Today in History - August 30
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30BC Aug 30,
Cleopatra, the 7th and most famous queen of ancient Egypt, committed
suicide about this time.
(AP, 8/30/97)
526 Aug 30, Theodorik the Great
(72), King of Ostrogoths, died of dysentery. He was succeeded by his
grandson Athalaric (10), who reigned until 534 with his mother
Amalasuntha as regent.
(PC, 1992, p.54)
1146 Aug 30, European leaders
outlawed the crossbow with the intention to end war for all time. [see
1139]
(MC, 8/30/01)
1334 Aug 30, Pedro, the Cruel,
King of Castilia & Leon, was born.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1481 Aug 30, Two Latvian monarchs
were executed for conspiracy to murder Polish king Kazimierz IV.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1617 Aug 30, Rosa de Lima of Peru
became the first American saint to be canonized.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1645 Aug 30, Dutch & Indians
signed peace treaty in New Amsterdam (NY).
(MC, 8/30/01)
1682 Aug 30, William Penn left
England to sail to New World. He took along an insurance policy.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1721 Aug 30, The Peace of Nystad
ended the Second Northern War between Sweden and Russia, giving Russia
considerably more power in the Baltic region.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1727 Aug 30, Giandomenico Tiepolo
(d.1804), Venetian painter, was born. His subjects included troupes of
traveling players from northern Italy.
(Econ, 4/10/04, p.72)(www.britannica.com)
1748 Aug 30, Jacques-Louis David
(d.1825), Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat), was born. He painted
“Madame Hamelin.” He also painted a portrait of Napoleon crossing the
St. Bernard Pass on a rearing horse. Jean Ingres began his career as a
pupil of David.
(AAP, 1964)(WUD, 1994, p.369)(WSJ, 5/19/97,
p.A16)(WSJ, 5/28/99, p.W12)(MC, 8/30/01)
1751 Aug 30, Georg Friedrich
Handel completed his last oratorio "Jephtha."
(LGC-HCS, p.41)(MC, 8/30/01)
1780 Aug 30, General Benedict
Arnold betrayed the US when he promised secretly to surrender the fort
at West Point to the British army. Arnold whose name has become
synonymous with traitor fled to England after the botched conspiracy.
His co-conspirator, British spy Major John Andre, was hanged in an act
of spite by Washington ("it's good for the armies").
(MC, 8/30/01)
1781 Aug 30, The French fleet of
24 ships under Comte de Grasse arrived in the Chesapeake Bay to aid the
American Revolution. The fleet defeated British under Admiral Graves at
battle of Chesapeake Capes.
(HN, 8/30/00)(MC, 8/30/01)
1797 Aug 30, Mary Wollstonecraft
(Godwin) Shelley (d.1851), the creator of "Frankenstein," or the Modern
Prometheus, was born in London. Her mother died in childbirth.
(AHD, p.1193)(AP, 8/30/97)(HN, 8/30/98)(Econ,
2/26/05, p.84)
1813 Aug 30, Creek Indians
massacred over 500 whites at Fort Mims Alabama.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1831 Aug 30, Charles Darwin
refused to travel with the HMS Beagle. On Dec 27 he was onboard.
(MC, 8/30/01)(AP, 12/27/97)
1841 Aug 30, Robert Peel
(1788-1850) became PM of Britain for a 2nd time. This was the 1st
occasion in which Britain’s government was brought down by the votes of
the electorate.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel)
1854 Aug 30, John Fremont issued a
proclamation freeing the slaves of Missouri rebels.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1860 Aug 30, The first British
tramway was inaugurated at Birkenhead by an American, George Francis
Train.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1861 Aug 30, Union General John
Fremont declared martial law throughout Missouri and made his own
emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. However,
Fremont’s order was countermanded days later by President Lincoln.
(HN, 8/30/98)(AP, 8/30/06)
1862 Aug 30, Union forces were
defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in
Manassas, Va. Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell fought at the Second Battle of
Manassas, which was also a Union defeat (the Union army in this case
was commanded by Maj. Gen. John Pope). McDowell was then relieved of
his command until he was sent to command the Department of the Pacific
in 1864, where he finished the war.
(AP, 8/30/97)(HNQ, 7/30/01)
1862 Aug 30, In the Battle of
Altamont, Tennessee, Confederates beat Union forces.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1871 Aug 30, Ernest Rutherford
(d.1937), physicist who discovered and named alpha, beta and gamma
radiation and was the first to achieve a man-made nuclear reaction, was
born in New Zealand.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1879 Aug 30, John Bell Hood
(b.1831), former confederate general, died of yellow fever in a New
Orleans epidemic.
(AH, 10/02,
p.46)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bell_Hood)
1885 Aug 30, Some 13,000 meteors
were seen in 1 hour near Andromeda.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1892 Aug 30, The Moravia, a
passenger ship arriving from Germany, brought cholera to the United
States.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1893 Aug 30, Huey P. Long,
Louisiana politician who served as governor and U.S. senator, known as
"The Kingfish,” was born.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1901 Aug 30, Hubert Cecil Booth
patented the vacuum cleaner. [see 1869]
(MC, 8/30/01)
1905 Aug 30, Ty Cobb made his
major league batting debut, playing for the Detroit Tigers, hitting a
double in his first at-bat in a game against the NY Highlanders. The
Tigers won, 5-3.
(AP, 8/30/00)
1907 Aug 30, Shirley Booth (Thelma
Booth Ford) was born in New York City. Booth was best known from 1950s
television as the zany maid Hazel. She won a Tony, an Oscar, the Cannes
Festival award and numerous critics' commendations for her role as the
slovenly Lola Delany in 'Come Back, Little Sheba'. Booth went on to act
in more films including 'The Matchmaker' which was a precursor to
the musical 'Hello Dolly!'
