Today in History - September 14
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258 Sep 14,
Thascius Caecilius Cyprian (b.~200), Christian writer and Bishop of
Carthage (248), died as a martyr in Carthage.
(www.fact-index.com/c/cy/cyprian.html)
407 Sep 14, Johannes Chrysostomus
(b.c347), patriarch of Constantinople (398) and exiled in 404, died in
Pontus (later northeast Turkey). He is generally considered the most
prominent doctor of the Greek Church and the greatest preacher ever
heard in a Christian pulpit.
(www.newadvent.org/cathen/08452b.htm)
1146 Sep 14, Zangi of the Near
East was murdered. The Sultan Nur ad-Din, his son, pursued the conquest
of Edessa (NW Mesopotamia).
(HN, 9/14/98)
1321 Sep 14, Dante Alighieri,
author of the "Divine Comedy," died of malaria just hours after
finishing writing "Paradiso." The poem was completed in Italian rather
than Latin. It helped make Italian the dominant linguistic force in
European literature for the next few centuries. In 2006 Barbara
Reynolds authored “Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man.”
(www.newadvent.org/cathen/04628a.htm)(WSJ, 3/26/99,
p.W2)(Econ, 12/2/06, p.84)
1486 Sep 14, Heinrich Agrippa von
Nettesheim (d.1535), German occultist, alchemist, royal astrologer, was
born in Cologne.
(www.britannica.com)
1531 Sep 14, Philipp Apian
(d.1589), German geographer and cartographer, was born.
(www.antiquemaps.co.uk/chapter12.html)
1544 Sep 14, Henry VIII's forces
took Boulogne, France.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1646 Sep 14, Robert Devereux
(b.1591), 3rd earl of Essex, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Devereux,_3rd_Earl_of_Essex)
1716 Sep 14, The 1st lighthouse in
US was lit in Boston Harbor.
(www.lighthouse.cc/boston/history.html)
1737 Sep 14, Johann Michael Haydn
(d.1806), composer and younger brother of Franz Joseph, was born in
Austria.
(www.haydn.dk/index.php)
1741 Sep 14, George Frederick
Handel (1685-1759) finished "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it in
London non-stop for 23 days. Messiah premiered April 13, 1742.
(LGC-HCS, p.41)(
http://www.gospelcom.net/ch/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps147.shtml)
1750 Sep 14, Carl T. Pachelbel
(b.1690), German-born US organist and composer, died. He was the
younger brother of Johann Pachelbel.
(www.iwchorale.org/Charles_Theodore_Pachelbel.htm)
1759 Sep 14, Louis Joseph de
Montcalm-Grozon, Marquis de Montcalm (b.1712) and chief of French
forces, died at age 47 on the Plains of Abraham in Canada.
(www.britannica.com)
1760 Sep 14, Luigi Cherubini
(d.1842), Italian-born prodigy and French composer, was born.
(www.britannica.com)
1769 Sep 14, Baron Freidrich von
Humboldt (d.1859), German naturalist and explorer who made the first
isothermic and isobaric maps, was born.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1773 Sep 14, Russian forces under
Aleksandr Suvorov successfully stormed a Turkish fort at Hirsov, Turkey.
(HN, 9/14/99)
1786 Sep 14, Two French ships
appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to visit
Spain's California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent scientists,
navigators, cartographers, illustrators, and physicians. For the next
ten days Jean Francois de La Pérouse, the commander of this
expedition, took detailed notes on the life and character of the area.
Perouse’s notes were later published under the title “Life in a
California Mission: Monterey in 1786: The Journals of Jean Francois De
LA Perouse.”
(http://tinyurl.com/fbuud)
1791 Sep 14, Louis XVI solemnly
swore his allegiance to the French constitution.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1812 Sep 14, Napoleon's invasion
of Russia reached its climax as his Grande Armee entered Moscow--only
to find the enemy capital deserted and burning, set afire by the few
Russians who remained. The fires were extinguished by Sep 19.
(HN,
9/14/98)(http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/B/Borodino.html)
1814 Sep 14, In the dawn light
Francis Scott Key saw that the American flag still waved over Fort
McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. He looked on from the deck
of a boat on the Patasco River nine miles away and wrote “The Star
Spangled Banner.” The lyrics were alter adopted to the British tune "To
Anacreon in Heaven,” which had also served as Irish drinking song and a
number of other songs. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was officially
recognized as the national anthem in 1931. The 40 feet long flag had
been made by Baltimore widow Mary Young Pickersgill and her 13-year-old
daughter just a month before the attack. In 1907 the flag was donated
to the Smithsonian.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.A2)(AP, 9/14/97)(HN, 9/14/98)(WSJ,
7/3/02, p.B1)
1836 Sep 14, Aaron Burr, the 3rd
US Vice President, died. He had served as vice-president under Thomas
Jefferson. Burr is alleged to have fathered a black illegitimate son
named John Pierre Burr. In 1999 Roger W. Kennedy authored "Burr,
Hamilton and Jefferson: A Study in Character." In 2007 Nancy Isenberg
authored “Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr.”
(WSJ, 10/27/99, p.A16)(WSJ, 10/5/05, p.A1)(WSJ,
5/24/07, p.D7)
1847 Sep 14, US forces under Gen.
Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City (the "Halls of Montezuma").
The Mexican forces fled with their leader, Santa Anna.
(HFA, '96, p.48)(AP, 9/14/97)
1849 Sep 14(OS), Ivan Pavlov
(d.1936), Russian physiologist who studied dogs' responses to food
suggestions, was born. He won a Nobel Prize in 1904.
(HN, 9/14/98)( www.crystalinks.com/pavlov1.html)
1851 Sep 14, James Fenimore Cooper
(b.1789), writer, died at Cooperstown, NY.
(www.online-literature.com)
1852 Sep 14, Augustus Pugin
(b.1812), English Gothic architect and designer, died. He had just this
year helped oversee the completion of the new Palace of Westminster and
sketched a design for the clock tower shortly before his death. In 2007
Rosemary Hill authored “God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of
Romantic Britain.
(Econ, 8/11/07,
p.74)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Pugin)(WSJ, 3/20/09, p.W14)
1852 Sep 14, Arthur Wellesley
(b.1769), General and Duke of Wellington, died at 83.
(http://en.wikipedia.org)
1853 Sep 14, The Allies landed at
Eupatoria on the west coast of Crimea.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1856 Sep 14, At the Battle of San
Jacinto, Nicaragua defeated invaders. General José Dolores
Estrada led his men against the powerful forces of William Walker and
his filibusters, who sought to take over Nicaragua and all of Central
America.
(www.guideofnicaragua.com/0102/MatagalpaEN.html)
1860 Sep 14, Hamlin Garland,
author, was born. He wrote about the Midwest in novels such as “A Son
of the Middle Border” and “The Book of the American Indian.”
(HN, 9/14/00)
1862 Sep 14, At the battles of
South Mountain and Crampton’s Gap, Maryland Union troops smashed into
the Confederates as they closed in on what would become the Antietam
battleground. Confederates delayed McClellan’s advance against Lee.
(HN, 9/14/98)(AM, 11/04, p.28)
1862 Sep 14, A contingent of
Federal troops escaped from the beleaguered Harper's Ferry.
(www.nps.gov/hafe/jackson.htm)
1864 Sep 14, Lord Robert Cecil,
one of the founders of the League of Nations and its president from
1923 to 1945, was born.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1867 Sep 14, Charles Dana Gibson,
illustrator, was born. He was the creator of the ‘Gibson Girl.’
