Today in History - September 4
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c522BC Sep 4, Pindar (d.~443), Greek
poet, was born.
(WUD, 1994 p.1094)(MC, 9/4/01)
1024 Sep 4, Conrad II (the Sailor)
was chosen as German king.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1207 Sep 4, Boniface of
Montferrat, leader of the 4th Crusade, was ambushed and killed by the
Bulgarians.
(Nationmaster.com)
1260 Sep 4, At the Battle of
Montaperto in Italy, the Tuscan Ghibellines, who supported the emperor,
defeated the Florentine Guelfs, who supported papal power.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1383 Sep 4, Amadeus VIII, duke of
Savoye, and the last antipope (Felix V (1439-48), was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1479 Sep 4, After four years of
war, Spain agreed to allow a Portuguese monopoly of trade along
Africa's west coast and Portugal acknowledged Spain's rights in the
Canary Islands.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1553 Sep 4, Cornelia da
Nomatalcino, a monk who converted to Judaism, was burned at the stake.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1564 Sep 4, A 10-ship Spanish
fleet under Pedro Menendez de Aviles made landfall in Florida. Menendez
was under orders from Phillip II to oust the French.
(Arch, 1/05, p.47)
1609 Sep 3-4, Henry Hudson
discovered the island of Manhattan. The exact date is not known.
(MC, 9/3/01)(www.hudsonriver.com)
1682 Sep 4, English astronomer
Edmund Halley saw his namesake comet.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1768 Sep 4, Vicomte
François René de Chateaubriand, French writer, novelist
(Atala) and chef who gave his name to a style of steak, was born.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1781 Sep 4, Mexican Provincial
Governor, Felipe de Neve, founded Los Angeles. He founded El Pueblo de
Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles (Valley of Smokes), originally
named Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, by Gaspar
de Portola, a Spanish army captain and Juan Crespi, a Franciscan
priest, who had noticed the beautiful area as they traveled north from
San Diego in 1769. 44 Spanish settlers named a tiny village near San
Gabriel, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, first an Indian village Yangma, was
founded by Spanish decree. 26 of the settlers were of African ancestry.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(AP, 9/4/97)(SFEC, 4/12/98, Par
p.20)(HN, 9/4/98)(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.4)(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1787 Sep 4, Louis XVI of France
recalled parliament.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1790 Sep 4, Jacques Necker was
forced to resign as finance minister in France.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1802 Sep 4, A French aeronaut
dropped eight-thousand feet equipped with a parachute.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1807 Sep 4, Robert Fulton began
operating his steamboat. [see Aug 17]
(MC, 9/4/01)
1810 Sep 4, Donald McKay, US naval
architect, built fastest clipper ships, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1820 Sep 4, Czar Alexander
declared that Russian influence in North America extended as far south
as Oregon and closed Alaskan waters to foreigners.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1824 Sep 4, Anton Bruckner,
composer and Wagner disciple, was born in Austria.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1833 Sep 4, Barney Flaherty (10)
answered an ad in "The New York Sun" and became the first newsboy,
later called a paperboy.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1838 Sep 4, Henrietta d'Angeville
(1794-1871) became the 1st woman to climb to the top of Mt. Blanc,
France. In 1808 mountain guides had carried Marie Paradis, a local
serving girl, to the top.
(ON, 4/04, p.1)
1842 Sep 4, Work on Cologne
cathedral resumed after 284-year hiatus.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1846 Sep 4, Daniel Burnham, US
architect, city planner and builder of skyscrapers, was born.
(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1862 Sep 4, Robert E. Lee's
Confederate 50,000-man army invaded Maryland, starting the Antietam
Campaign. New York Tribune reporter George Smalley scooped the world
with his vivid account of the Battle of Antietam.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1864 Sep 4, Bread riots took place
in Mobile, Alabama.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1870 Sep 4, At news of Sedan,
Paris workers invaded the Palais Bourbon and forced the Legislative
Assembly to proclaim the fall of the Empire. Emperor Louis Napoleon III
was overthrown in a bloodless coup. The 3rd French Republic was
proclaimed in Paris and a government of national defense was formed.
(HN, 9/4/98)(ON, 9/06,
p.12)(www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/timeline.htm)
1882 Sep 4, Thomas Edison
displayed the first practical electrical lighting system. He
successfully turned on the lights in a one square mile area of New York
City with the world’s 1st electricity generating plant.
(MC, 9/4/01)(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.R6)
1886 Sep 4, Elusive Apache leader
Geronimo (1829-1909) surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles (1839-1925)
at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz. This ended the last major US-Indian war.
(HN, 9/4/98)(ON, 10/06, p.4)
1888 Sep 4, George Eastman
received patent #388,850 for his roll-film camera and registered his
trademark: "Kodak." George Eastman introduced the box camera.
(V.D.-H.K.p.273)(AP, 9/4/97)(MC, 9/4/01)
1892 Sep 4, Darius Milhaud,
Aix-en-Provence France, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1893 Sep 4, Beatrix Potter,
English author, first told the story of Peter Rabbit in the form of a
"picture letter" to Noel Moore, the son of Potter's former governess. A
2nd illustrated letter the same month later became “The Tale of Jeremy
Fisher.” The “Tale of Peter Rabbit” was published in 1901.
(HN, 9/4/00)(AP, 9/4/04)(Econ, 1/6/07, p.67)
1894 Sep 4, Some 12,000 tailors in
New York City went on strike to protest the existence of sweatshops.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1904 Sep 4, Dali Lama signed a
treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1905 Sep 4, Mary Renault (Mary
Challans), author who wrote about her wartime experiences in “The Last
of the Wine” and “The King Must Die,” was born. She also wrote “Funeral
Games.”
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1907 Sep 4, Edvard Hagerup Grieg
(64), Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), died.
