Today in History - August 10
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Aug 10, Feast of St. Lawrence on the Catholic
calendar.
Also the approximate date of the Perseid Meteors. Thus the meteors are
called the Tears of St. Lawrence.
(CFA, '96,Vol 179, p.23)
794 Aug 10,
Fastrada (30), 3rd wife of French king Charlemagne, died.
(MC, 8/10/02)
843 Aug 10, Treaty of Verdun:
Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divided
France.
(MC, 8/10/02)
955 Aug 10, Otto organized his
nobles and defeated the invading Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld in
Germany.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1296 Aug 10, John the Blind, King
of Bohemia, Count of Luxembourg, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1461 Aug 10, Alfonso ed Espina,
bishop of Osma, urged an Inquisition in Spain.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1497 Aug 10, John Cabot told King
Henry VII of his trip to "Asia."
(MC, 8/10/02)
1500 Aug 10, Diego Diaz discovered
Madagascar.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1539 Aug 10, King Francis of
France declared that all official documents were to be written in
French, not Latin.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1557 Aug 10, Spanish and English
troops in alliance defeated the French at the Battle of St. Quentin
(San Quintino). French troops were defeated by Emanuele Filiberto's
Spanish army at St. Quentin, France. In 1559 Filiberto made Turin
capital of his Savoy state.
(HN,
8/10/98)(www.niaf.org/news/news_italy/news_italy_mar2003.asp)
1560 Aug 10, Hieronymus
Praetorius, German composer, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1582 Aug 10, Russia ended its
25-year war with Poland. Russia and Poland concluded the Peace of
Jam-Zapolski under which Russia lost access to the Baltic and
surrendered Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.23)(HN, 8/10/98)
1589 Aug 10, Pietro Antonio
Tamburini, Italian composer, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1627 Aug 10, Cardinal Richelieu
began a siege of La Rochelle.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1628 Aug 10, The Swedish 228-foot
warship Vasa capsized and sank in Stockholm harbor on her maiden voyage
because the ballast was insufficient to counterweight the 64 guns and
ballast. The wreckage was found in 1956. It opened as part of a the
Vasa museum in 1990. Twenty-five men and women drowned when the ship
sank. Vasa was the most expensive and richly ornamented warship of its
time in Sweden. She was recovered in 1961 and the skeletal remains were
exhumed in 1989.
(NG, 5/95, Geographica)(WSJ, 7/21/00, p.W12)(HN,
8/10/00)
1675 Aug 10, King Charles II laid
the foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich. [see Jun 22]
(MC, 8/10/02)
1730 Aug 10, Sebastien de Brossard
(74), French composer, died. He authored the "Dictionnaire de musique"
(Paris, 1703).
(MC, 8/10/02)(Internet)
1753 Aug 10, Edmund Jennings
Randolph, governor of Virginia and first U.S. attorney general, was
born.
(HN, 8/10/00)
1779 Aug 10, Louis XVI of France
freed the last remaining serfs on royal land.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1787 Aug 10, Mozart completed his
"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik."
(MC, 8/10/02)
1792 Aug 10, Some 10,000 Parisians
attacked the Tuileries Palace of Louis XVI at the instigation of
Georges Jacques Danton (33), after Louis ordered his Swiss guard to
stop firing on the people. The mob massacred some 600 guardsmen. The
king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed the
following January.
(PC, 1992, p.345)(AP, 8/10/07)(ON, 2/09, p.8)
1806 Aug 10, Johann Michael Haydn
(68), composer, died.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1809 Aug 10, Ecuador struck its
first blow for independence from Spain.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1810 Aug 10, Camillo di Cavour,
helped bring about the unification of Italy under the House of Saxony.
(HN, 8/10/99)
1813 Aug 10, A number of British
barges manned by marines shelled the town of St. Michaels, Md., on the
Chesapeake Bay. Residents had hoisted lanterns to treetops and masts
and caused the British canons to overshoot their mark. One house was
hit by a cannonball on the roof and the ball rolled across the attic
and down the staircase frightening Mrs. Merchant as she carried her
infant daughter downstairs.
(SMBA, 1996)
1814 Aug 10, John Clifford
Pemberton (d.1881), Lt Gen (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1821 Aug 10, Missouri became the
24th state.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1827 Aug 10, There were race riots
in Cincinnati and some 1,000 blacks left for Canada.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1829 Aug 16, The original Siamese
twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston aboard the ship Sachem
to be exhibited to the Western world.
(AP, 8/16/97)
1831 Aug 10, William Driver of
Salem, Massachusetts, was the first to use the term "Old Glory" in
connection with the American flag, when he gave that name to a large
flag aboard his ship, the Charles Daggett.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1835 Aug 10, Mob of whites and
oxen pulled a black school to a swamp outside of Canaan, NH.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1846 Aug 10, President James Polk
signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution. The US
Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English
scientist James Smithson (1765-1836), whose bequest of $500,000 made it
possible. The Smithsonian Institute was born and Joseph Henry became
its first secretary.
(SFEC, 8/25/96, p.T6)(AP, 8/10/07)
1861 Aug 10, General Nathaniel
Lyon died at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri. He was the 1st
Union general to die in the Civil War. The 2nd land battle of the Civil
War was fought along Wilson’s Creek in southwest Missouri. The fight
was considered a Confederate victory. This 1st major battle west of the
Mississippi was pivotal in determining the fate of the most populous
state west of the Mississippi River in the early months of the Civil
War."
(HNQ,
6/5/02)(www.civilwarhome.com/wilsonscreek.htm)(AM, 11/04, p.28)
1861 Aug 10, Friedrich Julius
Stahl (b.1802), conservative German jurist and publicist, died in
Bruckenau. He developed the idea that Germans are a people based on
descent.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Julius_Stahl)(Econ, 2/11/06,
Survey p.13)
1864 Aug 10, Confederate Commander
John Bell Hood sent his cavalry north of Atlanta to cut off Union
General William Sherman's supply lines.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1865 Aug 10, Alexander K.
Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1869 Aug 10, O.B. Brown patented a
moving picture projector.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1874 Aug 10, Herbert Clark Hoover
(d.1964), the 31st president of the United States (1929-1933), was born
in West Branch, Iowa.
