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10 BCE Aug 1, Claudius (d.54CE).,
Roman Emperor, was born. Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Drusus, the
nephew of Tiberius and grandson of the wife of Augustus, was made
emperor after Caligula.
(HN, 8/1/98)
126CE Aug 1, Publius Helvius
Pertinax, Roman emperor (193 AD), was born.
(MC, 8/1/02)
527 Aug 1, Justinus I, Byzantine
emperor (518-27), died.
(PC, 1992 ed, p.54)
860 Aug 1, Peace of Koblenz
involved Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II.
(MC, 8/1/02)
902 Aug 1, The Aghlabid rulers of
Ifriqiyah (modern day Tunisia) captured Taormina, Sicily.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1086 Aug 1, English barons
submitted to William the Conqueror.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1096 Aug 1, The crusaders under
Peter the Hermit reached Constantinople. Anna Comnena, a 13 year-old
Christian in Constantinople, watched as the crusaders marched into the
city.
(ATC, p.18)(HN, 8/1/98)
1291 Aug 1, The Everlasting League
formed and became the basis of Swiss Confederation. The people of the 3
small cantons (Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden) formed a co-operative pact
called the Bundesbrief following the death of Habsburg Emp. Rudolf I.
(Econ, 2/14/04, Survey p.6)
1315 Nov 15, Swiss soldiers
ambushed and slaughtered invading Austrians in the Battle of Morgarten.
The Bundesbrief prevailed over a Habsburg army. Voluntary agreements
among the cantons led to the formation of the Willensnation, a nation
created by acts of free will by a diverse people.
(HN, 11/15/98)(Econ, 2/14/04, p.6)
1464 Aug 1, Piero de Medici
succeeded his father, Cosimo, as ruler of Florence.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1485 Aug 1, Henry (VII) Tudor's
army set sail from Harfleur to Wales.
(ON, 12/06, p.1)
1589 Aug 1, Monk Jacques Clement
attempted to murder French King Hendrik III. [see Aug 2]
(MC, 8/1/02)
1595 May 28, It was a shaken and
demoralized English column that returned to its northern Irish base at
Newry.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1628 Aug 1, Emperor Ferdinand II
demanded that Austria Protestants convert to Catholicism.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1628 Aug 1, Francesco Gonzaga
(37), composer, died.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1664 Aug 1, The Turkish army was
defeated by French and German troops at St. Gotthard, Hungary.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1686 Aug 1, Benedetto Marcello,
Italian author, composer (Lettera Famigliare), was born in Venice,
Italy. [see Jul 24]
(MC, 8/1/02)
1689 Aug 1, A siege of
Londonderry, Ireland, by the Catholic Army of King James II ended in
failure. The Protestants were victorious and the event led to the
annual Apprentice Boy’s March. The group is named in honor of 13
teenage apprentices, all Protestants, who bolted the city gates in
front of the advancing Catholic forces at the start of the 105-day
siege.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, p.A13)(HN, 8/1/98)(AP, 8/13/06)
1711 Aug 1, Czar Peter the Great
fled Azov after being surrounded.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1714 Aug 1, Queen Anne (1702-1714)
of Britain died at age 48. By the 1701 Act of Settlement Prince George
Louis (54) of Hanover succeeded her as King George I (d.1727).
(PCh, 1992,
p.279)(www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon53.html)
1740 Aug 1, Thomas Arne's song
"Rule Britannia," which celebrated Britain’s military and commercial
prowess, was performed for the 1st time. It grew to become the
unofficial anthem.
(HN, 8/1/98)(Econ, 2/3/07, SR p.3)
1744 Aug 1,
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist, was
born.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1759 Aug 1, British and Hanoverian
armies defeated the French at the Battle of Minden, Germany. The
marquis de Lafayette was killed by a British cannonball and his son,
Gilbert du Motier (2), inherited the title. In 1777 Lafayette joined
the American Continental Army.
(HN, 8/1/98)(ON, 2/09, p.1)
1770 Aug 1, William Clark,
American explorer, was born in Charlottesville, VA. He led the Corps of
Discovery with Meriwether Lewis.
(HN, 8/1/00)(MC, 8/1/02)
1774 Aug 1, British scientist
Joseph Priestley succeeded in isolating oxygen from air in Calne,
England. He called his new gas "dephlogisticated air.”
(ON, 10/05, p.2)(AP, 8/1/07)
1779 Aug 1, Francis Scott Key,
author of the "Star Spangled Banner," was born.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1781 Aug 1, English army under
Lord Cornwallis occupied Yorktown, Virginia.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1791 Aug 1, Robert Carter III, a
Virginia plantation owner, freed all 500 of his slaves in the largest
private emancipation in U.S. history.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1798 Aug 1, Admiral Horatio Nelson
routed the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile at Aboukir Bay,
Egypt. Nelson's fleet of 14 ships led the attack on Napoleon's fleet in
Abu Qir Bay, capturing six and destroying seven of the 17 French
vessels. The flagship of Napoleon's fleet, L'Orient, sank in the
battle. It was uncovered by a French team in 1998. More than 1,500
Frenchmen and 200 British soldiers reportedly died in the sea battle.
(AP, 4/19/05)
1801 Aug 1, The American schooner
Enterprise captured the Barbary cruiser Tripoli.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1808 Aug 1, Joachim Murat
(1767-1815), French marshal and Napoleon's brother in law, became king
of Naples (1808-1815) and Sicily.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Murat)
1815 Aug 1, Richard Henry Dana
(d.1882), US jurist, novelist, lawyer and sailor, was born. He wrote
"Two Years Before the Mast."
(WUD, 1994, p.366)(SFEC, 2/9/97, p.W5)(MC, 8/1/02)
1818 Aug 1, Maria Mitchell
(d.1889), the first female astronomer in the U.S., was born. She
discovered a comet in 1847 and was the first prof. of astronomy at
Vassar College. In 1869 she was the first woman elected to the American
Philosophical Society.
(Alg, 1990, p.30)(HN, 8/1/00)
1819 Aug 1, Herman Melville
(d.1891), American novelist, author of Moby Dick, was born. In
1996 part one of a 2-part biography was published by Hershel Parker:
Herman Melville: 1819-1851. In 1951 Leon Howard wrote a biography.
Melville wrote 5 books between 1845-1850. They included "Typee" and
"White-Jacket."
(AHD, p.818)(WSJ, 11/22/96, p.A14)(HN, 8/1/98)
1825 Aug 1, William Beaumont, a US
Army assistant surgeon at Fort Mackinac in the Michigan territory,
began experiments to study the digestive system of Alexis St. Martin, a
fur trader who was accidentally shot in the abdomen in 1822.
(ON, 1/02, p.6)
1831 Aug 1, London Bridge opened
to traffic.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1834 Aug 1, The British
Emancipation Act went into effect abolishing slavery throughout the
British Empire. This ended slavery in Canada, in the West Indies and in
all Caribbean holdings. Some 35,000 slaves were freed in the Cape
Colony. The Minstrels Parada in Cape Town, SA, originated as a
spontaneous outpouring of marches, music and dancing to mark the
abolition of slavery.
(NH, 7/98, p.29)(HN, 8/1/98)(EWH, 4th ed, p.885)(AP,
1/2/06)
1843 Aug 1, Robert Todd Lincoln
(d.1926), son of Abraham Lincoln, Capt (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1862 Aug 1, James Henley Thornwell
(b.1812), Presbyterian preacher from South Carolina, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henley_Thornwell)
1863 Aug 1, Battle of Little Rock,
AK, and start of the Chattanooga campaign.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1863 Aug 1, Cavalry action near
Brandy Station marked the end of Gettysburg Campaign.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1864 Aug 1, Union General Ulysses
S. Grant gave general Philip H. Sheridan the mission of clearing the
Shenandoah Valley of Confederate forces.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1864 Aug 1, Battle of Petersburg,
VA.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1872 Aug 1, The first
long-distance gas pipeline in the U.S. was completed. Designed for
natural gas, the two-inch pipe ran five miles from Newton Wells to
Titusville, Pennsylvania.
(HN, 8/1/00)
1876 Aug 1, Colorado was admitted
as the 38th state.
(AP, 8/1/97)(HN, 8/1/99)
1880 Aug 1, Sir Frederick Roberts
freed the British Afghanistan garrison of Kandahar from Afghan rebels.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1889 Aug 1, John F. Mahoney,
developed penicillin treatment of syphilis, was born.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1893 Aug 1, Henry Perky and
William Ford patented a machine for making shredded wheat breakfast
cereal.
(HN, 8/1/00)(MC, 8/1/02)
1894 Aug 1, The First
Sino-Japanese War erupted, the result of a dispute over control of
Korea; Japan's army routed the Chinese.
