Today in History - September 6
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394 Sep 6,
Theodosius became sole ruler of Italy after defeating Eugenius at the
Battle of the River Frigidus.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1422 Sep 6, Sultan Murat II ended
a vain siege of Constantinople.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1492 Sep 6, Columbus' fleet sailed
from Gomera, Canary islands.
(http://tinyurl.com/774v3)
1522 Sep 6, Juan Sebastian Elcano
(Del Cano), Magellan’s second in command, returned to Spain with 18 men
and one ship, the Vittorio, laden with spices. His coat of arms was
augmented in reward with the inscription: Primus circumdisti me: “You
were the first to encircle me.”18 survivors of the original Magellan
expedition completed the circumnavigation of the globe under Sebastian
del Cano. Plumes of the bird of paradise from New Guinea were first
brought back to Europe. One of the five ships that set out in Ferdinand
Magellan's trip around the world made it back to Spain. Only 15 of the
original 265 men that set out survived. Magellan was killed by natives
in the Philippines.
(V.D.-H.K.p.177-178)(SFEC, 11/10/96, Z1 p.2)(TL-MB,
1988, p.12)(NH, 9/96, p.8)(HN, 9/6/98)
1622 Sep 6, A Spanish silver fleet
disappeared off Florida Keys; thousands died. The Santa Margarita,
discovered off of Key West in 1980 by pioneering shipwreck salvor Mel
Fisher, was bound for Spain when it sank in a hurricane in 1622.
(MC, 9/6/01)(AP, 6/18/07)
1635 Sep 6, Adrian A. Metius,
mathematician and fort architect, died at 63.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1649 Sep 6, Robert Dudley, English
navigator and writer (Arcano del Mare), died.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1683 Sep 6, Jean-Baptiste Colbert
(b.1619), French finance minister (1665-1683) under Louis XIV, died. He
pioneered “dirigisme,” i.e. state control of the economy and state
intervention in industry.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert)(Econ, 3/25/06,
p.71)
1688 Sep 6, Imperial troops
defeated the Turks and took Belgrade, Serbia.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1690 Sep 6, King William III
escaped back to England.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1701 Sep 6, James II [Stuart],
king of England (1685-88), died at 68.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1711 Sep 6, Heinrich Melchior
Muhlenberg, founder of the US Lutheran church, was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1715 Sep 6, A pro-James III
uprising took place in Scotland.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1729 Sep 6, Mozes Mendelssohn,
German enlightened philosopher (Haksalah), was born. [see Sep 26]
(MC, 9/6/01)
1757 Sep 6, Marie Joseph du
Motier, Marquis de LaFayette, French soldier and statesman who aided
George Washington during the American Revolution, was born in Auvergne,
France.
(AP, 9/6/07)
1766 Sep 6, John Dalton, English
scientist, was born. He developed the atomic theory of matter.
(HN, 9/6/00)
1776 Sep 6, The Turtle, the 1st
submarine invented by David Bushnell, attempted to secure a cask of
gunpowder to the HMS Eagle, flagship of the British fleet, in the Bay
of NY but got entangled with the Eagle’s rudder bar, lost ballast and
surfaced before the charge was planted. Sergeant Ezra Lee released the
bomb the next morning as a British barge approached. The British turned
back and the bomb soon exploded. A month later the turtle was lost
under British attack as it was being transported on a sailboat.
(SFEC,11/23/97, Par p.14)(Arch, 5/05, p.36)
1776 Sep 6, A hurricane hit
Martinique; 100 French & Dutch ships sank and 600 died.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1781 Sep 6, Anton Diabelli,
Austria publisher and composer, was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1781 Sep 6, Martha Jefferson
(b.1748), wife of Thomas Jefferson, died.
(www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/mj3.html)
1791 Sep 6, Mozart’s last opera
"La Clemenza di Tito," premiered in Prague. It was composed for the
coronation festivities of the King of Bohemia.
(WSJ, 4/10/00, p.A44)(MC, 9/6/01)
1793 Sep 6, French General Jean
Houchard and his 40,000 men began a three-day battle against an
Anglo-Hanoverian army at Hondschoote, southwest Belgium, in the wars of
the French Revolution.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1797 Sep 6, William "Extra Billy"
Smith, Confederacy (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1800 Sep 6, Catherine Esther
Beecher, educator who promoted higher education for women, was born in
East Hampton, Long Island, NY.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1819 Sep 6, William Starke
Rosecrans, Maj. General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1819 Sep 6, Thomas Blanchard
(b.1788) patented the lathe.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1837 Sep 6, The Oberlin Collegiate
Institute of Ohio went co-educational.
(AP, 9/6/97)(http://tinyurl.com/lcgnj)
1838 Sep 6, The steamship
Foxfarshire with some 60 passengers and crew suffered engine failure
and drifted onto Big Harkar Rock near the Longstone Lighthouse on the
Farne Islands in northeast England. Over 40 people drowned. Grace
Darling (22) rowed with her father (54), light keeper, to rescue
survivors.
(ON, 10/00, p.9)
1847 Sep 6, Henry David Thoreau
left Walden Pond and moved back into town, to Concord, Massachusetts.
(HN, 9/6/00)
1855 Sep 6, Ferdinand B. Hummel,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1860 Sep 6, Jane Addams (d.1935)
was born. She is known for her work as a social reformer, pacifist, and
founder of Hull House in Chicago in 1889, and as the first American
woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). “The essence of
immorality is the tendency to make an exception of one’s self.” “You do
not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am
simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a
sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.”
(AHD, 1971, p.15)(AP, 8/28/97)(HN, 9/6/98)(AP,
10/4/98)
1861 Sep 6, Union General Ulysses
S. Grant's forces captured Paducah, Kentucky from Confederate forces. A
lifelong friend and trusted aide of Ulysses S. Grant, Ely Parker rose
to the top in two worlds, that of his native Seneca Indian tribe and
the white man's world at large.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1862 Sep 6, Stonewall Jackson
occupied Frederick, Maryland.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1863 Sep 6, After 59 day siege,
confederates evacuated Ft Wagner, SC.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1865 Sep 6, Russia forbade the use
of Latin letters in the Lithuanian language. Following the 1863
uprising the Czarist authorities prohibited the publication of
Lithuanian books in Roman letters. Books in Cyrillic were allowed but
not accepted by the people. Secret book couriers smuggled in Latin
lettered books until 1904.
(DrEE, 9/14/96, p.4)(LC, 1998, p.24)
1866 Sep 6, Frederick Douglass
became the 1st US black delegate to a national convention.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1869 Sep 6, 110 miners, a number
of them young boys, were killed in coal mine disaster which occurred
early in the morning in Avondale, Pennsylvania, when a fire broke out
in a mineshaft, cutting off the miners' escape route and their only
source of air.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1870 Sep 6, The last British
troops to serve in Austria were withdrawn.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1876 Sep 6, A race riot took place
in Charleston, SC.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1883 Sep 6, Lord Birkett, England,
judge (Nuremberg Trials), was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1888 Sep 6, Joseph P. Kennedy,
Boston Mass, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy, was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1893 Sep 6, Floriano Vieira
Peixoto, acting president of Brazil, faced a rebellion by officers of
his navy led by Admiral Custodio Jose de Mello.
(ON, 12/06, p.11)
1898 Sep 6, Lord Kitchener
destroyed Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman (Sudan).
