Today in History - September 7
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0070 Sep 7, The
Roman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1151 Sep 7, Geoffrey Plantagenet,
earl of Anjou and duke of Normandy, died at 38.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1497 Sep 7, Sailor Perkin Warbeck
became [briefly] England’s King Richard I.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1533 Sep 7, Elizabeth I, Queen of
England, was born in Greenwich. She led her country during the
exploration of the New World and war with Spain which destroyed the
Spanish Armada. Elizabeth Tudor (d.1603), the daughter of Henry VIII
and Anne Boleyn, reigned as Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. She
went bald at age 29 due to smallpox.
(WUD, 1994, p.463)(SFC,10/18/97, p.E4)(AP,
9/7/97)(HN, 9/7/98)(MC, 9/7/01)
1599 Sep 7, Earl of Essex and
Irish rebel Tyrone signed a treaty.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1630 Sep 7, The Massachusetts town
of Trimontaine (Shawmut), was renamed Boston, and became the state
capital. It was named after a town of the same name in Lincolnshire,
England.
(HN, 9/7/98)(www.bostonhistory.org/faq.html)
1635 Sep 7, Pal Esterhazy,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1701 Sep 7, England, Austria, and
the Netherlands formed an Alliance against France.
(HN, 9/7/98)
1707 Sep 7, George-Louis Leclerc
(d.1788), Comte de Buffon, French naturalist and theoretical biologist.
He commented on the origins of marine invertebrate fossils in the hills
of France. He also wrote a 35 volume work titled “Histoire Naturelle,
Generale, et Particuliere," that was an attempt to record all that was
known of the world of nature.
(DD-EVTT, p.114)(WSJ, 8/28/97, p.A12)(MC, 9/7/01)
1726 Sep 7, Francois-Andre Danican
Philidor, French composer and chess champion, was born.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1739 Sep 7, Joseph Legros,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1778 Sep 7, Shawnee Indians
attacked and laid siege to Boonesborough, Kentucky.
(HN, 9/7/98)
1887 Sep 7, Dame Edith Sitwell
(d.1964), English poet, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sitwell)
1800 Sep 7, The NYC Zion AME
Church was dedicated.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1807 Sep 7, Denmark surrendered to
British forces that had bombarded the city of Copenhagen for four days.
(AP, 9/7/07)
1812 Sep 7, On the road to Moscow,
Napoleon won a costly victory over the Russians under Kutuzov at
Borodino. This was the greatest mass slaughter in the history of
warfare until the Battle of the Somme in 1916. In 2004 Adam Zamoyski
authored “Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow.”
(HN, 9/7/98)(Econ, 4/17/04, p.81)
1813 Sep 7, The earliest known
printed reference to the United States by the nickname “Uncle Sam”
occurred in the Troy Post. [see Oct, 1814]
(HN, 9/7/98)
1822 Sep 7, Brazil declared its
independence from Portugal.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Brazil)(AP,
9/7/97)
1825 Sep 7, The Marquis de
Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to
President John Quincy Adams at the White House.
(AP, 9/7/99)
1845 Sep 7, Isabella Colbran, wife
of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, died.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1860 Sep 7, Anna Marie Robertson
(Grandma Moses, d.1953), American folk painter, best known for her
paintings of rural life, was born. Anna Mary Robertson began painting
at the age of 78. Her primitive and untrained art holds great appeal in
its simplicity. [see 1953]
(MC, 9/7/01)(HN, 9/7/02)
1860 Sep 7, Edith Sitwell, poet,
was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.
(HN, 9/7/00)
1860 Sep 7, The Excursion steamer
"Lady Elgin" sank and drowned 340 people in Lake Michigan.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1864 Sep 7, Union General Phil
Sheridan’s troops skirmished with the Confederates under Jubal Early
outside Winchester, Virginia.
(HN, 9/7/00)
1867 Sep 7, President Andrew
Johnson extended amnesty to all but a few of the leaders of the
Confederacy.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1876 Sep 7, The James and Younger
gang botched an attempt to rob the First National Bank of Northfield,
Minn. Joseph Heywood, the bank teller, was shot and killed when he
refused to open the safe. The 3 Younger brothers, Cole, Bob and Jim,
were captured 2 weeks later in a swamp near Madelia. 3 others were
killed. Photos of all 6 were taken at the time and identified by Cole
Younger, who wrote the names on the pictures. The pictures sold at
auction in 1999 for $39,100. The raid was reenacted in 1948 and became
a regular event in 1970.
(HN, 9/7/98)(WSJ, 10/29/99, p.W16)(WSJ, 9/6/01,
p.A20)(MT, Summer 02, p.22)
1888 Sep 7, The 1st US incubator
was used on a premature infant, Edith Eleanor McLean. It was built by
Dr. William Champion Deming at the State Emigrant Hospital, Ward's
Island, NY.
(HN, 9/7/98)(www.medterms.com)
1892 Sep 7, In New Orleans the 1st
heavyweight-title boxing match, fought with gloves under the rules of
the Marquis of Queensbury [Queensberry], aka John S. Douglas, ended
when James J. Corbett (1866-1933) knocked out John L. Sullivan
(1858-1918) in the 21st round. In 1891 Corbett had fought Peter
Jackson to a draw after 61 rounds. Corbett lost his title to Robert
Fitzsimmons in 1897.
(AH, 2/06,
p.29)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Sullivan)(SFEC, 3/7/99, Z1
p.8)
1892 Sep 7, John G. Whittier, US
poet and secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, died.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1893 Sep 7, The Rhine river was
officially closed for bathing. It had been determined the Rhine was
infected with cholera.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1900 Sep 7, Taylor Caldwell,
novelist, was born.
(HN, 9/7/00)
1901 Sep 7, The Peace of Peking
(Beijing) ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1907 Sep 7, The British liner RMS
Lusitania set out on its maiden voyage, from Liverpool, England, to New
York, arriving six days later. The Lusitania was sunk by a German
submarine in 1915.
(AP, 9/7/07)
1908 Sep 7, Michael E.
DeBakey, heart surgery pioneer, was born in Lake Charles, La.
(www.fact-index.com)
1909 Sep 7, Elia Kazan (d.2003)
was born as Alia Kazanjoglous in Constantinople to Anatolian Greek
parents. Kazan became a producer, screenwriter and director who won
directing Oscars for "Gentleman’s Agreement" and "On the Waterfront."
(HN, 9/7/98)(AP, 9/29/03)(SFC, 9/29/03, p.A18)
1912 Sep 7, French aviator Roland
Garros set an altitude record of 13,200 feet.
(HN, 9/7/98)
1914 Sep 7, James Alfred Van Allen
(d.2006), physicist, was born in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. In 1958 he
discovered the two radiation belts surrounding the Earth, which were
named after him.