(HN, 9/14/00)
1872 Sep 14, Britain paid US $15
million for damages during Civil War. The British government paid
£3 million in damages to the United States in compensation for
building the Confederate commerce-raider Alabama. The confederate
navy‘s Alabama was built at the Birkenhead shipyards. Despite its
official neutrality during the American Civil War, Britain allowed the
warship to leave port, and it subsequently played havoc with Federal
shipping. The U.S. claimed compensation, and a Court of Arbitration at
Geneva agreed, setting the amount at £3 million.
(HNQ, 9/2/00)(ON, 9/01, p.12)
1879 Sep 14, Margaret Sanger
(d.1966), feminist, nurse, birth control proponent, was born in
Corning, NY. [see Sep 14, 1883]
(www.who2.com/margaretsanger.html)
1882 Sep 14, British General
Wolseley (d.1913) reached Cairo.
(www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/battles/egypt/egypt4.htm)
1883 Sep 14, Margaret Higgins
Sanger was born. While not the first in the U.S. advocating the use of
contraceptives, she coined the term "birth control" in 1914. She was
the founder of the birth control movement in the United States and the
National Birth Control League. Wife of an affluent architect and mother
of three, Sanger worked as a visiting nurse on New York's Lower East
Side, where she witnessed the misery and poverty caused by uncontrolled
fertility. Sanger became a nurse and after moving to New York City in
1912 became involved in the bohemian society. She launched Woman Rebel
magazine in March 1914. For sending pleas for birth control through the
mails, she was indicted in August 1914 under New York's 1873 Comstock
Act, which classified information related to contraception as being
obscene. She went on to lead a global movement for birth control and
founded the organization that would later become Planned Parenthood.
She died on September 6, 1966. [see Sep 14, 1879]
(HNQ, 6/22/98)(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.39)(HN,
9/14/98)(HNPD, 9/14/98)
1883 Sep 14, A Ukase barred
Yiddish theater in Russia.
(www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1010)
1885 Sep 14, Vittorio Gui
(d.1975), Italian conductor and composer (Batture d'aspetto), was born
in Rome.
(www.operone.de/komponist/gui.html)
1886 Sep 14, Jan Garrique Masaryk
(d.1948), Czech statesman, was born.
(www.britannica.com)
1886 Sep 14, George K. Anderson of
Memphis, Tennessee, patented typewriter ribbon.
(www.inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltypewriter.htm)
1887 Sep 14, Karl Taylor Compton,
physicist and atomic bomb scientist, was born in Wooster, Ohio.
(www.britannica.com)
1893 Sep 14, In Virginia the
Randolph-Macon Women’s College opened under Pres. William Waugh
Smith. The first session began with 36 boarding students and 12
professors.
(SSFC, 9/10/06, p.A2)(www.rmwc.edu/about/history.asp)
1899 Sep 14, Hal B. Wallis
(d.1986), film producer, was born in Chicago. His work included “The
Maltese Falcon, Casablanca.”
(www.britannica.com)
1901 Sep 14, President McKinley
died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice
President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the 26th President of the
United States upon the death of William McKinley, who was shot eight
days earlier.
(AP, 9/14/97)(HN, 9/14/98)
1905 Sep 14, Pierre de Brazza
(b.1852), Franco-Italian explorer, died and was buried in Algeria. He
was born in Italy and later naturalized French. Brazza single-handedly
opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo that
eventually led to French colonies in West Africa. In 2006 his remains
were exhumed and moved to a mausoleum in Brazzaville, capital of the
Republic of Congo.
(Econ, 10/7/06,
p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Savorgnan_de_Brazza)
1911 Sep 14, Russian Premier Piotr
Stolypin was mortally wounded in an assassination attempt at the Kiev
opera house.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1912 Sep 14, The United States
government notified Nicaragua that it would protect American lives and
property there and uphold the government against rebels.
(MC,
9/14/01)(www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/usmcnic3.html)
1913 Sep 14, The Lincoln Highway
Association announced the route of the Lincoln Highway. Its leaders,
particularly Henry Joy, President of the Packard Motor Car Company,
decided on as straight a route as possible and that decision dictated
the course. That initial line was 3,389 miles long. Less than half of
it, 1,598 miles, was improved. (Eventually, as segments of the route
were improved, the length shrunk to about 3,140 miles).
(www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/lincoln.cfm)
1913 Sep 14, Jacobo Guzman Arbenz
(d.1971), president of Guatemala (1951-54) was born. He was overthrown
by the CIA. Arbenz, soldier and nationalist politician and president
Guatemala, was the son of a Swiss pharmacist who emigrated to
Guatemala, Arbenz joined a group of army officers that overthrew
dictator Jorge Ubico in 1944. Arbenz became president with the support
of army and leftists, including the Communist Party. His radical
policies, especially regarding expropriation of portions of the United
Fruit Company holdings, led to a U.S. backed coup in 1954 and his
fleeing to Mexico. Arbenz died in 1971 in Mexico City.
(NG, 10/1988,)(HNQ,
1/14/00)(www.bookrags.com/biography/jacobo-arbenz-guzman/)
1921 Sep 14, Constance Baker
Motley, first African-American women to be appointed a federal judge,
was born.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1927 Sep 14, Isadora Duncan (born
in San Francisco in 1878), modern dance pioneer, died in Nice, France,
when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car. A 1968
film with Vanessa Redgrave portrayed her life.
(AP, 9/14/97)(WSJ, 2/20/98, p.A16)(SFC, 9/13/02,
p.E2)
1929 Sep 14, The Dow Jones
Industrials added Curtis-Wright as a replacement for Wright
Aeronautical.
(WSJ, 4/8/04, p.C4)
1930 Sep 14, Allan Bloom, writer,
was born. His work included “The Closing of the American Mind.”
(HN, 9/14/00)
1930 Sep 14, Nazis took 107 seats
in German elections.
(www.zum.de/whkmla/region/germany/wr2932.html)
1933 Sep 14, Zoe Caldwell, actress
(Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), was born in Australia. In 2001 Caldwell
authored “I Will Be Cleopatra: An Actress’s Journey.”
(www.infoplease.com)(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.M4)
1934 Sep 14, Kate Millet, feminist
writer, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work included “Sexual
Politics.”
(HN, 9/14/00)(www.infoplease.com)
1936 Sep 14, Irving G. Thalberg
(37), film producer and husband to actress Norma Shearer (d.1983), died
of pneumonia. In 1937 Hollywood established the Thalberg Memorial Award
people whose work reflected a "consistently high quality." In 2009 Mark
A. Viera authored “Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince.”
(WSJ, 2/9/01, p.W1)(SSFC, 7/25/04, Par p.2)(Econ,
11/14/09, p.103)
1937 Sep 14, TG Masaryk (b.1886),
the first president of Czechoslovakia, died in Bohemia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.G._Masaryk)(http://tinyurl.com/856hg)
1939 Sep 14, British fleet sank
the German U-39 U-boat.
(www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsUboats.htm)
1939 Sep 14, In the 1930s Igor
Sikorsky (d.1972) turned his attention again to helicopter design and
on this day flew the VS-300 on its first test flight. Sikorsky,
scientist, engineer, pilot and businessman, was a pioneer in aircraft
design who is best known for his successful development of the
helicopter. He was fascinated with flight even as a child in Russia,
and a 1908 meeting with the Wright brothers determined the course of
his life in aviation. After two early helicopter designs failed,
Sikorsky turned his attention to fixed-wing aircraft. By 1913 he had
developed the Il’ya Muromets, four-engine passenger aircraft that were
converted to bombers for use in WWI. The Bolshevik Revolution forced
Sikorsky and his family to emigrate to America in 1919 where he
established the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation in New York. Over
the next 20 years, Sikorsky’s company built passenger planes and flying
boats, including the S-40 American Clipper that was used to open new
air routes across the Pacific. [see Sep 13]
(HNPD, 10/27/98)
1940 Sep 14, Congress passed the
Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S.
history. It passed by one vote.
