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70 Aug 29,
The Temple of Jerusalem burned after a nine-month Roman siege. The
Second Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed by Rome’s 10th Legion and the
Jews there were exiled. In the Jewish War the Israelites tried
unsuccessfully to revolt against Roman rule. The destruction buried the
shops that lined the main street. Archeologists in 1996 found numerous
artifacts that included bronze coins called prutot. Carpenters from
Israel’s Antiquities Authority used manuscripts of the Roman master
builder Vitruvius to reconstruct contraptions used in the construction
of the temple. In 2007 Martin Goodman authored “Rome and Jerusalem: The
Clash of Ancient Civilizations.”
(SFC, 5/23/95, p.A-10)(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A10)(WSJ,
6/22/98, p.A20)(HN, 8/29/98)(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.T11)(Econ, 1/20/07, p.90)
284 Aug 29, Gen Gaius Aurelius V
Diocletianus Jovius (3) became emperor of Rome. Reign of Diocletian
(Era of Martyrs), began.
(MC, 8/29/01)
886 Aug 29, Basilius I, the
Macedonian, Byzantine emperor (867-886), died.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1178 Aug 29, Anti-Pope Callistus
III gave pope title to Alexander III.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1387 Aug 29, Henry V, king
of England (1413-22) / France (1416-19), was born. [see Aug 9]
(MC, 8/29/01)
1484 Aug 29, Cardinal Cibo was
crowned as Pope Innocent VIII.
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08562a.htm)
1526 Aug 29, Ottoman Suleiman the
Magnificent crushed a Hungarian army under Lewis II at the Battle of
Mohacs.
(HN, 8/29/98)
1533 Aug 29, Francisco Pizarro
captured Cuzco and completed his conquest of Peru. He ordered the
imprisonment and murder of Atahualpa, the last ruler of the Inca
Empire. Atahualpa was executed by orders of Francisco Pizarro, although
the chief had already paid his ransom. Ruminahui (Rumanahui), a general
of Atahualpa, led 15,000 soldiers into the mountains north of Quito,
after Pizarro killed the Inca emperor Atahualpa. His forces carried an
estimated 70,000 man-loads of gold.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.14)(AP, 8/29/97) (SFEC, 7/5/98,
p.A10)(SFEC, 8/9/98, p.A15)(HN, 8/29/98)
1561 Aug 29, Bartholomeus
Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry), was born.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1632 Aug 29, English philosopher
John Locke was born in Somerset, England. The philosopher of liberalism
influenced the American founding fathers and was famous for his
treatise "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding." It was he who
stated that the child is born with a tabula rasa, a blank state. On it,
he said, experience wrote words, and thus knowledge and understanding
came about, through the interplay of the senses and all that they
perceived. "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed,
without any other reason but because they are not already common."
(V.D.-H.K.p.64,219)(AP, 8/4/97)(AP, 8/29/97)(HN,
8/29/98)
1640 Aug 29, English King Charles
I signed a peace treaty with Scotland.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1655 Aug 29, Swedish king Karel X
Gustaaf occupied Warsaw.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1661 Aug 29, Louis Couperin
(b.1626), French composer, died.
(Internet)
1664 Aug 29, Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit
de Ferry patented a wooden firespout in Amsterdam.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1708 Aug 29, French Canadian and
Indian forces attacked the village of Haverhill, Mass., killing 16
settlers.
(AP, 8/29/08)
1742 Aug 29, Edmond Hoyle
(1672-1769) published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1758 Aug 29, New Jersey
Legislature formed the 1st Indian reservation.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1769 Aug 29, Edmond Hoyle
(b.1672), English games expert, died.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1776 Aug 29, General George
Washington retreated during the night from Long Island to New York City.
(HN, 8/29/98)
1776 Aug 29, Americans withdrew
from Manhattan to Westchester.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1780 Aug 29,
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (d.1867), French painter, was born. His
work included the "Portrait of Monsieur de Norvins" and "Valpincon
Bather."
(WUD, 1994, p.731)(WSJ, 7/1/96, p.A11)(MC, 8/29/01)
1786 Aug 29, Shay’s Rebellion
began in Springfield, Mass. Daniel Shay led a rebellion in
Massachusetts to protest the seizure of property for the non-payment of
debt. Shay was a Revolutionary War veteran who led a short-lived
insurrection in western Massachusetts to protest a tax increase that
had to be paid in cash, a hardship for veteran farmers who relied on
barter and didn‘t own enough land to vote. The taxes were to pay off
the debts from the Revolutionary War, and those who couldn‘t pay were
evicted or sent to prison.. [see Jan 25, 1787]
(HNQ, 7/6/00)(www.shaysnet.com/dshays.html)
1792 Aug 29, The English warship
Royal George capsized in Spithead and 900 people were killed.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1793 Aug 29, Slavery was abolished
in the French colony of Santo Domingo (Haiti).
(HN, 8/29/98)(MC, 8/29/01)
1799 Aug
29, Pope Pius VI (b.1717) died in Valence, France.
(www.newadvent.org/cathen/12131a.htm)
1809 Aug 29, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sr., poet, essayist and father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr., was born.
(HN, 8/29/98)
1810 Aug 29, Juan Bautista Alberdi
(d,1884), Argentine politician, writer, was born.
(www.taringa.net/posts/21963/Juan-B.-Alberdi---El-Gran-Pensador.html)
1831 Aug 29, Michael Faraday,
British physicist, demonstrated the 1st electric transformer. Faraday
had discovered that a changing magnetic field produces an electric
current in a wire, a phenomenon known as electromagnetic induction.
(www.acmi.net.au/AIC/FARADAY_BIO.html)(WSJ, 9/17/01,
p.R6)
1842 Aug 29, Britain & China
signed the Treaty of Nanking and ended the Opium war. The Treaty of
Nanking opened the port of Shanghai to foreigners. The 1997 Chinese
film "The Opium War" was directed by Xie Jin. It was about the events
leading up to the Treaty of Nanking. The treaty of Nanking ceded Hong
Kong Island to Britain in perpetuity.
(AMNHDT, 5/98)(SFC, 5/20/98,
p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nanjing)
1854 Aug 29, Daniel Halladay
patented a self-governing windmill.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1862 Aug 29, Confederate spy Belle
Boyd was released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Boyd)
1862 Aug 29, The US Bureau of
Engraving & Printing began operation.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1862 Aug 29, Union General John
Pope’s army was defeated by a smaller Confederate force at the Second
Battle of Bull Run.
