Today in History - September 1
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69CE Sep 1,
Traditional date for the destruction of Jerusalem. [see Aug 29 70CE]
(MC, 9/1/02)
891 Sep 1, Norse defeated near
Louvaine, France.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1159 Sep 1, Adrian IV, [Nicole
Breakspear], only English pope (1154-59), died.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1267 Sep 1, Ramban (Nachmanides)
arrived in Jerusalem to establish a Jewish community.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1482 Sep 1, Krim-Tataren plundered
Kiev.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1511 Sep 1, Council of Pisa
opened. Louis XII of France called the council to oppose the Holy
League of Pope Julius II.
(PTA, 1980, p.432)(MC, 9/1/02)
1557 Sep 1, Jacques Cartier,
French explorer, died in St. Malo, France.
(www.plpsd.mb.ca/amhs/history/cartier.html)
1598 Sep 1, Spanish king Philip II
("Scourge of Heretics") received his last rites sacrament. [see Sep 13]
(MC, 9/1/02)
1608 Sep 1, Giacomo Torelli,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1614 Sep 1, Vincent Fettmich
expelled Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1648 Sep 1, Marin Mersenne (59),
French mathematician, died.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1653 Sep 1, Johann Pachelbel
(d.1706), German organist and composer, was born. He is best known for
his “Canon in D.”
(WUD, 1994, p.1034)(SI-WPC, 1997)(MC, 9/1/02)
1661 Sep 1, In the 1st yacht race
England's King Charles II raced his brother James.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1689 Sep 1, Russia began taxing
men's beards.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1676 Sep 1, Nathaniel Bacon led an
uprising against English Governor William Berkeley at Jamestown,
Virginia, resulting in the settlement being burned to the ground.
Bacon's Rebellion came in response to the governor's repeated refusal
to defend the colonists against the Indians. [see May 10, 1676]
(HN, 9/1/99)
1715 Sep 1, Louis XIV (b.1638),
"the Sun King," king of France (1643-1715), died of gangrene. His wife
was Madame de Maintenon, founder of the convent academy Maison St. Cyr.
In 2006 Antonia Fraser authored “Love and Louis XIV.”
(THC,
12/3/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France)(WSJ,
11/4/06, p.P10)
1730 Sep 1, Benjamin Franklin
married Miss Read.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1731 Sep 1, Pierre Danican
Philidor (50), composer, died.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1739 Sep 1, 35 Jews were sentenced
to life in prison in Lisbon, Portugal.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1751 Sep 1, Emmanuel Johann Joseph
Schikaneder, actor, librettist (The Magic Flute), was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1752 Sep 1, The Liberty Bell
arrived in Philadelphia.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1772 Sep 1, Mission San Luis
Obispo de Tolosa formed in California. Father Junipero Serra held the
1st Mass at San Luis Obispo. He left Father Jose Cavalier the task of
building the state’s 5th mission.
(SFEC, 10/11/98, p.T6)(MC, 9/1/02)(SSFC, 10/20/02,
p.C1)
1773 Sep 1, Phillis Wheatley, a
slave from Boston, published a collection of poetry, "Poems on Various
Subjects, Religious and Moral," in London.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1785 Sep 1, Mozart published his
6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1789 Sep 1, Lady Marguerite
Blessington, beautiful English socialite and author, was born. She
wrote a biography of Lord Byron.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1791 Sep 1, Lydia Sigourney, US
religious author (How to Be Happy), was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1795 Sep 1, James Gordon Bennet
was born. He later served as the editor of the New York Sun, the first
tabloid-sized daily newspaper.
(HN, 9/1/00)
1799 Sep 1, Bank of Manhattan
Company opened in NYC. It was the forerunner to Chase Manhattan.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1807 Sep 1, Former Vice President
Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason. [see 1806] Burr had been
arrested in Mississippi for complicity in a plot to establish a
Southern empire in Louisiana and Mexico. Burr was then tried on a
misdemeanor charge, but was again acquitted.
(www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/burr/burrchronology.html)(AP,
9/1/07)
1821 Sep 1, William Becknell led a
group of traders from Independence, Mo., toward Santa Fe on what would
become the Santa Fe Trail.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1836 Sep 1, Protestant missionary
Dr. Marcus Whitman led a party to Oregon. His wife, Narcissa, was one
of the first white women to travel the Oregon Trail.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1836 Sep 1, Reconstruction began
on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1838 Sep 1, William Clark (68),
2nd lt. of Lewis and Clark Expedition, died.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1849 Sep 1, Elizabeth Harrison, US
educator (Natal Congress of Parents and Teachers), was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1849 Sep 1, California
Constitutional Convention was held in Monterey.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1854 Sep 1, Engelbert Humperdinck,
German opera composer (Hansel & Gretel), was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1858 Sep 1, The 1st transatlantic
cable failed after less than 1 month.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1859 Sep 1, The 1st Pullman
sleeping car went into service. George M. Pullman began outfitting
railroad cars. His company was incorporated in 1867.
(SFC, 7/1/98, Z1 p.6)(MC, 9/1/02)
1859 Sep 1, R.C. Carrington and R.
Hodgson made the 1st observation of a solar flare.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1861 Sep 1, Ulysses Grant assumed
command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau, MI.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1862 Sep 1, A federal tax was
levied on tobacco, especially that grown in Confederate states.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1862 Sep 1, Battle at Chantilly
(Ox Hill), Virginia, left 2100 casualties.
(AM, 11/04, p.24)
1862 Sep 1, Oliver Tilden of the
Bronx was killed in the Civil War in Virginia.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1863 Sep 1, RR and ferry
connections between SF and Oakland were inaugurated.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1863 Sep 1, 6th Ohio Cavalry
ambush at Barbees Crossroads, Virginia.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1864 Sep 1, Roger David Casement,
Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1864 Sep 1, Confederate forces
under General John Bell Hood evacuated Atlanta in anticipation of the
arrival of Union General William T. Sherman's troops.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1864 Sep 1, 2nd day of battle at
Jonesboro, Georgia, left some 3,000 casualties.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1864 Sep 1, Battle of Petersburg,
VA.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1864 Sep 1, The Charlottetown
Conference, convened in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, was the
first of a series of meetings that ultimately led to the formation of
the Dominion of Canada.
(HNQ, 8/22/99)
1865 Sep 1, Joseph Lister
performed his 1st antiseptic surgery.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1866 Sep 1, James J. Corbett,
"Gentleman Jim," heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97), was born. He was
the boxer who beat the legendary John L. Sullivan. After his boxing
career he became an actor and lecturer.
(MC, 9/1/02)(SC, 9/1/02)
1866 Sep 1, Manuelito, the last
Navaho chief, turned himself in at Fort Wingate, New Mexico.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1868 Sep 1, In San Francisco the
Daily Dramatic Chronicle with widened coverage became the Morning
Chronicle.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, BR p.1)(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A8)(SSFC,
6/7/09, p.W2)
1870 Sep 1, The Prussian army
crushed the French under Marshal MacMahon at Sedan, the last battle of
the Franco-Prussian War.
(HN, 9/1/99)(PCh, 1992, p.516)
1874 Sep 1, In Australia Sydney
General Post Office opened.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1875 Sep 1, Edgar Rice Burroughs,
novelist, was born in Chicago. He created Tarzan, the Ape Man.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1876 Sep 1, The Ottomans inflicted
a decisive defeat on the Serbs at Aleksinac.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1878 Sep 1, Emma M. Nutt became
the first female telephone operator in the United States, for the
Telephone Despatch Co. of Boston.
(AP, 9/1/03)
1882 Sep 1, The first Labor Day
was observed in New York City by the Carpenters and Joiners Union. [see
Sep 5]
(HN, 9/1/00)
1890 Sep 1, The 1st baseball
tripleheader was between Boston and Pittsburgh.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1894 Sep 1, By an act of Congress,
Labor Day was declared a national holiday.
(WSJ, 9/25/95, p.A-1)(HN, 9/1/99)
1894 Sep 1, The Great Hinckley
Fire destroyed Hinckley, Minn., and five other communities and killed
over 400 people.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(AP, 9/1/08)
1897 Sep 1, The first section of
Boston’s subway system was opened. The Park St. Station in Boston was
the nation’s first subway station. The Boylston Street subway opened in
1897.
