Today in History - July 22
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1298 Jul 22, King
Edward I combined bowmen and cavalry to defeat William Wallace's Scots
at Falkirk.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1306 Jul 22, King Phillip the Fair
ordered the expulsion of Jews from France. They returned to Montpellier
in 1319, having been recalled by King Sancho, who protected them in
1320 against the fury of the Pastoureaux.
(www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/expulsionfromfrance.shtml)
1376 Jul 22, The rats were piped
out of Hamelin, Germany.
(HFA, '96, p.34)
1387 Jul 22, French Ackerman
(c57), Ghent rebel, leader of Reisers, was murdered.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1456 Jul 22, At the Battle at
Nandorfehervar (Belgrade), the Hungarian army under prince Janos
Hunyadi beat sultan Murad II. The siege of Belgrade had fallen into
stalemate when a spontaneous fight broke out between a rabble of
Crusaders, led by the Benedictine monk John of Capistrano, and the
city's Ottoman besiegers. The melee soon escalated into a major battle,
during which the Hungarian commander, Janos Hunyadi, led a sudden
assault that overran the Turkish camp, ultimately compelling the
wounded Sultan Mehmet II to lift the siege and retreat.
(MC, 7/22/02)(PC, 1992, p.150)(HNPD, 7/23/98)
1497 Jul 22, Francesco Botticini
(c52), Italian painter, died.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1515 Jul 22, Emperor Maximillian
and Vladislav of Bohemia forged an alliance between the Habsburg
[Austria] and Jagiello [Polish-Lithuanian] dynasties in Vienna.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1587 Jul 22, A second English
colony of 114-150 people under John White, financed by Sir Walter
Raleigh, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The
colony included 17 women and 9 children. Croatoan Indians informed them
that Roanoke Indians had killed the men from the previous expedition. A
three-year draught, the worst in 800 years, peaked during this time.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A3)(SFEM, 11/15/98,
p.23)(ON, 10/01, p.1)
1620 Jul 22, The Pilgrims set out
from Holland destined for the New World. The Speedwell sailed to
England from the Netherlands with members of the English Separatist
congregation that had been living in Leiden, Holland. Joining the
larger Mayflower at Southampton, the two ships set sail together in
August, but the Speedwell soon proved unseaworthy and was abandoned at
Plymouth, England. The entire company then crowded aboard the
Mayflower, setting sail for North America on September 16, 1620.
(HNQ, 3/4/00)(MC, 7/22/02)
1648 Jul 22, Some 10,000 Jews of
Polannoe were murdered in a massacre led by Cossack Bogdan Chmielnicki
(55).
(PC, 1992, p.241)(MC, 7/22/02)
1652 Jul 22, Prince Conde's rebels
narrowly defeated Chief Minister Mazarin's loyalist forces at St.
Martin, near Paris.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1789 Jul 22, Thomas Jefferson
became the first head of the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1795 Jul 22, Spain signed the
Peace of Basel, a treaty with France ending the War of the Pyrenees.
The treaty ceded Santo Domingo to France.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Basel)
1796 Jul 22, Cleveland, Ohio, was
founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland. Moses Cleaveland came to where the
city of Cleveland now sits and surveyed the land. After three months he
returned to Connecticut. The city bears his name.
(SFC, 6/2/96, T10)(AP, 7/22/97)
1798 Jul 22, Napoleon captured
Cairo, Egypt.
(PC, 1992, p.354)
1812 Jul 22, English troops under
the Duke of Wellington defeated the French at the Battle of Salamanca
in Spain.
(AP, 7/22/97)(HN, 7/22/98)
1814 Jul 22, Five Indian tribes in
Ohio made peace with the United States and declared war on Britain.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1822 Jul 22, Gregor Johann Mendel
(d.1884), Austrian botanist who developed the theory of heredity, was
born.
(HN, 7/22/98)(NH, 6/01, p.30)
1826 Jul 22, Giuseppe Piazzi (80),
monk, mathematician (found 1st asteroid, 1801), died.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1832 Jul 22, Napoleon FKJ
Bonaparte (21), [l'Aiglon], king of Rome, died.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1844 Jul 22, William Archibald
Spooner, Anglican clergyman whose slips of the tongue caused words and
syllables to be transposed and gave rise to the term "spoonerisms," was
born in London.
(AP, 7/22/02)
1849 Jul 22, Emma Lazarus,
American poet, was born of Sephardic Jewish parents in NYC. Her poem,
"The New Colossus," is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty.
(HN, 7/22/98)(SFEC, 4/30/00, BR p.2)
1864 Jul 22, The Battle of Atlanta
reached its peak when Confederate General John Bell Hood launched an
all-out attack on Union General William T. Sherman's Army. Union
General James McPherson was killed repulsing a Confederate attack. The
Federal officer who sent his men naked against the enemy was Colonel
James P. Brownlow of the 1st (Union) Tennessee Cavalry. Casualties
numbered 8449 conf, 3641 US.
(HN, 7/22/98)(MC, 7/22/02)
1881 Jul 22, Margery Williams
Bianco, author (The Velveteen Rabbit), was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1881 Jul 22, The first volume of
"The War of the Rebellion," a compilation of the Official Records of
the Union and Confederate Armies, was published.
(HN, 7/22/99)
1882 Jul 22,
Edward Hopper (d.1967), American artist (Nighthawks), was born in
Nyack, N.Y.
