Today in History - August 22
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408 Aug 22,
Flavius Stilicho (48), West Roman field leader (395-408), died.
(MC, 8/22/02)
565 Aug 22, St. Columba reported
seeing a monster in Loch Ness.
(MC, 8/22/02)
634 Aug 22, Abu Bekr Abd Allah
(61), [al-Siddik], successor of Mohammed, died. He was a friend, an
Arabic merchant, Mohammed’s father-in-law and the first Caliph. Before
his death he appointed Mohammed's adviser Omar (Umar) as his successor.
(ATC, p.66)(PC, 1992, p.61)
1138 Aug 22, English defeated
Scots at Cowton Moor. Banners of various saints were carried into
battle which led to its being called Battle of the Standard.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1350 Aug 22, Philips VI, of
Valois, King of France (1328-50), died.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1350 Aug 22, John II, also known
as John the Good, succeeded Philip VI as king of France.
(HN, 8/22/98)
1454 Aug 22, Jews were expelled
from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus Posthumus (1440-1457),
king of Hungary as Ladislaus V, king of Bohemia as Ladislaus I.
(MC, 8/22/02)(Internet)
1485 Aug 22, Henry Tudor defeated
Richard III (32) at Bosworth. England's King Richard III (1483-1485),
the last of the Plantagenet kings, was killed in the Battle of
Bosworth. This victory established the Tudor dynasty in England and
ended the War of the Roses. 12 miles west of Leicester, the forces of
Richard III met the forces under Henry Tudor (later to become Henry
VII). Henry Tudor had returned from French exile on August 7 at Milford
Haven and assembled forces including two Yorkist defectors, Thomas
Stanley and his brother Sir William. These allies, plus the defection
of Henry Percy, the 4th earl of Northumberland helped decide the
outcome of the battle. Richard, whose forces had taken position on
Ambien Hill, died fighting in an attempt to get at Henry Tudor himself.
(AP, 8/22/97)(HN, 6/26/98)(HN, 8/22/98)(HNQ, 8/22/00)
1559 Aug 22, Spanish archbishop
Bartholome de Carranza was arrested as a heretic.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1601 Aug 22, Georges de Scudery,
French writer (Observations sur le Cid), was born.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1614 Aug 22, Trades people under
Vincent Fettmilch chased and plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1642 Aug 22, Civil war in England
began as Charles I declared war on the Puritan Parliament at
Nottingham. Charles I went to the House of Commons to arrest some of
its members and was refused entry. From this point on no monarch was
allowed entry. The Oct 23 Battle of Edgehill was the first major clash
of armies of the English Civil War.
(HN, 8/22/98)(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D3)(ON, 12/00, p.1)
1647 Aug 22, Denis Papin, inventor
of the pressure cooker, was born.
(HN, 8/22/00)
1654 Aug 22, Jacob Barsimson, the
1st Jewish immigrant to US, arrived in New Amsterdam.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1681 Aug 22, Pierre Danican
Philidor, composer, was born.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1717 Aug 22, The Austrian army
forced the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in
the Balkans.
(HN, 8/22/98)
1762 Aug 22, Ann Franklin became
the first female editor of an American newspaper, the Newport, Rhode
Island "Mercury."
(AP, 8/22/00)
1777 Aug 22, With the approach of
General Benedict Arnold's army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger
abandoned Fort Stanwix and returns to Canada.
(HN, 8/22/98)
1780 Aug 22, HMS Resolution
returned to England without Capt Cook.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1781 Aug 22, Col. William Campbell
(36), West Virginia Patriot militia leader, died of an apparent heart
attack during the siege of Yorktown. Campbell had led his militia in
the Patriot victory on October 7, 1780, at the Battle of King's
Mountain in South Carolina
(ON, 12/07, p.7)
1787 Aug 22, Inventor John Fitch
demonstrated his steamboat, the Perseverance, on the Delaware River to
delegates of the Continental Congress. In 2004 Andrea Sutcliffe
authored “Steam: The Untold Story of America’s First Great Invention.”
(AP, 8/22/99)(WSJ, 7/27/04, p.D10)
1791 Aug 22, A Haitian slave
revolution began under voodoo priest Boukman.
(MC, 8/22/02)(SFCM, 5/30/04, p.9)
1793 Aug 22, Louis Duke de
Noailles (80), marshal of France, was guillotined.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1806 Aug 22, Jean-Honore Fragonard
(74), French painter, engraver, died.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1818 Aug 22, Warren Hastings (85),
1st governor-general of India (1773-84), died.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1826 Aug 22, Colonies under
Jebediah Strong Smith moved near Salt Lake Utah.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1827 Aug 22, Industrialist Ezra
Butler Eddy (d.1906) was born in Vermont. E.B. Eddy, who became known
as the matchmaker of the world, moved his small friction-match factory
from Burlington, Vt., to Hull, Que., in 1851. He expanded, modernized
and diversified to produce a variety of wood and paper products. Eddy
was elected mayor of Hull six times and was a member of the Quebec
legislature for six years.
(AP, 8/22/01)
1827 Aug 22, Josef Strauss,
Austrian composer (Dorfschwalben aus Austria), was born.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1828 Aug 22, Franz Joseph Gall
(70), German-French physician, fraud (phrenology), died.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1836 Aug 22, Archibald M. Willard,
US, artist (Spirit of '76), was born.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1846 Aug 22, Gen. Stephen W.
Kearny proclaimed all of New Mexico a territory of the United States.
The US pledged to honor the land grants in northern New Mexico that
were awarded by the Spanish and Mexican governors of the territory.
(WSJ, 5/7/99, p.A6)(AP, 8/22/07)
1849 Aug 22, The Portuguese
governor of Macao, China, was assassinated because of his anti-Chinese
policies.
(HN, 8/22/98)
1850 Aug 22, Nikolaus Lenau (48)
(pseudonym of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch), Hungarian-born poet and writer,
died in Austria.
(MC, 8/22/02)(Internet)
1851 Aug 22, The Schooner America
outraced the Aurora in the Solent, a stretch of sea separating the Isle
of Wight from England proper, to win a trophy that became known as the
America’s Cup. For 132 years the New York Yacht Club defeated all
challengers to retain the prestigious America’s Cup, the record for the
longest winning streak in sports history. The Liberty lost it to the
Australia II in 1983.