(HN, 8/29/98)
1862 Aug 29, P.M.B. Maurice
Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911), was born.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1876 Aug 29, Charles F. Kettering,
inventor (automobile self-starter), was born in Ohio.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1877 Aug 29, Brigham Young (76),
the second president of the Mormon Church, died in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1882 Aug 29, Australia defeated
England in cricket for the first time. The following day a obituary
appeared in the Sporting Times addressed to the British team.
(HN, 8/29/98)
1883 Aug 29, Seismic sea waves,
created by Krakatoa eruption, created a rise in the English Channel 32
hrs after explosion.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1885 Aug 29, Gottlieb Daimler
received a German patent for a motorcycle.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1893 Aug 29, The “clasp locker,” a
clumsy slide fastener and forerunner to the zipper was first patented
by Whitcomb L. Judson. He demonstrated it at the World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago. He invented an improved C-Curity fastener in
1902.
(Wired, Dec., ‘95, p.138)(SFEC, 6/6/99, Z1 p.10)(ON,
7/04, p.3)
1896 Aug 29, The Chinese-American
dish chop suey was invented in New York City by the chef to visiting
Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1898 Aug 29, Preston Sturges
(Edmund P Biden), American screenwriter, film director and playwright,
was born.
(HN, 8/29/00)
1904 Aug 29, Werner
Forssman, German urologist, was born. He was the first to catheterize
his own heart and won a Nobel prize in 1956.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1909 Aug 29, World’s 1st air race
was held in Rheims France. American Glenn Curtiss won.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1914 Aug 29, 4th day of
Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1915 Aug 29, Ingrid Bergman
(d.1982), Oscar winning actress famous for her role in "Casablanca" and
"Anastasia," was born in Stockholm, Sweden. "Happiness is good health
and a bad memory."
(HN, 8/29/98)(AP, 7/21/97)
1916 Aug 29, Congress created the
US Naval reserve.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1916 Aug 29, Gen Von Hindenburg
became German Chief of Staff.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1916 Aug 29, Transport ship
Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collided and 1000 people were killed.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1920 Aug 29, Charlie "Bird"
Parker, self-taught jazz saxophonist, pioneer of the new "cool"
movement, was born.
(HN, 8/29/98)
1923 Aug 29, Richard
Attenborough, actor, director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born in
England.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1924 Aug 29, Dinah Washington
(d.1963), singer, was born as Ruth Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She
was known in the 50s as "Queen of the Harlem Blues."
(HN, 8/29/00)(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.M1)
1927 Aug 29, Marion Williams,
gospel singer, was born.
(HN, 8/29/00)
1928 Aug 29, Thomas Stewart,
baritone (La Roche Capriccio), was born in San Saba, Texas.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1929 Aug 29, John Jacob Raskob
(1879-1950), former General Motors executive, announced the
construction of the world’s tallest building, the Empire State Building.
(ON, 12/08, p.10)
1929 Aug 29, The Graf Zeppelin
returned to Lakehurst, New Jersey, after 21 days 4 hours, a new world
record.
(Hem., 2/96, p.43)(MC, 8/29/01)(ON, 1/03, p.10)
1936 Aug 29, John McCain, later
Arizona Senator and 2008 US presidential candidate, was born at the
Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain)
1938 Aug 29, Elliott Gould
(Goldstein) actor, was born. His films included Bob & Carol, Ted
& Alice, M*A*S*H, The Long Good-Bye, The Night They Raided Minskys.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1939 Aug 29, William
Friedkin, director (Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection), was born in
Chicago.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1939 Aug 29, Chaim Weizmann
informed England that Palestine Jews would fight in WW II.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1941 Aug 29, Robin Leach,
host for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, was born.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1941 Aug 29, Henri Louis
(40), French officer, resistance fighter, was executed.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1941 Aug 29, The German
Einsatzkommando in Russia killed 1,469 Jewish children.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1942 Aug 29, The American Red
Cross announced that Japan had refused to allow safe conduct for the
passage of ships with supplies for American prisoners of war.
(HN, 8/29/98)
1943 Aug 29, Responding to a
clampdown by Nazi occupiers, Denmark managed to scuttle most of its
naval ships.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1944 Aug 29, 15,000 American
troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital
continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1945 Aug 29, Gen MacArthur was
named the Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1945 Aug 29, U.S. airborne troops
landed in transport planes at Atsugi airfield, southwest of Tokyo,
beginning the occupation of Japan.
(HN, 8/29/98)
1945 Aug 29, British liberated
Hong Kong from Japan.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1946 Aug 29, J.E. Feenstra,
Nazi military police commandant, was executed.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1949 Aug
29, The USSR successfully detonated its first atomic bomb at
Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. It was a copy of the Fat Man bomb and had
a yield of 21 kilotons.
(www.atomicarchive.com/Timeline/Time1940.shtml)
1952 Aug 29, In the largest
bombing raid of the Korean War, 1,403 planes of the Far East Air Force
bombed Pyongyang, North Korea.
(HN, 8/29/98)
1954 Aug 29, The SF International
Airport’s (SFO) Terminal 2 opened with a ceremony led by Mayor
Robinson. Mills Field became SF Airport.
(SFEC, 5/16/99, Z1 p.4)(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.F8)
1956 Aug 29, French government
sent troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1957 Aug 29, Congress passed the
Civil Rights Act of 1957. South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then a
Democrat) ended a filibuster against a civil rights bill after talking
for 24 hours and 18 minutes. Arnold Aronson (d.1998 at 86) help to
lobby for the bill.
(AP, 8/29/97)(SFC, 2/20/98, p.A23)(SSFC, 12/17/00,
Par p.15)
1958 Aug 29, Michael Jackson
(d.2009), pop singer, entertainer, was born in Gary, Ind., the 7th of
nine children.
(SFC, 6/14/05, p.D6)(SFC, 6/26/09, p.A1)
1958 Aug 29, Air Force Academy
opened in Colorado Springs, Colo.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1962 Aug 29, Rebecca DeMornay,
actress: Risky Business, The Three Musketeers, Guilty as Sin,
Backdraft, was born.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1962 Aug 29, A US U-2 flight saw
SAM launch pads in Cuba.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1964 Aug 29, "Funny Thing
Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1964 Aug 29, Walt Disney’s "Mary
Poppins" released.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1965 Aug 29, Gemini 5, carrying
astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in
the Atlantic after eight days in space.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1966 Aug 29, The Beatles concluded
their fourth American tour with their last public concert, at
Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1967 Aug 29, Charles Darrow
(b.1889), self-claimed inventor of Monopoly, died.
