Today in History - September 19
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0086 Sep 19,
Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman emperor (138-161), was born.
(MC, 9/19/01)
0866 Sep 19, Leo VI Sophos,
Byzantine Emperor (886-912) and writer (Problematica), was born.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1356 Sep 19, In a landmark battle
of the Hundred Years' War, English Prince Edward defeated the French at
Poitiers. Jean de Clermont, French marshal, died in battle.
(HN, 9/19/98)(MC, 9/19/01)
1523 Sep 19, Emperor Charles V and
England signed an anti-French covenant.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1544 Sep 19, Francis, the king of
France, and Charles V of Austria signed a peace treaty in Crespy,
France, ending a 20-year war.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1559 Sep 19, 5 Spanish ships sank
in a storm off Tampa. About 600 died.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1676 Sep 19, Rebels under
Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Va., on fire. [see Sep 1]
(MC, 9/19/01)
1692 Sep 19, Giles Corey was
pressed to death for standing mute and refusing to answer charges of
witchcraft brought against him. He is the only person in America to
have suffered this punishment.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1737 Sep 19, Charles Carroll
(d.1832), American patriot and legislator, was born. He was the only
Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration and his signature read Charles
Carroll of Carrollton. He lived in Maryland where, as a Roman Catholic
he was forbidden from voting and holding public office. However, the
wealthy Carrolls moved in the highest social circle and entertained
George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette at their estate.
(HNQ, 1/14/99)(MC, 9/19/01)
1737 Sep 19, In India’s Bay of
Bengal a cyclone destroyed some 20,000 ships. It was estimated that
more than 300,000 people died in the densely populated area called the
Sundarbans. Later research indicated the population of Calcutta at the
time to be around 20,000. An estimate of the number of deaths was
revised down to about 3,000.
(http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/gif_images/1737Calcutta.pdf)
1777 Sep 19, During the
Revolutionary War, American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga,
aka Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights). American forces under
Gen. Horatio Gates met British troops led by Gen. John Burgoyne at
Saratoga Springs, NY.
(AP,
9/19/97)(www.americanrevolution.com/BattleofSaratoga.htm)
1783 Sep 19, Jacques Etienne
Montgolfier launched a duck, a sheep and a rooster aboard a hot-air
balloon at Versailles, France.
(AP, 9/19/06)
1788 Sep 19, Charles de Barentin
became lord chancellor of France.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1796 Sep 19, President
Washington's farewell address was published. In it, America's first
chief executive advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all
nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
(AP, 9/19/97)
1843 Sep 19, Gustave-Gaspard
Coriolis (b.1792), French engineer and mathematician, died. He showed
that the laws of motion could be used in a rotating frame of reference
if an extra force called the Coriolis acceleration is added to the
equations of motion.
(www.gap-system.org/~history/Mathematicians/Coriolis.html)
1802 Sep 19, Lajos Kossuth
(d.1894), Hungarian statesman and president, was born. "The instinctive
feeling of a great people is often wiser than its wisest men."
(AP,
7/2/97)(www.thenagain.info/WebChron/EastEurope/Kossuth.html)
1841 Sep 19, The first railway to
span a frontier was completed between Stousbourg and Basle, in Europe.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1846 Sep 19, Elizabeth Barrett and
Robert Browning eloped.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1848 Sep 19, Hyperion, a moon of
Saturn, was discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England).
(MC, 9/19/01)
1849 Sep 19, The 1st commercial
laundry was established, in Oakland, California.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1854 Sep 19, Henry Meyer patented
a sleeping rail car.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1863 Sep 19, In Georgia, the
two-day Battle of Chickamauga began as Union troops under George Thomas
clashed with Confederates under Nathan Bedford Forrest.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1864 Sep 19, The 3rd Battle of
Winchester, Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester).
(MC, 9/19/01)
1864 Sep 19, Archibald Campbell
Godwin, Confederate brig-general, died in battle.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1871 Sep 19, President Abraham
Lincoln's body was transferred to a partially completed permanent tomb
at Springfield, Il.
(www.state.il.us/HPA/hs/Tomb.htm)
1870 Sep 19, Two Prussian armies
began a 135-day siege of Paris as the 2nd Empire collapsed. This forced
the people of the city to eat Castor and Pollux, the 2 elephants in the
zoo.
(PCh, 1992, p.516)(SFC, 4/17/99, p.B3)
1876 Sep 19, The 1st carpet
sweeper was patented by Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1881 Sep 19, The 20th president of
the United States, James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by
assassin, Charles J. Guiteau. Alexander Graham Bell had made several
unsuccessful attempts to remove the assassin’s bullet with a new metal
detection device.
(AP, 9/19/97)(AP, 11/14/97)(ON, 5/02, p.9)
1893 Sep 19, New Zealand became
the first nation to grant women the right to vote.
(SFC, 8/15/98, p.E4)(HN, 9/19/01)
1894 Sep 19, Rachel Field,
novelist and playwright who wrote "All This and Heaven Too" and "And
Now Tomorrow," was born.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1899 Sep 19, French Capt. Alfred
Dreyfus won a pardon after a retrial was forced by public opinion. He
was soon released from Devil's Island in French Guiana.
(PCh, 1992,
p.628)(www.spiritus-temporis.com/alfred-dreyfus/)
1900 Sep 19, President Loubet of
France pardoned Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, twice
court-martialed and wrongly convicted of spying for Germany.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1904 Sep 19, Bergen Baldwin Evans
(d.1978), American educator and author who wrote the "Dictionary of
Contemporary American Usage," was born in Ohio. "Freedom of speech and
freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there
is no freedom of thought without doubt."
(AP, 8/11/98)(HN, 9/19/98)(MC, 9/19/01)
1904 Sep 19, Gen. Nogi's assault
on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1906 Sep 19, Addressing the annual
dinner of The Associated Press in New York, Mark Twain said there were
"only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe
... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press down here."
(AP, 9/19/00)
1907 Sep 19, US Supreme Court
Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was born in Suffolk, Va.
(AP, 9/19/07)
1908 Sep 19, Gustav Mahler's 7th
Symphony, premiered in Prague.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1910 Sep 19, George Cohan's
"Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1911 Sep 19, William Golding
(d.1993), novelist best known for Lord of the Flies, was born. He won
the Nobel Prize in 1983.
(HN, 9/19/98)(MC, 9/19/01)
1911 Sep 19, Red Tuesday. 20,000
protested for universal rights.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1915 Sep 19, Elizabeth Stern,
Canadian pathologist, was born. She first published a case report
linking a specific virus to a specific cancer.
(HN, 9/19/00)
1916 Sep 19, The 1st landing on
Schiphol, Farman F-22 of Soesterberg.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1918 Sep 19, American troops of
the Allied North Russia Expeditionary Force received their baptism of
fire near the town of Seltso against Soviet forces.
(HN, 9/19/99)
1918 Sep 19, Liza Nina Mary
Frederica Lehmann, composer, died at 56.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1919 Sep 19, Blanche Thebom,
mezzo-soprano (Amneris-Aida), was born in Monessen, Penn.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1931 Sep 18-1931 Sep 19, The
Mukden Incident was initiated by the Japanese Kwangtung Army in Mukden.
It involved an explosion along the Japanese-controlled South Manchurian
Railway. It was soon followed by the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and
the eventual establishment of the Japanese-dominated state of
Manchukuo. The neutrality of the area, and the ability of Japan to
defend its colony in Korea, was threatened in the 1920s by efforts at
unification of China. Within three months Japanese troops had spread
out throughout Manchuria, an occupation that finally ended at the
conclusion of the Second World War in 1945.
