Today in History - July 28
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1165 Jul 28, Ibn
al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic, philosopher, was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1540 Jul 28, King Henry VIII's
chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed. The same day, Henry
married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
(AP, 7/28/97)(HN, 7/28/98)(PCh, 1992, p.181)
1576 Jul 28, Martin Frobisher,
English navigator, discovered Frobisher Bay in Canada. He explored the
Arctic region of Canada and twice brought tons of gold back to England
that was found to be iron pyrite. Michael Lok, textile exporter, led
the financing for the 1st expedition which was made to find a route to
China. Lok was later sued for losses from 3 expeditions.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.22)(SFEM, 11/15/98, p.26)(ON, 12/03,
p.7)
1586 Jul 28, Sir Thomas Harriot
introduced potatoes to Europe.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1615 Jul 28, French explorer
Samuel de Champlain discovered Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the
New World.
(HN, 7/28/98)
1655 Jul 28, French dramatist and
novelist Cyrano de Bergerac, the inspiration for a play by Edmond
Rostand, died in Paris.
(AP, 7/28/05)
1746 Jul 28, Thomas Heyward,
soldier, signed Declaration of Independence, was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1746 Jul 28, John Peter Zenger,
journalist involved in 1st amendment fight, died.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1750 Jul 28, Philippe Fabre
d'Eglantine, poet, satirist, politician, was born in France.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1750 Jul 28, Composer Johann
Sebastian Bach (65) died in Leipzig, Germany. In 2000 Christoff Wolff
authored the biography "Johann Sebastian Bach." In 2005 James Gaines
authored “Evening in the Palace of Reasoning,” a portrait of Bach in
1747.
(AP, 7/28/00)(WSJ, 8/2/00, p.A12)(SC, 7/28/02)(WSJ,
3/1/08, p.W8)
1751 Jul 28, In France the 1st
volume of the Encyclopedie, edited by Diderot and D’Alembert, was
published with a print run of 1,625.
(ON, 4/05, p.8)
1794 Jul 28, Maximilien
Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the
guillotine. Robespierre had dominated the Committee of Public Safety
during the "Reign of Terror." He asserted the collective dictatorship
of the revolutionary National Convention and attacked factions led by
men such as Jacques-René Hébert which he felt threatened
the government‘s power. Factions opposed to Robespierre gained momentum
in the summer of 1794. Declared an outlaw of the National
Convention, Robespierre and many of his followers were captured and
he—along with 22 of his supporters—were guillotined before cheering
crowds.
(AP, 7/28/97)(HN, 7/28/98)(HNQ, 11//00)
1808 Jul 28, Sultan Mustapha IV of
the Ottoman Empire was deposed and his cousin Mahmud II gained the
throne and ruled to 1839.
(HN, 7/28/98)(Ot, 1993, xvii)
1821 Jul 28, Peru declared its
independence from Spain.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1830 Jul 28, Revolution in France
replaced Charles X with Louis Philippe.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1835 Jul 28, King Louis Philippe
of France survived an assassination attempt by Giuseppe Maria Fieschi,
who rigged 25 guns together and fired them all with the pull of a
single trigger.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9034220&query=July%20Revolution)
1844 Jul 28, Gerard Manley
Hopkins, English poet and Jesuit priest, was born.
(HN, 7/28/01)
1849 Jul 28, Memmon became the 1st
clipper to reach SF after 120 days out of NY.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1851 Jul 28, A total solar eclipse
was captured on a daguerreotype photograph.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1859 Jul 28, Balington Booth,
founder of Volunteers of America, was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1863 Jul 28, Confederate John
Mosby began a series of attacks against General Meade's Army of the
Potomac as it tried to pursue General Robert E. Lee in Virginia's
Shenandoah Valley. Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby was known as "The
Gray Ghost." The rather ordinary looking Mosby led his Partisan Rangers
in guerilla warfare operations that continually confounded Union
commanders in the Piedmont region of Virginia. Learn more about Mosby‘s
Confederacy in Faquier and Loudoun counties.
(HN, 7/28/98)(HNQ, 7/15/00)
1864 Jul 28, Atlanta
Campaign-Battle of Ezra Church.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1866 Jul 28, Beatrix Potter
(d.1943), English author of children's stories (The Tale of Peter
Rabbit), was born.
(HN, 7/28/98)
1866 Jul 28, Metric system became
a legal measurement system in US. It defined the meter as exactly 39.37
inches and was later superceded.
(SC, 7/28/02)(SFC, 10/13/03, p.E2)
1868 Jul 28, The 14th Amendment to
the Constitution, guaranteeing due process of law, was certified in
effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward. It gave freed slaves
full citizenship and equal protection under the laws, however it did
not spell out the extent of integration with white America. Framers
expected the amendment’s Privileges or Immunities clause would protect
US citizens’ rights against state infringement..
(www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/revised_1)(AP,
7/28/08)(WSJ, 3/14/09, p.W3)
1868 Jul 28, Pres. Johnson signed
the Burlingame Treaty. It was negotiated by Anson Burlingame, who
represented the interests of China, and committed the US to a policy of
noninterference in Chinese affairs. It also established commercial ties
and provided unrestricted immigration of Chinese to the US.
(Ind, 8/11/01, 5A)
1874 Jul 28, Ernst Cassirer,
German philosopher, educator (Essay on Man), was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1883 Jul 28, Shocks, triggered by
the volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy), destroyed 1,200 houses at
Casamicciola killing 2,000.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1887 Jul 28, Marcel Duchamp
(d.1968), French artist, was born. He is known best for "Nude
Descending a Staircase," (1912) featured in the 1913 Armory Show in New
York. Arturo Schwarz published his complete works in 1969 with a new
edition in 1997. In 1996 Calvin Tompkins wrote "Duchamp: A Biography."
(V.D.-H.K.p.361)(WSJ, 12/18/96, p.A18)(HN, 7/28/01)
1892 Jul 28, Joe E. Brown,
comedian (Buck Circus Hour), was born in Holgate, Ohio.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1896 Jul 28, The city of Miami,
Fla., was incorporated.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1898 Jul 28, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Adventure of the Retired Colourman."
(SC, 7/28/02)
1898 Jul 28, Spain, through the
offices of the French embassy in Washington, D.C., requested peace
terms in its war with the United States.
(HN, 7/28/98)
1900 Jul 28, The hamburger was
created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1901 Jul 28, Alfred Renton Bryant
Bridges (d.1990), aka Harry Bridges, American labor leader who headed
the West Coast Longshoremen’s Union, was born in Australia.
(SFC, 7/27/01, p.A21)(HN, 7/28/98)
1901 Jul 28, Rudy Vallee, singer
(Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time), was born in Vermont.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1902 Jul 28, Kenneth Fearing, poet
and novelist (The Big Clock), was born.
(HN, 7/28/01)
1907 Jul 28, Earl Silas Tupper,
founder of Tupperware, was born.
(HN, 7/28/01)
1907 Jul 28, Vivian Vance, actress
(Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), was born in Cherryvale, Ks.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1909 Jul 28, Malcolm Lowry,
novelist (Under the Volcano), was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1910 Jul 28, Bill Goodwin,
announcer (Burns & Allen, Boing Boing Show), was born in SF, Calif.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1911 Jul 28, Ann Doran, actress
(Longstreet, Shirley), was born in Amarillo, Tx.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1914 Jul 28, Foxtrot was 1st
danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden in NYC by Harry Fox.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1914 Jul 28, Austria-Hungary
declared war on Serbia, beginning World War I. The New York Stock
Exchange closed for 4 1/2 months.
