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306 Jul 23,
Constantine was proclaimed Caesar of the west by the army, while
Severus, the former Caesar, was proclaimed Augusta of the west by
Galerius.
(HN, 7/23/98)
636 Jul 23, Arabs gained control
of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1148 Jul 23, Crusaders of the 2nd
Crusade attacked Damascus.
(MC, 7/23/02)(V.D.-H.K.p.109)
1253 Jul 23, Jews were expelled
from Vienne, France, by order of Pope Innocent III.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1298 Jul 23, Jews were massacred
at Wurzburg, Germany.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1373 Jul 23, Birgitta of Sweden,
Swedish saint, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1403 Jul 23, The Battle of
Shrewsbury was fought by the Percys against King Henry IV. Henry Percy
(39), [Harry Hotspur], was killed in the battle.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1558 Jul 23, Battle at
Grevelingen: Gen. Lamoral van Egmont beat France. [see Jul 13]
(MC, 7/23/02)
1562 Jul 23, Gottfried, Gotz von
Berlichingen, German Knight of kingdom, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1568 Jul 23, Don Carlos (c23), son
of Spanish king Philip II, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1588 Jul 23, English army
assembles at Tilbury to repel invasion of England by Spanish Armada.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1595 Jul 23, Spanish soldiers
landed at Cornwall, England, and burned Mousehold and Penzance before
returning to their ships.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1599 Jul 23, Caravaggio received
his 1st public commission for paintings.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1627 Jul 23, Sir George Calvert
arrived in Newfoundland to develop his land grant.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1631 Jul 23, Sweden's King
Gustavus II repulsed an imperialist force at Werben, Russia.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1637 Jul 23, King Charles of
England handed over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir
Fernando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1664 Jul 23, Wealthy non-church
members in Massachusetts were given the right to vote.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1664 Jul 23, 4 British ships
arrived in Boston to drive the Dutch out of NY.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1726 Jul 23, Benjamin Franklin
sailed back to Philadelphia.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1745 Jul 23, Charles Stuart
(1720-1788), the Younger, and 7 companions landed at Eriskay Island, in
the Hebrides.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart)
1757 Jul 23, Giuseppe Domenico
Scarlatti (71), Italian composer (La Silvia), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1759 Jul 23, Russians under
Saltikov defeated Prussians at Kay in eastern Germany, and one-fourth
of Prussian army of 27,000 was lost.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1785 Jul 23, Prussia's Frederick
the Great formed Die Furstenbund (League of German Princes).
(AP, 7/23/97)
1789 Jul 23, The Great Fear swept
through France as the Revolution continued.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1793 Jul 23, The French garrison
at Mainz, Germany, fell to the Prussians.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1794 Jul 23, Chaos and anarchy
were averted temporarily when Robespierre joined conciliation talks in
Paris.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1796 Jul 23, Franz Adolf Berwald,
Sweden, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1803 Jul 23, Irish patriots
throughout the country rebelled against Union with Great Britain.
Robert Emmett led the insurrection in Dublin.
(HN, 7/23/98)(MC, 7/23/02)
1829 Jul 23, William Austin Burt
of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his "typographer," a
forerunner of the typewriter.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1834 Jul 23, James Gibbons,
American religious leader and founder of Catholic University, was born.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1849 Jul 23, German rebels in
Baden capitulated to the Prussians.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1851 Jul 23, Sioux Indians and US
signed the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1858 Jul 23, Jewish Disabilities
Removal Act was passed by British Parliament.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1863 Jul 23, Bill Anderson and his
Confederate Bushwackers gutted the railway station at Renick, Missouri.
(HN, 7/23/99)
1865 Jul 23, William Booth founded
the Salvation Army. [see Jul 5]
(HN, 7/23/98)
1866 Jul 23, Francesco Cilea,
composer, was born.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1870 Jul 23, In France Marx
completed what will become known as his "First Address."
(www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/timeline.htm)
1875 Jul 23, Isaac Merritt Singer
(63), inventor (sewing machine), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1880 Jul 23, 1st commercial
hydroelectric power planet began in Grand Rapids, Mich.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1883 Jul 23, Lord Allanbrooke
(d.1963), English soldier, was born.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1885 Jul 23, Ulysses S. Grant
(b.1822), commander of the Union forces at the end of the Civil War and
the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y.,
at age 63. He had just completed the final revisions to his memoirs,
which were published as a 2 volume set by Mark Twain. In 1928 W.E.
Woodward authored "Meet General Grant," and in 1981 William S.
McFreeley authored "Grant: A Biography." His tomb was placed in the
largest mausoleum in the US on a bluff over the Hudson River. In 1998
Geoffrey Perret published the biography "Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and
President." In 2004 Mark Perry authored “Grant and Twain.” In 2006
Edward G. Longacre authored “General Ulysses S. Grant: The Soldier and
Man.”
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A7)(SFEC, 4/19/98, Par p.20)(AP,
7/23/98)(HN, 7/23/98)(ON, SC, p.11)(ON, 12/00, p.7)(WSJ, 5/14/04,
p.W10)(WSJ, 8/5/06, p.P9)
1886 Jul 23, Arthur Whitten Brown,
British aviator, was born.
(HN, 7//2302)
1886 Jul 23, New York saloonkeeper
Steve Brodie claimed to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn
Bridge into the East River. However, few historians believe the jump
actually occurred
(AP, 7/23/07)
1888 Jul 23, Raymond Chandler,
writer of detective stories, creator of the character Philip Marlow,
was born.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1892 Jul 23, Haile Selassie
(d.1975), Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74), was born as Tafari Makonnen at
Ejarsa Goro, near Harer. He pleaded with the League of Nations to halt
the Italian invasion of his country. "Outside the kingdom of the Lord
there is no nation which is greater than any other."
(AP, 7/23/02)(www.imperialethiopia.org/history3.htm)
1894 Jul 23, Japanese troops took
over the Korean imperial palace in Seoul.
(AP, 7/23/97)(HN, 7/23/98)
1903 Jul 23, The Ford Motor
Company sold its first automobile, the Model A.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1904 Jul 23, By some accounts, the
ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. [see Sep 22, 1903]
(AP, 7/23/99)
1906 Jul 23, Marston Bates,
American zoologist and author of "The Nature of Natural History," was
born.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1906 Jul 23, Pogroms took place
against Jews in Odessa.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1908 Jul 23, In Turkey Ottoman
Sultan Abdulhamid II (1842-1918) capitulated to the Committee of Union
and Progress (CUP)m which led a rebellion against the authoritarian his
regime. The revolutionary organization was popularly known as the Young
Turks. Since then, the term has been applied to other insurgent groups
within organizations or political parties.
