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657 Jul 26,
Mu'awiyan defeated Caliph Ali in the Battle of Siffin in Mesopotamia
[now Iraq].
(HN, 7/26/98)
796 Jul 26, Offa, king of Mercia
(in central England), died.
(MC, 7/26/02)
811 Jul 26, Nicephorus I,
Byzantine Emperor (802-11), died in the Battle at Pliska. The Bulgarian
under monarch Krum beat the Byzantines.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1267 Jul 26, The Inquisition
formed in Rome under Pope Clement IV.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1497 Jul 26, "Edward IV's son"
Perkin Warbeck's army landed in Cork.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1524 Jul 26, James I became king
of Scotland at age 12.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1526 Jul 26, The Spaniard Lucas
Vasquez de Ayllon and his colonists left Santo Domingo in the Caribbean
for Florida.
(HN, 7/26/98)
1529 Jul 26, Francisco Pizarro
received a royal warrant in Toledo, Spain, to "discover and conquer"
Peru.
(HN, 7/26/98)
1579 Jul 26, Francis Drake left SF
to cross Pacific Ocean.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1588 Jul 26, Captain John Hawkins
was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1656 Jul 26, Rembrandt declared he
is insolvent.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1678 Jul 26, Joseph I Habsburg,
German king, Roman catholic emperor (1705-11), was born.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1680 Jul 26, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl
of Rochester, poet, courtier, died.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1753 Jul 26, Georg Richmann
(b.1711), German physicist, died of electrocution in St. Petersburg,
Russia. Reportedly, ball lightning traveled along the apparatus and was
the cause of his death. He was apparently the first person in history
to die while conducting electrical experiments.
(Econ, 3/29/08,
p.104)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Richmann)
1758 Jul 26, British battle fleet
under Gen. James Wolfe captured France's Fortress of Louisbourg on Ile
Royale (Capre Breton Island, Nova Scotia) after a 7-week siege, thus
gaining control of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River.
(HN, 7/26/98)(MC, 7/26/02)
1759 Jul 26, The French
relinquished Fort Carillon in New York, to the British under General
Jeffrey Amherst. The British changed the name to Fort Ticonderoga, from
the Iroquois word Cheonderoga (land between the waters).
(HN, 7/26/98)(AH, 10/02, p.26)
1775 Jul 26, The Continental
Congress established a postal system for the colonies with Benjamin
Franklin as the first postmaster general in Philadelphia.
(AP, 7/26/97)(HN, 7/26/98)
1782 Jul 26, John Field, pianist,
composer (Nocturnes), was born in Dublin, Ireland.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1788 Jul 26, New York became the
11th state to ratify the Constitution.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1790 Jul 26, US passed the
Assumption bill making it responsible for state debts.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1790 Jul 26, An attempt at a
counter-revolution in France was put down by the National Guard at
Lyons.
(HN, 7/26/98)
1791 Jul 26, Franz Xavier Wolfgang
Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM, was born.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1794 Jul 26, After remaining
uncharacteristically silent for several weeks, Robespierre demanded
that the National Convention punish "traitors" without naming them.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1796 Jul 26, George Catlin,
American artist and author, was born.
(HN, 7/26/01)
1805 Jul 26, Constantine Brumidi,
artist (Myrtle Murdock), was born.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1805 Jul 26, Naples and Calabria
were struck by an earthquake and some 26,000 died.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1822 Jul 26, Simon Bolivar and
Jose de San Martin held a secret meeting.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1826 Jul 26, Riots in Vilnius,
Lithuanian, caused the death of many Jews.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1830 Jul 26, King Charles X of
France issued five ordinances limiting the political and civil rights
of citizens.
(HN, 7/26/98)
1847 Jul 26, Liberia became the
first African colony to become an independent state. A mutual agreement
between the settlers and the society created the republic of Liberia.
More than 10,000 free blacks had moved there. Joseph Jenkins Roberts,
the Virginia-born son of free blacks, was elected the first president
of Liberia, an African nation that grew out of the efforts of the
American Colonization Society. Roberts made a state visit to the United
States in 1851. The American Colonization Society supported setting up
a colony for freed slaves in Africa as an alternative to American
integration. [see Aug 26]
(HNPD, 7/26/98)(HN, 7/26/98)
1848 Jul 26, Charles Ellet Jr.,
engineer, completed a light suspension bridge over the Niagara River. A
boy’s kite was used to transfer the 1st line across.
(ON, 7/02, p.8)
1848 Jul 26, The French army
suppressed the Paris uprising.
(HN, 7/26/98)
1850 Jul 26, The final design for
London’s Great Council Exhibition, the first-ever World’s Fair, was
officially approved. The structure of the glass and iron
building, designed by Joseph Paxton, was essentially completed by
Jan 1, 1851. The Exhibition opened May 1.
(WSJ, 1/26/98, p.A16)(ON, 7/04, p.12)
1856 Jul 26, George Bernard Shaw
(d.1950), Irish-born, English dramatist, critic and social reformer
(Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), was born in Dublin. "The worst sin toward our
fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them;
that's the essence of inhumanity."
(V.D.-H.K.p.237)(HN, 7/26/98)(AP, 3/15/00)
1858 Jul 26, Baron Lionel de
Rothschild became the 1st Jew elected to British Parliament.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1863 Jul 26, In the Battle of
Salineville, Ohio, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrendered.
Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his cavalrymen were
captured during their daring raid into Ohio. Conditions for Confederate
soldiers housed in the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus improved
after General Morgan sent a written complaint to the Buckeye State’s
governor, David Todd. The Confederates were placed in the dark, dank
stone prison, where they were subject to harsh punishment and forced to
live on bread and water. Todd visited the prison after receiving
Morgan’s letter, and soon afterward reforms were instituted to improve
living conditions. Morgan did not stay to savor the improvements,
though. In November 1863, he and six other Confederate officers escaped.
(HNQ, 9/20/01)(MC, 7/26/02)
1863 Jul 26, Samuel Houston (70),
1st Pres. of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), died.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1864 Jul 26, Battle at Ezra Chapel
(Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie].
(MC, 7/26/02)
1864 Jul 26-31, Riots took place
at McCook's to Lovejoy Station, and Stoneman's to Macon, Georgia.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1870 Jul 26, In France Marx’s
"First Address" was approved and internationally distributed by the
General Council of the International Working Men's Association.
(www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/timeline.htm)
1871 Jul 26, Ferdinand Hayden
(1830-1887) and his government sponsored team arrived at the
Yellowstone Lake and the geyser fields.
(ON, 11/02, p.3)
1874 Jul 26, Serge Koussevitsky,
conductor of the Boston Symphony, was born in Vishny-Volotchok, Russia.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1882 Jul 26, Richard Wagner's
final opera "Parsifal," premiered in Bayreuth, Germany.
(WSJ, 7/2/99, p.W11A)(MC, 7/26/02)
1875 Jul 26, Carl Jung (d.1961),
Swiss psychiatrist and analytical psychologist who identified the
introvert and extrovert types, was born in Kesswil, Switzerland. He saw
the I Ching as a tool to help tune into the noncausal connectedness of
the universe-- what he called synchronicity.