(AP, 9/14/97)(SFEC, 8/27/00, BR p.4)
1942 Sep 14, The 3-day Battle of
Edson's Ridge at Guadalcanal continued.
(www.gnt.net/~jrube/indx2.html)
1943 Sep 14, German troops
abandoned the Salerno front in Italy.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1944 Sep 14, A Category 3
hurricane, the Great Atlantic Hurricane, struck eastern New England.
Winds hit 109 MPH in Connecticut and 46 people were killed on land and
caused $100 million in damage. The storm sank 5 ships killing 344
people.
(AP, 9/21/97)(WSJ, 5/31/06,
p.B1)(www.geocities.com/hurricanene/Majorne.htm)
1944 Sep 14, The submarine USS
Pampanito picked up 73 allied prisoners left adrift following the Sep
12 submarine attack on a Japanese convoy that included the transport
ship Rakuyo Maru.
(SFC, 3/18/09, p.B2)
1947 Sep 14, Sam Neill, actor
(Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano), was born in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
(www.entertainment.msn.com)
1948 Sep 14, A groundbreaking
ceremony took place in New York at the site of the United Nations'
world headquarters.
(AP, 9/14/99)
1956 Sep 14, Egypt assumed
complete control over the operation of the Suez Canal.
(EWH, 1968, p.1249)
1957 Sep 14, Pres. Eisenhower met
with Arkansas Gov. Faubus in Rhode Island. Faubus agreed to cooperate
with the president’s decisions regarding the high schools of Little
Rock.
(http://tinyurl.com/2vggdj)
1959 Sep 14, The Soviet space
probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it
crashed onto the lunar surface.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1960 Sep 14, The "Twist" sung by
Chubby Checker (born as Ernest Evans in 1941) hit #1. It reached #1 a
2nd time in Jan. 1962.
(www.shsu.edu/~mus_rjm/MUS264/Lectures/Notes_Mar20.html)
1960 Sep 14, A Congo coup led by
Col. Mobutu overthrew PM Patrice Lumumba.
(www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mobutu-Sese-Seko)
1960 Sep 14, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia and Venezuela formed OPEC. Fuad Rouhani (1907-2004) of
Iran served as its 1st secretary-general. In 1964 he was succeeded by
Abdul Rahman Bazzaz of Iraq.
(HN, 9/14/98)(WSJ, 7/28/03, p.A8)
1963 Sep 14, Mary Ann Fischer of
Aberdeen, S.D., gave birth to four girls and a boy, the first surviving
quintuplets in the United States.
(AP, 9/14/03)
1964 Sep 14, UC Berkeley officials
announced a new policy prohibiting political action at the campus
entrance at Bancroft Way and Telegraph.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1964 Sep 14, Pope Paul VI opened
the third session of the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, also
known as Vatican Two.'' The session closed two months later.
(AP, 9/14/06)
1964 Sep 14, Vasily Grossman
(b.1905), Ukraine-born journalist and writer, died, His work included
the novel “Life and Fate,” a chronicle of the Battle of Stalingrad,
which wasn’t published until 1980.
(WSJ, 5/5/07,
p.P16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Grossman)
1965 Sep 14, The situation comedy
"My Mother the Car" premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 9/14/05)
1965 Sep 14, The TV show "F-Troop"
premiered. It ended in 1967 after 65 episodes.
(www.televisionwesterns.com/table/F-Troop.html)
1965 Sep 14, Dmitry Medvedev was
born in Leningrad. In 2008 with the backing of Vladimir Putin, he
became prime minister of Russia.
(WSJ, 2/28/08, p.A14)
1965 Sep 14, The 4th meeting of
2nd Vatican council opened.
(www.vatican.va)
1966 Sep 14, Operation Attleboro,
designed as a training exercise for American troops in South Vietnam,
became a month-long struggle against the Viet Cong.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1966 Sep 14, Tillie Edelstein
(b.1898), actress and screenwriter, died. As Gertrude Berg, she created
“The Goldbergs” (1929), a radio program that later became first
television sitcom. In 2009 Aviva Kempner directed a documentary of Berg
titled “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Berg)(SFC,
8/7/09, p.E5)
1968 Sep 14, Al Frueh (b.1880),
American caricature artist (New Yorker magazine), died.
(WSJ, 8/21/01,
p.A17)(www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/221010/Al-Frueh)
1969 Sep 14, Males of Swiss canton
Schaffhausen rejected female suffrage.
(www.keesings.com/search?kssp_a_id=23580n02swi&kssp_selected_tab=article)
1971 Sep 14, "Cannon" with William
Conrad premiered on CBS-TV.
(www.tv.com/cannon/show/82/summary.html)
1972 Sep 14, The family drama
series "The Waltons" premiered on CBS.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1973 Sep 14, Pres Nixon signed
into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout.
(www.profootballhof.com)
1975 Sep 14, Rembrandt's
"Nightwatch" was slashed and damaged in Amsterdam.
(www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n7_v86/ai_21113228)
1975 Sep 14, Pope Paul VI declared
Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first native-born American saint
in the Roman Catholic Church.
(AP, 9/14/97)(HN, 9/14/98)
1978 Sep 14, The Soviet Union
suspended further flights of the supersonic TU 144.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1979 Sep 14, Colombia signed an
extradition treaty with the US, but Colombian leaders enacted
legislation that nullified the pact. It became effective march 4, 1982.
(SFC, 10/2/98,
p.B3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradition_treaties)
1982 Sep 14, John C. Gardner
(b.1933), US, writer (Life & Times of Chaucer High), was killed in
a motorcycle accident. In 2004 Barry Silesky authored "John Gardner:
Literary Outlaw."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner)(WSJ,
2/13/04, p.W8)
1982 Sep 14, Lebanon's
president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1982 Sep 14, Princess Grace of
Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a
car crash the day before. Her daughter Stephanie survived the crash.
Kelly rose to prominence in film with 1952's 'High Noon', and she
worked with Alfred Hitchcock in several films including 'Rear Window'.
Her movie career was a brief six years where she did win an Oscar for
'The Country Girl'. In 1956 she retired from film following her
marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
(AP, 9/14/97)(AP, 10/10/02)
1984 Sep 14, Janet Gaynor (77),
the first actress to win an Academy Award (1929), died in San
Francisco. She had never fully recovered from a car crash in 1982. Her
34 movies included “Seventh Heaven” and the first “A Star Is Born.”
(SSFC, 9/13/09, DB p.46)
1985 Sep 14, The situation comedy
"The Golden Girls" premiered on NBC and continued to 1992. The show
included Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty
as 4 older women living together in Florida.
(AP, 9/14/05)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0088526/)(LSA,
Spring, 2009, p.44)
1985 Sep 14, Shiite Muslim
kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Benjamin Weir after holding him
captive for 16 months.
(AP, 9/14/05)
1986 Sep 14, President Reagan and
his wife, Nancy, appeared together on radio and television to appeal
for a “national crusade” against drug abuse.
(AP, 9/14/01)
1987 Sep 14, Cal Ripken (b.1960),
baseball star for the Baltimore Orioles, ended his streak of 8,243
consecutive innings (908 games).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Ripken,_Jr.)
1987 Sep 14, Transportation
Secretary Elizabeth Dole resigned to devote herself to the presidential
campaign of her husband, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1988 Sep 14, Hurricane “Gilbert”
slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula after forcing thousands of
residents to flee.
(AP, 9/14/00)
1989 Sep 14, ACT-UP AIDS activists
shut down the New York Stock Exchange for a short time when they
chained themselves to a balcony overlooking the floor.
