Today in History - September 5
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1187 Sep 5, Louis
VIII, [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26), was born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1235 Sep 5, Henry I, duke of
Brabant, died. Brabant was a duchy later divided between Netherlands
and Belgium.
(WUD, 1994 p.177)(MC, 9/5/01)
1519 Sep 5, In the 2nd Battle of
Tehuacingo, Mexico, Hernan Cortes faced the Tlascala Aztecs.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1548 Sep 5, Catharine Parr (36),
queen of England and last wife of Henry VIII, died.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1550 Sep 5, William Cecil
appointed himself English minister of foreign affairs.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1566 Sep 5, Suleiman I, Great Law
Giver and sultan of Turkey (1520-66), died at 71. Suleyman the
Magnificent died and his great empire began a gradual decline under his
slothful son, Selim II. Suleyman during his reign commissioned the
architect Sinan to build the Suleymanye, perhaps the finest mosque ever
constructed.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.21)(WSJ, 4/29/99, p.A24)(MC, 9/5/01)
1568 Sep 5, Tommasso Campanella,
Italian philosopher and poet, who wrote “City of the Sun,” was born.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1569 Sep 5, Pieter Breughel, South
Netherlands (Flemish) painter, died at about 44.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1622 Sep 5, In France Richelieu
became Cardinal.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1634 Sep 5, Battle at Nordlingen:
King Ferdinand III & Catholic Spain beat Sweden & German
protestants.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1638 Sep 5, Louis XIV, "The Sun
King" (1643-1715) of France, was born. He built the palace at
Versailles. [see Sep 16]
(HN, 9/5/98)
1664 Sep 5, After days of
negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrendered to the
British, who would rename it New York. The citizens of New Amsterdam
petitioned Peter Stuyvesant to surrender to the English.
(HN, 9/5/98)(ON, 4/00, p.3)
1666 Sep 5, The great fire of
London, begun on Sep 2, was extinguished. Old St. Paul’s was among the
87 churches burned down.
(HN, 9/5/98)(www.stpauls.co.uk)
1698 Sep. 5, Russia's Peter the
Great imposed a tax on beards.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1735 Sep 5, Johann Christian Bach
(d.1782), composer, son of JS Bach, was born. He is known as the London
Bach. He traveled to Italy, became a Catholic, and went to England
where he was mentor to the young Mozart. He also represented the Style
Gallant.
(LGC-HCS, p.31)(MC, 9/5/01)
1750 Sep 5, A decree issued in
Paderborn Prussia allowed for annual search of all Jewish homes for
stolen or "doubtful" goods.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1774 Sep 5, The first Continental
Congress assembled in Philadelphia in a secret session in Carpenter's
Hall with representatives from every colony except Georgia. Tensions
had been tearing at relations between the colonists and the government
of King George III. The British taking singular exception to the 1773
shipboard tea party held in Boston harbor. The dispute convinced
Britain to pass the "Intolerable Acts"- 4 of which were to punish Mass.
for the Boston Tea Party. Peyton Randolph of Williamsburg, Va., chaired
the 1st Continental Congress.
(AP, 9/5/97)(HNQ, 6/25/00)(AH, 10/04, p.14)
1778 Sep 5, Gideon Olmstead and 3
fellow Americans took over the British sloop Active and sailed it
toward the New Jersey coast, where it was intercepted by the American
brig Convention, owned by the state of Pennsylvania. A state court
ruled the sloop a prize of the state. An appeals committee overturned
the Philadelphia court. Olmstead spent the next 30 years fighting for
his claim and won in 1808. [see Mar 6, 1779]
(ON, 12/01, p.9)
1781 Sep 5, The British fleet
arrived off the Virginia Capes and found 26 French warships in three
straggling lines. Rear Adm. Thomas Graves waited for the French to form
their battle lines and then fought for 5 days. Outgunned and unnerved
he withdrew to New York. The French had some 37 ships and 29,000
soldiers and sailors at Yorktown while Washington had some 11,000 men
engaged. French warships defeated British fleet, trapping Cornwallis in
Yorktown.
(NG, 6/1988, p.763)(SFEC,11/23/97, Par p.19)(MC,
9/5/01)
1792 Sep 5, Maximilien Robespierre
was elected to the National Convention in France.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1791 Sep 5, Giacomo Meyerbeer,
Vogelsdorf Germany, opera composer (Les Huguenots, Le Prophete), was
born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1793 Sep 5, The Reign of Terror
began during the French Revolution as the National Convention
instituted harsh measures to repress counter-revolutionary activities.
One delegate, claiming that the middle class Girondist (moderates)
leaders be sentenced to death cried, "It is time for equality to wield
its scythe over all the heads. Very well, Legislator, place Terror on
the agenda!" The delegates agreed to arrest all suspects and
dissenters, try them swiftly in the kangaroo courts known as the
Revolutionary Tribunals, and sentence them uniformly to death.
(MC, 9/5/01)(AP, 9/4/07)
1800 Sep 5, Malta surrendered to
British after they blockaded French troops.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1803 Sep 5, Francois Devienne,
composer, died at 44.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1804 Sep 5, In a daring night
raid, American sailors under Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, boarded the
captured USS Philadelphia and burned the ship to keep it out of the
hands of the Barbary pirates who captured her.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1816 Sep 5, Louis XVIII of France
dissolved the chamber of deputies, which had been challenging his
authority.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1836 Sep. 5, Sam Houston was
elected president of the Republic of Texas.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1842 Sep 5, Jesse James, legendary
outlaw of the American West, was born. [see 1847]
(HN, 9/5/00)
1844 Sep 5, Iron ore was
discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Range.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1847 Sep 5,
Jesse Woodson James (Jesse James, d.1882) was born in Kearney, Mo, the
son of a clergyman. At seventeen, James left his native Missouri to
fight as a Confederate guerrilla in the Civil War. After the war, he
returned to his home state to establish one of history’s most notorious
outlaw gangs. With his younger brother Frank and several other
ex-Confederates, including Cole Younger and his brothers, James robbed
his way across the Western frontier targeting banks, trains,
stagecoaches, and stores from Iowa to Texas. Eluding even the Pinkerton
National Detective Agency, the gang escaped with thousands of dollars.
(WUD, 1994 p.762)(USLC, 9/5/99)(MesWP)
1859 Sep 5, Harriot E. Wilson's
“Our Nig,” was published, the first U.S. novel by an African American
woman.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1862 Sep 5, Gen. Lee crossed
Potomac & entered Maryland. [see Sep 4]
(MC, 9/5/01)
1864 Sep 5, British, French &
Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1867 Sep 5, The first shipment of
cattle left Abilene, Kansas, on a Union Pacific train headed to Chicago.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1870 Sep 5, Author Victor Hugo
returned to Paris from the Isle of Guernsey where he had lived in exile
for almost 20 years.