(NH, 9/97, p.13)(WUD, 1994, p.774)(SFEC,10/19/97, BR
p.3)(HN, 7/26/98)
1882 Jul 26, Richard Wagner's
final opera "Parsifal," premiered in Bayreuth, Germany.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1886 Jul 26, William Gladstone was
replaced by Lord Salisbury as prime minister of England.
(HN, 7/26/98)
1893 Jul 26, George Grosz
(d.1959), German satiric artist and illustrator, was born. He arrived
in Berlin in 1911 and began drawing what he saw in a style of
expressionism and the journalistic style of Heinrich Zille. A
collection of his work was published in 1997 based on an exhibition
catalog titled: "The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolors and
Prints, 1912-1930."
(SFEC, 7/13/97, BR p.10)(HN, 7/26/01)
1894 Jul 26, Aldous L. Huxley
(d.1963), author (Brave New World), was born in Surrey, England. "Most
human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for
granted." "Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of
criticisms."
(AP, 7/13/97)(AP, 7/26/98)(MC, 7/26/02)
1895 Jul 26, Gracie Allen,
vaudeville, screen, radio and television personality, wife and foil of
George Burns, was born.
(HN, 7/26/01)
1903 Jul 26, Dr. Horatio Nelson
Jackson of Vermont and his mechanic Sewell Croker arrived in NYC
completing the first cross-country automobile trip in 63 days after
leaving SF. On July 26, 2003 Peter Kesling and Charlie Wake completed a
rerun of the original trip.
(WSJ, 7/19/02, p.W9)(WSJ, 5/7/03, p.B1)(SSFC,
7/27/03, p.A2)(ON, 9/04, p.12)
1903 Jul 26, It was reported that
the old castle built by Adolph Sutro on Telegraph Hill, SF, was
destroyed by fire. The German castle on Telegraph Hill had been built
by entrepreneur Frederick Layman.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W2)(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A18)
1908 Jul 26, US Attorney General
Charles J. Bonaparte issued an order creating an investigative agency
that was a forerunner of the FBI. Until this time Pinkerton had served
as the America’s unofficial national law enforcement agency.
(AP, 7/26/97)(ON, 7/06, p.12)
1908 Jul 26, Salvador Allende
Gossens, Chile's last elected president (1970-73), was born.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1914 Jul 26, Erskine Hawkins,
trumpeter, was born.
(HN, 7/26/01)
1914 Jul 26, Austrian-Hungary
condemned a Serbian ultimatum.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1915 Jul 26, James Murray, lead
compiler of the Oxford English Dictionary, died. The final entry to the
dictionary was completed in 1928. In 2003 Simon Winchester authored
“The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.”
(ON, 11/05, p.7)
1917 Jul 26, J. Edgar Hoover got
job with the Justice Department.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1918 Jul 26, Britain's top war
ace, Edward Mannock, was shot down by ground fire on the Western Front.
(HN, 7/26/98)
1919 Jul 26, James Lovelock,
British biologist and inventor, was born. He developed the Gaia
hypothesis. According to this idea the earth is influenced by life to
sustain life, and the planet is a the core of a single, unified, living
system. "The earth is a living organism, and I’ll stick by that," he
says.
(V.D.-H.K.p.388)
1922 Jul 26, Jason Robards Jr,
actor (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1925 Jul 26, Tyeb Mehta, painter
and film maker, was born in Gujarat, India. In 2005 one of his
paintings fetched $1.58 million.
(Econ, 9/16/06,
p.75)(www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/tyeb-mehta.html)
1925 Jul 26, William Jennings
Bryan (b.1860), lawyer, died 5 days after assisting the prosecution in
the Scopes-monkey trial. In 2006 Michael Kazin authored “A Godly Hero:
The Life of William Jennings Bryan.”
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbryan.htm)(WSJ,
2/10/06, p.W3)
1926 Jul 26, Philippines
government asked the US to plebiscite for independence.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1928 Jul 26,
Stanley Kubrick (d.1999), American film director, was born in Bronx,
NY. His works included Spartacus and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
(HN, 7/26/98)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A7)(MC, 7/26/02)
1928 Jul 26, Bernice Rubens, Welsh
novelist and filmmaker, was born.
(HN, 7/26/01)
1929 Jul 26, Jean Shepherd,
humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969), was born.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1939 Jul 26, The London Times
reported the discovery of a buried ship and other artifacts at Sutton
Hoo. Archeologist later suspected that it was an empty grave and
memorial for a 7th century Anglo-Saxon chief.
(ON, 4/03, p.10)
1940 Jul 26, Mary Jo Kopechne
(d.1969), killed while driving with Ted Kennedy, was born.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1940 Jul 26, In Iran the Shah's
police squad unexpectedly arrived at the residence of opposition
politician Mohammad Mossadegh (1888-1967), searching and ransacking his
house. Although no incriminating evidence against him was found, he was
taken to the central prison in Tehran nonetheless. Mossadegh was
released in November, but was kept under house arrest until 1941 when
Mohammad Reza, ascended to the throne.
(www.mohammadmossadegh.com/biography/)
1942 Jul 26, Roman Catholic
churches protested the Dutch bishops’ stand against the spread of
Judaism.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1942 Jul 26, RAF bombed Hamburg.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1943 Jul 26, In England Mick
[Michael Phillip] Jagger, musician, member of the Rolling Stones, was
born in Dartford, Kent.
(SFEM,11/9/97, p.9)(HN, 7/26/01)
1943 Jul 26, Otto Skorzeny's
commando group arrived in Rome.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1944 Jul 26, The first
desegregation in the US Army.
(HFA, '96, p.34)
1944 Jul 26, There was a Japanese
suicide attack on US lines in Guam.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1945 Jul 26, US cruiser
Indianapolis reached Tinian with atom bomb.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1945 Jul 26, The US, Britain and
China issued the Potsdam Declaration to Japan that she surrender
unconditionally. Two days later Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki
announced to the Japanese press that the Potsdam declaration is to be
ignored. In 1961 Herbert Feis authored “Japan Subdued.”
(WSJ, 5/5/95, p.A-12)(WSJ, 1/14/07, p.P8)
1945 Jul 26, Winston Churchill
resigned as Britain's prime minister after his Conservatives were
soundly defeated by the Labor Party. Clement Attlee became the new
prime minister.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1946 Jul 26, President Truman
ordered the desegregation of all US forces.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1947 Jul 26, President Truman
signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense,
the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA,
FBI, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The act forbade the CIA from
operating within the US. The CIA was transformed from the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS), founded by Gen. William Donovan (1941), and
was led by Adm. Walter Chilcott Ford (d.1999 at 96) until 1949.
(SFC, 11/23/96, p.A2)(AP, 7/26/97)(SFC, 11/25/99,
p.D9)(WSJ, 1/14/07, p.P8)
1948 Jul 26, President Harry
Truman In Executive Order No. 9981 called for "equality of treatment
and opportunity for all persons in the armed forces without regard to
race, color, religion or national origin."
(USAT, 7/23/98, p.8A)(HN, 7/26/98)(MC, 7/26/02)
1950 Jul 26, United States
military involvement in Vietnam began as President Harry Truman
authorized $15 million in military aid to the French.