(HN, 9/7/98)(SFC, 8/10/06, p.B7)
1914 Sep 7, In the Battle of Marne
French Gen. Gallieni commandeered some 600 hundred Paris taxicabs to
deliver overnight 6,000 men of the 3rd army to reinforce the 6th Army
at the Battle of the Marne, which allowed the French army to hold.
(ON, 8/08, p.5)
1915 Sep 7, John Gruelle patented
his Raggedy Ann doll.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1916 Sep 7, The U.S. Congress
passed the Workman’s Compensation Act.
(HN, 9/7/00)
1924 Sep 7, Daniel Ken Inouye,
(Sen-D Hawaii, 1963- ), was born.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1927 Sep 7, American television
pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth (21) succeeded in transmitting an image
through purely electronic means by using a device called an image
dissector. When Philo T. Farnsworth was 13, he envisioned a contraption
that would receive an image transmitted from a remote location—the
television. Farnsworth submitted a patent in January 1927, when he was
19, and began building and testing his invention that summer. He used
an "image dissector" (the first television camera tube) to convert the
image into a current, and an "image oscillite" (picture tube) to
receive it. On this day his tests bore fruit. When the simple image of
a straight line was placed between the image dissector and a carbon arc
lamp, it showed up clearly on the receiver in another room. His first
tele-electronic image was transmitted on a glass slide in his SF lab at
202 Green St. The New York World’s Fair showcased the television in
April 1939, and soon afterward, the first televisions went on sale to
the public.
(AP, 9/7/97)(HNPD, 9/7/98)(SFEC, 8/18/96, BR p.3)
1930 Sep 7, Sonny Rollins,
saxophonist, was born.
(HN, 9/7/00)
1934 Sep 7-8, The luxury liner
"Morro Castle," enroute from Havana to NYC, caught fire and ran aground
at Asbury Park, NJ. 134 people were killed. [see Sep 8]
(www.jerseyboardwalk.com/morro.htm)
1936 Sep 7, Rock legend Buddy
Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1940 Sep 7, Nazi Germany began its
initial blitz on London during the World War II Battle of Britain. The
German Luftwaffe blitzed London for the 1st of 57 consecutive nights.
Nazi Germany launched the aerial bombing of London that Adolf Hitler
believed would soften Britain for an invasion. The invasion, "Operation
Sea Lion," never materialized. The Luftwaffe lost 41 bombers over
England. The blitz only strengthened Britain's resistance. The defense
of London was for the Royal Air Force what Churchill called
"their finest hour."
(AP, 9/7/97)(HN, 9/7/98)
1942 Sep 7, The Red Army pushed
back the German line northwest of Stalingrad. The Krummer Lauf allowed
German infantry and motorized artillery units to actually fire around
corners.
(HN, 9/7/98)
1943 Sep 7, Fire in a decrepit old
Gulf Hotel killed 45 in Houston, Texas.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1944 Sep 7, Nazi SS-General Kurt
("Panzer") Meyer took Durnal, Belgium.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1947 Sep 7, Battles took place
between Hindus and Moslems in New Delhi.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1952 Sep 7, General Mohammad
Naguib (1901-1984) formed an Egyptian government and became premier.
Naguib served as Egypt’s 1st president. He was dismissed in Nov, 1954.
(MC, 9/7/01)(www.presidency.gov.eg)
1954 Sep 7-8, Integration of
public schools began in Washington DC and Maryland.
(HN,
9/7/98)(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/presscenter/timeline.htm)
1957 Sep 7, The original version
of the animated NBC peacock logo, used to denote programs "brought to
you in living color," made its debut at the beginning of "Your Hit
Parade."
(AP, 9/7/07)
1963 Sep 7, The Beatles made their
1st US TV appearance on ABC’s Big Night Out.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1963 Sep 7, American Bandstand
moved to California and aired once a week on Saturday.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1963 Sep 7, The National
Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1967 Sep 7, The situation comedy
"The Flying Nun," starring Sally Field as a nun who finds that she can
fly, debuted on ABC.
(AP, 9/7/07)
1968 Sep 6, Feminists protesting
outside the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J., tossed
articles including cosmetics, girdles and bras into a trash can
ostensibly for burning, although nothing was actually set on fire. Miss
Illinois Judith Ford won the pageant.
(AP, 9/7/08)
1969 Sep 7, Senate Republican
leader Everett McKinley Dirksen (b.1896) of Illinois, ("The Wizard of
Ooze") died at 73 in Washington, D.C.
(AP,
9/7/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen)
1970 Sep 7, Donald Boyles set a
record for the highest parachute jump from a bridge by leaping off of
1,053 ft Royal George Bridge in Colorado.
(www.baseclimb.com/BASE_history.htm)
1972 Sep 7, Pres. Nixon said that
he wanted Ted Kennedy covered by a Secret Service spy because he saw
him as a political threat.
(SFC, 2/8/97, p.A3)
1972 Sep 7, The Commissioner of
Indian Affairs in a memorandum extended federal recognition to the
Chippewa tribe of Sault Ste. Marie in Northern Michigan. The meaning of
this federal recognition was further clarified in a memorandum by the
Associate Solicitor for Indian Affairs on February 27, 1974.
(http://tinyurl.com/5c8cfu)
1974 Sep 7, The musical "Irene"
closed at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances.
(www.debbiereynoldsonline.com/irene.htm)
1975 Sep 7, The NBC drama “The
Family Holvak” featured Glenn Ford (1916-2006). The show aired for the
last time on Dec 28.
(SFC, 8/31/06,
p.B7)(www.tv.com/the-family-holvak/show/9109/summary.html)
1977 Sep 7, Pres. Carter and
Gen'l. Torrijos signed the Panama Canal treaties (the Torrijos-Carter
Treaties) in Washington, DC. The 2 treaties abrogated the Hay-Bunau
Varilla Treaty of 1903 and called for the US to eventually turn over
control of the waterway to Panama. The US Southern Command was
scheduled to withdraw to new Miami headquarters by the end of 1999. The
US agreed to clean up its bases before turning them over. The deal was
negotiated by Sol Linowitz (d.2005).
(AP, 9/7/97)(WSJ, 3/21/05,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrijos-Carter_Treaties)
1977 Sep 7, Convicted Watergate
conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison after more than
four years.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1978 Sep 7, Keith Moon (b.1946),
English drummer for "The Who" rock group, died of drug OD at 31.
(SFC, 10/17/96,
E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Moon)
1978 Sep 7, Sri Lanka’s new
constitution went into effect. The new Constitution provided for a
unicameral Parliament with legislative power and an Executive
President.
(SFC, 10/11/00,
p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Sri_Lanka)
1979 Sep 7, The Entertainment and
Sports Programming Network, ESPN, made its cable TV debut. In 1984 it
was bought by ABC, which was in turn bought by Disney in 1996.