(CFA, '96, p.50)(HN, 7/28/98)
1914 Jul 28, World War I. Van
Doren described the world of this time in four economic zones:
1) Where the industrial force exceeds the number of
people engaged in agriculture. This included Great Britain, the US,
Germany, Belgium and Japan.
2) The agricultural population continues to be about
twice as large as the industrial force. This included Sweden, Italy and
Austria.
3) Those countries that had begun to industrialize
but were still primarily preindustrial. This included Russia.
4) Countries that still depended almost exclusively
on handicrafts, artisanal work, and unskilled labor. This included most
of the Third World.
(V.D.-H.K.p.252, 284-285,290)
1915 Jul 28, US forces invaded
Haiti and stayed until 1924.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1915 Jul 28, 10,000 blacks marched
on 5th Ave in NYC to protest lynchings.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1916 Jul 28, David Brown, director
(Jaws, Planet of the Apes), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1916 Jul 28, Laird Cregar, actor
(Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), was born in Phila.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1920 Jul 28, Revolutionary and
bandit Pancho Villa surrendered to the Mexican government.
(HN, 7/28/98)
1922 Jul 28, Jacques Piccard,
undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste), was born in Switzerland.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1927 Jul 28, John Ashbery,
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Self-Portrait in a Convict's Mirror), was
born.
(HN, 7/28/01)
1927 Jul 28, Baruch Blumberg,
physician, medical researcher, was born.
(HN, 7/28/01)
1928 Jul 28, The Olympics opened
at Amsterdam. Track and field events opened for women for the 1st time
despite objections from Pope Pius IX. Germany was allowed to
participate for the 1st time since WWI.
(SC, 7/28/02)(NG, 8/04, Geographica)(WSJ, 4/12/08,
p.R2)
1928 Jul 28, Mexico's Pres.-elect
Alvaro Obregon was murdered. His assassin Juan Excapulario was captured.
(SFC, 7/18/03, p.E5)
1929 Jul 28, Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennedy Onassis, wife of President John F. Kennedy and first lady from
1961 to 1963, was born in Southampton, N.Y.
(AP, 7/28/98)(HN, 7/28/98)
1930 Jul 28, Darryl Hickman, actor
(Human Comedy, Tea & Sympathy), was born in Hollywood, Cal.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1930 Jul 28, 114° F (46°
C) at Greensburg, Kentucky, was a state record.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1931 Jul 28, Congress made "The
Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1931 Jul 28, Clyde Panghorn and
Hugh Herndon took off from Roosevelt Field, NY, in an attempt to set a
round-the world speed record. They got delayed in Siberia and changed
their plan to pursue a record non-stop flight from Japan to the US.
Herndon's mother, an heiress of Standard Oil Company money, financed
most of the trip.
(ON, 1/03, p.10)
1931 Jul 28, Hubert Wilkins,
Australian explorer, set out from England for Norway aboard the
submarine Nautilus. The ship was the former US WW I vessel O-12.
Wilkins planned to reach the North Pole but failed. [see Aug 28]
(ON, 1/02, p.8)
1932 Jul 28, Under orders from
Pres. Hoover shacks built in the shadow of the nation’s Capitol by
World War I veteran demonstrators were burned. In 1924 Congress had
enacted a law that provided compensation to veterans—those entitled to
more than $50 would receive certificates maturing in 1945. However,
because of the Depression, Congress proposed in 1932 that the
certificates be redeemable immediately, as a bonus. Veterans groups
began to gather in Washington, D.C., to march for their cause. When the
bill was defeated, the veterans (nicknamed the Bonus Expeditionary
Force (BEF), "Bonus Army") refused to leave. Hoover resorted to using
U.S. troops to force them to evacuate. One veteran was killed and 50
veterans and police were injured in the melee. In May 1933, newly
elected President Franklin Roosevelt also opposed the bill, but he
issued an executive order allowing 25,000 veterans to enroll in the
Citizens’ Conservation Corps in lieu of getting bonuses. In 1971 Roger
Daniels authored “The Bonus March.” In 1994 Donald J. Lisio authored
“The President and Protest.”
(AP, 7/28/97)(HNPD, 7/28/98)(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.B1)
1933 Jul 28, The NFL divided into
two, 5 team divisions.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1933 Jul 28, The first singing
telegram was delivered to vocalist Rudy Vallee for his birthday. It was
the idea of George P. Oslin (1899-1996), a Western Union executive. He
wrote "The Story of Telecommunications" in 1992.
(HFA, ‘96, p.34)
1934 Jul 28, Jacques D'Amboise,
dancer, educator (NYC Ballet Company), was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1934 Jul 28, 118° F (48°
C) at Orofino, Idaho was a state record.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1935 Jul 28, G. Neujmin discovered
asteroid #1386 Storeria.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1937 Jul 28, Peter Duchin,
pianist, bandleader (Peter Duchin Orch), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1937 Jul 28, Joseph Lee, father of
Playgrounds movement, died.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1938 Jul 28, Robert Hughes
[Studley Forrest], writer, critic, was born in Australia.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1938 Jul 28, K. Reinmuth
discovered asteroid #1485 Isa.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1940 Jul 28, Phil Proctor,
comedian (Firesign Theater), was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1941 Jul 28, Riccardo Muti,
conductor (Philadelphia Orch), was born in Napoli, Italy.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1941 Jul 28, A Japanese army
landed in Cochin, China (modern day Vietnam).
(HN, 7/28/98)
1942 Jul 28, Nazis liquidated
10,000 Jews in Minsk, Russia.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1943 Jul 28, Mike Bloomfield,
blues musician (Analine), was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1943 Jul 28, Bill Bradley, U.S.
senator, professional basketball player, was born in Crystal City, Mo.
(HN, 7/28/98)
1943 Jul 28, President Roosevelt
announced the end of coffee rationing.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1945 Jul 28, Jim Davis, cartoonist
(Garfield), was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1945 Jul 28, Richard Wright,
rocker (Pink Floyd-The Wall), was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1945 Jul 28, The US Senate
ratified UN charter 89-2.
(AP, 7/28/07)
1945 Jul 28, A twin-engine U.S.
Army B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building between the
78th and 79th floors and killed 14 people. The plane’s propellers
severed elevator cables and sent one on a 38-story fall in which the
operator survived.
(SFC, 2/24/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/11/97, p.A1)(HT, 5/97,
p.26)(AP, 7/28/97)
1946 Jul 28, Linda Kelsey, actress
(Kate-Day by Day), was born in Minneapolis, Minn.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1947 Jul 28, Sally Struther,
actress (Gloria-All in the Family), was born in Portland, Oregon.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1948 Jul 28, Georgia Engel,
actress (Georgette-Mary Tyler Moore Show), was born in Wash DC.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1948 Jul 28, In Ludwigshafen,
Germany, the I.G. Farben chemical plant exploded due to a vapor
explosion from dimethyl ether and 182/209 died.
(HSAB, 1994, p.46)(SC, 7/28/02)
1949 Jul 28, Marilyn Quayle, wife
of vice president Dan Quayle, was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1951 Jul 28, The UN members
adopted the Convention on Refugees. It was not signed by Indonesia.
This was the founding charter for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR). It spelled out the entitlements of those who flee their
country for fear of being killed or persecuted.
(Econ, 4/22/06, p.43)(Econ, 9/6/08,
p.67)(www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/o_c_ref.htm)
1954 Jul 28, Hugo Chavez, later
president of Venezuela, was born in Sabaneta, Venezuela.
(SSFC, 8/26/07,
p.M2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez)
1957 Jul 28, The Situationist
International (SI) was formed at a meeting in the Italian village of
Cosio d'Arroscia with the fusion of several extremely small avant-garde
artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International
Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (an off-shoot of COBRA), and the
London Psychogeographical Association. The groups came together
intending to reawaken the radical political potential of surrealism.
