Today in History - August 21
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1129 Aug 21, The
warrior Yoritomo was made Shogun without equal in Japan.
(HN, 8/21/98)
1165 Aug 21, Philip II Augustus,
1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1525 Aug 21, Estavao Gomes
returned to Portugal after failing to find a clear waterway to Asia.
(HN, 8/21/98)
1560 Aug 21, Tycho Brahe
(1546-1601) became interested in astronomy.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1660 Aug 21, Hubert Gautier,
engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building, was born in Nimes, France.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1680 Aug 21, Pueblo Indians took
possession of Santa Fe, N.M., after driving out the Spanish. They
destroyed almost all of the Spanish churches in Taos and Santa Fe.
(AP, 8/21/97)(SFEC, 6/21/98, Z1 p.8)
1765 Aug 21, William IV (d.1837),
king of England (1830-37) the "sailor king," was born.
(WSJ, 4/27/00, p.A24)(SC, 8/21/02)
1789 Aug 21, Augustin-Louis Baron
Cauchy, French mathematician, was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1794 Aug 21, France surrendered
the island of Corsica to the British.
(HN, 8/21/98)
1798 Aug 21, Jules Michelet,
French historian who wrote the 24-volume "Historie de France," was born.
(HN, 8/21/98)
1807 Aug 21, Robert Fulton's North
River Steamboat set off from Albany on its return trip to New York,
arriving some 30 hours later.
(AP, 8/21/07)
1808 Aug 21, Napoleon Bonaparte's
General Junot was defeated by Wellington at the first Battle of the
Peninsular War at Vimiero, Portugal.
(HN, 8/21/02)
1810 Aug 21, Sweden’s Riksdag
elected Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France under Napoleon, as
heir apparent to the Swedish throne.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadotte)(Econ,
10/14/06, p.73)
1831 Aug 21, Nat Turner led a
rebellion in Southampton county, Va. This became known as "Nat Turner's
Rebellion" or the "Southampton Slave Revolt." Turner and about seven
followers murdered 55 white people, including the entire family of his
owners, the Joseph Travis's. Turner had been taught to read by the
Travis children and his studies of the bible led him to have visions of
insurrection. Turner was later executed. A 1998 play by Robert O’Hara
"Insurrection: Holding History" centered on the event.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html)(SFC,
1/16/98, p.D1)(AP, 8/21/07)
1841 Aug 21, John Hampson of New
Orleans patented the Venetian blind.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1853 Aug 21, Henry Wellcome
(d.1936) was born in Wisconsin. In 1880 Henry went to London to join
Silas Burroughs and set up a successful pharmaceutical firm called
Burroughs, Wellcome & Co.
(www.swan.ac.uk/egypt/infosheet/Wellcome.htm)
1858 Aug 21, The first of seven
debates between Illinois senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and
Stephen Douglas took place in Ottowa, Ill. Douglas went on to win the
Senate seat in November, but Lincoln gains national visibility for the
first time. Douglas stated in the 1st debate: "I believe this
government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white
men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and I am
in favor of confining citizenship to white men."
(WSJ, 3/3/00, p.W11)(HN, 8/21/00)(AP, 8/21/08)
1863 Aug 21, William Clarke
Quantrill (d.1865), a pro-Confederate guerrilla fighter during the
American Civil War, attacked Lawrence, Kansas, with a force estimated
at anywhere from 200 to 450 raiders. Though Senator Lane, a prime
target of the raid, managed to escape through a cornfield in his
nightshirt, the bushwhackers killed an estimated 150-200 men and boys,
dragging many from their homes to kill them before their families. When
Quantrill rode out at 9 a.m., most of Lawrence's buildings had been
burned, including all but two businesses; his raiders looted
indiscriminately and also robbed the town's bank. The raid would become
notorious in the North as one of the most vicious atrocities of the
Civil War.
(HN,
8/21/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Quantrill)
1864 Aug 21, Confederate General
A.P. Hill attacked Union troops south of Petersburg, Va., at the Weldon
railroad. His attack was repulsed, resulting in heavy Confederate
casualties.
(HN, 8/21/00)
1872 Aug 21, Aubrey Beardsley
(d.1898), English artist (Salome), was born in Brighton.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1878 Aug 21, The American Bar
Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y.
(AP, 8/21/97)
1887 Aug 21, Mighty (Dan) Casey
Struck-out in a game with the NY Giants.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1890 Aug 21, Bill Henry,
newscaster (Who Said That?), was born in SF, Calif.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1896 Aug 21, Roark Bradford,
writer, humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1904 Aug 21, William "Count"
Basie, American band leader and composer, was born. [see Apr 26]
(HN, 8/21/98)
1906 Aug 21, Friz Freleng,
animator (Bugs Bunny-Emmy 1982), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1907 Aug 21, Dr. Roy K. Marshall,
TV scientist (Nature of Things), was born in Glen Carbon, Ill.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1909 Aug 21, C. Dillon Douglas, US
Secretary of Treasury (1961-65), was born in Geneva, Switz.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1911 Aug 21, Leonardo da Vinci’s
“Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum. The painting turned up
in Italy two years later.
(AP, 8/21/06)
1912 Aug 21, Mr. Carter-Cotton was
chosen as 1st chancellor of Univ. of British Columbia.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1915 Aug 21, Jack Weston [Morris
Weinstein], actor (4 Seasons, Rad), was born in Cleveland.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1915 Aug 21, Italy declared war on
Turkey.
(HN, 8/21/98)
1921 Aug 21, Nancy Kulp, actress
(Jane-Beverly Hillbillies), was born in Harrisburg, Pa.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1922 Aug 21, Curly Lambeau and
Green Bay Football Club were granted an NFL franchise.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1923 Aug 21, Chris Schenkel,
sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), was born in Biuppus, Ind.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1927 Aug 21, The 4th Pan-African
Congress met in NYC.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1929 Aug 21, Marie Severin, comic
book artist, was born. In the 1950s she worked for the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York as it began publishing educational cartoon-style
booklets.
(WSJ, 1/27/07,
p.P12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Severin)
1930 Aug 21, Princess Margaret
Rose (d.2002), sister to Elizabeth, was born to King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth at Glamis Castle, Scotland.
