Today in History - September 9
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490BC Sep 9,
First Persian attack on Greece. Greeks led by Miltiades defeated the
Persians at the Battle of Marathon. Pheidipiddes, a hemerodromi or
long-distance foot messenger, was dispatched to run 26 miles from
Marathon to Athens to announce the victory. He reached Athens and
proclaimed: “Rejoice! We conquer!” The he dropped dead. In the Battle
of Marathon Darius the Great of Persia was defeated by the Greeks. The
Greeks initiated the war when Persia, the strongest power in western
Asia, established rule over Greek-speaking cities in Asia Minor. [see
Sep 12]
(HFA, '96, p.38)(V.D.-H.K.p.49)(SFC, 7/14/96,
p.T7)(http://eawc.evansville.edu, p.10)
9CE Sep 9, Publius Quinctilius
Varus (59), Roman governor of Germania (6-9CE), died of likely suicide
following defeat at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
(http://www.fact-index.com/p/pu/publius_quinctilius_varus.html)
337 Sep 9, Constantine's three
sons, already Caesars, each took the title of Augustus. Constantine II
and Constans shared the west while Constantius II took control of the
east.
(HN, 9/9/98)
384 Sep 9, Flavius Honorius,
emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1087 Sep 9, William the Conqueror,
Duke of Normandy and King of England, died in Rouen while conducting a
war which began when the French king made fun of him for being fat.
(HN, 9/9/00)
1513 Sep 9, James IV (40), King of
Scotland (1488-1513), was defeated and killed by English at the Battle
of Flodden Field. The Scottish navy was sold to France.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.10)(HN, 9/9/98)
1543 Sep 9, Mary, Queen of Scots,
was crowned Queen of England.
(HN, 9/9/01)
1556 Sep 9, Pope Paul IV refused
to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1567 Sep 9, Lomaraal, Count van
Egmont and Philip van Hoorne, were arrested by Alba.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1583 Sep 9, Girolamo Frescobaldi
(d.1643, Italian composer, was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)(WUD, 1994 p.568)
1585 Sep 9, Duc Armand Jean du
Plessis de Richelieu (d.1642), French cardinal and statesman who helped
build France into a world power under the leadership of King Louis
XIII, was born. He was premier of France from 1624 to 1642.
(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1585 Sep 9, Pope Sixtus V deprived
Henry of Navarre of his rights to the French crown.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1683 Sep 9, Algernon Sidney,
English Whig politician and plotter, was beheaded.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1675 Sep 9, New England colonial
authorities officially declared war on the Wampanoag Indians. War soon
spread to include the Abenaki, Norwottock, Pocumtuck and Agawam
warriors.
(MC, 9/9/01)(AH, 6/02, p.47)
1739 Sep 9, A slave revolt in
Stono, SC, led by an Angolan slave named Jemmy, killed 20-25 whites.
Three slave uprisings occurred in South Carolina in 1739. Whites soon
passed black codes to regulated every aspect of slave life.
(SFC, 12/18/96,
p.A25)(www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p284.html)(AH, 2/05, p.66)
1753 Sep 9, The 1st steam engine
arrived in US colonies.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1754 Sep 9, William Bligh,
legendary captain of HMS Bounty, was born. [see Sep 10]
(MC, 9/9/01)
1776 Sep 9, The term "United
States" was adopted by the second Continental Congress to be used
instead of the "United Colonies."
(AP, 9/9/97)(HN, 9/9/98)
1786 Sep 9, George Washington
called for the abolition of slavery.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1791 Sep 9, French Royalists took
control of Arles and barricaded themselves inside the town.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1815 Sep 9, John Singleton Copley
(b.1737), American artist, died in London.
(www.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia)
1822 Sep 9, Napoleon J K P
Bonaparte, French prince and member National Convention, was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1828 Sep 9, Leo Tolstoy, Russian
novelist, was born. His work included “War and Peace” and “Anna
Karenina.” [see Aug 28]
(HN, 9/9/00)
1830 Sep 9 Charles Durant flew a
balloon from New York City across the Hudson River to Perth Amboy, N.J.
(AP, 9/9/05)
1834 Sep 9, Parliament passed the
Municipal Corporations Act, reforming city and town governments in
England.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1839 Sep 9, John Herschel
(1792-1871), English astronomer, took the 1st glass plate photograph.
(www.getty.edu)
1841 Sep 9, The Great Lakes
steamer "Erie" sank off Silver Creek, NY., and 300 people died.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1850 Sep 9, California was
admitted as the 31st state of the US.
(INV, 7/95, p.12)(SFC, 6/13/96, p.A17)(SFC, 1/25/97,
p.A17)(AP, 9/9/97)
1850 Sep 9, Territories of New
Mexico and Utah were created.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1861 Sep 9, Sally Louisa Tompkins
(b.1833) was commissioned as a Confederate captain of cavalry. Born
into a wealthy and altruistic family in coastal Mathews County,
Virginia, Tompkins was destined for a life of philanthropy. After
moving to Richmond, she spent much of her time and a considerable
portion of her fortune assisting causes she considered worthy. With the
onset of civil war, she labored on the behalf of the South's wounded
soldiers, and for this she became the first and only woman to receive
an officer's commission in the Confederate army.
(HNQ, 5/17/01)
1862 Sep 9, Gen’l. Lee split his
army and sent Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1863 Sep 9, The Union Army of the
Cumberland passed through Chattanooga, Ten., as they chased after the
retreating Confederates following the Battle of Cumberland Gap.
(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1867 Sep 9, Luxembourg gained
independence.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1886 Sep 9, The Berne
International Copyright Convention took place at the instigation of
Victor Hugo and backed the individual copyright laws of the European
states. It was updated in 1971. In 1993 the Brussels directive brought
in a Europe-wide 70-year rule.
(HN, 9/9/00)(WSJ, 1/31/02,
p.A16)(www.ifla.org.sg/documents/infopol/copyright/ucc.txt)
1887 Sep 9, Alfred M. Landon,
Republican governor of Kansas who carried only two states in his
overwhelming defeat for the presidency by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936,
was born. He ran as a presidential candidate in 1932 and 1936.
(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1890 Sep 9, Colonel Harland
Sanders, originator of Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food restaurants,
was born in Henryville, Ind. [see Dec 16]
(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1893 Sep 9, Frances Cleveland,
wife of President Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the
White House. It was the first time a president's child was born in the
executive mansion.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1899 Sep 9, Louis Cheslock
(d.1981), composer and author (Mencken on Music), was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1900 Sep 9, James Hilton, British
novelist who authored "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye Mr. Chips," was born.
In Lost Horizon he created the imaginary world of "Shangri-La.”