The group also later drew ideas from the left communist group
Socialisme ou Barbarie.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International)
1957 Jul 28, The 6th World Youth
Festival opened in Moscow with the motto “For Peace and Friendship.”
Some 34,000 participated from 131 countries. The 1st such conference
was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1947. This festival also marked
the international debut of the song "Moscow Nights", which subsequently
went on to become perhaps the most widely recognized Russian song in
the world.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_World_Festival_of_Youth_and_Students)
1959 Jul 28, In preparation for
statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the first Chinese-American, Hiram L.
Fong, to the Senate and the first Japanese-American, Daniel K. Inouye,
to the House of Representatives. Hiram Fong served 3 terms.
(AP, 7/28/97)(SFEC, 2/6/00, Rp.10)
1960 Jul 28, Republican National
convention selected Richard Nixon.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1961 Jul 28, Scott E. Parazynski,
MD, astronaut, was born in Little Rock, Ark.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1962 Jul 28, 19 died in a train
crash in Steelton, Pa.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1962 Jul 28, Mariner I, launched
to Mars, fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1964 Jul 28, Ranger 7 was launched
toward the Moon. It sent back 4308 TV pictures.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1965 Jul 28, President Johnson
announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South
Vietnam to 175,000 "almost immediately."
(HN, 7/28/98)(AP, 7/28/08)
1966 Jul 28, Operation Latchkey, a
series of 38 nuclear test explosions conducted in 1966 and 1967, began
with the Saxon blast at the Nevada Test Site. All but one of the tests
took place in Nevada.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Latchkey)
1967 Jul 28, Pirate Radio Station
390 (Radio Invicta) in England, closed down.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1973 Jul 28, Bill Graham produced
a rock festival in Watkins Glen, NY, that featured the Allman Brothers,
the Band, and the Grateful Dead. The concert drew some 650,000 people,
the single largest paying crowd in concert history.
(www.superseventies.com/watkinsglen.html)(SFC,12/13/97, p.A15)
1973 Jul 28, Astronauts Alan Bean,
Owen Garriott & Jack Lousma) launched to continue maintenance at
Skylab 3.
(www.astronautix.com/flights/skylab3.htm)
1974 Jul 28, Truman Bradley
(b.1905), host (Science Fiction Theater), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0103423/)
1975 Jul 28, The US Dept of
Interior designated the grizzly bear a threatened species in the lower
48 states under the US Endangered Species Act. Most of the bears in the
lower US lived in and around Yellowstone National Park in Idaho,
Montana and Wyoming.
(http://fieldguide.mt.gov/detail_AMAJB01020.aspx)(Econ, 11/5/05, p.88)
1976 Jul 28, Eldon Joersz set a
world air speed record of 3,530 kph near Beale AFB in California.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_airspeed_record)
1976 Jul 28, In China a 7.8-8.2
earthquake in the northern city of Tangshan killed at least 242,000
people, according to an official estimate.
(AP, 7/28/97)(SFC, 1/8/00,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangshan_earthquake)
1977 Jul 28, Roy Wilkins turned
over leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People to Benjamin L. Hooks.
(AP, 7/28/00)
1977 Jun 28, The 1st Prudhoe Bay
oil of the Alaska pipeline reached the port of Valdez as construction
of the Trans-Alaskan pipeline was completed.
(www.alyeska-pipe.com/pipelinefacts.html)
1978 Jul 28, Price of gold topped
the $200 per oz level for 1st time. Spot gold closed at $201.30.
(www.the-privateer.com/gold/week189.html)
1978 Jul 28, Perth Observatory
discovered asteroid #3188 and #3422.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroids_(3001-4000))
1980 Jul 28, Fernando Belaunde
Terry (1912-2002) became president of Peru for a 2nd term and held
office to 1985. His first term ran from 1963-1968.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Bela%C3%BAnde_Terry)
1984 Jul 28, The summer Olympics
were held in Los Angeles for the second time. The Russians along with
Cuba and Eastern Bloc countries boycotted the 23rd modern Olympic
games. Iran and Libya also boycotted the games. Taiwan returned under
the name Chinese Taipei. China appeared for the first time since 1952.
The US won 83 gold medals, Romania was 2nd with 20. Women were allowed
to compete in the Olympic marathon for the 1st time. Joan Benolt of the
US won. The 1st Olympic Guide was published this year by David
Wallechinsky. The 5th edition came out in 2000.
(WSJ, 7/19/96, p.R6)(SFC, 7/14/96, Par p.4)(WSJ,
7/28/00, p.W9)(SSFC, 4/13/03, p.F1)(NG, 8/04, Geographica)(WSJ,
4/12/08, p.R2)
1984 Jul 28, Bess Flowers
(b.1898), American film actress, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bess_Flowers)
1985 Jul 28, Grant Williams
(b.1930), film and TV actor, died of toxic poisoning.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0930695/)
1985 Jul 28, In Peru Alan Garcia,
leader of the American People’s Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), assumed
the presidency and led until 1990. Under his rule much of the nation's
external debt was not serviced and the period was marked by 4-digit
inflation, food shortages, int’l. isolation and terrorist attacks.
(WSJ, 10/31/95, p.C-17)(WSJ, 12/27/96, p.A7)(SFC,
1/18/01, p.A14)
1986 Jul 28, NASA released the
transcript from the doomed Challenger. Pilot Michael Smith could be
heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1987 Jul 28, Attorney General
Edwin Meese told the congressional Iran-Contra committees that
President Reagan was "quite surprised" the previous November when Meese
told him about the diversion of Iran arms-sales profits for use by the
Contra rebels.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1987 Jul 28, James Burnham
(b.1905), American author and philosopher, died at his home in
Connecticut. His books included The Managerial Revolution" (1941) and
“The Coming Defeat of Communism” (1949). In 2002 Daniel Kelly authored
"James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life."
(WSJ, 7/16/02, p.D6)(http://tinyurl.com/mca87)
1988 Jul 28, Both houses of
Congress overwhelmingly approved some $6 billion in aid for
drought-stricken farmers. The US drought shrank the corn harvest by 31%.
(AP, 7/28/98)(WSJ, 8/4/05, p.A1)
1988 Jul 28, The Pentagon said
that its precautions were enough to protect against accidents even
though a safety review said that research into chemical and biological
weapons could be dangerous to surrounding communities.
(http://tinyurl.com/ouh6o)
1988 Jul 28, Jordan cancelled a
$1.3 billion development plan in West Bank.
(www.kinghussein.gov.jo/88_july31.html)
1989 Jul 28, Israeli commandos
abducted a pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim Hezbollah cleric, Sheik
Abdul-Karim Obeid, from his home in south Lebanon.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.A14)(AP, 7/28/99)
1990 Jul 28, A blackout hit
Chicago.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1990 Jul 28, Political newcomer
and upset winner Alberto Fujimori was sworn in as president of Peru.
(AP, 7/28/00)
1991 Jul 28, Dennis Martinez
pitched the 15th perfect game in major-league baseball history as the
Montreal Expos beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-to-0.
(AP, 7/28/01)
1991 Jul 28, Miguel Indurain of
Spain won the Tour de France bicycle race.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1991 Jul 28, President Bush warned
Iraq it would be making "an enormous mistake" if it failed to disclose
its nuclear weapons program to United Nations inspectors.