(HNQ,
11/4/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hamid_II)
1913 Jul 23, The "Second
Revolution" broke out in south China.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1914 Jul 23, Austria and Hungary
issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke
Ferdinand; the dispute led to World War I.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1920 Jul 23, King Faisal I's Arab
Army was defeated at Maysaloun and Syria fell effectively under French.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1925 Jul 23, Gloria De Haven, U.S.
actress, was born.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1930 Jul 23, Earthquake struck
Ariano, Italy, and some 1,500 were killed.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1932 Jul 23, Alberto Santos-Dumont
(b.1873), aviation pioneer, hanged himself in Guaraja, Brazil after
hearing a bomber discharge its load on fellow countrymen. In 2003 Paul
Hoffman authored "Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the
Invention of Flight."
(SSFC, 6/28/03, p.M1)
1936 Jul 23, Don Drysdale, pitcher
(LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962), was born in Van Nuys, Calif.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1939 Jul 23, Nicholas Gage,
journalist and author (Eleni), was born.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1940 Jul 23, Don Imus, later radio
personality, was born in Riverside, Ca.
(SSFC, 4/21/02, Par p.22)
1940 Jul 23, John Nichols,
novelist and essayist (The Milagro Beanfield War), was born.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1940 Jul 23, German bombers began
the "Blitz," the all-night air raids on London.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1941 Jul 23, German and Romanian
troops reoccupied Moldova as part of Operation Barbarossa.
(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.A18)
1942 Jul 23, Harry James and his
Orchestra recorded "I Had the Craziest Dream" in Hollywood for Columbia
Records.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1942 Jul 23, A 2nd Treblinka
Camp opened for the extermination of European Jews, as the evacuation
of the Warsaw ghetto began. Nearly 750,000 people died in the gas
chambers of Treblinka.
(www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/TreblinkaEng.html)
1943 Jul 23, Battle of Kursk,
USSR, ended in Nazi defeat. 6,000 tanks took part.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1943 Jul 23, Meijer de Hond,
[Emanuel Querido], rabbi of Sobibor, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1943 Jul 23, Emanuel Querido,
publisher (Sobibor), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Lisa Alther, novelist
(Kinflicks), was born.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, US forces invaded
Japanese-held Tinian.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Bernard M. Cohen,
attorney, was killed at Belsen concentration camp.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Helmuth J. von
Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), was executed.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Soviet troops took
Lublin, Poland, as the German army retreated.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1945 Jul 23, French Marshal Henri
Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War Two, went
on trial, charged with treason. He was condemned to death, but his
sentence was commuted; Petain died in prison on this date in 1951.
(AP, 7/23/08)
1947 Jul 23, U.S. President Harry
S Truman made the first Presidential surprise visit to Capitol Hill
since 1789. "Give Em Hell Harry."
(MC, 7/23/02)
1948 July 23, American pioneer
filmmaker D.W. Griffith, the director of such films as "The Birth of a
Nation," "Intolerance," "Way Down East" and "Orphans of the Storm,"
died in Los Angeles at age 73.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1951 Jul 23, French Marshal Henri
Petain (b.1856), who had headed the Vichy government during World War
Two, was shot by firing squad. In 2005 Charles Williams authored
“Petain.”
(AP, 7/23/00)(Econ, 5/21/05, p.84)
1952 Jul 23, General Mohammed
Neguib seized power in Egypt. There was a revolution in Egypt, King
Farouk I abdicated. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew the monarchy and
established Egyptian sovereignty after 2,300 years of foreign
domination. The revolution was led by the group of Free Officers headed
by Gamal Abdel Nasser and included Kamal Eddin Hussein.
(AP, 7/23/97)(NG, May 1985, p.584)(HFA, '96,
p.34)(TMC, 1994, p.1952)(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A24)
1954 Jul 23, The Indochina
settlement was approved by France's National Assembly.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1956 Jul 23, The Bell X-2 rocket
plane set a world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1957 Jul 23, Giuseppe Tomasi di
Lampedusa (b.1896), Sicilian aristocrat and writer, died. His classic
novel “Il Gattopardo” (The Leopard), was published in 1958. It included
the line: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to
change.” David Gilmour later authored the biography “The Last Leopard”
(1991).
(WSJ, 12/9/06, p.P24)(Econ, 12/12/09, p.61)
1958 Jul 23, Queen Elizabeth named
four women to peerages, the 1st women to it in Britain's House of Lords.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1959 Jul 23, Vice President
Richard M. Nixon flew to Moscow to open the US Trade and Cultural Fair
in Sokolniki Park, organized as a goodwill gesture by the USSR.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1961 Jul 23, Woody Harrelson,
actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers), was born in Midland, Tx.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1962 Jul 23, The Geneva Conference
on Laos forbade the United States to invade eastern Laos, site of the
Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1966 Jul 23, [Edward] Montgomery
Clift (45), actor (From Here to Eternity), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1967 Jul 23-1967 Jul 30, Racial
riots in the city of Detroit left 40 dead, 2,000 injured and 5,000
homeless in the worst riot of the summer. The rioting, looting and
burning was quelled with the arrival of 4,700 paratroops dispatched by
President Lyndon Johnson. Nearly all of America's large cities were
wracked by racial violence during the 1965-'68 period. The event
inspired Rev. William Cunningham (d.1997 at 67) to found Focus: Hope, a
volunteer project that grew to become one of the largest programs in
the country dedicated to feeding and teaching job skills to the urban
poor.
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.C4)(HNQ, 7/11/98)
1970 Jul 23, Sultan Said of Oman
was overthrown by his son, Qaboos.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1972 Jul 23, NASA launched the
Landsat-1 satellite. It viewed Earth at different wavelengths and
opened a new era in sensing the planet’s resources and environment.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)
1973 Jul 25, Pres Nixon refused to
release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to
the Watergate investigation.
(www.cbc.ca/news/background/us-politics/watergate-timeline.html)
1973 Jul 25, Russia launched its
Mars 5 Orbiter.
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1973-049A)
1974 Jul 23, Greece's military
rulers announced they would turn the nation back to civilian rule.
Constantine Karamanlis returned from 11 years of self-imposed exile and
was sworn in as premier. Karamanlis later won a landslide election and
served as prime minister until 1980. The Ioannides regime collapsed
after plotting an aborted military takeover of Cyprus. The coup
provoked a Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
(AP, 7/23/97)(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(SFC, 6/28/99,
p.A19)
1976 Jul 23, Mario Soares (b.1924)
became Prime Minister of Portugal.
(SFC, 4/19/00,
p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_Soares)
1977 Jul 23, A jury in Washington,
D.C., convicted 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage
siege at three buildings the previous March.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1977 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka Junius
Richard Jayewardene (1906-1996) was elected prime minister. Immediately
thereafter, he drew up a national constitution which created an
Executive Presidency with drastic and unchecked powers, and, on its
adoption into law, became, in 1978, the first Sri Lankan Executive
President.
