Today in History - September 3
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590 Sep 3, St.
Gregory I began his reign as Pope. Gregory the Great reigned until 604
and established the popes as the de facto rulers of central Italy, and
strengthened the papal primacy over the Churches of the West.
(CU, 6/87)(MC, 9/3/01)
1189 Sep 3, After the death of
Henry II, Richard Lionheart, King Richard I, was crowned king of
England in Westminster.
(AP, 9/3/97)(HN, 9/3/98)
1189 Sep 3, Jacob of Orleans,
Rabbi, was killed in the London anti Jewish riot in which 30 Jews were
massacred.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1154 Sir Thomas Becket was given
the high office of Chancellor to the King, Henry II.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1260 Sep 3, Mamelukes under Sultan
Qutuz defeated Mongols and Crusaders at Ain Jalut.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1346 Sep 3, Edward III of England
began the siege of Calais, along the coast of France.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1402 Sep 3, Gian Galeazzo
Visconti, duke and tyrant of Milan (1395-1402), died at 51.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1485 Sep 3, Henry Tudor entered
London following his Aug 22 victory at Bosworth.
(ON, 12/06, p.4)
1543 Sep 3, Cardinal Beaton
replaced Earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1596 Sep 3, Nicolo Amati (d.1684),
Italian violin maker, was born. He was the grandson of violin maker
Andrea Amati and taught Antonio Stradivari and Andrea Guarneri.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R53)(MC, 9/3/01)
1609 Sep 3-4, Henry Hudson
discovered the island of Manhattan. The exact date is not known.
(MC, 9/3/01)(www.hudsonriver.com)
1632 Sep 3, Battle at Nuremberg:
Duke Wallenstein beat Sweden.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1650 Sep 3, The English under
Cromwell defeated a superior Scottish army under David Leslie at the
Battle of Dunbar.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1651 Sep 3, Battle at Worcester-
Oliver Cromwell destroyed English royalists. Charles II led the Scots
Covenanters to a disastrous defeat at the battle of Worcester.
(WSJ, 2/28/00, p.A36)(ON, 12/00, p.1)(MC, 9/3/01)
1658 Sep 3, Oliver Cromwell, Lord
Protector of the New Commonwealth, i.e. ruler over England’s Puritan
parliament (1653-58), died at age 59. Richard Cromwell succeeded his
father as English Lord Protector.
(V.D.-H.K.p.218)(AP, 9/3/97)(ON, 12/00, p.5)(MC,
9/3/01)(MC, 9/3/01)
1683 Sep 3, Turkish troops broke
through the defense of Vienna.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1695 Sep 3, Pietro Antonio
Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer, was born.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1709 Sep 3, The 1st major group of
Swiss and German colonists reached the Carolinas.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1752 Sep 3, The Gregorian
Adjustment to the calendar was put into effect in Great Britain and the
American colonies followed. At this point in time 11 days needed to be
accounted for and Sept. 2 was selected to be followed by Sept. 14.
People rioted thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives.
[see Oct 5, 1582]
(K.I.-365D, p.97)(SFEC, 9/27/98, BR p.5)(MC, 9/3/01)
1757 Sep 3, Charles X, Duke of
Prussia, was born in Versailles, France.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1759 Sep 3, Pope Clement XIII
officially placed the French Encyclopedie on the Vatican’s Index of
Prohibited Books.
(ON, 4/05, p.9)
1777 Sep 3, The American flag
(stars & stripes), approved by Congress on June 14th, was carried
into battle for the first time by a force under General William Maxwell.
(HN, 9/3/00)
1778 Sep 3, Jean Nicolas Auguste
Kreutzer, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1783 Sep 3, The Treaty of Paris
between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the
Revolutionary War. The Treaty of 1783, which formally ended the
American Revolution, is also known as the Definitive Treaty of Peace,
the Peace of Paris and the Treaty of Versailles. Under the treaty,
Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States. The
treaty bears the signatures of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John
Jay.
(AP, 9/3/97)(HNQ, 7/19/98)(HN, 9/3/98)(MC, 9/3/01)
1783 Sep 3, Mackinac Island,
Michigan, passed into US hands following the Paris Peace Treaty,
(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.C5)
1791 Sep 3, The French National
Assembly passed a French Constitution passed.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1792 Sep 3, In France Princess de
Lamballe (b.1749), the best friend of Marie Antoinette, was killed and
her body mutilated by an angry mob. Her head was displayed under the
window of Marie Antoinette, interned in Temple Prison.
(SSFC, 4/23/06,
p.G5)(www.batguano.com/vigeeart100.html)
1811 Sep 3, John Humphrey Noyes
was born in Vermont. He founded the Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
in 1848.
(MC, 9/3/01)(SSFC, 12/29/02, p.A6)
1826 Sep 3, USS Vincennes left NY
to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1833 Sep 3, The first successful
penny newspaper was published. Benjamin H. Day issued the first copy of
"The New York Sun". By 1826, circulation was the largest in the country
at 30,000. New York’s population was over 250,000, but its 11 daily
newspapers had a combined circulation of only 26,500.
(SFEM, 11/8/98,
p.12)(http://library.nyu.edu/research/news/historical/nyc.html)(WSJ,
11/7/08, p.A15)
1838 Sep 3, Frederick Douglass,
American Negro abolitionist, escaped slavery disguised as a
sailor. He would later write “The Narrative Life of Frederick
Douglass,” his memoirs about slave life.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(HN, 9/3/98)
1840 Sep 3, Jacob Fabricius,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1849 Sep 3, Sarah Orne Jewett,
author of “Tales of New England,” was born.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1852 Sep 3, Anti Jewish riots
broke out in Stockholm.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1855 Sep 3, General William Harney
defeated Little Thunder's Brule Sioux at the Battle of Blue Water in
Nebraska.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1856 Sep 3, Louis H. Sullivan,
architect who gained fame for his design of the Chicago Auditorium
Theater, was born in Boston, Mass. The leading figure in the so-called
Chicago style of architecture, Louis Sullivan is regarded as the
spiritual father of modern U.S. architecture and is particularly
identified with the aesthetics of skyscraper design. Born in 1856,
Sullivan attended MIT and was among the first to stress the vertical
lines of steel skeleton construction.
(HN, 9/3/98)(HNQ, 6/11/99)(MC, 9/3/01)
1860 Sep 3, Edward Albert Filene,
merchant, was born. He established the US credit union movement.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1861 Sep 3, Confederate forces
entered Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1864 Sep 3, Battle of Berryville,
VA.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1865 Sep 3, Army commander in SC
ordered Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1875 Sep 3, Ferdinand Porsche,
German automotive engineer, was born. He designed the Volkswagen in
1934 and the Porsche sports car in 1950.