(AP, 8/22/97)(SFEC, 10/1/00, p.T4)(SSFC, 4/15/07,
p.G4)
1862 Aug 22, Claude Debussy
(d.1918), composer (La Mer, Clair de Lune), was born in St.
Germain-en-Laye.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1862 Aug 22, Santee Sioux
attacked Fort Ridgely, Minn.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1864 Aug 22, In Geneva,
Switzerland, representatives of 12 nations agreed to sign the First
Geneva Contention “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded
in Armies in the Field.” By 1866 twenty countries had signed. 194
states were signatories as of 2008.
(ON, 4/08, p.12)
1877 Aug 22, Nez Perce fled into
Yellowstone National Park.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1880 Aug 22, George Herriman
(d.1944), cartoonist and creator of Krazy Kat, was born.
(HN, 8/22/00)
1891 Aug 22, Jacque Lipchitz
(d.1973), sculptor, was born in Poland.
(HN, 8/22/00)
1893 Aug 22, Dorothy Parker
(d.1967), poet, satirist, screenwriter and founding member of the
Algonquin Round Table, was born in West Bend, N.J. "Authors and actors
and artists and such / Never know nothing, and never know much."
(AP, 8/22/97)(HN, 8/22/02)
1900 Aug 22, Gabriel
Fauré’s opera "Promethee," premiered in Beziers.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1902 Aug 22, Leni Riefenstahl,
[Helene Bertha Amalie], actress, Hitler's favorite cinematographer
(Triumph of the Will, Tiefland), was born in Germany.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1902 Aug 22, President Theodore
Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an
automobile in Hartford, Conn.
(AP, 8/22/97)
1902 Aug 22, The Cadillac Company
formed from the Henry Ford Co. when Henry Ford left. Ford formed the
Ford Motor Co. in 1903.
(http://home.planet.nl/~nagte017/Cadillactext001.html)
1904 Aug 22, Deng Xiaoping
(d.1997), Chinese leader from 1977 to 1987, was born in Sichuan
province. He held nominal leadership position until his death.
(HN, 8/22/00)(AP, 8/22/04)
1906 Aug 22, The 1st Victor
Victrola was manufactured.
(MC, 8/22/02)(SFC, 1/21/09, p.G4)
1908 Aug 22, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, photographer, was born in Chanteloup, France.
(HN, 8/22/00)(MC, 8/22/02)
1910 Aug 22, Japan annexed Korea
following 5 years as a protectorate and ruled for 35 years.
(WSJ, 10/14/95, p.A-1)(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 215)(AP,
8/22/06)
1911 Aug 22, President William
Taft vetoed a joint resolution of Congress granting statehood to
Arizona. Taft vetoed the resolution because he believed a
provision in the state constitution authorizing the recall of judges
was a blow at the independence of the judiciary. The offending clause
was removed an Arizona was admitted to statehood on February 14, 1912.
Afterward, the state restored the article in its constitution.
(HNQ, 11/21/99)
1914 Aug 22, In France some 27,000
soldiers died in the bloodiest battle of French history.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, Z1 p.2)
1914 Aug 22, Von Ludendorff and
von Hindenburg moved into East Prussia enroute to Russia.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1917 Aug 22, John Lee Hooker,
blues singer and guitarist, was born.
(HN, 8/22/98)
1920 Aug 22, Ray Bradbury, science
fiction writer whose works include "The Martian Chronicles" and
"Fahrenheit 451," was born.
(WSJ, 11/22/95, p.A-3)(HN, 8/22/98)
1920 Aug 22, Denton Cooley, heart
surgeon (1st artificial heart implant), was born in Houston.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1921 Aug 22, J. Edgar Hoover
became asst. director of FBI.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1922 Aug 22, Michael Collins,
Irish politician, was killed in an ambush.
(HN, 8/22/98)
1923 Aug 22, Paavo Nurmi of
Finland ran a world record mile (4:10.4).
(MC, 8/22/02)
1932 Aug 22, BBS began
experimental regular TV broadcasts.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1934 Aug 22, H. Norman
Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition forces during the Persian Gulf
War (1991), was born in Trenton, NJ.
(HN, 8/22/98)(MC, 8/22/02)
1935 Aug 22, E. Annie Proulx,
writer, was born in Connecticut. Her novels included "Postcards" and
"The Shipping News."
(HN, 8/22/00)
1941 Aug 22, Nazi troops reached
Leningrad.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1942 Aug 22, Brazil declared war
on the Axis powers. She was the only South American country to send
combat troops into Europe.
(HN, 8/22/98)
1942 Aug 22, Mikhailmichel Fokine,
Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, died.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1943 Aug 22, Soviet troops freed
Kharkov.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1944 Aug 22, Hitler ordered Paris
to be destroyed.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1944 Aug 22, Last transport of
French Jews departed to Nazi Germany.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1945 Aug 22, Soviet troops landed
at Port Arthur and Dairen on the Kwantung Peninsula in China.
(HN, 8/22/98)
1945 Aug 22, Conflict in Vietnam
began when a group of Free French parachuted into southern Indochina,
in response to a successful coup by communist guerilla Ho Chi Minh.
(HFA, '96, p.36)(HN, 8/22/00)
1950 Aug 22, Althea Gibson became
the first black tennis player to be accepted in competition for the
national championship.
(AP, 8/22/00)
1951 Aug 22, Harlem Globetrotters
played in Olympic Stadium at Berlin before 75,052.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1953 Aug 22, France closed the
penal colony on Devil's Island.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1953 Aug 22, Shah of Persia
returned to Teheran.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1956 Aug 22, President Eisenhower
and Vice President Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by
the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
(AP, 8/22/97)(Ind, 11/3/01, 5A)
1962 Aug 22, Savannah, world's 1st
nuclear powered ship, completed here maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va.,
to Savannah, Ga.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1962 Aug 22, There was a failed
assassination on president De Gaulle.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1966 Aug 22, The Beatles arrived
in NYC.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1968 Aug 22, Pope Paul VI arrived
in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin
America.