(MC, 8/30/01)
1908 Aug 30, Actor Fred MacMurray
(d.1991) was born in Kankakee, Ill.
(AP,
8/30/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_MacMurray)
1914 Aug 30, The 1st German plane
bombed Paris and 2 people were killed.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1918 Aug 30, Ted Williams
(d.2002), Hall of Fame outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, the last man
to hit .400 in a season, was born.
(HN, 8/30/98)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A1)
1918 Aug 30, Lenin, the new leader
of Soviet Russia, was shot & wounded after a speech.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1927 Aug 30, Geoffrey Beene, dress
designer (8 Coty Awards), was born in Louisiana.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1928 Aug 30, Jawaharlal Nehru
requested the independence of India.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1932 Aug 30, Nazi leader Hermann
Goering was elected president of the Reichstag.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1933 Aug 30, Portuguese dictator
Salazar formed secret police (PIDE).
(MC, 8/30/01)
1935 Aug 30, The US Revenue Act
increased taxes on inheritances, gifts and higher income individuals.
(SSFC, 1/18/09,
p.D6)(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6038)
1939 Aug 30, Isoroku Yamamoto was
appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1940 Aug 30, Senpo Chinne
Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat in Lithuania, received orders from
Japan to stop issuing visas immediately. He disobeyed the order and
continued issuing visas until the end of the month when the consulate
closed. In all Sugihara issued visas to some 3,500 Jewish refugees.
(SFC, 9/7/96, p.A13)(SFC, 9/9/96, p.A16)
1941 Aug 30, The World War II
siege of Leningrad began as Nazi forces took Mga.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1943 Aug 30, Robert Crumb, US,
cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat), was born.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1943 Aug 30, Jean Claude Killy,
France, skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968), was born.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1944 Aug 30, Ploesti, the center
of the Rumanian oil industry, fell to Soviet troops.
(HN, 8/30/00)
1945 Aug 30, Dmitri Shostakovitch
completed his 9th Symphony.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1945 Aug 30, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur arrived in Japan and set up Allied occupation headquarters.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1956 Aug 30, In Louisiana the
2-lane Lake Pontchartrain causeway opened. A 2nd span was added in 1969.
(HC, 6/14/05)
1956 Aug 30, A white mob prevented
the enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1960 Aug 30, East Germany imposed
a partial blockade on West Berlin.
(MC, 8/30/01)
1961 Aug 30, President John F.
Kennedy appointed General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative
in Berlin.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1961 Aug 30, A UN Convention on
the Reduction of Statelessness opened for signatures. It entered into
force on Dec 13, 1975. By 2007 only 34 countries had signed it.
(http://tinyurl.com/2tdgb6)(Econ, 12/1/07, p.75)
1963 Aug 30, The hot-line
communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into
operation.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1963 Aug 30, Guy Burgess (b.1911),
British spy for the USSR, died in Moscow.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Burgess)
1967 Aug 30, The U.S. Senate
confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black
justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1974 Aug 30, In Yugoslavia an
express train, traveling from Belgrade to Germany, ran full speed into
a Zagreb, Croatia, rail yard killing 152.
(www.cmj.hr/2001/42/6/12.htm)(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)
1979 Aug 30, Hurricane David
devastated the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica as it began a rampage
through the Caribbean and up the eastern seaboard of the United States
that claimed some 1,100 lives.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1979 Aug 30, The comet SOLWIND 1
first appeared on an image, at which time it was located 5.96 solar
radii from the sun. It has been commonly presumed that the comet either
hit the sun, or completely vaporized because of its near approach.
(http://cometography.com/lcomets/1979q1.html)
1981 Aug 30, Mohammad Javad
Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, was assassinated by a bomb.
(www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-6395.html)
1982 Aug 30, Palestinian
Liberation Organization left Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to Tunis,
Tunisia.
(SFC, 11/11/04, p.A18)
1983 Aug 30, Lieutenant Colonel
Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to
travel in space, blasting off aboard the Challenger.
(AP, 8/30/97)(HN, 8/30/98)
1984 Aug 30, In Florida NASA
launched the US space shuttle Discovery on its 1st mission.
(www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/discovery-info.html)
1986 Aug 30, Soviet authorities
arrested Nicholas Daniloff, the Moscow correspondent for U.S. News and
World Report, after he was handed a package by a Russian acquaintance.
He was later released.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1987 Aug 30, A redesigned space
shuttle booster, created in the wake of the Challenger disaster, roared
into life in its first full-scale test-firing near Brigham City, Utah.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1988 Aug 30, Top aides to
Republican presidential nominee George Bush and Democrat Michael
Dukakis met in Washington without reaching agreement on a schedule for
fall debates.
(AP, 8/30/98)
1989 Aug 30, A federal jury in New
York found "hotel queen" Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion
but acquitted her of extortion. Helmsley served 18 months behind bars,
a month at a halfway house and two months under house arrest.
(AP, 8/30/99)
1989 Aug 30, The Cambodian peace
talks in Paris collapsed.
(Hem, 4/96, p.15)(http://tinyurl.com/nz3x5)
1990 Aug 30, President Bush told a
news conference that a “new world order” could emerge from the Gulf
crisis.
(AP, 8/30/00)
1990 Aug 30, Edmund G. Love
(b.1912), Michigan-based writer, died in Flint. His book ''Subways Are
for Sleeping'' (1957) was the basis for the Broadway musical (1961).
(LSA, Spring, 2009, p.34)(http://tinyurl.com/c6rqnh)
1990 Aug 30, In Colombia a series
of abductions began with the kidnapping of Diana Turbay, a Bogota TV
news director and daughter of former president Julio Cesar Turbay. The
abductions were by the Medellin drug cartel under Pablo Escobar. In
1997 Gabriel Garcia Marquez published his documentation of the events
in “News of a Kidnapping.”