(www.fact-index.com)
1887 Jul 22, Gustav Hertz, German
physicist, was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1888 Jul 22, Selman Abraham
Waksman, biochemist, was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1890 Jul 22, Rose Kennedy, mother
of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert and Edward Kennedy,
was born.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1892 Jul 22, Arthur Seyss-Inquart,
Austrian chancellor, Nazi war criminal, was born.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1893 Jul 22, Karl Menninger,
psychiatrist and founder of the Menninger Foundation for studies mental
health problems, was born.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1893 Jul 22, Katherine Lee Bates
(1819-1910), Wellesley professor, wrote the words to the song "America
the Beautiful," while atop Pike’s Peak during a trip to Colorado. It
appeared in print on July 4, 1895. In 1904 Clarence Barbour adapted it
to the melody of Samuel Ward’s “Materna” (1890). Bates’ final version
was completed in 1911.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.W13)(SSFC, 10/21/01, Par p.8)(AH,
10/04, p.26)
1894 Jul 22, The first automobile
race, organized by Le Petit Journal of Paris, took place on the 78-mile
route between Paris and Rouen, France.
(HN, 7/22/98)(Econ, 4/22/06, p.65)
1898 Jul 22, Stephen Vincent
Benet, poet and short-story writer, author of John Brown's Body, was
born.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1898 Jul 22,
Alexander Calder (d.1976), American artist. He is considered the
inventor of the mobile as a sculpture. In 1998 Marla Prather, Alexander
Rower and Arnauld Pierre published the Calder retrospective: "Alexander
Calder."
(SFEM,11/30/97, p.10)(HN, 7/22/02)
1905 Jul 22, Boris Alexandrov,
conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble), was born.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1908 Jul 22,
Amy Vanderbilt (d.1974), American journalist, etiquette expert was born
in New York City. "One face to the world, another at home makes for
misery."
(AP, 5/12/97)(AP, 7/22/08)
1913 Jul 22, Licia Albanese,
operatic soprano (NY Met Opera), was born in Bari, Italy.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1916 Jul 22, In San Francisco some
50,000 people marched in a Preparedness Day parade sponsored by
business leaders and opposed by labor. A bomb went off on Market St. at
Steuart during the parade. 10 people were killed including Arthur
Nelson. The bomb was set by a professed anarchist. Labor leader Tom
Mooney was convicted but it turned out that the evidence was
fabricated. In 1930 Gov. Clement Young denied a pardon for Mooney. He
was pardoned in 1939 by Democratic Governor Culbert Olson.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W5)(SFC, 9/22/01,
p.A3)(OAH, 2/05, p.A10)(SFC, 7/8/05, p.F6)(SSFC, 4/27/08, DB
p.58)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mooney)
1917 Jul 22, British bombed German
lines at Ypres with 4,250,000 grenades.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1918 Jul 22, Florine Stettheimer
painted "Heat," wherein she captured the relations between mothers and
daughters with deft satire. The date is on the birthday cake in the
painting.
(WSJ, 7/18/95, p.A-12)
1923 Jul 22, Robert Dole, U.S.
Senator from Kansas (1969-95), was born. In 1996 he was a Republican
candidate for president of the United States.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1932 Jul 22, Megan Terry,
playwright (Calm Down Mother, Goona Goona), was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1932 Jul
22, Florenz Ziegfeld (b.1869), US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies),
died. In 2008 Ethan Mordden authored “Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented
Show Business.”
(http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=5539)(WSJ, 11/14/08, p.W10)
1933 Jul 22, American aviator
Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world as he
returned to New York's Floyd Bennett Field after traveling for 7 days,
18 and 3/4 hours.
(AP, 7/22/08)
1934 Jul 22, John Dillinger
(b.1903) was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph
Theater. FBI agent Murray Faulkner, brother of William Faulkner, helped
in the killing. In 1924 Dillinger was sent to the Indiana State
Reformatory for holding up a grocer, and was later transferred to the
Michigan City, Indiana, State Prison, where he hatched a plan for a
mass breakout with a group of other infamous convicts. When Dillinger
was paroled in 1933, he robbed several banks to provide money for his
friends’ escape. He was caught in Ohio, but by then his friends had
escaped and they helped him break out. Dillinger’s supposed death
remains mysterious. Anna Sage, the "Lady in Red," had agreed to deliver
Dillinger to the FBI if they would stop deportation proceedings against
her. The setup went as planned, and the FBI shot the man with Anna
Sage. Dillinger was famous for the size of his penis, which was
"reportedly" severed and shown at exclusive viewings.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)(HNPD,
7/22/98)(HN, 7/22/99)
1936 Jul 22, Tom Robbins, novelist
(Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues), was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1937 Jul 22, The Senate rejected
President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme
Court.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1937 Jul 22, Irish premier Eamon
de Valera won elections. Valera served as prime minister of Ireland
until 1948. he served again from 1951-1954, and again from 1957-1959.
(MC, 7/22/02)(ON, 9/04, p.7)
1938 Jul 22, The Third Reich
issued special identity cards for Jewish Germans.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1941 Jul 22, George Clinton,
American musician and the principal architect of P-Funk was born in
North Carolina. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and
Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s.
(www.last.fm/music/George+Clinton)
1942 Jul 22, Gasoline rationing
involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1942 Jul 22, The Americans
approved Operation Torch, the British alternative to an invasion of
Europe. The design of Operation Torch was to secure all of North Africa
for the Allies. In 2002 Rick Atkinson authored "An Army At Dawn," an
account of Operation Torch.
(HN, 2/26/98)(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.D6)
1942 Jul
22, Nazi’s began their transport of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the
death at Treblinka.
(www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/TreblinkaEng.html)
1943 Jul 22, The American Seventh
Army forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily. Gen
Patton moved his troops across Sicily through August.
(TMC,1994,p.1943)(WSJ,12/8/95,p.A-14)(AP, 7/22/07)
1946 Jul 22, Paul Schrader,
screenwriter and film director (Taxi Driver), was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1946 Jul 22, Jewish extremists,
that included Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, blew up a wing of the
King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed British administrative
offices. 90-92 people were killed and included Britons (28), Arabs and
Jews. The admitted terrorists were members of a Zionist organization
called Lehi (Lohamei Herut Israel), earlier known as the Stern Gang.
