Today in History - August 25
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79CE Aug 25,
Gaius Plinius Secundus, [Plinius Maior], Roman admiral, writer, died in
the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. [see Aug 24]
(MC, 8/25/02)
325 Aug 25, Council of Nicaea
ended with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of
the Holy Trinity. The Council also decreed that priests cannot marry
after their ordination.
(MC, 8/25/02)(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A3)
383 Aug 25, Flavius Gratianus
(25), Emperor of Rome (375-383), was murdered.
(MC, 8/25/02)
357 Aug 25, Flavius Claudius
Julianus, the cousin of Constantius, beat the Alamanni in a Battle at
Strasbourg. Chonodomarius was caught.
(PCh, 1992, p.48)(HN, 8/25/99)
882 Aug 25, Louis III (19), King
of France (879-82), died.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1212 Aug 25, Children's crusaders
under Nicolas (10) reached Genoa.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1270 Aug 25, King Louis IX (56),
King of France (1226-70), died on The Eighth Crusade, which was
decimated by the Plague.
(PCh, 1992, p.114)(V.D.-H.K.p.110)(MC, 8/25/02)
1330 Aug 25, Anti-Pope
Nicolaas V overthrew himself.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1346 Aug 25, Edward III of England
defeated Philip VI's army at the Battle of Crecy in France. The English
overcame the French at the Battle of Crecy. The longbow proved
instrumental in the victory as French knights on horseback outnumbered
the British 3 to 1. At the end of the battle 1,542 French lords and
knights were killed along with 20,000 soldiers. The English lost 2
knights and 80 men. [see Aug 26]
(WSJ, 8/3/98, p.A12)(HN, 8/25/98)
1425 Aug 25, Countess
Jacoba of Bavaria escaped from jail.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1499 Aug 25, Battle at Sapienza:
An Ottoman fleet beat Venetians.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1530 Aug 25, Ivan IV (Ivan the
Terrible), 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84), was born.
(MC, 8/25/02)(http://www.ilstu.edu/~jmalli1/)
1540 Aug 25, Explorer Hernando de
Alarcon traveled up the Colorado River.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1566 Aug 25, Iconoclastic fury
began in the Dutch province of Utrecht. Fanatical Calvinists instigated
religious riots in the Netherlands.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)(TL-MB, 1988, p.21)
1580 Aug 25, Spain defeated
Portugal in the Battle of Alcantara.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1609 Aug 25, Galileo demonstrated
his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers. Galileo Galilei had improved
the newly invented telescope and pointed it at the moon.
(V.D.-H.K.p.200)(Econ, 8/15/09, p.12)
1628 Aug 25, There was as assault
on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia (the former name of Djakarta,
Indonesia).
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)(WUD, 1994 p.420)
1689 Aug 25, Battle at Charleroi:
Spanish and English armies chased the French.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1689 Aug 25, The Iroquois took
Montreal.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1698 Aug 25, Czar Peter the Great
returned to Moscow after his trip through West-Europe.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1718 Aug 25, Hundreds of French
colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in
present-day New Orleans.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1744 Aug 25, Johann G. von Herder,
German philosopher, theologist, poet, was born.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1758 Aug 25, The Prussian army
defeated the invading Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf. Thousands
were killed.
(HN, 8/25/98)(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1765 Aug 25, In protest over the
stamp tax, American colonists sacked and burned the home of
Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson. In 1774 he was exiled to
Britain. In 1974 Bernard Bailyn authored “The Ordeal of Thomas
Hutchinson.”
(HN, 8/25/98)(WSJ, 8/25/07, p.P9)
1786 Aug 25, Ludwig I (d.1868),
King of Bavaria, was born. He later had an affair with international
courtesan, Lola Montez.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1789 Aug 25, Mary Ball Washington,
mother of George, died.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1802 Aug 25, Toussaint L'Ouverture
was imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1804 Aug 25, In England Alice
Meynell became the 1st woman jockey.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1814 Aug 25, British forces
destroyed the Library of Congress, containing some 3,000 books.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1819 Aug 25, Allan Pinkerton
(d.1884) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He fled Scotland in 1842 to
avoid capture for his involvement with the revolutionary group called
the Chartists. He later founded a Chicago detective agency and worked
as Abe Lincoln's bodyguard.
(www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters2/pinkerton/)
1819 Aug 25, Scotsman James Watt
(b.1736), Scottish inventor, died. His 1775 improved steam engine
advanced coal mining and made the Industrial Revolution possible.
(ON, 6/10,
p.5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt)
1822 Aug 25, F. William Herschel
(85), German astronomer (discovered Uranus), died.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1825 Aug 25, Uruguay declared its
independence from Brazil.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1829 Aug 25, Pres. Jackson made an
offer to buy Texas, but the Mexican government refused.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1830 Aug 25, The "Tom Thumb" steam
locomotive, designed by Peter Cooper, ran its famous race with a
horse-drawn car. The horse won because the engine, which had been
ahead, broke down. [see Sep 18]
(HN, 8/25/98)(ON, 1/01, p.12)
1830 Aug 25, Belgium rebelled
against Netherlands.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1835 Aug 25, Ann Rutledge (22),
said to be Lincoln's true love, died in Ill.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1836 Aug 25, Bret Harte (d.1902),
American author and journalist (Outcasts of Poker Flat), was born in
Albany, NY. "The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."
[1839 also given as a birth date]
(WUD, 1994 p.648)(AP, 4/2/98)(SFEC, 9/3/00, BR p.6)
1845 Aug 25, Ludwig II (d.1886),
King of Bavaria (1864-86), was born at Nymphenburg. He was also called
the "Mad King" for his extravagant castles.
(HN, 1/7/99)(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.T4)(MC, 8/25/02)
1857 Aug 25, The California gold
rush town of Columbia burned down in a 2nd fire that was blamed on a
Chinese cook. Miners soon evicted all Chinese from the town.
(SFEM, 3/12/00, p.T6)(CVG, Vol 16, p.24,34)
1862 Aug 25, US Secretary of War
authorized Gen. Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1862 Aug 25, Union and Confederate
troops skirmished at Waterloo Bridge, Virginia, during the Second Bull
Run Campaign.
(HN, 8/25/98)
1864 Aug 25, Confederate General
A.P. Hill pushed back Union General Winfield Scott Hancock from Reams
Station where his army had spent several days destroying railroad
tracks. With Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia stubbornly
clinging to Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant decided to cut its vital rail
lines. To perform the surgery, he selected one of the North's proven
heroes--'Hancock the Superb.'
(HN, 8/25/98)
1864 Aug 25, A combination rail
and ferry service became available from SF to Alameda, Ca.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1867 Aug 25, Michael Faraday
(b.1791), discoverer of electromagnetic induction (1831), died. In 2004
James Hamilton authored “A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of
the Scientific Revolution.”
(www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/faraday_michael.shtml)(WSJ,
12/14/04, p.D10)
1875 Aug 25, Captain Matthew Webb
(1848-1883) became the first person to swim across the English Channel,
traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45
min. Swimming the Channel entails about 35 miles of swimming due to
currents in waters that are 55 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
(AP, 8/25/97)(HN, 8/25/98)(ON, 2/05, p.12)
1880 Aug 25, Robert E. Stolz
(d.1976), Austrian composer, conductor, was born. He initially
auditioned under Johann Strauss and later became conductor at the
Theater-an-der-Wien.
(WSJ, 12/28/99, p.A16)(MC, 8/25/02)
1891 Aug 25, Luis Iruarrizaga
Aguirre, composer, was born.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1900 Aug 25, Philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche (55) died in Weimar, Germany. In 1999 Ronald Taylor
translated into English the book "Nietzsche and Wagner" by Joachim
Köhler. In 2002 Taylor translated Joachim Kohler’s "Zarathustra’s
Secret: The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche." In 2004 Georges
Liebert authored "Nietzsche and Music."
(WSJ, 2/4/99, p.A20)(AP, 8/25/00)(SSFC, 6/9/02,
p.M5)(WSJ, 1/28/04, p.D6)
1901 Aug 25, Clara Maass (25),
army nurse, sacrificed her life to prove that the mosquito carries
yellow fever.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1908 Aug 25, The National
Association of Colored Nurses was formed.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1909 Aug 25, Ruby Keeler, dancer
(Dames, 42nd Street), was born in Halifax, NS.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1911 Aug 25, Jacopo Napoli,
composer, was born.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1912 Aug 25, An aircraft
recovered from a spin for the 1st time.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1912 Aug 25, Different
nationalities battled with each other in Macedonia.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1913 Aug 25, Walt Kelly,
cartoonist who created the comic strip "Pogo," was born.
