Today in History - July 25
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326 Jul 25,
Constantine refused to carry out the traditional pagan sacrifices.
(HN, 7/25/98)
975 Jul 25, Thietmar bishop of
Merseburg, German chronicler, was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1360 Jul 25, Jews were expelled
from Breslau, Silesia.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1471 Jul 25, Thomas A. Kempis
(91), [Thomas Hammerken von Kempen], German writer, monk, died. His
popular "Imitation of Christ" went through 99 editions by the end of
the century.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(Internet)
1564 Jul 25, Maximillian II became
emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1575 Jul 25, Christoph Scheiner,
astronomer, was born in Germany.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1587 Jul 25, Japanese shogun
Toyotomi Hideyoshi banned Christianity in Japan and ordered all
Christians to leave. Although the order was not immediately enforced. A
decade later, the crackdown began, and 26 Christians were crucified.
(HN, 7/25/98)(AP, 11/21/08)
1593 Jul 25, France's King Henry
IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1609 Jul 25, Admiral William
Somers, head of a 7-ship fleet enroute to Virginia, spied land after
being blown off course and soon drove his ship, the Sea Venture, onto
the reefs of Bermuda. William Strachey (1572-1621), was also aboard the
Sea Venture and later sent a letter to England that described the
event. The letter is thought by many to have been the inspiration for
Shakespeare’s "Tempest." Strachey became secretary of the colony at
Jamestown, Virginia, after his arrival there on May 23, 1610. In 2009
Hobson Woodward authored: A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the
Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare’s “The
Tempest.”
(AM, May/Jun 97 p.29)(SFC, 8/18/09,
p.E2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Venture)
1616 Jul 25, Andreas Libavius,
German alchemist, died.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1670 Jul 25, Jews were expelled
from Vienna, Austria.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1729 Jul 25, North Carolina became
a royal colony.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1759 Jul 25, British forces
defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada. During their 7 Years'
War.
(HN, 7/25/98)(SC, 7/25/02)
1775 Jul 25, Anna Symmes Harrison,
1st lady, was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1775 Jul 25, Maryland issued
currency depicting George III trampling the Magna Carta.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1791 Jul 25, Free African Society
(FAS) leaders drew up a plan to organize the African Church. Richard
Allen purchased a site for a church for the African-American community
in Philadelphia. It later stood as the oldest parcel of land
continuously owned by African Americans. The Richard Allen Museum
contains 19th century artifacts from the church.
(www.pbs.org)
1797 Jul 25, Presidente Fermin
Francisco de Lasuen founded Mission San Miguel Archangel, the 16th
California mission. He took possession of the land on behalf of Viceroy
Branciforte. The mission facilitated travel between Mission San Luis
Obispo and Mission San Antonio.
(SB, 3/28/02)
1799 Jul 25, On his way back from
Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1805 Jul 25, Aaron Burr visited
New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as
the capital city.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1814 Jul 25, British and American
forces fought each other to a stand off at Lundy's Lane (Niagara
Falls), Canada, in some of the fiercest fighting in the War of 1812.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1822 Jul 25, Gen. Agustin de
Iturbide was crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1832 Jul 25, The 1st US railroad
accident was at Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass., and 1 died.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1834 Jul 25, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (b.1772), English poet, died. He and his friend William
Wordsworth were among the founders of the Romantic Movement in England
and later identified, along with Robert Southey, as the Lake School of
poets. Coleridge’s work included "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,"
"Frost at Midnight" and "Kubla Khan." In his later life he authored the
"Bibliographia Literaria," a work of literary theory. In 1999 Richard
Holmes published "Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834," which
focused on the poet's later life. His volume "Coleridge: Early Visions"
was published in 1989. In 2007 Adam Sisman authored “The Friendship:
Wordsworth & Coleridge.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Coleridge-Taylor)(WSJ, 4/15/99,
p.A20)(WSJ, 2/20/07, p.D8)
1840 Jul 25, Flora Adams Darling,
founded Daughters of American Revolution, was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1844 Jul 25, Thomas Eakins
(d.1916), American painter, was born.
(SFC, 5/6/97, p.E4)(WUD, 1994, p.447)(HN, 7/25/02)
1844 Jul 25, Louis Napoleon
(b.1779), French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), died.
(www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Louis-Napoleon-Bonaparte)
1845 Jul 25, China granted Belgium
equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1848 Jul 25, Arthur James Balfour
(d.1930), the First Earl of Balfour and prime Minister of Great Britain
(1902-1905), was born: "A religion that is small enough for our
understanding would not be large enough for our needs."
(AP, 11/14/97)(HN, 7/25/98)
1850 Jul 25, Gold was discovered
in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the
Pacific coast.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1850 Jul 25, The clipper ship
Frolic, enroute from Hong Kong to SF, wrecked on a reef at the north
edge of what is now California’s Preserve off Point Cabrillo Light
Station. It had run opium from India to China to trade for silver and
merchandise. The crew escaped in small boats and though all trade goods
were lost the area became recognized as ideal for a redwood sawmill.
(SSFC, 2/11/07,
p.G10)(www.pointcabrillo.org/frolic-history.htm)(WSJ, 12/15/07, p.W10)
1853 Jul 25, David Belasco, actor,
playwright and producer, was born.
(HN, 7/25/02)
1860 Jul 25, The 1st US
intercollegiate billiard match was between Harvard and Yale.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1861 Jul 25, The Crittenden
Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve
the Union and not for slavery, was passed by Congress.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1865 Jul 25, Dr. James Barry
(b.1795), British military medical officer and senior inspector
general, died. It was soon revealed that Dr. Barry was likely a female.
In 2003 Rachel Holmes authored “Scanty Particulars: the Scandalous Life
and Astonishing Secret of Queen Victoria’s Most Eminent Military
Doctor.”
(NYTBR, 2/2/03,
p.21)(www.geocities.com/hotsprings/2615/medhist/barry.html)
1866 Jul 25, Ulysses S. Grant was
named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1867 Jul 25, President Andrew
Johnson signed an act creating the territory of Wyoming. [see Jul 25,
1868]
(HN, 7/25/98)
1868 Jul 25, Congress passed an
act creating the Wyoming Territory. [see Jul 25, 1867]
(AP, 7/25/97)
1871 Jul 25, A carrousel was
patented by Wilhelm Schneider in Davenport, Iowa.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1880 Jul 25, Morris Raphel Cohen,
American philosopher and mathematician, was born.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1883 Jul 25, Alfredo Casella,
composer (La Giara), was born in Turin, Italy.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1884 Jul 25, Davidson Black,
doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man), was born in Canada.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1894 Jul 25, Walter Brennan,
actress (Real McCoys, At Gun Point), was born in Swampscott, Mass.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1894 Jul 25, Japanese forces sank
the British steamer Kowshing which was bringing Chinese reinforcements
to Korea.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1896 Jul 25, An estimated 5,000
cyclists gathered in SF to demonstrate for better roads.
(Ind, 8/2/03, p.5A)
1898 Jul 25, US Gen’l. Nelson A.
Miles (1839-1925) landed troops at Guanica on the southern coast of
Puerto Rico. Spain and the US came to terms at the Treaty of Paris and
the US acquired Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico became a US territory. He was
promoted to lieutenant general in 1901. He retired from the army in
1903. His books include Personal Recollections and Observations (1896)
and Serving the Republic (1911).
(HT, 4/97, p.65)(SFC, 3/26/97,
p.C3)(http://welcome.topuertorico.org/glossary/index.shtml#936)
1899 Jul 25, Ralph Dumke, actor
(Movieland Quiz), was born in Indiana.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1901 Jul 25, A fire destroyed the
Byron Hot Springs Hotel in Byron, Ca. A new hotel, designed by James
and Merritt Reid, was built to replace it. It burned down in 1912 and
was replaced in 1914 with a new design by James Reid.
(SSFC, 11/9/08,
p.A7)(www.byronhotsprings.com/TimeTable.html)
1902 Jul 25, Eric Hoffer (d.1983),
American longshoreman, philosopher and author of "In Our Time," was
born: "Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom
of our chronic uncertainty about the future. ... We watch our experts
read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients
watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken." "It almost
seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America
needs new immigrants to love and cherish it." "We do not usually look
for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with
us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we
hate."