(HN, 9/5/00)
1877 Sep 5, The great Sioux
warrior Crazy Horse, a cousin of Kicking Bear, was fatally bayoneted at
age 36 by a soldier at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. In 1975 Stephen Ambrose
authored "Crazy Horse and Custer." In 2002 Ambrose was accused of
plagiarizing from the 1955 book "Custer" by Jay Monaghan (d.1980). In
1999 Larry McMurtry authored the biography "Crazy Horse" for the
Penguin Lives series. In 2004 Joseph M. Marshall III authored “The
Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History.” In 2006 Kingsley M. Bray
authored “Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life.”
(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.14)(HN, 12/24/99)(SFC, 1/9/02,
p.A2)(SSFC, 12/5/04, p.E5)(AH, 10/07, p.62)
1878 Sep 5, Bat Masterson, Wyatt
Earp, Bill Tilghman and Clay Allison, four of the West's most famous
gunmen, met in Dodge City, Kansas.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1881 Sep 5, A fire in the thumb of
Michigan killed 169 people and burned a million acres.
(SFC, 10/30/03, p.A15)
1882 Sep 5, The first Labor Day
observance--a picnic and parade--was held in New York City. Parades
like the one in Buffalo, New York, around 1900, soon became an
important part of Labor Day festivities. Matthew Maguire, a machinist
and secretary of the New York City Central Labor Union, probably first
suggested the celebration in 1882 to recognize the contributions of
workers to America. Local and regional Labor Day observances spread
across the nation until, on June 28, 1894, the U.S. Congress passed an
act making the first Monday in September a legal holiday.
(AP, 9/5/97)(HNPD, 9/5/98)
1885 Sep 5, The 1st gasoline pump
was delivered to a gasoline dealer in Ft. Wayne, Ind.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1887 Sep 5, A gas lamp at Theater
Royal in Exeter started a fire killing about 200.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1892 Sep 5, Joseph Szigeti,
Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933), was born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1897 Sep 5, Arthur C. Nielson,
founder of the Nielson Ratings, was born.
(HN, 9/5/00)
1905 Sep 5, Arthur Koestler
(d.1983), Hungarian novelist and essayist, was born. He wrote about
communism in “Darkness at Noon” (1941) and “The Ghost in the Machine.”
(HN, 9/5/98)(SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.5)(WSJ, 8/26/06,
p.P8)
1905 Sep 5, The Russian-Japanese
War ended as representatives of the combating empires, meeting in New
Hampshire, signed the Treaty of Portsmouth. Japan achieved virtually
all of its original war aims.
(AP, 9/5/97)(HN, 9/5/98)
1910 Sep 5, Marie Curie
demonstrated the transformation of radium ore to metal at the Academy
of Sciences in France.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1912 Sep 5, John Cage (d.1992),
inventive composer, writer, philosopher, and artist, was born. [2nd
source says Sep 15] “The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all.”
(HN, 9/5/98)(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)(AP, 6/20/00)
1914 Sep 5, The First Battle of
the Marne began during World War I. The German First Army was led by
Gen. Alexander von Kluck.
(AP, 9/5/97)(WSJ, 12/31/99, p.A10)
1921 Sep
5, Roy Gardner (1886-1940), train and mail robber, made his escape from
McNeil Island in Washington state during an inmate baseball game. He
was probably the first and only man to escape from the Island, which
led the US Government to build another "escape proof" federal prison on
Alcatraz Island.
(www.cybersleuths.com/billkelly/bkbonuschap1.htm)
1921 Sep 5, Actress Virginia Rappe
died in suite rooms (1219-1221) rented by film comedian Roscoe "Fatty"
Arbuckle at the St. Francis Hotel in SF. Arbuckle was charged with her
murder. In 1922 he was acquitted of a reduced charge of manslaughter,
but his career was over. In 2004 Jerry Stahl authored the imaginary
memoir “I, Fatty.” Evidence suggested that Rappe had died due to a
botched abortion.
(SFC, 8/4/04, p.E4)(AH, 2/05, p.46)
1933 Sep 5, In an uprising known
as the "Revolt of the Sergeants," Fulgencio Batista took over control
of Cuba. Pres. Cespedes and his cabinet abandoned the Presidential
palace the next day.
(www.historyofcuba.com/history/time/timetbl3.htm)
1939 Sep 5, The United States
under FDR proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1940 Sep 5, Raquel Welch, film
actress (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles), was born in
Chicago, Ill.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1942 Sep 5, Eduardo Mata, Mexico
City Mexico, conductor (Improvisaciones), was born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1942 Sep 5, Werner Herzog,
director (Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck), was born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1942 Sep 5, British and US bombed
Le Havre & Bremen.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1944 Sep 5, "Mad Tuesday" 65,000
Dutch Nazi collaborators fled to Germany.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1944 Sep 5, Germany launched its
first V-2 missile at Paris, France.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1945 Sep 5, Iva Toguri D'Aquino
(1916-2006), a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio
propagandist "Tokyo Rose," was arrested in Yokohama. In 1949 she was
tried in San Francisco and convicted for having spoken “into a
microphone concerning the loss of ships.” Toguri was sentenced to 10
years in prison but was released after six years for good behavior; she
was pardoned in 1977 by President Ford.
(AP, 9/5/99)(SFC, 9/28/06, p.A18)(SFC, 9/28/06,
p.A18)
1950 Sep 5, Cathy Guisewite,
cartoonist and creator of Cathy, was born.
(HN, 9/5/00)
1953 Sep 5, The 1st privately
operated atomic reactor opened in Raleigh NC.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1953 Sep 5, US gave Persian
premier Zahedi $45 million aid.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1955 Sep 5, The 1st SigAlert, a
traffic alert system, was broadcast in Los Angeles. The system was
invented by Loyd C. Sigmon (d.2004).
(SSFC, 6/6/04, B5)
1957 Sep 5, Viking Press frist
published "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. Kerouac typed out the
manuscript in 20 days on a single roll of teletype paper. In 1997 his
book of notes from the early 1950s: "Some of the Dharma" was published.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, BR p.8)(SSFC, 1/30/05, p.A19)(AP,
9/5/07)
1957 Sep 5, Cuban dictator Batista
bombed the Cienfuegos uprising.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1958 Sep 5, The novel "Doctor
Zhivago" by Russian author Boris Pasternak was published in the United
States for the first time.
(AP, 9/5/98)
1958 Sep 5, Martin Luther King was
arrested in an Alabama protest for loitering and fined $14 for refusing
to obey police.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1958 Sep 5, The 1st color video
recording on magnetic tape was presented in Charlotte, NC.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1960 Sep 5, Cassius Clay captured
Olympic light heavyweight gold medal.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1960 Sep 5, Congo’s President
Kasavubu fired Premier Lumumba.
(http://tinyurl.com/2s9dyw)
1960 Sep 5, Senegal became
independent from France. Leopold Sedar Senghor (d.2001 at 95), poet and
politician, was elected president of Senegal, Africa.