(AP, 8/10/97)(SFEC, 1/12/97, Z3 p.4)(HN,
8/10/98)(AH, 12/02, p.20)
1874 Aug 10, Antanas Smetona
(d.1944), the 1st president of Lithuania, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanas_Smetona)
1877 Aug 10, Col. John Gibbon
slaughtered Nez-Perce Indians at Big Hole River.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1885 Aug 10, Leo Daft opened
America's first commercially operated electric streetcar, in Baltimore.
(AP, 8/10/99)
1889 Aug 10, Dan Rylands patented
a screw cap.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1893 Aug 10, Chinese were deported
from SF under the 1892 Exclusion Act.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1895 Aug 10, The 1st Queen's Hall
Promenade Concert featured Wagner's "Rienzi."
(MC, 8/10/02)
1897 Aug 10, The active ingredient
of aspirin was invented by a German worker for Bayer.
(PBS, 8/10/97)
1904 Aug 10, Angelo G. Roncalli,
later Pope John XXIII, became a priest.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1904 Aug 10, Dutch newspaper Volk
fired gay journalist Jacob de Cock.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1909 Aug 10, George W. Crockett,
first African-American lawyer with the U.S. Department of Labor, was
born.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1909 Aug 10, Leo Fender, inventor
of the first mass-produced electric guitar, was born.
(HN, 8/10/00)
1911 Aug 10, The House of Lords in
Great Britain gave up its veto power, making the House of Commons the
more powerful House.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1912 Aug 10, Leonard Woolf
(1880-1969), English man of letters, married writer Virginia Duckworth
(b.1882). Virginia Woolf committed suicide in 1941.
(WSJ, 12/17/05,
p.P13)(www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/)
1913 Aug 10, The Treaty of
Bucharest ended the Second Balkan War. It was concluded by the
delegates of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece. The
entire "disputed zone" was taken by Serbia, Greece secured its position
in Thessaloniki and southeastern Macedonia, the Ottomans regained all
the territories lost in the First Balkan War to Bulgaria with the
exception of eastern (Pirin) Macedonia, and the Romanians seized
Southern Dobruja.
(www.maknews.com/html/articles/stefov/stefov61.html)
1913 Aug 10, The Great Powers
recognized an independent Albanian state. Demographics were ignored,
however, and half of the territories inhabited by Albanians (such as
Kosova and Chameria) were divided among Montenegro, Serbia and Greece.
(www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos149.htm)
1914 Aug 10, At Luik, German
12"/16.5" guns reached Belgian boundary.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1919 Aug 10, Ukrainian National
Army massacred 25 Jews in Podolia, Ukraine.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1920 Aug 10, Allies recognized
Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1920 Aug 10, The Ottoman sultanate
at Constantinople signed the Treaty of Sevres with the Allies and
associated powers. It promised a homeland for the Kurds, but the
nationalist government in Ankara did not sign the treaty. It set the
borders of Turkey recognized Armenia as an independent state.
(SFC, 2/17/99, p.A10)(EWH, 4th ed,
p.1086)(www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/versa/sevres1.html)
1920 Aug 10, Turkish government
renounced its claim to Israel and recognized the British mandate.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1921 Aug 10, Franklin D. Roosevelt
(39) was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island
of Campobello, New Brunswick. Mrs. Roosevelt acted as her partially
paralyzed husband’s eyes and ears by traveling, observing and reporting
her observations to him. As First Lady, an author and newspaper
columnist and, later, a delegate to the United Nations, Eleanor
Roosevelt labored tirelessly for the poor and disadvantaged. In the
words of historian John Kenneth Galbraith, she showed "more than any
other person of her time, that an American could truly be a world
citizen."
(HNPD, 10//99)(SSFC, 8/1/04, p.D11)
1923 Aug 10, Joaquin Sorolla y
Bastida (b.1863), Spanish impressionist painter, died in Cercedilla.
His work included “A View of Malaga.”
(WSJ, 10/29/04, p.A15)(www.britannica.com)
1926 Aug 10, Marie-Claire Alain,
French organist, composer, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1927 Aug 10, Pres. Calvin Coolidge
took part in the formal dedication of Mount Rushmore.
(www.ohranger.com/mount-rushmore/making-mount-rushmore)
1928 Aug 10, Eddie Fisher,
American singer, was born. His hits included "I'm Walking Behind You"
and "Oh! My Pa-Pa."
(HN, 8/10/99)
1929 Aug 10, John Alldis,
composer, conductor, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1941 Aug 10, Great Britain and the
Soviet Union promised aid to Turkey if it was attacked by the Axis.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1942 Aug 10, Gen. Bernard Law
Montgomery was named commandant of the British 8th Army campaigning in
N. Africa. He arrived Aug 13.
(www.topedge.com/panels/ww2/na/frame.html)
1943 Aug 10, Hitler watched the
lynching of allied pilots.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1944 Aug 10, Race riots took place
in Athens, Alabama.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1944 Aug 10, During World War II,
American forces overcame Japanese resistance on Guam.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1945 Aug
10, Robert Goddard (b.1882), American rocket scientist, died. He
received 214 patents for rocket systems and components. In 2003 David
Clary authored "Rocket Man," a biography of Goddard.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goddard_(scientist))(WSJ, 8/7/03,
p.W8)
1945 Aug 10, Japan announced its
willingness to surrender to Allies provided that the status of Emperor
Hirohito remains unchanged. Yosuke Yamahata photographed the aftermath
of the bombing of Nagasaki. He was dispatched by the Japanese military,
but did not turn over the pictures to the military authorities.
(HFA, ‘96, p.36)(WSJ, 8/1/95, p.A-8)(MC, 8/10/02)
1947 Aug 10, Ian Anderson, rocker
(Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle), was born in Scotland.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1947 Aug 10, William Odom set a
solo record by completing a round-the-world flight in 73 hours and 5
minutes, landing at Chicago's Douglas Airport.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1948 Aug 10, Allen Funt's "Candid
Microphone," later titled "Candid Camera," made its television debut on
ABC-TV.
