Today in History - September 2
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490BC Sep 2,
Phidippides of Athens set out on his 26-mile run that inspired the
Marathon. Phidippides was sent to seek troops from Sparta to help
against the invading Persian army. The Spartans were unwilling to help,
until the next full moon, due to religious laws. On Sept. 4th,
Phidippides returned the 26 miles Marathon without Spartan troops.
(MC, 9/2/01)
31BC Sep 2, Famous Naval Battle of
Actium in the Ionian Sea, between Roman leader Octavian and the
alliance of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Octavian
soundly defeated Antony's fleet which was burned and 5000 of his men
were killed.
(MC, 9/2/01)
911AD Sep 2, Viking monarch Oleg
of Kiev, Russia, signed a treaty with the Byzantines.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1192 Sep 2, Sultan Saladin and
King Richard the Lion Hearted signed a cease fire.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1384 Sep 2, Louis I, duke of Anjou
and king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), died.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1547 Sep 2, Hernan Cortes, Spanish
general who defeated Aztec Indians, died.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1644 Sep 2, At the Battle at
Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux's infantry surrendered.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1666 Sep 2, The Great Fire of
London, having started at Pudding Lane, began to demolish about
four-fifths of London. It started at the house of King Charles II's
baker, Thomas Farrinor, after he forgot to extinguish his oven. The
flames raged uncontrollably for the next few days, helped along by the
wind, as well as by warehouses full of oil and other flammable
substances. Approximately 13,200 houses, 90 churches and 50 livery
company halls burned down or exploded. But the fire claimed only 16
lives, and it actually helped impede the spread of the deadly Black
Plague, as most of the disease-carrying rats were killed in the fire.
(CFA, '96, p.54)(AP, 9/2/97)(HNPD, 9/2/98)(HNQ,
12/2/00)
1716 Sep 2, Johann Trier,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1732 Sep 2, Pope Clement XII
renewed anti-Jewish laws of Rome.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1776 Sep 2-9, The Hurricane of
Independence killed 4,170 people from North Carolina to Nova Scotia.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)
1779 Sep 2, Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte (d.1844), French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), was born
in Corsica. He was one of 3 younger brothers of Napoleon I.
(www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Louis-Napoleon-Bonaparte)
1789 Sep 2, The Treasury
Department, headed by Alexander Hamilton, was created in New York City.
(AP, 9/2/97)(HN, 9/2/98)
1792 Sep 2, Verdun, France,
surrendered to the Prussian Army.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1792 Sep 2, In the "September
Massacres"- French mobs removed nobles and clergymen from jails, and
some 1,600.
(Econ, 7/18/09, p.80)
1798 Sep 2, The Maltese people
revolted against the French occupation, forcing the French troops to
take refuge in the citadel of Valetta in Malta.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1807 Sep 2, British forces began
bombarding Copenhagen for several days, until the Danes agreed to
surrender their naval fleet.
(AP, 9/2/07)
1838 Sep 2, Lydia Kamekeha
Liliuokalani (d.1917), last sovereign before annexation of Hawaii by
the United States, was born. Lili’uokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii
(1891-1893). She composed Hawaii’s most famous song “Aloha Oe.”
(WSJ, 1/23/97, p.A12)(HN, 9/2/98)
1842 Sep 2, A letter by Abraham
Lincoln (31) in the Sangamon Journal satirized the Illinois State
Auditor’s call for state taxes to be paid in silver or gold. This in
part led auditor James Shields to challenge Lincoln to a duel.
(ON, 11/02, p.11)
1850 Sep 2, Eugene Field, author,
poet and journalist, was born. His work included “Little Boy Blue.”
(HN, 9/2/00)(MC, 9/2/01)
1856 Sep 2, Paul Du Chaillu
(1831-1903), French-American journalist and hunter, shot and killed his
1st gorilla in Gabon. Over the next 3 years he killed 31 gorillas. In
1861 he published “Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa.”
(ON, 11/04, p.12)
1864 Sep 2, During the Civil War,
Union Gen. William T. Sherman's forces occupied Atlanta.
(AP, 9/2/97)
1865 Sep 2, William Rowan
Hamilton, Ireland's greatest man of science who made contributions in
the study of optics and applications of algebra to geometry, died.
(Internet)
1870 Sep 2, Samuel Augustus
Maverick (b.1803), Texas lawyer, politician, land baron and signer of
the Texas Declaration of Independence, died. His name is the source of
the term "maverick", first cited in 1867, which means independent
minded. Maverick was considered independent minded by his fellow
ranchers because he refused to brand his cattle.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Augustus_Maverick)
1870 Sep 2, Napoleon III with
80,000 men capitulated to the Prussians at Sedan, France.
(PCh, 1992, p.516)(WSJ, 3/14/95, p.A-16)(HN, 9/2/98)
1877 Sep 2, Frederick Soddy, named
an isotope and received 1921 Nobel prize for chemistry, was born.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1885 Sep 2, In Rock Springs,
Wyoming Territory, 28 Chinese laborers were killed and hundreds more
chased out of town by striking coal miners.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1894 Sep 1-2, Forest fires ravaged
over 160,000 acres and destroyed Hinckley, Minnesota. About 600 people
died.
(MC, 9/2/01)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)
1897 Sep 2, "McCall's" magazine
was 1st published.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1898 Sep 2, Anglo-Egyptian lines
under Gen’l. Kitchener were charged by 50,000 fanatical Dervishes and
were mowed down by howitzers, machine guns and rifles. Lt. Winston
Churchill led one of the last (and most useless) cavalry charges in
history. Sir Herbert Kitchener led the British to victory over the
Mahdists at Omdurman and took Khartoum. The Dervishes left 11,000 dead
and 16,000 wounded. The Anglo-Egyptian army suffered fewer than a dozen
casualties. In 1899 Winston Churchill published "The River War, An
Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan." This was the 1st use of the
machine gun in battle.
(WSJ, 8/25/98, p.A14)(HN, 9/2/98)(ON, 10/99,
p.3)(MC, 9/2/01)
1901 Sep 2, Adolph Rupp,
basketball coach at the University of Kentucky who achieved a record
876 victories, was born.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1901 Sep 2, Vice President
Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big
stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.
(AP, 9/2/97)
1904 Sep 2, Set Svanholm, tenor
(Met Opera and London Convent Garden), was born in Vesteras, Sweden.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1906 Sep 2, Giuseppe Giacosa
(b.1847), Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini), died.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1910 Sep 2, Alice Stebbins Wells
was admitted to the Los Angeles Police Force as the first woman police
officer to receive an appointment based on a civil service exam.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1910 Sep 2, Henri "le Douanier"
Rousseau (b.1844), French customs officer and painter, died in Paris.
He had recently completed his masterpiece “The Dream.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Rousseau)(WSJ,
9/13/06, p.D10)
1915 Sep 2, Austro-German armies
took Grodno, Poland.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1917 Sep 2, Cleveland Amory,
conservationist and TV reviewer (TV Guide), was born in Nahant, Mass.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1917 Sep 2, Admiral Tirpitz formed
the Deutsche Vaterlands Party.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1918 Sep 2, Laurindo Almeida,
composer and guitarist, was born.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1918 Sep 2, Martha Mitchell, wife
of Attorney General John Mitchell, was born.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1919 Sep 2, Marge Champion, dancer
(Marge & Gower Champion Show), was born in LA, California.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1920 Sep 2, W. Somerset Maugham's
"East of Suez," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1921 Sep 2, At the Battle of Blair
Mountain in West Virginia an army of 10 to 15 thousand miners and their
families faced a private army of some 2,000 men and 2,100 state and
federal troops. The fledgling US Air Force dropped a few bombs as a
demonstration meant to overawe the labor organizers and in the event.
The death toll for the battle was estimated from fewer than 20 to more
than 50.
(Econ, 5/26/07,
p.32)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain)(AH, 4/07,
p.67)
1924 Sep 2, The Rudolf Friml
operetta "Rose Marie" opened on Broadway and ran for 558 performances.