(AP, 9/7/97)(Econ, 8/2/08, SR p.5)
1979 Sep 7, The Chrysler
Corporation petitioned the United States government for $1.5 billion in
loan guarantees to avoid bankruptcy.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler)
1979 Sep 7, The Karoo National
Park in South Africa was proclaimed. It officially opened on September
12.
(Nat. Hist., 3/96,
p.60)(www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=43)
1980 Sep 7, The 32nd Emmy Awards
were held. Winners included Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner and Barbara Bel
Geddes.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0343337/)
1986 Sep 7, In Chile Gen’l.
Pinochet narrowly survived an assassination attempt involving 70
terrorists. 5 of his escorts were murdered.
(WSJ, 10/30/98, p.A19)(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A3)
1986 Sep 7, Desmond Tutu was
installed as the Anglican archbishop of Capetown, the first black to
lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1987 Sep. 7, The Rev. Jesse
Jackson declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1987 Sep 7, Erich Honecker became
the first East German head of state to visit West Germany as he arrived
for a five-day visit.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1988 Sep 7, Vice President George
Bush startled an American Legion audience in Louisville, Ky., by
referring to Sept. 7 as "Pearl Harbor Day," which is actually Dec. 7.
Realizing his mistake, Bush said, "Did I say Sept. 7? Sorry about
that."
(AP, 9/7/98)
1988 Sep 7, The Security &
Exchange Commission accused Drexel of violating security laws.
(http://tinyurl.com/efx9t)
1988 Sep 7, Seymour (62) and
Arlene (54) Tankleff were bludgeoned to death in their Long Island
home. Their adopted son, Martin Tankleff (17), initially confessed to
the crime after a detective falsely told him the father had implicated
him. Martin quickly withdrew the confession, but was sentenced to 50
years following one of the nation’s first televised trials. In 2007 he
was released after detectives turned up witnesses that implicated a
business partner of his father.
(SFC, 12/28/07,
p.A3)(www.courttv.com/news/2007/1228/tankleff_ap.html)
1989 Sep 7, The US Senate voted
76-8 to approve the Americans with Disabilities Act, forbidding
discrimination in employment, public accommodations, transportation and
communications.
(AP, 9/7/99)
1989 Sep 7, In San Francisco a
robbery by 2 bandits took place at the BofA headquarters. A Brink’s
guard was killed and another wounded along with a passer-by. The
bandits escaped on mountain bikes with undisclosed sums that were later
believed to be bearer bonds.
(SFEC, 6/25/00, Z1 p.3)
1990 Sep 7, President Bush left
for his one-day Finland summit with Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev.
(AP, 9/7/00)
1990 Sep 7, Kimberly Bergalis of
Fort Pierce, Florida, came forward to identify herself as the young
woman who had been infected with AIDS, apparently by her late
dentist. Bergalis died the following year.
(AP, 9/7/00)
1990 Sep 7, Alan J.P. Taylor,
British historian (Origins of WW II), died.
(http://tinyurl.com/qkf67)
1991 Sep 7, Monica Seles won the
U.S. Open in New York, defeating Martina Navratilova 7-6, 6-1.
(AP, 9/7/01)
1991 Sep 7, The European Community
opened a peace conference in the Netherlands aimed at bringing peace to
Yugoslavia.
(AP, 9/7/01)
1992 Sep 7, Baseball Commissioner
Fay Vincent resigned, four days after a no-confidence vote by club
owners.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1992 Sep 7, Troops in South Africa
fired on African National Congress supporters near the Transkei
homeland, killing 28 and wounding 200. 29 ANC protestors were killed in
the Bisho massacre by troops of the homeland of Ciskei. Major General
Marius Oelschig radioed the “open fire” command. He said that he was
convinced by officers on the seen that they were under danger of
imminent attack.
(WSJ, 9/10/96, p.A1)(SFC, 9/12/96, p.A14)(AP, 9/7/97)
1993 Sep 7, President Clinton put
forth an ambitious plan to "reinvent government" by reducing the
federal bureaucracy.
(AP, 9/7/98)
1993 Sep 7, Dr. Joycelyn Elders
was confirmed by the Senate to be surgeon general.
(AP, 9/7/98)
1993 Sep 7, Two white laborers
were convicted in West Palm Beach, Fla., of burning a black tourist
from New York; both were later sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 9/7/98)
1993 Sep 7, Hall Bartlett
(b.1922), US director, writer and producer, died. His film productions
included “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” (1973).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0058826/)
1994 Sep 7, U.S. Marines began
training on a Puerto Rican island amid talk in Washington of a U.S.-led
intervention in Haiti.
(AP, 9/7/99)
1994 Sep 7, After a brief meeting,
the United States and Cuba temporarily suspended talks on stemming the
Cuban refugee exodus.
(AP, 9/7/99)
1994 Sep 7, James Clavell
(b.1924), Australian-born author and director (King Rat, Shogun), died
in Switzerland.
{Writer, film}
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0165412/)
1995 Sep 7, After 27 years in the
Senate, Bob Packwood (Republican, Oregon) announced he would resign,
heading off a vote by colleagues to expel him for allegations of sexual
and official misconduct.
(AP, 9/7/00)
1995 Sep 7, John F. Kennedy Jr.
unveiled his new "George" magazine.
(www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/10/09/the_george_effect/)
1995 Sep 7, The space shuttle
“Endeavour” thundered into orbit with five astronauts on a mission to
release and recapture a pair of science satellites.
(AP, 9/7/00)
1996 Sep 7, Isabel Correa became
the 40th person known to have died in the presence of Dr. Jack
Kevorkian, less than a day after police burst into a Michigan motel
room, interrupting a meeting between her and Kevorkian.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1996 Sep. 7, Rapper Tupac Shakur
was shot on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1996 Sep 7, Emergency food from
the World Food Program reached Tubmanburg, Liberia, where half the
35,000 population suffered from extreme hunger.
(SFC, 9/9/96, p.A11)
1997 Sep 7, The US F-22 Raptor
stealth fighter took its first flight from Dobbins Air Reserve Base
north of Atlanta, Ga. The plane was estimated to cost $100 million.
(SFC, 9/8/97, p.A8)
1997 Sep 7, This was the scheduled
date for Israel’s departure from the West Bank, except for Jewish
settlements and certain military locations according to a peace accord
negotiated between Arafat and Rabin on Sep 24, 1995.
(SFC, 1/9/96, p.A10)
1997 Sep 7, Mobuto Sese Seko (66),
former dictator of Zaire, later Congo, died of prostate cancer in exile
in Rabat, Morocco. Mobutu began his career in the Belgian Congolese
army, rising to the highest rank available to Africans, sergeant-major.
