Today in History - August 28
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29/30AD Aug 28, John the Baptist was
beheaded by King Herod, perhaps at whim of Salome.
(HFA, '96, p.36)(MC, 8/28/01)
388 Aug 28, Magnus Maximus,
Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), was executed.
(MC, 8/28/01)
430 Aug 28, Augustine (b.354) died
in Hippo (Annaba, Algeria) with a Vandal army outside the gates of the
city. His writings included "The Confessions." In 1999 Garry Wills
authored the biography "St. Augustine." Augustine had developed the
theory of a "just war" and said a nation’s leaders must consider among
other things, anticipated loss of civilian life and whether all
peaceful options have been exhausted before war starts. In 2003 Garry
Wills authored "Saint Augustine's Sin." In 2005 James J. O”Donnell
authored “Augustine: A New Biography.”
(SSFC, 12/21/03, p.M6)(Econ, 5/14/05,
p.86)(www.connect.net/ron/august.html)
476 Aug 28, A barbarian general
overthrew the last of the Roman emperors. The Western Roman Empire was
formally disbanded and emperor Romulus August was ousted.
(ATC, p.32)(MC, 8/28/01)
1533 Aug 28, Atahualpa, last of
the Inca rulers was strangled at the orders of Spanish conquistador
Francisco Pizarro. The Inca empire died with him. [see Aug 29]
(MC, 8/28/01)
1565 Aug 28, A Spanish expedition
under Pedro Menendez de Aviles arrived at an inlet on the Florida coast
on the feast day of St. Augustine and gave the theologian’s name to the
encampment.
(WSJ, 7/18/08, p.W8)
1609 Aug 28, Henry Hudson
discovered Delaware Bay.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1640 Aug 28, The Indian War in New
England ended with the surrender of the Indians.
(HTNet, 8/28/99)
1645 Aug 28, Hugo Grotius, Dutch
jurist and politician, died. In 1917 Hamilton Vreeland authored “Hugo
Grotius: The Father of Modern Science and International Law.”
(RTH, 8/28/99)(ON, 10/04, p.4)
1646 Aug 28, Fulvio Testi (53),
Italian poet (Poesie liriche), died.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1655 Aug 28, New Amsterdam &
Peter Stuyvesant barred Jews from military service.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1676 Aug 28, Indian chief King
Philip, also known as Metacom, was killed by English soldiers, ending
the war between Indians and colonists. [see Aug 12]
(HN, 8/28/98)
1749 Aug 28, German author Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (d.1832), “the master spirit of the German people,"
was born at Frankfurt am Main. Scientist, philosopher, novelist, and
critic as well as lyric, dramatic, and epic poet, he was the leading
figure of his age after Napoleon. He had early pretensions in the
visual arts and was an avid draftsman into old age. He is best known
for “Faust.”
(V.D.-H.K.p.239)(AP, 8/28/97)(WSJ, 7/16/98,
p.A16)(HN, 8/28/98)
1774 Aug 28, Mother Elizabeth Ann
Seton, the first American-born saint and the founder of the Sisters of
St. Joseph, was born in New York City. She was canonized in 1975.
(AP, 8/28/97)(HN, 8/28/98)(RTH, 8/28/99)
1793 Aug 28, Adam-Philippe
Custine, Duke de Lauzun (French duke, general, fought in American
Revolution, hero in both countries), was guillotined in Paris.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1818 Aug 28, Jean Baptiste Pointe
du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, died.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1828 Aug 28, Leo Tolstoy (d.1910),
Russian novelist, was born near Tula. His work included “War and Peace”
and “Anna Karenina.” "History would be an excellent thing if only
it were true." "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty
is goodness." [see Sep 9]
(WUD, 1994 p.1491)(AP, 4/15/97)(AP, 10/14/99)(HN,
8/28/00)
1830 Aug 28, “Tom Thumb,” the 1st
locomotive in US, ran from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1833 Aug 28, Edward Burne-Jones,
British painter, was born.
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1837 Aug 28, Pharmacists John Lea
& William Perrins began to manufacture Worcester Sauce. [see 1834]
(MC, 8/28/01)
1839 Aug 28, William Smith,
British geologist, died. He made the 1st geological map of England and
became impoverished in the process. In 2001 Simon Winchester authored
“The Map That Changed the World.”
(RTH, 8/28/99)(WSJ, 8/17/01, p.W6)
1849 Aug 28, Venice, under Daniele
Manin, surrendered to Austrians under Count Radetsky, following a siege
since July 20 after proclaiming independence.
(HTNet, 8/28/99)(MC, 8/28/01)
1850 Aug 28, Richard Wagner's
opera "Lohengrin'' was premiered at Weimar, Germany, under the
direction of Franz Liszt.
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1850 Aug 28, The English Channel
telegraph cable was laid between Dover and Cap Gris Nez.
(HTnet, 8/28/99)
1859 Aug 28, Leigh Hunt (b.1784),
English poet and essayist, died. He is remembered for his immortal
couplet: “The Two divinist things this world has got: / A lovely women
in a rural spot. In 2005 Nicholas Roe authored “Fiery Heart: The first
Life of Leigh Hunt.” Anthony Holden authored “The Wit in the Dungeon:
The Life of Leigh Hunt.”
(RTH, 8/28/99)(Econ, 1/29/05, p.80)(WSJ, 12/6/05,
p.D8)
1861 Aug 28, The Battle of Fort
Hatteras, NC.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1862 Aug 28, Mistakenly believing
the Confederate Army to be in retreat, Union General John Pope attacks,
began the Battle of Groveten. Both sides sustained heavy casualties.
(HN, 8/28/98)
1862 Aug 28, The Battle of
Thoroughfare Gap, VA.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1864 Aug 28, The Democratic
National Convention began in Chicago. General George B. McClellan's
campaign platform called the war in America a failure. [see Aug 31]
(WSJ, 9/25/03, p.A18)
1867 Aug 28, The US occupied the
Midway Islands in Pacific.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, Z1 p.8)(MC, 8/28/01)
1879 Aug 28, Cetewayo (or
Cetshwayo), last of the great Zulu kings, was captured by the British
at the end of the Zulu wars.
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1882 Aug 28, Belle Benchley, the
first female zoo director in the world, who directed the Zoological
Gardens of San Diego, was born.
(HN, 8/28/98)
1883 Aug 28, John Montgomery
(d.1911 in a glider crash) made the first manned, controlled flight in
the US in his "Gull" glider, whose design was inspired by watching
birds.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.A23)(SFCM, 2/6/05, p.3)
1884 Aug 28, The 1st known
photograph of a tornado was made near Howard, South Dakota.
(MC, 8/28/02)
1894 Aug 28, Karl Boehm, Austrian
conductor, was born. Famed for his interpretations of Wagner and
Beethoven.
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1896 Aug 28, Liam O’Flaherty,
Irish novelist, was born.
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1897 Aug 28, Charles Boyer
(d.1978), French actor of film and stage, was born. Films included
"Algiers,'' “Fanny,” and "Gaslight.''
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1903 Aug 28, Bruno Bettelheim
(d.1990), Austrian-US psychologist, psychoanalyst and educator, was
born. His book included "Love is not Enough" and "Uses of Enchantment."