Producer Arthur Hammerstein ordered that it be written for singer Mary
Ellis (1897-2003).
(AP, 9/2/99)(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1930 Sep 2, The first non-stop
airplane flight from Europe to the US was completed as Captain
Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte of France arrived in Valley
Stream, New York, aboard a Breguet biplane. The plane was known as "The
Question Mark" because it bore a large question mark, instead of a
name, on each side..
(AP, 9/2/08)
1935 Sep 2, A hurricane slammed
into the Florida Keys, claiming more than 400 lives. Estimates of the
dead reached 500-800. Some 260 WW I veterans were killed in the Labor
Day hurricane as well as over 160 permanent residents. In 2002 Willie
Drye authored “The Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of
1935.”
(WSJ, 4/2/07, p.B1)(AP, 9/2/07)(AH, 2/03, p.59)
1936 Sep 2, The 1st transatlantic
round-trip air flight took place. [see Sep 6]
(MC, 9/2/01)
1937 Sep 2, Peter Ueberroth,
baseball commissioner, was born. He organized the 1984 LA Olympics.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1937 Sep 2, Pierre de Coubertin
(b.1863), French Baron and the major force behind the revival of the
modern Olympics, died.
(ON, 8/07,
p.5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Coubertin)
1940 Sep 2, The US Great Smoky
Mountains National Park dedicated.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1942 Sep 2, German troops entered
Stalingrad.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1944 Sep 2, Troops of the U.S.
First Army entered Belgium.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1944 Sep 2, Navy pilot George
Herbert Walker Bush was shot down by Japanese forces as he completed a
bombing run over the Bonin Islands. Bush was rescued by the crew of the
U.S. submarine Finback; his two crew members, however, died.
(AP, 9/2/04)
1945 Sep 2, The Japanese surrender
delegation boarded the USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay to formally
sign documents of surrender, ending World War II.
(WSJ, 8/31/95, p.A-10)(AP, 9/2/97)(HN, 9/2/98)
1945 Sep 2, Ho Chi Minh (55)
promulgated the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence and unity from
the north to the south. He was known to have written letters to
President Truman asking for humanitarian assistance and advocated
political rather than military action. His letters went unanswered.
(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-23)(SFEM, 6/9/96, p.9)(AP,
9/2/97)
1946 Sep 2, Nehru formed a
government in India.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1948 Sep 2, Christa McAuliffe, the
first civilian passenger on a space mission, was born in Boston, Mass.
During that 1986 mission, she and the six other crew members on the
space shuttle Challenger perished in an explosion shortly after launch.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1950 Sep 2, In Oakland, Ca., the
Children’s Fairyland opened at Lake Merritt. 6,000 children streamed
through the instep of Old Mother Hubbard's Shoe. Walt Disney based his
theme park on Fairyland and stole away the first director, Dorothy
Manes, with a higher salary. It was reconstructed in 1998.
(SFEC,12/21/97, p.B5)(SFC, 3/18/98, p.A15)(SFEC,
10/31/99, p.C1)
1951 Sep 2, Mark Harmon (actor
Wyatt Earp, Till There Was You, Reasonable Doubts, People magazine’s
Sexiest Man Alive [1986]), was born.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1952 Sep 2, Jimmy Connors tennis
champion, was born. His wins included: Australian Open [1974],
Wimbledon [1974, 1982], U.S. Open [1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983].
(MC, 9/2/01)
1952 Sep 2, Dr. Floyd J. Lewis 1st
used a deep freeze technique in heart surgery.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1956 Sep 2, Tennessee National
Guardsmen halted rioters protesting the admission of 12
African-Americans to schools in Clinton.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1957 Sep 2, Pres. Eisenhower
signed the Price-Anderson Act, which limited firms’ liability in
commercial nuclear disasters. The Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries
Indemnity Act, a United States federal law, has since been renewed
several times since its passage.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price-Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Indemnity_Act)(SSFC,
4/8/07, p.A18)
1957 Sep 2, Arkansas Gov. Orval
Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students
from entering Central High School in Little Rock. Pres. Eisenhower soon
responded with Federal troops to enforce federal law for integration.
The nine students, mentored by Daisy Gatson (d.1999 at 84) went on to
lead very productive lives as detailed in a 1997 retrospective.
(www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=89)(SFC, 4/28/00,
p.A11)
1958 Sep 2, President Eisenhower
signed the National Defense Education Act, which provided aid to public
and private education to promote learning in such fields as math and
science.
(AP, 9/2/08)
1963 Sep 2, "The CBS Evening News"
was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
(AP, 9/2/97)
1963 Sep 2, Alabama Gov. George C.
Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling
the building with state troopers.
(AP, 9/2/97)(HN, 9/2/98)
1964 Sep 2, Keanu Reeves, film
actor, was born. His films included Chain Reaction, Johnny Mnemonic,
Speed, Little Buddha, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, My Own Private Idaho,
Parenthood, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Dangerous Liaisons.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1964 Sep 2, Indonesian
paratroopers landed in Malaysia.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1965 Sep 2, The Treblinka trial in
Dusseldorf ended.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1967 Sep 2, Paddy Roy Bates,
retired British army major, landed on the island of Sealand, a WW II
military fortress 6 miles off the coast of England, and declared it a
sovereign nation, the Principality of Sealand.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.A4)(www.sealandgov.com/history.html)
1969 Sep 2, The first Internet
message was a packet switch delivered to UCLA from BBN Corp. (Bolt
Beranek and Newman). The 1st 2 machines of ARPANET were connected at
Prof. Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. The US Dept. of Defense’s Advanced
Research and Projects Agency (ARPANET) launched a self-healing computer
network with TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet
Protocol). By the early 1980’s the military component became a separate
network and the true birth of today’s Internet is marked. By 2007 some
university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to
scrap the Internet and start over.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet_8)(SFEC,
3/16/97, z1 p.3)(SFC, 8/30/99, p.C10)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.C1)
1969 Sep 2, North Vietnamese
president Ho Chi Minh died. The son of a poor scholar, Ho Chi Minh led
the nationalist movement of his country for three decades. Ho Chi Minh
became an active socialist while in France where he petitioned for
colonial reforms following World War I. His involvement with the
international communist movement continued into the 1920s, meeting and
working with communist leaders in Europe and the newly formed Soviet
Union. He formed the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and its
successor, the Viet-Minh, in 1941, going on to serve as president of
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death.
(AP,
9/2/97)(www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/hochiminh4.html)
1972 Sep 2, Dave Wottle of the
United States won the men's 800-meter race at the Munich Summer
Olympics.
(AP, 9/2/02)
1973 Sep 2, John R. R. Tolkien,
British story writer, died of ulcer at 81. His work included "The
Hobbit" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. In 2007 his son
Christopher Tolkien edited “The Children of Hurin,” compiled from notes
and material left by his father.
(WSJ, 7/15/96, p.B1)(Econ, 4/21/07, p.94)
1974 Sep 2, Pres. Ford signed the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), to protect pension
accounts. It was passed partly in response to Studebaker employee
pension losses in 1963. The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
(PBGC) was set up to insure the bulk of corporate America’s pension
plans. It was expanded to include 401(k) accounts in 1978.
(WSJ, 6/5/96,
p.A1,8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Retirement_Income_Security_Act)
1975 Sep 2, Joseph W. Hatcher of
Tallahassee, Florida, became the state's first African-American supreme
court justice since Reconstruction.
(HN, 9/2/98)
1979 Sep 2, Charles Burton
(1942-2002) led a small group down the Thames on a 3-year journey to
follow the meridian line connecting Greenwich to the North and South
Poles. Sir Ranulph Fiennes (b.1944) and his wife Ginnie also took part.
Burton and Fiennes returned to Greenwich Aug 29, 1982.
(SFC, 7/18/02,
p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes)
1980 Sep 2, In the SF Bay Area US
District Judge William Ingram found Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno guilty of
conspiracy to influence witnesses before a federal grand jury
investigating the Santa Clara Valley business affairs of his 2 sons.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.F2)
1983 Sep 2, Yitzhak Shamir (68),
the Foreign Minister of Israel, was elected to succeed PM Menachem
Begin as leader of the governing Herut Party.