(SFC, 10/18/96, C8)(AP, 7/22/97)(SSFC, 10/28/01,
p.C5)
1953 Jul 22, The Theodore Hamm
Brewing Co. of St. Paul, Minn., purchased the Rainier Brewing Co. at
1550 Bryant St., SF, for $1,809,937. The trade name had already been
sold to Sick Brewery Enterprises of Seattle.
(SFC, 7/18/03, p.E5)
1957 Jul 22, Walter "Fred"
Morrison applied for a patent for a "flying toy" which became known as
the Frisbee.
(AP, 7/22/07)
1957 Jul 22, In El Segundo, Ca., 2
police officers were shot and killed after pulling over a car for
running a red light. Gerald Mason (68) was arrested in 2003 following
fingerprint ID from a new FBI database.
(SFC, 1/30/03, p.A5)
1960 Jul 22, Cuba nationalized all
US owned sugar factories.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1964 Jul 22, David Spade, an
American actor, comedian and television personality, was born in
Birmingham, Michigan. He first became famous in the 1990s as a cast
member on Saturday Night Live, and from 1997 until 2003 starred as
Dennis Finch on Just Shoot Me!.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spade)
1966 Jul 22, B-52 bombers hit the
Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam for the first time.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1967 Jul 22, Carl Sandburg (89),
historian and poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), died in North
Carolina.
(AP, 7/22/07)
1969 Jul 22, Dictator
Francisco Franco appointed Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon as
official successor to the position of Head of State.
(www.archontology.org/nations/spain/spain_1936s/franco.php)
1971 Jul 22, Salvador Allende and
Alejandro Lanusse, Presidents of Chile and Argentina, signed an
Arbitration Agreement formally submitting the dispute concerning the
territorial and maritime boundaries between them and the title to the
islands Picton, Nueva and Lennox near the extreme end of the American
continent to binding arbitration under auspices of Queen Elizabeth II
of the United Kingdom.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Channel_Arbitration)(SFC, 8/27/96,
p.A17)
1972 Jul 22, Eddy Merckx
(b.1945)), Belgian professional cyclist, won his 4th consecutive Tour
de France.
(WSJ, 10/22/04,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Tour_de_France)
1974 Jul 22, Wayne L. Morse
(b.1900), US Senator from Oregon (1945-1969), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Morse)
1975 Jul 22, The House of
Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American
citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
(AP, 7/22/97)(HN, 7/22/98)
1977 Jul 22, In China Deng
Xiaoping was named vice-premier.
(SFC, 2/20/96, p.A4)
1980 Jul 22, In Maryland David
Theodore Belfield, a convert to Islam (Daoud Salahuddin), murdered Ali
Akbar Tabatabai, a former Iranian official and critic of the government
of Ayatollah Khomeini. Belfield escaped to Canada and then to Iran. In
2001 Belfield appeared in the movie "Kandahar" made in Afghanistan as
an actor named Hassan Tantai.
(SFC, 1/4/02,
p.D1)(http://iona.ghandchi.com/Tabatabai.htm)
1981 Jul 22, Turkish extremist
Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting
Pope John Paul the Second. Agca was pardoned by Italy in June, 2000,
and sent to Turkey, where he was scheduled to serve time for a killing
that took place before the attack on the pope.
(AP, 7/22/00)
1983 Jul 22, Samantha Smith and
her parents returned home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a
whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union.
(AP, 7/22/03)
1983 Jul 22, Polish government
ended 19 months of martial law. Some 100 government opponents lost
their lives in the 1½ year crackdown.
(SFC,11/22/97,
p.C2)(www.videofact.com/english/martial_law.htm)
1986 Jul 22, The US House of
Representatives impeached Judge Harry E. Claiborne. He was later
convicted by the Senate of tax evasion and bringing disrepute on the
federal courts. He was only the fifth person in US history to be
removed from office through impeachment by the US Congress, and the
first since Halsted Ritter in 1936. Claiborne was sentenced to two
years in prison in October, 1986, and was in prison from May 1986 to
October 1987. Claiborne was allowed to begin practicing law again in
Nevada in 1987, and shot himself to death in Las Vegas, Nevada, on
January 19, 2004, apparently due to his health battles with cancer and
Alzheimer’s disease.
(AP,
7/22/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_E._Claiborne)
1987 Jul 22, The United States
began its policy of escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers up and down
the Persian Gulf to protect them from possible attack by Iran.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1988 Jul 22, Iran and Iraq said
they would send their foreign ministers to New York to meet with U.N.
Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, after Iran said it would
accept a U.N. cease-fire resolution.
(AP, 7/22/98)
1989 Jul 22, Nearly 200,000
Palestinian children returned to classrooms in the West Bank after the
Israeli army lifted an order that had kept their schools closed during
the Palestinian uprising.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1990 Jul 22, American Greg Lemond
won his third Tour de France title.
(AP, 7/22/00)
1990 Jul 22, Voters in Mongolia
began casting ballots in their Communist-ruled nation’s first
multiparty election ever.
(AP, 7/22/00)
1991 Jul 22, President Bush
returned from a nine-day trip that included the Group of Seven summit
in London.
(AP, 7/22/01)
1991 Jul 22, Police in Milwaukee
arrested serial killer Jeffrey L. Dahmer. He was murdered while in
prison in 1994.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFC, 5/29/96, A4)
1991 Jul 22, Desiree Washington, a
Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike
Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room 3 days earlier. Tyson was later
convicted of rape and served three years in prison.
(AP,
7/22/97)(http://boxing.about.com/od/records/a/tyson_timeline_2.htm)
1992 Jul 22, Wayne McLaren (51),
model (Marlboro Man), died of lung cancer.
(www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marlboro.htm)
1992 Jul 22, Colombian drug lord
Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. He was
slain by security forces in December 1993.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1993 Jul 22, Japanese Prime
Minister Kiichi Miyazawa agreed to resign, following big election
losses by the scandal-plagued Liberal Democrats.
