Today in History - September 21
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454 Sep 21, In
Italy, Aetius, the supreme army commander, was murdered in Ravenna by
Valentinian III, the emperor of the West.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1066 Sep 21, At the Battle at
Fulford Norway king Harald III Hardrada beat the British militia.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1327 Sep 21, Edward II of England,
a homosexual, was murdered by order of his wife, Queen Isabella and
Baron Robert Mortimer.
(HN,
9/21/98)(www.stonewallsociety.com/famouspeople/king.htm)
1348 Sep 21, Jews in Zurich
Switzerland were accused of poisoning wells.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1372 Sep 21, Frederik I van
Hohenzollern, monarch of Brandenburg (1417-40), was born.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1415 Sep 21, Frederick III, German
Emperor (1440-1493), was born in Innsbruck Austria.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1435 Sep 21, Treaty of Atrecht.
Philippe le Bon of Burgundy and French king Charles VII signed a treaty
at Arras. Philippe broke with the English and recognized Charles as
France’s only king.
(PCh, 1992, p.145)
1451 Sep 21, Cardinal Nicholas of
Cusa ordered the Jews of Holland to wear a badge.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1452 Sep 21, Girolamo Savonarola
(d.1498), was born in Ferrara. He became a Dominican monk, reformer,
dictator of Florence (1494-98) and martyr. He was best known for his
bonfires of the vanities in which corrupt books and images were set
alight.
(Hem.,4/97,p.53)(WUD, 1994, p.1272,1672)(WSJ,
7/10/98, p.W11)(MC, 9/21/01)
1519 Sep 21, Hans Backofen
(Backoffen), German sculptor, died at about 49.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1520 Sep 21, Suleiman I (the
Magnificent), son of Selim, became the Ottoman sultan in Constantinople.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.12)(HN, 9/21/98)
1558 Sep 21, Charles V (b.1500),
King of Spain (Carlos I), former Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1556), died.
In 2006 lab tests showed that Charles suffered from gout.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.19)(http://tinyurl.com/kq9sq)
1575 Sep 21, A major hurricane hit
Puerto Rico on the feast day of St. Matthew and became known as the San
Mateo hurricane.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, Par p.24)
1588 Sep 21, Medina Sidonia's
Spanish Armada flagship, the San Martin, arrived at Santander, Spain.
Almost half of the 130 ships were lost. 20k of 30k men died. 1,500 died
in battle, the rest from shipwreck, massacre, starvation or disease. In
1981 David Howarth authored "The Voyage of the Armada." In 1988 Peter
Kemp authored "The Campaign of the Spanish Armada."
(ON, 3/02, p.6)
1589 Sep 21, The Duke of Mayenne
of France, head of the Catholic League, was defeated by Henry IV of
England at the Battle of Arques.
(HN, 9/21/98)(MC, 9/21/01)
1591 Sep 21, French bishops
recognized Henri IV as king of France.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1599 Sep 21, The Globe Theater had
its first recorded performance. The 20-sided timber building for
Shakespeare’s plays was constructed on the South Bank of the Thames,
England. The troupe Lord Chamberlain's Men built the Globe Theater.
Timbers came from a dismantled old theater and the new structure held
some 3,000 spectators in 3 galleries. In 2005 James Shapiro authored “A
Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599.”
(Hem, Mar. 95, p.138)(WSJ, 6/17/97, p.A16)(WSJ,
1/11/99, p.R34)(Econ, 11/5/05, p.92)
1621 Sep 21, King James of England
gave Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1648 Sep 21, In Poland at the
Battle at Pilawce Bohdan Chmielricki beat John II Casimir.
(PCh, 1992, p.241)(MC, 9/21/01)
1673 Sep 21, James Needham
returned to Virginia after exploring the land to the west, which would
become Tennessee.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1676 Sep 21, Benedetto Odescalchi
was elected as Pope Innocent XI.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1677 Sep 21, John and Nicolaas van
der Heyden patented a fire extinguisher.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1692 Sep 21, Two men and seven
women were executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1745 Sep 21, A Scottish Jacobite
army commanded by Lord George Murray routed the Royalist army of
General Sir John Cope at Prestonpans. At the Battle at Preston Pans
Bonnie Prince Charles beat the English army.
(HN, 9/21/98)(MC, 9/21/01)
1746 Sep 21, A French
expeditionary army occupied Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1756 Sep 21, John Loudon McAdam,
engineer who invented and gave his name to macadamized roads, was born.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1761 Sep 21, King George III of
England was crowned. George was German and had been Elector of Hanover.
Coincidentally, the composer Handel, who was working in London when
King George was crowned, had gone to London after skipping out on his
last job...working for George in Hanover. Fortunately for Handel, King
George forgave him.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1776 Sep 21, Nathan Hale was
arrested in NYC by the British for spying for American rebels.
(SFC, 9/20/03, p.A2)
1776 Sep 21, NYC burned down in
the Great Fire 5 days after British took over.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1780 September 21-22, General
Benedict Arnold, American commander of West Point, met with British spy
Major John André to hand over plans of the important Hudson
River fort to the enemy. Unhappy with how General George Washington
treated him and in need of money, Arnold planned to "sell" West Point
for 20,000 pounds--a move that would enable the British to cut New
England off from the rest of the rebellious colonies. Arnold's treason
was exposed when André was captured by American militiamen who
found the incriminating plans in his stocking. Arnold received a timely
warning and was able to escape to a British ship, but André was
hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780. Condemned for his Revolutionary War
actions by both Americans and British, Arnold lived until 1801.
(HNPD, 9/21/98)
1792 Sep 21, Collot D'Herbois
proposed to abolish the monarchy in France. The French National
Convention voted to abolish the monarchy. 1st French Republic formed
(AP, 9/21/97)(MC, 9/21/01)
1804 Sep 21, Another major
hurricane hit Puerto Rico on the feast day of St. Matthew and became
known as the San Mateo II hurricane [see 1575].
(SSFC, 8/6/06, Par p.24)
1814 Sep 21, "Star Spangled
Banner" was published as a poem.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1817 Sep 21, Carter Littlepage
Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1823 Sep 21, The Angel Moroni 1st
appeared to Joseph Smith (b.1823), according to Smith (founder of
Mormon Church). Smith in New York claimed that an angel named Moroni
led him to ancient golden plates that revealed the untold story of
America during biblical times.
(SFC, 4/8/96, p.A-1,6)(MC, 9/21/01)
1832 Sep 21, Sir Walter Scott
(b.1771), Scottish novelist who wrote "Ivanhoe" and "Rob Roy," died at
Abbotsford near Melrose in the Scottish Borders. Scott was later
credited with inventing the genre of historical fiction.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott)(SSFC,
3/11/07, p.G3)
1837 Sep 21, Charles Lewis Tiffany
(1812-1902) founded his jewelry and china stores.
(MC, 9/21/01)(SSFC, 9/7/03, p.I4)
1862 Sep 21, William Benjamin
Gould and 7 other black men stole a boat and rowed past Fort Caswell,
NC. They were picked up the next day by the Union warship Cambridge. In
2002 Prof. W.B. Gould published his great-grandfather’s diary "Dairy of
a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor."
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A1)
1862 Sep 21, 300 Indians were
sentenced to hang in Mankato, Minnesota.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1863 Sep 21, Union troops under
Major Gen’l. William S. Rosencrans defeated at Chickamauga sought
refuge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which was then besieged by
Confederate troops. There they lost 10,000 horses and mules to
starvation.