(AP, 8/22/98)
1968 Aug 22, In Czechoslovakia a
Soviet-led invasion crushed the Prague Spring reforms. In 1997 3
Communist Party leaders, Milos Jakes, Karel Hoffmann and Joseph
Lenart, were accused of conspiring with the Soviets.
(SFC, 5/3/97, p.A10)
1972 Aug 22, US Congress created
the Idaho’s Sawtooth National Recreation Area.
(www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1995/July/Day-28/pr-1138.html)(SFC,
12/11/99, p.A18)
1972 Aug 22, In Bratislava,
Slovakia, the Novy Most (New Bridge) opened over the Danube. A section
of the Old Town was bulldozed for its creation.
(Econ, 6/17/06,
p.20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nov%C3%BD_Most_Bratislava)
1973 Aug 22, Henry Kissinger
(b.1923), German-born American bureaucrat, succeeded William Rogers as
Secretary of State under Pres. Nixon. He continued in office until 1977.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger)
1973 Aug 22, Chile’s Chamber of
Deputies issued its “Declaration of the Breakdown of Chile’s
Democracy.” It accused Pres. Allende of violating laws.
(www.pensionreform.org/icpr/eys/declaration.html)
1974 Aug 22, Jacob Bronowski
(b.1908), British mathematician, cultural historian, died in East
Hampton, NY.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski)
1976 Aug 22, EPA scientists
reported that they had discovered plutonium in the ocean sediment off
the SF coast and radioactive cesium leaking from containers 120 miles
east of Ocean City, Md. Some 62,000 steel drums of nuclear waste were
dumped into the oceans from 1946-1970.
(SFC, 8/17/01, p.WB6)
1976 Aug 22, Oskar Brusewitz
(b.1929), East German Lutheran vicar, died after having set himself on
fire on August 18 to protest the repression of religion.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Br%C3%BCsewitz)
1978 Aug 22, In Kenya Pres. Jomo
Kenyatta (1963-1978), a leading figure in Kenya's struggle for
independence, died at age 83. He was succeeded by Vice President Daniel
Arap Moi of the Kalengin tribe, head of the Kenya African National
Union.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(SFC, 6/18/97,
p.A8)(SFC,11/27/97, p.B6)(AP, 8/22/98)
1978 Aug 22, Sandinistas occupied
the National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua.
(www.jorian.com/san.html)
1979 Aug 22, James T. Farrell
(b.1904), author (Young Lonigan), died. In 2004 Robert K. Landers
authored "The Life and Times of James T. Farrell."
(SFC, 2/26/04, p.E1)
1981 Aug 22, In Indianapolis,
Indiana, King Edward Bell (33), a laid-off autoworker, killed his
estranged wife, mother-in-law and 4 children. Bell was sentenced to six
consecutive 40-year prison terms.
(AP, 6/2/06)(http://tinyurl.com/3dnvkc)
1982 Aug 22, Alfonso Portillo, a
Guatemalan professor at Mexico’s Guerrero Autonomous Univ., shot and
killed 2 political adversaries outside a party. In 1999 Portillo ran as
a presidential candidate for the Guatemalan Republican Front and said
he had acted in self defense.
(SFC, 9/8/99,
p.A15)(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3335/is_200001/ai_n8048120)
1984 Aug 22, The Republican
convention in Dallas renominated Ronald Reagan.
(http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0329270-00)
1984 Aug 22, The VW plant at
Westmoreland, Pa., produced its last Volkswagen Rabbit.
(http://tinyurl.com/34j6lf)
1985 Aug 22, A fire broke out
aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway at Manchester Airport
in England and 55 people died.
(AP, 8/22/05)
1986 Aug 22, Kerr-McGee Corp.
agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood (1946-1974) $1.38
million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
(AP, 8/22/97)
1987 Aug 22, The supertanker
Bridgeton and three other reflagged Kuwaiti tankers left Kuwait under
U.S. escort and safely cleared Persian Gulf waters where the Bridgeton
had hit a mine the month before.
(AP, 8/22/97)
1988 Aug 22, Speaking to the
Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Vice President George Bush
defended the Vietnam-era National Guard service of running mate Dan
Quayle, saying, "He did not go to Canada, he did not burn his draft
card and he damn sure didn't burn the American flag."
(AP, 8/22/98)
1989 Aug 22, Nolan Ryan of the
Texas Rangers struck out his 5,000th batter, Rickey Henderson.
(www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/R/Ryan_Nolan.stm)
1989 Aug 22, Huey P. Newton (47),
Black Panther co-founder, was shot to death in Oakland, Calif. Gunman
Tyrone Robinson was later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.
(AP, 8/22/97)
1990 Aug 22, President Bush signed
an order calling up reservists to bolster the US military buildup in
the Persian Gulf.
(AP, 8/22/00)
1991 Aug 22, The Supreme Court of
Canada struck down the so-called rape shield law, which said the
previous sexual conduct of a rape victim could not be used in court.
(AP, 8/22/01)
1991 Aug 22, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned to Moscow following the collapse of the
hard-liners' coup. Later that day, he purged his government of the men
who'd tried to oust him.
(AP, 8/22/01)
1992 Aug 22, President Bush told
an evangelical gathering in Dallas that the Democrats had left "three
simple letters" out of their platform: "G-o-d." Democrat Bill Clinton
said Bush was trying to divert attention from the economy.
(AP, 8/22/02)
1992 Aug 22, Neo-Nazi violence
against foreigners erupted in Rostock, Germany.
(AP, 8/22/97)
1993 Aug 22, NASA engineers
continued trying, without success, to re-establish contact with the
Mars Observer, a day after losing contact.
(AP, 8/22/98)
1994 Aug 22, DNA testing linked OJ
Simpson to the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
(www.usatoday.com/news/index/nns053.htm)
1994 Aug 22, A catacarb leak at
the Unocal facility in Rodeo, Ca., lasted 16 days. A suit by 6,000
residents settled in 1997 charged Unocal $80 million.