(WSJ, 8/10/00, p.A16)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A12)
1931 Aug 21, Nancy Hadley, actress
(Love That Jill, Joey Bishop Show), was born in LA, Calif.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1931 Aug 21, Babe Ruth hit his
600th HR as the Yanks beat Browns 11-7.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1933 Aug 21, Dame Janet Baker,
mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave), was born in York, England.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1936 Aug 21, Wilt Chamberlain
(d.1999 at age 63), four-time MVP for the National Basketball
Association, was born in Philadelphia. From 1952-1955 he led Overbrook
High School to a 56-3 record.
(HN, 8/21/98)(SFC, 10/13/99, p.D4)
1936 Aug 21, Mart Crowley,
playwright (Boys in the Band), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1938 Aug 21, Kenny Rogers, country
singer, was born in Houston.
(HN, 8/21/00)(SSFC, 5/20/01, Par p.22)
1939 Aug 21, Clarence Williams
III, actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1940 Aug 21, Leon Trotsky, exiled
Communist revolutionary, died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by
an assassin the day before.
(AP, 8/21/08)
1942 Aug 21, U.S. Marines turned
back the first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal in the
Battle of Tenaru.
(HN, 8/21/98)
1944 Aug 21, Jackie DeShannon,
singer (What the World Needs Now), was born in Hazel, Kentucky.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1944 Aug 21, The US, Britain, the
Soviet Union and China opened the Dumbarton Oaks conference in
Washington, D.C. It laid the foundation for the establishment of the
UN.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, p.T10)(AP, 8/21/07)
1945 Aug 21, Patty McCormack,
actress (Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers), was born in Brooklyn NY.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1945 Aug 21, President Harry S.
Truman ended the Lend-Lease program that had shipped some $50 billion
in aid to America's Allies during World War II.
(AP, 8/21/97)(HN, 8/21/98)
1946 Aug 21, Lev Alburt, USSR
International Chess Master (1976), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1951 Aug 21, Harry Smith, TV host
(CBS Morning Show), was born in Indiana.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1953 Aug 21, Joe Strummer [John
Mellor], rocker (Clash-Rock the Casbah), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1953 Aug 21, Marion Carl in
Douglas Skyrocket reached a record 25,370 m.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1956 Aug 21, Kim Cattrall, actress
(Mannequin, Star Trek VI), was born in Liverpool, England.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1957 Aug 21, Kim Sledge, vocalist
(Sister Sledge-We are Family), was born in Phila.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1958 Aug 21, Walter Schumann (44),
choral director (Ford Show), died.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1959 Aug 21, Hawaii became the
50th state as President Eisenhower signed an executive order, five
months after he'd signed the Hawaiian statehood bill.
(AP, 8/21/08)
1962 Aug 21, Matthew Broderick,
actor (Ferris Buehler, Biloxi Blues), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1963 Aug 21, Martial law was
declared in South Vietnam as police and army troops began a crackdown
on Buddhist anti-government protesters.
(AP, 8/21/08)
1965 Aug 21, Gemini 5 was launched
into Earth orbit atop Titan V with Cooper and Conrad.
(SFC, 7/9/99, p.A6)
1967 Aug 21, Michael Bendetti,
actor (Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1968 Aug 21, William Dana reached
81.53 km. in the last high-altitude X-15 flight.
(http://pages.prodigy.net/pxkb94ars/Astro_X-15_Flights_9.htm)
1968 Aug 21, After 5 years Russia
once again jammed Voice of America radio.
(http://radio.about.com/library/history/blhistory0821.htm)
1968 Aug 21, The Soviet Union and
other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague
Spring" liberalization drive led by Alexander Dubcek.
(AP, 8/21/08)
1971 Aug 21, Three prisoners,
George Jackson (29), Ronald Kane (28), John Lynn (29), and 3 guards,
Jere Graham (39), Frank DeLeon (44) and Paul Krasenes (52), were killed
during an attempted prison escape at San Quentin, California. Jackson
after meeting with his lawyer, Stephen Bingham, pulled a hidden
automatic pistol from his hair and began to release other prisoners.
Jackson’s prison letters were published as "Soledad Brother."
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)(SFC, 8/25/96, z1 p.5)(SSFCM,
8/19/01, p.7)
1971 Aug 21, In the Philippines
there was a grenade attack on a political rally of the opposition
Liberal party. It nearly wiped out the party's senatorial slate running
against Marcos' Nacionalista Party. Marcos blamed the communists, but
others believed that Marcos planned the attack.
(SFC, 3/21/00, p.A23)
1971 Aug 20-21, In Vietnam heavy
rains flooded the Red River delta and some 100,000 people were killed.
(www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001440.html)
1972 Aug 21, The US Republican
convention opened in Miami Beach, Florida.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Republican_National_Convention)
1972 Aug 21, The US orbiting
astronomy observatory Copernicus was launched.
(http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=6153)
1972 Aug 21, Donald A. Cameron,
British aeronaut, made the 1st hot air balloon flight over the Alps.
(www.ballong.org/peter/jesper/cia/report17.php)
1973 Aug 21, Teamster's Union and
AFL-CIO's United Farm Workers' union came to a settlement with regard
to organizing grape growers in California. In response Cesar Chavez
called an end to the UFW grape strike. A nationwide boycott of
California’s non-union grapes, lettuce and Gallo wines was stepped up.
(SFEM, 4/13/97,
p.8)(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1973-8/1973-08-21-ABC-16.html)
1975 Aug 21-22, In Los Angeles
Kathleen Ann Soliah (later known as Sarah Jane Olson) and other members
of the SLA placed 2 pipe bombs under parked police cars at an Int'l.
House of Pancakes on Sunset Blvd. They did not explode. Olson pleaded
guilty to 2 felony accounts in 2001. Olson was convicted and sentenced
in 2002 to 20 years to life in prison and was then arraigned with 3
others for the Apr 21 murder of Myrna Opsahl.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.A3)(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A13)(SFC,
11/1/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A1)
1978 Aug 21, Charles Eames
(1907-1978), an American polymath artist, died. Together with his wife
he designed numerous objects, furniture and made more than 75 films.