(HT, 4/97, p.52)(HN, 9/21/98)
1866 Sep 21, Charles Jean Henri
Nicolle, bacteriologist, was born. He discovered that typhus fever is
transmitted by body louse and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1928.
(HN, 9/21/98)(MC, 9/21/01)
1866 Sep 21, H.G. Wells (d.1946),
English novelist and historian was born as Herbert George Wells in
Bromley, Kent, England. His work included the novel "Marriage" and "The
Time Machine" (1895). The science fiction writer is best known for "The
Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" and "The War of the Worlds."
(WSJ, 11/21/96,
p.A20)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jwells.htm)
1872 Sep 21, John Henry Conyers of
SC became the 1st black student at Annapolis.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1883 Sep 21, The 1st direct
US-Brazil telegraph connection was made.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1893 Sep 21, Frank Duryea drove
the 1st US made gas propelled car. [see Sep 22]
(MC, 9/21/01)
1895 Sep 21, Juan de la Cierva,
aeronautical engineer who invented the autogyro, was born.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1895 Sep 21, The Duryea Motor
Wagon Company, the 1st auto manufacturer, opened.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1896 Sep 21, General Horatio
Kitchener's army occupied Dongola, Sudan. Gen’l. Herbert Kitchener led
the British conquest of the Sudan. The "kit bag," another name for a
knapsack, was named after him.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, Z1 p.8)(WSJ, 8/25/98, p.A14)(MC,
9/21/01)
1897 Sep 21, The New York Sun ran
its famous editorial that answered a question from 8-year-old Virginia
O'Hanlon: "Is there a Santa Claus?" Francis P. Church wrote, in part:
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love
and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and
give to your life its highest beauty and joy."
(AP, 9/21/97)
1902 Sep 21, Allen Lake was born.
He founded Penguin Books in 1935.
(HN, 9/21/00)
1903 Sep 21, The 1st cowboy film,
"Kit Carson," premiered in US.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1904 Sep 21, Exiled Nez Perce
leader Chief Joseph died in Washington state reportedly of a "broken
heart." In 1984 “Chief Joseph’s Own Story” was published.
(HN, 9/21/98)(SFC, 6/13/97, p.A13)
1912 Sep 21, Chuck Jones, animator
and director of Warner Brothers cartoons Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, was
born.
(HN, 9/21/00)(MC, 9/21/01)
1913 Sep 21, The 1st aerobatic
maneuver, a sustained inverted flight, was performed in France.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1915 Sep 21, Anthony Comstock
(b.1844), former US Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas
of Victorian morality, died. The anti-porn campaigner had used his
position to seize 50 tons of books and 4 million pictures.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock)(Econ, 3/15/08, p.44)
1915 Sep 21, Stonehenge was sold
by auction for 6,600 pounds sterling ($11,500) to a Mr. Chubb, who
bought it as a present for his wife. He presented it to the British
nation three years later.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1920 Sep 21, Jay Ward, cartoonist
(Rocky & his Friends, Bullwinkle), was born.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1921 Sep 21, Pope Benedictus XV
donated 1 million lire to feed Russians.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1921 Sep 21, In Oppau, Germany, an
explosion at the Bradishe Aniline chemical works, a nitrate
manufacturing plant, destroyed the plant and a nearby village with 561
deaths and over 1500 persons injured.
(HSAB, 1994, p.46)(MC, 9/21/01)
1922 Sep 21, Pres Warren G.
Harding signed a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish
homeland in Palestine.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1922 Sep 21, The US passed a
tariff act. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff bill (named after Joseph
Fordney, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Porter
McCumber, chair of the Senate Finance Committee) was signed by
President Warren Harding. In the end, the tariff law raised the average
American ad valorem tariff rate to 38 percent.
(Econ, 12/20/08,
p.126)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordney-McCumber_Tariff)
1926 Sep 21, San Francisco held a
benefit to raise money for victims of a Sep 17 Florida hurricane that
killed 374-600 people.
(SFC, 9/21/01, WB p.5)
1928 Sep 21, "My Weekly Reader"
magazine made its debut.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1929 Sep 21, Fighting between
China and the Soviet Union broke out along the Manchurian border.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1930 Sep 21, Johann Ostermeyer
patented the flashbulb.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1931 Sep 21, Larry Hagman, Fort
Worth Tx, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas), was born.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1931 Sep 21, Britain went off the
gold standard. The pound devalued 20%.
(AP, 9/21/97)(WSJ, 1/10/09, p.W8)
1933 Sep 21, The trial against
Marinus der Lubbe opened. He was accused of starting the Feb 27
Reichstag fire.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1934 Sep 21, A typhoon struck
Honshu Island, Japan, and killed 4,000.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1936 Sep 21, The German army held
its largest maneuvers since 1914.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1936 Sep 21, The Spanish fascist
junta named Franco generalissimo, supreme commander. [see Oct 1]
(MC, 9/21/01)
1937 Sep 21, The women's airspeed
record was set at 292 mph by American pilot Jacqueline Cochran.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1937 Sep 21, "The Hobbit," by
J.R.R. Tolkien (b.1892), was first published.
(WSJ,2/11/97, p.A18)(AP, 9/21/97)
1938 Sep 21, A Category 3
hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread
damage and claiming more than 600 lives. Winds hit 183 MPH in New
England and 700 were killed. The storm hit Long Island and Connecticut
and caused $308 million in damage.
(AP, 9/21/97)(WSJ, 5/31/06, p.B1)
1938 Sep 21, Winston Churchill
condemned Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1939 Sep 21, Reinhard Heydrich met
in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1941 Sep 21, The US launched its
1st Liberty-ship, "Patrick Henry."
(MC, 9/21/01)
1941 Sep 21, The German Army cut
off the Crimean Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1942 Sep 21, British forces
attacked the Japanese in Burma.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1942 Sep 21, Nazis executed 116
hostages in Paris.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1944 Sep 21, U.S. troops of the
7th Army, invading Southern France, crossed the Meuse River.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1944 Sep 21, The last British
paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrendered.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1946 Sep 21, The Cleveland Indians
played their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1947 Sep 21, Stephen King, author,
was born in Portland, Maine. He is best known for supernatural and
horror tales including Carrie (1974), Shining (1977) and Kujo (1981).
(HN, 9/21/00)(SSFC, 7/2/06, Par p.16)
1947 Sep 21, Marsha Norman,
playwright, was born. Her work included "Getting Out" and "'Night
Mother."
(HN, 9/21/00)
1948 Sep 21, Milton Berle made his
debut as permanent host of "The Texaco Star Theater" on NBC television.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1949 Sep 21, The Communist
People’s Republic of China was proclaimed under Mao Tse Tung with Chou
En-Lai as Premier. "Today, the Chinese people have stood up."
Mao-Tse-Tung led his people to power after half a century (50 yrs.) of
civil strife. The Chinese Communists drove Chiang Kai-shek to Formosa.
The capitalist stronghold of Shanghai fell to Mao Tse-tung Communist
guerrillas. The Communist People’s Liberation Army brought with them to
Beijing a northeastern folk dance called yang ge.
