Today in History - September 13
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81CE Sep 13,
Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), died at 42.
(MC, 9/13/01)
122 Sep 13, Building began on
Hadrian's Wall.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1515 Sep 13, King Francis of
France defeated the Swiss army under Cardinal Matthias Schiner at
Marignano, northern Italy. Switzerland was last involved in a war.
French armies defeated the Swiss and Venetians at the Battle of
Marignano and Milan fell to the French. Francis I conquered
Lombardy in northern Italy.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.11)(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A12)(HN, 9/13/98)
1549 Sep 13, Pope Paul III closed
the first session of the Council of Bologna.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1556 Sep 13, Charles V and Maria
of Hungary marched into Spain.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1564 Sep 13, On the verge of
attacking Pedro Menendez's Spanish settlement at San Agostin, Florida,
Jean Ribault's French fleet was scattered by a devastating storm.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1592 Sep 13, Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne, French philosopher (L'Amiti), died at 59.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1598 Sep 13, Philip II (71), King
of Spain (1556-98), died. He had ordered the 1588 Spanish Armada attack
on England. After its failure he dispatched 3 smaller armadas, but they
all failed.
(MC, 9/13/01)(ON, 3/02, p.6)
1625 Sep 13, 16 Rabbis (including
Isiah Horowitz) were imprisoned in Jerusalem.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1663 Sep 13, The 1st serious
American slave conspiracy occurred in Virginia.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1739 Sep 13, Grigory Potemkin
(d.1791), Russian army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover, was
born. [see Sep 24]
(MC, 9/13/01)
1743 Sep 13, England, Austria
& Savoye-Sardinia signed the Treaty of Worms.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1751 Sep 13, Henry Kobell, Dutch
painter and cartoonist, was born.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1755 Sep 13, Bertrand Barere,
French Revolutionist, was born in Tarbes.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1759 Sep 13, During the final
French and Indian War, the Battle of Quebec [Canada] was fought.
British Gen. James Wolfe’s army defeated Commander Louis Joseph de
Montcalm’s French forces on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec
City. An English fleet of 20 ships led by General James Wolfe (32)
landed 3,600 English troops near Quebec in the early hours of the day.
The fleet was sent up the St. Lawrence River to take the region from
the French. "Measured by the numbers engaged," wrote historian Francis
Parkman, the Battle of Quebec "was but a heavy skirmish; measured by
results, it was one of the great battles of the world." On this rainy
morning the armies of England and France clashed outside the walls of
Quebec City and altered the balance of power of an entire continent.
The battle on the Plains of Abraham lasted less than half an hour. As
French forces withered and an English victory became apparent, Wolfe
was shot in the chest, his third wound of the battle. He said to a
distraught soldier just before he died, "Do not weep, my dear. In a few
minutes I shall be happy." By the time the rain had washed away the
blood, Quebec had surrendered to the British. Four years later, the
Treaty of Paris gave England sole dominion over most of the land that
Quebec City had governed, from Cape Breton Island in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence to the Mississippi River.
(CFA, '96, p.54)(SFC, 7/7/96, BR p.7)(AP,
9/13/97)(HNQ, 9/8/98)(HNPD, 9/19/98)
1774 Sep 13, Tugot, the new
controller of finances, urged the king of France to restore the free
circulation of grain in the kingdom.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1775 Sep 13, Gotthold Lessing's
"Die Juden," premiered in Frankfurt-am-Main.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1782 Sep 13, The British fortress
at Gibraltar, under siege by French and Spanish forces since 1789, held
off a heavy attack of battering ships.
(HN, 9/13/98)(ON, 7/01, p.9)
1788 Sep 13, The Congress of
the Confederation authorized the first national election, and declared
New York City the temporary national capital. The Constitutional
Convention authorized the first federal election resolving that
electors (electoral college) in all the states will be appointed on
January 7, 1789. The Convention decreed that the first federal election
would be held on the first Wednesday in February of the following year.
(AP, 9/13/97)(HN, 9/13/00)
1789 Sep 13, Start of the US
National Debt as the government took out its first loan, borrowed from
the Bank of North America (NYC) at 6 percent interest. The US debt had
reached $77 million when Washington became president.
(MC, 9/13/01)(WSJ, 10/1/03, p.B1)
1789 Sep 13, Guardsmen in Orleans,
France, opened fire on rioters trying to loot bakeries, killing 90.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1791 Sep 13, France's King Louis
XVI accepted a constitution.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1803 Sep 13, Commodore John Barry,
considered by many the father of the American Navy, died in
Philadelphia.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1813 Sep 13, John Sedgwick
(d.1864), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1814 Sep 13, British ships
bombarded Ft. McHenry under the command of General Armistead. Francis
Scott Key detained on a British ship watched the bombing. The British
used red glaring Congreve rockets and air bursting bombs during the war.
(NG, Sept. 1939, p.392)(SFC, 6/22/96, p.E4)
1819 Sep 13, Clara Josephine
Schumann, [nee Wieck], pianist and composer, was born in Leipzig, Germ.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1835 Sep 13, Ladd & Co. began
the 1st sugar cane plantation in Hawaii.
(www.laddfamily.com/Files/Hawaii.htm)
1847 Sep 13, General Winfield
Scott took Chapultepec, removing the last obstacle to U.S. troops
moving on Mexico City.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1848 Sep 13, Dr. John Martyn
Harlow treated Phinneas Gage in Vermont for a head injury from a
tamping iron that had pierced the man’s skull during a blasting
accident. Gage survived until 1860, but with definite personality
changes that Dr. Harlow tracked.
(ON, 10/02, p.9)(Econ, 12/23/06, Survey p.3)
1851 Sep 13, Walter Reed (d.1902),
U.S. Army doctor, was born in Gloucester County, Va. In 1900 he went to
Cuba and verified that yellow fever was caused by a mosquito.
(HN, 9/13/98)(WSJ, 10/22/99, p.B1)(AP, 9/13/02)
1857 Sep 13, Milton S. Hershey,
chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist, was born in Dauphin County,
Pa.
(www.hersheys.com/about/milton.shtml)(AP, 9/13/07)
1859 Sep 13, In San Francisco
David C. Broderick, a US Senator, faced David S. Terry, Chief Justice
of the California Supreme Court, in a duel at Lake Merced. Broderick
was hit in the chest and died after 60 hours. Terry resigned his
position and was charged with murder, but not convicted.
(PI, 5/30/98, p.5A)
1860 Sep 13, John J. Pershing
(d.1948), aka "Black Jack," was born in Laclede, Missouri. He led the
campaign against Pancho Villa in Mexico and commanded the American
Expeditionary Force in France during World War I.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1861 Sep 13, In the 1st naval
battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sank privateer "Judah"
off Pensacola, Fla.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1862 Sep 13, Union troops in
Frederick, Maryland, discovered General Robert E. Lee's attack plans
for the invasion of Maryland wrapped around a pack of cigars. They gave
the plans to General George B. McClellan who did nothing with them for
the next 14 hours.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1863 Sep 13, The Loudoun County
Rangers routed a company of Confederate cavalry at Catoctin Mountain in
Virginia.