(SFC, 3/22/97, p.A13)
1989 Sep 14, Joseph T. Wesbecker,
a 47-year-old pressman on disability for mental illness, killed himself
after he shot 8 people dead and wounded 12 at a printing plant in
Louisville, Ky.
(AP, 9/14/99)
1990 Sep 14, Ken Griffey, Sr. and
Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in the 1st inning.
(www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/1990SEPTEMBER.stm)
1990 Sep 14, During the Persian
Gulf crisis, the US Navy reported that American troops had fired a
warning shot at an Iraqi tanker, then boarded it briefly before
allowing it to proceed.
(AP, 9/14/00)
1991 Sep 14, US Secretary of State
James A. Baker III met with leaders of the Baltic nations, which had
declared independence from the Soviet Union.
(AP, 9/14/01)
1991 Sep 14, Carolyn Suzanne Sapp
of Hawaii was crowned “Miss America.”
(AP, 9/14/01)
1991 Sep 14, The government of
South Africa, the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom
Party signed a national peace pact.
(AP, 9/14/01)
1992 Sep 14, The grand dragon of
the Ku Klux Klan's Invisible Empire of Florida announced that he was
moving the group's headquarters from Orlando to Gainesville. He said,
it's "a progressive community, and we think we can fit in."
(www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040906-012530-6093r.htm)
1992 Sep 14, Germany cut key
interest rates for the first time in five years, an action the United
States and European Community nations had been urging to help spur a
world economic recovery.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1992 Sep 14, The Italian Lira was
devalued 7%. This forced Italy to withdraw from the Exchange Rate
Mechanism (ERM), which was necessary to join European Monetary Union.
(http://tinyurl.com/eh943)
1993 Sep 14, British tourist Gary
Colley was shot and killed, his female companion Margaret Jagger
wounded, at a highway rest stop in Florida. Three young men, Aundra
Aikins, John Crumitie, and Deron Spear, were arrested charged and
convicted. Two suspects later received life sentences; two others
received lesser sentences.
(AP, 9/14/03)(SFC, 8/29/97, p.A8)
1993 Sep 14, Israel and Jordan
signed a framework for negotiations, a day after the signing of a
PLO-Israeli peace accord.
(AP, 9/14/03)
1994 Sep 14, On the 34th day of a
strike by players, Bud Selig, acting commissioner, announced the 1994
baseball season was over. All 28 baseball owners voted to cancel rest
of 1994 season.
(AP, 9/14/99)
1995 Sep 14, Bosnian Serbs agreed
to move heavy weapons and tanks away from Serajevo. NATO halted bombing
in response.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1996 Sep 14, There was a rumor
published that was gleaned from the Internet that “friendly fire”
caused the crash of TWA Flight 800.
(SFC, 9/14/96, p.A4)
1996 Sep 14, Tara Dawn Holland of
Overland Park, Kansas, won the Miss America beauty pageant.
(SFC, 9/15/96, p.A6)(AP, 9/14/97)
1996 Sep 14, Juliet Prowse
(b.1936), actress and dancer (Mona McCluskey), died.
(www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0187948.html)
1996 Sep 14, Bosnians went to the
polls in their first national elections since the three-and-a-half
civil war that ravaged the Balkan republic.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1996 Sep 14, In Cambodia King
Norodom Sihanouk granted amnesty to Ieng Sary, the Khmer Rouge rebel
leader.
(SFC, 9/15/96, p.A16)
1997 Sep 14, At the 49th Annual
Primetime Emmy Awards, "Law and Order" won best drama series while
"Frasier" won best comedy series.
(AP, 9/14/02)
1997 Sep 14, An Air Force F-117A
Stealth fighter broke apart in midair at a Baltimore County air show.
The pilot ejected safely but about a dozen people on the ground were
slightly injured.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A2)
1997 Sep 14, Overcoming fears of
violence, Bosnians flooded polling stations to vote in local elections.
(AP, 9/14/02)
1997 Sep 14, In India at least 77
people were killed when a train plunged from a bridge near Champa town
in the east of Madhya Pradesh state. Another 234 were injured.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A11)
1997 Sep 14, Two Israeli soldiers
were killed in a Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon.
(WSJ, 9/15/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 14, Israel announced that
it will return half of the $67 million in Palestinian tax revenues as a
“goodwill gesture.”
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 14, It was reported that
Norway is the world’s 2nd largest oil exporter and that the government
sets aside nearly $8.3 billion into a fund for the future.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A24)
1998 Sep 14, President Clinton,
struggling to regain his footing from the Monica Lewinsky scandal,
pledged during a speech in New York to work with America's allies to
deal with the "biggest financial challenge facing the world in a
half-century."
(AP, 9/14/03)
1998 Sep 14, In Chicago Vincas
Valkavickas (78), a retired factory worker, was put under deportation
proceedings. A complaint alleged that he assisted Nazi forces as a
Lithuanian police officer and guarded Jewish men, women and children
between 1941-1944 at Sviencionys, Lithuania.
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 14, In Miami ten
suspected Cuban spies were arrested for trying to penetrate the
military and exile groups. Five men later pleaded guilty to lesser
charges; the trial of the other five has been postponed until May 2000.
The 5 remaining men were convicted in June, 2001, for acting as
unregistered agents and conspiracy to commit crimes against the US. In
2009 a federal judge lowered the life sentence of Ramon Labanino to 30
years. The 19-year sentence against Fernando Gonzalez was reduced to
about 18 years.
(WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A1) (WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A1)(AP,
9/14/99)(SSFC, 8/5/07, p.A19)
1998 Sep 14, In Albania fighting
continued in Tirana. Anti-government protestors stormed public
buildings and 3 Berisha supporters were killed in a counter-attack.
(WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A1)(USAT, 9/15/98, p.12A)(SFC,
9/15/98, p.A6)
1998 Sep 14, Air Canada pilots
ended a 13-day strike with a 9% salary increase over 2 years.
(SFC, 9/15/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 14, Yang Shangkun
(b.1907), president of China during the 1969 Tiananmen massacre, died
in Beijing.
(WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/16/98, p.C4)
1998 Sep 14, Ecuador allowed its
currency, the sucre, to drop by almost 10%. Pres. Jamil Mahuad outlined
a new emergency economic package. The currency devaluation went to 15%
and a new austerity eliminated power subsidies. Welfare coupons
for $17 were to be issued to the poor beginning Nov 1.
(WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A17)(WSJ, 9/16/98, p.A17)
1998 Sep 14, In Indonesia a strike
by 6,000 taxi drivers in Medan deteriorated into a riot. Hundreds
looted a government-owned rice warehouse on East Timor.
(WSJ, 9/16/98, p.A19)
1999 Sep 14, Hurricane “Floyd”
clobbered the Bahamas, toppling power lines, ripping roofs off homes
and pushing a roiling sea into streets before heading toward the
southeastern United States. Hurricane Floyd forced the evacuation of
800,00 in South Carolina and 500,000 in Georgia.
(SFC, 9/15/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/14/00)
1999 Sep 14, In Anaheim, Ca., Dung
Trinh killed 3 employees at West Anaheim Medical Center during a
shooting spree. He was despondent over the death of his mother.
(SFC, 9/15/99, p.A6)
1999 Sep 14, Indonesian soldiers
looted the abandoned UN mission in Dili, East Timor, just hours after
110 UN personnel and 13-hundred East Timorese were evacuated and flown
to safety to end a ten-day siege.
(SFC, 9/15/99, p.A14)(AP, 9/14/00)
2000 Sep 14, President Clinton
said he was “quite troubled” by the way the Energy and Justice
departments had handled the Wen Ho Lee case, and he expressed his
regrets.