(TOH, 1982, p.1949)(WSJ,12/10/93)(TMC, 1994,
p.1945)(WSJ, 10/26/95, p.A-12)(WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/97)
1949 Sep 21, In Germany the Allied
Occupation Statute came into force. The functions of the military
government were transferred to the Allied high commission. The Federal
Republic of [West] Germany was created under the 3-power occupation.
(EWH, 1968, p.1180)(MC, 9/21/01)
1949 Sep 21, Manipur merged with
India. The former independent kingdom was strong-armed into joining
India.
(http://manipuronline.com/Manipur/merger.htm)(Econ,
11/7/09, p.43)
1953 Sep 21, North Korean pilot
Lieutenant Ro Kim Suk landed his aircraft at Kimpo airfield outside
Seoul. The Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, powered by a jet engine
superior to those then used in American fighter planes, first saw
combat in Korea during November 1950, where its performance shifted the
balance of air power to Russian-backed North Korea. On April 26, 1953,
two U.S. Air Force B-29s dropped leaflets behind enemy lines, offering
a $50,000 reward and political asylum to any pilot delivering an intact
MiG-15 to American forces for study. Although Ro denied any knowledge
of the bounty, he collected the reward, and American scientists were
able to examine the MiG-15.
(HNPD, 8/28/00)
1954 Sep 21, The 1st nuclear
submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned. [see Sep 30]
(MC, 9/21/01)
1955 Sep 21, The last allied
occupying troops left Austria.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1956 Sep 21, Anastasio Somoza,
Nicaraguan dictator, was assassinated by Roliberto Lopez. [see Sep 22]
(MC, 9/21/01)
1957 Sep 21, "Perry Mason,"
starring Raymond Burr, premiered on CBS-TV. The show ran to 1965 and
returned in 1985.
(AP, 9/21/97)(SFC, 8/20/99, p.D6)
1957 Sep 21, Norway's King Haakon
VII died in Oslo at age 85.
(AP, 9/21/07)
1964 Sep 21, Malta became an
independent member of the British Commonwealth.
(AP, 9/21/97)(Econ, 7/14/07,
p.57)(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5382.htm)
1966 Sep 21, Jimmy Hendrix changed
the spelling of his name to Jimi.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1970 Sep 21, "NFL Monday Night
Football" made its debut on ABC TV as the Cleveland Browns defeated the
visiting New York Jets, 31-to-21.
(SFC, 12/7/96, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/00)
1970 Sep 21, In Jordan King
Hussein sent a plea to Israel for air support via the British embassy.
Israel did not respond. The Black September crises left 2,000 people
dead in 13 days of fighting.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A12)
1972 Sep 21, Ferdinand Marcos
declared martial law in Philippines.
(www.geocities.com/pinoytv/martiallaw.htm)
1973 Sep 21, The painting "Blue
Poles" by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) sold for $2,000,000 to the
Australian National Gallery.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_Australia)
1973 Sep 21, The US Senate
confirmed Henry Kissinger to be Secretary of State under Pres. Nixon.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1973 Sep 21, A secret CIA report
indicated that severe repression was planned in Chile and that 300
students were killed in the technical university when they refused to
surrender to the military. The report was made public in 1999.
(SFC, 7/1/99, p.C3)
1974 Sep 21, US Mariner 10 made a
2nd fly-by of Mercury.
(NH, 5/01,
p.38)(www.astronautix.com/craft/marner10.htm)
1974 Sep 21, Jacqueline Susann
(b.1918), author, died of cancer. Her books included "Valley of the
Dolls" (1966). In 1987 Barbara Seaman authored Susann's biography:
"Lovely Me." In 2000 the film "Isn't She Great" starred Bette Midler as
Susann.
(SFC, 1/26/00,
p.B1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Susann)
1975 Sep 21, Self-proclaimed
revolutionary Sara Jane Moore attempted to kill President Gerald Ford
as he walked from a San Francisco hotel. A bullet she fired slightly
wounded a man in the crowd. [see Sep 22]
(MC, 9/21/01)
1976 Sep 21, Benjamin Graham
(b.1894), London-born economist and professional investor, died. He is
known as the father of value investing. His books included “Security
Analysis” written with David Dodd (1934), and “The Intelligent
Investor” (1949). Warren Buffett studied under him at Columbia Univ.
(WSJ, 10/5/06,
p.D5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Graham)
1976 Sep 21, Chilean exile Orlando
Letelier, one time foreign minister to Chilean President Salvador
Allende, was killed when a bomb exploded in his car in Washington D.C.
He was assassinated by order from Chile by Gen’l. Manuel Contreras,
head of the secret police known as DINA. Ronni Moffitt (25), an
American colleague of Letelier, was also killed. Contreras was
convicted of the order in 1993 and sentenced to a 7-year prison term.
In 2000 Gen. Pinochet was linked to the killing.
(SFC, 6/27/97, p.A14)(SFC, 7/1/99, p.C3)(SFEC,
5/28/00, p.A7)(AP, 9/21/01)
1977 Sep 21, After weeks of
controversy over past business and banking practices, President
Carter's embattled budget director, Bert Lance, resigned.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1978 Sep 21, Two Soviet cosmonauts
set a space endurance record after 96 days in space.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1981 Sep 21, The US Senate
unanimously confirmed the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become
the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
(AP, 9/21/01)
1981 Sep 21, Belize gained
independence from Britain and joined the UN under protests from
Guatemala.
(www.belizenet.com/bzeguat/chap10.html)
1982 Sep 21, National Football
League players began a 57-day strike, their first regular-season
walkout ever.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1982 Sep 21, Amin Gemayel, brother
of Lebanon's assassinated president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was himself
elected president. He stayed in office until 1988.
(WSJ, 9/12/96, p.A16)(AP,
9/21/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_Gemayel)
1983 Sep 21, In a speech to the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Interior Secretary James G. Watt jokingly
described a special advisory panel as consisting of "a black ... a
woman, two Jews and a cripple." Although Watt later apologized, he
ended up resigning.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1983 Sep 21, In the Philippines at
least 7 people were killed in anti Marcos demonstrations in Manila.
(http://tinyurl.com/3xjunn)
1984 Sep 21, In Cleveland, Ohio,
Romell Broom (28) raped a murdered Tryna Middleton (14) after abducting
her at knife-point as she walked home from a football game with
friends. His execution in 2009 was delayed as executioners failed to
find a good vein for lethal injection.
(www.associatedcontent.com/article/2185057/romell_brooms_execution_fails_over.html)
1986 Sep 21, In the 38th Emmy
Awards the winners included Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey and
Michael J. Fox.
(http://tinyurl.com/yxktmg)
1987 Sep 21, NFL players went on
strike at midnight mainly over the issue of free agency.
(AP,
9/21/97)(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/almanac/video/1987/)
1987 Sep 21, A U.S. helicopter
gunship disabled an Iranian vessel, the "Iran Ajr," that was caught
laying mines in the Persian Gulf; four Iranian crewmen were killed, 26
wounded and detained.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1988 Sep 21, The Soviet women's
gymnastics team won the gold medal at the Seoul Summer Olympics, with
Romania placing second and East Germany third.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1989 Sep 21, General Colin Powell
was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1989 Sep 21, Hurricane Hugo,
packing winds of up to 135 mph, crashed into Charleston, S.C.
(AP, 9/21/99)
1989 Sep 21, In Alton, Texas, 21
students died when their school bus collided with a truck and careered
into a water-filled pit.