(PC, 1992, p.973)(HN, 9/5/98)(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A34)
1961 Sep 5, President Kennedy
signed a law against hijacking. It called for the death penalty for
convicted hijackers.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1972 Sep 5, Terror struck the
Munich Olympic games in West Germany as Arab guerrillas attacked the
Israeli delegation. Palestinian terrorists killed 2 athletes and took 9
others and their coaches hostage. Eleven Israelis, five guerrillas and
a police officer were killed in a 20-hour siege. The Palestinian
commandos were linked to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.
In 1984 George Jonas authored “Vengeance,” an account of an Israeli hit
squad ordered to track down those responsible for the Munich attack. In
2000 the TV documentary "One Day in September" depicted the events. In
2005 Aaron J. Klein authored “Striking Back,” and account of Israel’s
response to the Munich attack. The 2005 the Stephen Spielberg film
“Munich” was based on the book by George Jonas.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)(WSJ, 9/8/00, p.W4)(WSJ,
12/21/05, p.D10)(WSJ, 1/14/06, p.A9)
1974 Sep 5, Charles Dean (23),
brother of 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean, was captured by
Pathet Lao. He was executed on or about December 14, 1974. In 2003 his
remains were reported found along with Australian companion Neil
Sharman.
(SFC, 11/19/03,
p.A3)(www.crocuta.net/Dean/Charlie_Dean.htm)
1975 Sep 5, President Ford escaped
an attempt on his life by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of
Charles Manson, in Sacramento, Calif. In 1997 Jess Bravin wrote her
biography: “Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme.”
(SFC, 6/18/97, p.E5)(AP, 9/5/97)
1975 Sep 5, Czech tennis ace
Martina Navratilova asked for political asylum in NYC.
(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/1998/usopen/news/1998/08/28/stats/thisday.html)
1977 Sep 5, The United States
launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft two weeks after launching its twin,
Voyager 2.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1977 Sep 5, West German
industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer was kidnapped in Cologne by members
of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Schleyer was later killed by his captors.
Schleyer was the president of the German Employers Federation.
(AP, 9/5/97)(WSJ, 1/11/00, p.A1)
1978 Sep 5-17, US Pres. Carter,
Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt met at Camp David, Md.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(TL, 1988, p.119)(SFC, 6/2/97,
p.D5)
1980 Sep 5, In Fresno, Ca., Billy
Ray Hamilton and his girlfriend Connie Barbo killed Bryon Schletewitz
(27), Josephine Rocha (17) and Douglas White (18), employees at Fran’s
Market, on directions from Clarence Ray Allen. Allen, incarcerated at
Folsom Prison for murder, had ordered the murder of Schletewitz for
testifying against him during his 1997 trial for the murder of Mary Sue
Kitts (17). Clarence Ray Allen (76) was executed by lethal injection on
January 17, 2006 at San Quentin State Prison in California.
(SFC, 12/8/05, p.B3)(SFC, 1/13/06,
p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ray_Allen)
1980 Sep 5, The opera “Satyagraha”
by Philip Glass, commissioned by the city of Rotterdam, was first
performed by the Netherlands Opera.
(WSJ, 4/19/08,
p.W14)(www.philipglass.com/html/recordings/satyagraha.html)
1980 Sep 5, The St. Gotthard
tunnel in the Swiss Alps, the world's longest auto tunnel, opened.
(HFA, '96,
p.38)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Road_Tunnel)
1982 Sep 5, In San Francisco a van
crashed into a taxi carrying actress Janet Gaynor (75), her husband
Paul Gregory, actress Mary Martin and manager Ben Washer. Washer was
killed and the others were injured. Gaynor never fully recovered and
died in 1984.
(SSFC, 9/13/09, DB p.46)
1984 Sep 5, Robert S. Laurent
(1933-2004) received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) and was
kept alive for 8 days by the electric heart assist pump until a new
heart became available. Dr. Peer M. Portner (d.2009 at 69) of Stanford
Univ. pioneered the device.
(http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/02/09/daily110.html)(SFC,
2/25/09, p.B6)
1986 Sep 5, The Pakistan army
stormed a hijacked US B-747 in Karachi and 22 people were killed. In
2001 Zayd Hassan Abd Al-latif Masud Al Safarini, jailed in Pakistan for
15 years, arrived in Alaska and was expected to face a 1991 indictment
for the 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am jet. In 2003 Safarini pleaded guilty
and agreed to 3 life sentences plus 25 years. On Jan 3, 2008, Pakistani
authorities freed and deported four Palestinians convicted in the
hijacking.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/17/03, p.A4)(AP,
9/5/06)(AP, 1/3/08)
1987 Sep 5, Some four-dozen people
were killed in an Israeli air raid on targets near the southern
Lebanese port town of Sidon.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1987 Sep 5, In his weekly radio
address, President Reagan urged American workers to shun protectionist
legislation and "meet the competition head-on."
(AP, 9/5/97)
1988 Sep 5, On the campaign trail,
Republican George Bush continued to link his opponent with "the liberal
left," while Democrat Michael Dukakis charged that under a GOP
administration, "the rich have become richer, the poor have gotten
poorer."
(AP, 9/5/98)
1989 Sep 5, In his first
nationally broadcast address from the White House, President Bush
outlined a plan to fight illicit drugs, which he called the "quicksand
of our entire society."
(AP, 9/5/99)
1990 Sep 5, Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein urged Arabs to rise up in a Holy War against the West and
former allies who had turned against him.
(AP, 9/5/00)
1990 Sep 5, In Moscow, Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq
Aziz.
(AP, 9/5/00)
1991 Sep 5, Jury selection began
in Miami in the drug and racketeering trial of former Panamanian ruler
Manuel Noriega.
(AP, 9/5/01)
1991 Sep 5, In Moscow, Soviet
lawmakers approved the creation of an interim government to usher in a
new confederation.
(AP, 9/5/01)
1992 Sep 5, A strike that had
idled nearly 43,000 General Motors Corp. workers ended as members of a
United Auto Workers local in Lordstown, Ohio, approved a new agreement.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1993 Sep 5, "Jelly's Last Jam"
closed at Virginia Theater NYC after 569 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4684)
1993 Sep 5, "Will Rogers Follies"
closed at Palace Theater NYC after 983 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=9383)
1993 Sep 5, Claude Renoir, French
cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), died at 78.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0005841/)
1993 Sep 5, Seven Nigerian
soldiers were killed in a militia ambush in Somalia as they went to the
aid of other UN peacekeepers surrounded by a stone-throwing mob.
(AP, 9/5/98)
1994 Sep 5, A U.N.-sponsored
population conference opened in Cairo, Egypt, where Norwegian Prime
Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland lashed out at the Vatican and at Muslim
fundamentalists by defending abortion rights and sex education. 179
nations signed a statement to ensure every woman’s right to education
and health care and to make choices about childbearing. In 2004 world
leaders of 85 nations endorsed the plan but the US refused because the
statement mentioned “sexual rights.”
(AP, 9/5/99)(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A9)
1995 Sep 5, O.J. Simpson jurors
heard testimony that police detective Mark Fuhrman had uttered a racist
slur, and advocated the killing of blacks.