(AP, 9/1/97)(BS, 5/3/98, p.5R)(HNQ, 5/17/99)
1898 Sep 1, Lord Kitchener's army
bombed Omdurman, Sudan. Lt. Winston Churchill approached Omdurman, the
rebel capital, as a scout in the cavalry along with the rest of Gen.
Kitchener's army of 25,000 men. [see Sep 2]
(ON, 10/99, p.2)(MC, 9/1/02)
1900 Sep 1, Richard Arlen, actor
(Alice in Wonderland) was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1900 Sep 1, Andrei Vlasov, Russian
general (Red Army, Wehrmacht), was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1902 Sep 1, The Austro-Hungarian
army was called into the city of Agram to restore the peace as Serbs
and Croats clashed.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1904 Sep 1, Helen Keller with the
faithful help of teacher Annie Mansfield Sullivan, graduated cum laude
from Radcliffe College at age 24. This accomplishment was particularly
remarkable because Keller had lost both sight and hearing at age 2
after contracting scarlet fever. Sullivan, who broke through Helen’s
childhood isolation to teach her Braille and sign language, accompanied
Helen to every class at Radcliffe, spelling lectures and books into her
hand. After graduation, Keller embarked on a career of writing on
behalf of woman suffrage, socialism and the rights of the handicapped.
Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968, 32 years after the death of her
beloved teacher, Annie Sullivan.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, BR p.3)(HNPD, 9/3/98)
1905 Sep 1, Alberta and
Saskatchewan became the 8th and 9th Canadian provinces.
(Econ, 9/10/05, p.37)(AP, 9/1/06)
1906 Sep 1, Papua was placed under
Australian administration.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1907 Sep 1, Walter Reuther, labor
leader, was born in Wheeling, W.Va. He merged the American Federation
of Labor with the Congress of International Organizations
(HN, 9/1/99)(AP, 9/1/07)
1910 Sep 1, Jack Hawkins, actor
(Ben-Four Just Men) was born in London, England.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1911 Sep 1, M. Fourny set a world
aircraft distance record of 720 km.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1912 Sep 1, Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor (b.1875), Afro-British composer, died.
(http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Song.html#16)
1913 Sep 1, George Bernard Shaw’s
"Androcles and the Lion," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1914 Sep 1, Russia renamed St.
Petersburg to Petrograd.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1914 Sep 1, Martha, the last known
passenger pigeon, died at the Cincinnati Zoo.
(AH, 10/04, p.14)
1916 Sep 1, The US Congress passed
the Keatings-Owen Act, which banned child labor from interstate
commerce. In 1918 it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
(http://tinyurl.com/2gx7pm)(ON, 2/07, p.6)
1916 Sep 1, Bulgaria declared war
on Romania as the First World War expanded.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1918 Sep 1, US troops landed in
Vladivostok, Siberia, and stayed until 1920. [see Sep 2]
(MC, 9/1/02)
1922 Sep 1, Yvonne De Carlo,
actress (10 Commandments, Munsters) was born in Vancouver, BC.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1922 Sep 1, Vittorio Gassman,
actor (War and Peace) was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1922 Sep 1, Melvin R. Laird
(Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73) was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1922 Sep 1, A NYC law required all
"pool" rooms to change their name to "billiards."
(SC, 9/1/02)
1923 Sep 1, Rocky Marciano, world
heavyweight boxing champion (1952-56), was born. He began boxing at the
relatively advanced age of 24, but rose to the heavyweight title in
1952 with a perfect record. He retained his crown for 7 years, winning
all six of his title defense prizefights, then retired undefeated in
1959.
(HN, 9/1/99)(MC, 9/1/02)(SC, 9/1/02)
1923 Sep 1, The Japanese cities of
Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by the Great Kanto earthquake that
claimed 99,000-143,000 lives. The 7.9-8.3 quake off Tokyo's shoreline
killed some 99,300 people.
(AP,
9/1/97)(www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq/faq/world.htm)
1928 Sep 1, US Boy Scouts planted
3,000 Lincoln Highway posts at one mile intervals across the US. The
1st was at Times Square and the last in San Francisco at the Legion of
Honor.
(SFCM, 9/1/02, p.6)
1928 Sep 1, Albania became a
kingdom. Ahmed Zogu proclaimed Albania to be a monarchy and established
himself as “His Majesty King Zog I.” Zogu pressured the parliament to
dissolve itself, and a new constituent assembly declared Albania a
kingdom with Zogu as Zog I, "King of the Albanians." He obtained
Italian aid for modernization and weakened the constitution to arrange
for his son to succeed him. The National Assembly gave him a title that
translates into “prince.”
(CO, Grolier’s / Albania)(SFC, 6/27/97, p.A16)(www,
Albania, 1998)(SC, 9/1/02)
1929 Sep 1, Maddux Air began the
1st direct aerial passenger service from SF to NY. The 48 hour trip
included 2 nights on trains.
(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.F8)
1930 Sep 1, NY World reported the
disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater. He was last seen
leaving a restaurant on August 6, 1930 and entering a taxi. Crater was
officially declared dead “in abstentia” in 1939, and his case, Missing
Persons File No 13595, was officially closed in 1979.
(www.nymissing.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=44)
1932 Sep 1, New York City Mayor
James "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigned following charges of graft and
corruption in his administration.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1933 Sep 1, Ann Richards, Gov-Tx.,
was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1933 Sep 1, Conway Twitty [Harold
Jenkins], country singer (Hello Darlin'), was born in Miss.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1935 Sep 1, Seiji Ozawa, conductor
(Boston Symphony Orchestra), was born in Hoten, Manchuria (now
Shenyang, Liaoning, China).
(www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Ozawa-Seiji.htm)
1937 Sep 1, Ron O'Neal, actor
(Superfly), was born in Utica, NY.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1938 Sep 1, Alan Dershowitz,
attorney (Claus Von Bulow, OJ Simpson), was born in NYC.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1938 Sep 1, George Maharis, actor
(Buz-Route 66, Most Deadly Game), was born in Astoria, NY.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1938 Sep 1, Mussolini cancelled
the civil rights of Italian Jews.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1939 Sep 1, Lily Tomlin,
comedienne, actress (9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me), was born in Detroit.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1939 Sep 1, Physical Review
published the 1st paper to deal with "black holes."
(MC, 9/1/02)
1939 Sep, 1, At 4:40 a.m., World
War II began. The Germans attacked Poland with their strategy of
Blitzkrieg, or lightning war. The war started at dawn with salvos from
the cruiser Schleswig-Holstein at the Polish garrison in Gdansk. In
1989 Donald Cameron Watt authored “How War Came.”
(WSJ, 4/26/95, p.A-16)(AP, 9/1/97)(WSJ, 1/14/07,
p.P8)
1939 Sep 1, Hitler ordered the
extermination of mentally ill.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1939 Sep 1, Switzerland proclaimed
neutrality.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1940 Sep 1, Gen. George Marshall
was sworn in as chief of staff of US army.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1941 Sep 1, Jews living in Germany
were required to wear a yellow Star of David. [see Oct 24, 1939]
(MC, 9/1/02)
1942 Sep 1, A federal judge in
Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans
as well as Japanese nationals.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1944 Sep 1, Leonard Slatkin,
conductor, was born in LA, Calif.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1945 Sep 1, Americans received
word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. Because of
the time difference, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony
took place.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1946 Sep 1, Barry Gibb, singer
(BeeGees-Stayin' Alive), was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1948 Sep 1, Chinese Communists
formed the North China People's Republic.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1948 Sep 1, The UN World Health
Organization formed. [see Apr 7, 1948]
(MC, 9/1/02)
1949 Sep 1, The 1st network
detective series, Private Eyes, premiered.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1950 Sep 1, West Berlin was
granted a constitution.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1950 Sep 1, In South Korea the USS
DeHaven received an order from its Shore Fire Control Party to open
fire on a large group of refugee personnel located on Pohang beach.