(AP, 8/10/98)
1949 Aug 10, The National Military
Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense. Pres. Truman
signed a bill that established a department of defense with broader and
more definite powers for the Sec. of defense. Gen’l. Omar N. Bradley
was appointed chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
(AP, 8/10/97)(EWH, 1968, p.1207)
1950 Aug 10, President Harry S.
Truman called the National Guard to active duty to fight in the Korean
War.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1950 Aug 10, In South Korea some
200-300 prisoners were killed by South Korean police near Dokchon.
(SFC, 4/21/00, p.A19)
1959 Aug 10, Rosanna Arquette
(actress: Pulp Fiction, Silverado, Desperately Seeking Susan, New York
Stories, The Executioner's Song, After Hours), was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1960 Aug 10, Antonio Banderas,
actor (Phila, Evita, Mambo Kings, was born in Malaga, Spain.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1961 Aug 10, Denmark formally
applied for membership in the European Community.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1961/index_en.htm)
1968 Aug 10, In West Virginia 35
people were killed in the crash of a Piedmont Airlines Fairchild FH-227
at Kanawha County Airport.
(AP, 8/10/08)
1969 Aug 10, Leno and Rosemary
LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles
Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people
were found slain.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1972 Aug 10, An Earth-grazing
meteoroid grazed the atmosphere above Canada. It entered the Earth's
atmosphere in daylight over Utah.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Daylight_1972_Fireball)
1975 Aug 10, Television
personality David Frost announced he had purchased the exclusive rights
to interview former President Nixon.
(AP, 8/10/00)
1977 Aug 10, US and Panama
negotiations for a Panama Canal Zone treaty, begun on February 15, were
completed [see Sep 7].
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrijos-Carter_Treaties)
1977 Aug 10, Postal employee David
Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, N.Y., accused of being the "Son of
Sam" gunman responsible for six slayings and seven woundings. Berkowitz
was sentenced to six consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences.
(AP, 8/10/07)
1979 Aug 10, Michael Jackson (21)
launched his solo career with “Off the Wall.”
(WSJ, 6/8/05,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_Wall)
1981 Aug 10, Coca-Cola Bottling Co
agreed to pump $34 million into black businesses.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1981-8/1981-08-10-CBS-13.html)
1981 Aug 10, Richard Nixon Museum
in San Clemente closed (http://tinyurl.com/2n6pvf). On July 11, 2007,
the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Ca., officially opened as a federal
facility.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Presidential_Library_and_Museum)
1986 Aug 10, "Me and My Girl"
opened at Marquis Theater in NYC for 1420 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=5982)
1987 Aug 10, President Reagan said
he would nominate C. William Verity Jr., a retired steel company
executive, to replace the late Malcolm Baldrige as commerce secretary.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1987 Aug 10, Iorwith Wilbur Able
(b.1908), CEO of the United Steel Workers of America (1965-77), died.
I.W. Able had also served as vice-president of the AFL-CIO.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iorwith_Wilbur_Abel)
1988 Aug 10, President Reagan
signed the Civil Liberties Act, a measure providing $20,000 payments to
Japanese-Americans interned by the U.S. government during World War II.
(AP, 8/10/97)(SFEC, 8/9/98, p.A1)
1988 Aug 10, Adela Rogers St. John
(b.1894), journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela_Rogers_St._Johns)
1989 Aug 10, Poland's Roman
Catholic church suspended an agreement to move nuns from a convent on
the edge of Auschwitz, blaming Jewish groups for creating what it
called an "atmosphere of aggressive demands."
(AP, 8/10/99)
1990 Aug 10, Washington DC Mayor
Marion Barry was convicted of a single misdemeanor drug charge and
acquitted on another; the judge declared a mistrial on 12 other counts.
(AP, 8/10/00)
1990 Aug 10, US's Magellan
spacecraft landed on Venus.
(www2.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/guide10.html)
1991 Aug 10, The Revolutionary
Justice Organization, one of the groups holding hostages in Lebanon,
announced it would release an American within 72 hours. The next day,
Edward Tracy was freed.
(AP, 8/10/01)
1991 Aug 10, Nine Buddhists were
found slain at their temple outside Phoenix, Arizona. Two teen-agers
were later arrested; one pleaded guilty to murder, the other was
convicted of murder.
(AP, 8/10/01)
1992 Aug 10, President Bush met at
his Kennebunkport, Maine, vacation home with Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin. Afterward, Bush announced that Mideast peace talks would
resume in two weeks in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1993 Aug 10, President Clinton
signed a massive deficit-reduction bill into law.
(AP, 8/10/98)
1993 Aug 10, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 8/10/98)
1994 Aug 10, President Clinton
claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at
least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula
Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
(AP, 8/10/99)
1995 Aug 10, Norma McCorvey, "Jane
Roe" of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced
she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1995 Aug 10, Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols were charged with eleven counts in the Oklahoma City
bombing. McVeigh was later convicted of murder. He was executed by
lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the US Federal Penitentiary in
Terre Haute, Indiana. McVeigh (33) stated that his only regret was not
completely leveling the federal building. Nichols was convicted of
conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to life in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Execution)(AP, 8/10/00)
1996 Aug 10, US Sen. Bob Dole
completed the Republican ticket by announcing former housing secretary
Jack Kemp as his running mate.
(WSJ, 8/12/96, p.A1)(AP, 8/10/97)
1996 Aug 10, Cascading power
outages hit parts of nine Western states. [3:40 p.m. PST]
(SFC, 8/13/96, p.A10)(AP, 8/10/97)
1996 Aug 10, In Tijuana, Mexico,
gunmen kidnapped a Japanese businessmen, Mamoru Konno of Sanyo Video,
and held him for $2 mil ransom. He was found released on Aug 19 after
payment of the ransom.
(SFC, 8/13/96, p.A10) (SFC,
8/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug 10, In the Philippines
Mount Canlaon erupted and killed 3 climbers. The mountain was one of 21
active volcanoes in the Philippines.
(SFC, 8/12/96, p.C1)
1997 Aug 10, U.S. envoy Dennis
Ross met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an attempt to restart the Mideast
peace process.
(AP, 8/10/98)
1997 Aug 10, In Nashville a riot
erupted when a police officer killed a black murder suspect.