(AP, 9/14/01)
2000 Sep 14, US Government
scientists narrowly rejected a proposal to ease the ban on gay male
blood donors, citing uncertainty over whether the move would increase
the AIDS risk to the nation's blood supply.
(AP, 9/14/01)
2000 Sep 14, In Belgium truck
drivers agreed to lift a blockade of highways and fuel depots after 5
days of fuel cost protests.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 14, In Burma the military
lifted restrictions against Suu Kyi and 8 other leaders of the National
League for Democracy.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 14, In Cambodia and
Vietnam the Mekong River flooded. At least 89 people had died in
Cambodia and 8 in Vietnam since the floods began in July.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A18)
2000 Sep 14, Germany banned the
Blood and Honor skinhead group saying it spread Nazism through music,
magazines and web sites.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.D4)
2000 Sep 14, In Peru a video was
broadcast that showed Vladimiro Montesinos, the country’s chief spy,
bribing congressman Alberto Kouri to support Pres. Fujimori. The heads
of Peru’s 14 military divisions were all from the military-school class
of Montesinos. The annual military budget was $1.5 billion. There were
allegations that Montesinos was involved in the sale of AK47 assault
rifles to rebels in Colombia. In 2009 Fujimori acknowledged that soon
after the video emerged he paid Montesinos $15 million in state money
to quit.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A10)(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A23)(SFC,
9/22/00, p.D3)(AP, 7/13/09)
2000 Sep 14, In the Philippines
guerrillas bombed 3 gas stations and lawmakers planned to undo economic
reforms and nationalize oil imports to cut soaring fuel costs.
(WSJ, 9/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 14, In Spain Ramon
Rekalde, a former Socialist Party official, was wounded with a shot in
the head in San Sebastian. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.D2)
2001 Sep 14, Pres. Bush declared a
national emergency and summoned as many as 50,000 military reservists.
Congress approved nearly $40 billion and gave Pres. Bush war powers ok.
The number of hijackers involved in the Sep 11 attacks was raised from
18 to 19 and their names were made public. Bush prayed with his Cabinet
and attended services at Washington National Cathedral, then flew to
New York, where he waded into the ruins of the World Trade Center and
addressed rescue workers in a flag-waving, bullhorn-wielding show of
resolve. Americans packed churches and clogged public squares on a day
of remembrance for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
(SFC, 9/15/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/14/06)
2001 Sep 14, Passenger lists were
published for the 4 airplanes that were hijacked and crashed by
terrorists on Sep 11.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 14-24, Six chartered
flights carrying mostly Saudi nationals departed from the US. [see Sep
20]
(WSJ, 6/1/04, p.A4)
2001 Sep 14, A Palestinian attack
wounded 2 Israeli policemen.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.A28)
2002 Sep 14, President Bush said
the United States was willing to take Iraq on alone if the United
Nations failed to "show some backbone" by confronting Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2002 Sep 14, In Lackawanna, New
York, 5 men of Yemeni descent were charged with supporting foreign
terrorist organizations. They trained in an al Qaeda camp run by Osama
bin Laden's al-Qaida network in the spring of 2001. A 6th member of the
cell was arrested in Bahrain. All 6 were indicted Oct 21. In 2003
Mukhtar al-Bakri was sentenced to 10 years, Yasein Taher to 9 years.
All terms ranged from 7-10 years.
(AP, 9/15/02)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A12)(SFC, 10/22/02,
p.A7)(SFC, 12/5/03, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/18/03, p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, Lolita Torres (72), a
singer and one of the top actresses of Argentina's golden era of
cinema, died of complications from a lung infection.
(AP, 9/15/02)
2002 Sep 14, In China 38 (49)
people died and hundreds were hospitalized with food poisoning after
eating breakfast snacks, sesame cakes, fried dough sticks and fried
glutinous rice balls, in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. A man
jealous of a business rival later confessed to spiking his competitor's
breakfast snacks with rat poison.
(Reuters, 9/14/02)(Reuters, 9/17/02)(WSJ, 9/17/02,
p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, In Congo DRC it was
reported that some 1,200 people had died from a cholera epidemic and
that another 18,000 were infected.
(SFC, 9/14/02, p.A20)
2002 Sep 14, In Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, demonstrators threw homemade firebombs at police
who retaliated with tear gas during a fourth day of violent protests
over electricity blackouts that have left 2 dead.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In France Tim
Montgomery, American sprinter, set a 9.78 second record in the
100-meter dash at the IAAF Grand Prix in Paris. In 2004 he admitted to
using steroids and a growth hormone. In 2005 he was banned from track
for 2 years and his 2001-2005 records were expunged.
(SFC, 6/24/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/14/05, p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, In Italy tens of
thousands of protesters rallied in central Rome, accusing conservative
Premier Silvio Berlusconi of using political power for his personal
benefit, and saying opposition parties were not doing enough about it.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Ivory Coast’s
Azagny National Park there were only 39,000 western chimpanzees left of
an original 600,000. The western chimpanzee, one of four subspecies of
the common chimpanzee, was already extinct in the wild in Benin, Gambia
and Togo. It was almost extinct in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea,
Guinea Bissau and Ghana.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, President Emile
Lahoud said Lebanon will start pumping water from a shared border river
for its southern villages despite Israeli military threats.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Liberia Pres.
Charles Taylor lifted the state of emergency he imposed eight months
ago, declaring that the rebel insurrection against his government had
been all but crushed.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Macedonia an
ethnic Albanian was killed and two were wounded in a clash with police,
as tensions soared on the eve of key elections.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, South and North Korea
have set a date to begin mine clearing and establish a military hotline
during reconstruction of railway links across their fortified border
divided for 50 years.
(Reuters, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Syria 2 buses
collided in the northeast, killing 13 people and injuring four others.
(AP, 9/15/02)
2003 Sep 14, Japanese filmmaker
Takeshi Kitano's "Zatoichi," the story of a mythical blind swordsman,
and Denys Arcand's "The Barbarian Invasions" took top awards at the
Toronto International Film Festival.
(Reuters, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14, Illinois Gov. Rod
Blagojevich directed the state Special Advocate to draft a plan for
busing inexpensive medications from Canada for state employees and
retirees.
(SFC, 9/15/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 14, The Lasker foundation
presented awards for medical research to Dr. Robert Roeder for his work
on gene transcription, and to Dr. Marc Feldman and Sir Ravinder Maini
for their anti-TVF work that led to drugs for treating rheumatoid
arthritis.
(SSFC, 9/14/03, p.A2)
2003 Sep 14, Yetunde Price (31),
older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, was shot and
killed in LA County. Suspect Aaron Michael Hammer (24) was arrested 2
days later.
(SFC, 9/16/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 14, Hafiz Abdul Rahim, a
top commander of the former Taliban regime who allegedly led rebel
fighters in southern Afghanistan, was killed along with 14 other
fighters in a shootout with Afghan forces.
(AP, 9/16/03)
2003 Sep 14, Estonians passed a
referendum to join the European Union.
(AP, 9/15/03)
2003 Sep 14, In the West Africa
country of Guinea-Bissau the army launched a coup, arresting the
president and ordering government ministers detained. Verissimo Correia
Seabre and fellow senior officers arrested the elected president, Kumba
Yala.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14, Lt. Gen. Ricardo
Sanchez, the US military commander in Iraq, authorized the use of loud
rock music, "to create fear, disorient ... and prolong capture shock."
The tactic became common in the US war on terror, with forces
systematically using loud music on hundreds of detainees in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
(AP, 12/10/08)
2003 Sep 14, In Iraq a roadside
bomb attack on a convoy in the troubled city of Fallujah killed one US
soldier and injured three others.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14, In Cancun, Mexico,
the WTO talks collapsed when delegates from Africa, the Caribbean and
Asia walked out accusing wealthy nations of failing to offer sufficient
compromises on agriculture and other issues.