(HN, 9/9/98)
1901 Sep 9, Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, died at 36.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1904 Sep 9, Mounted police were
1st used in NYC.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1908 Sep 9, Orville Wright made
the 1st 1-hr airplane flight at Fort Myer, Va.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1908 Sep 9, Russia grabbed part of
Poland.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1909 Sep 9, San Francisco held a
parade in honor of its work horses. Some 2000 horses and 986 drivers
paraded down Market Street before thousands of spectators.
(SSFC, 9/6/09, p.46)
1909 Sep 9, Kwame Nkrumah,
communist and premier of the Gold Coast and president of Ghana
(1960-66), was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1911 Sep 9, An airmail route
opened between London and Windsor.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1912 Sep 9, Kurt Sanderling,
conductor (East Berlin Symphony 1960-77), was born in Arys, Germany.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1914 Sep 9, In the Battle of Marne
the German advance stalled and Paris was saved.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1915 Sep 9, A German zeppelin
bombed London for the first time, causing little damage.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1919 Sep 9, Most of Boston's
1,500-member police force went on strike.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1922 Sep 9, William T. Cosgrave
replaced assassinated Irish leader Michael Collins.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1922 Sep 9, Turkish troops under
Mustafa Kemal conquered Smyrna, Greece. This effectively ended in the
field the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) more than three years after the
Greek army had landed on Smyrna on 15 May, 1919. In 2008 Giles Milton
authored “Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922: The Destruction of Islam’s City
of Tolerance.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Smyrna)(Econ, 5/3/08, p.90)
1926 Sep 9, The National
Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was incorporated by the Radio Corporation of
America, which had originated as Marconi Wireless.
(AP, 9/9/08)(SFC, 8/2/99, p.B3)
1927 Sep 9, Elvin Jones (d.2004),
jazz drummer, was born in Pontiac, Mich.
(SFEC, 5/21/00, DB p.44)(SFC, 5/20/04, p.B8)
1928 Sep 9, Julian E "Cannonball"
Adderley (d.1975), US, jazz musician (Black Messiah), was born.
Adderley was a member of the Miles Davis ensemble of the 1950s, and in
the 1960s scored a hit of his own with 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy'.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1932 Sep 9, The steamboat SS
Observation exploded in NYC East River and 71 were killed.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1934 Sep 9, Sonia Sanchez, poet,
was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
(HN, 9/9/00)
1934 Sep 9, G. Kaufman and M.
Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1939 Sep 9, Nazi army reached
Warsaw.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1940 Sep 9, 28 German aircraft
were shot down above England.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1941 Sep 9, Otis Redding, rock
bassist (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay), was born in Dawson, Ga.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1942 Sep 9, A Japanese float
plane, launched from a submarine, made its first bombing run on a U.S.
forest near Brookings, Oregon. Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on
Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests of the Northwest. The
forests failed to ignite, but Pacific Coast citizens stepped-up their
blackout drills in preparation for future Japanese raids.
(HN, 9/9/99)(MC, 9/9/01)
1943 Sep 9, Allied forces in
operation Avalanche landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War II.
They encountered strong resistance from German troops.
(AP, 9/9/97)(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1945 Sep 9, Japanese in S. Korea,
Taiwan, China, Indochina surrendered to Allies.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1945 Sep 9, The 1st "bug" in a
computer program was discovered by Grace Hopper. A moth was removed
with teasers from a relay and taped into the log.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1948 Sep 9, The Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) emerged out of Soviet
occupation. Kim Du Bong stood as Chairman of the Presidium of the
Supreme People’s Assembly.
(www.worldstatesmen.org/Korea_North.htm)
1950 Sep 9, "Where's Charley?"
closed at St James Theater NYC after 792 performances.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1950 Sep 9, There were massive
arrests of communists in France.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1956 Sep 9, Elvis Presley made the
first of three appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show." By his third and
final appearance on the Sullivan show, due to a number of viewers, who
were outraged at his suggestive gyrations, Elvis was filmed from only
the waist-up.
(AP, 9/9/97)(MC, 9/9/01)
1957 Sep. 9, President Eisenhower
signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since
Reconstruction.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1960 Sep 9, Hurricane Donna hit
the Florida Keys and moved up the coast to New England. It caused 50 US
deaths and $387 million in damage.
(WSJ, 5/31/06,
p.A1)(http://tampa.about.com/cs/history/l/bl1960.htm)
1963 Sep 9, In Italy a landslide
into Vaiont Dam emptied a lake and killed 3-4,000 people. [see Oct 9]
(MC, 9/9/01)
1963 Sep 9, Alabama Gov George
Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to
bar black students from enrolling in white schools.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1964 Sep 9, John Osborne's
"Inadmissible Evidence," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1965 Sep 9, US Navy pilot James
Stockdale (d.2005) was shot down in Vietnam. He was beaten, tortured
and taken to Hoa Lo prison (Hanoi Hilton) and released in 1973. In 1992
he ran as VP candidate with Ross Perot.
(SFC, 7/6/05, p.B7)
1965 Sep 9, Francois Mitterrand
was nominated for French presidency.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1965 Sep 9, Tibet was made an
autonomous region of China.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1967 Sep 9, "Rowan and Martin's
Laugh-In" aired as a one-time special on NBC; its success led to a
regular series beginning in January 1968. The show folded in 1973.
(AP, 9/9/07)(SSFC, 5/25/08, p.B6)
1968 Sep 9, Arthur Ashe
(1943-1993) became the 1st black to win the US Open men’s tennis
singles championship.
(www.answers.com/topic/arthur-ashe)(http://tinyurl.com/d2xhty)
1969 Sep 9, Allegheny Flight 853
collided with Piper Cherokee above Indiana. 82 were killed.
{Air Crash, Indonesia, USA}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853)
1970 Sep 9, U.S. Marines launched
Operation Dubois Square, a 10-day search for North Vietnamese troops
near DaNang. Marine pilots in their diminutive Douglas A-4 Skyhawks
provided vital close air support for ground forces in Vietnam.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1971 Sep 9, John Lennon released
his mega hit "Imagine" in the US. It was released in Britain on October
8.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(album))
1971 Sep 9, Hockey legend Gordie
Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League
(NHL).
(www.iosphere.net/~mtbailey/tbc/gordie_howe.html)
1971 Sep 9-1971 Sep 13, Some 1,000
prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional
Facility near Buffalo, NY, in a siege that claimed 43 lives. In 2000 a
federal judge ordered an $8 million settlement to some 400 inmates to
settle a prisoner class action suit. $4 million was for lawyers.
(SFC, 1/5/00,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Prison_riots)(AP, 9/9/08)
1972 Sep 9, The US Olympic
basketball team was beaten for the 1st time by a full-time Russian
military team. The Russians also beat the Americans in the overall
medal haul.