(AP, 5/21/97)(AP, 10/28/97)(AP, 5/23/98)(HN, 7/25/02)
1903 Jul 25, The castle on top of
Telegraph Hill (SF, Ca.) closed. [see Jul 26]
(SC, 7/25/02)
1905 Jul 25, Elias Canetti,
Bulgarian-British novelist, essayist (Nobel 1981), was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1907 Jul 25, Jack Gilford, actor
(Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1907 Jul 25, Johnny Hodges, jazz
musician, was born.
(HN, 7/25/02)
1909 Jul 25, Draugas, "The
Friend," a Lithuanian newspaper, began publishing in Chicago.
(Dr, 7/96, V1#1, p.3)
1909 Jun 20, The first honeymoon
in a balloon.
(HFA, '96, p.32)
1909 Jul 25, French aviator Louis
Bleriot (1872-1936) made the first crossing of the English Channel from
Calais to the grounds of Dover Castle in a powered aircraft, winning a
£1,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail. Piloting his Type
XI monoplane at an average of 39 miles per hour, Blériot made
the trip of 23.2 miles in just under 36 minutes.
(AP, 7/25/97)(HNPD, 7/25/98)(ON, 6/07, p.9)
1912 Jul 25, The Comoros were
proclaimed to be French colonies.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1914 Jul 25, Russia declared that
it would act to protect Serbian sovereignty.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1916 Jul 25, An explosion at the
Cleveland Waterworks tunnel project trapped 12 men and 18 would-be
rescuers. 8 men were saved and 10 bodies were recovered by a team led
by black inventor Garrett A. Morgan (d.1963) dressed in his new Safety
Hood.
(ON, 3/02, p.12)
1918 Jul 25, Annette Adams of
Calif. was sworn in as the 1st US woman district attorney.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1918 Jul 25, A race riot in
Chester, Pennsylvania, left 3 blacks and 2 whites dead.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1924 Jul 25, Frank Church,
Sen-D-Id, was born in Boise.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1924 Jul 25, Estelle Getty,
actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1924 Jul 25, Greece announced the
deportation of 50,000 Armenians.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1925 Jul 25, Jerry Paris,
director, actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), was born in SF, Calif.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1927 Jul 25, Midge Decter, writer
and editor, was born in St. Paul Minn.
(HN, 7/25/02)
1930 Jul 25, Maureen Forrester,
contralto (Resurrection Symphony), was born in Montreal, Canada.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1932 Jul 25, Paul J. Weitz,
astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6), was born in Erie, Pennsylvania.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1934 Jul 25, There was a Nazi coup
in Vienna. Austrian Premier Engelbert Dollfus was shot and killed by
Nazis. Hitler murdered Austria's Chancellor Dollfus.
(WUD, 1994, p.424,1682)(TMC, 1994, p.1934)(HN,
7/25/98)
1935 Jul 25, Barbara Harris, Tony
award winning actress in The Apple Tree, was born.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1935 Jul 25, Adnan Khashoggi,
billionaire arms dealer, was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1935 Jul 25, Laurent Terzieff,
actor (Pharaoh-Moses the Law Giver), was born in Paris, France.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1935 Jul 25, C. Jackson discovered
asteroid #1641 Tana.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1936 Jul 25, The 115 acre Orchard
Beach opened in the Bronx.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1936 Jul 25, G. Neujmin discovered
asteroid #3761.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1940 Jul 25, John Sigmund began
swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi River.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1941 Jul 25, The U.S. government
froze Japanese and Chinese assets.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1943 Jul 25, Jim McCarty, rocker
(The Yardbirds-For Your Love), was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1943 Jul 25, Janet Margolin,
actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1943 Jul 25, Benito Mussolini was
dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III and placed
under arrest. Mussolini was later rescued by the Nazis and re-asserted
his authority.
(AP, 7/25/97)(HN, 7/25/98)(news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday)
1944 Jul 25, Bing Crosby and the
Andrews Sisters recorded Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In" in Los
Angeles for Decca Records.
(AP, 7/25/99)
1944 Jul 25, Allied forces begin
the breakthrough of German lines in Normandy.
(HN, 7/25/02)
1944 Jul 25, The Messerschmitt 262
became the 1st jet fighter used in combat.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1945 Jul 25, Donna Theodore,
Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts), was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1946 Jul 25, The United States
detonated a 2nd atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first
underwater test of the device. [see July 1]
(AP, 7/25/97)
1946 Jul 25, In Monroe, Georgia, 2
black couples were killed by Ku Klux Klansmen. Pres. Truman ordered an
FBI investigation and 55 suspects were named in the lynching of Roger
and Dorothy Malcolm and George and Mae Murray Dorsey, but no one was
ever charged. Dorothy Malcolm was pregnant.
(SFC, 7/26/05, p.A5)
1948 Jul 25, Steve Goodman,
singer, songwriter (Somebody Else’s Trouble), was born in Chicago.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1950 Jul 25, Top staff officers of
the US 8th Army, Muccio's representative Harold J. Noble and South
Korean officials met and decided on a policy of air-dropping leaflets
telling South Korean civilians not to head south toward US defense
lines, and of shooting them if they did approach US lines despite
warning shots. This information was in a letter from ambassador John J.
Muccio to US Sec. of State Dean Rusk. The letter was declassified in
1982 .
(AP, 5/30/06)
1950 Jul 25, American soldiers In
Korea ordered villagers away from Im Ke Ri and sent them on the road to
Hwanggan.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A8)
1950 Jul 25, The Goethe Link
Observatory discovered asteroids #1799 Koussevitsky, #1822 Waterman
& #2842.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroids_%281001-2000%29)
1951 Jul 25, L. Boyer discovered
asteroid #1714 Sy.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1952 Jul 25, Goethe Link
Observatory discovered asteroid #1788 Kiess.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1952 Jul 25, Puerto Rico became a
self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1953 Jul 25, A truce ended the
Korean War. S.L.A. Marshall later authored "The River and the
Gauntlet," a description of the slaughter the war brought to both
sides. Clay Blair later authored "Forgotten War," and Roy Appelman
wrote "East of Chosin" and "Disaster in Korea."
(SFEC, 5/16/99, Z1 p.4)(WSJ, 8/6/99, p.W7)
1953 Jul 25, NYC transit fare rose
from 10 to 15 cents and 1st use of subway tokens began.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1954 Jul 25, Lynn Frederick,
actress (Schizophrenia), was born in Middlesex, England.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1954 Jul 25, Walter Payton,
Chicago Bear football running back, was born in Columbia, Miss.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Payton)
1955 Jul 25, Iman, model, David
Bowie's girlfriend, actress (Star Trek VI), was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1956 Jul 25, Jordanians attacked
the UN Palestine truce.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1956 Jul 25, The Italian liner
Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the
New England coast late at night and began sinking in 200 feet of water
50 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass. 51 people died as a
result of the impact. The Dorea was headed from Genoa, Italy, to NY.
The Andrea Doria sank eleven hours after the crash.
(WSJ, 5/30/97, p.A1)(SFC, 1/1/99, p.A16)(SFC,
7/30/99, p.D5)(AP, 7/25/07)
1957 Jul 25, The monarchy in
Tunisia was abolished in favor of a republic.
(AP, 7/25/07)
1959 Jul 25, Dr. Isaac Halevi
Herzog (71), chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), died.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1961 Jul 25, Katherine Kelly Lang,
actress (Brooke-Bold & Beautiful), was born in LA, Calif.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1963 Jul 25, The United States,
the Soviet Union and Britain initialed a treaty in Moscow prohibiting
the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or
underwater.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1963 Jul 25, Ugo Cerletti
(b.1877), Italian neurosurgeon, died. In the 1930s he and Lucio Bini
pioneered the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), electric shock,
to cure patients of depression.
(Econ, 6/3/06,
p.78)(www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/511.html)
1964 Jul 25, Beatles' "Hard Day's
Night, A," album went #1 and stayed #1 for 14 weeks.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1964 Jul 25, There was a race riot
in Rochester, NY.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1965 Jul 25, Folk-rock began when
Dylan used electricity at the Newport Folk Festival, RI.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1966 Jul 25, Supremes released
"You Can't Hurry Love."