Witnesses said 100 to 200 civilians were killed in the Navy shelling.
(AP, 4/13/07)
1950 Sep 1, US Company C, 1st
Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment, was almost completely
annihilated as North Korean divisions opened an assault on UN lines on
the Naktong River. Only Company C and other elements of the 2nd
Infantry Division stood in the path.
(SSFC, 11/7/04, Par p.4)
1951 Sept. 1, At the Presidio in
San Francisco, the US, Australia, and New Zealand signed the Anzus
Pact, a joint security alliance to govern their relations.
(Park, Spring/95, p.2)(AP, 9/1/97)
1951 Sep 1, PM Ben-Gurion ordered
the establishment of Mossad, the Israeli secret service.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1952 Sep 1, Sutro Baths in SF was
purchased by developer George Whitney. He sold it to the National Parks
Service in 1977.
(SFC, 4/14/99, Z1 p.4)(SC, 9/1/02)
1955 Sep 1, Philip Loeb (61),
actor (Jake-The Goldbergs), died.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1956 Sep 1, Indian state of
Tripura became a territory.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1957 Sep 1, Gloria Estefan, singer
(Miami Sound Machine-Conga, 1-2-3), was born in Cuba.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1960 Sep 1, Robert Bolt's "A Man
For All Seasons," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1961 Sep 1, The Soviet Union ended
a moratorium on atomic testing with an above-ground nuclear explosion
in central Asia.
(AP, 9/1/01)
1961 Sep 1, Eero Saarinen (51),
Finnish-US architect (Dulles Airport), died.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1962 Sep 1, UN announced Earth’s
that human population has hit 3 billion.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1962 Sep 1, Some 10,000 died in an
earthquake in western Iran.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1963 Sep 1, Turkey moved
politically closer to Europe with the Treaty of Ankara. It reduced
duties and implicitly recognized Turkey’s right to join the European
Economic Community.
(http://tinyurl.com/tgab2)(WSJ, 9/7/04, p.A10)(WSJ,
10/6/04, p.A17)
1965 Sep 1-19, Indian gains led to
a major Pakistani counterattack in the southern sector, in Punjab,
where Indian forces were caught unprepared and suffered heavy losses.
The sheer strength of the Pakistani thrust, which was spearheaded by
seventy tanks and two infantry brigades, led Indian commanders to call
in air support. Pakistan retaliated on September 2 with its own air
strikes in both Kashmir and Punjab.
(http://www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr65/fkashmir1965)
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(HN,
9/6/98)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A20)(MC, 9/1/02)(Encyclopaedia.com, 2002)
1967 Sep 1, James Dunn (65), actor
(Uncle Earl-It's a Great Life), died.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1967 Sep 1, Siegfried Sassoon
(b.1886), WW I English soldier poet, died. His books included “Memoirs
of a Fox Hunting Man” (1928). In 2005 Max Egremont authored the
biography: “Siegfried Sassoon.”
(WSJ, 12/1/05,
p.D9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon)
1968 Sep 1, Pirate Radio Marina in
the Netherlands began transmitting.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1969 Sep 1, There was a race riot
in Hartford, Connecticut.
(http://tinyurl.com/6qb7y4)
1969 Sep 1, A coup in Libya
overthrew the monarchy of King Idris and brought Moammar Gadhafi (27)
to power. Gadhafi emerged as leader of the revolutionary government and
ordered the closure of a U.S. Air Force base.
(AP, 9/1/99)(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C12)(AP, 12/30/03)
1969 Sep 1, Drew Pearson (b.1897),
Washington Post columnist and newscaster, died.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApearsonD.htm)
1970 Sep 1, Dr. Hugh Scott of
Washington, D.C., became the first African-American superintendent of
schools in a major U.S. city.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1972 Sep 1, American Bobby Fischer
won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating
Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. In 2004 David Edmonds and John
Eidinow authored "Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the
Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time."
(AP, 9/1/97)(SSFC, 2/07/04, p.M1)
1973 Sep 1, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, the 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burned, killing 35.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=44yFsCt3z7Q)
1974 Sep 1, Jack Shelley (b.1905),
former SF mayor (1964-1968), died.
(SFC, 9/1/00,
p.D6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shelley)
1974 Sep 1, In the Netherlands
laws prohibiting pirate radio came into effect.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline)
1975 Sep 1, NYC transit fares rose
from 35 cents to 50 cents.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_transit_fares)
1975 Sep 1, Bougainville Island
announced the formation of the "Republic of the North Solomons," but
failed in its bid to secede from Papua New Guinea.
(WSJ, 3/18/98,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bougainville)
1975 Sep 1, Israel and Egypt
initialed the Sinai II agreement on disengagement. A ceremonial signing
was held in Geneva on Sep 4.
(www.jafi.org.il/education/jafi75/timeline6f.html)
1976 Sep 1, U.S. Rep. Wayne L.
Hays, D-Ohio, resigned in the wake of a scandal in which he admitted
having an affair with secretary Elizabeth Ray.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1976 Sep 1, The New Jersey
Meadowlands racetrack opened.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowlands_Sports_Complex)
1977 Sep 1, Ethel Waters (b.1896),
African-American blues and jazz vocalist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Waters)
1979 Sep 1, A Los Angeles court
ordered Clayton Moore (1914-1999), born as Jack Carlton Moore, to
stop wearing the Lone Ranger mask.
(http://tinyurl.com/2ngftg)(http://wapedia.mobi/en/Clayton_Moore)
1979 Sep 1, Pioneer 11 made the
1st fly-by of Saturn and discovered new moon rings. Ring F of Saturn
was discovered by Lonny Baker at NASA's Ames Research Center from data
sent by Pioneer 11.
(Ind, 7/27/99,
p.1A)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_11)
1981 Sep 1, Albert Speer, a close
associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a
London hospital at age 76.
(AP, 9/1/01)
1981 Sep 1, In the Central African
Republic army chief Andre Kolingba took over power in another coup. He
agreed to re-instate a multi-party system in 1991.
(SFC, 5/22/96,
p.A9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Kolingba)
1982 Sep 1, The US Congress
created the 110,000 acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.A15)
1982 Sep 1, The evacuation of the
PLO from Lebanon ended.
(www.mideastweb.org/timeline.htm)
1982 Sep 1, Mexico’s President
Lopez Portillo nationalized the private banks. There was an economic
catastrophe that has been labeled the Mexican debt crisis. Mexicans
sent hundreds of millions of dollars abroad amid devaluations and bank
nationalization.
(WSJ,
7/8/96,p.A1)(http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=330)
1983 Sep 1, The KAL flight 007 was
downed by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet
airspace. 269 people were killed aboard the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747
including sixty-one Americans, among them Georgia Representative Larry
McDonald. The order was given by Soviet Gen’l. Anatoly Kornukov who
held that the plane was part of a hostile US operation. In 2005 the
History Channel featured a TV documentary on the tragedy.
(SFC, 5/29/96, A3)(AP, 9/1/97)(WSJ, 1/23/98,
p.A1)(TV, 12/22/05)
1983 Sep 1, Henry "Scoop" Jackson
(b.1912), Sen-D-Wash., died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Jackson)
1984 Sep 1, Howland Chamberlain
(b.1911), American film actor, died in Oakland, Ca.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0150166/)
1985 Sep 1, A US-French expedition
located the wreckage of Titanic, sunk in 1915, about 560 miles off
Newfoundland, Canada.
(www.titanic-titanic.com/discovery_of_titanic.shtml)
1986 Sep 1, Paul McCartney
released his "Press to Play" album.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1986 Sep 1, Murray Hamilton
(b.1923), film, theater and TV actor, died in North Carolina.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0358069/)
1987 Sep 1, In California S. Brian
Wilson, Vietnam veteran, had his legs sliced off when a munitions train
at the Concord Naval Weapons Station ran him over during the Nuremberg
Actions protest against weapons shipments to Central America.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A19)(AP, 9/1/97)
1987 Sep 1, After Jewish leaders
met with the Pope at Castel Gandolfo it was announced that a document
would be produced on the Holocaust. The document was made public Mar
16, 1998.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.A24)
1988 Sep 1, Leonor Sullivan
(b.1902), Rep-D-Missouri, (1955-77), died.