(SFEC, 6/1/97, BR p.1,6)
1990 Aug 30, UN Secretary-General
Javier Perez de Cuellar arrived in Jordan to try to mediate the Persian
Gulf crisis.
(AP, 8/30/00)
1990 Aug 30, Tatarstan proclaimed
sovereignty. This was not recognized by Russia. The declaration on the
Republic of Tatarstan state sovereignty was adopted immediately after
the declaration on the sovereignty of the Russian Federation, which
provided the peoples' right "to self-determination in the
national-state and national-cultural forms they have chosen."
(www.kcn.ru/tat_en/politics/dfa/sover/sover.htm)
1991 Aug 30, At the World Track
and Field Championships in Tokyo, Mike Powell jumped 29 feet, 4 and 1/2
inches for a new world record.
(WSJ, 7/26/96, p.A6)
1991 Aug 30, Azerbaijan declared
its independence, joining the stampede of republics seeking to secede
from the Soviet Union.
(AP, 8/29/01)
1992 Aug 30, The television series
"Northern Exposure" won six Emmy Awards, including best drama series,
while "Murphy Brown" received three Emmys, including best comedy
series, in a ceremony marked by satirical jabs directed at Vice
President Dan Quayle.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1993 Aug 30, "The Late Show with
David Letterman" premiered on CBS-TV.
(AP, 8/30/98)
1993 Aug 30, Richard Jordan, US
actor (Hunt for Red October, Posse), died at 55, shortly after
finishing movie, Gettysburg (Gen Armistead).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0430151/)
1993 Aug 30, Robert Malval was
installed as prime minister of Haiti during a ceremony at the Haitian
Embassy in Washington.
(AP, 8/30/98)
1993 Aug 30, The 150 millionth
person visited the Eiffel Tower.
(www.vor.ru/century/1993.html)
1993 Aug 30, Israel's Cabinet
approved a framework for Palestinian autonomy in the occupied
territories.
(AP, 8/30/98)
1994 Aug 30, Rosa Parks, who
helped touch off the civil rights movement in 1955 by refusing to give
up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., was robbed and
beaten in her Detroit apartment. Joseph Skipper later pleaded guilty to
assault and robbery and was sentenced to prison.
(AP, 8/30/99)
1995 Aug 30, Cable News Network
joined the internet ("This is CNN").
(www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/CNN20/story/viewpoint/woelfel.essay/)
1995 Aug 30, Bosnian Serbs gave
Serbian Pres. Slobodan Milosevic authority to negotiate for them. The
West pounded the Bosnian Serbs with artillery and air attacks in hopes
of bludgeoning them into serious peace talks.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 8/30/00)
1995 Aug 30, At a lavish opening
ceremony in Beijing, organizers of a major women’s conference vowed to
fight for empowerment and equality.
(AP, 8/30/00)(www.iisd.org/women/beijfact.htm)
1996 Aug 30, President Clinton and
Vice President Gore, fresh from their renominations at the
just-concluded Democratic National Convention in Chicago, set out with
their wives on a bus caravan through America's heartland.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1996 Aug 30, The US State Dept.
sent a diplomatic note to China protesting the sale of equipment for
use in nuclear facilities in Pakistan.
(SFC, 10/10/96, p.A12)
1996 Aug 30, Dick Morris, the
campaign strategist for pres. Bill Clinton, resigned due to exposure in
a sex scandal.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 30, The California
Legislature sent a bill to Gov. Wilson that would mandate chemical
castration of child molesters.
(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A4)
1996 Aug 30, A commercial
expedition to raise part of the sunken British luxury liner Titanic
ended in failure as nylon lines being used to lift a 21-ton section of
the hull snapped, sending the section back to the bottom of the North
Atlantic.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1996 Aug 30, In Columbia the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARQ) guerrillas attacked the
army at the Las Delicias military base in Putumayo province. They
captured 60 soldiers and killed 30 others. The 12,000 FARQ have gained
income by collecting commissions on coca leaf harvests.
(SFC, 6/16/97, p.A9)
1996 Aug 30, In Libya, Louis
Farrakhan said that he could not accept a $250,000 human rights award
until US courts give him permission.
(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A4)
1996 Aug 30, In Sri Lanka rebels
ambushed a police patrol 115 miles east of Colombo.
(WSJ, 8/30/96, p.A1)
1997 Aug 30, Philip Noel Johnson,
an armored car driver believed to have stolen $22 million, was arrested
at the Texas border. Johnson later pleaded guilty to charges of
kidnapping, money laundering and interfering with interstate commerce.
He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Johnson (33) a former armored
car driver for Loomis, Fargo & Co., was accused of raiding the
vault of the company's Jacksonville, Fla., office on March 29. The
heist was one of the biggest in U.S. history.
(AP, 8/30/02)
1997 Aug 30, Americans and others
in the Western Hemisphere learned of the deaths of Princess Diana, her
boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, in a car crash in
Paris. Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones survived. Because of the time
difference, it was the morning of Aug. 31 in Paris when Diana was
pronounced dead. [see Aug 31]
(AP, 8/30/98)
1998 Aug 30, In Denver the largest
union of US West, the regional telephone service, ended a 15-day strike
with a tentative agreement on a three-year contract.
(SFC, 8/31/98, p.A4)(AP, 8/30/99)
1999 Aug 30, In East Timor
UN-sponsored elections were held on autonomy vs. independence. 98.6% of
the 451,000 registered voters cast their ballots. Roughly 78% of the
electorate voted to sever links to Indonesia and establish an
independent state. Pro-Indonesia militiamen reacted by going on a
violent rampage that ended when international forces were sent in. U.N.
peacekeeping forces arrived in the following weeks.