(SFC, 11/2/96,
p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_Richard_Jayewardene)
1978 Jul 23, Franklin Bradshow was
killed in SLC, Utah. His daughter, Frances B. Schreuder (d.2004), had
persuaded her son to kill her wealthy father due to "his stinginess."
Schreuder was convicted in 1983.
(SFC, 4/3/04, p.B6)
1979 Jul 23, A Miami jury
convicted Theodore Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of
Florida State University sorority sisters Margaret Bowman and Lisa
Levy. In 1980 he was convicted of the murder and rape of Kimberly Leach
(12). Bundy eventually confessed to more than 30 killings and was
executed in 1989.
(www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/bundy/14.html)
1980 Jul 23, The US Senate
Judiciary Committee was reported to be officially joining those
investigating allegations of misconduct in Billy Carter's relationship
with Libya.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1980-7/1980-07-23-ABC-2.html)
1982 Jul 23, The Intl. Whaling
Commission (IWC) voted for a total ban on commercial whaling starting
in 1985.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling)
1982 Jul 23, Actor Vic Morrow and
two child actors were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them
during filming of a Vietnam War scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie."
Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of
manslaughter charges in connection with the deaths.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1983 Jul 23, A regional struggle
for independence by Tamil Tigers in the north escalated into a civil
war when they killed 13 Sri Lankan Sinhalese soldiers. The nation's
Sinhalese majority responded by killing thousands of Tamil civilians in
the south.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)(AP, 7/23/97)
1984 Jul 23, Vanessa Williams
became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude
photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1985 Jul 23, Bandleader Kay Kyser,
known for his "Kollege of Musical Knowledge," died in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, at age 79.
(AP, 7/23/00)
1986 Jul 23, Britain's Prince
Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London with the
appellation Duke and Duchess of York. The couple divorced in 1996.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1987 Jul 23, Hussein Hariri (21),
a Lebanese hijacker, commandeered an Air Afrique DC-10 flying from
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, to Paris. He was captured during a
refueling stop in Geneva and was sentenced to life in prison for
killing a passenger and seriously wounding a flight attendant. In 2004
he was released and deported to Lebanon.
(AP, 10/17/04)
1988 Jul 23, In his weekly radio
address, President Reagan responded to the just-completed Democratic
national convention by accusing Democrats of "singing the same sad song
they sang four years ago."
(AP, 7/23/98)
1988 Jul 23, Iran accused Iraq of
pushing deep into Iranian territory and using chemical weapons. The
March 16 Iraqi chemical attack at Halabja killed thousands and in 1999
was still causing genetic damage and deaths.
(AP, 7/23/97)(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)
1989 Jul 23, Greg LeMond of the
United States won the Tour de France.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1989 Jul 23, Donald Barthelme
(b.1931), US writer, died. His work included over a hundred short
stories and 4 novels. In 2009 Tracy Daugherty authored “Hiding Man: A
Biography of Donald Barthelme.”
(WSJ, 2/21/09,
p.W8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barthelme)
1989 Jul 23, Japan's ruling
Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority in the upper house of the
Diet in parliamentary elections.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1990 Jul 23, President George H.W.
Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to
succeed retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the US Supreme
Court.
(AP, 7/23/00)
1990 Jul 23, As rebel forces
closed in on presidential palace, Liberian President Samuel K. Doe
refused to leave until the civil war was decided. Charles Taylor tried
to take Monrovia in this year. He had begun the war in Liberia from the
Ivory Coast in 1989.
(AP, 7/23/97)(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-8)(SFC, 5/11/96,
p.A-9)
1991 Jul 23, The US Senate voted
to impose a long list of strict new conditions on renewal of China’s
normal trade status in 1992; however, the 55-to-44 vote fell short of
the two-thirds majority later needed to override President Bush’s veto.
(AP, 7/23/01)
1991 Jul 23, The draft of a new
platform for Soviet Communist Party was published, calling for private
property, economic integration into world market and freedom of
religion.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1992 Jul 23, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III, touring the Middle East, made a secret visit to
Lebanon.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1993 Jul 23, US Surgeon
General-designate Joycelyn Elders stuck by her firm stands on sex
education and AIDS prevention in a one-day confirmation hearing on
Capitol Hill.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1993 Jul 23, White House deputy
counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. was buried near Hope, Ark., three days
after taking his own life in a Virginia park.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1993 Jul 23, In South Carolina
Larry Demery and Daniel Green came upon James Jordan sleeping in his
car and proceeded to rob him. As Jordan awoke Green shot Jordan, the
56-year-old father of basketball star Michael Jordan.
(SFC, 5/21/96, p.A-3)
1993 Jul 23, British Prime
Minister John Major survived a vote of confidence and a reluctant House
of Commons approved a treaty of European union on his terms.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1993 July 23, A handful of men
shot and killed 6 children and teenagers at the Candelaria Cathedral
and 2 more at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In
1996 one of the four men accused, former police officer Nelson dos
Santos Cunha, confessed to having taken part. About 2,000 children roam
Rio’s streets and in 1994, 936 youths under 18 were murdered. In 1996 a
court cleared 2 policemen and another man in killings. Two other
policemen were convicted earlier. In 1997 a court reduced the sentence
of Cunha from 261 years to 18 years. In 1998 Marcos Aurelio Alcantara
(30) was convicted and sentenced to 204 years in jail.
(SFC, 4/28/96, A-14)(SFC, 11/28/96, p.B6)(WSJ,
12/11/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/20/97, p.A1)(SFC, 8/27/98, p.A14)
1993 Jul 23, The Russian
government announced it would invalidate billions of pre-1993 rubles.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1994 Jul 23, Space shuttle
Columbia returned to Earth after a 15-day mission which included
experiments on the effects of weightlessness on aquatic animals.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1994 Jul 23, Gambian soldiers
proclaimed military government in Dakar, Senegal.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1994 Jul 23, The Goodwill Games
opened in St. Petersburg, Russia.
(www.goodwillgames.com/Past_games/past_1994_Summary.htm)
1995 Jul 23, American amateur
astronomers first reported the discovery of the comet bearing their
names: Hale-Bopp. Reconstruction of the orbit indicated that the comet
repeatedly enters the inner solar system every 3,000 years or so. It
travels in an orbit perpendicular to the solar system in an elongated
ellipse that is about 33 million miles from the sun at its farthest
point. Its closest approach to Earth will be on March 23, 1997. The
nearest pass will be on April 1.