(WUD, 1994, p.622)(MC, 9/4/01)
1908 Sep 4, Richard Wright
(d.1960), novelist who wrote about the abuses of blacks in white
society, best known for “Native Son” (1940), was born near Natchez,
Miss.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, DB p.61)(AP, 9/4/08)
1912 Sep 4, Alexander Liberman,
editor, painter and photographer (639), was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1914 Sep 4, General von Moltke
ceased German advance in France.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1915 Sep 4, Rudolf Schock, German
opera and operetta tenor, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1915 Sep 4, The U.S. military
placed Haiti under martial law to quell a rebellion in its capital
Port-au-Prince.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1917 Sep 4, The American
expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World
War I when a German plane attacked a British-run base hospital..
(AP, 9/4/08)
1918 Sep 4, Paul Harvey,
conservative radio commentator, was born in Tulsa, Okla.
(HN, 9/4/98)(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)
1920 Sep 4, Craig Claiborne, food
critic, food columnist (NY Times Cookbook) and cookbook author, was
born.
(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1920 Sep 4, Maggie Higgins, the
first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1951) for international
reporting, for her work in Korean war zones, was born.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1923 Sep 4, Noel Coward's revue
"London Calling," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1939 Sep 4, German troops stormed
into Danzig (Gdansk).
(MC, 9/4/01)
1939 Sep 4, The Nazis marched into
Czestochowa, Poland, two days after they invaded Poland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cz%C4%99stochowa)
1939 Sep 4, The Polish ghetto of
Mir was exterminated.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1941 Sep 4, German submarine U-652
fired at the U.S. destroyer Greer off Iceland, beginning an undeclared
shooting war.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1942 Sep 4, Soviet planes bombed
Budapest in the war's first air raid on the Hungarian capital.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1943 Sep 4, Allied troops captured
Lae-Salamaua, in New Guinea.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1943 Sep 4, British 8th army
landed at Taranto in South Italy.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1944 Sep 4, British troops
liberated Antwerp, Belgium.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1945 Sep 4, US regained possession
of Wake Island from Japan. The American flag was raised on Wake Island
after surrender ceremonies there.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1948 Sep 4, Queen Wilhelmina
abdicated the Dutch throne for health reasons.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1950 Sep 4, The Beetle Bailey
cartoon appeared for the 1st time in syndication. Beatle Bailey, the
laziest private in the army, was created by Mort Walker.
(USAT, 8/31/00, p.1D)(SFC, 6/18/96, p.B2)
1950 Sep 4, The 1st helicopter
rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1950 Sep 4, A heavy typhoon struck
Japan and killed about 250 people.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1951 Sep 4, President Truman
addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San
Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast. The
broadcast was carried by 94 stations.
(AP, 9/4/97)(HN, 9/4/98)
1954 Sep 4, The 1st passage of
McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage, completed.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1957 Sep 4, Arkansas National
guardsmen turned away Black students from Central High School in Little
Rock. 9 students made it into the school on September 24 under the
protection of federal troops sent by Pres. Eisenhower. In 2007
Elizabeth Jacoway authored “Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crises
That Shocked the Nation.”
(AH, 10/07, p.61)
1957 Sep 4, Ford Motor Co.
introduced the 1958 Edsel. It was designed by Roy Brown and sold only
173,000 units through 1960.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, p.D12)(AP, 9/4/97)
1959 Sep 4, "Mack the Knife" was
banned from radio -- at least from WCBS Radio in New York City. The ban
was due to teenage stabbings in NYC.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1964 Sep 4, "Gilligan’s Island"
began its 98-show run on CBS.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1965 Sep 4, Beatles' "Help!,"
single went #1 for 3 weeks.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1965 Sep 4, Philosopher, musician,
doctor, theologian and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer died in
Lambaréné, Gabon. Born near Alsace, Germany, in 1875,
Schweitzer decided to devote himself to providing health care to people
in Africa at the age of 30. Schweitzer and his wife
Hélène moved to Gabon in 1913 and opened a hospital in
Lambaréné, which he later expanded with money from the
Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 1952. Schweitzer also spoke out
against the dangers of nuclear weapons, became an organist and expert
on Johann Sebastian Bach, and served as a church pastor and university
professor. He lived by the principle of "reverence for life."
(HNPD, 9/4/98)
1967 Sep 4, Michigan Gov. George
Romney told a TV interview he'd undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S.
officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam, a comment that apparently
damaged Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1968 Sep 4, In the Republic of
Congo, Brazzaville, an army coup deposed Pres. Masemba-Debat.
(WUD, 1994, p.1687)
1969 Sep 4, The US Food and Drug
Administration issued a report calling birth control pills safe,
despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the
pills.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1969 Sep 4, In California Gov.
Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce package into law,
effective January 1, 1970.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, Z1
p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce)
1969 Sep 4, In Brazil Fernando
Gabeira helped kidnap the US ambassador in Rio, Charles Elbrick
(d.1983), to protest the military dictatorship. Elbrick was released
unhurt four days later, but Gabeira was banned from entering the US.
(AP,
10/27/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burke_Elbrick)
1970 Sep 4, Natalia Makarova
(b.1940), Russian ballet dancer, requested asylum while on tour in
Britain.
(WSJ, 10/1/98,
p.A20)(www.abt.org/education/archive/choreographers/makarova_n.html)
1970 Sep 4, Salvador Allende
Gossens (1908-1973) won the presidential election in Chile. A week
later in Washington Henry Kissinger discussed a "covert action program"
to oust Allende.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.D1)
1971 Sep 4, "The Lawrence Welk
Show" was seen for the last time on ABC-TV. A week later it opened on
the Lawrence Welk Network.
(www.accordionusa.com/fe_01_07.htm)
1971 Sep 4, An Alaska Airlines jet
crashed near Juneau, killing 111 people.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1972 Sep 4, The TV game show "The
Price Is Right" returned with Bob Barker and continued for 35 seasons.