(SFC, 4/15/97, p.A10)
1994 Aug 22, Leo Lerman (b.1915),
writer and editor for Conde Nast, died. He left behind numerous
notebooks, which were published in 2007 under the title “The Grand
Surprise.”
(WSJ, 4/13/07, p.W6)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0503566/bio)
1994 Aug 22, Ernesto Zedillo of
Mexico's ruling party declared his victory as president, a day after
his leading opponents charged the election was unfair.
(AP, 8/22/99)
1995 Aug 22, Congressman Mel
Reynolds (Democrat, Illinois) was convicted in Chicago of sexual
misconduct involving an underage campaign volunteer. Reynolds was
sentenced to five years in prison; he was later convicted of lying to
obtain loans and of illegally siphoning campaign money for personal
use. Reynolds was later sentenced to five years in prison; he ended up
serving 2 1/2.
(AP, 8/22/05)
1996 Aug 22, Pres. Clinton signed
a welfare reform bill, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act (welfare to work), to curtail fraud and abuse that
also set new standards for disabled children and ended up eliminating
many from supplemental security income. It ended guaranteed cash
payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients. It originated
in the 1994 Republican "Contract with America." It included a ban on
free federal medical care for new green-card holders during their 1st 5
years.
(SFC, 8/15/97, p.A1,17)(AP, 8/22/97)(WSJ, 11/20/00,
p.A24)(WSJ, 8/29/01, p.A1)
1996 Aug 22, The US Army began
operating an incinerator in Utah to destroy a 14,000 ton stockpile of
chemical weapons over 7 years.
(WSJ, 8/23/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 22, In Bahrain new
environmental anti-pollution laws went into effect.
(SFC, 8/22/96, p.E3)
1996 Aug 22, Neo-Nazi Gary Lauck
of the US was sentenced to 4 years in prison in Germany for supplying
hate literature and paraphernalia for 2 decades.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A18)
1997 Aug 22, A federal judge
rejected Pres. Clinton’s request to dismiss the sexual harassment suit
of Paula Jones. The trial was scheduled to start May 27, 1998.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 22, A federal official
threw out the contentious Teamsters election because of alleged
campaign fund-raising abuses, forcing union President Ron Carey into
another race against James P. Hoffa.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A1)(AP, 8/22/98)
1997 Aug 22, A $64.8 million 890-
lb. Lewis satellite was launched by NASA on a hoped-for 5-year mission.
It went into an uncontrolled spin on Aug 22 and was expected to fall
and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere in Sep.
(SFC, 9/27/97, p.A3)
1997 Aug 22, It was reported that
Ethiopia has completed work on more than 200 dams that use 624 million
cubic yards of Nile water per year.
(WSJ, 8/22/97, p.A10)
1997 Aug 22, In Kenya armed
marauders attacked a church filled with some 2,500 refugees and killed
2 refugees and wounded a police guard in Linkoni.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A12)
1997 Aug 22, On Montserrat
voluntary evacuation of the islanders was begun. Two-thirds of the
12,000 inhabitants fled the island. It was expected that much of the
island would not be habitable for 20 years after the eruptions ceased.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A12)
1997 Aug 22, In Rwanda at least
120 people were killed at the Mudende camp near Mutura. The slain were
thought to have been Tutsis and were killed by "infiltrators," rival
rebel Hutus.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A14)
1998 Aug 22, President Clinton, in
his Saturday radio address, announced he had signed an executive order
putting Osama bin Laden's Islamic Army on a list of terrorist groups.
(AP, 8/22/99)
1998 Aug 22, Elena Garro (b.
1920), Mexican novelist, playwright and former wife of Octavio Paz,
died at age 77. Her foremost novel was "Recuerdos del Porvenir"
(Remembrances of the Future).
(SFEC, 8/23/98, p.D4)
1998 Aug 22, The 15 Caribbean
leaders at the Caribbean Forum (Cariforum) said they wanted a new trade
accord with Europe to maintain preferential quotas in order to gain
time and adjust to the global liberalization of markets. The
current agreement expires in 2000. A hemisphere-wide Free Trade
Area was envisioned by the year 2005.
(SFEC, 8/23/98, p.A25)
1999 Aug 22, The US Bureau of
Justice Statistics reported that the number of Americans on parole
topped 4 million for the first time.
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A4)
1999 Aug 22, Hurricane Bret hit
the US-Mexican border near Brownsville late on this day. Winds hit 125
mph but the storm missed populated areas.
(SFEC, 8/22/99, p.A2)(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 22, Art dealer Leo
Castelli died in New York at age 91.
(AP, 8/22/00)
1999 Aug 22, In Hong Kong a China
Airlines plane with over 300 passengers overturned while landing under
high winds from Typhoon [Tropical Storm] Sam. 3 people were killed and
211 injured of the 313 survivors.
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A14)(AP, 8/22/04)
1999 Aug 22, In Russia 4 small
radical political parties joined forces as the Stalinist Bloc led by
Viktor Anpilov, Yevgeny Dzugashvili (Stalin's grandson) and Gen'l.
Stanislov Terekhov.
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A14)
1999 cAug 22, In Switzerland the
chief of the secret service was suspended amid reports that he had
embezzled millions of dollars and was using the money to assemble a
private army. Accountant Dino Bellasi was accused of embezzling $6
million from the Defense Ministry and used the money to train a secret
army.
(WSJ, 8/23/99, p.A1)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A8)
2000 Aug 22, Publishers Clearing
House agreed to pay $18 million to 24 states and the District of
Columbia to settle allegations it had used deceptive promotions in its
sweepstakes mailings.
(AP, 8/22/01)
2000 Aug 22, In Japan Mitsubishi
Motors admitted that it had concealed tens of thousands customer
complaints about automobile defects since 1977.
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 22, In Malaysia 15 people
including 13 children were killed when a tractor-trailer rig collided
with a school van in Sarawak.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A13)
2000 Aug 22, In Russia Pres. Putin
met with grieving relatives of the 118 seamen who died in the Kursk
nuclear submarine.
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 22, In Taiwan Typhoon
Bilis struck with winds over 100 mph and 3 people were killed.