(Nat. Hist., 3/96, p.55)(SFEC, 10/27/96, p.A17)
1995 Jul 23, The United Nations
ordered the first combat unit from its rapid reaction force to Sarajevo
to take out any rebel Serb guns that fire at U.N. peacekeepers.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1996 Jul 23, At the Atlanta
Olympics, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments
in her left ankle as the US women gymnasts clinched their first-ever
Olympic team gold medal.
(AP, 7/23/01)
1996 Jul 23, The US Senate passed
a welfare overhaul bill.
(AP, 7/23/01)
1996 Jul 23, In Toronto, a police
officer was charged with criminal negligence in the shooting of a
protester who became the first Canadian Indian in modern times killed
in a land dispute with the government.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1996 Jul 23, Canadian researchers
found a hormone, GLP-2, that stimulates growth of the lining of the
small intestine.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.B6)
1996 Jul 23, Jessica Mitford (78),
author of "The American Way of Death," died. The 1963 book was an
expose of the funeral industry in the US. Her attorney husband, Robert
Treuhaft, died in 2001. In 2001 Mary S. Lovell authored "The Sisters:
The Saga of the Mitford Family." In 2006 “Decca: The Letters of
Jessica,” edited by Peter Y. Sussman was published.
(SFC, 6/30/96, Z1 p.3)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A18)(SSFC,
1/6/02, p.M1)(SFC, 11/3/06, p.E9)
1997 Jul 23, The US and Venezuela
signed an agreement to allow authorities of both countries to board
boats of each others flags if suspected of carrying drugs.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 23, The search for Andrew
Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others,
ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, Fla., an
apparent suicide.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/98)
1997 Jul 23, The ASEAN trade bloc
admitted Laos and Burma but barred Cambodia.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A12)
1997 Jul 23, In Britain the
government announced that tuition fees would be imposed for the first
time on all college students.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 23, In Cuba Elio Reve
Matos, salsa musician, died in a road accident. He developed the rhythm
known as "charangon," a combination of salsa styles that included
"changui" and "son."
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A24)
1997 Jul 23, In Serbia Slobodan
Milosevic was sworn in as president of Yugoslavia and crowds reacted by
throwing shoes at his motorcade, symbolizing the young people who have
left Serbia due to his regime.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 23, Swiss banks published
a list of 2,000 WW II-era dormant accounts that included assets of
holocaust victims.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A8)
1998 Jul 23, The US Senate voted
to shut down the online gambling industry.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, It was reported that
the US Congress made the Air Force buy more C-130 transport aircraft
against its wishes. Since 1978 only 5 of 256 C-130s sent to the Air
National Guard and Air Reserve were requested by the Air Force. The
planes were built in Georgia.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 23, The Pacific Stock
Exchange announced an agreement to merge with the Chicago Board of
Options Exchange.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, Odwalla Inc. agreed
to pay a $1.5 million fine for contaminated apple-based juices.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, Scientists at the
University of Hawaii announced they had turned out more than 50
carbon-copy mice, with a cloning technique said to be more reliable
than the one used to create Dolly the sheep.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1998 Jul 23, In Colombia Manuel
Mejia Vallejo, novelist, died at age 75. His work included "It was Us,"
"The Marked Day," and "the House of the Two Palms."
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D5)
1998 Jul 23, In Chechnya Pres.
Aslan Maskhadov received minor injuries from an assassination attempt
in Grozny that killed 2 bodyguards. He had been cracking down on
organized crime and Muslim militants.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)(WSJ, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, In Iran Tehran’s
Mayor Karbaschi was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison for
corruption.
(WSJ, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, In Kenya John
Msafari, head of the revenue collection authority, was ordered arrested
along with 15 other officials and businessmen on charges of defrauding
the government of some $3.9 million.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 23, In Mexico three girls
escaped capture by police in Mexico City. They had been held for 4 days
and the two youngest were repeatedly raped. Sixteen officers were later
arrested.
(SFC, 7/28/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 23, Russia planned to
sell its Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to India for some $2
billion. The ship was launched in 1982 as the Baku.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 23, In Russia Vladimir
Dudintsev (79), writer, died. His work included "Not By Bread Alone"
and "White Garb." His work laid the foundation for a generation of
dissident writers.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.D8)
1998 Jul 23, In Rwanda the army
said that it had killed a top rebel commander. Colonel Leonard Nkundiye
was killed along with at least 50 rebels on the Congo border.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)
1999 Jul 23, The 3-day Woodstock
'99 music festival began at the decommissioned Griffiss Air Force Base
in Rome, NY, with some 225,000 people. The $35-38 million production
ended in chaos with hundreds of concertgoers burning fires, looting and
vandalizing.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.1D,5D)(SFC, 7/26/99, p.E3)(SFC,
7/27/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 23, After a 2 day delay
the Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard
the shuttle Columbia led by Commander Eileen Collins, the first woman
to command a US space flight.
(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A3)(AP, 7/23/00)
1999 Jul 23, Members of the
Kennedy family gathered in New York City for a private memorial Mass a
week after John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister,
Lauren Bessette, died in a plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard.
(AP, 7/23/00)
1999 Jul 23, Jaquita Mack (11) was
raped and strangled in Oakland’s Fruitvale district after she
disappeared following a bike ride. Her body was found the next day in
East Oakland, Ca. On Aug 8 police arrested Alex Demolle (24), a
neighbor on Fruitvale Ave. In 2007 Demolle was convicted of 1st degree
murder and was sentenced to death on Dec 14.
(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A13,15)(SFC, 8/9/99, p.A1)(SFC,
5/4/07, p.B5)(SFC, 12/15/07, p.B3)
1999 Jul 23, Kelvin Lancaster,
economist, died in NYC at age 74. He outlined "The General Theory of
the Second Best" and analyzed consumer demand by looking at the
underlying characteristics of consumer demand.
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.C2)
1999 Jul 23, In Colombia a US
anti-narcotics reconnaissance airplane crashed with 5 US Army personnel
and 2 Colombians.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.7A)
1999 Jul 23, In Japan Yuzi
Nishizawa (b.1970) attempted to hijack flight 61 from Tokyo and stabbed
to death pilot Naoyuki Nagashima (51). The hijacker was overcome and
the plane landed safely with 516 passengers. On March 23, 2005,
Nishizawa was found to be guilty, but of unsound mind and thus only
partly responsible for his actions. Presiding judge Hisaharu Yasui
handed Nishizawa a life sentence in 2005.