(AP, 8/1/04)
1907 Aug 1, The US Air Force had
its beginnings as the US Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical
division in charge of "all matters pertaining to military ballooning,
air machines and all kindred subjects."
(AP, 8/1/07)
1911 Aug 1, Konrad Duden (b.1829),
German philologist, died. His 1880 dictionary represents the start of
the Duden series and included 28,000 words on 187 pages.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Duden)
1914 Aug 1, France and Germany
mobilized.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1914 Aug 1, Germany declared war
on Russia at the onset of World War I.
(AP, 8/1/07)
1917 Aug 1, Frank Little, IWW
organizer, was lynched in Butte, MT.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1921 Aug 1, Sid Hatfield, police
chief of Matewan, WV, and Ed Chambers were murdered on the steps
of the McDowell County Courthouse by Baldwin-Felts detectives. Hatfield
and 22 miners had been recently been acquitted of the May 19, 1920
shootings in Matewan, WV, but he was indicted for conspiracy for
continuing mine violence. Hatfield had been a long-time supporter of
the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). This soon led to the Battle
of Blair Mountain, a labor uprising also know as the Red Neck War.
(http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj66/newsinger.htm)(AH, 4/07,
p.63)
1927 Aug 1, In Bristol, Tennessee,
the Carter Family (A.P., wife Sara, and cousin Maybelle) came down from
the mountains of Virginia and began recording their country style
"hillbilly" music for Ralph Peer of the Victor Talking Machine
Co. Jimmy Rogers (1898-1933) came from Mississippi to record. In
2002 Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg authored "Will You Miss me
When I’m Gone: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music."
(Hem., 4/97, p.68)(WSJ, 8/1/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/4/02,
p.M3)
1931 Aug 1, Tom Wilson (cartoonist
of Ziggy), was born.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1933 Aug 1, The National Recovery
Administration's "Blue Eagle" symbol began to appear in store windows
and on packages to show support for the National Industrial Recovery
Act.
(AP, 8/1/08)
1933 Aug 1, The death penalty was
declared for anti fascists in Germany.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1936 Aug 1, The 11th Olympic
games, dubbed "The Nazi Games," opened in Berlin with a ceremony
presided over by Adolf Hitler. Jesse Owens won four gold medals
including the 100-meter dash--becoming the world's fastest man. Owens
also set new Olympic records in the long jump, the 200-meter dash and
the 4 x 100-meter relay. It had been 36 years since a track-and-field
athlete had won three gold medals in one Olympics. The games were
filmed by Leni Riefenstahl and the torch relay was introduced by Joseph
Geobbel’s Propaganda Ministry. Berlin’s homeless and itinerant Gypsies
were sent into concentration camps. The game of Kabaddi was played as a
demonstration sport.
(TMC, 1994, p.1936)(WSJ, 7/30/96, p.A12)(Hem, 6/96,
p.104)(AP, 8/1/97)(HNPD, 8/1/98)
1937 Aug 1, The Buchenwald
concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, became operational. The hill
on which it stood was called "Ettersberg," a place where Goethe often
wrote and sketched, and that was the initial name for the camp, which
the people of Weimar protested. The name was then changed to
Buchenwald, Beech Forest. By April 11, 1945, an estimated 56,000 people
were killed here, including approximately 11,000 Jews.
(HN, 8/1/98)(SFC, 8/3/99, p.A10)(AP, 6/5/09)
1939 Aug 1, Synthetic vitamin K
was produced for the first time.
(HN, 8/1/00)
1940 Aug 1, The idea of the
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was formally announced by
Japan’s Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke, in a press interview, but had
already existed in various forms for many years. Japan urged the
nations of the region to unite in one economic sphere, ousting the
colonial powers and enjoying economic prosperity together. The concept
was used to justify Japan's seizure of raw materials from throughout
Southeast Asia to further its drive for economic, political and
military domination of East Asia. The Sphere was intended to include,
in addition to Japan, China, Manchukuo, Southeast Asia and the Pacific
mandates islands.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-prosperity_Sphere)(HNQ,
2/8/00)(Econ, 4/11/09, p.43)
1941 Aug 1, The Grumman TBF
Avenger torpedo plane made its first flight.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1941 Aug 1, Luftwaffe bombed the
German 23rd division.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1942 Aug 1, Jerry Garcia, lead
singer of the Grateful Dead, was born.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1942 Aug 1, Ensign Henry C. White,
while flying a J4F Widgeon plane, sank U-166 as it approaches the
Mississippi River, the first U-boat sunk by the U.S. Coast Guard. In
the summer of 1942, German submarines put saboteurs ashore on American
beaches. [see Jul 30, 1942]
(HN, 8/1/98)(SFC, 6/9/01, p.A5)
1943 Aug 1, Race-related rioting
erupted in New York City's Harlem section, resulting in several deaths.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1943 Aug 1, Over 177 B-24
Liberator bombers attacked the German oil fields in Ploesti, Romania,
for a second time. Of 1,762 airmen on the mission, 532 were killed,
captured, interned or listed as missing in action. In 2007 Duane
Schultz authored “Into the Fire: Ploesti” The Most Fateful Mission of
World War II.
(HN, 8/1/98)(WSJ, 11/13/07, p.D5)
1944 Aug 1, Anne Frank's last
diary entry; 3 days later she was arrested.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1944 Aug 1-1944 Oct 2, The Warsaw
Uprising was fought. The Polish underground began an uprising against
the occupying German army, as the Red Army approaches Warsaw. The
revolt lasted two months before collapsing. US Air Force Groups dropped
medicine and food to the Polish freedom fighters under heavy fire from
German fighter planes. The supply planes were also shot at by Soviet
gunners. American dead were buried in the military cemetery at Poltava,
Ukraine. The uprising ended with the Nazis killing 250,000 people.
During the 63-day uprising the insurgents, largely ill-armed teenagers,
organized a postal service to help city residents get information to
relatives. Marek Edelman (1909-2009) was among the commanders of the
uprising and managed to survive the war.
(Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 23)(AP,
8/1/97)(HN, 8/1/98)(AP, 3/6/08)(Econ, 10/10/09, p.91)
1946 Aug 1, President Truman
signed the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships
named for Sen. William J. Fulbright.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1946 Aug 1, President Truman
established the Atomic Energy Commission. Physicist John Simpson
(d.2000 at 83) helped develop the 1946 McMahon Act, which called for
civilian control of atomic energy.
(AP, 8/1/97)(SFC, 9/2/00,
p.A23)(http://tinyurl.com/66tsq)
1950 Aug 1, Lead elements of the
U.S. 2nd Infantry Division arrived in Korea from the United States.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1951 Aug 1, Jim Carroll, musician
and writer of "The Basketball Diaries," was born
(HN, 8/1/00)
1952 Aug 1, Jo Stafford
(1917-2008), pop star singer during the 1940s and 1950s, entered the
Billboard charts with the song “You Belong To Me.” It was her
greatest hit, topping the charts in both the United States and the
United Kingdom (the first song by a female singer to top the UK chart)
and remained on the chart for 24 weeks.
(SFC, 7/19/08,
p.B5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Belong_to_Me_(1952_song))
1952 Aug 1, Kemmons Wilson
(d.2003) opened the first Holiday Inn just outside Memphis, Tenn.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1953 Aug 1, Fidel Castro was
arrested in Cuba. [see Jul 26]
(MC, 8/1/02)
1954 Aug 1, The Geneva Accords
divided Vietnam into two countries at the 17th parallel. U.S.
complicity in the overthrow of South Vietnam's president made it
impossible to stay uninvolved in the war. The Geneva Accords called for
elections in 1956 and put a limit on the presence of foreign advisors.
US military advisors were limited to 685.
(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-23)(HN, 8/1/98)
1957 Aug 1, The United States and
Canada reached agreement to create the North American Air Defense
Command (NORAD).
(AP, 8/1/97)
1957 Aug 1, Lewis Hill (b.1919)
committed suicide in Duncan Mills, Sonoma County, Ca. He had helped
found Pacifica Radio (KPFA).
(SFC, 7/22/99,
p.E5)(www.ringnebula.com/folio/Issue-12/Conversation_Joy_Hill.htm)
1958 Aug 1, US atomic sub USS
Nautilus 1st dove under the North Pole.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1958 Aug 1, Jordan’s King Hussein
dissolved the Arab Federation of Jordan and Iraq.
(PCh, 1992, p.963)
1960 Aug 1, Dahomey, just west of
Nigeria, became independent from France with Hubert Maga as president.
It was renamed Benin with the capital at Porto Novo.
(WUD, 1994, p.139)(PC, 1992, p.973)(EWH, 1st ed.,
p.1172)
1964 Aug 1, Beatles' "Hard Day's
Night" single went #1.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1964 Aug 1, Arthur Ashe became the
first African-American to play on the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team.