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 22, In West Timor
pro-Indonesia militiamen severely beat 3 UN relief workers. UN relief
work in West Timor was suspended the next day.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A13)
2001 Aug 22, Sen. Jesse Helms (79)
of North Carolina confirmed that he would not seek re-election next
year.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 22, The space shuttle
Discovery returned and brought home 3 crew members, Yuri Usachev,
Susan Helms, and Jim Voss, who had spent nearly 6 months on the Int’l.
Space Station.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 22, The All Species
Foundation announced that Brian Boom would head the 25-year project for
cataloguing every species.
(WSJ, 8/23/01, p.A4)
2001 Aug 22, Brazil moved to
produce a generic version of the anti-AIDS drug nelfinavir under int’l.
patent protection by Roche.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 22, In Chechnya Russian
troops claimed to have wounded rebel commander Shamil Basayev and
killed 35 of his fighters.
(WSJ, 8/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 22, Israeli forces killed
7 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 22, NATO members gave
formal approval for alliance soldiers to collect weapons from Albanian
guerrillas in Macedonia.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A8)
2002 Aug 22, In Oregon President
Bush proposed to end the government's "hands-off" policy in national
forests and ease logging restrictions in fire-prone areas.
(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/22/03)
2002 Aug 22, The US and Russia
took away 100 pounds of weapons-grade uranium from an aging nuclear
reactor in Belgrade to Russia for re-processing.
(SFC, 8/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 22, Two US helicopter
pilots were reported lost in South Korea. Their bodies were found the
next day 13 miles south of Camp Page.
(SFC, 8/24/02, p.A9)
2002 Aug 22, Researchers reported
a new enzyme to treat victims of an anthrax attack and to help detect
the spores.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 22, In Brazil President
Fernando Henrique Cardoso signed a decree creating the Tumucumaque (the
rock on top of the mountain) Mountains National Park, bigger than
Maryland covering a region of virgin rainforest in Amapa state, along
Brazil's northern borders with Surinam and Guyana.
(AP, 8/22/02)(SFC, 8/23/02, p.A2)
2002 Aug 22, China evacuated some
600,000 people around the swollen Lake Dongting in Hunan province.
(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 22, In Nepal a small
plane carrying 18 people, including tourists from Germany, the United
States and Britain, crashed into a mountain in bad weather, killing all
aboard.
(Reuters, 8/22/02)(AP, 8/22/03)
2002 Aug 22, In Peru officials
reported that police had destroyed 57 crude drug laboratories in the
Peruvian jungle and burned 38 tons of coca leaf.
(AP, 8/22/02)
2002 Aug 22, In the Philippines
the heads of two Jehovah's Witnesses were found at Patikul on Jolo
island, two days after the Abu Sayyaf rebels seized the two male
preachers and six other hostages.
(Reuters, 8/22/02)(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A1)
2003 Aug 22, Roy Moore,
Alabama's chief justice, was suspended for his refusal to obey a
federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from his
courthouse.
(AP, 8/22/03)
2003 Aug 22, In southern
California members of the Earth Liberation Front struck 4 car
dealerships. Damage at a Chevrolet dealership in West Covina was over
$1 million.
(SFC, 8/23/03, p.A2)
2003 Aug 22, Texas Gov. Rick Perry
pardoned 35 people arrested in the 1999 Tulia drug busts and convicted
on the testimony of a lone undercover agent later charged with perjury.
The agent, Tom Coleman, was later found guilty of aggravated perjury
and sentenced to 10 years probation. He's been appealing his conviction.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2003 Aug 22, In central
Afghanistan government forces fought hundreds of suspected Taliban
insurgents, killing four guerrillas and arresting 13. At least four
government soldiers died.
(AP, 8/23/03)
2003 Aug 22, In Brazil a $6
million rocket exploded on its launch pad while undergoing final
pre-launch tests, killing 21 people. The VLS-1 rocket which was
undergoing tests at the Alcantara Launch Center.
(AP, 8/25/03)
2003 Aug 22, In Canada a wildfire
has forced up to 10,000 people from their homes in Kelowna, British
Columbia.
(Reuters, 8/22/03)
2003 Aug 22, In northern China a
bus swerving to avoid an oil truck ran off a highway and plunged into a
ravine, killing 27 people.
(AP, 8/23/03)
2003 Aug 22, Suspected FARC rebels
killed Carlos Benavidez (25), a journalist and wounded another, after
the vehicle in which the reporters were traveling failed to stop at a
roadblock in southern Colombia.
(AP, 8/24/03)
2003 Aug 22, France announced a
$525 million aid package for farmers whose animals died by the millions
and whose crops withered in a heat wave estimated to have killed 10,000
people.
(AP, 8/22/03)
2003 Aug 22, Israeli troops killed
a Palestinian militant and wounded two others in a shootout Friday at a
West Bank hospital.
(AP, 8/22/03)
2003 Aug 22, In Nigeria 5 days of
street battles in Warri left as many as 100 dead.
(SFC, 8/23/03, p.A16)
2003 Aug 22, Oslo, Norway, was
ranked the world's most expensive city by Swiss banking giant UBS. It
was followed by New York, Zurich, Switzerland; Copenhagen, Denmark;
London; Basel, Switzerland; Chicago; and Geneva.
(AP, 8/22/03)
2003 Aug 22, Turkish troops
clashed with Kurdish rebels in Batman province. 7 Kurds and 2 Turkish
soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 8/23/03, p.A3)
2004 Aug 22, In the Olympics
Justin Gatlin of the US won the 10-meter dash in 9.85 sec.
(SFC, 8/23/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 22, In Bangladesh an
angry mob set fire to a passenger train and protesters clashed with
police across the country, leaving dozens of people injured, as
violence spread a day after a grenade attack on an opposition rally
killed 19 people.
(AP, 8/22/04)
2004 Aug 22, Pres. Putin flew to
Chechnya in advance of elections. Overnight attacks killed at least 30
people.
(SFC, 8/23/04, p.A3)
2004 Aug 22, U.S. warplanes bombed
Najaf's Old City and gunfire rattled amid fears a plan to end the
standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr could. A car bomb
exploded north of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring four others,
including a deputy provincial governor.