(WSJ, 7/10/96,
p.A9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics)
1974 Sep 9, in Boston,
Massachusetts, a group called Restore Our Alienated Rights (R.O.A.R.)
held a rally at City Hall Plaza a few days before the start of school.
When Senator Ted Kennedy took the stage to speak in favor of busing,
the crowd reacted in anger. Protests and violence continued for three
years.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/maps/maps_pop.html)
1976 Sep 9, Mao Tse-tung (82),
Chinese Communist party chairman (1949-76) died in Beijing. "Who
controls a man’s ideas controls the man." In 1965 he launched the
controversial Cultural Revolution, an often-brutal campaign to reform
Chinese society. He was later held responsible for over 70 million
deaths. Mao Zedong’s death triggered a 2-year power struggle. The
Cultural Revolution's chief architects, Mao’s widow (Jiang Qing) and 3
others, the so-called Gang of Four, were jailed. Deng Xiaoping returned
from disgrace and eventually seized power. In 2005 Jung Chang and Jon
Halliday authored “Mao: The Unknown Story.”
(SFEC, 10/7/96, A9)(WSJ, 5/12/98, p.A22)(SSFC,
10/23/05, p.M1)(AP, 9/9/07)
1978 Sep 9, Jack L. Warner
(b.1892), US movie producer, died. He was born as Itzhak Eichelbaum in
London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish-Jewish family, and became the
president and driving force behind the highly successful development of
Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Warner)
1979 Sep 9, In the 31st Emmy
Awards the winners included: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth
Gordon.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Emmy_Awards/1979)
1984 Sep 9, Walter Payton of the
Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown's combined yardage record by reaching
15,517 yards.
(http://tinyurl.com/2sd85s)
1985 Sep 9, President Ronald W.
Reagan issued Executive Order No. 12532 establishing sanctions against
South Africa. Reagan banned the sale of computers to South African
security agencies, barred most loans to the Pretoria government, halted
the importation of the Krugerrand, South Africa's gold coin (effective
Oct 11), and stopped exports of nuclear technology until South Africa
signs an accord to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
(www-tech.mit.edu/V105/N38/apart.38n.html)(http://tinyurl.com/2ruefg)
1985 Sep 9, In Birmingham,
England, race riots took place and continued thru Sep 11.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handsworth_riots)
1985 Sep 9, In Thailand there was
a failed coup attempt. Former PM Kriangsak was caught with other
retired military officers at the headquarters of the plotters.
(AP, 12/23/03)
1986 Sep 9, Frank Reed, American
director of a private school in Lebanon, was taken hostage; he was
released 44 months later.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1987 Sep 9, Appearing before
President Reagan's special commission on AIDS, Surgeon General C.
Everett Koop denounced doctors and other health workers who refused to
treat AIDS patients, calling them a "fearful and irrational minority."
(AP, 9/9/97)
1987 Sep 9, A parked tank car
containing butadiene ignited in the New Orleans area. A jury in 1997
awarded $3.4 billion in punitive damages to some 8,000 people who
claimed to have suffered mental and physical injuries. Five companies
were charged with CSX Transportation owing 2.5 bil.
(SFC, 9/9/97, p.A10)
1988 Sep 9, The "Stars and
Stripes," a catamaran piloted by Dennis Conner, completed a 2-0 washout
of a New Zealand monohull for the America's Cup off San Diego. Conner's
victory was eventually upheld in court.
(AP, 9/9/98)
1988 Sep 9, Financial Corp. of
America filed for bankruptcy with assets of $33.8 billion.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A4)
1989 Sep 9, West German Steffi
Graf won the women's tennis title at the U.S. Open in New York,
defeating second-ranked Martina Navratilova.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1990 Sep 9, Pete Sampras
defeated Andre Agassi to win the US Open men’s title.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1990 Sep 9, President Bush and
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev held a one-day summit in
Helsinki, Finland, after which they joined in condemning Iraq’s
invasion of Kuwait.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1990 Sep 9, Liberian dictator
President Samuel K. Doe was killed after being captured by rebels. Doe
was tortured by rivals and bled to death after an ear was cut off. The
remains of Doe’s Krahn-dominated army composed the AFL or Armed Forces
of Liberia.
(SFC, 4/10/96, p.A-4)(SFC, 4/17/96, p.A-8)(AP,
9/9/00)
1991 Sep 9, Boxer Mike Tyson was
indicted in Indianapolis on a charge of raping Desiree Washington, a
beauty pageant contestant. Tyson was later convicted.
(AP, 9/9/01)
1992 Sep. 9, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin called off a trip to Japan in the face of growing
pressure to resolve a dispute over four Kurile islands seized by the
former Soviet Union in 1945.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1993 Sep 9-1993 Sep 14, Hurricane
Gert caused 76 deaths. It affected Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, and
Nicaragua.
(AP, 9/11/04)(www.wunderground.com)
1993 Sep 9, PLO leaders and Israel
agreed to recognize each other, clearing the way for a peace accord.
(AP, 9/9/98)
1993 Sep 9, Former Philippine
President Ferdinand Marcos was buried in his homeland, four years after
his death in exile.
(AP, 9/9/98)
1993 Sep 9, About a hundred Somali
gunmen and civilians were killed when U.S. and Pakistani peacekeepers
fired on Somalis attacking other peacekeepers.
(AP, 9/9/98)
1994 Sep 9, The United States
agreed to accept at least 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year in return for
Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 9, Prosecutors in Los
Angeles said they would not seek the death penalty for O.J. Simpson.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 9, The space shuttle
Discovery blasted off on an 11-day mission.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1995 Sep 9, Amtrak’s “Broadway
Limited” service between New York and Chicago, begun in 1902,
made its final run.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1995 Sep 9, Bosnian Serbs blamed
UN forces for a shell that killed ten people at a Bosnian Serb hospital
the day before.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1996 Sep 9, Promising safer skies,
President Clinton issued orders to tighten airport security and
challenged Congress to support a $1.1 billion anti-terrorism crackdown.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1996 Sep 9, Keeping her word not
to cooperate with Whitewater prosecutors, Susan McDougal was led away
to jail for contempt of court, denying she was trying to protect
President Clinton with her silence.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1996 Sep 9, Boston investor Thomas
H. Lee donated $22 mil to Harvard Univ.
(WSJ, 9/10/96, p.A6)
1996 Sep 9, Bill Monroe (b.1911),
Blue Grass pioneer, died 4 days shy of his 85th b-day. His blues style
was much influenced by the thumb-style blues guitar picking of a black
musician named Arnold Schultz. In 2000 Richard D. Smith authored the
biography "Can’t You Hear me Callin’."