(SFC, 8/30/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/31/99, p.A12)(AP,
8/30/00)(HN, 11/9/00)
1999 Aug 30 In Israel the bodies
of an Israeli couple were found on the West Bank border near the
Megiddo forest. Palestinian extremists were suspected as responsible.
(SFC, 8/31/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 30, In Jordan police in
Amman stormed offices linked to the radical Palestinian Hamas movement.
(SFC, 8/31/99, p.A13)
1999 Aug 30, Russia reported four
soldiers killed and 5 wounded from fighting in Dagestan.
(WSJ, 8/31/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 30, In Sudan southern
SPLA rebels rejected an Egyptian-Libyan peace plan. The rebels held
that conditions put forward in negotiations were not included in the
plan.
(SFC, 8/31/99, p.A13)
1999 Aug 30, In Venezuela the
constitutional assembly stripped the opposition-controlled Congress of
its last remaining powers.
(SFC, 8/31/99, p.A13)
2000 Aug 30, Pres. Clinton stopped
in Colombia and pledged that US aid would not lead to military
escalation in the drug war. The recent $1.5 billion military aid
package was part of a broader $7.5 billion Colombian plan to fight
drugs, help refugees and strengthen government institutions.
(SFC, 8/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 30, In China’s Fujian
province police arrested a Catholic priest, 20 nuns, 2 laymen and a
seminarian in Luoyuan county. Rev. Liu Shaozhang (38) was reported to
have been severely beaten and that parishioners bought the release of 2
nuns.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Aug 30, It was reported that
many professional and entrepreneurs were leaving Colombia and Venezuela
due to civil war and economic policies.
(WSJ, 8/30/00, p.A1)
2001 Aug 30, US warplanes bombed
an Iraqi radar site near Basra’s airport.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 30, It was reported that
some 40,000 tax forms were destroyed or concealed at a Pittsburgh
processing center run by Mellon Bank.
(WSJ, 8/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 30, Nikolay Soltys was
captured hiding under a desk in his mother's back yard in Citrus
Heights, Calif., after a ten-day nationwide manhunt for the Ukrainian
immigrant accused of butchering six relatives. Soltys committed suicide
in his jail cell in February. [see Aug 20]
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)(AP, 8/30/02)
2001 Aug 30, In Iowa Leticia
Aguilar (31) was found dead with her 5 children at her home in Sioux
City. A 7th victim, Ronal Fish (58) was also found. Adam Matthew Moss
(24) was arrested the next day and charged in the murders. Moss pleaded
guilty on Sep 25 and was sentenced to 7 consecutive life terms.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A4)(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C12)
2001 Aug 30, In Sao Paulo, Brazil,
Fernando Dutra Pinto (22) held Silvio Santos, TV tycoon, hostage for 8
hours and then surrendered to police.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A5)(SFC, 8/31/01, p.D2)
2001 Aug 30, In Iran riots left 2
people dead in Sabzevar after the town failed to win provincial-capital
status.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 30, In East Timor
elections were held for an 88-member assembly to write a constitution.
Voter turnout was estimated at 93% and the Revolutionary Front for an
Independent East Timor was expected to win. Fretilin secured 55 0f 88
seats.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A5)(SFC,
8/31/01, p.A18)(SFC, 9/6/01, p.E4)
2001 Aug 30, Israeli forces began
pulling out of Beit Jala. 3 Palestinians were killed in gun battles
with Israeli troops. One Israeli was killed in a Palestinian village in
a restaurant that he helped a friend establish.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/31/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 30, In Japan the Nikkei
fell to a 17-year low, 10,938, as the government reported declines in
industrial output and consumer spending.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A5)
2001 Aug 30, In Macedonia NATO
troops suspended arms collections to await a parliamentary vote on
proceeding forward with the peace accord.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 30, In Mexico on the
Int’l. Day of the Disappeared relatives of some of the 500 people who
disappeared from 1970 to 2000 filed a criminal complaint against the
last 5 presidents.
(SFC, 8/31/01, p.D6)
2001 Aug 30, In South Africa Govan
Mbeki, the father of Pres. Thabo Mbeki, died at age 91. He authored the
book “South Africa: The Peasant’s Revolt” while imprisoned on Robben
Island.
(SFC, 8/31/01, p.A24)
2002 Aug 30, Major League Baseball
players reached agreement with team owners on a four-year labor deal,
narrowly averting a strike that threatened to drive away the sport's
already embittered fans. It was the first time since 1970 that players
and owners had agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement without
a work stoppage.
(Reuters, 8/30/02)(AP, 8/30/03)
2002 Aug 30, In Washington, DC,
some 35,000 gathered for the 39th annual meeting of the Islamic Society
of North America.
(SFC, 8/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 30, J. Lee Thompson (88),
movie director ("The Guns of Navarone"), died in Sooke, British
Columbia, Canada.
(AP, 8/30/03)
2002 Aug 30, For the 6th time in a
week, coalition aircraft bombed an Iraqi defense facility in one of the
no-fly zones patrolled by U.S. and British pilots.
(AP, 8/30/02)
2002 Aug 30, A twin-engine plane
with 31 people crashed while trying to land in heavy rains near Rio
Branco, a northwestern Brazilian city, killing 23 people.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2002 Aug 30, In Burundi the army
reportedly killed 48 Hutu rebels in clashes outside Bujumbura.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)
2002 Aug 30, Floodwaters along the
lower stretches of the Mekong have wreaked havoc in Laos, Cambodia
(18), Thailand (12) and Vietnam (25), claiming at least 55 lives and
leaving thousands homeless across the region.