(HN, 9/13/99)
1863 Sep 13, Franz von Hipper,
German naval commander at the Battle of Jutland in World War I, was
born.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1867 Sep 13, Gen. E.R.S. Canby
ordered South Carolina courts to impanel blacks as jurors.
(MC, 9/13/01)( www.tsha.utexas.edu)
1869 Sep 13, Jay Gould and James
Fisk attempted to control the US gold market.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1874 Sep 13, Arnold Franz Walter
Schonberg, 12-tone composer, was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1876 Sep 13, Sherwood Anderson
(d.1941), author, poet and publisher (Winesburg), was born in
Winesburg, Ohio. "Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest
people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection,
the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest
hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough."
(AP, 9/28/00)(MC, 9/13/01)
1881 Sep 13, Lewis Latimer
invented and patented an electric lamp with a carbon filament.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1881 Sep 13, Ambrose Everett
Burnside, US Union general, died at 57.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1882 Sep 13, British troops
defeated Egyptian forces in the Battle at Tel-el-Kebir.
(http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/battles/egypt/egypt3.htm)
1886 Sep 13, Alain Locke, writer
and first African-American Rhodes scholar, was born.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1890 Sep 13, Cecil Rhodes'
colonies hoisted the Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1894 Sep 13, J.B. Priestley
(d.1984), British novelist and playwright, was born. "The weakness of
American civilization, and perhaps the chief reason why it creates so
much discontent, is that it is so curiously abstract. It is a bloodless
extrapolation of a satisfying life. ... You dine off the advertiser's
'sizzling' and not the meat of the steak."
(AP, 9/13/98)(HN, 9/13/00)
1894 Sep 13, Alexis-Emmanuel
Chabrier, French composer (Espana, L'etoile), died at 53.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1898 Sep 13, Hannibal Goodwin
(1822-1900) patented celluloid photographic film.
(http://www.plastiquarian.com/goodwin.htm)
1898 Sep 13, 20,000 Paris
construction workers went on strike.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1899 Sep 13, Henry H. Bliss became
the first person killed by an automobile, an electric taxi in
Manhattan.
(SFC, 10/10/97, p.A21)
1903 Sep 13, Claudette Colbert
(d.1996), actress, was born in France as Lily Claudette
Chauchoin. She won an Oscar for "It Happened One Night."
(HN, 9/13/00)(www.concise.britannica.com)
1905 Sep 13, U.S. warships headed
to Nicaragua on behalf of American William Albers, who was accused of
evading tobacco taxes.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1907 Sep 13, The RMS Lusitania
arrived in New York, completing its maiden voyage from England.
(AP, 9/13/07)
1909 Sep 13, Herbert Berghof,
actor (Belarus File), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1911 Sep 13, Bill Monroe, musician
and the Father of Bluegrass, was born.
(HN, 9/13/00)
1916 Sep 13, Roald Dahl (d.1990),
son of Norwegian immigrants, was born in Llandaff, Wales. He is best
known for his children’s books such as "James and the Giant Peach."
(www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/dahl)
1918 Sep 13, U.S. and French
forces took St. Mihiel, France, in America's first action as a standing
army.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1921 Sep 13, Ludwig-Alexander von
Battenberg [Mountbatten], WW I admiral, died at 67.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1922 Sep 13, A major fire began to
ravage Smyrna, Greece, shortly following occupation by Turkish troops
under Mustafa Kemal. The fire lasted 4 days.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Smyrna)
1922 Sep 13, In El Azizia, Libya,
a temperature of 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) was the
hottest ever measured on Earth.
(AP, 7/23/03)
1924 Sep 13, Maurice Jarre,
composer (Dr. Zhivago-Acad Award 1966), was born in Lyons, France.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1932 Sep 13, Paul Gorguloff, the
murderer of French Pres. Doumer, was beheaded.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1934 Sep 13, Judge Landis sold the
World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1939 Sep 13, Joyce Arleen Auger,
US soprano (Songs of the Auvergne), was born.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1939 Sep 13, Igor Sikorsky
invented the 1st helicopter. [see Sep 14]
(MC, 9/13/01)
1940 Sep 13, Buckingham Palace was
hit by German bombs causing superficial damage.
(http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/september13.html)
1940 Sep 13, Italian troops under
Marshal Graziani attacked Egypt.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1941 Sep 13, David Clayton-Thomas
(singer: group: Blood Sweat and Tears: You Made Me So Very Happy,
Spinning Wheel), was born.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1942 Sep 13, Battle of Edson's
Ridge began at Guadalcanal.
(http://www.gnt.net/~jrube/indx2.html)
1943 Sep 13, Chiang Kai-shek
became president of China.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1943 Sep 13, Germans counter
attacked at Salerno.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1944 Sep 13, Jacqueline Bisset
(actress: Rich and Famous, The Deep, Airport, Bullitt, Wild Orchid,
Murder on the Orient Express, Choices), was born in England.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1944 Sep 13, US 28th Infantry
division opened an assault on the Siegfried line, Westwall.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1944 Sep 13, Heath Robinson
(b.1872), English cartoonist, died. He is best known for drawings of
eccentric machines and "Heath Robinson" has entered the language as a
description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contraption.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Robinson)
1945 Sep 13, Iran demanded the
withdrawal of Allied forces.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1947 Sep 13, WPVI TV channel 6 in
Philadelphia, PA (ABC) began broadcasting.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1948 Sep 13, Republican Margaret
Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first
woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1949 Sep 13, The Ladies
Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City
with Patty Berg as its first president.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1951 Sep 13, In Korea, U.S. Army
troops began their assault in Heartbreak Ridge. The month-long struggle
would cost 3,700 casualties.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1952 Sep 13, John Melville,
federal housing administrator, announced that all adults living in San
Francisco Bay Area federally aided public housing will be asked to sign
a loyalty affidavit under the Levering Act. Refusal would be grounds
for eviction.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.E2)
1953 Sep 13, Nikita Khrushchev
(b.1894) was elected First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s
Central Committee. [see Sep 12]
(WUD, 1994, p.1685)
1956 Sep 13, Stravinsky's
"Canticum Sacrum," premiered in Venice.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1956 Sep 13, IBM introduced the
Model 305 computer capable of storing 20 megabytes of data. Reynold B.
Johnson (d.1998 at 92), IBM lab leader, developed a way to store
computer data on a metal disk instead of on tape or drum. The first
commercial disk drive, called RAMAC (random access method of accounting
and control), was developed by IBM and sold for $50,000. It used 50
disk platters, each 2-feet in diameter. Together they held 5 megabytes
of data. His Random Access Method of Accounting Control began the disk
drive industry.