(HN, 9/3/00)(MC, 9/3/01)
1877 Sep 3, Adolphe Thiers, 1st
president of the 3rd French Republic (1871-77), died at 80.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1881 Sep 3, Anton Bruckner
completed his 6th Symphony.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1882 Sep 3, The French, Vietnamese
and Chinese battled at Hanoi; hundreds died.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1883 Sep 3, Ivan Turgenev
(b.1818), Russian writer, died in France. In 1977 V.S. Pritchett
authored the biography “The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of
Turgenev.” In 2005 Robert Dessaiz authored “Twilight of Love: Travels
With Turgenev,” an exploration of Turgenev’s work.
(www.nndb.com/people/697/000055532/)(SSFC, 9/18/05,
p.F2)
1891 Sep 3, Cotton pickers
organized a union & strike in Texas.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1894 Sep 3, Richard Niebuhr,
theologian, was born.
(HN, 9/3/00)
1895 Sep 3, The first professional
American football game was played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania between the
Latrobe Young Men’s Christian Association and the Jeannette Athletic
Club. Latrobe wins 12-0.
(HN, 9/3/00)
1901 Sep 3, Eduard A. van Beinum,
musician and conductor (Amsterdam Concertgebouw), was born.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1901 Sep 3, Miss Ellen Stone, a
Protestant missionary from Haverhill, Mass., was kidnapped in Bulgaria
by a Macedonian revolutionary gang, who demanded $110,000 in gold.
Katerina Tsilka, her pregnant Bulgarian companion, was also kidnapped
and gave birth during her captivity to a baby girl. In 2003 Teresa
Carpenter authored "The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern
Hostage Crisis."
(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.M4)
1901 Sep 3, Boer General Smuts
entered Kiba Drift in Cape Colony.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1902 Sep 3, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client."
(MC, 9/3/01)
1907 Sep 3, Carl Anderson,
physicist, was born in NYC. He won the 1936 Nobel prize for his
discovery of the positron.
(HN, 9/3/00)
1907 Sep 3, Loren Eiseley,
professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets), was born in Lincoln,
Nebraska.
(www.american-buddha.com)
1908 Sep 3, James Barries "What
Every Woman Knows," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1908 Sep 3, Orville Wright began
two weeks of flight trials that impressed onlookers with his complete
control of his new Type A Military Flyer. In addition to setting an
altitude record of 310 feet and an endurance record of more than one
hour, he had carried aloft the first military observer, Lieutenant
Frank Lahm.
(HNPD, 9/16/98)
1912 Sep 3, World's 1st cannery
opened in England to supply food to the navy.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1914 Sep 3, Dixie Lee Ray,
Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission who received the U.N. Peace
Prize in 1977, was born.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1914 Sep 3, The French capital was
moved from Paris to Bordeaux as the Battle of the Marne began. The
British expeditionary army under general Lanrezacs army attacked the
Marne. French troops vacated Reims.
(HN, 9/3/98)(MC, 9/3/01)
1914 Sep 3, The air defense of
Great Britain was assigned to Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Winston
Churchill, the new first lord of the Admiralty, and the RNAS were
assigned the task of stopping the Zeppelins.
(AH, 1/97)
1916 Sep 3, The German Somme front
was broken by an Allied offensive. Allies turned back the Germans in
the Battle of Verdun.
(HN, 9/3/98)(MC, 9/3/01)
1917 Sep 3, The 1st night bombing
of London by German fighter planes.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1917 Sep 3, German troops overran
Riga Latvia.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1917 Sep 3, Fanya Kaplan, the
Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, was executed.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1918 Sep 3, The United States
recognized the nation of Czechoslovakia.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1918 Sep 3, Five soldiers were
hanged for alleged participation in the Houston riot of 1917.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1918 Sep 3, Allies forced Germans
back across Hindenburg Line.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1923 Sep 3, Mort Walker,
cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois), was born.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1924 Sep 3, L. Stallings & M.
Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1925 Sep 3, The dirigible
"Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die. The 682-foot
Shenandoah, a dirigible built by the U.S. Navy in 1923, broke apart in
mid-air, killing 14 persons aboard.
(HNQ, 1/2/00)(MC, 9/3/01)
1927 Sep 3, Hugh Sidey, news
correspondent and author of John F. Kennedy, President, was born.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1928 Sep 3, Scottish
bacteriologist Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) discovered, by accident,
that the mold penicillin has an antibiotic effect.
(V.D.-H.K.p.354)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming)
1929 Sep 3, The Dow Jones
industrial average closed at 381.17. It was the peak of the bull market
of the 1920s.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1930 Sep 3, In the Dominican
Republic a hurricane killed 2,000 and injured 4,000.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1932 Sep 3, In Soviet Russia Pavel
Morozov (13) was allegedly killed by his relatives in Gerasimovka for
having reporting his father to the state authorities. In 2005 Catriona
Kelly authored “Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero.”
(Econ, 6/4/05,
p.80)(http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/Pavlik_Morozov)
1934 Sep 3, Tunisia began its move
for independence.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1935 Sep 3, Sir Malcolm Campbell
became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 MPH. Campbell
drove the Bluebird Special on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah at a
speed of 304.331 MPH.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1938 Sep 3, The 1940 Olympic site
was changed from Tokyo, Japan, to Helsinki, Finland.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1939 Sep 3, British envoy Sir
Neville Henderson delivered Britain’s final ultimatum to the Reich’s
Foreign Ministry.
(DrEE, 10/26/96, p.4)
1939 Sep 3, Britain and France
declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
After Germany ignored Great Britain's ultimatum to stop the invasion of
Poland, Great Britain declares war on Germany, marking the beginning of
World War II in Europe. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by
Australia, NZ, South Africa & Canada.
(AP, 9/3/97)(HN, 9/3/98)(MC, 9/3/01)
1939 Sep 3, The British passenger
ship Athenia was sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic, with 30
Americans among those killed. American Secretary of State Cordell Hull
warns Americans to avoid travel to Europe unless absolutely necessary.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1940 Sep 3, Artie Shaw and his
Gramercy Five recorded "Summit Ridge Drive," "Special Delivery Stomp,"
"Keepin' Myself for You" and "Cross Your Heart" in Hollywood for RCA
Victor.