(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1945.html)
1950 Jul 26-1950 Jul 29, US troops
killed up to 300 South Korean refugees trapped under a bridge at No Gun
Ri. The villagers had gathered there to avoid strafing from US planes
which killed some 100. US troops feared the refugees included
infiltrators from North Korea. The killings were not made public until
1999. On Jan 11, 2001 the US Army admitted that civilians were
massacred and Pres. Clinton offered his regrets. The US Army blamed the
"fog of war" in apology and acknowledgement. In 2007 the Army
acknowledged it had found, but did not divulge, that a high-level
document said the US military had a policy of shooting approaching
civilians in South Korea.
(SFC, 9/30/99, p.A1,16)(WSJ, 6/5/00, p.A32)(SSFC,
12/30/01, p.D2)(AP, 4/13/07)
1952 Jul 26, Adlai E. Stevenson
was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in
Chicago; John J. Sparkman was nominated for vice president.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1952 Evita Peron (b.1919), the
first lady of Argentina, died of cancer at age 33. Her biography: "Eva
Peron" was written by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz. "Santa Evita" was a (1996)
novel by Tomas Eloy Martinez based on the fate of her corpse. Eva wrote
a little book "Mi Mensaje" (My Message, or In My Own Words) that was
unfinished and lost until 1987 and published in English under the title
"In My Own Words." "My Mission In Life" was ghostwritten under Eva’s
name by Manuel Penella de Silva.
(SFEC, 8/18/96, PM p. 8)(SFEC, 11/3/96, BR p.1)(AP,
7/26/97)
1952 Jul 26, King Farouk I of
Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1953 Jul 26, A band of
anti-Batistas revolted against Pres. Fulgencio Batista with an
unsuccessful attack on the Moncada army barracks in eastern Cuba.
Castro was among the moncadistas and ousted Batista six years later.
Castro was imprisoned on the Isle of Pines after the attack at Moncada.
(AP, 7/26/97)(SFEC, 8/23/98, BR p.5)(WSJ, 7/10/02,
p.D8)
1956 Jul 26, Dorothy Hamill,
(Olympic Hall of Famer, Olympic Gold Medalist ice skater [1976]; U.S.
Ice Skating Champion [1974-1976]), was born.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1956 Jul 26, The Italian liner
Andrea Doria sank off New England, some 11 hours after colliding with
the Swedish liner Stockholm; at least 51 people died.
(AP, 7/26/06)
1956 Jul 26, Egypt’s Premier Gamal
Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal to provide revenue for the
construction of the high Aswan dam. His speech in Alexandria, which
included the codeword “De Lesseps,” triggered the army to start the
seizure of the canal.
(EWH, 1968, p.1241)(EWH, 1968, p.1249)(Econ,
7/29/06, p.23)
1957 Jul 26, Pres. Carlos Castillo
Armas of Guatemala was assassinated.
(WUD, 1994, p.1685)
1957 Jul 26, USSR launched the 1st
intercontinental multistage ballistic missile.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1958 Jul 26, Britain's Prince
Charles (9), was made the Prince of Wales by his mother, Queen
Elizabeth II, although his investiture did not take place until the
following year.
(AP, 7/26/08)
1959 Jul 26, Kevin Spacey, actor
(Henry & June, Darrow), was born in South Orange, NJ.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1959 Jul 26, There was a nuclear
reactor meltdown at Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory 30 miles
northwest of downtown Los Angeles. A report in 2006 said it may have
caused hundreds of cases of cancer in the community, and that chemicals
threaten to contaminate ground and water.
(AP,
10/6/06)(www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/PHA/santa/san_p1.html)
1963 Jul 26, Skopje, Yugoslavia,
was destroyed by earthquake and over 1,000 were killed.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1964 Jul 26, Teamsters president
Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in
the handling of a union pension fund.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1965 Jul 26, Republic of Maldives
(Falkland Islands) gained independence from Britain.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1968 Jul 26, Britain’s Theater Act
abolished censorship of the theatre and amended the law in respect of
theatres and theatrical performances.
(www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1968/cukpga_19680054_en_1)
1969 Jul 26, Frank Loesser,
songwriter (b.1910), died. His songs included “Baby It’s Cold Outside”
sung in the 1949 film “Neptune’s Daughter.” In 2008 Thomas L. Riis
authored Frank Loesser.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser)
1971 Jul 26, Apollo 15 was
launched from Cape Kennedy.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1971 Jul 26, Diane Arbus [Nemerov]
(b.1923), photographer, committed suicide in NYC. In 1984 Patricia
Bosworth authored: "Diane Arbus: A Biography."
(http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa110600c.htm)
1973 Jul 26, Peter Shaffer's
"Equus," premiered in London.
(www.bookrags.com/criticism/peter-shaffer-1926_2/)
1980 Jul 26, Kenneth Tynan (53),
dramaturge for Britain’s National Theater, died in California from
emphysema. In 2001 John Lahr edited essays from his last 10 years: "The
Diaries of Kenneth Tynan."
(WSJ, 11/23/01,
p.W8)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0878985/bio)
1984 Jul 26, Ed Gein
(b.1906), mass murderer (movie "Psycho" based on him), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein)
1986 Jul 26, Kidnappers in Lebanon
released the Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held
for nearly 19 months.
(AP, 7/26/00)
1986 Jul 26, Averell Harriman
(b.1892), statesman and former New York Governor, died at age 94 in
Yorktown Heights, NY. He left his fabulous art collection, fortune, and
influence in the Democratic Party to his wife, Pamela Churchill
Harriman. She was later appointed by Pres. Clinton as ambassador to
France. In 1996 Sally Bedell Smith wrote her biography: "Reflected
Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman."
(SFC, 10/23/96, p.E6)(AP, 7/26/06)
1987 Jul 26, US Secretary of
Defense Caspar Weinberger said the Navy's anti-mine capabilities would
be improved in the Persian Gulf in the wake of a mine explosion that
damaged the tanker Bridgeton.
(AP 7/26/97)
1988 Jul 26, U.N. Secretary
General Javier Perez de Cuellar met twice with Iran's foreign minister
in the first formal talks about a cease-fire for the eight-year war
between Iran and Iraq.
(AP, 7/26/98)
1989 Jul 26, Mark Wellman, a
29-year-old paraplegic, reached the summit of El Capitan in Yosemite
National Park after hauling himself up the granite cliff six inches at
a time over nine days.
(AP, 7/26/99)
1990 Jul 26, US Congress passed
and Pres. George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
(WSJ, 7/26/95, p.A-12)(SFEC, 5/25/97, p.C10)
1990 Jul 26, The US House of
Representatives reprimanded Congressman Barney Frank, (Democrat,
Massachusetts) for ethics violations.
(AP, 7/26/00)
1990 Jul 26, The US Centers for
Disease Control reported that a young woman, later identified as
Kimberly Bergalis, had been infected with the AIDS virus, apparently by
her dentist.
(AP, 7/26/00)
1991 Jul 26, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker the Third addressed Mongolia’s first legislature chosen
in multiparty elections, applauding the rise of democracy and promising
millions of dollars in aid.
