certainty.
(AP, 7/19/08)
1944 Jul 19, Some 1,200 8th Air
Force bombers bombed targets in SW Germany. Some 500 15th Air Force
Liberators (Flying Fortresses) bombed the Munich vicinity.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1944 Jul 19, Count Claus von
Stauffenberg visited a RC church in Berlin-Dahlem.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1944 Jul 19, Carl Bock, Danish
Gestapo agent, was liquidated.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1944 Jul 19, Swedish diplomat
Raoul Wallenberg 1st met SS ober Sturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1947 Jul 19, Bernie Leadon (The
Eagles: Take It Easy, Best of My Love, One of these nights), was born.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1947 Jul 19, Brian Harold May
(Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Another One Bites the
Dust), was born.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1947 Jul 19, Gerard Schwarz,
trumpeter, conductor (LA Chamber Orch), was born in Weehawken, NJ.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1951 Jul 19, In Omaha, Neb., a
trenching machine sliced through the main transcontinental telephone
cable and disrupted coast-to-coast communication.
(SFC, 7/13/01, WBb p.6)
1956 Jul 19-20, The US and Britain
announced the withdrawal of their aid offers to Egypt for the
construction of the Aswan high dam.
(EWH, 1968, p.1249)
1965 Jul 19, Syngman Rhee (90),
president of South-Korea (1948-60), died.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1966 Jul 19, Gov. James Rhodes
declared a state of emergency in Cleveland due to a race riot.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Jul 19, The 1st air
conditioned NYC subway car was R-38 on the F line.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Jul 19, Race riots took place
in Durham, NC.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1969 Jul 19, Apollo 11 and its
astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins,
went into orbit around the moon. The Apollo 11 lunar lander engine was
built by TRW.
(AP, 7/19/99)(F, 10/7/96, p.71)
1971 Jul 19, In Sudan a coup was
aborted and Pres. Nimeiri was restored to power by loyal troops. He
denounced the Communist Party and executed the rebel leaders 4 days
later.
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)
1974 Jul 19, The House Judiciary
Committee recommended that President Richard Nixon should stand trial
in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1975 Jul 19, The Apollo and Soyuz
space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separated.
(AP, 7/19/97)(HN, 7/19/98)
1979 Jul 19, Two supertankers
collided off Tobago and spilled 260,000 tons of oil. It was the worst
oil spill to date with 88 million gallons spewed.
(WSJ, 1/11/99,
p.R49)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills)
1979 Jul 19, The Nicaraguan
capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after
President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1980 Jul 19, The Moscow Summer
Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games
because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1981 Jul 19, Louis Cheslock
(b.1898), composer and author, died in Baltimore.
(http://musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100001960)
1983 Jul 19, In Honduras Reyes
Mata, a Cuban-trained doctor and guerrilla leader, led a unit of 96
Nicaraguan-trained rebels and Rev. James F. Carney into the Olancho.
They were routed by the Honduran army. American CIA records, disclosed
in 1998, reported that Mata was tortured and executed by the Honduran
army.
(SFC, 11/5/98,
p.C4)(www.fas.org/sgp/congress/hr051198/valladares.html)
1984 Jul 19, U.S. Rep. Geraldine
A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president
at the party's convention in San Francisco. Pasqua Coffee sold 16,000
cups of premium coffee from a pushcart at the Moscone Center.
(AP, 7/19/97)(SFEM, 8/1/99, p.8)
1985 Jul 19, Christa McAuliffe of
New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard
the space shuttle. McAuliffe and six other crew members died (1/28/96)
when the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff.
(SFC, 12/18/96, p.A3)(TMC, 1994, p.1986)(AP, 7/19/97)
1986 Jul 19, Caroline Kennedy,
daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in
Centerville, Massachusetts.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1988 Jul 19, Jesse Jackson brought
his 1988 presidential campaign to an emotionally charged close at the
Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, telling party faithful to
unite because "the only time we win is when we come together."
(HN, 7/19/98)
1989 Jul 19, 111 people were
killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency
landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
(AP, 7/19/08)
1989 Jul 17, Isidore Feinstein
Stone (b.1907), author (I.F. Stone's Weekly), died in Boston.
(http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1989/07/tribute.html)
1990 Jul 19, President Bush joined
former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at
ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda,
California.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1990 Jul 19, Baseball’s
all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five
months in prison for tax evasion.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1991 Jul 19, President Bush toured
the Souda Bay US naval base during a visit to Greece.
(AP, 7/19/01)
1991 Jul 19, Boxer Mike Tyson had
sex with Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant. On
September 9, 1991, an Indiana Grand Jury voted to indict Tyson on three
counts, including one for the rape of Washington. Tyson was
convicted on February 10, 1992 and was imprisoned.