(AP, 7/28/01)
1992 Jul 28, Democrats
counterattacked a day after aides to President Bush had accused
Democrat Bill Clinton of lacking foreign policy expertise.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1992 Jul 28, Iraq opened its
Agricultural Ministry to U.N. weapons experts after a three-week
standoff.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1992 Jul 28, At the Barcelona
Olympics, the U.S. women's 400-meter freestyle relay team won the gold
medal.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1993 Jul 28, President Clinton
declared himself ready to provide air power to protect peacekeepers in
Bosnia if he received a request from the United Nations.
(AP, 7/28/98)
1994 Jul 28, US Congressional
negotiators agreed on a crime-fighting package that included hiring
100,000 new police officers, banning assault-style weapons, vastly
expanding the death penalty and putting third-time felons behind bars
for life.
(AP, 7/28/99)
1994 Jul 28, In India 10 people
died in a seven-hour gun battle when Indian police raided a camp run by
Naga militants.
(http://listserv.indnet.org/cgi/wa.cgi?A2=ind9407e&L=india-d&T=0&F=&S=&P=196)
1995 Jul 28, A jury in Union,
South Carolina, rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing
her instead to life in prison for drowning her two young sons. Smith
was eligible for parole after 30 years.
(AP, 7/28/00)
1995 Jul 28, In Sri Lanka the
Tamil Tigers lost some 400 guerrillas in a raid on Weli Oya army camp
where only 2 soldiers died.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1996 Jul 26, President Clinton,
addressing a veterans convention in New Orleans, called on Congress to
pass expanded anti-terrorism measures.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1996 Jul 28, Federal investigators
reported "very good leads" in the hunt for the Olympic bomber, a day
after the explosion in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta.
(AP, 7/28/97)
1996 Jul 28, In Kashmir, India, a
guard shot at 2 people who refused to move a motor scooter and a bomb
exploded that killed 6 and wounded 17 near the headquarters of a Muslim
group.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 28, In the Philippines
typhoon Gloria struck and killed at least 39 people on Luzon and left
16 missing.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 28, Turkey reached an
agreement with prisoners to end a hunger strike after 12 inmates died.
Elsewhere soldiers clashed with Kurds and 16 died along with 28 Kurdish
rebels.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.A1)(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D4)
1997 Jul 28, The Clinton
administration and congressional leaders reached a tentative agreement
on balancing the budget by 2002 while slashing taxes for millions of
families, students and investors.
1997 Jul 28, A flash flood hit
Fort Collins, Colo., following torrential rains. At least 5 people were
killed and 40 or more injured.
(SFC, 7/30/97, p.A6)(AP, 7/28/98)
1997 Jul 28, In Santiago, Chile,
nearly a million children stayed home when the government closed
schools for 2 days due to high smog levels.
(SFC, 7/29/97, p.A10)
1998 Jul 28, During a day of
official mourning, President Clinton praised two slain police officers
at the U.S. Capitol as heroes whose sacrifice "consecrated this house
of freedom."
(AP, 7/28/99)
1998 Jul 28, Monica Lewinsky
struck a deal with independent council Kenneth Starr granting her
blanket protection from prosecution in exchange for her "full and
truthful testimony" to a grand jury on her relationship with Pres.
Clinton.
(SFC, 7/29/98, p.A1)(AP, 7/28/99)
1998 Jul 28, General Motors and
the UAW agreed tentatively to settle an almost two-month strike at two
parts plants in Flint.
(SFC, 7/29/98, p.A1)(AP, 7/28/99)
1998 Jul 28, Bell Atlantic and GTE
announced a $52 billion deal to create the second-biggest phone company.
(AP, 7/28/99)
1998 Jul 28, In Indiana explosions
at the coal-fired generating plant of Southern Energy Co. in Hammond
injured 16 people.
(SFC, 7/29/98, p.A3)
1998 Jul 28, In Chicago the body
of Ryan Harris (11) was found. [see Jul 27]
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A6)
1998 Jul 28, In Cambodia Hun Sen
claimed victory and preliminary results showed him with 67 seats,
Ranariddh with 42 and Rainsy with 13.
(WSJ, 7/29/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 28, In Poland Zbigniev
Herbert (b.1924), poet and essayist, died at age 73 in Warsaw. He
insisted that civilization depended on artists’ staking out clear moral
positions resistant to the winds of history and ideology. In 1999
John and Bogdana Carpenter translated "Elegy for the Departure and
Other Poems," and "The King of the Ants: Mythological Essays."
(SFC, 7/30/98, p.B2)(SFEC, 3/28/99, BR p.8)
1998 Jul 28, The Ukraine faced a
financial crises as $1 billion in bond payments came due and parliament
rejected austerity measures.
(WSJ, 7/28/98, p.A1)
1999 Jul 28, The US Senate opened
debate on the Republicans’ $792 billion tax cut bill.
(AP, 7/28/00)
1999 Jul 28, Surgeon General David
Satcher declared suicide a serious national threat, saying, "People
should not be afraid or ashamed to seek help."
(AP, 7/28/00)
1999 Jul 28, Defense Sec. William
Cohen announced that NATO commander Army Gen'l. Wesley Clark would be
replaced by Air Force Gen'l. Joseph Ralston.
(SFC, 7/29/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 28, In Florida Lionel
Tate (12) flung Tiffany Eunick (6) around a living room in a session of
play wrestling. Eunick died from severe injuries. Tate was convicted of
1st degree murder in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison. In 2003 an
appeals court ordered a new trial and Tate agreed to a 2nd degree
murder charge. Tate was released in 2004.
(SFC, 1/26/01, p.A3)(SFC, 3/10/01, p.A1)(AP,
6/19/01)(SFC, 12/11/03, p.A3)(AP, 1/5/04)(SFC, 1/27/04, p.A2)
1999 Jul 28, In Afghanistan
Taliban fighters launched an offensive to crush warlord Ahmed Shah
Massood following weeks of preparations.
(SFC, 7/29/99, p.A12)
1999 Jul 28, In Brazil the army
was ordered by Pres. Cardoso to clear the nation's highways from
blockades set up by striking truckers protesting poor roads, high tolls
and high gasoline prices.
(WSJ, 7/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 28, The IMF approved a
$4.5 billion financial package to help keep Russia afloat through Dec.
parliamentary elections and presidential voting in June, 2000.
(SFC, 7/29/99, p.A10)
2000 Jul 28, Pres. Clinton warned
Yasser Arafat that relations with the US would be harmed if statehood
was declared without a peace deal with Israel.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 28, Bank of America,
which merged with NationsBank in 1998, announced the layoff of 10,000
people over the next year to cut costs.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 28, The US FDA approved
Cipro for inhalational anthrax.
(www.lewrockwell.com/orig/sardi8.html)
2000 Jul 28, In Afghanistan rulers
ordered a complete ban on growing poppies. Defiers of the ban were
threatened with jail.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A11)(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 28, In Northern Ireland
78 prisoners were released from the Maze Prison as part of the Good
Friday Peace Accord.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 28, In Peru violent
protests took place as Pres. Fujimori was sworn in for his 3rd
term and 5 people were killed in fires set by vandals.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A10)
2001 Jul 28, US Sec. of State
Colin Powell met with China’s Pres. Zemin and reached agreement to
restart a formal dialogue with the US on human rights and weapons
proliferation.
(SSFC, 7/29/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 28, Joan Finney, whose
populist beliefs and gift for connecting with voters helped her become
the first woman governor of Kansas, died at 76.
(AP, 7/28/02)
2001 Jul 28, Samir Ait Mohamed
(32) was detained in Vancouver on immigration charges. On Nov 15 he was
arrested on US charges for plotting to bomb the Los Angeles airport
during millennium festivities. He was held in Canadian prisons until he
was deported to Algeria on January 11, 2006.