A nighttime version also began this year hosted by Dennis James
(1917-1997) up to 1977.
(SFC, 6/5/97,
p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_James)
1972 Sep 4, U.S. swimmer Mark
Spitz won a record seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter relay at
the Munich Summer Olympics.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1973 Sep 4, William E Colby
(1920-1996), became the 10th director of the CIA.
(http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/wcolby.htm)
1974 Sep 4, The US & German DR
established diplomatic relations.
(http://tinyurl.com/6xdex7)
1974 Sep 4, General Creighton
Williams Abrams, US commander in Vietnam (1968-1972), died in
Washington DC of lung cancer. In 2005 the “Vietnam Chronicles:
The Abrams Tapes” transcribed and edited by Lewis Sorley was published.
(WSJ, 3/18/05, p.W6)
1981 Sep 4, David Brinkley
(1920-2003) ended an illustrious 38-year career with NBC News this day.
ABC had offered him an opportunity too good to refuse.
(http://tinyurl.com/38bq4z)
1984 Sep 4, Canada's Progressive
Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney, won a landslide victory in
general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime Minister John N.
Turner.
(AP, 9/4/04)
1987 Sep 4, A Soviet court
convicted West German pilot Mathias Rust of charges stemming from his
daring flight to Moscow's Red Square, and sentenced him to four years
in a labor camp. He was released the following August.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1988 Sep 4, Officials in
Bangladesh reported that floods had inundated three-quarters of their
impoverished nation, claiming at least 882 lives. Monsoon floods left
over 3,000 dead this year.
(AP, 9/4/98)(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A15)
1989 Sep 4, The US Air Force
launched its last Titan 3 rocket, which reportedly carried a
reconnaissance satellite. Since 1964, the Titan 3 had sent more than
200 satellites into space.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1989 Sep 4, Georges Simenon (86),
Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), died. The Belgian born
writer, authored some 200 novels. Many featured the crime-busting hero
Inspector Maigret.
(SFC, 6/9/00, p.D5)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/simenon.htm)
1990 Sep 4, The air evacuation of
Western women and children stranded in Iraq and Kuwait resumed, with 25
Americans among the nearly 300 who made it to Jordan.
(AP, 9/4/00)
1991 Sep 4, South African
President F.W. de Klerk proposed a new constitution that would allow
blacks to vote and govern; the African National Congress rejected the
plan, charging it was designed to maintain white privileges.
(AP, 9/4/01)
1992 Sep 4, The US government
reported the nation's unemployment rate had edged down to 7.6 percent
in August 1992, but also said adult joblessness had worsened slightly
and the economy had lost thousands of crucial manufacturing jobs.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1993 Sep 4, The Fatah faction of
the PLO endorsed a peace accord with Israel.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1993 Sep 4, Pope John Paul II
launched the first papal visit to the former Soviet Union as he began a
tour of the Baltic republics.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1993 Sep 4, Herve Hillechaize (50)
died in Los Angeles. The Fantasy Island actor shot himself to death.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1994 Sep 4, On the eve of a
U.N.-sponsored conference on population in Cairo, Egypt, Vice President
Al Gore told NBC the United States was seeking a blueprint for world
population growth that rejected abortion as a family planning tool and
an international right.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1995 Sep 4, Attorney William Moses
Kunstler (b.1919) died in NYC. The UCLA attorney spoke out for the
politically unpopular in a controversial career and defended the
Chicago 7.
(SFC, 4/8/96,
p.A3)(www.nndb.com/people/218/000025143/)
1995 Sep 4-1995 Sep 7, Hurricane
Luis hit the Virgin Islands.
(NH, 10/96, p.60)(www.nhc.noaa.gov/1995luis.html)
1995 Sep 4, The Fourth World
Conference on Women opened in Beijing with more than 4,750 delegates
from 181 countries.
(AP, 9/4/00)
1996 Sep 4, The Smashing Pumpkins
rock group won 7 MTV music awards including Best Video for “Tonight,
Tonight,” and Best Alternative Music Video for 1979.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B4)
1996 Sep 4, Actor Jack Lemon,
Singer Johnny Cash, playwright Edward Albee, saxophonist Benny Carter
and ballet dancer Maria Tallchief were the recipients of the Kennedy
Center Honors for their life work in the performing arts.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B2)
1996 Sep 4, Whitewater prosecutors
had Susan McDougal held in contempt for refusing to tell a grand jury
whether President Clinton had lied at her trial.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1996 Sep 4, Anti-aircraft fire lit
up the skies of Baghdad, hours after the United States fired a new
round of cruise missiles into southern Iraq and destroyed an Iraqi
radar site. The US again launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraqi air
defense sites. The 2nd launch was deemed a success after the first
launch failed to destroy intended targets. The Tomahawks were made by
Hughes Aircraft Co. and cost about $1 mil apiece. Kurdish leader
Barzani wrote a latter to Sec. of State Christopher Warren and asked
that the US mediate. 44 cruise missiles were launched over 2 days plus
a rocket from an F-16 fighter.
(AP, 9/4/97)(SFC, 4/9/96, A1)(SFC, 9/5/96,
p.A8)(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 4, In Columbia the
government will require businesses with a net worth of more than 85k to
buy war bonds to finance the war against leftist rebels.