(AP, 8/22/04)
2004 Aug 22, Gilberto Higuera
Guerrero, alleged leader of the powerful Arellano Felix drug gang, was
arrested before dawn at a house in the border city of Mexicali.
(AP, 8/23/04)
2004 Aug 22, Attackers killed one
Turkish citizen and two Iraqis on a road north of Baghdad.
(AP, 8/23/04)
2004 Aug 22, In Oslo, Norway,
armed men stormed into the Munch Museum, threatened staff at gunpoint
and stole one of Edvard Munch's famous paintings, "The Scream" and
"Madonna" before the eyes of stunned museum-goers. Another version of
“The Scream” was stolen in 1994. Police recovered both painting in
2006. In 2007 3 men were sentenced to prison for their roles in the
heist. The 3 were ordered to pay a total of $262 million in
compensation.
(AP, 8/22/04)(WSJ, 8/24/04, p.A1)(SFC, 9/1/06,
p.A2)(SFC, 4/24/07, p.D6)
2004 Aug 22, Sudan said it would
reduce paramilitary forces in Darfur by 30 percent to try to ease
tensions in the western region.
(AP, 8/22/04)
2005 Aug 22, During a speech in
Salt Lake City, President Bush compared the fight against terrorism to
both world wars and other great conflicts of the 20th century.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2005 Aug 22, The California
Supreme Court ruled that lesbian and gay partners who plan a family and
raise children should be considered legal parents after a breakup.
(SFC, 8/23/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 22, Connecticut sued the
federal government seeking relief from a requirement that it scrap its
own education testing program in favor of one the state said will not
help children but will cost millions.
(SFC, 8/23/05, p.A4)
2005 Aug 22, Religious broadcaster
Pat Robertson suggested that American agents assassinate Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching
pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism." Robertson later
apologized, saying he had spoken out of frustration.
(AP, 8/23/06)
2005 Aug 22, Harrah’s said it has
agreed to buy the Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for
$370 million.
(WSJ, 8/23/05, p.D6)
2005 Aug 22, Scientists reported
the development of a cancer-fighting compound that can sneak past a
protective blood barrier in the brain, enabling it to fight brain
cancer.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, A development agency
said nearly half of Asia's 1.27 billion children live in poverty,
deprived of food, safe drinking water, health or shelter.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, In southeastern
Bangladesh unusually high tides partially submerged two offshore
islands, forcing nearly 20,000 residents to flee their flooded homes.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, The Greek Orthodox
Church in the Holy Land elected a new patriarch to succeed their ousted
leader, who fell from grace over a controversial east Jerusalem land
deal.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, Hours before a
midnight deadline, Shiites and Kurds reached an agreement on a draft
constitution and were trying to persuade Sunni Arabs to go along with
their compromises.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, Iraq's oil exports
were shut down by a power cut due to sabotage attacks 2 days earlier.
The shut down darkened parts of central and southern Iraq, including
the country's only functioning oil export terminals.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, The last Jewish
settlers left Gaza, making way for the Palestinian government.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2005 Aug 22, In Lebanon a bombing
wounded five people in Beirut.
(AP, 8/23/05)
2005 Aug 22, In southern Nepal a
land mine planted by suspected communist rebels killed at least four
police officers and injured three others.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, In Portugal wildfires
fanned by high winds burned out of control, destroying more than 10
houses on the outskirts of Coimbra, Portugal's third-largest city,
forcing 50 people to leave their homes amid the country's worst drought
in years.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, Romania’s PM Calin
Tariceanu reshuffled his center-right government, replacing four
ministers including those in charge of finance and European integration
after criticism of several cabinet members.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, South Korea's Kia
Motors Corp. launched an assembly line producing its Spectra model at a
Russian factory.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2005 Aug 22, The brother of Sri
Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga was sworn in as foreign minister
to replace Lakshman Kadirgamar, assassinated by suspected rebels.
(AP, 8/22/05)
2006 Aug 22, US sprinter Justin
Gatlin agreed to an 8-year ban for doping and will forfeit his 100m
world-record tie, set May 12 at the Qatar Super Grand Prix in Doha.
(WSJ, 8/23/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 22, Paramount Pictures
severed ties to Tom Cruise after 14 years, citing unacceptable conduct.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2006 Aug 22, Berkeley, Ca.,
christened the new $70 million Berkeley City College, formerly known as
Vista College. Vista had begun in 1974 as Peralta College for
Non-traditional Study (PCNS). The name was changed to vista in 1978.
Classes were spread across more than 200 locations.
(SFC, 8/23/06, p.B3)
2006 Aug 22, Sony Corp. announced
its purchase of Grouper, a small video-sharing site, for $65 million.
(Econ, 9/2/06, p.58)
2006 Aug 22, In southern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden car into a
Canadian military patrol, wounding four soldiers. Insurgents ambushed a
police vehicle near the Pakistan border, killing five officers. In
Helmand province British troops using "high-explosive ammunition"
killed nine insurgents. In Kandahar province NATO warplanes killed at
least 11 Taliban fighters just hours after militant attacks left one
NATO soldier dead and five others wounded. NATO troops killed one
Afghan youth and wounded another after a suicide bombing in Kandahar
city that targeted a Canadian convoy, killing one soldier and wounding
three. 2 roadside bombs struck a truck and a motorbike in the Kandahar
district of Daman, killing three civilians and wounding one.
(AP, 8/22/06)(AP, 8/23/06)
2006 Aug 22, British government
figures said Britain has taken in an estimated 427,000 migrants from
eight former communist states since they joined the European Union in
2004, far more than an earlier prediction of 13,000 newcomers a year.
(AP, 8/23/06)
2006 Aug 22, In China visiting
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said China will expand its cooperation
in oil exploration and help his country build a fiber-optic
communications network under agreements to be signed in Beijing this
week.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 22, In Kinshasa fighting
flared for a third day between supporters of Congo's two presidential
candidates, as the UN called for an immediate cease-fire and a European
Union military force was sending reinforcements.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 22, An Egyptian tour bus
overturned in the Sinai peninsula killing 11 people, most of them
Israeli Arabs, and injuring more than 30.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 22, Kristjan Lepik of
Tallinn, Estonia, settled theft charges with the SEC. He agreed to
return over $550,000 in trading profits and pay a $15,000 penalty for
illegally trading on corporate information. The SEC said Lepik and
co-worker Oliver Peek made at least $7.8 million trading on advanced
looks at hundreds of press releases.
