Today in History - September 22
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131CE Sep 22,
Claudius Galen (d.201), Italian physician and scholar, was born.
(http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/galen.html)
1408 Sep 22, Johannes VII
Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), died.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1515 Sep 22, Anne of Cleeves,
fourth wife of Henry the VIII, was born in Cleeves, Germany.
(HN, 9/22/00)
1520 Sep 22, Selim I, Sultan of
Turkey (1512-20), died at 53.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1528 Sep 22, The Spanish Narvaez
expedition, reduced by disease and combat to 250 men, completed 5
barges and headed west. [see Texas, 1528]
(ON, 10/03, p.2)
1656 Sep 22, The General
Provincial Court in session at Patuxent, Maryland, impaneled the first
all-woman jury in the Colonies to hear evidence against Judith
Catchpole, who was accused of murdering her child. The jury acquitted
her after hearing her defense of never having been pregnant.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(AP, 9/22/98)(HN, 9/22/98)
1665 Sep 22, Moliere's "L'amour
Medecin," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1692 Sep 22, The last person was
hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1694 Sep 22, Philip Dormer
Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, statesman of letters whose writings
provide a classic portrayal of an ideal 18th-century gentleman, was
born. He introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
(HN, 9/22/98)(MC, 9/22/01)
1711 Sep 22, The Tuscarora Indian
War began with a massacre of settlers in North Carolina, following
white encroachment that included the enslaving of Indian children.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1711 Sep 22, French troops
occupied Rio de Janeiro.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1735 Sep 22, Robert Walpole became
the 1st British PM to live at 10 Downing Street.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1745 Sep 22, Bonnie Prince
Charlie's army returned to Edinburgh.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1776 Sep 22, American Captain
Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy with no trial by the British in New
York City during the Revolutionary War. He was considered as one of the
incendiaries of the burning of NYC. Hale was commissioned by
General George Washington to cross behind British lines on Long Island
and report on their activity. His last words are reputed to have been,
"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
(AP, 9/22/97)(SFEC,11/23/97, Par p.14)(HN, 9/22/98)
1788 Sep 22, Theodore Hook,
English novelist best known for “Impromptu at Fulham,” was born.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1789 Sep 22, Congress authorized
the office of Postmaster-General.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1789 Sep 22, Russian forces under
Aleksandr Suvorov drove the Turkish army under Yusuf Pasha from the
Rymnik River, upsetting the Turkish invasion of Russia.
(HN, 9/22/99)
1791 Sep 22, Michael Faraday
(d.1867), English physicist, was born in London. He demonstrated that a
magnetic field induces a current in a moving conductor. He invented the
dynamo, the transformer and the electric motor.
(V.D.-H.K.p.269)(HN, 9/22/00)
1792 Sep 22, The first French
Republic was proclaimed.
(AP, 9/22/06)
1850 Sep 22, An earthquake in
Sichuan, China, killed some 300,000 people.
(www.geohaz.org/member/news/signif.htm)
1862 Sep 22, President Lincoln
announced at a cabinet meeting that he intended to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should
be free as of Jan. 1, 1863. President Abraham Lincoln brought the issue
of freedom to the forefront of the Civil War when he delivered the
Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet, a few days after the bloody
Battle of Antietam. The proclamation stated that slaves in any of the
states in rebellion against the Union would be freed if the states had
not returned to the Union by January 1, 1863. After that, nearly
180,000 black soldiers enlisted to fight the Confederates until the end
of the war.
(SFE Mag., 2/12/95, p. 30)(AP, 9/22/97)(HNPD,
9/22/98)
1864 Sep 22, Union General Philip
Sheridan defeated Confederate General Jubal Early's troops at the
Battle of Fisher's Hill, in Virginia. Gen Early retreated to Brown's
Gap. Sheridan set up camp in Harrisonburg, Va.
(HN, 9/22/98)(MC, 9/22/01)
1868 Sep 22, Race riots took place
in New Orleans, La.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1869 Sep 22, Richard Wagner's
opera "Das Rheingold" premiered in Munich.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1869 Sep 22, The Cincinnati Red
Stockings, the first professional baseball team, arrived in San
Francisco after a rollicking, barnstorming tour of the West.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1882 Sep 22, Wilhelm Keitel,
German field marshal, was born.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1885 Sep 22, Erich Von Stroheim,
director, actor and screenwriter best known for “Greed,” was born.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1893 Sep 22, Bicycle makers
Charles and Frank Duryea showed off the first American automobile
produced for sale to the public by taking it on a maiden run through
the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts.
(HN, 9/22/00)
1895 Sep 22, Paul Muni, actor
(Academy Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder), was born in Juarez.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1902 Sep 22, John Houseman,
director, producer and actor, was born in Bucharest, Romania.
(HN, 9/22/00)(MC, 9/22/01)
1902 Sep 22, A long-simmering feud
between the Brooks and McFarland clans erupted into a bloody gunfight
in the railroad town of Spokogee, Indian Territory, which is now
Dustin, Oklahoma. Spokogee had sprung up in the path of the coming Fort
Smith & Western Railroad. The Creek name meant "the exalted," or
"near to God." The area around Spokogee was home to two feuding
families, the Brookses and McFarlands. Willis B. Brooks, 48, was a
well-known inhabitant of the Dogwood Settlement and one of the toughest
men to be found in Indian Territory. He was a gunfighter from Alabama,
by way of Texas. Jim McFarland, his chief adversary, had the reputation
of being an outlaw and a killer. While the ribbon of steel inched its
way toward Spokogee, the long-simmering feud between the warring
families heated up and then erupted into a classic Western gunfight,
settled with gun smoke, blood and lead.
(HNQ, 8/25/01)
1903 Sep 22, Italo Marchioni
applied for a patent for pastry cornets to hold ice cream and was
granted the patent on Dec 13, 1903. Ice cream cones were popularized in
the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
(HN, 5/2/98)(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.B7)(MC, 9/22/01)(SSFC,
10/5/03, p.C3)
1905 Sep 22, Race riot in Atlanta,
Georgia killed 10 blacks and 2 whites.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1906 Sep 22, Race riots in
Atlanta, Georgia, killed 21 people.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1908 Sep 22, Bulgaria declared
independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
(MC, 9/22/01)
1909 Sep 22, David Reisman, US
sociologist, was born. He authored “The Lonely Crowd.”
(HN, 9/22/00)
1909 Sep 22, In Oakland, Ca., Fung
Joe Guey made the first West Coast flight of a heavier than air motor
driven airplane at Piedmont Heights. He flew for half a mile some
15-feet above the ground.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W3)
1913 Sep 22, Coal mine explosion
killed 263 at Dawson, New Mexico. [see Oct 22]
(MC, 9/22/01)
1914 Sep 22, The German cruiser
Emden shelled Madras, India, destroying 346,000 gallons of fuel and
killing only five civilians.