(www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/tysonrec.htm)
1991 Jul 19, The South African
government acknowledged that it had been giving money to the Inkatha
Freedom Party, the main rival of the African National Congress.
(AP, 7/19/01)
1992 Jul 19, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III opened a fresh round of Mideast diplomacy, meeting
in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other
officials.
(AP, 7/19/97)
1992 Jul 19, Paolo Borsellino,
Italian anti-mafia judge, was murdered by mafia.
(http://paolo-borsellino.biography.ms/)
1993 Jul 19, President Clinton
fired FBI Director William Sessions, citing "serious questions" about
Sessions' conduct and leadership.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1993 Jul 19, President Clinton
announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military,
but only if they refrained from all homosexual activity, under a
compromise dubbed "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue."
(HN, 7/19/98)(AP, 7/19/08)
1993 Jul 19, Szymon Goldberg (84),
Polish-born violinist, conductor, died in Japan. He became a US citizen
in 1953 and two years later founded the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra.
(http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200152693/default.html)
1994 Jul 19, A bomb ripped apart a
Panama commuter plane, killing 21, including 12 Jews, a day after a car
bomb destroyed a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
killing 95 people.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1994 Jul 19, Funeral services were
held for North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung, who had died July 8 at age
82.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1995 Jul 19, Las Vegas
Review-Journal columnist, John L. Smith, authored a book due out Aug,
1999, titled: "Running Scared: The Dangerous Life and Treacherous Times
of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn."
(RNR, 7/19/95, p. 10)
1995 Jul 19, President Clinton
firmly rejected calls for dismantling affirmative action programs.
(AP, 7/19/05)
1995 Jul 19, A pair of House
subcommittees held a joint hearing on the federal government’s raid on
the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1995 Jul 19, The Dow Jones
industrial average ended at 4628.87, down 57.41, after plunging more
than 130 points earlier in the session.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1996 Jul 19, The 26th summer
Olympics opening ceremonies began in Atlanta, Georgia. The photo finish
was computerized and in color for track and field events. Beach
volleyball was inaugurated as an Olympic sport.
(WSJ, 7/19/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/19/97)(SFC, 8/23/04,
p.C3)(NG, 8/04, Geographica)
1996 Jul 19, A Food and Drug
Administration advisory committee recommended, with some conditions,
that the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 be approved.
(AP, 7/19/97)
1996 Jul 19, Bosnian Serb official
Radovan Karadzic yielded to international pressure to give up all
political power after negotiations led by US envoy Richard Holbrooke.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A8)(AP, 7/19/97)
1996 Jul 19, In China the Yangtze
River threatened to burst its banks. Workers used 500 tons of rice in
sacks to fill gaps in the banks. Millions were left homeless and 716
were reported dead.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A8)
1996 Jul 19, In Sri Lanka Tamil
rebels sank an navy gunboat with 40 members. The Tigers claim to have
killed 500 government soldiers at the Mullaitivu camp.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A8)
1997 Jul 19, Eleven armored
carriers from NATO gathered in a show of force near the home of ousted
Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Bosnia's No. 1 war crimes suspect.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1997 Jul 19, In Bosnia the Serb
Democratic Party expelled Pres. Biljana Plavsic after she threatened to
arrest Karadzic and his allies for rampant corruption.
(SFC, 7/21/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 19, In Cambodia Hun Sen
rejected a peace plan proposed by the 7-nation ASEAN group.
(SFEC, 7/20/97, p.A19)
1997 Jul 19, In Indonesia a court
sentenced 16 people to jail terms of 2-7 months for the May rioting
that left 123 dead on Borneo.
(WSJ, 7/21/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 19, The Irish Republican
Army declared a new cease-fire and opened the way for supporters to
join peace talks with Northern Ireland's pro-British Protestants.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1998 Jul 19, Workers for Saturn
Corp., a division of GM in Tennessee, authorized union leaders to call
their first-ever strike.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 19, Seeking to break a
16-month deadlock, Israel and the Palestinians held their first
high-level talks in months.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1998 Jul 19, Seeking to break a
16-month deadlock, Israel and the Palestinians held their first
high-level talks in months. Jalal Rumaneh (30), a member of Hamas,
attempted to explode a car bomb made of 160 gallons of flammable liquid
and nails in Jerusalem. The Fiat van ignited but failed to explode.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A9)(AP, 7/19/08)
1998 Jul 19, In North Belfast
Andrew Kearney (33) was shot in the ankle and behind each knee in
retaliation for a bar fight with an IRA man. He bled to death in a lift
before help arrived.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 19, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin decreed economic reforms that were rejected by his parliament
in order to obtain IMF funds to stabilize the ruble.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 19, In Kosovo,
Yugoslavia, Albanian separatists claimed to have take the town of
Orahovac with 20,000 residents. Serbs forces denied the claim. Hundreds
of Serb police battled secessionist guerrillas for control of the
central Kosovo town of Orahovac.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A10)(AP, 7/19/99)
1999 Jul 19, Federal officials
said radar data showed the plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Junior
dropped 11,000 feet in just 14 seconds. Senator Edward Kennedy released
a statement saying, "We are filled with unspeakable grief and sadness
by the loss of John and Carolyn and of Lauren Bessette."