(HN, 8/28/98)
1906 Aug 28, John Betjeman, poet
laureate of England (Mt Zion), was born.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1907 Aug 28, Two Seattle teenagers
began a telephone message service that grew to become the United Parcel
Service (UPS). Jim Casey (19) and Claude Ryan founded the American
Messenger Company in Seattle, Wash. In 1913 the company merged with
Evert McCabe and formed Merchants Parcel Delivery. In 1919 the company
expanded beyond Seattle and changed their name to United Parcel Service
(UPS).
(SFC, 7/22/99,
p.B1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Parcel_Service)
1908 Aug 28, Roger Tory Peterson,
author, was born in Jamestown, NY. His work included the innovative
bird book “A Field Guide to Birds.”
(HN, 8/28/00)
1913 Aug 28, Richard Tucker,
[Reuben Ticker], Tenor (NY Met Opera), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1914 Aug 28, Three German cruisers
were sunk by ships of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Heligoland Bight,
the first major naval battle of World War I. The Germans lost four
ships and 1,000 sailors; British casualties were 33 killed.
(HN, 8/28/98)(RTH, 8/28/99)
1914 Aug 28, Anatoli Liadov (59),
composer, died.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1916 Aug 28, C. Wright Mills
(d.1962), sociologist, writer (The Power Elite), was born in Waco,
Texas.
(Google)
1916 Aug 28, Germany declared war
on Romania.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1916 Aug 28, Italy's declaration
of war against Germany took effect during World War I.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1917 Aug 28, Jack Kirby,
cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America), was born.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1917 Aug 28, 10 suffragists were
arrested as they picketed the White House.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1919 Aug 28, Godfrey Hounsfield,
British inventor of the EMI-scanner, was born.
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1922 Aug 28, The first-ever radio
commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City. The 10-minute
advertisement was for the Queensboro Realty Company, which had paid a
fee of $100.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1925 Sep 28, Seymour Cray (d1996),
computer expert, was born. His computers were all designed along RISC
lines (Reduced Instruction Set Computing), for which credit is often
given to IBM design work in the 1970s. He invented “vector processing”
which involved chaining together long series of calculations in
specialized hardware to expedite solutions.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, C12)
1925 Aug 28, Donald O’Connor
(d.2003), dancer, actor (Singing in the Rain, Anything Goes), was born
in Chicago, Ill.
(HN, 8/28/00)(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.A33)
1929 Aug 28, Bill Evans (d.1980),
pianist, was born in Plainfield, N.J. [see Aug 16]
(WSJ, 8/28/98, p.W7)
1929 Aug 28, Istvan Kertesz,
conductor (Budapest Opera 1953-57/London Philharmonic), was born in
Budapest, Hungary.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1930 Aug 28, Ben Gazzara, U.S.
actor, was born. On stage he appeared in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' and
was best known for his roles in the films "Anatomy of a Murder'' and
"Husbands.''
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1931 Aug 28, John Shirley-Quirk,
baritone (Death in Venice), was born in Liverpool, England.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1931 Aug 28, Hubert Wilkins,
Australian explorer, reached within 550 miles of the North Pole in the
submarine Nautilus. [see Nov 30]
(ON, 1/02, p.8)
1932 Aug 27-28, In England 200,000
textile workers went on strike.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1933 Aug 28, For the first time, a
BBC-broadcasted appeal was used by the police in tracking down a wanted
man.
(HTnet, 8/28/99)
1938 Aug 28, The first degree
given to a ventriloquist’s dummy was awarded to Charlie McCarthy—Edgar
Bergen’s wooden partner. The honorary degree, “Master of Innuendo and
Snappy Comeback,” was presented on radio by Ralph Dennis, the dean of
the School of Speech at Northwestern University.
(HN, 8/28/00)
1938 Aug 28, Mauthausen
concentration camp began operating in Austria.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1941 Aug 28, Paul Peter Plishka,
bass (Met Opera), was born in Old Forge, Penn.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1941 Aug 28, The German U-boat
U-570 was captured by the British and renamed Graph.
(HN, 8/28/98)
1943 Aug 28, Denmark declared a
universal strike against Nazi occupiers.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1943 Aug 28, Mussolini was
transferred from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1944 Aug 28, German forces in
Toulon and Marseilles, France, surrendered to the Allies.
(HN, 8/28/98)
1944 Aug 28-1944 Sep 9, In Italy
10 citizens from Forli were killed "without need and without any
justified motive" by a platoon led by German officer Heinrich Nordhorn.
In 2006 an Italian military tribunal convicted Nordhorn (86) in
absentia in the killings of the 10 civilians.
(AP,
11/4/06)(http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/1175818.php)
1945 Aug 28, US forces under
General George Marshall landed in Japan.
(HTNet, 8/28/99)
1945 Aug 28, Chinese communist
leader Mao Tse-tung arrived in Chunking to confer with Nationalist
leader Chiang Kai-shek in a futile effort to avert civil war.
(HN, 8/28/98)
1947 Aug 28, Legendary bullfighter
Manolete was mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares,
Spain; he died the following day at age 30.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1949 Aug 28, A riot prevented Paul
Robeson from singing near Peekskill, NY. A fundraising concert for the
widows and orphans of the Spanish Civil War turned into the Peeksill
riots. Helen Krimont Seitz (d.2001 at 90), a pioneer of modern day
care, helped organize the concert.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.C4)(MC, 8/28/01)
1952 Aug 28, Rita Dove, Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet, was born.
(HN, 8/28/00)
1955 Aug 28, Emmett Till (14), a
black teen-ager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in
Money, Miss., by white men after he had supposedly whistled at Carolyn
Bryant, a white woman; he was found murdered three days later.
Eyewitnesses linked Carolyn’s husband Roy Bryant and half-brother J.W.
Milam to the murder. Bryant and Milam were indicted Sep 10 for a trial
on Sep 19. Both were acquitted by an all-white jury. Bryant and Milan
later confessed to the killing in a magazine interview. The area was a
cotton-trading center where the white Citizens Councils maintained
their regional headquarters. In 2004 the US Justice Dept. opened a
criminal investigation into the case. In 2005 the US Senate
acknowledged a share in the boy’s death.
(AP, 8/28/99)(SFC, 5/11/04, p.A4)(SFC, 6/14/05,
p.A2)(SFC, 9/9/05, p.F5)(SFC, 3/17/06, p.A5)
1957 Aug 28, Sen Thurmond began a
24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1958 Aug 28, Ernest Orlando
Lawrence (b.1901), US physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1939), died.
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1963 Aug 28, The civil rights
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom drew 200-250,000 demonstrators
and was the occasion for King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the
Lincoln Memorial. It was organized by Bayard Rustin (1912-1987). In
1997 a biography of Rustin by Jervis Anderson was published: “Bayard
Rustin: The Troubles I’ve Seen.” The 1997 play “Civil Sex” by Brian
Freeman was based on Rustin’s life. Rev. Thomas Kilgore Jr. (d.1998 at
84) helped organize the march on Washington. Martin Luther King led
marches on Washington and Selma, Alabama. His chief lieutenant was
Andrew Young who in 1996 wrote: “An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights
Movement and the Transformation of America.”
(WSJ, 11/6/96, p.A21)(SFEC, 1/26/97 BR, p.4)(WSJ,
1/30/97, p.A14)(AP, 8/28/97)(SFC, 2/7/98, p.21)(HN, 8/28/98)
1963 Aug 28, Evergreen Point
Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opened.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1964 Aug 28, Race riots took place
in Philadelphia.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1965 Aug 28, The Viet Cong were
routed in the Mekong Delta by U.S. forces, with more than 50 killed.