(HN, 9/22/99)
1914 Sep 22, A German submarine
sank 3 British ironclads, 1,459 died. The Aboukir, the Hogue, and the
Cressy, were all sunk in just over one hour. This loss
alerted the British to the deadly effectiveness of the submarine,
which had been generally unrecognized up to that time.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1914 Sep 22, The RNAS attempted
their first air attack on the Zeppelins at Dusseldorf and Cologne.
There was little damage done.
(AHM, 1/97)
1915 Sep 22, Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas, held its 1st class.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1915 Sep 22, Xavier University,
the first African-American Catholic college, opened in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1918 Sep 22, Henryk Szeryng,
violinist (Brahms Concerto), was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1918 Sep 22, General Allenby led
the British army against the Turks, taking Haifa and Nazareth,
Palestine.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1919 Sep 22, President Woodrow
Wilson abandoned his national tour to support the League of Nations
when he suffered a case of nervous exhaustion.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1919 Sep 22, Steel workers at
Gary, Ind., went on strike to force US Steel to recognize their union.
The walkout ended in 110 days without success.
(PCh, 1992, p.734)(MC, 9/22/01)
1920 Sep 22, Chicago grand jury
convened to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to
fix the 1919 World Series.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1923 Sep 22, Marquess of Ripon,
game hunter, died, after shooting his 52nd grouse.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1927 Sep 22, Tommy Lasorda,
manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team from 1975 to 1996, was
born.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1927 Sep 22, Gene Tunney
successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey
in 10 rounds in the famous "long-count" fight in Chicago. Referee Dave
Barry stopped the count. Boxer Gene Tunney was down; but the champ,
Jack Dempsey, had not yet returned to his corner. By the time the ref
was able to resume counting, Tunney was able to get to his feet. He got
an extra 2 to 5 seconds....just what he needed. Tunney won the fight,
becoming world heavyweight boxing championship.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1927 Sep 22, Giannotto
Bastianelli, composer, died at 44.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1929 Sep 22, Communist and Nazi
factions clashed in Berlin.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1932 Sep 22, The government of the
Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd officially changed its name to Saudi
Arabia.
(www.indiana.edu/~league/1932.htm)
1933 Sep 22, Fay Weldon, author,
was born. Her work included “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.”
(HN, 9/22/00)
1938 Sep 22, The musical comedy
revue "Hellzapoppin'," starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, began a
three-year run on Broadway.
(AP, 9/22/06)
1939 Sep 22, Junko Tabei, Japan,
the 1st woman to climb Mount Everest, was born.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1943 Sep 22, The Destroyer Keppel
sank U-229.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1944 Sep 22, The
Allies reoccupied Boulogne.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1945 Sep 22, President Truman
accepted U.S. Secretary of War Stimson's recommendation to designate
the war World War II.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1946 Sep 22, Evelyn Dick was
charged with butchering her husband.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1947 Sep 22, A Douglas C-54
Skymaster made the first automatic-pilot flight over the Atlantic.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1950 Sep 22, Meryl Streep, actress
(Silkwood), was born.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1950 Sep 22, Omar N. Bradley was
promoted to the rank of five-star general, joining an elite group that
included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall
and Henry H. “Hap” Arnold.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1953 Sep 22, An Islamic uprising
against Jakarta took place in Atjeh (Aceh), Indonesia.
(SFC, 1/20/00, p.A12)(MC, 9/22/01)
1955 Sep 22, Commercial TV began
in England. ITV began broadcasting at 7:15 pm in the London region
only. Associated Rediffusion was awarded the London weekday license by
the ITA, with ITN established as a separate company to supply news. ATV
London began broadcasting on weekends 2 days later.
(http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1057710,00.html)
1955 Sep 22, Hurricane Janet hit
Grenada (British West Indies). 500 people were killed in the Caribbean
area. 75% of the nutmeg trees of Grenada were destroyed.
(PCh, 1992, p.952)(MC, 9/22/01)
1957 Sep 22, The TV series
"Maverick" premiered on ABC.
(AP, 9/22/07)
1958 Sep 22, The detective TV show
"Peter Gunn" premiered on NBC with Craig Stevens (d.2000 at 81) as the
private eye.
(SFC, 5/13/00, p.A19)(AP, 9/22/08)
1958 Sep 22, Sherman Adams,
assistant to President Eisenhower, resigned amid charges of improperly
using his influence to help an industrialist. Critics of the Eisenhower
Administration called Chief Presidential Adviser Sherman Adams the
"Assistant President" because they considered him to be too powerful.
Adams was the former governor of New Hampshire. Adams resigned after it
was revealed that a Boston industrialist had given him gifts in
exchange for preferential treatment before the Federal Trade Commission
and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
(AP, 9/22/97)(HNQ, 6/13/98)
1958 Sep 22, The nuclear submarine
USS Skate remained a record 31 days under the North Pole.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1959 Sep 22, The first telephone
cable linking Europe and the United States was inaugurated.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1959 Sep 22, Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev visited San Francisco and dropped in at the ILWU union hall
near Fisherman’s Wharf.
(SSFC, 9/20/09, DB p.50)
1960 Sep 22, Mali became an
independent republic. Pres. Modibo Keita was elected the first
president and introduced a one-party dictatorship.
(www.angelfire.com/ri/georgev/bg8.html)
1961 Sep 22, President John
Kennedy signed a congressional act establishing the Peace Corps. The
government-funded volunteer organization was created to fight hunger,
disease, illiteracy, poverty, and lack of opportunity around the world.
(HN, 9/22/98)(MC, 9/22/01)
1961 Sep 22, Marion Davies,
actress (Not So Dumb, 5 & 10), died of cancer at 64.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1964 Sep 22, The musical "Fiddler
on the Roof" opened at Imperial Theater on Broadway, beginning a run of
3,242 performances.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1964 Sep 22, "Man from U.N.C.L.E,"
premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 9/22/04)
1964 Sep 22, McGeorge Bundy, the
national security advisor, warned Pres. Johnson that a campaign speech
was open to a charge of deception. Johnson sought to portray Goldwater
as an extremist and claimed strict presidential control of the nuclear
arsenal.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A5)
1965 Sep 22, Pres. Johnson
designated Columbus Day a federal public holiday to be celebrated on
Oct. 12. In 1968 He moved it to the 2nd Monday of October. In 2004
Pres. Bush set it to Oct 11.
(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=27311)(http://tinyurl.com/ppcdwp)
1965 Sep 22, Pakistan agreed to
the UN brokered cease-fire that India affirmed the day before. [see Jan
10, 1966]
(HNQ, 4/26/99)
1966 Sep 22, Edward Albee's
"Delicate Balance," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1969 Sep 22, Willie Mays of the
San Francisco Giants became the first baseball player since Babe Ruth
to hit 600 home runs.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1969 Sep 22, Susan Nason (8) of
Foster City, Ca., was bludgeoned to death. Her body was found 2 months
later near Crystal Springs. In Dec 1989 Nason's neighbor and
schoolmate, Eileen Franklin-Lipsker, told police that she suddenly
remembered seeing her father batter her friend and hide the body. In
1990 George Franklin was convicted in the first case to use
recovered-memory testimony. Franklin was released after 6 1/2 years
when a federal judge ruled a mistrial. DNA evidence showed Franklin was
not responsible.