(www.todayinsci.com/8/8_29.htm)
1968 Aug 29, Maine Sen. Edmund
Muskie was chosen to be the Democratic nominee for vice president at
the party's convention in Chicago.
(AP, 8/29/08)
1968 cAug 29, Senator Abraham
Ribicoff 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)
1970 Aug 29, Ruben Salazar (42), a
Latino journalist for KMEX, was killed by a tear gas canister fired by
a sheriff’s deputy following an anti-war demonstration in East Los
Angeles. In 2008 a US postage stamp was issued in his honor.
(SFC, 4/21/08, p.A1)
1971 Aug 29, Nathan Leopold
(b.1904), US kidnapper and murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), died in
Puerto Rico.
(www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/criminal-minds.html?c=y&page=5)
1971 Aug 29, In SF 2 men burst
into the Ingleside Police Station and fired through a hole in a
bullet-proof glass window killing Sgt. John Young (45). A civilian
clerk was wounded. Black Panthers were suspected. 3 men were charged in
1975 but charges were dismissed in 1976. In 2005 a SF judge jailed 4
men for contempt after refusing to answer questions from a grand jury.
In 2007 police charged 9 former members of the Black Liberation Army
with waging a campaign of “chaos and terror” that left at least 3
officers dead from 1968-1973. 8 of the men were charged with murder in
the Ingleside slaying. On June 29, 2009, Herman Bell pleaded guilty to
involuntary manslaughter, as he continued to serve a life sentence in
New York for the murder of 2 police officers. On July 6 Anthony Bottom
pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit voluntary manslaughter.
Bottom was already serving a sentence in NY for the murder of a 2 NYC
police officers in May 1971. Prosecutors dismissed charges against 4
other men. This left just Francisco Torres to stand trial for Young’s
murder.
(SFC, 9/1/05, p.B1)(SFC, 10/8/05, p.B2)(SFC,
1/26/07, p.A1)(SFC, 6/30/09, p.B1)(SFC, 7/7/09, p.C1)
1972 Aug 29, Rene Leibowitz
(b.1913), Warsaw-born French conductor and composer, died in Paris.
(http://wapedia.mobi/en/Ren%C3%A9_Leibowitz)
1973 Aug 29, Judge John Sirica
ordered President Nixon to turn over secret Watergate tapes. Nixon
refused and appealed the order.
(www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-history-nixon.htm)
1973 Aug 29, Michael Dunn
(b.1934), American dwarf actor, died in London.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0242692/)
1974 Aug 29, Moses Malone became
the first basketball player to go straight from high school to the pros
when he joined the Utah Stars.
(SFC, 7/7/96, Z1 p.5)
1975 Aug 29, Star in Cygnus went
nova becoming 4th brightest in sky.
(www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/Nova_Cygni_1975.html)
1975 Aug 29, Eamon de Valera
(92), Irish president (1937-59), died near Dublin. De Valera was born
in NYC (1882) and emigrated to Ireland as a child and joined the Easter
Rebellion of 1916 against British rule. He was saved from execution
because of his American citizenship, and was released under a general
amnesty in 1917.
(AP, 8/29/97)(ON, 9/04, p.7)
1975 Aug 29, In Peru Gen.
Francisco Belaunde (b.1921) began serving as president. He continued to
July 28, 1980.
(WSJ, 12/27/96,
p.A7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Morales_Berm%C3%BAdez)
1981 Aug 29, Lowell Thomas (89),
broadcaster and world traveler died in Pawling, N.Y.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1982 Aug 29, Ingrid Bergman
(b.1915), Swedish film star, died in England. In 1997 Donald Spoto
wrote a biography of Ingrid Bergman: "Notorious, The Life of Ingrid
Bergman." Bergman’s own autobiography was titled "My Story."
(SFEC, 7/20/97, BR p.6)(SFC, 5/31/00,
p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Bergman)
1983 Aug 29, William Goyen
(b.1915), Texas-born novelist and playwright, died in Los Angeles. His
1st novel was “House of Breath” (1950).
(www.tsha.utexas.edu)(www.inthe80s.com/deaths/died1983.shtml)
1985 Aug 29, In Missouri the St.
Louis Union Station, purchased by a New York financier, reopened as a
Grand Hyatt hotel. The massive, Romanesque-style building, designed by
architect Theodore Link in 1894, was once the largest and busiest
railroad terminal in the world. In 1976, the Saint Louis Union Station
was designated a National Historic Landmark.
(SFC, 10/12/97,
p.T5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Union_Station)
1987 Aug 29, Academy Award-winning
actor Lee Marvin died in Tucson, Ariz., at age 63.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1988 Aug 29, On the presidential
campaign trail, Democrat Michael Dukakis sought to counter Republican
George Bush's salvos against the Massachusetts prison furlough program,
while Bush continued to charge that Dukakis was soft on defense.
(AP, 8/29/98)
1988 Aug 29, In NYC the Macy’s
Tap-o-Mania set a Guinness record.
(www.amug.org/~jpaul/aug29.html)(http://tinyurl.com/jk8dp)
1989 Aug 29, Seven bombs believed
set off by drug traffickers exploded in Medellin and Bogota, Colombia.
(AP, 8/29/99)
1990 Aug 29, A defiant Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein declared in a television interview that
America could not defeat Iraq, saying, "I do not beg before anyone."
(AP, 8/29/00)
1991 Aug 29, In a stunning blow to
the Soviet Communist Party, the Supreme Soviet legislature voted to
suspend the activities of the organization and freeze its bank accounts
because of the party's role in the failed coup.
(AP, 8/29/01)
1991 Aug 29, Libero Grassi,
Italian underwear manufacturer, anti mafia, was gunned down in Palermo.
(www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art105.htm)
1992 Aug 29, About 13,000 people
staged an anti-extremist rally in Rostock, Germany, even as
right-wingers continued attacks on immigrants.
(AP, 8/29/97)(HN, 8/29/98)
1992 Aug 29, The U.N. Security
Council agreed to send 3,000 more relief troops to Somalia to guard
food shipments.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1992 Aug 29, Mary Norton
(88), children’s book author (Borrowers), died in England.
(www.sfsite.com/09b/bor41.htm)
1993 Aug 29, Negotiations
continued between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization,
with Israel reported on the verge of recognizing the PLO.
(AP, 8/29/98)
1994 Aug 29, At the end of a
weekend referendum, Bosnian Serbs overwhelmingly rejected what was
billed as a last-chance peace plan.