(SFC, 11/17/01,
p.A10)(www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/01/13/deported-terrorist060113.html)
2001 Jul 28, An Israeli helicopter
attack in the Gaza Strip destroyed a workshop making munitions and was
followed by armed clashes.
(SSFC, 7/29/01, p.A18)
2001 Jul 28, In Peru Pres. Toledo
was inaugurated as the nation’s 1st president of Indian descent. He
promised a government at the service of its people.
(SSFC, 7/29/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 28, Jamal Beghal (36), a
French-Algerian, was arrested in Dubai, UAR, with a false French
passport while traveling to Europe from Afghanistan. He was extradited
to France in Sep 30. He told police of a plans to bomb the US Embassy
in Paris on orders from Abu Zubaydah, a top bin Laden lieutenant.
(WSJ, 10/3/01, p.A18)(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A5)
2002 Jul 28, Cycling champion
Lance Armstrong won his fourth straight Tour de France.
(AP, 7/28/03)
2002 Jul 28, In Somerset,
Pennsylvania 9 coal miners, trapped July 24 by a flood 240 feet
underground, were rescued after 77 hours underground in the Quecreek
Mine.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A1)(AP, 7/28/03)
2002 Jul 28, Police in Dallas
found 2 bodies in a tractor trailer from which some 40 suspected
illegal immigrants had escaped earlier.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 28, In Algeria Rachid
Abou Tourab, the head of a violent Islamic group believed to have
killed scores of civilians during a decade-long rebellion, was killed
with 15 associates in a confrontation with government troops.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Jul 28, In Canada Pope John
Paul ended the celebrations of World Youth Day for 800,000 people in
Toronto's massive Downsview Park. Speaking publicly on the church abuse
scandal for the first time, Pope John Paul II told young Catholics that
sexual abuse of children by priests "fills us all with a deep sense of
sadness and shame."
(Reuters, 7/29/02)(AP, 7/28/03)
2002 Jul 28, Aircraft from
U.S.-British air patrols over southern Iraq bombed an Iraqi
communications site, the sixth strike this month in retaliation for
what the Pentagon says were hostile actions by Iraq.
(AP, 7/29/02)
2002 Jul 28, Jewish settlers went
on a rampage as they returned home from the funeral of an Israeli
soldier, shooting dead a 14-year-old girl and wounding several other
Palestinians.
(AP, 7/28/02)(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 28, Myanmar's military
government released 32 political prisoners, among them 14 members of
the opposition, ahead of the visit next month of top U.N. envoy Razali
Ismail.
(AP, 7/28/02)
2002 Jul 28, Torrential overnight
rains set off more floods in eastern India as the death toll from
floods in India, Nepal and Bangladesh passed 300.
(Reuters, 7/28/02)
2002 Jul 28, A Russian Il-86
cargo plane crashed into a forest shortly after taking off from
Moscow's Sheremetyevo-1 airport, killing 14 people. There were two
survivors, officials said.
(AP, 7/28/02)
2002 Jul 28, Serbs and ethnic
Albanians voted for new, power-sharing local governments in a tense
region near Kosovo.
(AP, 7/28/02)
2003 Jul 28, J.P. Morgan Chase
& Co. agreed to pay $305 million to settle actions related to loans
and trades made with Enron Corp. and Dynegy Inc.
(WSJ, 7/28/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 28, Aaron Bell, jazz
bassist with Duke Ellington, died in NYC.
(EntW, 12/03, p.94)
2003 Jul 28, Bangladesh became the
second nation to ban the current issue of Newsweek's international
edition over an article on new interpretations of Islam's holy book.
(AP, 7/28/03)
2003 Jul 28, In Cambodia PM Hun
Sen's party claimed victory in general elections, saying it expects to
win around 73 of the 123 seats in the National Assembly. Hun Sen's
party swept to victory, but apparently fell short of the two-thirds
majority needed to govern outright.
(AP, 7/28/03)(AP, 7/29/03)
2003 Jul 28, In northern China a
blast ripped through a fireworks factory in Wangkou, killing 29 people
and injuring at least 141.
(AP, 7/29/03)
2003 Jul 28, In Liberia rebels
captured the second-largest city of Buchanan, depriving embattled
President Charles Taylor of his last significant port outside the
besieged capital.
(AP, 7/28/03)
2003 Jul 28, A mass grave was
discovered in the mountainous Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a
poor mountainous region close to Chechnya, with the remains of men,
women and children who died 10 to 20 years ago.
(AP, 7/29/03)
2003 Jul 28, In Saudi Arabia 6
suspected militants were killed in a firefight with Saudi police, who
raided a farm where they were hiding out. Two police also were killed.
(AP, 7/28/03)
2004 Jul 28, Democrats in Boston
made John Kerry their nominee for president as John Edwards, the
vice-presidential nominee, promised the country “hope is on the way.”
(SFC, 7/29/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 28, In California police
in Irvine said they were looking for a man who may have witnessed the
contamination of baby food jars with ground-up castor beans containing
tiny amounts of the poison ricin. Notes were found in jars on May 31
and June 16.
(SFC, 7/29/04, p.A3)
2004 Jul 28, Francis Crick (88),
British Nobel laureate who with American James Watson discovered the
double-helix structure of DNA, died of colon cancer in San Diego, Ca.
(AP, 7/29/04)(Econ, 8/7/04, p.71)
2004 Jul 28, A bomb exploded in a
mosque where Afghans were registering for upcoming elections, killing
six people including two U.N. staffers.
(AP, 7/28/04)
2004 Jul 28, In Colombia Marxist
guerrillas freed a Roman Catholic bishop. 3 top commanders of
right-wing death squads spoke before Congress under safe-conduct passes
and professed commitments to peace talks.
(AP, 7/28/04)(SFC, 7/29/04, p.A13)
2004 Jul 28, Francisco Reyes,
former Guatemalan vice president (2000-2004), was arrested on charges
of illegally taking over a government property worth $2.4 million.
(AP, 7/29/04)
2004 Jul 28, Muslims and Hindus
burned buildings and clashed with police in a third day of sectarian
riots in the western Indian town of Verawal, throwing acid at officers
who shot at the crowd. The unrest has left two dead and more than a
dozen wounded.
(AP, 7/28/04)
2004 Jul 28, Iran's judiciary
claimed that an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist died (Jul 10, 2003) in
custody from a fall after her blood pressure dropped during a hunger
strike.
(AP, 7/28/04)
2004 Jul 28, A suicide car bomb
exploded on a downtown boulevard in Baqouba, shredding a bus full of
passengers and nearby shops and killing 70 people, almost all Iraqi
civilians.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2004 Jul 28, A fierce battle
between insurgents and Iraqi soldiers fighting alongside multinational
forces in the south-central city of Suwariyah left 7 Iraqi soldiers and
35 insurgents dead.
(AP, 7/28/04)
2004 Jul 28, The Italian
parliament approved structural economic reforms that included raising
the retirement age from 57 to 60 effective in 2008.
(Econ, 7/31/04, p.44)
2004 Jul 28, The second wave in
the biggest mass defection of North Koreans to South Korea arrived on a
flight from an unidentified Southeast Asian country, bringing the total
in the two-day airlift to nearly 460.
(AP, 7/28/04)
2004 Jul 28, Peru’s President
Alejandro Toledo, facing allegations of corruption, invited government
auditors to review all of his bank accounts.
(AP, 7/30/04)
2004 Jul 28, Deaths from monsoon
rains across South Asia reached 1,238.
(AP, 7/28/04)
2004 Jul 28, The Ugandan army
reportedly killed 120 rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters
during clashes in southern Sudan and narrowly missed capturing Joseph
Kony, the insurgents' leader.