(AP, 7/26/01)
1991 Jul 26, Paul Reubens (Pee Wee
Herman) was arrested in Florida for exposing himself at an adult movie
theater.
(http://crime.about.com/library/blreubenspaul.htm)
1992 Jul 26, Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) went into effect.
(http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/misc/summada.htm)
1992 Jul 26,
Singer Mary Wells died in Los Angeles at age 49.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1992 Jul 26, Muhamed Cehajic,
mayor of Prijedor, Bosnia, disappeared and was believed killed. Milomar
Stakic became mayor and was later accused of direct involvement in
establishing concentration camps at Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje.
Momcilo Radanovic was later accused of leading a brigade that carried
out numerous massacres and extortion of money from non-Serbs. Stakic
was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison in 2003.
(SFC, 2/1/97, p.A12)(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A12)(SFC,
8/1/03, p.A3)
1992 Jul 26, Iraq agreed to permit
weapons inspectors to search the Agriculture Ministry in Baghdad.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1992 Jul 26, Miguel Indurain of
Spain won cycling's Tour de France for the second year in a row.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1993 Jul 26, President Clinton
launched a harder sell for his budget at a conference in Chicago,
accusing Republicans of gridlock.
(AP, 7/26/98)
1993 Jul 26, In the SF Bay Area
Pat Hatfield founded the Colma Historical Association.
(www.colmahistory.org/History.htm)(Ind, 9/8/98, p.1A)
1993 Jul 26, Ret. Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway (98), US Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), died in Fox Chapel, Pa.
(AP, 7/26/98)
1993 Jul 26, A Boeing 737-500
crashed in South Korea and 68 people were killed.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19930726-1)
1994 Jul 26, The US House Banking
Committee opened limited hearings on the Whitewater controversy.
(AP, 7/26/99)
1994 Jul 26-1994 Jul 27, A car
bomb heavily damaged the Israeli embassy in London, injuring 14; hours
later, a second bomb exploded outside a building housing Jewish
organizations in north London.
(AP, 7/26/99)(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)
1994 Jul 26, In Cambodia 3 Western
backpackers were kidnapped from a train by the Khmer Rouge. The
surprise train attack left 13 dead. Frenchman Michel Braquet, Briton
Mark Slater, and Australian David Wilson were held at the base of Nuon
Paet, who later ordered them killed. Paet was convicted for the
killings in 1999 and sentenced to life in prison. Sam Bith and Chhouk
Rin, former Khmer Rouge guerrillas, were charged in connection with the
abduction and slayings in 1999. Col. Rin was arrested in 2000. Chhouk
Rin was acquitted in 2000 due to an amnesty for rebel defectors. In
2002 Bith was convicted and jailed for life.
(SFC, 6/8/99, p.A12)(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)(SFC,
6/22/99, p.A12)(SFC, 1/19/00, p.A16)(WSJ, 7/19/00, p.A1)(MC,
7/26/02)(AP, 12/23/02)
1994 Jul 26, The Turkish air force
bombed Kurds in Iraq and 79 people were killed.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1994/turkey2/)
1995 Jul 26, The Senate voted
69-to-29 to unilaterally lift the UN embargo on arms shipments to
Bosnia.
(AP, 7/26/00)
1995 Jul 26, Former Michigan
Governor George W. Romney died at age 88.
(AP, 7/26/00)
1996 Jul 26, Amy Van Dyken became
the first American woman to win four gold medals at a single Olympics
as she captured the 50-meter freestyle in Atlanta.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1996 Jul 26, President Clinton
rejected a clemency plea from Jonathan Pollard, who'd spent more than
10 years in prison for spying for Israel.
(AP, 7/26/97)
1996 Jul 26, It was announced that
researchers had devised a new small molecule that may be used in pill
form to replace large molecules which up to now needed to be injected.
(WSJ, 7/26/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 26, Researchers announced
the discovery of a gene, fosB, associated with infant care in mice.
(SFC, 7/26/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 26, UN sources said that
268 Hutu civilians were killed in Burundi’s Gitega province. The Tutsi
army said Hutu rebels attacked a coffee factory in Giheta.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A8)
1997 Jul 26, Pres. Clinton visited
Lake Tahoe and announced that the Forest Service would allot 350 acres
to the Washoe Indian tribe for a cultural center and give tribal
members access to the edge of Lake Tahoe. He also made an executive
order for $50 million over 2 years and 25 initiatives to improve the
water quality of Lake Tahoe. He brought with him $26 million worth of
natural gas postal trucks and sewage pipes to help preserve the lake.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.A1,14)(AP, 7/26/98)
1997 Jul 26, In Belgium at the
Ostend Air Show a Jordanian aerobatics airplane crashed and killed 9
people.
(WSJ, 7/28/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 26, In Cambodia Communist
guerrillas announced that Pol Pot was sentenced to life imprisonment
and Nate Thayer, a US reporter for the Far Eastern Economic Review,
claimed to have seen Pol Pot and prepared a report for the Review.
(WSJ, 7/28/97, p.A12)
1997 Jul 26, From Egypt it was
reported that a cease-fire had been proclaimed by 6 imprisoned leaders
of the Gamaa al Islamiya. The government dismissed the cease-fire as
empty talk.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A13)
1998 Jul 26, The White House said
President Clinton's lawyers were working with prosecutor Kenneth Starr
to avert Clinton's direct testimony to a grand jury about the Monica
Lewinsky case. The president ended up testifying via closed-circuit
television.
(AP, 7/26/99)
1998 Jul 26, AT&T and British
Telecommunications PLC announced they were forming a joint venture to
combine international operations and develop a new Internet system. The
joint venture, known as Concert, proved a money-loser and was shut down.
(AP, 7/26/03)
1998 Jul 26, It was reported that
Digital Video Express (DIVX) was being marketed by Circuit City and the
Good Guys as an alternative choice to Digital Video Disks (DVD). The
system was developed by Circuit City and a law firm to provide viewers
purchase options. The disks scramble after 48 hours if not renewed or
purchased.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, DB)
1998 Jul 26, In Michigan 3
spectators were killed and 6 people injured at the US 500 Race in
Brooklyn.
(WSJ, 7/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 26, In Algeria attackers
in Khelil in Tlemcen province and in Sidi Abdelmoumen in Saida province
killed 20 people in overnight attacks.
(SFC, 7/27/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 26, In Cambodia a Khmer
Rouge attack left 10 people dead as the nation voted for a new
government. 40-50 guerrillas struck at an army outpost at O’Kong Bich.
No party was expected to win a majority of the 122 seat National
Assembly.
(SFC, 7/27/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 26, In Guinea-Bissau army
rebels and the government agreed to a cease-fire and promised to open
peace talks.
(SFC, 7/27/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 26, Serb military action
in the villages of Srednja Klina and Hgornja Klina near Srbica left 3
elderly people shot to death and 2 others wounded.
(SFC, 7/27/98, p.A8)
1999 Jul 26, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright and her Russian counterpart, Igor Ivanov, announced
a second Washington-Moscow "hot line" would be installed to help avoid
misunderstandings like those that had developed over Kosovo.