(HN, 8/1/98)
1966 Aug 1, Charles Joseph Whitman
(25), architectural engineering student and ex-Marine, shot and killed
14 people at the University of Texas before he was gunned down by
police. His mother and wife were the first victims before he climbed to
the tower at the Univ. of Texas in Austen and shot 14 people dead and
wounded 31. One shooting victim died of complications in 2001 bringing
the death toll to 17. The 1997 film "The Delicate Art of the Rifle" by
the Cambrai Liberation Collective of North Carolina was a reimaging of
the attack at the Austin Campus.
(AP, 8/1/97)(SFC,11/19/97, p.A3)(SFC, 4/17/07, p.A8)
1970 Aug 1, The dance piece "The
Fugue," created by Twyla Tharp (b.1941), premiered at the Univ. of
Massachusetts in Amherst.
(WSJ, 10/17/96,
p.A20)(www.abt.org/education/archive/ballets/fugue.html)
1970 Aug 1, W.
Lain Guthrie (d.1997 at 84), a commercial airline pilot, refused to
dump kerosene into the atmosphere as had been common practice. He kept
his DC-8 on the ground and ordered the ground crew to drain the waste
fuel from the previous flight. He was fired but other pilots supported
him and he was reinstated and the industry stopped its dumping.
(SFC, 3/28/97, p.D2)
1971 Aug 1, The Concert For
Bangladesh, two benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi
Shankar, played to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_for_Bangladesh)
1971 Aug 1, CBS presented
Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII. The BBC produced program
series first aired in 1970.
(www.tvguide.com/tvshows/six-wives-henry/204436)(WSJ, 7/15/96, p.A9)
1972 Aug 1, The 1st article
exposing Watergate scandal was published by Bernstein and Woodward.
(www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/watergate.htm)
1975 Aug 1, A 35-nation summit in
Helsinki, Finland, concluded with the signing the Helsinki Accords,
dealing with European security, human rights and East-West
contacts. The Helsinki Final Act, signed by 35 states, was an
attempt to improve the relations between the Communist bloc and the
West.
(AP, 8/1/00)(www.hri.org/docs/Helsinki75.html)
1976 Aug 1, Liz Taylor had her 6th
divorce when she re-divorced Richard Burton.
(www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=21815)
1976 Aug 1, Trinidad & Tobago
became a republic.
(http://library2.nalis.gov.tt/Default.aspx?PageContentMode=1&tabid=79)
1977 Aug 1, Francis Gary Powers
(b.1929), US U-2 pilot, died in fiery helicopter crash.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers)
1978 Aug 1, Pete Rose of the
Cincinnati Reds, who had tied the National League record of hitting in
44 consecutive games, saw his streak end in a game against the Atlanta
Braves.
(AP, 8/1/98)
1980 Aug 1, In Iceland Vigdis
Finnbogadottir (b.1930) began serving as president and the world’s
first female head of state. She was re-elected 3 times and retired in
1996.
(SFC, 6/30/96,
B7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigd%C3%ADs_Finnbogad%C3%B3ttir)
1981 Aug 1, The US rock music
video channel MTV, founded by Bob Pittman, made its debut. The first
music video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, "Video Killed
the Radio Star", by the Buggles. In 2007 Saul Austerlitz authored
“Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video From the Beatles to
the White Stripes.”
(WSJ, 3/24/97, p.B1)(AP, 8/1/97)(SSFC, 3/18/07,
p.M2)(Econ, 11/22/08, p.78)
1981 Aug 1, Paddy Chayefsky
(b.1923), dramatist and screenwriter, died of cancer in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Chayefsky)
1982 Aug 1, In Kenya there was a
coup attempt against Pres. Daniel arap Moi. Oginga Odinga, Kenya’s 1st
vice-president, was implicated in the coup along with his son Raila
Odinga, who was put into solitary confinement for 6 years for his
alleged involvement.
(Econ, 12/22/07,
p.77)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Kenyan_coup)
1985 Aug 1, It was reported that
SF Mayor Diane Feinstein, currently on a visit to Ireland, has received
a $10,000 gift from the SF 49ers, the largest gift to date to any city
official. The gift came as the Feinstein administration was in touchy
negotiations over renovations to Candlestick Park.
(SSFC, 8/1/10, DB p.42)
1985 Aug 1, The French government
began to require the testing of all donated blood for AIDS following
the launch of a test by Diagnostic Pasteur. By this time some 1,300
hemophiliacs were contaminated with AIDS-tainted blood. By 1997 over
500 had died, most of them children. Four health officials were charged
and convicted in the case.
(SFEC, 2/7/99, p.A2)
1987 Aug 1, Iranians attacked the
Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti embassies in Tehran as word spread of rioting
in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, a day earlier that claimed some 400 lives, most
of them Iranian pilgrims.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1988 Aug 1, Conservative
commentator Rush Limbaugh began broadcasting his nationally syndicated
radio program.
(AP, 8/1/08)
1988 Aug 1, Iran said it would
honor an immediate cease-fire in its eight-year-old war with Iraq.
(AP, 8/1/98)
1989 Aug 1, The Revolutionary
Justice Organization, a pro-Iranian group in Lebanon which had
threatened to kill American hostage Joseph Cicippio, extended its
deadline a day after another group released a videotape showing a body
said to be that of hostage William R. Higgins.
(AP, 8/1/99)
1990 Aug 1, Robert Stempel took
charge at GM.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(http://tinyurl.com/q8mqs)
1990 Aug 1, Iraq pulled out of
talks with Kuwait.
(www.milnet.com/gulfwar.htm)
1990 Aug 1, In Trinidad, dozens of
Muslim militants surrendered and freed 42 hostages they had seized six
days earlier in a failed bid to overthrow the government. Jamaat al
Muslimeen, a Trinidadian radical Muslim group led by Yasin Abu Bakr
(formerly Lennox Phillip), launched the unsuccessful rebellion that
left 24 dead.
(AP, 8/1/00)(AP, 6/3/07)(Econ, 6/9/07, p.44)
1991 Aug 1, President Bush,
visiting the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, urged Soviet republics to show
restraint in their demands for more autonomy.
(AP, 8/1/01)
1991 Aug 1, Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir accepted a US formula for Middle East peace talks with
the Arabs.
(AP, 8/1/01)
1992 Aug 1, The US Supreme Court
permitted the Bush administration to continue returning Haitians
intercepted at sea to their Caribbean homeland.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1992 Aug 1, Gail Devers won the
women's 100 meters and Linford Christie the men's 100 meters at the
Barcelona Summer Olympics.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1993 Aug 1, The city of St. Louis
found itself besieged by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, which had
swelled to record levels after months of flooding in nine Midwestern
states.
(AP, 8/1/98)
1993 Aug 1, Ewing Marion Kauffman
(b.1916) founder of Marion Laboratories (1950) and the Ewing Marion
Kauffman Foundation (1966), died.
(www.kauffman.org/ewingkauffman.cfm)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing_Kauffman)
1994 Aug 1, Michael Jackson and
Lisa Marie Presley confirmed they had secretly married eleven weeks
earlier.
(AP, 8/1/99)
1994 Aug 1, Supporters of Haiti's
military rulers declared their intention to fight back in the face of a
U.N. resolution paving the way for a U.S.-led invasion.
(AP, 8/1/99)
1995 Aug 1, In the second TV
network takeover in as many days, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
struck a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion. A day earlier, Walt Disney
had agreed to acquire Capital Cities-ABC for $19 billion.
(AP, 8/1/00)
1995 Aug 1, NATO threatened major
air strikes if any more "safe areas" were attacked in Bosnia.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1996 Aug 1, In a political victory
for President Clinton, a federal jury in Little Rock, Ark., acquitted
two Arkansas bankers of misapplying bank funds and conspiracy to boost
his political career; the jury deadlocked on seven other counts.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1996 Aug 1, At the Atlanta
Olympics, Michael Johnson broke his world track record by more than
three-tenths of a second, winning the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1996 Aug 1, In Kazakhstan doctors
warned of a surge in TB when 56,000 prisoners are released under a
government amnesty. It was estimated that 16,500 prisoners had the
disease.
(WSJ, 8/2/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 1, It was reported that
1/5 of China’s river water can no longer be used to irrigate land.
(WSJ, 8/2/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 1, In Venezuela the tax
authorities increased the general sales tax to 16.5% from 12.5%. There
has been a 108% rate of inflation over the last 12 months. Transparency
Int’l., a Berlin base nongovernmental anticorruption organization,
rated Venezuela as the most corrupt country in the Western hemisphere.
(WSJ, 8/9/96, p.A11)
1997 Aug 1, Pres. Clinton
announced that the 1978 ban on sales of high-performance aircraft and
other advanced weapons to Latin America would be lifted.