(SFC, 8/23/06, p.C2)
2006 Aug 22, Ethiopia began
releasing water from dams taxed by two weeks of heavy rain to prevent
them from bursting as the confirmed death toll from devastating floods
climbed to 626.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 22, Ethiopian troops
reportedly arrived in the central Somali town of Galkayo. The move may
stoke tensions with the Islamic militiamen who control most of southern
Somalia. They were seen inside the town in 13 vehicles.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 22, In India police
killed a Pakistani and arrested another in a shootout that authorities
said foiled a terrorist attack in Mumbai, India's financial capital.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 22, In Iraq two people
were killed in a bomb explosion in Baghdad and two people were killed
during clashes between British forces and gunmen in the southern city
of Amarah. A policeman was shot to death in a drive-by shooting in
Al-Hay, north of Amarah.
(AP, 8/22/06)(AP, 8/23/06)
2006 Aug 22, Israeli troops shot
and killed three militants from the Islamic Jihad group near the
Israel-Gaza border, as soldiers conducted house-to-house searches and
made arrests elsewhere in the coast strip.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 22, The Orizont, a leased
Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran, came under fire from Iranian
military vessels and was later occupied by Iranian troops. A 2nd
Romanian rig had recently been towed from Iranian waters due to unpaid
bills.
(AP, 8/22/06)(WSJ, 10/14/06, p.A8)
2006 Aug 22, A Russian passenger
jet with at least 170 people aboard crashed in Ukraine after sending a
distress signal. The Pulkovo airlines Tupolev 154, en route from the
Russian Black Sea resort of Anapa to St. Petersburg, crashed near the
Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 22, In Spain Grigory
Perelman (40), a reclusive Russian, won a Fields Medal, the math
world's highest honor, for solving a problem that has stumped some of
the discipline's greatest minds for a century, but he refused the award.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Aug 22, Thailand police
arrested 175 North Koreans, mostly women and children, who illegally
entered the country and were found hiding in an abandoned home in
Bangkok.
(AFP, 8/23/06)
2007 Aug 22, Western US states and
Canadian provinces agreed to cut greenhouse emissions 15% by 2020 in
the latest regional pact to regulate the gases, an approach opposed by
US President George W. Bush.
(Reuters, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, US Army Major John
Cockerham, his wife and sister were indicted in a suspected scheme to
accept millions of dollars in bribes for Defense Department contracts
in Iraq and Kuwait.
(Reuters, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, The Texas Rangers
became the first team in 110 years to score 30 runs in a game, setting
an American League record in a 30-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles in
the first game of a doubleheader.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2007 Aug 22, It was reported that
some US lawyers in NYC had crossed the $1,000 per hour billing mark.
(WSJ, 8/22/07, p.B1)
2007 Aug 22, The US FDA approved
expanded use of J&J’s antipsychotic Risperdal in adolescents.
(WSJ, 8/23/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 22, The death toll across
the Upper Midwest and from the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin that
swept Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri over the past week rose to at least
26. Three people were electrocuted by lightning at a bus stop in
Madison, Wis.
(AP, 8/23/07)
2007 Aug 22, Grace Paley (84),
poet and short story writer, died in Thetford Hill, Vt.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2007 Aug 22, Taliban militants
wearing Afghan army uniforms attacked a remote NATO base in eastern
Afghanistan, killing two Afghan soldiers and wounding 11 alliance
soldiers. In southern Afghanistan 2 Canadian soldiers and an
interpreter were killed and two journalists injured during an attack.
(AP, 8/22/07)(Reuters, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, In Bangladesh clashes
between police and students demanding an end to emergency rule spilled
into the streets of the capital, prompting the government to impose an
indefinite curfew in six cities.
(AP, 8/22/07)(Econ, 8/25/07, p.42)
2007 Aug 22, Rhys Jones (11) was
killed as he was kicking a ball around with friends outside a pub in
Liverpool, north-west England. Police soon arrested five young people,
including two girls, in relation to his murder. On Dec 16, 2008, Sean
Mercer (18) was found guilty of murdering Jones and was sentenced to a
minimum of 22 years in prison.
(AFP, 8/25/07)(AFP, 4/16/08)(AP, 12/16/08)
2007 Aug 22, A distributor said
Chinese-made blankets containing high levels of formaldehyde have been
recalled across Australia and New Zealand, amid rising global concern
over the safety of products from China.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, Denmark's government
said Somali pirates released the crew of a hijacked Danish cargo ship
after receiving a ransom payment.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, In Estonia
prosecutors said Arnold Meri (88), cousin of Estonia's late president
Lennart Meri, committed genocide by helping deport his countrymen to
Siberia in 1949.
(AP, 8/23/07)
2007 Aug 22, State media reported
that a volcanic eruption in northeastern Ethiopia killed five people
and displaced more than 2,000 others. The volcano in the Afar region
started spewing lava on August 12 and the eruption lasted for three
days.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, In Ingushetia,
Russia, one serviceman was killed and five were wounded when gunmen
attacked their armored personnel carrier with grenades and automatic
weapons fire.
(AP, 8/24/07)
2007 Aug 22, PM Nouri al-Maliki
said: “No one has the right to place timetables on the Iraq
government.” In northern Iraq a blast at a police station in Beiji
killed 25 policemen and 20 civilians. 57 civilians and 23 officers were
wounded. A roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in the center of
Tikrit, killing one officer and wounding another, along with two
civilians. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle set off a blast near four
police vehicles parked near grocery stores in Muqdadiyah, killing six
people and wounding 35 others. A twin vehicle bombing at a joint
US-Iraqi outpost in north Baghdad killed four Iraqi soldiers and
wounded 11 Americans. A Black Hawk helicopter went down in northern
Iraq, killing all 14 US soldiers aboard. A US soldier was killed and
four were wounded in combat operations west of Baghdad.
