Today in History - September 11
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1297 Sep 11,
Scots under William Wallace “Braveheart” defeated the English army at
Stirling Bridge, Scotland.
(WSJ, 9/9/97, p.A1)(HN, 9/11/98)
1297 Sep 11, Hugh de Cressingham,
English treasurer, died in battle.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1557 Sep 11, Catholic &
Lutheran theology were debated in Worms. Catholics and Protestants met
in Worms in a final effort to achieve reconciliation.
(MC, 9/11/01)(TL-MB, 1988, p.19)
1630 Sep 11, John de White,
Calvinist banker to Prague, committed suicide.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1649 Sep 11, Oliver Cromwell
seized Drogheda, Ireland. 3,000 inhabitants were massacred and all
Catholic Churches were blown up by cannon.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1695 Sep 11, Imperial troops under
Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at the Battle of Zenta.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1700 Sep 11, James Thomson,
Scottish poet and songwriter, was born. He wrote the song “Rule
Britannia.”
(HN, 9/11/00)(MC, 9/11/01)
1709 Sep 11, John Churchill, Duke
of Marlborough, won the bloodiest battle of the 18th century at great
cost, against the French at Malplaquet.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1733 Sep 11, Francois Couperin,
French composer (Le Grand), died at 64. [see Sep 12]
(MC, 9/11/01)
1740 Sep 11, The first mention of
an African American doctor or dentist in the colonies was made in the
Pennsylvania Gazette.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1773 Sep 11, Benjamin Franklin
wrote "There never was a good war or bad peace."
(MC, 9/11/01)
1776 Sep 11, An American
delegation consisting of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward
Rutledge met with British Admiral Richard Lord Howe to discuss terms
upon which reconciliation between Britain and the colonies might be
based. The talks were unsuccessful. In 2003 Barnet Schecter authored
“The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American
Revolution.”
(AH, 6/03,
p.61)(www.patriotresource.com/people/howe/page2.html)
1777 Sep 11, General George
Washington and his troops were defeated by the British under General
Sir William Howe at the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania. Posing as
a gunsmith, British Sergeant John Howe served as General Gage's eyes in
a restive Massachusetts colony.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1783 Sep 11, Benjamin Franklin
drafted the Treaty of Paris. [see Sep 3]
(MC, 9/11/01)
1786 Sep 11, The US Convention of
Annapolis opened with the aim of revising the articles of confederation.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1789 Sep 11, Alexander Hamilton
was appointed the first U.S. secretary of the treasury.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1798 Sep 11, Franz E Neumann,
German mineralogist, mathematician and physicist, was born.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1802 Sep 11, Piedmont, Italy, was
annexed by France.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1814 Sep 11, An American fleet led
by Thomas Macdonough scored a decisive victory over the British in the
Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.
(AP, 9/11/97)(HN, 9/11/98)
1838 Sep 11, John Ireland, US
archbishop of St Paul, was born in Ireland.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1847 Sep 11, Stephen Foster’s “Oh!
Susanna” was first performed in a saloon in Pittsburgh.
(HN, 9/11/00)
1848 Sep 11, Henri-Philippe Gerard
(b.1760), composer, died at 87.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1850 Sep 11, Jenny Lind, the
“Swedish Nightingale,” gave her first concert in the United States, at
Castle Garden in New York.
(AP, 9/11/00)
1851 Sep 11, Edward Gorsuch, a
wealthy slave owner from Maryland, confronted William Parker and
accused him of harboring 4 runaway slaves near the abolitionist town,
Christiana, Pennsylvania. This was one year after the second fugitive
slave law (first law was on February 12, 1793) was passed by Congress,
requiring the return of all escaped slaves to their owners in the
South. Gorsuch was killed during the skirmish and Parker was forced to
flee to Canada.
(AH, 10/02, p.49)
1857 Sep 11, The Mountain Meadows
Massacre of the Fancher emigrant wagon train in Utah Territory was
carried out by Mormons fearful of an impending invasion by the US Army.
Church patriarch and adopted son of Brigham Young, John Doyle Lee,
offered safe passage to the nearly 150 men, women and children on the
Fancher train from Arkansas crossing Mormon Utah bound for California,
if they left their weapons, livestock and wagons behind-ostensibly to
appease hostile Indians. Once unarmed, all but the youngest children
were slaughtered. Lee, who first blamed the massacre on Paiute Indians,
was excommunicated in 1970 and tried, convicted and executed in 1877
for his role in the killings. 120 settlers were killed; 17 children,
all under 7, were spared. In 2002 Will Bagley authored “Blood of the
Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows.”
(HNQ, 9/14/99)(SFC, 10/23/02, p.H4)(AP, 9/11/07)
1862 Sep 11, O. Henry was born.
This was the pen name of William Sydney Porter, short story writer, who
wrote “The Gift of the Magi,” and “The Last Leaf.” The name was taken
from a French chemist, Ossian Henry, that he noticed while working at a
pharmacy.
(HN, 9/11/98)(SFEC, 9/3/00, Z1 p.2)
1864 Sep 11, A 10-day truce was
declared between generals Sherman and Hood so civilians could leave
Atlanta, Georgia.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1871 Sep 11, The 1st passenger
train passed through the Mount Cenis Tunnel between France and Italy.
Work on the 8-mile tunnel had begun in 1861 under the direction of
French engineer Germain Sommeiller (d.7/11/1871).
(ON, 2/03, p.9)
1875 Sep 11, 1st newspaper cartoon
strip, "Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm" appeared in the New York
"Daily Graphics" newspaper.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1877 Sep 11, James Jeans (d.1946),
English physicist, mathematician and astronomer, was born. He was the
first to propose that matter is continuously created throughout the
universe.
(HN, 9/11/00)(www.britannica.com)
1883 Sep 11, James Goold Cutler,
architect, patented the postal mail chute. The first one was installed
in Rochester N.Y. He later became the mayor of Rochester.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.E4)(WSJ, 7/11/01, p.A1)(MC, 9/11/01)
1885 Sep 11, D.H. Laurence (David
Herbert Lawrence d.1930), English novelist, author of “Lady
Chatterley's Lover” and “Sons and Lovers,” was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.812)(HN, 9/11/98)
1897 Sep 11, A strike by some
75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia ended
after 10 weeks. Concessions included an eight-hour work day,
semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of company stores (which were
famous for over charging workers). The day before, about 20 miners were
killed when sheriff's deputies opened fire on them in Pennsylvania.
(AP, 9/11/97)(MC, 9/11/01)
1904 Sep 11, The battleship
Connecticut, launched in New York, introduced a new era in naval
construction.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1906 Sep 11, Mohandas Gandhi
addressed a meeting in Johannesburg on social protest against the
Asiatic Law Amendment, a new law by the province of Transvaal that made
it compulsory for all Indians over age 8 to register with the
government and carry ID cards. In the India Opinion he published
articles on what he called Satyagraha (Truth Force): "the vindication
of truth not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but on one's
self."
(ON, 9/03, p.1)
1910 Sep 11, Gerhard Schroder,
German chancellor, was born.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1910 Sep 11, The 1st commercially
successful electric bus line opened in Hollywood.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1913 Sep 11, Hedy Lamarr, actress,
was born in Austria. She featured in numerous minor roles in
Austro-German film prior to her 1938 Hollywood arrival and gained
significant notoriety for her libidinous 10 nude scene in the Czech
film 'Ecstasy' (1932). She was cast in many romantic films
including 'Samson and Delilah' and 'My Favorite Spy' "Any girl can be
glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid"-- Hedy
Lamarr.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1914 Sep 11, W.C. Handy published
his "St Louis Blues."