(HN, 8/25/98)
1914 Aug 25, German army began 6
week plundering of Leuven, Belgium. German Zeppelins bombed Antwerp,
Belgium, and 10 died.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1914 Aug 25, German troops marched
into France and pushed the French army to the Sedan.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1916 Aug 25, The National Park
Service was established within the Department of the Interior by the
Organic Act. Horace Albright and Stephen Mather helped persuade the US
Congress to establish the organization.
(AP,
8/25/97)(www.nps.gov/legacy/organic-act.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/mr6gc)
1916 Aug 25, Erich Von Stroheim
Jr, actor, director (Napoleon, Sunset Blvd), was born.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1916 Aug 25, Van Johnson (d.2008),
film actor, was born in Newport, RI.
(SFC, 12/13/08, p.A5)
1918 Aug 25, Leonard Bernstein,
conductor and composer who initiated the television series "Young
People's Concerts," was born in Lawrence, MA.
(WUD, 1994, p.141)(HN, 8/25/98)(MC, 8/25/02)
1919 Aug 25, George C. Wallace,
governor of Alabama and presidential candidate who led the fight to
keep segregation in the South, was born in Clio, Ala.
(HN, 8/25/98)(MC, 8/25/02)
1919 Aug 25, The 1st scheduled
passenger service by airplane between Paris and London.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1921 Aug 25, Brian Moore, Irish
novelist, was born. His work included "The Lonely Passion of Judith
Hearne."
(HN, 8/25/00)
1921 Aug 25, The United States,
which never ratified the Versailles Treaty ending World War I, finally
signed a peace treaty with Germany.
(AP, 8/25/97)(HN, 8/25/98)
1924 Aug 25, An
international maritime treaty was drawn.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1925 Aug 25, Asa Philip Randolph
(36) began to organize the Pullman Sleeping Car Porters’ Union.
(PCh, 1992, p.768)(HN, 8/25/98)(SFC, 12/3/98, p.A3)
1925 Aug 25, Last Belgian
troops vacated Duisburg.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1925 Aug 25, Uruguay became
independent.
(HFA, '96, p.36)
1926 Aug 25, Pavlos
Kountouriotis became president of Greece.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWpavlos.htm)
1926 Aug 25, Thomas Moran
(b.1837), American painter, was born in Bolton, England. His paintings
of Yellowstone helped persuade Congress to designate it a national
park. Moran painted "The Valley of the Cuernavaca." The painting was
stolen around 1975 from the National Museum of American Art in
Washington DC. It was recovered in 1995 at an auction house not far
from the museum. Moran was best known for works on the Grand Canyon and
Yellowstone National Park. Steven Good in Denver compiled a catalogue
raisonne on Moran and verified the above work.
(WSJ, 5/11/95, p. A-14)(SFC,10/15/97, p.D3)
1927 Aug 25, Althea Gibson
(d.2003), Wimbledon's 1st black tennis champion (1957), was born in
Silver, SC.
(HN, 8/25/98)(WSJ, 9/29/03, p.A1)
1928 Aug 25, An expedition led by
Richard E. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, N.J., on its journey to
Antarctica.
(AP, 8/25/08)
1929 Aug 25, Graf Zeppelin passed
over SF for LA following a trans-Pacific voyage.
(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.F8)
1930 Aug 25, Sean Connery,
Scottish actor famous for playing the character James Bond in the Ian
Flemming movie series, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Connery is well
noted actor as James Bond in many of the Bond movies. He has
acted in more serious film roles since retiring from the 007 series
which won him great accolades including an Oscar (Academy Award-winning
actor: The Untouchables [1987]; The Rock, First Knight, The
Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Rising Sun, Outland, The
Longest Day; "Bond. James Bond.": Dr. No, From Russia with Love,
Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are
Forever)
(HN, 8/25/98)(MC, 8/25/02)
1930 Aug 25, Siegfried Wagner
(61), conductor, composer, son of Richard Wagner, died.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1931 Aug 25, Regis Philbin, later
TV host (Who Wants to be a Millionaire), was born in NYC.
(SSFC, 12/31/06, Par p.22)
1932 Aug 25, Anatoli Yakovlevich
Kartashov, Russian cosmonaut, was born.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1932 Aug 25, Amelia Earhart
completed a transcontinental flight.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1933 Aug 25, Wayne Shorter, jazz
saxophonist and composer, was born.
(HN, 8/25/00)
1933 Aug 25, Tom Skerritt, actor
(Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama, Pickett Fences), was born in
Detroit, Mich.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1937 Aug 25, Pullman signed a
contract with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, one of the first
substantive victories for black workers. [see Oct 1]
(SFC, 12/3/98, p.A3)
1937 Aug 25, Japanese fleet
blockaded the Chinese coast.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1938 Aug 25, Frederick Forsyth,
author of thrillers, was born. His work included "The Day of the
Jackal" (1971) and "The Odessa File."
(HN, 8/25/00)
1940 Aug 25, The first parachute
wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. Homer Tomlinson at the New York
City World’s Fair for Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward. The minister,
bride and groom, best man, maid of honor and four musicians were all
suspended from parachutes.
(HN, 8/25/00)
1940 Aug 25, Jose Van Dam,
bass-baritone, was born in Brussels, Belgium.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1940 Aug 25, The 1st (British)
night bombing of Germany was over Berlin.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1941 Aug 25, British and Soviet
forces entered Iran, opening up a route to supply the Soviet Union.
(HN, 8/25/98)
1941 Aug 25, German troops
conquered Novgorod, Leningrad.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1942 Aug 25, German SS began
transporting Jews of Maastricht, Neth.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1942 Aug 25, W. van Daalen,
opposition leader on Celebes, was beheaded.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1943 Aug 25, U.S. forces completed
the occupation of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War
II. Losing Hill 700 to the Japanese meant defeat for the American
forces on Bougainville. To the men of the 37th Infantry Division, that
was unthinkable.
(AP, 8/25/97)(HN, 8/25/98)
1943 Aug 25, Lt. Andre Devigny
(d.1999 at 82) escaped from a German prison in Lyon, France. He was
sentenced to be executed on Aug 28 for assassinating the head of the
Fascist Italian secret police. He was captured the next day and escaped
again by diving into the Rhone River. In 1957 Robert Bresson made the
film "A Man Escaped" based on his story.
(SFC, 2/19/99, p.E2)
1943 Aug 25, Lord Mountbatten was
appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1943 Aug 25, Red Army under
Gen Vatutin recaptured Achtyrka.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1944 Aug 25, US 12th Army
Corp. reached Troyes.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1944 Aug 25, Paris, occupied since
June 1940, was liberated from German occupation by Free French Forces
under General Jacques LeClerc and his 2nd Tank division. Although
ordered by Adolf Hitler to leave Paris a smoldering ruin, Paris'
military governor Major General Dietrich von Cholitz lied to his
superiors and left the city's landmarks intact. Retreating German
troops massacred 124 of Maille's 500 residents then razed the town,
possibly in retaliation for Resistance action in the region.
(AP, 8/25/97)(HNPD, 8/25/98)(HN, 8/25/98)(AP,
7/16/08)
1944 Aug 25, In France 11 US
planes were shot down when a squadron was overwhelmed in a dogfight
with 80 German fighters. 5 pilots survived and eluded capture. 2 pilots
were captured. The remains of 3 missing were later recovered. In 2008
the remains of Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Ray Packard were identified and
returned home.
(SSFC, 11/16/08, p.B8)
1944 Aug 25, Romania declared war
on Germany.
(AP, 8/25/99)
1945 Aug 25, John Birch, Baptist
missionary and US army intelligence specialist, was killed by Chinese
Communists. His death is considered the first US death in the struggle
against communism.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1945 Aug 25, Jewish
immigrants were permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1947 Aug 25, Marion Carl, US Navy
test pilot, set a world speed record of 651 mph in a D-558-I at Muroc
Field (later Edwards AFB), Ca. He was shot to death in Oregon by a
house robber in 1998 at age 82.