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.A8)(AP, 8/1/98)
1997 Aug 1, The National Cancer
Institute reported that fallout from 1950s nuclear bomb tests had
exposed millions of children across the country to radioactive iodine.
(AP, 8/1/98)
1997 Aug 1, In Algeria 38
villagers at Sidi el Madani in Blida province were killed.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A19)
1997 Aug 1, In Bangladesh at least
150 fishermen were missing in the Bay of Bengal after a storm sank
their boats.
(SFC, 8/1/97, p.A16)
1997 Aug 1, Israel withheld $25
million in tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority, which made the
Authority unable to meet its payroll.
(SFC, 8/4/97, p.A8)
1997 Aug 1, In Palestine 16 of
Arafat’s 18 Cabinet members offered their resignations in response to
allegations of widespread corruption.
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.A12)
1997 Aug 1, In Russia Svyatoslav
Richter, concert pianist, died at 82 in Moscow. He was known for his
brilliant technique in numerous styles.
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.A21)
1998 Aug 1, Dismissing as "an
empty promise" GOP-backed legislation to create a patients' bill of
rights, President Clinton in his Saturday radio address pressed
Congress to pass a measure that would allow patients to sue their
health insurers.
(AP, 8/1/99)
1998 Aug 1, In China floodwaters
burst through a levee along the Yangtze in Hubei province and over 1000
people were reported missing. News of more flooding was hushed and it
was later learned that 8,000-10,000 people in Jiayu province were
inundated and presumed dead.
(SFC, 8/5/98, p.A9)(SFC, 8/6/93, p.A12)(SFEC,
8/16/98, p.A18)
1998 Aug 1, In Northern Ireland a
car bomb exploded in Banbridge and wounded 35 people.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, p.A18)
1998 Aug 1, The 5th quadrennial
Gay Games began in Amsterdam with some 15,000 competitors.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, p.A2)
1998 Aug 1, In South Korea
flooding killed at least 20 sleeping campers and left 70 others missing.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, p.A24)
1999 Aug 1, A US heat wave that
had gripped the nation since mid-July finally broke; authorities
attributed nearly 200 deaths to the heat and humidity.
(AP, 8/1/00)
1999 Aug 1, In Colombia a weekend
attack by rebels killed at least 17 people in Narino, 100 miles
northwest of Bogota.
(SFC, 8/2/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 1, The EU cleared British
beef for export. A ban had followed the 1996 mad cow crises.
(SFC, 8/3/99, p.A9)
1999 Aug 1, In South Korea
torrential rains over the weekend killed at least 12 people and forced
some 15,000 from their homes.
(SFC, 8/2/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 1, In Zambia Jean-Pierre
Bemba, head of the Congo Liberation Movement, signed the cease-fire
accord that representatives of 5 nations involved had signed on July
10. The Congolese Rally for Democracy faction still contested
leadership between Ernest Wamba dia Wamba and Emile Ilunga.
(SFC, 8/2/99, p.A12)
2000 Aug 1, In Philadelphia police
arrested at least 280 protesters and raided a warehouse site used as a
staging area for passive resistance demonstrations. 15 police officers
were injured.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A9)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 1, A US military court in
Germany sentenced Army Staff Sergeant Frank Ronghi to life in prison
without parole for sexually assaulting and killing Merita Shabiu, an
eleven-year-old ethnic Albanian girl, while on peacekeeping duty in
Kosovo.
(AP, 8/1/01)
2000 Aug 1, In Chile the Supreme
Court was reported to have voted in secret to strip Gen. Pinochet of
his senatorial immunity.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 1, Costa Rica planned to
begin offering free e-mail access to all its citizens through the
government owned commercial Internet monopoly, RACSA.
(SFEC, 6/18/00, p.A15)
2000 Aug 1, In Indonesia a car
bomb exploded outside the house of the Philippine ambassador. Two
people were killed and 22 wounded including Ambassador Leonides Caday.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 1, In Kashmir terrorists
killed nearly 50 people in 2 attacks. 18 men at a village in the
Anantnag area were killed as well as 30 Hindu pilgrims and Muslim
porters on their way to the Amarmath cave shrine at Pahalgam.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Aug 1, Two Britons and 2
Canadians were arrested in northern Montenegro while driving to Kosovo
on suspicion of spying and terrorism.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A12)
2001 Aug 1, The US House passed
energy legislation that included opening the Arctic national Wildlife
Refuge to oil and gas drilling.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 1, The Federal Trade
Commission cleared the way for PepsiCo to acquire Quaker Oats for about
$13.4 billion in stock.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2001 Aug 1, Robert Henry Rimmer,
author of the 1960s novel "The Harrad Experiment," died at age 84.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A17)
2001 Aug 1, Pro Bowl tackle Korey
Stringer died of heat stroke, a day after collapsing at the Minnesota
Vikings' training camp on the hottest day of the year.
(AP, 8/1/02)
2001 Aug 1, In Chechnya 86
refugees attempted a 1000-mile march to Moscow to protest atrocities
but were immediately stopped by force and 12 were arrested.
(SFC, 8/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 1, A boatload of Cubans
capsized off Key West and at least 2 people died. 4 were missing and 22
were rescued.
(WSJ, 8/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 1, In Indonesia at least
64 people were killed on Nias island from floods and landslides.
Another 200 were missing.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 8/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 1, In Indonesia Taufik
Abdul Halim, a member of the Malaysian Mujahedeen Group, blew off his
lower right leg at a Jakarta shopping mall when a bomb he carried
exploded prematurely. Halim was linked to Dedi Setiono (Abbas), who was
linked to Hambali (Riduan Isamuddin), operations leader of Jemaah
Islamiah.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A16)(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A14)
2001 Aug 1, In Germany legislation
went into effect offering legal status to same-sex couples.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 1, Israeli troops killed
a Palestinian man in heavy fighting in Hebron.
(WSJ, 8/2/01, p.A1)
2002 Aug1, The United States and a
bloc of Southeast Asian nations signed a sweeping anti-terrorism treaty.
(AP, 8/1/03)
2002 Aug 1, Two former WorldCom
executives were arrested on charges of falsifying the books at the
now-bankrupt long-distance company. David Myers, controller, was
charged with securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud
and false filings.
(AP, 8/1/03)(WSJ, 3/24/05, p.A1)
2002 Aug 1, In California 2 girls
(one 16 and Jacqueline Marris, 17) were rescued in Kern County 12 hours
after being kidnapped and raped near Lancaster by Roy Ratliff (37).
Police shot Ratliff dead. Police credited the new Amber alert system,
named after a Texas girl abducted and killed in 1996.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A1,8)(SFC, 8/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Aug 1, In NYC the alleged
ringleader of a massive identity theft operation was indicted along
with 3 associates.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 1, In Atlanta, Georgia, a
35,000 pound billboard collapsed at a suburban shopping center and 3
construction workers were killed.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 1, In Colombia a
helicopter crashed while on an army medical evacuation mission in a
rebel zone killing six people. Also a 14-year-old girl died and five
other people were wounded w hen suspected rebels threw a grenade at a
bakery in the village of Venecia, 40 miles south of Bogota.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 1, In Ghana the
government raised the cost of electricity by 60%.
(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.D6)
2002 Aug 1, In Iran the Education
Ministry relaxed dress codes for girls in all-female schools for the
1st time in 23 years.
(SFC, 8/3/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 1, Opponents of Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein shot and wounded his younger son, Qusai (35), in
an assassination attempt in Baghdad. The Iraqi National Congress
opposition group reported the event 2 weeks later.
(AP, 8/14/02)
2002 Aug 1, In Northern Ireland a
Protestant construction worker was killed with a booby-trap bomb.
Police blamed the IRA.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A17)
2002 Aug 1, In Mexico Pope John
Paul II beatified Juan Bautista and Jacinto de los Angeles (d.1700) as
part of a trip reaching out to Indians across the Americas, who have
been increasingly converting to rival Protestant faiths. Beatification
is a necessary step on the path to sainthood. Bautista and Angeles had
informed Spanish authorities of an Indian religious and were killed by
fellow Indians. Christian officials decapitated and quartered 15 men
and staked their body parts by the roadside as a warning.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2002 Aug 1, In Mexico the
government decided to yield to protests by machete-wielding farmers and
radicals and cancelled plans to build a new international airport on
the eastern outskirts of Mexico City.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2003 Aug 1, The Belgian Senate
gave final approval to a scaled-down war crimes law that the government
hopes will repair relations with Washington and preserve Belgium's role
as NATO headquarters.
(AP, 8/1/03)
2003 Aug 1, In Bolivia
police seized 2 tons of cocaine and arrested 20 people in what
officials called the country's biggest drug bust in nearly a decade.