(http://tinyurl.com/36jznt)
1984 Sep 2, "Zorba" closed at the
Broadway Theater in NYC after 362 performances.
(www.nodanw.com/shows_z/zorba.htm)
1986 Sep 2, A judge in Los Angeles
sentenced Cathy Evelyn Smith to three years in prison for involuntary
manslaughter in connection with the 1982 drug overdose death of
comedian John Belushi. She served 18 months.
(AP, 9/2/06)
1987 Sep 2, West German pilot
Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki, Finland, to
Moscow's Red Square, went on trial in the Soviet capital. Rust, who was
convicted and given a four-year sentence, was released Aug. 3, 1988.
(AP, 9/2/97)
1988 Sep 2, Democrat Michael
Dukakis welcomed back former top aide John Sasso to his presidential
campaign, nearly a year after Sasso resigned because of his role in
torpedoing the campaign of Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden.
(AP, 9/2/98)
1989 Sep 2, In Nicaragua, a
14-party opposition coalition chose Violeta Barrios de Chamorro as its
presidential candidate. Chamorro went on to win the election the
following February.
(AP, 9/2/99)
1990 Sep 2, Dave Stieb of the
Toronto Blue Jays hurled a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians,
winning 3-0.
(AP, 9/2/00)
1990 Sep 2, Dozens of Americans
reached freedom in the first major airlift of Westerners from Iraq
during the month-old Persian Gulf crisis.
(AP, 9/2/00)
1990 Sep 2, The UN Convention on
the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) entered into force. As of 2008 only the
United States and Somalia had failed to ratify the document.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child)(Econ,
5/31/08, p.62)
1991 Sep 2, President Bush
formally recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia.
(AP, 9/2/01)
1991 Sep 2, In Moscow, the Soviet
Congress of People's Deputies opened its first session since the failed
coup, taking up proposals aimed at drastically restructuring the
country.
(AP, 9/2/01)
1992 Sep 2, On the campaign trail,
President Bush announced nearly $2 billion in new aid for US farmers
and a $6 billion jet fighter sale that would largely benefit Texas.
Democrat Bill Clinton, meanwhile, charged that Bush would short change
middle-class students to finance tax cuts for the rich. Bush announced
the agreement to sell Taiwan 150 F-16 jet fighters at the General
Dynamics factory in Fort Worth, Texas.
(AP,
9/2/97)(www.fas.org/news/taiwan/1992/920903-taiwan-usia2.htm)
1992 Sep 2, Michael Nguyen (9) was
murdered in San Francisco. Two men were later found guilty of murdering
the boy for profit based on insurance claims.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A13)
1993 Sep 2, The United States and
Russia formally ended decades of competition in space by agreeing to a
joint venture to build a space station.
(AP, 9/2/98)
1994 Sep 2, The US government
reported the nation's unemployment rate for August was unchanged from
July, at 6.1 percent.
(AP, 9/2/99)
1995 Sep 2, At a military cemetery
on a hill high above Honolulu, President Clinton marked the 50th
anniversary of the end of World War II, saying it taught Americans that
"the blessings of freedom are never easy or free."
(AP, 9/2/00)
1995 Sep 2, Vaclav Neumann (74),
Czech conductor, died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112233)
1996 Sep 2, The US launched cruise
missiles at selected air defense targets in Iraq to discourage Sadam
Hussein’s military moves against a Kurd faction.
(SFC, 9/3/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 2, In Palestine stories
of corruption were rife and Arafat was accused of pouring money into
his 9 security forces rather than infrastructure.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 2, In the Philippines an
accord was signed between Pres. Ramos and Moro rebel leader Nur Misuari
to end a 24-26 year Muslim rebellion during which some 120,000 people
were killed.
(WSJ, 8/20/96, p.A1)(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A9)(SFC,
9/2/96, p.A12)(AP, 9/2/97)
1996 Sep 2, The Ukraine government
planned to introduce its new currency, the hyrvna. The old karbovanets
would be swappable for only 2 weeks.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.A10)
1997 Sep 2, It was reported that
52,000 books, fiction and non-fiction, would be published this year in
the US.
(WSJ, 9/2/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 2, US troops in Bosnia
relinquished control of the TV transmitter in exchange for agreements
to permit opposition voices on the air and an end to inflammatory
rhetoric.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.C2)
1997 Sep 2, The US demanded
exemptions to a proposed global ban on land mines at an int’l meeting
in Oslo, Norway. The exemptions were for mines on the Korean peninsula
and for certain types of mines.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.C2)
1997 Sep 2, The US stock market
made a record 257 point gain.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.B1)
1997 Sep 2, In Miami Beach,
Florida US postal worker, Jesus Antonio Tamayo (64) shot and critically
injured his former wife, Manuela Acosta (62) and a friend and then
killed himself.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Sep 2, Rudolf Bing (95),
opera manager (NY Met Opera), died.
(www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0761029.html)
1997 Sep 2, Viktor E. Frankl (b.
1905), psychotherapist, died in Vienna at age 92. He was the author of
“Man’s Search for Meaning.” He developed logotherapy, a theory whose
primary belief is that man’s primary motivational force is his search
for meaning. His teachings are called the 3rd Vienna School of
Psychotherapy after Freud and Adler. He held that one can discover the
meaning of life in 3 different ways: “by creating a work or doing a
deed; by experiencing something or encountering someone; and by the
attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.”
(WSJ, 9/4/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/97, p.C4)
1997 Sep 2, Ethnic Armenians in
Nagorno-Karabakh elected Arkady Gukasian as president with an 89% vote.
Azerbaijan called the vote invalid.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.C3)
1997 Sep 2, In London, a grieving
human tide engulfed St. James's Palace, where Princess Diana's body lay
in a chapel closed to the public, as the British monarchy and
government prepared for her funeral. The White House announced that
first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would attend on behalf of the United
States.
(AP, 9/2/98)
1997 Sep 2, In Russia Space Agency
officials blamed the cosmonauts for the Jun 25 crash on the Mir space
station. Later ground controllers were also held partly responsible.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.C3)(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)
1998 Sep 2, President Clinton
concluded his Moscow summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A1)(AP, 9/2/99)
1998 Sep 2, It was reported that
US officials acknowledged that they were not aware that Sudan’s Shifa
factory produced human and veterinary medicines. The admitted that
their only knowledge about what the plant produced came from its Web
site.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A9)
1998 Sep 2, Tropical Storm Earl
hit the Florida Panhandle. It was expected to reach hurricane strength
with winds over 74 mph.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A2)(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 2, Tropical Storm Isis
grew into a hurricane and hit the tip of Baja California.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 2, Investigators in
Poughkeepsie arrested Kendall Francois for the murder of Catina
Newmaster (25), one of 8 women missing since 1996. The bodies of 3
women were pulled from his house.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 2, A Swissair MD-11
jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia with 229 people aboard and all were
feared dead. The New York to Geneva flight had 136 Americans on board.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/98, p.A17)(AP,
9/2/99)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1998 Sep 2, In Afghanistan a $415
million deal was signed with the Taliban government for
telecommunications by Gary Breshinsky of Telephone Systems Int’l.
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 2, Colombia devalued its
currency by 9% and the peso fell 5.3%.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.B1)(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D2)
1998 Sep 2, A new strain of HIV-1
was reported by French researchers from a Cameroonian woman who died if
AIDS in 1995.
(SFC, 9/1/98, p.A4)
1998 Sep 2, Indonesian police on
Sumatra shot 2 people to death in Lhokseumawe on the 2nd day of
rioting. Rioters freed 90 prisoners and hundreds of ethnic Chinese fled
the town. Several thousand fresh troops were sent to the city in the
province of Aceh.
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/3/98, p.C18)
1998 Sep 2, Malaysia PM Mahathir
Mohamad ousted deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim after the deputy
disagreed with the free-spending policies of his boss.