(AP, 7/19/00)
1999 Jul 19, Carleton "Carly"
Fiorina (44) was named the new president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Co.
She was brought over from Lucent Tech. and became the 3rd woman running
a Fortune 500 company. In 2003 George Anders authored "Perfect Enough,"
a look at HP and Fiorina’s efforts. In 2003 Peter Burrows authored
"Backfire," a look at Fiorina’s past work.
(SFC, 7/20/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/7/03, p.W12)
1999 Jul 19, In Nanaimo, BC,
public hearings began on the expropriation of a 140-square-mile area of
Nanoose Bay by the Canadian federal government from the province. The
area was used by the US for torpedo testing.
(SFC, 7/22/99, p.C2)
1999 Jul 19, China began arresting
70 members of the Fulan Gong in raids in at least 15 cities.
(SFC, 7/21/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 19, In Iran the secret
police alleged that student leader Manouchehr Mohammadi had confessed
to serving US-based "spies and Zionists."
(SFC, 7/20/99, p.A12)
1999 Jul 19, Off the Nicaragua
coast a lobster boat with 72 people sank. 64 were rescued and 18 were
missing. All 18 were later recovered. A plane with 16 people was
presumed crashed in the Nicaragua jungle.
(SFC, 7/21/99, p.C2)(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A12)
2000 Jul 19, President Clinton
shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat and his own experts during peace talks at Camp David
after delaying his departure for an economic summit in Japan.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/19/01)
2000 Jul 19, The US announced a
plan to offer sub-Saharan African nations $1 billion in loans through
the Export-Import Bank to finance the purchase of American AIDS drugs
and medical services.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 19, In Belgium the World
Diamond Congress approved measures to track diamonds and penalties for
dealers who break rules and buy or sell "blood diamonds," those sold to
support civil wars.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 19, In Chechnya 7 Russian
servicemen were killed in 4 Russian-controlled areas.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B10)
2000 Jul 19, In Tilaran, Costa
Rica, a nursing-home fire killed 17 elderly people.
(WSJ, 7/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 19, In Okinawa over
25,000 demonstrators formed a chain around a US Air Base to protest
American presence ahead of the G-8 meeting.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 19, In North Korea
Russia’s Pres. Putin met with Kim Jong Il. Kim promised to abandon his
missile program if other states provide technology for "peaceful space
research.’ Kim later said this was just a joke.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A13)(WSJ, 8/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 19, In Russia the Duma
passed legislation that gave Pres. Putin the right to fire provincial
governors and took away the governor’s automatic immunity and
membership in the Federation Council.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A16)
2001 Jul 19, The US joined major
powers in calling for 3rd parties to monitor a cease-fire between
Israel and the Palestinians.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 19, The Roman Catholic
Church declared that Mormon converts must be rebaptized.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 19, The Code Red computer
worm began hitting Internet-connected computers, exploiting a flaw in
Microsoft software. This was among the first network worms to spread
rapidly because it required only a network connection, not a human
opening an attachment.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.D1)(SFC, 9/3/07, p.C3)
2001 Jul 19, Gunther
Gebel-Williams (b.1934), circus animal trainer died in Venice, Florida.
(AP, 7/16/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.107)
2001 Jul 19, In Argentina workers
staged a nationwide strike due to government spending cuts.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Jul 19, It was reported that
2 Belarussian defectors alleged that the Lukashenko regime ran a death
squad that had killed as many as 30 foes.
(WSJ, 7/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 19, British millionaire
author Jeffrey Archer (61) was convicted on perjury charges and
sentenced to 4 years in jail.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 19, Scientists in Chad
found fossils in the Djurab desert of a human ancestor that they later
dated to 6-7 million years BP. In 2002 they named the group
Sahelanthropus tchadensis (with the nickname Toumaï, "hope of
life" in the Goran language).
(NW, 7/22/02, p.46)
2001 Jul 19, In the West Bank
Jewish extremists, who identified themselves as the Committee for Road
Safety, killed 3 Palestinians including a 3-month-old girl, in a
drive-by shooting near Hebron.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 19, Japanese prosecutors
charged a U.S. airman with rape in an alleged attack on a woman in
Okinawa. Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland was later convicted and
sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
(AP, 7/16/02)
2001 Jul 19, In Nepal PM Girija
Prasad Koirala resigned over pressures from a bribery scandal in his
government.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.D3)
2002 Jul 19, The Dow Jones
industrials dipped below their post-terrorist attack lows in a
390-point sell-off.