(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A3)(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1949 Aug 25, Martin Amis, English
novelist, was born. His work included "Money, Time’s Arrow."
(HN, 8/25/00)
1949 Aug 25, Gene Simmons,
musician (group: Kiss: Rock and Roll All Nite, Beth, I Was Made For
Lovin' You, Forever; actor: Red Surf, Runaway, Wanted Dead or
Alive), was born.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1950 Aug 25, President Truman
ordered the Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a
strike. The railroads were returned to their owners 2 years later.
(AP, 8/25/97)(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A17)
1955 Aug 25, Elvis Costello
(Declan McManus), musician, songwriter (I'm Not Angry, Less than Zero,
Watching the Detectives, Clubland, Oliver's Army, Every Day I
Write the Book, I'm Your Toy, Party, Party, So Young), was born.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1955 Aug 25, Last Soviet forces
left Austria.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1956 Aug 25, Alfred C. Kinsey
(62), US human sexuality researcher (Kinsey Report), died in
Bloomington, Ind.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(AP, 8/25/06)
1956 Aug 25, In South Africa the
government ordered over 100,000 non-whites to leave their homes in
Johannesburg within a year, in order to make room for whites.
(EWH, 1968, p.1232)
1957 Aug 25, Prince Suvanna Phuma
formed a government in LAOS with the Pathet Lao.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1958 Aug 25, The game show
"Concentration" premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 8/25/08)
1958 Aug 25, President Eisenhower
signed a measure providing pensions for former U.S. presidents and
their widows.
(AP, 8/25/08)
1958 Aug 25, Momofuku Ando (48),
head of Japan’s Nissin Food Products, announced that he had finally
perfected his flash-frying method and therefore invented the instant
noodle.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_Ando)
1960 Aug 25, The 17th summer
Olympics opened in Rome. Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994), was the first
African American to win three gold medals in a single Olympiad. Her
athleticism was remarkable since Rudolph contracted polio as a small
child and spent six years in a steel brace. With therapy and hard work,
Rudolph overcame her handicap to excel in basketball and track. As a
celebrity, she worked to break many gender and racial barriers. Rudolph
died of brain cancer.
(WSJ, 7/19/96, p.R6)(HN, 6/23/98)(chblue.com,
8/25/01)
1960 Aug 25, AFL began
placing players names on back of their jerseys.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1960 Aug 25, In Congo
demonstrations took place against premier Lumumba.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1961 Aug 25, Brazilian
president Janio Quadros resigned.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1962 Aug 25, USSR performed
a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1964 Aug 25, Singapore
limited imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1967 Aug 25, Beatles went to Wales
to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1967 Aug 25, George Lincoln
Rockwell (b.1918), founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot to
death in the parking lot of a shopping center in Arlington, Va. Former
party member John Patler (29) was later convicted of the killing. In
1999 Frederick J. Simonelli authored “American Fuehrer” George Lincoln
Rockwell and the American Nazi Party.”
(AP, 8/25/07)(AH, 2/06, p.60,64)
1967 Aug 25, Paraguay
accepted its constitution.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1968 Aug 25, Arthur Ashe became
the 1st black to win US tennis singles championship.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1968 Aug 25, Seven dissidents
(Larisa Bogoraz (d.2004), Pavel Litvinov, Konstantin Babitskii,
Nataliya Gorbanevskaya, Viktor Fainberg, Vadim Delone and Vladimir
Dremlyuga) came out in the Red Square to protest against the invasion
of the soviet troops in Czechoslovakia and paid for it with years of
lagers, exile and "special" mental hospitals.
(Internet)(SFC, 4/8/04, p.B7)
1970 Aug 25, Claudia Schiffer,
German fashion model, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Schiffer)
1973 Aug 25, France
performed a nuclear test at Muruora Island.
(www.atomicforum.org/france/1973.html)
1973 Aug 25, Zambia adopted
a constitution.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Zambia)
1979 Aug 25, "Madwoman of Central
Park West" closed at 22 Steps in NYC after 86 performances.
(www.sondheimguide.com/other.html)
1979 Aug 25, Stan Kenton (b.1911),
orchestra leader (Music 55), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Kenton)
1979 Aug 25, Cannie Bullock (8) of
San Pablo, Ca., was raped and killed. DNA evidence in 2002 identified
Joseph Cordova Jr., inmate in a Colorado prison, as the murderer. In
2007 Cordova was sentenced to death.
(SFC, 12/4/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/12/07, p.B2)
1979 Aug 25, Somalia adopted
a 2nd constitution. The first was adopted in 1961 following
independence.
(www.pogar.org/countries/country.asp?cid=17)
1980 Aug 25, The Broadway musical
"42nd Street" opened in NYC for 3486 performances. Producer David
Merrick stunned both cast and audience during the curtain call by
announcing that the show’s director, Gower Champion, had died earlier
that day.
(AP,
8/25/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street_(musical))
1980 Aug 25, Gower Champion
(b.1919), director, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gower_Champion)
1981 Aug 25, The US spacecraft
Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending
back pictures and data about the ringed planet and its moons.
(AP,
8/25/97)(http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/planetary.html)
1983 Aug 25, The US and USSR
signed a $10 billion grain pact.
(http://tinyurl.com/2twapx)
1983 Aug 25, The French cultural
center in West Berlin was bombed. One person was killed and 23 injured.
The attack was attributed to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez
Sanchez.
(SFC,12/11/97,
p.C2)(http://lists.jammed.com/IWAR/1997/12/0117.html)
1984 Aug 25, Truman Capote (59),
American novelist, playwright, and short story writer, died in the arms
and guest bedroom of Johnny Carson’s ex-wife, Joanne. His
autobiographical novella, "The Grass Harp," was made into a film
directed by Walter Matthau in 1996. He also authored "Other Voices,
Other Rooms," and "Breakfast At Tiffany’s." In 1997 George Plimpton
published his biography: "Truman Capote." In 2004 Gerald Clarke edited:
“Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote.”
(SFC, 10/11/96, p.C3)(WSJ, 12/11/97,
p.A21)(SFEC,12/14/97, p.D9)(AP, 8/25/99)(SSFC, 9/19/04, p.M3)
1984 Aug 25, The USSR
performed an underground nuclear test.
(www.iss.niiit.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/3_10.htm)
1985 Aug 25, STS 51-I was
scrubbed at T –9 min because of an onboard computer problem.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1985 Aug 25, Samantha Smith, the
schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous
peace tour of the Soviet Union, was killed with her father in an
airplane crash in Maine.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1987 Aug 25, Dow Jones industrial
stock avg. reached a record 2722.42.
(http://tinyurl.com/sxcm9)
1987 Aug 25, Saudi Arabia
denounced Iran's government as a "group of terrorists," and said its
forces would deal firmly with any Iranian attempts to attack the
Saudis' Muslim holy places or vast oil fields.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1988 Aug 25, In his sharpest
attack yet on the Reagan administration's drug policies, Democratic
presidential nominee Michael Dukakis criticized U.S. dealings with
Panama's military leader, Gen. Manuel Noriega, as "criminal."
(AP, 8/25/98)
1988 Aug 25, Challenger
Center opened its classroom doors in Houston.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1988 Aug 25, NASA launched
space vehicle S-214.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1988 Aug 25, Iran and Iraq
began talks to end their 8 year war.
(www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/co_mission/uniimogbackgr.html)
1988 Aug 25, A major fire
destroyed the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal.
(www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACOS-64CRPV?OpenDocument)
1989 Aug 25, Rep. Barney Frank,
D-Mass., acknowledged hiring a male prostitute as a personal employee,
then firing him after suspecting the aide was selling sex from Frank's
apartment.
(AP, 8/25/99)
1989 Aug 25, NASA scientists
received stunning photographs of Neptune and its moons from Voyager 2.
(HN, 8/25/98)
1990 Aug 25, The United Nations
gave the world’s navies the right to use force to stop vessels trading
with Iraq.
(AP, 8/25/00)
1991 Aug 25, Thousands of abortion
foes rallied at a stadium in Wichita, Kan., where six weeks of
anti-abortion protests led by Operation Rescue resulted in more than
2,600 arrests.