(AP, 8/30/02)
2002 Aug 30, In the Netherlands 8
men were detained for providing financial and logistical services to al
Qaeda and for recruiting fighters.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 30, It was reported that
North Korea has made changes in its economic system that included a
phase out of its public distribution system, price increases and salary
increases.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A14)
2002 Aug 30, The WTO ruled that
the EU can impose $4 billion in penalties on the US because of an
American tax break that promotes exports. The EU planned to give the US
time to change the law.
(SFC, 8/31/02, p.A7)
2003 Aug 30, Harley-Davidson
celebrated its 100th anniversary in Milwaukee with a parade of 10,000
motorcycles. Some 250,000 bikers packed the roads around Milwaukee for
a 3-day celebration.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2003 Aug 30, A flashflood swept
cars off the Kansas Turnpike in Emporia and at least 4 children were
killed with 2 missing.
(WSJ, 9/2/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 30, In Gerlach, Nevada, a
woman riding an "art car" at the counterculture Burning Man festival
died when she accidentally fell under the vehicle's wheels. The
weeklong festival, theme name "Beyond Belief," peaked Saturday night
with the torching of a 70-foot-high wooden effigy of a man.
(AP, 8/31/03)(SFC, 9/1/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 30, Robert Abplanalp
(81), inventor and confidant of President Nixon, died in Bronxville,
N.Y.
(AP, 8/30/04)
2003 Aug 30, Charles Bronson
(b.1921), coal miner turned tough-guy actor and star of more than 60
films including the "Death Wish" series, died of pneumonia.
(AP, 9/1/03)(SFC, 9/1/03, p.A2)
2003 Aug 23, Marion Hargrove (83),
American writer, died in Long Beach, Calif. She was noted for the
bestselling World War II comedy novel “See Here, Private Hargrove,”
which was made into a 1944 movie with Robert Walker as Hargrove and
Donna Reed as his love interest.
(AP,
8/30/04)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Hargrove)
2003 Aug 30, In Botswana a former
bank manager, draped in a ceremonial leopard skin, was installed as the
first female paramount chief. Mosadi Seboko took over as the
highest-ranking chief of the Balete people.
(AP, 8/30/03)
2003 Aug 30, An Israeli helicopter
gunship fired several missiles at a Palestinian car driving through a
refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing two Hamas militants.
(AP, 8/30/03)
2003 Aug 30, In India 2 suspected
Islamic militants were killed in a battle with New Delhi police. Indian
police claimed to have killed Ghazi Baba, the head of the
Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group, during a fierce gun battle in
Srinagar. Baba was said to be the mastermind behind several terror
attacks including the December 2001 attack on India's Parliament.
(AP, 8/30/03)
2003 Aug 30, In northern India a
bus carrying 40 passengers plunged into a river in a remote hilly area.
There was no immediate word on casualties.
(AP, 8/30/03)
2003 Aug 30, A Russian
nuclear-powered submarine, K-159, sank in the Barents Sea as it was
being towed to a scrapyard, killing 9 of the 10 sailors on board.
(AP, 8/31/03)
2003 Aug 30, The World Trade
Organization agreed to let impoverished nations import cheaper copies
of patented medicines needed to fight killer diseases.
(AP, 8/30/04)
2004 Aug 30, Republicans opened
their convention in NYC with speeches by Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. John
McCain. They belittled Democratic Senator John Kerry as a
shift-in-the-wind campaigner unworthy of the White House and lavished
praise on Pres. Bush as a steady, decisive leader. Pres. Bush ignited a
Democratic inferno of criticism by suggesting on NBC's "Today" show
that an all-out victory against terrorism might not be possible.
(SFC, 8/31/04, p.A1)(AP, 8/30/05)
2004 Aug 30, US warplanes bombed
Weradesh village in eastern Afghanistan, killing 8 people and
destroying the camp of a Danish relief group after assailants rocketed
a nearby government office.
(AP, 8/31/04)
2004 Aug 30, A general strike to
protest a recent grenade attack that killed 20 people at an opposition
political rally brought Bangladesh to a near standstill.
(AP, 8/30/04)
2004 Aug 30, India's top
commercial bank, State Bank of India (SBI), hiked its fixed rates for
home loans in what analysts saw as an indication other interest rates
in Asia's fourth-largest economy are headed higher. The Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) said insufficient rainfall and uncertainty about the price
of crude oil, the country's biggest import item, posed downside risks
to growth in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
(AP, 8/30/04)
2004 Aug 30, Rebel Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr called for his followers across Iraq to end fighting
against U.S. and Iraqi forces and is considering joining the political
process.
(AP, 8/30/04)
2004 Aug 30, Israeli officials
said PM Ariel Sharon wants all 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip
evacuated at the same time, instead of in three stages.
(AP, 8/30/04)
2004 Aug 30, Japan's Supreme Court
ruled that troubled bank UFJ Holdings Inc. can pull out of a deal to
sell its trust business to a smaller rival, clearing the way for a full
takeover of UFJ by larger Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG).
(AP, 8/30/04)
2004 Aug 30, Typhoon Chaba plowed
into southern Japan, killing at least five people and injuring 73.
(AP, 8/30/04)
2004 Aug 30, Mexico’s state oil
company said it believes that vast untapped oil reserves lie in the
deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
(WSJ, 8/31/04, p.A10)
2005 Aug 30, A US Congressional
study said the US is the largest supplier of weapons to developing
nations, delivering more than $9.6 billion in arms to Near East and
Asian countries last year.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, A US federal court
ordered Palestinian Authority assets in the US frozen in order to pay a
$116 million judgement for the 1996 killing of an American in Israel.
(WSJ, 8/31/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 30, The death toll in
Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina passed 100. Flooding reached 11 feet
in Mobile, Ala. Breaches in at least 2 levees from Lake Pontchartrain
put parts of New Orleans under 20 feet of water. Mayor Ray Nagin
estimated that 80% of New Orleans was flooded. Tourists snapped
pictures of looters in the French Quarter.