(HN, 8/28/98)
1968 Aug 28, In Chicago, Ill.,
Vice-President Hubert Horatio Humphrey was nominated by the Democrats
for US Presidency on the first ballot. Riots broke out outside the
Democratic National Convention as police and anti-war demonstrators
clashed in the streets.
(WUD, 1994, p.1687)(TMC, 1994, p.1968)(Hem, 8/96,
p.86-88)(AP, 8/28/97)
1968 Aug 28, Connecticut Senator
Abraham Ribicoff (1910-1998) nominated George McGovern for the US
Presidency and strongly criticized Chicago’s Mayor Daly for his
strong-arm tactics in controlling protestors at the Democratic National
Convention.
(SFC, 2/23/98,
p.A5)(www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/abrahamribicoff1968dnc.htm)
1971 Aug 28, Marie Paule Giguere
(b.1921), a Catholic nun in Quebec, founded the Army of Mary as a
prayer group, saying she was receiving visions from God. In 2007 the
Vatican declared her teachings were heretical and in Arkansas six nuns
were excommunicated after refusing to give up membership in the sect.
(SFC, 9/27/07,
p.A20)(www.religioustolerance.org/army_mary.htm)
1972 Aug 28, Prince William of
Gloucester was killed in an air race near Wolverhampton in the west
Midlands.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2536000/2536275.stm)
1973 Aug 28, Abbie Hoffman
(1936-1989), "cultural revolutionary," was busted for smuggling and
dealing cocaine. He went underground for 7 years and became the
environmental activist Barry Freed.
(SFC, 12/29/96, BR
p.5)(www.bookrags.com/biography/abbie-hoffman/)
1973 Aug 28, Princess Anne became
the first member of the British royal family to visit the Soviet Union
when she arrived in Kiev for an equestrian event.
(www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_August_28.php)
1973 Aug 28, More than 600 people
died as an earthquake shook central Mexico.
(AP, 8/28/08)
1978 Aug 28, Bruce Catton
(b.1899), US historian, died in Frankfort, Michigan. He won a 1954
Pulitzer Prize for history for his book “A Stillness at Appomattox,”
his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Catton)
1978 Aug 28, Robert Shaw (b.1927),
English-born film and stage actor, died of heart attack in Ireland. He
received a "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar nomination for his portrayal
of Henry VIII in “A Man for All Seasons” (1966).
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6524588)
1979 Aug 28, Brazil’s presiding
General Joao Figueiredo declared a reciprocal amnesty law that
prevented the prosecution of soldiers and military agents for acts of
violence during the dictatorship.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A17)(Econ, 11/27/04,
p.37)(http://tinyurl.com/37ryof)
1979 Aug 28, Konstantin Simonov
(b.1915), Russian war correspondent and poet, died in Moscow. His poems
included “Wait For Me” (1942).
(www.simonov.co.uk/biography.htm)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Simonov)
1981 Aug 28, John W. Hinckley Jr.
pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Reagan.
Hinckley was acquitted in 1982 by reason of insanity.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1981 Aug 28, The US national
Centers for Disease Control, noting a high incidence of Kaposi's
sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men, announced a medical task
force had been formed to find out why. It was later determined the
increased number of illnesses was caused by AIDS.
(AP, 8/28/01)
1982 Aug 28, LeAnn Rimes, country
pop singer, was born in Jackson, Miss.
(SSFC, 1/23/05, Par p.14)
1982 Aug 28, The burlesque musical
"Sugar Babies" closed at the Mark Hellinger Theater in NYC after 1208
performances.
(www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?source=froogle&documentid=266183)
1983 Aug 28, Israel’s PM Begin,
reportedly despondent over the death of his wife and the rising
casualty toll of Israeli troops in Lebanon, announced his intention to
resign as fighting continued in Lebanon with no apparent end in sight.
(www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284684,00.html)(AP, 8/28/08)
1985 Aug 28, Ruth Gordon (88),
American actress (Big Bus), died of a stroke in her sleep.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0002106/)
1986 Aug 28, Jerry A. Whitworth,
retired US Navy warrant officer, convicted for his role in a Soviet spy
ring, was sentenced by a federal judge in San Francisco to 365 years in
prison.
(AP, 8/28/06)
1987 Aug 28, A fire damaged the
Arcadia, Fla., home of Ricky, Robert and Randy Ray, three hemophiliac
brothers infected with the AIDS virus whose court-ordered school
attendance sparked a local uproar. The Ray family moved to Sarasota,
Fla.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1987 Aug 28, John Huston, U.S.
actor and film director, died at age 81 in Middletown, R.I. Among his
best known films are "The Maltese Falcon,'' "The Treasure of the Sierra
Madre'' and "The African Queen.''
(AP, 8/28/97)(RTH, 8/28/99)
1988 Aug 28, Seventy [33] people
were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show
at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany, sending flaming debris
into the crowd of spectators.
(AP, 8/28/98)(RTH, 8/28/99)
1988 Aug 28, The Yan Hee
Polyclinic in Bangkok, Thailand, reported on a new slimming technique.
Overweight Thais were suppressing their appetites by sticking lettuce
seeds in their ears and pressing them in ten times before meals.
(HTnet, 8/28/99)
1989 Aug 28, Former televangelist
Jim Bakker's fraud and conspiracy trial opened in Charlotte, N.C.;
Bakker was convicted of all 24 counts the next October and then served
4 ½ years of an 8 year sentence.
(AP, 8/28/99)(SSFC, 7/22/07, p.B7)
1990 Aug 28, German spy Juergen
Mohamed Gietler was arrested for passing military information to Iraq.
He provided Iraq with intelligence reports on US military plans that
included what the West knew of Iraqi Scud-B missile sites. He was
convicted in a secret trial in 1991, sentenced to 5 years in prison and
released in 1994 after which he moved to Egypt.
(SFC,11/18/97, p.B1)(SFC,12/24/97, p.A6)
1990 Aug 28, In Foster City, Ca.,
police stopped a car for running a red light and found Norman Hsu, a
native of Hong Kong, inside with a Chinatown gang leader, who had
abducted him for not paying a debt. Hsu fled to Hong Kong in 1992
following fraud charges filed by Oakland businessman Augie Wu. In 2003
Hsu resurfaced in NYC as a major donor for Democratic candidates. In
2007 his criminal background was revealed and candidates pledged to
give his contributions to charity. In California Hsu posted a $2
million bail and again failed to make his court appearance.
(SFC, 9/6/07, p.A15)(WSJ, 9/6/07, p.A3)
1990 Aug 28, Iraq declared
occupied Kuwait the 19th province of Iraq, renamed Kuwait City Kadhima,
and created a new district named after President Saddam Hussein. A
puppet regime under Alaa Hussein was set up. Alaa Hussein was convicted
of treason in 2000 and sentenced to death. Saddam Hussein, saying he
sympathized with his foreign captives, pledged to free detained women
and children.
(RTH, 8/28/99)(SFC, 5/4/00, p.A18)(AP, 8/28/00)
1991 Aug 28, In NYC 5 subway
riders were killed after subway motorman Robert Ray fell asleep drunk
while in control of a train. He was convicted of manslaughter in 1992
and sentenced to 15 years. He was set free in 2001 for good behavior.