(WSJ, 8/11/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 10, It was reported that
the gasoline additive MTBE, methyl tert-butyl ether, was leaking into
ground water in California and elsewhere in the US. Some 1,000 wells in
California tested above the state’s action level. The additive leaks
from gasoline stations and dissolves in water and seeps into aquifers.
In 1995 the EPA reported that it caused cancer in laboratory animals.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, p.A1,14)
1997 Aug 10, Peter Braestrup,
founder of the Wilson Quarterly, died in Maine at age 68.
(SFC, 8/12/97, p.A17)
1997 Aug 10, In Columbia police
arrested drug trafficker Waldo Simeon Vargas, alias “The Minister.” He
was a former associate of Pablo Escobar and created his own
organization after the Cali chiefs were arrested in 1995.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)
1997 Aug 10, In the 6th World
Championship in Athletics in Athens (Aug 1-Aug 10), the American 4x400m
team beat the British quartet by just 0.18 seconds in the final.
Antonio Pettigrew ran the anchor leg for the US team that won, but
subsequently admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs. In 2010
the BBC, citing UK Athletics (UKA) and the International Association of
Athletics' Federations (IAAF), said the British quartet of Roger Black,
Jamie Baulch, Iwan Thomas and Mark Richardson, would be promoted to
gold.
(AFP,
1/7/10)(http://www2.iaaf.org/Results/Past/WCH97/data/M/4X4/Rf.html)
1997 Aug 10, In Peru a snowstorm
trapped some 40 vehicles on the Andes highway between Abancay and
Puquio and left 6 people dead in their vehicles.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)
1997 Aug 10, In Uganda the
state-owned Sunday Vision reported that its Chinese-built arms factory
would stop producing land mines and grenades. The Ugandan army would be
supplied but the products would not be exported. Dry-cells would be
produced to replace the land mines and grenades.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)
1997 Aug 10, In Taiwan a 19-seat
Formosa Airlines Dornier 228 crashed on the island of Matsu and killed
all 16 onboard.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/11/97, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright announced a $2 million reward for information
leading to the conviction of terrorists who bombed U.S. embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans.
(AP, 8/10/99)
1998 Aug 10, The 308,000 sq.-foot
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center opened in Mashantucket,
Conn.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A16)
1998 Aug 10, In Afghanistan it
appeared that the Taliban were in control of Mazar-e-Sharif.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, In Angola fighting
broke out between government troops and UNITA.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, Congo claimed to have
recaptured the Atlantic ports near the mouth of the Congo River that
were taken by Tutsi rebels.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, Fighting in Kashmir
resumed and 19 people were reported killed in battles between Indian
security forces and Pakistan-backed separatist rebels.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, In Kosovo ethnic
Albanians reportedly killed 10 police officers. 3 KLA rebels were also
reported killed.
(SFC, 8/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Aug 10, Residents of Nevis
voted on whether to break away from St. Kitts. 62% voted in favor but
the resolution required 67%.
(SFC, 7/15/98, p.C12)(SFC, 8/10/98, p.A14)(SFC,
8/12/98, p.C2)
1999 Aug 10, In Granada Hills, Los
Angeles County, Buford Oneal Furrow (37) opened fire at a Jewish day
camp center and wounded 1 adult, a teenager and 3 children. He also
shot and killed postal worker Joseph Ileto. In 2001 Buford agreed to
plead guilty for a mandatory life sentence and is serving two life
sentences.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/12/99, p.A17)(SFC,
1/24/01, p.A4)(AP, 8/11/04)
1999 Aug 10, In Dagestan the
Interior Ministry said 44 militants were killed and 80 wounded in
fighting with Russian forces.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 10, An Indian jet shot
down a Pakistani naval reconnaissance plane over the disputed Sir Creek
area. and all 16 people in the plane were killed.
(www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9908/10/india.pak.plane.01/index.html)
1999 Aug 10, In Indonesia
religious fighting killed 18 people in Ambon.
(WSJ, 8/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 10, In Israel Akram Alkam
(22) was shot and killed by Israeli police after he twice struck
hitchhiking Israeli soldiers at Nachshon Junction with his car.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A10)
1999 Aug 10, In Serbia Gen'l.
Momcilo Perisic (55) declared his leadership in the Movement for
Democratic Serbia.
(WSJ, 8/12/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 10, In Sierra Leone
rebels released the remaining hostages along with 200 civilians taken
prisoner earlier.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A10)
2000 Aug 10, The Reform Party’s
convention opened in Long Beach, Ca., amid a struggle for control
between delegates supporting Pat Buchanan and party leaders. $12.5
million in federal matching funds was at stake. Buchanan moved his
faction to the right and dissidents broke off to a separate convention.
The Federal Election Commission awarded the campaign money to Buchanan
in Sept.
(SFC, 8/10/00, p.A3)(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A1)(SFC,
9/13/00, p.A2)
2000 Aug 10, A US Navy helicopter
crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. 2 crew members were rescued, 2 were
killed and 2 were missing.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.D3)
2000 Aug 10, In Congo rebels
fought government troops near Dongo. Jean-Pierre Bemba, head of the
Ugandan backed Congolese Liberation Movement, said his rebels had
killed some 800 government soldiers on riverboats using missiles.
(SFC, 8/12/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 10, In Iraq Pres. Chavez
of Venezuela held talks with Pres. Saddam Hussein in support of
upcoming oil talks in Caracas. Chavez defied the United States by being
the first head of state to visit Iraq since the Gulf War.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A15)(AP, 8/10/01)
2000 Aug 10, In Kashmir 11 people
were killed and 19 wounded from a car bomb set off by the Hizbul
Mujahedeen.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A14)
2001 Aug 10, Space shuttle
Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral with supplies and a fresh
crew for the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A4)
2001 Aug 10, A tourist helicopter
crashed near the Grand Canyon and 6 people were killed.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, About 20 US and
British jets bombed air-defense installation south of Baghdad in
retaliation for increased anti-aircraft activity. Iraqis claimed 1
civilian was killed and 11 wounded.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, In Argentina nearly 1
million people gathered to pray to St. Cayetano, patron of work and
bread, for an easing of the economic crises that has left 1 in 3
Argentines in poverty. The government struggled to keep from defaulting
on a $127 billion debt.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, Britain stepped in to
save Northern Ireland's power-sharing government by taking away its
powers for a day, a legal maneuver that removed a deadline to elect a
new leader of the Catholic-Protestant government.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)(AP, 8/10/02)
2001 Aug 10, In Cambodia King
Sihanouk signed war-crimes legislation to try senior Khmer Rouge
leaders.