(WSJ, 9/4/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 4, In the Congo
authorities found 200 slaughtered elephants in a marsh of the National
Park of Odzala.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 4, France said it will
stop changing its clocks twice a year.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 4, Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu met with Palestinian leader Arafat and agreed to pursue a
peace settlement.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.1)
1997 Sep 4, A trio of Buddhist
nuns acknowledged in Senate testimony that their temple outside Los
Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by
Vice President Al Gore and later destroyed or altered records to avoid
embarrassment.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1997 Sep 4, It was reported that
scientists have pinpointed the gene, Torsin 1, responsible for
dystonia, a condition marked by uncontrolled movements.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A6)
1997 Sep 4, In Algeria 22 people
were killed in El Arbi. Their throats were slit and bodies burned.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 4, In Cuba an explosion
shook 3 tourist hotels and one Italian tourist was killed. Raul Ernesto
Cruz Leon (25) of Salvador was arrested and accused of carrying out a
half-dozen hotel attacks. He worked for Luis Posada Carriles, who was
supported by the Cuban-American National Foundation.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A21)
1997 Sep 4, In Israel a triple
suicide bombing in a mall in the heart of Jerusalem claimed the lives
of seven people, including the three assailants.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A1)(AP, 9/4/98)
1997 Sep 4, From Kenya it was
reported that the unemployment rate was 35%.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 4-5, In Lebanon at least
12 Israeli commandos were killed in a botched raid deep inside Lebanese
territory. Itamar Ilya, a commando, was killed with 11 other soldiers
in Southern Lebanon.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A1)(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A16)
1997 Sep 4, In Turkey 33 people
were killed when 2 buses collided near Ankara. Turkey has the highest
incidence of road traffic deaths with 2,713 killed in the first 7
months of this year.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)
1998 Sep 4, During a visit to
Ireland, President Clinton said the words "I'm sorry" for the first
time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, describing his behavior as
indefensible.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1998 Sep 4, In NYC the Million
Youth March ended in a wild melee as police rushed the speaking
platform after the event ran minutes over the allotted time. An
estimated 20,000 people were in attendance. Mayor Giuliani later
supported the police action at the rally where 6,000 people had
gathered. Some 3,000 officers were massed in the area. A grand jury was
later asked to investigate.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A3)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A3)(SFC, 9/9/98,
p.A3)
1998 Sep 4, In Yarmouth Harbor,
New Brunswick, the new Incat 046 catamaran collided with a fishing
dragger and killed Captain Clifford Hood (33). The new ferry carried up
to 900 passengers and 240 cars from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Yarmouth
across the Bay of Fundy at 50 mph. Travel time was cut in half from 6.5
hours for the 105 mile run.
(SFC, 10/5/98, p.A3,5)
1998 Sep 4, In Nevada two Air
Force helicopters crashed during training and all 12 people aboard were
killed.
(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 4, In Brazil the Central
Bank raised interest rates from 20 to 30%.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D2)
1998 Sep 4, In Osasco, Brazil,
near Sao Paulo a Universal Church roof collapsed and killed at least 23
people and injured 500.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A19)
1998 Sep 4, Flooding and mudslides
in India was reported to have killed over 2,000 this year.
(WSJ, 9/4/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 4, Former Rwandan Prime
Minister Jean Kambanda was sentenced to life in prison for his role in
the 1994 killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 4, Ukraine clinched a
$2.2 billion IMF loan and announced a de facto currency devaluation for
its hryvnia to between 2.5 and 3.5 to the dollar.
(WSJ, 9/8/98, p.A23)
1999 Sep 4, In NYC the 2nd Million
Youth March headed by Khalid Abdul Muhammad was attended by 1-2
thousand people and watched over by 1,400 police officers.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A2)
1999 Sep 4, Martin R. Frankel, a
Connecticut money manager, accused of cheating insurance companies in
five states out of more than $200 million, was arrested in at the Hotel
Prem in Hamburg, Germany.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A6)(AP, 9/4/00)
1999 Sep 4, In Dagestan a car bomb
killed at least 22 people at a Russian military housing block in
Buinaksk. The death toll son expanded to 64. Russian officials believed
that Khattab, a Jordanian operating in Chechnya, ordered the bombing.
In 2000 5 suspects were charged in the bombing. In 2001 six men were
convicted. In 2004 Magomed Salikhov was arrested in Baku for his role
in the bombing. In Feb, 2006, Salikhov was acquitted of organizing the
explosion, but was sentenced to over 4 years in prison for membership a
rebel group. The Russian Supreme Court overturned the acquittal on June
15 and ordered the investigation to be reopened. A Dagestan jury
acquitted Salikhov on Nov 10.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A12)(SFC,
9/8/99, p.A16)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.C1)(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)(AP,
11/13/04)(AP, 6/15/06)(AP, 11/11/06)
1999 Sep 4, Ethiopia claimed that
the proposed outline for the implementation of a peace plan
contradicted an original agreement regarding the withdrawal of
Eritrea's forces. Eritrea the next day took the statement as
"tantamount to a declaration of war."
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 4, At Sharm El-Sheikh
(Sharm Al Sheik), Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and
Palestinian Authority Pres. Yasser Arafat signed a new deal that ceded
West Bank land to the Palestinians and set up a timetable for peace.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/21/99, p.A21)
1999 Sep 4, In East Timor
pro-Indonesia militia took control of much of the country in defiance
of the election results hours after the United Nations announced that
residents had overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. A
dozen people were reported killed in Dili.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A11)(AP, 9/4/00)
2000 Sep 4, In Australia a
Beechcraft King Air 200 plane crashed near Mount Isa after flying for 6
hours on autopilot. 8 people were killed and believed to have blacked
out after loss of cabin pressure following takeoff from Perth.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 4, French investigators
announced that a stray length of metal which had gashed a tire of a
supersonic Concorde, leading to a fuel tank fire and the plane's fatal
crash the previous July, probably came from a Continental Airlines
plane that had taken off on the same runway four minutes earlier.