(SI-WPC, 12/6/96)(MC, 9/11/01)
1915 Sep 11, Sir William Cornelius
Van Horne, former president of the CPR, died in Montreal. His mansion
was on Minister’s Island in New Brunswick, Canada. The American-born
Van Horne had managed the construction of Canada’s transcontinental
railway (1881-1886). Van Horne was buried in Joliet, Ill.
(SFEC, 5/25/97,
p.T7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cornelius_Van_Horne)
1916 Sep 11, The “Star Spangled
Banner” was sung at the beginning of a baseball game for the first time
in Cooperstown, New York.
(HN, 9/11/00)
1917 Sep 11, Jessica Mitford
(d.1996), writer who championed civil rights, best known for her book
“The American Way of Death,” was born.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1917 Sep 11, Ferdinand Marcos,
Philippines Pres. (1965-86), was born.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1918 Sep 11, The Boston Red sox
beat Chicago 4-2 to win the World Series in the 6th game.
(www.1918redsox.com/augsep.htm)
1918 Sep 11, US troops landed in
Russia to fight the Bolsheviks.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1919 Sep 11, US marines invaded
Honduras (again).
(MC, 9/11/01)
1922 Sep 11, The British mandate
of Palestine began.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1923 Sep 11, ZR-1 (biggest active
dirigible) flew over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1924 Sep 11, Tom Landry, coach of
the Dallas Cowboys professional football team, who won two Super Bowls,
was born.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1929 Sep 11, David S. Broder,
journalist (Pulitzer 1973), was born in Chicago Hgts., Ill.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1930 Sep 11, The Stromboli volcano
in Sicily threw 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1932 Sep 11, Valentino, fashion
designer for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was born in Milan, Italy.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1936 Sep 11, President Roosevelt
dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington
to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator in
Nevada. The Dam was completed ahead of schedule. It was the first and
most important link in a chain of dams, canals and aqueducts built to
harness the Colorado River. The colossal mass of concrete is wedged
into Black Canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, 32 miles SE of Las
Vegas. Paul L. Wattis, headed the construction company that built
Boulder Dam.
(AP, 9/11/97)(HNQ, 4/3/02)(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A22)
1939 Sep 11, British submarine
Triton torpedoed British submarine Oxley.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1940 Sep 11, Brian DePalma, film
director (Body Double, Dressed to Kill), was born in Newark, NJ.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1941 Sep 11, FDR ordered any Axis
ship found in American waters be sunk on sight, in response to
submarine attacks on US vessels.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1941 Sep 11, Ground breaking
ceremonies were held for the Pentagon. The 38-acre Pentagon was built
in Arlington, Va., over the next 2 years. Construction was ordered by
Brig. Gen. Brehon B. Sommervell to consolidate the 17 War Dept.
buildings. It cost $83 million and was located on a plot known as
Arlington Farms, that was bordered by 5 roads. In 2006 James Carroll
authored “House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of
American Power.”
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A6)(Econ, 5/27/06, p.81)
1941 Sep 11, Charles A. Lindbergh
sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in
which he blamed "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt
administration" for trying to draw the United States into World War II.
Lindbergh had joined the America First Committee which opposed US entry
into the war.
(SFEC, 11/15/98, Par p.29)(USAW, 5/19/02, p.26)(AP,
9/11/08)
1942 Sep 11, Wheeler Bryson Lipes
(1921-2005), a US Navy pharmacist's mate, saved the life of sailor
Darrell Dean Rector (19) by operating, following a medical manual, in
the officer’s mess aboard the Seadragon below the surface of the South
China Sea. George Weller (d.2002), war correspondent, won the Pulitzer
in 1943 for his account of the operation. The films “Destination Tokyo”
(1943) and “Run Silent, Run Deep” (1958) memorialized the surgery.
(AP, 12/20/02)(SFC, 4/19/05, p.B5)
1943 Sep 11, Jewish ghettos of
Minsk & Lida in Belorussia were liquidated.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1944 Sep 11, President Roosevelt
and British PM Winston Churchill met in Canada at the second Quebec
Conference.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1944 Sep 11, American troops
entered Luxembourg.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1945 Sep 11, Leo Kottke, guitarist
(Ice Water, Greenhouse), was born in Athens, Ga.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1946 Sep 11, The 1st mobile
long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1948 Sep 11, Mohammed Ali Jinnah
(b.1876, 1st governor of Pakistan (1947-48), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah)
1950 Sep 11, The 1st typesetting
machine to dispense with metal type was exhibited.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1950 Sep 11, Jan C. Smuts,
co-founder of British RAF and S. African PM (1919-48), died at 80.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1951 Sep 11, Stravinsky's opera
"Rake's Progress," premiered in Venice.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1951 Sep 11, Florence Chadwick
became the 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It
took 16 hours & 19 minutes. [see Aug 6, 1926]
(MC, 9/11/01)
1952 Sep 11, Eritrean-Ethiopian
federation act was signed and Eritrea became an independent (federated)
nation. Washington, worried an emergent Eritrea would come under Soviet
influence, had arranged for it to be yoked in a federation to U.S.
client Ethiopia.
(AP, 1/3/05)(http://nazret.com/history/)
1954 Sep 11, The Miss America
pageant made its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Ann
Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1954 Sep 11, Category 3 Hurricane
Edna made landfall at Martha’s Vineyard. This 2nd storm of 1954 hit NYC
with $50 million damage and caused 21 deaths in the region.
(www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml#carol)
1958 Sep 11, Responding to
Communist China's artillery attacks on the Taiwan-held islands of
Quemoy and Matsu, President Eisenhower said in a broadcast address the
US had to be prepared to fight to prevent a communist takeover of the
islands.
(AP, 9/11/08)
1959 Sep 11, The US Congress
passed a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1960 Sep 11, The 17th Summer
Olympics closed in Rome. In 2008 David Maraniss authored “Rome 1960:
The Olympics That Changed the World.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Summer_Olympics)
1962 Sep 11, Thurgood Marshall was
appointed a judge of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1962 Sep 11, The Beatles recorded
their first single for EMI, "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," at EMI
studios in London. The recording contract was offered by producer
George Martin. Drummer Ringo Starr joined John, Paul and George for his
first recording session as a Beatles, replacing Pete Best. "Love Me Do"
was the result and it took 17 takes to complete.
(AP, 9/11/97)(SFC, 11/11/98, p.E3)(MC, 9/11/01)
1965 Sep 11, The US 1st Cavalry
Division (Airmobile), arrived in South Vietnam and was stationed at An
Khe.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1967 Sep 11, Harry Connick Jr. was
born. He became a Grammy Award-winning singer: We are in Love; actor:
Copycat, When Harry Met Sally.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1967 Sep 11, Charles Manson
(b.1934) recorded his album "Lie," which was produced by Dennis Wilson
(b.1944), drummer for the Beach Boys.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie:_The_Love_and_Terror_Cult)
1967 Sep 11, "The Carol Burnett
Show" premiered on CBS.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1967 Sep 11, The Beatles drove
their Magical Mystery Bus around England.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1970 Sep 11, In Laos the US
Operation Tailwind began with the objectives of reconnaissance,
intelligence collection, and a diversion for a larger operation to the
north. In 1998 it was reported that the secret raid called Operation
Tailwind by a Special Forces unit called the Studies and Observations
Group (SOG) used the nerve gas sarin in Laos to kill American armed
service members who had defected. A report in 1998 allegedly confirmed
that over 100 people were killed including up to 20 American military
defectors. Adm. Thomas Moorer (1912-2004), the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff at the time (1970-1974), confirmed in 1998 that nerve
gas was used. CNN and Time magazine later recanted the story due to
insufficient evidence.