(SFC, 6/6/96,
E1)(www.eamesoffice.com/index2.php?mod=intro)
1982 Aug 21, A group of
Palestinian guerrillas left Lebanon by ship under an evacuation plan
mediated by the United States.
(AP, 8/21/02)
1983 Aug 21, The musical play "La
Cage Aux Folles" opened on Broadway.
(AP, 8/21/98)
1983 Aug 21, Philippine opposition
leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United
States, was shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila
International Airport. Fabian Ver (d.1998 at 78), leader of the
Philippine army, was among 20 men later charged in the murder of
Aquino. Ver fled to Hawaii in 1986 along with Marcos.
(AP, 8/21/97)
1984 Aug 21, Democratic
vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro appeared before reporters
in Queens, N.Y., to field questions about her family's finances.
(AP, 8/21/04)
1985 Aug 21, Tunisia expelled 253
Libyans in apparent retaliation for Libya’s expulsion of over 20,000
Tunisian workers in recent weeks.
(http://tinyurl.com/yq3x4e)
1986 Aug 21, In Cameroon 1,746
people died when toxic gas, an invisible bubble of CO2, erupted [seeped
out] from a volcano under Lake Nyos. Venting of the lake began in 2001.
(AP, 8/21/97)(WSJ, 11/17/97, p.B1)(SFC, 8/14/99,
p.A6)(SC, 8/21/02)(AP, 2/15/03)
1987 Aug 21, Sgt. Clayton
Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was
convicted in Quantico, Va., of passing secrets to the KGB after
becoming romantically involved with a Soviet woman while serving as a
U.S. Embassy guard in Moscow. Lonetree ended up serving eight years in
a military prison, and was released in February 1996.
(AP, 8/21/97)
1988 Aug 21, More than 1,000
people were killed in an earthquake on the Nepal-India border.
(AP, 8/21/98)
1989 Aug 21, The US space probe
Voyager 2 fired its thrusters to bring it closer to Neptune's
mysterious moon Triton.
(AP, 8/21/99)
1989 Aug 21, Colombian soldiers
and police raided the estates of drug lords as part of a crackdown that
followed the shooting death of a presidential candidate.
(AP, 8/21/99)
1990 Aug 21, Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein delivered a speech in which he defended the detaining of
foreigners in his country, and promised "a major catastrophe" should
fighting break out in the Persian Gulf.
(AP, 8/21/00)
1991 Aug 21, The hard-line coup
against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of
a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N.
Yeltsin. The coup failed in part when General Alexander Lebed refused
to move troops to surround Yeltsin’s Moscow stronghold.
(SFC, 10/18/96, A15)(AP, 8/21/97)
1991 Aug 21, Boris Yeltsin assured
the Foreign Ministers of NATO, who were convened in Brussels, that the
coup attempt was failing.
(DrEE, 1/4/97, p.4)
1992 Aug 21, The day after the
close of the Republican National Convention in Houston, the two major
party candidates traded hard blows, with President Bush deriding Bill
Clinton as a "wishy-washy" leader, and Clinton lashing back at Bush as
a "great fearmonger."
(AP, 8/21/97)
1992 Aug 21, US marshals moved
onto the property of Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho and began a
shoot out where Mr. Weaver’s 14-year old son, Sammy, was killed as well
as Marshall Bill Degan. Federal agents were than held at bay for 11
days and before it ended Weaver’s wife was shot dead. The FBI, in an
attempt to serve an arrest warrant on Randy Weaver on weapons charges,
killed Weaver's wife and son at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Kevin Harris was
acquitted of federal charges in 1993. In 1995 the government awarded
Weaver family $3.1 mil for wrongful-death claims. In 1996 criminal
charges were filed against Michael Kahoe, chief of the Violent Crimes
and Major Offenders Section of the FBI, for destroying a report
critical of the FBI. He was sentenced and fined in 1997. In 1997 Kevin
Harris was charged with the murder of Bill Degan and FBI agent Lon
Horiuchi was charged with the murder of Vicki Weaver. State murder
charges against Kevin Harris were dropped in 1997. State manslaughter
charges were filed against sharpshooter Horiuchi in 1998.
(WSJ,3/13/95, p.A-14)(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A19)(WSJ,
8/16/95, p. A-1)(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A19)(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A1)(SFC,
10/11/97, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/8/98, p.1)
1992 Aug 21, Serbian soldiers
separated over 200 men, mostly Croats and Muslims, from a convoy of
civilians from the Trnopolje detention camp in Bosnia. The captives
were taken to a wooded ravine and shot dead. In 2003 Darko Mrdja,
commander of a special police unit, admitted to a court in the Hague of
playing a role in the slaughter.
(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.A8)
1993 Aug 21, The US Justice Dept.
took over the FTC investigation into the business practices of
Microsoft Corp.
(WSJ, 11/8/99, p.A30)
1993 Aug 21, In a serious setback
for NASA, engineers lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft on a
$980 million mission. Its fate remains unknown.
(AP, 8/21/98)
1994 Aug 21, The US House, by a
vote of 235-195, passed a $30 billion crime bill that banned certain
assault-style firearms.
(AP, 8/21/99)
1994 Aug 21, Mexico held its
presidential election, which was won by Ernesto Zedillo.
(AP, 8/21/99)
1994 Aug 21, An Air Morocco
regional jet crashed and killed all 44 onboard. It was suspected that
the pilot steered the plane into the ground.
(WSJ, 3/10/98,
p.A1)(www.planecrashinfo.com/1994/1994-43.htm)
1995 Aug 21, ABC News settled a
$10 billion libel suit by apologizing to Philip Morris for reporting
the tobacco giant had manipulated the amount of nicotine in its
cigarettes.
(AP, 8/21/00)
1995 Aug 21, A commuter plane
crashed near Carrollton, Georgia. Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight
529 enroute to Gulfport, Miss., crashed with 29 people aboard. 10 died.
In 2001 Gary M. Pomerantz authored "Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The
Tragedy & Triumph of ASA Flight 529."
(AP, 8/21/00)(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.R4)
1995 Aug 21, A Palestinian suicide
bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem and killed 4 Israelis, 1 American,
and wounded more than 100 people. Hamas took responsibility.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)
1996 Aug 21, President Clinton
signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,
aimed at making health insurance easier to obtain and keep.