(AP, 8/1/03)
2003 Aug 1, Marie Trintignant (41)
died after several days on a respirator in France. She was initially
hospitalized in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, on July 27 after
French rock star Bertrand Cantat (39) allegedly beat her at the hotel
where they were staying with her mother and one of her sons.
Trintignant, had been in Lithuania since June filming a joint
French-Lithuanian television movie, "Colette," about the French female
writer. Bertrand Cantat was later sentenced to 8 years in prison for
manslaughter. He was released for good behavior in October 2007 after
serving four years.
(AP,
8/5/03)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Trintignant)
2003 Aug 1, In Israel Yehiya
Farhan and a 16-year-old girlfriend lured Dana Bennett (18) into their
vehicle. Farhan beat her to death and concealed the body in the
northern hills. Months earlier the couple had picked up Czech hitch
hiker Sylvia Molrova (27), killed her and dumped her body in a remote
spot. In 2009 Israeli detectives arrested Farhan. He was already in
custody on suspicion of raping an Australian tourist when a tip led
homicide detectives to him. In 2010 Farhan (34) was sentenced to 102
years in prison. Farhan's female accomplice helped police with their
investigation and was sentenced to a shorter prison term in a plea
bargain.
(www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3721705,00.html)(AP, 7/21/10)
2003 Aug 1, In Kenya a terrorist
suspect detonated a hand grenade as he was being arrested near
Mombasa's central police station, killing himself and a policeman.
(AP, 8/1/03)
2003 Aug 1, In Monrovia, Liberia,
shelling erupted after a one-day lull, killing at least 9 people. Top
West African officials flew into the capital to press the country's
president to cede power after peacekeepers arrive, but Charles Taylor
kept them waiting by reportedly heading to a southern war zone. Taylor
actually flew to Libya to gather arms and ammunition.
(AP, 8/1/03)(SFC, 8/8/03, p.A10)
2003 Aug 1, Mexican soldiers used
a bazooka to return fire against cars believed to be carrying drug
traffickers during a wild pre-dawn battle, killing three suspects.
(AP, 8/1/03)
2003 Aug 1, North Korea eased its
insistence on one-on-one talks with Washington and agreed to join
U.S.-proposed multilateral talks, where it will find little sympathy
for its suspected nuclear weapons programs.
(AP, 8/1/03)
2003 Aug 1, A suicide bomber
rammed a truck packed with explosives through the gates of a Russian
military hospital near Chechnya, destroying the building and killing at
least 50 people.
(AP, 8/3/03)
2003 Aug 1, In Rwanda the largest
trial so far seeking justice for the 1994 genocide ended. A tribunal
convicted 100 people of rape, torture, murder and crimes against
humanity.
(AP, 8/4/03)
2003 Aug 1, In Sao Tome PM Maria
das Neves resigned. Four other government ministers also have offered
to resign.
(AP, 8/1/03)
2003 Aug 1, The UN Security
Council approved sending a multinational force to Liberia.
(AP, 8/2/03)
2004 Aug 1, The US government
warned of possible al-Qaida terrorist attacks against specific
financial institutions in New York City, Washington and Newark, N.J.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2004 Aug 1, Alexandra Scott, a
young cancer patient who started a lemonade stand to raise money for
cancer research, sparking a nationwide fund-raising campaign, died at
her home in Wynnewood, Pa., at age 8.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2004 Aug 1, Karen Stupples won the
Women's British Open.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2004 Aug 1, A roadside bombing
near the town of Samarra killed one U.S. soldier and wounded two
others. A car bomb exploded outside a police station in the northern
Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least five people and injuring 53
others. The blast followed a night of clashes between U.S. troops and
insurgents that killed 12 Iraqis and wounded 39 others in Fallujah. Car
bombings in Baghdad targeted at 4 churches and at least 11 people
including 2 children were killed.
(AP, 8/1/04)(SFC, 8/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 1, A militant group
claiming links to al Qaeda has given Italy a 15-day deadline to
withdraw its troops from Iraq or face attacks.
(AP, 8/1/04)
2004 Aug 1, A Kenyan government
spokesman said 7 truck drivers taken hostage in Iraq have been released.
(AP, 8/1/04)
2004 Aug 1, A Lebanese hostage was
freed unharmed after Iraqi police raided his kidnappers' hideout in an
operation that ended with the arrest of three terror suspects.
(AP, 8/2/04)
2004 Aug 1, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
(b.1958) was elected governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, by a narrow 2% margin.
Defeated candidate Gabino Cue, nominated by an alliance mainly of
Convergencia and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD),
repeatedly alleged electoral fraud.
(http://tinyurl.com/jnpk8)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.48)
2004 Aug 1, In Paraguay a
fast-spreading fire killed 420 people. Survivors of the inferno in a
crowded supermarket on the outskirts of Asuncion said that locked doors
slowed their escape. In 2008 a father and son who owned the supermarket
were sentenced to prison for manslaughter and endangerment. In 2009
Supreme Court voted 2-1 in favor of a sentence of 12 years for Juan Pio
Paiva and 10 years for his son Daniel Paiva. In 2009 a court upheld a
two-year prison sentence for architect Bernardo Ismachowiez, designer
of the supermarket.
(AP, 8/2/04)(AP, 8/6/04)(AP, 2/3/08)(AP, 8/6/09)(AP,
8/29/09)
2004 Aug 1, In Peru a bus plunged
off a cliff in the Andes Mountains, killing at least 34 passengers and
injuring 21.
(AP, 8/2/04)
2004 Aug 1, The Sudanese cabinet
condemned the 30-day deadline for action on Darfur set by the U.N.
Security Council, but said it would implement a 90-day program agreed
earlier with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.
(AP, 8/1/04)
2004 Aug 1, World Trade
Organization members meeting in Geneva approved a plan to end export
subsidies on farm products and cut import duties across the world.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2005 Aug 1, President Bush
sidestepped the Senate and installed embattled nominee John Bolton as
ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton would only be able to serve
until the end of the current Congress i.e. December 2006.
(AP, 8/1/05)(Econ, 8/6/05, p.23)
2005 Aug 1, Michael Chertoff, US
Sec. of Homeland Security, said most of 582 alleged gang members
recently arrested in a 2-week nationwide sweep, could be deported for
immigration violations.
(SFC, 8/2/05, p.A3)
2005 Aug 1, The California State
Supreme Court ruled that state businesses must treat same-sex domestic
couples the same as married couples.
(SFC, 8/2/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 1, Rafael Palmeiro,
Baltimore Orioles star, was suspended for 10 days for use of steroids.
The action raised the possibility of a perjury probe.
(SFC, 8/2/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 1, The Oregon state
legislature passed the nation’s strictest anti-methamphetamine measure
requiring prescriptions for many over-the-counter cold medications.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski was expected to sign it within 5-10 days. It posed
a challenge to the FDA in regulating medicines.
(WSJ, 8/1/05, p.A3)
2005 Aug 1, Al Gore and Joel Hyatt
premiered their current TV cable and satellite channel. In 2008 Current
Media planned an IPO to raise $100 million.
(www.current.tv/news/nypost080205.html)(SFC,
1/29/08, p.B1)
2005 Aug 1-2005 Sep 2, An American
man and 11 Chinese citizens were arrested in a counterfeit medicine
scheme that spanned 11 countries and involved millions of dollars worth
of fake drugs.
(AP, 9/8/05)
2005 Aug 1, In Brazil Rep.
Valdemar Costa Neto, president of the government-allied Liberal Party
resigned from Congress, the first lawmaker to step down in a widening
corruption scandal that has plagued the government of President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2005 Aug 1, Britain revealed a
two-year plan for slashing its army garrison and base network to
peacetime levels in Northern Ireland in a dramatic, detailed response
to Irish Republican Army peace moves.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2005 Aug 1, In Cambodia 2 men who
said their confessions were coerced by police were convicted of murder
in the death of a prominent labor union leader. Chea Vichea, the former
head of Cambodia's Free Trade Union of Workers, was gunned down in
January 2004 at a roadside newsstand in the capital, Phnom Penh. The
union leader was an outspoken critic of government corruption and human
rights abuses.
(AP, 8/2/05)
2005 Aug 1, In Cristales,
Colombia, more than 2,000 outlawed paramilitary fighters, from the
"Heroes of Granada" faction of the AUC, laid down their arms in return
for amnesty. Commander Diego Murillo, an accused drug lord indicted on
trafficking charges in the US, stood by and watched. In 2008 Murillo
(47) was extradited to the US and pleaded guilty to drug-smuggling
charges.
(AP, 8/1/05)(WSJ, 6/18/08, p.A2)
2005 Aug 1, In northern Colombia a
roadside bomb exploded as a police convoy traveled down a rural
highway, killing at least 15 officers.