(www.scarface-usmc.org/tailwind.htm)(SFC, 6/8/98,
p.A3)(WSJ, 6/26/98, p.W13)(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 2/7/04, p.A21)
1971 Sep 11, The body of a woman
was found in the Delta-Mendota Canal near Westley, Ca. she had been
stabbed 65 times. In 2008 DNA evidence identified her as Mary Alice
Willey (23) of San Francisco. It was suspected that she had played a
role in the Aug 29 black Panther attack at the Ingleside police station
that left one officer dead.
(SFC, 10/7/08, p.B2)(SSFC, 5/24/09, p.A1)
1971 Sep 11, Egypt adopted a new
constitution by public referendum. It called for the president to be
chosen by at least two-thirds of MPs, and then confirmed by referendum.
In 2007 a questionable referendum approved 34 constitutional
amendments.
(Econ, 9/25/04, p.61)(Econ, 3/31/07,
p.57)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Egypt)
1971 Sep 11, Former Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77. In 2003 William Taubman authored
"Khrushchev: The Man and His Era." In 2006 Aleksandr Fursenko and
Timothy Naftali authored “Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an
American Adversary.”
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)(AP, 9/11/97)(SSFC, 4/27/03,
M3)(Econ, 11/18/06, p.88)
1972 Sep 11, The first trial of
serial killer Juan Corona began in Colusa County, Ca. It ended up
costing $350,000.
(www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/juan_corona/8.html)(SFC,
2/25/99, p.A13)
1972 Sep 11, Max Fleischer
(b.1889), Viennese-born cartoonist, died in California. In the 1930s he
introduced the character of 'Betty Boop' in the "Dizzy Dishes" cartoons
which brought him great fame.
(SFC, 6/13/00,
p.A22)(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=7323557&page=gr)
1972 Sep 11, The troubled 20th
Olympic games closed at Munich, German FR.
(AP, 9/11/00)
1973 Sep 11, Pres. Salvadore
Allende of Chile was toppled in a bloody military coup in Santiago led
by 4 commanders: Gen’l Augusto Pinochet, Admiral Jose Toribio Merino
(d.8/31/96), air force Gen’l. Gustavo Leigh Guzman (d.1999 at 79) and
police director Gen’l. Cesar Mendoza. Allende blew his head off with an
AK 47 given to him by Fidel Castro. The government was taken over by
Gen. Augusto Pinochet and his economic managers dubbed the "Chicago
boys," for their training at the Univ. of Chicago and belief in free
markets. The first 3 months of fighting claimed 1261 victims. The air
force bombarded the presidential palace to put down resistance by
Allende and a small group of followers.
(WSJ, 12/1/95, p.A-10)(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A23)(WSJ,
10/30/98, p.A19)(SFC, 9/30/99, p.A31)
1974 Sep 11, In North Carolina an
Eastern Airlines DC-9, Flight 212, crashed 3 miles from the Douglas
Municipal Airport. Of the 82 persons aboard the aircraft, 11 and two
crewmembers survived the accident. One passenger died 3 days after the
crash, and another died 6 days after the crash. One survivor died of
injuries 29 days after the accident.
(AP,
9/11/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines)
1978 Sep 11, Kippi Vaught and
Rhonda Scheffler (17) were kidnapped from a shopping mall in
Sacramento. Their bodies were found 2 days later east of town. Gerald
Gallego (b.1946) and accomplice Charlene Williams (24) began a rape and
murder spree that left 9 women and one young man dead. Williams served
17 years in prison. Gallego was sentenced to death but was still alive
with appeals.
(www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/gallego.htm)(SFC,10/28/97,
p.A17)
1978 Sep 11, Georgi Markov, a
Bulgarian defector, died at a British hospital four days after being
stabbed by a man wielding a poisoned umbrella tip. British
investigative reporter Peter Earle (d.1997 at 71) revealed that Markov
was jabbed by an East German agent with a poison tipped umbrella on
Waterloo Bridge. The original report stated that Markov died of a heart
attack. In 1993 Danish authorities charged a Dane of Italian origin,
Francesco Guillino, with killing Markov. Guillino, who reportedly had
worked for the Bulgarian secret services since 1972, denied any
wrongdoing and eventually was freed. In 2005 journalist Hristo Hristov
authored “Kill Vagabond,” in which he presented new evidence confirming
that the hit was planned and carried out by Bulgaria's communist-era
secret service.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.B8)(AP, 9/11/98)(AP, 6/16/05)(SFC,
6/17/05, p.W5)
1982 Sep 11, Wilfredo Lam
(b.1902), Cuban artist, died in Paris, France. He is best known for
“The Jungle” (1943), later acquired by NYC’s MOMA.
(WSJ, 4/29/08, p.D7)
1985 Sep 11, Pete Rose of the
Cincinnati Reds made his career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego
Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record.
(AP, 9/11/05)
1985 Sep 11, A U.S. satellite
glided through the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet in the first-ever
on-the-spot sampling of a comet.
(AP, 9/11/05)
1986 Sep 11, The Dow Jones
Industrial Average (DJIA) suffered its biggest 1-day decline to date,
plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares were traded
[see Oct 19, 1987]. It is believed that the drop was accelerated,
though not initiated, by computer-assisted arbitrage.
(www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/resources/general/ethicol/Ecv6no3.html)
1986 Sep 11, Egypt's Pres Mubarak
received Israeli premier Peres.
(http://tinyurl.com/spu4y)
1987 Sep 11, The CBS TV network
went black for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the
set of "The CBS Evening News" because a tennis tournament being carried
by the network ran overtime. The tennis coverage had ended abruptly,
catching Rather off guard.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1987 Sep 11, Lorne Greene
(b.1915), actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), died at 72.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=417)
1988 Sep 11, Mats Wilander of
Sweden won the men's U.S. Open title in New York.
(AP, 9/11/98)
1988 Sep 11, In Haiti 12
people died when the San Juan Bosco Church was burned.
(www.cidh.org/countryrep/Haiti90eng/intro.htm)
1989 Sep 11, The exodus of East
German refugees from Hungary to West Germany began, by way of Austria.
(AP, 9/11/99)
1990 Sep 11, President Bush
addressed Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis, vowing that “Saddam
Hussein will fail” in his takeover of Kuwait.
(AP, 9/11/00)
1990 Sep 11, In Guatemala City
sociologist Myrna Mack was stabbed 27 times to death. Gen’l. Edgar
Augusto Godoy and Colonels Juan Valencia Osorio and Juan Guillermo
Oliva ordered Noel de Jesus Beteta, a soldier, to kill Mack. Beteta
later received a 30 year sentence for the crime. The officers in 1997
sought amnesty under a new treaty. Myrna Mack was an anthropologist
working on the ecological effects of the nation’s refugee policies and
the genocide of Maya Indians. The officers were ordered to stand trial
in 1999. In 2002 Beteta recanted his confession. In 2003 an appeals
court freed Col. Juan Valencia.
(SFC, 1/7/97, p.A10)(SFC, 3/21/97, p.A18)(SFC,
4/28/98, p.A8)(SFC, 1/30/99, p.A14)(AP, 9/18/02)(SFC, 5/8/03, p.A14)
1991 Sep 11, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the Kremlin would withdraw thousands of
troops from Cuba, a move bitterly denounced by the Havana government.
(AP, 9/11/01)
1991 Sep 11, In the Middle East
hopes grew for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon after Israel
freed 51 prisoners.