(HNQ, 11/27/98)
1932 Sep 19, Mike Royko,
journalist (Chic Daily News) and author (Boss), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1934 Sep 19, Brian Epstein, rock
manager (Beatles), was born.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1934 Sep 19, Bruno Hauptmann was
arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the
Lindbergh infant.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1939 Sep 19, The British
Expeditionary Force reached France.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1939 Sep 19, Lord Haw-Haw became
the radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1939 Sep 19, Wehrmacht (German
regular army) murdered 100 Jews in Lukov, Poland.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1940 Sep 19, A Nazi decree forbade
gentile woman to work in Jewish homes.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1941 Sep 19, "Mama" Cass Elliot,
singer for the Mamas & Papas, was born as Ellen Naomi Cohen.
(www.casselliot.com)
1941 Sep 19, The German army
conquered Kiev.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1941 Sep 19, The Nazi's forced all
German Jews from the age of 6 to wear the Star of David.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1941 Sep 19, 1st meeting of
partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1943 Sep 19, Liberator bombers
sank U-341.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1944 Sep 19, The Luftwaffe bombed
Eindhoven: 200 killed.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1944 Sep 19, The 3-month battle at
Huertgen Forest on the Belgian-German border began. A 1998 HBO film
made a rough portrayal: "When Trumpets Fade."
(WSJ, 7/24/98,
p.A15)(www.angelfire.com/ak5/combat/HuertgenForest.html)
1945 Sep 19, Nazi propagandist
William Joyce, known as "Lord Haw-Haw," was sentenced to death by a
British court.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1947 Sep 19, Jackie Robinson was
named 1947 "Rookie of Year." [see Sep 17]
(MC, 9/19/01)
1948 Sep 19, Jeremy Irons,
England, actor (French Lieutenant's Woman), was born.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1948 Sep 19, Moscow announced it
would withdraw all soldiers from Korea by the end of the year.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1950 Sep 19, Allied foreign
ministers announced in NY that they regarded Adenauer's government to
be "the only German Government freely and legitimately constituted and
therefore entitled to speak for Germany as the representative of the
German people in international affairs."
(http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/gray_germanys.html)
1950 Sep 19, The UN rejected
membership of China's People Republic.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1951 Sep 19, Italian civil
servants struck for a pay increase.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1955 Sep 19, President Juan Peron
of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.
(TMC, 1994, p.1955)(SFC, 12/24/96, p.A8)(AP, 9/19/97)
1957 Sep 19, The United States
conducted its first underground nuclear test, code-named "Rainier," in
the Nevada desert.
(AP, 9/19/07)
1957 Sep 19, Eight engineers, who
had recently left Shockley Semiconductor, signed papers to form
Fairchild Semiconductor in Santa Clara County. Jean A. Hoerni
(1925-1997) was one of the "Fairchild Eight." He was credited with
building the bridge from the transistor to the integrated circuit.
Eugene Kleiner (d.2003), another co-founder, helped found the Kleiner
Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capital firm in 1972. The other
engineers included Julius Blank, Jay Last, Victor Grinich (d.2000 at
75), Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce and Sheldon Roberts. NYC bankers Arthur
Rock and Bud Coyle helped the engineers start Fairchild Semiconductor.
(SFC, 2/5/97, p.A20)(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A26)(SFC,
11/26/03, p.D1)(SSFC, 9/30/07, p.F1)
1959 Sep 19, Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev reacted angrily during a visit to Los Angeles upon being
told that, for security reasons, he wouldn't be allowed to visit
Disneyland.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1960 Sep 19, Cuban leader Fidel
Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, angrily checked out of
the Shelburne Hotel in a dispute with the management. Castro accepted
an invitation to stay at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.
(AP, 9/19/07)
1961 Sep 19-20, Betty (d.2004) and
Bernard Hill returned home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from a trip in
Canada and seemed to have lost memory of 2 hours of the drive. Under
hypnosis 3 years later they recounted being kidnapped and examined by
aliens. Their story led to the 1966 book “Interrupted Journey” by John
G. Fuller.
(SFC, 10/19/04,
p.B6)(www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/hill.htm)
1967 Sep 19, Nigeria began an
offensive against Biafra. [see Jul 6]
(MC, 9/19/01)
1968 Sep 19, Chester Carlson (62),
inventor of the photocopy machine (1960), died. In 2004 David Owen
authored “Copies In seconds.”
(WSJ, 8/6/04, p.A8)(ON, 11/04, p.9)
1970 Sep 19, "The Mary Tyler Moore
Show" with Ed Asner debuted on CBS TV and ran to 1977. Mary Richards
threw her hat at 7th St. and Nicollet Ave. in Minneapolis for the
opening credits. In 2001 the city planned a $150,000 statue of Mary to
be made by Gwendolyn Gillen of Wisconsin. In 1989 Robert S. Alley and
Irby B. Brown authored “Love Is All Around,” a complete documentary of
the show.
(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.39)(AP, 9/19/00)(WSJ, 6/19/01,
p.A1)(WSJ, 11/12/05, p.P14)
1972 Sep 19, Robert M Casadesus
(b.1899), French pianist and composer, died in Paris. His Seventh
Symphony, Op.68, with the chorus "Israel," was premiered at Alice Tully
Hall at New York's Lincoln Center a few weeks later.
(www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Casadesus-Robert.htm)
1972 Sep 19, A Black September
letter bomb killed Ami Shehori, Israeli attache at the embassy in
London.
(www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/international/middleeast/08chrono.html)
1973 Sep 19, Gram Parsons (26),
rock band leader, died from a drug overdose at the Joshua Tree Inn, Ca.
His bands included the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers with the
young singer Emmylou Harris. Phil Kaufman hijacked Parson’s body and
burned it in Joshua Tree. In 1991 Ben Fong-Torres published "Hickory
Wind," a biography of Parsons. In 1999 the album "Return of the
Grievous Angel - A Tribute to Fram Parson" was released. In 2006 the
film documentary “Fallen Angel” was produced.
(WSJ, 7/18/97, p.A13)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.E1)(WSJ,
9/20/99, p.A26)(SFC, 6/9/06, p.E5)
1975 Sep 19, The British sitcom
"Fawlty Towers," created by John Cleese, premiered. Six episodes aired
in this year and 6 more in 1979. PBS brought the show to America in
1980.
{Britain, TV}
(WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A16)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0072500/)
1981 Sep 19, Simon & Garfunkel
reunite for a NYC Central Park concert.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkel)
1982 Sep 19, In the 34th Emmy
Awards the winners included Hill Street Blues, Barney Miller, Alan Alda
& Carol Kane.
(http://tinyurl.com/2u6ww4)
1982 Sep 19, Prof. Scott E.
Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon Univ. posted an emoticon, the first online
smiley face, in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at
11:44 a.m., during a discussion about the limits of online humor and
how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.
(AP, 9/18/07)
1983 Sep 19, Chuck Woolery
(b.1941) began hosting the syndicated TV game show “Love Connection.”
He continued to 1995. The show was produced by Eric Lieber (1937-2008)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Woolery)(SSFC,
7/6/08, p.B6)
1983 Sep 19, St. Kitts and Nevis
became a single nation, but Nevis retained the right to secede. St
Kitts and Nevis declared independence from the UK.
(SFC,10/15/97,
p.C4)(www.worldstatesmen.org/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis.html)
1984 Sep 19, Britain and China
completed a draft agreement on transferring Hong Kong from British to
Chinese rule by 1997.