(SC, 7/25/02)
1966 Jul 25, Yankee manager Casey
Stengel was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1967 Jul 25, Construction began on
SF MUNI Metro (Market Street subway).
(SC, 7/25/02)
1967 Jul 25, US Navy Lt. Commander
Donald Davis crashed his jet on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Searchers later
recovered fragments of his remains for return to the US.
(SFC, 5/25/98, p.A4)
1968 Jul 25, H. Wroblewski
discovered asteroid #1993 Guacolda on exposures by G. Plouguin and I.
Belyaiev at the University of Chile, Cerro El Roble Station.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Guacolda)
1969 Jul 25, Some 70,000 attended
the Seattle Pop Festival. The music festival, organized by Boyd
Grafmyrem, was held at the Gold Creek Park, Woodinville, Washington,
from July 25 to July 28, 1969.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Pop_Festival)
1969 Jul 25, The Nixon Doctrine
was put forth in a press conference in Guam, in which he stated that
the US henceforth expected its Asian allies to take care of their own
military defense [see Nov 3, 1969].
(http://thenewnixon.org/2008/07/24/25-july-1969-the-nixon-doctrine/)
1969 Jul 25, A week after the
Chappaquiddick accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne, Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an
accident.
(AP, 7/25/99)
1972 Jul 25, US health officials
conceded that blacks were used as guinea pigs in the 40 year Tuskegee
Syphilis Study in Macon County, Ala. By this time 28 participants had
died of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, at least 40
wives had been infected and 19 children had contracted the disease at
birth [see 1932].
(www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jul/tuskegee/)(SSFC,
1/25/04, p.A27)
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 25, The US Supreme Court
ruled in Milliken v Bradley that desegregation cannot be required
across school district lines. The case had originated in Detroit.
(Econ, 4/28/07,
p.32)(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Milliken_v._Bradley)
1974 Jul 25, T. Smirnova, Russian
astronomer, discovered asteroid #2345 Fucik.
(http://tinyurl.com/4lx b4w)
1975 Jul 25, Jay R. Ferguson Jr.,
American actor (Taylor Newton-Evening Shade), was born in Dallas, Tx.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_R._Ferguson)
1975 Jul 25, "A Chorus Line," the
longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiered on Broadway. It had
opened off-Broadway at The Public Theater on May 21, 1975.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Chorus_Line)
1976 Jul 25, Edwin Moses (b.1955),
American track star, won an Olympic Gold Medal In Montreal in the
400-meter hurdles.
(http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016369.html)
1978 Jul 25, Louise Joy Brown, the
first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived
through in-vitro fertilization. In 2004 Robin Marantz Henig authored
"Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies sparked the
Reproductive Revolution.
(TL, 1988, p.119)(AP, 7/25/97)(SSFC, 2/22/04, p.M6)
1978 Jul 25, The Viking 2 Orbiter
to Mars was powered down after 706 orbits.
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html)
1981 Jul 25, Ian Martin (69),
Scottish-born film and TV actor (Uncle Bill-O'Neills), died in NYC.
(http://tinyurl.com/2vgz3w)(www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi)
1983 Jul 25, The first nonhuman
primate, a baboon, was conceived in a lab dish in San Antonio, Tx.
(http://tinyurl.com/34c8hm)
1984 Jul 25, Soviet cosmonaut
Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. She
carried out more than 3 hours of experiments outside the orbiting space
station Salyut 7.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1985 Jul 25, A spokeswoman for
Rock Hudson confirmed that the actor, hospitalized in Paris, was
suffering from "AIDS." Hudson died the following October.
(AP, 7/25/00)
1986 Jul 25, Marc Smith, NYC
construction worker turned poet, held the first poetry slam at the
Green Mill jazz club in Chicago. He pitted writers against one another
in a test of writing skills and performance.
(Econ, 8/16/08,
p.83)(www.slampapi.com/new_site/background.htm)
1986 Jul 25, Vincente Minnelli
(76), movie director known for such musicals as "Gigi," "An American in
Paris" and "Meet Me in St. Louis," died in Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/25/06)
1987 Jul 25, US Commerce Secretary
Malcolm Baldrige died of internal injuries he sustained while
participating in a rodeo. He was succeeded by C. William Verity.
(AP 7/25/97)
1987 Jul 25, The USSR launched
Kosmos 1870, a 15-ton Earth-study satellite.
(www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/clafleur/Spacecrafts-1987.html#Kosmos-1870)
1988 Jul 25, A judge in New York
ordered the feuding San Diego Yacht Club and a New Zealand challenger
to settle the battle for the America's Cup with a September race. The
Americans used a two-hulled catamaran to easily defeat the New
Zealanders' monohull, setting off a legal dispute that ended two years
later in victory for the American team.
(AP, 7/25/98)
1989 Jul 25, The pilot of the
United DC-10 that crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, July 19, Alfred C.
Haynes, appeared at a news conference in which he dismissed
descriptions of himself as a hero after he and his crew managed to save
184 of the 296 people aboard the crippled aircraft.
(AP, 7/25/99)
1990 Jul 25, Comedian Roseanne
Barr sparked controversy with an off-key rendition of the
"Star-Spangled Banner" during a double-header at Jack Murphy Stadium in
San Diego.
(AP, 7/25/00)
1990 Jul 25, The US ambassador to
Iraq, April Glaspie, met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to discuss
Iraq’s economic dispute with Kuwait.
(AP, 7/25/00)
1990 Jul 25, The US Senate
formally denounced Senator Dave Durenberger (Republican, Minnesota) for
financial improprieties.
(AP, 7/25/00)
1991 Jul 25, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev urged Communist leaders at a Central Committee
meeting to reject "outdated ideological dogmas" and embrace a market
economy.
(AP, 7/25/01)
1991 Jul 25, A deadline for Iraq
to provide full details of its weapons of mass destruction passed, with
US officials indicating military action was not imminent.
(AP, 7/25/01)
1992 Jul 25, Opening ceremonies
were held in Barcelona, Spain, for the 25th Summer Olympics.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1992 Jul 25, A 68-foot high Mistos
(Match-Cover) by Claes Oldenburg was built for the Summer Olympics in
Barcelona, Spain, in reference to the Olympic Torch. In the Olympics
the Unified team of the former Soviet Union won 45 gold medals and the
US won 37.
(Smith., Aug. 1995, p.81)(SFC, 7/14/96, Par p.4)
1992 Jul 25, Greg Spiers created
the Lithuanian Basketball Team’s tie-died shirt featuring the Grateful
Dead’s skeleton slam-dunking. He later sued for a share of the profits
on the shirts.
(SFEC, 8/18/96, DB p.44)
1992 Jul 25, Actor-singer Alfred
Drake died in New York at age 78.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1993 Jul 25, Israel launched its
heaviest artillery and air assault on Lebanon since 1982 in an attempt
to eradicate Hezbollah and Palestinian guerrilla threats. Guerrillas
fired rockets into Israel. The fighting ended July 31 with a
U.S.-brokered cease-fire. Israel and Hezbollah then agreed not to
attack civilian targets, but the cease-fire was short lived.
(AP, 7/25/98)(SFC, 5/24/00, p.A15)
1994 Jul 25, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration
at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of
war.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1995 Jul 25, A bomb exploded at
the Paris subway St. Michel station, killing 8 people and injuring some
200. The Armed Islamic Group claimed responsibility. In 1999 five
people linked to Algerian militants were sentenced to 10-year prison
terms for the attacks. 16 others received lesser sentences. In 2002
Boualem Bensaid and Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, Islamic militants, were
convicted and sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the
bombings. British police arrested Rachid Ramda (25) at the request of
the French government due to his connections with Bensaid. In 2005
Ramda was still in Belmarsh prison awaiting extradition. In 2007 Ramda
(38) was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for
22 years.
(www.emergency.com/frncboms.htm)(AP, 7/25/00)(Econ,
10/22/05, p.61)(AP, 10/26/07)
1995 Jul 25, Two weeks after
overrunning Srebrenica, Bosnian Serbs took over the safe area of Zepa.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Jul 25, Radovan Karadzic and
Gen’l. Ratko Mladic and 22 other Serbs were indicted for genocide by
the UN War Crimes Hague Tribunal for commanding forces responsible for
sniping in Serajevo and for genocide and crimes against humanity. Also
indicted was Milan Martic, Croatian Serb leader of rebel Serb forces,
for ordering the shelling of Zagreb in May ‘95.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A15)(AP,
7/25/00)
1996 Jul 25, Divers searching the
wreckage of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, N.Y., recovered the flight
data and cockpit voice recorders.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1996 Jul 25, In Burundi the
military seized power and named former president Pierre Buyoya, a
Tutsi, as president. Hutu officials sought refuge in foreign embassies.