(MC, 9/6/01)
1899 Sep 6, Billy Rose, songwriter
famous for "It's Only a Paper Moon," and "Me and My Shadow,” was born.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1899 Sep 6, Carnation processed
its 1st can of evaporated milk.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1901 Sep 6, At the Pan-American
Exposition in Buffalo, New York, anarchist Leon Czolgosz (28) made his
way along a reception line filing past President William McKinley.
Concealed within a handkerchief, Czolgosz held a .32-caliber revolver.
As he came face to face with the president, he fired two shots through
the handkerchief, striking McKinley in the chest and the abdomen.
McKinley died eight days after the shooting and became the third
American president assassinated. He was succeeded by Vice President
Theodore Roosevelt. Czolgosz, explaining that he "thought it would be a
good thing for the country to kill the President," was put to death by
electrocution 45 days later. Emma Goldman was one of the people blamed
for the assassination.
(AP, 9/6/97)(Hem, Dec. 94, p.70) (WSJ, 5/17/95,
p.A-18) (WSJ, 12/11/95, p.A-1)(HNPD, 9/6/98)(HN, 9/6/98)
1908 Sep 6, Paul Lavalle,
bandleader, was born in Beacon, NY.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1909 Sep 6, American explorer
Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months
earlier (Apr 6, 1909).
(AP, 9/6/97)
1914 Sep 6, In the Battle of Marne
German forces bypassed Paris to chase retreating allied forces. French
Gen. Gallieni orchestrated an attack using the British Expeditionary
Force along with the French 3rd, 5th and 6th armies.
(ON, 8/08, p.5)
1915 Sep 6, Franz Josef Strauss,
Germany, Nazi and minister of defense (1956-62), was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1916 Sep 6, Clarence Saunders
opened his first Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Memphis, Tenn. He
pioneered self-service in the US and obtained a patent. He later
franchised over a 1,000 stores.
(WSJ, 11/16/98, p.A12)(Econ, 10/2/04, p.18)(AP,
9/6/06)
1917 Sep 6, French pilot Georges
Guynemer shot down 54th German aircraft.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1918 Sep 6, The German Army began
a general retreat across the Aisne, with British troops in pursuit.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1919 Sep 6, Pier Pander (b.1864),
Dutch sculptor, died.
(http://home.wxs.nl/~bekke412/pier.html)
1924 Sep 6, An assassination
attempt on Mussolini failed.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1928 Sep 6, Robert Pirzig, author,
was born. His work included “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.”
(HN, 9/6/00)
1936 Sep 6, Aviator Beryl Markham
flew the first east-to-west solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. [see
Sep 2]
(HN, 9/6/00)
1937 Sep 6, The Soviet Union
accused Italy of torpedoing two Russian ships in the Mediterranean.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1939 Sep 6, Arthur Rackham,
English artist and illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), died at 71.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1939 Sep 6, The 1st WW II German
air attack on Great Britain took place.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1939 Sep 6, The Union of South
Africa declared war on Germany.
(AP, 9/6/07)
1941 Sep 6, Emperor Hirohito of
Japan gave his sanction “with misgivings” to simultaneous efforts to
negotiate peace with the US and to prepare for an attack if the efforts
failed.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A10)
1941 Sep 6, Jews over the age of 6
in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.
(AP, 9/6/97)(HN, 9/6/98)
1941 Sep 6, Jews of Vilna, Poland
(Lithuania), were confined to their ghetto.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1943 Sep 6, The United States
asked the Chinese Nationals to join with the Communists to present a
common front to the Japanese.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1944 Sep 6, During World War II,
the British government relaxed blackout restrictions and suspended
compulsory training for the Home Guard.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1945 Sep 6, George Weller
(d.2002), a Chicago Daily News journalist, wrote his 1st story on the
bombing of Nagasaki. Posing as a US Army colonel Weller had slipped
into Nagasaki in early September. His stories infuriated MacArthur so
much he personally ordered that they be quashed, and the originals were
never returned. Carbon copies of his stories, running to about 25,000
words on 75 typed pages, along with more than two dozen photos, were
discovered by his son, Anthony, in 2004 at Weller's apartment in Rome,
Italy. In 2005 the national Mainichi newspaper began serializing the
stories and photographs for the first time since they were rejected by
US military censors. In 2007 Weller’s son Anthony edited “First Into
Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and
Its Prisoners of War.”
(AP, 6/19/05)(WSJ, 3/1/07, p.D5)
1946 Sep 6, Terence Rattigan's
"Winslow Boy," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1947 Sep 6, Jane Curtin, was born.
She became a successful improvisational comedy performer gained
celebrity with her performances on the original cast of TV's 'Saturday
Night Live' show in 1975.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1948 Sep 6, Queen Juliana
(1909-2004) of the Netherlands was crowned, two days after the
abdication of her mother, Queen Wilhelmina. Juliana abdicated in 1980.
(AP, 9/6/98)(SSFC, 3/21/04, p.B7)
1949 Sep 6, Howard Unruh (28)
killed 13 neighbors in 12 minutes in Camden, New Jersey.
(www.fact-index.com/h/ho/howard_unruh.html)
1951 Sep 6, William Burroughs
(1914-1997), American writer, shot and killed his wife Joan Vollmer
(27) in Mexico City. He claimed to be trying to shoot a glass off her
head, a la William Tell, during a day of drinking and drugs but shot
her in the head.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.B6)(Internet)
1952 Sep 6, The 9th US Circuit
Court of Appeals upheld a conviction against Harry Bridges as a
Communist who lied to obtain US citizenship.
(SFC, 9/6/02, p.E3)
1952 Sep 6, Canadian television
broadcasting began in Montreal.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1952 Sep 6, An engine on a de
Havilland 110 plane falls into a crowd at Farnborough Air Show in
England. Thirty people on the ground and the pilot are killed.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1953 Sep 6, The last American and
Korean prisoners were exchanged in Operation Big Switch, the last
official act of the Korean War.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1953 Sep 6, Adenauer's CDU won
elections in German FR.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1954 Sep 6, A US plane was shot
down above Siberia.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1956 Sep 6, Felix Borowski,
composer and music critic, died at 84.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1958 Sep 6, Miss Mississippi Mary
Ann Mobley was crowned Miss America 1959 in Atlantic City, N.J.
(AP, 9/6/08)
1965 Sep 6, India and Pakistan
began a second war over Kashmir. Pakistan paratroopers raided Punjab.
It ended in a cease-fire that left India with control of two-thirds of
Kashmir.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(HN,
9/6/98)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A20)
1966 Sep 6, A race riot took place
in the Summerhill neighborhood of Atlanta, Ga., from Sep 6-11. Blacks
rioted after a suspected car thief is shot escaping a white cop and 138
people were arrested with 35 injured. Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee's (SNCC's) Stokely Carmichael is indicted for inciting a
riot, and Julian Bond resigns from SNCC.
(www.theprimeone.com/archives/000113.html)
1966 Sep 6, Margaret Higgins
Sanger (b.1883), birth control advocate and founder of the organization
that became Planned Parenthood, died.
(HNQ, 6/22/98)
1966 Sep 6, South African Prime
Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death by a deranged page
during a parliamentary session in Cape Town. Demitrios Tsafendas was
reported to have been insane with the belief that a tapeworm inside his
head instructed him to do the killing. In 2001 Henk Van Woerden
authored ”The Assassin: A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of
Apartheid.”
(AP, 9/6/97)(SSFC, 7/8/01, DB p.63)
1968 Sep 6, Swaziland in southern
Africa gained independence from Britain.