(AP, 9/21/99)
1990 Sep 21, During a meeting of
the Supreme Soviet, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev scolded legislators
for dragging its feet on an economic rescue plan, and asked for
sweeping new emergency powers to stabilize the economy.
(AP, 9/21/00)
1991 Sep 21, An 18-hour hostage
drama ended in Sandy, Utah, as Richard L. Worthington, who had killed a
nurse and seized control of a hospital maternity ward, finally freed
his nine captives, including a baby who was born during the siege.
Worthington committed suicide in prison in 1994.
(AP, 9/21/01)
1991 Sep 21, Yugoslav army tanks
and artillery began an invasion of eastern Croatia. The Croats said
that some 600 soldiers and 1200 civilians perished in the 3-month
bombardment of Vukovar by rebel Serbs,
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14) (SFC,
6/28/97, p.A10)
1992 Sep 21, President Bush
addressed the U.N. General Assembly, offering U.S. support to
strengthen international peacekeeping.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1992 Sep 21, Former defense
secretaries Melvin Laird and James R. Schlesinger told a congressional
committee the Pentagon had known American airmen were alive in Laos at
the end of the Vietnam War and were not returned.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1993 Sep 21, The police drama
"NYPD Blue" premiered on ABC.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1993 Sep 21, The US National and
Community Service Trust Act became law under the Clinton
administration. It included AmeriCorps, a volunteer national service
program for young adults to teach children to read and to build
homes for those in need. A modest living allowance was provided along
with up to $4,725 in education vouchers for completing one year of
service. By 2002 there were some 50,000 participants earning $9,300 per
year with education benefits to $9,500.
(www.nationalservice.gov/pdf/cncs_statute_1993.pdf)(SFEC,11/30/97,
p.A3)(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A3)
1993 Sep 21, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin announced he was ousting the hard-line,
Communist-dominated Congress that had long opposed his reforms.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1994 Sep 21, Prosecutors from Los
Angeles and Santa Barbara counties announced that Michael Jackson would
not face child molestation charges; however, the case would remain open
until 1999.
(AP, 9/21/99)
1995 Sep 21, US House Republicans
unveiled partial details of their plan for Medicare aimed at achieving
$270 billion in savings over seven years.
(AP, 9/21/00)
1996 Sep 21, President Clinton and
Republican rival Bob Dole agreed to face off in two debates without
Ross Perot.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1996 Sep 21, John F. Kennedy Jr.
married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, Ga.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1996 Sep 21, The board of all-male
Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1996 Sep 21, In Brazil the first
magazine dedicated to blacks, Raca Brasil, sold out 200,000 copies in 5
days.
(SFC, 9/21/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 21, Thai Prime Minister
Banharn Silpa-archa resigned after 14 months in offices under charges
of corruption and ineptitude.
(SFC, 9/21/96, p.A10)
1997 Sep 21, Saying their
persistent demands for a special investigation had been vindicated,
senior Republicans insisted Attorney General Janet Reno seek
appointment of an independent counsel to look into White House
fund-raising activities, a day after the Justice Department revealed it
had begun a preliminary review.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1997 Sep 21, American billionaire
George Soros, vilified by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad as
the cause of the national financial crises, defended himself and called
his accuser "a menace to his own country."
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 21, In Algeria an armed
group killed 53 people in Beni-Slimane and then mutilated and burned
the bodies.
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A9)
1997 Sep 21, From Chile it was
reported that the hantavirus had caused the death of 13 people in
recent months.
(SFEC, 9/21/97, p.A27)
1997 Sep 21, From Poland election
results indicated that Solidarity won 189 of the 460 seats of the
parliament with about 34% of the vote.
(WSJ, 9/23/97, p.A1)
1998 Sep 21, Congress released the
video tape of Pres. Clinton’s grand jury testimony. President Clinton's
videotaped grand jury testimony was publicly broadcast; in it, Clinton
tussled with prosecutors over "the truth of my relationship" with
Monica Lewinsky.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/99)
1998 Sep 21, In New York Wadih el
Hage, a Texas American citizen who served as the personal secretary for
Osama bin laden in Sudan, was indicted for lying to a Manhattan grand
jury investigating bin Laden.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A6)
1998 Sep 21, Hurricane Georges
roared through Puerto Rico and the northeast Caribbean. Georges
threatened the islands of the Caribbean. The storm hit Puerto Rico and
killed at least 5 people as winds reached 130 mph. One woman was killed
on St. Kitts.
(SFC, 9/20/98, p.A13)(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A1) (AP,
9/21/99)
1998 Sep 21, Florence Griffith
Joyner (38), winner of 3 gold medals in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul,
died of an apparent heart seizure at her home in Mission Viejo, Calif.
She held the women’s record in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/22/98, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/99)
1998 Sep 21, In Afghanistan a 2nd
day of rocket barrages killed at least 10 people in Kabul.
(WSJ, 9/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 21, In Bosnia Biljana
Plavsic conceded defeat to nationalist Nikola Poplasen. Nine hard-line
candidates were disqualified. For the presidency Serb Zivko Radisic
defeated Momcilo Karjisnik, Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic won, and
Croat Ante Jelavic defeated Kresimir Zubak.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A8)(WSJ, 9/22/98, p.A1)(SFC,
9/26/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 21, From China it was
reported that the government had begun cracking down on the efforts of
dissidents to organize the fledgling China Democratic Party.
(SFC, 9/20/98, p.A16)
1998 Sep 21, In Lesotho opposition
protestors clashed with South African and Botswanan troops at the royal
palace. A faction of the Lesotho army rebelled 11 days ago and deposed
the new military leadership. They charged that the May elections swept
by the Lesotho Congress party were rigged.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A7)
1998 Sep 21, In Malaysia thousands
of protestors clashed with police as the finale to the Commonwealth
Games proceeded. The Suaram human rights group said that 34 people were
arrested.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A7)
1998 Sep 21, In Russia the central
bank began issuing 900 million new rubles valued at $55 million.
(WSJ, 9/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 21, In Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, Mustafa Mahmoud Said Ahmen of Egypt and Rashid Saleh Hemed of
Tanzania were charged with murder in connection with the bombing of the
US Embassy.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A6)
1999 Sep 21, The House Banking
Committee opened an inquiry into allegations of a huge money-laundering
scheme involving the Russian mob and the Bank of New York.
(AP, 9/21/00)
1999 Sep 21, The FDA approved
Synercid, a new antibiotic from Rhone-Poulenc. Hoechst merged with
Rhone-Poulenc in 1999 to form Aventis.
(WSJ, 9/22/99, p.A1)(Econ, 7/10/04, p.58)
1999 Sep 21, Peter Singer, the new
DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton Center for Human Values,
held his first classes. Singer held that the notion of life as sacred
is a medieval concept and should be replaced with a utilitarian
calculus "aimed at reducing suffering and maximizing happiness."
(WSJ, 9/24/99, p.W21)
1999 Sep 21, In Columbia the
government gave approval to Occidental Petroleum to drill a test well
near the boundary of the 3,600 U'wa Indians.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 21, In London the new
Globe Theater was scheduled to open on the 400th anniversary of its
first recorded performance. On the same day the adjoining year-round
Inigo Jones theater will open.