(AP, 7/22/98)
1994 Jul 22, O.J. Simpson pleaded
innocent to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald
Goldman.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1995 Jul 22, Susan Smith was
convicted by a jury in Union, South Carolina, of first-degree murder
for drowning her two sons. She was later sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 7/22/00)
1995 Jul 22, In San Luis Obispo,
15-year-old Elyse Pahler was murdered by 3 teenagers of the death metal
band called Hatred patterned after the group "Slayer." Her body was not
found for 8 months until revealed by Joseph Fiorella (16), who received
a 26 year to life sentence in 1997 as part of a plea bargain. Royce
Casey (18) and Jacob Delashmutt still faced trial as adults. Death
metal was a sub-genre of heavy metal that featured explicit lyrics
dealing with murder, torture and occult practices.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A15)
1996 Jul 22, Friends and families
gathered on a Long Island, N.Y., beach for a tearful memorial service
dedicated to the 230 victims of the crash of TWA Flight 800.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1996 Jul 22, In Pakistan a bomb
killed 9 at Lahore Int’l. airport in the Punjab province. It was the 13
bombing in the Punjab this year.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A1)
1997 Jul 22, In Michigan some
2,800 UAW workers went on strike at a GM plant in Warren.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 22, Algerian troops
killed 140 of 180 radical Islamist guerrillas in the Attatba area of
Blida province in an offensive that began 10 days ago.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A9)
1997 Jul 22, In Austria a campaign
was started to rename all public places named after poet Ottokar
Kernstock, the man who wrote the words of the "Swastika Song," the
election theme of Adolph Hitler’s Nazis.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 22, In Britain the labor
party proposed a somewhat independent assembly for Wales.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 22, From Columbia it was
reported that 30,000 violent deaths per year occurred and marked the
country as the world’s most violent.
(SFC, 7/22/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 22, In Egypt six police
officers were killed in an ambush by militants near Minya.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A13)
1997 Jul 22, More than 2,000
people gathered in Milan, Italy, for a memorial Mass for slain fashion
designer Gianni Versace; the mourners included Princess Diana and
singer-songwriter Elton John.
(AP, 7/22/98)
1997 Jul 22, In Liberia results
from the election showed Charles Taylor in the lead with about 75 of
the vote.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 22, In South Africa 5
killings in Magoda, Kwa Zulu / Natal Province, were suspected of being
caused an unknown "third force," a presumed right-wing group dedicated
to fomenting black-on-black violence.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A7)
1998 Jul 22, President Clinton,
with Republican lawmakers at his side, signed a bill designed to mold
the Internal Revenue Service into a friendlier, fairer tax collector.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1998 Jul 22, The Senate Armed
Services Committee rejected, on a 9-9 vote, Daryl Jones' bid to become
Air Force secretary.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1998 Jul 22, In Bangladesh the
death toll from flooding reached 103 and left some 10 million people
stranded.
(SFC, 7/22/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 22, In China Pres. Jiang
ordered the military to close down its many businesses.
(WSJ, 7/23/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 22, Iran conducted a
successful Shahab 3 missile test with a medium-range of 800 miles.
(SFC, 7/23/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 11/1/98, p.A23)
1999 Jul 22, Family members
watched mournfully from the deck of a Navy destroyer as the ashes of
John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren
Bessette, were cast into the sea off Martha’s Vineyard, consigned to
the depths where they died.
(SFC, 7/22/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/22/00)
1999 Jul 22, Joie Ruth Armstrong
(26), naturalist for the Yosemite Institute, was found murdered and
beheaded in Yosemite National Park. Cary Stayner (38), a motel
maintenance man, was sought in relation to the murder. Staynor was
arrested July 24 and admitted to the February murders of Carole Sund,
Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso. In 2000 Stayner pleaded guilty to
federal murder charges. As of 2008 he was still on death row at San
Quentin, Ca.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A1)(USAT, 7/26/99,
p.1A)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Stayner)
1999 Jul 22, In Waverly, Iowa, the
Cedar River crested at 21 feet and flooded 65 city blocks forcing some
1500 people out of their homes.
(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 22, In Maryland some
300,000 menhaden fish turned up dead at the mouth of the Pocomoke River
in the Chesapeake Bay. Depleted oxygen in the water due to drought
conditions was suspected. Nearly one million fish died in the
tributaries of the Pocomoke.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A8)(SFC, 7/31/99, p.A14)
1999 Jul 22, The WTO agreed to a
job-sharing deal with New Zealand Premier Mike Moore serving as
director-general for 3 years followed by Supachai Panitchpakdi of
Thailand.
(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A12)
1999 Jul 22, In Minsk, Belarus,
police broke up a march by some 5,000 people against Pres. Lukashenko.
(WSJ, 7/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 22, In China the
government announced a ban on the Falun Gong spiritual movement.
(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 22, In Iran The Culture
and Islamic Guidance Ministry moved against 3 newspapers for printing a
secret letter from the Revolutionary Guards warning that their patience
with "insults against the system" was running out.
(SFC, 7/22/99, p.A13)
2000 Jul 22, G-8 talks ended in
Okinawa and leaders pledged to do more to provide schooling, health
care and food to the poorest nations. Pres. Clinton said the US would
send $300 million in surplus farm crops to provide school lunches in
the developing world. Clinton, in Japan for a Group of Eight summit,
addressed US troops on Okinawa, where he said they "need to be good
neighbors" with the island’s residents.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A12)(AP,
7/22/01)
2000 Jul 22, Mack Metcalf (42) of
Kentucky and his wife Virginia Metcalf Merida (46) won $34.1 million in
the Powerball Lottery. They planned to split their winnings 60/40.
Mack, former forklift driver for Johnson Controls, died in 2003 at age
45. Virginia, who had worked as a corrugator for Indy Honeycomb, was
found dead in 2005.
(www.lotterybuddy.com/winner00.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/d9fez)
2000 Jul 22, Christopher McCulloch
(13) and Blaine Talmo Jr. (14) were bludgeoned to death on a school
playground in La Crescenta, Ca. Michael Demirdjian (15) was later
convicted and sentenced to 2 consecutive 25-years-to-life terms for
murder by torture.