(SFC, 7/24/99,
p.A9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANA_Flight_61)
1999 Jul 23, In Kosovo 14 Serb
farmers were found shot dead near the village of Gracko.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 23, In Morocco King
Hassan II died at age 70. He was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince
Sidi Mohamed (36), who became King Mohammed VI.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/00)
1999 Jul 23, Russia ended a
4-month boycott on contacts with NATO.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.C1)
2000 Jul 23, Tiger Woods, at 24,
became the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam with a
record-breaking 19-under par in the British Open. Karrie Webb, 25, won
the US Women’s Open.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, Lance Armstrong won
the 21-day, 2,250-mile Tour de France for the 2nd year in a row.
(WSJ, 7/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 23, President Clinton
rejoined the troubled Middle East talks at Camp David after hurrying
back from a four-day trip to Asia.
(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, Leaders of the major
industrial countries concluded their summit in Japan by announcing a
campaign to slash the number of deaths worldwide from AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria.
(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, In Nigeria another
pipeline fire broke out near the port of Warri and left 40 fuel
scavengers dead.
(SFC,7/25/00, p.A14)(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 23, Ivory Coast voters
cast ballots for a new constitution intended to restore civilian rule.
The new constitution was approved overwhelmingly.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A14)(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2001 Jul 23, Pres. Bush met with
Pope John Paul II at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and was urged to reject
the use of human embryos for stem cell research.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/02)
2001 Jul 23, The US Pentagon shut
down public access to its web sites due to a computer worm called the
Code Red worm. It defaced web sites with the words "Hacked by Chinese."
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A2)
2001 Jul 23, Eudora Welty (92),
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, died in Jackson, Miss. Her work included
the 1941 collection "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" and the 1973
Pulitzer Prize winning "The Optimist’s Daughter." In 1998 Ann Waldron
authored the biography “Eudora” against the writer’s wishes. In 2005
Suzanne Marrs authored the biography “Eudora Welty.”
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A17)(WSJ,
8/5/05, p.W6)
2001 Jul 23, In Bonn, Germany,
negotiators from 178 nations, without the US, rescued the 1997 Kyoto
Protocol and accepted rules to cut emissions of waste gases linked to
global warming after marathon talks.
(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/02)
2001 Jul 23, Anarchist groups in
Europe retaliated for the death in Genoa of protester Carlo Giuliani.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Burundi Pres.
Buyoya survived a coup attempt by Tutsi soldiers and sealed a
power-sharing accord with Hutu politicians. The Arusha accord called
for Buyoya to lead for 18 months followed by a Hutu president for
another 18 months with elections to follow.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 23, In Colombia retired
Gen. Rito Alejo del Rio was arrested on charges of helping create
right-wing paramilitary groups.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 23, It was reported that
flooding in India’s Orissa state had killed some 83 people and left
over 600,000 stranded.
(WSJ, 7/23/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 23, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid declared a state of emergency. The military refused to carry out
his orders and parliament met to remove him. The parliament ousted
Wahid with a 591 to 0 vote and swore in Megawati Sukarnoputri as the
country’s 5th president.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A1)(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)(SFC,
7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Iran a 19th woman
was reported strangled in Mashad.
(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)
2001 Jul 23, Israeli police killed
a Palestinian who drove a would-be bomber toward Haifa. In Gaza Israeli
soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Macedonia security
forces engaged ethnic Albanian rebels in fierce fighting around Tetovo.
Macedonian mobs in Skopje, angered by Western efforts at mediation,
attacked symbolic targets.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 23, Nepal’s new
government declared a unilateral ceasefire and called on Maoist rebels
to talk peace. In a recent skirmish guerrillas killed at least 17
police officers in Pandusen.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)(SFC,
7/31/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 23, In Pakistan flash
floods killed at least 150 people. In Islamabad 24 inches of rain broke
a 100-year record.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka Tamil
separatists attack an air base, damaged a number of planes and shut
down the Bandaranaike airport, the nation’s only int’l. airport. 7
soldiers and 8 guerrillas were killed. 3 jetliners and 8 warplanes were
blown up in a suicide attack by 13 rebels.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/25/01, p.A1)(SFC,
7/24/01, p.A12)
2002 Jul 23, Pres. Bush signed
legislation designating Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear
waste repository.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, In California the
Davis administration and Oracle Corp. agreed to cancel a $95 million DB
software contract.
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A18)
2002 Jul 23, In California a
growing fire in Sequoia Nat'l. Park consumed 48,200 acres in 3 days.
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, The DJIA fell 82 to
7702. The Nasdaq fell 53 to 1229.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.C1)
2002 Jul 23, Leo McKern (82),
Australian actor, died in Bath, England. He played the barrister in the
TV show "Rumpole of the Bailey."
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, Chaim Potok (73),
rabbi and author of novels that included "The Chosen," died at his home
in suburban Philadelphia. "Literature presents you with alternative
mappings of the human experience."
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, William Pierce
(d.2002), white supremacist author of the 1978 "Turner Diaries," died
in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, Maria Adela Gard de
Antokoletz (90), one of the founding members of the Argentine human
rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, died.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, A memo from 10
Downing St. described an earlier meeting of Sir Richard Dearlove, head
of British Intelligence, with US officials in Washington in which he
noted a shift in attitude in the Bush administration, which saw
military action as inevitable in Iraq and that it would be justified by
the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. The memo became public in 2005.
(SFC, 7/4/05, p.B6)
2002 Jul 23, Welsh archbishop
Rowan Williams was chosen to be the 104th archbishop of Canterbury,
spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2002 Jul 23, A frail Pope John
Paul II walked down the steps of his plane instead of using a lift
after arriving in Canada to join thousands of young Catholic pilgrims
for World Youth Day. Tens of thousands of exuberant young Catholics
massed in Toronto to greet the Pope.
(AP, 7/23/02)(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, In Colombia a bomb
exploded in front of a Medellin restaurant where politicians and
journalists traditionally gather, killing a former congressman and
injuring nine other people.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, An Israeli F-16
warplane fired a missile that flattened a Gaza City apartment building,
killing Salah Shehadeh, the leader of Hamas' military wing, and at
least 14 other Palestinians, including nine children. Shehadeh was at
the top of Israel's most wanted list. The dead included Shehadeh’s wife
and 3 kids. In 2009 a Spanish judge began an investigation into seven
current or former Israeli officials over the 2002 bombing.
(AP, 7/23/02)(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/29/09)
2002 Jul 23, In Nepal floods and
landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 11 people
over the last 2 days, bringing to 67 the number of deaths caused by bad
weather over the past two weeks.
(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23-24, In Turkey floods
and lightning caused by summer storms have killed at least 18 people.
Three other people were missing.
(AP, 7/24/02)
2002 Jul 23, In Zimbabwe at least
15 people illegally mining gold were killed when an abandoned mine
shaft in Mhondoro caved in.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2003 Jul 23, California's 1st
statewide recall for Gov. Davis qualified for ballot, which was soon
scheduled for Oct 7.