(http://tinyurl.com/k3rzf)(SFC, 9/21/98, p.A21)(WSJ,
8/22/06, p.B3)
1960 Sep 13, The US Federal
Communications Commission banned payola. The scandal included Alan
Freed a popular DJ at WABC, he lost his job for allegedly accepting
gifts and money for playing certain records for money. There was
substantial evidence was uncovered to prove that the payola practice
was widespread.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1960 Sep 13, Leo Weiner, Hungarian
composer (Toldi), died at 75.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1961 Sep 13, An unmanned Mercury
capsule was orbited and recovered by NASA in a test for the first
manned flight.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1961 Sep 13, Battles took place
between UN and Katanga troops in Congo.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1963 Sep 13, "Outer Limits"
premiered on ABC TV.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1963 Sep 13, The last bucket of
concrete was poured on the Glen Canyon Dam (Arizona) on the Colorado
River to form Lake Powell. It marked the beginning of a 290 mile
stretch of the river from the dam through the Grand Canyon to Lake
Mead. It was built to provide power to six Western states. The lake
filled by 1980. [last source says the lake filled within 5 years]
(SFC, 4/12/96, p.E-3)(SFC, 5/19/97, p.A10)(SFEC,
8/24/97, p.A1)(NH, 9/97, p.40)
1965 Sep 13, The Beatles released
"Yesterday."
(MC, 9/13/01)
1968 Sep 13, Albania officially
withdrew from the Warsaw Pact. Albania had condemned the August
Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
(http://countrystudies.us/albania/153.htm)
1969 Sep 13, John Lennon and his
wife, Yoko Ono, presented the Plastic Ono Band in concert for the first
time at the Toronto Peace Festival (Lennon's first in four years). The
1st hit by the new group, "Give Peace a Chance," made it to number 14
on the charts.
(www.musicdirect.com/product/83704)
1970 Sep 13, The supersonic
airliner Concorde landed for the 1st time at Heathrow airport.
(www.aviation-news.co.uk/concordeChronology.html)
1971 Sep 13, State troopers and
prison guards stormed Attica Correctional Facility in New York. The
four-day inmates' rebellion over poor living conditions claimed 43
lives, including 11 guards and 32 prisoners. Inmate Frank Smith
(d.2004) was beaten tortured and abused by guards. In 1997 a federal
jury awarded him $4 million. Another 1,280 inmates sought $2.8 billion
in damages against the state. In 2000 a federal court described the
guards' reaction as an "orgy of brutality" and ordered the state to pay
$8 million to inmates who were tortured after the uprising.
(SFC, 6/6/97, p.A3)(AP, 9/13/97)(SFC, 2/16/00,
p.A5)(SFC, 8/3/04, p.B6)
1971 Sep 13, Lin Biao (b.1907)
died in a plane crash in Mongolia as he was trying to flee to the
Soviet Union after the unsuccessful plot to assassinate Mao. He was
once designated as Mao's "closest comrade in arms" and hand-picked to
be the chairman's successor.
(AP,
7/16/07)(www.odu.edu/ao/instadv/quest/LinBiao.html)
1973 Sep 13, Israel shot down 12
Syrian aircraft to1 Israeli loss when IAF jets were attacked during a
reconnaissance mission over Syrian territory.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/intel73.html)
1974 Sep 13, The "Rockford Files,"
starring James Garner, was first broadcast on NBC-TV.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0071042/)
1974 Sep 13, In the Netherlands
the French embassy at the Hague was taken over by Haruo Wako and 2
other Japanese Red Army militants. A 4-day standoff ended with the
release of comrade Yutaka Suyaka from a French jail. The attack was
linked to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez. In 2005 a Tokyo
District Court sentenced Wako to life imprisonment.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)(SFC, 11/9/00,
p.C2)(http://my-my-miyuki.blogspot.com/)
1975 Sep 13, Shiko Munakata
(b.1903), renowned Japanese artist and printmaker, died in Tokyo from
liver cancer.
(SFC, 8/8/02,
p.D9)(www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/397376/Munakata-Shiko)
1976 Sep 13, The United States
announced it would veto Vietnam's UN bid.
(HN, 9/13/98)
1977 Sep 13, General Motors
introduced 1st US diesel auto, the Oldsmobile 88.
(http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/09/today-in-hist-2.html)
1977 Sep 13, Kilauea volcano began
erupting in Hawaii.
(http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/gallery/kilauea/erz/kiai.html)
1977 Sep 13, Leopold Stokowski
(b.1882), conductor, died in Hampshire, England. He was the founder of
the New York City Symphony and The American Symphony Orchestra. He
conducted the music for and appeared in Disney’s Fantasia.
(WSJ, 8/6/97, p.A12)(AP,
9/13/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Stokowski)
1978 Sep 13, The US Navy's F-18
Hornet makes its public debut during rollout ceremonies in St. Louis,
Mo.
(www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18/fa18_milestones.htm)
1981 Sep 13, In the 33rd Emmy
Awards winners included Taxi, Hill St Blue, Judd Hirsh & Isabel
Sanford.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0355161/)
1981 Sep 13, William Loeb
(b.1905), publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, died at 75.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb)
1982 Sep 13, In Sweden Marcus
Wallenberg Jr. (b.1899), former tennis champion and banker, died.
(http://tinyurl.com/yebq39)
1984 Sep 13, Simon Peres formed an
Israeli government with Likud. A national unity government (Likud and
Labor) was formed.
(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A17)(http://tinyurl.com/2vs7e2)
1987 Sep 13, Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard Shevardnadze arrived in Washington for talks aimed at a
possible superpower summit; Shevardnadze carried with him a letter from
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to President Reagan.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1988 Sep 13, As Hurricane Gilbert
made its way toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, forecasters reported
the barometric pressure of Gilbert's center measured a low of 26.13
inches, making it the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western
Hemisphere.
(AP, 9/13/98)
1989 Sep 13, Fay Vincent was named
commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett
Giamatti.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1989 Sep 13, Desmond Tutu led the
biggest anti-apartheid protest march in S. Africa.
(www.iie.com/research/topics/sanctions/southafrica.cfm)
1990 Sep 13, NBC’s cop-courtroom
drama "Law & Order" premiered on NBC.
(AP, 9/13/00)
1990 Sep 13, The Senate Judiciary
Committee opened its first day of confirmation hearings for Supreme
Court nominee David H. Souter, who firmly refused to discuss his views
on abortion.
(AP, 9/13/00)
1990 Sep 13, The UN Security
Council at its 2939th meeting adopted Resolution 666, regarding
foodstuffs to be supplied to the civilian population in Iraq or Kuwait
in order to relieve human suffering.
(www.caabu.org/press/documents/unscr-resolution-666.html)
1991 Sep 13, President Bush, who
had suffered an irregular heartbeat because of a thyroid condition, was
pronounced in "incredible physical condition" after a checkup by his
doctors.
(AP, 9/13/01)
1991 Sep 13, Virginia Gov. L.
Douglas Wilder declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
(AP, 9/13/01)
1992 Sep 13, Stefan Edberg
defeated Pete Sampras to win the U.S. Open title in New York, a day
after Monica Seles beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario to win her seventh
Grand Slam title.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1992 Sep 13, Lou Jacobs, US clown
(1966 US postage stamp), died.
(www.clown-ministry.com/History/Lou-Jacobs.html)
1993 Sep 13, In a historic scene
at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO
chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting
limited Palestinian autonomy. It gave Arafat control of most of the
Gaza Strip and 27% of the West Bank. In 2002 Neal Kozodoy edited ""The
Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy."
(AP, 9/13/97)(WSJ, 2/11/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/12/04,
p.A11)
1994 Sep 13 President Clinton
signed into law a $30 billion anticrime bill. It included a 10 year ban
on assault weapons, which expired in 2004.