However, after leaving the army in 1956, he began to be involved with
the independence movement, representing the nationalists at some
negotiations. Five years after independence, in 1965, Mobutu, then
commander in chief of the army, exploited a power struggle in the young
government by assuming the presidency in a coup. Mobutu managed to stay
in power over the following decades despite uprisings, coup attempts
and Angola-backed rebels. In the early 1970s, he began to Africanize
names in the country, most notably changing the name of the country
from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Republic of Zaire and
his own name from Joseph-Désiré Mobutu to Mobutu Sese
Seko Koko Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (which means “The all-powerful warrior
who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, will go from
conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake”). The end of the Cold
War meant that, in 1991, Mobutu could no longer hold the same
dictatorial control he had held over the country nor keep his party,
the MPR, as the only legal political entity. With the beginnings of a
multiparty system and a lack of Western finance, Mobutu released
control of the government to the rebel leader Laurent Kabila in May
1997. Kabila‘s rebels—backed by Rwanda and Uganda—had been gaining
ground over the past seven months. Mobutu died in exile several months
later. In 2001 Michela Wrong authored “”In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz:
Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo.”
(SFC, 9/8/97, p.A8)(AP, 9/7/98)(HNQ, 2/15/01)(WSJ,
4/27/01, p.W10)
1997 Sep 7, In the disputed
Kashmir region Indian and Pakistani gunners exchanged artillery fire
and 14 villagers on the Pakistani side were reported killed and 5 were
reported killed on the Indian side.
(WSJ, 9/8/97, p.A16)
1998 Sep 7, In baseball the St.
Louis Cardinal’s Mark McGwire hit his 61st home run at Busch Stadium in
St. Louis against the Chicago Cubs in the first inning. This tied the
1961 record held by Roger Maris.
(SFC, 9/8/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 7, In Atlanta the 4-day
Million Youth Movement ended with a march of less than 10,000 black
youths.
(SFC, 9/8/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 7, Disneyland’s new
Tomorrowland was scheduled to open this Memorial Day in Anaheim, Ca.,
with whirling orbs and speeding starships.
(SFC, 7/14/96, p.T3)
1998 Sep 7, In Colorado 6 people
were found shot to death at 3 locations in Aurora. Two teenagers killed
5 people and then one of the teens killed the other.
(SFC, 9/8/98, p.A3)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 7, At the New York State
Fair in Syracuse two people were killed during a heavy storm. Gov.
George Pataki declared a disaster emergency in 9 counties.
(SFC, 9/8/98, p.A2)
1998 Sep 7, It was reported that
20 million Bangladeshis had their homes swamped by monsoon flood that
lasted 2 months. Over 700 people were reported killed.
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A9)
1998 Sep 7, In Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, Hun Sen ordered the arrests of his opponents and at least one
person was killed as police fired into a crowd of protestors.
(SFC, 9/8/98, p.A8)
1998 Sep 7, In Indonesia students
rallied in Jakarta and demanded that Pres. Habibie quit. Rioters in
Kebumen attacked ethnic Chinese shops and homes.
(WSJ, 9/8/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 7, In Kenya the Central
Bank took closed the Reliance Bank due to insufficient deposits. Five
businessmen and 4 officials were charged with fraud.
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.A22)
1998 Sep 7, In Malaysia the market
index rose 22.5%.
(WSJ, 9/8/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 7, Russian lawmakers
rejected Boris Yeltsin's candidate for prime minister, Viktor
Chernomyrdin, for a second time, throwing the country into even deeper
political turmoil.
(SFC, 9/8/98, p.A1)(AP, 9/7/99)
1998 Sep 7, A summit in Zimbabwe
was scheduled to create conditions for a cease-fire in Congo. A half
dozen nations gathered to fashion a draft initiative for peace.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A11)(SFC, 9/8/98, p.A8)
1999 Sep 7, Henry Cisneros, former
housing secretary for Pres. Clinton, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor
count of lying to the FBI on payments to a former mistress. He
acknowledged payment of $250k. His investigation took 4 years and cost
$10 million.
(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 7, The US threatened the
withdrawal of financial aid to Indonesia if violence in East Timor was
not curtailed.
(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 7, In NY twelve Puerto
Rican prisoners agreed to accept Pres. Clinton's offer of conditional
amnesty. The House of Rep. Later condemned the offer in a symbolic vote
of 311-41.
(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A3)(WSJ, 9/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 7, Viacom Inc. announced
the acquisition of CBS Corp. for some $36 billion in stock. It was the
richest media merger in history.
(WSJ, 9/8/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/7/00)
1999 Sep 7, In Cambodia the
military court charged Ta Mok, a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla chief,
with genocide.
(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A15)
1999 Sep 7, In Egypt police shot
and killed 4 suspected Islamic militants including Farid Kidwan, leader
of al-Gamaa al-Islamiya.
(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 7, In Greece a 5.9
earthquake hit Athens and 64 people were killed, 650 injured and 50
missing. The death toll later reached 143.
(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/9/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/16/99,
p.A1)(AP, 9/7/00)
1999 Sep 7, Indonesia imposed
martial law in East Timor, promising to crack down on rampaging
pro-Indonesian militias after the territory’s vote for independence.
(AP, 9/7/00)
1999 Sep 7, In Vietnam Madeleine
Albright commissioned the new US consulate in Ho Chi Minh City.
(WSJ, 9/8/99, p.A1)
2000 Sep 7, In SF a US District
Judge ruled that federal authorities cannot strip doctors of their
license to prescribe medicine if the physicians advise their patients
to use marijuana.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 7, A jury in Coeur
D'Alene, Idaho, awarded $6.3 million to a woman and her son who were
attacked by Aryan Nations guards outside the white supremacist group's
north Idaho headquarters.
(AP, 9/7/01)
2000 Sep 7, Scientists reported
that the ozone layer over Antarctica had grown to 11 million square
miles.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A7)
2000 Sep 7, In Chechnya 4 Russian
soldiers were killed during a rebel ambush in Grozny.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 7, The UN Security
Council approved an organizational overhaul of UN peacekeeping.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 7, In France taxi drivers
began “Operation Escargot,” driving into cities at a snails pace, to
protest gasoline prices.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 7, In West Timor 20
people were reported killed in the village of Betun in another rampage
by militiamen.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A1)
2001 Sep 7, The final “Mister
Rogers’ Neighborhood” TV show aired as Fred Rogers (72) retired.
(SFC, 8/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 7, Venus Williams and
Serena Williams reached the finals of the U.S. Open, becoming the first
sisters to play for a Grand Slam championship in more than 100 years.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2001 Sep 7, The White House budget
chief warned top congressional Republicans the Social Security surplus
was on track to be tapped for other programs, prompting a hastily
called meeting to discuss ways of avoiding that politically perilous
scenario.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2001 Sep 7, The US State Dept.
issued a memo that warned Americans “may be the target of a terrorist
threat.”