(http://tinyurl.com/bk4uq)
1991 Aug 28, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev ordered a shake-up of the KGB and sacked his
cabinet in the wake of the failed coup by hard-liners.
(AP, 8/28/01)
1992 Aug 28, The US government
mounted two huge relief operations, rushing food and drinking water to
hurricane-ravaged Florida.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1992 Aug 28, US cargo planes
landed in Somalia with tons of food for African famine victims.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1993 Aug 28, The Bosnian
Parliament ordered President Alija Izetbegovic back to talks on ending
17 months of war with demands to squeeze more territory for the
Muslim-led government.
(AP, 8/28/98)
1994 Aug 28, A Drug Enforcement
Administration plane crashed in a remote area of Peru's
cocaine-producing jungle, killing five U.S. agents.
(AP, 8/28/99)
1995 Aug 28, Chase Manhattan and
Chemical Banking announced a $10 billion deal to create the biggest
bank in the nation.
(AP, 8/28/00)
1995 Aug 28, California Governor
Pete Wilson formally entered the GOP presidential race.
(AP, 8/28/00)
1995 Aug 28, A mortar shell tore
through a crowded market in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing 38
people and triggering NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs.
Bosnian Serb shells hit Serajevo near the main market and killed 37
people and wounded 85 others.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(HTNet, 8/28/99)(AP, 8/28/00)
1996 Aug 28, Democrats nominated
President Clinton for a second term at their national convention in
Chicago.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1996 Aug 28, The UN introduced the
first world archive of prehistoric and primitive art with more than
20,000 computerized images. The World Archive of Rock Art will be
curated by the Camuno Center for Prehistoric Art based in the Alpine
town of Capo di Ponte.
(SFC, 8/29/96, p.B5)
1996 Aug 28, “Florence: A
Portrait,” a book by Michael Levey, was reviewed. It was discussed as
an interpretive history of Medici patronage.
(WSJ, 8/28/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug 28, The troubled 15-year
marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially
ended with the issuing of a divorce decree in London’s High Court.
Under the terms of the divorce settlement, Diana was stripped of her
‘Royal Highness’ title.
(AP, 8/28/97)(HTNet, 8/28/99)
1996 Aug 28, China accused the US
of aiding Taiwanese separatism by selling Stinger antiaircraft missiles
and other weapons to the Taipei government.
(WSJ, 8/28/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 28, In China Mou Qizhong,
head of the Land Economic Group, was being pressured by the government
to repay up to $50 million in overdue loans. He was also the proponent
for listing China’s 13,700 large state-owned enterprises on the New
York Stock Exchange. However the state has a minimum 7.65% upfront
payment law to take 51% control of a joint venture.
(WSJ, 8/28/96, p.A1,4)
1996 Aug 28, In Mexico the EPR
struck at government targets in 6 states and left at least 6 dead and
28 injured.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 28, In Poland Agnieszka
Kotlarska, fashion model, was knifed and killed by a thief outside her
home.
(SFC, 8/29/96, p.A14)
1996 Aug 28, South Africa
announced an investigation into the killings that have left 25 miners
dead in the recent weeks at 4 gold fields.
(WSJ, 8/28/96, p.A1)
1997 Aug 28, After nearly a year
of legal challenges, California's affirmative action ban, Proposition
209, became law. In SF some 4,000 people marched with Jesse Jackson
across the Golden Gate Bridge to protest Prop. 209, in what was dubbed
the “March to Save the Dream.”
(SFC, 8/29/97, p.A1)(AP, 8/28/98)
1997 Aug 28, The UN imposed air
and travel sanctions on the UNITA movement in Angola to deter Jonas
Savimbi reform increasing tensions.
(SFC, 8/29/97, p.A16)
1997 Aug 28, In Algeria a 2nd bomb
this week killed 8 people in the Casbah.
(USAT, 8/29/97, p.8A)
1997 Aug 28, US troops clashed
with Bosnian Serbs in Brcko. NATO forces rescued some 50 besieged UN
police monitors as crowds, opposed to Pres. Plavsic, demanded the
expulsion of Western peacekeepers. U.S. troops fired tear gas and
warning shots to fend off rock-hurling Serb mobs. The attempt by US-led
NATO forces to install Plavsic forces in police stations in 3 cities
failed.
(SFC, 8/29/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/3/97, p.C2)(AP, 8/28/98)
1997 Aug 28, Four Israeli soldiers
were killed in a fire caused by strafing from Israeli helicopters in
southern Lebanon in a battle where 4 Amal guerrillas were also killed.
(WSJ, 8/29/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 28, In Mexico the
government’s National Human Rights Commission recommended that the
Durango State Attorney Gen’l. Francisco Arroyo be fired for negligence.
This was in response to the suicide 2 months ago of 16-year-old Yessica
Diaz Cazares who had been gang raped some 5 months ago. Yessica had
spent 3 months recounting her story to officials under threats from her
attackers and pressure from authorities to drop the charges.
(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A14)
1997 Aug 28, Pres. Yeltsin set the
draft Russian military budget at $14 million, up from $11.9 million. He
also fired the head of the defense council and his culture minister.
(WSJ, 8/29/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 28, In Sri Lanka Pres.
Kumaratunga pushed parliament to enact constitutional changes to
address Tamil grievances.
(SFC, 8/29/97, p.A16)
1997 Aug 28, In Taiwan Pres. Lee
Teng-hui selected Vincent Siew (58) to replace Lien Chen as premier.
(SFC, 8/29/97, p.A18)
1997 Aug 28, In Venezuela 29
prison inmates died after a dominant prison gang fell on a group of
newcomers at the El Dorado Jail in Bolivar state.
(WSJ, 8/29/97, p.A1)
1998 Aug 28, President Clinton,
speaking in Oak Bluffs, Mass., said he'd become such an expert in
asking forgiveness in recent days that it was now "burned in my bones."
But he still stopped short of offering a direct apology for the Monica
Lewinsky affair.
(AP, 8/28/99)
1998 Aug 28, Over 6,000 pilots of
Northwest Airlines went on strike.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.A3)
1998 Aug 28, The Japanese money
market interest rates were reported to be 0.5 % as compared to 7.5% in
1991.
(WSJ, 8/28/98, p.A10)
1999 Aug 28, Pres. Clinton
announced a $100 million distribution by the US Dept. of Education for
charter schools.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.A8)
1999 Aug 28, In China it was
announced that stipends to unemployed workers would be raised 30% to
help arrest an economic slide and brighten sentiment before the 50th
anniversary of Communist Party rule.
(SFC, 8/30/99, p.A14)
1999 Aug 28, Three crewmen aboard
the “Mir” space station returned safely to Earth after bidding farewell
to the 13-year-old Russian orbiter. The Russian government had planned
to abandon Mir in 2000 because of a shortage of funds, but later
extended its mission.
(AP, 8/28/00)
1999 Aug 28, In Venezuela Congress
members announced that they would refuse to authorize funds for the
constitutional panel and would withhold legal permission for Pres.
Chavez to leave the country.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.A22)
2000 Aug 28, Pres. Clinton stopped
in Burundi where Tutsi minority parties refused to sign a deal with the
Hutu majority. Clinton urged the parties to work for peace.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A6)
2000 Aug 28, Four Chinese students
and a man whose sister was killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre
filed a suit in NYC against Li Peng, head of the Chinese Parliament,
for human rights abuses.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.A16)
2000 Aug 28, An apparent
murder-suicide left a professor and a graduate student dead at the
Univ. of Arkansas. It was later found that the graduate student had
been kicked out of a degree program.