(SFC, 9/15/03, p.A3)(AP, 9/14/08)
2003 Sep 14, A Saudi importer
of some 58,000 Australian sheep was reported to be trying to give
them away for free. The sheep had been stranded for five weeks on
the ship, the Cormo Express, due to a 6% infection rate for scabby
mouth disease. Australia in 2002 had imposed tougher rules on ships
exporting livestock to the Persian Gulf after it was revealed that
14,500 sheep had died from heat stress in one month. Some 5,700 sheep
aboard the Cormo Express died before Eritrea accepted the animals.
(AP, 9/14/03)(Econ, 12/2/06, p.88)
2003 Sep 14, Dhaher bin Thamer
al-Shimry, a Saudi marijuana trafficker, was beheaded, bringing the
number of beheadings in the kingdom this year to 41.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14, Pope John Paul II
wrapped up a pilgrimage to Slovakia by beatifying two clerics, Greek
Catholic Bishop Vasil Hopko and Roman Catholic Sister Zdenka
Schelingova, who were jailed and tortured under the former communist
regime.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14,
Sweden voted 56-42% "No" in a referendum on whether to adopt the euro.
(Reuters, 9/15/03)
2004 Sep 14, President Bush told
veterans in Las Vegas he was proud of his time in the Texas Air
National Guard as he sought to deflect questions about his Vietnam-era
service.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2004 Sep 14, Arizona, California
and Nevada joined with the federal government to undertake a 50-year,
$620 million project to restore wildlife habitat along 342 miles of the
lower Colorado River.
(SFC, 9/15/04, p.A8)
2004 Sep 14, Firefox, developed by
Mozilla, released a new Web browser.
(Econ, 9/25/04, p.76)
2004 Sep 14, More than 35,000
Colombian Indians marched in a violence-wracked region to protest
attacks against Indians and a free-trade pact pursued by the US.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2004 Sep 14, Hurricane Ivan
whipped western Cuba with 160 mph winds. The hurricane knocked some 25
million barrels of oil off world markets by causing undersea mudslides
in the Gulf of Mexico.
(AP, 9/14/04)(WSJ, 10/27/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 14, A car bomb ripped
through a busy market near a Baghdad police headquarters where Iraqis
were waiting to apply for jobs on the force killing 47 and wounding
114. Gunmen opened fire on a van carrying police home from work in
Baqouba, killing 12 people.
(AP, 9/14/04)(SFC, 9/15/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 14, Saboteurs blew up a
junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River in
northern Iraq, setting off a chain reaction in power generation systems
that left the entire country without power.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2004 Sep 14, Senior Israeli
Cabinet ministers approved the payment of cash advances to Jewish
settlers who will be removed from their homes under Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2004 Sep 14, Mount Asama, one of
Japan's largest and most active volcanoes, began spewing gray smoke
into the air. Its last major eruption was in 1783.
(AP, 9/15/04)
2004 Sep 14, Russia announced it
was pouring $5.4 billion in additional funding into its security
agencies.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2004 Sep 14, A UN World Health
report said 6-10 thousand people were dying from disease and violence
in Sudan’s Darfur region.
(SFC, 9/15/04, p.A3)
2005 Sep 14, A US federal judge in
Sacramento ruled that requiring children to recite a Pledge of
Allegiance that contains the phrase “under God” in public schools is
unconstitutional.
(SFC, 9/15/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 14, The US Coast Guard,
acting on Colombian intelligence, intercepted a ship towing an unmanned
submarine-like vessel that held more than 2 tons of cocaine.
Separately, 2.5 tons of cocaine were discovered hidden in the oil tanks
of a ship docked in the Colombian Pacific port of Buenaventura.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Sep 14, The Port of New
Orleans resumed commercial operations. Officials said damage to
agriculture in the Gulf states due to Hurricane Katrina has topped $3
billion.
(AP, 9/14/05)(SFC, 9/15/05, p.C1)
2005 Sep 14, Delta Airlines and
Northwest Airlines, America’s 3rd and 4th largest airlines, filed for
bankruptcy.
(Econ, 9/17/05, p.59)
2005 Sep 14, Robert Wise (91),
film editor turned director, died of heart failure. He was nominated
for seven Academy Awards, had hits in a variety of genres and worked
with Orson Welles on "Citizen Kane." But he gained his greatest acclaim
and four Oscars, with the big-budget productions of "West Side Story"
and "The Sound of Music." In 1996 he became the 26th recipient of the
American Film Institute’s life achievement award.
(AP, 9/15/05)(SFC, 9/16/05, p.B8)
2005 Sep 14, In Afghanistan about
40 gunmen attacked a police post in the mountainous Char-Chilo district
of Uruzgan province. Police killed three of the attackers and arrested
one after a two-hour gunbattle. A bomb exploded along a road frequently
traveled by U.S.-led and Afghan army forces near Tirin Kot, the
provincial capital, blowing up a civilian vehicle and killing three
passengers.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Sep 14, In Australia the
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization)
Total Wellbeing Diet book was reported to have already sold 370,000
copies. Publishers targeted sales of one million to the country of just
20 million people.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, Brazil’s police
arrested 43 people during raids on clandestine rings sneaking an
increasing number of Brazilians into the United States, Europe and
Mexico.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Sep 14, Britain declared that
the Ulster Volunteer Force, a major outlawed Protestant group in
Northern Ireland, has abandoned its 11-year-old truce and is an enemy
of the peace once again.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, Chile’s Supreme Court
stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution, paving the
way for a trial of the former dictator for his alleged role in the
disappearance and killing of 15 dissidents during his 1973-90 regime.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Sep 14, Egypt said it had
found an arms-smuggling tunnel under the Gaza border, and Palestinians
crossing the frontier were warned to return by sunset when passport
controls will be reimposed.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In NYC Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted US unilateralism, militarism and
privilege and called for the UN to promote spirituality. The
conservative Muslim leader advanced unusual broad concepts, including
recommendations that the UN "institutionalize justice at the
international level" and ensure all members have "equal rights."
(AP, 9/16/05)
2005 Sep 14, A leading Shiite
lawmaker said Iraq's draft constitution has been finalized and will be
sent to the United Nations to be printed.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, More than a dozen
explosions ripped through Baghdad in rapid succession, killing at least
160 people and wounding 570 in a series of attacks that began with a
suicide car bombing that targeted laborers assembled to find work for
the day. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility.
(AP, 9/14/05)(SFC, 9/15/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 14, Gunmen wearing
military uniforms surrounded a village north of Baghdad and executed 17
men.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In Nepal police fired
tear gas and beat protesters with batons as 7,000 people poured into
the center of the Nepalese capital in continuing pro-democracy rallies.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In Pakistan gunmen on
a motorcycle murdered a minority Shiite Muslim in Quetta before fleeing.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, Former Russian PM
Mikhail Kasyanov said he plans to run in the 2008 presidential
election. He urged Russia's fragmented opposition to unite or face at
least another decade of undemocratic rule.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In Geneva the UN
refugee and food agencies' chiefs made a joint appeal to donors for
more money to alleviate shortages of survival rations for people
displaced by war across Africa.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, Taiwan failed for the
13th straight year to get a seat at the United Nations, a move that has
been blocked annually since 1993 by archrival China and its allies.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In NYC UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to world leaders marking the 60th
anniversary of the United Nations to help restore confidence in the
world body. He also said that UN members had failed to achieve the
profound reform the global organization needed on its 60th anniversary.