(http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivan6.html)
1989 Sep 1, A. Bartlett Giamatti
(51), Baseball Commissioner, died of heart attack at his summer home in
Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1990 Sep 1, President Bush
announced that he and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev would meet
in Helsinki, Finland, for a “free-flowing” one-day summit on the
Persian Gulf crisis and other issues.
(AP, 9/1/00)
1991 Sep 1, The Burning Man
Festival came to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada from Baker’s Beach in
San Francisco.
(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A15)
1991 Sep 1, Yugoslavia's
presidency and the country's feuding republics accepted a European
Community plan designed to stop months of fierce fighting among Croats,
Serbs and the army.
(AP, 9/1/01)
1992 Sep 1, Defying a U.S.
government warning, Bobby Fischer announced he would play his one-time
rival, Boris Spassky, in a $5 million chess match in Yugoslavia despite
United Nations-imposed sanctions.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1993 Sep 1, The Pentagon unveiled
a five-year defense plan to further shrink the U.S. military in favor
of a lean, high-tech force.
(AP, 9/1/03)
1993 Sep 1, Louis Freeh was sworn
in as director of the FBI.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1994 Sep 1, Chicago police found
the body of 11-year-old Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, a suspect in a
gang-related killing who apparently became a victim of gang violence.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1994 Sep 1, Morocco established
low-level diplomatic relations with Israel.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1995 Sep 1, The 716-acre Limekiln
State Park on the California Big Sur coast opened.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, p.T3)
1995 Sep 1, A ribbon-cutting
ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland,
Ohio.
(AP, 9/1/00)
1995 Sep 1, The death penalty in
NY State, signed into law on March 7, became effective.
(www.nycdo.org/)
1995 Sep 1, Moammar Khadafy of
Libya announced the expulsion of all 30,000 Palestinians from Libya.
More than 1,200 ended up in a border camp between Libya and Egypt.
(SFC, 8/22/96, p.E1)
1996 Sep 1, A day after Iraqi
forces moved into a Kurdish safe haven, U.S. officials were warning the
Baghdad government that the incursion would not go unpunished. That
same day, Iraq ordered its troops to withdraw from Irbil.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1996 Sep 1, In India wolves were
reported to have killed 33 children in the area of Banbirpur in the
state of Uttar Pradesh. Some reports had it that at least some of the
killings were by disguised human beings.
(SFC, 9/1/96, p.A16)
1997 Sep 1, The 32nd annual
Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, led by Jerry Lewis, ended with a record
$50.5 million pledged.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.E5)
1997 Sep 1, The 2nd phase of the
minimum wage raise to $5.15 per hour went into effect
(SFC, 9/1/97,
p.A3)(http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/blminwage.htm)
1997 Sep 1, Scientists announced
in the Physics Review Letters that evidence was found for an exotic
meson subatomic particle. It is supposed to be composed of an unusual
quark combination and only exists for a trillionth of a trillionth of a
second. The experiment supports the current standard model of physics
in which 3 quarks make a proton or a neutron and 2 quarks can combine
to make a meson.
(SFC, 9/1/97, p.A7)
1997 Sep 1, In Bosnia several
hundred Bosnian Serbs attacked some 300 armed US troops in an effort to
take back a key TV transmitter that was seized by the Americans last
week. The melee was a standoff.
(SFC, 9/2/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 1, As Britain continued
to mourn the untimely death of Princess Diana, came word from a source
in the Paris prosecutor's office that Diana's driver, Henri Paul, was
legally intoxicated at the time of the crash.
(AP, 9/1/02)
1997 Sep 1, In Switzerland robbers
made off with $37 million in cash from a Zurich post office. By Sep 8
Swiss and Italian police had detained 13 suspects. A total of 19 people
in five countries were arrested in connection with the case.
(WSJ, 9/2/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/9/97, p.A11)(AP, 9/1/07)
1998 Sep 1, Mark McGwire of the
St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs, breaking the
one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1998 Sep 1, The DJIA rebounded 288
points and the stock market set an all-time trading volume record with
1.201 billion shares traded on the NYSE.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 1, The California
Legislature salvaged the Headwaters forest deal by one vote and
approved $425 million to acquire 9,400 acres of redwood forest. The
federal government already approved $250 million.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 1, A federal appeals
court in NY ruled that the Million Youth March in NYC may take place
with a reduced duration to 4 hours from 12, and a limited range to 6
blocks from 29.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 1, Pilots for Air Canada
went on strike for the first time in the association’s 61 year history.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 1, China imposed a ban on
logging upstream on the Yangtze effective by this date due to the
excess flooding following a half-century of clear-cutting.
(SFEC, 9/27/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 12/23/03, p.A1)
1998 Sep 1, In Malaysia capital
controls were imposed on the stock market. Foreigners holding stocks
were not allowed to take their money out of the country for one year.
(WSJ, 9/8/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 1, During a Kremlin
summit overshadowed by Russian economic and political upheaval,
President Clinton offered Boris Yeltsin a prescription for tough
reforms to lift the country from its crisis.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1998 Sep 1, In Russia the Duma
rejected the nomination by pres. Yeltsin for Viktor Chernomyrdin as
premier. Chernomyrdin said he would form a government without waiting
for parliamentary approval.
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A8)
1998 Sep 1, Vietnam freed 5,000
inmates.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A9)
1999 Sep 1, Twenty-two of
baseball’s 68 permanent umpires found themselves jobless, the fallout
from their union’s failed attempt to force an early start to
negotiations for a new labor contract.
(AP, 9/1/00)
1999 Sep 1, Attorney General Janet
Reno ordered US marshals to FBI headquarters to seize an infrared
videotape containing a recording of FBI communications made during the
1993 FBI assault of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas. FBI
officials had stated that no tape of that stage of the operation
existed.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A3)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 1, Researchers reported
that a strain of mice was genetically engineered with an extra gene for
a brain protein called NR2B that helped the mice remember objects
longer that normal mice.
(WSJ, 9/2/99, p.B12)
1999 Sep 1, Colombia took delivery
of 6 refurbished Vietnam-era US military helicopters for use in the
drug war.
(WSJ, 9/2/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 1, In East Timor
pro-Indonesia militia shot and hacked to death Jorges Francisco
Bonaparte (19), a pro-independence activist, a few yards from the gate
of the UN compound in Dili.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 1, In East Timor
pro-independence campaigner Guido Alves Correia in Dili was murdered.
In 2004 Beny Ludji, an Indonesian citizen who was formerly a commander
of the pro-Jakarta Aitarak militia, was sentenced to eight years in
prison for the murder. Jose Gusmao, one of Ludji's men, was sentenced
to 30 months.
(AFP, 5/19/04)
1999 Sep 1, Israeli shelling in
southern Lebanon left 2 Lebanese civilians dead after a roadside bomb
killed 2 Israeli-allied militiamen.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A16)
1999 Sep 1, In Jerusalem
disagreement over the release of 30 Palestinians, jailed for killing
Israelis, was the only issue holding up the signing of a
land-for-security deal.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 1, The Venice Film
Festival opened.
(SFEC, 8/15/99, DB p.48)
1999 Sep 1, In Kashmir Pakistani
soldiers attacked Indian posts over the last 2 days and left 22
soldiers dead.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A16)
1999 Sep 1, In Panama Mireya
Moscoso began serving as the 1st female president.
(SFC, 9/1/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 1, In Tanzania a charter
plane carrying 10 American tourists from Serengeti National Park
crashed on Mount Meru. 12 people were confirmed dead.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A15)(WSJ, 9/3/99, p.A1)
2000 Sep 1, Pres. Clinton put the
anti-missile national defense system on hold and passed the decision
for moving the project forward to his successor.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 1, It was reported that
an experimental antioxidant extended the lives of nematode worms by an
average 44%.