(AP, 9/13/99)(SFC, 9/10/04, p.A1)
1994 Sep 13, Bob Blackbull,
Blackfoot Indian, received his first shipment of mustangs in Browning,
Montana, and revived a piece of their culture.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A3)
1994 Sep 13, In Cyprus 3 British
soldiers abducted tour guide Louise Jensen (23). Her body was found 2
days later. In 1996 they were sentenced to life imprisonment after
being convicted of abducting, conspiring to rape, and killing Louise
Jensen. In 2006 the former soldiers were released and deported to
Britain after serving only 12 years.
(www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cmnews/1998/98-06-17.cmnews.html)(AP, 8/22/06)
1994 Sep 13, Some 180 nations at a
U.N.-sponsored conference in Cairo, Egypt, adopted a 20-year blueprint
for slowing the world's population growth.
(AP, 9/13/99)
1995 Sep 13, The FBI made at least
a dozen arrests, capping a nationwide two-year investigation of
pedophiles and pornographers using the America Online computer network.
(AP, 9/13/00)
1995 Sep 13, "The Drew Carey Show"
premiered on ABC television.
(AP, 9/13/05)
1995 Sep 13, The hole in the
Earth's ozone layer was growing fast and was twice the size it was in
1994. It now reached about the size of Europe.
(WSJ, 9/13/95, p.A-1)
1996 Sep 13, The stock market hit
a new record of 5,838.52 on the Dow.
(SFC, 9/14/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 13, Gillette unveiled an
agreement to buy Duracell in a $7.3 billion stock deal.
(WSJ, 1/2/97, p.R2)
1996 Sep 13, Hurricane Hortense
headed north with winds at 140 mph.
(WSJ, 9/13/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 13, Rap star Tupac Shakur
(b.1971) died of gun shot wounds in Las Vegas after he was wounded Sep
7 in a drive-by shooting as he was leaving a Mike Tyson fight in Las
Vegas. He had just finished filming "Gang Related" later retitled
"Criminal Intent." He was buried at Stone Mountain, Georgia.
(SFC, 9/14/96, p.A1)(AP,
9/13/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur)
1996 Sep 13, Subaru Takahashi (14)
in his boat "Advantage" became the youngest person to complete a solo
sail voyage across the Pacific Ocean. He did the 6000 mile journey in
54 days.
(SFC, 9/14/96, p.A1,7)
1996 Sep 13, In Mexico Juan
Francisco Ealy, editor of El Universal, was arrested on allegations of
tax fraud. His paper had recently begun strong criticism of the Zedillo
government.
(SFC, 9/14/96, p.A10)
1997 Sep 13, Katherine Shindle of
Illinois was crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A2)
1997 Sep 13, It was reported that
a monster hurricane named Linda was moving up the Pacific coast.
(SFC, 9/13/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 13, Victor Szebehely, a
theorist of celestial mechanics, died in Texas. He wrote or edited some
18 books including: "Theory of Orbit," and "Adventures in Celestial
Mechanics."
(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A23)
1997 Sep 13, In Algeria security
forces killed 8 suspected Muslim militants in a rocket attack on a
mosque in a suburb of the capital. Earlier a Muslim cleric was
assassinated by suspected militants in Constantine.
(WSJ, 9/15/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 13, In Bosnia municipal
elections were held under NATO escort. There was a high voter turnout.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A22)(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 13, A German military
transport, a Soviet-made Tupelov-154 jet, was reported crashed with 24
people off the coast of Angola. A midair collision with a USAF C-141
Starlifter cargo plane from Namibia was reported and the total dead
reached 32. Poor communications and faulty regional traffic control
were cited as the cause. On Mar 31, 1988 the German government reported
that the German crew was at fault for flying in airspace reserved for
westbound traffic.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A1)(SFC,12/16/97, p.B1)(WSJ,
3/31/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/25/99, p.A5)
1997 Sep 13, Funeral services were
held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.
(AP, 9/13/98)
1997 Sep 13, In Lebanon six
soldiers were killed in a rocket attack by Israeli helicopters.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A22)
1997 Sep 13, In Mexico City a
national Zapatista civilian movement was inaugurated.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A24)
1997 Sep 13, From New Zealand it
was reported that the government approved the release of the rabbit
calcivirus to eradicate the rabbit pest problem.
(SFC, 9/13/97, p.A20)
1997 Sep 13, In the Philippines
the Mount Pinukis volcano, 120 miles east of Zamboanga City, erupted
after being dormant since 1985.
(SFC, 9/13/97, p.A20)
1998 Sep 13 NBC's "Frasier" won a
record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series; ABC's "The
Practice" was honored as best drama.
(AP, 9/13/99)
1998 Sep 13 Sammy Sosa of the
Chicago Cubs hit his 61st and 62nd home runs of the season, passing
Roger Maris' record and pulling into a tie with St. Louis' Mark McGwire.
(AP, 9/13/99)
1998 Sep 13 Patrick Rafter won his
second consecutive U.S. Open tennis title, beating fellow Australian
Mark Philippoussis 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0.
(AP, 9/13/99)
1998 Sep 13, George Wallace (79),
former governor of Alabama, died in Montgomery.
(WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 13, Algerian security
forces said 27 people were killed in Zougala in Ain Defla province.
Other sources said 38 people were killed.
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 13, In Afghanistan
Taliban forces captured the last major opposition stronghold of Bamiyan.
(SFC, 9/14/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 13, In Albania opposition
supporters burned the Tirana office of Premier Nanos and sent the prime
minister and his cabinet fleeing.
(SFC, 9/14/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 13, In Ukraine Victor
Verloo (64), a Peace Corps volunteer from Sacramento, was stabbed to
death by robbers in Chernihiv, north of Kiev.
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.A3)
1999 Sep 13, Sotheby's in Chicago
held its first motorcycle auction.
(WSJ, 9/30/99, p.A24)
1999 Sep 13, Researchers reported
that gene therapy restored vigor to aged brains in experiments with
monkeys.
(WSJ, 9/14/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 13, Hurricane Floyd with
winds at 150 mph stretched out for 700 miles and approached the Florida
coast as over a million people were ordered to evacuate the coast.
(SFC, 9/14/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/14/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 13, In Bangladesh one
person was killed and 50 injured on the 1st day of a general strike
called by opposition parties.
(WSJ, 9/14/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 13, In Gaza Israelis and
Palestinians opened talks on a final peace accord.
(SFC, 9/14/99, p.A12)(AP, 9/13/00)
1999 Sep 13, Indonesia agreed to
an int'l. commission to investigate possible atrocities in East Timor
and to create no obstacles to the deployment of a foreign peacekeeping
force.
(SFC, 9/14/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 13, In Moscow a suspected
bomb blast destroyed an apartment building and at least 28 people were
killed. Rescuers later pulled 118 bodies from the ruins of the 8-story
building. [see Dec 29, 2003]
(SFC, 9/13/99, p.A10)(SFC, 9/14/99, p.A12)(SFC,
9/15/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 13, In New Zealand
Asia-Pacific (APEC) leaders ended their 3-day conference and called for
the abolition of all agricultural export subsidies.