Burundian Hutus fled to Zaire's South Kivu province, base of the
National Council for the Defense of Democracy, an extremist Burundi
Hutu movement backed by Zaire.
(WSJ, 7/26/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/15/96, p.A16)
1996 Jul 25, Mexico said it will
repay $7 bil of the remaining $10.5 bil borrowed from the US Treasury,
partly through a $6 bil issue of securities.
(WSJ, 7/26/96, p.A1)
1997 Jul 25, US immigration agents
rounded up 17 deaf Mexicans in Sanford, North Carolina. This followed
the revelation of 50 deaf Mexicans held in servitude in NYC and forced
to sell trinkets on the streets. In Dec. Adriana Paoletti Lemus (29),
also deaf and one of two alleged ringleaders, pleaded guilty.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A5)
1997 Jul 25, Autumn Jackson, the
young woman who claimed to be Bill Cosby's out-of-wedlock daughter, was
convicted by a federal jury in New York of trying to extort $40 million
from the entertainer.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A1)(AP, 7/25/98)
1997 Jul 25, In San Francisco some
5,000 bikers defied the city-approved route for the Critical Mass bike
ride and struck out on their own. Some 250 were arrested for traffic
violations. Numerous incidents of confrontations between bikers, police
and commuters were reported.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 25, An FDA drug panel
endorsed Rituximab, a drug designed to treat B-cell lymphoma. It was
made by Genentech and IDEC Pharmaceuticals. In November Genentech and
Idec (later Biogen Idec), received FDA approval for Rituxan for
non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
(SFC, 7/26/97,
p.A1)(www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/53059.php)
1997 Jul 25, In Elk Creek,
Virginia, Louis Ceparano and Emmett Cressell Jr. doused Garnett Paul
"G.P." Johnson with gasoline, set him on fire and cut off his head.
They were both indicted for murder and robbery. Ceparano pleaded guilty
to murder and was sentenced to life in prison in 1998.
(SFC, 8/14/97, p.A3)(SFC,10/24/97, p.A4)(SFC,
5/30/98, p.A3)
1997 Jul 25, Ben Hogan (b.1912 in
Dublin, Tx.), golf legend, died in Fort Worth, Texas, at 84. A 1996
biography by Curt Sampson was titled: "Hogan."
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.B1)(AP, 7/25/98)
1997 Jul 25, In Afghanistan police
units of the Pashtun ethnic group raided minority neighborhoods as
opposition forces gathered 12 miles outside Kabul.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 25, In Albania the new
Socialist led government was sworn in while a gang battle in Berat left
10 people dead.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 25, In the Congo soldiers
fired into a crowd of protestors in Kinshasa and killed at least 3
people. The protest was against Kabila’s ban on political activity.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 25, In India Kocheril
Raman Narayannan (1920-2005) was sworn in as president, becoming the
first member of the "untouchable" Dalits caste to do so.
(AP, 7/25/98)(SFC, 11/10/05, p.B8)
1997 Jul 25, In Ireland Rev.
Brendan Smyth (71) was sentenced to 12 years in prison for 74 instances
of sexual abuse of 20 young people over 36 years.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 25, Thousands of German
soldiers fought to contain the rain-gorged Oder River.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A12)
1998 Jul 25, Two government
officials revealed that Pres. Clinton was subpoenaed by Independent
Council Kenneth Starr to testify before a federal grand jury
investigating Monica Lewinsky.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.A1)(AP, 7/25/99)
1998 Jul 25, The US Capitol was
reopened, a day after a gunman killed two police officers; a wounded
suspect, Russell E. Weston Junior, was charged with murder. Weston was
later found unfit to stand trial because of paranoid schizophrenia.
Weston refused to take any medications voluntarily. In May 2001, a
federal judge authorized doctors to treat Weston involuntarily. A panel
from a federal appeals court ruled in July 2001 that Weston could be
forced to take the drugs which he was forced to do for 120 days. He
remains incarcerated in a psychiatric center in the federal prison in
Butner, North Carolina.
(AP,
7/25/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Capitol_shooting_incident_(1998)#The_suspect)
1998 Jul 25, The new
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman, was commissioned
by Pres. Clinton. The 97,000 ton ship cost $4.5 billion.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.A2)
1998 Jul 25, It was reported that
the US dropped secret plans to seize Radovan Karadzic and Gen’l. Ratko
Mladic in Bosnia.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.A17)
1998 Jul 25, It was reported that
5-7% of the drugs in Brazil were faked medicines mostly from India,
China and Pakistan.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.A20)
1998 Jul 25, It was reported that
authorities in Split, Croatia, declared a natural disaster following an
invasion of mice that devoured the region’s crops.
(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 25, In Japan some 60
people at a festival in the Wakayama prefecture were sickened after
eating a curried rice dish. Four people died and police suspected that
cyanide was mixed in the food. A district court convicted Masumi
Hayashi in 2002 of deliberately lacing a pot of curry with arsenic and
serving it to neighbors at the festival. In 2009 Japan's highest court
upheld her death sentence.
(SFC, 7/27/98, p.A10)(AP, 4/21/09)
1998 Jul 25, The governor of
Puerto Rico called for a December referendum on statehood.
(WSJ, 7/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 25, Serb forces attacked
rebel positions in Kosovo to clear major roads.
(SFC, 7/27/98, p.A8)
1999 Jul 25, The Woodstock ‘99
music festival in Rome, New York, ended in fires and looting.
(AP, 7/25/00)
1999 Jul 25, Lance Armstrong won
the Tour de France cycling race for his 1st time. In 2005 a French
sports newspaper reported that frozen urine specimens indicated that
Armstrong had used EPO (erythropoietin), a hormone drug that boosts
production of red cells.
(AP, 7/25/00)(SFC, 8/26/05, p.A1)
1999 Jul 25, The US and Vietnam
agreed to normalize relations after 3 years of negotiations. Commercial
ties were expected to follow.
(SFC, 7/26/99, p.A8)
1999 Jul 25, Jack Gargan, a
political activist from Florida, was elected chairman of the Reform
Party in Dearborn, Mich.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.12A)
1999 Jul 25, In the Cincinnati
area 7 people were reported dead over the weekend from sweltering heat.
(SFC, 7/26/99, p.A7)
1999 Jul 25, In Iraq residents of
Rumaitha and Khudur took to the streets over food and medicine
shortages. 16 soldiers were killed and Saddam Hussein ordered a tank
unit to quell the riots after which another 14 people died.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A12)
1999 Jul 25, Morocco held a
funeral for King Hassan the Second.
(AP, 7/25/00)
1999 Jul 25, In Nigeria ethnic
fighting over the weekend killed at least 70 people in Kano.
(WSJ, 7/27/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 25, In Pakistan tens of
thousands protested against Pres. Sharif for the pullback in Kashmir.
(SFC, 7/26/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 25, In Venezuela
candidates from the Fifth Republic Movement, supported by Pres. Chavez,
won over 80% of the 131 constituent assembly seats in preliminary
results. Less than half the eligible voters cast ballots.
(WSJ, 7/26/99, p.A19)
2000 Jul 25, Presidential
candidate George W. Bush announced Former Defense Sec. Dick Cheney as
his running mate.
(SFC, 7/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 25, In France a NY bound
Concorde jet crashed in Gonesse after takeoff and all 109 people aboard
were killed along with 4 people on the ground. Passengers included 96
Germans, 2 Danes and an Austrian. Debris from a blown tire was later
believed to have caused an engine fire. A 5th body was found in the
rubble of the Hotelissimo. It was the first-ever crash of the
supersonic jet. A final probe in 2002 attributed runway junk as the
cause of the crash.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A12)(SFC,
7/29/00, p.A12)(AP, 7/25/01)(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A8)
2000 Jul 25, The
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ended at Camp David with no success due
to the difficulty over the issue of Jerusalem.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 25, In Jordan a US-made
C-130 transport plane crashed and 13 soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 25, The Russian Zvezda
space module docked with the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 25, In Seoul, South
Korea, thousands clashed with police in the biggest anti-American
protests in 2 years.