(SFC, 2/4/00, p.A21)(SSFC, 2/8/04,
p.A28)(http://tinyurl.com/9hl2at)
1969 Sep 22, Aleksandras
Stulginskis (b.1885), the 2nd president of Lithuania, died in Kaunas.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandras_Stulginskis)
1970 Sep 22, President Richard M.
Nixon signed a bill giving the District of Columbia representation in
the U.S. Congress. Pres Nixon requested 1,000 new FBI agents for
college campuses.
(HN, 9/22/98)(http://tinyurl.com/5qrct8)
1970 Sep 22, Abdul Razak
(1922-1976) became Malaysia’s 2nd prime minister.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_Abdul_Razak)
1973 Sep 22, Henry Kissinger
(b.1923), German-born American bureaucrat, was sworn in as America's
1st Jewish Secretary of State, the 1st time a naturalized citizen held
this office. In 2009 Alistair Horne authored “Kissinger: 1973, The
Crucial Year.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger)(Econ,
7/11/09, p.85)
1973 Sep 22, Dallas-Fort Worth
International Airport was dedicated. It was constructed to accommodate
the new jumbo jets.
(Hem., 5/97, p.70)(AP, 9/22/98)
1973 Sep 22, In Chile Michael
Woodward (42), a suspended priest, died. He had been taken into custody
by security forces in the port city of Valparaiso on Sep. 16, 1973.
Woodward was allegedly tortured with other detainees on at least two
navy ships used as detention centers. In 2008 retired admirals Sergio
Barros, Guillermo Aldoney and Adolfo Walbaum and retired navy captains
Sergio Barra and Ricardo Riesgo were indicted for the kidnapping and
torture of Woodward and other members of leftist groups.
(AP, 4/18/08)
1975 Sep 22, President Gerald R.
Ford dodged a second assassination in less than three weeks. Sara Jane
Moore, an FBI informer and self-proclaimed revolutionary, attempted to
shoot President Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed. A
bullet she fired slightly wounded a man in the crowd. Moore was
sentenced to life in prison, but was paroled at the end of 2007 after
serving over 30 years without getting into trouble.
(AP, 9/22/97)(SFC, 1/1/08, p.A1)
1976 Sep 22, Pres. Ferdinand
Marcos of the Philippines signed Presidential Order 1017 "protecting
the Tasaday and other unexplored cultural communities from unauthorized
entry." In 1971 Manuel Elizalde had described the Tasaday on Mindanao
as a lost Stone Age tribe. In 1986 it was reported that the Tasaday
story was a hoax. In 2003 Robin Hemley authored "Invented Eden: The
Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday," in which he confirmed the
Tasaday as a Stone Age tribe.
(SSFC, 6/22/03,
p.M1)(www.lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1976/pd_1017_1976.html)
1979 Sep 22, A 2-3 kiloton
thermonuclear device was set off in the waters off Bouvet Island, a
little-visited possession of Norway located between the bottom of South
Africa and the Prince Astrid Coast of Antarctica. The list of suspects
quickly narrowed to South Africa and Israel.
(SFCM, 9/25/05,
p.6)(www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/israel/nuke-test.htm)
1979 Sep 22, Abul Ala Mawdudi
(b.1903), Indian-born writer, died. He encouraged terrorism in the name
of Jihad.
(WSJ, 4/4/08,
p.W5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abul_Ala_Maududi)
1980 Sep 22, John Lennon signed
with Geffen Records. The Lennon LP, "Double Fantasy", was released on
Geffen. Lennon was assassinated on December 8, 1980.
(www.jpgr.co.uk/k99131.html)
1980 Sep 22-1980 Oct 9, The
unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks took place in Buffalo, NY.
(http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id104.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/35msbe)
1980 Sep 22, Iraq under Saddam
Hussein invaded Iran following border skirmishes and a dispute over the
Shatt al-Arab waterway. This marked the beginning of a war that would
last eight years. Iraq invaded Iran striking refineries and an
oil-loading terminal on Kharg Island. The Iraqis used the political
instability in Iran to try to capture long-disputed territory. They
attacked across the Shatt al Arab River, a trunk of the great
Tigris-Euphrates river system.
{Iraq, Iran, Oil}
(http://tinyurl.com/2n5z2f)(AP, 9/22/97)(NG, 5/88,
p.653,663)
(AP, 9/22/97)(NG, 5/88, p.653,663)
1980 Sep 22, Solidarity formally
was founded, when delegates of 36 regional trade unions met in Gdansk,
Poland, and united under the name Solidarnosc.
(www.historyguide.org/europe/walesa.html)
1982 Sep 22, San Francisco's
famous cable cars made a final run before closing down for a 20-month,
$60 million renovation.
(AP, 9/22/02)
1985 Sep 22, Rock and country
music artists participated in FarmAid, a concert staged in Champaign,
Ill., to help the nation's farmers. The first Farm Aid concert was held
to support problems facing US farmers and their families.
(SFEC, 10/13/96, p.A9)(AP, 9/22/05)
1985 Sep 22, In the 37th Emmy
Awards the winners included Cagney & Lacey, Cosby Show and Tyne
Daly.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Emmy_Awards/1985)
1985 Sep 22, In NYC ministers of
America, Japan, West Germany, France and Britain (the Group of Five,
G-5) unified and adopted the Plaza Accord for currency intervention and
struggled to control capital exchange-rate movements. Led by the US
Treasury's Sec. James Baker, it was the first effort to restore some
semblance of order to the monetary system since the collapse of the
postwar Breton Woods gold-anchored finance systems in the early 1970s.
In the wake of the accord the dollar lost almost 30% of its value.
(www.g7.utoronto.ca/finance/fm850922.htm)(WSJ,
3/8/04, p.A2)(Econ, 10/9/04, p.72)
1985 Sep 22, The body of Betty
Stuart (22) was found at Aquatic Park in Berkeley, Ca. In 2008
prosecutors using DNA evidence said Anthony McKnight (54), already in
prison for rape and attempted murder, was responsible for her murder.
He had been arrested in 1986 and was already serving a 63 year sentence
for the rape and murder of 3 other women. In 2008 McKnight, a former
sailor, was convicted on an additional 5 counts of first-degree murder.