(AP, 7/19/03)
2002 Jul 19, Alejandro Avila was
arrested in connection with the slaying of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion
of Stanton, Calif.
(AP, 7/19/03)
2002 Jul 19, ConAgra Beef Co.
began recalling 19 million pounds of beef, manufactured in Greeley,
Colo., over the last 3 months, due to possible E. coli contamination.
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 19, US and British
warplanes destroyed a military communications facility in southern
Iraq. Iraq said the strike killed 5 people including a couple and their
children.
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A11)
2002 Jul 19, Alexander I. Ginzburg
(65), Russian-born poet, died in Paris. In 1959 he created the 1st
samizdat (self-published journal) of the post-Stalin period. He was
flown to the US in 1979 as part of an exchange for Soviet spies.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A27)
2002 Jul 19, Alan Lomax (87),
musicologist and son of folklorist John A. Lomax, died in Safety
Harbor, Fla. His books included the book "The Land Where the Blues
Began."
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A20)
2002 Jul 19, In Australia Evdokia
Petrov (88), former Soviet Union spy, died in Melbourne. She lived
under the name Maria Anna Allyson. Her husband Vladimir Petrov (1991)
was the third secretary at the Soviet embassy in Australia and also
covertly served as a KGB spy. They defected in 1954.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 19, Britain's government
said it would pay $7 million in compensation to more than 220 Kenyans
who say they are victims of unexploded ammunition left behind by
British troops.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In Britain
authorities reported that family doctor Harold Shipman, Britain's worst
serial killer, murdered 215 of his patients in 23 years as a trusted
small-town practitioner. [see Jun, 1998]
(AP, 7/19/02)(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 19, In Bolivia a crowded
bus plunged into a ravine in an Andean road near La Paz, killing 19 and
injuring 15.
(AP, 7/19/02)
2002 Jul 19, In central China a
downpour of giant hailstones, some the size of eggs, killed 15 people
and left hospitals overflowing with head-wound victims.
(Reuters, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In eastern Guatemala
a passenger bus slammed head-on into a semi truck, killing 16 people.
(AP, 7/19/02)
2002 Jul 19, Tens of thousands of
Iranians took to the streets of the capital condemning President Bush
for criticizing their government with calls of "Death to America" and
"Death to Bush."
(AP, 7/19/02)
2002 Jul 19, Israel introduced
collective punishment on the family of Ali Ajouri, following his
role in the July 17 suicide bombing.
(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Jul 19, Italy took steps to
return the prized Axum obelisk to Ethiopia. The 1,700-year-old monument
was hauled off by Italian forces after their 1937 invasion of the
African country.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In Abiteye, Nigeria,
unarmed women occupying at least four ChevronTexaco facilities took two
hostages in a bid to meet with oil executives.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In Saudi Arabia
a passenger bus collided head on with a truck and caught fire outside
the holy city of Mecca, killing 26 people and injuring 24 others.
(AP, 7/21/02)
2003 Jul 19, In Spinboldak,
Afghanistan, US forces, backed by helicopter gunships, killed up to 24
suspected Taliban insurgents after their convoy came under attack.
(AP, 7/21/03)
2003 Jul 19, The first Human
Tongue Transplant took place in Vienna, Austria. Tongue transplants had
been performed for years on animals, but this was the first attempt at
transplanting a human tongue. It was carried out at Memorial University
Hospital in Vienna, Austria during a 14-hour operation by Dr. Rolf
Ewers and eight surgeons. It was performed on an unidentified
42-year-old patient who was suffering from a malignant tumor affecting
his tongue and jaw. Doctors believed he would ultimately be able to
talk, have feeling and limited movement, but probably won’t regain the
sensation of taste.
(http://tinyurl.com/5ehhps)(http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3964)
2003 Jul 19, In southern China a
bus plunged more than 300 feet off a cliff, killing 23 people.
(AP, 7/21/03)
2003 Jul 19, In Jakarta,
Indonesia, Budiarto Angsono, president of the PT Asaba computer firm,
along with his bodyguard, were murdered. Police said it was likely the
work of hitmen. Hiring a hitman to kill was said to cost about $2,300.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2003 Jul 19, In Kenya a
twin-engine plane carrying 12 American tourists and two South African
crew members en route to a game reserve crashed into Mount Kenya,
apparently killing everyone on board.
(AP, 7/20/03)
2004 Jul 19, A 3-day meeting of
the US National Governors Association ended in Seattle.
(SFC, 7/19/04, p.A7)
2004 Jul 19, Lori Hacking (27) of
Salt Lake City, Utah, went missing. Her husband Mark (28) said she
failed to return from a jog. She was reportedly five weeks pregnant.