(AP, 8/29/99)
1995 Aug 29, At the O.J. Simpson
murder trial in Los Angeles, without the jury present, tape recordings
of police detective Mark Fuhrman were played in which Fuhrman could be
heard spouting racial invectives.
(AP, 8/29/00)
1995 Aug 29, In Tbilisi, Georgia,
the motorcade of Eduard Shevardnadze was attacked as he left for the
ceremonial signing of the new constitution.
(SFC, 2/10/98, p.A12)
1996 Aug 29, In a rousing climax
to the Democratic convention in Chicago, President Clinton appealed for
a second term, declaring, "Hope is back in America." The convention
also nominated Al Gore for a second term as vice president. Earlier in
the day, President Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris,
resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1996 Aug 29, Green Party
presidential candidate Ralph Nader chose Winona LaDuke as his running
mate.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.A3)
1996 Aug 29-1996 Aug 30, In SF,
Ca., dancers from the North Beach Lusty Lady Club voted on union
representation with the Service Employees International Union, Local
790. The vote passed 57 to 15. The contract was ratified Apr 10, 1997.
(SFC, 8/14/96, p.A15)(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A17)(SFC,
4/11/97, p.A19)
1996 Aug 29, Researchers reported
that gene therapy was used to halt the growth of some cancer tumors.
The therapy centered on the p53 gene, which regulates the speed of cell
division.
(SFC, 8/29/96, p.A1,15)
1996 Aug 29, Japanese authorities
arrested Dr. Takeshi Abe, a hemophilia expert, who headed a government
panel on AIDS in the 1980s when some 1,800 hemophiliacs were infected
with AIDS after using blood-clotting agents contaminated with the AIDS
virus. He had failed to recommend a heat treatment for the products
more than 2 years after such treatment was approved in the US.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.A18)
1996 Aug 29, Yasser Arafat called
for a 4-hour general strike in Palestine in opposition to Israeli
political actions.
(SFC, 8/29/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 29, A Russian Tupelov 154
plane with 141 passengers crashed on a desolate arctic island 6 miles
from Spitsbergen where they were returning to jobs in a Russian-run
coal mine.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.A14)
1997 Aug 29, In NYC some 7,000
protestors marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest police
brutality and the assault on Abner Louima.
(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A3)
1997 Aug 29, In Algeria some 300
villagers of Rais were slain by hooded men armed with axes in an
Algerian farm village in the worst carnage since an Islamic insurgency
began. In addition 20 young women were abducted.
(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A10)(AP, 8/29/98)
1997 Aug 29, In Britain the
government formally invited Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA,
to peace talks next month in Northern Ireland.
(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 29, In Japan the Supreme
Court upheld the government’s right to control the nation’s textbooks
but not to tamper with the truth. Japan's Supreme Court ruled that the
country's Education Ministry broke the law by removing mention of a
Japanese World War II atrocity from historian Saburo Ienaga's high
school textbook. Novelist Ryotaro Shiba was quoted: "A country whose
textbooks lie... will inevitably collapse."
(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A12)(AP, 8/29/98)
1997 Aug 29, In Kenya thousands
fled from the Indian Ocean coast in fear of ethnic violence and attacks
from government security forces.
(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A12)
1998 Aug 29, Northwest Airlines
pilots went on strike after their union rejected a last-minute company
offer.
(AP, 8/29/99)
1998 Aug 29, In England new type
of mosquito was reported to be breeding in the underground Tube with a
taste for the rats and mice that lived there.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.A5)
1998 Aug 29, In Quito, Ecuador, a
Cuban plane with 90 people onboard crashed. 80 people were killed
including 5 children playing on the ground. At least 8 people survived
the crash of the Russian-made Tupelov-154.
(SFEC, 8/28/98, p.A15)(SFC, 8/31/98, p.A10)(AP,
8/29/08)
1998 Aug 29, In Indonesia riots
quelled after thousands of fishermen burned at least 10 trawlers in
Cilacap. They complained of exploitation by ethnic Chinese where they
were paid about 18 cents per day. There were riots all week across the
country due to economic turmoil.
(SFEC, 8/28/98, p.A21)
1999 Aug 29, Hurricane "Dennis"
wallowed along the coast toward the Carolinas, prompting evacuation
orders for the fragile Outer Banks barrier islands.
(AP, 8/29/00)
1999 Aug 29, In Burundi Hutu
militiamen attacked 2 neighborhoods outside Bujumbura and killed at
least 26 civilians.
(SFC, 8/30/99, p.A14)
1999 Aug 29, In Macedonia a NATO
soldier from Norway was arrested for a car crash that killed a
Macedonian official, his wife and daughter.
(WSJ, 8/31/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 29, In South Africa a
heavy storm in Cape Town left 4 people dead and some 5,000 homeless.
(SFC, 8/30/99, p.A14)
2000 Aug 29, President Clinton
ended a four-day trip to Africa with a brief visit to Cairo, where he
sought the help of President Hosni Mubarak on the Middle East peace
process, i.e. a deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A12)(AP, 8/29/01)
2000 Aug 29, Montana Gov. Marc
Racicot asked Pres. Clinton to declare the state a federal disaster
area due to the wildfires.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 29, Pope John Paul II
laid down moral guidelines for medical research in the 21st century,
endorsing organ donation and adult stem cell study, but condemning
human cloning and embryo experiments.
(AP, 8/29/01)
2000 Aug 29, In Belgium the
government announced a package of tax reductions worth $2.9 billion.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.D2)
2000 Aug 29, A videotape by Pres.
Clinton sought to calm fears over a $1.3 billion aid package expected
to escalate the guerrilla war in Colombia. Pres. Clinton was scheduled
to arrive the next day. Plan Colombia was America’s 3rd largest
military aid package after Israel and Egypt.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A14)(SSFC, 11/11/07, p.M5)
2000 Aug 29, In France Interior
Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement resigned over a proposed peace plan
for Corsica. The plan offered limited rights to pass laws beginning in
2004 for the 250,000 inhabitants.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 29, In Libya 6 former
hostages held captive in the Philippines arrived to thank Moammar
Khadafy for his role in securing their release.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 29, In Spain Manuel
Indiano (29), a councilman in Zumarraga, was shot and killed outside
his candy store. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.B10)
2001 Aug 29, George Rivas, the
ringleader of the biggest prison breakout in Texas history, was
sentenced to death for killing an Irving, Tx., policeman, Aubrey
Hawkins, while on the run.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2001 Aug 29, In Algiers a bomb
exploded in the Casbah and 34 people were injured.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 29, Australian commandos
seized the Norway cargo ship carrying 438 rescued refugees after the
captain defied orders not to enter Australian waters.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A12)(AP, 9/1/01)
2001 Aug 29, In Colombia Yolanda
Paternina (50), a government prosecutor, was shot and killed while
returning home in Sincelejo. She had been investigating a January
paramilitary massacre and 2 of her colleagues were missing since June.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A20)
2001 Aug 29, Japan launched a
domestically developed rocket with hopes of developing its commercial
satellite industry.