(AP, 9/11/01)
1992 Sep 11, President Bush
announced he was approving the sale of 72 F-15 jet fighters to Saudi
Arabia.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1992 Sep 11, Hurricane Iniki
struck Hawaii, leaving at least five people dead and more than 10,000
homes damaged or destroyed. Iniki caused some $1.6 billion in damages
on Kauai.
(Hem., 4/97, p.26)(AP, 9/11/97)(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C12)
1993 Sep 11, Antoine Izmery, a
prominent supporter of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
was shot and killed outside a church in Port-au-Prince; the UN mission
accused Haitian armed forces of involvement. Louis-Jodel Chamblain was
later convicted in absentia for his role in the murder.
(AP, 9/11/98)(SFC, 3/24/04, p.A9)
1993 Sep 11, Austrian born US
conductor and author Erich Leinsdorf died in Zurich, Switzerland, at
age 81. His work included “Cadenza.”
(AP, 9/11/98)
1994 Sep 11, In the 46th Annual
Primetime Emmy Awards the winners included Fraiser (comedy), Picket
Fences (best drama).
(AP, 9/11/04)
1994 Sep 11, Anthony Marceca
visited Craig Livingstone at the White House and secretly perused his
own personal FBI file. He obtained the names of 2 women, Lanny
Stephenson and Joyce L. Montag, who had provided the FBI background
information and sued them for slander.
(WSJ, 6/28/96,
p.A9)(www.judicialwatch.org/archive/ois/cases/filegate/SubCertBrief.htm)
1994 Sep 11, Frederick Rand
Weissman (b.1912, philanthropist, died. He funded a number of American
art galleries.
(www.radioislam.org/thetruth/26art.htm)(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1994/misc.html)
1994 Sep 11, Jessica Tandy (85),
actress (Driving Miss Daisy), died of cancer in Easton, Conn.
(AP, 9/11/99)
1995 Sep 11, The prosecution in
the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles reluctantly began its
rebuttal case, as ordered by Judge Lance Ito, after the defense refused
to rest.
(AP, 9/11/00)
1995 Sep 11, In Florida Jimmy Ryce
(9) was kidnapped, raped and murdered. In 1998 Juan Carlos Chavez, a
Cuban ranch hand was convicted. His defense was that he was framed by
his bosses into a confession for fear of being deported. The defense
held that Edward Sheinhaus, the son of Chavez’s bosses, was the killer.
(SFC, 9/19/98, p.A4)
1996 Sep 11, Two top officials
with the Health and Human Services Department resigned over President
Clinton's signing of the Republican welfare overhaul bill. Another
official had resigned the month before.
(AP, 9/11/97)
1996 Sep 11, There was a review of
“Big Band Renaissance: The Evolution of the Jazz Orchestra,” compiled
by Bill Kirchner and released by The Smithsonian Institution.
(WSJ, 9/11/96, p.A20)
1996 Sep 11, The Union Pacific
merger with Southern Pacific took effect, forming the largest railroad
in the US.
(www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/uprr-chr.shtml)
1996 Sep 11, Grasshoppers plagued
North Dakota. The insects were a problem in Wyoming, Montana and
Nebraska. Another dry summer and it was predicted that they would
spread to Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
(SFC, 9/11/96, p.A2)
1996 Sep 11, Hurricane Hortense
left 14 dead in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. It then hit the
Turks and Caicos Islands with 90 mph winds.
(FB, 9/12/96, p.A7)
1996 Sep 11, In Bangladesh Shanti
Bahini guerrillas killed 30 Bengali-speaking settlers in the
southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts.
(SFC, 9/12/96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 11, In Burundi Hutu
rebels killed Catholic archbishop Joachim Ruhunu and six others.
(SFC, 9/11/96, p.A9)
1997 Sep 11, In Manhattan Elie
Wiesel helped dedicate the new Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery
Park, designed by Kevin Roche. It was dubbed a Living memorial to the
Holocaust.
(SFC, 9/12/97, p.A10)(WSJ, 9/17/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 11, The US Army issued a
searing indictment of itself, asserting that "sexual harassment exists
throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines."
(AP, 9/11/98)
1997 Sep 11, In Kenya the
Parliament approved some constitutional reforms but opponents charged
the measures were only meant to diffuse protests. Detention without
trial was ended and greater media access to the opposition was to be
established.
(WSJ, 9/12/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 11, In Scotland voters
went to the polls on a referendum for a separate Scottish Parliament
after 290 years of union with England.. They approved the referendum by
a 63% vote.
(SFC, 9/11/97, p.A10)(SFC, 9/12/97, p.A12)(AP,
9/11/98)
1998 Sep 11, Congress released
Kenneth Starr's report that offered graphic details of President
Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury
and obstruction of justice; the president's attorneys quickly issued a
rebuttal.
(AP, 9/11/99)
1998 Sep 11, Tropical Storm
Frances hit the middle of the Texas coast. In Louisiana one person was
killed and 6 were injured. In Houston the streets were flooded.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 11, Algeria’s Pres.
Liamine Zeroual (57) announced that he would step down by Feb 1999
following early elections.
(WSJ, 9/14/98, p.A28)
1998 Sep 11, In Brazil The Bovespa
index fell to an intraday low of 4575. By Nov 6 it moved back up to
8214.
(WSJ, 11/9/98, p.C1)
1998 Sep 11, Divers off Nova
Scotia recovered the cockpit voice recorder from Swissair Flight 111,
which had crashed Sept. 2, with 229 people aboard. The data recorder
was found Sep 6.
(AP, 9/11/03)
1998 Sep 11, In Chile the last
national holiday to celebrate the end of the Allende government in 1973
was held.
(WSJ, 9/14/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 11, In Guatemala Ricardo
Arnoldo Ramirez (67), aka Rolando Moran, a former leftist guerrilla
commander, died.
(SFC, 9/15/98, p.A22)
1998 Sep 11, In the West Bank
violent protests erupted over the Israeli killing of 2 Hamas leaders.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 11, The death toll in
Chiapas reached over 100 as 20,000 people were forced from their homes
due to the flooding from Tropical Storm Javier. The toll grew to 162
and 450,000 were left homeless.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A2,C18)(SFC, 9/18/98, p.A13)
1998 Sep 11, In Russia the
parliament approved Yevgeny Primakov as Premier and Viktor
Gerashchenko, a Soviet-era banker, as chairman of the Central Bank.
Primakov appointed Yuri Maslyukov as his top deputy.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 11, In Russia near
Murmansk security forces stormed a nuclear powered submarine and killed
Alexander Kusminykh (19), a conscript who had killed 8 of his fellow
crew members.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 11, In Sri Lanka Tamil
separatists bombed City Hall in Jaffa and killed Mayor Ponnuthurai
Sivapalan and at least 11 others.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.C2)
1999 Sep 11, Eric Milton pitched a
no-hitter for the Minnesota Twins in their 7-to-0 win over the Anaheim
Angels.
(AP, 9/11/00)
1999 Sep 11, Serena Williams won
the US Open women’s title, beating top-seeded Martina Hingis, 6-3, 7-6
(7-4).
(AP, 9/11/00)
1999 Sep 11, President Clinton,
attending a conference of Asia-Pacific leaders in New Zealand and
backed by the UN General Assembly, demanded that Indonesia allow an
international force to restore peace in East Timor.
(SFEC, 9/12/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/11/00)
1999 Sep 11, Pres. Clinton in his
weekly radio address announced grants of $106 million for 54 US school
districts to help reduce youth violence.
(SFEC, 9/12/99, p.A9)
1999 Sep 11, In India violence was
reported across the country as 77 million people chose members of
parliament in the 2nd part of a staggered 5 day poll. In Maharashtra
state Sharad Leve of the opposition National Congress was killed in an
attack by 30 BJP activists in Satara.