(SFC, 9/14/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 13, In Turkey a 5.8
aftershock at Golcuk left at least 7 people dead and over 420 injured.
(SFC, 9/14/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 13, In Zimbabwe AIDS
activists gathered in Lusaka for a 4-day conference on the disease that
had already killed 11 million Africans. 5 Africans were being infected
every 2 minutes.
(SFC, 9/14/99, p.A12)
2000 Sep 13, With the US
government all but abandoning its case against him, former Los Alamos
scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a
single count of mishandling nuclear secrets; he was then set free with
an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker, who said the
government's actions had "embarrassed our entire nation."
(AP, 9/13/01)
2000 Sep 13, In Indonesia a car
bomb exploded in the garage of the Jakarta stock exchange and at least
13-15 people were killed.
(SFC, 9/14/00, p.C2)(WSJ, 9/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 13, In South Africa the
government announced war with the Muslim vigilante group, PAGAD, People
Against Gangsterism and Drugs, following a series of bombings.
(SFC, 9/14/00, p.C7)
2000 Sep 13, In Spain masked
police raided the EKIN offices, the fund-raising wing of the ETA. 20
people were arrested.
(SFC, 9/14/00, p.C5)
2001 Sep 13, Pres. Bush
asked Congress for powers to wage war against an unidentified enemy.
Bush called the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington "the first
war of the 21st century" as his administration labeled fugitive Osama
bin Laden a prime suspect. The United States promised to wage all-out
retaliation against those responsible and any regime that protected
them. Jetliners returned to the nation's skies for the first time in
two days, carrying nervous passengers who faced strict new security
measures.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/13/02)
2001 Sep 13, The US requested that
Pakistan grant air and land space for military actions in Afghanistan.
US Special Forces arrived in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 9/14/01, p.A1)(NW, 8/26/02, p.38)
2001 Sep 13, The data flight
recorder for United Flight 93 was found at the Pennsylvania crash site.
In the Sep 11 terrorist attack, 18 hijackers were identified as
ticketed passengers.
(WSJ, 9/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 13, A graphic list of the
companies that operated in the NYC WTC was published.
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.D8)
2001 Sep 13, US airports opened
with limited service under heavy security. Private planes were still
grounded.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/1/04, p.A4)
2001 Sep 13, A private Lear jet
with 3 Saudi passengers flew from Tampa, Fla., to Lexington, Ky., as
part of an effort to help prominent Saudis, who feared reprisals over
the Sep 11 attack by al-Qaida in NYC.
(WSJ, 6/1/04, p.A1)
2001 Sep 13, In Utah Amtrak’s
California Zephyr train crashed into a freight train near the Nevada
border. 6 people were injured.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A23)
2001 Sep 13, Actress Dorothy
McGuire (85) died in Santa Monica, Calif.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2001 Sep 13, In Estonia the death
toll from tainted alcohol, consumed in or near the seaside resort of
Parnu, rose to 51. At least 85 more remained hospitalized and methanol
was blamed.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A32)
2001 Sep 13, An Indonesian boat
with 129 people, mostly from Iraq, refused to change course and landed
at Australia’s Ashmore Reef. The UN issued Australia a warning that it
could be breaching its int’l. obligations toward refugees by mounting a
blockade.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A32)
2001 Sep 13, Israeli forces
entered Jenin and Jericho and Palestinian officials reported that 10
people were killed.
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 13, Peru issued an int’l.
arrest warrant for former Pres. Alberto Fujimori on charges that he
shared responsibility for 25 death-squad slayings in the early years of
his rule.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A32)
2002 Sep 13, President Bush said
it was "highly doubtful" that Saddam Hussein would comply with demands
that he disarm and avoid a confrontation with the world community. And
he mocked Democrats and other lawmakers who wanted UN action before a
congressional vote on confronting Saddam.
(AP, 9/13/03)
2002 Sep 13, Argentine police
arrested Luis Ramirez Pineda (77), a retired Chilean army general, at a
Buenos Aires hotel on an international warrant for alleged involvement
in human rights abuses stemming from the 1973 coup in Chile.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, It was reported that
political theater in Brazil had taken on a new grass-roots form called
the Theater of the Oppressed, wherein spectators stepped into scenes in
"interventions" to take the part of the underdog.
(WSJ, 9/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 13, In Guatemala Miguel
Angel Orozco (33), a policeman who had shot a woman, was seized and
burned to death by an angry mob in Coatepeque. Radio stations quoted
witnesses as saying Orozco had been drunk at the time.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 13, Four Palestinians
were killed in Gaza, including three in an explosion at a home believed
to harbor a bomb workshop. Elsewhere, a Palestinian gunman died in a
firefight with Israeli soldiers.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, Iraq will pay up to
$5,000 each to Palestinians whose home is demolished in the Israeli
campaign against suspected militants, a pro-Iraqi group said Friday,
hinting also that Iraq is supplying weapons to the Palestinians.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, A top Iraqi official
said Baghdad opposes the return of U.N. weapons inspectors and
President Bush's speech to the United Nations was "full of lies." Iraq
will attack Israel if it takes part in a U.S. strike against President
Hussein's government, an Iraqi minister said in published remarks.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, In Nepal 9 police
officers were killed when their jeep drove over a land mine. The 6-year
Maoist insurgency has left nearly 5,000 people dead.
(SFC, 9/14/02, p.A10)
2002 Sep 13, Peru's Pres.
Alejandro Toledo signed a $50 million loan agreement with World Bank to
provide fresh water and sanitation facilities to more than a million
people in rural areas of Peru.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, Foreign ministers of
the U.N. Security Council's permanent five nations said that Iraq's
refusal to obey past U.N. resolutions "is a serious matter and that
Iraq must comply." Russia, Europe and key Arab states piled pressure on
Iraq on Friday to readmit U.N. weapons inspectors to avert possible
U.S.-led military action.
(AP, 9/13/02)(Reuters, 9/13/02)
2002 Sep 13, In South Africa the
Italian ship, the Jolly Rubino, that ran aground within the
boundaries of the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park, began leaking oil and
was in danger of breaking up, according to conservation officials and a
salvage company.
(AP, 9/13/02)
2003 Sep 13, In Las Vegas, Sugar
Shane Mosley beat Oscar De La Hoya, winning a close but unanimous
decision to take the WBC and WBA 154-pound titles.
(AP, 9/13/04)
2003 Sep 13, The California
Democratic Party voted to endorse Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante while
continuing to support Gov. Gray Davis in the Oct. 7 recall election.
(AP, 9/13/04)
2003 Sep 13, Frank O'Bannon (73),
Indiana Gov. since 1996, died. He had suffered a massive stroke in his
Chicago hotel room on Sep 8. He was succeeded by Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan.
(SFC, 9/9/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 13, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir suspected Islamic rebels killed a former lawmaker as gunbattles
and other violence escalated across Indian-controlled Kashmir, leaving
20 people dead and 37 wounded.
(AP, 9/13/03)
2003 Sep 13, Angry mourners
swarmed Fallujah, Iraq, a day after eight Iraqi police were killed in a
friendly fire incident involving U.S. troops; the U.S. military
apologized for the deaths.