(WSJ, 8/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 29, Four Palestinians and
1 Israeli were killed in ongoing violence.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 29, In Spain a Binter
Mediterraneo CN-235 airplane crash-landed near Malaga’s airport and at
least 3 of 47 people aboard were killed.
(WSJ, 8/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 29, In Sudan the UN
reported that 3,480 child soldiers had been sent back to their southern
homes following 6 months of retraining. 4,000 more children were
expected to transition out of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army over
the next 18 months.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A12)
2002 Aug 29, The federal
government approved a plan to store Colorado River water under the
Mohave Desert and tap it for use by Southern California during times of
drought.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 29, A judge in Norwalk,
Conn., sentenced Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin, to 20 years to life
in prison for the 1975 murder with a golf club of Connecticut neighbor
Martha Moxley.
(WSJ, 8/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/29/03)
2002 Aug 29, Assailants entered a
home in Artemisa, a village in western Cuba and killed five people,
including four members of a family, apparently by cutting their throats.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 29, Indian soldiers
killed 5 guerrillas after they crossed into the India-controlled
portion of Kashmir.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A19)
2002 Aug 29, Israeli tank shells
slammed into a Bedouin encampment in Gaza, killing four members of a
Palestinian family and wounding four others.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, Hezbollah guerrillas
shelled Israeli positions in a disputed border area, wounding 3
soldiers and drawing fire from Israeli warplanes and artillery.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, In western Macedonia
police killed two ethnic Albanians after gunmen abducted at least five
people from a bus, as tension soared. The 5 abducted people were
released after 2 days.
(AP, 8/30/02)(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 29, In Russia a small
plane disappeared in the Far East region of Khabarovsk. The plane
crashed into a cliff and 16 people were killed.
(AP, 8/29/02)(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Aug 29, Kerim Sadok Chatty,
29, of Tunisian origin was arrested with a gun in his carry-on luggage
at a Swedish airport as he headed to an Islamic conference in
Birmingham, England. He had flunked out of a flight school in South
Carolina in 1996. Chatty was charged with attempted hijacking on Sep 2.
(AP, 9/1/02)(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 29, A joint force of Thai
police and soldiers killed six armed drug traffickers and seized a
million methamphetamine pills after ambushing a drug convoy near the
Golden Triangle.
(Reuters, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, The World Summit on
Sustainable Development focused on ways business and governments could
work together to spread prosperity in the developing world while
protecting the environment.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, Uzbek Pres. Karimov
urged democratic changes.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A18)
2002 Aug 29, In Venezuela
thousands of opponents of President Hugo Chavez took to the streets in
Maracay to protest tax increases they say will further impoverish
Venezuelans in this recession-ridden country.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2002 Aug 29, In Zimbabwe a bomb
attack gutted the office of a radio station critical of President
Robert Mugabe's government, and authorities raided a human rights group
and a camp for displaced farm workers run by a private charity.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2003 Aug 29, Rep. Bill Janklow,
R-S.D., was charged with felony manslaughter in a car accident that
claimed the life of motorcyclist Randolph E. Scott. Janklow was later
convicted and served 100 days in jail.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2003 Aug 29, Jeffrey Lee Parson
(18), suspected of writing a variant of the "Blaster," a virus-like
computer worm, was arrested in his hometown, the Minneapolis suburb of
Hopkins. He was charged with one count of intentionally causing or
attempting to cause damage to a computer and faced a maximum of 10
years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted. Parson pleaded guilty
in August 2004 and was subsequently sentenced on January 28, 2005 to 18
months in prison followed by a three-year supervised release program,
and was required to do 225 hours of community service. He was ordered
to pay restitution of $497,546.55 to Microsoft Corporation and $1,056
to specific individuals to have their computer hard drives cleaned.
(SFC, 8/29/03, p.A1)(SFC, 8/30/03,
p.A2)(www.rbs2.com/parson2.html)
2003 Aug 29, Six nations trying to
defuse a standoff over North Korea's nuclear program ended their talks
in Beijing with an agreement to keep talking.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2003 Aug 29, France raised the
death toll from the August heat wave to as many as 11,435.
(SFC, 8/30/03, p.A7)
2003 Aug 29, The board of Air
France approved a deal to combine with Dutch KLM under a holding
company to form the world's #3 airline.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R12)
2003 Aug 29, In Haiti's west-coast
city of St. Marc torrential rains burst river banks, left at least 24
people dead and destroyed dozens of flimsy riverside shacks.
(AP, 9/2/03)(AP, 9/11/03)
2003 Aug 29, In Najaf, Iraq, a
massive car bomb exploded at the Imam Ali mosque during prayers,
killing Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most important Shiite
clerics, and at least 85 other people. Two Iraqis and two Saudis were
caught soon after. Attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at two
U.S. convoys in separate ambushes, killing one American soldier and
wounding six.
(SFC, 9/1/03, p.A1)(AP, 8/29/08)
2003 Aug 29, A Jewish settler was
killed and his pregnant wife wounded in a Palestinian shooting attack.
In Jenin Palestinian gunmen fired on Israeli soldiers manning a lookout
in a four-story office building. The violence came just hours after an
Israeli helicopter in southern Gaza fired missiles to kill a Hamas
fugitive as he drove a donkey cart.
(AP, 8/29/03)
2003 Aug 29, Excel Motors, a
fledgling Jamaican automaker, exported the Caribbean island's first
locally manufactured car to the Bahamas. The two-door Island Cruiser,
one of 22 built this year at the company's plant in western Jamaica,
sold for $11,500.
(AP, 8/30/03)
2003 Aug 29, In central Mexico a
truck carrying sulfuric acid collided head-on with a sport-utility
vehicle on a mountain road, killing five people and forcing dozens of
people to hospitals after they inhaled the fumes.
(AP, 8/30/03)
2003 Aug 29, In Nigeria crude oil
spilling from a ruptured Shell Oil pipeline burst into flames near a
southeastern village, scorching yam fields and spreading thick, black
smoke for miles. More than one-tenth of Nigeria's exports are stolen
daily by criminal rings who siphon the fuel from pipelines using
everything from buckets to sophisticated pumps.