(AP, 9/5/00)
1995 Sep 5, First Lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton, addressing the UN-sponsored fourth World Conference on
Women in Beijing, declared it was "time to break the silence" about the
abuse of women.
(AP, 9/5/05)
1995 Sep 5, James "Pigmeat"
Jarrett, pianist, died at 95.
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/music.html)
1995 Sep 5, France under Pres.
Chirac resumed nuclear testing, after a three-year moratorium, in the
French South Pacific atoll of Mururoa. World-wide protests failed to
stop testing.
(WSJ, 9/8/95, p.A-8)(AP, 9/5/00)
1996 Sep 5, “Kinds of Minds” by
Daniel C. Dennet ($20) and “Full House: The Spread of Excellence From
Plato to Darwin” by Stephen Jay Gould ($25) were reviewed.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 5, Computer scientists
found the largest known prime number while testing a Cray T94 computer
system. It has 378,632 digits and can be expressed as two to the
1,257,787th power minus 1.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.A6)
1996 Sep 5, Astronomers using the
Hubble space telescope discovered a galaxy under construction. They say
18 gigantic star clusters were packed within a space just 2 million
light years across and apparently on the verge of forming a brand new
galaxy. Light from the event originated 11 billion years ago.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A3)
1996 Sep 5, Hurricane Fran hit at
Cape Fear, North Carolina. It tore through the Carolinas with winds at
115-mph.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A3)(AP, 9/5/97)
1996 Sep 5, Cambodia rushed troops
to aid the 1,000 or so Khmer Rouge dissidents near the village of Chup
Koki. About 5,500 Khmer Rouge rebels remained loyal to Pol Pot.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 5, In France PM Alain
Juppe proposed a tax cut. It would reduce the top marginal rate to 54%
next year from 56.8%, and to 47% in 2000.
(WSJ, 9/66/96, p.A11)
1996 Sep. 5, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin acknowledged he had serious health problems and would
undergo heart surgery.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1996 Sep 5, In Suriname Jules
Wijdenbosch, backed by former military strongman Desi Bouterse,
defeated Pres. Ronald Venetiaan in a close runoff.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 5, Turkey declared a new
security zone inside northern Iraq and air attacks were staged on
suspected Kurdish rebel bases.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A13)
1997 Sep 5, In Arizona Sec. of
State Jane Dee Hull assumed the role of governor, the 3rd current
female governor in the US after Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey
and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A5)
1997 Sep 5, The new Kansas City
Jazz Museum opened next to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
(WSJ, 11/19/97, p.A20)
1997 Sep 5, Leon Edel (b.1907),
American scholar and biographer, died. His work included a 5-volume
biography of Henry James (1843-1916), for which he received the 1963
Pulitzer Prize.
(WSJ, 6/17/08,
p.A21)(www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Edel-Jos.html)
1997 Sep 5, In Argentina a group
headed by Sociedad Macri SA took over the postal service with an offer
to pay the state about $102 million annually for 20 years.
(WSJ, 9/8/97, p.A15)
1997 Sep 5, In England funeral
services for Princess Diana were held in London. Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II broke the royal reticence over Princess Diana's death,
delivering a televised address in which she called her former
daughter-in-law "a remarkable person." The 1973 song “Candle in the
Wind,” an ode to Marilyn Monroe on the album “Goodbye Yellow Brick
Road” by Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin, was adopted for the
funeral.
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/24/97, p.E1)(AP, 9/5/07)
1997 Sep 5, Hungarian-born
conductor Sir George Solti (b.1912) died at age 84 in France. He was
made a Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1972 for his
contributions to British music.
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A3)(AP, 9/5/98)
1997 Sep 5, Athens, Greece, won
the competition to host the 2004 Summer Olympics.
(WSJ, 9/8/97, p.A16)
1997 Sep 5, In India Mother Teresa
(b.1910), the Calcutta nun who worked on behalf of the destitute, died
of heart failure in Calcutta. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II broke the
royal reticence over Princess Diana's death, calling her "a remarkable
person" in a televised address. In 2003 Albania declared 2004 to be
"Mother Teresa Year" and set aside Oct. 19 as a national holiday in her
honor. "It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you
... yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer
him your hand."
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A1)(AP, 9/5/98)(AP, 9/12/03)
1997 Sep 5, In Israel Prime
Minister Netanyahu announced that the Oslo peace process was being
frozen.
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A3)
1997 Sep 5, Eleven Israeli
soldiers were killed during a commando raid into Lebanon.
(AP, 9/5/98)
1998 Sep 5, The opera “Turandot”
opened in a Ming Dynasty palace in the Forbidden City. The $15 million
production was conducted by Zubin Mehta.
(WSJ, 9/16/98, p.A20)
1998 Sep 5, President Clinton
appealed to the people of Ireland never to allow "the enemies of peace
to break your will" as he wrapped up a three-day visit.
(AP, 9/5/99)
1998 Sep 5, 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)
1999 Sep 5, The Houston Comets won
their third straight WNBA championship, beating the New York Liberty,
59-to-47.
(AP, 9/5/00)
1999 Sep 5, Allen Funt, founder of
"Candid Camera" and the father of "reality" television, died in Pebble
Beach at 84.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.B1)
1999 Sep 5, Alan Clark (b.1928),
diarist and a conservative member of British Parliament, died. His
several books of military history, included “The Donkeys” (1961), which
became the musical satire, “Oh, What a Lovely War!.” In 2009 Ion Trewin
authored “Alan Clark: The Biography.”
(Econ, 10/3/09, p.106)
1999 Sep 5, In China increases in
salaries, pensions and welfare payments were announced for 84 million
people as a birthday gift for the Oct 1 anniversary.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 5, In Dagestan several
thousand rebels began a 2nd siege from Chechnya. Hundreds of Islamic
insurgents launched a new offensive in southern Russia, hours after a
bomb smashed a building housing Russian military families; the blast
was the first of four apartment building explosions blamed by Russian
officials on Chechen rebels that killed a total of about 300 people.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)(AP, 9/5/00)
1999 Sep 5, In East Timor
anti-independence militias went on a rampage and 100 people were
reported slaughtered in a church and hundreds of other beheaded as tens
of thousands tried to flee. 18 suspects were indicted for the slaughter
in 2001. In Indonesia 7 senior officials were charged in 2002 including
former East Timor Gov. Abilio Soares.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A1)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A14)
1999 Sep 5, In India month long
staggered elections for a new parliament began. 6 party activists were
killed on the 1st day of elections. India had 543 parliamentary
districts.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A14)(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A13)(SFEC,
9/19/99, p.A22)
1999 Sep 5, In Israel 2 car bombs
exploded prematurely in Tiberius and Haifa and 3 men placing them were
killed. Israeli police soon arrested 5 associated suspects believed to
be Israeli Arabs.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A14)
2000 Sep 5, On the eve of
congressional hearings into the recall of 6.5 million Firestone tires,
Ford Motor Co. released new documents to bolster its contention that it
had no reason to doubt the safety of the tires being investigated in 88
deaths.