(WSJ, 9/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 1, In Afghanistan the
mine-clearing operations were scheduled to be cut by 50% after the UN
reported lack of funds. 300 people were reported injured by mines every
month. Estimates of mines varied from 5-10 million.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Sep 1, In Argentina a judge
moved to strip immunity from 8 senators who allegedly received bribes
from the administration of Pres. Fernando de la Rua for votes on labor
reform.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Sep 1, In Bangladesh 13 boats
with 130 fishermen were reported sunk during rainstorms.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Sep 1, Typhoon Maria struck 2
southern provinces between Huizhou and Shanwei and killed 47 people
with $223 million in damages.
(WSJ, 9/6/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A22)
2000 Sep 1, In Indonesia
prosecutors named 19 people, including 3 generals as possible suspects
in the killings and destruction in East Timor in Sept. 1999.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 1, In Mexico Pres.
Zedillo gave his last State of the Nation address.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 1, In the Philippines Abu
Sayyaf rebels demanded $10 million for the release of Jeffrey Schilling
and later said that Schilling had begun a hunger strike.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A12)
2001 Sep 1, In Durban, South
Africa, a variety of African leaders at the UN World Conference Against
Racism demanded apologies, and in some cases financial reparations,
from Western countries that benefited from slavery and colonization of
African countries for over 3 centuries. Activists at the conference
developed a strategy, later known as “BDS,” that included boycotts,
divestments and sanctions, to push their agenda.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A12)(Econ, 9/15/07, p.74)
2000 Sep 1, South Korea
repatriated 63 North Korean spies as a gesture of reconciliation.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A13)
2001 Sep 1, The Los Angeles Sparks
won the WNBA championship, defeating the Charlotte Sting 82-to-54.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2001 Sep 1, The US issued a 34
cent stamp featuring Arabic calligraphy that says “Eid Mubarek,” a
greeting used to celebrate the 2 holiest Islamic holidays, Aid al-Fitr
for the end of Ramadan fasting, and Eid al-Adha for the end of the
annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 1, Anthony Romero (36)
assumed the office of executive director for the ACLU, the 1st Latino
and openly gay man to head the organization.
(SFC, 3/11/02, p.A3)
2001 Sep 1, Scientists gathered in
the French Alps to discuss a medicine called ivermectine given to
livestock to protect them from parasites. Dung from the animals was
toxic and virtually indestructible and threatened the survival of
insects, birds and bats.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 1, In Angola gunmen
ambushed 2 passenger buses 185 miles south of Luanda, sprayed them with
gunfire and ransacked them. 38 people were killed.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 1, In Gaza Col. Tayser
Khattab (52), Palestinian intelligence aide, was killed by a car bomb.
Near Tulkarem a Palestinian woman (22) was killed from a blast in a
taxi.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 1, In Russia Pres. Putin
promised to double salaries for teachers as children began school on
“Knowledge Day.” Current pay was about $35 per month.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 1, In Tokyo, Japan, an
early morning explosion in a mah-jongg parlor killed at least 44
people. The Kabukicho district building was crammed with sex clubs and
gambling parlors.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A6)(SFC, 11/16/01, p.E6)
2001 Sep 1, At the UN World
Conference Against Racism a variety of African leaders demanded
apologies, an in some cases financial reparations, from Western
countries that benefited from slavery and colonization of African
countries for over 3 centuries.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A12)
2002 Sep 1, Secretary of State
Colin Powell said the US should first seek a return of UN weapons
inspectors to Iraq before taking any further steps.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, The California
Legislature approved a $99 billion budget, ending a 2-month-old
standoff.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2002 Sep 1, President Alfonso
Portillo announced plans to cut the size of Guatemala's armed forces by
20% and convert the extra military installations into schools.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Indonesian soldiers
battled an armed band in Papua and killed one insurgent, near where
gunmen shot dead three people, including two U.S. school teachers, and
wounded at least 10 in an ambush the previous day.
(Reuters, 9/1/02)(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A9)
2002 Sep 1, Israeli troops shot
dead four Palestinians not far from a Jewish gravesite near the West
Bank city of Hebron, adding to an already bloody weekend in which seven
other Palestinians, including two children, were killed.
(AP, 9/1/02)(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 1, Israel and Jordan
announced their largest joint project ever, a $800 million pipeline
intended to save the shrinking Dead Sea from environmental devastation.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Typhoon Rusa, the
worst typhoon to hit South Korea in 40 years, left at least 119 people
dead.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2002 Sep 1, In Liberia rebel
forces shelled the northern town of Voinjama in a push to recapture
their former stronghold from government forces.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Mauritania appealed
for international aid, saying lack of rain was causing a food crisis
that has put at risk nearly 1 million people and half of the desert
nation's cattle.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Some 600 Russian
specialists began work on a key phase of an $800 million project to
build a nuclear reactor at Bushehr, Iran.
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A9)
2003 Sep 1, During a Labor Day
trip to Richfield, Ohio, President Bush announced he was creating a
high-level government post to nurture the manufacturing sector.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2003 Sep 1, Actor Rand Brooks
(84), who played Scarlett O'Hara's first husband in "Gone With the
Wind," died in Santa Ynez, Calif.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2003 Sep 1, Suspected Taliban
fighters attacked a government checkpoint and ambushed another group of
Afghan soldiers along the main road linking the south with the capital,
killing at least eight soldiers over the last 2 days.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2003 Sep 1, State media reported
that China will cut an additional 200,000 soldiers as part of efforts
to modernize its armed forces.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2003 Sep 1, The U.S.-picked Iraqi
Governing Council named a new Cabinet.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2003 Sep 1, Arab TV broadcast an
audiotape purportedly from Saddam Hussein denying any involvement in a
bombing in Najaf, Iraq, that killed a beloved Shiite cleric.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2003 Sep 1, Israeli helicopters
fired four missiles at a car carrying Hamas militants, killing at least
one of them and wounding 26 on a crowded Gaza City.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2003 Sep 1, A rebel group trying
to win independence for the Western Sahara has released 243 Moroccan
prisoners, some of whom have been held for nearly three decades. It was
the first prisoner release since the UN Security Council voted in July
to urge Morocco and the Polisario to accept a new plan to settle the
long-running dispute over the Western Sahara.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2003 Sep 1, Marijuana went on sale
Monday at Dutch pharmacies to help bring relief to thousands of
patients suffering from cancer, AIDS or multiple sclerosis.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2004 Sep 1, VP Cheney and Democrat
Zell Miller were featured as prime-time speakers at the Republican
Convention in NYC.
(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 1, It was reported that
for about $10 million, Philadelphia city officials planned to turn all
135 square miles of the city into the world's largest wireless Internet
hot spot. EarthLink was given the contract and planned to rent 4,000
city light posts for its equipment. Completion of the network was
expected in Spring 2007.
(AP, 9/1/04)(SFC, 3/2/06, p.C2)
2004 Sep 1, Accused U.S. Army
deserter Charles Jenkins said he will surrender to the US to face
charges that have dogged him since he vanished from his unit in South
Korea in 1965. After expressing a desire to put his conscience at rest,
Jenkins reported on September 11, 2004 to Camp Zama in Japan. He
reported in respectful military form, saluting the receiving military
police officer. On November 3, 2004, Jenkins pleaded guilty to charges
of desertion and aiding the enemy, but denied making disloyal or
seditious statements – the latter charges were dropped. He was
sentenced to 30 days' confinement and received a dishonorable
discharge, being released six days early, on November 27, 2004, for
good behavior. Jenkins and his family settled on Sado Island in Japan.
(AP,
9/1/04)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Jenkins)
2004 Sep 1, In Colorado the
criminal trial against LA basketball player Kobe Bryant (26) ended in a
dismissal after the woman (20), who filed a rape charge, decided not to
testify. This saved Bryant’s $136 million contract with the Lakers.
Bryant still faced civil charges.
(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 1, In the 5th annual
Latin Grammys Alejandro Sanz won 4 awards and jazz songstress Maria
Rita of Brazil won 2.
(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A2)
2004 Sep 1, An Argentine Supreme
Court justice resigned rather than face Senate impeachment proceedings,
the 4th judge targeted in a high court purge led by Pres. Nestor
Kirchner.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, In Germany Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder's Cabinet agreed to forego a 4.4 percent pay raise
for itself and top civil servants in an attempt to help fight the
country's burgeoning budget deficit.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, The U.N. atomic
watchdog agency said Iran has announced plans to turn tons of uranium
into a substance that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, In Fallujah, Iraq, US
bombing reportedly killed 17 people.