(SFEC, 9/12/99, p.A10)
1999 Sep 11, In New Zealand the
21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) opened for its
7th annual session.
(SFC, 9/13/99, p.A14)
2000 Sep 11, The US FTC issued a
scathing 104-page report that found media producers systematically
marketed violent, adult fare to young consumers.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A3)
2000 Sep 11, In Australia some
5,000 protestors rallied against the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit 2000
in Melbourne.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 11, In Barbados officials
at a conference on AIDS in the Caribbean pledged $120 million to fight
the disease.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A13)
2000 Sep 11, British farmers and
others protested fuel prices and blockades at refineries caused
shortages and panic buying. Prime Minister Blair refused to make
concessions.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A13)(WSJ, 9/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 11, In Congo rebels and
Ugandan troops killed at least 30 pro-Kabila Mai-Mai fighters at
Butembo in the Masisi region.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 11, In central and
southern Japan torrential rains left 7 people dead. In Nagoya the
Shinkawa River overflowed.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A14)
2001 Sep 11, Two planes left
Boston’s Logan Airport. Both planes were hijacked and flown into the
twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. In the same
morning, another plane left Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
It was hijacked, turned around and flown into the Pentagon building. A
fourth plane from Newark Airport in New Jersey was hijacked and steered
back toward Washington, D.C. It crashed in rural Pennsylvania
after people on board tried to stop the hijackers. Four groups of
terrorists used knives, hijacked 4 airplanes, and were linked to Osama
bin Laden’s al Qaeda organization. The terrorist attacks threatened to
prompt a global recession. Thousands of people were stranded and air
cargo was paralyzed as the FAA grounded all US flights.
(http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/)
8:45 am EST: American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing
767 carrying 92 people, crashed into the North tower of the World Trade
Center in NYC. It was enroute from Boston to LA.
9:03 am EST: United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing
767 carrying 65 people, crashed into the South Tower of the WTC. It was
enroute from Boston to LA.
9:38 am EST: American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing
757 carrying 64 people, crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. It
was enroute from Washington DC to LA.
9:40 am EST The FAA grounded all domestic flights
and ordered all airborne craft to land immediately.
9:43
am EST: American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 carrying 64 people,
crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. It was enroute from
Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, California
10:00 am EST The South Tower of the WTC collapsed.
10:10 am United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757
carrying 45 people, crashed southeast of Pittsburgh. The plane had left
Newark for SF but was believed to be directed by hijackers to Camp
David. Passengers appeared to have overcome the hijackers. In 2002 it
was reported that Congress was the target.
10:29 am EST The North Tower of the WTC collapsed.
1:04
pm EST: President George W. Bush puts the U.S. military on “high alert.”
5:25 pm EST: Building 7 of the WTC complex
collapsed.
8:30
pm EST: President George W. Bush, in a televised address, vowed to find
those responsible for the attacks.
In 2005 NYC said it was unable to identify the
remains of 1,161 of the 2,749 people killed in the Sep 11 attacks. The
ultimate death toll would be: 2,797 at the World Trade Center Towers,
189 killed at the Pentagon and 44 died in Pennsylvania … a total of
3,030.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A6,10,12)(WSJ, 9/12/01, p.A1)(SFC,
11/6/01, p.A6)(WSJ, 9/12/01, p.A1,3) (WSJ, 2/24/05, p.A1)
2001 Sep 11, Rick Rescorla,
security chief at Morgan Stanley, evacuated 2,700 MS employees from the
WTC and was killed trying to save others. In 2002 James B. Stewart
authored "Heart of a Soldier," a biography of Rescorla.
(WSJ, 9/11/02, p.D10)
2001 Sep 11, World leaders
expressed outrage at terrorist attacks in NYC and the Pentagon and
pledged solidarity with the US. In the West Bank town of Nablus, some
3,000 people celebrated the attacks and chanted "God is great." Later
the estimates of the WTC dead dropped to 4,396. In 2004 the count was
reduced to 2,749.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/21/01, p.A2)(USAT, 10/30/03, p.7A)(WSJ, 1/26/04,
p.A1)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1M4eH9Kk7I)
2001 Sep 11, Peter Alderman (25)
was among those murdered by terrorists while attending a conference at
the World Trade Center. His parents later established the Peter C.
Alderman Foundation in his name to alleviate the suffering of victims
of terrorism and mass violence in post-conflict countries by providing
physicians and other indigenous caregivers with the tools to treat
mental anguish using Western medical therapies combined with local
healing traditions.
(www.petercaldermanfoundation.org/about/index.html)
2001 Sep 11, In Afghanistan
explosions resounded north of Kabul near the airport just hours
following terrorist attacks in the US.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Sep 11, Israeli tanks moved
into Jenin and tore down the Palestinian police headquarters. This
prompted fighting that killed 2 Palestinians.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C3)(WSJ, 9/12/01, p.A1)
2002 Sep 11, With words of comfort
and resolve, President Bush joined the nation in remembering "how it
began and who fell first" in the terrorist attacks one year earlier.
Memorial ceremonies were tinged with fear the anniversary could spark
repeat attacks.
(Reuters, 9/11/02)(AP, 9/11/03)
2002 Sep 11, Kim Hunter (79), film
actress, died. She won a 1951 supporting Oscar for her role as Stella
in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A26)
2002 Sep 11, Johnny Unitas
(b.1933), Hall of Fame football quarterback, died in Baltimore. In 2006
Tom Callahan authored “Johnny U, The Life and Times of John Unitas.”
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/06, p.F3)
2002 Sep 11, George Shiynyuy (38),
a prominent Cameroon separatist leader, died in state custody,
hospital. Newspapers reported he was tortured to death.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2002 Sep 11, The Guatemala
Congress enacted a law that prohibited racial discrimination.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 11, The 21-member
Palestinian Cabinet resigned after Yasser Arafat lost a showdown with
parliament, the most serious challenge to the Palestinian leader since
he returned from exile in 1994.
(AP, 9/11/02)
2002 Sep 11, In Karachi, Pakistan,
2 al Qaeda suspects were killed and 5 captured after police stormed an
apartment. Key al Qaeda member Ramzi Binalshibh, who is wanted by
Germany for his alleged role in planning and carrying out the hijacked
plane attacks on the US, was arrested after a long running gun battle
in Pakistan.
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A3)(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 11, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir Islamic militants killed Mushtaq Ahmad Lone (44), a state law
minister and legislative candidate. 15 others were killed in 2 other
attacks.
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A5)
2002 Sep 11, In Russia Pres. Putin
threatened military strikes on Georgia to defend itself from terrorist
attacks.
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A7)
2003 Sep 11, In Nogales, New
Mexico, federal agents discovered a 985-foot tunnel to Mexico equipped
to move drugs on railcars.
(SSFC, 9/14/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 11, The Seattle
Archdiocese agreed to pay $7.87 million to settle lawsuits brought by
15 men who said they were molested by the same priest.
(SFC, 9/12/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 11, Actor John Ritter,
who gained fame playing bumbling and lovable characters in a pair of
hit TV comedies decades apart, collapsed while he was on the set of his
new series and died suddenly of a heart problem.
(Reuters, 9/12/03)
2003 Sep 11, In Canada 10 people
were killed in two separate plane crashes in Northern Ontario, police
said on Friday.
(AP, 9/12/03)
2003 Sep 11, The Israeli security
Cabinet decided in principle to authorize the expulsion of Yasser
Arafat. The Cabinet also decided that the construction of the security
fence between Israel and the West Bank will be accelerated.