(WSJ, 7/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 25, In Zimbabwe at least
230 white farmers quit working along with some businessmen in Karoi to
protest the breakdown in law and order.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2001 Jul 25, The space shuttle
Atlantis landed in Florida.
(WSJ, 7/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 25, India’s bandit queen,
Phoolan Devi, was killed by masked gunmen in New Delhi. She had led a
revolt against the abuse of low-class women and won a seat in
parliament. Sher Singh Rana later confessed to the killing. 2
accomplices were later arrested.
(WSJ, 7/26/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 25, Israeli troops killed
Salah Darwazeh, a Hamas militant, with antitank rockets as he drove
near Nablus. Informant Ahmed Abu Issah, father of nine, was paid $50
for information on Darwazeh and was later condemned to death by a
Palestinian court.
(WSJ, 7/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 25, Kim Jong Il of North
Korea rode by rail into Russia for a meeting with Pres. Putin.
(WSJ, 7/26/01, p.A11)
2002 Jul 25, Encouraged by a tinny
tapping sound coming up from the depths, rescuers in Somerset, Pa.,
brought in a huge drill in a race to save nine coal miners trapped 240
feet underground by a flooded shaft.
(AP, 7/25/03)
2002 Jul 25, Zacarias Moussaoui
declared he was guilty of conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks, then
dramatically withdrew his plea at his arraignment in Alexandria, Va.
(AP, 7/25/03)
2002 Jul 25, In Canada Pope John
Paul made his first appearance at a Catholic youth festival before as
many as 200,000 young faithful eager to welcome the aging Pontiff with
prayer and song.
(Reuters, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, Chinese police have
formally arrested Liu Xiaoqing, one of the country's most famous film
stars and 2-time winner of the prestigious Hundred Flowers Best Actress
award, on suspicion of large-scale tax evasion. Liu was queen of
Chinese cinema in the 1980s and is best remembered for playing Qing
Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi in the film "The Reign Behind the Curtain."
(Reuters, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, Some 5,000 women
gathered from all over Colombia, traveling hours by bus, all with one
message: They wanted an end to 38 years of civil war.
(AP, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, Israeli police said
an Israeli policeman has been arrested on suspicion of selling
ammunition to Palestinians, raising to ten the number of suspects
detained in the case.
(AP, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, Torrential monsoon
rains and overflowing rivers worsened flooding in eastern India, Nepal
and Bangladesh and officials said 270 people have died and more than
six million people have been left homeless during the last 5 days.
(Reuters, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 25, Hundreds of Nigerian
women left ChevronTexaco pumping stations in canoes and on foot
following an agreement with company executives.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 25, Palestinian gunmen
shot dead a Jewish rabbi settler in what militants called the first
response to an Israeli air strike that killed 15 Palestinians including
a top militant.
(Reuters, 7/25/02)
2002 Jul 25, In Russia Pres. Putin
signed into law a bill that allowed the sale of farmland, but not to
foreigners.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A17)
2002 Jul 25, The Spanish
government welcomed a British proposal to turn its military base in
Gibraltar into a NATO facility, a move that would open it to all
alliance members including Spain. Spain and Britain came up with the
idea of sharing sovereignty over the Rock. This was rejected
resoundingly in a nonbinding referendum in Gibraltar.
(AP, 7/25/02)(AP, 9/19/06)
2002 Jul 25, In Vietnam the
National Assembly approved a 2nd term for PM Phan Van Khai (68).
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A17)
2003 Jul 25, Pres. Bush ordered a
naval amphibious force from the Mediterranean to position itself off
the coast of Liberia.
(SFC, 7/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 25, Palestinian PM
Mahmoud Abbas met with Pres. George Bush in Washington DC. Abbas
thanked Bush for his efforts in pursuit of a peaceful Middle East and
for a recent grant of $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian
Authority.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2003 Jul 25, John Schlesinger
(b.1926), film director, died. His films included "Midnight Cowboy"
(1969) and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (1971).
(SFC, 7/26/03, p.A22)
2003 Jul 25, In northeastern Congo
thousands of tribal fighters attacked three villages with mortars,
rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles, killing as many as 150
people.
(AP, 7/29/03)
2003 Jul 25, In Haiti gunmen
ambushed a delegation from the Interior Ministry on a central highway,
killing 4 and seriously wounding one.
(AP, 7/25/03)
2003 Jul 25, An Israeli soldier
fired a tank-mounted machine gun at a pickup truck carrying a
Palestinian family, killing a 4-year-old Palestinian boy and wounding
two other children.
(AP, 7/25/03)
2003 Jul 25, Japanese lawmakers
voted to send military forces to Iraq to help with reconstruction.
(SFC, 7/26/03, p.A3)
2003 Jul 25, In eastern Pakistan
police commandos stormed a jail after five prisoners took nine visiting
judges and 50 female detainees hostage, officials said. The raid ended
the drama, but left three of the justices dead.
(AP, 7/25/03)
2003 Jul 25, In Spain 2 top
members of the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA were sentenced to
790 years in prison for a 1987 bombing that killed 21 people and
injured 45.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2004 Jul 25, The Warwick agreement
came about as a compromise between Britain’s Labor Government and
trade unions at the Labor Party's National Policy forum.
(www.unionstogether.org.uk/articles/employment.html)
2004 Jul 25, Colombia's ELN rebel
group kidnapped Misael Vaca Ramirez, the Catholic Bishop of Yopal, but
planned to set him free bearing a political message for the government.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Jul 25, Lance Armstrong (32)
became the 1st 6-time winner of the 2,107-mile Tour de France bicycle
race.
(SFC, 7/26/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 25, American and Iraqi
forces clashed with insurgents in a battle that escalated from gunfire
to artillery barrages north of Baghdad, killing 13 Iraqi militants.
(AP, 7/25/04)
2004 Jul 25, Gunmen killed Brig.
Khaled Dawoud, a former regional official who worked under Saddam
Hussein's government, and his son in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad.
(AP, 7/25/04)
2004 Jul 25, Tens of thousands of
Jewish settlers and their supporters joined hands to form a human chain
along a 55-mile route, serving notice they will fight Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Jul 25, Israeli soldiers in
the West Bank shot to death six members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
in a gunbattle in the town of Tulkarem.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Jul 25, In Kashmir a group of
9 militants barged into the home of Mohammed Shafi in a remote village
in Rajouri district and beheaded him. They also killed his 22-year-old
son and 15-year-old daughter.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Jul 25, Carmen Gutierrez, a
doctor who won Mexico's Woman of the Year award (1997), was found dead
in a canal on the outskirts of Mexico City. She was kidnapped Jul 22.
(AP, 7/29/04)
2004 Jul 25, Pakistan arrested
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect, wanted by the
United States in the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania.
(AP, 7/29/04)
2004 Jul 25, A Spanish newspaper
reported that Morocco had warned Spain earlier this month that it lost
track of 400 Moroccan Islamist militants who trained in al Qaeda camps
in Afghanistan, Bosnia or Chechnya.
(AP, 7/25/04)
2004 Jul 25, The death toll from
monsoon flooding in South Asia reached 944.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Jul 25, Central African
Republic President Francois Bozize wrapped up a two-day visit to Sudan
with a pledge to help his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Beshir resolve
the crisis in the western Darfur region.
(AFP, 7/25/04)
2005 Jul 25, Corporal Dustin Berg,
an Indiana National Guard soldier, pleaded guilty to negligent homicide
in the death of an Iraqi police officer. He was later sentenced to 18
months in military prison.
(AP, 7/25/06)
2005 Jul 25, The Brotherhood of
Teamsters and the Service Employees Int’l. Union broke from the AFL-CIO
as 1,000 delegates gathered in Chicago for the federation’s 50th annual
convention. They formed a coalition called Change to Win with 5 other
unions with a mission to emphasize organizing rather than supporting
like-minded politicians.
(SFC, 7/26/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 25, Sony BMG Music
Entertainment agreed to pay $10 million to non-profit entities and to
stop paying radio stations to feature its artists. A 1960 federal law
barred record companies from offering payola, undisclosed financial
incentives for airplay.