(WSJ, 8/28/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 28, Foster’s Brewing of
Australia reported a deal to buy the California Beringer winery for
some $1.5 billion.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 28, In Indonesia the
parliament agreed to begin a formal investigation into 2 financial
scandals involving Pres. Wahid.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A8)
2000 Aug 28, Iraq charged that 311
of its citizens had been killed and 927 wounded by US and British
warplanes since the bombing campaign began in Dec 1998.
(WSJ, 8/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 28, In Israel Prime
Minister Barak said that he planned to complete a peace deal and call
for approval by a referendum.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A6)
2000 Aug 28, In Mexico Rodolfo
Montiel, winner of a 2000 Goldman environmental prize for fighting
rampant deforestation, was convicted on drugs and weapons charges and
sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in jail. Human rights groups allege
that he was tortured and that the charges were trumped up.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 28, Authorities in Peru
announced that four years after military judges convicted American Lori
Berenson of planning a rebel attack, the military had overturned her
life sentence, clearing the way for a new civilian trial. Berenson, who
maintained her innocence, was convicted June, 1999, of ”terrorist
collaboration” and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
(AP, 8/28/01)
2000 Aug 28, In the Philippines
Abu Sayyaf guerrillas abducted Jeffrey Schilling (24), their first
American hostage.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A1)
2001 Aug 28, Gateway, the nation's
No. 4 manufacturer of personal computers, said it was laying off 4,700
employees, 25% of its global work force, because of an increasingly
bleak market.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2001 Aug 28, Israeli force
occupied parts of Beit Jala in the West Bank.
(SFC, 8/29/01, p.A1)
2002 Aug 28, Federal grand juries
charged six men in Detroit with conspiring to support al-Qaeda's
terrorism as members of a sleeper cell.
(AP, 8/28/03)(SFC, 8/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 28, Prosecutors indicted
WorldCom's former chief financial officer, Scott Sullivan, and Buford
Yates Jr., WorldCom's former director of general accounting. Sullivan,
accused of overseeing a long-running conspiracy to hide operating
expenses in order to boost WorldCom's earnings, later pleaded innocent;
Yates later pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy and
agreed to help prosecutors.
(WSJ, 8/29/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/28/03)
2002 Aug 28, Amiri Baraka, poet
known as LeRoi Jones until 1968, was proclaimed the poet laureate for
New Jersey. Gov. Jim McGreevey later regretted the proclamation
following Baraka's poem "Somebody Blew Up America."
(WSJ, 10/3/02, p.D6)
2002 Aug 28, In Texas Toronto
Patterson was executed for the 1995 killing of a cousin when he was 17.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 28, Canadian police
arrested a man in the rape and killing of an 11-year-old aboriginal boy
who was found in a basement storage room in Winnipeg.
(Reuters, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 28, Germany awarded its
Goethe Prize to Marcel Reich-Ranicki, literary critic and Polish-born
Holocaust survivor.
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.D5)
2002 Aug 28, Police in India
reported that 14 people, including 10 Muslim militants, were killed in
clashes between Indian security forces and separatist rebels in India's
Jammu and Kashmir state.
(Reuters, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 28, Nepal's government
announced that it was lifting a state of emergency imposed in Nov, 2001.
(SFC, 8/29/02, p.A12)
2002 Aug 28, Nigeria renewed
warnings that it cannot pay its debt service payments for the year
because of falling oil revenue.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 28, Delegates at the
World Summit on Sustainable Development focused on ways to bring fresh
water and sanitation to hundreds of millions of people who lack access
to either. Negotiators hailed their first breakthrough: a deal to
protect the world's oceans and marine life.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 28, The United Nations
confirmed that Uganda and Zimbabwe have begun their pledged troop
withdrawals from Congo.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 28, U.N. Sec.-Gen. Kofi
Annan urged the United States to resist attacking Iraq, joining calls
from leaders in Germany, China, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for restraint
in considering military action to topple Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2003 Aug 28, The US Library of
Congress said it would name Louise Gluck as the nation's poet laureate.
Her 9 books included "The Wild Iris" (1992).
(SFC, 8/29/03, p.A3)
2003 Aug 28, A US Defense
Department survey found that nearly one in five female Air Force
Academy cadets said they had been sexually assaulted during their time
at the academy.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2003 Aug 28, Two small pipe bombs
exploded at Chiron Corp., Emeryville, Ca. Animal rights activists were
suspected.
(SFC, 8/29/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 28, In Erie, Pa., Brian
Douglas Wells (46), pizza delivery man, was killed when a bomb strapped
to his chest exploded while under police custody. Wells claimed a
customer had strapped on the bomb and ordered him to rob a bank. In
2007 a grand jury indicted 2 people in connection with the crime.
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong (59), described as the ringleader, pleaded
guilty but mentally ill for killing her boyfriend to keep him silent
about the robbery. Diehl-Armstrong was trying to raise money to hire
Kenneth Barnes to kill her father due to an inheritance dispute. In
2008 Kenneth Barnes (54) pleaded guilty to conspiracy.
(SSFC, 8/31/03, p.A8)(AP, 7/11/07)(SFC, 9/4/08, p.A7)
2003 Aug 28, British Prime
Minister Tony Blair denied that the government had "sexed up" a dossier
on Iraq's weapons threat, and said he would have resigned if it had
been true.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2003 Aug 28, Akhmad Kadyrov, the
Kremlin-appointed head of Chechnya, said death squads associated with
security forces were seeking to prolong the conflict through abductions
and terror.
(SFC, 8/29/03, p.A8)
2003 Aug 28, The WWF reported that
the hippos of Congo's Virunga national Park have been nearly wiped out
by poachers and civil war.
(WSJ, 8/29/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 28, A 40-minute blackout
in London, England, stranded hundreds of thousands of commuters.
(AP, 8/29/03)(WSJ, 8/29/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 28, A North Korean envoy
at 6-nation talks said his nation intends to declare that it has atomic
arms and to test one as proof.
(WSJ, 8/29/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 28, Peru’s Truth and
Reconciliation Commission published a report on the violence unleashed
by the Shining Path guerrillas, which included 69,280 deaths from
1980-2000. It identified 150 people it said should be prosecuted.
(Econ, 8/28/04, p.33)
2004 Aug 28, An explosion ripped
through a school in southeastern Afghanistan, killing nine youngsters
and one adult.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2004 Aug 28, London’s Notting Hill
Carnival began with more than a million revelers expected to turn out
to celebrate the 3-day event's 40th year.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2004 Aug 28, In Greece the US
men's basketball team won the bronze, the 100th U.S. medal of the
Athens Games.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2004 Aug 28, In Hungary hundreds
of thousands of young people thronged the streets of Budapest to the
sounds of techno music for the city's fifth annual electronic music
parade.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2004 Aug 28, Five Hindu pilgrims
were killed and 14 others injured in a stampede at a river bathing
festival in southern India.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2004 Aug 28, Shiite militants and
U.S. forces battled in the Baghdad's Sadr City slum and a mortar
barrage slammed into a busy eastern neighborhood in a new round of
violence in the capital that left 10 people dead and dozens wounded.
U.S. warplanes carried out airstrikes for the second straight day in
the city of Fallujah.