(AP, 9/3/98)
1940 Sep 3, The 1st showing of
high definition color TV.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1940 Sep 3, US gave Britain 50
destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1940 Sep 3, In France more than
700,000 books were seized from bookshops and destroyed. The “Otto
lists,” or liste Otto, were comprised of books banned by the German
occupying authorities in Vichy France. By September, 1940, 1,060 titles
were on the list. The list aimed to ban anti-German, antifascist,
pro-Marxists books, works by Jewish authors and British and American
books.
(HNQ, 8/16/98)(AP, 8/15/98)
1940 Sep 3, In Germany the SS
banned Free Masons, Rotary & Red Cross.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1941 Sep 3, Nazis made the 1st use
of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz on Russian prisoners of war.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1943 Sep 3, The British Eighth
Army invaded Italy, landing at Calabria, during World War II. Italy
signed a secret armistice with the Allies, but it was not announced
until Sep 8.
(AP, 9/3/97)(HN, 9/3/98)
1944 Sep 3, US forces entered
Belgium at Peruwelz led by reconnaissance scout James W. Carroll on his
Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
(WSJ, 12/18/97, p.A1)
1944 Sep 3, The U.S. Seventh Army
captured Lyons, France. French troops liberate Lyon.
(HN, 9/3/98)(MC, 9/3/01)
1944 Sep 3, The 68th & last
transport of Dutch Jews, which included Anne Frank, left for Auschwitz.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1944 Sep 3, A tank division of
British Guards freed Brussels.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1945 Sep 3, George Biondo
(musician-Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild), was born.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1945 Sep 3, General Tomoyuki
Yamashita, the Japanese commander of the Philippines, surrendered to
Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright at Baguio.
(HN, 9/3/98)
1948 Sep 3, Donald Brewer,
musician-drums, songwriter-Silver Bullet Band, Flint, Grand Funk
Railroad, was born. We're an American Band, Walk like a Man, Shinin'
On, Some Kind of Wonderful, Bad Time.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1951 Sep 3, The television soap
opera "Search for Tomorrow" made its debut on CBS. From 1953 to 1955 it
featured Don Knotts as the neurotic Wilbur Peterson. The show ended in
1986 after 4 years on NBC. Larry Haines (1918-2008) played the neighbor
Stu Bergman for most of the show’s run.
(AP, 9/3/98)(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.B7)(SFC, 7/31/08, p.B5)
1954 Sep 3, The US Espionage &
Sabotage Act of 1954 signed.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1954 Sep 3, China began artillery
bombing on Quemoy & Amoy.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1956 Sep 3, Tanks were deployed
against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1960 Sep 3, Niger became
independence from France.
(PC, 1992, p.973)
1962 Sep 3, e[dward] e cummings
(ee cummings), US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), died at 67.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1963 Sep 3, Louis MacNeice
(b.1907), northern Irish poet, died. His name was often subsumed under
the collective name of Macspaunday, which referred to the generation of
politically-committed 1930s poets: MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W.H.
Auden and C. Day-Lewis. MacNeice’s collected poems were published in
2007.
(Econ, 9/29/07,
p.89)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_MacNeice)
1964 Sep 3, Pres. Johnson signed
the Wilderness Act and designated 9 million acres as an area "where the
Earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man
himself is a visitor who does not remain." It allowed for roadless
federal lands to qualify for wilderness protection. In 1999 the act
sheltered over 100 million acres. Conservationists stopped a dam in
Echo Park in Dinosaur National Monument and persuaded Congress to pass
the Wilderness Act to provide permanent protection to wilderness areas.
(NG, May 1985, p.669)(SFC, 8/6/93, p.C4)(SFEC,
8/29/99, Z1 p.6)
1964 Sep 3, US attorney general
Robert Kennedy resigned.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1965 Sep 3, Preparing a move to
Anaheim, the LA Angels baseball team change their name to California
Angels.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1966 Sep 3, The 24th World Sci-Fi
Convention honored Gene Roddenberry.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1967 Sep. 3, The original version
of the television game show "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles
Daly, broadcast its final episode after more than 17 years on CBS.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1967 Sep 3, James Dunn, actor
(Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), died at age 61.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1967 Sep 3, Muhammad Bin Laden
(b.1908), a Yemeni immigrant to Saudi Arabia, died in a plane crash. He
made a fortune in the construction business and left King Faisal in
charge of some 55 of his children.
(Econ, 4/12/08,
p.92)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Laden)
1967 Sep. 3, Motorists in Sweden
began driving on the right-hand side of the road instead of the left.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1967 Sep. 3, Lieutenant General
Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new
constitution.
(AP, 9/3/97)(HN, 9/3/98)
1970 Sep 3, Vince Lombardi (57),
Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins football coach, died in
Washington, D.C. In 1999 David Maraniss authored "When Pride Still
Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi."
(AP, 9/3/97)(WSJ, 10/7/99, p.A28)(MC, 9/3/01)
1971 Sep 3, The Watergate team
broke into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.
(www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0126.htm)
1971 Sep 3, The Quadripartite
Agreement on Berlin, between the United States, the Soviet Union, the
United Kingdom and France. ended a long time source of tension.
(WUD, 1994, p.
1688)(http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/ga5-710903.htm)
1971 Sep 3, Qatar declared
independence from Britain.
(www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-11034.html)
1972 Sep 3, In San Francisco the
Playland-at-the-Beach amusement park was bulldozed on Labor Day
Weekend. Playland shut its gates and some 40 Fascination tables were
transferred to a Market Street arcade. Fascination was invented by John
Gibbs of Los Angeles and combined the skill of bowling with the luck of
Bingo. The head of Laughing Sal was stolen on closure and turned up in
2004.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A1)(SSFC, 3/14/04, p.B2)(SSFC,
7/3/05, p.F6)(SFC, 5/31/08, p.B2)
1976 Sep 3, The unmanned U.S.
spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color
photographs of the planet's surface.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1977 Sep 3, The "Mary Tyler Moore
Show" was last broadcast on NBC-TV.
(www.sitcomsonline.com/themarytylermooreshow.html)
1977 Sep 3, In Cyprus Spyros
Kyprianou (1932-2002) was elected president with no opposition in order
to serve the remaining term of Archbishop Makarios.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyros_Kyprianou)
1977 Sep 3, Japan's Sadaharu Oh
hit his 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total.