(SFC, 7/26/05, p.D3)
2005 Jul 25, Hershey Co. of
Pennsylvania announced the acquisition of Scharffen Berger Chocolate
Maker Inc. of Berkeley, Ca.
(SFC, 7/26/05, p.D1)
2005 Jul 25, Intel announced plans
to build a $3 billion computer microprocessor fabrication plant in
Arizona.
(SFC, 7/26/05, p.D1)
2005 Jul 25, San Leandro, Ca.,
police officer Nels Niemi was shot and killed by a convicted
methamphetamine user. Police arrested Irving Alexander Ramirez the next
day in Daly City. In 2007 Ramirez was convicted of first-degree murder.
On Aug 3 he was sentenced to die by lethal injection.
(SFC, 7/27/05, p.A1)(SFC, 5/11/07, p.B1)(SFC,
8/4/07, p.B2)
2005 Jul 25, In Virginia 4 adult
Scout leaders from Alaska were killed on the opening day of their
Jamboree when a tent pole apparently struck a power line.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 25, Ford Rainey (96),
stage and screen actor, died in Santa Monica, Ca.
(SFC, 7/28/05, p.B7)
2005 Jul 25, Fighting between
Taliban rebels and U.S. and Afghan forces in Uruzgan province killed
about 50 suspected militants, in the deadliest clashes in weeks ahead
of crucial legislative elections. The fighting killed one US and one
Afghan soldier.
(AP, 7/26/05)(SFC, 7/26/05, p.A3)
2005 Jul 25, In Gonzaga, Brazil,
hundreds of relatives and friends of Jean Charles de Menezes, the
Brazilian shot to death in London after being mistaken for a terrorist,
marched along the cobblestone streets of his hometown, demanding the
arrest of the British police who fired the fatal shots.
(AP, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 25, British police
identified 2 suspects in the July 21 bombings: Muktar Said Ibrahim (27)
and Yasin Hassan Omar (24)
(SFC, 7/30/05, p.A11)
2005 Jul 25, A wildlife charity
warned that large carnivorous mice on the British-ruled island of Gough
in the south Atlantic are eating seabird chicks alive in mass feeding
frenzies, threatening several species' survival.
(AFP, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 25, Indian and Pakistani
trucks laden with goods rolled across the border for the first time in
50 years.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 25, Indian army said it
had shot dead five militants in Kupwara district of Kashmir when they
were trying to sneak into India from the Pakistani side.
(Reuters, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 25, In India violence
erupted when about 1,000 angry Honda workers protested the dismissal of
four colleagues in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 25, In Iraq Sunni Arab
members of a committee drafting Iraq's new constitution ended their
boycott, six days after they walked out to protest the assassinations
of two fellow Sunni constitution framers. A US soldier was killed when
a roadside bomb exploded under his vehicle near Samarra north of
Baghdad.
(AP, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 25, Baghdad was hit by
twin suicide car bombs that killed at least 8 people as Australian PM
John Howard made a surprise visit there.
(AFP, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 25, Israel expressed
outrage that Pope Benedict XVI failed to condemn terrorist attacks
against Israelis. Pope Benedict urged dialogue with the best elements
of Islam.
(SFC, 7/26/05, p.A3)
2005 Jul 25, An appeals court in
Milan, Italy, issued arrest warrants for six more purported CIA
operatives accused of helping plan the 2003 kidnapping of a radical
Egyptian Muslim cleric.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 25, Magistrates in Italy
impounded BPI’s shares in Antonveneta. 2 days later Consob, Italy’s
stockmarket regulator, froze BPI’s offer for up to 90 days. [see Jul 12]
(Econ, 8/13/05, p.57)
2005 Jul 25, Nepal's main
political parties rejected an appeal by the country's Maoist rebels for
talks to plan joint opposition to King Gyanendra's seizure of power,
saying the guerrillas should stop killing civilians first.
(Reuters, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 25, North Korean and US
negotiators held a rare one-on-one meeting in Beijing amid a flurry of
contacts between delegations to the six-nation talks aimed at
persuading the communist nation to relinquish its nuclear program.
(AP, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 25, Opposition lawmakers
in the Philippine parliament filed impeachment proceedings against
President Gloria Arroyo, accusing her of vote-rigging and other
allegations.
(AP, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 25, Saudi authorities
arrested a number of suspected militants in Arar, Medina and Riyadh.
Among those arrested Mohammed Saeed Mohammed al-Sayam al-Umari (25) was
No. 10 on Saudi list of 36 most wanted terrorists.
(AP, 8/27/05)
2006 Jul 25, President Bush was
visited at the White House by Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, who said he and
Bush agreed that training and better arming Iraqi forces as quickly as
possible was central to efforts to stabilizing his country. A Darfur
rebel leader was in Washington to meet President Bush, who is trying to
convince Khartoum to accept UN peacekeepers to quell the increasing
violence in Sudan's remote west. President Bush pressed Darfur rebel
leader Minni Arcua Minnawi to help implement a deal aimed at ending the
violence in western Sudan.
(AP, 7/25/06)(Reuters, 7/25/06)(AP, 7/25/07)
2006 Jul 25, In NYC 14 athletes
competed in the 10th annual Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race in
Jamaica, Queens. The 51-day event was sponsored by followers of
meditation master Sri Chinmoy.
(Reuters, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 25, SF Supervisors gave
final approval to a plan to provide health care coverage to the city’s
estimated 82,000 uninsured residents.
(SFC, 7/26/06, p.B1)
2006 Jul 25, Hewlett-Packard
signed a $4.5 billion agreement to buy Mercury Interactive Corp., a
maker of software for information technology networks.
(SFC, 7/26/06, p.C1)
2006 Jul 25, The Afghan
government, together with the UN, appealed for $76 million to head off
an "imminent food crisis" due to drought. A roadside bomb exploded in
Kabul, killing two Afghans riding in a taxi. US-led coalition troops
killed seven suspected Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan. In
Musa Qala district 10 militants were killed and 15 wounded by coalition
and Afghan forces backed by airstrikes.
(AP, 7/25/06)(AP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 25, Canada said it
planned to pay a total of C$1.1 billion ($965 million) to around 5,500
people who had contracted hepatitis C from transfusions.
(Reuters, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 25, Greek protesters
toppled a statue of President Truman and clashed with police during
demonstrations against the fighting in Lebanon.
(AP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 25, The first edition of
a newspaper owned by the Iranian version of Hezbollah appeared on
newsstands with messages of support for its Lebanese cousins in their
fight against Israel.
(AP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 25, In Iraq police in
Diyala province said five bodies were found on the streets in
Muqdadiyah. Gunmen killed a police officer in front of his office in
Mosul. 2 roadside bombs exploded in Baghdad, killing two civilians and
wounding two bystanders and a policeman. 4 other civilians were shot
dead around the capital. Two members of a Shiite family were killed and
one was wounded when their removal van was sprayed with bullets. US and
Iraqi soldiers captured six members of an alleged "death squad" in
Baghdad, hoping to quell the rampant sectarian violence dividing the
capital. Attacks elsewhere in Iraq left at least 34 people dead,
including an American soldier.
(AP, 7/25/06)(AFP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 25, Israeli troops sealed
off the town of Bint Jbail, a Hezbollah stronghold in fierce fighting
in south Lebanon. Warplanes struck Nabatiyeh and destroyed a house
killing seven people, four from the same family. Guerrillas fired
rockets at northern Israel, killing a girl. An Israeli airstrike killed
4 UN observers at a UNIFIL post in southern Lebanon. The observers were
from Austria, Canada, China and Finland. Irish observers had warned
that airstrikes were too close. UNIFIL was created in 1978 after
Israel's first major invasion of southern Lebanon and has been there
ever since.
(AP, 7/25/06)(Reuters, 7/25/06)(WSJ, 7/27/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 25, Italian carmaker Fiat
Group and India's Tata Motors Ltd. announced they have signed an
agreement for a joint-venture in India to make passenger vehicles,
engines and transmissions for Indian and overseas markets.
(AP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 25, The Slovak central
bank raised key interest rates by 50 basis points.