(AP, 9/19/99)
1985 Sep 19, The Mexico City area
was struck by the first of two devastating quakes (8.1) that officially
claimed 9,500 lives. Some 40,000 people were injured.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(SFC, 12/31/96, p.C9)(AP,
9/19/97)(SSFC, 4/16/06, p.F4)
1985 Sep 19, Italo Calvino
(b.1923), Italian writer, died. A collection of his essays was soon
published titled "The Literature Machine." In 1999 the original
11 essays and 25 others were published under the title: "Why Read the
Classics," translated by Martin McLaughlin. In 2003 McLaughlin
published “Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings By Italo Calvino.”
(SFEC, 10/24/99, BR p.5)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.M4)
1986 Sep 19, Federal health
officials announced that the experimental drug AZT would be made
available to thousands of AIDS patients.
(AP, 9/19/01)
1986 Sep 19, Harken Energy agreed
to acquire Spectrum 7 Energy Corp., a Texas oil and gas company where
George W. Bush was chairman, for 200,000 shares and a consulting
salary. Bush became a Harken board member and a $100,000-a-year
($120,000-a-year) consultant. In 1989 Harken sold 80% of its Aloha
petroleum subsidiary to a group of insiders. An SEC investigation
pointed to disguised Harken losses of $8 million.
(SFC, 7/9/02, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/9/02, p.A4)
1987 Sep 19, Supreme Court nominee
Robert H. Bork concluded 5 days of testimony before the US Senate
Judiciary Committee, vowing that he would "interpret the law and not
make it."
(AP, 9/19/97)
1987 Sep 19, Philippine leftist
opposition leader Leandro Alejandro (b.1960) was murdered.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, Z1 p.5)
1988 Sep 19, Swimmer Janet Evans
gave the United States its first gold medal of the Summer Olympics in
Seoul, South Korea, by winning the 400-meter individual medley. US
swimmer Greg Louganis hit his head on the springboard during
preliminary competition.
(AP,
9/19/98)(www.infoplease.com/spot/mm-louganis.html)
1988 Sep 19, Israel succeeded in
launching a test satellite, the Ofeq ("Horizon") 1, over the
Mediterranean Sea.
(AP, 9/19/08)
1989 Sep 19, A Paris-bound French
DC-10, UTA Flight 772, was bombed over the Sahara desert of Niger and
all 170 passengers died. French authorities placed the blame on Libya’s
Abdallah Senoussi, brother-in-law of Moammar Khadafy and chief of
foreign operations for the Libyan secret service. The six Libyan
suspects were named by a French judge in 1998 and tried in absentia in
1999. The attack was in retaliation for French intervention on behalf
of Chad in a war with Libya since the mid 1980s. In 2004 Libya signed a
$170 million compensation accord with families of the people killed. In
2008 a federal judge in Washington ordered Libya and six of its
officials to pay more than $6 billion in damages to the families of 7
Americans killed in the attack.
(SFC, 5/7/97, p.C3)(SFEC,10/19/97, p.A26)(WSJ,
1/30/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A11)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)(AP,
9/19/99)(AP, 1/9/04)(Reuters, 1/16/08)
1990 Sep 19, Iraq began
confiscating foreign assets from countries that were imposing sanctions
against the Baghdad government.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1991 Sep 19, German hikers Erica
and Helmut Simon found a well-preserved prehistoric corpse (c3300BCE),
later named Otzi (Frozen Fritz), in a glacier on the Hauslabjoch Pass,
about 100 yards from Austria in northern Italy. It was kept at the
Univ. of Innsbruck for study. In 1998 analysis indicated that the Ice
Man had internal parasites and carried the woody fruit of a tree fungus
as a remedy. Tattoos on the body were also found to be placed over
areas of active arthritis. A flint arrow was also found in his back.
(SFC, 4/27/96, p.A-5)(SFC, 12/25/98, p.A4)(SFEC,
5/7/00, p.T4)(WSJ, 2/3/04, p.A1)
1991 Sep 19, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir accused the United States of tilting toward the
Arabs in its eagerness to organize a Mideast peace conference.
(AP, 9/19/01)
1991 Sep 19, UN Resolution 712
allowed a partial lifting of the embargo against Iraq for humanitarian
purposes.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A12)
1992 Sep 19, Top finance officials
of the seven largest industrial countries pledged in Washington, D.C.,
to cooperate closely to resolve the worst currency crisis in two
decades.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1993 Sep 19, The NBC sitcom
"Seinfeld" and the offbeat CBS drama "Picket Fences" each won three
trophies at the 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
(AP, 9/19/98)
1993 Sep 19, Polish voters turned
left in parliamentary elections, giving the most number of seats to the
Democratic Left Alliance.
(AP, 9/19/98)
1994 Sep 19, Some 3,000 U.S.
troops peacefully entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
(AP, 9/19/99)(MC, 9/19/01)
1995 Sep 19, The New York Times
and The Washington Post published the Unabomber’s manifesto.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 19, The US Senate passed
a welfare overhaul bill.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 19, The US ambassador and
the commander of American forces in Japan apologized for the rape of an
Okinawan schoolgirl committed by three US servicemen.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 19, Orville Reddenbacher
(88), popcorn magnate, died at his home in Coronado, Ca., from drowning
in a bathtub.
(http://nwitimes.com/articles/1995/09/20/export142113.txt)
1996 Sep 19, American astronaut
Shannon Lucid, on board the Russian Mir space station since March,
eagerly greeted the crew of Atlantis hours after their arrival and
docking.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1996 Sep 19, IBM announced it
would extend health benefits to the partners of its homosexual
employees.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1996 Sep 19, In Guatemala the
government and leftist guerillas signed a peace accord that called for
a 33% troop and budget reduction from 43,000 by 1999.
(SFC, 9/20/96, p.A15)
1996 Sep 19, In Nigeria it was
reported that police clashed with demonstrators last week and 10 people
were killed in the city of Kaduna. The crowd was protesting the arrest
of their spiritual leader on charges of broadcasting material that
could incite unrest.
(WSJ, 9/19/96, p.A1)
1997 Sep 19, The crime drama "L.A.
Confidential" opened. It was directed by Curtis Hanson. Los Angeles and
New York film critics later voted it the best film of the year. Kim
Bassinger won the Golden Globes award for best supporting actress.
(SSFC, 9/1/02, Par p.14)(AP, 9/19/07)
1997 Sep 19, It was reported that
the US trade deficit rose to $10.3 billion in July, a 25% jump over
June.
(WSJ, 9/19/97, p.A2)
1997 Sep 19, A US Air Force B-1
bomber crashed on a training mission in Montana and all 4 crew members
were killed.
(SFC, 9/20/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 19, Alfredo Enrique Tello
Jr. (19) was found charred and dismembered in an Aspen Hill, Md.,
garage. One suspected killer, Samuel Sheinbein (17), fled to Israel. A
2nd suspect, Aaron B. Needle (17), was held in jail. In Oct. the
attorney general decided to return Sheinbein to the US. The two young
men were indicted on murder and conspiracy charges. Needle committed
suicide by hanging in 1998.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A3)(SFC,10/20/97,
p.A1)(SFC,10/31/97, p.A3)(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.A18)
1997 Sep 19, In his first public
comments since the death of Princess Diana, Princes Charles told the
British people he would always feel the loss of his former wife, and
thanked them for their support.
1997 Sep 19, In England a
passenger train collided with a freight train in west London and 6
people were killed and 170 injured.
(SFC, 9/20/97, p.A10)(AP, 9/19/98)
1998 Sep 19, Miss Virginia Nicole
Johnson, a 24-year-old diabetic who wore an insulin pump on her hip,
was crowned Miss America 1999.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, p.A2)(AP, 9/19/99)
1998 Sep 19, At the 22nd annual
Oktoberfest in Cincinnati 25,000 kazoos were distributed in an attempt
to set a Guinness record for the "World’s Largest Kazoo Band."