(WSJ, 9/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 1, Militants in Iraq
freed seven employees of a Kuwaiti trucking firm after their employer
paid $500,000 in ransom.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2004 Sep 1, Capping a day of angry
street protests and a strike by some 200,000 health care workers,
President Vicente Fox spent much of his state-of-the-nation speech
urging Mexicans to not give up on democracy, saying its "inherent
problems are not cause for discouragement.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, Nepal's government
imposed an indefinite curfew and appealed for calm after thousands of
demonstrators ransacked a mosque and clashed with police in the capital
to protest the slaying of 12 Nepalese hostages by Iraqi militants.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, Pakistani officials
said security forces have arrested two "important" al Qaeda operatives,
including an Egyptian and a Saudi national.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, Martin Torrijos, the
son of a former dictator, took office as Panama's president promising
jobs, better relations with Cuba and a referendum on a proposed $8
billion expansion of the Panama Canal.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, In Beslan, Russia,
more than a dozen militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school
in North Ossetia, a region bordering Chechnya, taking hostage some 300
people, half of them children. They threatening to blow up the building
if police storm it and at least eight people were killed.
(AP, 9/1/04)(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 1, In Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, 3 people were killed in a stampede to a newly opened Ikea
branch.
(SFC, 9/2/04, p.C2)
2004 Sep 1, Rebels released six
Sudanese aid workers in Darfur, four days after they went missing
during a trip to register refugees.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, A U.N. report called
for a quick increase in the international monitoring force in Sudan,
saying the government has not stopped attacks against civilians or
disarmed marauding militias.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2005 Sep 1, The United States
slapped extra curbs on Chinese imports, hours after talks on a formula
to deal with China's surging textile shipments ended in failure.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, New Orleans Mayor Ray
Nagin issued "a desperate SOS" as anger mounted across the ruined city,
with thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims increasingly hungry,
desperate and tired of waiting for buses to take them out. New Orleans
descended into anarchy, as corpses lay abandoned in street medians,
fights and fires broke out and storm survivors battled for seats on the
buses that would carry them away from the chaos. Fights and trash fires
broke out at the hot and stinking Superdome and anger and unrest
mounted across New Orleans, as National Guardsmen in armored vehicles
poured in to help restore order across the increasingly lawless and
desperate city.
(AP, 9/1/05)(AP, 9/1/06)
2005 Sep 1, The California Senate
approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 1, A SF jury awarded $27
million to the family of Elizabeth Dominguez (4), who was killed on Feb
11, 2003, when she was hit by a Muni truck at Potrero Ave and 24th. SF
appealed and settled the case in 2008 for $21 million.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.B1)(SFC, 3/6/08, p.B2)
2005 Sep 1, It was reported that
13% (64 of 490) of the female students at Timken Senior High School in,
Canton, Ohio are pregnant. One girl, eight months pregnant, said she
believes the school's abstinence-based sex education program isn't
enough.
(AP,
9/1/05)(http://cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=238435)
2005 Sep 1, The Swiss firm
Novartis AG said it is offering $4.5 billion in cash for the remaining
stake in Chiron Corp. to complete its takeover of the US-based biotech
company.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, In Afghanistan the
bodies of 2 Japanese tourists were found. The two Japanese teachers,
technical arts teacher Jun Fukusho (44), and female English teacher
Shinobu Hasegawa (30), had been missing for 3 weeks.
(AFP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 1, in Afghanistan Taliban
insurgents stabbed to death Mullah Amir Akhund, a pro-government
Islamic cleric, in Helmand province.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 1, Opposition leader Sali
Berisha's coalition was officially declared winner of Albania's July 3
parliamentary elections, following weeks of delays in confirming final
results.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, Al-Qaida's No. 2 made
the terror group's first direct claim of responsibility for the July 7
bombings in London in a videotape.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2005 Sep 1, Nearly 600,000 people
were evacuated as Typhoon Talim plowed into southern China, forcing
authorities to shut down schools, highways and airports.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, The European
Commission proposed new rules for the 25 European Union nations to
establish common standards on immigration and asylum.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, A Hong Kong jury
convicted Nancy Kissel of murdering her wealthy investment banker
husband in Nov, 2003, by drugging him with a milkshake laced with
sedatives and beating him to death in their luxury apartment. She
received a mandatory life sentence.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, Iraq hanged three
convicted murderers, the first executions since the 2003 ouster of
Saddam Hussein. 2 US soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/1/05)(SFC, 9/3/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 1, In Japan Tokyo’s Keio
University Hospital received a bomb threat linked to demands that its
medical school increase their admissions. 10 other major university
hospitals received similar threats but no explosives were found.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 1, Libyan authorities
pardoned 1,675 Libyan and foreign prisoners serving time for minor
crimes to mark the 36th anniversary of the revolution, which brought
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 1, President Vicente Fox,
in his last state-of-the-nation address, urged citizens to stay
committed to Mexico's newfound democracy and to remind them that they
are in charge of the nation's future.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 1, The foreign ministers
of Israel and Pakistan, a Muslim country that has long taken a hard
line against the Jewish state, met publicly for the first time, a
diplomatic breakthrough that both ministers linked to Israel's
withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, In Italy a summer
music hit has sparked a war of words between left-wingers and
neo-fascists who claim the Colombian pop song, "La camisa negra" ("The
black shirt"), as their anthem.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, In Peru Wilbert Elqui
Meza was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for a 2002 car
bombing that killed 10 people outside the U.S. Embassy. Meza was the
only one of eight defendants convicted of carrying out the attack. 2
women received 20-year sentences and a third women was handed a 25-year
sentence for belonging to the Shining Path, Maoist-oriented rebel
group. Four others were acquitted of all charges.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 1, Typhoon Talim left
Taiwan leaving 3 people killed and 59 injured. Strong winds and heavy
rains, forced offices, schools and financial markets to close.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, Turkey insisted that
it has fulfilled conditions for EU membership, as foreign ministers of
the 25-nation group started meeting in Wales to assess the
predominantly Muslim nation's efforts to join the bloc.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 1, Vadim Kouznetsov, the
chair of a powerful UN budget committee, was arrested by the FBI on
money laundering charges. Kouznetsov, who heads the General Assembly
panel that oversees the UN budget, was the 2nd Russian UN official to
be arrested by the FBI for alleged money laundering in recent weeks. On
Aug. 8, Alexander Yakovlev, a Russian who worked in the UN procurement
office, was arrested for allegedly soliciting a bribe from a company
seeking an oil-for-food contract.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 1, The UN said a cholera
epidemic spreading across West Africa has sickened tens of thousands of
people this year and killed nearly 500 amid a long-term deterioration
in health services in one of the world's poorest regions.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, Venezuelan leader Hugo
Chavez offering planeloads of soldiers and aid workers to help American
victims of Hurricane Katrina, while at the same time taking aim at the
US government for its handling of the crisis. He called Bush "the king
of vacations" and noted he had been at his Texas ranch and when the
storm hit and didn't provide leadership.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2006 Sep 1, US military forces
launched a rocket interceptor that destroyed a mock warhead in outer
space.
(SFC, 9/2/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 1, US federal agents
began rounding up illegal immigrants in Stillmore, Georgia. More than
120 illegal immigrants were loaded onto buses bound for immigration
courts in Atlanta. Hundreds more fled Emanuel County. The Crider
poultry plant was left scrambling for workers.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 1, Disrupting the start
of the Labor Day weekend, the remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto
drenched the Mid-Atlantic region, cut power to more than 400,000
customers and forced evacuations. 3 people were reported killed in
North Carolina and Virginia.
(AP, 9/2/06)(SFC, 9/2/06, p.A8)
2006 Sep 1, Nellie Connally (87),
the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's
limousine when he was assassinated, died in Austin, Texas.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2006 Sep 1, In Afghanistan
fighting across the volatile south killed nine Afghan policemen, at
least 13 suspected Taliban and a British soldier.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 1, Brazil pressured
Google to turn over data from Web sites that the government said were
used by criminals. Authorities gave Google 15 days to comply or face a
daily fine of $23,000.