(WSJ, 9/16/96, p.A14)(WSJ, 7/28/00,
p.W9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Monroe)
1996 Sep 9, An Australian
livestock official reported that the burning ship, Uniceb, with 70,000
sheep had probably sunk. It had been bound for Jordan when the crew
abandoned it after it caught fire on Sep 2.
(SFC, 9/10/96, p.A11)
1997 Sep 9, Actor Burgess Meredith
died in Malibu, Calif., at age 89. He had played the Penguin on TV’s
Batman and numerous films in a 60 year film career. He was born Nov 16,
1907 in Cleveland.
(SFC, 9/11/97, p.A18)(AP, 9/9/98)
1997 Sep 9, Richie Ashburn, Hall
of Fame baseball player (Phillies, Mets), died at 70.
(www.baseball-reference.com/a/ashburi01.shtml)
1997 Sep 9, In China former
Beijing mayor Chen Xitong was handed over to prosecutors on charges of
corruption in a scandal with the loss of as much as $2.2 billion in
public funds.
(SFC, 9/10/97, p.A9)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.49)
1997 Sep 9, Sinn Fein, the IRA's
political ally, accepted the Mitchell Principles and formally renounced
violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
(AP, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1998 Sep 9, Pres. Clinton released
$20 million in aid for the refugees in Kosovo.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D3)
1998 Sep 9, Kenneth Starr,
independent council, delivered 36 boxes to Capital Hill that contained
2 copies of his report on the case for the impeachment of Pres.
Clinton. His probe began with the failed Arkansas land deal and ended
with the Monica Lewinsky affair.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.A3)(WSJ, 9/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 9, Four tourists who had
paid $32,500 each were taken in a tiny submarine to view the wreckage
of the Titanic, 2 1/2 miles below the Atlantic off Newfoundland.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1998 Sep 9, The Tripartite Gold
Commission closed. It was set up in 1946 by Britain, France and the
United States to oversee the return of some $4 billion in gold
plundered by the Nazis from European treasuries.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 9, The UN General
Assembly elected Uruguay’s foreign minister as president for its 53rd
session. Didier Opertiti replaced Hennadiy Udovenko of Ukraine.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 9, The UN Security
Council voted to suspend periodic reviews of the economic sanctions on
Iraq.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 9, A 5.5 earthquake hit
Italy between the towns of Castelluccio Inferiore and Laino Borgo where
the regions of Calabria and Basilicata meet.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 9, In Kosovo some 25,000
civilians streamed out of the southwest as Serbian forces shelled their
villages.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.A13)
1998 Sep 9, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin nominated Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov to be prime
minister.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.A15)
1999 Sep 9, Pres. Clinton moved to
cut military ties with Indonesia and the IMF suspended its lending
program due to the violence in East Timor.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 9, The White House
announced a $15 million federal gun-buyback program.
(WSJ, 9/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 9, The US State Dept.
released its first annual assessment on the state of religious affairs
around the world.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D2)
1999 Sep 9, Janet Reno named
former Republican Sen. John Danforth as special counsel to investigate
the 1993 Waco, Texas, deaths of the Branch Davidian cult.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/9/00)
1999 Sep 9, In Miami undercover
agents arrested 15 more people for suspected drug smuggling at the
airport.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 9, In NYC it was reported
that 3 people had died from mosquito-borne St. Louis encephalitis in
the last few weeks. The virus was later identified as the West Nile
Virus, never before reported in the Western Hemisphere. 3 years later
the virus reached California.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A3)(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A9)(Econ,
8/2/08, p.34)
1999 Sep 9, Jim "Catfish" Hunter
(53), Hall of Fame baseball pitcher, died in Hertford, North Carolina,
from Lou Gehrig's disease.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/9/00)
1999 Sep 9, Actress Ruth Roman
(75) died in Laguna Beach, California.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1999 Sep 9, In Cambodia Kaing
Khek, aka "Duch" and former head of the Khmer Rouge torture center, was
charged with genocide.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D4)
1999 Sep 9, China and the US
agreed to reopen negotiations for China's entry into the WTO.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D3)
1999 Sep 9, In Dagestan Russia
lost a Su-25 combat jet.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D4)
1999 Sep 9, Israel released 199
Palestinians from prison and detailed the 7% of West Bank land
scheduled for transfer.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D3)(WSJ, 9/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 9, An explosion shattered
a 9-story apartment building in Moscow and at least 14 people were
killed. A natural gas leak was suspected, but a bomb was not ruled out.
The death toll moved up to 90 with 249 injured and officials said it
was caused by a terrorist bomb. [see Dec 29, 2003]
(SFC, 9/9/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A12)(SFC,
9/11/99, p.A9)
1999 Sep 9, In Serbia 2 grenades
exploded in a crowd of French troops and demonstrating Serbs at
Kosovska Mitrovica. 37 civilians and 8 French soldiers were injured.
(SFC, 9/11/99, p.A8)
1999 Sep 9, In Venezuela the
Constitutional Assembly agreed to reverse its order for Congress to
shut down and allowed Congress to resume normal activities in an accord
mediated by the Catholic Church.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A16)
2000 Sep 9, Venus Williams beat
Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5 for the U.S. Open women's singles
championship, her first Grand Slam title.
(AP, 9/9/01)
2000 Sep 9, President Clinton
proposed spending about $1.6 billion to help communities recover from
recent Western wildfires.
(AP, 9/9/01)
2000 Sep 9, California celebrated
its 150th birthday.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A3)
2000 Sep 9, In Congo rebels
captured Dongo and forced the retreat of government troops toward
Imese. Scores were killed in a 36-hour battle.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.13)
2000 Sep 9, In France union
leaders called for an end to the 6-day fuel protests.
(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.A18)
2000 Sep 9, It was reported that
Venezuela had begun a criminal investigation against Ford and Firestone
due to at least 47 deaths from defective tires on Ford Explorers.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A10)
2001 Sep 9, Barry Bonds of the San
Francisco Giants hit three home runs against the Colorado Rockies to
give him 63 for the season, passing Roger Maris' once-magical mark and
moving him closer to Mark McGwire's record.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2001 Sep 9, Lleyton Hewitt ran
down Pete Sampras to earn his first Grand Slam title, 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-1
at the U.S. Open.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2001 Sep 9, The US pulled out of
the World Conference Against Racism objecting to hateful language in a
preliminary declaration.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D5)
2001 Sep 9, In Sacramento Joseph
Ferguson (20), a suspended security guard, killed a 5th victim in 24
hrs. He shot himself to death the next day following a police chase and
shootout that injured 2.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 9, In Afghanistan Ahmed
Shah Masood (48), the opposition leader (Lion of Panjshir), was injured
and a close aide killed from an explosion triggered by agents posing as
journalists. Massood died shortly after the explosion.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 9, In Belarus
presidential elections were held. Pres. Lukashenko won with 75.6% of
the vote. There were widespread allegations of fraud and abuse.