(SFC, 9/21/98, p.A12)(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A7)
1998 Sep 2, In Northern Ireland
the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party announced that Martin McGuiness, its
senior negotiator, would work with the Canadian-led commission charged
with disarming paramilitary groups.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 2, In Russia Yuri
Timoshenkov, mayor of Nizhznevartovsk, was injured along with 2
bodyguards when a bomb exploded near his car.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 2, In Rwanda prosecutors
held Jean-Paul Akayesu, a former Hutu village mayor, guilty of 9 counts
genocide. He was later sentenced to life in prison and 80 years for
other violations.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A14)(SFC, 10/3/98, p.A10)
1999 Sep 2, It was announced that
President and Mrs. Clinton had signed a contract to purchase a $1.7
million house in Chappaqua, New York, ending a months-long guessing
game over where the couple would live after leaving the White House.
(AP, 9/2/00)
1999 Sep 2, US Sec. of State
Albright and her top negotiators worked to restart Middle East peace
negotiations stalled over the number of Palestinian prisoners to be
released by Israel.
(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A8)
1999 Sep 2, Genetic experts
reported that Chardonnay and 15 other varietal wines have resulted from
a coupling between Pinot and Gouais blanc grapes.
(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 2, NATO and UN officials
agreed to the formation of a civilian emergency force in Kosovo from
the remnants of the KLA.
(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A9)
1999 Sep 2, In East Timor
pro-Indonesia militiamen killed 2 UN workers as the Indonesian
government dispatched 500 riot police to maintain peace.
(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A8)
1999 Sep 2, North Korea declared a
new demilitarized zone with South Korea that placed 5 islands
controlled by South Korea with North Korean territory.
(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A9)
1999 Sep 2, In Russia a TV network
was forced off the air by the new media ministry after a report on a
political party led by Yeltsin and Boris Nemtsov.
(WSJ, 9/3/99, p.A1)
2000 Sep 2, In Alaska Joshua Alan
Wade killed Della Brown (33), a native Alaskan, by smashing her head
with a rock in Anchorage. Wade was acquitted in 2003 in her killing,
but was convicted of tampering with her body and served several years
in prison. In 2010 Wade acknowledged her murder.
(SFC, 2/17/10,
p.A6)(http://www.ktva.com/iteam/ci_14413092)
2000 Sep 2, The California opening
for the 6,356 mile American Discovery Trail was celebrated at Crissy
Field in SF. The 15-state trail is the result of an 11-year effort
backed by Backpacker Magazine and the American Hiking Society.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.C1)
2000 Sep 2, In Nevada some 28,000
people gathered for the finale of the Burning Man festival in the Black
Rock Desert.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 2, Curt Siodmak,
novelist, screenwriter and film director, died at age 98. His
autobiography “Wolf Man’s Maker” was published soon after his death.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A25)
2000 Sep 2, In Colombia a US-made
warplane crashed and 7 airmen were killed during heavy fighting with
rebels. Another 8 soldiers were killed along with 12 rebels in the
combat on Mount Montezuma, 155 miles west of Bogota. A rebel assault on
a police station at Tomarrazon in Guajira state left 7 police officers
dead.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.A15)(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 2, Hundreds of thousands
of North Koreans welcomed home 63 former spies and guerrillas released
by South Korea.
(AP, 9/2/01)
2001 Sep 2, The Nevada Burning Man
festival came to a close. Also burned was “The Mausoleum,” a plywood
temple built over several weeks and dedicated to the dead.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.B3)
2001 Sep 2, Dr. Christiaan Barnard
(b.1922), South African cardiologist, died in Paphos, Cyprus. He
performed the world’s 1st human heart transplant in 1967, authored a
distinguished text on cardiology, a scandalous autobiography and 4
minor novels.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A15)(AP, 9/2/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.111)
2001 Sep 2, Troy Donahue (65), a
one-time teen movie idol, died in Santa Monica, California.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A15)(AP, 9/2/02)
2001 Sep 2, In Virginia David
Peltier (10) died from a shark attack at Virginia Beach.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 2, In Colombia Ramiro
Carranza, director of the foreign branch of the secret police (DAS),
was abducted near Quetame.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 2, The 2nd annual
European Day of Jewish Culture was set in 23 European countries.
(SSFC, 8/19/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 2, North Korea announced
a desire to reopen stalled peace talks with South Korea.
(SFC, 9/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 2, Namibia confirmed that
it had pulled all its troops from all of Congo except the capital.
Uganda said it had pulled 6 of 10 battalions.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 2, In the Seychelles
voting ended. Pres. France Albert Rene won another 5 year term.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2002 Sep 2, The $195 million Our
Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles was dedicated. It was
designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo.
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A2)
2002 Sep 2, Glenn Tilton was named
chairman, president and chief executive officer of United Airlines
parent UAL Corp.
(AP, 9/2/03)
2002 Sep 2, Consolidated
Freightways Corp. of Vancouver, Wa., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
and laid off 15,500 people nationwide.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A4)
2002 Sep 2, In New Hampshire 7
people were killed when their small plane crashed near Swanzey.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A10)
2002 Sep 2, Jerry Boyd (b.1930),
boxing trainer and author (pen name F.X. Toole), died. Two of his short
stories were adopted for the 2004 film “Million Dollar Baby.”
(SSFC, 8/6/06,
p.M1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.X._Toole)
2002 Sep 2, In Bolivia a bus slid
off a muddy shoulder on one the most dangerous highways and plunged
into a ravine, killing at least 20 people.
(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, Thousands of illegal
Indonesian workers and their families are living in dire conditions in
camps near the country's border with Malaysia and one relief worker
said a few are selling their babies to raise cash.
(Reuters, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, Tens of thousands of
South Koreans heaved shovels to clear mud and debris from homes
devastated by Typhoon Rusa, the worst typhoon to hit the country in 40
years. The death toll from South Korea's worst typhoon in 40 years rose
to 113 as soldiers led a desperate search for 71 people still missing
after the weekend devastation.
(AP, 9/2/02)(Reuters, 9/3/02)(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 2, Russia urged Iraq to
admit U.N. weapons inspectors to avoid a war that could jeopardize
multibillion-dollar economic deals between the trading partners.
(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, The Sudanese
government suspended peace talks with southern rebels because of the
rebel takeover of Torit.
(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, At least 14 people
were killed and more than 20 were missing after their makeshift houses
on the banks of an overflowing stream collapsed after heavy rain in
northern Thailand.
(Reuters, 9/3/02)
2002 Sep 2, Tunisia's highest
court upheld jail terms against opposition leader Hamma Hammami, head
of the outlawed Communist Workers Party, and two officials of his
political party.
(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Sep 2, At the UN Earth Summit
in South Africa negotiators agreed on a global plan to reduce the use
of oil and switch to other cleaner and more efficient forms of energy.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A1)
2003 Sep 2, A federal appeals
court in San Francisco threw out more than 100 death sentences in
Arizona, Montana and Idaho because the inmates had been sent to death
row by judges instead of juries.
(AP, 9/2/04)
2003 Sep 2, Typhoon Dujuan slammed
into the southern Chinese coastal city of Shenzhen, killing at least 20
people and causing extensive damage to parts of the country's showcase
economic development zone.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2003 Sep 2, The official Xinhua
News Agency reported that heavy flooding in northern China had killed
38 people with another 34 people missing since Aug 24.
(AP, 9/2/03)
2003 Sep 2, In China's Inner
Mongolia a locust plague, Oedaleus decorus asiaticus, was reported to
have affected some 47 million acres of grasslands.
(WSJ, 9/2/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 2, Two South China
tigers, the first ever to leave the country, arrived in South Africa as
part of a project to save the endangered species.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2003 Sep 2, Ptolemy Alexander Reid
(85), former Guyanese Prime Minister, died after suffering a stroke.
Reid was named prime minister under President Forbes Burnham, and held
the post from 1980 to 1984.