(WSJ, 7/27/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/26/00)
1999 Jul 26, Cary Stayner, a motel
handyman, described in detail for an off-camera jailhouse interview
with San Francisco TV station KBWB how he’d killed a naturalist and
three Yosemite sightseers.
(AP, 7/26/00)
1999 Jul 26, The eastern third of
the US was gripped in heat and at least 24 deaths over the last week
resulted.
(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 26, Brazil said it would
temporarily suspend all trade talks with Argentina after Argentina
moved to curb certain Brazilian exports.
(WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A20)
1999 Jul 26, Eritrea and Ethiopia
agreed to send delegates to Algeria to finalize arrangements to end
their 14-month border war.
(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 26, Japanese government
officials and US Sec. of State Madeleine Albright issued a threat of
economic and diplomatic consequences to North Korea if it fires another
rocket over Japanese territory.
(SFC, 8/3/99, p.A10)
2000 Jul 26, George W. Bush and
his just-chosen running mate, Dick Cheney, set out on their first
campaign excursion together as they visited Cheney’s former hometown of
Casper, Wyoming.
(AP, 7/26/01)
2000 Jul 26, A federal judge in
New York approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and
more than a-half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded
money deposited by Holocaust victims.
(AP, 7/26/01)
2000 Jul 26, The US Navy reported
that an F-14 Tomcat jet crashed in Saudi Arabia during a training
flight. Iraqi air defense later reported that Iraqi units had shot down
a US Air Force F-14 over southern Iraq in mid July and that the Navy
report was a coverup.
(SFEC, 8/20/00, p.B16)
2000 Jul 26, Napster Inc. was hit
with a preliminary injunction to halt all illegal song swapping over
the Internet. A temporary stay was granted on appeal 2 days later.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 26, In Cuba over 1
million protestors marched in Havana against the US trade embargo.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.C3)
2000 Jul 26, In Fiji George
Speight was arrested by the military, which then stormed a stronghold
of his followers.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 26, In Indonesia the
attorney general filed corruption charges against former Pres. Suharto.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 26, In Russia a tax
reform bill was passed that scrapped the graduated income tax in favor
of a 13% flat tax.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A10)
2001 Jul 26, Hewlett-Packard
announced 6,000 worldwide job cuts and JDS Uniphase announced another
7,000 cuts.
(SFC, 7/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 26, China granted parole
to two U.S.-based scholars convicted of spying for Taiwan.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2001 Jul 26, The UN War Crimes
tribunal indicted Gen. Ante Gotovina on 8 counts of war crimes linked
to alleged atrocities in 1995. In 2005 Croatia’s failure to arrest him
hindered the country’s entry to the EU.
(SFC, 7/27/01, p.D6)(Econ, 3/12/05, p.52)
2001 Jul 26, In Indonesia the
legislature elected Hamzah Haz as vice president. In Jakarta a
high-court justice was assassinated by gunmen on motorbikes.
(WSJ, 7/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 26, In Indonesia
Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, a Supreme Court Justice, was shot to death by
4 assassins. Tommy Suharto was later implicated in the murder.
(SFC, 8/7/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 26, An Israeli youth was
killed in a drive-by shooting and 3 bombs went off in the West Bank
with no injuries.
(WSJ, 7/27/01, p.A1)
2002 Jul 26, The US Republican-led
House voted, 295 to 132, to create an enormous Homeland Security
Department, the biggest government reorganization in decades.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2002 Jul 25, Cassandra Williamson
(6) vanished from a suburban St. Louis home; her body was found hours
later at an abandoned glass factory. Johnny Johnson (24), an
acquaintance of Cassandra's father who had spent the night at the house
was later indicted for murder.
(SFC, 7/27/02, p.A3)(AP, 7/26/03)
2002 Jul 26, The SF-based Texas
Pacific Group agreed to buy Burger King from Diageo PLC for $2.26
billion.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.B1)
2002 Jul 26, Hershey Foods in
Hershey, Pa., announced that it would put itself up for sale under
directions by the Hershey Trust Co.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.B3)
2002 Jul 26, In Argentina an new
Evita Museum opened in Buenos Aires on the 50-year anniversary of her
death.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A16)
2002 Jul 26, In Brazil the new
$1.4 billion Amazon Radar Surveillance (SIVAM), developed by Raytheon,
was unveiled. It was to be used to curb crime and gather economic data.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A16)
2002 Jul 26, The Burundian army
claimed it has killed at least 500 Hutu rebels during fighting over the
last two weeks, while suffering only 15 losses.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, It was reported that
the regional Chinese governments of Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan had
agreed to develop an area to be called "The China Shangri-La Ecological
Tourist Zone" across 50 counties next to Meili Snow Mountain.
(SFC, 7/26/02, p.A15)
2002 Jul 26, In Guayaquil,
Ecuador, South American presidents gathered for a 2nd region-wide
summit in the face of political instability and economic turmoil.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, Indian Vice President
Krishan Kant, 75, died of a heart attack.
(Reuters, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 26, An Indonesian court
sentenced former President Suharto's son Tommy to a total of 15 years
in jail for paying a hitman to kill a Supreme Court judge and other
offences.
(Reuters, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, In Indonesia
bomb-like explosions hit the troubled city of Ambon, injuring 51
people, 10 of them seriously.
(Reuters, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 26, Israel sent tanks and
troops into Gaza City. Troops fatally shot a Palestinian man as he
stood in his kitchen in Qalqilya. Palestinian security officials said
Israeli soldiers were firing live ammunition as they searched houses,
and that the man had been hit in the head.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, Liberian attackers
crossed into eastern Sierra Leone and abducted 18 villagers, in the
second such raid in just over a week.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, Jose Juan Palafox, a
regional director of Mexico's main intelligence agency was slain in the
border city of Tijuana, the 11th person killed this week in what
authorities say is an escalating drug war.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 26, Palestinian gunmen
waiting in ambush fired on two passing Israeli cars near a Jewish
settlement in the southern West Bank, killing four people and injuring
two children before fleeing.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 26, In Peru 2 buses
collided on a slick highway on the coast and another bus slammed into
them, killing at least 12 people and injuring 37.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2003 Jul 26, Backers of a drive to
oust California Governor Gray Davis held a boisterous celebration at
the state Capitol in Sacramento, more than two months before the Oct. 7
recall election.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2003 Jul 26, John Higham (82),
historian, died. His books included "Hanging Together: Unity and
Diversity in American Culture."
(SSFC, 12/28/03, p.E9)
2003 Jul 26, Harold C. Schonberg
(87), New York Times music critic, died in New York.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2003 Jul 26, Cuba celebrated the
50th anniversary of the start of Fidel Castro's revolution against
Fulgencio Batista.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2003 Jul 26, In Haiti a
4-day Voodoo religion pilgrimage, ended. It began with rituals to Ogou,
the god of war, and ended with rites to the goddess of love, Erzuli.
This year's crowd of more than 10,000 was half the turnout of last year.