(AP, 8/28/04)(AP, 8/29/04)
2004 Aug 28, Islamic militants
claiming to be holding two French journalists in Iraq gave France 48
hours to overturn the law banning the wearing of Islamic head scarves
in schools. The reporters, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot,
were released in December 2004.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2004 Aug 28, The foreign ministers
of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan approved Russian
membership to their economic block at talks in Astana, the Kazakh
capital.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2004 Aug 28, In Lebanon pro-Syrian
President Emile Lahoud's bid to stay in office three more years was
assured in a dramatic about-face when political rival Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri bowed to Syrian pressure and proposed a constitutional
amendment allowing the head of state to extend his term.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2004 Aug 28, In Morocco a bus
trying to pass another vehicle on a winding mountain highway collided
with an oncoming truck and taxi, killing 29 people and injuring 30.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2004 Aug 28, Pakistan's economic
czar Shaukat Aziz was sworn in as PM and said his government's greatest
challenge would be combating terrorism and maintaining law and order.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2004 Aug 28, Officials said they
had found traces of the explosive hexogen on the wreckage of the second
of two Russian airliners that crashed just minutes apart earlier this
week. Attention focused on the roles of two dead female passengers
believed to be of Chechen origin.
(AP, 8/28/04)(SFC, 8/31/04, p.A8)
2004 Aug 28, A Yemen court
convicted 15 militants on terror charges including the 2002 bombing of
a French oil tanker and plotting to kill the U.S. ambassador.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2005 Aug 28, In Louisiana Mayor
Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation for all of New Orleans, a
city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants, as Hurricane
Katrina bore down with wind revved up to nearly 175 mph and a threat of
a massive storm surge.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, West Oahu of Ewa
Beach, Hawaii, won the Little League World Series title with a 7-6 win
over the defending champions from Willemstad, Curacao.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2005 Aug 28, In Afghanistan 6
rebels died in a clash with Afghan police.
(AP, 8/29/05)
2005 Aug 28, Bangladesh said it
may reduce its work week from 6 to 5 days and raise fuel prices to
control soaring energy costs that have strained its economy.
(AFP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, A committee of
China’s male-dominated parliament amended the Law on the Protection of
the Rights and Interests of Women. It made sexual harassment of women
unlawful and stipulated that equality between men and women is a basic
state policy.
(Econ, 9/3/05, p.38)
2005 Aug 28, Egyptian authorities
released senior Muslim Brotherhood member Mahmoud Ezzat after holding
him without trial for more than three months. 8 other jailed members of
the banned Muslim Brotherhood also were ordered freed.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, India’s PM Manmohan
Singh, the first Indian premier to visit Afghanistan in nearly 3
decades, pledged with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to battle terrorism
amid rising violence in the war-battered country.
(AFP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, In Afghanistan
suspected Taliban rebels killed a candidate running in next month's
legislative elections.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, Militants attacked a
joint patrol by Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces near Kabul, and an
ensuing firefight left one suspected rebel dead and two others wounded.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 28, The French civil
aviation authority made public for the 1st time a list on its Internet
site of airlines banned to land due to safety reasons. They included:
Air Koryo of North Korea; Air St. Thomas of the U.S. Virgin Islands;
International Air Services of Liberia; Thailand's Phuket Airlines; and
Linhas Aereas de Mocambique and Transairways, both from Mozambique.
(AP, 8/29/05)
2005 Aug 28, Aasiya Andrabi,
Indian Kashmir's leading female separatist, formed a squad to raid
brothels and appealed to people for help in reporting cases of adultery.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, Iran rejected what it
termed conditional negotiations with Europe over Tehran's nuclear
program and said it wanted instead to have talks with the UN's
international nuclear watchdog agency.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, Iraqi negotiators
finished the country's new constitution without the endorsement of
Sunni Arabs who helped prepare it, dealing a blow to the Bush
administration and setting the stage for a bitter campaign leading up
to an October referendum.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, A Reuters television
sound technician was killed and a cameraman was injured while trying to
cover a Baghdad gunbattle involving insurgents and US troops. Police
said the men were fired on by American forces. In 2008 a Pentagon
report concluded that the death of the Reuters journalist was justified.
(AP, 8/28/05)(WSJ, 6/18/08, p.A1)
2005 Aug 28, In Israel Omri
Sharon, the oldest son of PM Ariel Sharon, was indicted on corruption
charges in connection with 1999 fund-raising activities for one of his
father's election campaigns.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, In Israel a suicide
bomber blew himself up outside the central bus station in Beersheba
during morning rush hour, critically wounding two security guards.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, In the Philippines a
bomb stashed in a pack of clothes exploded on a ferry in Basilan as it
was loading passengers, injuring at least 30 people, including nine
children.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 28, A Jewish student was
attacked by 7 young men near the Central Synagogue School in Kiev,
where he studied. He remained in a coma after 2 days and Ukraine's
Pres. Yushchenko condemned the brutal beating and ordered senior
officials to take personal control of the case.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2006 Aug 28, Prosecutors in
Colorado abruptly dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the
slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the
crime scene despite his repeated insistence he'd killed the 6-year-old
beauty queen.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2006 Aug 28, Rice farmers in
Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Texas sued
BayerCrop Science alleging that its genetically modified rice has
contaminated the nation’s crop. Japan had suspended imports of US
long-grain rice a week earlier. On Jul 31 US authorities learned that
Bayer’s unapproved rice had been found in commercial bins in Arkansas
and Missouri.
(SFC, 8/29/06, p.E1)
2006 Aug 28, Columbus, Ga., beat
Kawaguchi City, Japan, 2-1 to win the Little League World Series
championship game.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2006 Aug 28, In southeastern
Kentucky a small plane from Wichita Fall, Texas, crashed and all 7
people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 8/29/06, p.A3)
2006 Aug 28, Five people were
killed and dozens injured after a Montreal-bound Greyhound bus from New
York City overturned on a highway in upstate New York.
(Reuters, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 28, Ed Benedict (94),
legendary animator, died in Auburn, Ca. He put life, love and laughter
in TV cartoon characters like Fred Flintstone (1960), Huckleberry Hound
and Yogi Bear.
(AP, 10/10/06)(SFC, 10/13/06, p.B9)
2006 Aug 28, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded market in Lashkar Gah,
Helmand province, killing 21 people and wounding 43. US-led coalition
troops killed 18 suspected insurgents when about 60 militants attacked
with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in Cahar Cineh
district of the southern Uruzgan province.
(AP, 8/28/06)(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 28, Don Chipp (81), an
Australian politician famed for his pledge to "keep the bastards
honest," died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
(AFP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 28, In Chile Paul
Schaefer (84), former leader of Colonia Dignidad, or Dignity Colony,
was sentenced to 7 years in prison for arms found at the secretive
enclave near Parral, 200 miles south of Santiago.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 28, Tropical Storm
Ernesto hit Cuba west of the US naval air base at Guantanamo after
killing 2 people in Haiti.
(AP, 8/28/06)(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 28, Ene Ergma (62), a
Soviet-trained astronomer, failed to win enough votes in parliament to
become Estonia's next president, forcing a new vote on a second
candidate.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 28, Gunmen opened fire
with assault rifles in a Guatemala pool hall, killing eight people
including a 17-year-old boy. The attack occurred in the poor Guatemala
City suburb of Ciudad Quetzal.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 28, Guyana held
elections. Critics accused Guyana's government of turning a blind eye
to the cocaine flowing Guyana to the US and Europe. President Bharrat
Jagdeo's party appeared headed to victory in Guyana's election,
according to vote results.