(AP, 8/2/05)
2005 Aug 1, Egyptian police
cornered a main suspect in the Sharm el-Sheik bombings in his mountain
hideout and killed him in a shootout that also fatally wounded his
wife. The couple's 4-year-old daughter also was wounded.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2005 Aug 1, Iraq announced that it
will begin rationing gasoline over the next few months to cope with a
continuing fuel shortage.
(SFC, 8/2/05, p.A5)
2005 Aug 1, In western Iraq six US
Marines were killed in Haditha. A 7th Marine was killed by a car bomb
in Hit.
(AP, 8/2/05)
2005 Aug 1, Japan said it would
retaliate against America’s abuse of WTO anti-dumping rules with a 15%
duty on 15 American products.
(Econ, 8/6/05, p.62)
2005 Aug 1, A prosecutor said that
Kyrgyzstan will send 15 Uzbeks asylum seekers back to their home
country, despite pleas from the United Nations and rights groups that
it violates international treaties on refugees.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2005 Aug 1, In Tonala, Mexico,
assailants threw grenades into a crowded cockfighting ring before dawn,
killing four people and wounding 25 others.
(AP, 8/2/05)
2005 Aug 1, In Nigeria protesting
Akabuka villagers demanding more jobs for their community forced the
Nigerian branch of Total SA to shut down the Obagi onshore oil field.
(AP, 8/6/05)
2005 Aug 1, King Fahd (83), Saudi
ruler since 1982, died at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in
Riyadh. He moved Saudi Arabia closer to the US but ruled the nation in
name only since suffering a stroke in 1995. His half brother, Crown
Prince Abdullah, was named to replace him.
(AP, 8/1/05)(Econ, 8/6/05, p.71)
2005 Aug 1, Rioters burned cars
and threw stones in Sudan's capital following news of the death of VP
John Garanga in a helicopter crash. Garang's longtime deputy, Silva
Kiir, was quickly named to succeed him as head of his Sudan People's
Liberation Army and as president of south Sudan. 36 people died in
riots.
(AP, 8/1/05)(AP, 8/2/05)
2005 Aug 1, Trucks loaded with
produce and other merchandise began crossing into Syria from Lebanon on
their way to Gulf countries after Syria eased restrictions that left
them stranded for nearly four weeks in the border area.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2005 Aug 1, The directors of
Turkey's eight privately owned Kurdish language schools announced they
were closing them due to bureaucratic hurdles and Kurdish demands for
the language to be part of the regular school curriculum.
(AP, 8/1/05)
2006 Aug 1, Former President
Clinton and mayors of some of the world's largest cities announced an
initiative to combat climate change and increase energy efficiency in
everything from street lights to building materials.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, A US report said graft
in Iraq reconstruction is running at $4 billion a year and growing.
(WSJ, 8/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 1, US sanctions on
Myanmar were extended for up to three years under a law signed by
President Bush, an attempt to increase pressure on the government to
follow through with democratic reforms.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, Mel Gibson issued a
statement in which he denied being a bigot; he also apologized to
"everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words"
he'd used when he was arrested in southern California for investigation
of drunken driving.
(AP, 8/1/07)
2006 Aug 1, Kansas voters in the
state’s primary ousted the conservative majority on the Board of
Education that favored “intelligent design” over Darwin’s theory of
evolution.
(SFC, 8/3/06, p.A3)
2006 Aug 1, Philip H. Knight,
founder of Nike Inc., pledged $105 million to the Stanford Graduate
School of Business. Most of it will be used for a new $275 million
facility to be called the Knight Management Center.
(SFC, 8/2/06, p.B1)
2006 Aug 1, In southern
Afghanistan Taliban militants killed three British soldiers. 18 Taliban
militants and one policeman were killed as Afghan forces and coalition
aircraft raided an insurgent hide-out near Garmser.
(AP, 8/1/06)(AP, 8/2/06)
2006 Aug 1, Cabinda, a 7,000 sq-km
province of Angola located on the western coast just north of the
CongoDRC, signed the “Memorandum of Understanding for Peace in Cabinda”
with the government of Angola, granting it “a special statute” and
greater autonomy. In 2007 the province pumped over half of Angola’s 1.7
million barrels per day oil production.
(Econ, 1/5/08, Angola p.8)
2006 Aug 1, Britain launched the
country's first public terror alert system and said it faces a severe
risk of another terrorist attack.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, Chinese official media
reported that Mouding county in Yunnan killed as many as 50,000 dogs in
a 5-day government campaign ordered after three people died from
rabies. China’s government said police have seized about 6,000 illegal
firearms and tons of explosives in a two-month crackdown across three
provinces.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, A Congolese opposition
party and former rebel group denounced widespread fraud in the
country's historic elections in a protest that heralded a divisive
political dispute over the polls.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, Fidel Castro remained
out of sight after undergoing intestinal surgery and temporarily
turning over power to his brother Raul. He released a statement in
which he sought to reassure Cubans that his health was stable after
intestinal surgery.
(AP, 8/1/06)(AP, 8/1/07)
2006 Aug 1, In northern India a
school bus carrying about 50 children plunged into a canal, killing at
least six children.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, Iran's President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected the UN Security Council resolution giving
Iran until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment. Ahmadinejad added
that Tehran will pursue its nuclear program.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, Bombings and shootings
across Iraq killed over 70 people, including 24 people in a bus
destroyed by a roadside bomb in Beiji. In the Karradah neighborhood of
Baghdad, a car bomb exploded during morning rush hour near a bank,
killing at least 14 people and injuring 37. A US report said graft in
Iraq reconstruction is running at $4 billion a year and growing.
(AP, 8/1/06)(AP, 8/2/06)(WSJ, 8/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 1, Israel's air force
fired missiles into northern Gaza, killing a 14-year-old boy and
wounding four others near Beit Hanoun.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, In Indian Kashmir 4
security personnel were killed in a shooting at a popular tourist spot.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, Heavy fighting raged
in the Lebanese border village of Aita al-Shaab, and Hezbollah
television said 35 Israeli soldiers had been killed or wounded in the
fighting. Israeli warplanes pounded Shiite Lebanese villages in many
areas along the border and struck Hezbollah strongholds deep inside the
country.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, The Papua New Guinea
government declared a state of emergency in the resource-rich Southern
Highlands province. PM Somare said security forces had been sent to the
graft-ridden province and government controllers appointed to try to
restore good governance.
(AFP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, A Moscow judge
declared the Yukos oil company bankrupt, paving the way for the
liquidation of what was once Russia's biggest oil producer.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, Dutch Cardinal
Johannes Willebrands (96), a key figure in the Roman Catholic Church's
efforts to improve relations with other Christians and Jews, died.
(AP, 8/2/06)
2006 Aug 1, Officials said
incumbent Seychelles President James Michel of the People's Progressive
Front won nearly 54% of the vote over the weekend, while opposition
leader Wavel Ramkalawan got 46%.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, A pro-rebel Web site
reported said Tamil Tiger rebels destroyed a Sri Lanka navy boat in a
battle near an eastern port killing 8 sailors. Navy spokesman Commander
D.K.P Dassanayake denied the report and said sailors destroyed three
rebel attack boats.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, Assailants carried out
at least 40 bomb and arson attacks in Thailand's three Muslim-dominated
southernmost provinces. At least three people were reported hurt.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2007 Aug 1, A major bridge on
I-35W over the Mississippi River collapsed in Minneapolis, Minn., at
rush hour. Initial reports said at least 5 people were killed. The
bridge dated to 1967. On Aug 9 Navy divers recovered two more bodies,
including one identified as a former missionary who had been reported
missing. Divers recovered an 8th victim on Aug 10 and a 9th on Aug 12.
Two more victims were found on Aug 16. A 12th victim was found Aug 19.
The 13th and last victim was found Aug 20. In 2008 Gov. Tim Pawlenty
signed a $38 million package to compensate victims of the collapse. In
2010 URS Corp., which had a contract to evaluate the bridge’s
structural integrity, reached $5 million settlement with Minnesota. In
August URS later agreed to pay over $52 million to settle claims by
victims.
(AP, 8/2/07)(SFC, 8/1/07, p.A5)(AP, 8/10/07)(SFC,
8/11/07, p.A5)(SFC, 8/13/07, p.A5)(WSJ, 8/17/07, p.A1)(SFC, 8/20/07,
p.A3)(AP, 8/21/07)(WSJ, 5/9/08, p.A1)(SFC, 3/20/10, p.A5)(SFC, 8/24/10,
p.D1)
2007 Aug 1, SF police and homeless
outreach workers rousted people sleeping in Golden Gate Park and other
parks and encampments.
(SFC, 8/2/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 1, Tommy Maken (74),
Irish-American folk musician who performed for years with the Clancy
Brothers, died in Dover, NH.