(http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FMarnham%20Q)
1969 Sep 6, "Cabaret" closed at
Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances.
(http://theatre-musical.com/cabaret/show.html)
1970 Sep 6, Palestinian guerrillas
seized control of three jetliners which were later blown up on the
ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1971 Sep 6, In Montevideo,
Uruguay, a hundred Tupamaro guerrillas escaped from prison.
(WUD, 1994, p.
1688)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Sendic)
1972 Sep 6, The Summer Olympics
resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis
that claimed the lives of 11 Israelis and five Arab abductors.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1975 Sep 6, A 6.8 quake along the
Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1976 Sep 6, A Soviet pilot landed
his MIG-25 in Tokyo and asked for political asylum in the United States.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1978 Sep 6, Genentech of South San
Francisco, Ca., announced the successful laboratory production of human
insulin using recombinant DNA technology.
(www.gene.com/gene/news/press-releases/display.do?method=detail&id=4160)
1978 Sep 6, James Wickwire of
Seattle and Louis Reichardt of San Francisco became the first Americans
to reach the summit of Pakistan's K-2, the world's second-highest
mountain.
(AP, 9/6/03)
1978 Sep 6, In California a fire
destroyed the 4,000-foot-long Island Mountain tunnel of the
Northwestern Pacific Railroad.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, Z1
p.1)(www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,929824)
1978 Sep 6, Bulgarian defector
Georgi Markov, living in London, was stabbed in the leg by a man
carrying an umbrella; Markov died four days later, an apparent victim
of the Bulgarian secret police using a ricin-coated pellet. The
assassin was later identified as Francesco Gullino (Guillino,
Giullino), code name Piccadilly, an Italian-born Dane, operating under
instructions from Vasil Kotsev, Bulgaria’s top spymaster.
(AP, 9/7/08)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.61)
1979 Sep 6, Pres. Carter
designated the first Sunday of September following Labor Day of each
year as National Grandparents Day.
(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=32826)
1981 Sep 6, "They're Playing Our
Song" closed at Imperial NYC after 1082 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=3919)
1983 Sep 6, The USSR admitted to
shooting down KAL 007 on Sep 1.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_007)
1984 Sep 6, Lanford Wilson's play
"Balm in Gilead," written in 1965, premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balm_in_Gilead)
1985 Sep 6, All 31 people aboard a
Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 were killed when the Atlanta-bound
jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Milwaukee's Mitchell Field.
(WSJ, 6/14/96, p.A15)(AP, 9/6/05)
1986 Sep 6, Some 300 invitees paid
$5,000 to hear Barbra Streisand's benefit concert. Streisand launched
her concert One Voice, in part, as a protest against Reagan-era nuclear
arms proliferation in the late Cold War.
(http://tinyurl.com/y6urea)
1986 Sep 6, An attack on the Neve
Shalom synagogue in Istanbul killed 22 people. The Palestinian Abu
Nidal group was blamed.
(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)
1987 Sep 6, Doctors at Johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore succeeded in separating 7-month-old
Benjamin and Patrick Binder, twin brothers from Ulm, West Germany, who
were joined at the head, after 22 hours of surgery.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1988 Sep 6, Lee Roy Young became
the first African-American Texas Ranger in the force's 165-year history.
(HN, 9/6/98)
1988 Sep 6, A 25-hour drama began
as technical problems kept a two-man Soviet space crew from returning
to Earth aboard a Soyuz space capsule. The problems were cleared up,
and the crew landed safely the next day.
(AP, 9/6/98)
1989 Sep 6, The Guardian reported
that a French police computer had mixed codes and accused 41,000
Parisians of murder and prostitution rather than traffic fines.
(www.phrack.org/phrack/28/P28-11)
1989 Sep 6, The National Party,
the governing party of South Africa, lost nearly a quarter of its
parliament seats to far-right and anti-apartheid rivals, its worst
setback in four decades.
(AP, 9/6/99)
1990 Sep 6, Iraq increased
pressure on trapped Westerners, warning that anyone trying to leave
without permission could face life in prison.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1991 Sep 6, In the Soviet Union,
the State Council, a new executive body composed of President Mikhail
S. Gorbachev and republic leaders, recognized the independence of the
Baltic states of Estonia Latvia, and Lithuania. All three were admitted
into the UN later this month.
(AP,
9/6/01)(http://countrystudies.us/lithuania/25.htm)
1992 Sep 6, An unidentified
35-year-old man who was the recipient of a transplanted baboon liver
died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 10 weeks after
receiving the organ.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1993 Sep 6, President Clinton
visited South Florida, where he met with residents recovering from
Hurricane Andrew.
(AP, 9/6/98)
1993 Sep 6, Jacquelyn McNealy (24)
was wounded and partially paralyzed at a Pine Bluff, Ark., concert that
featured Tupac Shakur. In 1996 she won a $16.6 million settlement.
(SFC, 11/21/96, p.A3)
1993 Sep 6, Automakers Renault of
France and Volvo of Sweden announced they would merge; however, Volvo
canceled the deal the following December.
(AP, 9/6/98)
1994 Sep 6, Irish Prime Minister
Albert Reynolds and Gerry Adams, head of the IRA's political ally, Sinn
Fein, made a joint commitment to peace after their first face-to-face
meeting.
(AP, 9/6/99)
1995 Sep 6, Baltimore Orioles
shortstop Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s record by playing his 2,131st
consecutive game.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1995 Sep 6, The Senate Ethics
Committee voted unanimously to recommend expulsion of Oregon Senator
Bob Packwood, accused of sexual and official misconduct.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1995 Sep 6, Los Angeles police
detective Mark Fuhrman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against
self-incrimination as he was called back to the witness stand at the
O.J. Simpson trial.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1995 Sep 6, An Ontario Provincial
Police sniper fatally wounded protester Dudley George (1957-1995) as
police moved in to try to end the occupation of Ipperwash Provincial
Park, on the shores of Lake Huron, by demonstrators who were demanding
the return of the park and adjacent lands to native ownership. The
Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation claimed the park lands
as an aboriginal burial ground. In 2007 Ontario said it will return 109
acres to native ownership.
(Reuters, 12/21/07)
1995 Sep 6, Hurricane “Luis” moved
away from the Caribbean after lashing resort islands.
(AP, 9/6/00)
1996 Sep 6, Eddie Murray of the
Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against
the Detroit Tigers, joining Hall of Famers Hank Aaron and Willie Mays
as the only players with at least 3,000 hits and 500 homers.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1996 Sep 6, The death toll from
Hurricane Fran rose to 17 in Virginia, West Virginia and the Carolinas.
(AP, 9/6/97)
1996 Sep 6, In Belarus lawmakers
challenged the president and added amendments to a referendum that
proposed the elimination of the presidency, popular election of local
governors and tougher controls on government spending. Earlier in the
week Lukashenko had tax service freeze the accounts of 5 leading
independent newspapers.
(SFC, 9/7/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 6, In Columbia rebels
blew up a section of the largest oil pipeline and killed 16 police
officers and soldiers.
(SFC, 9/7/96, p.A9)
1996 Sep 6, The Berggruen art
collection opened in Berlin on a loan for ten years. The opening
coincided with the publication of the autobiography of Heinz Berggruen:
Main Path and Side Paths: Reminiscences of an art collector.
(WSJ, 9/13/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 6, The Palestinian Al
Quds Univ. in Abu Dis was reopened after a 6-month closure.