(AP, 7/29/04)
2005 Jul 28, Assistant Secretary
of State David Welch told the US House International Relations
Committee said Iranian cadres are training Hezbollah fighters in
Lebanon.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, The Senate Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs Committee sent a bill by Sen. Chuck Hagel to
the then GOP-run Senate. The legislation would have regulated and
trimmed Freddie Mac and its sister company, Fannie Mae. Shortly after
this Freddie Mac began making payments to DCI, a Republican consulting
firm. DCI undermined support for the bill in a campaign targeting 17
Republican senators in 13 states. The measure died at the end of the
109th Congress.
(AP, 10/20/08)
2005 Jul 28, A new clinical study
reported that the herbal remedy echinacea does not ward off cold
symptoms and does not help speed recovery from colds.
(SFC, 7/28/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 28, Scientists reported
that the variety of tuna, marlin, swordfish and other big ocean
predators has declined up to 50 percent over the past half-century due
to overfishing. The variety of species has dropped by as much as 50% in
the past 50 years.
(AP, 7/28/05)(SFC, 7/29/05, p.A4)
2005 Jul 28, NASA said space
shuttle Discovery had escaped any serious damage from the potentially
deadly piece of foam that broke off from the fuel tank during liftoff
and looked safe to fly home in a week.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2005 Jul 28, Arthur Zankel,
financier and philanthropist, fell to his death from his ninth-floor
apartment on NYC’s Upper East Side. Police called it an apparent
suicide. In 2006 details of his will indicated donations of $120
million that included some $40 million for Skidmore College in Saratoga
Springs, NY, and $22 million to Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall.
(www.nysun.com/article/17769)(WSJ, 6/2/06, p.W2)
2005 Jul 28, Scientists from
China, France, Japan and the USA reported their 1st detection of
antineutrinos from deep within the Earth’s mantle. They used the
KamLAND detector in Japan.
(SFC, 7/28/05, p.A2)
2005 Jul 28, Stephen McCullagh
(29), an assistant scoutmaster from St. Helena, and Boy Scout Ryan
Collins (13) were killed by lightning in Sequoia National Park in the
Sierra Nevada.
(SFC, 8/6/05, p.B2)
2005 Jul 28, The main body of
Canadian soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan has begun arriving in
the treacherous Kandahar region. They're part of what will be a
250-strong provincial reconstruction team, the first such team Canada
has sent to Afghanistan.
(CP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, A team of anti-drug
investigators, lawyers and judges will start prosecuting major
narcotics cases in Afghanistan, the world's largest opium and heroin
producer, as part of a new UN program.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, Anti-terrorist
officers arrested nine men in dawn raids in connection with the botched
July 21 attacks on London's transit system, bringing to 20 the number
of people police have in custody, including one of the alleged bombers.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, Chechnya’s Shamil
Basayev, linked to a dozen deadly attacks on civilians, admitted he was
a terrorist in an interview being broadcast on ABC News' "Nightline."
The Kremlin denounced the network's decision to run the interview,
which was conducted by well-known Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky.
(AP, 7/29/05)
2005 Jul 28, President Hosni
Mubarak announced his bid to run in Egypt's first multicandidate
elections on Sept. 7, promising new legislation to "besiege" terrorism
and replace the country's much-criticized emergency laws.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, Egypt's President
Hosni Mubarak called for an extraordinary Arab summit to be held in
Sharm el-Sheikh on August 3, just days after the deadly attacks in the
Red Sea resort.
(AFP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, DaimlerChrysler said
CEO Juergen Schrempp, architect of the controversial merger between
Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corp., will step down and turn the top job
over to Chrysler head Dieter Zetsche.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, In India opposition
leader Lal Krishna Advani was charged in court with inciting religious
riots that triggered the razing of a mosque in 1992 and left thousands
dead.
(Reuters, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, Record-breaking rains
paralyzed Bombay and its surrounding state. B.M. Kulkarni, head of
Maharashtra state's police emergency control room, said that 273 people
had died in Mumbai and at least 513 in other parts of the state.
(AFP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, An explosion on a
passenger train in northern India killed two people and injured at
least 20 others.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, Indonesia brushed off
a call in a UN report for an international tribunal to try Indonesian
and militia leaders blamed for a bloody 1999 rampage in East Timor.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, ICANN transferred the
Internet .iq name to Iraq’s telecommunications regulator. InfoCom
Corp., which sold computers and Web services in the Middle East, got
the .iq assignment in 1997, but was indicted in 2002 for funneling
money to a member of Hamas. InfoCom was convicted in April 2005.
(SFC, 8/6/05, p.C2)
2005 Jul 28, Insurgents launched
coordinated attacks against Iraqi army checkpoints northeast of
Baghdad, killing 6 Iraqi soldiers, police said. Roadside bombs killed 2
US soldiers. A bomb ignited a train carrying fuel in the south of
Iraq's capital and 2 people were killed. In western Iraq 2 US Marines
were killed by insurgent gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades. The
Marines reported killing 9 insurgents, 5 believed to be Syrians, during
an engagement in the same small village.
(AP, 7/28/05)(WSJ, 7/29/05, p.A1)(AP, 7/29/05)
2005 Jul 28, Jamie Leigh Jones, a
Halliburton/KBR employee in Baghdad, Iraq, was drugged, raped and held
against her will at Camp Hope by seven KBR employees. On May 16, 2007,
she filed a lawsuit against the company and the employees which the
Department of Justice failed to act upon. On December 19, 2007, she
testified before Congress. The Department of Justice had been
subpoenaed to also testify; they failed to appear or send a reason for
declining to appear.
(www.jamiesfoundation.org/Jamie.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/2tm4g4)
2005 Jul 28, The Irish Republican
Army announced it will renounce violence and resume disarmament in a
dramatic declaration designed to revive Northern Ireland's peace
process.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, In the
Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir suspected Islamic militants raided
the village of Dhoob, separated the villagers by religion and killed 5
Hindus by slitting their throats.
(AP, 7/29/05)
2005 Jul 28, The Concepcion
Volcano on the island of Ometepe in southwestern Lake Nicaragua erupted
at least four times. Concepcion has registered 17 eruptions since 1883.
The last was in 1999.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 28, Pakistan's President
Pervez Musharraf said all the estimated 1,400 foreign nationals
studying in the country's madrassas would have to leave the Islamic
seminaries.
(AP, 7/29/05)
2005 Jul 28, In Panama a 2-day
summit started for 25 members of the Association of Caribbean States
(ACS). Venezuela said it will continue offering crude on favorable
terms, and even in barter trades, to countries in the region. Thirteen
of the 15 members of the narrower Caribbean Community group, or
Caricom, mainly island nations, have already signed onto Venezuela's
oil initiative.
(AP, 7/29/05)
2005 Jul 28, In
Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Russia, 2 police officers were shot to death.
(WSJ, 7/29/05, p.A11)
2005 Jul 28, An official reported
anonymously that Haroon Rashid Aswat (31) has been arrested in the
border town of Livingstone, having crossed into Zambia from Zimbabwe.
Aswat was sought in connection with the July 7 attacks in London that
killed 56 people.
(AP, 7/29/05)
2006 Jul 28, Actor-director Mel
Gibson launched an anti-Semitic tirade as he was arrested on the
Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif., for driving drunk; Gibson
later apologized and was sentenced to probation and alcohol treatment.
(AP, 7/28/07)
2006 Jul 28, Clark McLeod, who had
been chairman and chief executive of McLeodUSA, agreed to turn over
$4.4 million in profits he was accused of receiving from the so-called
act of "spinning." The former executive was accused by NY Attorney
General Eliot Spitzer of directing more than $77 million of McLeodUSA's
investment banking business to Salomon Smith Barney. In exchange, the
company "secretly" gave McLeod shares of 34 stocks before its initial
public offering, which resulted in a windfall of $4.8 million on the
first day of public trading of the stock.