President Bush urged compassion for the needy and pressed the global
community to "put the terrorists on notice" by cracking down on any
activities that could incite deadly attacks.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2006 Sep 14, US federal health
officials said an outbreak a deadly strain of E. coli (0157:H7) had
left at least one person dead in Wisconsin over 100 others sick and
warned consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach. The outbreak in 8
states soon extended to 25. The number sickened rose to at least 190.
Most of the spinach crop at this time of the year comes from
California. A special effort was under way in the Salinas Valley of
California, a major leafy-vegetable growing region, to look for any
possible source of contamination there. The outbreak was traced to
California’s Natural Selection Foods of San Juan Bautista, which
recalled all suspect products. This was the same deadly strain that in
1982 had sickened at least 47 people in Oregon and Michigan who ate
McDonald’s burgers. A surveillance system setup after a 1993 outbreak
at the Jack-in-the-Box fast food chain helped single out spinach as the
likely source of this outbreak. A 2nd death on Sep 20, a 2-year-old boy
in Idaho, was attributed to the spinach E. coli. A 3rd death in late
August, a woman (84) in Nebraska, was also attributed to the spinach E.
coli. On Sep 29 the FDA cleared spinach from California’s Monterey, San
Benito and Santa Clara counties.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.A9)(WSJ, 9/25/06, p.A4)(SFC,
9/30/06, p.A5)(SFC, 10/7/06, p.A6)
2006 Sep 14, In Green Bay, Wisc.,
police arrested two 17-year-olds, suspected of plotting a shooting
spree at East High School. William C. Cornell and Shawn R. Sturtz were
arrested for suspicion of conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional
homicide and conspiracy to commit arson. Police found homemade bombs
and weapons at their homes.
(http://kutv.com/topstories/topstories_story_258075847.html)
2006 Sep 14, In Washington DC 2
people demonstrated prosthesis that moved in response to thoughts.
Their bionic arms were designed by the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 14, The Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation awarded $68.2 million to fight parasitic diseases that
included leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis and hookworm. The new money
will support efficacy trials in India and Africa.
(WSJ, 9/14/06, p.A11)
2006 Sep 14, The hedge fund
Amaranth Advisors, led by Nick Maounis, announced a loss of some $560
million. The name was taken from the Greek word for “unfading.” Brian
Hunter (32), a Canadian energy trader, got caught on the wrong side of
falling natural gas futures.
(WSJ, 9/23/06, p.B5)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.83)
2006 Sep 14, Mickey Hargitay (80),
Hungarian-born actor and world champion bodybuilder, died. He was named
Mr. Universe, Mr. America and Mr. Olympia in 1955. He was married to
sex siren Jayne Mansfield (1957-1964) and his daughter is the
Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay. California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger played Hargitay in the 1982 TV movie "The Jayne
Mansfield Story."
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 14, Prof. Frederic Evans
Wakemen Jr. (68), leading US scholar on China, died in Oregon. His
books included “Policing Shanghai 1927-1937” (1995) and “Spymaster: Dai
Li and the Chinese Secret Service” (2004). Prof. Wakemen had taught at
UC Berkeley (1965-2006).
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.B5)
2006 Sep 14, Taliban militants
attacked police headquarters in western Afghanistan, raising fears that
insurgents fleeing NATO attacks in the south are opening new fronts.
Two police and two militants were killed.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Some 200 Pakistanis
and Sri Lankans reached the Canary Islands in a 40-meter (100-feet)
metal boat. Officials began making arrangements the next day for the
repatriation of the immigrants. Canaries regional President Adan Martin
said 500 African children out of 836 minors who have arrived in the
Canaries this year were to be transferred to the Spanish mainland. Some
20,000 would-be immigrants to Europe had reached the Canary Islands
since the beginning of the year.
(AP, 9/15/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.64)
2006 Sep 14, China’s stock market
regulator made official a ban on foreign acquisitions of domestic
stockbrokers and investment banks.
(Econ, 9/23/06, p.84)
2006 Sep 14, Current and former
French officials specializing in terrorism said that an al-Qaida
alliance with the Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known by
its French initials GSPC, was cause for concern. Al-Qaida's No. 2,
Ayman al-Zawahri, announced the "blessed union" in a video posted this
week on the Internet to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11
attacks in the United States.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 14, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel said she has again raised human rights issues with
visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and urged Beijing to respect the
freedom of the press.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Three men became the
first rabbis ordained in Germany since World War II.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2006 Sep 14, Ex-Col. Guy Francois,
former army commander twice accused of plotting to overthrow Haiti's
government, was shot to death in an upscale suburb of the capital.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 14, An Indian federal
minister proposed a 1,000 US dollar incentive to encourage people to
break centuries-old taboos and marry across caste boundaries.
(AFP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, An Iranian opposition
figure said Iran has secretly revived a program to enrich uranium using
laser technology, reportedly with favorable results, citing information
from members of the resistance inside the country.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Iraqi officials said
Abu Jaafar al-Liby, described by the ministry as either the second or
third most important figure in al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by police
earlier this week. Car bombs and drive-by shootings killed at least 19
people, including 5 US soldiers, in a series of attacks around central
Iraq. Death squads left behind at least 22 bodies.
(AP, 9/14/06)(AP, 9/15/06)(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A14)
2006 Sep 14, Libya's population
grew by 1.8% per year to 5.3 million in 2006 from 1995. A rare
government census showed that Libya had also cut its illiteracy rate to
11.9% from 19% a decade ago.
(Reuters, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Nigerian President
Olusegun Obasanjo held talks in Tokyo on the start of a trans-Pacific
trip.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Poland will send at
least 900 troops early next year to bolster the NATO mission in
Afghanistan. NATO said the offer did not ease the immediate need for
2,500 additional soldiers in the violence-wracked south.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, The Swiss central
bank raised its key Libor interest rate by a quarter of a percentage
point to a range between 1.25% and 2.25% to dampen the threat of
inflation.
(AFP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Turkey's top Islamic
cleric asked Pope Benedict XVI to take back recent remarks he made
about Islam on Sep 12. He unleashed a string of counteraccusations
against Christianity, raising tensions before the pontiff's November
visit.
(AP, 9/14/06)(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A17)
2006 Sep 14, Ukraine’s pro-Russia
premier suspended a bid to join NATO.
(WSJ, 9/15/06, p.A1)
2007 Sep 14, US Pres. Bush signed
the Honest leadership and Open Governance Act of 2007. It required that
the names of sponsors of earmarks be disclosed openly and at an early
stage. It also called for increasing transparency in bundling, the
fund-raising strategy whereby one supporter coordinates contributions
from many individuals. It also required senators who leave office to
wait 2 years before taking a cushy job at a lobbying firm.
(Econ, 9/22/07, p.42)
2007 Sep 14, Resigning US Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales left the Justice Dept. following a farewell
speech.
(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A5)
2007 Sep 14, The Monitor Group of
Cambridge issued a scathing review of the administration of the Univ.
of California finding widespread poor performance in the UC president’s
office and a broad lack of confidence in the office by the governing
regents and 10 UC campuses.
(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 14, Two airplanes
collided at the Reno National Championship Air Races, killing one pilot
and injuring another in the third fatal crash at the event in four days.
(AP, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, Afghan police in the
Qarabagh district of Ghazni province killed 3 Taliban commanders
allegedly involved in the abduction of 23 South Koreans two months ago.
(AP, 9/16/07)
2007 Sep 14, In Algeria a bomb
hidden in a bag exploded outside a compound housing police officials in
Zemmouri, killing three people.
(AP, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, Australian police
confirmed that corrupt police officers were linked with a bloody
gangland war which raged for years in the country's second largest
city. Melbourne's criminal war began in the late 1990s and claimed 29
lives.