(www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Sadaharu_Oh)
1978 Sep. 3, Pope John Paul I was
installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1979 Sep. 3, Hurricane David
struck along the central Florida coast, leaving several people dead and
millions of dollars in damage.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1980 Sep 3, Prof. W. Jackson Davis
of UC Santa Cruz uncovered a report that indicated government officials
had been aware for almost 20 years that nuclear waste containers,
dumped off the California coast, were damaged and leaking.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.F2)
1981 Sep 3, California Gov. Jerry
Brown signed a law making Martin Luther King’s birthday a state
holiday. The legislation was the result of 4 years of efforts by
students at Oakland Tech High School.
(SFC, 7/16/08, p.E1)(http://tinyurl.com/5lc58v)
1982 Sep 3, Frederic Dannay
(b.1905), US detective writer, died. He collaborated with Manfred Lee
under the joint pseudonym Ellery Queen.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0200366/)
1986 Sep 3, In Connecticut Barbara
Pelkey (30) of Wallingford, a New Haven suburb, was raped and murdered.
Kenneth Ireland (20) was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to 50 years in
prison. In 2009 Ireland was released from prison and granted a new
trial after DNA testing showed he could not have committed the crime.
(http://issuu.com/recordjournal/docs/ireland_pelkey)(http://tinyurl.com/ldh9kt)
1987 Sep 3, Morton Feldman,
composer, died in Buffalo, NY. His work included a six hour String
Quartet, "Why Patterns," "Triadic Memories," "Three Voices" and
"Structures."
(WSJ, 8/13/96,
p.A9)(www.newalbion.com/artists/feldmanm/)
1987 Sep. 3, A Soviet prosecutor
accused West German pilot Mathias Rust of seeking "cheap popularity" by
landing a private plane in Moscow's Red Square, and demanded that Rust
be sentenced to eight years at hard labor. Rust was convicted, but
freed the following August.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1988 Sep 3, On the presidential
campaign trail, Democrat Michael Dukakis paid a visit to Ellis Island
in New York, while Republican George Bush met reporters at his official
Washington residence.
(AP, 9/3/98)
1989 Sep 3, "Into the Woods"
closed at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 performances.
(http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4486)
1989 Sep 3, The United States
began shipping a $65 million package of military aircraft and weapons
to help Colombia's war against drug lords.
(AP, 9/3/99)
1989 Sep 3, In Brazil a Varig
737-300 plane crashed in the Amazon jungle with 52 people aboard. 14
died and 34 were injured.
(http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetGOjg/030989.txt)
1989 Sep 3, A Cubana de Aviacion
jetliner crashed after takeoff in Havana, killing all 126 aboard and 26
people on the ground.
(AP, 9/3/99)
1990 Sep 3, President Bush
returned to Washington from his Maine vacation home to prepare for his
summit in Finland with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
(AP, 9/3/00)
1990 Sep 3, Dr. David Acer, a
Florida dentist, died of AIDS after apparently infecting five of his
patients with the HIV virus.
(AP, 9/3/00)
1991 Sep 3, Twenty-five people
were killed when fire broke out at the Imperial Food Products
chicken-processing plant in Hamlet, N.C.
(AP, 9/3/01)
1991 Sep 3, Frank Capra (94),
Academy Award-winning director, died in La Quinta, Calif. His 1971
autobiography was titled “The Name Above the Title.”
(AP, 9/3/01)(WSJ, 1/7/07, p.P8)
1992 Sep 3, Baseball owners voted
18-9-1 to ask commissioner Fay Vincent to resign.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1992 Sep 3, An Italian relief
plane was shot down by ground-to-air missiles outside of Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1993 Sep 3, The US Labor
Department reported the nation's unemployment rate edged down to a
two-year low of 6.7 percent the previous month.
(AP, 9/3/98)
1994 Sep 3, China and Russia
proclaimed an end to any lingering hostilities, pledging they would no
longer target nuclear missiles or use force against each other.
(AP, 9/3/99)
1995 Sep 3, Testing Serb will, the
United Nations reopened a route to Sarajevo and threatened more air
attacks if the rebel stranglehold of the Bosnian capital didn’t end.
(AP, 9/3/00)
1996 Sep. 3, The United States
launched 27 cruise missiles at "selected air defense targets" in Iraq
as punishment for Iraq's invasion of Kurdish safe havens.
(AP, 9/3/97)
1996 Sep 3, Pakistan shot down 4
Indian helicopters over the last few weeks that entered its air space
over the disputed Siachin Glacier. The glacier is at 22,000 feet and
lies between the Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 3, In Russia Alexander
Lebed said that about 80,000 people had died in the fighting in
Chechnya during the 21 months of the war.
(SFC, 4/9/96, A10)
1997 Sep 3, The U.S. Senate voted
to ban most federal financing for abortions provided by the
managed-care industry.
(AP, 9/3/98)
1997 Sep 3, Arizona Gov. Fife
Symington, the great-grandson of steel baron Henry Clay Frick, was
found guilty by a jury on 7 counts of lying to get millions in loans to
shore up his collapsing real estate empire. He was later sentenced to 2
1/2 years in prison, charged a fine of $60,000, and ordered to serve 5
years of probation. Symington's conviction was overturned in 1999; he
was pardoned by President Clinton in January 2001 as prosecutors again
pursued the case.
(WSJ, 9/4/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A3)(SFC, 2/3/98,
p.A2)(AP, 9/3/02)
1997 Sep 3, Belarus tax officials
emptied the bank account of the Soros foundation and forced the it to
close down.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 3, It was reported that
Catania, Sicily, (pop. 378,000) has some 100 gangland killings per year.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.C2)
1997 Sep 3, In Cambodia a
Vietnam Airlines, Tupelov 134, Soviet jet crashed on approach to
Phnom Penh airport and killed 65 people. One child, 1-year-old
Chanayuth Nim-Anong, survived. A 2nd child about 4 also survived.
(WSJ, 9/3/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A12)(SFC, 9/5/97,
p.A12)
1997 Sep 3, In Columbia workers
joined protests across the country to protest government privatization
plans, for better wages, respect for human rights and an end to the
guerrilla war.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A12)
1998 Sep 3, President Clinton
visited Omagh, Northern Ireland, walking down the street where a car
bomb had killed 29, and offered his condolences to the families of the
victims.
(AP, 9/3/99)
1998 Sep 3, In St. Paul Khoua Her
(24), a Hmong refugee from Laos, reported that she had strangled her 6
children ages 5-11. Police took her into custody after finding the 6
bodies. During the course of the investigation, police learned that Her
had her first child at age 13 in a Thai refugee camp. In a plea deal,
Khoua Her received 50 years in prison on six counts of second-degree
murder.