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A13)
2001 Sep 7, The US jobless rate
for August was reported with a rise of .4%. The DJIA fell 235 to 9,605.
The Nasdaq ended at 1,687.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 7, In Miami 13 current
and former police officers were indicted for planting evidence,
coverups and multiple cases of misconduct from the mid 1990s. More
indictments were expected.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 7, Fabio Ochoa, former
leader of the Medellin cartel, was extradited from Colombia to the US
to stand trial for shipping cocaine to the US.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 7, Australia intercepted
a boat with 200 migrants and put them on the same ship taking 433
Afghans to Papua New Guinea.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Sep 7, In Gaza City Yasser
Arafat was reported to be in discussions with Hamas on a power-sharing
proposal.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 7, In Nigeria violence
between Christians and Muslims erupted in Jos. Pres. Obasanjo called
out the military the next day with dozens dead. Thousands fled the area
and at least 70 people were killed.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 9/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 7, In South Africa the UN
Conference on Racism went into overtime and agreed on a deal. The
conference acknowledged that slavery and the salve trade were crimes
against humanity, expressed an apology and offered a package of
economic assistance to Africa. A deal on the Middle East was not yet
reached.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A8)
2002 Sep 7, Serena Williams easily
beat Venus Williams 6-4, 6-3 to win the U.S. Open and a third straight
Grand Slam title.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Sep 7, Pres. Bush met with
British PM Tony Blair at Camp David, Md., to work out a strategy for
taking action against Iraq's Saddam Hussein. They said the world had to
act against Saddam Hussein, arguing that the Iraqi leader had defied
the United Nations and reneged on promises to destroy weapons of mass
destruction.
(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.A3)(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Sep 7, U.S. Navy fighter jets
dropped dummy bombs and inert missiles on Vieques in military exercises
that have divided this outlying Puerto Rican island for years.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, Uzi Gal (79), the
German-born inventor of Israel's Uzi submachine gun, died in
Philadelphia of a long illness. [see 1954]
(AP, 9/9/02)(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A16)
2002 Sep 7, In Paris over 6,000
people marched through to demand residency permits for France's illegal
immigrants in the largest of a series of recent rallies.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, Indonesian officials
say 35 deportees from Malaysia have died at sprawling makeshift camps
in Borneo as they await the arrival of a navy vessel bringing medical
help.
(Reuters, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, In Nepal over one
thousand Maoist rebels, fighting to topple Nepal's constitutional
monarchy, attacked a police post in the east of the country and killed
49 police officers.
(Reuters, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 7, In Portugal the town
of Reguengos de Monsaraz openly flouted a new bullfighting law, killing
a bull in the ring without government permission, and selling the beef
for human consumption afterward. The matador and the festival
organizers will be arraigned in the first legal test of the new
anti-bullfighting law. Killing in the bullring had been banned since
1928. However, Parliament voted in July to allow bulls to be put to
death, but only in cities and towns that have carried on the
bullfighting tradition for 50 years or more.
(AP, 9/8/02)
2002 Sep 7, In Turkey 17 people
were killed in separate bus crashes Saturday, including two members of
a professional Turkish soccer team.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, The U.N. Security
Council has decided to keep U.N. peacekeepers in Ethiopia and Eritrea
six more months to give the countries time to mark their border.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2002 Sep 7, Katrin Cartlidge (41),
the spirited English actress who distinguished herself in the movies of
Mike Leigh and in the London theater, died of septicemia resulting from
pneumonia.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2003 Sep 7, President Bush spoke
on national TV and said he would ask Congress for $87 billion to fight
terrorism. He cautioned that the struggle "will take time and require
sacrifice."
(AP, 9/8/03)
2003 Sep 7, The top American
commander in Afghanistan said Taliban fighters, paid and trained by
al-Qaida, were pouring into Afghanistan from Pakistan.
(AP, 9/8/03)
2003 Sep 7, Goran Markovic's "The
Cordon", a film from Serbia and Montenegro about the behavior of
policemen during the demonstrations against president Slobodan
Milosevic in 1997, won the top prize at the Montreal film festival.
(Reuters, 9/7/03)
2003 Sep 7, The Russian drama "The
Return" won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for best picture.
Vladimir Girin (15), star of the film, drowned shortly after the film
was shot. Randa Chahal Sabbag, Lebanese filmmaker, won the Silver Lion
prize for her film “Le cerf-volant” (The Kite), a love story between a
Lebanese girl and an Israeli border guard.
(SFC, 9/8/03, p.D5)(WPR, 3/04, p.45)
2003 Sep 7, Warren Zevon (56),
songwriter, died in West Hollywood. His work included the 1970s rock
hit "Werewolves of London."
(AP, 9/8/03)(WSJ, 9/9/03, p.D6)
2003 Sep 7, Fighting in northeast
Colombia killed seven army soldiers and at least eight rebels.
(AP, 9/8/03)
2003 Sep 7, A ferry boat traveling
from Indonesia's Bali island sank, killing at least six people and
leaving dozens missing.
(AP, 9/7/03)
2003 Sep 7, Mamohato Bereng Seeiso
(62), the queen mother of the tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho, died
after collapsing in a church outside the capital.
(AP, 9/8/03)
2003 Sep 7, Macedonian police
clashed with ethnic Albanian militants in the volatile north, and
reported killing several men in what they said was a major sweep
against groups that threaten the Balkan country's fragile peace.
(AP, 9/7/03)
2003 Sep 7, Palestinian Pres.
Yasser Arafat tapped the parliament speaker, Ahmed Qureia, to take over
as prime minister following the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas.
(SFC, 9/8/03, p.A1)(AP, 9/7/08)
2004 Sep 7, The Congressional
Budget Office said the US deficit would hit a record $422 billion this
year.
(SFC, 9/8/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 7, Kirk Fordice (70),
former Mississippi Gov. (1992-2000) died in Jackson, Miss.
(AP, 9/7/05)
2004 Sep 7, In southwestern China
floods unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 161 people
and left dozens more missing, prompting authorities to put the massive
Three Gorges hydroelectric project on alert.
(AP, 9/7/04)(WSJ, 9/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 7, Hundreds of angry
farmers seized Guatemala's largest hydroelectric dam, threatening to
shut off power to large parts of the country unless the government
agrees to return nearby lands to them.
(AP, 9/7/04)
2004 Sep 7, British oil
exploration firm Cairn Energy, which has announced a series of oil
discoveries in India, said that oil in place in the Mangala field was
estimated to reach one billion barrels, with recoverable reserves of
100-320 million barrels.