(SFC, 7/24/03, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 23, Massachusetts'
attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in
the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people
over a period of six decades.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2003 Jul 23, New York City
Councilman James Davis (41) was shot to death by political rival
Othniel Askew (31) at City Hall; a police officer shot and killed Askew.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2003 Jul 23, A new audiotape,
purported to be of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, was broadcast by an
Arab satellite station. It called on former soldiers to rise up against
the American occupation.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2003 Jul 23, In "Operation Helpem
Fren" an Australian-led peacekeeping force poured into the Solomon
Islands to keep the island chain from slipping deeper into anarchy.
(AP, 7/24/03)(Econ, 8/9/03, p.34)
2003 Jul 23, Iran acknowledged
that it was holding senior al Qaeda figures, but would not identify
them.
(WSJ, 7/24/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 23, In Peru 5 masked
gunmen attacked a Canadian mining camp in the Andes, killing a Peruvian
geologist, wounding another and stealing equipment.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2003 Jul 23, In Sao Tome rebel
leaders ended a weeklong bloodless coup after the president signed an
accord promising to replace the government and give them amnesty.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2003 Jul 23, In Uganda 2 passenger
boats capsized in strong winds and rough waters on Lake Albert, and
more than 20 people were believed to have drowned.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2004 Jul 23, President Bush froze
the assets of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, his family and
top aides and accused them of undermining the country's transition to
democracy.
(AP, 7/24/04)
2004 Jul 23, The Pentagon released
newly discovered payroll records from President Bush's 1972 service in
the Alabama National Guard, though the records shed no new light on the
future president's activities during that summer.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2004 Jul 23, In Bosnia Britain's
Prince Charles and other foreign dignitaries gathered to reopen the
Mostar bridge over the Neretva River. The original was built in 1566.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, In northwest Colombia
police seized 4 1/2 tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of
$90 million.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Gunmen in Mosul
attacked a retired Iraqi general as he headed to a mosque to pray,
killing him and another man. Maj. Gen. Salim Majeed Blesh (58) had
worked for the former U.S. occupation government.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Iraqi insurgents in
Baghdad kidnapped Muhammad Mamdouh Qutb, a 3rd ranking official of the
Egyptian Embassy, demanding his country abandon any plans it had to
send security experts to Iraq.
(SFC, 7/24/04, p.A13)(AP, 7/23/05)
2004 Jul 23, A van carrying Iraqi
civilians collided with a U.S. tank near Baghdad, killing nine people
and injuring 10.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Joe Cahill (b.1920),
a founding father of the modern Irish Republican Army who once narrowly
avoided the hangman's noose, died in Belfast.
(AP, 7/24/04)(SFC, 7/26/04, p.B4)
2004 Jul 23, The Japanese
government reported that suicides in Japan in 2003 surged to an
all-time high topping 34,000 deaths in a trend fueled by health and
financial troubles.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Leaders from the 2
main rebel groups in Sudan's western Darfur region agreed to
participate in "substantive negotiations" for a political solution to
the humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 7/24/04)
2005 Jul 23, Myron Florin (85),
accordionist with Lawrence Welk, died in California.
(WSJ, 7/25/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 23, In southern
Afghanistan suspected Taliban militants fatally shot a district judge.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 23, The man shot at the
Stockwell subway station on July 22 was identified as Jean Charles de
Menezes (27) of Brazil. London police acknowledged that Menezes had
nothing to do with recent bombings on the city’s transit system.
Brazil's government demanded an explanation for the fatal police
shooting of a Brazilian citizen on a London subway car.
(AP, 7/24/05)
2005 Jul 23, The Colombian
government offered to buy farmers' illegal crops of coca, in the latest
effort to stem illegal drug production in this South American nation.
Pres. Alvaro Uribe said in a speech that farmers would have to sign a
document promising to never again cultivate illegal crops in order to
get the money. The government would destroy the purchased crop.
(AP, 7/24/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Egypt a rapid
series of car bombs and another blast ripped through a luxury hotel and
a coffeeshop in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, killing
at least 83 people. The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, a group citing ties
to al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the bombings. The previously
unknown Mujahedi Masr or "Holy Warriors of Egypt" group disputed the
claims of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, al-Qaida, and said five of its
own members died carrying out seven explosions.
(AP, 7/23/05)(AP, 7/24/05)(Econ, 7/30/05, p.40)
2005 Jul 23, Kristina Miller (27)
of Peachtree City, Ga., was the only American killed in the
blasts at the Egyptian resort at Sharm el-Sheik.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Abidjan, Ivory
Coast, unidentified assailants attacked two security force posts,
sparking gunfights that reportedly killed at least four people.
(AP, 7/24/05)
2005 Jul 23, A magnitude-6.0
earthquake shook the Tokyo area, injuring at least 27 people.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Turkey a bomb
exploded at an Istanbul cafe frequented by tourists, injuring at least
two people.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Umm Al-Quwain,
UAR, a $3.3 billion deal for the Khor al-Beidah lagoon complex was
signed. A few days later developers announced Umm Al-Quwain's desert
interior would be the site for a new city that could eventually house
as many as 500,000 people.
(AP, 8/7/05)
2005 Jul 23, Zimbabwe President
Robert Mugabe arrived in Beijing for a visit expected to include a plea
for oil and food to aid his state's failing economy.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2006 Jul 23, US cyclist
Floyd Landis (31) won the 3-week, 2,267-mile Tour de France 57 seconds
ahead of Oscar Pereiro of Spain. Reports on July 27 Landis said had
tested positive for the male sex hormone testosterone.
(SFC, 7/24/06, p.D1)(Reuters, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 23, Tiger Woods won his
2nd consecutive British Open golf title.
(WSJ, 7/24/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 23, In southern Indiana 2
sets of sniper attacks within hours of each other left one man dead,
another wounded and four vehicles peppered with bullet holes. On July
25 police said a Gaston youth (18) confessed to weekend sniping.
(AP, 7/24/06)(WSJ, 7/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 23, In Afghanistan 19
Taliban were killed and 17 fighters, including two Pakistani nationals,
arrested in a raid by Afghan forces in southern Helmand province.
Police said three policemen were killed and three others kidnapped in a
Taliban attack on a police checkpoint in southeastern Ghazni province.
Attackers hurled grenades into the home of a village postman in eastern
Khost province, killing three of his daughters.
(AFP, 7/23/06)(AFP, 7/24/06)
2006 Jul 23, The 654-foot
Singapore-flagged Cougar Ace, a cargo ship carrying 4,813 cars from
Japan to Canada, began tilting to its port side late at night hundreds
of miles off Alaska's Aleutian Islands. 23 crew members were rescued
the next day. The ship was owned by Tokyo-based Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and
listed for on its side for several weeks before being righted. 4,703 of
the cars were new Mazdas valued at about $100 million. After a year of
planning Mazda scheduled all the cars for complete reduction to scrap
in Portland, Ore.