(AP, 9/2/03)
2004 Aug 29, Tens of thousands of
demonstrators took to the fortified streets of Manhattan to protest
President Bush's foreign and domestic policies as Republican delegates
gathered to nominate the president for a second term. Organizers
estimated up to 400,000 participants.
(AP, 8/29/04)(SFC, 8/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 29, Tropical storm Gaston
hit South Carolina.
(SFC, 8/30/04, p.A3)
2004 Aug 29, In Afghanistan an
explosion tore through the office of DynCorp., an American defense
contractor, in the heart of Kabul, killing 12 people, including 3
Americans.
(AP, 8/29/04)(SFC, 8/31/04, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/31/04,
p.A1)(WSJ, 8/31/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 29, In Brazil an
overcrowded balcony collapsed inside a popular Sao Paulo nightclub that
featured male strippers, killing six people and injuring at least 117.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2004 Aug 29, Chechens voted for a
replacement for their assassinated president. One man was killed when
he attempted to blow up a polling station. Alu Alkhanov, the Russian
government's candidate in Chechnya, received nearly 74 percent of the
vote.
(AP, 8/29/04)(AP, 8/30/04)
2004 Aug 29, Muslim leaders in
France condemned the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq and
said the government should not capitulate to militant demands to revoke
a law that bans the wearing of Islamic head scarves in schools.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2004 Aug 29, Closing ceremonies
were held in Athens, Greece, for the 28th Olympiad. During one of the
final events, lead marathon runner Vanderlie Lima of Brazil was pushed
into the crowd by an intruder, but managed to finish 3rd behind Stefano
Baldini of Italy.
(SFC, 8/30/04, p.D1)
2004 Aug 29, Saboteurs blew up a
pipeline in southern Iraq in the latest attack. Al-Sadr called on his
followers to lay down arms and get involved in politics.
(AP, 8/29/04)(WSJ, 8/31/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 29, Israeli troops killed
an armed Palestinian man as he tried to sneak into southern Israel.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2004 Aug 29, In Sidon, Lebanon,
fighting in a Palestinian camp left 3 dead.
(WSJ, 8/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 29, Mexico City's leftist
Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador led more than 150,000 demonstrators
in a march to protest efforts to impeach him.
(AP, 8/30/04)
2004 Aug 29, A rocket attack and a
remote control bomb killed 2 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers in the
western tribal regions where troops are hunting al Qaeda-linked
militants.
(AP, 8/29/04)
2004 Aug 29, Nikolai Getman
(b.1917), Russian artist and gulag survivor (1946-1953), died in Orel,
Russia.
(WSJ, 9/22/04,
p.D12)(http://jamestown.org/press_details.php?press_id=11)
2004 Aug 29, The UN Security
Council set this date for Sudan to stop the killing in Darfur, allow
help to reach the region and disarm the militias terrorizing the region.
(Econ, 8/28/04, p.39)
2005 Aug 29, In NYC 8 former
executives of the KPMG accounting firm were indicted for fraud. KPMG
admitted setting up fraudulent tax shelters and agreed to pay $456
million in penalties.
(SFC, 8/30/05, p.C3)
2005 Aug 29, A Connecticut man
known on the Internet as "illwill" pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal
court to charges relating to the theft of the source code to Microsoft
Corp.'s Windows operating software, considered among the company's
crown jewels. William Genovese, Jr. (28) admitted selling the source
code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0. On January 27, 2006, he was
sentenced to 2 years in jail.
(AP,
8/29/05)(www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/genovesePlea.htm)
2005 Aug 29, Hurricane Katrina hit
the Gulf Coast near Buras, La., as a Category 3 storm. Katrina ripped
two holes in the curved roof of the Louisiana Superdome, letting in
rain as thousands of storm refugees huddled inside. In Mississippi many
of the 13 floating casinos in Biloxi and Gulfport smashed historic
homes and buildings. The Grand Casino Biloxi destroyed the historic
Hotel Tivoli. Storm surges and winds from Katrina unleashed at least 40
oil spills and some 193,000 barrels of oil and other petrochemicals
were driven across fragile marshy ecosystems southeast of New Orleans.
The death toll from Katrina eventually reached at least 1,600. An
estimated 300 Louisiana residents died out of state; some 230 people
perished in Mississippi. Property damage estimates were in the hundreds
of billions of dollars.
(SFC, 9/6/05, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/23/05, p.A1)(WSJ,
3/21/06, p.A1)(AP, 8/29/06)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.36)
2005 Aug 29, An oil rig tore free
of its moorings as Hurricane Katrina lashed the Alabama coast, before
surging downriver and smashing into a suspension bridge. 92% of crude
and 83% of natural gas production were shut down, as Gulf of Mexico
rigs were evacuated.
(AFP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 29-2005 Sep 5, The annual
Burning Man Festival in Nevada planned to introduce BORG2, an event
within the main event concentrating on art projects.
(SSFC, 1/2/05, p.A20)
2005 Aug 29, Jude Wanniski
(b.1936), economist and journalist, died. He coined the term
supply-side economics in 1975 to describe the theory that cutting
personal income tax rates would lead to increased investment and create
economic growth. In 1978 he authored “The Way the World Works.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Wanniski)(WSJ,
9/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 29, Ontario became the
1st province in Canada to ban the pit bull dog. The pit bull was
already banned in several cities across Canada. In the US it was
already banned in Denver, Miami and Cincinnati.
(SFC, 8/30/05, p.A2)
2005 Aug 29, Egypt's intelligence
chief met Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to shore up the strained
cease-fire with Israel and discuss freedom of movement across Gaza's
borders.
(AP, 8/29/05)
2005 Aug 29, In France
firefighters said 7 people, including 4 children, died in an apartment
fire in Paris.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 29, Thousands of Sunni
demonstrators rallied in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit to
denounce Iraq's new constitution a day after negotiators finished the
new charter without the endorsement of Sunni Arabs.
(AP, 8/29/05)
2005 Aug 29, In northern Iraq a US
Army helicopter made a forced landing under hostile fire, and one
soldier was killed and another injured.
(AP, 8/29/05)
2005 Aug 29, In Sri Lanka
attackers on a bicycle hurled grenades at a Tamil-language newspaper
office in the capital of Colombo, killing a security guard.