(WSJ, 8/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 10, Israeli forces took
over 9 buildings in East Jerusalem in retaliation for the suicide
bombing that killed 15 people.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, In Macedonia 2 mines
hit military trucks near Skopje and 7 soldiers were killed. The army
retaliated with an assault on Ljuboten.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10-12, In Macedonia
security forces killed 6 ethnic Albanian civilians and burned at least
22 houses in the village of Ljuboten. Another 3 were killed from
indiscriminate shelling and another died when shot while fleeing.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.E4)
2002 Aug 10, Sammy Sosa hit three
3-run homers in Chicago's 15-1 rout of Colorado. Barry Bonds of the San
Francisco Giants broke Willie McCovey's 1969 record for intentional
walks in a season with his 46th of the year.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2002 Aug 10, It was reported that
the Bush administration had begun warning foreign diplomats that they
could lose US military assistance if they join the Int'l. Criminal
Court without pledging to protect Americans from its reach. Article 98
allowed nations to negotiate immunity on a bilateral basis.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A12)
2002 Aug 10, Leaders of Roman
Catholic religious orders, meeting in Philadelphia, approved details of
their plan to keep sexually abusive clergy away from children, while
retaining them in the priesthood, creating review boards to monitor how
their communities handle offenders.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2002 Aug 10, In China rescue crews
pulled the bodies of 7 workers from a flooded mine in the central
Chinese province of Henan. One more was recovered the next day.
(AP, 8/11/02)
2002 Aug 10, China's Science and
Technology Daily reported approval of a home-grown AIDS drug for the
first time that will end the dependence of Chinese with the disease on
imported medicine. Jiduo Fuding was developed by the Northeast General
Pharmaceutical Factory.
(Reuters, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, In rural Upper Egypt
3 gunmen ambushed two vehicles, killing 22 members of a rival family.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, Indonesia's top
legislature approved direct presidential elections for the world's most
populous Muslim country, marking a major step in the nation's messy
transition to democracy.
(Reuters, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, Israeli soldiers shot
dead a Palestinian electricity department worker as he sat in his
city-owned truck and the army expressed its sorrow and said it had
opened an investigation. Gunfire in a Jordan Valley settlement killed a
suspected Palestinian militant and an Israeli woman.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, In Mali a
Constitutional Court reversed the outcome of last month's parliamentary
elections, giving an opposition alliance a comfortable lead.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, In northwestern
Mexico a bus crashed through a railing and into a shallow river near
Hermosillo, killing 16 passengers and injuring two dozen others.
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 10, Kemal Dervis,
Turkey's economy minister and the architect of a $16 billion,
foreign-backed recovery program, to run for parliament and called on
bickering politicians to join forces for a strong government.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, A UNICEF report said
about 2,500 Haitian children are smuggled illegally into the Dominican
Republic each year to work as manual laborers or beggars.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2003 Aug 10, Atlanta Braves
shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major
league history against the St. Louis Cardinals. St. Louis beat Atlanta
3-2.
(AP, 8/11/04)
2003 Aug 10, Britain sweltered
through its hottest day on record and Alpine glaciers melted as the
heat wave that has baked much of Europe for days sizzled relentlessly
on. Britain topped 100 degrees for the first time in recorded history.
(AP, 8/11/03)(AP, 8/10/08)
2003 Aug 10, Eight Russian
soldiers and police died in rebel attacks in a day of violence
throughout Chechnya.
(AP, 8/11/03)
2003 Aug 10, India's prime
minister called for an end to bloodshed between Pakistan and India in a
statement read before a peace conference in Islamabad.
(AP, 8/10/03)
2003 Aug 10, Israeli warplanes
bombed suspected Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, hours after
the militant group shelled northern Israel, killing a teenage boy.
(AP, 8/10/03)
2003 Aug 10, Pirates in the Strait
of Malacca struck a small tanker near the Port Klang, Kuala Lumpur.
They looted the ship and took it into Indonesia waters and sought
$100,000 ransom for the top 3 officers.
(SFC, 8/15/03, p.A8)
2003 Aug 10, Liberian President
Charles Taylor delivered a farewell address to a nation bloodied by 14
years of war.
(AP, 8/11/04)
2003 Aug 10, In Pakistan gunmen on
motorcycles opened fire on a van in the southern port city of Karachi,
killing five people.
(AP, 8/10/03)
2003 Aug 10, In the southern
Philippines army troops searching for a suspected Islamic militant
clashed with unidentified men, killing three gunmen.
(AP, 8/10/03)
2003 Aug 10, Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko, aboard the international space center, married his
earthbound bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev, who was at Johnson Space Center
in Houston, in the first wedding ever conducted from space.
(AP, 8/11/08)
2003 Aug 10, Saudi police arrested
10 suspected Muslim militants following a gunfight after police tried
to stop their cars outside Riyadh.
(WSJ, 8/12/03, p.A1)
2004 Aug 10, Pres. Bush nominated
Porter J. Goss, Florida Republican congressman, to head the CIA. Goss
spent most of his career as a clandestine operative in Latin America.
(AP, 8/11/04)(WSJ, 8/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 10, The US Federal
Reserve Open Market Committee (FMOC) hiked the federal funds target
rate, to 1.50 percent from 1.25 percent.
(AFP, 8/11/04)
2004 Aug 10, The 20-year-old
woman, who accused Kobe Bryant of rape, filed a federal lawsuit in
Denver against the NBA star. The lawsuit was later settled out of
court; terms were not disclosed.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2004 Aug 10, Barry Bonds became
the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in 13
consecutive seasons, connecting in San Francisco's 8-7 loss to
Pittsburgh.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2004 Aug 10, In Austria a bus
carrying mostly British tourists veered off a road in the province of
Salzburg and rolled down an embankment, killing at least five people.