(AP, 8/30/05)(SFC, 8/31/05, p.A10)
2005 Aug 30, Afghan and U.S.
ground troops, backed by attack helicopters, raided a Taliban camp in
the mountains of southern Afghanistan, killing nine suspected militants.
(AP, 8/31/05)
2005 Aug 30, In Australia
protesters demanding an end to the Iraq war and a cut in Third World
debt broke through a steel fence around the Sydney Opera House at the
start of the Forbes Global CEO Conference.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, Australia and New
Zealand lobbied the United Nations Security Council to indict
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his government in the
International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, Britain announced
plans, the first by any Western country, to ban the downloading and
possession of violent sexual images.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, In China tobacco
smugglers from Shangdeng were intercepted by authorities from nearby
Yantang and 2 smugglers ended up killed. Shangdeng residents sacked the
Yantang City Hall in response.
(SFC, 12/9/05, p.A25)
2005 Aug 30, It was reported that
China's top lender, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, is selling
a 10 percent stake to investment bank Goldman Sachs, American Express
and the German insurer Allianz. ICBC is also shedding $17.3 billion in
bad loans to prepare for an overseas listing.
(AP, 8/31/05)(Econ, 9/3/05, p.67)
2005 Aug 30, In Germany Berlin's
mayor Klaus Wowereit defended his decision to welcome a leather and
fetish enthusiasts to the German capital and accused his conservative
critics of being "small-minded."
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, India and Pakistan
agreed to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each
other's jails, a goodwill measure that comes as part of a peace process
between the two countries.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, US warplanes launched
strikes in western Iraq which killed an al Qaeda militant named Abu
Islam among other fighters. A hospital source said at least 47 people
were killed.
(Reuters, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, Lebanon's PM Fuad
Saniora said the commander of the Presidential Guards, three former
security chiefs and a former lawmaker are suspects in the Feb 14
assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, The UN said it was
alarmed by the rising number of disappearances in Nepal's civil war and
blamed both government troops and Maoist rebels. The state National
Human Rights Commission said since 1996 almost 1,000 people had
disappeared in the conflict. The 2005 UN report said no less than 136
people had disappeared in 2004.
(AP, 8/30/05)(Econ, 11/19/05, p.45)
2005 Aug 30, Nicaragua's highest
court granted former President Arnoldo Aleman conditional release from
house arrest, overturning the ruling of a previous court.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, In the Philippines
impeachment proceedings against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo fell
into chaos, as opposition lawmakers walked out of a committee hearing
and claimed her backers were unjustly trying to quash the case.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, South Africa's
foreign ministry called a halt to its role as peace mediator in
strife-torn Ivory Coast, saying it was in "no mood" to consider new
demands from rebels threatening to boycott October elections.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, South Korea rolled
out its first supersonic trainer jet as President Roh Moo-Hyun vowed to
boost the country's aerospace and defense industries.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, UN officials said the
9 UN agencies involved in the oil-for-food program have agreed to pay
Iraq about $40 million in oil proceeds they received in 2003 to finish
their work but never spent.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2005 Aug 30, Zimbabwe lawmakers
endorsed a constitutional overhaul that sharply restricts property
rights and allows Zimbabwe's government to deny passports to its
critics.
(AP, 8/30/05)
2006 Aug 30, In California Gov.
Schwarzenegger and Democrats struck a deal to require state industries
to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
(SFC, 8/31/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 30, Glenn Ford (90),
American actor, died at his home in Beverly Hills, Ca. He played
strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as "The Blackboard
Jungle," "Gilda" and "The Big Heat."
(AP, 8/31/06)
2006 Aug 30, Brazil’s central bank
cut its key interest rate 0.5% to 14.25%, a quarter point more than had
been expected. Brazil also released weaker-than-expected data on GDP.
(WSJ, 9/1/06, p.A8)
2006 Aug 30, Canadian miner
Uranium One said it had approved Australia's fourth uranium mine, the
Honeymoon project in the South Australian outback.
(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 30, Conservationists said
the remains of 100 African elephants killed for their tusks have been
found in Chad not far from Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
(AP, 8/31/06)
2006 Aug 30, Nearly 60 inmates
escaped from an East Timor jail, including scores of people arrested in
recent violence that wracked the tiny nation and militiamen who opposed
the country's break from Indonesian rule.
(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 30, Naguib Mahfouz
(b.1911), Arab writer, died in Cairo. He became the first Arab writer
to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1988) for his novels depicting
modern Egyptian life. Across the span of 35 novels, hundreds of short
stories and essays, over 20 movie scripts and five plays, Mahfouz
depicted with startling realism the Egyptian "Everyman" balancing
between tradition and the modern world.
(AP, 8/30/06)(Econ, 9/2/06, p.78)
2006 Aug 30, Iran released Ramin
Jahanbegloo, a Canadian-Iranian writer, who was accused of working with
the US to overthrow the government.
(Reuters, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 30, A roadside bomb
exploded in Baghdad's oldest and largest wholesale market district,
killing at least 24 people and wounding 35. An explosives-rigged
bicycle detonated near an army recruiting center in Hillah killed at
least 12 people and wounded 28. Bloodshed left at least 52 dead. 2
American soldiers and a Marine were killed.
(AP, 8/30/06)(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Aug 30, Israeli troops
launched airstrikes on the outskirts of Gaza City and exchanged gunfire
with Palestinian militants, killing six people.
(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 30, Lebanese PM Fuad
Saniora said that he refused to have any direct contact with Israel and
that Lebanon would be the last Arab country to ever sign a peace deal
with the Jewish state. Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian chief, accused
Israel of "shocking" and "completely immoral" behavior for dropping
large numbers of cluster bombs on Lebanon when a cease-fire in its war
with Hezbollah was in sight.