(SFC, 8/22/96, p.A3)(AP, 8/21/97)
1996 Aug 21, Today’s issue of
Science reported the 1,738 gene sequence of the organism Methanococcus
jannaschii that oceanographers in 1982 found in an undersea volcanic
vent and later classified as Archaea, distinct from Prokarya and
Eukarya.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A21)
1996 Aug 21, In Australia rescuers
worked to save some 200 pilot whales on the southwestern coast near
Dunsborough. Most were herded to sea but 14 died.
(SFC, 8/22/96, p.E3)
1996 Aug 21, The new Globe theater
opened in England.
(HN, 8/21/98)
1996 Aug 21, It was reported that
police in Oulu, Finland have come up with a 3-foot harpoon to stop
runaway drivers. The harpoon could also release tear gas if necessary.
(SFC, 8/21/96, p.A9)
1996 Aug 21, In France thousands
marched in support of illegal immigrants and called for the removal of
newly appointed Interior Minister Jean Louis-Debre.
(SFC, 8/22/96, p.E2)
1996 Aug 21, In Nepal the
Communists called a general strike against the center-right government.
(WSJ, 8/22/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 21, In Vietnam, The Red
River flooded to its worst level since 1971 and hundreds were
forced to evacuate.
(SFC, 8/22/96, p.E3)
(AP, 8/21/98)
1997 Aug 21, A hamburger recall
was extended to cover some 25 million pounds. The Hudson Foods Inc., of
Rogers, Ark., closed its Nebraska beef-processing facility under a
"non-negotiable" recommendation by Agricultural Sec. Dan Glickman due
to E. coli poisonings in Colorado.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A3)(AP, 8/21/98)
1997 Aug 21, The CEO of Philip
Morris Cos. said that cigarettes "might have" killed 100,000 Americans.
It was the first acknowledgement by the company of a possible link
between smoking and death.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A3)
1997 Aug 21, In Afghanistan
leaders of the alliance fighting the Taliban army were killed in an air
crash aboard an Antonov 32 about 90 miles NW of Kabul.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A15)
1997 Aug 21, From Bosnia Judge
Jovo Rosic reported that he was beaten up and ordered to vote against
Pres. Plavsic last week.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A14)
1997 Aug 21, In France Pope John
Paul II began a visit to Paris with an outdoor encounter with 500,000
young people from around the world.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A14)
1997 Aug 21, In North Korea a
tidal wave from a passing typhoon struck and destroyed some 700,000
tons of corn and left 28,000 people homeless.
(WSJ, 9/2/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 21, Palestinians began an
embargo of Israeli goods.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A14)
1997 Aug 21, In Russia Yuri
Nikulin (b.1921), a cherished comic actor, died.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A24)
1997 Aug 21, From Russia the
Kremlin demanded the release of journalists of ORT TV. They were jailed
in Belarus for allegedly trying to cross the border illegally into
Lithuania. The journalists had made negative reports on Pres.
Lukashenko.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A15)
1998 Aug 21, Samuel Bowers, a
73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted in Hattiesburg,
Miss., of ordering a 1966 firebombing that killed civil rights activist
Vernon Dahmer. Bowers died in prison in November 2006 at age 82.
(AP, 8/21/08)
1998 Aug 21, In Bogota, Colombia,
Venezuelan trafficker Fernando "Fatso" Flores was arrested. He was
expected to be extradited to the US for shipping nearly 8 tons of
cocaine to Florida in 1991.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.D3)
1998 Aug 21, In South Africa
former Pres. Botha (82) was convicted of ignoring a subpoena to testify
about apartheid atrocities in front of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. He was fined $1,577 and given a suspended 1 year jail
sentence.
(SFC, 8/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Aug 21, Pres. Omar el-Bashir
said that Sudan could prove that the bombed Shifa Pharmaceutical
factory was not used for chemical weapons. Ten people were reportedly
treated for injuries and damages were estimated at $100 million.
(SFC, 8/22/98, p.A1,3)
1998 cAug 21, Sudanese
authorities, angered by the US attack of US cruise missiles, released 2
men suspected in the bombing of 2 US embassies on Aug 7. The men were
sent to Pakistan.
(SFC, 7/30/99, p.A12)
1998 Aug 21, Zimbabwe sent 600
troops to support Pres. Kabila in the Congo. Rwanda called for a cease
fire and warned that it would intervene if the troops from Zimbabwe
were not withdrawn.
(SFC, 8/22/98, p.A8)
1999 Aug 21, In France the St.
Pierre-de-Trivisy town council, home of Roquefort cheese, imposed a
100% tax on Coca Cola in retaliation for American tariffs on European
goods.
(SFC, 8/27/99, p.D4)
1999 Aug 21, In Turkey the death
toll from the Aug 17 earthquake reached 12,000. Governors in 3 of 9
stricken provinces called off searches for survivors. US President
Clinton urged Americans to contribute to the relief effort. The death
toll from the massive earthquake eventually reached 17,000.
(SFEC, 8/22/99, p.A1)(AP, 8/21/00)
2000 Aug 21, Britain deployed
troops in Belfast after 2 men were killed in a feud between Protestant
paramilitary factions. Sam Rocket was gunned down 2 days later in
retaliation. The Ulster Defense Assoc. and the Ulster Volunteer Force
appeared to be feuding over control of rackets.
(WSJ, 8/22/00, p.A1)(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D5)(WSJ,
8/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 21, In China an
earthquake in Wuding county, Yunnan province, left 177,000 people
homeless and 211 injured.
(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A9)
2000 Aug 21, Iraq threatened to
retaliate against Turkey over airstrikes that left some 40 civilians
dead.
(WSJ, 8/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 21, In Kashmir Muslim
guerrillas used booby traps to kill 5 Indian soldiers, while Indian
security forces killed 8 people believed to be part of the separatist
movement. Indian shelling into the Pakistani controlled side killed a
man and an 8-year-old girl. In Jachil Dhara guerrilla set explosives
killed an Indian general and a colonel.
(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 21, Norwegian divers
opened the hatch to the Russian Kursk submarine but found no sign of
life.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 21, In the Philippines
rebels killed 17 army soldiers in Negros Occidental province.