(AP, 8/24/01)
1991 Aug 25, In the 43rd Emmy
Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley and Patricia Wettig won.
(http://tinyurl.com/euw2z)
1991 Aug 25, White-Russia
(Belarus) declared it's independence.
(www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107325.html)
1992 Aug 25, President Bush and
Democrat Bill Clinton appeared separately before the American Legion in
Chicago; Bush cited his World War II military service while Clinton
sought to bury the controversy over his Vietnam-era draft status.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1992 Aug 25, Hurricane Andrew
thrashed the Louisiana coast.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1993 Aug 25, The United States
applied limited sanctions against China and Pakistan after concluding
the Chinese had sold M-11 missile technology to the Pakistanis.
(WSJ, 6/13/96, p.A4)(AP, 8/25/98)
1993 Aug 25, Amy Biehl, Stanford
graduate and Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, Calif., was slain
while attempting to drive black friends home to Guguletu outside Cape
Town. Four members of the Congress’ youth wing were arrested, convicted
and sentenced to 18-year jail terms. They later requested amnesty from
the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. In 1998 the 4 men convicted
of Biehl’s murder were given amnesty.
(SFC, 8/21/96, p.A8)(SFEC, 6/29/97, p.D1)(WSJ,
7/29/98, p.A1)(AP, 8/25/98)
1994 Aug 25, The US Senate passed
a $30 billion crime bill, a major victory for Pres. Clinton.
(AP, 8/25/99)
1995 Aug 25, Chinese-American
human rights activist Harry Wu, safely back on US soil after two months
in Chinese detention, said the spying case against him was "all lies,"
and vowed to seek compensation from China.
(AP, 8/25/00)
1996 Aug 25, President Clinton
began a whistle-stop train trip in Huntington, W.Va., that would take
him to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1996 Aug 25, In China Dai Houying,
novelist, and her niece were knifed to death in Shanghai during an
apparent robbery. A former chef was later tried, convicted and
sentenced to death for the murders.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.E5)(SFC, 10/19/96, A12)
1997 Aug 25, It was reported that
the number of mutual funds today has climbed to 2,855 funds controlling
$2.13 trillion, as opposed to 1987 when there were 812 mutual funds
with $241.9 billion in assets.
(WSJ, 8/25/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 25, The tobacco industry
agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida to
settle a smoking-related lawsuit.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.A1)(AP, 8/25/98)
1997 Aug 25, Dow Corning Corp.
offered $2.4 billion to settle claims from more than 200,000 women with
illnesses related to silicone breast implants.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.A3)(AP, 8/25/98)
1997 Aug 25, It was reported that
the US government would pay 1,000 teaching hospitals not to train
doctors in specialties where there is a glut.
(WSJ, 8/25/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 25, Prof. William Ferris,
a scholar at the Univ. of Mississippi, was selected by Pres. Clinton to
head the National Endowment for the Humanities.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.A4)
1997 Aug 25, NASA sent a Delta
rocket aloft with the Ace solar observatory, Advanced Composition
Explorer. The 5-year $110 million project will go into orbit at a point
1 million miles from Earth and 92 million miles from the Sun where the
gravity of Earth and Sun balance.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.A2)
1997 Aug 25, Germany convicted 3
politicians from the defunct East German era on charges related to
shootings of would-be escapees. Egon Krenz, the last leader of the East
German Communist Party, was convicted along with Politburo members
Guenther Kleiber and Guenther Schabowski.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.A8)
1997 Aug 25, From South Korea it
was reported that Samsung was proceeding with plans to manufacture
automobiles. Korea’s 5 auto manufacturers will increase capacity to 6
million units a year.
(WSJ, 8/25/97, p.A1)
1998 Aug 25, Jose Antonio Llama, a
member of the board of the Cuban-American National Foundation was
indicted along with 6 other men for plotting to kill Fidel Castro in
1997.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Aug 25, In Cincinnati, Ohio,
4 boys under age 11 were charged in the sexual assault of a 7-year-old
girl.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Aug 25, Hurricane Bonnie hit
North Carolina with winds up to 115 mph.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Aug 25, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
(90), former Supreme Court Justice (1972-1987), died in Richmond, Va.
He wrote the majority opinion allowing colleges and universities to
consider race among other factors in student admittance.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A4)
1998 Aug 25, In Argentina Horacio
Estrada, a retired navy captain, was found shot to death. Four days
earlier prosecutors had begun questioning him about the 1991-1995
weapons shipments to Ecuador and Croatia.
(SFEC, 10/25/98, p.A24)(http://tinyurl.com/9r9z7)
1998 Aug 25, In Congo Pres. Kabila
declared that this day all Congolese should "take up arms, even
traditional weapons -bows and arrows, spears and other things... to
crush the enemy because otherwise we are going to become the slaves of
these...Tutsi people."
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.B7)
1998 Israel fired a rocket from a
helicopter into Lebanon that killed guerrilla leader Hossam al-Amin.
Lebanese guerrillas then fired Katyusha rockets into Israel and injured
at least 19 civilians.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A8)
1998 Aug 25, The Russian
ruble fell 9% and the government introduced a plan to stretch out its
debts.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 25, In South Africa a
bomb exploded in a Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town and killed
one person and injured 24. A group called Muslims Against Global
Oppression claimed responsibility. One injured man died 10 days later.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A8)(SFC, 9/4/98, p.D4)
1999 Aug 25, The FBI, reversing
itself after six years, admitted that its agents might have fired some
potentially flammable tear gas canisters on the final day of the 1993
standoff with the Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, but said it
continued to believe law enforcement agents did not start the fire
which engulfed the cult’s compound.
(AP, 8/25/00)
1999 Aug 25, It was reported that
Mickey Rooney had joined animal rights activists to support legislation
to outlaw "crush" videos, which depict small animals being killed by
scantily clad women.
(SFC, 8/25/99, p.C5)
1999 Aug 25, In Miami, Florida,
federal agents arrested 50 American Airline workers for smuggling drugs
and weapons.
(SFC, 8/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 25, In Kabul,
Afghanistan, a truck bomb exploded near the residence of Mullah
Mohammed Omar, leader of the Taliban, and 7 people were killed.
(SFC, 8/26/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 25, Gen'l. Momir Talic of
Bosnia was arrested in Austria on a secret UN war crimes indictment.
Talic had commanded the 1st Krajina Corps from 1992-1995.
(SFC, 8/26/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 25, In Kyrgyzstan Boris
Yeltsin met with Jiang Zemin to forge a closer alliance to
counterbalance US global clout. The meeting preceded a 5-day Central
Asia summit. It was later reported that a deal was made for Russia to
sell 2 nuclear submarines to China.
(SFC, 8/26/99, p.A13)(WSJ, 9/2/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 25, In Turkey lawmakers
approved new taxes to help pay for earthquake damages, which included a
25% surcharge on cellular telephones.
(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A14)
1999 Aug 25, In Venezuela the
constitutional assembly declared a legislative emergency and usurped
most of the functions of Congress.
(SFC, 8/26/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 25, Police in Yugoslavia
said the bodies of 33 Gypsies fleeing from Kosovo were recovered off of
Montenegro and that as many as 100 may have drowned when their ship
sank last week.
(SFC, 8/26/99, p.A13)
2000 Aug 25, Daniel Wiant (35),
former executive of the American Cancer Society, pleaded guilty to
embezzling nearly $8 million form the charity.
(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A7)
2000 Aug 25, The shares of Emulex
Corp. fell 62% due to a false report on the company. The drop caused an
estimated $50 million investor losses. the shares recovered after the
company refuted the reports. Mark Simeon Jakob (23) of El Segundo was
arrested a week later for perpetrating the hoax, which netted him
$186,000. He was later sentenced to nearly four years in prison for
wire and securities fraud.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.A1)(AP, 8/24/01)
2000 Aug 25, In West Virginia the
new $75 million Robert C. Boyd Green Bank Telescope, the world’s
largest fully steerable radio telescope, was dedicated following almost
10 years of construction.
(WSJ, 8/28/00, p.B11E)
2000 Aug 25, German intelligence
confirmed that it had discovered a secret Iraqi missile factory near
Baghdad. Some 250 technicians were reported working on ARABIL-100
short-range missiles.