(AFP, 9/7/04)
2004 Sep 7, Munir Said Thalib
(b.1965), prominent Indonesian human rights activist, died of arsenic
poisoning aboard a Garuda Indonesia flight to the Netherlands. In
March, 2005, Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto was taken into
custody. In June it was reported that Indonesia’s intelligence service
was involved in Thalib’s death. In December, 2005, Pollycarpus Priyanto
was found guilty of Munir's murder by an Indonesian court and sentenced
to 14 years imprisonment. In 2006 Indonesia’s Supreme Court quashed the
murder conviction citing insufficient evidence. In 2008 Indonesia’s
supreme court found Pollycarpus Priyanto guilty of poisoning Munir and
sentenced him to 20 years in prison. In 2008 Indonesian police arrested
Muchdi Purwoprandjono, a former top intelligence official, for
suspected involvement in the killing of Thalib.
(WSJ, 6/27/05,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munir_Said_Thalib)(AFP,
10/4/06)(AFP, 1/25/08)(AP, 6/19/08)
2004 Sep 7, US forces battled
insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum
of Sadr City, in clashes that killed 34 people, including one American
soldier. The US death toll in Iraq topped 1,000 since military
operation began in March 2003. In private estimates Iraqi deaths ranged
from 10,000 to 30,000 killed across the nation.
(AP, 9/7/04)(SFC, 9/8/04, p.A1)(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 7, An Italian aid
organization said that two Italian women were kidnapped from its office
in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/7/04)
2004 Sep 7, Israeli helicopters
attacked a Hamas training camp, killing at least 14 militants and
wounding 30 others.
(AP, 9/7/04)
2004 Sep 7, A Nepali labor union
with links to Maoist rebels asked 35 firms across the embattled
Himalayan kingdom to shut shop in a move aimed at bolstering the
guerrilla campaign to overthrow the monarchy.
(Reuters, 9/7/04)
2005 Sep 7, President Bush led the
nation in a final tribute to William H. Rehnquist, remembering the 16th
chief justice as the Supreme Court’s steady leader and a man of
lifetime integrity.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2005 Sep 7, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger said he would veto a bill to legalize same-sex marriage
"out of respect for the will of the people." He cited Proposition 22, a
ballot measure passed in 2000 that defined marriage in California.
(AP, 9/8/05)(SFC, 9/8/05, p.A5)
2005 Sep 7, Police and soldiers
went house to house in New Orleans to try to coax the last stubborn
holdouts into leaving the storm-shattered city. More than 30 patients
were reportedly found dead overcome by floods at the St. Rita’s nursing
home in suburban New Orleans. Police in Gretna, Louisiana, pushed back
victims trying to leave New Orleans on the Crescent City Connection,
and refused passage.
(AFP, 9/8/05)(AP, 9/7/06)(SFC, 9/9/05, p.B10)
2005 Sep 7, Apple Computer Inc.
Chief Executive Steve Jobs introduced a long-anticipated music-playing
cell phone, the Motorola Rokr, and surprised the faithful with the new
iPod nano.
(AP, 9/8/05)(WSJ, 9/8/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 7, Hundreds of Afghan
refugees attacked a UN refugee agency office in northwest Pakistan in
protest at delays in repatriating them. Pakistan has ordered the
closure of all refugee camps in its semi-autonomous tribal regions
because of security concerns. It originally gave an August 31 deadline
but it has since given them until September 15.
(AP, 9/8/05)
2005 Sep 7, In Colombia leftist
rebels and right-wing paramilitary fighters battled in La Esmeralda
village, leaving 15 people dead, including two children, in a fight
over territory and the cocaine trade.
(AP, 9/8/05)
2005 Sep 7, Egyptians voted in the
country's first-ever contested presidential election, but charges of
fraud and a big boycott rally marred balloting that longtime leader
Hosni Mubarak portrayed as a major democratic reform.
(AP, 9/7/05)
2005 Sep 7, European Union
governments backed a deal to unblock Chinese textiles held at EU
borders, ending a trade dispute that saw some 77 million garments pile
up after imports broke through 2005 limits.
(AP, 9/7/05)
2005 Sep 7, Iran offered to send
the US 20 million barrels of crude oil to help it overcome the
devastation of Hurricane Katrina if Washington waives trade sanctions.
(AP, 9/7/05)
2005 Sep 7, Iraqi and US forces
encircled the insurgent stronghold of Tal Afar, and the Iraqi military
announced the arrest of 200 suspected insurgents, most of them foreign
fighters. A roadside bomb struck a convoy of American security guards
in the southern city of Basra, killing four US contractors. A suicide
bomber blew up his explosives-laden car outside a takeout restaurant in
Basra, killing at least 10 people and wounding 15. US troops rescued
American Roy Hallums, held hostage 10 months.
(AP, 9/7/05) (AP, 9/8/05)
2005 Sep 7, About 100 masked
militants stormed the heavily guarded home of Moussa Arafat (65),
Gaza's former security chief, dragged him out in his pajamas and killed
him in a burst of gunfire days before Israel was to hand over Gaza. The
Popular Resistance Committees, a violent group made up largely of
former members of the Fatah movement of Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas, claimed responsibility.
(AP, 9/7/05)
2005 Sep 7, Investigators strongly
criticized UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, his deputy and the Security
Council for allowing Saddam Hussein to bilk some $10.2 billion from the
giant humanitarian operation.
(AP, 9/7/05)
2005 Sep 7, A powerful tropical
storm churned northward through the Sea of Japan, killing at least 16
people and leaving landslides and flooded towns in its wake.
(AP, 9/7/05)
2005 Sep 7, North Korea offered to
return the USS Pueblo, captured in 1968, if a top-level official agrees
to visit.
(WSJ, 9/8/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 7, In Trinidad Jason
Raymond-Guillen, the 19-year-old son of a newspaper editor, was seized
outside his home by kidnappers who demanded a $2 million ransom.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 7, Farmers and other
experts said Zimbabwe, once a regional breadbasket, is facing its worst
agricultural season since independence in 1980, with shortages of seed,
fertilizer and equipment threatening next year's harvest before it even
has been planted.
(AP, 9/7/05)
2006 Sep 7, American officials
said the US government has ordered Venezuela to close its military
purchasing office in Miami after suspending arms sales to the South
American country.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Former Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed he was the source of a
leak that had disclosed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame,
saying he didn't realize Plame's job was covert.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2006 Sep 7, Mohammad Khatami,
former president of Iran (1997-2005), spoke at Washington National
Cathedral as part of a 2-week speaking tour in the US. He urged
dialogue instead of threats. A group of Jewish Iranians, who say their
missing relatives were kidnapped and tortured by the Iranian
government, filed suit in Manhattan against Khatami. They delivered the
summons to him directly the next day as he visited the US.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.A13)(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 7, BP America, the US arm
of British energy giant BP, said it will spend more than 550 million
dollars (432 million euros) over the next two years on improvements to
its Alaskan oil fields, including pipeline repairs.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Hewlett-Packard
disclosed that an investigator, hired by its board of directors, had
secretly obtained phone records of 9 journalists as part of an effort
to unmask information leaks to the media. Director George Keyworth
resigned after he was found to be the source of the leak.