(AP, 9/5/03)
2003 Sep 2, In eastern India an
overcrowded boat capsized in the swollen Kosi River of Bihar state, and
at least 25 people were missing and feared drowned.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2003 Sep 2, In Indonesia a court
in Jakarta convicted radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir of inciting
others to overthrow the government. He was sentenced to four years in
prison for sedition. The court threw out charges that he belonged to
al-Qaida's main Asian ally. His conviction was later overturned after
he'd spent more than two years behind bars.
(AP, 9/2/03)(AP, 9/2/08)
2003 Sep 2, Saudi Arabia's Crown
Prince Abdullah met Russia's Pres. Putin on the first visit to
post-Soviet Russia by a Saudi leader, aimed at coordinating oil exports
and soothing Russian concerns about alleged funding of Chechen rebels
by Saudi charities.
(AP, 9/2/03)
2003 Sep 2, In northeastern Uganda
rebels shot or clubbed to death 25 people on a bus and then set the
vehicle ablaze.
(AP, 9/2/03)
2004 Sep 2, Pres. Bush pledged "a
safer world and a more hopeful America" as he accepted his party's
nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in
New York.
(SFC, 9/3/04, p.A1)(AP, 9/2/05)
2004 Sep 2, A military jury at
Camp Pendleton, Calif., convicted Marine Sgt. Gary Pittman of
dereliction of duty and abuse of prisoners at a makeshift detention
camp in Iraq. A jury at Fort Lewis, Wash., convicted a National
Guardsman of trying to help al-Qaida; Spc. Ryan G. Anderson was
sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2004 Sep 2, Halliburton said an
internal investigation has found that a consortium it later took over
(1998) had once considered bribing Nigerian officials to win a 1995
energy contract.
(AP, 9/2/04)
2004 Sep 2, Hurricane Frances
raged through the sparsely populated southeastern Bahamas.
(AP, 9/2/04)
2004 Sep 2, The first Chinese
tourists to visit Paris, French, on an official tour group were treated
to a full taste of its charms.
(AP, 9/3/04)
2004 Sep 2, A controversial
monument commemorating Estonians who fought in the German army against
Soviet troops during World War II was removed, after the government
said it damaged the Baltic state's image.
(AP, 9/2/04)
2004 Sep 2, Egypt's antiquities
chief revealed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of
Giza's three giant pyramids.
(AP, 9/2/04)
2004 Sep 2, In Germany a fire in
Weimar's Duchess Anna Amalia Library caused the loss or damage of
thousands of irreplaceable books. Some 6,000 historical works were
saved.
(AP, 9/3/04)
2004 Sep 2, Kidnappers handed over
two French journalists in Iraq to an Iraqi Sunni Muslim opposition
group. A militant group in Iraq said it had killed three Turkish
captives. Gunmen ambushed an Associated Press driver, riddling his car
with bullets and killing him near his home in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/2/04)
2004 Sep 2, Anwar Ibrahim was set
free after his sodomy conviction was overturned by Malaysia's highest
court. This was six years to the day after the one-time heir apparent
to the country's premiership plunged into a divisive fight with his
political mentor.
(AP, 9/2/04)
2004 Sep 2, In Beslan, Russia,
camouflage-clad commandos carried crying babies away from a school
where gunmen holding hundreds of hostages freed at least 26 women and
children.
(AP, 9/2/04)
2004 Sep 2, In Saudi Arabia one
policeman was killed and three others wounded in clashes with militants
in a town northeast of Riyadh.
(AP, 9/3/04)
2004 Sep 2, The UN Security
Council narrowly approved a U.S.-backed resolution aimed at pressuring
Lebanon to reject a second term for its pro-Syrian president and
calling for an immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces.
(AP, 9/2/04)(Econ, 9/11/04, p.43)
2005 Sep 2, Pres. Bush made a tour
of damages from Hurricane Katrina in Alabama, Mississippi and New
Orleans. He acknowledged that current relief results were not
acceptable. A National Guard convoy packed with food, water and
medicine rolled into New Orleans to bring relief suffering multitudes
and put down the looting and violence. Scorched by criticism about
sluggish federal help, President Bush acknowledged the government's
failure to stop lawlessness and help desperate people during a daylong
tour of the Gulf Coast. During a live TV benefit concert, rapper Kanye
West went off-script to sharply criticize Bush.
(SFC, 9/3/05, p.A1)(AP, 9/2/05)(AP, 9/2/06)
2005 Sep 2, FEMA signed a 6-month
contract with Carnival Cruise Lines for 3 ships to help in relief
operations from Hurricane Katrina at a cost of $236 million.
(SFC, 9/28/05, p.A12)
2005 Sep 2, In New Orleans Henry
Glover (31) was shot and killed by police, who then burned his body. In
2010 a US federal grand jury indicted 3 current and 2 former New
Orleans police officers in the shooting of Henry Glover (31).
(SFC, 6/12/10, p.A9)
2005 Sep 2, The US Labor
Department reported the August unemployment rate was 4.9%, a four-year
low.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2005 Sep 2, Machinists at Boeing
Co. went on a nearly monthlong strike.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2005 Sep 2, Davis Crippen (75),
technical manual editor, died in Piermont, New York. From 1939 he had
amassed a comic book collection that was valued in the millions.
(WSJ, 8/5/06, p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/jly4g)
2005 Sep 2, Bob Denver (70), TV
and film star, died. He played the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on “The
Many Loves of Dobbie Gillis” TV series (1959), and Willie Gilligan on
“Gilligan’s Island” (1964-1967).
(SFC, 9/7/05, p.B7)
2005 Sep 2, The National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded the University of Hawaii a
grant of nearly $25 million for the construction of a regional
biocontainment laboratory. The lab will conduct biodefense and emerging
infectious disease research.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 2, Suspected Taliban
gunmen kidnapped a district government chief, a candidate for
legislature and three other people after ambushing their vehicle in
southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 2, The African Union said
it is suspending peacekeeper deployments to Sudan's war-torn western
Darfur region for nearly three weeks due to lack of jet fuel and heavy
rains.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, A powerful storm
packing winds of up to 70 mph slammed into southern Brazil, killing and
least one person and injuring five others.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, Bulgaria said it has
begun preparations to withdraw its 400 troops from Iraq.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, The US Embassy in
Cambodia said the US has established a $2 million endowment (DC-Cam) to
assist a Cambodian group researching crimes committed by the Khmer
Rouge government in the late 1970s.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, China said it plans to
end a 1998 prohibition on direct sales on Dec. 1, clearing the way for
such companies as Avon Products Inc. to expand into its booming market
for cosmetics and other consumer products.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, China’s government
said torrential rains and flooding from Typhoon Talim killed at least
10 people and left 15 missing in eastern China.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, Provisional results
indicated that Ethiopia's ruling party won all 31 seats being contested
in repeat elections following fraud allegations.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, EU governments said
Europe will dip into its emergency stocks of gasoline to help the US
through an energy crisis due to Hurricane Katrina.
(Reuters, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, French police evicted
about 140 mainly African squatters, some sobbing or screaming, from two
dilapidated buildings in Paris as authorities began a sweep of
dwellings deemed fire hazards following two deadly blazes.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, Some 5,000 US and
Iraqi troops launched an assault at Tal Afar and at least 30 insurgents
were killed.
(SFC, 9/3/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 2, Israel's vice premier,
Ehud Olmert, said Israel has frozen plans to expand its largest West
Bank settlement and will only revive the project with US consent.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, Premier Silvio
Berlusconi's Cabinet approved a reform program for Italy's central bank
that includes a seven-year fixed term for the Bank of Italy governor.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, Former Nepali PM
Girija Prasad Koirala vowed to intensify anti-king protests, a day
after he won a 3rd term as chief of Nepal's oldest political party, the
Nepali Congress.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, Russia's President
Vladimir Putin said the Beslan school siege would be thoroughly
investigated to establish whether official incompetence contributed to
the deaths of 331 hostages.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, Two Russian citizens
formerly held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were
released from custody after investigators found no evidence of their
involvement in terrorism-related activity.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, A bomb exploded in a
pile of garbage in the capital of the southern Russian region of
Dagestan, killing a serviceman and wounding five others who had been
searching for explosives.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, In South Korea an
apparent gas explosion sparked a fire at a public bathhouse building,
killing at least five people and injuring 43 others.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, A team of South Korean
scientists said they have developed a new technology that could open
the way to make new devices that could replace current silicon-based
semiconductors. The team led by Kim Hyun-Tak of the Electronics and
Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said they had successfully
manufactured a "Mott Insulator, named after Sir Nevill Mott, a British
scientist who won the 1977 Nobel Physics Prize.