(AP, 9/4/01)
2000 Sep 4, In France farmers
along with and truckers and taxi drivers protested high fuel costs with
demonstrations at 80 facilities.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Sri Lanka the
government “Operation Sunrise” left some 144 government soldiers and
over 230 rebels dead along with some 766 wounded.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Uganda at least 41
people died when an overloaded ferry sank in Lake Albert, 140 miles
north of Kampala.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.D2)
2001 Sep 4, President Bush opened
the door to a future cut in the capital gains tax, but said he first
wanted to see the effects of the previous spring's income tax cut.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, Texas Republican Phil
Gramm announced he would leave the U.S. Senate at the end of his third
term, following fellow conservatives Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond
into retirement.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, The US and Mexico
agreed on small measures to improve food safety, enhance law
enforcement and fight money laundering as Pres. Fox came to visit with
Pres. Bush.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 4, Police shot and killed
Rolland Rohm (28) at the Rainbow Farms campground in Vandalia, Mich.,
after he allegedly pointed a weapon at an officer. The campground had
been set up for marijuana advocates. Owner Grover T. Crosslin was
killed by FBI snipers a day earlier.
(SFC, 9/5/01,
p.A5)(http://cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17211.shtml)
2001 Sep 4, In the Bahamas a fire
destroyed Bay Street businesses in Nassau’s Straw Market.
(WSJ, 9/6/01, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, President Bush
promised to seek Congress' approval for "whatever is necessary" to oust
Saddam Hussein including using military force.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Secretary of State
Colin Powell was heckled by dozens of activists on the closing day of
the World Summit in South Africa as he defended America's record on the
environment and helping the developing world.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Texas cocktail
waitress and aspiring pop star Kelly Clarkson was voted the first
"American Idol" at the conclusion of the Fox TV series.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, In California it was
reported that the Phytophthora ramorum microbe, responsible for sudden
oak death, had infected the coastal redwood saplings.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, In Afghanistan Pres.
Karzai announced a new currency to replace the array of inflated
banknotes issued by the Taliban and regional warlords. Warlord
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former US ally, called for a jihad against US
forces.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, China reported that
flooding had killed 1,532 people this year.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 4, Colombian authorities
reported the break up of an international kidnapping ring organized by
the nation's second-largest rebel group to fund its insurgency. The
leader of the ring was captured in July, and authorities have arrested
his successor and other rebels within the last couple of days, said
Gen. Reynaldo Castellanos. The crime network was run out of Bogota by
members of the National Liberation Army. It included leftist groups
from Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico that kidnapped people and stole
cars, among other crimes.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, In Puerto Rico US Navy
security officers fired tear gas at protesters who hurled rocks over a
fence during bombing exercises on the island of Vieques.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, The World Summit on
Sustainable Development closed with just a handful of small victories
and some promising new initiatives. Colin Powell was heckled and the US
was viewed as a key obstacle to setting firm targets on many issues.
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an
anti-corruption scheme to oversee oil production, was launched by UK PM
Tony Blair, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in
Johannesburg, SA.
(AP, 9/5/02)(SFC, 9/5/02,
p.A10)(www.osi-az.org/eitiabout.shtml)
2003 Sep 4, Pres. Bush signed the
Prison Rape Elimination Act into law.
(Econ, 8/6/05,
p.25)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003)
2003 Sep 4, Miguel Estrada, whose
nomination became a flash point for Democratic opposition to President
Bush's judicial choices, withdrew from consideration for an appeals
court seat after Republicans failed in seven attempts to break a Senate
filibuster.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2003 Sep 4, The US House agreed to
a 2.2 percent pay raise for Congress, enough to boost lawmakers' annual
salaries to about $158,000 next year.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2003 Sep 4, Verizon Communications
and two unions, the Communications Workers of America and the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, reached a tentative,
five-year contract agreement after four months of talks.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2003 Sep 4, Researchers reported
that the hormone YY3-36 appeared to curb the appetite of obese people.
(SFC, 9/4/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 4, British and Colombian
authorities said they had seized nearly $7 billion in securities from
an international drug and money-laundering ring. Authorities arrested
14 alleged members of the ring, 10 in England, two in Colombia and two
in Ecuador.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2003 Sep 4, Mario Monteforte
Toledo, Guatemalan writer and activist, died. His work included the
1952 novel "En Donde Acaban los Caminos" (Where the Roads End).
(SFC, 9/5/03, p.A23)
2004 Sep 4, Hurricane Frances
ripped apart roofs, shattered windows and flooded neighborhoods as it
raged through the Bahamas leaving 2 people dead.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 4, A gunfight broke out
in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia, leaving
at least three people dead and 14 wounded.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 4, India's PM Singh said
his government was ready to talk to any militant group, including those
in Kashmir, abandoning previous preconditions that the rebels must
first disarm.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2004 Sep 4, Insurgents clashed
with American and Iraqi troops in northern Iraq, and local officials
said eight Iraqis were killed and more than 50 wounded. A suicide
attacker detonated a car bomb outside a police academy in the northern
city of Kirkuk as hundreds of trainees and civilians were leaving for
the day, killing 17 people and wounding 36. Saboteurs blew up an oil
pipeline in southern Iraq.
(AP, 9/4/04)(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 4, Lebanese lawmakers
amended their constitution to keep pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud in
office, boldly reaffirming their loyalty to Damascus and defying a U.N.
resolution calling for presidential elections.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2004 Sep 4, A shaken President
Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness
after more than 330 people were killed in a hostage-taking at a
southern school.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, US Health and Human
Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from Hurricane
Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In New Orleans police
killed at least 4 people who shot at contractors. The official
Louisiana state death toll stood at 59 but the number was expected to
rise to thousands.
(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, European Union and
NATO said the US has asked for emergency assistance, requesting
blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In southern
Afghanistan 13 suspected Taliban fighters were killed in fighting with
US and Afghan forces in Kandahar province. More than 40 suspected
militants were arrested.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In France fire ripped
through a high-rise apartment building south of Paris, killing 16
people, two of them children. 4 people were detained in connection with
the suspected arson attack. 3 teenage girls confessed to starting the
fire.