(AP, 9/11/03)(SFC, 9/12/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 11, The Italian Health
Ministry said at least 4,175 more elderly Italians died in the summer
heat wave that scorched Europe this year compared with the same period
last year.
(AP, 9/11/03)
2003 Sep 11, In Russia the 36-card
set "United Cards of America," featuring the key figures in Washington,
went up for sale.
(SFC, 9/15/03, p.A2)
2003 Sep 11, Swaziland's King
Mswati III selected his 12th bride, less than a week after he picked
bride No. 11 from thousands of young Swazi maidens.
(AP, 9/11/03)
2003 Sep 11, Sweden's Foreign
Minister Anna Lindh died after being stabbed Sep 10 by a mystery
attacker.
(Reuters, 9/11/03)
2003 Sep 11, Weary and trembling,
Pope John Paul II struggled to greet Slovaks as he began a four-day
visit.
(AP, 9/11/03)
2004 Sep 10, Svetlana Kuznetsova
overwhelmed Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5 in the first all-Russian U.S.
Open final.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2004 Sep 10, Mike Leigh's "Vera
Drake" won the Golden Lion for best picture at the close of the Venice
Film Festival.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2004 Sep 10, Specialist Armin Cruz
became the first Military Intelligence soldier convicted in the Abu
Ghraib prison scandal as he admitted abusing inmates and received a
lighter sentence in return for his testimony against others.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2004 Sep 11, Songwriter Fred Ebb
(76) died of a heart attack in NYC. His songs included “New York, New
York,” written for the 1977 film of the same name.
(SFC, 9/13/04, p.B4)
2004 Sep 11, In Afghanistan Pres.
Karzai appointed Sayeed Mohammed Khairkhwa as governor of Herat and
offered Gov. Ismail Khan a post as minister of mines and industry.
Khan, the “Lion of Heart,” accepted the cabinet job in Kabul.
(SFC, 9/13/04, p.A3)(WSJ, 3/14/05, p.A1)
2004 Sep 11, Egypt claimed that
its regional and international clout qualify it for a permanent seat on
an expanded U.N. Security Council.
(AP, 9/11/04)
2004 Sep 11, Petros VII, the
Christian Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, was killed after an army
helicopter that was transporting him and his entourage to a monastic
enclave in northern Greece crashed in the sea. The helicopter carried
12 passengers and 4 crew.
(AP, 9/11/04)
2004 Sep 11, In Iraq US Navy Petty
Officer 3rd Class David A. Cedergren (25) of South St. Paul, Minn.,
died of electrocution while showering. As of 2009 his death was one of
among 18 electrocution deaths, 16 US service members and two military
contractors, under review as part of a Department of Defense Inspector
General inquiry.
(AP, 2/2/09)
2004 Sep 11, Hurricane Ivan lashed
Jamaica with monstrous waves, driving rain and winds nearing 155 mph,
killing at least 15 people. Total deaths from the hurricane reached 65.
(AP, 9/11/04)(SFC, 9/13/04, p.A3)
2005 Sep 11, Pres. Bush arrived in
New Orleans for a 3rd visit. The airport announced that it will resume
some commercial flights this week and the largest levee breech was
reported closed.
(SFC, 9/12/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 11, Chris Schenkel (82),
sportscaster, died in Fort Wayne, Ind.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2005 Sep 11, Typhoon Khanun made a
direct hit on Taizhou city in prosperous eastern China after nearly a
million villagers and farmers had been evacuated from flimsy coastal
and hillside huts to safety.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 11, About 5,000 Iraqi
soldiers, backed by a 3,500-strong American armored force, reported 156
insurgents killed and 246 captured. The force discovered a big bomb
factory, 18 weapons caches and the tunnel network in the ancient Sarai
neighborhood of Tal Afar. A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb
near Samarra. US deaths to date since the start of the war in March,
2003, numbered 1,897. Britain reported at least 96 dead.
(AP, 9/11/05)(SFC, 9/12/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 11, A British serviceman
was killed and three injured in a late-morning bomb attack in Iraq's
southern Basra province.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 11, The German firm
Allianz, Europe’s biggest insurer, opted for pan-European status as
part of a merger and restructure.
(Econ, 9/17/05, p.64)
2005 Sep 11, Israel's Cabinet
voted unanimously to end its 38-year occupation of the Gaza Strip,
clearing the way to complete the country's withdrawal from the area and
turn it over to Palestinian control.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 11, Japanese voters
handed PM Junichiro Koizumi's ruling coalition a landslide victory in
elections for the lower house of parliament.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2005 Sep 11, A leading newspaper
said Japan plans to demand a cut in its contributions to the UN budget
from 2007 after the failure of its high-profile campaign to win a
permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 11, In Jordan 12 Islamic
militants screamed praise for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as a
Jordanian court jailed them for up to three years for plotting
terrorist strikes against the American and Israeli embassies.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 11, Mexico's ruling
National Action Party gave former Energy Secretary Felipe Calderon a
surprise victory in the first round of its three-part presidential
primary.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 11, A Rwandan community
court charged Guy Theunis (60), a Belgian missionary, with inciting and
planning the 1994 genocide that left more than half a million people
dead.
(AP, 9/12/05)
2006 Sep 11, The nation paused to
remember the victims of 9/11 on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist
attacks. In a prime-time address, President Bush invoked the memory of
the victims as he argued for a continued military campaign in Iraq.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2006 Sep 11, It was reported that
Florida’s St. Lucie County was planning a $425 million plasma-arc
gasification facility to vaporize its garbage. The plant by Geoplasma,
a subsidiary of Jacoby Development Inc., was expected to go operational
in 2 years.
(SFC, 9/11/06, p.C4)
2006 Sep 11, The memorial statue
titled, 'To the Struggle Against World Terrorism', by Russian artist
Zurab Tsereteli, was dedicated in Bayonne, N.J. The 100-foot-tall
bronze monument with a 40-foot steel teardrop at it's center, a gift
from the Russian government and Tsereteli, is dedicated to victims of
terrorism.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In SF measures to
turn back a surge in violence included police enforcement of a
long-ignored curfew for young teenagers as well as more police in high
crime neighborhoods.
(SFC, 9/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 11, GlaxoSmithKline
agreed to pay $3.4 billion to settle a US tax dispute covering the
period 1989-2005.
(SFC, 9/12/06, p.D6)
2006 Sep 11, The Pacifica,
California, town council voted to ban smoking on its public beaches
fishing pier.
(SFC, 9/13/06, p.B10)
2006 Sep 11, In eastern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber struck in the Tani district of Khost
province at a funeral for Gov. Abdul Hakim Taniwal, a provincial
governor assassinated by the Taliban a day earlier. Five people were
killed and 30 wounded, but four Cabinet ministers at the service were
unhurt.
(AP, 9/11/06)(www.wcbs880.com/pages/81058.php?)
2006 Sep 11, Osama bin Laden's
deputy warned that Persian Gulf countries and Israel would be
al-Qaida's next targets, according to a new videotape aired by Arab
broadcaster Al-Jazeera on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, China said it will
send 1,000 peacekeeping troops to Lebanon.
(WSJ, 9/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 11, In Cuba a weeklong
summit of the Nonaligned Movement began with poverty, health care and
the Middle East at the top of the agenda. It will culminate with the
meeting of 50 heads of state, including anti-American leaders from Iran
and Venezuela.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In Helsinki, Finland,
European and Asian leaders representing nearly half the world's
population promised to work to reduce global warming, to get world
trade talks back on track and to keep up the battle against terrorism.