(SFC, 10/25/06, p.B12)
2000 Jul 22, In Beijing some 100
people were rounded up in a scattered protest marking the first
anniversary of the banning of Falun Gong.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.B16)
2000 Jul 22, In Burundi uniformed
men killed 53 men, women and children in the village of Butaganzwa,
when they refused to go to a government regroupment camp.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 22, In South Korea
torrential rains in Seoul and Kyonggi caused floods and landslides and
killed 9 people with 4 missing.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 22, Mexican women staged
a one-day strike, more symbolic than massive, over housework.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.B16)
2000 Jul 22, In the Philippines
Muslim rebels ambushed a truck carrying workers for Maranao Planters
and killed 13 people, including 3 women and a 2-year-old boy. 14 were
wounded.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A16)
2001 Jul 22, David Duval shot a
4-under 67 to win the British Open title, his first major championship.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2001 Jul 22, Pres. Bush and Pres.
Putin agreed to link discussions of US plans for a missile defense
system with the prospect of large cuts in their nuclear arsenals.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 22, President Bush and
other world leaders closed out a summit in Genoa, Italy, with a vow to
wage a united attack on global poverty and disease. They failed,
however, to resolve a sharp dispute over global warming.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2001 Jul 22, In Nepal Sher Bahadur
Deuba was chosen as prime minister.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 22, In South Korea some
12,000 workers of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions tried to
march into Seoul but were blocked by riot police. Pres. Dae-jung’s
corporate restructure programs had caused many layoffs.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 22, In Macedonia ethnic
Albanian rebels attacked government forces in the Tetovo area.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A8)
2002 Jul 22, The Bush
administration said it would not contribute to a UN program that it
contends provides aid to the Chinese government to coerce women in
getting abortions. $34 million was withheld under the 1985 Kemp-Kasten
law.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 22, Gov. Davis signed a
bill for California air regulators to enact measures by 2009 to cut
vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases believed to contribute to global
warming.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 22, North Dakota's Gov.
John Hoeven was headed to Cuba to promote trade of peas, wheat and
other foods to the communist island from his state. It was only the 2nd
visit to Cuba by a sitting American governor in some 40 years.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 22, Factory worker
Alejandro Avila was charged with murder and kidnapping in the abduction
and slaying of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion of Stanton, Calif.
(AP, 7/22/03)
2002 Jul 22, The DJIA fell almost
234 points to 7,785. Nasdaq fell 3% to 1,283.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 22, At least 12 people
have been killed in clashes between rival Afghan factions fighting for
control of the Sheen Dend district in the western province of Herat.
(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Bosnia forensic
experts discovered a mass grave in the northeast that may contain up to
100 bodies of Muslims killed at the end of the country's 1992-95 war.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Brazil assailants
tortured and killed Bartolemeu Morais da Silva (44), a prominent
activist who had been organizing land occupations by the poor in a
southern Amazon state.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22, Congolese and Rwandan
leaders said that they've reached an agreement to end a four-year war
in Congo, a fight that has defied resolution as it drew in eight
African countries and claimed more than two million lives.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Northern Ireland
Gerald Lawlor (19), a Catholic man, was shot to death after a night of
gun attacks left two others wounded in north Belfast. The Ulster
Defense Assoc. claimed responsibility. UDA attackers selected Lawlor
because he was walking through a predominantly Catholic area and
wearing the green-and-white shirt of Glasgow Celtic, a Scottish soccer
club supported exclusively by Catholics in Northern Ireland.
(AP, 7/22/02)(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A6)(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Indian Kashmir 4
suspected separatist rebels were killed in a shootout with troops while
a policeman and a civilian were wounded in separate blasts.
(Reuters, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 22, Israeli troops killed
2 Islamic Jihad members in a clash near the Gush Katif settlement.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 22, Morocco and Spain,
prodded by the US, agreed to leave Perejil Island empty and free of
symbols of sovereignty and planned for future talks on the issue.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 22, Ahmed bin Salman bin
Abdulaziz (43), the genial Saudi prince who dominated racing the last
two years with Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem and 2001 horse of the
year Point Given, died.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22-24, Flooding in
southeastern Venezuela killed 5 people and left as many as 50,000
homeless in Apure state.
(AP, 7/23/02)(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A12)
2003 Jul 22, Months after her
prisoner-of-war ordeal, Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch returned home to a
hero's welcome in Elizabeth, W.Va.
(AP, 7/22/04)
2003 Jul 22, Saddam Hussein's sons
Odai and Qusai were killed in a fiery battle at a Mosul mansion. Sheik
Nawaf al-Zaydan Muhhamad informed US troops of their presence in his
home and became $30 million richer.
(AP, 7/23/03)(AP, 7/24/03)
2003 Jul 22, Italy's state TV
chief said she will resign as soon as Premier Silvio Berlusconi's
governing coalition passes a law opponents say will grant the business
mogul even greater control over Italian media.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2003 Jul 22, In Paris an
electrical fire broke out near the top of the Eiffel Tower, forcing
thousands of alarmed visitors to evacuate.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2003 Jul 22, In Indian-held
Kashmir 3 suspected Islamic guerrillas attacked an army camp, killing
at least 8 soldiers and wounding more than a dozen others before being
slain.
(AP, 7/22/03)
2004 Jul 22, The September 11
commission issued a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp the
gravity of terrorist threats before the devastating attacks of 9/11,
but stopping short of blaming President Bush and former President
Clinton.
(SFC, 7/23/04, p.A1)(AP, 7/22/05)
2004 Jul 22, The Army Inspector
General's office released a report on abuses by U.S. troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan which found 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuse and 39
deaths.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2004 Jul 22, The U.S. House of
Representatives gave final approval to a new free trade agreement with
Morocco.