(AP, 7/25/06)(SFC, 7/25/06, p.A2)(WSJ, 4/29/08, p.A9)
2006 Jul 23, In England a gust of
wind blew an inflatable art exhibit from its moorings at a park in
Durham, killing two people and injuring 12. Up to 30 people were on the
"Dreamspace", an inflatable network of multicolored tunnels, when wind
blew it 30 feet in the air.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Police in India
raided a forest hideout for communist rebels in the southern state of
Andhra Pradesh state, killing Burra Chinnaiah, a guerrilla chief, and
at least 7 other people.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, PM Al-Maliki left for
Washington for talks on reversing the country's slide toward civil war.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden minibus amid a crowd of
day laborers seeking work in a crowded market in Baghdad's mainly
Shiite district of Sadr City, killing at least 34 people. This was
followed by a bomb attack in front of the area's town hall, which
killed eight. Three hours later a one-ton car bomb exploded outside a
courthouse in the mixed northern city of Kirkuk, leaving at least 22
dead and 100 injured.
(AFP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Israeli warplanes
struck a minibus carrying people fleeing the fighting in southern
Lebanon, killing three people, Lebanese security officials said, and
Israel said it would accept a NATO-led international force to keep the
peace along the border. Hezbollah rockets killed two civilians in
northern Israel. Layal Nejim (23), a photographer working for a
Lebanese magazine, was killed when an Israeli missile exploded near her
taxi.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, In Indian Kashmir 4
people were killed in three separate incidents.
(AFP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Palestinian militants
in Gaza fired three rockets at Israel, despite reports that they had
agreed to halt such attacks.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Zuleyka Rivera
Mendoza (18) of Puerto Rico was crowned as Miss Universe 2006. She
hoped to someday star in US and Latin American films.
(AP, 7/24/06)
2006 Jul 23, In Somalia a local
rights group said gunmen have killed 682 civilians, including a foreign
journalist, in executions over the past year.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Syria, one of
Hezbollah's main backers, said it will press for a cease-fire to end
the fighting between Israel and the Islamic militant group but only in
the framework of a broader Middle East peace initiative.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2007 Jul 23, In the first
political debate of its kind, all eight Democratic Party contenders,
appearing on CNN, fielded questions submitted by the public on the
Internet video-sharing site YouTube.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jul 23, US congressional
investigators said the Agriculture Department has sent $1.1 billion in
farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, The US FDA said
people should immediately throw away more than 90 different products,
from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a
Castleberry plant in Augusta, Ga., linked to a botulism outbreak.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, A woman and her two
daughters were killed during a violent home invasion in Cheshire, Conn.
Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten but escaped. Steven Hayes (44) and
Joshua Komisarjevsky (27), on parole at the time for other burglaries,
were accused of their murder. Prosecutors later said they will seek the
death penalty.
(AP,
7/23/08)(www.nbc30.com/news/14405181/detail.html)
2007 Jul 23, Zhenli Ye Gon was
arrested in a Maryland restaurant, four months after police discovered
$207 million at his Mexico City mansion in what US officials have
called the world's biggest seizure of drug cash. Mexican officials had
60 days to file their legal arguments for Ye Gon's extradition. Ye Gon
has claimed that $150 million of the money belonged to Mexico's ruling
party, and that he was forced to store it for party officials in his
mansion under threat of death during the 2006 presidential race. Ye Gon
later told US prosecutors he had sold tons of a chemical used to make
methamphetamine on the black market.
(AP, 7/24/07)(AP, 10/23/09)
2007 Jul 23, Genial comic Drew
Carey was tapped to replace legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game
show "The Price is Right."
(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jul 23, In northern
California a helicopter crashed while delivering water to firefighters
in the Klamath National Forest, killing the pilot. More than 1,100 fire
crews were battling a cluster of about 30 lightning-sparked fires
covering 14 square miles near the Oregon state line. The fires started
July 10 and had threatened up to 550 homes near the town of Happy Camp.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, A wildfire in
southern Idaho had covered more than 880 square miles, growing by about
200 square miles in just 24 hours during the weekend. Fire officials
said it threatened tracking and radar facilities at Mountain Home Air
Force bombing and firing range, which is used by pilots training for
duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Firefighters in central Utah faced a
threat of strong wind gusts as they battled a huge wildfire, where
several small communities were evacuated.
(AP, 7/23/07)(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A5)
2007 Jul 23, John Gilman (65),
developer of FieldTurf, an artificial grass that replaced AstroTurf,
died at his home in Montreal. The FieldTurf technology was based on
patents filed by golfer Freddie Haas Jr.
(WSJ, 1/28/07, p.A6)
2007 Jul 23, Mohammad Zahir Shah
(b.1914), the last king of Afghanistan (1933-1973), died. In 2002 he
had returned from 3 decades of exile to bless his country's fragile
course toward democracy. In southern Afghanistan troops killed at least
75 militants in three separate battles, while the Taliban extended the
deadline for the lives of 23 South Korean hostages until the evening of
July 24. Norway said one if its soldiers was killed in Logar province,
and NATO said a soldier was killed in the south. A roadside blast
killed 4 US soldiers in eastern Paktika province.
(AP, 7/23/07)(AP, 7/24/07)(Econ, 7/28/07, p.88)
2007 Jul 23, It was reported that
Rio police had killed 449 people since January, many in clashes with
drug traffickers, while more than 60 police officers lost their lives.
(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A13)
2007 Jul 23, Former British Prime
Minister Tony Blair, in his new capacity as a Mideast envoy, opened his
mission to help Palestinians build solid foundations for their future
state.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jul 23, Foreign Minister
Peter MacKay said Canada will give the new Palestinian government C$8
million ($7.6 million) in direct aid and more could follow now that
Hamas is no longer in the government.
(Reuters, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Fidel Castro
suggested that a two-time Cuban Olympic boxing champion and his
teammate had defected, blaming their disappearance at the Pan American
Games in Brazil on American money.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, The European Union
took the first step towards sending forces to Chad and the Central
African Republican to help the United Nations protect refugees trapped
in the violent region bordering Darfur.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, A Greek firefighting
plane crashed, killing one of its two-member crew while trying to stop
a forest fire reaching homes on the island of Evia.
(Reuters, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Indian officials said
dozens of plastic bags stuffed with body parts believed to be from
aborted female fetuses or newborn girls killed because their families
wanted boys have been found in an abandoned well in eastern India.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Officials said flash
floods and landslides in central Indonesia have inundated villages,
destroyed bridges and roads, and sent thousands fleeing their homes
with over 80 people killed.