They pledged to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond
those now set for 2012 under the UN's Kyoto Protocol.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Joachim Fest (79),
German journalist and historian, died. He worked closely with Adolf
Hitler's architect Albert Speer on his memoirs. Fest's biographical
portrait "Hitler," published in English in 1974 the year after its
German release, is widely regarded as the best, among many, on the
dictator.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 11, Leaders of the
breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia said they would hold a
referendum on independence in November, a move likely to infuriate the
government in Tbilisi and stoke already spiraling tensions.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In Haiti 3 gang
members surrendered their guns in the first handover of weapons in a
UN-led effort to disarm hundreds of Haitian criminals.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Iran closed down two
opposition newspapers, one of which had recently poked fun at hard-line
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the way his government has handled
nuclear talks with the West.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In Iraq a mini bus
carrying a bomb exploded outside an army recruiting center in Baghdad
and killed 16 people, the deadliest of a string of attacks that left 29
Iraqis dead. A US soldier also died over the weekend.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Kazakhstan hosted the
Second Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Astana.
(Econ, 12/16/06,
p.81)(www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=7191&geo=3&size=A)
2006 Sep 11, Nicaragua officials
said at least 35 people have died from drinking methanol-laced
sugarcane liquor in the past week and nearly 600 have fallen ill,
overwhelming hospitals in Nicaragua's worst health crisis in recent
history.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Taxi drivers in
Sierra Leone went on strike, bringing the capital to a standstill after
police jailed 100 of their colleagues for driving with bald tires,
broken lights or without a valid license.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In Lebanon an angry
protester accusing Tony Blair of complicity in the Israeli bombardment
of Lebanon disrupted a news conference. Thousands of demonstrators
shouted outside as the British prime minister visited Beirut. Blair
pledged help in rebuilding war-ravaged Lebanon.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Pakistan's government
agreed to a compromise deal with hardline Islamic lawmakers over
proposed changes to a law that has long made punishing rapists almost
impossible in the country. Senator S.M. Zafar said the government had
agreed to compromise by letting rape victims choose between prosecuting
suspects under the four-witness rule, the 1979 Hudood Ordinance,
or under Pakistan's civil penal code.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas and PM Ismail Haniyeh agreed that their moderate Fatah
and militant Hamas parties would form a coalition government.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, President Vladimir
Putin gave final orders for a battalion of Russian engineers and
explosives experts to travel to Lebanon to help repair the damage
inflicted by Israel's campaign to uproot Hezbollah guerrillas.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In southern Russia a
military helicopter crashed on the outskirts of Vladikavkaz, the
provincial capital of the republic of North Ossetia, killing at least
10 servicemen and injuring another four.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Sri Lankan troops and
Tamil Tiger rebels exchanged mortar and artillery fire across their
northern front lines. The military said the death toll from five days
of heavy fighting rose to 148.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, A top Ugandan rebel
leader, Lord's Resistance Army deputy Vincent Otti, arrived at a
neutral camp in southern Sudan as part of a truce to end 19 years of
conflict with the government.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Uruguay arrested 7
former army and police officers in an investigation of dissidents who
disappeared during the South American country's military rule in the
1970s.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2007 Sep 11, Osama bin Laden urged
sympathizers to join the "caravan" of martyrs as he praised one of the
Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged to mark the
sixth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, In northeast Alabama
a US Army helicopter on a training flight in foggy weather struck a
power line and crashed, killing all three soldiers on board.
(AP, 9/12/07)
2007 Sep 11, Douglas Eugene "Gene"
Savoy, explorer, died at age 80 in Reno, Nev. He discovered more than
40 lost cities in Peru and led long-distance sailing adventures to
learn more about ancient cultures. Savoy wrote dozens of books,
including "Antisuyo: The Search for the Lost Cities of the Amazon"
(1970) about his early discoveries in Peru, and "On the Trail of the
Feathered Serpent" (1974) about some of his sea journeys.
(AP, 9/16/07)
2007 Sep 11, Keyboardist Joe
Zawinul (b.1932), who played with Miles Davis and helped shape jazz
fusion with his band Weather Report, died in his native city of Vienna.
(Reuters, 9/11/07)(SFC, 9/21/07, p.B6)
2007 Sep 11, Six Congolese
soldiers were detained by the Burundian navy for repeatedly attacking
fishing boats on Lake Tanganyika and stealing their catch.
(AFP, 9/12/07)
2007 Sep 11, China signed an
agreement to prohibit the use of lead paint on toys exported to the
United States.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, The World Health
Organization issued an alert urging more doctors to travel to Congo to
combat an outbreak of Ebola fever, which kills nearly all of those it
infects and has no cure or treatment.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, The European
Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on
Ireland and Britain, where a grocer was once convicted of selling
bananas by the pound rather than by the kilo. The EU said it will lift
all remaining restrictions on British meat and livestock next month
after veterinary experts agreed that the threat from a foot-and-mouth
disease outbreak was over.
(AP, 9/11/07)(AFP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, A militant group
called Islamic Jihad Union claimed responsibility for foiled bombings
that targeted Ramstein US Air Base as well as US and Uzbek consulates
in Germany.
(AP, 9/11/08)
2007 Sep 11, India's Supreme Court
gave permission for ship breakers to dismantle a former French cruise
liner, the Blue Lady, that environmentalists say is lined with toxic
asbestos.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, Iran opened the doors
of its most feared prison to journalists, allowing them to interview
Kian Tajbakhsh, a jailed Iranian-American academic in a move seen as an
effort to blunt criticism of the country's human rights record.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, Iraqi health
officials said the cholera epidemic in northern Iraq has infected some
7,000 people and could reach Baghdad within a few weeks. Insurgents
fired rockets or mortars at the sprawling garrison that houses the
headquarters of American forces in Iraq, killing one person and
wounding 11 coalition soldiers.
(AP, 9/12/07)(SFC, 9/12/07, p.A14)
2007 Sep 11, A Palestinian rocket
exploded in an Israeli army base, wounding more than 40 soldiers as
they slept in their tents and drawing calls for a major military
operation against militants launching rockets from the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, In Jamaica Bruce
Golding was sworn in as the new prime minister and pledged a tougher
approach to crime. He said he wants to resume executions, provide
officers with better forensic training and equipment, deploy more
police to trouble spots and modernize a backlogged judicial system.
Killings in 2005 placed Jamaica, with a population of about 2.8
million, among the most violent nations in the world.
(AP, 9/12/07)
2007 Sep 11, Mexican President
Felipe Calderon visited India's technology hub of Bangalore to get a
feel for the success of its outsourcing companies, and to encourage
them to invest more in Mexico.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, In Kashmir 20 people
were hurt when thousands of Kashmiri protesters clashed with Indian
police over the killing of an alleged militant who they say was just a
college student. Police said Mohammed Ramzan Shah (20) died during a
gunfight Sep 11 in the state's northern Kupwara district. Shah's
brother said "He was arrested by the army Sep 10 when he was on his way
to attend a function at his aunt's place."
(AFP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, In Nigeria journalist
Tope Abiola was beaten unconscious by prison guards and police as he
photographed the bodies of some of the inmates killed by police who
used live bullets to foil a jail break attempt at Agodi prison. At
least eight inmates were killed and another 14 seriously injured in the
riot.
(AFP, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 11, American, Russian and
Chinese nuclear experts began a rare visit to North Korea to examine
ways of disabling the country's main nuclear facilities so they can no
longer produce bombs.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, Lawyers for former PM
Nawaz Sharif filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging his
expulsion to Saudi Arabia, setting up another confrontation between the
judiciary and Pakistan's military ruler as he battles to hold onto
power. A suicide bomber killed 17 people in northwest Pakistan as
police tried to arrest him in Dera Ismail Khan. Islamic militants tried
to blow up a statue of the Buddha carved into a mountainside in the
small village of Jehanabad but did not damage the structure. The statue
was built around the 1st century, during the Gandhara era.