(SFC, 9/7/96, p.A9)
1997 Sep 6, The USS Hopper, the
354th ship in the modern naval fleet, was commissioned. The high-tech
destroyer is the 2nd warship to be named after a woman. Grace Hooper
(d.1992) was a computer programmer for the Navy until she retired in
1986 at age 79. She coined the term “debugging” when she pulled a moth
from her computer.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, p.B1,3)
1997 Sep 6, In Albania the
Socialist government dismissed 17 generals.
(WSJ, 9/8/97, p.A16)
1997 Sep 6, In Algeria at least 87
people were killed and 100 injured by about 50 attackers in the town of
Beni Messous.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, p.A8)
1997 Sep 6, Britain bade farewell
to Princess Diana with a funeral service at Westminster Abbey.
(AP, 9/6/98)
1997 Sep 6, Weeping masses
gathered in Calcutta, India, to pay homage to Mother Teresa, who had
died the day before at age 87.
(AP, 9/6/98)
1998 Sep 6, Divers working off
Nova Scotia found the flight data recorder from Swissair Flight 111,
which had crashed Sep 2, killing all 229 people on board. However, it
turned out the recorder had stopped working several minutes before the
crash.
(AP, 9/6/03)
1998 Sep 6, In Japan Akira
Kurosawa, film director, died at age 88.
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1998 Sep 6, North Korea revised
its constitution to make Kim Il Sung the country’s “eternal president.”
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 6, In Peshawar, Pakistan,
an estimated 15,000 members of the Movement for the Enforcement of
Islam in English marched against the American missile attack in
Afghanistan. The US did not inform Pakistan of the strikes that crossed
Pakistani air space.
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A10)(WSJ, 9/14/01, p.A5)
1999 Sep 6, Six large int'l.
vitamin companies agreed to settle a price-fixing lawsuit for an
estimated $1.1 billion.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 6, Detroit's teachers
reached a tentative agreement and won smaller classes and raises of up
to 4%. The union represented 9,200 teachers and some 172,000
students were affected. The teachers ratified the contract two days
later.
(AP, 9/6/00)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A5)
1999 Sep 6, In Afghanistan
opposition fighters attacked the Taliban in Baghlan province and seized
7 military posts.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.C1)
1999 Sep 6, Jiang Zemin arrived in
Australia, the first visit there by a Chinese president.
(WSJ, 9/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 6, In Dagestan Russian
forces used artillery and air power against rebel guerrillas and 2
dozen people were killed on the Chechen side of the border. Fighting in
NoIvolakskoye left 14 Russian soldiers dead.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A12)(WSJ, 9/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 6, In East Timor martial
law was declared by Indonesia as militias began executing independence
leaders. A UN peace-keeping force was being formed to cope with the
violence. A mass slaying of up to 200 civilians took place in Suai. 3
Roman Catholic priests were among the dead. In 2004 Martenus Bere,
Indonesian former militia leader, was indicted for his role in the Suai
Church massacre.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A14)(AFP,
9/7/09)
1999 Sep 6, In Egypt Said Hassan
Suleiman (40) inflicted a light wound with a sharp object On Pres.
Mubarak in Port Said. Suleiman was immediately killed by security
guards.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 6, In Israel the High
Court ruled that security police have acted illegally by routinely
inflicting physical pain on detained Palestinians.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 6, In Libya Moammar
Khadafy unveiled plans for a new, safe, 5-passenger "Rocket of the
Jamahiriya" automobile.
(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A16)
1999 Sep 6, In Pakistan 2 bombs
injured 11 people, mostly Sunni Muslim students in Karachi.
1999 Sep 6, Russian soldiers in
Ranilug, Kosovo, killed 3 Serbs who fired on them and refused to stop
beating 2 ethnic Albanians.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A12)
2000 Sep 6, Vice pres. Gore
released his economic plan in the form of a 200-page book.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A4)
2000 Sep 6, Michael Swango, a
former doctor suspected in a string of poisoning deaths, pleaded guilty
to killing three patients in a Long Island, N.Y., hospital, and was
sentenced to life in prison without parole.
(AP, 9/6/01)
2000 Sep 6, In Afghanistan the
Taliban captured Taloqan, 160 miles north of Kabul. The Taliban lost
about 500 soldiers, while the opposition lost about 300.
(SFC, 9/7/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/8/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 6, In Colombia police
found a 100-foot submarine under construction by cocaine smugglers 18
miles from Bogota.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 6, Two top officials of
Hong Kong Univ. resigned after it was found that they and an advisor
had pressured a prominent pollster to suppress surveys critical of Tung
Chee-hwa.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 6, Israeli police
officers pummeled 3 Palestinian detainees and took pictures of
themselves holding their victims by the hair. The officers were later
indicted.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 6, In Somalia clan
fighting left at least 25 people dead and 18 injured in villages north
of Mogadishu.
(WSJ, 9/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 6, In West Timor
thousands of armed militia rampaged through a UN office in Atambua and
killed at least 3 UN workers and burned their bodies. UN relief workers
were flown out the next day and 90,000 refugees faced shortages of food
and medicine. The militia attack followed the death of Olivio Mendosa
Moruk, an East Timorese militia leader. In 2001 Julius Naisama was
sentenced to 20 months in jail for his part in the attack. 5 others
received sentences of 10-16 months.
(SFC, 9/7/0, p.A1)(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/13/00,
p.A14)(SFC, 5/5/01, p.D2)
2000 Sep 6, World leaders gathered
in NYC for a UN Millennium Summit to bring peace and prosperity to the
world.
(WSJ, 9/5/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A10)(SFC, 9/7/00,
p.A10)
2001 Sep 6, In SF Barry Bonds
became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a
season, connecting in the second inning of San Francisco's game against
Arizona.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/6/02)
2001 Sep 6, The NFL referees'
union rejected the league's latest contract offer and replacement
officials worked the opening weekend of the regular season.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2001 Sep 6, Pres. Bush named John
Danforth as a special envoy to broker a peace agreement in Sudan’s
civil war.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 6, In a dramatic shift,
the Bush administration abandoned the Clinton-era effort to break up
Microsoft. The US Justice Dept. and 18 states dropped efforts to
breakup Microsoft Corp.
{usa, Computer}
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/6/02)
2001 Sep 6, The US Senate passed a
deadline extension for illegal immigrants to apply for visas.
(WSJ, 9/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 6, Scott Stoll (38) and
Dennis Snader (36) set off from San Francisco on a bicycle journey that
aimed to cover 24,901.55 miles, equal to the circumference of the
Earth. After 3+ years Stoll completed 25,752 miles across North and
South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. Stoll ended his
adventure on the southern tip of South Africa on October 24, 2004. The
Milwaukee native returned to Waukesha where he grew up and his parents
still live.
(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.F3)(www.theargonauts.com)
2001 Sep 6, Mexican President
Vicente Fox addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress, urging
greater trust between the neighboring countries as the basis for "a new
partnership in North America."
(AP, 9/6/02)
2001 Sep 6, Jack Welch, CEO of
General Electric, turned over the leadership to Jeffrey Immelt.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.B9)
2001 Sep 6, In Afghanistan the
Taliban jailed 35 more people working for a Christian aid organization.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 6, Britain announced that
it would wrap up its mission in Sierra Leone by the end of the month.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 6, In Colombia gunmen
killed a congressman who headed a peace commission.