(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 21, In Sierra Leone Issa
Sesay, the top field commander of the Revolutionary United Front,
replaced Foday Sankoh as head.
(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A11)(WSJ, 8/22/00, p.A1)
2001 Aug 21, It was reported that
the US had given Russia an unofficial deadline of November to agree to
changes in the anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty or face a unilateral US
withdrawal. The State Dept. denied the ultimatum the next day.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 21, The CIA placed Khalid
Al-Midhar and Nawaf Alhazmi under suspicion as part of the
investigation in the bombing of the destroyer Cole in Yemen. The 2 were
among the hijackers who commandeered the jet that hit the Pentagon on
Sep 11.
(SFC, 5/17/02, p.A19)
2001 Aug 21, The US Federal
Reserve announced another .25% lowering of the short-term federal funds
interest rate.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.C1)
2001 Aug 21, Federal authorities
working with McDonald's announced they had broken up a criminal ring, 8
people nationwide, that allegedly rigged the popular Monopoly and "Who
Wants to be a Millionaire" games played by millions of the fast-food
chain's customers over the previous six years. $13 million had been
illegally won by insider Jerome Jacobsen (58), at Simon Marketing Inc.
in LA.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A2)(AP, 8/21/02)
2001 Aug 21, It was reported that
nuclear waste researchers had developed a process, pyroprocessing, to
remove long term radioactive elements from waste and transmute them to
less radioactive elements.
(WSJ, 8/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 21, Robert Tools, the
first person to receive a self-contained artificial heart (Jul 2), was
introduced to the public at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky., through
a video link from his doctor's office. Tools survived with the device
for 151 days, and died Nov. 30, 2001, of other health problems.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2001 Aug 21, In Argentina it was
planned to begin the use of the patacon, a negotiable bond, as legal
tender in the Buenos Aires province. The IMF announced plans to add $8
billion to a $14 billion rescue package.
(WSJ, 8/21/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Aug 21, It was reported that
Chinese authorities had removed Khenpo Jigme Phuntsog (68), a Tibetan
monk, from his Serthar religious academy in the Larung valley of
Sichuan province. The move was seen as an effort to reduce the 6-7
thousand monks and nuns living in the area.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 21, Yasser Arafat agreed
to truce talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 21, In Macedonia a 14th
century monastery, St. Atanasie and the Holy Virgin, in Lesok was
bombed. Each side blamed the other.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 21, In Kosovo gunmen
killed 5 Albanians.
(WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 21, It was reported that
rebels in Sierra Leone were still mining diamonds using conscripts and
children. Sales were being made to middlemen who smuggled the stones
out of the country. The UN mandate to enforce a cease-fire did not
include enforcing a mining ban.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 21, Zimbabwe halted beef
exports as foot-and-mouth disease broke out in the latest series of
farm expropriations where militants released quarantined cattle.
(WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A1)
2002 Aug 21, President Bush told
reporters at his Texas ranch that ousting Iraq's Saddam Hussein was "in
the interests of the world" but indicated the United States was in no
hurry.
(AP, 8/21/03)
2002 Aug 21, A jury in San Diego
convicted David Westerfield of kidnapping 7-year-old Danielle van Dam
from her home and killing her. Westerfield was later sentenced to death.
(AP, 8/21/03)
2002 Aug 21, Michael Kopper,
former Enron financial executive, pleaded guilty to charges related to
wire fraud and money laundering. He admitted to large kickbacks to the
CFO, Andrew Fastow, and agreed to return $12 million.
(SFC, 8/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 21, Weldon Spring,
Missouri, was reported open to the public as tourist attraction. The
radioactive site opened after a $1 billion, 16-year cleanup.
(SFC, 8/21/02, p.A2)
2002 Aug 21, A new Lockheed Martin
Atlas V rocket launched a 4-ton French communications satellite into
orbit.
(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 21, In Canada Pres.
Chretien, amid growing rifts within his Liberal Party, said he will not
seek a 4th term and will resign in Feb 2004.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A8)
2002 Aug 21, Israeli troops blew
up two apartment buildings in a Gaza Strip refugee camp, just hours
after undercover forces killed the brother of a radical Palestinian
leader during an arrest raid in the West Bank. Israeli security
officials announced the breakup of a Hamas cell in East Jerusalem.
(AP, 8/21/02)(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 21, In east Nepal a
massive landslide triggered by monsoon rains wiped out a village,
killing at least 60 people.
(AP, 8/21/02)
2002 Aug 21, North Korean leader
Kim Jong Il toured the shop floor of a Russian defense plant, getting a
firsthand glimpse of how Russia's Sukhoi fighter jets are manufactured.
(AP, 8/21/02)
2002 Aug 21, In Pakistan Pres.
Musharraf announced sweeping changes to the Constitution that boosted
the power of his authoritarian regime. His decrees included a security
council that institutionalized the military's role in government; power
to fire the prime minister and dissolve the legislature; a requirement
for all candidates to have university degrees.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.A20)(SSFC,
10/12/02, p.A20)
2003 Aug 21, Alabama's top judge,
Chief Justice Roy Moore, refused to back down in his fight to keep a
Ten Commandments monument and lashed out at his colleagues who ordered
it removed from the rotunda of the state judicial building.
(AP, 8/21/04)
2003 Aug 21, Paul Hamm put
together a near-perfect routine on the high bar to become the first
American man to win the all-around gold medal at the World Gymnastics
Championship.
(AP, 8/21/08)
2003 Aug 21, Coca Cola signed
basketball prodigy LeBron Jones (18) to a 6-year deal to pitch Sprite.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R10)
2003 Aug 21, Argentina's Senate
voted overwhelmingly to scrap a pair of amnesty laws dating to the
1980s that had ended trials for human rights abuses committed during
the country's military dictatorship.
(AP, 8/21/03)
2003 Aug 21, The US military
reported that Ali Hassan al-Majid, No. 5 on the list of most-wanted
Iraqis, had been captured. [see Apr 5]
(AP, 8/21/03)
2003 Aug 21, In Ecuador some 1000
Indians and union workers marched through Quito, protesting the
economic policies of President Lucio Gutierrez.