(SFC, 8/4/07, p.B5)
2007 Aug 1, The bodies of 4 Afghan
judges, kidnapped 11 days ago, were found in Ghazni province, the same
province where 21 South Korean hostages were held. Afghanistan dropped
leaflets in the area to warn of military action.
(SFC, 8/2/07, p.A10)(WSJ, 8/2/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 1, The ASEAN summit got
underway in Manila. Diplomats held dozens of meetings in the Philippine
capital, using the annual gathering of nearly 30 nations to confer on
everything from the North Korean crisis to the conflict in Darfur.
(AP, 8/1/07)
2007 Aug 1, The South Australian
Supreme Court ordered its own state government to pay Bruce Trevorrow
$448,000 for damages caused when he was taken from his parents without
their knowledge 50 years ago.
(AP, 8/2/07)
2007 Aug 1, Bangladesh officials
said monsoon floods had misplaced or marooned 5 million people and left
40 dead.
(SFC, 8/2/07, p.A3)
2007 Aug 1, A financial watchdog
said British Airways has been fined a record 121.5 million pounds (180
million euros, $246 million) after admitting collusion with Virgin
Atlantic over fuel surcharges on tickets. British Airways and Korean
Air (for collusion with Lufthansa) agreed to pay $300 million each in
fines and plead guilty to federal charges that they colluded with other
airlines to set ticket prices.
(AFP, 8/1/07)(SFC, 8/2/07, p.C2)(Econ, 8/4/07, p.48)
2007 Aug 1, In China 69 men
trapped in a flooded Chinese coal mine for more than three days were
pulled out alive, ending a terrifying ordeal in which they survived on
milk and pumped-in oxygen.
(AP, 8/1/07)
2007 Aug 1, A passenger train
derailed in central Congo and eight cars tumbled off the tracks,
killing about 100 people and trapping some passengers in the wreckage.
People in the southeastern town of Moba attacked the UN office after a
local radio station aired false rumors that the United Nations was to
resettle Congolese ethnic Tutsis in the region. 4 UN military observers
were wounded and 21 staff were evacuated.
(AP, 8/2/07)(AP, 8/4/07)
2007 Aug 1, Denmark, France and
Indonesia offered to contribute to a joint UN-African Union mission for
Darfur, a 26,000-strong force expected to be made up mostly of
peacekeepers from Africa with backup from Asian troops. Sudan accepted
a UN resolution approving a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force
in Darfur.
(AP, 8/1/07)(AFP, 8/1/07)
2007 Aug 1, A French court ruled
that indictments for Wenceslas Munyeshyaka and another man, Laurent
Bucyibaruta, violated the presumption of innocence. Rwanda had sought
the extradition of the 2 men for their roles in the country's 1994
genocide.
(Reuters, 8/2/07)
2007 Aug 1, Guatemala's Congress
voted to create a commission of foreign experts to investigate
organized crime and police corruption.
(AP, 8/1/07)
2007 Aug 1, An overcrowded boat
evacuating people from a flooded village capsized in a rain-swollen
river in northern India, killing at least 28 people. Dozens of people
were killed across South Asia as surging flood waters caused by heavy
monsoon rains forced millions from their homes.
(AFP, 8/1/07)
2007 Aug 1, Iran publicly hanged
seven men in the second round of collective executions in 10 days. The
Web site of the state's broadcasting company said they were hanged on
charges of rape, kidnapping and robbery in Mashad. Iran arrested more
than 200 music fans at an underground rock concert that one official
called a "satanic" gathering and authorities accused the youths of
breaking Islamic law.
(AP, 8/1/07)(AP, 8/5/07)
2007 Aug 1, Iraq's largest Sunni
Arab political bloc announced its withdrawal from the government,
undermining efforts to seek reconciliation among the country's rival
factions. Two bombing attacks in Baghdad killed at least 67 people. In
one attack, 50 people were killed and 60 wounded when a suicide
attacker exploded a fuel truck near a gas station in western Baghdad.
Another 17 died in a separate car bomb attack in central Baghdad. A
parked car bomb killed 3 people and wounded 5 in southern Baghdad in a
mostly Christian area. Altogether at least 142 Iraqis were killed or
found dead, including 70 who died in three separate bombings in
Baghdad. One US soldiers was killed by a roadside bomb.
(AP, 8/1/07)(AP, 8/2/07)
2007 Aug 1, Norihiko Akagi,
Japan's scandal-embroiled agriculture minister, stepped down, taking
responsibility for a shattering election defeat for the ruling party.
Akagi had been hit by an embarrassing accounting scandal, which was
widely viewed as a major reason behind the ruling election loss.
(AP, 8/1/07)
2007 Aug 1, Two Lebanese soldiers
were killed in heavy fighting with al-Qaida-inspired militants holed up
in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
(AP, 8/2/07)
2007 Aug 1, Russian explorers
readied for a historic descent to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean under
the North Pole as part of an expedition to claim the area for Russia.
(AP, 8/1/07)
2007 Aug 1, Russia's
state-controlled gas monopoly said that it will reduce natural gas
supplies to Belarus by 45 percent as of Aug 3 after Minsk failed to pay
in full for previous gas shipments.
(AP, 8/1/07)
2007 Aug 1, It was reported that
more than 100 Serbian Gypsies have crossed the border illegally into
neighboring Romania in recent days and filed applications for asylum
claiming they were subject to abuse and attacks in Serbia.
(AP, 8/1/07)
2007 Aug 1, South Korea’s
Agriculture Ministry halted quarantine inspections of American beef
shipments after finding a banned vertebral column in a recent shipment.
Without such inspections, the beef cannot be brought to market.
(AP, 8/2/07)
2007 Aug 1, Rebels captured the
town of Adila, where Sudanese troops were stationed to protect the only
railway linking Darfur to the capital of Khartoum. Some 100 (Sudanese)
soldiers or janjaweed were killed in the fighting.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 1, In southern Thailand a
rebel ambush and bombs left 11 people dead.
(SFC, 8/2/07, p.A3)
2007 Aug 1, An opposition-aligned
television channel (RCTV), already booted from the airwaves, faced a
deadline to agree to carry speeches by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
or be yanked from the cable lineup.
(AP, 8/1/07)
2008 Aug 1, US Federal and state
regulators closed First Priority Bank of Bradenton, Florida, the 8th US
bank to fail this year. It would be acquired by SunTrustBanks Inc.
(WSJ, 8/4/08, p.A3)(www.fpbank.com/)
2008 Aug 1, In eastern Afghanistan
4 NATO soldiers were killed in a bomb blast in Kunar province. Another
soldier was killed in a separate explosion in Khost province. More than
a dozen" rebels were killed in ground fighting and air strikes after
attacking an Afghan and US-led coalition patrol in the southern
province of Uruzgan. Several more were killed in the southwestern
province of Farah after their hideout was discovered. Three other
militants linked to Taliban, one of them a doctor, were killed when a
bomb they were planting exploded in eastern Khost province. Islamic
rebels captured six policemen following a brief firefight in Khost
province.
(AFP, 8/1/08)(AFP, 8/2/08)
2008 Aug 1, Anglo-Australian
mining giant Rio Tinto said it received correspondence from Guinea
President Lansana Conte "purporting to rescind the Simandou Mining
Concession."
(AFP, 8/3/08)
2008 Aug 1, China’s broad
anti-monopoly law, promulgated in August, 2007, went into effect. It
became informally referred to as its economic consitution.
(www.iflr.com/Article/2017768/Anti-Monopoly-Law.html)(Econ, 3/21/09,
p.68)
2008 Aug 1, In southern Egypt 12
people were killed and 16 others wounded when two speeding passenger
buses rammed into a truck.
(AFP, 8/1/08)
2008 Aug 1, A German farmer who
lost both his arms in an accident was successfully fitted with two new
limbs in what is believed to be the first complete double arm
transplant.
(AP, 8/1/08)
2008 Aug 1, In southern India at
least 32 people have died after several coaches of the Gautami Express
train caught fire.
(AP, 8/1/08)
2008 Aug 1, In Iraq a roadside
bomb attack has killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded two others in
northern city of Kirkuk.
(AP, 8/1/08)
2008 Aug 1, The body of Fernando
Marti, the 14-year-old son of a prominent businessman, was found in the
trunk of a car in Mexico City. He had been kidnapped in June. The
kidnap and murder prompted a wave of anti-crime protests across the
nation. In September police detained five suspects including Sergio
Ortiz, a former agent of a now-disbanded city detective force, who led
the "Flower Gang" responsible for kidnapping Marti in June. In July,
2009, Jose Montiel (34) and Noe Robles (31) were arrested for the
kidnapping. They were believed to be members of a Mexico City gang
responsible for at least 23 abductions.