(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 30, Hurricane John lashed
tourist resorts with heavy winds and rain as the dangerous Category 4
storm marched up Mexico's Pacific coast.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2006 Aug 30, Nigerian officials
and the UN refugee agency appealed to some 6,000 recalcitrant Liberian
refugees to go back home, warning that time and hospitality were fast
running out for them.
(AFP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 30, In southwestern
Pakistan protesters angry over the killing of a rebel tribal chief
blocked highways in Quetta, preventing workers from reaching the
provincial capital and forcing most shops to close. In northwestern
Pakistan militants decapitated an Islamic cleric and an Afghan refugee
accused of spying for US and Afghan authorities.
(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 30, Russia released two
Japanese fishermen held since their boat was seized for allegedly
fishing in Russian waters in a confrontation in which a crewman was
killed.
(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 30, In Sudan riot police
fired teargas and beat a journalist in central Khartoum on as
opposition party supporters gathered to demonstrate against a recent
rise in petrol and sugar prices.
(AP, 8/30/06)
2006 Aug 30, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez said in Damascus that he and Syrian President Bashar Assad
shared a "decisive and firm" stance against American "imperialism" and
"domination."
(AP, 8/30/06)
2007 Aug 30, In a serious breach
of nuclear security, a US B-52 bomber armed with six nuclear warheads
flew cross-country unnoticed; the Air Force later punished 70 people.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2007 Aug 30, A draft report by US
congressional auditors said that the Iraqi government has failed to
meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by
lawmakers to assess President Bush's Iraq war strategy.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, In Michigan the
Legislature approved moving the state’s presidential nomination to Jan
15, just days after national Democrats vowed to punish states that vote
too early. A suspected serial killer was arrested in the deaths of 5
women over the last month.
(SFC, 8/31/07, p.A6,16)
2007 Aug 30, Taliban militants
released the last 7 South Korean hostages. Mullah Brother, a wanted
Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, was killed in a US-led raid in
the southern province of Helmand.
(AFP, 8/30/07)(Reuters, 8/30/07)(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 30, A major new study
said nearly 10 percent of Australians are living in poverty despite a
booming economy, but its findings were disputed by PM John Howard.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, A speeding train
carrying hundreds of commuters slammed into an empty train near Rio de
Janeiro, killing eight people and injuring more than 80.
(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 30, In London a
diamond-encrusted skull by British artist Damien Hirst (41) sold for
100 million dollars (75 million euros), a record price for work sold by
a living artist.
(AFP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, Michael Jackson (65),
a leading world beer critic, died in London. He praised the brews of
Belgium and his books "The Great Beers of Belgium" and "World Guide to
Beer" introduced them to many export markets, including the United
States.
(AP, 8/31/07)(www.beerhunter.com/)
2007 Aug 30, Canadian police
arrested Adel Arnaout (37), with three home-made bombs in the trunk of
his car. The arrest was connected to an investigation into letter bombs
delivered recently to three homes in and around Toronto.
(Reuters, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 30, Chilean police
arrested at least 750 people as protesters’ calls for higher wages and
better working conditions led to looting in Santiago.
(WSJ, 8/31/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 30, China’s government
said it has replaced five Cabinet ministers, including the finance
minister and the head of the secret police, just weeks ahead of a major
Communist Party meeting that will set the country's policies for the
next five years. The official Xinhua News Agency said China removed
four officials accused of corruption from its legislature. State media
said China's top legislature has adopted a measure allowing the
government to seize private homes on state-owned land, as long as
owners are compensated and properly resettled.
(AP, 8/30/07)(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 30, Hundreds of Colombian
peasants returned home from Ecuador after the government promised to
protect them from leftist rebels trying to sabotage a coca eradication
campaign.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, In Croatia six men
were killed and seven badly injured when they were trapped battling a
fierce forest blaze on Kornat Island. 8 men were soon detained on
suspicion of arson. PM Ivo Sanader promised an investigation saying it
was the biggest tragedy in Croatian firefighting.
(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 30, Addis Ababa city
officials said Ethiopia will try to remove tens of thousands of beggars
from the streets to create a more "conducive" atmosphere for coming
Millennium celebrations. Still using the Julian calendar, abandoned by
the West in the 16th century, Ethiopia enters its new millennium on
September 12 with a huge concert expected to draw hundreds of thousands
of partygoers and international celebrities.
(Reuters, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, Pres. Sarkozy became
the first ruling head of state to address the Medef, France’s leading
business organization. He laid out the second stage of his economic
reforms, including a wholesale review of tax and social security
contributions.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.59)
2007 Aug 30, Anti-American cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr threatened to rescind the order unless the Iraqi
government stops detaining his followers in Karbala and elsewhere
within the next 48 hours. In the southeastern city of Nasiriyah about
20 gunmen attacked a Badr headquarters. The attack caused no injuries,
but the building was partially burned.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, A cargo ship,
anchored about 2 miles from Israel's coast near the port city of Haifa,
when it was hit by the Salamis Glory, a Cypriot passenger ship. 11 crew
escaped from the sinking cargo ship. The first mate and engineer, both
residents of Slovakia, were missing.
(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 30, Hundreds of police
raided a small town in southern Italy and arrested more than 30
suspected members of organized crime clans believed to be involved in a
feud that killed six Italians in Germany earlier this month.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, The Rome-based Hands
Off Cain, an anti-death penalty group, reported that more people were
put to death in 2006, 5,628, than in either of the previous two years.
China alone accounting for 5,000 executions.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, In Kisii, Kenya, an
oil tanker truck rolled down a hill and smashed into four minibuses,
killing 29 people and injuring more than 30. The death toll was
expected to rise.