(WSJ, 9/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 6, Ethiopia banned the
Ethiopian Women’s Lawyers Assoc. The group had organized a Feb. march
of some 1,000 women to the office of PM Meles Zenawi and parliament to
protest domestic violence.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 6, In Indonesia gunmen
killed the rector of the biggest university in Aceh province.
(WSJ, 9/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 6, Israel’s PM Sharon
said he was considering a buffer zone to foil terrorists. Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres said he would meet with Yasser Arafat next week.
Israeli gunships killed 2 Palestinian men. In an apparent reprisal an
Israeli soldier was shot dead and an Israeli woman seriously wounded
along the “green line.”
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 6, North and South Korea
agreed to resume talks next week.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 6, In Zimbabwe Foreign
Minister Stan Mudenge pledged to abide by a brokered deal to stop
violent takeovers of white-owned farms. The government agreed to
“restore the rule of law to the process of land reform.”
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A8)
2002 Sep 6, Meeting outside
Washington D.C., for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened
in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Sep 6, US officials reported
that the assets of Wa'el Hamza Julaidan, alleged al Qaeda financier,
had been frozen, and that he had been located in Saudi Arabia.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A8)
2002 Sep 6, A US Navy
helicopter crashed in the Persian Gulf, killing an American television
cameraman and injuring four sailors.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 6, Salvatore Gravano, mob
turncoat aka Sammy the Bull, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In
1998 Gravano, took over his son's failing Arizona drug-dealing
operation, an ecstasy drug ring. Gravano pleaded guilty in 2001.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A6)(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A4)
2002 Sep 6, A jury in Pensacola,
Fla., convicted 13- and 14-year-old brothers of murdering their
sleeping father with a baseball bat in an unusual case in which an
adult friend was acquitted of the crime under a different prosecution
theory. The judge threw out the convictions and ordered mediation; Alex
and Derek King later pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. Alex was
sentenced to seven years and Derek to eight years.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Sep 6, Iran reported the
successful test fire of a Fateh 110 A ballistic missile.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A5)
2002 Sep 6, Israel attacked
a factory in the Gaza Strip with missiles fired from helicopters after
a Palestinian "mega" bomb attempt was thwarted a day earlier.
(AP, 9/6/02)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Sep 6, In India the film "Ek
Chhoti Si Love Story" (A Short Love Story) was released across India
despite a court order and attacks on some theatres, has kicked up a
controversy over its explicit sexual content.
(Reuters, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 6, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim rebels shot dead Sheikh Abdul Rehman, a politician
contesting state elections, in the first killing of a candidate since
the campaign began.
(Reuters, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 6, Jews began Rosh
Hashanah at sunset. This ended their year 5762 and began year 5763.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 6, Mexico said it was
withdrawing from the 1947 Inter-American Reciprocal Defense Treaty
designed to protect the Americas against communism, a year after
President Vicente Fox called the agreement obsolete.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 6, A Yemeni man died when
a bomb he was carrying exploded in a crowded market in San'a, injuring
two bystanders.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2003 Sep 6, Fabian, the most
powerful hurricane to hit Bermuda in 50 years pushed away from the
British territory after deadly winds split trees and swept trucks off
roads. Four people were missing and feared dead.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2003 Sep 6, In central Colombia
soldiers killed at least 25 suspected rebels and paramilitary fighters
in three military operations.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2003 Sep 6, The European Union
said it will declare all wings of the militant Palestinian group Hamas
a terrorist organization and freeze its assets after dozens of deadly
attacks in Israel.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2003 Sep 6, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir a bomb targeting an army convoy exploded in the main wholesale
market for fruit, killing six people, including an army officer, and
wounding 25.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2003 Sep 6, An Israeli missile
strike on Gaza City lightly wounded Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin,
the highest-ranking member of the militant group to be targeted by
Israel in recent weeks.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2003 Sep 6, Palestinian Prime
Minister Mahmoud Abbas, whose support was considered essential to any
prospect of peace success, submitted his resignation.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2003 Sep 6, In Taiwan thousands of
pro-independence activists marched in the capital, demanding that the
island's official name be changed from the Republic of China to Taiwan.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2004 Sep 6, Former Pres. Clinton
(58) underwent successful quadruple heart bypass surgery in NYC.
(SFC, 9/4/04, p.A1)(SFC, 9/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 6, Former hurricane
Frances pounded the Florida Panhandle as a tropical storm.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2004 Sep 6, Harvey Wheeler (85),
co-author with Eugene Burdick of “Fail-Safe” (1962), died. The novel
was turned into a 1964 film by Sidney Lumet.
(SFC, 12/28/04, p.D12)
2004 Sep 6, Algeria's largest
Islamic rebel group with ties to al Qaeda said it has appointed a new
chief, known as an explosives expert, as it tries to regroup following
the loss of key leaders in recent gun battles with authorities.
(Reuters, 9/6/04)
2004 Sep 6, In southwest China at
least 90 people were killed and 77 were missing after some of the worst
rainstorms in recent years triggered landslides and flash floods.
(AP, 9/6/04)
2004 Sep 6, Colombia’s attorney
general's office ordered the arrest of a military officer and two
soldiers in connection with the killing of three union officials last
month.
(AP, 9/6/04)
2004 Sep 6, The Supreme Court
ordered the Dominican government to relinquish control of the country's
oldest daily newspaper, which was taken over more than a year ago amid
a major bank scandal.
(AP, 9/6/04)
2004 Sep 6, India and Pakistan
ended 2-day talks to settle their dispute over Kashmir. Yasin Malik,
the chairman of pro-independence Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF),
said the dispute could not be settled unless residents of the region
are included in talks. India’s Natwar Singh and Pakistan’s Khurshid
Kasuri closed the 1st stage of an 8-part “composite” dialogue.
(AFP, 9/6/04)(Econ, 9/11/04, p.38)
2004 Sep 6, An apparent suicide
bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle on the outskirts of
Fallujah, killing seven U.S. Marines and three Iraqi national guardsmen.
(AP, 9/6/04)
2004 Sep 6, An Israeli military
satellite fell into the Mediterranean Sea after a botched launch from
southern Israel.
(AP, 9/6/04)
2004 Sep 6, In Lebanon 4 Cabinet
ministers resigned to protest the extension of President Emile Lahoud's
term.
(AP, 9/6/04)
2005 Sep 6, Pres. Bush said the US
government could end up spending as much as $200 billion to care for
the victims of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush and Congress pledged
to open separate investigations into the sluggish federal response to
Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans' broken levees.
(WSJ, 9/7/05, p.A1)(AP, 9/6/06)
2005 Sep 6, New Orleans Mayor C.
Ray Nagin instructed law enforcement officers and the US military to
evacuate all holdouts for their own safety. He warned that the fetid
water could spread disease and that natural gas was leaking all over
town.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6, The California
Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve
same-sex marriages, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the
bill.
(SFC, 9/7/05, p.A1)(AP, 9/6/06)
2005 Sep 6, The SF Board of
Education voted to invoke a compatibility clause as schools
Superintendent Arlene Ackerman resigned. She said she would remain
until June 30, 2006.
(SFC, 9/7/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 6, The Wikipedia, which
surged this year to become the most popular reference site on the Web,
was fast overtaking several major news sites as the place where people
swarm for context on breaking events. The online encyclopedia, based in
St. Petersburg, Fla., was written entirely by volunteers.
(Reuters, 9/6/05)(SFC, 12/6/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 6, Jack Real (90),
aviation pioneer, died in Ca. He helped develop the Apache helicopter
and wrote the book “The Asylum of Howard Hughes” (2003) about his
friendship with billionaire Howard Hughes.