(Econ, 8/12/06,
p.43)(www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?cl=24271)
2006 Jul 25, Sri Lanka, which at
80,000 has the largest contingent of expatriate workers in Lebanon,
wants those trapped in the conflict to stay put and those who have fled
the bombings to return, a minister said.
(AFP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 25, Officials and news
reports said the Swedish government knew in 2000 that Saddam Hussein's
government demanded kickbacks from companies participating in the UN
Oil-for-Food Program.
(AP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 25, Thailand's three
election commissioners, seen as close allies of embattled PM Thaksin
Shinawatra, were convicted of allowing unqualified candidates to run in
parliamentary elections and sentenced to four years in prison.
(AP, 7/25/06)
2007 Jul 25, A US presidential
commission urged broad changes to veterans' care that would boost
benefits for family members helping the wounded, establish an
easy-to-use Web site for medical records and overhaul the way
disability pay was awarded.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2007 Jul 25, In the US over a
dozen Muslims, including at least one Pakistani and several US citizens
of Pakistani origin, were sentenced to imprisonment for their
association with Lashkar-e-Taiba and for conspiracy to wage war against
India.
(WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A6)
2007 Jul 25, In Stockton, Ca.,
police arrested 51 alleged gang members and seized $400,000 worth of
drugs following a 6-month investigation. Members and affiliates of the
Norteno and south side Stockton gangs were arrested with state and
federal warrants.
(SFC, 7/27/07, p.B12)
2007 Jul 25, In SF faulty PG&E
breakers caused a power outage that knocked out a number of Web sites.
(SFC, 7/26/07, p.C1)
2007 Jul 25, In northern
California the East Contra Costa County Habitat Conservation Plan was
unveiled. It called for spending $350 million over the next 30 years to
preserve 30,000 acres of open space around Mt. Diablo. It also listed
some 12,000 acres for new development.
(SFC, 7/26/07, p.B1)
2007 Jul 25, In Alaska a
sightseeing plane crashed leaving a pilot and 2 couples from a visiting
cruise ship dead.
(WSJ, 1/25/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 25, Afghan authorities
found the bullet-riddled body Bae Hyung-kyu (42) in Qarabagh district
of Ghazni province, where 23 South Koreans were abducted July 19. Bae,
a deputy pastor and a founder of Saemmul Presbyterian Church, was
killed on his birthday. Militants said the hostage was sick and
couldn't walk, and therefore was shot. 22 South Koreans were still
believed held but were not suffering health problems. A German
journalist and two Afghans colleagues apparently kidnapped by Taliban
militants in eastern Afghanistan were freed.
(AP, 7/25/07)(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 25, Miguel Angel
Moratinos, Spain’s Foreign Minister arrived in Algeria on a visit aimed
at strengthening cooperation in energy and sorting out a row with
Madrid's top gas supplier.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, Tony Blair held talks
on with the crown prince of Bahrain on his first regional tour as an
international envoy for Middle East peace.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, British Defense
Secretary Des Browne announced that Britain has agreed to let the US
use a Royal Air Force base as part of its planned missile defense
system. The British government said it will build two new aircraft
carriers costing 3.9 billion pounds in a project which will support
10,000 British jobs over the next ten years.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, China said it will
step up inspections on the use of antibiotics in fish farms, including
chemicals that can cause cancer, after contaminants caused trading
partners to block its seafood exports.
(Reuters, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, Human Rights Watch
said the escalating use of land mines by Colombian rebels is killing
and mutilating hundreds annually, making this nation the world leader
in mine victims.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, Ethiopian authorities
ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to pull out of the
volatile Ogaden region within 7 days for allegedly interfering in
political issues. Five opposition members imprisoned since 2005 pleaded
guilty to attempting to overthrow Ethiopia's government, but asked the
judge for a pardon.
(AFP, 7/25/07)(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy headed for talks with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, a
day after the release of six foreign medics, in a signal of normalized
ties between Europe and Tripoli. France and Libya signed a memorandum
of understanding to build a Libyan nuclear reactor for water
desalination and clinched a raft of other deals.
(AP, 7/25/07)(AFP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, India inaugurated
Pratibha Patil (72) as its 1st female president. She promised to fight
for the rights of women and an end to the widespread practice of
aborting female fetuses. In northeastern India 2 domesticated elephants
went on a rampage through several villages, killing eight people and
wounding five before being shot dead by police.
(AFP, 7/25/07)(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 25, Iranian authorities
announced new arrests in the cases of two Iranian-Americans held on
charges of conspiring against the government, saying that an
unspecified number of Iranians had been detained.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, Iraq's largest Sunni
Arab bloc said it has suspended its membership in PM Nouri al-Maliki's
coalition government, dealing a new setback to the Shiite leader's
efforts to achieve national reconciliation. The Iraqi Accordance Front,
which has six Cabinet members as well as 44 of parliament's 275 seats,
said it was giving al-Maliki a week to meet their demands or it would
quit his 14-month-old Cabinet altogether. 2 suicide bombings killed at
least 50 cheering, dancing, flag-waving Iraqis celebrating the national
soccer team's semifinal victory in the Asian Cup tournament. A roadside
bomb targeting a police patrol on the road between Hillah and
Diwaniyah, killed 5 Iraqi officers and wounding 2 as they were on their
way home from an operation with US forces. A joint US-Iraqi force
backed with helicopter gunships clashed with suspected Shiite
militiamen when they raided several homes in eastern Baghdad. Six
people were killed and 10 wounded. A senior police officer in Karbala
escaped an assassination attempt when a roadside bomb targeted his
five-car convoy while he was on his way to work, but 3 of his guards
were killed.
(AP, 7/25/07)(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 25, The foreign ministers
of Egypt and Jordan began a historic visit to Israel to formally
present an Arab peace plan, saying they were extending "a hand of
peace" on behalf of the region.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, Lebanese army troops
unleashed barrages of artillery and tank shells at Islamic militants in
a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, The Nigerian
government filed suit against three leading tobacco companies, seeking
more than 40 billion dollars (29 billion euros) in damages for the cost
of treating smoking-related diseases.
(AFP, 11/7/07)
2007 Jul 25, A South Korean aid
group said some 430 North Koreans have died of hunger in a northern
region in the past month because of chronic food shortages.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, In northwestern
Pakistan suspected militants fired four rockets into Bannu, killing 10
people as they slammed into houses and a mosque.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, Sudanese papers
reported that another 16 people died in clashes between the two tribes
when Aballa men fell on a band of Torjum, killing nine.
(AFP, 7/31/07)
2007 Jul 25, The UN governor in
Kosovo called on major powers to set a clear roadmap to the final
status of Serbia's breakaway province, whose independence bid is
blocked by Russia. Serbia warned the US and the EU not to recognize
Kosovo's independence without UN consent, saying that would prompt an
immediate response from Serbian authorities and could destabilize the
region.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, Vietnam’s lawmakers
overwhelmingly re-elected PM Nguyen Tan Dung, in hopes that strong
growth and economic reforms would continue under his leadership.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 25, State television
reported that Zimbabwe is to import 200,000 tons of the staple maize
from Tanzania to avert widespread food shortages following a poor
harvest. An international rights group said Zimbabwe's government
routinely arrests and tortures women's rights activists as part of a
crackdown on protests against President Mugabe and his policies.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2008 Jul 25, President George W.
Bush signed an order expanding US sanctions against the "illegitimate"
Zimbabwe government of President Robert Mugabe.
(Reuters, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, US regulators took
over two banks and sold them to Mutual of Omaha Bank, the sixth and
seventh bank failures this year as financial institutions struggle with
a housing bust and credit crunch. The Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency said it closed First National Bank of Nevada and First
Heritage Bank NA of California.
(Reuters, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 25, US Federal regulators
formally approved the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and rival
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., the nation's only two satellite radio
operators. The companies first applied for permission to combine in
March 2007.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 25, California’s Gov.
Schwarzenegger signed a bill banning trans fat in restaurants and food
facilities, making California the first state to do so. The law takes
effect in two stages: Jan 1, 2010 and Jan 1, 2011.