(AFP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 2, Syrian troops clashed
with members of the Jund al-Sham Islamic militant organization in the
northern city of Hama. Five militants were killed.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2006 Sep 2, In Nevada’s Black Rock
Desert the Burning Man art festival culminated with the burning of a
40-foot wooden man. It included a Belgian art installation titled
“Uchronia” (aka the Belgian Waffle), a 250,000, 15-story wooden cavern
funded by Jan Kriekels and constructed by 90 Belgium artists.
(SSFC, 9/3/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 2, Bob Mathias (b.1930),
2-time Olympic decathlon champion (1948, 1952), died at his home in
Fresno, Ca. He also served in the US House of Representatives for 4
terms (1967-1976). He starred as himself in the film “The Bob Mathias
Story” (1954).
(SSFC, 9/3/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 2, Walter Redman (75),
aka Dewey Redman, tenor saxophonist and bandleader, died in NYC. He cut
his 1st album in SF in 1966.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.B7)
2006 Sep 2, A NATO Nimrod
reconnaissance aircraft crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing 14
British servicemen. The alliance said there was no indication hostile
fire was involved. The Nimrod MR2 exploded after an air-to-air
refueling operation. A later investigation said that leaking fuel
ignited by a hot pipe was the most likely cause of a fire that
destroyed the plane. British patrol NATO and Afghan forces began
Operation Medusa in southern Afghanistan. Dozens of insurgents were
killed during the fighting.
(AP, 9/2/06)(AP, 9/3/06)(AP, 12/4/07)
2006 Sep 2, The UN said opium
cultivation in Afghanistan is spiraling out of control, rising 59% this
year to produce a record 6,100 tons, nearly a third more than the
world's drug users consume.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, Bangladesh's trade
shipments ground to a virtual halt as shipping companies refused to use
the nation's main port in a protest over container fees. Operations
began to resume the next day after 2 shipping companies agreed to
withdraw their boycott.
(AFP, 9/2/06)(AFP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, British police
arrested 14 people in overnight raids and said they suspected the men
had been involved in training and recruiting for terror attacks. Two
others were arrested in an unrelated terror investigation in Manchester.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, In Chile miners at
Escondida returned to work following a 25-day strike that cost the
company some $200 million in lost profits. Their new deal included a
bonus of $12,000 on account of high copper prices.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.40)
2006 Sep 2, In China’s Guizhou
Province a mine gas explosion killed at least 8 people. Six miners died
when their pit in central Hubei province flooded.
(Reuters, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, A small boat of
African migrants from Eritrea was intercepted off the coast of Sicily.
They said eight people died during their grueling trip. They had left
from Libya 10-12 days earlier.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, Indonesia said it will
send up to 1,000 troops to southern Lebanon by the month's end, after
Israel dropped objections to its participation in the U.N. peacekeeping
force.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad vowed Iran would defend the aims of its nuclear program
during any negotiations as the EU gave Tehran extra time to show it was
serious about talks. Iran offered to help support the cease-fire in
Lebanon in talks with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and insisted
that diplomacy is the only way to resolve Tehran's nuclear dispute with
the West.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, In Iraq attacks killed
13 Pakistani and Indian pilgrims south of Baghdad and three bombings
left six people dead.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, Italian soldiers
poured into Lebanon, part of the first large contingent of
international troops dispatched to boost the UN force keeping the peace
between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, Hezbollah announced
the death of Hajj Ali Mohammed Saleh Bilal, a military commander, from
wounds suffered in monthlong fighting with Israel.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, At least eight boats
carrying 674 migrants from Mauritania reached the Canary Islands in the
space of 24 hours.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, The former Stella
Polaris, a historic ocean liner (1927-1970), sank overnight off Japan's
southeastern coast. The Swedish company Petro-Fast AB had planned to
operate the ship, renamed the Scandinavia, as a hotel-restaurant in
Stockholm.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, Unpaid teachers shut
down thousands of schools across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the
first day of the school year, in a major challenge to the Hamas
government.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, In Romania liberal
leaders expelled Mona Musca, one of the country's most popular
politicians, from the party after she admitted to having collaborated
with the Securitate secret police under the communist dictatorship of
Nicolae Ceausescu.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2-2006 Sep 3, In
northwestern Russia hundreds of people looted shops and burned a
restaurant belonging to Caucasus businessmen in Kondopoga in Karelia.
The outbreak of racial violence was triggered by the recent killing of
two locals.
(Reuters, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, Sudan's president
ordered the release of an envoy of Slovenia's president who was
convicted of espionage in the war-torn region of Darfur and sentenced
to two years in prison. Tomo Kriznar, the Slovenian president's envoy
to Darfur, was arrested in July and convicted on Aug. 14 by a court in
the North Darfur capital of el-Fasher.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2007 Sep 2, In SF a free concert
in Golden Gate Park celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Summer of
Love featuring dozens of veterans of the era. Boots Hughston bankrolled
the $120,000 budget for the party.
(SFC, 8/30/07, p.E1)(SFC, 9/3/07, p.A9)
2007 Sep 2, Hurricane Felix
strengthened into a dangerous Category 4 storm as it toppled trees and
flooded homes on a cluster of Dutch islands before churning its way
into the open waters of the Caribbean.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2007 Sep 2, Detained former
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina Wajed was charged in a new graft case as
part of the emergency government's corruption crackdown.
(AFP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 2, In central Chinese 4
boats carrying the toxic chemical methanol caught fire in Wuhan,
causing one boat to sink and prompting fears of drinking water
contamination.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 2, In western Colombia 10
soldiers were killed in a clash with leftist FARC rebels. Five more
were missing.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 2, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, a protest by hundreds of youth activists turned violent, with
protesters setting fire to street barricades and cars and smashing shop
windows. Officers used tear gas to disperse the crowd. The unrest
started after a demonstration the previous day commemorating the Youth
House, a makeshift cultural center for the city's anarchists and
disaffected youth that was demolished in March.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 2, Ethiopian rebels
declared a ceasefire to allow a UN mission to tour the eastern Ogaden
region and assess alleged rights violations and a worsening
humanitarian situation.
(AFP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 2, Dozens of Muslim
clerics issued an edict against the construction of Indonesia's first
nuclear power plant on seismically charged Java island, saying the
potential dangers far outweighed the benefits.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 2, Iran's president
claimed that his country is now running 3,000 centrifuges to enrich
uranium for its controversial nuclear program. Haleh Esfandiari (67),
an Iranian-American academic imprisoned for months and accused of
trying to create a "soft revolution" in Iran was permitted to leave the
country and rejoin her family.
(AP, 9/2/07)(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 2, It was reported that
at least 1,809 civilians had been killed in August across Iraq,
compared to 1,760 in July. This brought to 27,564 the number of
civilians killed since the Associated Press began collecting data on
April 28, 2005. A US soldier was killed and three others injured when a
roadside bomb blew up next to their patrol outside of Baghdad.
(SSFC, 9/2/07, p.A20)(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 2, Israeli police
recommended that former Finance Minister Avraham Hirchson be indicted
on charges of stealing millions from a union he headed in 2003.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 2, In Lebanon the last
militant stronghold of a Palestinian refugee camp devastated by more
than 3 months of fighting fell to the army. The army killed 39
militants and captured at least 15 others as they tried to break out of
the Nahr el-Bared camp. 5 soldiers were killed in the 2-day fight,
raising to 158 the number of troops killed in the conflict that began
May 20. The dead also included over 20 civilians and over 60 militants.