(SFC, 7/17/08, p.B2)(SFC, 9/18/08, p.B2)
1985 Sep 22, In France the premier
confessed to the June 10 attack of Green Peace's Rainbow Warrior.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace)
1985 Sep 22, Axel Springer
(b.1912), German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer)
1987 Sep 22, On Wall Street, the
stock market surged higher. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 75.23
points (the largest one-day gain recorded to that time), closing at
2,568.05.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1987 Sep 22, Dan Rowan, actor
(Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), died at 65.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rowan)
1989 Sep 22, Irving Berlin, one of
America's most prolific songwriters, died in New York City at age 101.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1989 Sep 22, An IRA-bomb killed 10
British marines in Kent.
(http://tinyurl.com/lsjdw)
1990 Sep 22, Saudi Arabia expelled
most of the Yemeni and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh, accusing them of
unspecified “activities jeopardizing the peace and security of the
kingdom.”
(AP, 9/22/00)
1991 Sep 22, California’s
Huntington Library said it would make microfilm copies of the Dead Sea
Scrolls available to the public.
(www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/DeadSeaScrolls.html)
1991 Sep 22, The London newspaper
The Mail published an interview with former intelligence agent John
Cairncross, who admitted being the “fifth man” in the Soviet Union's
notorious British spy ring.
(AP, 9/22/01)
1992 Sep 22, President Bush vetoed
a family and medical leave bill. A similar legislation was later
enacted.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 22, Former US Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger denounced as a "flat-out lie" an
allegation that he and other officials had known American servicemen
were left behind when the war in Southeast Asia ended.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 22, The U.N. General
Assembly voted to expel Yugoslavia.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1993 Sep 22, President Clinton
previewed his health care reform package in an address to a nationally
broadcast session of Congress.
(AP, 9/22/98)
1993 Sep 22, Forty-seven people
were killed when an Amtrak passenger train derailed and crashed into
Bayou Canot near Mobile, Ala.
(AP, 9/22/98)
1993 Sep 22, The space shuttle
"Discovery" and its five astronauts landed at Kennedy Space Center,
ending a 10-day mission.
(AP, 9/22/98)
1993 Sep 22, Russia’s President
Boris Yeltsin disbanded the Supreme Soviet. Yeltsin issued Decree No.
1400 that dissolved the Congress on the ground that the president as a
guarantor of the spirit of the constitution could not let a legal
deadlock last. Hard-line supporters of the legislature soon rebelled
and over 100 people died in Moscow.
(www.cs.indiana.edu/~dmiguse/Russian/bybio.html)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.A10)
1994 Sep 22, The United States
stepped up its military control of Haiti, breaking up heavy weapons,
guarding pro-democracy activists and giving U.S. troops more leeway to
use force.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1994 Sep 22, Pope John Paul II,
recovering from hip-replacement surgery, canceled his U.S. trip,
planned for October.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1994 Sep 22, In Tolunda, Angola,
faulty brakes caused a train to plunge into a ravine and some 300
people were killed.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)(AP, 2/18/04)
1995 Sep 22, Steve Forbes, US
Publishing tycoon, announced a latecomer bid for the Republican
presidential nomination.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 22, Both sides rested in
the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 22, Time Warner struck a
$7.5 billion deal to buy Turner Broadcasting System Incorporated.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 22, An AWACS plane
carrying US and Canadian military personnel crashed on takeoff from
Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, killing all 24 people
aboard.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1996 Sep 22, Reform Party nominee
Ross Perot denounced the decision to exclude him from the presidential
debates, telling NBC that Bob Dole had "poisoned the attitude" of
millions of independent voters that Republicans desperately needed to
win.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1996 Sep 22, Actress Dorothy
Lamour died at her North Hollywood home at age 81.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A6)(AP, 9/22/97)
1996 Sep 22, In Afghanistan the
Taliban guerrillas swept through 3 south-eastern provinces over the
last 2 weeks and now control about 2/3 of the country.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A9)
1996 Sep 22, In Australia Bob Dent
became the first person to kill himself legally under the world’s only
voluntary euthanasia law.
(SFC, 9/27/96, p.A13)
1996 Sep 22, In Greece the
governing socialists won the elections and gave Prime Minister Simitas
about 162 of 300 deputies in the Parliament.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A9)
1996 Sep 22, Mexico’s Civic
Alliance began asking questions of accountability of the leadership.
Pres. Zedillo claims to make $8,000 a month, but he has a secret fund
of $86 million approved by Congress.
(SFC, 9/22/96, Parade p.30)
1996 Sep 22, In South Korea the
captain of the North Korean submarine, recently grounded, was tracked
down and killed. Another infiltrator and 2 South Korean soldiers were
also killed in 2 clashes.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A10)
1996 Sep 22, In Sri Lanka the
military said it killed or wounded 200 Tamil rebels with a loss of 30
government troops.
(WSJ, 9/24/96, p.A1)
1997 Sep 22, Elton John released
his Diana tribute "Candle in the Wind 1997."
(www.vex.net/~paulmac/elton/ej1997.html)
1997 Sep 22, President Clinton,
addressing the United Nations, told world leaders to "end all nuclear
tests for all time" as he sent the long-delayed global test-ban treaty
to the Senate.
(AP, 9/22/98)
1997 Sep 22, Sportscaster Marv
Albert went on trial in Arlington, Va., on charges of sodomy and
assault. Albert later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault, received
no jail time and later had his record cleared.
(AP, 9/22/02)
1997 Sep 22, In the farming
village of Roby, Illinois, a standoff between police and Shirley Allen
(51) began that turned into a 5-week police siege. Her brother
initially showed up with a court order for a psychiatric exam and she
refused to comply. She was finally captured after being shot with
rubber bullets. Shirley Ann Allen was apprehended when she stepped out
onto her porch on October 30, 1997. Illinois State Police officers
fired several large rubber bullets at her from a grenade launcher,
striking her several times. Apparently not seriously injured, Allen was
taken to St. Johns Hospital in Springfield, Illinois for her
"evaluation." Ending on Thursday, October 30, 1997 a 39-day police
siege, the longest in Illinois history. According to Illinois State
Police Director Terry Gainer between $750,000 and $1,000,000 of
taxpayer money was spent during the stand-off. After six weeks in a
mental hospital, Allen was released when doctors said she posed no
danger to herself or others.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A3)(SFC,10/31/97,
p.A3)(www.outlawslegal.com/friendly/shirley.htm)
1997 Sep 22, It was reported that
IBM has developed a new copper chip that will be smaller and up to 40%
more powerful than previous chips.
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A3)
1997 Sep 22, It was reported that
scientists had developed a new technology that takes the flicker out of
starlight using “adaptive optics.”
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A5)
1997 Sep 22, Shoichi Yokoi
(b.1915), Japanese WW II fighter who only surrendered in 1972, died.
For 28 years he had hid in an underground jungle cave on Guam, fearing
to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World
War II had ended.
(www.wanpela.com/holdouts/profiles/yokoi.html)
1997 Sep 22, In Serbia the
Socialist Party of Slobodan Milosevic claimed victory in the elections.
Many of his opponents boycotted the elections which they said were
rigged. Zoran Lilic was expected to take the presidency. A majority was
not won and a run-off election was scheduled for Oct 5.