(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/r6pje)
1998 Sep 3, Moody’s downgraded
Brazil’s foreign-currency bonds to single B-2. This led to an 8.6% drop
in Brazil’s stock market.
(WSJ, 9/4/98, p.A9)
1999 Sep 3, NASA temporarily
grounded its space shuttle fleet after inspections had uncovered
damaged wires that could endanger a mission.
(AP, 9/3/00)
1999 Sep 3, In Afghanistan the
Taliban dropped cluster bombs on Taloqan and 9 people were reported
killed.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A13)
1999 Sep 3, In Canada at least 7
people were killed on a foggy patch of Highway 401 between Windsor and
London as over 60 vehicles piled up.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 3, The East Timor
election results were reported with 78.5% in favor of independence.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 3, A French judge closed
a two-year inquiry into the car crash that killed Princess Diana,
dismissing all charges against nine photographers and a press
motorcyclist, and concluding the accident was caused by an inebriated
driver.
(AP, 9/3/00)
1999 Sep 3, Israel and the
Palestinians, prodded by Madeleine Albright, agreed to a peace deal
that called for finalizing borders in one year, the completion of Wye
River land-for-security, and the release of 350 Palestinian prisoners.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 3, In Kosovo the UN
announced that the German mark would be the official currency.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A13)
1999 Sep 3, In Russia Boris
Yeltsin and his daughters were reported to be under investigation for
taking bribes from Mabetex, an Italian firm that renovated the Kremlin.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A12)
2000 Sep 3, The presidential
candidates squabbled over debate schedules as Republican George W. Bush
announced he had accepted three prime-time sessions. Democrat Al Gore
rejected the plan, saying the formats proposed by Bush could limit the
audience and amount of face-to-face debate time.
(AP, 9/3/01)
2000 Sep 3, In California 5.2
earthquake was centered in Napa and injured over 40 people.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 3, In Egypt a 2-day
meeting of Arab League foreign ministers opened. Yasser Arafat said he
would not accept a peace deal without control of Jerusalem.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.B10)
2000 Sep 3, In Israel Arjey Deri,
former leader of the Shas Party, began a 3-year term for bribery and
fraud.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A8)
2000 Sep 3, In Lebanon elections
were held for the remaining 65 seats of parliament. Hezbollah had
agreed to accept only 12 seats in a coalition with the Shiite Amal
Party. Parliamentary seats were apportioned according to religious
denomination based on a census from 1932. Candidates backed by former
Prime Minister Rafik Hariri gained a powerful majority.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.A18)(SFC, 9/4/00, p.B10)
2000 Sep 3, In Sri Lanka the
government began “Operation Sunrise” against rebels in the Jaffna
Peninsula.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 3, At the Vatican Pope
John Paul II beatified Pope Pius IX and Pope John XXIII.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A8)
2001 Sep 3, St. Louis Cardinals
pitcher Bud Smith became the 16th rookie in modern history to throw a
no-hitter, shutting down San Diego in a 4-0 win.
(AP, 9/3/02)
2001 Sep 3, Four days into a world
conference against racism, the United States and Israel walked out of
the U.N. meeting in South Africa, accusing Arab nations of hijacking
the summit as a platform to embarrass the Jewish state.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/3/02)
2001 Sep 3, Hewlett-Packard
announced plans to buy Compaq Computer in a $25 billion stock swap. The
bid was expected to eliminate as many as 15,000 jobs.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A1)(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 3, FBI snipers shot and
killed Grover T. Crosslin (47) at his Rainbow Farms campground in
Vandalia, Mich., following a 4-day standoff. Crosslin was burning
buildings on his property, which was the target of civil forfeiture
proceedings. In 2006 Dean Kuipers authored “Burning Rainbow Farm: How a
Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke.”
(http://cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17211.shtml)(SSFC, 7/23/06, p.M3)
2001 Sep 3, In North Carolina a
man died from a shark attack off the Outer Banks.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 3, Pauline Kael (82),
film critic, died in Great Barrington, Mass. Her first 1953 movie
review was published in City Lights, a small SF magazine.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A16)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D5)(AP, 9/3/02)
2001 Sep 3, In Chechnya an
explosion tore through the headquarters of the Russian-backed
government during a Cabinet meeting. One woman was killed.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 3, In France COGEMA, a
state-owned uranium mining and fuel recycling firm led by Anne
Lauvergeon, became Areva in a merger with Framatome, a maker of nuclear
reactors.
(www.freebase.com/view/en/areva)(Econ, 5/9/09, p.70)
2001 Sep 3, It was reported that
scientists at the Max Planck Inst. for Biochemistry in Germany had
affixed snail neurons to transistor chips and demonstrated
communication.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A4)
2001 Sep 3, In Jerusalem 4 bombs
exploded on the streets and Israelis fired missiles into a Palestinian
security building. Two Palestinians were killed during fighting in
Hebron. In Jerusalem a suicide bomber, dressed as an Orthodox Jew, blew
himself up on the Street of the Prophets.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A8)(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 3, The Mexican government
announced the expropriation of 27 of 60 privately owned sugar mills
from some $110 million. All were on the brink of bankruptcy.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 3, In Northern Ireland
rioting broke out after Protestants screamed abuse and threw bottles at
Catholic girls walking to Holy Cross Primary School through their
Glenbryn-Ardoyne neighborhood. The 12-week protests ended Nov 24.
(WSJ, 9/4/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 3, In Sierra Leone Pres.
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah shook hands with RUF Gen. Issa Sesay in Koidu and
declared himself convinced that the war was over.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 3, In South Korea the
National Assembly passed a no confidence vote on Unification Minister
Lim Dong Won, the chief architect of the “sunshine policy” towards
North Korea, for being too conciliatory toward the North.
(WSJ, 9/5/01, p.C1)
2002 Sep 3, Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld said the Bush administration had secret information
supporting its claims that Saddam Hussein was close to developing
nuclear weapons.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2002 Sep 3, The US Senate opened
debate on legislation creating a new Homeland Security Department.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2002 Sep 3, McDonald's announced
it will use a new soy-corn oil to reduce the levels of trans fat and
increase polyunsaturated fat in its fried products.
(SFC, 9/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 3, Louisiana State Univ.
fired Dr. Steven J. Hatfill after the Justice Dept. said the school
could not use him on grants funded by the agency. The firing came
following FBI investigations of Hatfill and naming him as a "person of
interest."
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 9/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 3, The DJIA fell 355 to
8308. Nasdaq fell 51 to 1263.
(WSJ, 9/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 3, W. Clement Stone
(100), insurance tycoon who bankrolled former Pres. Nixon's races,
died. Stone's self-help books included "The success system That Never
Fails."