Shaker Abbsi, leader of the Fatah al Islam militants, managed to escape.
(AP, 9/2/07)(SFC, 9/3/07, p.A13)(SFC, 9/11/07, p.A4)
2007 Sep 2, In Nepal 3 bombs
exploded almost simultaneously in and around Katmandu, killing at least
two people and injuring 13 in the first attack on Katmandu since a
communist insurgency ended last year.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 2, Following two days of
talks in Geneva, Christopher Hill, the chief US negotiator, said
North Korea had agreed to account for and disable its atomic programs
by the end of the year; the head of the North Korean delegation said
his country's willingness to cooperate was clear, but he did not cite
any dates.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2007 Sep 2, Pro-Taliban militants
said they had abducted scores of Pakistani soldiers, demanding the
withdrawal of troops from tribal areas near the Afghan border in
exchange for their release.
(AFP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 2, Temasek, Singapore’s
state-owned investment company, said it would take a 8.3% stake in
China Eastern Airlines and Singapore Airlines announced a 15.7% stake.
(Econ, 9/29/07,
p.68)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Eastern_Airlines)
2007 Sep 2, Sri Lanka said that
troops captured a Tamil Tiger naval base during a weekend advance into
rebel-held territory that the guerrillas said killed nine civilians.
(AFP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 2, In Yemen riot police
opened fire on a demonstration by retired officers and soldiers,
killing two people and wounding more than 20 on the second day of
protests demanding the right to rejoin the army.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2008 Sep 2, Pres. Bush delivered a
6-minute televised speech to GOP delegates in St. Paul, Minn., as the
convention returned to its pre-hurricane schedule.
(WSJ, 9/3/08, p.A5)
2008 Sep 2, Google’s new Web
browser, named Chrome, became available for download.
(WSJ, 9/2/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 2, New Orleans residents
were blocked from returning home due to damage from Hurricane Gustav,
but Mayor Nagin said they would be allowed back on Sep 4.
(WSJ, 9/3/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 2, In Oakland, Ca.,
police arrested 3 men involved in a spate of takeover robberies at East
Bay restaurants and small businesses.
(SFC, 9/4/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 2, In SF, Ca., Mark
Guardado (45), president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells
Angels Motorcycle Club, was shot and killed during a fight in the
Mission District. Christopher Ablett (37) of Modesto, a member of the
Mongols Motorcycle Club, was later identified as a suspect in the
killing.
(SFC, 9/4/08, p.B1)(SFC, 9/12/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 2, In Washington state a
shooting rampage in Skagit County left 6 people dead. The suspect,
Isaac Zamora (28), was described as a person with a mental illness. He
turned himself in at the sheriff’s office in Mount Vernon. Mental
health experts later found Zamora to be incompetent to stand trial.
(SFC, 9/3/08, p.A4)(SFC, 9/4/08, p.A7)(WSJ,
11/28/08, p.A10)
2008 Sep 2, In Afghanistan 22
Taliban were killed in a clash in Zabul province's Naw Bahar district.
7 Arab fighters were among the dead. Another 10 militants died in
clashes with Afghan and foreign troops in Nad Ali district of Helmand
province. NATO troops in Operation Oqab Tsuka (Eagle’s summit)
delivered a Chinese-built turbine for the power station at Kajaki.
Taliban insurgents opened fire on a patrol of Australian, US and Afghan
troops, as it returned to base. More than a dozen coalition troops were
wounded; none died. In 2009 Australian trooper Mark Donaldson was
awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military honor in the British
Commonwealth, for his efforts to protect the wounded during the attack.
(AP, 9/3/08)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.64)(AP, 1/16/09)
2008 Sep 2, Argentina’s Pres.
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner promised to repay $6.7 billion that
Argentina owed to the Paris Club of 19 foreign governments following
its 2001 default, It will use part of its $47 billion in foreign
currency reserves to pay the debts. The government still refused to
negotiate with private holders of $20 billion of its bonds, who held
out against the 2005 debt restructuring.
(WSJ, 9/3/08, p.A12)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.45)
2008 Sep 2, Australia's central
bank cut interest rates for the first time in over six-and-a-half
years, pushing them down 25 basis points to 7% amid signs of cooling
economic growth.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 2, In Australia Brian
Spillane, a 65-year-old ex-priest, was arrested and charged in Sydney
with 60 counts relating to alleged sexual assaults against eight
people. Spillane was originally charged in May with 33 child sex
offenses against five people as a result of a police investigation into
allegations of abuse in the 1980s at St. Stanislaus in the city of
Bathurst.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 2, Bolivia and Iran
pledged cooperation and signed energy pacts, rebuffing US concerns over
improved ties.
(WSJ, 9/3/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 2, The British government
slashed stamp duty, meaning homes worth up to 175,000 pounds would be
exempt from the land sales tax for the next year in a move aimed at
reenergizing the housing market.
(AFP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 3-2008 Sep 4, In China’s
Hunan province, thousands of people demonstrated and clashed with
police in Jishou about a property company they said cheated them of
their money. News of the protests did not become public until after the
Olympics.
(Econ, 9/13/08, p.52)
2008 Sep 2, The Third High Level
Forum on Aid Effectiveness ppened in Accra, Ghana, for a 3-day meeting.
It aimed to record how much progress had been maderelative to the Paris
2005 declaration for making aid work better and targets set for 2010.
(Econ, 9/6/08,
p.69)(www.climate-l.org/2008/09/third-high-leve.html)
2008 Sep 2, Iran sentenced four
female activists to six months in prison for writings demanding
equality for women. Sweden had awarded a human rights prize to Parvin
Ardalan, one of the activists, earlier this year.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 2, Iraq’s Cabinet
approved an oil deal, signed August 27, with China National Petroleum
Corp. An American soldier died of non-combat related causes in Baghdad.
Ibrahim Jassam, an Iraqi freelance photographer working for Reuters,
was detained during a raid on his home in the town of Mahmoudiya. A US
military spokesman said Jassam was detained because he was "assessed to
be a threat" to Iraq and coalition forces. Jassam was released after 17
months in detention.
(AP, 9/2/08)(AP, 9/3/08)(AP, 2/10/10)
2008 Sep 2, In Mozambique 2 days
of fires killed at least 32 people and injured hundreds more in blazes
which devoured large swathes of arable land. The fires also displaced
thousands and ravaged around 16,000 hectares (40,000 acres) in the
three central provinces of Manica, Sofala and Zambezia.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 2, Pakistani Taliban
militants said they had kidnapped two Chinese telecoms engineers and
their entourage and would soon issue a list of demands. The engineers
went missing along with their local driver and a security guard four
days ago near the Afghan border where they had been checking an
installation.
(AFP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 2, Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin said that Russia will respond calmly to an increase in
NATO ships in the Black Sea in the aftermath of the short war with
Georgia, but promised that "there will be an answer."
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 2, In Russia's troubled
North Caucasus journalist Telman Alishaev was shot in Dagestan. Islamic
TV reporter Telman Alishaev died at a hospital in Makhachkala the next
day. Journalist Miloslav Bitokov was left with a fractured skull after
a beating in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkariya. Police and co-workers said
the two men were likely targeted for their work.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 2, Sierra Leone's
President Ernest Koroma signed-off legislation to fight corruption,
then fulfilled his obligations by handing over a declaration of his
assets.
(AFP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 2, South Africa signed an
energy agreement with oil-rich Venezuela as President Hugo Chavez
arrived on his first state visit. Political, trade and economic
relations were on the agenda with President Thabo Mbeki.
(AFP, 9/2/08)(AFP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 2, Sri Lanka's government
said it had dealt a major blow to Tamil rebels by capturing the key
northern town and guerrilla bastion of Mallavi after heavy fighting
that left dozens dead. Government forces pounded rebel defenses with
airstrikes, helicopter attacks and ground assaults as heavy fighting
across northern Sri Lanka killed 47 Tamil Tiger fighters and left 13
soldiers dead or missing. A rebel affiliated Web site claimed the Tamil
Tigers had killed as many as 75 government soldiers in the recent
fighting.