Sub-contractors engaged in pretexting, the use of false pretences, to
obtain personal information. HP faced Congressional hearings over the
tactics used to unveil Keyworth.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.A1)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.70)
2006 Sep 7, Britain’s PM Tony
Blair reluctantly promised to resign within a year, hoping that
revealing a general time frame for his departure will appease critics
who are calling for him to step down.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Burundi's government
and the country's last rebel group, the National Liberation Forces
(FNL) signed a permanent cease-fire as the central African nation
emerges from 12 years of civil war.
(AP, 9/7/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.57)
2006 Sep 7, Chad Pres. Idriss Deby
and Chevron CEO David O’Reilly met in Paris for talks on oil taxes.
Chad said Chevron agreed to pay back taxes.
(SFC, 9/9/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 7, Cyprus impounded a
Panama-flagged vessel on arms smuggling suspicion. It carried 18 North
Korean mobile radar units and 3 command vehicles due for delivery to
Syria.
(WSJ, 9/8/06, p.A1)(Reuters, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 7, Gunmen held up a truck
in a restricted area of Guatemala City's international airport and made
off with $8 million of $22 million that was to be shipped from the Bank
of Guatemala to the U.S. Federal Reserve.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Coalition forces
handed over control of Iraq's armed forces command to the government.
Initially, this would apply only to the 8th Iraqi Army Division, the
air force and the navy. The other nine Iraqi division remain under US
command, with authority gradually being transferred. Six bomb attacks
targeting police patrols in Baghdad killed at least 17 people and
wounded more than 50. A British soldier died of injuries sustained when
his patrol came under fire in Qurnah.
(AP, 9/7/06)(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 7, Ivory Coast PM Charles
Konan Banny announced the resignation of his cabinet over the Aug 19
toxic waste scandal.
(Reuters, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Workers at Lebanon's
only airport prepared to receive a full flow of commercial flights.
Israel began lifting its air blockade of Lebanon, but the naval
blockade will remain in place until troops from the new UN
international force are in place.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, In Mexico a landslide
buried buses and cars on a highway in the central state of Puebla and
killed at least four travelers.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Russia's state-owned
nuclear power company said it was seeking to build Morocco's first
nuclear plant, as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed cooperation
deals with the Moroccan king as part of an economic mission to expand
Russia's African reach.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 7, In Siberia a blaze
broke out in the Darasun gold mine in the Chita region. 64 miners were
working underground when the fire broke out. 31 were rescued or
evacuated, including 15 who were hospitalized. Rescuers recovered 12
bodies. Eight miners emerged from the burning mine after two days. The
fate of at least nine others remained unknown in the accident that
killed at least 16. Rescuers on Sep 10 found the bodies of the last
four miners trapped deep underground at a remote Russian gold mine,
bringing the final death toll to 25. On Sep 11 Rescuers recovered the
bodies of the last of 25 miners.
(AP, 9/8/06)(AP, 9/9/06)(Reuters, 9/10/06)(AP,
9/11/06)
2006 Sep 7, Medical experts said a
killer strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis has been found in at least
28 hospitals across South Africa and that it jeopardized efforts to
deal with AIDS.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 7, A Thai court decided
to extradite a Vietnamese dissident to face charges of violating
airspace for a stunt that involved hijacking a plane and dropping
50,000 anti-communist leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City. Ly Tong, a South
Vietnamese air force veteran who later became a US citizen, hijacked
the twin-engine plane from Thailand in November 2000.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2007 Sep 7, A US federal judge
said Iran must pay $2.65 billion to the families of the 241 US service
members killed in the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut,
in a ruling that left survivors and families shedding tears of joy. A
day later Iran rejected the ruling.
(AP, 9/8/07)
2007 Sep 7, The Roman Catholic
Diocese of San Diego said it has agreed to pay $198.1 million to settle
144 claims of sexual abuse by clergy, the second-largest payment by a
diocese. The agreement caps more than four years of negotiations in
state and federal courts.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 6, A jury in St.
Francisville, La., acquitted Sal and Mabel Mangano, the owners of a
nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina, of
negligent homicide and cruelty charges.
(AP, 9/7/08)
2007 Sep 7, In a new video
released ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama
bin Laden made no overt threats but lectured Americans on the Iraq war
and criticized global capitalism, calling its leaders the real
terrorists. He also urged Americans to convert to Islam in order to end
the war in Iraq.
(AP, 9/8/07)(SFC, 9/8/07, p.A6)
2007 Sep 7, Bako Saakian, the
former security chief of Nagorno-Karabakh, was sworn as the new
president of the Armenian-controlled breakaway region.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, In Australia Pacific
Rim negotiators agreed on a joint statement on global warming that
would ask developing nations to commit to energy efficiency targets and
acknowledge that wealthy countries have greater responsibility for the
problem.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, Leaders of Australia
and Russia signed a deal to export Australian uranium to fuel Russian
nuclear reactors, but promised it would not be transferred to Iran's
disputed atomic program.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon arrived in Chad for talks with President Idriss Deby Itno
on the Darfur crisis in neighbouring Sudan, and the plight of refugees
who have fled to his country.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, China's securities
regulator said it has approved an application by China Construction
Bank, the nation's biggest mortgage lender, to issue shares in what
could be one of China's biggest initial public offerings. Chinese
stocks broke their winning streak, with the benchmark index falling 2.2
percent after the central bank raised the amount of reserves banks are
required to hold.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, Renegade Congolese
General Laurent Nkunda said the Congolese army had attacked his
position, breaking a fragile ceasefire negotiated by United Nations
mediators in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, The government of
Gibraltar called a general election and dissolved the British colony's
parliament. Chief Minister Peter Caruana set the elections for Oct. 11.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, Sunni, Shiite,
Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, and Shinto leaders gathered in
Greenland for a 6-day coastal tour and symposium called "The Arctic:
Mirror of Life," designed to focus global attention on climate change.
(www.enn.com/climate/commentary/22800)(Econ,
9/22/07, p.70)
2007 Sep 7, Guyana officials said
pirate attacks along its rivers and Atlantic coast have prompted the
South American country to set up an emergency radio network for boaters
and place special markings on engines to track stolen equipment.
(AP, 9/8/07)
2007 Sep 7, In northwestern India
a large truck crammed with Hindu pilgrims crashed into a gorge, killing
at least 85 people and injuring 64.