(AP, 8/21/03)
2003 Aug 21, France raised the
death toll from the recent heat wave to as many as 10,000.
(SFC, 8/22/03, p.A9)
2003 Aug 21, Israel killed Ismail
Abu Shanab, a senior Hamas political leader, in a missile strike,
retaliating for a suicide bombing of a bus in which 20 people died
including six children. Abu Shanab was widely regarded as a
moderate in the group, and served as a liaison with Abbas during the
prime minister's efforts to persuade Hamas to halt attacks. Palestinian
militants abandoned a two-month-old truce after Israel killed the Hamas
leader.
(AP, 8/21/03)(AP, 8/21/08)
2003 Aug 21, Liberia's rebels and
government chose Gyude Bryant, a gentle-mannered businessman, to lead a
transition administration.
(AP, 8/21/03)
2003 Aug 21, Vladimir Gusinsky,
former Russian media mogul who clashed with the Kremlin and fled under
fraud accusations three years ago, was arrested at the Athens
airport. Russia initially sought Gusinsky on charges of
misrepresenting the assets of his company Media-Most to obtain a $262
million loan from the government-controlled gas giant Gazprom. It later
added allegations of money laundering.
(AP, 8/24/03)
2004 Aug 21, In Ohio health
officials said cases of gastrointestinal illness had risen to 510 from
people in the Put-in-Bay resort area.
(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.A3)
2004 Aug 21, In Afghanistan US
soldiers opened fire on a pickup truck that failed to stop at a
checkpoint in central Ghazni province, killing a man and two women.
(AP, 8/22/04)
2004 Aug 21, In Dhaka, Bangladesh,
a series of bombs exploded as a top opposition leader was speaking at a
rally from atop a truck, killing 23 people and injuring hundreds.
(AP, 8/21/04)(Econ, 6/18/05, p.37)
2004 Aug 21, In Chechnya gunmen
attacked a police station and polling sites in Grozny, killing several
people 8 days before a special election to replace the region's
assassinated president.
(AP, 8/21/04)
2004 Aug 21, A Chinese official
said a lethal strain of avian influenza had been found among pigs at
several farms.
(SFC, 8/21/04, p.A9)
2004 Aug 21, The International
Gymnastics Federation ruled that South Korean Yang Tae-young was
unfairly docked a tenth of a point in the all-around gymnastics final
at the Athens Olympics, costing him the gold medal that ended up going
to Paul Hamm of the United States; however, the ruling did not change
the final result.
(AP, 8/21/05)
2004 Aug 21, Iraq celebrated their
national soccer team's startling 1-0 victory over Australia in the
Olympic quarterfinal.
(AP, 8/21/04)
2004 Aug 21, In Najaf, Iraq,
militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr kept their
hold on a revered shrine, and clashes flared.
(AP, 8/21/04)
2004 Aug 21, Pakistani officials
said they had arrested at least five al-Qaida-linked terrorists who
were plotting suicide attacks on government leaders and the U.S.
Embassy.
(AP, 8/21/04)
2004 Aug 21, Sudan signed an
agreement to ensure the voluntary return of more than one million
people displaced by fighting in the Darfur region and said it was
giving Darfuris more say in local government.
(AP, 8/21/04)
2004 Aug 21, The head of the
Organization of American States said the results of an audit supported
the official vote count showing that President Hugo Chavez won this
month's recall referendum in Venezuela.
(AP, 8/22/04)
2004 Aug 21, A military plane
crashed into a mountain in central Venezuela, killing 25 people,
including five children.
(AP, 8/22/04)
2005 Aug 21-2005 Aug 22, US
federal authorities indicted 87 Asians and US citizens on charges of
smuggling counterfeit money, drugs and cigarettes into the US.
(SFC, 8/23/05, p.A3)
2005 Aug 21, Harvard scientists
said they have fused an adult skin cell with an embryonic stem cell in
a potentially dramatic development that could lead to the creation of
useful stem cells without first having to create and destroy human
embryos.
(AP, 8/22/05)(SFC, 8/22/05, p.A2)
2005 Aug 21, Robert Moog (b.1934),
developer of the music synthesizer (1964), died in NC. The 1968 hit
record “Switched-On-Bach” by Walter Carlos (Wendy Carlos) used the Moog
synthesizer and Carlos used it to produce the soundtrack for “A
Clockwork Orange” (1971).
(SFC, 8/23/05, p.B5)(WSJ, 8/24/05, p.D10)(Econ,
9/3/05, p.77)
2005 Aug 21, Afghan forces and US
Marines killed more than 40 suspected militants in an operation against
insurgents in the Koregnal Valley, believed responsible for twin
attacks that killed 19 troops in June.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 21, A roadside bomb
killed four US soldiers and wounded three others as they patrolled
southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 8/21/05)
2005 Aug 21, Bangladeshi and
Indian border officials resolved a dispute over embankment building on
a river cutting across their frontier that led to heavy firing by
border troops.
(AP, 8/21/05)
2005 Aug 21, A merchant vessel
rescued 3 people north of Matanzas, Cuba, after 5 days at sea. No one
else was found. 31 people were believed killed in the Florida Straits
in their attempt to reach the US.
(AP, 8/26/05)
2005 Aug 21, Protests in Ecuador's
northeast Amazon region that brought oil production to a halt were
suspended after demonstrators and the government agreed to a truce.
(AP, 8/21/05)
2005 Aug 21, Egyptian police
arrested 300 people as security forces deployed 2,100 men backed by
armored vehicles in the Sinai Peninsula for a massive sweep through the
rugged desert region in search of terrorists involved in a series of
recent bombings.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 21, Voting in eastern
Ethiopia ended peacefully, as elite forces, pro-government militia and
police patrolled streets to secure the region's delayed elections. Dr.
Berhanu Nega (b.1958) was elected mayor of Addis Ababa. He was jailed
in Kaliti Prison following riots in October from where he authored a
book entitled “Dawn of Freedom.”
(AP,
8/22/05)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berhanu_Nega)(Econ, 10/28/06,
p.56)
2005 Aug 21, Pope Benedict XVI
triumphantly ended his four-day trip to his native Germany, celebrating
an open-air Mass for a million people in Cologne.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2005 Aug 21, Thousands of troops
poured into four Gaza settlements, the final phase of removing settlers
from the coastal strip.