(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A9)
2000 Aug 25, Former Serbian
president Ivan Stambolic (64) disappeared. In 2003 his body was found
in a lime-covered grave on a mountain in northern Serbia. In 2005
Milosevic's paramilitary commander, his secret police chief and five
others were convicted and sentenced for the killing of Stambolic.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.A16)(SFC, 4/5/01, p.A10)(AP,
3/28/03)(AP, 7/18/05)
2001 Aug 25, Univ. of Chicago
doctors announced that they a kept a human kidney operating for 24
hours in a machine that simulated a warm human body.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 25, In the Bahamas 9
people were killed when a small plane crashed. Rhythm-and-blues singer
and actress Aaliyah Haughton (Aaliyeh, 22) was among the dead.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A16)(SFC, 8/27/01, p.A16)(NW,
12/31/01, p.106)
2001 Aug 25, Police in Bogota,
Colombia, reported that they had found $35 million stashed in the walls
of 2 apartments, which had been used as private banks by the North
Valley Cartel.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A16)
2001 Aug 25, In Oslo, Norway,
Crown Prince Haakon (28) married Mette-Marit (28), a single mother and
former waitress.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A16)(AP, 8/25/02)
2001 Aug 25, Palestinian
commandoes killed an Israeli officer and 2 soldiers in a pre-dawn raid
in Bedolah, Gaza Strip. 2 commandoes of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
were killed a 1 escaped. Palestinian gunmen north of Jerusalem killed 3
members of an Israeli family in a car ambush. 2 children were wounded.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A1)
2002 Aug 25, Louisville, Ky., beat
Sendai, Japan, 1-0 to win the Little League World Series in South
Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
(AP, 8/25/03)
2002 Aug 25, Acclaimed
bass-baritone William Warfield (82), best known for his rendition of
"Ol' Man River" in the musical "Show Boat," died in Chicago.
(AP, 8/25/03)
2002 Aug 25, In England
Investigators said they had found items of clothing they believed were
worn by two slain girls the day they disappeared from their rural
village.
(AP, 8/25/02)
2002 Aug 25, Iran's parliament
approved a bill giving women the right to sue for divorce, a similar
right already guaranteed for men.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 25, Iraq said US and
British bombing killed 8 people near Basra. A U.S.-British air raid in
southern Iraq destroyed a major military surveillance site that
monitors American troops in the Persian Gulf
(WSJ, 8/26/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/27/02)
2002 Aug 25, Philippine troops
shot dead a notorious leader of a gang of kidnappers and rescued a girl
(4) and her nanny from a week-long captivity.
(Reuters, 8/25/02)
2002 Aug 25, Up to 10 guerrillas
from a Philippine Marxist rebel group blacklisted by the United States
were killed when the military clashed with a 40-man New People's Army
(NPA) band in Rodriguez town, a Manila suburb.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 25, Former Swedish
diplomat Per Anger (88), who'd worked with Raoul Wallenberg in
shielding thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps, died in
Stockholm, Sweden.
(AP, 8/25/03)
2002 Aug 25, In the UAR the roof
of a Dubai warehouse that was under construction collapsed, killing
seven people and injuring 19.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2002 Aug 25, In Zimbabwe President
Robert Mugabe announced his new Cabinet, firing the moderate finance
minister and keeping hard-liners who have spearheaded harsh media
controls and seizures of white-owned farms.
(AP, 8/25/02)
2003 Aug 25, NASA launched the
largest-diameter infrared telescope ever in space. NASA showed the 1st
images from the $670 million Spitzer Space Telescope on Dec 18.
(WSJ, 8/26/03, p.A1)(SFC, 12/19/03, p.A2)
2003 Aug 25, In southeastern
Afghanistan US jets hit a Taliban hideout and at least 14 insurgents
were killed.
(SFC, 8/26/03, p.A7)
2003 Aug 25, Brazil's Pres. Lula
da Silva and Peru's Pres. Toledo signed a free-trade agreement between
Peru and Mercosur. Peru planned to join as an associate member.
(Econ, 8/30/03, p.25)
2003 Aug 25, Canada's Premier
Chretien signed an agreement in the Northwest Territories bestowing
self-government and mineral wealth on the 4,000 Dogrib Indians (Tlicho
First Nation).
(Econ, 8/30/03, p.26)
2003 Aug 25, In India consecutive
bombs exploded in a crowded jewelry market and a historical landmark in
Bombay, killed 53 people, wounding 150 others. The Student’s Islamic
Movement of India (SIMI) was believed responsible. Ashrat Shafiq
Mohammed Ansari, Syed Mohammed Haneef Abdul Rahim and his wife Fahmeeda
Syed Mohammed Haneef were arrested under India's tough anti-terrorism
law shortly after the attacks. All 3 were convicted and sentenced to
death in 2009 after Judge M.R. Puranic said they were members of
Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned, Pakistan-based militant group formed in the
1980s.
(WSJ, 8/27/03, p.A1)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.39)(AP,
8/25/08)(AP, 7/27/09)(AP, 8/6/09)
2003 Aug 25, In Ivory Coast 2
French soldiers, part of a peacekeeping force, were killed.
(AP, 8/26/03)
2003 Aug 25, In southern Russia a
series of bomb explosions near two cafes and a bus stop in Krasnodar,
about 750 miles south of Moscow, killed at least three people and
wounding ten others.
(AP, 8/25/03)
2003 Aug 25, In Rwanda voters
lined up before dawn to vote in the country's first real presidential
election. Incumbent President Paul Kagame scored an overwhelming
election win.
(AP, 8/26/03)
2004 Aug 25, An Army investigation
found that 27 people attached to an intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib
prison near Baghdad either approved or participated in the abuse of
Iraqi prisoners.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2004 Aug 25, David Hicks, an
Australian cowboy who'd converted to Islam and allegedly fought for the
Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded innocent to war crimes charges before a
U.S. military commission. He was detained by the U.S. Government in
Guantanamo Bay until 2007 when he became the first to be tried and
convicted under the U.S. Military Commissions Act of 2006. He was
extradited to Australia to serve the remainder of his sentence. Hicks
served his nine month term in Adelaide's Yatala Labor Prison and was
released under control order on December 29, 2007.
(AP,
8/25/05)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks)
2004 Aug 25, The US prepared to
ship 300 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium to France for conversion to
a less-dangerous nuclear fuel.
(WSJ, 8/25/04, p.A9)
2004 Aug 25, Astronomers reported
the discovery of a planet 14 times as massive as Earth near the star Mu
Arae which is 50 light years away.
(SFC, 8/26/04, p.A2)
2004 Aug 25, Hungary chose Ferenc
Gyurcsany (43), one of the nation’s richest businessmen, as the new
premier. He made his fortune from privatization deals in the 1990s.
(WSJ, 8/26/04, p.A1)(Econ, 8/28/04, p.48)
2004 Aug 25, Grand Ayatollah Ali
al-Sistani returned to Iraq from a hospital stay in London and called
for a mass demonstration to end the fighting in Najaf.
(SFC, 8/26/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 25, Militants said they
had kidnapped the brother-in-law of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem
Shaalan and demanded he end all military operations in the holy city of
Najaf.
(AP, 8/26/04)
2004 Aug 25, Saboteurs attacked
about 20 oil pipelines in southern Iraq, reducing exports from the key
oil producing region by at least one third.
(AP, 8/26/04)
2004 Aug 25, Israel captured its
1st ever gold medal with a win by Gal Fridman in wind surfing.
(WSJ, 8/26/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 25, Sudan said it had
closed its embassy in Washington after being unable to find a bank that
would handle its financial matters.
(AP, 8/26/04)
2005 Aug 25, The US base closing
commission voted to shut down the Army’s historic Walter Reed hospital
as it endorsed much of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s broader
plan to streamline support services across the Army, Navy and Air Force.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2005 Aug 25, California sued 39
pharmaceutical companies for allegedly inflating prices.
(SFC, 8/26/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 25, in Southern
California summer heat and the loss of key transmission lines forced
power officials to impose rolling blackouts, leaving as many as half a
million people without power for an hour at a time.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, Hurricane Katrina
plodded across South Florida and left 4 people dead.
(AP, 8/26/05)
2005 Aug 25, A joint U.S.-Afghan
patrol spotted a rebel observation post and A-10 warplanes and attack
helicopters were called in, killing five suspected militants.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, Thousands of Chinese
and Russian troops wrapped up their historic first joint military
exercises with a mock invasion by paratroopers on China's east coast.