(Reuters, 7/22/04)
2004 Jul 22, Adolph Coors and
Molson confirmed that they planned to merge their family-controlled
breweries.
(SFC, 7/23/04, p.C2)
2004 Jul 22, The USS John F.
Kennedy aircraft carrier collided with a dhow in the Arabian Gulf while
running night flights in support of U.S. operations in Iraq. The crew
of the small boat was missing.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 22, Illinois Jacquet
(81), jazz luminary known for his big sound on the tenor sax, died in
NYC.
(WSJ, 7/26/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 22, The Cuban government
released political prisoner Martha Beatriz Roque from a hospital where
she was serving a 20-year sentence. She is the seventh and best-known
person let out of jail in three months.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 22, French crooner Sacha
Distel (71), whose seductive good looks won him legions of female fans
around the world, died.
(AP, 7/22/04)
2004 Jul 22, A court in
Dusseldorf, Germany, acquitted all 6 defendants in the 6-month
Mannesmann trial. They were accused of committing a breach of trust
relating to bonuses paid to CEO Klaus Esser and other executives
following the 2000 sale of Mannesmann to Vodafone.
(Econ, 7/24/04, p.60)y
2004 Jul 22, It was reported that
over 200 doctors had been kidnapped in Iraq since the end of the war
and that an estimated 10-30 kidnappings take place every day, mostly in
Baghdad.
(WSJ, 7/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 22, In a Gaza City 2
Palestinians were killed when their car exploded. The Israeli attack
was aimed at a man involved in the slaying of six Israeli soldiers on
May 11.
(AP, 7/23/04)(SFC, 7/24/04, p.A14)
2004 Jul 22, In northwestern
Turkey a new high-speed passenger train derailed killing 37 people and
injuring 81 others.
(AP, 7/23/04)(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, In Irving, Texas,
Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers,
said it plans to cut about 6,000 jobs and sell or close up to 20
manufacturing plants.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Researchers estimated
that deaths of North Atlantic right whales may be underreported by as
much as 83 percent annually. At least eight whales have died in the
last 16 months, and only 350 of the animals are believed to exist.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 22, George Wallace (88),
stage and screen actor, died in Los Angeles. He played Commando Cody in
the 1952 film serial “Radar Men from the Moon.”
(SFC, 7/28/05, p.B7)
2005 Jul 22, In London a man, who
appeared to be South Asian, was slain by officers at the Stockwell
subway station. Police said the man was challenged and refused to obey
instructions. The next day police identified the man as Jean Charles de
Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, and said he was not related the
bombings and expressed regret for his death. Menezes was shot in the
head 7 times. In 2009 the Metropolitan police agreed to a compensation
deal with the family of de Menezes.
(AP, 7/22/05)(AP, 7/23/05)(Econ, 7/22/06, p.18)(AFP,
11/23/09)
2005 Jul 22, In Germany a pilot
died when his ultralight plane crashed near the German parliament. He
was questioned over the disappearance of his wife and expressed
"suicidal intentions" before the flight.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 22, Insurgents targeted
two Iraqi police patrols in Baghdad, leaving at least five people dead.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, The Italian
government approved a package of anti-terrorism measures that allow
authorities to take DNA samples from suspects and jail those who
provide explosives training.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Japan's Parliament
approved legislation authorizing the defense chief to shoot down
missiles without permission from the prime minister or Cabinet,
boosting a missile defense system Japan is working on with the United
States.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, In Kashmir separatist
militants fighting Indian rule in the country's only Muslim-majority
state said they would not allow minority Hindus who fled the region
after the revolt broke out 16 years ago to return.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, In Lebanon a bomb
exploded on a narrow street crowded with bars and restaurants, wounding
12 people just hours after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
visited the area.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 22, Mexican authorities
raided a kidnapping ring that filmed its victims being held inside a
cage and beaten. An abducted businessman was freed and five people were
arrested. The gang operated in Mexico City and outlying areas in Puebla
and Mexico State.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 22, Former Myanmar PM
Khin Nyunt received a 44-year suspended sentence after being convicted
on eight charges including bribery and corruption.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, North Korea offered
to abandon its nuclear weapons if the two sides in the Korean War sign
a peace agreement to replace the 1953 cease-fire that halted
hostilities but did not resolve the conflict.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, In Pakistan more than
2,000 supporters of a coalition of radical Muslim groups rallied in
Islamabad to condemn a crackdown on Islamic militants that has netted
more than 200 suspects.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Assailants killed
five tribal elders who had helped Pakistan's army hunt for
al-Qaida-linked militants in a remote, lawless region near the Afghan
border.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Truck drivers in
Puerto Rico ended a three-day strike that paralyzed gasoline deliveries.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Spain banned lighting
fires in open spaces nationwide until November. This was Spain’s worst
drought since 1947. Spaniards will no longer allowed to smoke as they
take a Sunday stroll in the woods, under new government rules aimed at
curbing the risk of fires such as a recent one in which 11 firefighters
died in Guadalajara.
(Reuters, 7/25/05)(Econ, 7/23/05, p.47)
2005 Jul 22, Taiwan will allow
computer maker Lenovo Ltd. to become the first mainland Chinese company
to establish a subsidiary on the island in a significant step forward
in commercial ties between the two rivals.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, At a meeting of
Andean presidents Pres. Chavez proposed Petroandina, under which
oil-producing countries would cooperate on pipelines and refining.
(Econ, 7/30/05, p.33)
2005 Jul 22, Seniat, Venezuela’s
tax authority, presented Harvest Natural Resources with an $85 million
retroactive income tax bill. Royal Dutch Shell received a bill a week
earlier and was seeking talks on its bill.
(WSJ, 7/25/05, p.A13)
2006 Jul 22, President Bush in
Texas conferred with PM Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey about how to help the
Lebanese people caught up in the conflict between Israel and Hizbollah.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, Some 3,000 people
gathered at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas for the annual Lifestyles
conference, a five-day, $700-per-couple event that offers a mix of
seminars, socializing and sex.