(SFC, 9/2/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 1, Cambodia’s PM Hun Sen
pushed a bill through the lower house of parliament banning
extra-marital affairs. The legislation could get adulterers up to a
year in jail.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.46)
2006 Sep 1, In Chad US Senator
Barack Obama held talks with President Idriss Deby Itno on the crisis
in Sudan's Darfur region and on Chad's oil production, on the final
stop of the African-American politician's tour of the continent.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Colombia Jesus
Ignacio Roldan led special prosecutors and investigators to the alleged
grave of Carlos Castano, former right-wing paramilitary leader, near
the town of Valencia. Roldan says he killed Castano in April 2004 on
the order of Castano's older brother, Vicente Castano.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Greece beat the
Americans 101-95 in the semifinals of the world championships in
Saitama, Japan.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Hungarian poet Gyorgy
Faludy (95), a legend of resistance to the rise of Nazism and
Communism, died at his home in Budapest. He spent 1950-1953 in the
Stalinist concentration camp at Recsk. Faludy won international fame
with his autobiographical novel "My Happy Days in Hell" in the 1960s,
which related his escape from fascist Hungary and his return, and
imprisonment, in a country under communist rule.
(Reuters, 9/2/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.96)
2006 Sep 1, Iran underlined its
disregard for the UN deadline to halt uranium enrichment, now expired,
when its president vowed never to give up its nuclear program and
accused the West of misrepresenting Tehran's nuclear activities.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In northeastern Iran a
Russian-made Tupolev 154 airplane with 148 people on board skidded off
the runway and caught fire, killing 29 people.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Kurdish leader Massoud
Barzani ordered the Iraqi national flag to be replaced with the Kurdish
one in his northern autonomous region. Gunmen fatally shot one
policeman in each of two towns outside of Baghdad in separate
incidents. Police said they found the body of a Saddam Hussein-era
intelligence officer who had been kidnapped and shot. A US soldier died
from wounds sustained during action in Anbar province.
(AP, 9/1/06)(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 1, Shinzo Abe, the
front-runner to be Japan's next prime minister, announced his
candidacy, promising to defend Japan's interests and maintain the
security alliance with the US.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Mexico City riot
police, steel barriers, and water cannons surrounded Mexico's Congress
as protesters vowed to stop President Vicente Fox from delivering his
final state-of-the-nation address. Mexican lawmakers, protesting
conservative Felipe Calderon's victory in the July 2 presidential
election, stormed the congressional stage and refused to yield, making
Fox the first president in modern Mexican history not to deliver his
annual address to Congress. Fox handed in a written copy of his report
and delivered it over television.
(AP, 9/1/06)(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 1, Morocco’s Interior
Ministry said security agents broke up a group planning terrorist
attacks on tourist sites and government facilities, arresting 56 people
who included soldiers and the wives of two pilots at the state airline.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, A strike paralyzed
Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province after the controversial burial
of a top rebel leader whose killing sparked days of deadly rioting.
Partial strikes also hit southern Sindh and central Punjab provinces.
(AFP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, World donors pledged
$500 million in aid for Palestinians, including $55 million for a UN
emergency appeal for humanitarian help. Carin Jamtin, Sweden's aid
minister and host of the donors' conference held in the Swedish
capital, said a total of $114 million of the money pledged will go
toward humanitarian aid, with the rest going to rebuilding
infrastructure and other projects.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Spain's Cabinet
approved sending 1,100 troops to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon,
calling it a "legitimate" mission to help maintain peace in the region.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Spain
self-contained, nonsmoking areas with their own ventilation systems,
became requisite for larger restaurants and bars.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Sri Lanka's navy said
it sank 12 Tamil rebel boats overnight, including five suicide craft,
and killed as many as 100 rebel fighters during a fierce six-hour sea
battle off the country's northern coast.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 1, Human rights activists
and African Union officials said the Sudanese government has launched a
major offensive against rebels in war-torn Darfur.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan said that Syria had pledged to step up border patrols and
work with the Lebanese army to stop the flow of weapons to Hezbollah.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1-2006 Sep 2, Separatist
Kurdish guerrillas killed 7 Turkish soldiers and wounded two in
stepped-up attacks against the military in southeastern Turkey.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2007 Sep 1, The Mountaineers of
Boone, North Carolina, pulled off one of the greatest upsets in college
football history as Appalachian State beat No. 5 Michigan 34-32.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 1, Clay Buchholz
threw a no-hitter in his second major league start, just hours after
being called up by the Boston Red Sox. Buchholz struck out nine, walked
three and hit one batter to give the Red Sox a 10-0 victory over
Baltimore.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2007 Sep 1, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig
announced his resignation, saying he would leave office on Sept. 30,
2007, in the wake of fallout over his arrest and guilty plea in a
Minnesota airport gay sex sting. However, Craig later reversed his
decision, saying he would serve out the rest of his term.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2007 Sep 1, It was reported that
it is now more expensive to execute someone in the US that to jail him
for life. In North Carolina each capital case was said to cost some $2
million to legal fees.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.21)
2007 Sep 1, In eastern Tennessee a
small plane carrying 5 Jehovah’s Witness ministers crashed in the
Cherokee National Forest killing all 5 aboard.
(SFC, 9/3/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 1, The industry ministry
of Algiers announced that Algeria is inviting bids to privatize 13
companies in the electronics, iron, and public works sectors.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 1, Life expectancy in
Andorra was reported to be longer than in any other world country,
while the same in Swaziland was reported to be the shortest.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.14)
2007 Sep 1, Police arrested four
suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA in
south-west France, believed to be linked to the deadly Madrid airport
bomb in December.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, A US Navy hospital
ship Comfort brought state-of-the-art medical care to Haiti during a
regional goodwill mission aimed at countering leftist Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez's influence.
(AP, 9/7/07)(http://tinyurl.com/2squrt)
2007 Sep 1, It was reported that
Mumbai, India, had a population of 14 million, making it the largest
city in south Asia. The UN said it expected Mumbai to reach 25 million
by 2015.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.33)
2007 Sep 1, In Basra gunmen on a
motorcycle assassinated Muslim al-Batat, an aide to the country's top
Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. US National Public Radio
said a draft report from the US embassy in Baghdad says PM Maliki's
government is failing to stop officials from committing fraud and is
undermining its own watchdog agency, preventing it from carrying out
effective investigations. The Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV,
dropped a precision bomb on two suspected insurgents believed to be
preparing to plant roadside bombs. This was the US Army's first-ever
use of a drone aircraft to kill enemy fighters in Iraq.
(AP, 9/1/07)(AFP, 9/1/07)(AP, 9/8/07)
2007 Sep 1, Takehiko Endo, Japan's
latest agricultural minister, acknowledged that a private farming group
he leads exaggerated weather damage to the 1999 grape harvest in order
to receive government compensation, which amounted to $9,930.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 1, In Mexico Tropical
Storm Henriette dumped heavy rains on Acapulco, flooding streets and
prompting officials to close more than 1,000 schools, while Tropical
Storm Felix formed in the Caribbean.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, In Morocco
Renault-Nissan head Carlos Ghosn signed a deal to build an assembly
plant in Tangiers, with a planned investment of one billion euros (1.36
billion dollars) and final capacity of 400,000 vehicles.
(AFP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, North Korea and the US
began face-to-face talks in Geneva aimed at reaching an agreement on
how to proceed with Pyongyang's denuclearization pledge.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, Former Pakistani PM
Benazir Bhutto said in London that talks on a power sharing deal with
President Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she would return to Pakistan
very soon even without an agreement. A suicide bombing killed four
Pakistani troops near the Afghan border, as tribal elders met with
Islamic militants elsewhere to seek the release of at least 120
Pakistani soldiers. In Karachi a section of a newly constructed highway
bridge came crashing down. At least 6 people were killed and 13 others
injured. Authorities suspended six officials from the state-run
National Highway Authority, which is responsible for supervising
highways in Pakistan, and the National Logistic Cell, a military-run
construction company that built the Karachi bridge.