(AP, 9/4/05)(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Iraq US troops
killed 7 insurgents in Tal Afar, including six who fired at the
Americans from a mosque.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, The oil-rich Persian
Gulf state of Kuwait said it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S.
relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Nepal police fired
tear gas and used bamboo batons to stop pro-democracy demonstrators
from marching into the capital's center, arresting former PM Girija
Prasad Koirala (80) and dozens of other protesters.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Pakistan's opposition
called for a country-wide strike to press their demand for the
resignation of President Pervez Musharraf.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Russian President
Vladimir Putin sacked navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov. The
military faced criticism over its handling of a mini-submarine accident
last month.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said it
had signed a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
(www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=2640)
2005 Sep 4, In eastern Saudi
Arabia police fought running gun battles with al-Qaida militants in
Dammam in clashes that killed two extremists and a police officer. The
militants aimed to attack oil facilities.
(AP, 9/4/05)(WSJ, 2/25/06, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, In Turkey a group of
nationalist Turks attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish
demonstrators with stones, following violent clashes between Kurdish
demonstrators and police in Istanbul.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, US Health and Human
Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from Hurricane
Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In New Orleans police
killed at least 4 people, who allegedly shot at contractors. The
official Louisiana state death toll due to Hurricane Katrina stood at
59 but the number was expected to rise to thousands. In 2008 federal
officials opened an investigations into shootings on the Danziger
Bridge where 2 people were killed and 4 wounded. In 2010 former Lt.
Michael Lohman pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice. He and
others filed false reports to make the shootings on the Danziger Bridge
seem justifiable.
(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/08, p.A5)(SFC,
2/25/10, p.A4)
2005 Sep 4, European Union and
NATO said the US has asked for emergency assistance, requesting
blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In southern
Afghanistan 13 suspected Taliban fighters were killed in fighting with
US and Afghan forces in Kandahar province. More than 40 suspected
militants were arrested.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In France fire ripped
through a high-rise apartment building south of Paris, killing 16
people, two of them children. 4 people were detained in connection with
the suspected arson attack. 3 teenage girls confessed to starting the
fire.
(AP, 9/4/05)(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Iraq US troops
killed 7 insurgents in Tal Afar, including six who fired at the
Americans from a mosque.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, The oil-rich Persian
Gulf state of Kuwait said it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S.
relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Nepal police fired
tear gas and used bamboo batons to stop pro-democracy demonstrators
from marching into the capital's center, arresting former PM Girija
Prasad Koirala (80) and dozens of other protesters.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Pakistan's opposition
called for a country-wide strike to press their demand for the
resignation of President Pervez Musharraf.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Russian President
Vladimir Putin sacked navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov. The
military faced criticism over its handling of a mini-submarine accident
last month.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said it
had signed a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
(www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=2640)
2005 Sep 4, In eastern Saudi
Arabia police fought running gun battles with al-Qaida militants in
Dammam in clashes that killed two extremists and a police officer. The
militants aimed to attack oil facilities.
(AP, 9/4/05)(WSJ, 2/25/06, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, In Turkey a group of
nationalist Turks attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish
demonstrators with stones, following violent clashes between Kurdish
demonstrators and police in Istanbul.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2006 Sep 4, Tropical storm Ernesto
soaked the East Coast of the US claiming 6 lives and left 19,000
customers in the new York area without power.
(WSJ, 9/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 4, In south-central
Montana a wildfire had spread across 180,000 acres, over 280 sq. miles,
since it was sparked by lightning on Aug 22. It was only 20% contained.
(SFC, 9/5/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 4, In Newry, Maine, 4
people were found killed at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast. The
victims were shot and then dismembered. Christian Nielsen (31), a
resident at the inn for 2-months, was arrested. The dead included owner
Julie Bullard (65), her daughter Selby (30), her friend Cindy Beatson
(43), and Arkansas resident James Whitehurst.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 4, In Berkeley, Ca.,
Nicholas Beaudreaux shot and killed Wayne Drummond in front of Blake’s
Restaurant. In 2009 Lamar Crowder (21) pleaded no contests to voluntary
manslaughter and testified against Beaudreaux (23), who was convicted
of first-degree murder in the shooting.
(SFC, 7/9/09, p.D2)
2006 Sep 4, In southern
Afghanistan 2 US warplanes accidentally strafed their own forces,
killing one Canadian soldier and seriously wounding five others. A
British soldier attached to NATO was also killed in a Kabul suicide
bombing, which left another four Afghans dead. 16 suspected Taliban
militants and five Afghan police died in separate Afghan violence.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Steve Irwin (44),
world-famous Australian "crocodile hunter" and television
environmentalist, was killed by a stingray blow to the chest while
filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. His "Crocodile Hunter"
show, in which the adventurer appeared in his trademark khaki shorts
and shirt, was first broadcast in 1992 and has been shown around the
world on the Discovery cable network ever since.