(AP, 8/29/05)
2005 Aug 29, A Swedish nuclear
power plant shut down one of its three reactors because of an abnormal
accumulation of jellyfish in the cooling system.
(AP, 8/29/05)
2005 Aug 29, The Rev. Jesse
Jackson met with President Hugo Chavez in hopes of reducing tensions
between the US and Venezuela after religious broadcaster Pat Robertson
called for the assassination of Chavez.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2006 Aug 29, President George Bush
visited New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the
region to offer comfort and hope to residents.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2006 Aug 29, A US probe determined
that Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of
Governors, misused government funds on several occasions, overbilling
for his time and funneling unauthorized contracts to a friend.
(AP, 8/29/06)(WSJ, 8/30/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 29, Omeed Aziz Popal
(29), a native of Afghanistan, killed one pedestrian in Hayward, Ca.,
and injured another 16 at 11 locations in SF in a driving rampage. SF
police finally rammed him down at California and Spruce streets. In
2008 a SF judge ruled that Popal was legally insane.
(SFC, 8/30/06, p.A1)(SFC, 8/1/08, p.B1)
2006 Aug 29, Warren Steed Jeffs
(50), a fugitive polygamist, was arrested in Nevada. He was on the
FBI’s 10 most-wanted list for sex crimes in Utah and Arizona. Jeffs
ruled the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
(FLDS) since his father died in 2002. The sect had broken from the
Mormon Church over a century ago.
(SFC, 8/30/06, p.A11)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.34)
2006 Aug 29, Tropical Storm
Ernesto's leading edge drenched Miami and the rest of southern Florida.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2006 Aug 29, A suicide car bomber
struck a NATO-Afghan military convoy, killing two civilians and
wounding one in the violence-wracked south. A remote-controlled bomb
killed two police officers on patrol.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 29, About 50 former
militants surrendered and handed over their weapons in a ceremony led
by Chechnya's powerful prime minister, who said rebel numbers are
dwindling in the war-ravaged region.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 29, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad challenged the authority of the UN Security Council as Iran
faces a deadline to halt its uranium enrichment and he called for a
televised debate with President Bush on world issues.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 29, The bodies of 13
people, believed to have been aged between 25 and 35, were found dumped
behind a Shiite mosque in the Turath neighborhood in western Baghdad.
All were handcuffed, showed signs of torture and had been shot in the
head. 11 of the bullet-riddled corpses were found near a school in the
Shiite dominated Maalif neighborhood in southern Baghdad. A pipeline
carrying oil byproducts exploded near Diwaniyah, killing at least 36
people with 45 injured.
(AP, 8/29/06)(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 29, Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador, Mexico's leftist presidential candidate, rejected a court
decision upholding his rival's slim lead in the disputed July 2 race
and called on his supporters not to recognize a government led by
Felipe Calderon.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 29, In Quetta, Pakistan,
gunfire and rioting broke out for a fourth straight day after the
funeral service for a prominent tribal chief killed by Pakistani
government forces. One policeman was killed and dozens of shops
destroyed. Three factory workers were killed in a restaurant bombing in
the Baluchistan town of Hub.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 29, An extremist Kurdish
militant group warned that "the fear of death will reign everywhere in
Turkey" and it urged tourists to avoid travel to the country.
(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 29, A cease-fire between
Uganda's government and the LRA, a shadowy rebel movement that has
terrorized this east African nation for nearly two decades, went into
effect.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2007 Aug 29, Fellow Republicans
called on Idaho Sen. Larry Craig to resign and party leaders pushed him
from senior committee posts as fallout continued over his arrest at a
Minneapolis airport restroom and guilty plea to disorderly conduct.
(AP, 8/29/08)
2007 Aug 29, US service officials
said the Army will examine as many as 18,000 contracts awarded over the
past four years to support US forces in Iraq to determine how many are
tainted by waste, fraud and abuse.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 29, The US Air Force
accidentally flew a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber from North Dakota to
Louisiana. On October 19 the Air Force said 70 service members would be
punished for widespread disregard of rules.
(SFC, 10/20/07, p.A4)
2007 Aug 29, New research said
arsenic in drinking water is a global threat to health, affecting more
than 70 countries and 137 million people. The country worst affected is
Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of people are likely to die
from cancers of the lung, bladder and skin caused by arsenic.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 29, A new report said
CEOs of American companies made an average of $10.8 million last year,
more than 364 times the average pay of American workers. The 14th
annual study was a joint report from the Institute for Policy Studies
and United for a Fair Economy.
(SFC, 8/30/07, p.C3)
2007 Aug 29, Alfred Peet (b.1920),
Dutch-born specialty coffee pioneer, died in Oregon. His first shop
opened in Berkeley, Ca., in 1966. He sold the business in 1979, but
stayed on as a coffee buyer until 1984, when Baldwin and Reynolds,
co-owners of Starbucks, along with other investors bought 4 Bay Area
locations of Peet’s. They later sold the chain to Howard Shultz, who
entered a no-compete agreement with Peet’s in the Bay Area. Peet’s
became a public company in 2001.
(SFC, 9/1/07, p.C1)
2007 Aug 29, Richard Jewell,
the former security guard who was wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic
bombing, was found dead in his west Georgia home; he was 44.
(AP, 8/29/08)
2007 Aug 29, Taliban militants
released 12 of 19 South Korean captives they promised to free under a
deal struck with the South Korean government to resolve a nearly
six-week hostage crisis. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded
bazaar in eastern Afghanistan, killing four civilians and two Afghan
soldiers. A Canadian soldier, based in the Afghan capital Kabul, died
of a gunshot wound after he was found injured in his room.
(AFP, 8/29/07)(Reuters, 8/29/07)(AP, 8/29/08)
2007 Aug 29, Britain unveiled a
statue of Nelson Mandela outside the houses of Parliament, honoring the
South African anti-apartheid campaigner as one of the great leaders of
his era.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 29, China began selling
$79 billion in bonds to finance a state agency that will invest the
country's foreign currency reserves.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 29, It was reported that
more than 100 people have died in a remote part of Congo, including all
those who attended the funerals of two village chiefs, in what health
officials fear is an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 29, Pierre Messmer
(b.1916), a member of the French Resistance who was the country's prime
minister from 1972 to 1974, died.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 29, Hong Kong police
arrested two men accused of trying to smuggle more than 7,000 live pet
turtles to mainland China.