(WSJ, 9/5/02, p.A1)(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A27)
2002 Sep 3, Iraq said it was ready
to discuss a return of U.N. weapons inspectors, but only in a broader
context of ending sanctions and restoring Iraqi sovereignty over all
its territory.
(AP, 9/3/02)
2002 Sep 3, Israeli tank shells
killed Bahir Eid (22) and Hussein Najar (22) residents of the village
of Burin, a West Bank village.
(AP, 9/3/02)
2002 Sep 3, Russia and China gave
their backing to the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.
(AP, 9/3/02)(WSJ, 9/4/02, p.A1)
2003 Sep 3, President Bush signed
legislation to begin free trade with Singapore and Chile.
(AP, 9/3/04)
2003 Sep 3, US federal authorities
raided the Bay Area laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) for suspected
steroids. On Oct 16 Olympic drug-testing officials announced that they
believed the lab was a source for the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone
(THG).
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 3, NY Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer charged hedge fund Canary Capital with illegal mutual
fund trading. Other funds were also named.
(WSJ, 10/29/03, p.C1)
2003 Sep 3, Paul Hill, a former
minister who said he murdered an abortion doctor and his bodyguard to
save the lives of unborn babies, was executed in Florida by injection,
becoming the first person put to death in the United States for
anti-abortion violence.
(AP, 9/3/04)
2003 Sep 3, The Bank of Canada cut
interest rates by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent on because of
lower-than-expected inflation as well as sagging growth.
(Reuters, 9/3/03)
2003 Sep 3, In China Typhoon
Dujuan killed at least 32 people.
(WSJ, 9/4/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 3, North Korea's
parliament re-elected Kim Jong Il as the isolated country's top leader
and approved his government's decision to "keep and increase its
nuclear deterrent force" to counter what it calls a hostile U.S. policy.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2003 Sep 3, In southern Russia at
Pyatigorsk two bombs exploded under a student-filled commuter train,
killing at least 4 people and wounding 44.
(AP, 9/3/03)(SFC, 9/4/03, p.A6)
2004 Sep 3, US Medicare announced
a 17.4% increase in premiums for doctor visits.
(WSJ, 9/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 3, Former President
Clinton was hospitalized in New York with chest pains and shortness of
breath; he ended up undergoing heart bypass surgery.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2004 Sep 3, A California federal
judge found Alvaro Rafael Saravia, a retired Salvadoran air force
captain living in Modesto, liable in the 1980 slaying of Salvadoran
archbishop Oscar Romero and ordered him to pay $10 million in damages.
(AP, 9/4/04)(SFC, 9/4/04, p.B7)
2004 Sep 3, Economic ministers
from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed to
liberalize 10 sectors as a first step toward the creation by 2020 of a
regional economic community akin to the European Union.
(AP, 9/3/04)
2004 Sep 3, Libya signed an
agreement to pay a total of $35 million US in compensation for 168
non-U.S. victims of a 1986 Berlin disco bombing.
(AP, 9/3/04)
2004 Sep 3, Commandos stormed a
school in southern Russia and battled Chechen separatist rebels holding
hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in
blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. Over 330 people, including
155 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff
with militants in Beslan, Russia. 31 of 32 hostage takers were killed.
6 Chechens and 4 Ingush were identified among the hostage takers. In
2006 a woman died from her injuries in Beslan bringing the total deaths
to 334.
(SFC, 9/4/04, p.A1)(SFC, 9/7/04, p.A3)(WSJ, 9/10/04,
p.A1)(AP, 12/9/07)
2004 Sep 3, In South Africa Johan
Meyer (53), head of an engineering company, was charged with
trafficking in nuclear-related materials that could be used to make
weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 9/3/04)
2005 Sep 3, President Bush ordered
more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast as his
administration intensified efforts to rescue survivors and send aid to
the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast in the face of criticism it did not
act quickly enough.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 3, In Nevada over 35,000
people gathered in the Black Rock Desert for the 20th burning of the
Burning Man.
(SFC, 9/3/05, p.A25)
2005 Sep 3, US Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist (80), 33 years on the Supreme Court died in
Arlington, Va. He oversaw the high court's conservative shift and
presided over the impeachment trial of President Clinton.
(AP, 9/4/05)(Econ, 9/10/05, p.83)
2005 Sep 3, Chinese President Hu
Jintao postponed his official visit to Washington next week due to
Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 3, An Egyptian court
ruled that non-governmental groups will be allowed to monitor the
nation's first multi-candidate presidential election next week.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 3, Volkswagen said it
plans to cut 10,000 jobs from its workforce over the next few years as
it reduces production.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 3, In eastern India 23
policemen and a civilian were killed in a powerful landmine blast
triggered by suspected Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh state.
(Reuters, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 3, Insurgents launched a
series of assaults in Baquba, Kirkuk and Samarra, killing at least 28
people.
(AP, 9/3/05)(SSFC, 9/4/05, p.A22)
2005 Sep 3, In Tlacotepec, Mexico,
75 miles north of Acapulco, fireworks stored at a building that also
illicitly sold gasoline exploded, killing seven people and injuring
four.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 3, Communist rebels in
Nepal said that they were unilaterally suspending attacks for the next
three months.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 3, Hamas' secretive
military wing emerged from hiding, naming commanders and detailing how
they attacked Israelis as part of a competition with the Palestinian
Authority over who will get credit for Israel's pullout from Gaza.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 3, The Gulf emirate of
Qatar announced it will donate 100 million dollars to relief efforts
for the US victims of Hurricane Katrina. The funds included a $17.5
million grant to Xavier University in New Orleans, which serves mostly
black Americans.
(AFP, 9/3/05)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.48)
2005 Sep 3, It was reported that
Venezuela’s worker co-operatives under Pres. Chavez had increased from
less than 1000 in 1998 to an estimated 67,000.
(Econ, 9/3/05, p.34)
2006 Sep 3, It was reported that
47% of US development aid is spent on overpriced technical assistance.
70% of US aid was contingent upon the recipient spending it on American
stuff including American-made armaments. In total 86 cents of every
dollar of US aid was said to be phantom aid, in that it never shows up
in recipient countries.