(SFC, 9/15/05, p.B7)(http://tinyurl.com/7bsk4)
2005 Sep 6, Australia staged a
high seas arrest of a Cambodian-flagged ship with an international crew
suspected of fishing illegally in sub-Antarctic waters.
(AFP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 6, In Brazil thousands of
anti-corruption demonstrators rallied in Sao Paulo, demanding harsh
punishment for politicians caught up in a bribery scandal shaking the
administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6, China’s state media
reported that Muslim separatists in western China have carried out 260
attacks in the past decade, killing 160 people and injuring 440.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6,
Eugenia Charles (b.1919), former PM of Dominica (1980-1995), died. She
invited Ronald Reagan to invade Grenada in 1983.
(SFC, 9/8/05, p.B7)(Econ, 9/17/05, p.90)
2005 Sep 6, Dominican Republic
legislators overwhelmingly approved a free-trade agreement with the US
and five Central American countries, rejecting arguments that the pact
would devastate the domestic sugar industry. The other five countries
are Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Costa
Rica and Nicaragua had not yet ratified the pact.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6, In Iraq US Marine jets
attacked two bridges across the Euphrates River near the Syrian border
to prevent insurgents from moving foreign fighters and munitions toward
Baghdad and other cities. 2 US troops were reported killed in a
roadside bombing in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/6/05)(WSJ, 9/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 6, Israel said it its has
authorized construction of 117 homes in one of the West Bank's largest
settlements and approved preliminary plans for another 3,000 housing
units there, despite repeated US appeals to freeze settlement expansion.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6, Italy's Fiat SpA is to
launch a new version of its Punto, Fiat's most popular model. The
company has sold 6 million Puntos since launching the car in 1993. In
1997 the Punto became the best-selling car in Europe, with 600,000
models sold.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 6, Nine countries:
Antigua, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Dominica, Suriname, St. Kitts, St.
Vincent and the Dominican Republic, signed oil deals with Venezuela in
Jamaica. Cuba and Jamaica had previously signed. Chavez urged Caribbean
governments to consider Cuba-style socialism as an alternative to
capitalism.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 6, In Jamaica
opposition-led protests left one person dead.
(WSJ, 9/8/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 6, Japan said it had
completed the 20-year privatization of the nation's biggest
telecommunications company.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6, Typhoon Nabi lashed
southern Japan and South Korea driving more than 300,000 people from
their homes. At least 9 people were killed, and 16 people were missing,
including two in South Korea.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6, Pakistan said it has
sent 9,500 more troops to the border with Afghanistan to prevent
infiltration by militants intent on disrupting Afghan elections later
this month.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6, Rwanda said Maj. Gen.
Laurent Munyakazi has been arrested on suspicion of playing a key role
in the 1994 genocide in which more than half a million Tutsis and
moderates from the Hutu majority were killed.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6, Father Guy Theunis, a
Belgian priest, was arrested in Rwanda on suspicion of involvement in
the 1994 genocide. Judicial sources said Theunis was accused of
republishing extracts of items from an extremist magazine known as
"Kangura" which they said incited hatred and violence.
(AP, 9/8/05)
2005 Sep 6, Saudi security forces
stormed a villa in Dammam where Islamic militants were holed up, ending
3 days of fierce fighting that killed 4 policemen and a number of
militants.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 6, Lars Erik Petersson,
former chief executive of Sweden's largest insurer, Skandia, was
charged with fraud for allegedly handing out large bonuses to other
executives without board approval.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2006 Sep 6, Pres. Bush
acknowledged that the CIA had subjected dozens of detainees to “tough”
interrogation at secret prisons abroad and that 14 remaining detainees
have been transferred to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, In Phoenix, Arizona,
police arrested Mark Goudeau (42), a construction worker, for 2 sexual
assaults. In December police identified Goudeau as the Baseline Killer
and recommended charging him with 71 counts including 9 murders
committed from August, 2005, to June, 2006.
(www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=39736)(SFC,
12/8/06, p.A13)
2006 Sep 6, In Chicago George Ryan
(72), former Illinois governor, was sentenced to 6½ years in
prison for offenses including racketeering, conspiracy and fraud.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 6, Philadelphia’s Art
Commission voted 6-2 to move a 2,000-pound bronze statue of Rocky
Balboa, commissioned by actor Sylvester Stallone, out of storage and
onto a street-level pedestal near the steps of the Philadelphia Museum
of Art.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.A2)
2006 Sep 6, Andy Ross, owner of
Cody’s bookstore in Berkeley, Ca., announced that the store had been
sold to Yohan Inc., a book company based in Tokyo.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 6, Intel announced it
would cut more than a tenth of its workforce as part of a drive to
become more efficient in the face of tough competition in the computer
chip market.
(AFP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Reporting in the
Annals of Internal Medicine, European researchers said virgin olive oil
may be particularly effective at lowering heart disease risk because of
its high level of antioxidant plant compounds.
(Reuters, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Research reported in
Nature magazine said thawing permafrost, due to global warming, is
releasing trapped methane at a much higher rate than was assumed.
(WSJ, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, Afghan President Hamid
Karzai and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf held talks on
counterterrorism in Kabul. NATO forces killed 21 militants in air and
ground attacks in southern Kandahar province. Afghan police killed four
Taliban fighters in southeastern Paktiya province. 3 British soldiers
were killed.
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/7/06)(WSJ, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, Six junior members of
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government resigned to protest his
refusal to set a date to leave office amid a growing Labour Party
revolt.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, State media said
hundreds of people in northwestern China have been hospitalized with
lead poisoning that was likely caused by pollution from a nearby
smelter. The first sign of trouble in the villages of Xinsi and Moba,
Gansu province, came on Aug. 18.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, In eastern India 50
miners were killed after an explosion inside a state-owned coal mine in
Jharkhand state.
(AP, 9/7/06)(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 6, An Indonesian appeals
court sentenced four Australian members of a drug smuggling ring to
death, prompting a protest from the Australian government. Scott Rush,
Tan Duc Than Nguyen, Si Yi Chen and Matthew Norman had originally
received life terms for trying to take home more than 18 pounds of
heroin from Indonesia's resort island of Bali last year.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Iran unveiled its
first locally manufactured fighter plane during large-scale military
exercises. The report said the bomber Saegheh is similar to the
American F-18 fighter plane, but "more powerful."
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Iraq executed 27
"terrorists" convicted by Iraqi courts of killings and rapes in several
provinces. 2 bombs exploded in northern Baghdad within minutes of each
other, killing at least nine people and wounding 39 others. In
northeastern Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on a procession of pilgrims
heading to the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad,
killing one person and wounding two. Mortar attacks in residential
areas in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killed three people: a
2-year-old child in the Khan Bani Saad area and two people in
Muqdadiyah. In Baqouba gunmen killed three construction workers waiting
for a bus. An employee in the Diyala police and army coordination
office was shot to death as she left her house in the city's Tahrir
neighborhood. Gunmen also killed the owner of a food store in the same
area. Gunmen, in Baghdad kidnapped the nephew of Iraq's parliament
speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani. 2 American soldiers were killed in
separate incidents. Attacks across Iraq left 36 dead and 29 corpses
were found.