(AP, 8/21/05)
2005 Aug 21, Security forces
arrested 10 suspected militants from Pakistan's North Waziristan region
and recovered weapons, wigs and women's outfits from a fake madrassa.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 21, In Scotland Rory
Blackhall (11), from Livingston in West Lothian, was found asphyxiated.
(AFP, 8/23/05)
2006 Aug 21, California’s Gov.
Schwarzenegger and Democratic lawmakers agreed to raise California’s
minimum wage by $1.25 over the next year to $8.00 per hour, making it
the highest minimum wage in the nation.
(SFC, 8/22/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 21, NATO and Afghan
forces used aircraft in clashes that left 14 militants dead, capping
several days of intense fighting that killed more than 100 people and
threatened efforts to stabilize southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, Burundi police
arrested former President Domitien Ndayizeye, apparently in connection
with an alleged plot to overthrow the tiny central African country's
government.
(Reuters, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, A fierce gun battle
pinned down foreign envoys in the Congolese capital Kinshasa as
fighting erupted for a second day following the announcement of a
presidential election run-off. At least five people died in overnight
gunfire.
(Reuters, 8/21/06)(AFP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, In northern Egypt a
passenger train barreled into railway station and collided with a
second train outside Qalyoub, killing at least 58 people and injuring
more than 100.
(AFP, 8/21/06)(SFC, 8/22/06, p.A3)
2006 Aug 21, In London, England,
11 people were charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the alleged
plot to blow up as many as 10 trans-Atlantic jetliners. One person, a
woman, was released without charge.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, In Haiti Amaral
Duclona, the leader of a major gang, defied President Rene Preval's
orders to disarm, saying his followers would give up their weapons only
if UN peacekeepers stop conducting raids in the slums.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, Diplomats and UN
officials said Iran has turned away UN inspectors wanting to examine
its underground nuclear site in an apparent violation of the
Nonproliferation Treaty.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, In Iraq a US
serviceman was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in was hit by a
roadside bomb north of Baghdad. A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to
enter a plea on genocide charges and dismissed the court as
illegitimate as his second trial began.
(Reuters, 8/21/06)(AP, 8/21/07)
2006 Aug 21, Police raided the
official residence of Israeli President Moshe Katsav as part of a
sexual harassment investigation, seizing computers and documents.
Israeli troops shot two Hezbollah guerrillas during a clash in the
southern Lebanese village of Chamaa.
(AP, 8/21/06)(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 21, In Mexico’s Chiapas
state Juan Sabines, of Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party
(PRD), held a razor-thin lead over Jose Antonio Aguilar Bodegas, of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who also is backed by
President Vicente Fox's National Action Party. Oaxaca sank further into
chaos as protesters armed with machetes, pipes and clubs seized 12
private radio stations, cut off highways, and blockaded bus terminals
and newspaper offices.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, In Nigeria soldiers
stopped cars at checkpoints and arrested 60 people in the third day of
a crackdown on militants in the volatile oil region.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, In Russia a bomb
blast tore through a Moscow market, killing at least 11 people and over
50 people. 3 detainees, all in their late teens or early 20s, confessed
to the crime.
(AP, 8/21/06)(AP, 8/22/07)
2006 Aug 21, Somalia’s embattled
PM Ali Mohamed Gedi named a new Cabinet, two weeks after the old one
was dissolved amid a rift within the UN-backed transitional government
over how to respond to the growing influence of Islamic militants.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, South Korea and the
US launched joint military exercises, held annually since 1975, despite
protests from North Korea. The Ulchi Focus Lens exercises were
scheduled to run until September 1.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, In northern Spain at
least 6 people died in a train derailment.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2006 Aug 21, Saudi police killed
two armed men during clashes in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2007 Aug 21, A research firm said
US foreclosure filings rose 9 percent from June to July and surged 93
percent over the same period last year, with Nevada, Georgia and
Michigan accounting for the highest foreclosure rates nationwide.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, The US shuttle
Endeavour landed in Florida following a 13-day assembly mission on the
international space station.
(SFC, 8/22/07, p.A3)
2007 Aug 21, California state
senators ended a 52-day budget impasse and agreed on a $145 million
spending plan for 2007-2008.
(SFC, 8/22/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 21, The board of MGM
Mirage approved a deal with Dubai World in which the holding company
for the Persian Gulf state will eventually acquire a 9.5% stake
and 50% ownership in the Las Vegas CityCenter project.
(WSJ, 8/22/07, p.A3)
2007 Aug 21, An Australian court
ruled that the country's immigration minister wrongly revoked a work
visa for an Indian doctor who was briefly accused of links with a
failed British car bomb plot in June.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, Students in
emergency-ruled Bangladesh clashed with police for a second day
demanding that the army withdraw from Dhaka university campus.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, China’s government
announced that mainland citizens would be allowed to invest in Hong
Kong. State media reported that a test run of traffic controls to clear
Beijing's smoggy skies for next year's Olympic Games successfully
improved air quality. Media also reported that China will execute
people who sabotage the electricity supply, reversing recent steps to
rein in widespread use of the death penalty.
(Econ, 10/6/07, p.86)(http://tinyurl.com/2ugksh)(AP,
8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, The European Central
Bank provided more cash for banks that have been clamoring for money,
injecting $370.6 billion in its normal weekly refinancing.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, The EU said it will
resume vital fuel aid to the Gaza Strip's electric company, money the
bloc suspended because of suspicions that Gaza's Hamas rulers were
diverting revenues.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, Haleh Esfandiari, a
detained Iranian-American academic accused of conspiring against the
government, was freed on bail from the Tehran prison where she had been
jailed since early May. Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program
at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, was freed on
$333,000 bail.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, In Iraq French
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called on Europe to play a bigger
role in Iraq because "the Americans will not be able to get this
country out of difficulty alone." The postwar Iraqi tribunal trying
former Saddam Hussein aides opened its third proceeding, putting former
Defense Minister Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," and 14
other men on trial.