(AP, 7/30/06)
2006 Jul 28, The Pfizer Board of
Directors named Jeffrey B. Kindler Pfizer's chief executive officer. He
succeeds Hank McKinnell, who will remain Pfizer's chairman of the board
until his retirement in February, 2007. McKinnell vacated Pfizer’s CEO
spot 19 months before he was scheduled to step down, under pressure
from investors angered about his retirement package and a drop of as
much as 40% in the company's stock price during his five years in
charge. The company later disclosed in a filing with the SEC that the
package totaled more than $180 million. It includes an estimated $82.3
million in pension benefits, $77.9 million in deferred compensation,
and cash and stock totaling more than $20.7 million.
(http://mediaroom.pfizer.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=83)(AP,
12/21/06)
2006 Jul 28, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
said it is ending its loss-generating business in Germany just two
months after leaving South Korea in what analysts welcomed as a move to
focus resources on expanding in more profitable international markets
like China and Latin America. Wal-Mart sold its 85 German stores to
Metro, the local market leader.
(AP, 7/28/06)(Econ, 8/5/06, p.54)
2006 Jul 28, In Seattle, Wash.,
gunman Naveed Afzal Haq (30) killed Pam Waechter (58) of Seattle and
wounded five others at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Haq
said he was "angry at Israel." On June 4, 2008, a jury found him not
guilty on one count of attempted murder (for victim Carol Goldman); on
the remaining counts, the jury declared itself to be hung. The judge
declared a mistrial.
(AFP, 7/29/06)(AP,
7/30/06)(http://tinyurl.com/6myx9k)
2006 Jul 28, In New Orleans 4 men,
3 brothers and a friend, were killed in the Treme neighborhood as they
sat on the porch of an abandoned house. The dead included 16-year-old
twins, their brother (21) and a friend (39). Another shooting the next
day put the year to date homicide number in New Orleans at 77.
(SSFC, 7/30/06, p.A15)
2006 Jul 28, Fourteen Taliban
fighters were killed in a "clearance operation" in southern Helmand
province's Garmser district. In the northeastern province of Kapisa,
police killed four Taliban militants including a "famous commander"
while also losing one of their own men. 2 policemen guarding an
archaeological site in northern Balkh province were killed and another
was wounded when unknown assailants attacked them overnight.
(AFP, 7/29/06)
2006 Jul 28, A US airman convicted
of raping three teenage British girls was sentenced to 12 years in
prison. Prosecutors said Staff Sgt. James Gardner took advantage of
vulnerable girls who lived in a children's home near the US base at
Menwith Hill in northern England.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, In eastern China an
explosion at a chemical plant killed at least 22 people and prompted
the evacuation of 7,000 others. 28 people were missing.
(AP, 7/29/06)
2006 Jul 28, In Haiti hundreds of
people fled their homes in a hillside slum of Port-au-Prince to escape
fierce fighting between gangs that has killed at least 30 people in the
past 2 months.
(AP, 7/29/06)
2006 Jul 28, A bomb planted
between a Sunni mosque and a youth center exploded during prayers,
killing four people and wounding another nine. gunmen in Tikrit killed
two civilians who were employed by US troops.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, Israeli warplanes and
artillery intensified strikes, hitting Hezbollah positions and crushing
houses and roads in towns in southern Lebanon, killing as many as 12
people. Hezbollah announced it had fired a new rocket, called the
Khaibar-1, striking near the northern Israeli town of Afula. Beirut
said 600 people have been killed in Lebanon, with confirmed fatalities
at 445, since fighting broke out, most of them Lebanese civilians. 33
Israeli soldiers have died in the fighting and 19 civilians were killed
in Hezbollah's unyielding rocket attacks on Israel's northern towns.
(AP, 7/28/06)(WSJ, 7/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 28, Hezbollah
politicians, while expressing reservations, joined their critics in the
government in agreeing to a peace package that includes strengthening
an international force in south Lebanon and disarming the guerrillas.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, The UN decided to
remove 50 unarmed observers (UNTSO and UNIFIL) from posts along
the Israeli-Lebanese border and relocate them with lightly armed UN
peacekeepers.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, Israeli troops
withdrew from northern Gaza after a bloody two-day sweep that killed 29
Palestinians.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, The Laos government
and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said an outbreak of the
H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 2,000 chicken on a poultry
farm. The Xaythani district farm found 155 dead chickens on July 14,
and about 2,000 dead birds the following day.
(AFP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, In Nepal Communist
rebels and the government have extended a cease-fire for another three
months to allow talks aimed at ending a decade-long conflict to
continue.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, Dutch retail giant
Ahold has announced that its 1.1 billion-dollar (941,000-euro)
settlement with US and Dutch investors over the company's accounting
scandal that broke in 2003 and sent share prices plummeting, is now
final.
(AFP, 7/29/06)
2006 Jul 28, In Quetta, Pakistan,
a bomb believed rigged to a motorcycle exploded outside a bank and
wounded 21 people, one critically.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, Alan Garcia returned
to the presidency of Peru, pledging to battle poverty 16 years after
ending his first term.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, Poland's conservative
President Lech Kaczynski vowed to campaign for a return of the death
penalty in the European Union.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, In Russia Pres. Putin
signed a law making slander of a public official a crime.
(WSJ, 7/29/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 28, Hundreds of people
rioted near the headquarters of Somalia's virtually powerless
government after a Cabinet minister was fatally shot outside a mosque.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, South Korea sent a
satellite into orbit primarily for making geographical surveys but also
possibly for tracking military movements in North Korea, which raised
regional security concerns by launching missiles on July 5.
(Reuters, 8/1/06)
2006 Jul 28, The Spanish
government approved a divisive bill allowing reparations for victims of
the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship of Gen. Francisco
Franco.
(AP, 7/29/06)
2006 Jul 28, Sudanese government
forces and allied militias attacked bases of a new rebel alliance in
Darfur despite a ceasefire in the violent west.
(Reuters, 7/29/06)
2006 Jul 28, Taiwanese prosecutors
indicted a man for murder, alleging he helped his brother stage a train
derailment that ultimately led to the death of his brother's wife, and
said they will seek the death penalty. The wife of Lee Suan-chuan, a
train-ticket seller, was injured when the train she was traveling on
derailed and tumbled into a deep valley on March 27 in southern
Taiwan's Pingtung region.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, The five permanent
members of the UN Security Council reached a deal on a resolution that
would give Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment
or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 28, Danilo Astori,
Uruguay’s Finance Minister, said Uruguay will make an early debt
payment of $900 million to the IMF due in 2007. The move will save
about $40 million in interest payments. This would cancel about half
its entire debt to the IMF.
(WSJ, 7/31/06, p.A6)
2007 Jul 28, In California garbage
workers in Alameda County approved a new contract with Waste Management
ending a bitter 26-day lockout.
(SSFC, 7/29/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 28, It was reported that
over 4,000 Hazaras, a Shia Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in
Afghanistan’s central highlands, had been displaced from Behsood
district, Wardak province, over the last 2 months by bands of Kuchi
nomads. Some 200 ethnic Pushtun and Sunni Muslim nomads, together with
their families and livestock, emptied about 65 Hazara villages and left
about a dozen people dead.
(Econ, 7/28/07, p.43)
2007 Jul 28-2007 Jul 29, Nearly
12,000 people were displaced and one person died in western Ethiopia in
flash floods over the weekend.