(AP, 9/13/04)
2003 Sep 13, In the southern
Philippines soldiers killed two suspected members of the Muslim
extremist Abu Sayyaf group and seized pictures of al-Qaida chief Osama
bin Laden and documents in Arabic language after storming a rebel camp.
(AP, 9/13/03)
2004 Sep 13, Oprah Winfrey
celebrated the premiere of her 19th season by surprising each of her
276 audience members with a new car.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2004 Sep 13, Oakland posted a 7-6,
10 inning win over the Rangers in a game that was delayed in the ninth
inning after Texas reliever Frank Francisco hurled a chair and hit two
fans at the Coliseum; the chair hit a man in the head and broke a
woman's nose.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2004 Sep 13, A Sony Group-led
consortium struck a deal to buy MGM for $3 billion.
(WSJ, 9/14/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 13, Colorado became home
to the country's newest national park as Interior Secretary Gale Norton
officially reclassified the Great Sand Dunes National Monument. The
dunes' foundation was laid about 25 million years ago through erosion
of the San Juan Mountains. The sand dunes were declared a national
monument in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover.
(AP, 9/12/04)(SFC, 9/15/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 13, The US ban on assault
rifles, signed in 1994 by Pres. Clinton, expired. The expiration means
firearms like AK-47s, Uzis and TEC-9s can now be legally bought.
(SFC, 9/10/04, p.A1)(AP, 9/13/04)
2004 Sep 13, Scientists reported a
new type of cancer-influencing gene that can either suppress or trigger
tumors.
(SFC, 9/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 13, US warplanes pounded
a suspected hideout of al-Qaida-linked militants in the Sunni insurgent
stronghold of Fallujah, killing 20 people including women and children.
(AP, 9/13/04)(SFC, 9/14/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 13, Two Australians and
two East Asians have been kidnapped in Iraq, said a statement
purportedly from the Islamic Secret Army handed out in the Sunni Muslim
insurgent bastion of Samarra. A video posted on a Web site in the name
of the militants purportedly showed the beheading of a kidnapped
Turkish truck driver.
(AP, 9/13/04)(AP, 9/13/05)
2004 Sep 13, An Israeli helicopter
fired a missile at a car in the West Bank town of Jenin, killing three
Al Aqsa men. Israeli police shut down six Palestinian elections offices
in east Jerusalem after seizing voter registration lists.
(AP, 9/13/04)(WSJ, 9/14/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 13, Pres. Putin announced
a series of measures that would enhance Kremlin power. These included
presidential selection of the governors for Russia’s 89 regions.
(Econ, 9/18/04, p.55)
2005 Sep 13, Pres. Bush said he
accepted responsibility for shortcomings in the federal government’s
response to Hurricane Katrina.
(SFC, 9/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 13, Pres. Bush met
briefly with Chinese Pres. Hu Jintao in NYC on the sidelines of the
opening session of the UN General Assembly. Bush sought China's help to
stop nuclear weapons programs in North Korea and Iran and won a pledge
from President Hu Jintao to step up pressure on Pyongyang.
(SFC, 9/14/05, p.C1)(AP, 9/13/06)
2005 Sep 13, It was reported that
nearly 40 more detainees have joined a hunger strike at the Guantanamo
Bay prison camp for terror suspects, bringing the total to 128.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 13, Louisiana authorities
charged the owners of a New Orleans area nursing home with negligent
homicide in the deaths of 34 patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The state death toll was raised to 423.
(SFC, 9/14/05, p.A10)
2005 Sep 13, The New Orleans
Airport resumed commercial operations.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 13, In Afghanistan the
bodies of 7 men, killed by suspected Taliban rebels, were found in the
central Afghan province of Uruzgan, along with the cards that entitled
them to vote in upcoming parliamentary and provincial elections.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 13, Sredoje Lukic, a top
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect, surrendered to the Serb authorities in
Bosnia. He was indicted by a UN tribunal in 2000 for some of the worst
atrocities in the Bosnian war.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 13, Julio Cesar Turbay
(89), former Colombian President (1978-1982), died. He negotiated the
release in 1980 of dozens of diplomats held hostage by leftist rebels
for 61 days.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 13, Iwan Darmawan Mutho,
alias Rois (30), an Indonesian Islamic militant, vowed revenge after he
was sentenced to death for plotting a deadly bombing at the Australian
embassy which was allegedly funded by Osama bin Laden.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 13, US forces along the
Euphrates River attacked the insurgent stronghold of Haditha, capturing
a militant with ties to al-Qaida in Iraq and killing four others.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 13, The Dutch government
said it plans to open an electronic file, effective Jan 1, 2007, on
every child at birth as a tool to spot and protect the troubled kids of
the future.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 13, Negotiations aimed at
ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program resumed in Beijing after a
monthlong recess, but prospects for progress were uncertain as
Pyongyang remained insistent on its right to use civilian atomic
technology.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 13, Norway's PM Kjell
Magne Bondevik, who presided over four years of unprecedented
prosperity fueled by high oil prices, said he will resign after a
left-wing opposition bloc won parliamentary elections.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 13, Tens of thousands of
people filled the center of Gaza City for the biggest Hamas
demonstration ever seen here, celebrating Israel's pullout and
listening to Hamas leaders vowing to continue the fight until Israelis
leave the rest of the Palestinian areas.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 13, The customs chiefs at
Moscow's international airport and the Pacific port of Nakhodka were
suspended pending a smuggling investigation. Sheremetyevo Airport chief
Igor Volkov and Nakhodka port chief Alexei Kotlyarov were suspended for
a month.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Sep 13, The UN General
Assembly approved a watered-down, 35-page reform document after months
of hard bargaining. The current text refers the issue back to the
president of the General Assembly for further negotiations “with the
aim of establishing the mandate, modalities, functions, size,
composition, membership, working methods and procedures for the
council.”
(AP, 9/14/05)(http://tinyurl.com/lfzje)
2005 Sep 13, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez extended a preferential oil trade deal to 13 Caribbean
countries in what he says is part of a plan to challenge U.S. economic
domination of the region. The plan includes a $50 million fund to pay
for social programs across the Caribbean, similar to those Chavez has
started at home with rising oil profits.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 13, The World Bank
proposed a new accounting method that includes natural and human wealth.
(www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30267)
2006 Sep 13, A letter from the
office of IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, sent to the head of the US
House of Representatives' Select Committee on Intelligence, said an
August 23 committee report contained serious distortions of IAEA
findings on Iran's nuclear activity.
(AP, 9/14/06)(SFC, 9/14/06, p.A15)
2006 Sep 13, In California water
users and environmentalists announced a settlement that requires Friant
to release 364,000 to 462,000 acre-feet of water in normal years to the
San Joaquin River, the state’s 2nd longest river.
(SFC, 9/13/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 13, The SEC froze trade
in the shares of Indigenous Global Development Corp. (IGDC), run by
Deni Leonard, a Native American businessman. An SEC suit said Leonard
claimed to have struck deals with Canadian tribes to develop and
purchase natural gas to be sold to power plants, but no deals were made.