(AP, 8/28/06)(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 28, In India officials
said monsoon rains and flooding have killed at least 130 people in the
western state of Rajasthan, with huge swathes of desert underwater.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 28, In Iraq a suicide car
bombing in Baghdad killed 16 people. Clashes in Diwaniyah between
Shiite militia and Iraqi security forces left 73 people dead. A US
service member died of wounds sustained in a vehicle accident in Balad
north of Baghdad.
(AP, 8/28/06)(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 28, In Ireland the
government and directors of the state-owned airline announced that Aer
Lingus Group PLC expects to raise more than $500 million by selling
stock for the first time in a public offering next month.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 28, An Israeli airstrike
on central Gaza killed 4 Palestinian militants.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 28, Italy approved 2,500
troops in a boost to an expanded international force in Lebanon.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 28, US Sen. Barack Obama
urged Kenyans to take control of their country's destiny by opposing
corruption and ethnic divisions in government during a policy speech at
the main university in his father's homeland.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 28, Mexico’s top
electoral court announced that a partial recount found no widespread
evidence of fraud.
(SFC, 8/29/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 28, In the Netherlands
prosecutors at the International Criminal Court filed their first
indictment, charging Thomas Lubanga, a former Congolese warlord, for
allegedly abducting and recruiting children as young as 10 to fight in
Congo's brutal civil war.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 28, In Quetta, Pakistan,
mobs burned shops, banks and buses in a second day of rioting over the
killing of a top tribal chief by Pakistani troops, raising fears that a
decades-old conflict in the country's volatile southwest could widen.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 28, Palestinian municipal
workers responsible for garbage collection, water treatment, and sewage
processing went on strike in Gaza City and two other southern towns.
(AP, 8/31/06)
2006 Aug 28, In Sri Lanka at least
31 people were killed and another 105 wounded as security forces moved
to push back rebel artillery threatening a strategic port.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 28, In South Africa
Adriaan Vlok, whose ministry helped suppress anti-apartheid protests,
last weekend visited the offices of the Rev. Frank Chikane, a top
presidential aide, to apologize. Vlok brought his Bible and washed
Chikane's feet in an attempt to atone for the sins of the white racist
regime that ruled the country until 1994.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 28, In Turkey a bomb in
the resort city of Antalya killed 3 people and injured 18. A group
calling itself the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons claimed responsibility.
(AP, 8/28/06)(Econ, 9/2/06, p.6)
2007 Aug 28, The US Census Bureau
released its latest report on income, poverty and health insurance in
the US. It noted a continuing increase in the number and proportion of
Americans who lacked health insurance.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.24)
2007 Aug 28, A day after reports
surfaced of his June arrest at the Minneapolis airport, Sen. Larry
Craig, R-Idaho, told a news conference the only thing he had done wrong
was to plead guilty after a police complaint of lewd conduct in a men's
room; Craig also declared, "I am not gay. I never have been gay."
(AP, 8/28/08)
2007 Aug 28, A military
court at Fort Meade, Md., acquitted Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan of
failing to control US soldiers who abused detainees at Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq, but found him guilty of disobeying an order not to
discuss the investigation. However, that conviction was later thrown
out.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2007 Aug 28, EarthLink, the
Atlanta-based Internet provider, announced that it no longer believed
that providing citywide Wi-Fi for San Francisco was viable for the
company. Chicago abandoned plans for a city-wide Wi-Fi network to
access the Internet as EarthLink underwent restructuring.
(SFC, 8/30/07,
p.A1)(www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/08/30/too-windy-for-wi-fi.aspx)
2007 Aug 28, Burning Man became
Burnt Man four days early, and a San Francisco performance artist was
arrested on suspicion of igniting the signature figure of the
counterculture festival in the remote Nevada desert.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 28, In North Carolina
Dwayne Allen Dail (39), a man who remained in prison for 18 years after
being wrongly convicted of a 1987 child rape, was released after new
DNA testing cleared him of the crime. In October of 2007 he received a
pardon from Gov. Mike Easley based on his innocence. Dail also received
some compensation from the state; he was eligible for $20,000 per year
of incarceration.
(AP,
8/28/07)(www.innocenceproject.org/Content/832.php)
2007 Aug 28, The annual Small Arms
Survey said there are nine guns for every 10 people in the United
States, with about 270 million firearms in circulation. Worldwide,
civilians now have access to 650 million small arms, from handguns to
semiautomatic rifles, an arsenal that far outstrips what is held by
police and militaries.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 28, Arthur Jones (80),
inventor of the Nautilus exercise equipment (1970), died. In 1986 he
agreed to sell the business to Travis Ward of Texas for $23 million.
(SFC, 8/29/07, p.B7)(WSJ, 9/1/07, p.A4)
2007 Aug 28, Paul MacCready
(b.1925), designer of the Gossamer Albatross, died in California. His
bicycle powered plane crossed the English Channel in 1979. He founded
AeroVironment in 1971 to monitor air pollution.
(www.sas.org/maccready.htm)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.88)
2007 Aug 28, Miyoshi Umeki
(b.1929), Japanese-born actress, died in Licking, Mo. She was the first
Asian performer to win an Oscar, which she and Red Buttons received for
their supporting roles in the 1957 film “Sayonara.”
(SFC, 9/12/07, p.A17)
2007 Aug 28, The Taliban agreed to
free 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage since July after
the government in Seoul pledged to end all missionary work and keep a
promise to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
In eastern Afghanistan a suicide bomber attacked NATO troops helping
build a bridge, killing three soldiers. Afghan and US-led coalition
forces killed more than 100 suspected Taliban insurgents in southern
Afghanistan. The clash left one Afghan soldier dead.
(AP, 8/28/07)(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 28, In Azerbaijan a
16-story high-rise under construction in Baku collapsed killing at
least 12 people and leaving others trapped in the rubble. The head of
the construction company and another company executive were arrested.
They began construction of the building in 2002 without authorization.
(SFC, 8/29/07, p.A3)(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 28, Brazil's Supreme
Court charged one of the president's closest confidants with conspiracy
in a corruption scandal that has toppled much of his inner circle.
Analysts said Jose Dirceu, one of 40 people indicted, would rather
spend years in prison than go down swinging against Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva. This was the first time ever that Brazil’s highest court has
brought criminal charges against politicians.
(AP, 8/28/07)(Econ, 9/1/07, p.32)
2007 Aug 28, Africa's Great Lakes
nations (Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda)
vowed to eliminate rebel groups roaming their territory and spurring
insecurity in the continent's most volatile region.
(AFP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 28, Ethiopia justified
its decision to expel Norwegian diplomats arguing that Oslo was
interfering in its internal affairs and destabilizing the Horn of
Africa.
(AFP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 28, Foreign firefighters
and aircraft joined in battling wildfires that have destroyed some of
Greece's lushest landscape. The death toll from 5 days of blazes rose
to at least 64.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 28, Police ordered a
curfew in the Shiite city of Karbala and ordered more than one million
pilgrims to leave after two days of violence. A city council member in
Karbala reported 38 dead and 231 injured in fighting when gunmen
believed from the Mahdi Army began firing on security forces and Badr
guards. 2 days of bloody clashes in Karbala claimed at least 52 lives.