(AP, 7/28/03)
2003 Jul 26, In Iraq a grenade
attack killed 3 US soldiers and wounded four while they guarded a
children's hospital in Baqouba.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2003 Jul 26, Jiri Horak (79), the
first leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party (190-1992) after the
fall of communism, died in Florida.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2003 Jul 26, Across northern Japan
3 powerful earthquakes knocked out power grids, collapsed buildings and
set off mudslides. At least 268 people were hurt.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2003 Jul 26, In Liberia a mortar
attack into a church harboring thousands of refugees, killed at least
15 and wounded about 55 others.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2004 Jul 26, The Democratic
National Convention opened in Boston with an estimated 35,000 visitors.
Speakers included Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Speakers castigated George W. Bush as a president who mishandled the
economy and bungled the war on terror.
(SFC, 7/27/04, p.A1)(AP, 7/26/05)
2004 Jul 26, A new variation of
the Mydoom computer virus spread across the Internet.
(SFC, 7/27/04, p.D1)
2004 Jul 26, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai formally filed his candidacy for October presidential
elections and chose a brother of late resistance hero Ahmad Shah Masoud
as his running mate for vice president.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Jul 26, Banco Santander
Central Hispano of Spain, with the help of Royal Bank of Scotland,
announced a deal to acquire Abbey National Bank in the UK. The $16
billion deal created the tenth largest bank in the world.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_(bank))
2004 Jul 26, Czech President
Vaclav Klaus named Social Democrat leader Stanislav Gross (B.1969) as
the country's next prime minister, making him Europe's youngest leader
and paving the way for a new center-left government.
(www.e-paranoids.com/s/st/stanislav_gross.html)
2004 Jul 26, Mohammed Mamdouh
Helmi Qutb, an Egyptian diplomat held hostage by militants in Iraq for
three days, was released and was in good condition.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Jul 26, Al-Qaida-linked
Islamic militants threatened to "shake the earth" everywhere in Italy
if Rome does not withdraw troops from Iraq. The Internet statement,
attributed to the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, was the 2nd such threat
against the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in two weeks.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Jul 26, A suicide car bomber
attacked near a U.S. base in the northern city of Mosul, killing three
Iraqis. Assassins gunned down a senior Interior Ministry official and
militants said they kidnapped two Jordanian truck drivers in spiraling
violence in Iraq. Basra gunmen shot 2 women dead and wounded 3 who were
on their way to cleaning jobs at Bechtel.
(AP, 7/26/04)(WSJ, 7/27/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 26, Attackers shot and
killed Col. Musab al-Awadi, the ministry's deputy chief of tribal
affairs, and 2 of his bodyguards in a drive-by shooting at the
official's Baghdad home.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Jul 26, Close to 5,000
'cybernauts' gathered for a weeklong computer party in Spain’s
southeastern city of Valencia.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2005 Jul 26, Discovery and seven
astronauts blasted into orbit on America's first manned space shot
since the 2003 Columbia disaster, ending a painful, 2 1/2-year shutdown
devoted to making the shuttle less risky and NASA more
safety-conscious. Its mission was to resupply the space station and
deliver a new gyroscope and storage platform.
(AP, 7/26/05)(SFC, 7/27/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 26, Danny Simon (86), TV
comedy writer and older brother of Neil Simon, died in Portland, Ore.
(SFC, 7/28/05, p.B7)
2005 Jul 26, In Afghanistan more
than 1,000 stone-throwing protesters tried to break into Bagram, the
main U.S. base to free eight detained villagers, and Afghan troops
fired warning shots and used clubs to beat the mob back. U.S. troops
also fired into the air.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, In Afghanistan US
military officials moved to defuse tension after a riot outside their
main base by handing 6 villagers, accused of being bombmakers, over to
local authorities.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 26, In Argentina
provincial Sen. Victor Hugo Luna offered a bill that would confiscate
196,000 acres from US rancher Peter McBride’s Taco Pampa property in La
Paz in order to recognize land rights of local goat herders. McBride
had purchased his 286,000 acres for $500,000.
(WSJ, 8/23/05, p.A9)
2005 Jul 26, A
government-commissioned study said Australia will become warmer and
drier with average national temperatures rising as much as two degrees
Celsius and rainfall decreasing significantly by 2030.
(AFP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, Chinese health
officials reported that over the last 4 weeks an unidentified illness
has killed 19 farmers and sickened 80 in southwestern China after they
butchered sick pigs or sheep. The pigs in question were infected with
streptococcus bacteria, a common pathogen in humans and domestic
animals.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, Six-party nuclear
disarmament talks opened in Beijing after a 13-month boycott by North
Korea, and the communist nation's envoy said his country was ready to
work on eliminating atomic weapons from the Korean Peninsula.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, In Dagestan, Russia,
the head of traffic police in Izberbash was killed at a traffic stop.
(WSJ, 7/29/05, p.A11)
2005 Jul 26, Investigators have
identified a suicide bomber in the weekend attacks that killed scores
in this Red Sea resort, saying he was an Egyptian with Islamic militant
ties. DNA tests identified him as Youssef Badran, an Egyptian Sinai
resident.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, A third previously
unknown Islamist group, Tawhid and Jihad Group in Egypt, claimed
responsibility on the Internet for the bomb attacks on Egypt's Sharm
el-Sheikh resort in which as many as 88 people were killed. It said it
was responsible for bomb attacks that ripped through the resort town of
Taba last October, killing 34 people.
(AP, 7/26/05)(Econ, 7/30/05, p.40)
2005 Jul 26, Pernod Ricard SA said
it has completed its takeover of British rival Allied Domecq PLC to
become the world's second-largest wines and spirits maker. The acquired
brands included Ballantine’s, Malibu and Beefeater.
(AP, 7/26/05)(WSJ, 9/7/05, p.B2)
2005 Jul 26, In India women and
men armed with truncheons and stones attacked police in Gurgaon where
violent clashes between protesting Honda workers and police a day
earlier reportedly injured 700 people.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, In Indonesia a 2nd
suspect tried in September's deadly bombing at the Australian Embassy
was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for helping
transport materials used in the attack. Agus Ahmad (31) told the South
Jakarta District Court he believed six bags given to him by a friend
contained crystal stones, but the three judges did not believe him.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, Al-Qaida in Iraq said
it had condemned to death two Algerian diplomats who were abducted in
Baghdad. A video made public showed the men blindfolded and in
captivity.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, Officials said
Jerusalem planners have approved the construction of a new Jewish
neighborhood in the city's Muslim Quarter.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, John Goldson (69), a
prominent British hotelier, was killed in Kenya’s central Rift Valley
when he went to investigate a break-in by about seven gunmen at the
lodge outside Naivasha, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) northwest of
Nairobi. In 2006 police arrested Ibrahim Abdi Noor, believed to be the
leader of the gang that shot and killed Goldson.
(AP, 2/6/06)
2005 Jul 26, In Lebanon Samir
Geagea (53), a notorious anti-Syrian Christian warlord, was released
after 11 years in prison.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, Myanmar agreed to
forgo its chairmanship of Southeast Asia's bloc next year to avoid a
damaging Western boycott of the group's meetings.