(AP, 8/10/04)
2004 Aug 10, In southwest China a
5.6 earthquake killed four and injured nearly 600 in Yunnan province.
More than 125,000 people were left homeless and cracked walls in
reservoirs posed a threat to villages downstream.
(AP, 8/12/04)
2004 Aug 10, Thirty-three missing
Dominican migrants were found alive after nearly two weeks at sea, but
two died on the way to the hospital. 53 others died on the journey.
(AP, 8/10/04)(SFC, 8/12/04, p.A12)
2004 Aug 10, Libya agreed to pay
$35 million to the non-US victims of the 1986 Berlin disco bombing.
Libya's Kadhafi Foundation, which negotiated the terms of a
compensation deal for victims of the bombing, demanded compensation
from the United States for subsequent air strikes against the north
African country.
(AP, 8/10/04)(WSJ, 8/11/04, p.A1)
2005 Aug 10, Pres. Bush visited a
Caterpillar plant in Illinois where he signed a $286.4 billion highway
bill. It was the most expensive US public works program to date.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A1)(Econ, 5/31/08, p.38)
2005 Aug 10, Industry group
figures showed that applications for US home mortgages fell last week,
its third consecutive drop, as refinancing activity waned and interest
rates reached four-month highs.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, David Myers (47),
former WorldCom controller, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison
for his high-ranking role in the largest accounting fraud in U.S.
history. Buford Yates, ex-director of general accounting, received the
same sentence.
(SFC, 8/11/05, p.C3)
2005 Aug 10, Tennessee prison
inmate George Hyatte and his wife, Jennifer, surrendered in Columbus,
Ohio, a day after she'd allegedly ambushed two prison guards at a
courthouse, killing one of them, to help her husband escape. Jennifer
Hyatte was later sentenced to life in prison by agreeing to testify
against her husband. George Hyatte, already facing 41 years of
incarceration, awaited trial in the murder of Wayne Morgan and escaping
jail.
(AP,
8/10/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_courthouse_shooting)
2005 Aug 10, A fire destroyed an
egg facility in Michigan and killed some 250,000 chickens.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 10, Oil reached record
highs as prices for September delivery touched $65 per barrel and
closed at $64.90.
(SFC, 8/11/05, p.C1)
2005 Aug 10, In Brazil impeachment
proceedings began against Rep. Jose Dirceu, a federal legislator and a
former top Cabinet official, in connection with a bribery scandal that
has rocked President Luiz Inacio da Silva's Workers' Party.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, In Brazil authorities
said they had identified some of the Sao Paulo bank heist thieves and
were looking into the possibility the heist was pulled off by the First
Capital Command, one of Brazil's most notorious organized crime groups.
(AP, 8/12/05)
2005 Aug 10, The castaway
television thriller "Lost" debuted as the most watched U.S. import on
British television since soap opera "Dallas" captivated fans more than
20 years ago.
(AP, 8/11/05)
2005 Aug 10, Canada won a ruling
against the US under NAFTA ordering the US to drop punitive
duties on Canadian softwood and refund $4 billion already collected.
The US refused to comply and won support from the WTO.
(www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2005/2005-08-12-04.asp)(Econ, 9/10/05,
p.38)
2005 Aug 10, In Chile Gen. Augusto
Pinochet's wife and younger son were arrested and charged as
accomplices in a tax evasion case linked to an investigation into the
former dictator's multimillion dollar fortune overseas.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, Congolese Vice
President Azeria Ruberwa met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in
the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Ruberwa talked of his government's
concerns about 14 Congolese men, suspected of plotting a coup, who were
in Uganda. Rugunda said 8 men left before the expulsion order. The
other six were given 48 hours to leave.
(AP, 8/24/05)
2005 Aug 10, The Sikorsky 76
helicopter on a scheduled flight from Tallinn to Helsinki, Finland,
went down with 2 pilots and 12 passengers about 3 miles off the coast
of Estonia.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, In Haiti police
stormed a volatile slum in Port-au-Prince in an attack on well-armed
gangs that witnesses said left at least five people dead.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, Iran removed the
final seals from equipment at a uranium conversion plant as U.N.
inspectors watched, paving the way for Tehran to fully open the
facility despite European and U.S. calls for it to maintain the
suspension of its nuclear program.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, Gunmen kidnapped
Brig. Gen. Khudayer Abbas, a senior Iraqi Interior Ministry official,
as he drove his car in central Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed six
people and wounded 14 when he drove a car at a police patrol in the
Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad.
(AP, 8/10/05)(Reuters, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, A UN agency reported
the 1st avian flu appearance in Mongolia and said 80 migratory birds
have died near the Siberian border.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 10, Thomas Devlin (15)
was attacked and stabbed to death as he walked home with friends in
north Belfast.
(http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/violence/deaths2005draft.htm)(AP,
10/20/07)
2005 Aug 10, In the southern
Philippines a series of powerful explosions described as terrorist
attacks ripped through Zamboanga city and injured at least 14 people.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, An assailant beat a
Polish envoy near Poland's Moscow embassy, drawing diplomatic protests
over the second such attack in four days.
(AP, 8/11/05)
2005 Aug 10, Russia’s Defense
Ministry said more than 3,450 Russian troops have been killed in
Chechnya since federal forces re-entered the southern Russian region
six years ago.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, South Korea ordered
an end to a 25-day strike by unionized pilots at Asiana Airlines.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A11)
2005 Aug 10, In Venezuela
lawmakers approved a transfer of $14 million (30.6 billion bolivars) as
seed money for a new Treasury Bank to handle government banking needs.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A11)
2006 Aug 10, In NYC organizers
said Germany's Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk (51) won the 3,100-mile
Self-Transcendence event, capturing the world's longest foot race in 41
days, eight hours, 16 minutes and 29 seconds. Suprabha Beckjord (50)
was 14th overall and the only woman to finish, doing so after 60 days,
four hours, 35 minutes and 24 seconds.
(AFP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, Wal-Mart Stores said
it will work with Chinese government officials to establish labor
unions in all its outlets in China.
(SFC, 8/11/06, p.D2)
2006 Aug 10, NASA satellite data
showed that the ice sheet in Greenland is melting faster than expected.