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)
1998 Sep 19, Susan Barrantes,
mother of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was killed in a car
crash in Argentina; she was 61.
(AP, 9/19/99)
1998 Sep 19, In Liberia fighting
in Monrovia left at least 33 dead as the government tried to arrest
Roosevelt Johnson, former rebel leader. The next day he was accused of
plotting against Pres. Taylor and fled to the US Embassy.
(SFC, 9/20/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 19, In Pakistani
controlled Kashmir Indian artillery fire killed 9 people and wounded 11
others over the last 2 days.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, p.A17)
1998 Sep 19, In Uganda police
arrested 18 people suspected of planning attacks on diplomatic missions
and government installations.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, p.A24)
1999 Sep 19, German voters handed
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s governing Social Democrats a humiliating
defeat in elections in the eastern state of Saxony, giving it just
eleven percent of the votes.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1999 Sep 19, In Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, over 10,000 people protested against PM Mahathir Mohamad on
the one-year anniversary of the arrest of ex-Deputy Premier Anwar
Ibrahim, who was reported to be suffering from arsenic poisoning.
Police responded with tear gas and water cannons. Protesters wore red
and adopted the battle cry of “reformasi” from neighboring Indonesia.
(SFC, 9/20/99, p.A9)(WSJ, 9/20/99, p.A1)(Econ,
11/17/07, p.53)
2000 Sep 19, In Australia the
Romanian women's gymnastics team won the gold medal at the Sydney
Olympics; Russia won the silver, China took the bronze, and the U.S.
placed fourth.
(AP, 9/19/01)
2000 Sep 19, The US Senate voted
83-15 to end trade restrictions on China. The vote also removed a
fiscal obstacle to Beijing’s 14-year drive to join the WTO.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 19, Kenneth E. Behring, a
West Coast developer, gave $80 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s
National Museum of American History.
(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 19, Researchers reported
for the 1st time that a new vaccine was effective against Staph
infections.
(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 19, Current world oil
demand was running at 76 million barrels a day.
(WSJ, 9/19/00, p.A23)
2000 Sep 19, Nine Cubans were
rescued at sea after their Antonov AN-2 biplane plunged into the Gulf
of Mexico. The cargo ship Chios Dream pulled found the survivors and a
10th body. Immigration officials soon granted their legal entry to the
US.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/22/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 19, In East Timor the UN
granted its peacekeepers the right to shoot at armed attackers without
warning.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 19, Japan’s research
whaling fleet returned home with 88 whales that included 43 Bryde
whales, 5 sperm and 40 minke whales.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 19, In Pakistan a bomb
exploded in a produce market and 16 people were killed in Islamabad.
Over 80 people were wounded.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 19, In the Philippines a
government court ruled that nearly $627 million in Swiss bank deposits
belonging to the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos should go to the
government.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2001 Sep 19, Pres. Bush warned
Afghanistan that he would not negotiate to take custody of Osama bin
Laden. The Pentagon began deploying troops, ships and planes to the
Persian Gulf under code name "Operation Infinite Justice." The title
became a working name after Islamic scholars objected that "infinite
justice" is reserved for God.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/20/01, p.A1)(SFC,
9/21/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 19, The parent companies
of American Airlines and United Airlines both announced plans to lay
off 20,000 employees.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2001 Sep 19, Imad Mughniyeh,
Lebanese head of Hezbollah overseas operations, and Dr. Ayman
al-Zawahri, a senior bin Laden aide, were named in a Jane’s Foreign
Report as possible masterminds for the Sep 11 attacks in addition to
Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 19, In Colombia Guambiano
Indians in Cauca state attacked Paez Indians and 7 people were killed
with at least 19 wounded.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Sep 19, In Colombia Yolanda
Ceron, a Catholic nun active in human rights work, was shot and killed
in Tumaco.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Sep 19, An Air France
Concorde flew from Paris on a test flight with 86 employee volunteers.
(WSJ, 9/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 19, In Indonesia Ayip
Syafrudin, leader of the Laskar Jihad (Holy War Warriors), said he
would declare a jihad against the US if it attacks Muslim countries.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 19, Japan’s PM Koizumi
promised to push legislative changes to permit Japanese troops to
provide logistical support for a US-led war on terrorism.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A12)
2002 Sep 19, President Bush asked
Congress for authority to "use all means," including military force if
necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he
did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon all weapons of
mass destruction.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2002 Sep 19, Kansas City first
base coach Tom Gamboa was attacked without warning by two fans, a
father and son, who came out of the seats at Chicago's Comiskey Park.
The father, 34-year-old William Ligue Jr., and his 15-year-old son
later received probation.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2002 Sep 19, Scientists urged
stronger warning labels for acetaminophen, a painkiller used in
numerous products including Tylenol. Overdose caused liver damage and
annual deaths numbered some 100.
(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 19, In Colombia Army
troops killed 21 guerrillas on 23 fronts and freed 2 kidnapped
civilians. A 3rd hostage died in the fighting.
(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A12)
2002 Sep 19, German police stormed
homes and froze bank accounts across the country after outlawing 16
more groups linked to a jailed Islamic militant accused of plotting an
airplane attack in Turkey.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19, Ivory Coast's former
junta leader, Gen. Robert Guei, was killed after heavily armed forces
attacked government and security installations in Abidjan and other
cities in the West African country.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19, In Nigeria Ijaw tribe
militants captured seven foreign-owned oil facilities and threatened to
invade dozens more in a bid to force the government to change election
boundaries they say favor a rival tribe.
(AP, 9/20/02)(SFC, 9/21/02, p.A6)
2002 Sep 19, North Korea announced
it had made the city of Sinuiju on its border with China a "special
administrative region," a move South Korean media said was the first
step towards creating a new economic zone.
(Reuters, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19, A Palestinian blew
himself up on a crowded bus in downtown Tel Aviv, killing at least five
other people and wounding 49. It was the second suicide bombing in two
days after a six-week lull.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19-20, The Colombian air
force bombarded two rebel camps in northwest Colombia, killing an
estimated 200 insurgents.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2003 Sep 19, Hurricane Isabel
knocked out power to more than 4.5 million people as it weakened into a
tropical storm and raced toward Canada after swamping tidal communities
along Chesapeake Bay. 21 of 36 storm victims were in Virginia.
(AP, 9/19/03)(AP, 9/20/03)(WSJ, 9/23/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 19, In Chechnya rebel
attacks and a mine blast have left 7 Russian servicemen dead in the
past 24 hours in the Kremlin's military campaign against Chechen
separatists.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2003 Sep 19, The government of
Georgia scrapped an accord guaranteeing religious freedom for
Catholics. The next day the Vatican issued an unusually strong rebuke
to the former Soviet republic and its dominant Orthodox Church.
(AP, 9/20/03)
2003 Sep 19, In Iraq former Gen.
Sultan Hashim Ahmad, Saddam Hussein's last defense minister,
surrendered to an American commander after weeks of negotiations. He
was no. 27 on the most-wanted list.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2003 Sep 19, In the Maldives
unrest erupted at the Maafushi prison after a young man named Evan
Naseem was tortured to death. Police opened fire and 3 people were
killed. Violent riots followed as did a state of emergency.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.54)
2003 Sep 19, Zimbabwe military
police barred journalists from entering their offices, defying a court
order to allow the country's only independent daily newspaper to resume
publishing.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2004 Sep 19, "The Sopranos" won
best drama series at the Emmy Awards while "Arrested Development" won
best comedy series.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2004 Sep 19, The United States
suffered its biggest Ryder Cup loss in 77 years as it lost to the
Europeans, 18 1/2 to 9 1/2.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2004 Sep 19, President George W.