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/7/06)(WSJ, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, Japan's Princess Kiko
gave birth to the royal family's first male heir in four decades. The
male heir was named Hisahito, meaning "virtuous, calm and everlasting"
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 6, In Macau Steve Wynn,
American gambling mogul, opened his $1.2 billion Wynn Macau, a near
replica of his Nevada casino.
(WSJ, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, Mexico’s newly
declared President-elect Felipe Calderon began building his government
and his supporters called on backers of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador to end weeks of national protests over the disputed July 2
election. Gunmen barged into a bar in central Mexico and tossed five
human heads on the dance floor. An avalanche left 10 villagers dead in
northern Mexico.
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 6, Mexican authorities
arrested Jaime Maya Duran, a reputed major figure in one of Colombia's
largest and most feared drug cartels responsible for nearly half of the
cocaine smuggled into the US. He was flown immediately to New York,
where he is under indictment on drug trafficking and money laundering
charges.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 6, Unpaid employees in
the Palestinian prime minister's office joined a widespread strike that
is challenging the survival of the Hamas-led government. Sinn Fein
leader Gerry Adams met with a Hamas legislator in the West Bank and
advised Israel and the Palestinians to solve their problems using the
Northern Ireland formula, negotiations.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 6, The Philippine
government said it will take full control of Manila airport's
controversial new airport terminal despite an international court
ruling to return it to its builders. Philippine International Air
Terminals Co Inc (PIATCO) built the terminal under a
"build-operate-transfer" contract, but in 2002 President Arroyo revoked
the contract on the grounds that certain terms were illegally
renegotiated by Joseph Estrada, her deposed predecessor.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, A fire broke out
aboard the Daniil Moskovsky, a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents
Sea, killing two crew members and injuring another. The navy said there
was no radiation threat.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 6, More than 80
international scientists and academics released a letter that condemned
South Africa's AIDS policies as ineffective and immoral and called for
the firing of the health minister in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Sudanese security
forces in Khartoum fired tear gas and beat demonstrators with sticks in
a crackdown on protests against price increases for basic goods, after
thwarting similar protests a week ago. In Khartoum the beheaded body of
Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, editor-in-chief of the independent daily
Al-Wifaq, was recovered, a day after he was kidnapped by gunmen. He had
been accused of insulting Islam. A group claiming to be al-Qaida's
branch in Sudan said that it killed the chief editor. In 2007 ten
people were sentenced to death for the murder and beheading of Ahmed.
(Reuters, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/7/06)(AP, 9/13/06)(AP,
11/10/07)
2007 Sep 6, A Pentagon spokesman
said 16 detainees from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
have been transferred to the custody of Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 6, FBI agents arrested 12
people, including 11 public officials, in New Jersey on charges of
taking bribes in exchange for influencing the awarding of public
contracts. Mims Hackett Jr., mayor of Orange, was among those arrested.
(SFC, 9/7/07, p.A3)(WSJ, 5/27/08, p.A2)
2007 Sep 6, Authorities in
Colorado arrested Norman Hsu (56), a fugitive political fundraiser. Hsu
had failed to appear in a Redwood City, Ca., courtroom on Sep 5,
following bail over a 1992 fraud conviction. It was later reported that
Hsu had recently received $40 million from Source Financing Investors
LLC, an investment fund run by Joel Rosenman, one of the creators of
the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and that the money was missing. On Sep 19
the fund filed suit against Hsu.
(SFC, 9/7/07, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/12/07, p.A1)(SFC,
9/20/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 6, Martin Villegas,
Mexican boot maker to world leaders, including President Bush and
Vicente Fox, was arrested in Colorado along with two other Mexican
nationals and two US residents following a three-year undercover
operation by US Fish and Wildlife Service agents. The five allegedly
made 25 illegal shipments of banned skins into the US since 2005.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 6, A cocktail of
artificial colors and the commonly-used preservative sodium benzoate
are linked to hyperactivity in children, according to a ground-breaking
study published by The Lancet.
(AFP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, Scientists reported
that the Israeli acute paralysis virus, first identified in the Middle
East in 2004, is associated with the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD),
which was wreaking havoc on commercial bees in the US.
(SFC, 9/7/07, p.A8)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.83)
2007 Sep 6, Madeleine L’Engle
(b.1918), author, died in Litchfield, Conn. Her more than 60 books
included “A Wrinkle in Time” (1962), winner of the 1963 Newberry Medal
for best American children’s book.
(SFC, 9/8/07, p.A2)
2007 Sep 6, Alex (31), a gifted
African Grey parrot that could count to six, identify colors and even
express frustration with repetitive scientific trials, died at Brandeis
Univ., Mass., after 30 years of helping researchers better understand
the avian brain.
(AP, 9/12/07)(Econ, 9/22/07, p.103)
2007 Sep 6, Afghan and US-led
coalition forces killed "more than 20" insurgents in an eight-hour
battle that saw coalition aircraft bombing and strafing enemy positions
in Kandahar province. Two NATO soldiers were killed in two
separate bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 6, In Algeria a bomb
ripped through a crowd waiting for the Algerian president to arrive in
Batna, killing 22 people and injuring more than 107.
(AFP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 6, Australian PM John
Howard said he would tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that he
would not approve the sale of uranium to Moscow if there was any
possibility it could be resold to Iran or Syria.
(Reuters, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, In Australia Pacific
Rim nations agreed that climate change was of "vital interest," but
officials squabbled over whether their leaders should include energy
efficiency targets in a statement at their annual summit. China’s
President Hu Jintao, on the defensive over recalls of tainted
toothpaste, pet food and toys, told President Bush that Beijing was
stepping up product safety inspections.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, Media reports said
China has created its first agency to combat corruption, a rampant
problem that the country's communist leadership has said is a threat to
their rule. State media also reported that Chinese computer hackers are
infiltrating British government networks, giving them access to secret
information.
(AP, 9/7/07)(AFP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, Ayman Ismail Hassan,
one of the key witnesses and co-defendants in the trial of Egyptian
opposition leader Ayman Nour, was found hanged in his prison cell in
Cairo. "I confessed to forgery under pressure from officers from state
security," Hassan told reporters on June 30, 2005, after his lawyer
told the court he had changed his plea to not guilty.
(Reuters, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, Fiji's military-led
government imposed a monthlong state of emergency, accusing the prime
minister who was ousted in a coup last year of seeking to "destabilize"
the South Pacific nation.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 6, German police hunted
for about a dozen people suspected of plotting massive bomb attacks
against Americans in a plot whose discovery fanned debate over
increasing official surveillance powers.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, Indonesia and Russia
signed a $1 billion defense deal that will allow Indonesia to buy
dozens of helicopters, tanks and submarines, part of visiting Russian
President Vladimir Putin's efforts to boost his country's military
clout in Asia.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, The Iraqi government
announced it was adding millions of dollars to the budget of the
western province of Anbar to help rebuild the region. Gunmen opened
fire on Sunni worshippers in a drive-by shooting following evening
prayers in Kirkuk, killing at least three people and wounding four.
American and Iraqi Special Forces clashed with suspected Shiite
militiamen in western Baghdad before calling in airstrikes. Residents
and police said at least 14 people were killed. A roadside bomb
exploded next to a group of construction workers in the predominantly
Shiite area of Zafaraniyah, killing one and injuring five. Authorities
discovered five bodies, two in Baghdad's southern Dora area and 3 in
the western Amil area, all blindfolded and shot with their hands bound.