Opposition leader Vladimir Goncharik won 15.4%.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A14)(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B1)(SFC,
9/11/01, p.B3)
2001 Sep 9, It was reported that
some 3,000 people had been executed in China since Pres. Zemin
announced a crackdown in April.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 9, EU foreign ministers
agreed on the need for a new int’l. military force to provide security
in Macedonia after NATO withdrawal.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 9, In Nahariya, Israel,
an Israeli Arab, Muhammad Saker Habashi (55), killed himself and 3
others in a suicide bombing. At least 71 other people were wounded. 4
other people were killed in the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 9, In Damak, Nepal, a
Bhutanese leader, R.K. Budhathoki, was attacked and killed with
khukris, the traditional Nepalese curved knives.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 9, In the UAR Mustafa
Ahmed al Hissawi, an associate of Osama bin Laden, retrieved about
$5,000 sent by Marwan al Shehhi, a UAE citizen believed to be the Sep
11 pilot of US Flight 175.
(WSJ, 11/2/01, p.A13)
2002 Sep 9, The US State
Department cleared the way for giving $41.6 million in arms and
equipment to Colombia, certifying that the country's military has met
human rights requirements in three areas.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, Allied aircraft struck
Iraq for the third time in a week, bombing a military facility
southeast of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, In Burundi 183
civilians were killed by uniformed men in an area of heavy fighting
between government troops and rebels. On Sep 18 the government promised
an investigation.
(AP, 9/18/02)
2002 Sep 9, In El Salvador a small
plane crashed into the slopes of a mountain, killing four prominent
Guatemala businessmen and the pilot.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, In Egypt a military
court convicted 51 men in one of the country's biggest cases against
Muslim militants in years and sentenced them to two to 15 years in
prison. The group was dubbed al-Wa'ad (the Promise).
(AP, 9/9/02)(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 9, The Rajdhani Express
train derailed in Bihar state and fell into a river, killing at least
118 people. An Indian railway official said that it was an act of
sabotage.
(AP, 9/10/02)(WSJ, 9/10/02, p.A1)(Reuters,
9/11/02)(AP, 9/9/03)
2002 Sep 9, Iraq challenged the
United States to produce "one piece of evidence" that it was producing
weapons of mass destruction. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the
Security Council must be allowed to have its say on a possible attack
against Iraq.
(AP, 9/9/03)
2002 Sep 9, In Nepal Maoist rebels
launched an overnight attack on a remote Nepali town targeting several
government offices. At least 57 soldiers and police were killed and a
counterattack was launched.
(Reuters, 9/9/02)(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 9, An earthquake struck
just off Papua New Guinea's north coast, killing 3 people and causing a
tidal wave that washed away at least 40 homes.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, Tens of thousands of
Sri Lankans rallied in the capital Colombo in a show of support for
peace talks with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels aimed at ending one of
Asia's longest-running wars.
(Reuters, 9/9/02)
2003 Sep 9, The Catholic
archdiocese of Boston agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims by
more than 550 people who said they were sexually abused by priests.
(SFC, 9/10/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 9, The WSJ disclosed that
Dick Grasso, Chairman of the NYSE, had a retirement package close to
$140 million along with entitlements to an additional $48 million. His
2001 pay exceeded $30 million with a base pay of $1.4 million. Grasso
soon decided to forego the $48 million undisclosed compensation. In
2007 Charles Gasparino authored “King of the Club: Richard Grasso and
the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange.
(WSJ, 9/11/03, p.C1)(WSJ, 5/25/04, p.C1)(WSJ,
11/21/07, p.D10)
2003 Sep 9, Alabama voters
rejected Amendment One by a margin of 2 to 1. The liberal tax measure
was endorsed by Gov. Bob Riley and based on Judeo-Christian ethics.
(SSFC, 12/12/04, p.A14)
2003 Sep 9, Edward Teller (95),
Hungarian-born pioneer in molecular physics and dubbed the "father of
the H-bomb" for his role in the early development of nuclear weapons,
died.
(SFC, 9/10/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 9, Argentina missed a
$2.9 billion payment to the IMF.
(Econ, 9/13/03, p.32)
2003 Sep 9, France's leading
undertaker estimated the country's death toll from a summer heat wave
at 15,000.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2003 Sep 9, Israeli troops killed
three Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, in an arrest raid in
the West Bank city of Hebron, as Israel signaled both reluctant
acquiescence and disapproval of the Palestinians' candidate for prime
minister. In Jerusalem twin suicide bombings, 5 hours apart, killed 16
Israelis. One suicide bomber chose a nightspot packed with young
Israelis, the other a bus stop where soldiers were waiting for their
ride homes.
(AP, 9/9/03)
2003 Sep 9, The European Union's
high court ruled that Italy and other EU governments can temporarily
ban genetically modified foods while they examine health risks, but
must provide "detailed grounds," not general fears, to do so.
(AP, 9/9/03)
2003 Sep 9, In western Venezuelan
2 passengers buses crashed in separate highway accidents, killing 45
people and injuring dozens of others.
(AP, 9/9/03)
2004 Sep 9, Secretary of State
Colin Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that abuses by
government-supported Arab militias in Sudan qualified as genocide
against the black African population in the Darfur region.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2004 Sep 9, It was reported that a
munitions plant in Oklahoma had suspended production of “bunker buster”
bombs after workers there developed anemia.
(WSJ, 9/9/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 9, Tourists and residents
were told to evacuate the Florida Keys because the powerful Hurricane
Ivan could hit the island chain by Sunday. It had top sustained winds
of 160 mph, making it a Category 5 storm.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, Ayman al-Zawahri said
in an al Qaeda videotape that the US will be ultimately defeated in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/10/04, p.A14)
2004 Sep 9, Crown Prince
Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah (30), the future king of the oil-rich
sultanate of Brunei, married a 17-year-old half-Swiss commoner.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, Hurricane Ivan grew
into the deadliest of storms overnight, packing winds of 160 mph as it
made a beeline for Jamaica after pummeling Grenada, Barbados and other
islands, causing at least 20 deaths. Police in Grenada battled looters.
(AP, 9/9/04)(WSJ, 9/9/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 9, A military Lynx
helicopter crashed near the city of Brno in the Czech Republic, killing
six British soldiers.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, In Indonesia a car
bomb exploded outside the gates of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta,
killing 10 people and wounding more than 160.