(WSJ, 6/17/97, p.A16)
1999 Sep 21, Prime Minister Ehud
Barak of Israel was the 1st foreign leader to visit the new capital in
Berlin.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 21, Japan’s PM Keizo
Obuchi easily won re-election as head of his party. This ensured that
public money would continue to be used to spur economic recovery.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 21, In Taiwan a 7.6
earthquake killed estimated total of 2,161. The 12-story Sungshan hotel
collapsed and at least 73 people were killed. Prosecutors later charged
5 people with negligence in the design and construction of the building.
(SFC, 11/9/99, p.A14)(AP,
9/21/00)(http://nisee.berkeley.edu/taiwan/)
1999 Sep 21, In Serbia
demonstrations against Pres. Milosevic were led by the Alliance for
Change in Belgrade and 18 other cities with lower than expected turnout.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.A16)
2000 Sep 21, In West Bengal,
India, the release of water from 2 dams left tens of thousands of
people stranded. Floods following torrential rains left at least 59
people dead.
(WSJ, 9/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 21, A Belgrade court
found Pres. Clinton and other world leaders guilty of war crimes for
the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. 14 leaders were sentenced in
absentia to 20 years in prison. The 120-page indictment charged the
leaders for the deaths of 546 Yugoslav army soldiers, 138 Serbian
police officers and 504 civilians, including 88 children.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.A16)
2000 Sep 21, An Iranian appeals
court reduced the prison terms for 10 Jews convicted of "cooperating"
with Israel, in a case that had drawn international criticism.
(AP, 9/21/01)
2000 Sep 21, In Spain Jose Luis
Ruiz Casado (42), a town councilor, was shot and killed in Sant Adria
de Besos outside of Barcelona. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 21, In Southeast Asia the
death toll from floods reached 235. The Red Cross issued an appeal for
emergency aid to Cambodia.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.D2)
2001 Sep 21, US entertainers
hosted a national telethon: "America: A Tribute to Heroes," to raise
money for the victims of the Sep 11 attacks that was carried on more
than 30 networks.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/02)
2001 Sep 21, A US unmanned
reconnaissance plane was downed in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 9/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, The US Congress
passed a $15 billion relief package for the nation’s air carriers.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, The DJIA fell 140 to
8,235, while the Nasdaq fell 47 to 1,423, a 3 year low.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A1,11)
2001 Sep 21, Ana Belen Montes, an
employee of the US Defense Intelligence Agency since 1985, was charged
with spying for Cuba. She pleaded guilty in 2002 and was sentenced to
25 years in jail.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)(WSJ, 3/20/02, p.A1)(SFC,
10/16/02, p.A9)
2001 Sep 21, A US Taurus rocket,
made by Orbital Sciences, carrying a NASA satellite failed to launch
and probably plunged into the Indian ocean.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 21, Ronald C. Sheffield,
a federal security officer was shot and killed in the Patrick V.
McNamara building in Detroit. The gunman was seriously wounded.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 21, In Afghanistan the
ruling Taliban rejected Pres. Bush’s ultimatum and to give up Osama bin
Laden. The Taliban also threatened to hang Afghan aid workers if they
communicate with their int’l. counterparts.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A7)(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, Terrorist suspects
were arrested in Britain (4), France (7), Germany (2 warrants), Peru (3
detained) and Yemen (20 detained). Lofti Raissi, an Algerian pilot
arrested in Britain, was later described as the "lead instructor" to 4
of the hijackers. Raissi was released Feb 12, 2002, for lack of
evidence.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A3)(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A1)(SFC,
2/13/02, p.A16)
2001 Sep 21, In Estonia Arnold
Ruutel (73), a former Communist leader, was chosen as president by a
special government assembly.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 21, In France a suspected
accidental explosion at a TotalFinaELF chemical fertilizer plant in
Toulouse killed 29 people and injured at least 650.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)(WSJ, 9/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21-Oct 2, In Tehran
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards opened the First Universal Exhibition of
Sacred Culture and Defense with a theme of Islamic revolution and holy
war. It commemorated the 21st anniversary of the war with Iraq.
(WSJ, 9/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, Islamic groups
planned a general strike to protest Pakistan’s support of the
anti-terrorist coalition.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A20)
2002 Sep 21, Erika Harold, Miss
Illinois, was crowned in Atlantic City, NJ, as Miss America 2003.
(SSFC, 9/22/02, p.A2)
2002 Sep 21, Angelo Buono Jr.,
whose gruesome killing of young Los Angeles women in the 1970s earned
him the nickname Hillside Strangler, died in a California prison; he
was 67.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2002 Sep 21, In Indonesia 10
people were killed and 15 wounded in an explosion at a fireworks
factory in the town of Slawi in Central Java province.
(Reuters, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, Iraq rejected U.S.
efforts to secure a U.N. resolution threatening war, with Iraqi
state-run radio announcing Baghdad will not abide by unfavorable new
resolutions adopted by the U.N. Security Council.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, In Liberia government
forces and rebels battled for at least three northern and northwestern
towns in a new outbreak of fighting near the border with Guinea.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, Explosions rocked
Yasser Arafat's compound, including one that showered him with debris,
as the Israeli army systematically blew up or bulldozed nearly every
building around him in the Palestinian Authority's headquarters.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, In Slovakia Vladimir
Meciar, the authoritarian former prime minister, appeared to edge out
his rivals in elections, but he was without the support needed to
catapult him to power in the face of united opposition.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2003 Sep 21, At the 55th Annual
Emmy Awards "The West Wing" won for best drama.
(SFC, 9/22/03, p.D1)
2003 Sep 21, NYSE board of
directors announced the appointment of John S. Reed (64) as interim
chairman and CEO.
(WSJ, 9/22/03, p.C1)
2003 Sep 21, NASA’s $1.5 billion
Galileo mission ended a 14-year exploration of the solar system's
largest planet and its moons with the spacecraft crashing by design
into Jupiter at 108,000 mph.
(SFC, 9/22/03, p.B8)(AP, 9/21/04)
2003 Sep 21, A US DynCorp plane
crashed while fumigating cocaine-producing crops in volatile northern
Colombia, killing the American pilot: "preliminary information
indicates the aircraft was struck by hostile ground fire." The military
contractor said it was the 5th shot down by rebels.
(AP, 9/22/03)(WSJ, 9/23/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 21, In Bolivia a rural
roadblock near Warista ended in a clash with police and soldiers that
left at least 4 people dead.
(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.C2)
2003 Sep 21, The latest outbreak
of fighting between Hutu rebels and the army in Burundi's decade-long
civil war has killed at least 12 people on the outskirts of Bujumbura.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2003 Sep 21, Paul Martin was
elected by Canada's Liberal Party to succeed Jean Chretien as prime
minister.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2003 Sep 21, In Germany Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder's party suffered a bitter defeat in state elections
that focused on Germany's stagnating economy.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2003 Sep 21, In India's portion of
Kashmir a bomb hidden inside a videocassette recorder exploded in a
busy market, killing 3 people and wounding 28 others.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2003 Sep 21, In Iraq corporate and
personal income taxes were capped at 15%. All foreign government
entities and their employees were declared exempt.
(WSJ, 10/28/03, p.A4)
2003 Sep 21, The leader of the
Maldives appealed for calm after two days of rioting killed 3 people
and sent shock waves through this tiny Indian Ocean island nation.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2004 Sep 21, The new $219 million
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian opened in Washington
DC. It included some 800,000 artifacts collected by George Gustav Heye
(1874-1957).