(Reuters, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, Former Spokane, Wa.,
Mayor James E. West (55), ousted by a sex scandal in 2005, died of
complications from recent cancer surgery.
(SSFC, 7/23/06, p.B6)
2006 Jul 22, Tamika Mack Norton
(31), the wife of Quincy Norton Sr. (32), was stabbed to death at her
home in Daly City, Ca. Norton was arrested a month later and charged
with her murder. In 2008 he was convicted of murder after his sons
testified against him, but the conviction was overturned on the grounds
that his defense attorney was incompetent. In 2009 a new trial date was
set.
(SFC, 4/22/08, p.B2)(SFC, 5/16/08, p.B5)(SFC,
9/23/09, p.D2)
2006 Jul 22, In Afghanistan
coalition forces killed 13 Taliban over the last 48 hours in the
district of Garmser in Helmand province. 2 suicide blasts struck in
Kandahar. A suicide car bomb ripped into a Canadian patrol and killed
two soldiers and wounded eight others. Ten Afghans were wounded. About
an hour later an attacker blew himself up among a crowd of people who
had assembled about 100 meters (yards) from the site of the first
explosion. Four Afghan passers-by were killed.
(AP, 7/22/06)(AFP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 22, In Preston, England,
Shezan Umarji (20), a bank worker and business student, was stabbed in
the brawl between around 50 white and South Asian youths. Days later 3
men, one aged 17 and two aged 19, were "jointly charged with murder and
violent disorder."
(AFP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 22, A magnitude-5.1
earthquake hit southwestern China, killing at least 19 people.
(AFP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, East Timor's newly
installed PM Jose Ramos-Horta offered a weapons amnesty to prevent a
repeat of communal clashes which left 21 dead two months ago.
(AFP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, Ethiopian troops sent
to bolster Somalia's weak government against a powerful Islamic militia
moved into a second Somali town and seized a strategic airport.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, In Haiti a new rash
of kidnappings has raised fears that well-armed, politically aligned
street gangs are seeking to destabilize the new government, threatening
UN-led efforts to restore security 2 1/2 years after a crippling
revolt. At least 30 people have been kidnapped so far in July, about
the same number for all of June.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, Iraq's parliament
speaker Mahmud Mashhadani bitterly criticized US forces in Iraq,
accusing them of "butchery" and demanded that they pull out of the
country. 7 Shiite workers were gunned down in a religiously mixed area
of west Baghdad, and explosions in the heart of the capital shattered a
one-day calm after a ban on private vehicles expired. 3 people were
killed and 5 injured in a bombing and shooting in the market in
Baqouba. At least 6 more people died in attacks elsewhere across Iraq.
US and Iraqi troops battled Mahdi fighters in Musayyib, 40 miles south
of Baghdad in a three-hour gunbattle that killed 15 extremists and one
Iraqi soldier. 2 US soldiers were killed in Baghdad, one from a
roadside bomb, the other from small arms fire.
(AP, 7/22/06)(AP, 7/23/06)(SSFC, 7/23/06, p.A8)
2006 Jul 22, Israeli tanks and
hundreds of troops moved in and out of Lebanon, taking over Maroun
al-Ras village, entering a UN observation post and engaging Hezbollah
militants by land, sea and air. Israeli warplanes blasted
communications and television transmission towers in central and
northern Lebanese mountains. Over 130 rockets struck northern Israeli,
hitting Karmiel, Kiriyat Shemona, Nahariya and smaller communities such
as Bet Hilel, Mayan Baruch and Mashov Am. Five Israelis were wounded.
The Lebanese health ministry reported 362 deaths in Lebanon so far in
the onslaught. 34 Israelis also have been killed.
(AP, 7/22/06)(SSFC, 7/23/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 22, Japan's death toll
from floods and mudslides triggered by this week's torrential rain rose
to 19 as an evacuation warning was issued in the country's southwest.
Heavy rains caused mudslides and flooding killed four people in
southern Japan. About 100,000 people were urged to flee their homes.
(AFP, 7/22/06)(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 22, Police said Mudassir,
a top Kashmiri militant commander blamed for dozens of attacks and
tourist killings, has been arrested in the Indian portion of Kashmir.
He was believed to be the chief planner of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a
Pakistan-based Islamic militant group linked to "25 incidents of
grenade attacks and other violent incidents.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2007 Jul 22, Cinematographer
Laszlo Kovacs died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 74.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2007 Jul 22, Afghan villagers
found the body of a German aid worker kidnapped in southern
Afghanistan, while a delegation of South Korean officials arrived hours
before a purported evening deadline set for 23 Korean hostages. A large
group of Taliban had attacked a convoy in Helmand province, and the
resulting battle in the Sangin district left more than 30 militants
dead and many wounded. In Zabul province Afghan police forces reported
killing 14 "enemies" during a 12-hour battle, including a Taliban
commander identified as Mohammad Hassan.
(AP, 7/22/07)(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 22, Parliamentary and
municipal elections were held across Cameroon, with longtime President
Paul Biya's ruling party widely expected to dominate as it has for
decades.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, China’s state media
said record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides and mud
flows had killed 152 people and forced the evacuation of hundreds of
thousands.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Egyptian police shot
and killed a Sudanese woman (28) and seriously wounded four others on
the Sinai Peninsula as they tried to sneak into Israel. They were among
27 Darfur refugees caught by border guards in the desert after paying
700 dollars (500 euros) to a Bedouin smuggler.
(AP, 7/22/07)(AFP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 22, A bus carrying Polish
pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a steep
mountain road, crashed into a river bed and burst into flames, killing
26 people.
(AFP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Indian police killed
Shiv Kumar (Dadua), one of the country's most notorious bandits. He had
ruled the ravines and forests of central India through a mixture of
fear and love for three decades, with many hailing him as a modern-day
Robin Hood.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Army Maj. Gen.