(Econ, 9/11/04, p.39)(AP, 9/9/05)
2004 Sep 9, US jets pounded the
rebel stronghold of Fallujah, and American and Iraqi forces entered the
central city of Samarra for the first time in months to try to reseat
the city council and regain control. US and Iraqi security forces
launched attacks to flush out insurgents in northern Iraq, killing 12
people.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, Clashes with Israeli
troops killed 8 Palestinians and left 27 wounded in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/9/04)(WSJ, 9/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 9, Nigerian troops
battled militia forces in the mangrove swamps of Africa's leading oil
region, the Niger Delta. The offensive has forced refugees to stream
into the Port Harcourt.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, A huge explosion
rocked North Korea. The huge blast hit a mountainous area close to an
underground missile base that was listed as a possible uranium
enrichment site. North Korea later said that the huge cloud caused by
an explosion near its border with China was the planned demolition of a
mountain for a hydroelectric project.
(Reuters, 9/12/04)(AP, 9/13/04)
2004 Sep 9, Pakistani jets pounded
a suspected training facility for foreign militants in a two-hour
barrage in tribal South Waziristan, killing 50 people. Pakistani troops
assaulted a suspected terror hideout, killing at least six militants.
Five of the six dead were foreigners.
(AP, 9/9/04)(AP, 9/10/04)
2005 Sep 9, The Bush
administration removed Mike Brown, director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, from the Gulf Coast disaster zone and ordered him
back to Washington. FEMA discontinued a debit card program that gave
victims cards worth $2000.
(SFC, 9/10/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 9, Leandro Aragoncillo,
an FBI intelligence analyst at Fort Monmouth, and a former official
with the Philippines National Police were arrested, charged in a
federal criminal complaint with acting as unregistered agents of a
foreign official and passing classified information to that official
and others in the Republic of the Philippines.
(www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/publicaffairs/NJ_Press/files/arag0912_r.htm)
2005 Sep 9, A military spokesman
said the US military is tube-feeding more than a dozen of the 89 terror
suspects on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 9, A Nevada couple
pleaded guilty in San Jose, Calif., to all charges related to planting
a human fingertip in a bowl of Wendy's chili in a scheme to extort
money from the fast food restaurant chain.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2005 Sep 9, Hewlett-Packard
introduced a line of TV sets equipped with hard drives and the ability
to connect to wireless networks.
(SFC, 9/9/05, p.C3)
2005 Sep 9, Afghan and coalition
forces killed 30 enemies and captured 60 others during an operation in
Grishk district of Helmand.
(AFP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 9, The presidents of
Bolivia, Brazil and Peru inaugurated a $810 million highway project to
connect Brazil's Atlantic coast to Peru's Pacific ports before the end
of the decade.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, China deployed a fleet
of 5 warships near a gas field in the East China Sea, a area that is
disputed by China and Japan.
(SSFC, 9/11/05, p.A12)
2005 Sep 9, It was reported that
China Telecom has started blocking access to Skype, a popular Internet
telephone service that is threatening its long-distance revenue.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Croatia's government
said that army officers can give lessons about the 1991 Serbo-Croat war
in elementary schools, despite critics' claims the move marks a return
to communist-style links between schools and the military.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Pro-government
newspapers trumpeted President Hosni Mubarak's re-election victory
after preliminary results showed he swept Egypt's first contested race
for his job. The turnout was 23%.
(AP, 9/9/05)(Reuters, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, The body that controls
French winemaking said makers of Bordeaux wines have been told to
reduce their output this year by about 12% because of overproduction
and falling prices.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Indian border guards
killed 3 Bangladeshi villagers after they had strayed across the border
near the eastern Bangladesh town of Akhaura. India and Bangladesh share
a 4,095-kilometre (2,539-mile) border, which India is busy fencing in a
bid to cut the level of illegal immigration.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, The Baghdad
International Airport, the country's only reliable link to the outside
world, closed in an embarrassing pay dispute between the government and
a British security company.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Italian Premier Silvio
Berlusconi's Cabinet approved a bill to limit the use of phone taps,
legislation prompted after conversations recorded during a bank
takeover investigation were leaked to the media this summer.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Japanese software
company Access Co., maker of the NetFront Internet browser for mobile
devices, said it has agreed to buy PalmSource Inc., maker of the Palm
operating system for handheld computers and cell phones, for $324
million in cash.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, NATO nations agreed to
use alliance ships and aircraft to rush European aid to the US Gulf
Coast in response to an American request for more help to cope with the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 9, Latin American and US
officials stepped up pressure against legislative efforts to oust
Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos, whose anti-corruption campaign
has driven lawmakers of his own party into alliance with rivals.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, In Pakistan 3
suspected foreign militants were arrested after a shootout with
Pakistani forces near Afghanistan. A bystander was killed and her son
wounded by stray bullets during the clash near Miran Shah, capital of
the North Waziristan tribal area.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 9, A magnitude 7.3
earthquake struck off the northeast coast of the Pacific island nation
of Papua New Guinea.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Zimbabwe’s President
Robert Mugabe signed amendments that adopted constitutional changes
that make it easier for the state to seize private property and prevent
opponents from traveling abroad to criticize his 25-year rule. The
constitutional overhaul stripped landowners of their right to appeal
expropriation of their property by the state and declared all real
estate is now on a 99-year lease from the government.
(AP, 9/12/05)
2006 Sep 9, Space shuttle Atlantis
and its six astronauts blasted off on a mission to resume construction
of the international space station for the first time since the
Columbia disaster 3 1/2 years ago.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, Joanna Veil, aged 28
and pregnant, vanished after leaving work in Ben Lomond, Ca. Her body
was found Sep 14 in a remote area of Santa Cruz County. In 2007
authorities named Michael McClish (38) a suspect in the case. McClish
was convicted in 2007 for another murder and sentenced to 18 years in
prison. In 2008 he was charged with Veil’s murder.
(SFC, 9/16/06, p.B1)(SFC, 5/8/08, p.B2)
2006 Sep 9, Clair Burgener (84),
5-term US Republican congressman from San Diego (1973-1983), died.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.B9)
2006 Sep 9, Elisabeth Ogilvie
(89), writer, died at her home in Cushing, Maine. Her 46 books included
the Tide trilogy, which centered on the Bennet family and
lobster-trapping life.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.B9)
2006 Sep 9, Afghan and NATO
soldiers killed at least 40 suspected Taliban militants in fierce raids
that destroyed insurgent hideouts and a weapons-making factory in
Kandahar province. One NATO soldier died. 2 coalition soldiers training
Afghan troops were killed in combat. 2 policemen were killed when
dozens of Taliban rebels attacked their post in western Farah province
with machine guns and rockets. Gen. Ray Henault, chief of NATO’s
military committee, said he would ask the 26 alliance members for up to
2,500 more soldiers.