In Tikrit a car bomb near a gas station killed two civilians and
wounded 14 others. In several operations targeting al-Qaida in Iraq, US
troops killed six terrorist suspects and detained 25 others. Four US
Marines were killed in fighting in Anbar province, and three soldiers
were killed by a roadside bomb in northern Iraq.
(AP, 9/6/07)(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 6, Legendary Italian
tenor Luciano Pavarotti (71), who brought opera to the masses with his
powerful voice and jovial personality, died of pancreatic cancer in
Modena.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, Israeli troops backed
by tanks and bulldozers crossed into southern Gaza to strike at
Palestinian militants and 10 militants were killed. Palestinian
militants said fighters in a pickup truck and jeep crashed through a
fence on the Gaza-Israel border and attacked an Israeli army post. An
Israeli airstrike hit in Syria where it was believed weapons, being
sent from Iran to the militant Islamic group in Lebanon, were stored.
It was later reported that the airstrike was aimed at a partly
constructed nuclear reactor.
(AP, 9/6/07)(AP, 9/12/07)(SSFC, 10/14/07, p.A19)
2007 Sep 6, Jamaica's electoral
office confirmed the Labor Party's victory in a close election, sealing
its return to power after 18 years in opposition. The center right JLP
won 50.1% of the popular vote and 32 of 60 seats in parliament.
(AP, 9/7/07)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.42)
2007 Sep 6, Japan and North Korea
wrapped up a rare meeting without a breakthrough in an emotional row
over kidnappings, but they pledged to keep talking amid small signs of
hope between the arch-rivals.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, In Nicaragua the death
toll from Hurricane Felix rose to more than 40 as rescuers searched the
seas and civil defense workers reached isolated communities devastated
by the Category 5 storm. Scores of others remained missing.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, In Nigeria 5 people,
including two policemen, were shot dead in a failed attempt to rob a
bank in Lagos.
(AFP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, In Paraguay former
Gen. Lino Cesar Oviedo (67) was released from prison after serving 5
years of a 10-year sentence. He quickly declared his ambition to govern
the country.
(SFC, 9/7/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 6, An unmanned Russian
rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite malfunctioned after
liftoff, sending parts crashing in an uninhabited part of Kazakhstan
and triggering concerns about environmental damage.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, The US and Chinese
presidents set aside their differences on Taiwan and put pressure on
the island to drop plans for a referendum on UN membership.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 6, Mark Weil (55), an
Uzbek theater director whose productions caused controversy in the
tightly controlled former Soviet republic, was stabbed to death outside
his home in Tashkent. The llkhom Theater of Tashkent, which Weil
founded in 1(SFC, 5/16/08, p.)976, was the first independent theater in
the Soviet Union.
(AP, 9/8/07)(SFC, 5/17/08, p.E10)
2007 Sep 6, Pope Benedict XVI met
with Israeli President Shimon Peres, as the elder statesman and Nobel
Peace Prize laureate continued his visit to Italy amid an international
push for peace in the Middle East.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2008 Sep 6, The $500 million
GeoEye-1, a super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite, was launched into
orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.
GeoEye Inc. said that in black-and-white mode, the satellite can
distinguish objects on the Earth's surface as small as 16 inches.
(AP, 9/7/08)
2008 Sep 6, Tropical Storm Hanna
blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia, but
caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it
quickly headed north toward New England.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 6, In Martinez, Ca., Jose
Felix Sandoval, in search of his estranged wife, killed her cousin and
a police sergeant, before he was fatally shot by police officers.
(SFC, 9/7/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 6, The 45 nation Nuclear
Suppliers Group (NSG) overcame fierce obstacles and approved a landmark
US plan to engage in atomic trade with India, a deal that reverses more
than three decades of American policy. The plan still needs backing
from US Congress.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 6, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomb attack by a fake beggar inside a regional prosecutor's
office and a shoot-out between police and Taliban militants killed 15
people.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 6, Angolan election
officials extended voting by a day in the capital, but said the
logistical problems that marred the first balloting in 16 years were
confined to Luanda.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 6, Thousands of Armenians
lined the streets of the Yerevan to protest the first-ever visit by a
Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge the World War I
massacres of Armenian civilians as genocide.
(www.interfax.com/3/425662/news.aspx)
2008 Sep 6, Cuba politely declined
a US offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after
Hurricane Gustav, saying it would rather Washington suspend
restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it
needs to recover.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 6, In Egypt massive
boulders fell from the towering Muqattam cliffs onto a shanty town
outside Cairo and buried dozens of homes. The death toll rose on a
daily basis and reached 103 on Sep 19. According to residents, there
could be up to 500 people buried under the hundreds of tons of rock
that fell.
(AP, 9/6/08)(AP, 9/13/08)(AP, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 6, In Greece the body of
Amphithea Tanida (36) was found wrapped in sheets in a bathroom in her
parents' villa at Amarynthos on Evia. Masami Tanida (77), a retired
Japanese diplomat, and his wife Maria (67) were arrested the next day
and charged with murdering their daughter.
(AP, 9/8/08)
2008 Sep 6, In Iraq a suicide car
bomber blasted an outdoor market in northern Tal Afar city, killing six
people and wounding 54. Kurdish security forces raided a house in Irbil
province, killed a suspected member of an al-Qaida front group and
captured a 17-year-old girl wearing an explosives vest.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 6, Yahoo! Japan announced
support for victimized users whose Yahoo IDs were used illegally. The
company admitted that its online auction site suffered a huge security
breach and agreed to reimburse users who had been charged fees relating
to fraudulent transactions.
(http://blog.trendmicro.com/caution-needed-jp-yahoo-auctions-site-phished/)(Econ,
10/18/08, p.76)
2008 Sep 6, In Indian Kashmir
thousands of angry people took to the streets to denounce the killing
of a protester by government troops, who fired rubber bullets and tear
gas shells at Muslim demonstrators chanting anti-India slogans.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 6, Asif Ali Zardari, the
widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, became Pakistan's new
president after winning a landslide election victory in separate votes
in the federal and provincial assemblies. Overnight clashes left 24
people killed after residents of a village in the volatile northwest
foiled a militant kidnap attempt, then were attacked. An
explosives-packed pickup truck blew up at a police checkpoint on the
outskirts of Peshawar, killing 37 people.
(AP, 9/6/08)(AP, 9/7/08)(Econ, 9/20/08, p.55)
2008 Sep 6-2008 Sep 7, In the
southern Philippines 6 people were killed after a landslide triggered
by heavy rains buried houses in the village of Masara. Another
landslide the next day killed 5 more people there. At least 16 people
were left missing.
(AFP, 9/6/08)(AP, 9/7/08)
2008 Sep 6, In Sri Lanka air force
helicopters bombed rebel bunkers in the rebel-held Mullaittivu district
to support advancing ground troops.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 6, Sudanese forces
launched ground and air attacks on two rebel bases in North Darfur,
killing an unknown number of people.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 6, Swaziland King Mswati
III celebrated his 40th birthday and the nation’s 40th year of
independence in a lavish extravaganza officially estimated at $2.5
million, but widely believed to have cost 5 times more. Mswati remained
Africa’s last absolute monarch and lived a luxurious lifestyle with his
13 wives. Some 70% of the population of 1 million lived below the
poverty line and nearly 40% of adults were infected with the AIDS virus.
(SFC, 9/7/08, p.A9)
2008 Sep 6, Hurricane Ike barreled
toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm, prompting
an exodus of tourists and locals from the normally idyllic Atlantic
island chain.
(AP, 9/6/08)
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