(AFP, 7/24/07)(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 23, Three parked cars
exploded within 30 minutes in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad,
killing at least 12 people. Another car packed with explosives blew up
on the main road about 200 yards from an entry point to the
US-controlled Green Zone, killing at least 4 Iraqis. Also in Baghdad a
bomb exploded on a minibus near a busy commercial area, killing one
person and wounding nine others. A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army
patrol near the Iranian border, killing five troops. Also near the
Iranian border, gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks loaded with goods
being sent from major wholesale markets in Baghdad to Khanaqin, 90
miles northeast of Baghdad. Five people were killed and three others
kidnapped. In western Anbar province at least two policemen were killed
and 10 wounded when a woman hiding an explosives belt under her Islamic
gown blew herself up as she was about to be searched at a checkpoint on
the western outskirts of Ramadi. At least 59 people were killed or
found dead nationwide.
(AP, 7/23/07)(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, Israeli police said 9
Israelis suspected of trafficking in organs and humans have been
arrested and remain in custody. The case was opened when an Israeli
woman filed a police complaint charging that she was not paid after her
kidney was removed in Ukraine.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Nigerian police said
at least 10 people were killed over the weekend and dozens sustained
burns in the southern Delta state after adulterated kerosene they were
using in their stoves exploded. In southwest Nigeria at least six
people were killed and several trapped when a three-storey building
under construction collapsed.
(AFP, 7/23/07)(AFP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, In North Waziristan,
Pakistan, 2 security posts came under rocket attack and an army convoy
was attacked. At least 20 militants and two soldiers were killed in
fighting.
(AP, 7/23/07)(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, Abel Mutsakani, the
editor of an independent Zimbabwean news service based in South Africa,
was shot and seriously wounded in Johannesburg.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 23, Spain arrested
Roberto Florez Garcia in Tenerife, the Canary Islands, for selling the
identity of Spanish spies and other information about the intelligence
agency from 2001 until he left the service in 2004. Police accused him
of being a double agent for Russia.
(AP, 7/24/07)(WSJ, 1/25/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 23, An attempt to break
an aviation speed record went horribly wrong when a small
"experimental" plane crashed through an apartment building in the Swiss
city of Basel, killing the pilot and injuring at least three other
people.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, The United Nations
rejected Taiwan's application to become a member of the world body,
citing UN adherence to the "one China" policy and its recognition of
the Chinese government in Beijing.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2008 Jul 23, Bill Gates, former
boss of Microsoft, joined Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of NYC, in
announcing a combined $500 million package to stamp out smoking.
(www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-07-23-smoking_N.htm)
2008 Jul 23, It was reported that
Napa Valley’s Chateau Montelena, winner of a 1976 wine tasting event in
France, was being purchased by Cos d’Estournel of Bordeaux, France.
(SFC, 7/23/08, p.C1)
2008 Jul 23, In Louisiana an oil
tanker and an oil barge collided near New Orleans creating a 12-mile
oil slick and closing almost 100 miles of the Mississippi River. Over
400,000 gallons of fuel spilled into the river.
(SFC, 7/24/08, p.A3)(SFC, 7/25/08, p.A2)
2008 Jul 23, Google unveiled a new
service dubbed “Knol,” an Internet encyclopedia, in which contributing
authors would share in ad revenue.
(SFC, 7/24/08, p.C4)
2008 Jul 23, Two environmental
groups estimated that cement kilns in the US annually released mercury
compounds totaling some 23,000 pounds. Two of the worst emitters were
located in northern California in Cupertino and Davenport.
(SFC, 7/24/08, p.B1)
2008 Jul 23, In Afghanistan
militants killed a district police chief in the eastern Nangarhar
province after striking his convoy with a roadside bomb. Police clashed
with Taliban fighters in Uruzgan province, killing three militants.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, The African Union
said it was incapable of stabilizing the situation in Somalia and urged
the UN take over peacekeeping operations in the lawless Horn of Africa
country.
(Reuters, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, Australia announced
an extra $29 million in aid for survivors of Myanmar's May cyclone, but
pressed its recalcitrant military junta to democratize quickly and
respect human rights.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, The European
Commission froze almost euro500 million ($800 million) in aid to
Bulgaria, citing corruption, organized crime, severe spending
irregularities and alleged vote-buying in a country that only joined
the EU last year.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, In Democratic
Republic of Congo at least 45 people were killed and another 100 were
missing after a boat sank on a remote stretch of the Ubangi river.
(Reuters, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 23, France passed a new
law to let companies negotiate longer working hours with union
representatives, all but squelching the 35-hour week.
(Econ, 7/26/08, p.61)
2008 Jul 23, Iraq's Kurdish
government has denounced a draft law paving the way for US-backed
provincial elections and urged the presidential council to reject it.
The 18-year-old son of the chief editor of a US-sponsored newspaper was
shot to death as an American patrol passed nearby in the northern city
of Kirkuk.
(AP, 7/23/08)(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 23, US Presidential
hopeful Barack Obama donned a Jewish skullcap at Israel's Holocaust
memorial and vowed to preserve America's close ties with Israel in a
dramatic visit to the Holy Land in which he also promised the
Palestinians to push vigorously to win them a state.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, Hurricane Dolly
toppled trees and sent billboards flying in the Mexican city of
Matamoros, and authorities south of the US border warned of possible
flooding. Dolly also hit south Texas, but by evening it had weakened to
a tropical storm.
(AP, 7/24/08)(SFC, 7/24/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 23, Opposition lawmakers
walked out of a Mongolian parliamentary session before they were to be
sworn in, saying they refused to participate because last month's
election was fraudulent.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, Nigeria's main
militant group threatened to destroy the nation's major oil pipelines
within 30 days to counter allegations it had struck a $12 million deal
with the government to protect them.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, An international
rights group pressed Pakistan's new government to quickly investigate
the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly rounded up by
security agencies as part of the anti-terror campaign.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka
government forces killed 25 rebels in battles in the Vavuniya, Mannar,
Jaffna and Welioya regions along the front lines.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2008 Jul 23, In Sudan government
planes bombed Karbala, a Darfur village, while Pres. Bashir was
addressing cheering crowds in the nearby city of el-Fasher. according
to a rebel faction 3 people were killed and 8 injured.
(Reuters, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 23, Turkish warplanes
bombed 13 Kurdish rebel targets in the Zab region of northern Iraq.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2008 Jul 23, Venezuela signed over
three more oil fields to a joint venture with Belarus, with Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez declaring that the two nations were strongly
united in their resistance to "US imperialism" and Washington's
"lackeys."
(AP, 7/23/08)
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