(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 29, In India the
world-famous Taj Mahal was closed to tourists after officials in the
city of Agra imposed a curfew following rioting that left one person
dead and 50 hurt. Rioters fought pitched battles with police, pelting
them with stones, glass bottles and setting vehicles alight, after a
speeding truck crushed four Muslims to death. Officials in the eastern
state of Orissa said at least 105 people have died of cholera and some
6,000 people are suffering from diseases caused by drinking dirty water.
(AFP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 29, A group of eight
Iranians, including two diplomats, were released by US forces after
being detained a day earlier because unauthorized weapons were found in
their cars. An aide said Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered a
six-month suspension of activities by his Mahdi Army militia in order
to reorganize the force. Marines from the 5th Regimental Combat Team
killed 12 suspected al-Qaida in Iraq fighters and destroyed two
vehicles in fighting near the Anbar city of Fallujah. 4 al-Qaida
fighters and two Sunni tribesmen opposed to the terror movement were
killed in gunfights in Haqlaniyah. 2 US service members, a Marine and
an Army soldier, were killed in fighting in Anbar province. An American
soldier died from wounds suffered the day before in fighting near the
northern city of Kirkuk. A US soldier was killed in a roadside bomb
attack during combat operations in Iraq's eastern Diyala province.
(AP, 8/29/07)(AP, 8/30/07)(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 29, The three cousins,
10-year-old Mahmoud Ghazal, 10-year-old Sara Ghazal and 12-year-old
Yehiya Ghazal, were killed when Israeli troops combating Palestinian
rocket squads spotted figures moving near rocket launchers in northern
Gaza and ordered a strike.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Aug 29, The 11-day Venice
Film Festival opened for its 75th anniversary edition.
(SFC, 8/30/07, p.E5)
2007 Aug 29, Lithuania's top
politicians attended an official ceremony in Vilnius to unveil probably
the first monument in the world honoring basketball, which is said to
be the second religion of this Baltic country.
(http://tinyurl.com/2omkbv)
2007 Aug 29, In Myanmar
pro-government gangs on trucks staked out key streets in Yangon as the
country's military rulers sought to crush a rare wave of dissent by
pro-democracy activists protesting fuel price increases.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 29, A senior official
said Pakistan’s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and former rival
Benazir Bhutto have reached an agreement regarding Musharraf's military
role, a key step toward a power-sharing deal.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 29, JEM and Sudan
Liberation Movement (SLM) attacked an army base in the Kordofan region
next to Darfur, which they said was the logistical and supply centre
for ongoing attacks in South Darfur. The rebels said 15 soldiers were
killed. The government later reported that 41 people were killed in the
Kordofan region. Officials said floods across Sudan have killed 101
people, spread disease and destroyed livelihoods by wiping out
agricultural crops.
(Reuters, 8/29/07)(Reuters, 8/30/07)(Reuters, 9/1/07)
2007 Aug 29, Thousands of hardline
supporters of Robert Mugabe marched through Harare, denouncing the
Zimbabwe president's Western critics and endorsing his controversial
program of farm seizures. Zimbabwe's state media called on the
government to sever ties with Australia, accusing PM John Howard's
government of seeking to topple Pres. Mugabe.
(AP, 8/29/07)
2008 Aug 29, John McCain, on his
72nd birthday, tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (44) to be
his vice presidential running mate.
(AP, 8/29/08)(SFC, 8/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Aug 29, US banking regulators
shut down Integrity Bancshares Inc. of Alpharetta, Ga., and sold all
deposits to Regions Financial Corp. of Birmingham, Ala. This marked the
10th US bank to fail this year.
(WSJ, 8/30/08, p.B3)
2008 Aug 29, In SF the 4-day Slow
Food Nation opened at the Civic Center Plaza and continued at Fort
Mason, where tickets to the Taste Pavilion sold for $65. The Slow Food
movement had begun in Italy in 1986.
(SSFC, 8/31/08, p.A1)(Econ, 9/13/08, p.38)
2008 Aug 29, In Oklahoma a train
slammed into a propane tanker truck triggering an explosion that killed
2 people.
(WSJ, 8/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Aug 29, Tropical Storm Gustav
drenched Jamaica, killing at least 4 people, and rolled over the Cayman
Islands with fierce winds that tore down trees and power lines, setting
off alarm from Cuba to New Orleans, and at gas pumps across the US.
(AP, 8/29/08)(AP, 8/30/08)(SFC, 8/30/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 29, A Georgian Foreign
Ministry official says Georgia is to recall all diplomatic staff from
its embassy in Moscow because of the Russian military presence in
Georgia.
(AP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 29, Chinese police
investigating a spate of attacks this month in western Xinjiang
province shot dead six suspects and arrested three others near Kashgar.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 29, French neurosurgeons
said they had successfully treated brain tumors through ultra-keyhole
surgery, using a tiny fiber-optic laser to destroy cancerous cells.
(AFP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 29, In India Tata Motors
suspended work on its new plant in Mumbai, West Bengal, due to ongoing
demonstrations in support of local farmers who say they were forced off
their land to make way for the plant.
(WSJ, 8/30/08, p.A5)
2008 Aug 29, A gunmen killed a
member of a local US-allied Sunni group and his family in the village
of Withah, Diyala province. His father, mother and an infant were also
killed in the attack, which was in coordination with an assault on a
nearby Iraqi army checkpoint that wounded one Iraqi soldier.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 29, Central Japan was hit
by heavy rains and flooding forcing the evacuation of over a million
people.
(WSJ, 8/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Aug 29, Fighter jets bombed
Taliban hide-outs in Pakistan's Swat Valley while troops pushed into
militant territory on the ground, killing at least 40 insurgents in a
24-hour siege.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 29, The San Juan Star,
Puerto Rico's Pulitzer Prize-winning English-language newspaper,
closed. The owner blamed the union for not agreeing to benefit cuts and
layoffs to offset declining revenue.
(AP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 29, Pirates, believed to
be Somali, hijacked the Malaysian MT Bunga Melati 5 tanker and its 41
crew members off Yemen's coast in the Gulf of Aden. It was the second
tanker owned by MISC Berhard to be hijacked in the gulf in the last 10
days.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 29, In Sri Lanka
renewed fighting in the embattled north killed 18 rebels and 5 soldiers.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 29, In Zimbabwe
power-sharing talks over a unity government resumed as Mugabe's
government made good on a promise to allow aid agencies to resume
operations. Mugabe announced cash awards for Zimbabwe’s Olympic
winners. He called Kirsty Coventry, who won three silvers and a gold at
the Beijing games, Zimbabwe's "golden girl" and gave her $100,000.
(AP, 8/29/08)(AP, 8/30/08)
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