Police found her husband Mark Hacking running naked around a motel not
far from his home the next day. He was put into a psychiatric hospital
after police found him. Police arrested Hacking on Aug 2 and filed 1st
degree murder charges on Aug 9. In 2005 Mark Hacking pleaded guilty to
her murder. On June 6, 2005, Mark Hacking was sentenced 6 years to life
in prison, the maximum the judge could give under Utah law. Under
Utah's system of indeterminate criminal sentences.
(SFC, 8/2/04, p.A3)(SFC, 8/3/04, p.A2)(SFC, 8/10/04,
p.A4)(SFC, 4/16/05, p.A5)
2004 Jul 19, An Egyptian truck
driver held hostage for two weeks by insurgents in Iraq was freed and
taken to the Egyptian Embassy.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, Indian Foreign
Minister Natwar Singh said he would push for progress in talks to
promote better ties with Pakistan when he meets Pakistani leaders this
week.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, Iraq announced the
appointment of 43 new ambassadors in its first move to re-engage with
the world.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, A suicide bomber in a
fuel truck blew it up at a police station in southwest Baghdad, killing
nine people and wounding about 60.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, An Israeli aircraft
struck a Palestinian militant safe house at a beach camp near Gaza
City, wounding three fighters.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, Zenko Suzuki, former
prime minister of Japan (1980-1982), died.
(SFC, 7/21/04, p.B7)
2004 Jul 19, Kashmir militants
attacked a Congress party rally in Duru and killed 5 people.
(WSJ, 7/20/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 19, The car of a
Hezbollah militia official exploded as he was leaving his home in
southern Beirut, killing him in an attack the Islamic militant group
said was a "brazen crime" by Israel that would be avenged.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, The Philippines said
that it has completed the withdrawal of its peacekeeping contingent
from Iraq.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, President Vladimir
Putin dismissed the military's chief of general staff and other top
military and law enforcement officials after a devastating assault by
militants in southern Russia last month.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, In eastern Ukraine a
coal mine methane gas explosion killed at least 34 miners near Donetsk.
(AP, 7/20/05)
2005 Jul 19, President Bush
announced his choice of federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr.
(50) to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Roberts
ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in
September 2005.
(AP, 7/20/05)(SFC, 7/20/05, p.A1)(AP, 7/19/06)
2005 Jul 19, In Phoenix, Az., a
blistering 4-day heat wave was blamed for the deaths of 12 people. 10
were homeless; the other two were elderly women.
(AP, 7/20/05)
2005 Jul 19, Computer and printer
maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said it will cut 14,500 jobs and overhaul its
retirement program in a restructuring plan designed to save $1.9
billion annually.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, Miroslav Bralo (37),
former Bosnian Croat special forces soldier, pleaded guilty to war
crimes at the Yugoslav tribunal in the Hague. Bralo was a member of an
infamous unit, known as "the Jokers," responsible for attacks on
Bosnian Muslim villages in the Lasva Valley of central Bosnia and
Herzegovina in 1993.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, British firm
SABMiller announced a $7.8 billion purchase of Grupo Empresarial
Bavaria, South America’s 2nd largest brewer.
(Econ, 7/23/05, p.61)
2005 Jul 19, Insurgents set off a
bomb near a police minibus in breakaway Chechnya after luring the
security forces into a trap, killing 14 people, including two children,
and wounding more than 20 others.
(AP, 7/20/05)
2005 Jul 19, Egypt said that Magdy
el-Nashar, the detained chemist wanted by Britain for questioning about
the London bombings, had no links to the July 7 attacks or to al-Qaida.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, In Guatemala a judge
issued an arrest warrant for former President Alfonso Portillo
(2000-2004) in connection with the alleged misuse of millions of
dollars during his tenure. Portillo, who fled to Mexico, is accused of
authorizing the transfer of $16 million from the finance department to
the defense department, where investigators allege much of it was
converted to cash and pocketed by officials close to Portillo.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, Iran publicly
executed two teenagers accusing them of raping a 13-year-old boy and
having gay sex, according to Iran's ISNA news agency. Before Mahmoud
Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were executed in Edalat ("Justice") Square in
Mashhad, they were held in prison for 14 months and lashed 228 times.
(AP, 7/22/05)(http://tinyurl.com/q7qyt)
2005 Jul 19, One of the Sunni
Arabs appointed to a committee to draft Iraq's constitution was
assassinated in a drive-by shooting. Mijbil Issa was gunned down, along
with two bodyguards, in the Karradah area of Baghdad. Gunmen opened
fire on a minibus carrying Iraqi workers to a U.S. airbase in central
Iraq, killing 13.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, Israeli police
encircled thousands of Gaza withdrawal opponents, confining them to a
fenced-in farming village to prevent them from marching to the nearby
Gaza Strip. Israeli and Palestinian leaders announced a fresh truce.