The eight-day exercises with 7,000 Chinese troops and 1,800 Russians
underscored growing military ties between the former Cold War enemies.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, In China Monsignor
Xie Shiguang (88), the bishop of Mingdong, died of leukemia. He was
first arrested in 1955 by Chinese authorities "because of his loyalty
and obedience to the pope," and released a year later. He was next
arrested in 1958 and stayed in jail until his release in 1980. Xie was
also jailed from 1984-1987, and finally for two years starting in 1990,
and was kept under surveillance by authorities until his death.
(AP, 8/27/05)
2005 Aug 25, Two Egyptian police
officers were killed in a bomb blast in the northern Sinai.
(AFP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, Haiti recalled its
top diplomat to the Dominican Republic after 3 Haitian migrants were
beaten and burned to death in an attack that has added to growing
tensions between the uneasy Caribbean neighbors.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, In India more than
two dozen people died of encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, taking the toll
from an outbreak in the region over 200.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, UNICEF said a measles
outbreak on Indonesia's Sumba island has killed five children and
sickened 711 others.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, In an illegal
overflight an American Hermes aircraft crashed 125 miles inside Iranian
territory in the Khoram Abad area.
(AP, 11/8/05)
2005 Aug 25, The bodies of 36 men
were discovered in Kut, southeast of Baghdad, on a road leading to
Iran. On Aug 29 a leader of Iraq's largest Sunni political group blamed
Shiite-led security forces for the deaths of 36 Sunnis found shot in
the head and said such acts could have unforeseen consequences.
(AP, 8/25/05)(SFC, 8/26/05, p.A12)(AP, 8/29/05)
2005 Aug 25, An Israeli military
raid on the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem left five militants
dead. Palestinians said at least two of the dead were unarmed teenagers
who were neighbors of the wanted men but didn't belong to any militant
group. An Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed to death in Jerusalem.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, In central Mexico a
rain-swollen river overflowed its banks and flooded the town of
Aguililla, leaving five people dead and five others missing.
(AP, 8/26/05)
2005 Aug 25, Clashes between rival
political gangs in Pakistan left 11 people dead and dozens more injured
as voters went to the polls in the second round of key local elections.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, In Mozambique
regional health ministers unanimously agreed to declare tuberculosis an
African emergency.
(AP, 8/26/05)
2005 Aug 25, African ministers and
international donors unveiled a 1.1-billion-dollar (894 million euro)
strategy to boost catches, build fish farms and develop the seafood
sector after a high-level meeting of the New Partnership for Africa’s
Redevelopment (NEPAD) Fish for All Summit, in Abuja, Nigeria.
(AP, 8/25/05)(www.nepad.org/)
2005 Aug 25, In the southern
Russian city of Nazran 2 bombs exploded, wounding the
second-highest-ranking official in the mostly Muslim region of
Ingushetia and killing his driver, in what was described as an
assassination attempt.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, In Sweden robbers
toting automatic weapons crashed a tractor through the wall of a
Securitas compound in a Stockholm suburb. Swedish media reported that
the robbers got away with 60 million kronor (euro6.4 million, US$7.86
million), which would make it one of the largest cash robberies ever in
the country. 2 men, aged 35 and 32, were arrested Sep 15 in northern
Stockholm on suspicion of involvement in the robbery.
(AP, 9/16/05)
2005 Aug 25, Rescue workers began
evacuating more people from submerged sections of the Swiss capital as
central and southern Europe struggled with the aftermath of flooding
that has killed at least 42 people.
(AP, 8/25/05)
2005 Aug 25, Rebels in northern
Uganda ambushed a truckload of civilians that included school children
and killed 7 people, prompting an army counterattack that left three
rebels dead.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2006 Aug 25, A college student's
checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight that had arrived in
Houston from Buenos Aires, Argentina, was found to contain a stick of
dynamite, one of six security incidents that day that caused US flights
to be diverted, evacuated or searched.
(AP, 8/25/07)
2006 Aug 25, The US Navy debuted
Texas, its newest nuclear-powered submarine. in an Atlantic Ocean swing
off the Florida coast. This is the second in the latest fast-attack
class that marks a broad departure from the Cold War-era deterrence
boats.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 25, Bruce D.
Hopfengardner (46), a former US Army Reserve officer, admitted that he
steered millions of dollars in Iraq-reconstruction contracts in
exchange for jewelry, computers, cigars and sexual favors.
Hopfengardner (46) admitted conspiring with Philip H. Bloom, a US
citizen with businesses in Romania, Robert J. Stein Jr., a former
Defense Department contract official, and others to create a corrupt
bidding process that included the theft of $2 million in reconstruction
money.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, Michael John O'Keefe,
the deputy nonimmigrant visa chief at the US Consulate in Toronto, was
indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. International jewelry
executive Sunil Agrawal, a native of India, also was charged but
remains at large.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, The Alabama Supreme
Court ruled that Richard Scrushy, the fired CEO of HealthSouth Corp.,
must repay $47.8 million in bonuses he received during a massive
financial fraud at the medical services chain.
(WSJ, 8/26/06, p.A9)
2006 Aug 25, In SF former
Ukrainian PM Pavlo Lazarenko (53) was sentenced to nine years in
federal prison for money laundering, wire fraud and extortion. The
sentence, which also included $10 million in fines, was half of the
maximum sought by prosecutors. In March, he was elected to a regional
parliament office in Ukraine.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, Coca-Cola was sued as
part of a campaign to force US soft drink makers to eliminate
ingredients that can form cancer-causing benzene. Two companies, Zone
Brands and TalkingRain Beverage Co., had already settled similar
charges.
(SFC, 8/26/06, p.A5)
2006 Aug 25, Joseph Stefano (84),
who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," died in
Thousand Oaks, Calif.
(AP, 8/25/07)
2006 Aug 25, President Hamid
Karzai ordered an investigation into the killings of eight people in
eastern Afghanistan during a raid that US forces claimed targeted
al-Qaida members. Afghan police clashed with suspected Taliban
militants in southern Zabul province, killing six insurgents and
wounding 12. Two French soldiers were killed in an ambush in eastern
Laghman province. Separate airstrikes in southern Uruzgan province
killed 23 militants, including a known Taliban commander. British
troops with a NATO-led force used artillery fire against a convoy of
insurgents that was moving into position for attack in Helmand
province. About seven insurgents were killed and seven vehicles
destroyed.
(AP, 8/25/06)(AP, 8/26/06)(AFP, 8/26/06)
2006 Aug 25, In Bangladesh
suspected Maoist attackers shot dead 4 policemen and a ruling party
official after hurling bombs and firing bullets in a crowded cattle
market. Police said they suspected the Purba Banglar Communist Party
(PBCP) was behind the attack.
(AFP, 8/26/06)
2006 Aug 25, Officials said drug
users who don't engage in dealing will no longer be sent to prison
under a new drug law now in effect across Brazil.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, Zhao Yan (44), a
Chinese researcher for The New York Times who has been detained since
2004, was cleared of charges of revealing state secrets but convicted
of fraud and sentenced to three years in prison. Xinhua News said
communities in southeastern China are straining to resettle more than
15 million people left homeless by four devastating typhoons in recent
months. A moderate earthquake jolted southwest China, killing two
people.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, In China a tanker
truck loaded with 25 tons of liquid caustic soda, colorless,
transparent corrosive liquid that rapidly burns skin and eyes, fell
into a river 3 miles away from the Xuefeng reservoir in a city within
the municipality of Weinan in Shaanxi province. It polluted a reservoir
serving at least 100,000 residents for two days until water quality
returned to normal.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 25, The UN established a
new mission in East Timor but left Australian-led troops in place
following a dispute over whether they should remain independent or be
part of a UN force.
(Reuters, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, German police
arrested a 3rd suspect in connection with a failed attempt to blow up
two trains. Lebanese authorities picked up a 4th man believed to have
been involved.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, Looters ravaged Camp
Abu Naji in Amarah, a former British base, a day after the camp was
turned over to Iraqi troops, taking everything from doors and window
frames to corrugated roofing and metal pipes. A police officer was
killed in a drive-by shooting in downtown Samarra.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, Israeli aircraft
attacked two buildings in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least nine people.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, A military truck
carrying UN peacekeepers crashed in Ivory Coast, killing six
Bangladeshi troops and injuring 11 others.