(AP, 7/26/05)
2005 Jul 26, Nepal's former prime
minister and a member of his Cabinet were convicted of embezzlement by
the king's anti-corruption commission and sentenced to two years in
prison.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 26, A boat ferrying
passengers between remote villages sank in a southwestern Nigerian
river, killing at least 18 people.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 26, A Dutch court
sentenced Mohammed Bouyeri (27), the killer of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh,
to life in prison. He was linked to the “Hofstad Group,” some of whom
were accused of wild plans to blow up Schiphol airport, the Dutch
parliament and a nuclear reactor.
(AP, 7/26/05)(Econ, 7/16/05, p.13)
2006 Jul 26, Iraq’s PM Nouri
al-Maliki addressed US Congress and asked for more US reconstruction
aid. He did not talk of sectarian violence in Iraq and did not mention
Hezbollah.
(SFC, 7/27/06, p.A12)
2006 Jul 26, The Washington state
Supreme Court upheld a ban on gay marriage, saying lawmakers have the
power to restrict marriage to unions between a man and woman.
(AP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, Chicago’s City
Council voted by a veto-proof margin to require big-box stores like
Wal-Mart to pay employees at least $10 per hour plus benefits.
(WSJ, 7/27/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 26, In a dramatic
turnaround from her first murder trial, a jury in Houston found Andrea
Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of her children
in the bathtub; she was committed to a state mental hospital.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2006 Jul 26, SF police officer
Nick-Tomasito Birco (39) was killed when a Dodge van carrying 4 robbery
suspects broadsided his patrol car at Cambridge and Felton. Steven
Wayne Petrilli (19) was charged the next day with murder, manslaughter,
evading police and robbery.
(SFC, 7/27/06, p.A1)(SFC, 7/28/06, p.B1)
2006 Jul 26, In southern Zabul
province, gunmen ambushed and killed one Afghan worker and wounded
three others as they drove to work on a road being built between the
town of Qalat to a new US air base just outside town. 5 militants were
killed and 11 were wounded when they battled 200 Afghan police in
Garmser. All 16 people including two Dutch soldiers and at least 2
American civilians were killed when their helicopter crashed in
southeast Afghanistan. The Russian-made helicopter was operated by a
logistics company ferrying supplies and fuel from Kabul to the Khost
airport.
(AP, 7/26/06)(AFP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 26, China's PM Wen Jiabao
called for urgent steps to prevent economic overheating, as the
government forecast more double-digit growth in the next quarter.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 26, Xinhua News said
heavy rain from Tropical Storm Kaemi caused a levee in southern China
to collapse, threatening to inundate an area that's home to 20,000
villagers.
(AP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, An unhappy China said
that Canada's decision to bestow honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama
could hurt commercial relations between the two countries.
(Reuters, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, Jessica Gilbert (19),
a British chess prodigy, fell from an eighth-floor hotel room window in
the Czech Republic where she was competing in an international chess
tournament. Her death took place days before the trial of her father,
whom she had accused of rape, was to begin. In December Ian Gilbert
(48), a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland, was acquitted of 5
counts of raping Jessica, while she was still a child, and 6 sexual
offenses against other people.
(AP, 12/15/06)
2006 Jul 26, Georgian authorities
reported sporadic fighting in a mountainous region where police are
trying to subdue a defiant militia leader, the latest confrontation in
a volatile former Soviet republic plagued by separatist movements.
(AP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, Germany, Israel and
the US signed an agreement opening to researchers an archive of
millions of Nazi files describing how the Holocaust was carried out.
(AP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, Israel suffered its
bloodiest day in Lebanon in its offensive against Hezbollah, with
militants killing at least nine soldiers in a battle for the strategic
town of Bint Jbail.
(AP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, Israeli strikes
killed 23 people in the Gaza Strip, including 16 militants and a mother
and her two young daughters, in the deadliest day of fighting since
Israel withdrew from the coastal strip last year.
(AP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, In Indian Kashmir 5
people were killed and 12 wounded, including nine in a tourist area, in
4 different gun battles.
(AFP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, Pro-government
militia fighters in western Ivory Coast began laying down arms, the
first step of a delayed nationwide disarmament program.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 26, Power was restored to
parts of Liberia's dilapidated capital Monrovia for the first time in
15 years, another step in the country's emergence from more than a
decade of civil war.
(AP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, A UN report said the
death toll from floods and landslides in North Korea this month has
risen to at least 154 people, with 127 others missing.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 26, Somalia's virtually
powerless government said a cargo plane landed at the capital's airport
and was carrying weapons for Islamic militants who have seized control
of much of southern Somalia. A spokesman for the country's official
government, based 150 miles northwest of Mogadishu, said the plane was
carrying land mines, bombs and long-range guns from Eritrea for a
militia loyal to the Supreme Islamic Courts Council.
(AP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 26, Sri Lanka's military
carried out air attacks against suspected Tamil Tiger positions in
northeast Sri Lanka after the rebels allegedly blocked an irrigation
canal.
(AP, 7/26/06)
2007 Jul 26, The US Senate passed,
85-8, a measure intensifying national anti-terror efforts.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2007 Jul 26, A federal judge in
Boston ordered the government to pay a record nearly $102 million for
the FBI's role in the 1968 wrongful murder convictions of four men.
Judge Nancy Gertner powerfully condemned misconduct that she said ran
"all the way up to the FBI director."
(www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072700282.html)
2007 Jul 26, The DJIA suffered one
of its worst losses of the year, closing down 311.50 to 13,473.57.
(SFC, 7/27/07, p.D1)(AP, 7/26/08)
2007 Jul 26, Oakland, Ca., Mayor
Ron Dellums brokered negotiations between the locked-out Teamsters’
Union and Waste Management following 25 days of accumulated trash.
(SFC, 7/28/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 26, There was an
explosion at a remote test facility in the Mojave Desert belonging to
Scaled Composites LLC during testing of a new space tourism vehicle. 2
people died at the scene and one later died at a hospital after surgery.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2007 Jul 26, In southern
Afghanistan US-led coalition forces and Afghan troops fought two
separate battles with militants, killing more than 60 suspected Taliban
insurgents. A British soldier was killed in the fighting.
(AP, 7/26/07)(AFP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, Bhutan's prime
minister and six members of his Cabinet resigned to pave the way for
the 1st parliamentary elections in the Buddhist kingdom and its
transition to democracy.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2007 Jul 25, Brazil's Pres. Lula
da Silva fired Defense Minister Waldir Pires in response to a fatal
jetliner crash that turned months of anger over breakdowns in the
military-run national air system into a full-blown political crisis.
(AP, 7/25/07)
2007 Jul 26, In London, England,
Bachan Athwal (70), a British grandmother, faced life imprisonment
after being convicted of the "honor killing" of her son's wife who she
murdered after luring her to India. Her son (43) was also found guilty
of murder. The two killed Sikh Heathrow Airport worker Surjit Kaur
Athwal (27), who disappeared in December 1998 after she decided to walk
out of her arranged marriage.
(Reuters, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, A London court
sentenced five students to jail for collecting information on
bomb-making and terrorism.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, Canada nixed a
decade-old policy that required prospective Sikh immigrants to change
their last names to avoid confusion with other Sikhs.