(AP, 9/8/08)(AP, 7/18/09)
2008 Aug 1, In northwestern
Pakistan about 35 militants kidnapped 2 policemen on the outskirts of
Khar.
(AP, 8/1/08)
2008 Aug 1, Hamas forces seized
about 15 leaders of Fatah in Gaza, upping the stakes in a week of
tit-for-tat arrests between the bitter Palestinian rivals. Fatah said
more than 200 of its men have been seized over the past week. Five
Palestinians died and 18 were wounded in a smuggling tunnel under the
Gaza-Egypt border after Egyptian troops blew up the entrance.
(AP, 8/1/08)(AP, 8/2/08)
2008 Aug 1, Leonid Nevzlin, a top
manager of the now defunct YUKOS business empire, was sentenced by a
Russian court to life in prison for ordering a series of high profile
murders, a verdict he dismissed as the result of a show trial organized
by the Kremlin.
(Reuters, 8/1/08)
2008 Aug 1, In Sri Lanka new
fighting between government forces and the rebels across the country's
embattled northern region killed 38 rebels and 14 soldiers.
(AP, 8/2/08)
2008 Aug 1, A sniper assassinated
Brig. Gen. Mohammed Suleiman, a senior Syrian general close to
President Bashar Assad, at a beach resort in the northern port city of
Tartous.
(AP, 8/4/08)
2008 Aug 1, An African Union (AU)
peacekeeper from Uganda was killed when a roadside bomb struck his
convoy in the capital Mogadishu.
(AFP, 8/1/08)
2008 Aug 1, King George Tupou V
was crowned King of Tonga.
(Econ, 8/9/08, p.42)
2008 Aug 1, In central Turkey a
three-story girls dormitory collapsed, killing at least 18 students and
setting off a search for a half dozen people believed to be under the
rubble in Balcilar. A gas leak from kitchen pipes caused the powerful
explosion, leaving another 27 people injured. 3 dormitory
administrators were charged on August 3 with "causing death through
negligence."
(AP, 8/1/08)(AP, 8/2/08)(AP, 8/4/08)
2008 Aug 1, The UN atomic
watchdog's board of governors unanimously approved an inspections
agreement with India that is key to finalizing a US-India nuclear deal.
(AP, 8/1/08)
2009 Aug 1, The new US Post-9/11
GI Bill took effect to reimburse veterans for their full undergraduate
tuition at public colleges. An amount equivalent to that tuition would
go to veterans who choose private schools or graduate programs.
(SFC, 8/1/09, p.A1)
2009 Aug 1, In San Francisco David
Wehrer (26) shot and killed himself when police caught up with him 4
days after his partner, Robert Christopher (56), was found dead in
their Castro Street apartment.
(SFC, 8/17/09, p.C1)
2009 Aug 1, In Detroit a woman
(24) was shot killed during a street robbery by a boy (12).
(SFC, 8/20/09, p.A4)
2009 Aug 1, In Afghanistan 3 US
troops were killed by improvised explosives in Kandahar province and a
French soldier was killed in an insurgent attack in Kapisa province.
Two more ISAF troops were killed when two bomb blasts struck their
patrol in the south. A dozen rebels were killed in a gunfight with
police in the southwestern province of Nimroz. 4 Afghan soldiers were
killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb planted by
"terrorists" in southern Helmand province. 3 policemen including a
senior officer were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in
the northern province of Baghlan.
(AFP, 8/1/09)(AFP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 1, Australia's
centre-left ruling party voted for national recognition of same-sex
unions but stopped short of lifting a ban on gay marriage.
(AFP, 8/1/09)
2009 Aug 1, Brazilian police said
they have busted a ring that allegedly sent some 200 women in the last
year to the United States, Europe and elsewhere to work as prostitutes.
Most of the women were recruited through the Internet or Brazilian
brothels and then sent to Las Vegas, the Dominican Republic and France.
(AP, 8/1/09)
2009 Aug 1, Burundi said it has
deployed a third battalion of 850 soldiers to Mogadishu to reinforce
the African Union peacekeeping mission there. With the new troops, more
than 5,000 soldiers from Burundi and Uganda are now taking part in the
AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which began in March 2007 and has cost
the lives of 17 Burundian soldiers.
(AFP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 1, In Canada a fierce
thunderstorm caused an outdoor stage to collapse at the Big Valley
Jamboree in Camrose, a country music festival in central Alberta. One
person was killed and up to 40 others injured.
(AP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 1, Humanitarian groups
said members of the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, have
launched attacks against towns in the Central African Republic that
have left at least 10 people dead in the last two weeks. The attacks by
the LRA, launched from its rear bases in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, have also forced hundreds of people to flee their villages.
(AFP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 1, It was reported that
output from Chile’s fish farms was expected to be down 40% this year
due to infectious salmon anemia (ISA). The virus also led to premature
harvesting for fear other fish would catch the disease, which
apparently turned up in imported salmon eggs.
(Econ, 8/1/09, p.34)
2009 Aug 1, China’s Ziketan town
in Qinghai province was put under collective quarantine when laboratory
tests showed it had been struck by the highly virulent disease. 2 of
its residents had recently died from pneumonic plague, which spreads
through the air, making it easier to contract than bubonic plague,
which requires that a person is bitten by an infected flea. Its
fatality rate was up to 100% if left untreated, compared with 60% for
bubonic plague. The outbreak was first detected on July 30.
(AFP, 8/2/09)(AP, 8/4/09)
2009 Aug 1, Chinese police
detained the head of the Xianghe Chemical Factory and the government
suspended the chief and deputy chief of the city's environment
protection bureau.
(AP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 1, The war in Iraq became
an American-only effort after Britain and Australia, the last of its
international partners, pulled out. In Iraq a bomb hidden inside a
toilet struck a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad, injuring two people, the
latest in a wave of attacks against Islamic sites of worship.
Al-Jazeera television broadcast an audio clip purportedly from Izzat
Ibrahim al-Douri, a former top deputy of Saddam Hussein, calling on
Sunni insurgents to unite under one political umbrella.
(AP, 8/1/09)
2009 Aug 1, In Tel Aviv, Israel, a
gunman shot and killed two people at a youth club in the worst ever
attack on homosexuals in Israel. The dead were identified as a man (26)
who was a counselor at the center and a girl (17). Eleven people were
wounded, four of them seriously.
(AP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 1, Kyrgyzstan allowed
Russia to open a second military base on its territory, expanding
Moscow's military reach to balance against the US presence.
(Reuters, 8/1/09)
2009 Aug 1, Police broke up
Malaysia's biggest street protest in nearly two years, firing tear gas
and chemical-laced water at thousands of opposition supporters
demanding an end to a law that allows detention without trial.
(AP, 8/1/09)
2009 Aug 1, Two Moroccan magazines
were taken off news stands after they published an opinion poll on the
10 years under the reign of King Mohammed VI. The poll revealed that
91% of Moroccans who were interviewed say that the performance of the
reign of King Mohammed VI is positive or very positive.
(AFP, 8/1/09)
2009 Aug 1, Mozambique’s Pres.
Armando Guebuza inaugurated an 80-million-euro (113-million-dollar)
bridge over the Zambezi River, a major link for a country long divided
between north and south. Work on the bridge had begun in 1977.
(AFP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 1, In Nigeria robbers
hijacked the bus on Sagamu-Benin expressway in Ogun State and forced
passengers to lie on a road at gunpoint as they ransacked their bus. 20
people were crushed to death as a truck ran into them.
(AFP, 8/2/09)
2009 Aug 1, The Sydney Morning
Herald reported that North Korea is helping Myanmar build a secret
nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction plant to build an atomic bomb
within five years, citing the evidence of defectors. "In the event that
the testimony of the defectors is proved, the alleged secret reactor
could be capable of being operational and producing one bomb a year,
every year, after 2014."
(AFP, 8/1/09)
2009 Aug 1, In Pakistan an angry
mob of Muslims killed six Christians and wounded dozens after burning
40 houses and a church over the alleged desecration of the Koran in
Gojra village, Punjab province. Two men wounded by gunfire died in the
hospital overnight. A building collapsed in Karachi killing at least 21
people.
(AFP, 8/1/09)(AP, 8/2/09)(SSFC, 8/2/09, p.A6)
2009 Aug 1, In the Philippines
former President Corazon Aquino (b.1933) died. The "people power"
uprising she led in 1986 brought down the repressive 20-year regime of
Ferdinand Marcos and served as an inspiration to nonviolent resistance
across the globe. Due to the time difference her death was reported in
the US on July 31.
(Reuters, 8/1/09)
2009 Aug 1, Authorities in the
separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia said two mortar shells were
fired into the territory from Georgia proper. Georgia denied the claim
and suggested it was a provocation ahead of the anniversary of last
year's war with Russia.
(AP, 8/1/09)
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