(AP, 8/26/06)
2006 Aug 25, In Jordan top leaders
of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party gave their leader
the go-ahead to begin forming a unity government with the militant
Hamas in an effort to end internal feuding and international isolation.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, Japanese officials
said Kazusaku Tezuka, the president of precision instrument maker
Mitutoyo Corp., was arrested along with four other Mitutoyo executives
and employees for the alleged export to Malaysia of equipment that can
be used in making nuclear weapons.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, The UN said
unexploded cluster bomb litter homes, gardens and highways in south
Lebanon, as the US State Department reportedly investigated whether
Israel's use of the American-made weapons violated secret agreements
with the United States.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, In Mongolia the Dalai
Lama elevated a group of monks into the Buddhist priesthood's higher
ranks, bolstering the country's traditional faith as it struggles to
re-establish itself following decades of communist persecution.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, In Niger the UN food
agency inaugurated a program to help feed hundreds of thousands of
people as the impoverished West African nation struggles to recover
from severe shortages.
(AP, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, Nigerian soldiers in
Port Harcourt burned hundreds of slum houses located close to the
compound of an Italian oil company where at least one Italian worker
was kidnapped and his bodyguard killed overnight.
(Reuters, 8/25/06)
2006 Aug 25, Peru's jailed
ex-intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos was sentenced to six years
in prison for using government money to fund former President Alberto
Fujimori's 2000 re-election campaign. The sentence will be served
concurrently with Montesinos' 15-year prison sentence for various
corruption convictions.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 25, The UN food agency
said fighting between Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels and security
forces has forced at least 204,000 people from their homes in the
eastern and northern parts of the country. A food relief ship began
unloading in northern Sri Lanka to lift a two-week siege of the Jaffna
peninsula as fresh clashes left five rebels dead.
(AP, 8/25/06)(AFP, 8/25/06)
2007 Aug 25, Wyoming Republicans
decided to hold their delegate selection process on Jan 5, 2008, before
both Iowa and New Hampshire.
(SFC, 8/30/07, p.A8)
2007 Aug 25, SF held its 2nd
annual Jug Band Festival at the Golden Gate Park band shell. The annual
Renaissance Fair also took place in GG park for a 4th year.
(eyewitness)(www.sffaire.com/)
2007 Aug 25, A suicide car bomber
attacked a convoy carrying foreigners near the Afghan capital Kabul.
Two foreigners and four Afghans were wounded. A roadside bomb killed
two Afghans guarding a convoy carrying supplies for NATO-led forces in
Kandahar province, while eight suspected insurgents and a police
officer died in fighting elsewhere in the country. Afghan soldiers in
neighboring Helmand province shot and killed two suspected Taliban
fighters as they attempted to plant a roadside bomb. In southern
Afghanistan clashes between coalition troops and Taliban fighters left
at least 18 civilians dead according to witnesses. NATO officials said
no noncombatants were killed. 12 Taliban fighters were killed by
artillery fire along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border after insurgents
attacked a military post with rockets and mortars. US-led and Afghan
troops struck Taliban positions inside Pakistan in fresh clashes with
the extremist Islamic militia that left at least 19 rebels dead. A
Pakistani military spokesman denied any permission was given. Afghan
troops clashed with rebel fighters in southern Zabul province and
killed nine of them. 3 suspected militants, one of them a foreign
national, were arrested in Paktia province, dressed in all-covering
burqas worn by most Afghan women. Dozens of Taliban guerrillas attacked
police in the eastern province of Nangarhar, injuring a district chief
and one of his guards before they were repelled.
(AP, 8/25/07)(AP, 8/26/07)(AFP, 8/26/07)
2007 Aug 25, In Buenos Aires an
Argentine couple captured the stage category at the World Tango
Championships, followed by Chilean and Japanese pairs.
(AP, 8/26/07)
2007 Aug 25, Australia's
multi-billion dollar racing industry was plunged into turmoil on after
an outbreak of equine influenza triggered a national lockdown.
(Reuters, 8/25/07)
2007 Aug 25, Raymond Barre
(b.1924), a tough-speaking former French prime minister (1976-1981) and
economist, died.
(AP, 8/25/07)
2007 Aug 25, A senior official of
the separatist region said a plane of uncertain origin went down over
Abkhazia, a day after Georgia reported that its forces fired on a plane
believed to be Russian that had violated the country's airspace.
(AP, 8/25/07)
2007 Aug 25, A German federal lab
confirmed that tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in
southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000
birds were being slaughtered as a precaution.
(AP, 8/26/07)
2007 Aug 25, In Germany more than
1 million revelers, many scantily dressed, danced their way through the
streets of Essen to sound of whistles blowing and techno music for the
Love Parade's debut in its new home, western Germany's industrial Ruhr
region.
(AP, 8/25/07)
2007 Aug 25, Massive forest fires
swept uncontrolled across Greece for a second day and killed at least
41 people in the south of the country, including several children.
(Reuters, 8/25/07)
2007 Aug 25, In Hungary some 56
Magyar Garda members, wearing black uniforms and black caps, were sworn
in during the ceremony at Buda Castle. Lajos Fur, former defense
minister, inaugurated the neo-fascist, self-styled civil defense group
organized by the far right Jobik party.
(www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,502184,00.html)
2007 Aug 25, In Hyderabad, India,
where Hindu-Muslim animosity runs deep, a pair of almost simultaneous
bombings blamed on Islamic extremists tore through a popular family
restaurant and an outdoor arena, killing 43 people. Another 19 bombs
were discovered and made safe in the area. In Hyderabad, Muslims make
up 40 percent of the population of 7 million. Officials blamed foreign
militants.
(AP, 8/26/07)(WSJ, 8/27/07, p.A1)(Econ, 9/1/07, p.34)
2007 Aug 25, Iraqi and US soldiers
arrested 54 suspected al-Qaida members in a joint operation on the
outskirts of Baqouba.
(SFC, 8/27/07, p.A13)
2007 Aug 25, Two Palestinian
militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip, attacking an Israeli
military position before soldiers tracked them down and killed them.
Militants detonated a bomb near the border fence in southern Gaza,
lightly wounding four soldiers. Militants also fired several mortars
into southern Israel, causing no injuries.
(AP, 8/25/07)
2007 Aug 25, It was reported that
Liberia had some 2,511 ships registered under its flag, the world’s 2nd
largest fleet after Panama, which had 7,357. The population was
reported to be 3.3 million, with two-thirds of the people living on
less than a dollar a day. Since 2000 the Liberian International Ship
and Corporate Registry, a Virginia-based company, managed the registry.
(Econ, 8/25/07, p.44)
2007 Aug 25, Myanmar's state media
reported that military junta has detained at least 63 activists who
protested massive fuel-price hikes over the last week, as the
government pursued its clampdown on the increasingly daring
demonstrations.
(AP, 8/25/07)
2007 Aug 25, Pakistan successfully
test-fired a new air-launched cruise missile capable of carrying a
nuclear warhead.
(AP, 8/25/07)
2007 Aug 25, Sudan said it will
allow an EU envoy it ordered out of the country to remain until his
tenure expires next month, following an EU apology.
(AP, 8/25/07)
2008 Aug 25, The US Democratic
Convention opened in the Pepsi Center of Denver, Colorado, where Sen.
Edward Kennedy passed the party’s crown to Barack Obama.
(SFC, 8/26/08, p.A1)
2008 Aug 25, US immigration agents
uncovered some 350 suspected undocumented workers in a raid on the
Howard Industries electrical equipment plant in Laurel, Mississippi.
(SFC, 8/26/08, p.A4)
2008 Aug 25, The Afghan cabinet
demanded the renegotiation of agreements regulating the presence of the
international community in Afghanistan after more than 90 civilians
were killed in US-led air strikes.
(AFP, 8/25/08)
2008 Aug 25, The Danish central
bank said it has taken over Roskilde Bank, the nation's 10th largest
bank. The 124-year-old institution had been struggling amid global
financial turmoil and mounting losses on mortgage loans as housing
prices fell in Denmark.