Bush has decided to lift sanctions against Libya, which he expects to
trigger release of more than $1 billion US to families of Pan Am 103
victims.
(AP, 9/20/04)
2004 Sep 19, Belarus barred dozens
of opposition candidates from running in the Oct 17 legislative
elections.
(WSJ, 9/20/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 19, British commoners
gained the right to stroll over an additional 153,000 hectares of
private land.
(Econ, 9/18/04, p.62)
2004 Sep 19, Former President
Jiang Zemin turned over his last major post as chairman of the
commission that runs China's military to his successor, Hu Jintao (61),
completing the country's first peaceful leadership transition since its
1949 revolution.
(AP, 9/19/04)
2004 Sep 19, In northern Egypt a
pickup truck and a minibus collided head on a rural road, killing 13
people and injuring 10.
(CP, 9/19/04)
2004 Sep 19, Floodwaters brought
by Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 90 people in Haiti.
(AP, 9/20/04)
2004 Sep 19, In India flooding in
the densely populated West Bengal has swamped hundreds of villages,
killing three people and making more than 650,000 homeless.
(AP, 9/19/04)
2004 Sep 19, A suicide attacker
detonated a car bomb near a joint U.S.-Iraqi checkpoint, killing 3
people and wounding 7, including four U.S. soldiers in the northern
city of Samarra. US warplanes and artillery pounded the guerrilla
stronghold of Fallujah. A militant group posted a video showing the
beheading of 3 Kurdish hostages.
(AP, 9/19/04)(SFC, 9/20/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 19, Kazakhs chose a new
parliament expected to be dominated by Otan, the party of Pres.
Nursultan Nazarbayev and Asar, a new party run by his daughter. US
backed int’l. monitors called the elections to the 77-seat Mazhilis
flawed.
(AP, 9/19/04)(WSJ, 9/22/04, p.A1)(Econ, 9/25/04,
p.55)
2005 Sep 19, The US government has
told a Texas court that Pope Benedict XVI should be given immunity from
a lawsuit accusing him of conspiring to cover up the sexual molestation
of three boys by a seminarian. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Peter
Keisler said that, as pope, Benedict enjoys immunity as the head of a
state, the Vatican. He said that allowing the lawsuit to proceed would
be "incompatible with the United States' foreign policy interests."
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, Officials ordered
residents evacuated from the lower Florida Keys as Tropical Storm Rita
headed toward the island chain, threatening to grow into a hurricane
with a potential 8-foot storm surge.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, New Orleans Mayor C.
Ray Nagin, facing pressure from Washington and Hurricane Rita on the
way, halted his campaign to repopulate his city and ordered the few
residents and business owners who had returned to leave again.
Mandatory evacuation would begin Sep 21.
(AP, 9/20/05)(SFC, 9/20/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 19, A new report by the
Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies said
that of the estimated 3,000 foreign fighters in Iraq, the largest
number, about 20 percent, comes from Algeria, followed by Syria and
Yemen with about 18 percent and 17 percent, respectively. About 15
percent come from Sudan, 12 percent from Saudi Arabia, 5 percent from
Egypt, and the rest from other countries.
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, L. Dennis Kozlowski
(58), former Tyco International Ltd. CEO, was sentenced 8 1/3 to 25
years in prison for looting the company of hundreds of millions of
dollars. Tyco's former finance chief, Mark Swartz (44) received the
same sentence. NY State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus ordered the
defendants to pay a total of $134 million in restitution to Tyco. In
addition, the judge fined Kozlowski $70 million, and Swartz $35 million.
(AP, 9/20/05)(SFC, 9/20/05, p.D1)
2005 Sep 19, The Secular Coalition
for America, a new lobbying organization “whose purpose is to amplify
the diverse and growing voice of the nontheistic community in the US,”
began operations with former Nevada State Senator Lori Lipman Brown as
director/lobbyist.
(www.open.org/~lloydk/HAS/NL2005/news11.htm)
2005 Sep 19, The MacArthur
Foundation announced the 25 winners of its genius awards.
(SFC, 9/20/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 19, Researchers reported
that partially paralyzed mice recovered following stem cell shots.
(SFC, 9/20/05, p.A4)
2005 Sep 19, NASA administrator
Michael Griffin said a $104 billion program to return to the moon by
2018 would feature new “Crew Exploration Vehicles,” to replace the
shuttle fleet.
(SFC, 9/20/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 19, In SF Arkelylius
Collins (20) was murdered at Third and Kirkwood in a hail of gunfire.
Terrel Rollins (22) was injured. In 2006 Daniel Dennard (21) and Deonte
Bennett (21), members of the Oakdale Mob, were indicted on charges of
murder. Rollins was killed on May 4, 2006, and Dennard was released. On
July 19, 2008, Dennard was shot and killed on Bayshore Blvd. not far
from where Rollins had been murdered. In 2009 Bennett was arrested and
charged in an alleged murder for hire plot.
(SFC, 3/2/06, p.B2)(SFC, 7/21/08, p.A1)(SFC,
1/22/09, p.B8)
2005 Sep 19, In Ohio Katelind
Caudill (13) was shot and killed by Melvin Keeling (43) because she
told authorities her best friend was being molested. Keeling fled the
Cincinnati area. He was also sought for the killing of 2 convenience
store clerks, Lisa Kendall (29) and Kendora Furr (38) at the Family
Express store in Remington, Indiana. On Sep 28 more than a dozen
investigators on the Keeling task force combed the woods in Gary,
Indiana and found the fugitive's wallet, ID and other personal items a
few blocks from where Keeling abandoned his van. Tracking dogs also
followed Keeling's scent from the wooded area to nearby train tracks.
He was an apparent suicide.
(SFC, 9/22/05,
p.A6)(www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=34686)
2005 Sep 19, Rescue teams searched
for two Argentine men whose snowmobile plunged into a deep ice crevasse
in Antarctica over the weekend, but hopes of pulling them out alive
were fading.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Mark Latham, former
head of Australia’s Labor Party, published “The Latham Diaries,” the
story of the Labor Party from 1996-2005, and a sobering account of the
state of Australian democracy 100 years after Federation.
(www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/catalogue/0-522-85215-7.html)
2005 Sep 19, Belgium issued an
international arrest warrant for Chad's former leader Hissene Habre,
charging him with atrocities during his 1982-90 rule. Habre, who lives
in exile in Senegal, is being pursued under Belgium's "universal
jurisdiction" laws, which allow for prosecutions for crimes against
humanity wherever they were committed.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 19, Brazil issued its 1st
int’l. bond in its own currency. Brazil’s export boom had driven the
real upwards against the dollar.
(Econ, 9/24/05, p.90)
2005 Sep 19, In a statement aired
on a pan-Arab TV station, Al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his
terror network had carried out the July 7 London bombings.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2005 Sep 19, Classrooms and chairs
were scarce at crowded Burundian primary schools as 500,000 children,
nearly double last year's enrollment, showed up for the first day of
classes following the elimination of fees.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, The World Wildlife
Federation said severely depleted cod stocks in the Grand Banks off
Canada's east coast face being totally wiped out by illegal fishing.
(Reuters, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, China's state media
reported that its family planning agency admitted that officials in the
eastern province of Shandong had carried out forced abortions and
sterilizations. Time magazine last week reported that at least 7,000
people in Shandong were forcibly sterilized earlier this year by
officials under pressure to limit the growth of the country's massive
population.