(Reuters, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, China’s state media
said flooding in the far west has killed 32 people over the last 10
days, while a central city of 9 million was on high alert as the mighty
Yangtze River approached dangerous heights. Runoff from a lead-zinc
mine polluted the Zijiang river in Hunan province, cutting off supplies
to the riverside city of Lengshuijiang and residents downstream.
(AP, 7/26/07)(AP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 26, East Timor's
President Jose Ramos-Horta asked visiting Australian PM John Howard to
keep Australian peacekeepers in the young nation until the end of 2008.
(AFP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, The European Court of
Human Rights ordered the Russian government to pay damages of $196,000
to the family members of 11 Chechen civilians killed by Russian
soldiers in 2000, when security forces rampaged through Novye Aldi,
setting fire to houses and killing at least 50 civilians.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2007 Jul 26, Juan Cruz Maiza, the
alleged head of ETA’s logistics, was arrested in France along with two
helpers.
(Econ, 8/4/07, p.44)
2007 Jul 26, Germany's Identity
Foundation said leading Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen
(73) will be awarded the Meister Eckhart prize for his work on human
development theory.
(AFP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, In Indonesia a dozen
Christian men were convicted and sentenced to up to 14 years in jail
for beating to death and beheading two Muslims to avenge the government
executions of three Christians last year.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, A parked car bomb
exploded near a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad,
killing 28 people and wounding 74. In northern Iraq a suicide bomber
blew himself up at the gate of a police station, killing 7 people and
wounding 13 in Mosul. A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in
Diyala province; 3 more were killed in fighting in Anbar province.
(AP, 7/26/07)(WSJ, 1/27/07, p.A1)(AP, 7/27/07)(AP,
7/30/07)
2007 Jul 26, An Israeli airstrike
targeting a car south of Gaza City killed 3 Islamic Jihad militants.
Israeli forces also killed a Hamas militant during a military operation
in the southern Gaza Strip. In the West Bank Israeli troops struck and
seriously injured a Palestinian who tried to stab a soldier. The man's
family said he later died of his wounds.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, Jordan pleaded for
international help to deal with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who
have fled here to avoid the violence at home, saying they cost the
kingdom $1 billion a year in basic services.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, A court in Nigeria
sentenced Dieprieye Alamieyeseigha, former Bayelso state governor, to
two years in jail on charges of corruption and money laundering and
ordered him to forfeit millions in property and cash. Vice Admiral
Ganiyu Adekeye, the new head of the navy, told a parliamentary
commission about the suspected illegal bunkering on ships under naval
guard and how the ex-officers allegedly dipped into the lucrative trade.
(AP, 7/26/07)(AFP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 26, North Korea walked
out of military talks with South Korea, ending 3 days of high-level
negotiations with no agreement amid a lingering dispute over their
shared sea border.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, Pakistan said it
successfully test-fired a cruise missile capable of delivering nuclear
warheads deep into India.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, In Somalia 2 separate
explosions killed at least five civilians in Mogadishu, where the
government is struggling to contain a lethal insurgency.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2007 Jul 26, In northern Syria an
explosion at an ordnance depot that was blamed on summer heat killed at
least 15 soldiers and wounded 50 others.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, Turkish police
arrested Maksym Yastremskiy (24), a Ukrainian data-theft suspect. The
US Secret Service had been investigating him since 2004. Losses to US
individuals from identity theft thieves, online and offline, totaled
$49 billion in 2006.
(WSJ, 8/10/07, p.A6)
2007 Jul 26, UN arms experts
reported that Eritrea has secretly supplied "huge quantities of arms"
to a Somali insurgent group with alleged ties to al-Qaida in violation
of an international arms embargo and despite the deployment of African
peacekeepers.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 26, A bull named Shambo
was taken away from a Hindu monastery at Skanda Vale, Wales, ending a
long and public battle between Hindus who revere bulls and authorities
who said he must be killed because he had tested positive for
tuberculosis.
(AP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 26, Zimbabwe state media
reported that nearly 5,000 store owners, managers and business
executives have been arrested since the government began its campaign
to slash prices last month.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2008 Jul 26, In southern
Afghanistan NATO-led soldiers killed four civilians after opening fire
on a car that did not stop at a checkpoint.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 26, US presidential
hopeful Barack Obama met PM Gordon Brown in London, focusing on key
foreign policy issues facing both countries, particularly Afghanistan
and Iraq. Obama also met with Tory leader David Cameron and Middle East
envoy Tony Blair.
(AFP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 26, Brazil's Embraer
(EMBR3.SA), the world's third-biggest commercial jet maker, said it
would invest 148 million euros in two new plants in Portugal -- its
first industrial units in Europe that will make wings and tailpieces
for exports.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 26, In southern Haiti at
least 29 people were killed when a large truck carrying people and
merchandise collided with three pickups east of Cavailon.
(AP, 7/27/08)
2008 Jul 26, In western India at
least 51 people were killed and 161 wounded when 19 bombs went off in
several crowded neighborhoods of Ahmadabad, Gujarat state.
(AP, 7/26/08)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.44)
2008 Jul 26, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said that Iran now has 6,000 centrifuges, a significant
increase in the number of uranium-enriching machines in its nuclear
program.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 26, In Lebanon three more
people were killed in the second day of sectarian clashes between
Sunnis and Alawites in northern Lebanon, bringing the total to 9 with
42 wounded.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 26, In Nigeria
unidentified men in a speed boat seized eight foreign oil workers at
gunpoint in the Niger delta. They were released later in the day.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 26, In Pakistan 3
soldiers and at least 12 suspected insurgents were killed in fighting
after the militants ambushed a convoy in the Dera Bugti district of
Baluchistan province.
(AP, 7/27/08)
2008 Jul 26, Hamas security
arrested dozens of supporters of the rival Fatah group, hurled grenades
at the home of a Fatah leader and set up checkpoints across Gaza
following the previous day’s beachside blast that killed five Hamas
members and a 6-year-old girl. Masked Hamas gunmen nabbed Sawah Abu
Saif (42), a Palestinian cameraman for German TV, from his Gaza home,
during a mass weekend roundup of alleged activists of the rival Fatah
movement. He was tortured and released on July 31.
(AP, 7/26/08)(AP, 7/31/08)
2008 Jul 26, South Korea’s
government said days of torrential rains have led to the deaths of
seven people and left six others missing.
(AP, 7/26/08)
2008 Jul 26, In Spain Maria
Remedios Garcia Albert (57) was arrested in San Lorenzo de el Escorial
on suspicion of belonging to Colombia's FARC rebel group.
(AP, 7/27/08)
2008 Jul 26, In northern Sri Lanka
12 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed by security forces in fresh clashes
in the Wanni region.
(AP, 7/28/08)
2008 Jul 26, Sudan’s army attacked
a rebel police post in North Darfur, killing four troops, before
conducting search operations in nearby villages according the Sudan
Liberation Movement (SLM). Sudan's army initially denied the report. On
July 29 Khartoum said rebels of Minni Arcua Minnawi's Sudan Liberation
Movement (SLM) attacked a convoy on that road and the police responded,
killing four of them and injuring two.
(Reuters, 7/27/08)(Reuters, 7/29/08)
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