(WSJ, 8/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 10, In Afghanistan a
roadside bomb killed two Afghan civilians in Jalalabad.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, A Brazilian
congressional committee approved a report recommending the expulsion of
72 federal lawmakers from Congress on charges of participating in a
nation-wide plan to divert funds from the country’s health-care system.
(WSJ, 8/11/06, p.A5)
2006 Aug 10, British authorities
said they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up
several aircraft heading to the US using explosives smuggled in
carry-on luggage. US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said
the terrorists planned to use liquid explosives disguised as beverages
and other common products and detonators disguised as electronic
devices.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In Chile a drug
trafficking network working on behalf of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) was dismantled. Police seized almost a half-ton of
cocaine and arrested 12 people.
(AP, 8/12/06)
2006 Aug 10, Saomai, the most
powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades, slammed into its
southeastern coast, destroying hundreds of homes and battering the
region with rain and wind after more than 1.3 million people were
evacuated. It ultimately killed at least 483 people.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2006 Aug 10, Hector Orlando
Martinez Quinto (38) was captured in Costa Rica. He was accused of
participating in a 2002 rebel (FARQ) attack that killed 119 civilians
in Boyaya, in one of the worst tragedies in Colombia's four-decade-old
guerrilla war.
(AP, 8/11/06)
2006 Aug 10, Rights activists said
at least nine inmates have died in Georgian prisons in the past 10 days
as the Caucasus Mountains nation suffers through high temperatures not
seen in two decades.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In India 2 more
states banned the sale of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo soft drinks at
government-run schools and colleges over allegations they contain high
levels of pesticides.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In Iraq a suicide
bomber detonated a belt of explosives near a highly revered Shiite
shrine in Najaf, killing at least 35 people and injuring 122.
(AP, 8/10/06)(SFC, 8/11/06, p.A8)
2006 Aug 10, Israel said will hold
back on its new ground offensive in Lebanon until the weekend to give
cease-fire efforts another chance. In Jerusalem a tourist (25) was
stabbed to death by an Arab youth near one of the gates to the walled
Old City in what was believed to be a political attack.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10-2006 Aug 11, Italian
police raided Internet cafes, money-transfer offices and long-distance
phone call centers catering to Muslims and arrested 40 people in a
crackdown linked to Britain's announcement it had thwarted an alleged
terror plot.
(AP, 8/11/06)
2006 Aug 10, Yasuo Takei, Japan’s
richest man, died. Forbes listed his assets at $5.4 billion. In 1966 he
founded Fuji Shoji, a consumer loan company. In 1974 it was renamed
Takefuji and grew to become a leader in Japan’s loan industry. In 2004
he was convicted for ordering an illegal wiretapping of a reported who
criticized his company.
(SFC, 8/14/06, p.B8)
2006 Aug 10, Malawi's President
Bingu wa Mutharika demanded the resignation of Ishmael Wadi, a top
prosecutor, for withdrawing corruption charges against the nation's
previous leader. Wadi dropped the charges after Mutharika suspended the
head of the anti-corruption bureau, Gustave Kaliwo. Wadi said the
suspension left the bureau with no powers to prosecute.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In Mexico leftist
activists blockaded bank headquarters and called for a march on the
offices of federal prosecutors, as officials recounted some of the
ballots from the disputed presidential election. A protester was shot
dead when assailants fired on a march of about 8,000 people calling for
the governor's resignation in Oaxaca.
(AP, 8/10/06)(AP, 8/11/06)
2006 Aug 10, In southern Nigeria
gunmen in military fatigues seized two foreign oil workers. A Belgian
and a Moroccan were abducted as they traveled through the city of Port
Harcourt taking to at least 10 the number kidnapped in the past week.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In Serbia a panel of
international judges convicted and sentenced Selim Krasniqi and two
other former rebel fighters to 7 years in prison for detaining and
beating fellow ethnic Albanians who allegedly collaborated with Serb
authorities during the 1998 Kosovo war.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, The Sri Lankan
military attacked Tamil Tiger rebels from land and air, and the rebels
retaliated in heavy fighting that killed at least 13 combatants. A
Nordic cease-fire monitor warned that the situation was worsening.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2007 Aug 10, The United States
launched an expedition toward the Arctic to map the sea floor off
Alaska.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Federal regulators
said that they are pulling $200 million in funding from the Martin
Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital a troubled hospital that serves one of
LA’s poorest neighborhoods, forcing it to all but shut down. The
hospital was built after the 1965 Watts riots to bring health care to
poor, minority communities in south Los Angeles.
(AP, 8/11/07)
2007 Aug 10, In southern Indiana 3
men were killed in a coal mine when a nylon sling used to transport
supplies up and down a shaft got caught, causing the bucket the men
were riding in to tip and send them plummeting more than 500 feet to
their deaths.
(WSJ, 8/11/07, p.A1)(AP, 8/10/08)
2007 Aug 10, PM Gordon Brown said
that foot-and-mouth disease had been contained within a small area of
England, despite tests for a suspected new outbreak in a herd several
miles from the initial cluster of cases.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Canada's prime
minister announced plans for an army training center and a deepwater
port on the third day of an Arctic trip meant to assert sovereignty
over a region.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Congo's ruling
coalition in Brazzaville was declared the winner of legislative
elections, despite opposition charges of electoral fraud.
(AFP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Denmark was reported
to be planning a monthlong expedition, to begin Aug 12, to seek
evidence that the Lomonosov Ridge, a 1,240-mile underwater mountain
range, is attached to the Danish territory of Greenland, making it a
geological extension of the Arctic island.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, In East Timor dozens
of attackers raided the Salesian Don Bosco convent and raped several
female students, including one around 8 years old.
(AP, 8/11/07)
2007 Aug 10, The European Central
Bank injected another $83.8 billion into the banking system amid signs
that bad US mortgages were digging deeper into the world economy.
Europe's main stock markets slumped further, with London and Paris
shedding more than 3.0 percent, amid turmoil ignited by concerns about
a weak US housing sector.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, In India a government
report said 77% of Indians, about 836 million people, live on less than
half a dollar a day in one of the world's hottest economies. Suspected
separatist rebels gunned down a group of migrant workers as they slept
and bombed two markets in the insurgency-wracked northeast, bringing
the total number of people killed in a week of violence to 23. Police
have blamed the violence on the outlawed United Liberation Front of
Asom and the Karbi Longri National Liberation Front.