(AP, 9/2/08)(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 2, Thailand's prime
minister declared a state of emergency in the capital Bangkok after a
week of political tension exploded into violent street clashes between
supporters and opponents of the government that left one person dead.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 2, Ukraine lawmakers
loyal to PM Yulia Tymoshenko sided with opposition parties to pass a
law weakening presidential powers and boosting those of the prime
minister.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2009 Sep 2, US federal prosecutors
hit Pfizer Inc. with a record-breaking $2.3 billion in fines for
illegal drug promotions surrounding the marketing of 13 drugs.
(SFC, 9/3/09, p.C1)
2009 Sep 2, BP announced the
discovery of oil at its new Tiber Prospect oil reserve in the Gulf of
Mexico. It later estimated the reserve held between 4 and 6 billion
barrels of oil. Its Deepwater Horizon rig had drilled down 7 miles to
reach the oil.
(http://tinyurl.com/mhnujo)(SSFC, 9/6/09, p.E4)
2009 Sep 2, A Taliban suicide
bomber killed Abdullah Laghmani, Afghanistan's deputy chief of
intelligence, during a visit to a mosque in Laghman province. The blast
east of Kabul also killed the executive director of Laghman's
governor's office, the head of Laghman's provincial council, two of
Laghmani's body guards, and 18 civilians. An intelligence officer
kidnapped a few days ago by Taliban militants in Kunduz province was
found hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Baghlan city. 4 militants
were killed overnight when a roadside bomb they were planting
detonated. On Dec 20 Abdul Rahman, a Taliban military commander in
Laghman, and three members of his insurgent network were arrested for
the murder of Laghmani.
(AP, 9/2/09)(AP, 12/29/09)
2009 Sep 2, In central Afghanistan
American troops stormed through a hospital run by a Swedish charity in
Wardak province, breaking down doors and tying up staff in a search for
militants. The charity's country director later said this went against
an agreement between NATO forces and charities working in the area, and
was a clear violation of internationally recognized rules and
principles.
(AP, 9/7/09)
2009 Sep 2, In Algeria Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez called for closer economic ties with Algeria,
notably in the energy sector, during a two-day visit here.
(AFP, 9/3/09)
2009 Sep 2, In Burkina Faso 5
people were killed and 150,000 left homeless as heavy rainfall
triggered flooding across West Africa.
(Reuters, 9/2/09)
2009 Sep 2, In Chile Judge Manuel
Valderrama said the accounts of General Pinochet and his family reached
a value of $25,978,602.79 shortly before his death in December 2006.
The investigating judge said that more than $20 million of the funds
have no justifiable origin.
(AP, 9/2/09)
2009 Sep 2, In eastern China a
chemical explosion near Linyi city in Shandong province killed 18
people and injured 10 others.
(AP, 9/2/09)
2009 Sep 2, The IMF said China is
buying the equivalent of $50 billion of the International Monetary
Fund's first bond sale in a move that might boost Beijing's standing in
the Fund and help its quiet campaign to expand the reach of its tightly
controlled currency. Brazil, Russia and India have also agreed to
participate in the $80 billion issue.
(www.wsoctv.com/money/20698248/detail.html)(Econ,
9/19/09, p.83)
2009 Sep 2, In El Salvador
Christian Poveda (52), a French filmmaker who recently made a
documentary about the lives of members of El Salvador's street gangs,
was found shot dead in Tonacatepeque, a rural region north of San
Salvador. Earlier this year, Poveda, who lived in El Salvador, made the
documentary "La Vida Loca," which follows the lives of members La 18
street gang and received widespread attention in El Salvador. 4 Mara 18
members and a policeman were soon detained. On Dec 16 police arrested
10 more members of the Mara 18 gang. 9 other gang members already in
prison have also been charged in the case.
(AP, 9/3/09)(AP, 12/17/09)
2009 Sep 2, In Germany 6 countries
met for talks to try to address concerns about Iran's nuclear program.
The German government said it has received no official word yet on new
proposals that Tehran is pledging to make.
(AP, 9/2/09)
2009 Sep 2, In Greece a van bomb
exploded outside the Athens Stock Exchange, injuring a woman and
causing extensive damage to the building in what police said was a
coordinated double bombing that also targeted a government building in
the northern city of Thessaloniki.
(AP, 9/2/09)
2009 Sep 2, Authorities in Guinea
banned live political chat shows, the latest sign of political unease
after violent demonstrations and accusations of phone censorship
deepened a row over delayed elections. The military junta that has run
the world's top bauxite producer since a December 2008 coup is facing
mounting opposition and criticism after it delayed until 2010 elections
which the military leader has not ruled out standing in.
(Reuters, 9/3/09)
2009 Sep 2, In India a helicopter
carrying Y.S.R. Reddy (60), a powerful politician from southern Andhra
Pradesh state, disappeared in heavy rains as it flew over a forested
region largely controlled by Maoist rebels. Wreckage and the bodies of
all 5 aboard were found the next day.
(AP, 9/2/09)(AP, 9/3/09)
2009 Sep 2, A powerful 7.0
earthquake rattled southern Indonesia, killing at least 64 people
crushed by falling rock or collapsed buildings and sending thousands
fleeing outdoors for safety in the middle of the work day. More than
10,000 buildings were severely damaged.
(AP, 9/2/09)(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 2, Liberia's Defense
Minister Brownie Samukai said police had arrested six Pakistani men
earlier in the week who tried to enter Liberia on fake US passports
with possible intent to carry out terrorism.
(AP, 9/3/09)
2009 Sep 2, In Mexico gunmen broke
into a drug rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez, lined people
against a wall and shot 18 dead. The brazen attack followed the killing
of Jose Manuel Revuelta, the No. 2 security official in Michoacan,
President Felipe Calderon's home state. 2 bodyguards and a truck driver
were also killed in the crossfire. The federal Attorney General's
Office announced the arrest of its two top officials in Quintana Roo, a
state on the Yucatan Peninsula, for allegedly protecting the Gulf and
the Beltran Levya drug cartels. Chihuahua state authorities said they
were investigating reports that rehabilitation centers have turned into
hideouts for drug smugglers being sought by police and hit men from
rival gangs.
(AP, 9/3/09)(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 2, Dutch prosecutors said
they will charge an Arab cultural group under hate speech laws for
publishing a cartoon that suggests the death of 6 million Jews during
World War II is a fabrication.
(AP, 9/2/09)
2009 Sep 2, In Pakistan government
forces killed three suspected militants, captured 35 others and
destroyed six of their bases on the second day of its new offensive
near Pakistan's famed Khyber Pass. Suspected militants opened fire on a
vehicle carrying the religious affairs minister, wounding him and
killing his driver in a brazen attack in the heart of Islamabad. Hamid
Saeed Kazmi had been critical of Muslim extremists blamed for scores of
attacks in Pakistan over the last 2½ years.
(AP, 9/2/09)
2009 Sep 2, In Peru drug-funded
Shining Path rebels shot down an air force helicopter in the
coca-growing highlands of Junin province, killing three troops and
wounding five. The military said three rebels were arrested and another
four killed.
(AP, 9/3/09)
2009 Sep 2, In Thailand a number
of drive-by shootings in the provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala
left eight dead, including a Muslim teacher and his son (13). Security
forces raided a rubber plantation in Yala and a house in Narathiwat,
sparking separate gunbattles in which two suspected insurgents were
killed.
(AP, 9/3/09)
2009 Sep 2, Vietnamese authorities
arrested blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh (30), who writes under the pen
name Me Nam, at her home in Nha Trang. Quynh's arrest was the latest in
a series of police moves against writers who criticized government
policies toward China. The government tightened its rules for bloggers
earlier this year, saying they must restrict their writings to personal
matters. Quynh was released on Sep 12.
(AP, 9/4/09)(AP, 9/12/09)
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