(AFP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, The global credit
crisis struck Northern Rock PLC, Britain’s 5th largest mortgage lender,
as the Bank of England said it had approved emergency funding to help
the bank overcome a liquidity crisis.
(AP, 9/14/07)(Econ, 9/22/07, p.92)
2007 Sep 14, Human Rights Watch
said that soldiers in the Central African Republic (CAR) have massacred
hundreds of people and burned villages, forcing civilians to flee,
during a counter-insurgency campaign. The watchdog group blamed
President Francois Bozize's elite guard for atrocities carried out
since mid-2005, but said other military units, their rebel foes and
bandit groups were also guilty.
(AFP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, China’s government
said it has ordered judges to use the death penalty more sparingly by
showing leniency for murderers who cooperate with authorities and white
collar criminals who help recoup their ill-gotten gains. Beijing also
said it will give urban Chinese who break the one-child policy a black
mark on their credit reports.
(AP, 9/14/07)(WSJ, 9/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 14, A UN spokesman said
UN peacekeepers have discovered three graves, each containing several
bodies, at Rubare, a military base in eastern Congo recently abandoned
by rebels loyal to a renegade Gen. Nkunda.
(Reuters, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Developers in Dubai
said the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building since July, has also
become the tallest free-standing structure on earth, reaching 1,822
feet. The over 700-meter (2,313 feet) Burj Dubai tower complex, a part
of the Dubai Mall, was expected to be completed this year. The design
was by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of Chicago.
(Econ, 1/8/05, p.57)(SFC, 3/31/05, p.A2)(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Jacques Martin
(b.1933), the French television personality once married to now-first
lady Cecilia Sarkozy, died. Martin shot to fame as the host of a series
of hit comedy shows on French television, including the satirical "Le
Petit Rapporteur," a spoof newscast that ran from 1975-1976.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Georgia’s defense
minister said Georgia will cut the size of its military contingent in
Iraq from 2,000 soldiers and other personnel to around 300 by next
summer.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Powerful earthquakes
struck Indonesia for a third day, terrorizing thousands of people who
slept outside in fear of tsunami and falling debris. The death toll
reached 21 and seismologists warned that the worst may be yet to
come.
(AP, 9/14/07)(Reuters, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, In Iraq some 1,500
mourners called for revenge as they buried the leader of the Sunni
revolt against al-Qaida, Adbul-Sattar Abu Risha, who had been
assassinated by a bomb claimed by an al-Qaida front. A suicide truck
bomb hit a police checkpoint near Beiji, killing four policemen. South
of Baghdad, unidentified gunmen killed three farmers who were taking
their turn guarding a village. Farther south in the city of Hillah,
gunmen attacked the home of Col. Hussein Ali Hassoon al Khafaji, an
Iraqi army battalion commander, killing a guard and wounding another.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility of cutting US
troop levels in Iraq to 100,000 by the end of 2008, well beyond the
cuts President Bush had approved.
(AP, 9/14/07)(AP, 9/14/08)
2007 Sep 14, Japan's space agency
launched its much-delayed lunar probe, beginning what it calls the
largest mission to the moon since the US Apollo flights. The
Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE), probe was launched
aboard one of the space program's mainstay H-2A rockets from its
launch-pad on remote Tanegashima island.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 14, It was reported that
researchers at Tokyo Univ. had developed a method, dubbed surrogate
broodstocking, whereby they inject newly hatched, sterile Asian masu
salmon with sperm-growing cells from rainbow trout. The grown salmon
then produce trout.
(SFC, 9/14/07, p.A14)
2007 Sep 14, Eight members of
Nigeria's ruling party seized by gunmen in the southern oil-producing
state of Ondo last weekend were released.
(AFP, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, Her party said former
PM Benazir Bhutto will return to Pakistan from an eight-year exile on
Oct. 18. The government said she was free to come back but would have
to face corruption cases against her.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Officials in Paraguay
said fires have scorched 3 million acres and forced the evacuation of
some 15,000 people. Protracted drought was cited along with illegal
loggers, illicit hunters and clandestine marijuana farmers.
(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 14, Rwanda’s government
said floods killed 15 people and left about 1,000 people homeless after
2 days of torrential downpours in the hills of northern Rwanda.
(Reuters, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, A roadside bomb blast
and clashes between soldiers and secessionist Tamil Tiger guerrillas
across Sri Lanka's volatile north killed 29 people.
(AP, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, Sudan's President
Omar al-Bashir said his government is ready to implement a cease-fire
with rebel forces at the start of peace talks over the conflict in
Darfur, scheduled for next month in Libya.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Authorities in Uganda
said the heaviest rainfall in 35 years has displaced 150,000 people
since August with at least 9 reported deaths. 400,000 people were said
to have lost their livelihoods.
(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A3)
2008 Sep 14, The Denver Broncos
won 39-38 following a 2-point conversion after a mistaken call by NFL
referee Ed Hochuli gave them the ball in the last minute of the game.
(AP, 9/18/08)
2008 Sep 14, California
legislators said they had reached a spending compromise, potentially
ending a record-breaking budget impasse.
(SFC, 9/15/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 14, In southern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a convoy carrying
Afghan doctors working for the UN, killing two doctors and their
driver. They were on a mission to monitor efforts to vaccinate children
against polio. 6 children died in central Ghazni after ordnance they
were playing with exploded. An Afghan interpreter working for the US
military was shot dead as he stepped out of his home.
(AFP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, In Western
Australia's 4 people died in a helicopter crash in the Bungle Bungle
National Park of the remote Kimberly region.
(AFP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Archaeologist Georgi
Kitov (b.1943), an expert on the treasure-rich Thracian culture of
antiquity, died of a heart attack while excavating a temple in central
Bulgaria.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 14, In eastern Congo a
riot ensued following accusations that a soccer player was using
witchcraft. 13 people were left dead.
(SFC, 9/16/08, p.A7)
2008 Sep 14, Roadside bombs killed
five Iraqi policemen and injured eight others north of Baghdad. An
American soldier in Iraq died of causes unrelated to combat.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, France's ecology
minister said the government is considering a "picnic tax" on
disposable dishes to encourage people to use reusable plates and cups
instead.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Mexico's military
seized US$26.2 million in cash believed to belong to members of the
Sinaloa drug cartel. This was the 2nd biggest seizure since March 2007,
when police seized US$207 million linked to a trafficking ring for
pseudoephedrine.
(AP, 9/18/08)
2008 Sep 14, The Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the main militant group in
Nigeria's southern oil region, declared a state of war after two days
of clashes with government forces, launching reprisal raids and raising
the specter of more conflict in Africa's biggest oil producer.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Pakistani security
forces killed 16 suspected militants and wounded 25 on in the Bajur
tribal region, the latest round of a military offensive with no end in
sight.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Aeroflot Flight 821,
traveling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains city of Perm, crashed near
residential buildings as it was preparing to land, killing all 88
people aboard, including 21 foreign nationals. A Russian investigator
said the crash of the Boeing-737-500 was most likely caused by engine
failure.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, In Somalia at least
six people, including an African Union (AU) peacekeeper, were killed
Sunday in two separate incidents in Mogadishu.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, In Sudan Minni
Minnawi, a leader of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) faction turned
presidential advisor after signing the peace deal with Khartoum, said
his forces had came under attack at their base at Kolge in the east
Jebel Marra region.
(AFP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Typhoon Sinlaku
pounded Taiwan with fierce winds and torrential rains, leaving at least
11 people dead.
(AP, 9/14/08)(AFP, 9/16/08)
2008 Sep 14, A Turkish ferry
carrying some 100 people sank in the Sea of Marmara, killing at least
one person. At least 23 more were missing.
(AP, 9/15/08)
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