(SFC, 9/16/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 21, President Bush,
defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged the U.N. General Assembly
to stand united with the country's struggling government.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2004 Sep 21, The US Federal
Reserve raised the overnight federal-funds interest rate a quarter
point to 1.75%.
(SFC, 9/22/04, p.C1)
2004 Sep 21, Yusuf Islam, formerly
known as singer Cat Stevens, was taken off a London-to-Washington
United Airlines flight because his name had shown up on a government
"no-fly" list.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2004 Sep 21, US forces killed 6
Afghan guerrillas following a rocket attack on a helicopter.
(WSJ, 9/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 21, China's PM Wen Jiabao
hailed a series of agreements with neighboring Kyrgyzstan including an
agreement on the thorny issue of the countries' common border.
(AFP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, The UN Children's
Fund and the World Food Program launched a $123 million program to
reduce the mortality rate of children in Ethiopia.
(Reuters, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, The death toll across
Haiti from Tropical Storm Jeanne topped 700, with some 500 of them in
Gonaives. Officials expected to find more dead.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2004 Sep 21, In India incessant
rains caused flash floods that knocked down houses and killed at least
33 people in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 21, Former General Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono took a seemingly unassailable lead in Indonesia's
presidential election.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, Iran revealed that it
started converting tons of raw uranium as part of a process that could
be used to make nuclear arms.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, A posting on an
Islamic Web site claimed that the al-Qaida-linked group led by Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi has slain US hostage Jack Hensley.
(AP, 9/21/04)(WSJ, 9/23/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 21, A Turkish
construction company announced that it was halting operations in
neighboring Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped
by militants.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, Israeli military
officials said the US will sell them 4,500 smart bombs in a deal valued
as much as $319 million.
(SFC, 9/22/04, p.A15)
2004 Sep 21, Italian and Lebanese
authorities reported the arrest of 10 alleged terrorists, thwarting
plans to blow up the Italian Embassy in Beirut in a car bomb attack.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, Liechtenstein
ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, bringing to 116 the
number of nations that have endorsed the pact.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 21, In northern Nigeria
Islamic militants fighting to create a Taliban-style state launched
their first attacks since January, assaulting two police stations in
the northeast and killing six people.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 21, In Paraguay Cecilia
Cubas (31), the daughter of former Pres. Raul Cubas, was kidnapped. Her
body was found stuffed down a well at a house on the outskirts of
Asuncion, in February 2005.
(Econ, 10/23/04, p.36)(AP, 4/5/08)
2004 Sep 21, Hundreds of Syrian
soldiers stationed in the hills near Lebanon's capital began
dismantling their bases in an effort to appease a U.N. Security Council
demand that all 20,000 Syrian troops leave the country.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, Inmates rioted at a
western Venezuela prison, killing at least six fellow inmates and
injuring 35 others before hundreds of national guardsmen restored order.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 21, Seeking more
influence over global decisions, Brazil, Germany, India and Japan
joined forces to lobby for a permanent UN Security Council seat and
pledged to work together to reform the United Nations.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2005 Sep 21, Hurricane Rita
intensified into a Category 5 storm with 140 mph winds and threatened
to devastate the Texas coast or already-battered Louisiana by week's
end. More than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were evacuated
The death toll from Katrina topped 1,000.
(AP, 9/21/05)(SFC, 9/22/05, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/06)
2005 Sep 21, A grand jury report
in Philadelphia charged 2 former Catholic leaders, Cardinal John Krol
and Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, with a coverup of sexual abuse and
named 63 priests with records of abusive behaviour. No criminal charges
could be filed because of limits of state law.
(SFC, 9/22/05, p.A7)
2005 Sep 21, In Salt Lake City,
Utah, Mayor Rocky Anderson signed an executive order granting domestic
partner benefits to city workers.
(SFC, 9/22/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 21, A JetBlue Airbus
circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing
gear, while inside the cabin, passengers were able to watch the drama
unfold on live television; the plane landed safely.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2005 Sep 21, Stephen M. Ressa (27)
of Rialto, Ca., drove a stolen car into a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip
killing 2 people and injuring dozens.
(SFC, 9/23/05, p.A6)
2005 Sep 21, Molly Yard (93),
former National Organization for Women president died in Pittsburgh.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2005 Sep 21, The speaker of
Brazil's lower house resigned amid charges he extorted bribes from a
local businessman, the latest casualty of corruption scandals that have
rocked Brazil's government.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, A court convicted
Rev. Denis Vadeboncoeur (65), a Canadian priest, of raping a teenage
member of his Normandy parish and sentenced him to 12 years in prison,
the second conviction for the clergyman who went to jail for similar
crimes in Quebec.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, EU nations agreed
that Turkey must recognize EU member Cyprus during its membership
talks, warning that non-recognition could lead to paralysis in the
negotiations.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, India said at least
64 people have died and hundreds of thousands displaced after powerful
storms left a trail of devastation across the Indian and Bangladeshi
coasts in the Bay of Bengal.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Indonesia scrambled
to calm public fears of a possible bird flu epidemic after two more
children suspected of having the disease died in the capital of Jakarta.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, At least eight people
were killed in a gun battle in Baghdad between troops and insurgents.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Gunmen in Mosul shot
to death Ahlam Youssef, an engineer who works for al-Iraqiya
television, and her husband, said Bassem al-Fadli, a manager at the
station's headquarters in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, About 500 civilians
and policemen, some waving pistols and AK-47s, rallied in the southern
city of Basra and denounced "British aggression" following London's
decision to use force to free two of its soldiers being held by Iraqi
police.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, The UN World Food
Program warned that its emergency operations in Iraq, which feed about
3 million people, were at risk because donors have only come up with 44
percent of the necessary money.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Domenica Siniscalco,
Italy's economy minister, resigned in a row over the Bank of Italy and
the budget, dealing a major blow to PM Silvio Berlusconi months before
an election that polls say he is likely to lose.
(AP, 9/22/05)(Econ, 9/24/05, p.61)
2005 Sep 21, Japan's Parliament
re-elected Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister following the ruling
coalition's landslide electoral victory last week, and he pledged to
plow ahead with privatization of the postal service and other reforms.