(AFP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Colombian troops
raided a sprawling clandestine drug laboratory run by a paramilitary
group that was capable of producing 10 tons of cocaine a month. In a
separate operation, the military seized six tons of marijuana allegedly
belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the
country's main leftist rebel group.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 19-2005 Sep 29, In
Ethiopia authorities arrested 859 opposition members across the country
and security forces killed one opposition member in the Amhara region,
250 miles south of the capital, Addis Ababa.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 19, French police probing
a ring which allegedly recruited Muslim fighters for the anti-US
insurgency in Iraq arrested six men in the Paris area.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, In Guatemala gang
members armed with guns and grenades burst inside a youth prison and
slaughtered 12 inmates, leaving behind a gruesome, bloody scene.
Members of the Mara Salvatrucha launched a well-organized attack on
imprisoned members of the rival Mara 18 gang as they slept at Etapa II,
or Phase II prison.
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, India said it would
increase vaccine production to protect against future outbreaks of
Japanese encephalitis as the death toll from the disease rose to 765 in
the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The encephalitis is transmitted
from pigs to humans by mosquitoes. Japanese encephalitis first surfaced
in Uttar Pradesh in 1978. Over 4,000 people have died in the state
since the disease first hit. A quarter of survivors are left disabled.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, A severe storm ripped
through southern India, killing at least 18 people and leaving some
50,000 homeless. Most of the victims were either electrocuted or died
in house collapses as overnight rains triggered flooding in the coastal
districts of Andhra Pradesh state.
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, An Indonesian warship
fired on a Chinese fishing fleet it suspected of using illegal nets,
killing one crew member and wounding two others in the Arafuru sea off
Papua Island.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 19, In Iraq a nephew of
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to life in prison for funding Iraq's
violent insurgency and for bomb-making.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Four US soldiers died
in two roadside bombings near the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi.
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, Iraqi police detained
two British soldiers in the southern port city of Basra, following a
shooting incident. British forces smashed jail walls to free 2 British
commandos detained earlier in the day by Iraqi police. Iraqi officials
said at least 2 civilians were killed.
(AP, 9/19/05)(SFC, 9/20/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 19, In Mexico a special
federal prosecutor sought the arrest of ex-President Luis Echeverria
and other former officials for their alleged involvement in the
massacre of student protesters in 1968.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, North Korea agreed to
stop building nuclear weapons and allow international inspections in
exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances,
a breakthrough that marked a first step toward disarmament after two
years of six-nation talks.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas said the Gaza-Egypt border will reopen only as part of an
international agreement, quashing speculation Egypt and the
Palestinians might operate a crossing without Israel's blessing.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Rebel groups said
militias backed by the Sudanese government killed 30 people over the
weekend in fresh attacks in Darfur, threatening new peace talks under
way in Nigeria. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and
Equality Movement (JEM) said 17 people were killed in Korbia in
northern Darfur Sep 17 and 13 died in attacks on Jabel Marra in the
west on Sep 18.
(Reuters, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, Lukman B. Lima, a
veteran leader of Thailand's insurgency, issued a warning: militants
from Indonesia and Arab nations might join the fight for a separate
homeland if the Thai government continues a crackdown that's provoking
a new generation of Muslim fighters.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2006 Sep 19, President Bush
addressed the 61st meeting of the UN General Assembly with a call for
nations to unite to work for a more peaceful world where "extremists
are marginalized by the peaceful majority." UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan delivered an emotional farewell address, appealing to the world
to unite against human rights abuses, religious divisions, brutal
conflicts and an unjust world economy.
(AP, 9/19/06)(AP, 9/19/07)
2006 Sep 19, A Georgia judge
struck down the state’s photo ID requirement to vote.
(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 19, Sam Harris published
his polemic ”Letter to a Christian Nation.” It was a philosophical
attack on the basic tenets held by all major religions.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 19, Warren Buffet,
billionaire investor, pledged $50 million to help set up an
international nuclear fuel bank that aspiring powers could turn to for
reactor fuel instead of making it on their own.
(SFC, 9/20/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 19, The MacArthur
Foundation announced the 25 winners of its genius awards.
(SFC, 9/19/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 19, George Lucas, creator
of "Star Wars," announced that his private foundation will give his
alma mater, the University of Southern California, $175 million to
endow and rebuild its School of Cinematic Arts in what amounts to the
largest donation in USC history.
(Reuters, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Motorola Inc. agreed
to buy Symbol Technologies, a maker of bar-code readers, for $3.9
billion.
(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A21)
2006 Sep 19, John Nejedly (91),
former 10-year California state senator, died. He helped lead the 1982
fight against the Peripheral Canal and wrote the bill authorizing the
construction of the bridge on Highway 160 near Antioch, which was named
in his honor.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.B9)
2006 Sep 19, In central and
southern Afghanistan clashes and bombings left up to 34 Taliban
fighters and one policeman dead in five separate incidents.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 19, In Argentina Miguel
Osvaldo Etchecolatz (77) a former police investigator, was sentenced to
life in prison in connection with the disappearance of six people
during the so-called "Dirty War" against political dissent.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, In Australia Judge
Murray Wilcox granted Aborigines a title claim over Perth, the capital
of Western Australia.
(AFP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 19, Australia and Japan
imposed financial sanctions on 11 North Korean companies, a Swiss
company and its president, based on allegations they helped the
communist nation's weapons programs.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, A British soldier
pleaded guilty to one count of inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians,
while he and his comrades denied all other charges in a landmark
court-martial.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Cambodia's King
Norodom Sihamoni started the official part of a week-long visit to the
Czech Republic, a country where he spent 13 years from 1962-1975 and
considers as his "second home."
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Supporters of Congo's
presidential challenger barricaded streets, stopped traffic and threw
stones in Kinshasa, a day after a fire at his headquarters destroyed
the party's television and radio stations.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, In southern Germany a
US AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter crashed on a training
mission, killing two American soldiers.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 19, Some 2,000-3,000
protesters stormed the headquarters of Hungarian state television and
forced it off the air briefly in an explosion of anger. The protests
began after a recording of PM Gyurcsany's comments made in May was
leaked to Hungarian media. In his speech to a meeting of Socialist
deputies, the prime minister admitted that the government had lied
about the state of the economy in order to ensure victory in the
elections.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, In India at least two
people were killed and more than 100 detained during violent protests
against a court-ordered crackdown on illegal shops in New Delhi. At
least 20 people were killed in coastal villages in eastern India after
a major storm swept in to the Bay of Bengal and destroyed hundreds of
mud huts.
(AFP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 19, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the UN General Assembly and took aim at
US policies in Iraq and Lebanon. He accused Washington of abusing its
power in the UN Security Council to punish others while protecting its
own interests and allies.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, The Iraqi government
said it will shut down all offices belonging to the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) around the country. The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's
genocide trial was replaced amid complaints he was being too easy on
the deposed Iraqi leader. A rocket attack on a Shiite neighborhood in
southern Baghdad killed 10 people and wounded 19. In northern Iraq at
least 17 people were killed and 11 wounded in twin bombings in the town
of Al-Shurqat.
(AP, 9/19/06)(AFP, 9/20/06)(AP, 9/19/07)
2006 Sep 19, Police in southern
Italy arrested scores of people in an overnight crackdown on organized
crime, including on clans that had a grip on the local tourist industry.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Ivory Coast
authorities arrested 2 French executives of Trafigura Beheer BV, the
Dutch commodities company implicated in the recent dumping of toxic
waste. Claude Dauphin and Jean-Pierre Valentini, charged with
poisoning and infractions of toxic waste laws, were sent to
prison.