(AP, 9/9/06)(AP, 9/10/06)(SSFC, 9/10/06, p.A19)
2006 Sep 9, In Brazil Ubiratan
Guimaraes, the police colonel accused of ordering a 1992 jail massacre
of more than 100 inmates, was shot dead in his apartment in Sao Paulo.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 9, British PM Tony Blair
arrived in Tel Aviv for talks with his Israeli counterpart Ehud Olmert
and other key players in the region on the stalled Middle East peace
process.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, Five central Asian
countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan) signed a nuclear-free zone treaty, but it did not cancel
out a 1992 agreement to allow Russia to transport and deploy nuclear
weapons there under certain circumstances.
(SSFC, 9/10/06, p.A18)
2006 Sep 9, In CongoDRC it was
reported to take 155 days to register a business at a cost of 5 times
the average annual income of $120.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.60)
2006 Sep 9, In Finland leaders and
top officials from 38 Asian and European nations gathered in Helsinki
for the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). The agenda included security
issues, trade and global warming.
(AFP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 9, In India recent
estimates by conservationists and some officials put the population of
Bengal tigers at 1,200 to 1,500. The government insisted the tiger
population was stable at around 3,500.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.46)
2006 Sep 9, Iran's top nuclear
negotiator met with the European Union foreign policy chief for crucial
talks seen as the last chance for Iran to avoid U.N. sanctions over its
nuclear defiance.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, In Iraq the US-led
coalition said an Iraqi court has convicted 38 people of charges
related to the insurgency, including kidnapping and murder. Their
sentences ranged from six months to life. At least 15 violent deaths
were reported across the country. Millions of Shiite pilgrims thronged
Karbala for a religious festival that ended peacefully amid tight
security. Authorities found the bullet-riddled bodies of 6 people
dumped in Mahmoudiya. One unidentified body, blindfolded with hands and
feet bound, was found in the Tigris River in Suwayah.
(AP, 9/9/06)(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 9, The 10-week Israeli
military operation, code named Summer Rains, left 230 Gazans dead,
including over 60 children. It had no noticeable impact on militant
activities.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.47)
2006 Sep 9, Italy's PM Romano
Prodi said Syria has agreed "in principle" to a European Union presence
on its border to help stem the flow of weapons into Lebanon.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, The Chinese movie
"Still Life" won the top award at the Venice Film Festival.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2006 Sep 9, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim militants shot dead two policemen in an attack on a
police check post. They also looted arms and ammunition.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, The ship Moubarak
heading from Madagascar to the Comoros Islands sank in the Indian Ocean
this weekend in bad weather. Of the 76 people on board, 43 people were
rescued after the boat sank. 33 people were missing.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 9, It was reported that
some 15,000 students from Saudi Arabia were enrolling on college
campuses across the United States this semester under a new educational
exchange program brokered by President Bush and Saudi King Abdullah.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, In northern Sri Lanka
at least 26 troops were killed and over 125 wounded in new fighting as
Tamil rebels resisted an army advance into guerrilla-held territory.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, Sudan authorities
confiscated all copies of the independent al-Sudani newspaper, the
latest move in a resurgence of censorship since the beheading of a
journalist last week. Paul Salopek was released from a prison in the
war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on
espionage charges.
(Reuters, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 9, Tens of thousands of
red-clad protesters thronged Taiwan's capital, demanding that President
Chen Shui-bian resign over a series of alleged corruption scandals
involving his family and inner circle. Shih Ming-teh, a former chairman
of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), began camping with fellow
protesters in the center of Taipei.
(AP, 9/9/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.48)
2006 Sep 9, Pope Benedict XVI
began a six-day homecoming to his native Bavaria.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2007 Sep 9, In the 2007 MTV Music
Video Awards the winners included: Video of the Year: Rihanna,
"Umbrella," featuring Jay-Z; Male Artist of the Year: Justin
Timberlake; Female Artist of the Year: Fergie. Britney Spears performed
her new single "Gimme More" in a much-criticized comeback attempt at
the event in Las Vegas.
(AP, 9/10/07)(AP, 9/9/08)
2007 Sep 9, Phil Frank (64),
longtime resident of Sausalito, Ca., and creator of the Farley and
Elderberries comic strips, announced his retirement. His Farley strip
had run in the SF Chronicle for decades.
(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 9, The remains of Sam (7)
and Lindsey (8) Porter were found near the Missouri River in Sugar
Creek, Mo. They had been missing since their disappearance on June 5,
2004. On November 20 their father, Dan Porter (44), already in jail for
their kidnapping, was charged in their shootings.
(SFC, 11/21/07,
p.A4)(www.kmbc.com/news/14090631/detail.html)
2007 Sep 9, In Utah searchers
found the body of Camille Cleverley (22) at the base of a cliff near
Bridal Veil Falls in Provo. The Brigham Young Univ. student had been
missing for over a week.
(SFC, 9/10/07, p.A4)
2007 Sep 9, Afghanistan President
Hamid Karzai said he was ready to hold talks with Taliban militants in
an effort to end their bloody insurgency against his US-backed
administration.
(AFP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Large swathes of
Bangladesh were underwater again after heavy rains, adding to the
misery of millions hit by flooding that has killed more than 830 people
since late July.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, The British couple
named as suspects in the disappearance of their 4-year-old daughter
returned to England, days after being grilled by Portuguese police
about new forensic evidence authorities believe ties them to the case.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Bishop Han Dingxiang
(71), who led an underground congregation of Roman Catholics and was
repeatedly detained in China for his loyalty to the Vatican, died in
police custody. He died while being treated in a hospital for an
unspecified illness.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 9, Volkswagen announced
the Up! At the Frankfurt Motor Show. The 6,000 euro ($8,300) is a small
car intended for emerging markets.
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.78)
2007 Sep 9, Guatemala held
presidential elections. Front runners Alvaro Colom, candidate of the
center left National Unity of Hope party, and Otto Perez Molina, of the
conservative Patriotic Party, were virtually tied in recent polls. The
2 candidates faced a presidential runoff in November after a close
first-round vote.
(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.A1)(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 9, In southern India a
highway overpass collapsed in Hyderabad, crushing vehicles and injuring
pedestrians taking shelter from a rainstorm. At least 2 people were
killed. officials said they feared 20 people had died.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 9, Iraq's Foreign
Minister Hoshyar Zebari urged neighbors to prevent "terrorists and
killers" from crossing into his country and warned that the violence in
Iraq could spill across its borders. A mortar attack in a predominantly
Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad killed one person, and an explosion in a
booby-trapped minibus south of the capital, in Mahmoudiya, also killed
one. A coordinated attack on a police station in Hajaj, a predominantly
Sunni village in northern Iraq, left five policemen and four civilians
dead before the gunmen were driven off with the help of residents. A US
airstrike in northern Iraq killed an insurgent suspected to be behind
the quadruple suicide bombings in August against communities of Yazidis.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Israeli police said
they have cracked a cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis accused in a string
of attacks on foreign workers, religious Jews, drug addicts and gays.