(AFP, 7/31/07)
2007 Jul 28, In southern India
police shot dead at least eight protestors after a political
demonstration turned violent. Police opened fire after hundreds of
protestors burned furniture in a government office in a small town in
Andhra Pradesh state, where communist parties campaigned for
distribution of government land to the rural and urban poor.
(Reuters, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 28, A parked car bomb
exploded in a busy shopping street in predominantly Shiite eastern
Baghdad, killing at least four people and wounding 10. US troops
captured 16 suspected insurgents during raids targeting al-Qaida in
Iraq in raids in the northern cities of Samarra and Tarmiyah.
(AP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 28, The Liberian
government said it had lifted a six-year moratorium on the diamond
trade, put in place after former President Charles Taylor was accused
of using "blood diamonds" to fuel civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone.
(AP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 28, Libya said the Czech
Republic, Qatar and Bulgaria contributed to an international fund to
support hundreds of children who contracted HIV at a Libyan hospital in
the 1990s. Libya also denounced a decision by Bulgaria's president to
pardon six medics from life jail terms in an AIDS case as a "betrayal"
and an "illegal procedure."
(Reuters, 7/28/07)(AFP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 28, Palestinian officials
said Israel has agreed to allow at least 627 Palestinians who have been
stranded in Egypt for weeks to pass into the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 28, Serbian police
arrested Nikola Radosavljevic (38), a man suspected of killing 9 people
and injuring another two in a shooting spree hours earlier in an
eastern Serbian village.
(AP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 28, In Zimbabwe Arthur
Mutambara, leader of the breakaway faction of the Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC), said on that the country could not wait for
outsiders to liberate them from on-going political and economic
problems.
(AFP, 7/28/07)
2008 Jul 28, Pres. Bush met with
Pakistan’s new PM Yousaf Raza Gilani at the White House and they agreed
to battle terrorists in Pakistan.
(SFC, 7/29/08, p.A10)
2008 Jul 28, A senior Bush
administration official said the budget deficit for this year will set
a record in dollar terms, approaching $490 billion.
(AP, 7/28/08)
2008 Jul 28, Sir Richard Branson
and Burt Rutan unveiled their White Knight Two, the mothership of
SpaceShip Two, at the Mohave Air & Space Port in California.
Spaceship Two, the passenger rocket, was being built for Branson’s
Virgin Galactic, which hoped to soon carry passengers into space.
(SFC, 7/29/08, p.A5)
2008 Jul 28, The propeller-driven
"Zephyr" aircraft, owned by QinetiQ Group PLC, began a flight over the
Arizona desert and continued for an unofficial record of 83 hours and
37 minutes, more than doubling the official world record set by
Northrop Grumman's "Global Hawk" in 2001. The 66 pound- (30 kilogram-)
plane was launched by hand and flown by autopilot and via satellite.
(AP, 8/24/08)
2008 Jul 28, Police in Alabama
arrested Anthony Hopkins (37), a part-time evangelist, after finding a
body in his home freezer. Police believed it was the body of his wife,
Arletha Hopkins, who had not been heard of for 3 years.
(www.wsbtv.com/news/17043437/detail.html)
2008 Jul 28, US-led coalition
troops killed several militants during a raid in central Afghanistan,
while a suspected bomb maker and his family died in an accidental blast
in Kunar province.
(AP, 7/29/08)
2008 Jul 28, Hernan Arbizu, former
JPMorgan Chase & Co private banking executive, was arrested in
Argentina following an indictment on charges of embezzling about $5.4
million. He fled to Argentina before being fired in June.
(Reuters, 7/29/08)
2008 Jul 28, Tarek bin Laden
signed a deal with Djibouti to build Noor City, the first of a hundred
“Cities of Light” that the Saudi Binladen Group planned around the
world. Plans called for the city to have 2.5 million people by 2025 and
4.5 million for its Yemeni twin.
(Econ, 8/2/08,
p.50)(www.railpage.com.au/f-p1093077.htm)
2008 Jul 28, In England hijackers
made off with boxes of blank British passports worth a fortune on the
black market in a raid on a delivery van in the Manchester suburb of
Oldham. British policed later said the passports were "very secure" as
they contained a micro-chip which had not been activated.
(AFP, 7/29/08)(AP, 7/31/08)
2008 Jul 28, Antoine Wendo Kolosoy
(aka Papa Wendo, b.1925), Congolese riverboat mechanic, boxer and rumba
singer, died at age 82. He cut his first records in 1947 for Olympia, a
Belgian label.
(Econ, 8/16/08, p.84)
2008 Jul 28, Lebanese singer
Suzanne Tamim (30) was found stabbed and her throat slashed in Dubai.
On August 8 Egypt banned news coverage of the brutal slaying following
media reports in other papers that said a wealthy Egyptian businessman
ordered 3 men to carry out the killing. On Sep 2 Hisham Talaat
Moustafa, an Egyptian lawmaker and business tycoon, was arrested in the
death Tamim. He was accused of paying a former police officer $2
million to kill her. On May 21, 2009, Moustafa was sentenced to death
for ordering Tamim’s death. Former officer, Mohsen el-Sukkary, was also
convicted and sentenced to death.
(AP,
8/13/08)(www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=21342)(AP, 9/2/08)(AP,
5/21/09)
2008 Jul 28, Pierre Beres
(b.1913), king of the French booksellers, died.
(SFC, 8/4/08, p.B3)
2008 Jul 28, In Iraq 3 female
suicide bombers blew their explosive vests in the middle of pilgrims in
Baghdad, moments after a roadside bomb attack, killing at least 32
people and wounding 102. In Kirkuk 25 people were killed and 185
wounded when a blast tore through a crowd of Kurds protesting a draft
provincial elections law. A roadside bomb attack killed four civilians
near Balad Ruz.
(AP, 7/28/08)
2008 Jul 28, In central Japan 4
people died after being swept away in torrential rains that caused
floods and mudslides and prompted an evacuation order for 50,000 people.
(AP, 7/28/08)
2008 Jul 28, In Nepal protesters
blocked traffic and held demonstrations to protest the decision by
Paramananda Jha, the newly elected vice president, to take his oath of
office in Hindi,which is not recognized as an official language.
(AP, 7/28/08)
2008 Jul 28, Militants in
Nigeria's Niger Delta said they had blown up two major oil pipelines
belonging to Royal Dutch Shell, forcing the firm to halt some
production and helping push world oil prices higher.
(Reuters, 7/28/08)
2008 Jul 28, A suspected US
missile strike on a Pakistani madrassa killed six people, including
foreigners. Pakistani security officials said Al-Qaeda chemical weapons
expert Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar (54) was believed to have been killed
in the US missile strike in the South Waziristan tribal district. The
Egyptian, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, had a
five-million-US-dollar bounty on his head and allegedly ran terrorist
training camps in Afghanistan. In Kohat a bomb rigged to a bicycle
killed a teenage boy and wounded 12 policemen. Pakistani Taliban
militants shot dead three intelligence officials near Mingora, the main
town in Swat. The Taliban later confirmed that al-Masri had been killed
along with 3 other commanders.
(Reuters, 7/28/08)(AFP, 7/28/08)(AP, 7/28/08)(AFP,
7/29/08)(AP, 8/3/08)
2008 Jul 28, In the Philippines a
packed commuter bus strayed into an oncoming lane and crashed head-on
into another bus on a highway south of Manila, killing at least 11
people and injuring 29 others.
(AP, 7/29/08)
2008 Jul 28, Navanethem Pillay, a
judge from South Africa, was confirmed as the new UN chief of human
rights.
(SFC, 7/29/08, p.A3)
2061 Jul 28, 31st recorded
perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
(SC, 7/28/02)
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