(WSJ, 7/26/08, p.A1)(SSFC, 7/27/08, p.C1)
2008 Jul 25, Texas nurse Chere Lyn
Tomayko, wanted by the FBI for international parental kidnapping, was
awarded refugee status in Costa Rica and cannot be extradited to the
US. In December 1996, a US judge gave joint custody of a daughter,
Alexandria Camille Cyprian, to Tomayko and her ex-boyfriend Robert
Cyprian, with the condition that Alexandria live in Tarrant County,
Texas. Tomayko said she moved to Costa Rica because she had been
physically abused by Cyprian.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 25, Harriet Burns
(b.1928), the 1st woman hired to work as a designer for Walt Disney
Imagineering (1955), died in Los Angeles.
(SFC, 7/31/08, p.B5)
2008 Jul 25, Harvey Houtkin
(b.1948), self-proclaimed father of day trading, died in San Diego. He
had opened All-Tech Direct Inc. in Suffern, NY, in 1988 and traded on
the Small Order Execution System. He was suspended from trading in 2001.
(WSJ, 8/2/08,
p.A7)(www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080801-9999-1n1sharp.html)
2008 Jul 25, Randy Pausch (47), a
Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist, died at his home in
Virginia. His "last lecture" in September 2007, about facing terminal
cancer, has become an Internet sensation and a best-selling book.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, In southern
Afghanistan a Danish soldier died in a roadside bomb attack. The death
brings the number of Danish troops killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to
15. 3 Taliban militants died in a fight with police in the Gereshk
district of Helmand province.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, In Goiania, Brazil,
Mohamed D'Ali Carvalho Santos stabbed to death and dismembered Cara
Marie Burke (17), a British citizen, while high on crack cocaine. In
2009 Santos was sentenced to 19 years for the killing and two more for
hiding the body.
(AP, 5/14/09)
2008 Jul 25, British PM Gordon
Brown suffered another serious blow to his leadership after Scottish
nationalists won a longtime Labour seat in Glasgow.
(AFP, 7/25/08)(WSJ, 7/26/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 25, In Colombia police
arrested Sen. Carlos Garcia, the head of one of Colombia's main
governing parties, for alleged ties with far-right paramilitaries.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 25, Estonia urged the EU
to take stronger action against Somali pirates attacking cargo ships
bound for Europe, after an Estonian sailor was held hostage for 41 days.
(AFP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 25, The EU and South
Africa began their first-ever summit in the French city of Bordeaux.
Brussels solidly backed Pretoria's mediating role in Zimbabwe as the
only way of ending ruinous political chaos.
(AFP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, US presidential
hopeful Barack Obama met with Pres. Sarkozy during a short stop in
Paris.
(SFC, 7/26/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 25, German semi-conductor
group Infineon posted a sharp quarterly loss and announced the loss of
3,000 jobs.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, India's
high-technology capital Bangalore was rocked by 8 bomb blasts. One
woman was killed and over 150 wounded.
(AFP, 7/25/08)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.44)(WSJ, 11/28/08,
p.A6)
2008 Jul 25, A bomb exploded
outside a Gaza City cafe and another went off outside the home of a
Hamas lawmaker. One person was killed. A mysterious beachside blast
killed 3 Hamas members and a 6-year-old girl. 2 more Hamas activists
died the next day.
(AP, 7/25/08)(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 25, In Lebanon clashes
between Sunni Muslim gunmen and the Alawite broke out at dawn when a
hand grenade was thrown toward a Sunni area. Fighting left one person
dead.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, Energy companies in
the three Baltic states and Poland agreed to set up a joint venture to
develop a nuclear power plant in Lithuania.
(Reuters 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, In Nigeria two oil
workers, one Nigerian and one Filipino, were kidnapped in the Niger
delta.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 25, In northwestern
Pakistan militants blew up a girls school and 10 shops in 2 separate
areas of the Swat valley. There were no casualties.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, A bomb exploded
outside a Gaza City cafe and another went off outside the home of a
Hamas lawmaker. One person was killed. A mysterious beachside blast
killed 3 Hamas members and a 6-year-old girl. 2 more Hamas activists
died the next day.
(AP, 7/25/08)(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 25, Sheik Hassan Dahir
Aweys, Somalia's new hard-line opposition leader, promised to pacify
his shattered country through Islamic law, warning UN peacekeepers they
will face attack if they deploy and support the government.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, Ahmedou Ould
Abdallah, the UN special envoy for Somalia, sounded the alarm about
rampant illegal fishing and the dumping of toxic waste off the coast of
the lawless nation.
(AFP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, In Sri Lanka heavy
fighting between Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels
along the front lines of their civil war killed 62 rebels and eight
soldiers.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 25, Sudan threatened to
expel peacekeepers from Darfur if President Omar al-Beshir is indicted
for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.
(AFP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, In eastern Yemen a
suicide car bomber rammed a vehicle into the Interior Ministry's
headquarters, killing a policeman and injuring eight others.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 25, A UN official said as
much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost
because of the military government's foreign exchange system.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2009 Jul 25, In Afghanistan 7
suicide bombers tried to storm state targets in Khost, killing one
civilian and wounding others in the third Taliban commando raid in a
week. A British soldier was killed when a bomb exploded in southern
Helmand province. A US service member died during a clash with
insurgents in the south. Afghan elders struck the first local truce
with Taliban insurgents in northwestern Badghis province after nearly
three weeks of talks.
(AFP, 7/25/09)(AP, 7/26/09)(AP, 7/27/09)
2009 Jul 25, In Algeria five
Islamists were killed by the army about 15 km (nine miles) east of Tizi
Ouzou.
(AFP, 7/29/09)
2009 Jul 25, Brazil agreed to
triple its compensation to Paraguay to operate the huge Itaipu
hydroelectric dam on their shared border, ending a decades-long dispute
between the neighbors.
(AFP, 7/25/09)
2009 Jul 25, In Britain a new poll
was released showing solid support for the right to die. The Royal
College of Nursing said it was adopting a neutral stance on the issue
after its research showed nurses were divided. The British Medical
Association remained opposed.
(AP, 7/25/09)
2009 Jul 25, In eastern China more
than 3,000 villagers of Shipu town, in Zhejiang province, blocked a
highway and clashed with police while protesting alleged official
corruption in a land compensation deal.
(AP, 7/26/09)
2009 Jul 25, Chinese state
television launched an Arabic-language channel beamed to the Middle
East and Africa as part of efforts to expand the communist government's
media influence abroad.
(AP, 7/25/09)
2009 Jul 25, In Colombia at least
16 suspected FARC guerrillas and one soldier have been killed in
clashes over the last 24 hours.
(AP, 7/25/09)
2009 Jul 25, Iran's opposition
leaders appealed to the top clerics in the holy city of Qom to pressure
the ruling Islamic regime to release protesters and activists, who they
say have been tortured following last month's disputed presidential
election. Protesters across the world called on Iran to end its
clampdown on opposition activists, demanding the release of hundreds
rounded up during demonstrations against the country's disputed
election.
(AP, 7/25/09)
2009 Jul 25, Iraqis voted in
elections in the self-ruled Kurdish north. Regional Kurdish President
Massoud Barzani, who has been a consistent critic of the central
government, won re-election with almost 70% of the vote, while the
leading candidate from the opposition party, Kamal Mirawdeli, received
25%. A coalition of the two ruling parties, Barzani's Kurdistan
Democratic Party and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan, received a little over 57% of the vote for the 111-seat
parliament, while the opposition Gorran, or Change, party took about
23%.
(AP, 7/25/09)(AP, 7/29/09)
2009 Jul 25, Mexican police
captured 11 suspected members of the La Familia cartel and seized a
methamphetamine lab in the western state of Michoacan.
(AP, 7/25/09)
2009 Jul 25, In Pakistan a remote
controlled bomb killed two Pakistani soldiers in the tribal Bajaur
district. Troops retaliated killing three suspected Taliban militants.
(AP, 7/25/09)
2009 Jul 25, Swedish wireless
equipment maker LM Ericsson said it had penned a deal to buy a majority
of Nortel Networks' North American wireless business for $1.13 billion.
(AP, 7/25/09)
2009 Jul 25, In Sweden a woman in
her 40s and her five daughters were killed when they tried to escape an
apartment fire in a Stockholm suburb.
(AP, 7/26/09)
2009 Jul 25, Zimbabwe’s PM Morgan
Tsvangirai said compensation must be considered for victims of
political violence as the country held a weekend of national
reconciliation.
(AFP, 7/25/09)
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