(AP, 9/5/01)
2000 Sep 5, Oyster harvesting was
shut down in Galveston Bay as a large toxic algal bloom began to spread
from the Texas Gulf Coast to the Florida panhandle. Million of fish
began to die.
(SFC, 9/30/00, p.B10)
2000 Sep 5, In Honduras protestors
from the Chorti tribe began blocking Copan Archeological Park and
demanded land to farm. Police removed some 900 protestors on Sep 7 and
at least 17 people were injured.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 5, The Vatican issued a
statement that declared efforts to depict all religions as equal are
wrong and reasserted that the Catholic Church is the one true church.
(WSJ, 9/6/00, p.A1)
2001 Sep 5, Mexican President
Vicente Fox arrived at the White House as the first state visitor of
the Bush presidency. Fox told Pres. Bush that he would like a sweeping
immigration settlement by the end of the year.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/5/02)
2001 Sep 5, A SF federal appeals
court ruled that prisoners have a constitutional right to reproduce.
This opened the door for fatherhood via artificial insemination for
those prisoners denied conjugal visits.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 5, Heywood Hale Broun
(83), sports commentator, died in Kingston, N.Y.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2001 Sep 5, In Northern Ireland
Protestant extremists threw a homemade bomb at Catholic girls walking
to school through a gauntlet of riot police. 2 police officers were
wounded. The paramilitary Red Hand Defenders took responsibility.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 5, In Mexico Maria de los
Angeles Tames, attorney and daughter of a former senator, was killed.
On Mar 5, 2002, Juan Antonio Dominguez, mayor of Atizapan, was arrested
in connection with the slaying of the city council member, who had
planned to reveal evidence of corruption and drug trafficking. On Apr
10, 2002 Dominguez and his former chief of staff Daniel Garcia were
charged with masterminding the murder.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 4/12/02, p.A1)
2001 Sep 5, In Peru the attorney
general filed homicide charges against former Pres. Fujimori (who was
living in self-exile in Japan), linking him to 2 massacres by the
Colina group, paramilitary death squads, in the early 1990s.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A8)(AP, 9/5/02)
2001 Sep 5, In South Africa a fire
killed at least 19 people at Kruger National Park. 15 of the dead were
women hired to cut grass.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.E5)
2002 Sep 5, The U.S. military
stated that American and British planes attacked an air defense command
and control facility at a military airfield 240 miles southwest of
Baghdad.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 5, In Illinois Judge
Harold Frobish of Livingston County ruled that prison inmates can
choose to starve themselves rather than endure years of solitary
confinement and that right outweighs the state's duty to keep them
alive.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A4)
2002 Sep 5, Actor Cliff Gorman
(65), who'd won a Tony for portraying comedian Lenny Bruce in the 1971
play "Lenny," died in New York.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 5, Afghan President Hamid
Karzai survived an assassination attempt in the southern city of
Kandahar. The attack, by a man dressed in military uniform, occurred
shortly after a powerful car bomb in the capital killed at least 26
people and wounded 150.
(Reuters, 9/6/02)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 5, In Gabon US Sec. of
State Colin Powell talked into the night with the Pres. Omar Bongo
about the country's commitment to preserve its lush forests, peace
efforts and the IMF.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 5, The Canadian
government said it will spend C$105 million ($66.9 million) in the
first stage of a plan to connect the country's rural residents to
high-speed Internet service by 2005.
(Reuters, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 5, In Colombia gunmen on
motorcycles killed Fernando Mancilla, the new chief of secret police
for Antioquia province, as he drove his car in Medellin.
(AP, 9/6/02)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A17)
2002 Sep 5, In Congo some
6,000 Ngiti and Lendu tribe tribal fighters and their allies attacked
the mission hospital in Nyankunde, slaughtering patients in their beds.
They killed some 650 people from the Bira, Hema and 16 other tribes on
the 1st day of the attacks.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2002 Sep 5, In Greece Dimitris
Koufodinas (44), a main hit man for the November 17 terror group,
surrendered to police.
(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A13)
2002 Sep 5, Palestinian
fighters blew up an Israeli tank in Gaza, killing the driver instantly.
Another Palestinian, linked to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, killed an
Israeli officer and wounded another soldier before he was shot dead.
(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Sep 5, In Somalia militiamen
tied white flags to their weapons as an informal cease-fire halted two
days of fierce fighting in a capital area that has left more than 25
people dead and 50 wounded.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2003 Sep 5, A roller coaster
derailed at Southern California's Disneyland theme park, killing one
man and injuring 10 other people, including a 9-year-old.
(Reuters, 9/5/03)
2003 Sep 5, Gisele MacKenzie (76),
former TV star, died. She starred on "Your Hit Parade" from 1953-1957,
after which she starred in NBC's "The Gisele MacKenzie Show."
(SFC, 9/6/03, p.A16)
2003 Sep 5, Afghan forces in the
southern province of Zabul captured five fugitive Taliban militants,
including an insurgent leader, after a battle that killed scores of
rebels. Coalition forces killed Mullah Abdul Razzaq Hafees, a Taliban
commander, and 19 other militants in fighting in southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/6/03)(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Sep 5, Hurricane Fabian
slammed into Bermuda killing 4 people. [see Sep 6]
(AP, 9/5/08)
2003 Sep 5, Statistics Canada said
the nation's unemployment rate rose to 8.0% in August, an 18-month high.
(AP, 9/5/03)
2003 Sep 5, Costa Rica's Arenal
Volcano spewed lava, rocks and ash in its strongest eruption in more
than two years.
(AP, 9/5/03)
2003 Sep 5, Wayan Limbak (106), a
Balinese dancer who helped create the island's famous Monkey Dance,
died. Working with German painter Walter Spies in the 1930s, Limbak
adopted a traditional exorcism ritual to invent the dance, known in
Indonesian as Kecak.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2003 Sep 5, Israeli commandos
killed a Hamas bombmaker in a firefight and pulverized the West Bank
apartment building in which he had been hiding.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2003 Sep 5, European Union foreign
ministers met in Riva del Garda, Italy, to discuss Iraq, the tattered
Mideast peace plan and their bloc's draft constitution as some 500
anti-globalization protesters blocked main roads to an Italian Alps
town.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2004 Sep 5, The 19th Burning Man
went up in flames in Gerlach, Nevada, where some 35, 664 people had
gathered for the annual festival.
(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.B1)
2004 Sep 5, The eye of Hurricane
Frances made official landfall near Sewall’s Point, Fl. Sustained winds
of 105 mph knocked out power to some 2 million people. Frances left 19
dead in Florida as it slowly moved northwest.
(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.A1)(SFC, 9/6/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/8/04,
p.A1)
2004 Sep 5, Australian Prime
Minister John Howard defended his country's controversial refusal to
ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gases as he launched the 19th
World Energy Congress in Sydney.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 5, In Sylhet, Bangladesh,
2 people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast.