(SSFC, 11/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 13, Ann Richards
(b.1933), former Texas Gov. (1990-1994), died after a battle with
cancer. As governor, Richards appointed the first black University of
Texas regent, the first crime victim on the state Criminal Justice
Board, the first disabled person on the human services board and the
first teacher to lead the State Board of Education. Under Richards, the
fabled Texas Rangers pinned stars on their first black and female
officers.
(AP, 9/14/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.96)
2006 Sep 13, US financier George
Soros pledged to invest 50 million dollars in a development project
that aims to show how targeted investment can end extreme poverty in
African villages. The Millennium Villages project is involved in 79
villages in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda,
Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai, while opening a road linking to Pakistan, said Pakistan
and Afghanistan must unite to save their people from the menace of
terrorism. Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed as many as
30 Taliban in raids on three villages in Ghazni province. In southern
Helmand province police killed 16 Taliban in a mountainous area outside
the town of Garmser. NATO announced that suicide bombings have killed
173 people in Afghanistan this year. 151 of the year's suicide attack
victims were Afghan civilians, including children.
(AP, 9/13/06)(AFP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, NASA scientists said
the ice in the Arctic Sea is melting in winter as well as in summer,
likely due to global warming. The ice was reportedly melting at 9% a
decade.
(SFC, 9/14/06, p.A1)(Econ, 9/9/06, Survey p.6)
2006 Sep 13, The presidents of
Brazil and South Africa, at a trilateral trade meeting in Brasilia,
said they supported changes in international rules to allow India to
buy nuclear fuel and reactors from the United States and other
countries. The trio created the India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue
Forum (IBSA) in 2003 to promote the interests of their emerging markets.
(Reuters, 9/13/06)(AFP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 13, A man in a black
trench coat opened fire at a downtown Montreal college, slaying a young
woman, Anastasia De Sousa (18), a student at Dawson College, and
wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him.
Officials soon identified the killer as Kimveer Gill (25), resident of
a Montreal suburb.
(AP, 9/13/06)(Reuters, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 13, Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao vowed to continue his vast country's opening up to the
international community, notably rejecting suggestions Beijing is set
to crack down on foreign media.
(AFP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, International police
deployed to East Timor in the wake of unrest in May formally handed
over their authority to the UN at a ceremony in the capital. A battle
between rival gangs armed with machetes killed one fighter and injured
five others in Dili.
(AFP, 9/13/06)(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 13, The EU's foreign
policy chief and Iran's top nuclear negotiator abruptly postponed talks
on easing tensions over the refusal of the Tehran regime to suspend
uranium enrichment.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, In Iraq police found
the bodies of 65 men who had been tortured, shot and dumped, most
around Baghdad. Car bombs, mortar attacks and shootings killed at least
39 people around Iraq and injured dozens more.
(AP, 9/13/06)(WSJ, 9/14/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 13, In Jordan a military
court convicted 10 suspected militants in two separate terrorism cases
that included conspiracies to kill Americans. Lawmakers approved a
measure that would only allow a state-appointed council to issue
religious edicts, a move aimed at denying Islamic hard-liners a forum
for disseminating extremist ideology. The measure will become law with
the expected approval of the upper house of Parliament and the king.
(AP, 9/13/06)(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 13, The Palestinian
Cabinet resigned to clear the way for a new unity government, and
President Mahmoud Abbas said he plans to send a delegation to the UN to
try to revive a Mideast peace plan.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, Andrei Kozlov (41),
the top deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank, was shot in Moscow
along with his driver, by unidentified assailants. The driver was
killed immediately and Frankel died the next morning. Officials
suggested the attack was prompted by his efforts to clean up the
country's banking system. In October officials arrested 3 Ukrainian
citizens, who were allegedly hired to kill Kozlov. In Jan 2007 Alexei
Frankel, whose license was revoked by Kozlov in 2004, was charged with
organizing the murder. On Oct 28 a Moscow jury found Frankel guilty of
organizing the murder.
(AP, 9/14/06)(WSJ, 9/22/06, p.A1)(SFC, 10/17/06,
p.A15)(Econ, 1/27/07, p.76)(WSJ, 10/29/08, p.A14)
2006 Sep 13, A helicopter crashed
in Siberia, killing three of the four people aboard, an emergency
official said. The MD-600 helicopter crashed about 12 miles from the
city Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovo region about 1,850 miles east of
Moscow.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, In South Korea
hundreds of workers bulldozed homes in a village to make way for the
expansion of a US military base set to become the Americans' new
headquarters, despite strong objections from protesters.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, Zimbabwe police
arrested trade union leaders and blocked streets and the main square of
the capital to thwart an anti-government march, and the main labor
federation apparently called off a planned nationwide strike at the
last minute.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2007 Sep 13, Pres. Bush in a
nationwide address said the US engagement in Iraq would stretch beyond
his presidency. Bush said he wanted gradual US troop withdrawals from
the country and that 5,700 US forces in Iraq would be home by Christmas
and at least 21,500 would return by July, 2008.
(SFC, 9/14/07, p.A1)(AP, 9/13/08)
2007 Sep 13, Bill Allen (70),
former head of VECO Corp., testified in a federal corruption trial in
Anchorage, that he had bribed 3 Alaska legislators, including the son
of US Sen. Ted Stevens.
(SFC, 9/14/07, p.A9)
2007 Sep 13, In Philadelphia
police chief Sylvester Johnson acknowledged that police alone could not
quell the city’s deadly violence and planned to introduce “Call to
Action: 10,000 Men,” an effort to get volunteers on the streets as of
Oct 21.
(SFC, 9/14/07, p.A5)
2007 Sep 13, The NFL fined New
England Patriots coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and the team $250,000
for spying on the New York Jets during a game.
(AP, 9/13/08)
2007 Sep 13, In Florida Shawn
Sherwin Labeet (25) opened fire on 4 Miami-Dade county police officers
during a traffic stop killing officer Jose Somohano (37). Labeet was
found and killed hours later.
(SFC, 9/14/07, p.A6)
2007 Sep 13, Crude oil futures
finished at their 3rd record in a row rising 18 cents to close above 80
for the first time at $80.09 a barrel.
(WSJ, 9/14/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 13, Humberto, the first
hurricane to hit the US Gulf Coast in two years, sneaked up on
southeast Texas overnight and crashed ashore with heavy rains and 80
mph winds. One man died when a carport collapsed on him.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 13, The X PRIZE
Foundation and Google Inc. announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a
robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million prize purse,
so long as the task is completed by 2012.
(www.googlelunarxprize.org/)(Econ, 9/15/07, p.100)
2007 Sep 13, Afghan police in
Helmand province shot and killed a would-be suicide bomber before he
could detonate his explosives.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 13, In London, England,
Ian Strachan (30) and Sean McGuigan (40) were charged with blackmail.
The two suspects had approached an unidentified royal family member in
August and demanded $100,000 not to publicize a video allegedly showing
the royal engaged in a sex act. The charges did not become public until
Oct 28.
(AP, 10/30/07)
2007 Sep 13, In central China a
man threw six children from a balcony of their school. A girl (9) was
killed and 2 others badly hurt.