(AP, 8/21/07)(AP, 8/21/08)
2007 Aug 21, The Israeli army said
ground forces fired at gunmen who approached the Israel-Gaza border
fence. The Islamic Jihad group said three militants on a mission
against Israel were killed. Palestinians fired three rockets into
Israel including one that hit an empty kindergarten in the town of
Sderot near Gaza. Israeli troops targeted two figures spotted near a
rocket launcher in an area of northern Gaza where a rocket had been
fired into Israel earlier. The fire killed a 10-year-old and a
12-year-old who were members of the same extended family. The army said
Palestinian rocket teams have been known to send young children to
retrieve rocket launchers after firing.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, Japanese PM Shinzo
Abe arrived in New Delhi to firm up billions of dollars of investment
projects, expand trade ties and discuss India's controversial nuclear
cooperation deal.
(AFP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, Hurricane Dean
slammed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico as a roaring Category 5
hurricane, the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two
decades. Dean made landfall after killing 13 people in the Caribbean.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 21, In Northern Ireland
animal rights officials seized more than a dozen dogs bred for combat
in the latest crackdown on illegal dogfighting.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 21, Russian news agencies
reported that authorities have detained a high-level narcotics officer
they say was behind large-scale drug sales over the Internet.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, Hana Ponicka (85), a
Slovak writer and former anti-communist dissident, died.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 21, The leader of India's
ruling party, Sonia Gandhi, arrived in South Africa for a three-day
visit in a bid to strengthen ties between the two nations.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, Sudanese forces
surrounded and attacked Darfur's most volatile camp to flush out rebels
they say are behind recent attacks on police.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, Hundreds of people
held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital, denouncing what they
called an "immoral" lifestyle and demanding the deportation of an
American journalist writing about gay rights in the deeply conservative
country.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 21, Venezuela's National
Assembly, dominated by allies of President Hugo Chavez, gave unanimous
initial approval to constitutional reforms that would allow him to run
for re-election and possibly govern for decades to come.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2008 Aug 21, David Walker,
recently with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), was the
subject of the film documentary I.O.U.S.A. The film focused on
America’s financial condition and that it is a lot worse than
advertised, as the US debt rose to $9.5 trillion. It was produced by
Sarah Gibson, Christine O'Malley; directed by Patrick Creadon; written
by Patrick Creadon, Christine O'Malley; music by Peter Golub;
distributed by Roadside Attractions.
(Econ, 8/16/08, p.68)(http://tinyurl.com/4t3r2g)
2008 Aug 21, The US government
said it will allow producers of fresh iceberg lettuce and spinach to
use irradiation to control food-borne pathogens and extend shelf life.
(SFC, 8/22/08, p.A1)
2008 Aug 21, Forbes magazine
reported that Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej (80) is the world's
richest royal sovereign with a fortune estimated at 35 billion dollars,
and oil-rich Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (60) of Abu Dhabi is
far back at No. 2 with 23 billion.
(AFP, 8/21/08)
2008 Aug 21, Intel showed off a
wireless electric power system at the California firm's annual
developers forum in San Francisco. Analysts said it could revolutionize
modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.
(AFP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 21, In the US Virgin
Islands a judge imposed a life sentence on Daniel Castillo, convicted
of strangling Laquina Hennis, a 12-year-old girl, last year.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 21, Tropical Storm Fay
forced the evacuation of more Florida residents as it made landfall for
a 3rd time this week.
(WSJ, 8/22/08, p.A1)
2008 Aug 21, British PM Gordon
Brown visited Kabul after meeting with British troops in Helmand
province. Brown pledged more support for Afghanistan including 120
million dollars towards a development fund that would include paying
teachers' salaries and 17 million dollars for a radio station in
Helmand. 11 militants reportedly died in a clash in the south. Afghan
and international troops clashed with militants in Khas in Uruzgan
province, killing 11 militants.
(AP, 8/21/08)(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 21, Britain's government
confirmed that a contractor lost a memory device containing information
on every prison inmate in England and Wales.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 21, Greek police
announced the arrest of Vassilis Paleokostas, the country's most wanted
man, while tracking down the alleged kidnappers of industrialist
Giorgos Mylonas, who was freed in June after his family paid a ransom.
(AP, 8/21/08)
2008 Aug 21, Monsoon rains
pummeled northern India, bringing dozens of buildings crashing down and
killing 74 people. The deaths were reported in Uttar Pradesh state,
bringing this monsoon season's death toll to more than 300 people
across India.
(AP, 8/21/08)
2008 Aug 21, US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said they
agree that timetables should be set for the withdrawal of US troops. A
key part of the US-Iraqi draft agreement envisions the withdrawal of
American forces from Iraq's cities by next June 30. The US military
released an Iraqi television cameraman for the Reuters news agency and
other news organizations without charges after 26 days in detention.
(AP, 8/21/08)(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 21, Seif al-Islam
Gadhafi, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, said he will no
longer be involved in politics, defying in a surprise announcement
long-held expectations he was preparing to succeed his father.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 21, In Mexico Pres.
Calderon, congressional leaders, all state governors and a bevy of
others signed a “National Agreement for Security.”
(Econ, 9/6/08, p.44)
2008 Aug 21, A Montenegrin court
ordered three US citizens and seven other ethnic Albanians back to
prison after convicting them of plotting a rebellion to establish an
Albanian autonomous region within the Adriatic country.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 21, In Pakistan 2 suicide
bombers blew themselves up outside the country’s main defense industry
complex in Wah, killing at least 67 people with 102 wounded.
(Reuters, 8/21/08)(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 21, Russian forces
blocked the only land entrance to Georgia's main port city, a day
before Russia promised to complete a troop pullout from its ex-Soviet
neighbor.
(AP, 8/21/08)
2008 Aug 21, Armed pirates
hijacked a Japanese chemical tanker with 19 crew, an Iranian bulk
carrier with 29 crew, and a German cargo ship with a crew of 9 off
Somalia's coast.
(AP, 8/21/08)(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 21, In Sri Lanka
helicopter gunships attacked a rebel fortification in the northern
district of Vavuniya. 21 rebels and two soldiers died in fighting.
(AP, 8/21/08)(AP, 8/22/08)
2017 Aug 21, Next total solar
eclipse to be visible from North America.
(SC, 8/21/02)
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