(AP, 8/22/07)(AP, 8/23/07)
2007 Aug 22, Israeli aircraft
killed one Hamas militant and wounded three others in an airstrike in
Gaza City.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, Hurricane Dean closed
in on the Mexican mainland, battering oil platforms on the Bay of
Campeche. Dean was downgraded to a tropical storm as it drenched
central Mexico.
(AP, 8/22/07)(WSJ, 8/23/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 22, In Myanmar hundreds
of pro-democracy activists marched to protest the government's fuel
price hikes. The military junta arrested 13 top dissidents and deployed
gangs of spade-wielding supporters on the streets of Yangon.
(Reuters, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, Suspected militants
attacked a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistan before dawn,
triggering a shootout that left three soldiers dead.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, Russia nominated
Josef Tosovsky, a former Czech prime minister and head of that
country's central bank, to head the International Monetary Fund, a move
that put the Kremlin and the European Union at odds. The Czech Republic
repudiated the move and endorsed the EU’s choice.
(AP, 8/22/07)(WSJ, 8/23/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 22, Wind-whipped fires
that have been ravaging parts of Sicily consumed a hotel near the port
city of Messina, killing at least two people.
(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 22, Zimbabwe's main
opposition party denounced a two-month voter registration program as a
sham, saying its aim was to boost President Robert Mugabe's chances of
victory in next year's elections. State media reported that Zimbabwe's
government has authorized retailers to raise the prices of basic goods
in order to ease widespread shortages which followed the imposition of
price cuts.
(AFP, 8/22/07)(AP, 8/22/07)
2008 Aug 22, The Outside Lands
rock festival opened in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to a capacity
crowd of some 60,000. Altogether some 150,000 attended the 3-day event.
(SFC, 8/23/08, p.A1)(SFC, 8/25/08, p.E1)
2008 Aug 22, Florida state
officials said 7 people have been killed over the five days that
Tropical Storm Fay has been pounding the state with torrential rain and
powerful winds.
(AP, 8/23/08)
2008 Aug 22, In North Las Vegas,
Nevada, an experimental aircraft crashed into a house killing the pilot
of the Velocity 173 RG and 2 people in the home.
(SFC, 8/23/08, p.A4)
2008 Aug 22, US-led troops
attacked a compound where Taliban leaders were meeting in western
Afghanistan, and reportedly killed 30 militants. An Afghan human rights
group said that at least 78 people were killed, including women and
children, in the joint Afghan-US coalition military operation in
western Herat province. In eastern Afghanistan a roadside bomb killed a
US coalition service member. An investigation later found that more
than 90 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in the
coalition air strikes in Herat. Officials later said the US-led attack
was based on misleading information by a rival tribesman named Nader
Tawakil. On Sep 2 the US-led coalition said that its investigation into
the controversial missile strike, thought to have killed 90 civilians,
had found that only seven non-combatants died. After video images
showing at least 10 dead children and up to 40 other dead villagers
surfaced, the US said it would send a one-star general to investigate
the strike.
(AP, 8/22/08)(AFP, 8/24/08)(WSJ, 8/29/08, p.A1)(AFP,
9/2/08)(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Aug 22, Brazil extradited
Colombian drug lord Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia to the United States to
face racketeering charges.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 22, Aon Corp., the
world's biggest insurance broker, said it has agreed to buy Britain's
Benfield Group Ltd. for almost $1.6 billion in cash.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 22, Canadian health
officials said 3 people in Ontario have died in a food poisoning
outbreak that may be linked to listeria bacteria in sandwich meat from
one of the country's largest meat processors.
(Reuters, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 22, Two Beijing
grandmothers remained defiant and in good spirits despite being
sentenced to one year of reeducation through labor for applying to
protest during the Olympics.
(AFP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 22, Hong Kong issued its
highest storm warning in five years as Typhoon Nuri brought
hurricane-force winds and heavy rain, halting trade on financial
markets and shutting down most of the city.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 22, Supporters of Shiite
leader Muqtada al-Sadr said Iraqi troops have raided an al-Sadr
stronghold, killing one of his guards and arresting another.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 22, Japanese scientists
said they had derived stem cells from wisdom teeth, opening another way
to study deadly diseases without the ethical controversy of using
embryos.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 22, In Indian Kashmir
hundreds of thousands of Muslims marched in Srinagar in the largest
protest against Indian rule in over a decade. Police estimated the
crowd at 275,000.
(AP, 8/22/08)(SFC, 8/23/08, p.A8)
2008 Aug 22, Mexican police
captured a man believed to be Ruben Rios Estrada, a key gunman for the
Arellano-Felix cocaine cartel, at the Caliente racetrack casino in
Tijuana after a chase through the city streets. Another suspected gang
member also was arrested. The bullet-riddled body of Jesus Blanco Cano
(40) was found at a ranch near Villa Ahumada in Chihuahua state. He had
just been on the job for one day as police chief of Villa Ahumada.
(AP, 8/23/08)(SFC, 8/23/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 22, Peru’s congress voted
to repeal two laws facilitating the sale of Indian lands that had
generated protests by dozens of tribes in the Amazon rain forest. The
laws had been passed by presidential decree in May to promote private
investment.
(SFC, 8/23/08, p.A3)(Econ, 8/30/08, p.37)
2008 Aug 22, A Russian armored
column moved away from a base in western Georgia and Russian forces
also were leaving the key central city of Gori, the day that Russia's
president had said a pullback would be complete.
(AP, 8/22/08)
2008 Aug 22, In Somalia fighting
between the Islamic militia and a clan militia killed 10 people in the
southern port of Kismayo. Witnesses said a radical Islamic militia
controlled most of Somalia's third-largest city after three days of
fighting in which some 70 people died.
(AP, 8/22/08)(WSJ, 8/23/08, p.A1)
2008 Aug 22, Sri Lankan troops
captured two strategic towns from Tamil Tigers as they closed in on the
rebels' political capital. With the fall of Thunukkai and Uyilankulam,
the military was just 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) south of Kilinochchi.
(AFP, 8/22/08)
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