(Econ, 9/22/07, p.58)
2007 Sep 13, The UN said the
repatriation of Congolese refugees from neighbouring Zambia was
suspended, due to insecurity in the small town of Moba where they are
headed.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 13, Three powerful
earthquakes jolted Indonesia in less than 24 hours, triggering tsunami
alerts and sending panicked residents fleeing to high ground. At least
10 people were killed in the tremors.
(Reuters, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 13, Abdul-Sattar Abu
Risha, the most prominent figure in a US-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks
against al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed with two of his bodyguards by a
bomb planted near his home in Anbar province, 10 days after he met with
President Bush. In a helicopter assault mission in Karmah, Anbar
province, three suspected insurgents were killed and three American
soldiers were injured.
(AP, 9/13/07)(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 13, The Jewish New Year
of 5768 began and marked a year of agricultural sabbatical, known in
Hebrew as "shmita." The commandment requires Jewish farmers in Israel
to let their fields rest every seventh year, just as Jews are required
to rest every seventh day. Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a car in
a Gaza refugee camp, injuring two members of the violent Islamic Jihad
group.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 13, In Italy consumer
groups held nationwide protests to draw attention to the burden placed
on families by the rising cost of food, especially Italians' beloved
staple, pasta.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 13, In the Marshall
Islands legislation was introduced aiming to open up the communications
sector by removing the telecom agency's exclusive rights. This was
likely to become an issue ahead of national elections in November.
(AFP, 9/16/07)
2007 Sep 13, In Mozambique a
non-governmental organization working with the disabled said at least
440 sites are still heavily infested by landmines near residential
districts in 3 provinces.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 13, In Pakistan militants
attacked a military base near the Afghan border, sparking a battle that
drew in army helicopters and left about 30 insurgents and two soldiers
dead. In fighting near Razmak, a town in South Waziristan, army forces
repelled repeated militant attacks, and tribesmen informed officials
that up to 50 rebels died in counter-strikes. Two soldiers were killed
and eight wounded. A suicide attacker penetrated Ghazi Tarbela base, a
high-security military base about 60 miles south of Islamabad, and
detonated an explosive-laden vehicle, killing 16 soldiers from an elite
counterterrorism task force.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 13, In Moscow Shamil
Burayev, the former head of a district in Chechnya, was arrested on
suspicion of organizing the execution-style murder of investigative
journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
(AP, 9/15/07)
2008 Sep 13, Hurricane Ike ravaged
the Texas coast with 110 mph winds, flooding thousands of homes and
businesses, shattering windows in Houston's skyscrapers and knocking
out power to millions of people. Ike left at least 37 people dead in
Texas, including 5 on Galveston Island, and 35 more dead across 10
states. Galveston later requested $2.2 billion in disaster relief. This
amounted to about $36,000 per resident. Officials later estimated that
damages from Ike could exceed $50 billion.
(SFC, 9/15/08, p.A6)(SFC, 9/17/08, p.A8)(SFC,
9/23/08, p.A3)(SFC, 10/13/08, p.A2)(Econ, 10/4/08, p.34)
2008 Sep 13, In San Francisco Tong
Van Le left his store in Bernal Heights and headed home to Novato where
5 men, who had followed him, shot him dead with a high-powered rifle.
They had allegedly been told to get rid of Tong Le by Larry Blay Jr.
(19), who was in jail on charges of robbing the Nasser Market on
Crescent Ave. Sep 13. With no witness the case against Blay was
dismissed in October. In June, 2009, an indictment accused Blay and 4
of the 5 defendants of murder and conspiracy.
(SFC, 6/17/09, p.B1)(SFC, 7/29/09, p.D3)
2008 Sep 13, The Albert and Mary
Lasker Foundation announced Stanley Falkow (74), Stanford
microbiologist, was the winner of a $300,000 Lasker award for Special
Achievement in medical Science. His work helped to explain how
pathogens cause human diseases.
(SSFC, 9/14/08, p.B2)
2008 Sep 13, In Afghanistan
Mohammad Jan Abdullah Wardak, the governor of Logar province and a
former cabinet minister, was killed with 3 others in a bomb attack near
Kabul claimed by Taliban rebels and condemned by President Hamid
Karzai. A British soldier was killed in an explosion in Helmand
province. Taliban militants in Ghazni province ambushed and killed 4
police. 3 more were wounded and died the next day.
(AP, 9/13/08)(AP, 9/14/08)(AFP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 13, A fiery bus crash in
China's Sichuan province killed 51 people.
(AP, 9/13/08)
2008 Sep 13, Hundreds of Russian
forces packed up and withdrew from positions in western Georgia. A
Georgian official said Russia had met a deadline for a partial pullout
a month after the war between the two former Soviet republics. A
Georgian policeman at a post near Abkhazia was killed by gunfire that
came from the direction of a position where Abkhazian and Russian
forces have been based. Some 1,200 Russian servicemen still remained at
19 checkpoints and other positions, 12 outside South Ossetia and seven
outside Abkhazia.
(AP, 9/13/08)
2008 Sep 13, In India a
coordinated series of bombings struck crowded shopping areas across New
Delhi, killing 21 people with over 100 wounded. 5 bombs exploded and 3
were defused. India blamed a group with ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba. A
Muslim extremist group claimed responsibility for the explosions.
(AFP, 9/14/08)(WSJ, 11/28/08, p.A6)(WSJ, 12/8/08,
p.A6)
2008 Sep 13, Bombs and shootings
killed at least 16 people in Iraq, including four employees of an Iraqi
television station. They were abducted in Mosul while filming a program
about the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. At night in western Baghdad a
bomb exploded in the car of Fuad Ali Hussein, killing him and his
deputy and two bodyguards. Hussein was head of a neighborhood awakening
council.
(AP, 9/13/08)(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 13, Nepalese police said
at least six people have been killed in southern Nepal in rampages by
wild elephants in the last two days.
(AFP, 9/13/08)
2008 Sep 13, A MEND statement said
the armed forces of Nigeria had begun a full scale aerial and marine
offensive on the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
(MEND) positions and neighboring Ijaw communities in Rivers state.
(AFP, 9/13/08)
2008 Sep 13, At least 24 Islamic
militants were killed in fierce fighting with Pakistani government
troops hunting Taliban fighters across Bajaur near the Afghan border.
(AGFP, 9/13/08)
2008 Sep 13, A Palestinian stabbed
a 9-year-old Israeli boy in a West Bank settlement outpost, setting off
clashes that left injured six Palestinians. Israeli troops fatally shot
Hassan Hmeid (16), a Palestinian teenager during a clash near
Bethlehem. Witnesses said the troops opened fire when a patrol entered
Tekoa and were pelted with a hail of stones thrown by local young
people.
(AP, 9/13/08)
2008 Sep 13, Sri Lanka's Tamil
Tigers accused the government of planning a genocidal campaign against
Tamils as UN agencies pulled out of rebel-held regions in the island's
north. Violence in the last 24 hours killed eight Tiger rebels and two
troops.
(AP, 9/13/08)
2008 Sep 13, In Sudan an army
spokesman said troops had entered the North Darfur area to arrest armed
bandits.
(Reuters, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 13, Typhoon Sinlaku
lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and heavy rains, disrupting flights
and train services as well as celebrations for a major holiday.
(AFP, 9/13/08)
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