(Reuters, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 5, London’s Sunday Times
reported that John Knight, a millionaire British arms dealer, is
reportedly fuelling a bloody civil war in Sudan by arranging to supply
its government with tanks, rocket launchers and a cruise missile.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 5, Iraqi forces
reportedly captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the King of Clubs and most
wanted member of Saddam Hussein's ousted dictatorship. DNA evidence
revealed that the suspect was only a cousin of al-Douri. An ensuing
battle left as many as 70 people dead. A mortar attack killed 2 US
soldiers.
(AP, 9/5/04)(SFC, 9/6/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 5, Typhoon Songda, billed
as the strongest to hit southern Japan in at least three decades,
lashed Okinawa island with heavy rains and high winds and headed toward
Japan's main islands.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 5, A Turkish company said
it was withdrawing from Iraq a day after Iraqi militants threatened to
behead its employee unless it ceased operations there.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2005 Sep 5, President Bush
nominated John Roberts (50) to succeed William H. Rehnquist as chief
justice and called on the Senate to confirm him before the Supreme
Court opens its fall term on Oct. 3. Roberts could shape the court for
decades to come. President Bush and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco,
during a Gulf Coast tour, consoled Hurricane Katrina victims and
thanked relief workers.
(AP, 9/5/05)(AP, 9/5/06)
2005 Sep 5, A nuclear-powered US
Navy submarine collided with a Turkish cargo ship in the Persian Gulf.
Nobody was injured and both ships appeared to suffer only superficial
damage.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Jerry Rice ended an
NFL career that included three Super Bowls and records for most career
receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2005 Sep 5, Taylor Behl (17), a
Virginia Commonwealth University student, disappeared. Her body was
found in Mathews County, about 70 miles east of Richmond, a month
later. Behl’s body was found in a shallow grave with the help of photos
on Benjamin Fawley’s Web site. In 2006 Fawley (39) was sentenced to 30
years in prison for her death.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2005 Sep 5, In the town of
Soelden, Austria, a 1,500-pound chunk of concrete being used for
construction at a ski resort fell from a helicopter and hit a gondola
cable, hurling dozens of passengers to the ground and killing 9
Germans. In 2006 the helicopter pilot was convicted of criminal
negligence and sentenced to 15 months in prison.
(AP, 9/5/05)(AP, 6/23/06)
2005 Sep 5, China said the death
toll from last week's Typhoon Talim climbed by 13 to at least 95 on the
mainland, with another 30 people missing.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, China and the EU
reached an agreement to unblock some 77 million garments held up at
European borders after Chinese textile imports broke through 2005 quota
limits.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Suspected rebels
dynamited six energy pylons, leaving more than 2.3 million people in
southwestern Colombia without electricity.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 5, In eastern Congo a
Russian-made airplane crashed in the forest, killing 7, including 3
Russian crew members.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Egypt an actor
knocked over a candle on a stage filled with billowing paper, starting
a blaze that killed at least 32 people at the Culture Palace in Beni
Suef.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Egypt a bus in Abu
Swaylim village collided with a car and then plunged into a canal,
killing 7 people, leaving at least 5 missing and presumed drowned, and
injuring 14.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Indonesia a
domestic jetliner slammed into a crowded neighborhood after taking off
from Medan, bursting into flames and killing at 143 people including 44
on the ground. 18 passengers survived the crash, including an
18-month-old boy.
(AP, 9/6/05)(AP, 9/5/06)
2005 Sep 5, Insurgents launched a
surprise attack on Baghdad's heavily guarded Interior Ministry
building, killing two police officers and wounding several others. In
southern Iraq, two British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb. In
the northern city of Tal Afar, bodies of 3 district leaders were found.
The 3 had turned down demands by insurgents to cooperate in their fight
with US and Iraqi forces. 8 Iraqi civilians, including 5 children, were
killed in fighting there. Another 25 Iraqi civilians died in other
incidents in Baghdad, Baqouba and elsewhere.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Kashmir's main
political separatist alliance started peace talks with the Indian prime
minister, seeking trust and an easing of harsh military controls in the
troubled region.
(Reuters, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Kosovo President
Ibrahim Rugova (1944-2006), linked for decades to the ethnic Albanian
majority's anti-Serb struggle, said he has lung cancer, but he pledged
to stay in office as the U.N.-run province nears crucial talks on its
future.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Kyrgyzstan President
Kurmanbek Bakiyev said that his Central Asian nation will allow the US
military base on its territory for as long as necessary to bring
stability to Afghanistan, but he also said the rent will increase.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Nepal more than a
dozen demonstrators were hurt in violent clashes with police, the 3rd
day of protests against King Gyanendra's seizure of power seven months
ago. Authorities released more than 50 pro-democracy protesters
detained over the weekend.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Nigerian unions
dropped a threat to hold a nationwide general strike but instead vowed
to launch a series of mass street rallies to protest against rising
petrol prices.
(AFP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, An explosion destroyed
a house after nightfall in Gaza City, killing four people and injuring
at least 30. It belonged to a well-known family of supporters of the
Islamic militant group Hamas, but the Israeli military denied having
anything to do with the blast.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, UBS said it will sell
three of Switzerland's oldest private banks and asset manager GAM to
Julius Baer for 5.6 billion Swiss francs ($4.6 billion), to enable it
to focus on its own private banking business.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, In the Ukraine
Oleksandr Zinchenko, a close aide to President Viktor Yushchenko who
was a chief organizer of the "Orange Revolution" protests, said he had
resigned from the government because of systemic corruption.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 5, A Venezuela official
said a state governor allied to leftist Pres. Hugo Chavez has ordered
troops to seize an abandoned tomato-processing plant owned by the H.J.
Heinz Co.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2006 Sep 5, Pres. Bush named Mary
Peters, former Federal Highway Administrator, to replace Norm Pineta as
transportation secretary.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 5, The Academy of
American Poets announced that Michael Palmer (63), a resident of San
Francisco, has been selected as the recipient of the 13th Wallace
Stevens Award for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of
poetry." The award included $100,000.
(http://tinyurl.com/gcmho)
2006 Sep 5, Dan Rather said he has
donated $2 million to his alma mater, Sam Houston State University, the
largest single monetary gift in the school's 127-year history.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, Chevron and Devon
energy announced successful oil production from a new deep water region
in the Gulf of Mexico estimated at 3-15 billion barrels of oil plus gas.
(WSJ, 9/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 5, Bill Ford stepped
down as CEO of Ford Motor Co. and was replaced by Alan Mulally, a top
Boeing executive. Mulally will get a base salary of $2 million and an
immediate payout of $18.5 million which includes a $7.5 million hiring
bonus and $11 million to offset forfeited performance and stock option
awards from Boeing.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.C3)(WSJ, 9/9/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 5, The US FDA granted
Abiomed approval to sell AbioCor, the world’s first implantable
artificial heart.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 5, The lower deck of the
SF Bay Bridge reopened after being shut down for the 3-day Labor Day
weekend due to demolition work.