(AP, 9/21/05)y
2005 Sep 21, Unidentified gunmen
in Bishkek killed Bayaman Erkinbayev (38), a Kyrgyz lawmaker and
wealthy businessman. He had survived an assassination attempt 5 months
ago.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 21, In Lebanon police
arrested four men who allegedly sold cell phone chips to members of the
plot to assassinate former PM Rafik Hariri.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 21, A cabinet minister
who helped lead Mexico's anti-drug fight, his deputy and seven others
died in a helicopter crash in the mountains west of Mexico City. The
helicopter, carrying Public Safety Secretary Ramon Martin Huerta,
Federal Preventive Police Chief Tomas Valencia, five other passengers
and a crew of two, had taken off from a military parade ground in
Mexico City.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 21, North Korea accused
the US of intending to disarm the communist country and then "crush it
to death with nuclear weapons," two days after a landmark disarmament
agreement that was expected to ease tensions.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, In eastern Pakistan a
fireworks explosion triggered a fire at a roadside restaurant, leaving
five people dead and fifteen injured.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Pilots of a chartered
jet carrying 289 Gambian soccer fans faked the need for an emergency
landing in Peru so passengers could watch their nation's team play a
key match.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 21, The Kremlin issued a
letter from President Vladimir Putin to Jordanian King Abdullah II,
delivered personally by Moscow-backed Chechen President Alu Alkhanov
during his Middle Eastern tour. Putin said in the letter that the
situation in Chechnya was "steadily normalizing." Jordan has a large
Chechen Diaspora.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Russian authorities
blamed a hepatitis A outbreak in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's third
largest city, on an accident in the sewer network. More than 790
people, including 149 children under age 14, remained hospitalized.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, In Saudi Arabia 2 men
were beheaded in Riyadh, after being convicted of kidnapping and raping
a woman.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, South Korea announced
it was developing highly sophisticated combat robots that could
complement the roles of human soldiers on battlefields.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan urged the United States and 10 other key countries to ratify
the 1996 nuclear test-ban treaty so it can finally take effect, but
like Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea, the U.S. administration
refuses to do so. It has been signed by 175 countries and ratified by
123 countries. But it will only take effect when 44 countries that
participated in the Conference on Disarmament in 1996 and possessed
nuclear research and power reactors have ratified it. To date, 33 of
the 44 countries have ratified the treaty, but there seems little
prospects of getting all 11 holdouts to change their positions.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 21, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez said his government would cancel existing mining concessions and
not award new ones.
(WSJ, 9/23/05, p.A15)
2006 Sep 21, The US White House
and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement on rules for the
interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2006 Sep 21, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention announced it would recommend all
Americans ages 13 to 64 be routinely tested for HIV.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2006 Sep 21, In NYC Venezuela’s
Pres. Chavez visited the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Harlem and
promised to double the amount of discounted heating oil his country is
shipping to needy Americans. His offer included 100 gallons of heating
oil for each of 12,000 households in rural Alaska.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.A3)(SSFC, 10/8/06, p.A27)
2006 Sep 21, In Santa Cruz, Ca.,
Kirby Scudder (50), former bike messenger, set up 500 giant flashlights
to shine skyward every 30 feet along West Cliff Drive overlooking the
Pacific Ocean in his tribute to International Peace Day. The lights
came on at 9PM.
(SFC, 9/21/06, p.B1)(SFC, 9/22/06, p.B7)
2006 Sep 21, The US space shuttle
Atlantis returned safely to its Florida home port, capping a successful
mission to resume International Space Station construction after the
2003 Columbia accident.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Time Warner Inc. said
it would sell AOL France's Internet access unit to Neuf Cegetel for
$365 million as it overhauls its online business in Europe to boost
advertising.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, In Afghanistan a NATO
helicopter killed 8 suspected insurgents in Helmand province.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 21, The death toll in
Bangladesh and India rose to at least 95 and nearly 1,000 remained
missing after storms capsized boats, toppled houses and washed away
roads.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Chile's President
Michelle Bachelet said her decision to allow the government to
distribute free morning-after contraception pills to girls as young as
14 was a matter of "equality" within Chilean society.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Iraq’s Defense
Ministry said insurgents are no longer using just volunteers as suicide
car bombers but are instead kidnapping drivers, rigging their vehicles
with explosives and blowing them up. Italy formally handed over
security responsibility of the southern Dhi Qar province to Iraqi
forces, the second of the country's 18 provinces to be handed over to
local control. 2 people were killed and another nine were wounded when
a car bomb exploded near an electricity company office in Baghdad. The
number of Iraqi civilians killed in July and August hit a record-high
6,599. An American soldier was killed after his vehicle was hit by a
roadside bombing in eastern Baghdad.
(AP, 9/21/06)(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 21, Israeli forces killed
at least 5 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as gunmen fired rockets into
Israel.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.A13)
2006 Sep 21, A Japanese court
ruled that an order forcing Tokyo teachers to stand before Japan's flag
and sing an anthem to the emperor violated the constitution, a rare
victory for the country's waning pacifist movement.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Jordan sentenced 7
people to death for triple hotel bombings that killed 60 people in
Amman last November. Sajida al-Rishawi (35), an Iraqi woman, was
sentenced to death. 6 others were sentenced to death in absentia.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Vladimiro Montesinos
(61), Peru's former spymaster, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for
engineering a deal that sent 10,000 assault rifles to Colombian
guerrillas.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 21, In Russia Gennady
Melikyan, deputy chairman of the Central Bank, was appointed top
regulator to replace the recently murdered Andrei Kozlov.
(WSJ, 9/22/06, p.A6)
2006 Sep 21, Thailand's new
military rulers said that four top members of deposed PM Thaksin
Shinawatra's administration had been detained. The regime also assumed
the duties of parliament, which was dissolved when the government was
ousted in a coup earlier this week, and banned meetings by all
political parties.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Elif Shafak, one of
Turkey's leading authors, was acquitted of "insulting Turkishness" in
her novel "The Bastard of Istanbul," that touched on the mass killings
of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire. The
University of Arizona assistant professor gave birth to a daughter on
Sep 16 and did not attend her trial.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Vietnam deported an
American pro-democracy activist, state-run television reported. Cong
Thanh Do (47) of San Jose, Ca., was accused of plotting to overthrow
the government.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2007 Sep 21, The United States
said it is donating 97 million dollars (69 million euros) to Ethiopia
in recognition of the Horn of Africa country's "strategic importance."
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, US Sec. of State
Condoleeza Rice said the US and France have agreed on increasing
diplomatic and economic pressure to force Iran to abandon its nuclear
program.
(SFC, 9/21/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 21, Google filed with the
EU competition regulator for permission to buy rival DoubleClick for
$3.1 billion.
(Reuters, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Chris Kavanagh,
Berkeley rent board member, was arrested in Oakland, Ca., and charged
with fraud for allegedly claiming a false residence in Berkeley to hold
office there.
(SFC, 9/21/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 21, Mattel Inc,
apologized for damaging China's reputation after recent massive recalls
of its Chinese-made toys, admitting it targeted some goods that were
actually up to scratch.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Kirby Archer (35) and
Guillermo Zarabozo (19) hired the yacht Joe Cool in Miami for a ride to
Bimini. Two days later the US Coast Guard found the yacht drifting and
12 miles away a life raft, drifting northward with the Gulf Stream
current. In it were Archer and Zarabozo, with a supply of water, their
luggage, and some other curious objects: a blow gun, darts, several
knives, and 22 $100 bills. They said pirates had attacked the yacht and
killed the 4-person crew. Arkansas prosecutors have accused Archer of
robbing the Wal-Mart in Batesville, where he worked for less than a
year as a customer service manager. On Oct 10 prosecutors charged the 2
men with murder. Archer later pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping.
On Feb 19, 2009, Zarabozo was convicted of murder.
(AP, 10/14/07)(SFC, 2/20/09, p.A10)
2007 Sep 21, One student was
mortally wounded, another injured, at Delaware State University, and
the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman. On Sep 24
police arrested Loyer Braden (18), a DSU freshman on charges of
attempted murder. He was later indicted on a second-degree murder
charge.
(SFC, 9/25/07, p.A6)(AP, 9/21/08)
2007 Sep 21, Alice Ghostley
(b.1926), the Tony Award-winning actress, died in LA. She was best
known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" (1969-1972 and
Bernice on "Designing Women" (1987-1993).