(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 30, Kosovo's PM Agim Ceku
vowed to declare independence unilaterally if internationally brokered
talks do not "open a way for us," staking out a tough position as the
latest round of negotiations began in Vienna.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, A transport vehicle
hit a land mine in tense northern Mali, killing 10 people.
(AP, 8/31/07)
2007 Aug 30, Pakistan’s President
Pervez Musharraf rejected pressure from former premier Benazir Bhutto
to make a snap decision on a power-sharing deal that would see him quit
as army chief. Pro-Taliban fighters, led by Pakistani Taliban commander
Baitullah Mehsud, captured over 200 Pakistani troops in South
Waziristan. On Nov 4 they released 211 troops. Baitullah Mehsud had
this year cobbled together the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which
became known as the Pakistani Taliban.
(AP, 8/30/07)(AP, 11/4/07)(Econ, 8/15/09, p.34)
2007 Aug 30, Dozens of Sri Lankan
journalists took to the streets to condemn censorship and support a
columnist who exposed alleged corruption in the purchase of second-hand
supersonic jets.
(AFP, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, Darfur rebels accused
the Sudanese government of bombing South Darfur, the latest attack in
an aerial campaign that has driven thousands of people from their homes
over the past month.
(Reuters, 8/30/07)
2007 Aug 30, The UN nuclear agency
said that Iran was producing less nuclear fuel than expected and
praised Tehran for "a significant step forward" in explaining past
atomic actions that have raised suspicions.
(AP, 8/30/07)
2008 Aug 30, In Black Rock City,
Nevada, the 40-foot Burning Man was set aflame. This year’s festival,
themed the American Dream, was marked by a 10-story steel frame tower
built by union workers of recycled materials. The annual guidebook
reached 77 pages.
(SSFC, 8/31/08, p.B2)
2008 Aug 30, Raymond L. Danner,
American restaurateur, died at his home in Nashville, Tenn. In 1959 he
had acquired his first Shoney’s franchise from founder Alex
Schoenbaum. By his retirement in 1987 he had built Shoney’s Inc. into
1,600 restaurant outlet.
(WSJ, 9/13/08, p.A9)
2008 Aug 30, Brazilian officials
said Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months, the
first such increase in three years, as rising demand for soy and cattle
pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees.
(AP, 8/31/08)
2008 Aug 30, Gustav swelled to a
fearsome Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph (195 kph) as it
shrieked toward the heartland of Cuba's cigar industry on a track to
hit the US Gulf Coast, three years after Hurricane Katrina. 78 people
were already left dead in the Caribbean.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 30, China’s tallest
building, the 101-story, 1,614-foot Shanghai World Financial Center,
opened 14 years after Minoru Mori, its Japanese developer, began the
$1.13 billion project. The family owned Mori Building Co. owned 70% of
the project.
(SFC, 8/29/08, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/2/08, p.B2)
2008 Aug 30, A 6.1 earthquake hit
southwest China's Sichuan province, killing least 36 people and turning
tens of thousands of homes into rubble and cracked reservoirs.
(Reuters, 8/30/08)(AP, 8/31/08)(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Aug 30, Egypt opened its
Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing more than 2,500
people to leave the Hamas-controlled territory and about 1,000 to enter
in a goodwill gesture before the holy Muslim month of Ramadan begins.
(AP, 8/30/08)(Reuters, 8/31/08)
2008 Aug 30, The UN says Russian
soldiers are telling thousands of refugees in Georgia who want to
return to their homes that their security can't be guaranteed. All
hoped to return to villages that are in the "security zones" that
Russia has claimed for itself. Russian PM Vladimir Putin urged the EU
to ignore calls to punish Moscow over the Georgia conflict as Tbilisi
appealed for targeted punishment of the Russian leadership.
(AP, 8/30/08)(AFP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 30, In India, officials
said more than 300,000 people, trapped in India's worst floods in 50
years, have been rescued but that nearly double that number remained
stranded without food or water. In eastern India 12 policemen were
killed in a landmine blast triggered by suspected Maoist rebels.
(AP, 8/30/08)(AFP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 30, The US military said
more than 11,000 Iraqis have been released from American detention
centers this year, leaving some 19,700 still in custody.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 30, Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi and Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi met in Libya to sign a
"friendship pact." Italy agreed to pay Libya US$5 billion as
compensation for its 30-year occupation of the country, which ended in
1943.
(Reuters, 8/30/08)(AP, 8/31/08)
2008 Aug 30, Hundreds of thousands
of frustrated Mexicans, many carrying pictures of kidnapped loved ones,
marched across the country to demand government action against a
relentless tide of killings, abductions and shootouts. Hours before the
protests, the severed heads of two women were found near the attorney
general's offices in the city of Durango.
(AP, 8/31/08)(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Aug 30, Gilberto Rincon
Gallardo (69), a former socialist presidential candidate who gained
respect in Mexico for defending the rights of the disabled, gays and
other marginalized groups, died in Mexico City.
(AP, 8/31/08)
2008 Aug 30, Nigeria's main
militant group claimed that it killed at least 29 military personnel in
three separate attacks across the restive southern oil region. The
group reported that six of its own fighters were also killed in the
clashes.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 30, In Pakistan a blast
ripped through a home in Wana, a main town in the South Waziristan
tribal region, killing at least five militants.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 30, A bomb blast blamed
on separatist Tamil Tigers wounded 45 people in Colombo. A clash killed
three soldiers and a rebel in Anuradhapura district. Rebels said that a
shell fired by government forces hit a shelter for civilians displaced
by fighting in Kilinochchi, killing five people and wounding three
others.
(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 30, Thai PM Samak
Sundaravej vowed not to quit in the face of intensifying protests aimed
at toppling his seven-month-old government.
(Reuters, 8/30/08)
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