(AFP, 9/4/06)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.82)
2006 Sep 4, Global press titan
Rupert Murdoch launched a new free title: thelondonpaper, a 48-page
color paper, dominated by gossip and real-life stories, in the city
centre. The first free paper in London was launched seven years ago, in
1999. Metro, a daily morning paper published by Associated Newspapers,
has a circulation of around a million copies in the capital and 13
other big towns.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In CongoDRC a boat
overloaded with passengers and freight sank in choppy waters on Lake
Kivu, killing at least 35 people.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Cyprus 3 British
holidaymakers were charged with willful manslaughter over the death of
a Cypriot teenager in a hit-and-run accident in the coastal resort of
Protaras last month. A rented Opel "repeatedly rammed" the moped in
what police described as a revenge attack following a fight outside a
Protaras disco in which a friend of the accused was beaten up.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Egypt a passenger
train collided with a cargo train north of Cairo, killing 5 people and
injuring 30 others.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In France the Airbus
A380, the world's largest passenger jet, took off with a full load of
passengers for the first time. Carrying 474 Airbus employees, the
308-ton jet left from Toulouse, southern France, on the first of four
test flights.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Iraq a popular
Iraqi soccer star was kidnapped. 33 bullet-riddled bodies were found in
Baghdad and 2 more in Kut. At least two people also were killed and six
were wounded in and around Baqouba. Two suicide bombers slammed into a
checkpoint on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing an Iraqi soldier and
wounding eight. Gunmen in Ramadi killed Maj. Gen. Mohammad Thumeil, who
had served in former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's military. An
American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, while
a 2nd soldier died of non-combat related injuries. 2 US Marines and one
sailor were killed in fighting Anbar province.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, Nabeel Ahmed Issa
al-Jaourah opened fire on tourists near a popular Roman ruins site in
Jordan's capital, killing Christopher Stokes, a British man, and
wounding five other foreigners and a local police officer. Police
overpowered and arrested the attacker at the scene. Al-Jaourah was
sentenced to death in December.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/21/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Lebanon US civil
rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson met with Hezbollah officials and
called on them to show proof that two captured Israeli soldiers are
still alive. A UN spokesman said Secretary-General Kofi Annan has
agreed to requests by Hezbollah and Israel that he mediate in
negotiations over the release of two abducted Israeli soldiers. Qatar
announced that it would contribute 200 to 300 troops to the UN
peacekeeping force in Lebanon, making the Persian Gulf state the first
Arab country to commit soldiers to the peace effort in Lebanon.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Philippine marines
clashed with nearly 200 al-Qaida-linked rebels on Jolo Island. 6
government troops were killed and 19 wounded in the monthlong US-backed
offensive. In Dec the military said Khaddafy Janjalani, head of the
al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf, was killed in the fighting and that his
remains had been found. DNA evidence confirmed his death.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/27/06)(AP, 1/20/07)
2006 Sep 4, Somalia's weak
government and an Islamic militia that controls much of the south
signed an agreement to eventually form a unified national army.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sri Lanka President
Mahinda Rajapakse said security forces had captured Sampur, a key town
used by Tamil Tigers to target artillery at a major naval port.
Rajapakse urged the rebels to return to peace talks.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sudan said it would
allow African troops to remain in Darfur only under African Union
control and accused Washington of attempting "regime change" in
Khartoum by trying to bring in a UN force.
(Reuters, 9/4/06)
2007 Sep 4, US President George W.
Bush arrived in Sydney for a regional summit with the city locked down
in the biggest security operation in Australian history.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Mattel Inc.'s
reputation took another hit after the world's largest toy maker
announced a third major recall of Chinese-made toys in little more than
a month because of excessive amounts of lead paint.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Florida Broward
County Sheriff Ken Jenne resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to
federal tax evasion and mail fraud charges.
(SFC, 9/5/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 4, New York city’s first
Arab-language school opened.
(Econ, 9/8/07, p.36)
2007 Sep 4, 5-nation war games
began in the Bay of Bengal. Indian and US aircraft carriers launched
fighter jets into the air as American submarines cruised below
Japanese, Australian and Singaporean warships.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 4, Afghan security forces
in overnight fighting said they have killed Mullah Mateen, a Taliban
commander alleged to be behind the July kidnappings of 23 South Korean
church workers. The Taliban denied the dead man was one of their
militants. Up to 27 other insurgents were also slain. Taliban spokesman
Qari Yousef Ahmadi said 7 insurgents were killed in the clash, all of
them ordinary fighters. He said the Taliban had no commander called
Mullah Mateen, and said he did not know who the government was
referring to. Afghan and coalition soldiers in Shah Wali Kot district,
in southern Kandahar province, came under attack while on patrol. They
fought back before calling in air support and over a dozen insurgents
were killed in the engagement. About 18 miles away, insurgents
sheltering in a traditional low-walled Afghan compound attacked another
joint patrol. Airstrikes later pounded the position, killing six
insurgents.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Australia 2
Indonesians were jailed over a people-smuggling operation to bring 83
Sri Lankans into Australia. The two pleaded guilty to smuggling 83 Sri
Lankans into Australian waters in February near Christmas Island in the
Indian Ocean.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, A skirmish near the
disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh killed two Azerbaijani soldiers
and three Armenian troops.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, A Eurostar train
shattered the record for the quickest rail journey between Paris and
London, using a new high-speed track that shaved some 30 minutes off
the previous fastest time. The 306 mile (492 kilometer) journey from
the Gare du Nord in Paris to Saint Pancras took just two hours, three
minutes and 39 seconds from station to station.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Most of London's
sprawling transport network shut down after maintenance workers walked
off the job, arousing commuter anger and drawing warnings the strike
will inconvenience millions of Britons. Subway maintenance workers
agreed to cut short the strike.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Jane Tomlinson (43),
terminal cancer sufferer, died in London following a 7-year battle
against the disease. Tomlinson had raised thousands of pounds after
being diagnosed with terminal breast cancer by taking on a series of
grueling physical challenges.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Canada’s PM Stephen
Harper suspended Parliament and reconvened a new session on October 16,
setting up a vote of confidence in his minority Conservative government
that could trigger an election.