(AP, 8/25/08)
2008 Aug 25, Honduran Pres. Manuel
Zelaya signed adherence to the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas
(ALBA), a trade alliance created in 2004 by Venezuela and Cuba as a
regional alternative to trade agreements with the US.
(WSJ, 8/27/08, p.A9)
2008 Aug 25, In India authorities
struggled to get aid to more than 1 million people stranded by floods
in northern Bihar state. A Bihar official described the situation as a
catastrophe. Bunty (whose real name was Om Prakash), the notorious gang
leader who terrorized New Delhi from astride a motorcycle, died in a
pre-dawn shootout with police. A Roman Catholic nun was raped by a
Hindu mob in Orissa state. On Oct 24 she said that she will not
cooperate with local police, alleging that they stood by idly during
the attack. In Jan, 2009, police charged 10 men with gang raping the
Catholic nun.
(AP, 8/25/08)(AP, 8/26/08)(AP, 10/24/08)(AP, 1/29/09)
2008 Aug 25, Iranian state TV said
the country has launched production of a domestically built submarine
capable of firing missiles and torpedoes. Two other submarines, which
began production in 2005, have been delivered to Iran's navy.
(AP, 8/25/08)
2008 Aug 25, Israel freed nearly
200 jailed Palestinians, including a militant mastermind from the
1970s, in a goodwill gesture just hours before US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice was to begin her latest peace mission to the region.
(AP, 8/25/08)
2008 Aug 25, Former PM Nawaz
Sharif said he is withdrawing his party from Pakistan's ruling
coalition because it has failed to restore judges ousted by
ex-President Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan banned the Taliban, toughening
its stance after the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for
deadly suicide bombings against one of its most sensitive military
installations. 8 people were killed in a pre-dawn rocket-and-bomb
strike on the home of provincial lawmaker Waqar Ahmed Khan in Swat. A
Geneva prosecutor dropped money laundering charges against Asif Ali
Zardari, head of the Pakistan People’s Party.
(AP, 8/25/08)(SFC, 8/26/08, p.A15)
2008 Aug 25, A 41-year-old
Lockheed Martin C-130 military cargo plane crashed in the waters off
the southern Philippines. Two Philippine Air Force pilots and 7 crewmen
were feared dead.
(AFP, 8/26/08)
2008 Aug 25, In Puerto Rico US
federal agents arrested 59 alleged members of a drug trafficking ring
in coordinated raids in a number of small towns, where some housing
projects were under siege by gangsters. Home to nearly 4 million
people, Puerto Rico’s homicide rate was more than three times the US
national average. Authorities said drug trafficking was behind the
majority of the killings.
(AP, 8/25/08)
2008 Aug 25, Russia's parliament
voted unanimously to urge the president to recognize the independence
of Georgia's two breakaway regions, a move likely to stoke further
tensions between Moscow and the small Caucasus nation's Western allies.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned ex-Soviet Moldova against
repeating Georgia's mistake of trying to use force to seize back
control of Transdniestria, a pro-Moscow breakaway region.
(AP, 8/25/08)(Reuters, 8/25/08)
2008 Aug 25, In northern Sri Lanka
a series of gunbattles between government forces and the Tamil Tigers
killed 15 rebels and seven soldiers.
(AP, 8/26/08)
2008 Aug 25, Deadly clashes broke
out when Sudanese security forces thrust into Kalma, one of the largest
camps for displaced people in South Darfur, leaving at least 33 and as
many as 70 people dead.
(AFP, 8/25/08)(AP, 8/26/08)(SFC, 8/28/08, p.A9)
2008 Aug 25, Zimbabwe's opposition
won the vote for speaker of the first parliament since disputed
elections in March, claiming votes even from the ruling party of
autocratic President Robert Mugabe amid stalled talks over sharing
power.
(AP, 8/25/08)
2009 Aug 25, The US White House
forecast a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion, more than the sum of
all previous deficits since America’s founding.
(SFC, 8/26/09, p.A6)
2009 Aug 25, US Senator Jim Webb,
back from a rare trip to Myanmar, called sanctions against the military
regime "overwhelmingly counter-productive" and asked the opposition to
consider taking part in upcoming elections.
(AFP, 8/26/09)
2009 Aug 25, Sony Corp. unveiled a
new electronic book reader for the American market, dubbed the “Daily
Edition.” It was scheduled to become available in December for $399 and
compete with Amazon’s Kindle.
(Econ, 8/29/09, p.56)
2009 Aug 25, Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy (b.1932) of Massachusetts, died at his home on Cape Cod after a
yearlong struggle with brain cancer. He was the last surviving brother
in an enduring political dynasty and one of the most influential
senators in history. His memoir “True Compass: A Memoir” was published
in September.
(AP, 8/26/09)(Econ, 9/19/09, p.97)
2009 Aug 25, New Mexico Gov. Bill
Richardson met with Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's parliament, as
well as members of the island's chamber of commerce as he headed a
trade mission there this week.
(AP, 8/25/09)
2009 Aug 25, The Afghan election
commission said President Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah
Abdullah both have roughly 40% of the nationwide vote for president
with 10% of ballots counted. A large explosion detonated in Kandahar
and was followed by gunfire on the street afterward. A major bombing
killed at least 43 people and wounded 65 in Kandahar just after dark.
(AP, 8/25/09)(AP, 8/26/09)
2009 Aug 25, Argentina's Supreme
Court ruled out prison for pot possession, saying the government should
go after major traffickers and provide treatment instead of jail for
consumers of marijuana.
(AP, 8/25/09)
2009 Aug 25, In Belize PM Dean
Barrow rushed thru the nationalization of Belize Telemedia, the
country’s dominant telecommunications company, and appointed a new
board of directors. This was seen locally as an escalation in Barrow’s
long standing dispute with Michael Ashcroft, a British peer with
interests in Belize Bank.
(Econ, 10/24/09, p.41)(http://tinyurl.com/ykson7t)
2009 Aug 25, Four Ethiopian
athletes, two women and two men, fled their hotel in London and failed
to make a connecting flight to Edinburgh ahead of the Falkirk Cup
athletics event.
(AFP, 8/26/09)
2009 Aug 25, In Chechnya a suicide
bombing killed three police officers at a gas station-carwash complex
in the Shali region. Earlier in the day the Chechen Interior Ministry
said a policeman was killed and another wounded in an overnight clash
with militants.
(AP, 8/25/09)(AP, 8/28/09)
2009 Aug 25, Iraq recalled its
ambassador from Syria and demanded that Damascus hand over two
suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists it has linked to the Aug 19 suicide
attacks.
(AP, 8/25/09)
2009 Aug 25, An Israeli air strike
on a smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt killed three
Palestinians and wounded seven.
(AP, 8/25/09)
2009 Aug 25, The World Food
Program said that 3.8 million Kenyans need emergency food aid because
of a prolonged drought, which is even causing electrical blackouts in
the capital because there's not enough water for hydroelectric plants.
(AP, 8/25/09)
2009 Aug 25, Nicaragua said it
will reroute the San Juan River on the border with Costa Rica. The
river has been at the center of a lengthy dispute between the two
Central American countries. The UN’s highest court last month set
travel rules for the San Juan River, affirming freedom for Costa Rican
boats to navigate the waterway while upholding Nicaragua's right to
regulate traffic. The judgment ended a four-year legal battle. Under an
1858 treaty, the entire river belongs to Nicaragua up to the Costa
Rican bank, but Costa Rican ships have freedom of navigation for
commerce.
(AP, 8/26/09)
2009 Aug 25, The UN said Somalia
is facing its worst humanitarian crisis in 18 years, with more than
half of the population needing humanitarian aid amid an escalating
crisis.
(AP, 8/25/09)
2009 Aug 25, South Korea launched
its first rocket, just months after rival North Korea's launch drew
international anger, but space officials said the satellite it carried
failed to enter its intended orbit.
(AP, 8/25/09)
2009 Aug 25, Turkey's military
indicated that it would back government efforts to grant more rights to
Kurds and improve the economy of their region. The military, however,
drew the line at moves that would involve negotiating with Kurdish
rebels, harm Turkey's unity or make Kurdish an official language.
(AP, 8/25/09)
2009 Aug 25, An international
forum in Turkey sought to boost aid and investment in Pakistan as a way
to support its democratic institutions and curb violence there.
(AP, 8/25/09)
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