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A8)(SFC, 9/23/97, p.A10)
1998 Sep 22, Congressional
Republicans worked to snuff out new talk of a punishment for President
Clinton short of impeachment, an idea floated by Democrats as polls
showed most Americans opposed Clinton's removal from office.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1998 Sep 22, The U.S. and Russia
agreed to help Russia privatize its nuclear program and stop the export
of scientists and plutonium.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1998 Sep 22, Hurricane Georges hit
the Dominican Republic and at least 12 people were killed. Three people
were killed in St. Kitts, 2 in Antigua and 4 in Puerto Rico.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 22, In Ethiopia the
government said that 2,000 Eritreans had been expelled over the past
week bringing the total to 6,500. It charged that Eritrea had forced
out 17,000 Ethiopians.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 22, In NYC Mohammad
Khatami, Pres. of Iran, said that the 10-year fatwa (religious edict
for the death of Rushdie) over author Salman Rushdie is “completely
finished.”
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A11)(SFC, 9/25/98, p.A13)
1998 Sep 22, In Japan Typhoon
Vicki killed 9 people and injured over 100.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 22, In Kosovo Serbian
troops began an offensive against the last of stronghold of ethnic
Albanian separatists. Many rebels were reported killed.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 22, South African troops
poured over the border into Lesotho and 30 people were reported killed.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A12)
1999 Sep 22, Shania Twain won best
entertainer while the Dixie Chicks picked up three trophies, including
best vocal group, at the Country Music Association Awards.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1999 Sep 22, The US Justice
Department filed a huge lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/22/00)
1999 Sep 22, The FBI hit a big
Mexican drug ring, formerly run by Amado Carillo Fuentes, with 93
arrests in the US and the Dominican Republic.
(WSJ, 9/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 22, George Campbell Scott
(b.1927), Hollywood actor, died at his Southern California home at age
71. His films included "Dr. Strangelove" and "Patton."
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)(AP, 9/22/00)
1999 Sep 22, In Brazil the Chamber
of Deputies voted 394 to 41 to expel Hildebrando Pascoal, a 1st term
congressman from Acre state, for "lack of parliamentary decorum."
Hildebrando was accused of torture, mass murder and int'l. drug
trafficking but had been immune due to his congressional status.
Pascoal surrendered to federal police the next day.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.C16)(SFC, 9/24/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 22, In East Timor armed
men killed a Dutch journalist and assaulted 2 others as Australian
peacekeepers fanned out from Dili and collected weapons from
pro-Jakarta militia.
(WSJ, 9/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 22, Kyrgyzstan jets
bombed Islamic militants near the villages of Sai and Syrt in the
mountainous Osh region. Officials claimed that 30 rebels were killed.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 22, A bombing attempt was
made in Ryazan, western Russia. The people arrested were not Chechens
and later pronounced to be Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on a
training exercise.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A22)(http://piurl.com/5K)
1999 Sep 22, Serbs quit the
multiethnic council working with the UN to administer Kosovo following
the establishment of the Kosovo Protection Corps out of the KLA.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A10)
2000 Sep 22, The Cincinnati
Symphony premiered “The Millennium Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra” by
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The work was commissioned by 27 orchestras.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.C9)
2000 Sep 22, Pres. Clinton moved
to release 30 million barrels of crude oil from the nation’s
570-million-barrel emergency stockpile in a future’s market exchange to
alleviate winter fuel costs.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 22, The US Federal
Reserve joined counterparts in Europe and Japan to intervene in
currency markets in support of the euro. G7 action supported the euro.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.D1)(Econ, 3/29/08, p.100)
2000 Sep 22, The US government web
site firstgov.gov, a consolidation of 20,000 government sites, made its
debut. Eric Brewer of Inktomi led the project.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.B1)
2000 Sep 22, Kraft Foods recalled
all taco shells sold nationwide in supermarkets under the Taco Bell
brand after tests confirmed they were made with StarLink, a genetically
engineered corn not approved for human consumption.
(AP, 9/22/01)
2000 Sep 22, In the Czech Republic
hundreds of anti-nuclear protestors from Austria, Germany and the Czech
Republic called for a halt to activation of the Temelin plant located
near the Austrian border to allow for safety and environmental tests.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 22, France allowed a
chartered aircraft with humanitarian personnel to fly to Baghdad.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A8)
2000 Sep 22, Venezuela’s Pres.
Chavez announced his 1st major spending program. The $2.1 billion plan
included $819 million for infrastructure and $756 million for social
programs. The rest was for economic stimuli, technology and security.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A11)
2001 Sep 22, President Bush
consulted at length with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the United
States mustered a military assault on terrorism in the wake of Sept. 11.
(AP, 9/22/02)
2001 Sep 22, Pres. Bush lifted
sanctions on India and Pakistan.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 22, Pres. Bush signed the
$15 billion aid package for the nation’s airline industry.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 22, Katie Harman, Miss
Oregon, was crowned in Atlantic City, N.J., Miss America for 2002.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A27)(AP, 9/22/02)
2001 Sep 22, Isaac Stern (b.1920),
Ukraine born Jewish immigrant to the US and legendary violinist, died.
In 1960 he saved Carnegie Hall from the wrecking ball.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A24)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Sep 22, In Afghanistan there
was heavy fighting in the northern provinces of Balkh and Samangan. 39
Taliban were reported killed along with 2 opposition fighters.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 22, Pope John Paul II
arrived in Kazakstan with good wishes for Islamic leaders and for “all
people of good will” who seek peace.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A27)
2001 Sep 22, Pakistan confirmed
that it had pulled its senior diplomats out of Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 22, The United Arab
Emirates (UAR) cut relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)
2002 Sep 22, The White House drama
"The West Wing" won its third consecutive Emmy as best drama series;
Jennifer Aniston won for best actress in Friends, which won for the
best comedy series.
(SFC, 9/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 22, Gerhard Schroeder's
Social Democrats held onto power in Germany's closest postwar election,
but the chancellor will face a tougher opposition as he tries to reduce
unemployment and revive the economy. The parliamentary elections pitted
center-left Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder against conservative
challenger, Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber.
(Reuters, 9/22/02)(AP, 9/23/02)
2002 Sep 22, In the Ivory Coast
thousands of angry civilians marched through a rebel-held city of
Bouake, screaming anti-government slogans and cheering the insurgents
behind this West African nation's bloodiest military uprising.
(AP, 9/22/02)
2002 Sep 22, In Kashmir 6 police
were wounded and one Muslim militant killed following an attack on a
police compound in Srinagar.
(SSFC, 9/22/02, p.A12)
2002 Sep 22, In Nepal Maoist
rebels fighting the constitutional monarchy have called for a three-day
countrywide strike aimed at disrupting general elections slated to
begin on November 13. The army killed 76 rebels over the last 2 days.