(AP, 9/8/07)
2007 Sep 7, Grand Ayatollah
Mohammad Eshagh al-Fayyadh, one of the top four Shiite clerics in Iraq,
called on Muslims to keep religion out of politics and not use mosques
and religious events for the interest of political groups, sects or
personalities. A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army patrol near
Baqouba, killing one soldier and wounding two, while another roadside
bomb killed one civilian and wounded four others southeast of Baghdad.
3 men were killed in an operation targeting a suspected al-Qaida in
Iraq leader north of Baghdad. Gen. David Petraeus, the top US commander
in Iraq, conceded that the buildup of American combat forces has fallen
short of its goal of prompting Iraqi political progress. A US Marine
died in Iraq's Anbar province in a non-combat situation.
(AP, 9/7/07)(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 7, The Kenya Wildlife
Service warned in a report that wild animals are vanishing from Nairobi
National Park, Kenya's oldest game reserve which borders the airport at
Nairobi.
(AFP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, Moroccans began voting
in parliamentary elections likely to make the country's leading
political force an Islamist party that has tapped into people's
mounting disillusionment with the parties in power. The main opposition
Islamist party failed to make its hoped-for breakthrough in legislative
elections, marked by an historic low turnout of only 41 percent. Voters
handed power to a secular conservative party that is a member of the
ruling coalition.
(AP, 9/7/07)(AFP, 9/8/07)
2007 Sep 7, In Nicaragua rescuers
scooped bodies from the open sea as the death toll from Hurricane Felix
neared 100.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, In Pakistan lawyers
said government has reopened corruption cases against former PM Nawaz
Sharif. A court ordered the arrest of his brother in a murder case,
three days before their expected return to Pakistan to challenge its
Pres. Gen. Musharraf. In northwest Pakistan suspected Islamic militants
beheaded two women on the outskirts of Bannu after accusing them of
being prostitutes. In Mingora, a town south of Bannu, a bomb blast
destroyed 48 shops in a downtown market, 33 of them selling music and
movie CDs. Suspected militants shot dead the son and a nephew of a
pro-government tribal elder in Bajur, a tribally governed region
bordering Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, Hamas security forces
armed with rifles and clubs beat Fatah supporters trying to hold street
prayers to protest the Islamic group's rule in Gaza. Hamas men also
assaulted at least seven Palestinian journalists and detained five.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, Poland's parliament
voted to dissolve itself, forcing an election that the government had
sought to end persistent political turbulence. President Lech Kaczynski
set the vote for Oct. 21, two years ahead of schedule.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, Portuguese police
suggested that Kate McCann (39), the mother of a toddler whose
disappearance sparked international headlines, accidentally killed her
daughter Madeleine, who disappeared on May 3.
(AFP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 7, Pope Benedict XVI paid
tribute to Holocaust victims, extending his "sadness, repentance and
friendship" to the Jewish people as he began a 3-day pilgrimage to
Austria.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2008 Sep 7, At the MTV Video Music
Awards on the show's 25th anniversary, the network threw its full
support behind Britney Spears' comeback. Spears won a leading three
awards, including video of the year for "Piece of Me."
(AP, 9/8/08)
2008 Sep 7, US Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson announced plans to take control of troubled mortgage
finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and replace the companies’
chief executives. This would effectively wipe out shareholders'
interest in the publicly traded companies. 27% of the nation’s 8,500
banks lost a combined $10-15 billion from holdings in preferred shares
in Fannie and Freddie.
(Reuters, 9/7/08)(WSJ, 9/8/08, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/23/08,
p.A4)
2008 Sep 7, In Afghanistan 2
suicide attackers detonated bombs inside the police headquarters in
Kandahar city, killing six policemen. In southern Afghanistan a
Canadian soldier was killed and seven wounded when their armored
vehicle struck an explosive device while on patrol.
(AP, 9/7/08)(Reuters, 9/8/08)
2008 Sep 7, The conservation group
WWF said Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of
land clearing in the country's northeast, while millions of birds and
reptiles are also perishing. Queensland state last week revealed that
375,000 hectares of bush were cleared in 2005-06, a figure WWF said
would have resulted in the deaths of two million mammals.
(AP, 9/7/08)
2008 Sep 7, In London an urgent
inquiry was underway after a disc containing the personal details of
5,000 justice staff went missing in yet another embarrassing data loss
blunder. Private contractor EDS told the Prison Service in July that
the hard drive had gone astray. The missing disc was last seen in July
2007.
(AP, 9/7/08)
2008 Sep 7, Canada’s PM Stephen
Harper called an election for October 14 in a bid to strengthen his
grip on power after 2-1/2 years in charge of a minority Conservative
Party government.
(Reuters, 9/7/08)
2008 Sep 7, In China a flood
swamped the mine in Yuzhou city of Henan province trapping 23 people.
(AP, 9/7/08)
2008 Sep 7, In Haiti at least 58
people died as Ike's winds and rain swept the impoverished Caribbean
nation. Officials also found three more bodies from a previous storm,
raising Haiti's death toll from four tropical storms in less than a
month to 319. A Dominican man was crushed by a falling tree. Ike
damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the
Bahamas and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a
ferocious Category 4 storm.
(AP, 9/7/08)(AP, 9/8/08)
2008 Sep 7, Hong Kong's
pro-democracy politicians lost several legislative seats in elections,
but held onto their veto power over major legislation as they push for
greater political freedoms in the Chinese territory. Democratic parties
won 23 of 60 legislative seats in the voting, down from their previous
26.
(AP, 9/8/08)
2008 Sep 7, Italy's foreign
minister, after meeting US Vice President Dick Cheney, said the EU
wants to work closely with the United States in resolving the Georgian
crisis.
(AP, 9/7/08)
2008 Sep 7, Pakistan’s reserves in
the 1st week of September fell to $5.5 billion, enough to cover just
two months of imports. Reserves as of last November were about $14
billion.
(Econ, 9/13/08, p.48)
2008 Sep 7, South Korean police
arrested four people over the theft of data on 11 million customers of
a local oil refiner in what is being called the country's largest-ever
data leak.
(AFP, 9/7/08)
2008 Sep 7-2008 Sep 8, Spanish
police said immigrants went on a rampage in the southern Spanish town
of Roquetas de Mar overnight, setting fire to homes and cars and
throwing stones at police, after a Senegalese man (28) was stabbed to
death in an apparent dispute over drugs. The Rampage continued for a
2nd night.
(Reuters, 9/7/08)(AP, 9/8/08)
2008 Sep 7, A Darfur rebel group
says it has successfully repelled a government assault in North Darfur,
but the Sudanese government denies it carried out any operations in the
area.
(AP, 9/7/08)
2008 Sep 7, Zimbabwean opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai said his party would rather withdraw from
power-sharing talks than sign an unsatisfactory deal and challenged
President Robert Mugabe to call a new poll.
(AP, 9/7/08)
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