(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A10)
2006 Sep 19, Einars Repse,
Latvia's former prime minister (2002-2004), accidentally killed a
pedestrian while driving on a remote road. He said he would stop
campaigning for parliament, although he will remain a candidate. The
EU's official statistics agency, Eurostat, said Latvia registered 222
traffic deaths per 1 million residents in 2004, the highest in the
union.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 19, A group of sexual
abuse survivors filed a lawsuit against Mexican Cardinal Norberto
Rivera, claiming he hid evidence to protect a priest accused of
molesting boys. A lawyer for the Chicago-based Survivors Network of
Those Abused by Priests filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior
Court. Rivera, now Mexico's top-ranking cardinal, helped cover up abuse
by the Rev. Nicolas Aguilar involving 50 boys when Aguilar served as a
parish priest in central Puebla state in 1987. Rivera was bishop of
Tehuacan in Puebla state at the time.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Sudan's Pres. Omar
Hassan al-Bashir, on the sidelines of the UN General assembly, said his
country would never allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur and charged that
the West wanted to dismember his country in order to help Israel. He
agreed that the 7,000 AU peacekeepers could stay.
(Reuters, 9/19/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.51)
2006 Sep 19, In Thailand a 6-man
military junta launched a coup against PM Thaksin Shinawatra, circling
his offices with tanks, seizing control of TV stations and declaring a
provisional authority pledging loyalty to the king. This was the 18th
coup since 1932. General Prem Tinsulanonda was widely seen as the
mastermind of the coup.
(AP, 9/19/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.27)(Econ, 12/6/08,
p.34)
2007 Sep 19, The US Senate blocked
legislation that would have regulated the amount of time troops spent
in combat, a blow for Democrats struggling to challenge President
Bush's Iraq policies.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2007 Sep 19, O.J. Simpson was
released from jail after posting $125,000 bail in connection with the
alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors at a Las Vegas
hotel.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2007 Sep 19, Dan Rather (75) filed
a $70 million lawsuit alleging that CBS and its former parent company
intentionally botched the aftermath of a discredited story about
President Bush's military service to curry favor with the
administration.
(AP, 9/20/07)
2007 Sep 19, Topps Co. CEO Arthur
Shorin said shareholders had approved a deal in which Michael Eisner’s
Tornante Co. investment firm and Madison Dearborn Partners LLC would
take the baseball card and candy company private for $9.75 per share.
(SFC, 9/20/07, p.C3)
2007 Sep 19, The governing Board
of Trustees of California State Univ. approved hefty executive pay
increases ranging from 9-18 percent for Chancellor Charles Reed, his
four top deputies and 23 campus presidents.
(SFC, 9/20/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 19, In California
AT&T set this day for ending its automated time of day phone
service, saying it needed the prefix for new phone numbers.
(SFC, 9/3/07, p.D1)
2007 Sep 19, Julian Walker (34) of
Atlanta, Georgia, suspected in the slayings of his ex-wife and his
girlfriend’s father, shot and killed himself after he was surrounded by
police in Fairview Heights, Ill.
(SFC, 9/20/07, p.A8)
2007 Sep 19, The US-led coalition
accused the Taliban of using children as human shields during a battle
in southern Afghanistan. The troops fought Taliban trying to flee a
compound, and more than a dozen suspected militants were killed. 6
civilians, including women and children, died in Helmand province's
Gereshk region after Taliban fighters fled fighting with NATO forces
and sought shelter in the civilian homes. About 2,500 Afghan and NATO
troops launched a new military operation in the Gereshk region of
Helmand province. Militants attacked a private security company in
Zabul province, killing one security guard. The ensuing gunbattle left
one suspected insurgent dead. More than three dozen Taliban fighters
were reported killed in Uruzgan province. In Kandahar province, an
Afghan was killed and several others were wounded in a road accident
involving a NATO patrol vehicle and a civilian car. NATO said it
was investigating a shipment of weapons intercepted near the border
with Iran on Sep 6. Some 10,000 vaccinators began the weeklong campaign
with the aim to vaccinate 1.3 million Afghan children against polio.
(AP, 9/19/07)(AP, 9/20/07)(AP, 9/21/07)(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 19, The Bank of England
announced that it would inject 10 billion pounds into longer-term money
markets next week amid the ongoing global credit squeeze.
(AFP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Bachan Athwal (70), a
London grandmother, was jailed for life for ordering the execution of
Surjit Athwal, her cheating daughter-in-law in India, after discovering
she was having an affair with a married man. Athwal’s 43-year-old son
Sukhdave was also found guilty and jailed for a minimum 27-year term.
(AFP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, In Cambodia Nuon
Chea, the top surviving leader of the notorious Khmer Rouge, whose
radical policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7
million people, was charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, President Francois
Bozize of the Central African Republic (CAR) dubbed as "grotesque"
allegations from Human Rights Watch that his army was guilty of various
abuses against civilians in the country.
(AFP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, China’s government
froze prices that it controls for the rest of the year, in the latest
sign of mounting concern over inflation, which reached 6.5% in the year
through August.
(WSJ, 9/20/07, p.A6)
2007 Sep 19, Typhoon Wipha flooded
streets and destroyed hundreds of homes as it swept through eastern
China, but the storm eventually weakened and caused little overall
damage in the financial center of Shanghai. One man was electrocuted.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Vlatko Pavletic (77),
a former speaker of Croatia's parliament who served as acting president
for two months beginning in Dec, 1999, died.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Gabriele Pauli (50),
Bavaria's most glamorous politician, shocked the Catholic state in
Germany by suggesting marriage should last just 7 years. She said after
that time, couples should either agree to extend their marriage or it
should be automatically dissolved.
(Reuters, 9/20/07)
2007 Sep 19, In Iran Kian
Tajbakhsh, an urban planning consultant with the Soros Foundation's
Open Society Institute, was released after he spent four months in a
notorious prison on suspicion of trying to stir up a revolution.
(AP, 9/20/07)
2007 Sep 19, Iraqi troops killed
14 militants in clashes in the northern city of Mosul, following a
failed suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi army base in the city's
eastern sector. A roadside bomb in Mosul killed one Iraqi soldier and
wounded three. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt near a US
Army checkpoint outside Muqdadiyah, killing one civilian. In a pre-dawn
raid in Balad Ruz, US troops killed one Iraqi insurgent who the
military said was linked to Iran's paramilitary Quds Force. A US
soldier was killed during combat operations in the west of the Iraqi
capital and another one died of non-battle related causes.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Kyrgyzstan's Pres.
Kurmanbek Bakiyev called a national referendum on changing the
constitution to elect the Parliament by party list, a change that would
hurt the country's many small parties and independent politicians.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Israel's Security
Cabinet declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" in order to cut off
power and fuel supplies to the coastal strip.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Antoine Ghanem (64),
an anti-Syrian lawmaker from the Christian Phalange Party, was killed
in a blast in Beirut. Six other people also died.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Morocco’s King
Mohammed VI named Abbas El Fassi (67), a longtime government minister
and the leader of a secular political party, as prime minister. He
replaced Driss Jettou, a longtime businessman who had served since 2002.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, More than 2,000 monks
protested across Myanmar for a 2nd straight day against the country's
junta.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Nepal's Maoists
kicked off a controversial campaign to oust the monarchy, a day after
the ex-rebels stormed out of government in a blow to the Himalayan
country's peace process.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, New Zealand police
found the body of Anan Liu (27), a young Asian woman in a car outside
the home of a three-year old toddler, Qian Xun Xue, nicknamed
"Pumpkin," who was abandoned at a train station in Australia. The
father Nai Zin Xue (54), a martial arts expert and magazine publisher,
caught a flight to Los Angeles after abandoning the toddler. US
authorities launched a manhunt for Xue, who was captured nearly five
months later by six Chinese Americans near Atlanta, Georgia. In 2009 a
New Zealand jury found him guilty of his wife's murder and sentenced
him to life in prison.