Eight immigrants from the former Soviet Union were arrested in recent
days in connection with at least 15 attacks, and a ninth fled the
country.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, In northern Mexico a
truck carrying 25 tons of ammonium nitrate blew up after colliding with
another vehicle, killing at least 37 people, including three reporters
who came to the scene near Sacramento.
(AP, 9/10/07)(Econ, 9/15/07, p.40)
2007 Sep 9, Moroccan nationalist
party Istiqlal vowed to keep an alliance with socialists after emerging
as the surprise winner in elections marred by the lowest turnout ever
in the north African nation.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Pakistani police
manned roadblocks and rounded up supporters of former PM Nawaz Sharif
as he prepared to end seven years in exile and return to Pakistan to
lead a campaign to topple the country's US-allied military ruler.
Suspected pro-Taliban militants ambushed a military convoy in troubled
northwestern Pakistan, triggering a shootout that killed 10 militants
and wounded seven soldiers.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Shepherds from 32
countries joined their Spanish colleagues to lead flocks of sheep
through the streets of downtown Madrid in defense of ancient grazing
routes threatened by urban sprawl and manmade frontiers. Modern-day
Madrid lies squarely in the way of two venerable north-south routes,
one dating back to 1372.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Southern Sudanese
officials said government troops have agreed to end their siege of 61
south Sudanese soldiers, resolving a stand-off that risked undermining
the north-south peace deal.
(Reuters, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Thousands of
protesters blocked a central Taipei street and displayed candles in the
shape of the Chinese character for "fart" to demand that Taiwan
President Chen Shui-bian step down over suspected corruption.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2008 Sep 9, In Berkeley, Ca., the
last 4 protesters in a lone redwood voluntarily climbed down. The
struggle to protect 42 trees from being felled for a sports training
center had begun on December 1, 2006. UC later sought as much as
$10,000 from each of the tree sitters for attorney fees.
(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A1)(SFC, 9/22/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 9, San Antonio, Texas,
unveiled a deal that will make it the first US city to harvest methane
gas from human waste on a commercial scale and turn it into
clean-burning fuel.
(Reuters, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, O3B Networks Ltd.,
founded by Greg Wyler (38), announced plans to launch as many as 16
satellites that could provide Internet service to Africa, the Middle
East and parts of Latin America by 2010 at a cost of some $650 million.
(WSJ, 9/9/08, p.B1)(www.o3bnetworks.com/)
2008 Sep 9, Angola's former rebel
movement and main opposition party UNITA faced up to a crushing
electoral defeat in a landmark peacetime poll in which it won only
10.4% of the vote. The ruling left-wing MPLA (Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola), which has been in power for over three decades,
had nearly 82 percent of the votes.
(AFP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, The 27-member EU
stopped short of offering Ukraine membership during an EU-Ukraine
summit hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. But the two sides
began work on an "association accord," a step that offers closer
political and economic ties and in the past has been designed to
prepare nations for eventual membership.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 9, An Italian study
showed a new way to test for cervical cancer is more accurate than a
pap smear and identified more dangerous lesions.
(Reuters, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, A NATO bomb missed its
target by more than 1 1/2 miles and hit a house, killing two Afghan
civilians and wounding 10 at a time of rising tension between the
Afghan government and international troops over the use of airstrikes.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, Hurricane Ike roared
south of Havana, Cuba, after tearing across the island nation, ravaging
homes, killing at least four people and forcing 1.2 million to evacuate.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, The Iraqi oil ministry
said Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a gas
joint venture with Iraq worth up to four billion dollars, becoming the
first Western oil major to gain access to the violence-wracked
country's vast energy reserves.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, Morocco said it would
start vaccinating all livestock after the outbreak of Peste des Petits
Ruminants, a deadly viral disease, ahead of the Eid festival when
millions of animals are sacrificed.
(AFP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, Militants in Nigeria's
oil-rich Niger Delta hijacked a vessel with five expatriate and eight
Nigerian oil workers on board. Robin Hughes from St Margaret's Bay,
Kent, was among 27 oil workers kidnapped by militants when their vessel
was hijacked. Hughes (59) was freed on April 19, 2009.
(AFP, 9/10/08)(AFP, 4/20/09)
2008 Sep 9, North Korea held a
military parade to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the country’s
founding, but leader Kim Jong Il (66) was missing. Media later reported
that Kim Jong Il had brain surgery after a stroke last month and could
have partial paralysis on one side.
(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A3)(AP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 9, OPEC ministers decided
to scale back production by some 520,000 barrels a day in the face of
falling oil prices and slowing demand. Hours earlier Russia proposed
extensive cooperation with OPEC.
(WSJ, 9/10/08, p.A7)
2008 Sep 9, Asif Ali Zardari. the
widower of assassinated former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, took
office as the country's new president, facing immediate pressure to
crack down on Islamic militants and address daunting economic problems.
Zardari and Afghan Pres. Karzai hosted a joint news conference and
declared that they stand together against the Taliban and al-Qaida.
(AP, 9/9/08)(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A7)
2008 Sep 9, Russia said it will
station 7,600 troops in South Ossetia and in Abkhazia, announcing an
imposing long-term presence less than a day after agreeing to pull
forces back from areas surrounding the provinces.
(AP, 9/9/08)(WSJ, 9/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 9, Serbian lawmakers
ratified a pre-membership agreement with the EU and an oil and gas deal
with Russia after months of heated debate over the direction of the
country's policies.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, A gunman killed an
outspoken Somali lawmaker in the provincial town of Baidoa, the latest
in a series of attacks in the lawless African nation.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 9, Thailand's PM Samak
was forced to resign along with his Cabinet after a court ruled that he
had violated the constitution by hosting TV cooking shows while in
office. The Cabinet will remain in a caretaker position until a new
administration is installed.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, Tamil Tiger rebels
launched an air and ground assault on a military complex in northern
Sri Lanka. 5 women were among 10 suicide bombers that struck the
Vavuniya military complex, 260 kilometers (160 miles) north of Colombo.
At least 15 people were killed in the attack. The UN announced it was
withdrawing its aid workers from Sri Lanka's embattled north ahead of a
major military drive, as Colombo claimed its first downing of a rebel
aircraft.
(AP, 9/9/08)(AFP, 9/12/08)
2008 Sep 9, Togo’s Health Ministry
said an outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed for the first time
since last year.
(AP, 9/9/08)
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