(SSFC, 9/3/06, p.E1)
2006 Sep 3, Andre Agassi retired
after losing the third-round match at the US Open.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2006 Sep 3, An apartment fire in
Chicago killed six children ages 3 to 14.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2006 Sep 3, Nina Reiser (31) of
Oakland, Ca., went missing. On Oct 10 police arrested Hans Reiser (42),
her estranged husband on suspicion of murder. In 2008 Reiser confessed
to strangling Nina in exchange for a reduced sentence and was sentenced
15 years to life in prison.
(SFC, 10/11/06, p.B1)(SFC, 8/30/08, p.B1)
2006 Sep 3, NATO and Afghan forces
hit the Taliban with air strikes and artillery in Operation Medusa in
southern Afghanistan. Four NATO soldiers, including 3 Canadians, and
more than 200 insurgents were killed in the first two days of a major
anti-Taliban operation under way in the Panjwayi district, about 10
miles from the city of Kandahar.
(AFP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 3, Another 4 boats
carrying 522 migrants from Mauritania reached the Canary Islands. This
brought the total for 2 days to nearly 1200.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 3, The SMART-1
spacecraft, Europe's first moon probe launched Sep 27, 2003, signed off
its mission on schedule by crashing into the lunar surface, completing
a project scientists hope will tell them more about the moon's origin.
(Reuters, 9/3/06)(SSFC, 9/3/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 3, Indonesia reported
that 18% of its population of some 220 million are officially poor. The
government benchmark was based on an income of $16.80 per month. Use of
a $1 a day benchmark would raise the poverty number to over 80 million.
(Econ, 9/16/06,
p.53)(http://indonesiaupdate.org/2006/09/)
2006 Sep 3, Iraq's national
security adviser said that Iraqi and coalition forces had arrested the
second most senior figure in al-Qaida in Iraq. Hamed Jumaa Farid
al-Saeedi, known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, was captured north of
Baghdad "along with another group of his aides and followers. A later
report dated his capture to June 19. At least 16 Iraqis and two US
soldiers were killed in bomb attacks and shootings nationwide. A US
soldier died from wounds in Anbar province and 2 Marines were killed
while fighting there.
(AP, 9/3/06)(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 3, In Pakistan Abdul
Rahim Muslim Dost and his brother, Badruz Zaman Badar Dost, published
“The Broken Shackles of Guantanamo,” an account of their 3 years in
detention at the US prison. On Sep 29 Abdul was jailed by the Pakistani
intelligence service in apparent response to criticism of the agency’s
role in the US-led war on terrorism.
(SFC, 12/28/06, p.A17)
2006 Sep 3, A bomb damaged a gas
pipeline in southwestern Pakistan, cutting supplies to thousands of
homes in the region.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 3, In southeastern Turkey
a remote-controlled bomb exploded in a tea garden, killing two people
and wounding seven.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2007 Sep 3, The Financial Times,
citing unnamed officials, reported that the People's Liberation Army
hacked into a computer system in the office of Defense Secretary Robert
Gates in June. China denied the allegations.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 3, Jerry Lewis raised
nearly $64 million during his annual Labor Day Telethon.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2007 Sep 3, Steve Fossett
(b.1944), tycoon turned record seeker, disappeared in Nevada after
flying from the Flying M Ranch, owned by billionaire Baron Hilton. In
2002 Fosset became the 1st person to fly around the world in a balloon.
In 2006 Fossett authored his autobiography “Chasing the Wind.” A search
was formally suspended on Oct 2. On Feb 15, 2008, an Illinois court
declared him legally dead. In 2008 wreckage of his plane was found on
Oct 1 in the rugged eastern mountains of California.
(SFC, 9/5/07, p.A8)(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A1)(SFC,
2/16/08, p.B5)(Econ, 2/23/08, p.106)(Reuters, 10/2/08)
2007 Sep 3, The SF Bay Bridge
reopened 11 hours earlier than scheduled following the replacement of a
section of the upper deck east of Treasure Island.
(SFC, 9/4/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 3, A fire began east of
Morgan Hill, Ca., that burned 47,760 acres in and around Henry W. Coe
State Park. Margaret Pavese was later charged with a misdemeanor for
accidentally starting the fire when burning trash enar her cabin.
(SFC, 9/27/07, p.B2)
2007 Sep 3, Hurricane Felix,
having passed the Dutch islands of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire with
little damage, rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm
and churned toward Central America, where forecasters said it could
arrive as a "potentially catastrophic" storm.
(AP, 9/3/07)(SFC, 9/3/07, p.A17)
2007 Sep 3, In California
temperatures headed back toward triple digits, the seventh day of a
heat wave that has contributed to blackouts leaving thousands without
air conditioning.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, Climate change
activists staged a break-in at an Australian power station as a pattern
of guerrilla-style raids emerged ahead of a summit of Asia-Pacific
leaders in Sydney.
(AFP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, Former Bangladesh PM
Khaleda Zia and one of her sons were arrested on charges of corruption
and misuse of power.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, A woman joined the
protectors of the Crown Jewels as one of the famed Beefeaters of the
Tower of London, becoming the first female Yeoman Warder since the
corps of Tower guards was created in 1485.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, Bulgaria donated $56.6
million in Soviet-era debt owned by Libya as its contribution to a deal
that led to the release of 6 medics convicted of infecting Libyan
children with HIV.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, In eastern China about
2,000 ex-soldiers took part in riots that began and spread over a
775-mile stretch in the cities of Baotou, Wuhan, and Baoji. Demobilized
soldiers are frequently rewarded for their service with government
jobs, and 6,000 of them were sent to 12 different railway schools in
July for two years of training. However, they were angered by run-down
dormitories, bad but expensive food and a lack of study materials, At
least 20 people were injured and five arrested when riot police moved
in to quell the disturbances.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 3, Congolese officials
reported killing 28 soldiers loyal to Gen. Nkunda, a renegade army
officer, in exchanges of machine gun and heavy weapons fire lasting
several hours.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 3, President Nicolas
Sarkozy said France and Jordan want to work "hand-in-hand" to help
resolve crises in the Middle East, following talks with King Abdullah
II.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, The French government
tied up the long-delayed merger of Suez and state-owned Gaz de France,
giving the country another world energy champion in a sector that Paris
was eager to protect from foreigners.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, Iraqi soldiers hoisted
the nation's flag over the Basra palace compound after British troops
withdrew from their last garrison in the city, leaving the country's
second biggest city largely in the hands in the hands of Iranian-backed
Shiite militias. In a statement posted on an Islamic Web site, the
Islamic State of Iraq, made up of 8 insurgent groups, including
al-Qaida in Iraq, said its leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi chose Mohammed
Khalil al-Badria for the education position. The so-called 10-member
"Islamic Cabinet" was set up in April to challenge the Iraqi
government. President Bush made a surprise visit to al-Asad Air Base
west of Baghdad, hoping to bolster his case that the buildup of US
troops is helping stabilizing the country.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, Ireland’s government
said almost all the children who could not find elementary school
places in a Dublin suburb this year were black.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, Jamaica's main
opposition won a narrow election victory, according to preliminary
results, but Portia Simpson Miller, the country's first female prime
minister, said the race was too close to call and the ruling party
would not concede defeat.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 3, Takehiko Endo, Japan's
scandal-hit farm minister, resigned dealing a fresh blow to PM Shinzo
Abe just a week after he reshuffled his cabinet in the hope of cleaning
up the government's image.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, In Lebanon troops
exchanged fire with fleeing militants killing 4 and capturing 2.