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 21, The Rev. Rex Humbard
(88), whose televangelism ministry once spanned the globe, died in
Atlantis, Fla.
(AP, 9/21/08)
2007 Sep 21, The Red Cross warned
that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18 countries
across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5 million people
and killed at least 270 in Ghana, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda
and other countries.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, A bomb attack in
western Kabul against a convoy of French troops killed one French
soldier and injured 8 Afghan civilians near the blast. Airstrikes
against "anti-coalition militants" in the Garmsir district of Helmand
province killed about 40 fighters.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, A bomb attack near a
city east of Algiers injured two French citizens, one Italian and six
Algerians, including five police.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Australia’s
ex-senator Bob Collins (b.1946), who served as a minister in the early
1990s, died, days before he was due to face a hearing on 21 charges of
child sex abuse dating back three decades.
(AFP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 21, Playboy opened its
first store in Europe at the heart of London's shopping district,
continuing its evolution from adult magazine to international
merchandising brand.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, A new case of
foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in cattle on a farm in southern
England.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, In Canada, delegates
from almost 200 countries agreed to eliminate ozone-depleting
substances faster than originally planned. The agreement was reached at
a conference in Montreal to mark the 20th anniversary of the Montreal
protocol, which was designed to cut chemicals found to harm the ozone
layer.
(Reuters, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 21, Chile's Supreme Court
ruled that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori must be
extradited to face human rights and corruption charges in Peru.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Iraqi officials said
25 people have been arrested linked to the assassination of Abu Risha,
the leader of the US-backed revolt by Sunni Arab tribesmen in the
western Anbar province against al-Qaida in Iraq. Cholera was confirmed
in a baby in Basra, the farthest south the outbreak has been detected.
American convoys under the protection of Blackwater USA resumed, four
days after the US Embassy suspended all land travel by its diplomats
and other civilian officials in response to the alleged killing of
civilians by the security firm. Followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali
al-Sistani refused to attend Friday sermons in their mosques in the
southern city of Basra, in protest of the overnight assassination of
two aides to the country's top Shiite cleric, one in Diwaniyah province
and the other in the southern Basra area. A roadside bomb killed a
Romanian soldier near Tallil in southern Iraq.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, In Myanmar about
1,500 Buddhist monks marched through downtown Yangon to protest against
Myanmar's military government, beginning their fourth day of
demonstrations at a pagoda that has long served as a national symbol
for dissent.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Sources said the
presumed head of the Nigerian armed group the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), who goes under the name of Jomo
Gbomo, has been arrested in Angola.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, North Korea and Syria
held high-level talks in Pyongyang, amid suspicions that the two
countries might be cooperating on a nuclear weapons program.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, President Gen. Pervez
Musharraf appointed a new intelligence chief and promoted five other
generals in a staff shake up just days after signaling he would quit
the military if elected to a new five-year term. Outside the Supreme
Court, hundreds of flag-waving supporters of Pakistan's biggest Islamic
party held an anti-Musharraf rally as judges heard petitions
challenging his right to run for re-election. Police said At least 27
people have died after consuming poisonous alcohol in southern
Pakistan. Around 25 soldiers were released after hectic negotiations
between a government-backed tribal jirga and rebels in South Waziristan.
(AP, 9/21/07)(AFP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 21, Today was the United
Nations' International Day of Peace.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2008 Sep 21, At the 60th annual
Primetime Emmy Awards HBO led with 26 trophies.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 21, The US Federal
Reserve said it had granted a request by the country's last two major
investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, to change their
status to bank holding companies.
(AP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, Oracle’s 5-day
OpenWorld customer conference opened in SF with some 43,000 people
attending.
(SFC, 9/22/08, p.D1)
2008 Sep 21, NYC police arrested
more than a dozen people for stealing pieces of Yankee Stadium during
the 85-year-old ballpark's final game.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 21, Wallace N. Rasmussen
(b.1914), former head of Beatrice Foods (1976-1979), died at his home
in Nashville, Tenn.
(WSJ, 10/4/08, p.A12)
2008 Sep 21, The UN said guns fell
silent across much of Afghanistan for the 26th anniversary of the
International Day of Peace that saw pledges by the US, NATO, the Afghan
government and the Taliban to halt attacks. Taliban militants attacked
a security company guarding a road construction crew in the southern
province of Ghazni, killing two guards. In southwestern Afghanistan
suspected Taliban militants kidnapped about 156 civilian laborers who
were traveling in three buses in the Bala Buluk area.
(AP, 9/21/08)(AFP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 21, Egypt's foreign
ministry said an illegal migrant boat carrying 83 Egyptians headed for
Europe has gone missing off the coast of Greece after leaving Egypt 3
days ago.
(AP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, Hermann Simm, a
middle ranking civil servant in Estonia’s defense ministry, was
arrested along with his wife and charged with spying for an unnamed
foreign power. He had set up and run a system for handling top secret
documents from NATO allies and handled security clearances for Estonian
officials in the military, security and intelligence services.
(Econ, 11/8/08, p.68)
2008 Sep 21, Hong Kong authorities
said they found traces of melamine in a batch of Chinese-made Nestle
commercial milk. The next day they forced Nestle to recall the milk
line.
(WSJ, 9/23/08, p.A22)
2008 Sep 21, Iraqi interior
ministry Brig. Adel Abbas was killed along with his driver in a
drive-by shooting in western Baghdad. A finance ministry director was
seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in his car, also in western
Baghdad. An American soldier was killed when his patrol came under
small-arms fire in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/21/08)(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 21, Israel’s PM Ehud
Olmert, crippled by a series of corruption investigations, announced he
would resign, clearing the way for his foreign minister to try to
succeed him as Israel's next leader.
(AP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, In southern Nigeria
MEND declared a ceasefire following a week of attacks on oil industry
targets.
(AFP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, Pakistani troops and
tribesmen opened fire on two US helicopters that crossed into the
country from neighboring Afghanistan. The helicopters did not return
fire and re-entered Afghan airspace without landing.
(www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1479095)
2008 Sep 21, Pirates in speedboats
hijacked a Greek bulk carrier with 19 crew members off eastern Somalia.
On Dec 8 Somali pirates freed the 19-man crew and MV Captain Stephanos,
the Greek-owned and Bahamas-flagged bulk carrier.
(AP, 9/22/08)(AP, 12/10/08)
2008 Sep 21, Somali refugees
abandoned by smugglers in the dangerous waters of the Gulf of Aden were
rescued. They had drifted for 18 days, and at least 52 died before the
group was rescued off the Yemeni coast. Seventy-one people survived the
journey.
(AP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 21, In northeast Spain
suspected Basque separatists threw petrol bombs at a police station in
Ondorroa to lure officers outside before detonating a car bomb, which
injured 10 people. The attack came only hours after a car bomb exploded
in the regional capital of Vitoria. Nobody was injured. Authorities
suspected ETA.
(AFP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, In western Turkey 13
newborn, premature babies died over the weekend at Izmir's Tepecik
hospital. In August, investigators looking into the deaths of 27
newborns at an Ankara hospital concluded that a staff shortage had
increased the risk of infection. Tainted IV treatment was later
suspected.
(AP, 9/22/08)(AP, 9/27/08)
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