(Reuters, 8/10/07)(AP, 8/11/07)
2007 Aug 10, A car bomb struck a
market in a Kurdish area in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing at
least eight people and wounding dozens. Scattered violence struck
Iraqis nationwide, with at least 15 people killed or found dead. South
of Baghdad, the US military said a helicopter was forced down, leaving
two soldiers injured.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Japan and the US
signed an agreement aimed at protecting classified military information
to be shared by the two countries promoting closer defense cooperation.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Malawi said it will
deploy 800 troops to Darfur in Sudan to serve in the future United
Nations-African Union peacekeeping force.
(AFP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, A Dutch cruise ship
rescued 14 African migrants after their boat capsized in rough
Mediterranean waters as they tried to reach Europe, while authorities
searched for 11 other passengers who were feared drowned.
(AP, 8/11/07)
2007 Aug 10, In Nigeria gunmen
kidnapped an American manager from oil services firm Hydrodive as he
traveled to work in Port Harcourt, where gunfire rang out across the
region’s main city for a fifth day.
(Reuters, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, The Sudanese Media
Centre said security forces have handed 33 suspects accused of trying
to overthrow the government to the justice ministry for investigation.
(Reuters, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, A Security Council
resolution authorized the UN, at the request of the Iraqi government,
to promote political talks among Iraqis and a regional dialogue on
issues including border security, energy and refugees as well as help
tackling the country's worsening humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 8/11/07)
2008 Aug 10, Shelley Malil (43),
comic film and TV actor, stabbed his girlfriend more than 20 times in
San Diego County. On Aug 13 he was charged with attempted murder.
(AP, 8/13/08)
2008 Aug 10, Isaac Hayes (b.1942),
singer, died in Memphis. The baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner
laid the groundwork for disco. His 1971 "Theme From Shaft" won both
Academy and Grammy awards.
(AP, 8/11/08)
2008 Aug 10, In Afghanistan five
civilians died when their vehicle struck a freshly planted mine close
to an Afghan military base in Zhari district in southern Kandahar
province. Australia's Defense Department said that its troops had
captured Mullah Bari Ghul, the Taliban's senior leader in the central
province of Uruzgan during a targeted operation last week. 8 civilians
held hostage by Taliban militants were killed in an air strike by
US-led troops during a battle that also left 25 rebel fighters dead in
southern Uruzgan province.
(AP, 8/10/08)(AFP, 8/11/08)
2008 Aug 10, In southern Australia
some 5,000 people rallied to protest the dwindling water levels of the
Murray River, claiming the loss was causing an environmental disaster.
(AFP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Voters in Bolivia
vigorously endorsed President Evo Morales in a recall referendum he
devised to try to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist
crusade, partial unofficial results showed. More than 62 percent of
voters ratified the mandate.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, In Canada explosions
at a propane facility in Toronto forced thousands to evacuate. One
firefighter died at the scene. A riot broke out and an officer was shot
in the leg in a north Montreal neighborhood where a Honduran teenager
(18) was shot and killed by police a day earlier.
(SFC, 8/11/08, p.A3)(AP, 8/11/08)(SFC, 8/12/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 10, In northwest China
bombings and fierce clashes took place between police and attackers,
the second outbreak of deadly violence there in under a week. Two women
were among a squad of assailants accused of killing 12 people when they
hurled homemade bombs at government buildings and police.
(AFP, 8/10/08)(AP, 8/11/08)
2008 Aug 10, Welshwoman Nicole
Cooke handed Britain their first gold of the Beijing Olympic Games when
she won the women's cycling road race.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Japan's Masato
Uchishiba has won his second straight Olympic gold medal, pinning
France's Benjamin Darbelet just seconds into their final match in the
men's 66-kilogram division and bringing Japan its first judo gold of
the Beijing Games.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Georgian troops
retreated from the breakaway province of South Ossetia and their
government pressed for a truce, overwhelmed by Russian firepower as the
conflict threatened to set off a wider war. Georgia said it has shot
down 10 Russian planes, including four brought down Aug 9. It also
claimed to have captured two Russian pilots, who were shown on Georgian
television. Ukraine warned Russia it could bar Russian navy ships from
returning to their base in the Crimea because of their deployment to
Georgia's coast.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, In southern India 40
villagers riding on a truck were swept away by a flooded river and
feared dead. Monsoon rains have claimed at least 59 lives in the past
three days.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Iraqi Foreign
Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said the US must provide a "very clear
timeline" to withdraw its troops from Iraq as part of an agreement
allowing them to stay beyond this year. A series of bombs struck Iraqi
security forces and commuters in the Baghdad area, killing at least
seven people and wounding 25 others. A female suicide bomber killed a
US soldier and at least four Iraqis in a complex attack in Tarmiyah. An
Iraqi police official said 17 Iraqis were killed in the Tarmiyah
attack, including 3 members of the Awakening Council.
(Reuters, 8/10/08)(AP, 8/10/08)(AP, 8/11/08)(SFC,
8/11/08, p.A5)
2008 Aug 10, Pakistani forces
bombed dozens of houses in Bajur, a tribal region near the Afghan
border, amid reports that days of clashes have killed at least 100
insurgents and nine paramilitary troops. Pakistani forces pulled out of
Bajur after 3 days of fighting. A Taliban spokesman said as many as 100
Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed. Officials acknowledged that
55 were missing.
(AP, 8/10/08)(SSFC, 8/11/08, p.A11)
2008 Aug 10, In the Philippines
nearly 3,000 troops and police launched an attack after guerrillas
defied an ultimatum to withdraw from five towns in North Cotabato
province.
(AP, 8/11/08)
2008 Aug 10, South African
President Thabo Mbeki spent more than eight hours in talks with
Zimbabwe's president and opposition leaders to try to resolve a deadly
political dispute.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Sri Lankan soldiers
launched a pre-dawn attack on Tamil separatists in the embattled north,
killing 15 rebels, while other battles in the region left 24 rebels and
one soldier dead, said the military.
(AP, 8/10/08)
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