(Reuters, 9/19/07)(AP, 6/19/09)(AP, 7/30/09)
2007 Sep 19, In northwest Pakistan
dozens of gunmen raided a checkpoint near a stronghold of Taliban and
al-Qaida militants and abducted 7 soldiers. Authorities sent a
delegation of tribal elders to South Waziristan to seek the release of
a group of 260 soldiers abducted Aug. 30.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, In the Philippines
the US embassy said the US government will spend 190 million dollars
over the next five years on development aid projects in the troubled
southern Philippines.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, In Moscow Iraq's
foreign minister said Iraqi authorities have arrested a man suspected
of organizing the murder of four Russian diplomats in Baghdad last
year. Hoyshan Zebari identified the suspect as a man named Abu Nur and
said he was a member of the terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Turkey's devout
Muslim PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the constitution should be
changed to remove a ban at universities on head scarves, the most
potent symbol of the national divide over the role of religion in
politics.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2008 Sep 19, A global recovery in
markets took place after the US took steps to limit damage from a
seize-up in world credit markets following the forced private sale or
government takeover in recent days. The Bank of England offered to lend
an additional 22 billion pounds (40 billion dollars) to financial
institutions struggling to obtain funds amid a worldwide squeeze on
credit.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, US federal securities
regulators, in an effort to boost investor confidence in the face of a
market crisis, took the dramatic step of temporarily banning the
trading practice of short selling financial stocks. The rules were soon
adjusted to allow bona fide market making and hedging activity. The SEC
eased buyback rules allowing corporations to purchase in one day up to
100% of the average daily trading volume of their stock.
(AP, 9/19/08)(WSJ, 9/23/08, p.A9,B1)
2008 Sep 19, Ken Cockrel Jr. was
sworn in as the city's new mayor, vaulted into office by a sex scandal
that destroyed the reign of Kwame Kilpatrick and threw Detroit's
government into chaos for months.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, In Nebraska at least
86 workers were fired at the JBS Swift & Co. Grand Island meat
packing plant after they walked off their jobs amid a dispute over
Ramadan prayers.
(SFC, 9/20/08, p.A4)
2008 Sep 19, Former Blink-182
drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in a
fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people just
before midnight.
(AP, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 19, In western
Afghanistan a roadside bomb hit a US-led coalition convoy killing one
coalition soldier.
(WSJ, 9/20/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 19, PM Kevin Rudd
announced that Australia will launch a multi-million dollar
international carbon capture and storage institute to fight global
warming.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Hammaad Munshi (18),
said by prosecutors to be the youngest Briton to be convicted of a
terrorism offence, was jailed for two years. He was found guilty last
month of being part of a cell that spread extremist propaganda and
provided practical guides on how to make poisons and suicide vests.
(Reuters, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, David Heiss (21),
German office worker, stabbed Matthew Pyke (20) 86 times in an attack
in Nottingham. He had met Pyke and Joanna Witton, Pyke’s girlfriend, on
a war games website, and flew to England after the couple made
disparaging remarks about him. On May 11, 2009, Heiss was sentenced to
life in prison.
(http://news.cnet.com/technically-incorrect/?keyword=David+Heiss)(AFP,
5/11/09)
2008 Sep 19, Masked kidnappers in
Egypt seized 19 hostages including German, Italian and Romanian
tourists in a remote desert area near the Sudanese and Libyan borders.
The kidnappers demanded $15 million in ransom. On Sep 29 Egyptian and
Sudanese forces rescued the captives near the Sudanese-Chadian border.
(Reuters, 9/22/08)(AP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 19, Haiti said its system
of agriculture has been destroyed by the last 4 tropical storms, Fay,
Gustav, Hanna and Ike. The storms killed 425 people in less than a
month. On Oct 3 authorities said the official death toll from four
storms that ravaged Haiti this summer nearly doubled to 793 people.
(SFC, 9/20/08, p.A10)(AP, 10/3/08)(Econ, 2/14/09,
p.45)
2008 Sep 19, Indian police in New
Delhi battled suspected Islamic militants holed up in a house, killing
two and arresting one before 2 others escaped. They were believed to be
members of the Indian Mujahedeen, the group responsible for the Sep 13
serial bombings in New Delhi.
(AP, 9/19/08)(SFC, 9/20/08, p.A10)
2008 Sep 19, Seven Iraqis were
killed in a raid by American troops backed by attack aircraft targeting
al-Qaida in Iraq. Those killed in the Sunni town of Adwar included four
suspected insurgents and three women. Iraqi officials and neighbors
said the family had no connection to the insurgency. Gunmen killed
Sheik Oday Ali Abbas al-Ajrish, a cleric loyal to US foe Muqtada
al-Sadr, in the southern city of Basra.
(AP, 9/19/08)(AP, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 19, In Italy hundreds of
African immigrants took their anger over the alleged mafia killing of
six Africans to the streets, hurling rocks and smashing windows in
Castel Volturno.
(AP, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 19, Alitalia cancelled
flights and regulators said they might soon ground the troubled
flag-carrier as it hurtles toward bankruptcy after the failure of
another rescue plan.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Japan's agriculture
minister resigned in a widening scandal over rice contaminated with
mold and pesticide that was sold as food for thousands of people,
including schoolchildren and nursing home patients.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, In central Nepal a
bus rolled off a mountain highway and crashed into a river, killing at
least 14 people and injuring 25 others.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Nigerian militants
destroyed another major oil pipeline in the Niger Delta after a week of
the most intense attacks against Africa's biggest oil and gas industry
for years.
(Reuters, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 19, North Korea said it
is making "thorough preparations" to restart its nuclear reactor,
accusing the United States of failing to fulfill its obligations under
an international disarmament-for-aid agreement.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, In Quetta, Pakistan,
a bomb exploded at a religious school run by a pro-Taliban Islamist
party, killing five people and wounding 10 more. A witness claimed it
was caused by a suicide bomber intercepted at the main gate. Unknown
gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on a police patrol vehicle in
Quetta, killing one officer and wounding one policeman and a passer-by.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Russia said it will
boost its defense budget next year by more than a quarter to a
post-Soviet high of $50 billion. Russian stock exchanges halted trading
after stocks shot higher, rebounding off a two-day closure amid a
financial crisis as the government rushed through emergency measures
that included more money for banks and purchases of shares to stem
plunging prices. Trading resumed later in the day.
(AP, 9/19/08)(WSJ, 9/20/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 19, Singapore banned all
dairy imports from China and the European Union demanded answers from
Beijing as the baby formula scandal, which left 4 babies dead and over
6 thousand infants ill across China, spread to liquid milk.
(Reuters, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, South Korea said it
will completely withdraw its remaining troops from Iraq by December,
ending five years of military deployment.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Spain approved a
decree under which it will pay jobless immigrants to go home, more
evidence of how its once-booming economy has quickly gone bust.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Ben Stocking (49), an
Associated Press reporter in Vietnam, was punched, choked and hit over
the head with a camera by police who detained him for a short while as
he covered a Catholic prayer vigil at the site of the former Vatican
Embassy in Hanoi. The city had started to clear the site after
announcing a day earlier that it planned to use the land for a public
library and park.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF
and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) again failed to break a
deadlock over forming a cabinet after reaching a power-sharing deal.
(AP, 9/19/08)
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