(Reuters, 9/22/02)(SFC, 9/23/02, p.A8)(SFC, 9/24/02,
p.A13)
2002 Sep 22, Thousands of
Palestinians, many defying military curfews, poured into West Bank and
Gaza streets to protest Israel's assault on Yasser Arafat's
headquarters, and 5 demonstrators were killed by army fire.
(AP, 9/22/02)(WSJ, 9/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 22, Switzerland held a
referendum on the use of tons of "excess" gold sold weekly from the
vaults of Switzerland's central bank. The government wants to split the
money three ways: a third to Swiss cantons, or states, a third to its
social security program exclusively for Swiss residents and a third to
be divided evenly between self-help projects for use at home and abroad.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2003 Sep 22, California signed
into law a privacy bill, effective Jul 1, 2004, that prevents use of
vehicle recorded data without the consent of the owner. GM began
installing data boxes in the 1970s.
(SFC, 9/23/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 22, Actor Gordon Jump
died at age 71.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2003 Sep 22, Hugo Young (b.1938),
British political columnist for the Sunday Times and the Guardian,
died. In 2008 Ion Trewin edited “The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of
British Politics – Off the Record.”
(Econ, 11/29/08, p.86)
2003 Sep 22, In Haiti the
bullet-riddled body of Amiot Metayer (39) was found, more than a year
after he escaped from prison and allegedly went on a rampage
terrorizing government opponents. 3 days of protests followed the news.
(AP, 9/23/03)(SFC, 9/26/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 22, A suicide bomber, his
body wrapped in explosives and his car filled with 50 pounds of TNT,
struck a police checkpoint outside UN headquarters in Baghdad, killing
an Iraqi policeman who stopped him and wounding 19 people.
(AP, 9/22/03)
2003 Sep 22, NATO selected Dutch
Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as the alliance's new secretary
general.
(AP, 9/22/03)
2003 Sep 22, The jawbone of a
cave-man living in what is now Romania, found in 2002 in Pestera cu
Oase, was reported as the oldest fossil from an early modern human to
be found in Europe. It was carbon-dated to between 34,000 and 36,000
years ago.
(AP, 9/22/03)
2003 Sep 22, In Uganda a speeding
bus plowed head-on into a truck loaded with relief food destined for
Burundi, killing 46 people and injuring 33 others.
(AP, 9/22/03)
2004 Sep 22, The US FCC fined CBS
$550,000 for Janet Jackson’s Feb 1 breast exposure.
(SFC, 9/23/04, p.A7)
2004 Sep 22, Federal prosecutors
indicted Sanjay Kumar, former chief of Computer Associates, saying he
helped orchestrate accounting fraud. Stephen Richards, head of sales,
was also named in the 10-count indictment.
(WSJ, 9/23/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 22, The new $600 million
Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, named after the former
Oregon Senator (1967-1997), opened in Bethesda, Md., as the latest
addition to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
(SSFC, 3/27/05, Par
p.17)(www.news-medical.net/?id=4963)
2004 Sep 22, In southern Brazil a
school bus swerved off a narrow road and plunged into a reservoir,
killing at least 16 children.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, Six members of the
same family were hanged in Egypt after being convicted for the
revenge-killing of 22 members of a rival family two years ago.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, The European
Commission approved a multi-billion pound bailout of the nuclear group
British Energy, after securing guarantees that the company would not
breach EU competition rules.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, The European Union
agreed in principle to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure
from Italy.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, France signaled it
will slash its public overspending next year to come into line with EU
rules in a 2005 budget published today and forecast economic growth of
2.5 percent.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, In Haiti, the death
toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne topped 1,000.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2004 Sep 22, Indian officials said
they have fenced nearly 40 percent of the porous border with Bangladesh
and would fence the entire frontier by March 2006 to prevent movement
of insurgents, illegal immigrants and smuggling.
(Reuters, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, In India's
mountainous northeast 10 people, including a state government minister
and two lawmakers, were killed in a helicopter crash.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, Four Islamic
militants were killed in a clash with Indian troops along the disputed
border in Kashmir on the eve of a summit between the two countries'
leaders.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 22, In Iraq kidnappers
seized 4 Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile
phone company.
(AP, 9/24/04)
2004 Sep 22, British hostage
Kenneth Bigley appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site
weeping and pleading for his life. He was later beheaded by his captors.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2004 Sep 22, Suicide attackers
detonated a car bomb near an Iraqi National Guard recruiting center in
west Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 54. US aircraft
and tanks attacked Shiite militia positions in fierce fighting in
Baghdad's Sadr City slum, killing 10 people and injuring 92 others.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, A Palestinian suicide
bomber blew herself up near a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem. 2 Israeli
police officers were killed.
(AP, 9/22/04)(SFC, 9/23/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 22, On the 2nd day of the
General Assembly's ministerial meeting the UN Security Council
highlighted the need for more military and civilian cooperation to
rebuild war-torn nations, while the secretary-general called for more
resources and a more practical approach to international peacekeeping
efforts.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 22, Zimbabwe's government
dismissed reports of dozens of deaths linked to malnutrition as lies
peddled by detractors and insisted the nation has more food than it
needs.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2005 Sep 22, John Roberts'
nomination as chief justice cleared the US Senate Judiciary Committee
on a bipartisan vote of 13-5.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2005 Sep 22, Hurricane Rita,
weakened to Category 4 status, closed on the Texas coast, sending
hundreds of thousands of people fleeing on a frustratingly slow,
bumper-to-bumper exodus.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2005 Sep 22, Delta Air Lines Inc.
said it will cut up to 9,000 jobs, or 17% of the work force at its
flagship service, and reduce pay and make changes to its route network
to focus more on international flying as it moves swiftly to
restructure its costs in bankruptcy.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, A group of Hong Kong
investors purchased the Bank of America Center in San Francisco for
$1.05 billion. Donald Trump had in interest in the deal from a previous
sale by the investment group in NYC.
(WSJ, 9/23/05, p.B3)
2005 Sep 22, In Massachusetts
Holli Strickland (33) died of gunshot wounds, along with her
grandmother Constance F. Young (71) in what police said was either a
double suicide or murder-suicide in Young's West Springfield apartment.
They had been released from jail 2 days earlier following charges of
severe abuse of Haleigh Poutre (11) was hospitalized in a vegetative
state after her brain stem was partly sheared.
(SFC, 12/6/05, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/7jeol)
2005 Sep 22, Boxer Leavander
Johnson (35) died from injuries suffered in a Sep 17 Los Vegas boxing
match with Jesus Chavez. The match was telecast on HBO.
(WSJ, 9/29/05, p.D10)
2005 Sep 22, In southern
Afghanistan 10 insurgents and an Afghan soldier were killed in an
operation to arrest a top Taliban commander.