(Reuters, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, An official said
China's environmental watchdog has closed down 400 factories since it
started a national campaign in July to tackle water pollution.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Rangers and 300
villagers abandoned a gorilla reserve in eastern Congo as government
soldiers battled troops loyal to a renegade general in sections of
Virunga park. The UN said ten thousand Congolese refugees have fled to
neighboring Uganda following clashes between the Congolese army and
renegade troops in its eastern provinces.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/4/07)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.52)
2007 Sep 4, Denmark's intelligence
service arrested eight Islamic militants linked to leading al-Qaida
figures, and said the suspects were plotting an attack involving
explosives.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, It was reported that
Ethiopian authorities plan to kill tens of thousands of stray dogs in
the capital using strychnine-laced meat, saying they want to eradicate
rabies before next week's celebration of the Coptic millennium.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Germany 3 suspected
Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing "profound
hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting
imminent, massive bomb attacks on US facilities in Germany. In 2008
Fritz Martin Gelowicz (29), Daniel Martin Schneider (22) and Adem
Yilmaz (29) were charged with membership in a terrorist organization.
(AP, 9/5/07)(SFC, 9/3/08, p.A8)
2007 Sep 4, Former Iranian
President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked to head a key clerical body
empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader,
state media reported, in a vote seen as a setback for hard-liners in
Iran's ruling establishment.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, An Iraqi appeals court
upheld death sentences imposed against "Chemical Ali" al-Majid and two
other Saddam Hussein lieutenants convicted of crimes against humanity
for their roles in a massacre of Kurds. 3 separate attacks in Baghdad
killed four US soldiers and at least 11 civilians.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, Hurricane Felix roared
ashore as a fearsome Category 5 storm, the first time in recorded
history that two top-scale storms have made landfall in the same
season. The storm hit near the swampy Nicaragua-Honduras border, home
to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians dependent on canoes to make
their way to safety. Some 332 people left dead or missing.
(AP, 9/4/07)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.45)
2007 Sep 4, Nigeria’s national
news agency said Nigeria will spend 950 million naira (7.3 million
dollars/ 5.3 million euros) to resettle nationals living in the
disputed Bakassi Peninsula ceded to Cameroon last year.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, A senior US diplomat
said North Korea remains on a list of states that sponsor terrorism,
dismissing North Korean claims that Washington decided to remove the
designation.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Pakistan suicide
bombers attacked a bus filled with government workers and a commercial
area near Islamabad, killing at least 25 people and deepening the sense
of crisis in a country beset with political uncertainty and Islamic
militants.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Russia’s Voronezh
region an explosion killed three people at a sugar refinery owned by
Prodimex Group, one of the country's largest producers.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Alain Robert climbed
to the top of Moscow’s 795-feet-high West Federation Tower, in less
than a half-hour using a ladder.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2008 Sep 4, In St. Paul, Minn.,
John McCain claimed the GOP presidential nomination portraying himself
as a maverick warrior and agent of change.
(AP, 9/5/08)(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 4, Jack Abramoff (49),
once powerful DC lobbyist, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for his
part in a political corruption scandal. He had already spent 2 years in
prison for a fraudulent casino boat deal in Florida. On Sep 10 a
federal judge shaved 2 years from his Florida sentence guaranteeing the
Abramoff will serve no more that 4 additional years.
(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A4)(SFC, 9/11/08, p.A7)
2008 Sep 4, Detroit Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick (38) pleaded guilty to a pair of felony obstruction charges
in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of
defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city.
Kilpatrick’s sentence included 4 months behind bars, a $1 million fine
and forfeiture of his license to practice law.
(AP, 9/4/08)(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A4)
2008 Sep 4, A US coast Guard
helicopter went down off Oahu, Ha., killing 4 crew members.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 4, Albanian artist Saimir
Strati in Tirana glued 229,764 corks of various shapes and colors over
a plastic banner measuring 12.94 meters by 7.1 meters to make the art
piece "Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing
with the sea and the sun". He worked 14 hours a day for 28 days to
complete his project.
(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Ethiopia unveiled its
famed Axum Obelisk after more than three years of work to re-erect the
150-ton stela plundered by fascist Italy 70 years ago and returned only
in 2005.
(AFP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Tropical Storm Hanna
roared along the edge of the Bahamas ahead of a possible hurricane hit
on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 137 dead in Haiti.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, In northeast China 24
people were killed and six injured in a coal mine gas explosion, that
left 3 miners trapped.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, In Georgia US Vice
President Dick Cheney condemned Russia for what he called an
"illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to redraw this US ally's borders by
force.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, German ministers
agreed to update data protection laws for the digital age in the wake
of scandals showing how easily personal details can be bought on the
Internet.
(AFP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Some 20 Greek
anarchists stormed a supermarket in Thesaaloniki and handed out food
for free in the latest of a wave of raids provoked by soaring consumer
prices.
(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, The US military
arrested an Iraqi cameraman and three of his family members during a
raid on their home in Baghdad. Omar Husham (28) was arrested in the
predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Pakistan’s Parliament
passed resolutions condemning an American-led attack in Pakistani
territory after the government summoned the US ambassador to protest
the unusually bold raid that officials say killed at least 15 people.
Four Islamist militants were killed and five wounded in a missile
attack by a suspected US drone in the village of Char Khel in North
Waziristan near Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/08)(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Middle East envoy Tony
Blair toured a Palestinian aluminum factory in Beit Iba and was told it
runs at one-third capacity because of Israeli import restrictions. He
promised he'll take it up with Israeli authorities.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 4, In Moscow officials
said BP PLC and its billionaire Russian partners in the joint venture
TNK-BP have agreed on a deal that forces out its embattled CEO and
signals an end to a bitter struggle for control of the Russian-British
company.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Russian troops killed
5 suspected Muslim rebels in Dagestan.
(WSJ, 9/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 4, Spanish police
arrested Vallejo-Guarin (47), a suspected Colombian drug trafficker,
listed among the most wanted by the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 4, Syrian President
Bashar Assad announced that his country has handed over proposals for
peace with Israel to Turkish mediators and would wait for Israel's
response before holding any face-to-face negotiations.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Teachers in Zimbabwe's
public schools went on strike to press for higher pay, despite a pay
rise for civil servants announced by the government.
(AFP, 9/7/08)
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