(Reuters, 9/1/07)(AP, 9/1/07)(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 1, Hamas gunmen opened
fire on their own supporters, killing a teenager at a protest on the
Gaza-Egypt border, as tens of thousands of flag-waving Hamas supporters
gathered at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to demand it be
reopened.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, In Panama Pedro Miguel
Gonzalez Pinzon, a man wanted in the US on charges of involvement in
the killing of an American soldier 15 years ago in Panama, was elected
president of that country's congress.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, In Poland 2 small
planes collided during an acrobatic display at the Radom Air Show
killing both pilots.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, The population of
Tanzania was about 39 million, with a GDP per head of $860.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.44)
2007 Sep 1, In Venezuela more than
two dozen Colombian prisoners arrested three years ago in an alleged
plot against President Hugo Chavez were freed in a goodwill gesture he
hopes will help facilitate a prisoner exchange in Colombia.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, The World Health
Organization (WHO) confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four
of them fatal. The four, including two women, died between June 21 and
August 3 while a fifth person, a 29-year-old man, had recovered.
(Reuters, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, Hundreds of riot
police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse thousands of retired
officers and soldiers in southern Yemen who were demanding to be
allowed back into the military. The protesters were largely members of
the army of south Yemen who were ousted after being defeated by
northern forces.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, State media reported
that Zimbabwe's government will allow hotels, restaurants and bars to
raise their rates by up to 50 percent. A woman and a child were killed
in stampedes at an agriculture show in Harare packed with people lured
by scarce snack foods and cheap Chinese toys and exhibitors hoping to
skirt a government price freeze and sell their animals.
(AP, 9/1/07)(AP, 9/2/07)
2008 Sep 1, The GOP convention
opened at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., in an abbreviated
session due to Hurricane Gustav. Alaska’s Gov. Palin, GOP candidate for
the vice-presidency, disclosed that her daughter, Bristol (17), is 5
months pregnant. Over 250 demonstrators were arrested as splinter
groups smashed department store and police car windows. On March 11,
2009, Levi Johnson (19) announced he and Bristol Palin had decided to
end their relationship.
(SFC, 9/2/08, p.A1,5)(WSJ, 9/2/08, p.A4)(SFC,
3/12/09, p.A6)
2008 Sep 1, Hurricane Gustav
smashed into the Gulf coast as a Category 2 storm with 110-mph winds
just southwest of New Orleans, where levees held as waves splashed
over. Some 750,000 people were left without power in Louisiana. It was
later estimated that the storm caused at least $372 in damage to
crops.
(SFC, 9/2/08, p.A1)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.36)(Econ,
10/4/08, p.34)
2008 Sep 1, Roz Savage arrived in
Waikiki, Ha., after rowing 99 days from SF, Ca. The English-born woman
hoped to become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean
with the goal of raising awareness of the amount of plastic pollution
in the ocean.
(SFC, 9/2/08, p.B2)
2008 Sep 1, In Fairfield, Ca.,
councilman Matt Garcia (21) was critically wounded outside a friend’s
house. He was declared brain dead the next day. There were no suspects
and police had no idea why he was shot. Garcia was taken off life
support on Sep 5. On Sep 13 police announced the arrest of 2 suspects.
On Sep 16 murder charges were filed against Henry Don Williams (32),
who remained at large. On Sep 18 murder charges were filed against Gene
Allen Combs (45). Police released Nicole Stewart (33), who was pregnant
by Williams and remained a witness. Garcia appeared to be the innocent
victim of an attempt to collect drug debts.
(SFC, 9/3/08, p.A1)(SFC, 9/6/08, p.B3)(SSFC,
9/14/08, p.B1)(SFC, 9/19/08, p.B6)
2008 Sep 1, In Nevada an air
tanker being used to drop retardant on a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada
crashed after taking off for its last flight of the day, killing all
three crew members.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, Jerry Reed (71), US
singer and actor, died of complications from emphysema. He became a
good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit."
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, Foreign and Afghan
forces killed five children in two separate incidents, further
inflaming tensions over the killings of civilians by troops from the US
and other countries. The US military said US-led coalition and Afghan
troops killed more than 220 suspected Taliban militants in strikes in
southern Afghanistan last week.
(AP, 9/1/08)(Reuters, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Australian actor
Michael Pate (b.1920) died of respiratory failure. He had appeared in
more than 50 films and was a regular guest star on American TV shows in
the 1950s and 60s.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Brazil's Pres. Lula da
Silva suspended the entire leadership of Abin, the nation’s
intelligence agency, after it was accused of tapping the phones of the
Supreme Court chief and members of Congress.
(AP, 9/2/08)(WSJ, 9/2/08, p.A14)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.45)
2008 Sep 1, Thomas Bata (93), the
Czech-born industrialist who headed the global shoe empire bearing his
family's name from the 1940s to the 1980s, died in Toronto. The
company's headquarters were moved to Toronto under Bata's leadership
when the family's Czech factories were nationalized by the communists.
The company returned to the Czech Republic in 1989 after the end of
communist rule.
(Reuters, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, In China a new tax on
gas guzzling cars took effect in an effort to reduce fuel consumption
and fight pollution. In June the tax on fuel was increased by almost
20%.
(Econ, 8/23/08, p.54)
2008 Sep 1, In Colombia a car bomb
has exploded in front of the palace of justice in Cali, killing at
least four people and injuring 20 others.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, In east Democratic
Republic of Congo a humanitarian plane carrying 17 passengers and crew
crashed into a mountain with no sign of survivors.
(Reuters, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, The top UN aid
official John Holmes called for greater international efforts to help
millions of Ethiopians suffering from a severe drought.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Hundreds of thousands
of Georgians joined together in anti-Russian protests.
(Econ, 9/6/08, p.32)
2008 Sep 1, The US military handed
over control of once brutally violent Anbar province to Iraqi forces,
marking a major milestone in America's plan to eventually send its
troops home.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Most of the Muslim
Mideast began the first day of Ramadan, but Iraqi Shiites, some
Lebanese Shiites and Iran will start observing the holy month of
fasting on Sep 2.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Japan's chronically
unpopular PM Yasuo Fukuda (72), suddenly announced his resignation
after less than a year in office, throwing the world's second-largest
economy into political confusion.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, In Myanmar Saw Myint
Than, a magazine journalist, was arrested on a charge of violating the
Electronics Law, which regulates all forms of electronic communication
and carries a maximum five-year prison term. He was freed on Oct 20
after police determined he had not provided information to The
Irrawaddy, a Thailand-based Web site run by Myanmar exiles.
(AP, 10/22/08)
2008 Sep 1, North Korea began
reassembling its Yongbyon reactor that can make material for atomic
bombs in violation of US conditions for improved diplomatic relations.
Japan's Kyodo news agency reported the restart on Sep 3 citing sources
in Beijing close to six-party nuclear talks on North Korean.
(Reuters, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 1, Pakistani officials
said that their forces had killed some 560 Pakistani and foreign
fighters and thwarted a push to make Bajur into a militant fortress.
Pakistan’s government opened an investigation into the killings of five
women who tried to choose their own husbands, after a provincial
lawmaker defended their deaths as a "centuries-old tradition."
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, In the southern
Philippines a homemade bomb exploded at a bus terminal, killing four
people and injuring more than a dozen in Digos city in Davao del Sur
province.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, A Spanish judge began
gathering information about people who disappeared during Spain's civil
war and subsequent dictatorship, seeking to produce a reliable list of
victims slain away from the battlefield during the vicious fight
between left and right.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, Sri Lanka’s defense
ministry said 33 rebels and four of its own troops were killed in
fighting across the north of the island. It said 49 guerrillas and 11
soldiers were also wounded in the fighting. Government troops marched
into Mallavi, a key LTTE bastion.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, A US-Vietnam adoption
agreement expired with the two sides unable to resolve disagreements
over fraud and corruption, disappointing hundreds of prospective
parents who will have to seek children elsewhere.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Zimbabwe's main
opposition called on regional powers to pressure President Robert
Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party to be more flexible in power-sharing
talks.
(AP, 9/1/08)
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