(AFP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Algeria Al
Qaeda-aligned Islamic militants killed 10 people, including seven
soldiers, in separate ambushes. The ambushes were blamed on the GSPC,
which is split on whether to support a September 29 referendum on a
partial amnesty in exchange for laying down their arms.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Britain 8
Zimbabwean soccer players and two officials deserted their teams after
a tour, joining thousands of fellow citizens who have sought refuge
abroad over a serious political and economic crisis at home.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Colombia suspected
rebels killed 10 police officers driving down a remote highway outside
La Cruz, ambushing their truck with gunfire and homemade gas cylinder
bombs.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, Alberto Giraldo (70),
the journalist who spent five years in jail for his role in the Cali
cocaine cartel's funding of former Colombian President Ernesto Samper's
election campaign, died. Viviana Leon, his 2nd wife, said that before
his death Giraldo wrote a book, yet to be published, detailing how Cali
cartel bosses Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela donated $5 million
to Samper's successful 1994 run for the presidency.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, France announced
financial incentives for parents to have a 3rd child, hoping to boost
its fertility rate by helping people to better juggle the demands of
work and family life.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, In India police said
4 Maoist rebels were killed in two separate gunbattles with police in
the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
(AFP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, An Indonesian court
sentenced the last of six Muslim militants accused in the 2004 suicide
bombing at the Australian Embassy to 10 years in prison for helping the
alleged masterminds carry out the attack.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, British troops in the
city of Basra greatly reduced their presence in the streets, apparently
responding to a provincial governor's call to sever cooperation until
London apologized for storming a police station to free two of its
soldiers.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, About 150 clerics and
tribal leaders from Iraq's Sunni Arab minority called for the rejection
of the country's draft constitution in an upcoming referendum, saying
that it would lead to the fragmentation of Iraq. Small arms fire in
Ramadi killed one US soldier.
(AP, 9/22/05)(SFC, 9/24/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 22, Japan's finance
ministry said government debt, already the highest in the
industrialized world, rose 1.7% to a record high of 795.8 trillion yen
($7.1 trillion) at the end of June.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Japan Sony Corp.
said it will cut about 10,000 jobs, close 11 plants and shrink or
terminate 15 unprofitable operations in an ambitious restructuring bid
to revive its stumbling electronics business.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Nigeria police
said Moujahid Dokubo-Asari, a separatist militia leader, will be
charged with treason, a capital offense. His arrest set off tense
protests in the oil heartland. Dokubo-Asari said his Ijaw ethnic group
and the other people of the Niger delta should break away from Nigeria
and take control of the billions of dollars of oil flowing from their
land.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, Boatloads of Nigerian
guerrilla fighters armed with rifles, machetes and dynamite launched a
drive to hijack oil installations in the waterways of the Niger Delta,
after a judge jailed their leader.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Pakistan 2
bombings in Lahore killed six people and injured 26.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, Peru's Congress
passed legislation that would require public institutions to consider
open-source software as an alternative to proprietary systems such as
Windows.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 22, A Russian court
rejected Mikhail Khodorkovsky's appeal of his conviction on fraud and
tax evasion charges, but reduced the oil tycoon's prison sentence from
9 years to 8.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Scotland a judge
sentenced a British lord to 16 months in prison for causing a fire at a
hotel. Lord Mike Watson (56) admitted to setting fire to a curtain
after having several drinks at the Scottish Politician of the Year
awards ceremony in Edinburgh on Nov. 12.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, South Africa's
government moved for the first time to seize land from a white farmer,
saying that negotiations to buy the property to hand over to black
claimants were taking too long.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, Ukrainian President
Viktor Yushchenko forged an awkward alliance with Viktor Yanukovych's
Party of the Regions, his archrival and Orange Revolution enemy, to get
his choice for new PM through parliament. Parliament approved Yuriy
Yekhanurov with 289 votes.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2006 Sep 22, US President George
W. Bush and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf met at the White
House for key anti-terror talks jarred by his public critiques of US
strategy.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, It was reported that
11 Domino's employees in Pensacola, Fla., hoping to make a little more
dough and get a bigger slice of the profits have formed the nation's
first union of pizza delivery drivers.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, The new list of
Forbes 400 richest people in the US for the 1st time was composed only
of billionaires. As a group they were worth a record $1.3 trillion.
(WSJ, 9/23/06, p.B3)
2006 Sep 22, The US CDC
recommended that all Americans between 13 and 64 be routinely tested
for AIDS.
(Econ, 9/30/06,
p.40)(www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5514a1.htm)
2006 Sep 22, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Chairwoman Patricia Dunn resigned in the wake of the company's
ill-fated investigation of boardroom media leaks.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2006 Sep 22, Edward Albert
(b.1951), television and screen actor, died of lung cancer in Malibu,
California. He had a meteoric career as a film star in the 1970s after
he starred with Goldie Hawn in “Butterflies Are Free” (1972). He also
starred in “40 Carats” (1973), “The Ice Runner” (1993), and “Guarding
Tess” (1994). Albert was a dedicated environmentalist and worked with
several groups, including the California Coastal Commission and the
state's Native American Heritage Commission.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albert)
2006 Sep 22, In southern
Afghanistan militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers,
killing 19 of the laborers. The attack occurred in Kandahar province
when a roadside bomb exploded near the bus. A NATO helicopter killed 15
suspected insurgents in Helmand province.
(AP, 9/22/06)(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 22, Enrique Gorriaran
Merlo (65), a former Argentine rebel, died. He claimed that he led the
squad that killed exiled Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1980.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Shanghai health
officials added 3 more items to a list of toxic metals in SK-II
products, made in Japan by US consumer products giant Procter and
Gamble. P&G has pulled its popular SK-II line of beauty products
off the shelf after authorities a week earlier discovered traces of the
two toxic metals in nine SK-II products including powder, foundation,
lotion and cleansing oil products. The company said a hotline had been
set up and that all refund requests submitted by September 21 would be
honored.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, Democratic Republic
of Congo's first freely elected parliament in more than 40 years
convened, with President Joseph Kabila's coalition poised to appoint a
prime minister.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, France and Russia
signed deals in the transport and aviation sectors worth 10 billion
dollars following a summit between Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin and his
French counterpart Jacques Chirac.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 22, Yvan Keller (46),
arrested a week earlier in France’s eastern city of Mulhouse in
connection with a robbery, hanged himself while in custody. Mr. Keller
admitted to killing dozens of elderly women who lived alone, all within
40 miles of Mulhouse, in the border region straddling France,
Switzerland and Germany, starting in 1989.
(www.newagebd.com/2006/sep/27/inat.html)
2006 Sep 22, Voters in Gambia went
to the polls in a presidential election widely expected to hand
incumbent strongman Yahya Jammeh a third elected term.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In northwestern
Germany the high-speed, Transrapid magnetic train, traveling at 125
mph, crashed. 23 of the 29 people aboard were killed and others injured
in the first fatal wreck involving the high-tech system. A gas tank
exploded in a bakery in a south German village, burying a dozen people
in the rubble and injuring several more.