(SFC, 9/4/07, p.A14)
2007 Sep 3, A Lithuanian research
center launched a Web site that allows the public to access original
KGB documents online. The site kgbdocuments.eu contains working
documents from various KGB departments, as well as descriptive articles
on the activities of Soviet state security agencies in Lithuania from
1940 to 1991.
(www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/18701/)
2007 Sep 3, In southwestern
Nigeria at least 20 people were killed when a bus collided with a fuel
tanker.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 3, A spokesman for North
Korea's Foreign Ministry said the US has decided to remove North Korea
from a list of terrorism-sponsoring states and lift sanctions against
it.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, Panamanian President
Martin Torrijos celebrated the start of construction on two wider sets
of locks being added to both sides of the Panama canal.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sudan in a bid to jumpstart the peace process in
strife-torn Darfur ahead of a massive joint UN-African Union
peacekeeping operation.
(AFP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, A Thai court issued
arrest warrants for former PM Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife over
their alleged violations of stock-trading laws.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2007 Sep 3, The Zimbabwean
government completed its takeover of the country's leading cooking oil
manufacturer by acquiring US food giant H.J Heinz's 49% stake for 6.8
million dollars.
(AFP, 9/3/07)
2008 Sep 3, In St. Paul, Minn.,
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little
as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise
on her credentials. Palin seduced many on television who had spent days
doubting her VP candidacy.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 3, Albert J. Stanley
(65), former Halliburton executive, pleaded guilty in Houston to
orchestrating over $180 million in bribes to senior Nigerian government
officials from 1995-2004 for the construction of liquefied natural gas
facilities. The bribes began when Stanley worked for M.W. Kellogg, a
unit of Dresser Industries that was acquired by Halliburton in 1998,
when Dick Cheney served as CEO. Stanley also pleaded guilty to taking
$10.8 million in kickbacks from a consortium of construction firms
involved in the LNG contracts between 1992-2003. Stanley was sentenced
to 7 years in prison and ordered to repay Halliburton $10.8 million.
(WSJ, 9/4/08, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/5/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 3, Coca-Cola Co.
announced a bid to acquire China Huiyuan Juice Group in a $2.4 billion.
(WSJ, 9/4/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 3, In Pasadena, Texas, a
suburb of Houston, Dannette Gillespie (38) orchestrated her daughter
(15) and Vanessa Anne Ocampo (19) in the robbery and killing of Eugene
Palma (75), which netted them $15. On Sep 7 all three were charged with
murder.
(www.truecrimereport.com/2008/09/mother_of_the_year_dannette_gi.php)
2008 Sep 3, US Vice President Dick
Cheney assured Azerbaijan of America's "abiding interest" in the
region's stability. It was the first stop on a tour of three ex-Soviet
republics that are wary of Russia's intentions after its war with
Georgia last month.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 3, A US Navy ship loaded
with humanitarian aid steamed through the Dardanelles on its way to
Georgia, as the Bush administration prepared to roll out a $1 billion
economic aid package for the ex-Soviet republic.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, In Australia police
arrested a 66-year-old Catholic brother in connection with their probe
into St. Stanislaus and a 63-year-old former teacher of another
religious school in Bathurst that is also under investigation.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, Cyprus' rival Greek
and Turkish leaders, Demetris Christofias and Mehmet Ali Talat, started
new peace talks and said they hoped for a deal soon aimed at reuniting
an island divided by war 34 years ago.
(AP, 9/3/08)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.68)
2008 Sep 3, In Dagestan journalist
Abdullah Alishayev died one day after he was attacked by armed gunmen.
(http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/03/russia.journalist/index.html)
2008 Sep 3, A helicopter carrying
foreign contractors crashed into an oil platform off the coast of
Dubai, killing all seven people on board and halting production in one
of the emirate's four offshore oil fields.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 3, An Egyptian cargo ship
with 25 crew was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia,
making it the 10th vessel to be hijacked in the area since July 20.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 3, In Ethiopia an
explosion rocked a bar in Addis Ababa, killing 4 people. 2 more died
the next day.
(AFP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 3, Tropical Storm Hanna
drenched flood-plagued Haiti, adding to the miseries of a country that
has lost more than 100 lives to mudslides and flooding since mid-August.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, A friendly fire
shootout between Iraqi security forces and American soldiers killed six
Iraqis in Tarmiyah, 30 miles north of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, Pakistan's government
says a cross-border raid involving US-led or NATO forces killed several
civilians. Women and children were among at least 20 people reportedly
killed in the attack in Musa Nika village in South Waziristan near the
border with Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/3/08)(SFC, 9/4/08, p.A8)
2008 Sep 3, In Somalia mortar
shells slammed into Mogadishu as insurgents vowed to intensify attacks
during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. At least 4 people were killed.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, Spanish authorities
found 13 bodies and 46 survivors on a packed migrant boat near one of
Spain's Canary Islands.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, In Sri Lanka fighter
jets bombed two rebel boats off the northeast coast in the rebel
stronghold of Mullaitivu, destroying one and causing heavy damage to
the other.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy encouraged Syria to pursue face-to-face peace talks
with Israel during his first trip to the Arab nation, a visit also
aimed at undercutting Iranian influence in Damascus.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 3, Swiss prosecutors said
police have broken up an Internet child pornography ring operating in
at least four European countries where men exchanged details about
their contacts with young girls. In all investigators said they had
identified 600 people in Germany, 40 in Austria, 13 in Switzerland and
four in Liechtenstein using the forum.
(AP, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 3, Ukraine's Pres.
Yushchenko ordered the creation of a new governing coalition and
threatened fresh elections, accusing his rival prime minister and
opposition parties of attempting a "constitutional coup."
(AP, 9/3/08)
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