(AP, 7/19/05)(Econ, 7/23/05, p.41)
2005 Jul 19, Fouad Siniora
succeeded Najib Mikati as PM of Lebanon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouad_Siniora)
2005 Jul 19, In Mexico City soccer
coach Ruben Omar Romano was kidnapped following a practice session with
his team Cruz Azul.
(SFC, 7/21/05, p.A6)
2005 Jul 19, In Nepal police broke
up a demonstration in the capital by hundreds of students protesting
the king's seizure of absolute power.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, In Niger some 3.6
million people were in need of food, among them 800,000 malnourished
children. About 150,000 could die unless food arrives quickly in the
impoverished West African nation of 13 million.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, In Senegal ministers,
entrepreneurs and trade experts from 35 African countries and the US
began to plot ways to give African goods a better shot at US markets
and find means to boost non-oil exports from the poorest continent.
Senegal was one of 37 African countries eligible to participate in the
African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), signed in 2000 by US
president Bill Clinton that gives African exports duty-free status on
the US market.
(AFP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, In his first decrees
as Sudan's No. 2 leader, former rebel chief John Garang dissolved his
guerrilla movement and dismissed all government officials in 10
southern states.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, A top Turkish general
said the US had given direct orders for the capture of rebel Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) leaders in Iraq.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2006 Jul 19, President Bush used
his first veto to underscore his politically risky stand against
federal funding for the embryonic stem cell research that most
Americans support.
(Reuters, 7/20/06)
2006 Jul 19, Chicago prosecutors
reported that local police tortured scores of black suspects from the
1970s to the 1980s to extract confessions, but that the cases were too
old or too weak to prosecute.
(SFC, 7/20/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 19, The Dow Jones rose
212.19 to 11,011 and Nasdaq closed up 37.49 to 2,080 following remarks
by Ben Bernanke that inflation seems to be under control.
(SFC, 7/19/06, p.C1)
2006 Jul 19, Alain Rappaport
premiered the web site www.medstory.com, a consumer search product for
information on health and medicine.
(SFC, 7/19/06, p.C1)
2006 Jul 19, Jack Warden (b.1920),
an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor, died in NYC. He
played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five
decades and included almost 100 feature films.
(AP, 7/22/06)(SFC, 7/22/06, p.B6)
2006 Jul 19, In southern
Afghanistan coalition forces retook Garmser and killed 2 Taliban.
(SFC, 7/20/06, p.A13)
2006 Jul 19, Britain faced the
hottest day ever recorded in July as a heat wave swept much of Europe.
Temperatures hit 96.6 degrees south of London.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, In Canada teamsters
railway workers said they initiated a strike against Canadian National
Railway in an effort to resolve a long-standing contract dispute.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, Doku Umarov, the
leader of the Chechen rebels, dismissed a Russian amnesty offer, saying
attacks outside his home region would be his rebels' answer to Moscow.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, It was reported that
factories and cities in China dump some 40-60 billion tons of
waste-water and sewage into lakes and rivers each year.
(WSJ, 7/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 19, Director Gerard Oury
(87), a cultural icon of France whose decades-old comedies remain hits
today, died at his Riviera home. His top hits include the 1973 movie
"Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob" (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob).
(AP, 7/20/06)
2006 Jul 19, In Iraq gunmen
kidnapped 20 employees of a government agency that cares for Sunni
mosques and shrines nationwide, and the organization suspended its work
until further notice. At least 49 people were killed in a string of
bombings and shootings, mostly in Baghdad. Sixteen other bodies were
found in widely separate parts of the country, apparent victims of
sectarian death squads. An explosion in a cafe killed 5 people in
Kirkuk. In Basra assailants slit the throats of a mother and her 3
children and killed the mother’s sister. The family had fled there to
escape threats that they had cooperated with Americans.
(AP, 7/19/06)(SFC, 7/20/06, p.A3)
2006 Jul 19, A government report
said Ireland's population has surged this year to a modern high of more
than 4.2 million people largely because of immigrants from the newest
EU nations.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, Israeli troops
clashed with Hezbollah guerrillas on the Lebanese side of the border,
while warplanes flattened buildings and killed at least 56 people
overnight as fighting entered its second week with the US signaling it
will not push Israel toward a fast cease-fire. Lebanon's PM Fuad
Saniora called for a cease-fire and said that 300 people have been
killed, 1,000 have been wounded and a half-million displaced in
Israel's eight-day-old onslaught on Lebanon. Hezbollah rockets slammed
into the Arab-Israeli town of Nazareth killing two young brothers as
they played outside and wounding 18 other people.
(AP, 7/19/06)(Reuters, 7/19/06)(SFC, 7/20/06, p.A10)
2006 Jul 19, Israeli forces killed
six Palestinians after tanks moved into a refugee camp in central Gaza
under cover of machine gun fire.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, In Nigeria a 4-story
apartment building collapsed overnight in Lagos. Red Cross officials
confirmed that at least 24 people were killed.