(AP, 9/11/07)(AFP, 9/11/07)(AP, 9/12/07)
2007 Sep 11, State television
reported that the Russian military has successfully tested what it
described as the world's most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb.
The Russian bomb is a "thermobaric" weapon that explodes in an intense
fireball combined with a devastating blast. It explodes in a terrifying
nuclear bomb-like mushroom cloud and wreaks destruction through a
massive shock wave created by the air burst and high temperature.
(AP, 9/12/07)
2007 Sep 11, Syria complained to
the UN about Israeli "aggression and violation of sovereignty" after
what a US official said was Sep 6 airstrike deep in Syria.
(AP, 9/11/07)(AP, 9/12/07)
2007 Sep 11, Turkish authorities
thwarted a bombing, possibly timed to coincide with the sixth
anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, as police found and defused more
than 600 pounds of explosives in a minibus parked near an Ankara market.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 11, In Zimbabwe
Archbishop Pius Ncube, a leading critic of President Robert Mugabe,
resigned after an adultery scandal but said he would not be silenced by
the "wicked regime."
(AFP, 9/11/07)
2008 Sep 11, Pres. Bush attended
the dedication of a new memorial at the Pentagon in honor of 9/11
attacks in 2001. In NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg led a ceremony attended
by presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.
(SFC, 9/12/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 11, Bert Langerwerf
(b.1944), Dutch born lizard breeder, died. In 1988 he moved to Alabama
and established his Agama International Herpetocultural Institute,
which grew to become the world’s biggest lizard-breeding facility.
(WSJ, 9/20/08, p.A12)
2008 Sep 11, The US expelled
Bolivia’s ambassador following Bolivia’s expulsion of the American
ambassador for allegedly aiding the opposition. The Peace Corps pulled
all 113 of its volunteers out of Bolivia for alleged security reasons.
(WSJ, 9/12/08, p.A1)(AP, 10/11/08)
2008 Sep 11, Javier Sanchez
Perfino (30) pleaded guilty in San Diego to running a smuggling
organization from 2003 to 2006, which at its peak smuggled 60-80 people
per day and charging $1,500 per person. The operation ran through a
live bombing range in southeastern California.
(SFC, 9/12/08, p.B12)
2008 Sep 11, In Afghanistan 10
militants were killed by US-led coalition troops north of Kabul. 2 US
soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan. An insurgent attack on a
compound in eastern Afghanistan killed a US soldier and another was
killed by an explosive, making 2008 the deadliest for American forces
in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.
(AP, 9/11/08)(AP, 9/12/08)
2008 Sep 11, In Bolivia’s Pando
state anti-government protesters fought backers of President Evo
Morales in the pro-autonomy east with clubs, machetes and guns, killing
at least eight people and injuring 20. Seven more bodies were recovered
the next day farther from the highway. The bodies of three more
marchers were later discovered, raising the death toll to 18. Lowland
opposition leaders, guarding their region's frontier capitalism and
more Euro-centric heritage, said they lost two of their own in the
pitched battle. Protesters near Yacuiba closed gas valves, resulting in
a gas leak and explosion that interrupted gas exports at a cost of
$8-10 million a day.
(AP, 9/12/08)(AP, 9/28/08)(Econ, 9/20/08, p.51)
2008 Sep 11, In Brazil Daniel
Dantas, businessman, found $300 million of his money frozen by the
courts under accusations of laundering public money and offering
bribes. His fortune was estimated at over $1 billion. On Dec 2 Dantas
was convicted of trying to bribe police officers. He was fined $5
million and sentenced to 10 years in prison, but appealed the
conviction.
(Econ, 9/20/08, p.82)(Econ, 12/6/08, p.51)
2008 Sep 11, James Ashley Nasmyth
(b.1918), English oil journalist, died. In 1979 he launched Argus
Telex, the first daily oil market report.
(www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4827314.ece)(WSJ,
9/27/08, p.A16)
2008 Sep 11, Chile’s Senate
unanimously passed a bill submitted by President Michelle Bachelet that
bans whale hunting off the country’s 3,400 mile (5,500 km) coast.
(AP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 11, In Santiago, Chile.
clashes erupted as protesters erected burning barricades and attacked
police with firearms and rocks on the 35th anniversary of the 1973
bloody military coup.
(AP, 9/12/08)
2008 Sep 11, China’s Sanlu Group
announced a nationwide recall of 700 tons of milk powder.
(Econ, 9/20/08, p.58)
2008 Sep 11, Amnesty Int’l.
reported that Egyptian security forces have killed at least 28
immigrants leaving Egypt for Israel, since the first killing in the
summer of 2007.
(SFC, 9/12/08, p.A12)
2008 Sep 11, A Paris court
convicted Didier Bourguet, a former UN employee, for the rape of young
Africans during his postings in Central African Republic and Congo.
Bourguet was sentenced to nine years in prison for having committed
about 20 rapes of teenage girls between 1998 and 2004 during his
postings as a mechanic for the UN.
(AP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 11, Israeli divers found
a red suitcase containing a small skull, bones and clothes, which
police said may belong to Rose Pizem, a 4-year-old French girl missing
since May, whose grandfather is jailed in the slaying.
(AP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 11, Japan said it was
ending an air mission in Iraq, wrapping up a military deployment which
was historic for the pacifist nation but deeply unpopular among the
public.
(AFP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 11, Nepalese officials
said Tibetan exiles living in Kathmandu illegally are to be deported in
a bid to curb anti-China protests threatening Nepal's ties with its
giant neighbor.
(AFP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 11, New Zealand cut its
benchmark interest rate half a point to 7.5% in a bid to engineer a
quick recovery from a widely expected recession.
(WSJ, 9/12/08, p.A10)
2008 Sep 11, Pakistan's PM Yousaf
Raza Gilani backed a harsh rebuke of the US by Gen. Ashfaq Parvez
Kayani, the Muslim nation's military chief. This was in response to
news that President Bush during the summer had secretly approved US
military raids inside Pakistan against alleged terrorist targets.
(AP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 11, Sheik Saleh
al-Lihedan (79), Saudi Arabia's top judiciary official, issued a
religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of
satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content. On Sep 14 he
adjusted his comments saying owners who broadcast immoral content
should be brought to trial and sentenced to death if other penalties do
not deter them.
(AP, 9/12/08)(SFC, 9/15/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 11, Sri Lankan troops
killed 37 Tiger rebels during fresh fighting across the island's north.
(AP, 9/12/08)
2008 Sep 11, Venezuela
interrogated military officers named in recordings of an apparent plan
to kill President Hugo Chavez, in what may the firmest evidence in
years of a barracks plot to oust him. Chavez ordered the US ambassador
to leave Venezuela within 72 hours, accusing the diplomat of conspiring
against his government and saying he would also withdraw his own envoy
from Washington immediately.
(AP, 9/12/08)(Reuters, 9/12/08)
2008 Sep 11, President Robert
Mugabe and the opposition reached an accord in which they will wield
equal power in a unity government aimed at ending Zimbabwe's protracted
political crisis and economic meltdown. One source said Mugabe will
chair the cabinet, while Morgan Tsvangirai takes charge of a national
security council which consists of 31 cabinet ministers.
(AFP, 9/12/08)
2008 Sep 11, Zimbabwe's health
minister said a cholera outbreak in a Harare suburb has killed at least
11 people.
(AP, 9/11/08)
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