(AP, 8/28/07)(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 28, Israeli PM Ehud
Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tackled the major issues
dividing the two sides at their meeting, final borders, Jerusalem and
Palestinian refugees.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 28, In Kenya a crash in
the Kisii area killed 22 people when the bus they were traveling in
rammed a truck head-on.
(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 28, Las Vegas Sands
opened its $2.4 billion Venetian Macao, the world's largest
casino-resort, as part of Macau's heady transformation from gambling
haven to Asia's top entertainment draw.
(WSJ, 6/13/07, p.B1)(AFP, 8/28/07)(Econ, 9/1/07,
p.62)
2007 Aug 28, Pro-democracy
supporters expanded their protests against Myanmar's military, marching
through the streets of the port town of Sittwe while attempting to
rally in the main city Yangon.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 28, Jose Maria Sison
(68), a Philippine communist leader, accused of commanding a rebel
uprising from exile for more than 20 years was arrested by Dutch police
in Utrecht on suspicion of ordering the murder of two former allies in
his home country. He was accused of ordering the killings in 2003 and
2004 of Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara, who were gunned down in the
Philippines.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 28, A Pakistani cabinet
minister and a ruling party MP said they had resigned to protest
President Pervez Musharraf's plan to remain army chief. Pro-Taliban
militants released 19 Pakistani soldiers who were abducted earlier this
month in the rugged tribal belt bordering Afghanistan.
(AFP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 28, Journalists and
diplomats said Saudi Arabia has banned the influential Arab newspaper
Al Hayat from distribution in the kingdom, just days after it reported
a Saudi man had served as a key figure for an al-Qaida front group in
Iraq.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 28, Organizers in
Scotland said the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's biggest arts
festival, this year broke its attendance record by selling 1.7 million
tickets.
(AFP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 28, Turkey’s Foreign
Minister Abdullah Gul (56), a devout Muslim with a background in
political Islam, won the presidency, in a major triumph for the
Islamic-rooted government after months of confrontation with the
secular establishment.
(AP, 8/28/07)
2008 Aug 28, In Denver Sen. Barack
Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention and accepted the
nomination for president of the US.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, The US-backed
coalition said a four-day battle that began with an ambush on a joint
US-Afghan patrol in southern Afghanistan has killed more than 100
militants. A dozen militants were killed in a gunbattle with coalition
forces in Paktika province.
(AP, 8/28/08)(AP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 28, An Argentine court
convicted two former generals for the murder of a senator during the
country's seven-year military dictatorship and sentenced them to life
in prison. Retired Gens. Antonio Bussi and Luciano Menendez were found
guilty of kidnapping, torturing and murdering Sen. Guillermo Vargas
Aignasse, who disappeared March 24, 1976, the day of a military coup.
(AP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 28, Brazilian authorities
said more than 200 oil-slicked penguins had washed up dead over the
last 4 days on the beaches of Florianopolis, a popular Brazilian island
resort, and that they are searching for a cause.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, Grant Wilkinson (34)
was jailed for life for running Britain’s biggest-ever gun factory
which converted dozens of replica submachine guns into deadly weapons
used in nine gangland murders. He legally bought 90 replica Mac-10s in
2004, saying they were for use on the set of the James Bond film
"Casino Royale" and paying 55,000 pounds in cash.
(AFP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, State media reported
that Chinese government auditors have uncovered the misuse of millions
of dollars in disaster assistance as part of an embezzlement probe
spanning 10 central government departments.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, Government forces
fought Tutsi rebels in the fiercest clashes for months in eastern
Congo, threatening a struggling peace process.
(Reuters, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, It was reported that
Cuba had notified at least 2 foreign governments that it could not meet
debt payments.
(WSJ, 8/28/08, p.A8)
2008 Aug 28, In Greenland local
police said dozens of massacred narwhals, an Arctic whale with a single
long tusk, have been discovered on the east coast in what could be a
case of poaching. A scientific expedition from New Zealand discovered
the carcasses as they sailed along the coastline about two weeks ago.
(AFP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, In India Hindu mobs
ransacked a church and clashed with Christian villagers in eastern
Orissa state. Hindu mobs had already destroyed over a dozen churches
following the murder of a Hindu leader in Kahdhamal.
(WSJ, 8/29/08, p.A10)
2008 Aug 28, Shiite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr released a statement saying his largely disbanded Mahdi Army
militia would extend its cease-fire "until further notice." An American
soldier died of wounds he received after coming under fire while
patrolling northern Baghdad a day earlier.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, In Indian Kashmir
Government forces ended a hostage crisis in the mainly Hindu city of
Jammu when they killed the last of three rebels believed to have seized
eight people. 2 hostages died in the gunbattle.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, Iran’s Junior trade
minister Mohammadali Zeyghami said Iran is ready to share its nuclear
technology with Nigeria to help the energy-starved west African
powerhouse boost electricity generation.
(AFP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 28, Tropical Storm Gustav
bore down on Jamaica after leaving 67 people dead on Hispaniola,
including 59 in Haiti and 8 in the Dominican Republic.
(SFC, 8/29/08, p.A2)
2008 Aug 28, In Lebanon attackers
opened fire on a military helicopter, killing a Lebanese army officer
and forcing the craft to make an emergency landing. The next day
Hezbollah handed over a man suspected of firing on the helicopter.
(AP, 8/28/08)(AP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 28, Libya announced an
amnesty for more than 3,000 prisoners, including Europeans and
Africans, to mark the 39th anniversary of Moamer Kadhafi's rule.
(AFP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, Mexico's Supreme
Court upheld the capital's abortion law, setting a precedent for the
rest of the country that could inspire other Latin American cities.
Twelve decapitated bodies bearing signs of torture were found in
eastern Mexico and authorities were still looking for the heads. 11 of
the bodies were found in a suburb of Merida, a 12th in Buctzotz, 70 km
to the northeast.
(AFP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 28, In Nigeria Rashid
Ladoja, ex-governor of Oyo state (2000-2007), was arrested for
embezzling some 16 million dollars (11 million euros).
(AFP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 28, A bomb near the city
of Bannu blew a bus carrying Pakistani police and government workers
off a high bridge, killing at least 11, as fighting between security
forces and extremists flared across the country's northwest.
(AP, 8/28/08)(WSJ, 8/29/08, p.A10)
2008 Aug 28, A Russian military
spokesman said Russia successfully tested a long-range Topol missile,
designed to avoid detection by anti-missile defense systems, from its
Plesetsk launch site. The RS-12M Topol, called the SS-25 Sickle by
NATO, has a maximum range of 10,000 km (6,125 miles) and can carry one
550-kiloton warhead.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, Russian forces turned
over 12 Georgian soldiers on the border of Abkhazia. Georgia's foreign
minister said ethnic Georgians were being cleared from their homes in
South Ossetia. A joint declaration from the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization denounced the use of force and called for respect for
every country's territorial integrity. Mikhail Mindzayev, the interior
minister of South Ossetia, said an unmanned Georgian spy plane was shot
down over South Ossetia by local forces.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, Russia’s PM Vladimir
Putin said 19 US poultry producers will be barred from exporting their
products to Russia. He said the unnamed American producers had ignored
warnings from Russian inspectors who examined poultry companies last
year and that another 29 producers would receive warnings.
(AP, 8/29/08)
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