(AFP, 7/20/06)
2006 Jul 19, Pakistani police
mounted more raids to catch suspected Taliban fighters living in
Baluchistan province. Police said more than 200 Afghans have been
arrested in the last 3 days.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, South Korea's
president condemned North Korea for potentially sparking an arms race
with its recent missile launches, while the North said it was ending
reunions between relatives separated by the Korean Peninsula divide. An
aid group in North Korea said floods and landslides have left more than
100 people dead or missing.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, Sweden launched a
fresh effort to salvage Sri Lanka's troubled truce as ceasefire
monitors reported at least 900 people killed in a surge of ethnic
violence since December.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, Taiwan’s largest air
carrier launched the 1st direct cargo flight between the island and
China since 1949.
(WSJ, 7/20/06, p.A6)
2007 Jul 19, A federal judge
dismissed a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame, who
was demanding money from Bush administration officials she blamed for
leaking her agency identity.
(AP, 7/19/08)
2007 Jul 19, The prices of lead
and tin hit historic peaks in London, supported by tight global
supplies and fierce demand for both base metals.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Taliban gunmen
abducted 23 members of a South Korean church group in southern
Afghanistan. The next day a purported spokesman for the Islamic militia
said it will question them about their activities in Afghanistan before
deciding their fate. Two hostages were fatally shot; the rest were
later freed. In northern Afghanistan a suicide bomber blew himself up
outside a police station, killing one civilian and wounding 25 other
people. In Helmand's Marja district, Taliban militants ambushed police,
leaving six officers dead and two others wounded. 2 separate bombings
in southern Afghanistan left five civilians dead, while a Taliban
ambush killed six police officers. A car bomb targeting a US-led
coalition convoy in Helmand province's Sangin district killed two
civilians and wounded two coalition troops. A mine exploded under a
civilian car in Kandahar province's Zhari district, killing three
civilians.
(AP, 7/19/07)(AP, 7/20/07)(AP, 7/19/08)
2007 Jul 19, The
Armenian-controlled breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh held a
presidential election amid a rumbling dispute with Azerbaijan over the
mountainous enclave's unrecognized independence.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Up to 50 migrants
were missing in rough seas south of the Canary Islands after their boat
capsized.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, In southern Hungary a
tourist bus collided with a truck. The truck driver and six bus
passengers were killed, and 16 others were injured.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Lawmakers voted in an
election widely expected to give India its first female president.
Pratibha Patil (72), governor of the northwestern state of Rajasthan,
was said to have been selected for her unswerving devotion to Sonia
Gandhi, leader of the Congress party, and Gandhi's powerful family,
which has historically controlled the party. Pratibha Patil was elected
as the country's first female president in a vote seen as a victory for
the hundreds of millions of Indian women who contend with widespread
discrimination. An Indian anti-terror court sentenced three more men to
death for their involvement in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai in
1993 which killed 257 people.
(AP, 7/19/07)(AFP, 7/19/07)(AP, 7/21/07)
2007 Jul 19, Sunni lawmakers ended
their five-week boycott of parliament, raising hopes the factious
assembly can make progress on benchmark legislation demanded by
Washington. The bodies of two men with bullets in their heads were
found dumped near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad. A Kurdish political party
member was ambushed and killed in eastern Mosul. Gunmen firing from a
speeding car killed a bodyguard of a Sunni parliament member in Mosul.
Assailants blew up two bridges in Haditha overnight. The US said two
American soldiers have been charged with killing an Iraqi on June 23
near Kirkuk. Insurgents killed three British troops and two American
soldiers in separate attacks in southern and central Iraq.
(AP, 7/19/07)(AP, 7/20/07)
2007 Jul 19, In Pakistan 30 elders
from several tribal regions in the northwest traveled to North
Waziristan in the latest government-backed effort to persuade militants
to reverse their decision to end a peace deal. 3 suicide bombings
killed at least 51 people. A suicide bomber hit a convoy of Chinese
workers passing though the main bazaar in Hub, killing 29 Pakistani
bystanders and police, and prompting Musharraf to call for national
unity against extremists. A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a
mosque in an army cantonment in the northwestern town of Kohat, killing
at least 15 people. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives when
guards prevented him from entering the parade ground of a police
academy in another northwestern town, Hangu. Six bystanders and one
policeman died.
(AP, 7/19/07)(AP, 7/20/07)
2007 Jul 19, About 2,000 people
protested at the border terminal between Egypt and the Gaza Strip,
demanding the crossing be opened to allow thousands of Palestinians
trapped in Egypt to return.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Peru's public school
teachers ended a 15-day strike against a new law requiring them to take
competency tests after government officials agreed to talks on their
demand for better training.