(SFC, 9/5/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 5, The Wireless Silicon
Valley Project picked Silicon Valley Metro Connect, a collaboration of
Azulstar Networks, Cisco systems, IBM and Seakay, to build and operate
a wireless network across 38 cities in the SF Bay Area.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 5, A cook was charged
with shooting and dismembering the owner of a Maine bed-and-breakfast
and three other people in a Labor Day weekend killing rampage.
Christian Nielsen has since pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of
insanity.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2006 Sep 5, In southern
Afghanistan US artillery and airstrikes killed between 50 and 60
suspected Taliban militants, the fourth day of a NATO-led offensive.
NATO said 700 Taliban were trapped by the offensive.
(AP, 9/5/06)(WSJ, 9/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 5, A federal judge in
Argentina ruled unconstitutional a 1990 presidential pardon extended to
Jorge Rafael Videla, who led Argentina's military junta during the
worst periods of the so-called "Dirty War" crackdown on dissidents
between 1976 and 1983. A day earlier the same judge ruled that pardons
for Albano Harguinday, the interior minister under Videla, and Jose
Martinez de Hoz, the economy minister under Videla, were also
unconstitutional.
(http://tinyurl.com/0)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.47)
2006 Sep 5, Burundi Vice-President
Alice Nzomukunda resigned over corruption and human rights abuses that
she says are hampering her nation's progress.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5316690.stm)
2006 Sep 5, Danish authorities
said they foiled a serious terror plot with the arrest of nine men
accused of preparing explosives for a planned attack in Denmark. The
suspects were Danish citizens between the ages of 18 and 33. Eight of
them had immigrant backgrounds. In 2007 a jury in Copenhagen handed
down guilty verdicts to Mohammad Zaher (34), Ahmad Khaldhadi (22), and
Abdallah Andersen (32). Riad Anwer Daabas (19) was acquitted. Zaher and
Khaldhadi, described as the two most active, were each sentenced to 11
years in prison, while Andersen was given a four-year sentence.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 11/24/07)
2006 Sep 5, Cellular telephones
were found inside four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security
prison after suspicious officials took X-rays of each of the inmates.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, French oil and gas
field surveyor Geophysique said it will buy US rival Veritas for $3.1
billion in cash and stock, establishing a major new global player in
the booming oil exploration industry.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, The Iraqi parliament
voted to extend the country's state of emergency for 30 more days.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, Israeli forces left
five villages in southern Lebanon and were replaced by Lebanese troops,
who also moved into the center of a Hezbollah stronghold devastated by
weeks of fighting.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, In Kyrgyzstan Maj.
Jill Metzger (33), a US Air Force officer, went missing while shopping
in the capital of Bishkek. Metzger reappeared 3 days later and said she
had been seized by three young men and a woman in a minibus and held in
a rural area about 30 miles from the capital.
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 5, In south Lebanon a
remote-controlled bomb wounded a senior police intelligence officer who
played a key role in the investigation into the slaying of a former
Lebanese prime minister. Four of the officer's aides and bodyguards
were killed in the sophisticated attack.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, The president of
Mexico's top electoral court recommended that the full tribunal uphold
the slim lead of ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon. Marcelo Garza,
the top police investigator for Nuevo Leon, a northern Mexican state
that borders Texas, was shot to death by a lone gunman outside an art
gallery.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, Pakistan's government
and pro-Taliban militants signed an agreement in Miran Shah to ensure
"permanent peace" in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, seeking to
end five years of violent unrest in the area. Under the truce the
Pakistan army pulled back to barracks tens of thousands of troops that
had been involved in bloody operations against suspected Taliban and
al-Qaida hideouts, and militants agreed to halt attacks in Pakistan and
over the border against foreign troops in Afghanistan. Tribal elders
were supposed to police the deal. The truce ended in July 2007.
Lawmakers from a coalition of six Islamic groups threatened to vacate
their parliamentary seats if the government changes a rape law
criticized by human rights activists.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 7/16/07)
2006 Sep 5, Palestinian security
officers went on the rampage in Gaza City to demand back pay from the
cash-strapped Hamas-led government. Israel pressed ahead with its
offensive against Hamas militants, killing five with airstrikes in the
Rafah refugee camp.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, Russian President
Vladimir Putin met South African leader Thabo Mbeki at the start of a
visit intended to forge closer ties between the mineral and diamond
superpowers.
(Reuters, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, Turkey became the
first Muslim country with diplomatic ties to Israel to pledge troops to
an expanding international peacekeeping force that will monitor a
fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, In Somalia thousands
of people massed in Mogadishu vowing to fight any foreign peacekeepers
sent to the embattled nation, while a coalition of East African nations
approved an ambitious plan to deploy troops in Somalia by early next
month.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, Police in Uruguay
arrested 27 people suspected of trafficking drugs to Europe and seized
a record 770 pounds of cocaine.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2007 Sep 5, Fred Thompson
(b.1942), former Tennessee Senator (1994-2002) as well as film and TV
character actor, announced himself as a formal Republican candidate for
the US presidency on the Jay Leno show. Thompson quit the race on Jan
22, 2008.
(SFC, 9/6/07,
p.A4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson)(SFC, 1/23/08, p.A11)
2007 Sep 5, Contest organizers in
Tucson, Az., said Kelly McBee, a 30-year-old mother of three from
northern Wyoming, is the new Mrs. America. McBee won the national crown
in a ceremony at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 5, Coroners in Southern
California said as many as 28 people may have died of heat-related
causes during the last 8-day run of hot weather.
(SFC, 9/6/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 5, In Virginia US Rep.
Paul Gillmor (68), a Republican from Ohio, was found dead in his
apartment in Arlington.
(SFC, 9/6/07, p.A7)
2007 Sep 5, Afghan and US-led
coalition troops killed more than 40 suspected Taliban militants in
southern Afghanistan. 13 mine-clearing workers were kidnapped in Paktia
province.
(AP, 9/5/07)(AP, 9/6/07)(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 5, In Australia President
Bush urged Pacific Rim nations to band together on tackling global
warming, saying all major polluters must be part of any solution.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, The Belgian-based
International Polar Foundation unveiled what it claimed to be the
world's first zero-emissions polar science station in Antarctica to
conduct research on climate change.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Chinese authorities
said two late-night radio shows that discussed sex and drugs have been
banned for damaging young people and being "extremely pornographic."
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 5, German officials
announced that three militants from an Islamic group linked to al-Qaida
were planning "imminent" bomb attacks against Americans in Germany when
an elite anti-terrorist unit raided their small-town hideout.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2007 Sep 5, The ship Oceanic II,
dubbed the Scholar Ship, became home to some 200 students from 35
countries and embarked from Piraeus, Greece, as a seaborne university
funded by Royal Caribbean Cruises. A 16-week semester included stops in
Lisbon, Panama City, Auckland, Shanghai and other places for just under
$20,000.