Benjamin Mixon, the commander of US forces in northern Iraq, said he
has proposed reducing his troop levels and shifting next year to
missions focused less on direct combat. A senior officer working with
the Interior Ministry was shot to death as he was driving his car in
northeastern Baghdad. An Iraqi interpreter working for Americans in
Kut, was killed by gunmen. A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint in a
village north of Baghdad killing at least 3 people. A bomb on a
motorcycle in central Baghdad killed 2 people and wounded 15. US troops
in eastern Iraq detained two suspected weapons smugglers who may be
linked to Iran's elite Quds force. In Iraq a roadside bomb killed
another US soldier.
(AP, 7/22/07)(AP, 7/23/07)(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A16)
2007 Jul 22, Israeli troops
operating in the northern Gaza Strip shot and killed two Hamas gunmen.
An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian militants in the northern
Gaza Strip after they fired rockets at a nearby Israeli town.
(AP, 7/22/07)(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 22, In northern Lebanon 3
Lebanese soldiers were killed in sporadic fighting with
al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee
camp.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 22, Niger's PM Seyni
Oumarou and military chiefs met neighboring Algeria's President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika to discuss cross-border cooperation against
Tuareg-led rebels in Niger's desert north.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Islamic militants
detonated bombs close to military convoys and attacked government
positions in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal region, sparking
gunfights that left 19 insurgents dead. A 45-member delegation of
tribal elders was in North Waziristan on a government-backed mission to
try to salvage the peace accord.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, The death toll from
Romania's heat wave rose to 15 after 6 more people died as temperatures
hovered around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Turks voted for a new
Parliament in a contest viewed as pivotal in determining the balance
between Islam and secularism in this nation of more than 70 million.
The Islamic-rooted ruling party won parliamentary elections by a wide
margin. The Justice and Development (AK) party won 47% of the vote. AK
secured 341 of 550 seats in the parliament. Deniz Baykal’s
pro-secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) won 21%. Sebahat Tuncel
(32) walked out of jail after she was elected to parliament along with
18 fellow members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party.
(AP, 7/23/07)(Econ, 7/28/07, p.51)(Econ, 8/4/07,
p.45)(Econ, 5/3/08, p.60)
2008 Jul 22, North Carolina-based
Wachovia Corp., the 4th largest US bank, lost $8.86 billion in the 2nd
quarter, and said it was slashing its dividend and cutting 6,350 jobs
after losses tied to mortgages soared.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, California reported
63,061 foreclosures during the 2nd 3 months of this year.
(SFC, 7/23/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 22, California Gov.
Schwarzenegger signed SB685 giving state pet owners the right to set up
a legally enforceable trust to care for their animals. The bill was
sponsored by Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo).
(SFC, 7/26/08, p.C1)(http://tinyurl.com/5uppps)
2008 Jul 22, Dolly was upgraded to
hurricane status as it headed toward the US-Mexican border.
(WSJ, 7/23/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 22, Estelle Getty
(b.1923), the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls,"
died. The diminutive stage and TV actress had spent 40 years struggling
for success before landing the role of a lifetime in 1985.
(AP, 7/22/08)(SFC, 7/23/08, p.A8)
2008 Jul 22, US-led coalition and
Afghan troops for a 2nd day clashed with and called in airstrikes on
Taliban militants in western Afghanistan, killing and wounding more
than 25 insurgents. In Kabul a suicide bomber on foot detonated himself
next to the walls of the city's historic Babur Gardens, a popular
public park, wounding three civilians. In central Wardak province,
US-led coalition forces killed "several militants" while hunting for a
Taliban leader said to have been behind an attack that killed three
American troops and their interpreter last month. Militants attacked a
British patrol in Kajaki district of Helmand province. The soldier was
initially wounded and later died. A civilian vehicle struck a mine in
Khost province, killing four people and wounding three. The dead
included a 2-year-old and a woman. In southern Helmand province, Afghan
troops killed five insurgents in a clash. A policeman and two Afghan
soldiers were wounded in the encounter. Gunmen killed the spokesman for
the governor of Paktika province, Ghamai Khan Mohammadyar, and wounded
his wife, his brother and his mother.
(AP, 7/22/08)(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 22, Cambodia asked the UN
Security Council and its Southeast Asian neighbors to intervene in
resolving a military standoff over disputed border territory around an
ancient temple, stepping up its rhetoric against Thailand.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, Sheik Hassan Dahir
Aweys took over the Islamist opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation
of Somalia (ARS), which operates in exile in Eritrea.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 22, India’s BJP
opposition was defeated in a confidence vote and charged the ruling
Congress Party-led coalition of offering bribes in exchange for
abstentions in the vote.
(WSJ, 7/23/08, p.A8)
2008 Jul 22, Iraqi PM Nouri
al-Maliki met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks aimed at
strengthening economic ties between the two countries.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, In Mexico a measure
took effect eliminating jail times for illegal immigrants caught in
Mexico.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, Nepal's Maoists said
they would not form the Himalayan nation's first post-royal government
after the defeat of their candidate for president, setting off a new
political crisis.
(AFP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, Palestinian rammed a
construction truck into three cars and a bus near the Jerusalem hotel
where Barack Obama is supposed to stay, injuring four people before an
Israeli civilian shot and killed the attacker.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, Spanish police
dismantled the most active cell of the armed Basque separatist group
ETA with the detention of nine suspected members of the group. Among
those captured was Arkaitz Goikoetxea, the leader of the "Vizcaya" cell
which Spanish authorities suspect was behind most of the attacks
carried out by ETA since it called off a ceasefire in June 2007.
(AFP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, The Tamil Tiger
rebels announced they would observe a unilateral 10-day cease-fire as a
goodwill gesture during a regional summit to be held later this month.
An airstrike deep inside the rebels' de facto state killed 22 members
of the Black Tigers, the group's suicide force.
(AP, 7/22/08)
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