(AP, 7/20/07)
2007 Jul 19, Rev. Giancarlo Bossi
(57), an Italian priest held hostage for over a month in the southern
Philippines, was released.
(AP, 7/20/07)
2007 Jul 19, Russia announced the
tit-for-tat expulsion of four British diplomats, a visa ban on British
officials and the suspension of bilateral counter-terrorism cooperation
amid a mounting diplomatic row. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
called on Russia to honor Britain's request to extradite the chief
suspect over the murder of former agent Alexander Litvinenko.
(AFP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, A 30-minute gunbattle
rocked Mogadishu in the hours before a long-awaited Somali peace
conference was set to begin. At least two people were killed.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Sudan’s head of civil
defense said more than 50 people have been killed and 20 injured in the
worst floods in living memory which have partially or completely
destroyed 18,000 homes.
(Reuters, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, A UN-backed court
sentenced three former rebel leaders to prison, the first punishments
handed down by the war crimes tribunal since it was set up five years
ago after Sierra Leone's decade-long conflict ended. Alex Tamba Brima
(35) and Santigie Borbor Kanu (42) were each given 50-year jail terms,
while Brima Bazzy Kamara (39) received 45 years.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2008 Jul 19, Democratic
presidential contender Barack Obama started a campaign-season tour of
combat zones and foreign capitals, visiting with US forces in Kuwait
and then Afghanistan — the scene of a war he says deserves more
attention and more troops. Afghan troops clashed with Taliban
insurgents in Zabul province attacking a supply convoy for NATO troops,
killing nine militants. Roadside bombs in Kandahar province killed a
NATO soldier in a separate convoy and four policemen. In Helmand
province militants attacked a police checkpoint and in the ensuing
gunfight three Taliban fighters were killed. NATO forces accidentally
killed at least four civilians in eastern Paktika province.
(AP, 7/19/08)(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, The Arab League
criticized the International Criminal Court's prosecutor for seeking
the arrest of Sudan's president on genocide charges, saying diplomacy
should be given a priority to solve the conflict in Darfur.
(Reuters, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Sidney, Australia,
Pope Benedict apologized directly for the first time for sexual abuse
of minors by Catholic clergy, but victims groups said they wanted
action and not words.
(Reuters, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, Brazilian actress and
comedian Dercy Goncalves (101), known for her vulgar wit and scandalous
behavior, died in Rio de Janeiro.
(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Bogota the
presidents of Brazil and Colombia vowed to boost trade and investment
between their nations ahead of crucial world trade talks next week.
(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, Czech police said a
21-year-old British man, wanted for child sex and pornography offences
in Britain, has been detained in a Prague suburb where he had been in
hiding for two years.
(AFP, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Germany more than
1.5 million revelers danced through the streets of Dortmund at the
annual Love Parade techno music festival.
(AP, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Geneva a decision
to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks fizzled, with
Iran stonewalling Washington and 5 other world powers on their call to
freeze uranium enrichment.
(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, Iraq's largest Sunni
Arab political bloc ended a nearly yearlong boycott of the Shiite-led
government in another step toward healing the sectarian rifts that once
brought almost daily bloodshed. In Baghdad British PM Gordon Brown said
plans are being made to scale back troops, but refused to consider an
"artificial timetable" for withdrawing Britain's remaining 4,000
soldiers.
(AP, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Kashmir at least
10 Indian soldiers were killed and 14 others injured when their bus was
hit by an improvised explosive device in the disputed Himalayan region.
(AFP, 7/19/08)(SSFC, 7/20/08, p.A2)
2008 Jul 19, In Lebanon the Jund
al-Sham group, which follows the extremist ideology of al-Qaida,
clashed with members of the mainstream Palestinian Fatah movement. Two
other Palestinian militants were killed in the clash.
(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, While visiting Buenos
Aires Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said his country is ready to
conduct talks with the US about hosting elements of a missile defense
system.
(UPI, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Nepal lawmakers
failed to elect the country's first president and end weeks of
political deadlock. No candidate won the 298 votes necessary. A bus
veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river in central Nepal
killing 14 passengers and leaving many missing.
(AFP, 7/19/08)(AP, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Pakistan
paramilitary forces stumbled on 2 training camps near Dera Bugti in
Baluchistan province. 6 troops and an unknown number of ethnic Baluch
insurgents died in fighting that began when militants fired on
patrolling security forces.
(WSJ, 7/22/08, p.A12)
2008 Jul 19, Mullah Rahim, the
most senior Taliban leader in Afghanistan's Helmand province, gave
himself up to Pakistani officials.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Sri Lanka soldiers
killed 11 rebels in Vavuniya while five rebels died in the nearby
Mannar district. A soldier was killed by a sniper's bullet in Mannar.
(AP, 7/20/08)
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