(SFC, 9/12/07, p.61)
2007 Sep 5, In Guatemala 2
candidates from Nobel Laureate and presidential hopeful Rigoberta
Menchu's political party were shot dead amid a wave of campaign-related
violence that has claimed about 50 lives.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, In Karbala US forces
captured an Iraqi believed to be working as the local contact to the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps's elite Quds Force to supply Shiite
militias with Iranian-made weapons.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Interior Minister Meir
Sheetrit said Israel will grant citizenship to some of the estimated
300 refugees from Sudan's violence-ridden Darfur region who have
already arrived.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Japan and North Korea
held talks for the first time in six months in a bid to ease tensions
amid signs of cautious optimism for progress from the arch-foes. The
meeting in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator is part of a working
group set up by six-nation talks designed to stop North Korea's nuclear
weapons programs.
(AFP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Hurricane Henriette
threatened Mexico's mainland after punishing the Los Cabos resorts.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, North Korea said it
had arrested spies working for an unspecified foreign country who were
collecting intelligence on the communist state's military and state
secrets.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Militants freed six
soldiers who were among more than 100 Pakistani troops abducted over
the weekend near the Afghan border.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Rwanda's President
Paul Kagame said that his country was no longer interested in joining
the southern African grouping SADC in order to avoid "overlapping"
roles with other blocs.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Canada’s ambassador to
Zimbabwe said the number of people facing serious food shortages there
is expected to grow to 4.1 million over the first quarter of next year.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2008 Sep 5, US bank regulators
shut down Silver State Bank, saying the Nevada bank failed because of
losses on soured loans, mainly in commercial real estate and land
development. It was the 11th failure this year of a federally insured
bank.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, In SF Western artist
Thom Ross displayed 100 wooden Indians on horseback on the same stretch
of Ocean Beach that was used in a 1902 photo of Buffalo Bill Cody and
his Wild West Show featuring live Indians on horseback.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 5, In Berkeley, Ca.,
arborists began removed trees in preparation for a $124 million UC
athletic training center. 4 protesters continued a 21-month-old protest
in a lone redwood.
(SFC, 9/7/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 5, In Lancaster, Ca., a
road was paved, at the request of Honda’s Santa Monica advertising
agency, with grooves so that passing cars would hear a rendition of
Rossini’s William Tell Overture. On Sep 23, following complaints and
safety concerns the road was repaved.
(WSJ, 10/24/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 5, Robert Giroux
(b.1914), NYC publisher (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), died in New
Jersey. He had joined Farrar as editor in chief and was made a full
partner in 1964.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A2)
2008 Sep 5, In western Afghanistan
an overnight raid in Farah province killed six militants and two
civilians.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Angolans voted for the
first time in 16 years in a parliamentary election expected to extend
the ruling party's hold of more than three decades in the oil-rich
African nation. A new quota required 30% of the candidates to be women.
(AP, 9/5/08)(Econ, 9/20/08, p.76)
2008 Sep 5, Quentin Bryce was
sworn in as Australia's governor general, the first woman to act as the
British queen's representative Down Under. Morris Iemma (47), the
embattled premier of Australia's most populous state, New South Wales,
was forced to resign after his party withdrew support for him over a
dramatic reshuffle of his cabinet.
(AP, 9/5/08)(AFP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Bolivia protesters
stormed a small airport and blocked major highways across eastern
Bolivia in a standoff over central government reforms designed to
empower the nation’s indigenous majority.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Canada joined the US
and EU in imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe's authoritarian regime headed
by President Robert Mugabe.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, EU nations called for
an international probe to find out which country should shoulder
responsibility for starting the conflict between Georgia and Russia.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Rosetta, the European
deep space probe launched in 2004, completed a flyby of the Steins
asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
(SFC, 9/7/08, p.A6)
2008 Sep 5, The flagship of the US
Navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored outside the key Georgian port of
Poti, bringing in tons of humanitarian aid to a port still partially
occupied by hundreds of Russian troops.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, The Iraqi government
reacted sharply to published allegations that the US spied on Iraq's PM
Maliki, warning that future ties with the United States could be in
jeopardy if the report were true. An explosion in the western Baghdad
neighborhood of Mansour killed six bodyguards of ex-Iraqi deputy prime
minister and former Pentagon favorite, Ahmad Chalabi, who escaped the
suicide car bomb attack on his convoy.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, An Israeli defense
official said Israel has allowed Palestinian security forces in the
West Bank to receive a shipment of about 1,000 Kalashnikov rifles and
tens of thousands of bullets in a step aimed at bolstering the moderate
Palestinian government there. The weapons shipment reached the
Palestinians through Jordan about one week ago.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Mila Schoen (b.1916),
an Italian designer of elegant, impeccably tailored clothes, died at
her villa in northern Italy.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Japan right-leaning
former Foreign Minister Taro Aso announced that he will run for ruling
party president in a move that would put him on track to take over as
Japan's next prime minister.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, once reviled as a
"mad dog" by President Reagan, on a historic visit which she said
proved that Washington had no permanent enemies. John Foster Dulles was
the last US Secretary of State to visit Tripoli, in May 1953.
(Reuters, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, Malaysia said it is
dispatching three navy vessels to the Gulf of Aden to protect its
merchant ships following a sharp surge in pirate attacks off the coast
of Somalia.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, The political party of
detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged Myanmar's military
government to ensure her well-being as she continued to refuse food
deliveries to protest her detention.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Nigeria said it has
set up a 40-member technical committee on peace talks to end the crisis
in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
(AFP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Pakistan's Supreme
Court reinstated three judges ousted by Pervez Musharraf, cementing
political divisions in the country a day before it elects a new
president. An explosion possibly caused by a missile strike killed five
suspected foreign militants near the Afghan border in North Waziristan.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas pledged to try to reach a final status peace agreement
with Israel by the end of the year, but he admitted the goal, set by US
President George W. Bush, might not be achieved.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Poland police
detained Krzysztof B. (45), in the eastern city of Siedlce, after his
wife and daughter came forward with the allegations that he had
imprisoned and raped his daughter (21) for 6 years fathering 2
children, who were put up for adoption.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Sri Lankan soldiers
captured three Tamil Tiger rebel bunkers and killed 24 guerrillas in
fighting across the island's restive north.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, Taiwan newspapers said
authorities in central Taiwan have turned off the red light at the
county's last legal brothel after the death of its pimp aged 87.
Prostitution has been illegal in Taiwan since 1997. Licensing of new
brothels stopped in 1974, but isolated illegal brothels can be found
all over the island. Brothels licensed prior to 1974 were allowed to
keep operating.
(Reuters, 9/8/08)
2008 Sep 5, Togo’s PM Komla Mally
unexpectedly resigned after less than a year in office. He had been
accused of lacking initiative and of being ineffective.
(SFC, 9/7/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 5, In Kiev US Vice
President Dick Cheney pledged US support for Ukraine following last
month's war between neighboring Russia and Georgia.
(AP, 9/5/08)
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