(AP, 9/22/06)(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 22, India’s High Court
overturned a ban on the production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi soft
drinks in the southern Indian state of Kerala, but state officials said
they would seek ways to challenge the decision.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Indonesia
Christian mobs torched cars, blockaded roads and looted Muslim-owned
shops in violence touched off by the execution in Central Sulawesi of 3
Roman Catholics convicted of instigating attacks on Muslims. Fabianus
Tibo (60), Marinus Riwu (48), and Dominggus da Silva (42), were found
guilty of leading a Christian militia that launched a series of attacks
on Muslims in May, 2000, that left at least 70 people dead. Some 200
prisoners escaped in the town of Atambua, and only 20 had been
recaptured by mid-afternoon.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Iraq gunmen opened
fire on Sunni mosques and homes in a religiously mixed Baghdad
neighborhood, killing four people in an attack that drew the
condemnation of Sunni leaders across the city. Muntasir Hamoud Ileiwi
al-Jubouri, an alleged leader of Ansar al-Sunnah, and two of his aides
were captured. He is a leader of the group believed to be behind the
2004 attack on a US military mess hall. An American contractor working
for the State Department was killed in a rocket attack in the southern
city of Basra. Police found the blindfolded and bound bodies of nine
men from a Sunni tribe who had been dragged out of a wedding dinner in
east Baghdad the night before by men dressed in Iraqi army uniforms.
Four other bodies were found in other parts of the capital, again
blindfolded and with their hands and legs tied.
(AP, 9/22/06)(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 22, Israelis marked the
Jewish New Year shaken by the inconclusive war in Lebanon, angry at
their leaders and coping with growing gaps between rich and poor.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, Some 800,000
Hezbollah supporters packed a 37-acre square in the suburbs of Beirut
to hear leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. In his first public appearance
since the start of his group's 34-day war with Israel, he said his
group has more than 20,000 rockets, and that an increased UN
peacekeeping force will not hurt its guerrillas' arsenal.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.A7)(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 22, Nepal's interim
parliament passed a new law imposing tighter civilian control over the
army which was once fiercely loyal to the nation's royal family.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Norway police
accused four men suspected in an attack on Oslo's main synagogue of
also plotting to blow up the US and Israeli embassies. The men were
arrested Sep 19 in connection with an attack on the Mosaic Religious
Community synagogue, which was hit with at least 10 bullets on Sep 17.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, Palestinian PM Ismail
Haniyeh of Hamas said he will not head a government that recognizes
Israel, striking a potential blow to President Mahmoud Abbas' attempts
to create a national unity government.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2007 Sep 22, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice met with Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki at the United
Nations in their first face-to-face talks since a Baghdad shootout
involving guards from a US company protecting American diplomats.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2007 Sep 22, Afghan authorities
said they had seized dozens of Iranian and Chinese-made weapons after a
brief battle with Taliban fighters near the border with Iran. In
northern Afghanistan NATO helicopters fired on a group of suspected
insurgents in response to a rocket attack. Four Afghans died and 12
were wounded. 2 Italian soldiers and their two Afghan staff on a
weekend patrol disappeared in western Afghanistan. In southern Zabul
province the Taliban kidnapped three Afghan men accused of spying for
the US and executed them.
(AP, 9/22/07)(AP, 9/23/07)
2007 Sep 22, At least 25,000
textile workers defied a ban on protests in emergency-ruled Bangladesh
to demand back-pay and bonuses in one of the country's biggest
industrial zones.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Marcel Marceau
(b.1923), the world's best-known mime artist, died in Paris, France.
For decades he moved audiences across the globe without uttering a
single word.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7009040.stm)(Econ, 9/29/07,
p.91)
2007 Sep 22, Gunmen ambushed an
Iraqi police checkpoint in Baqouba, killing one officer and wounding
five others. A civilian was killed in Khalis, a Shiite enclave near
Baqouba in the volatile Diyala province, when gunmen opened fire on his
car. An American soldier was killed and another wounded when an EFP hit
their patrol in eastern Baghdad.
(AP, 9/22/07)(AP, 9/23/07)
2007 Sep 22, In the central
Myanmar city of Mandalay, a crowd of 10,000 people, including at least
4,000 Buddhist monks, marched in one of the largest demonstrations
since the 1988 democracy uprising. About 1,000 monks, led by one
holding his begging bowl upturned as a sign of protest, marched in
Yangon for a 5th straight day. The anti-government demonstrations
touched the doorstep of democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Nigeria suspended a
deal by a previous government allowing the private sector to run the
country's federal government-owned "unity" schools.
(AFP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Former Peruvian
President Alberto Fujimori was flown to his home country in police
custody, one day after the Chilean Supreme Court authorized his
extradition on human rights and corruption charges.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, North Korea's No. 2
leader met with a Syrian delegation in Pyongyang, amid suspicions of a
secret nuclear connection between the two countries.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, In NW Pakistan a
suicide bomber blew up his car near a paramilitary convoy, wounding a
soldier. In neighboring Bajaur tribal district authorities reported
that a soldier and two women were killed in overnight attacks by
pro-Taliban militants. Also in Bajaur an Afghan national and a local
tribesman were found shot dead outside Khar.
(AFP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Serbian PM Vojislav
Kostunica warned the United States, NATO and Kosovo Albanians they
would be responsible for devastating consequences if they "snatch"
Kosovo and declare it independent.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Yu Shyi-kun, the
chairman of Taiwan's ruling party, resigned after prosecutors indicted
him on graft charges. Annette Lu, the island's vice president facing
similar charges, said she would fight the allegations.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, To date 144 countries
had ratified the UN Convention Against Torture. Holdouts included
Sudan, North Korea, Myanmar, Zimbabwe and India.
(Econ, 9/22/07, p.72)
2008 Sep 22, Group of Seven (G7)
nations welcomed the $700 billion US markets bailout plan and said they
were prepared to step up international cooperation to protect the
world's financial and banking system.
(Reuters, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, The price of oil
jumped $16.37 to $120.92 per barrel, its biggest single-day gain ever,
as the dollar posted its worst single-day percentage drop. During this
final day for the October contract, oil had soared to as high as $130
per barrel.
(SFC, 9/23/08, p.D1)(WSJ, 9/23/08, p.C2)(Econ,
9/27/08, p.90)
2008 Sep 22, Nomura Holdings Inc.,
Japan's largest brokerage, reached a deal to buy the Asian operations
of bankrupt US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in a deal
valued at around $225 million.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, It was reported that
SanDisk, a maker of flash memory, was teaming with 4 top music labels
to roll out a new music medium based on its microSD cards, which would
feature pre-loaded albums and additional content and compete with the
declining CD market.
(SFC, 9/22/08, p.D1)
2008 Sep 22, In southern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb killed a district chief and a police chief
in Kandahar province. An Afghan journalist detained for 11 months at
the US military base at Bagram alleged that his captors kicked him,
forced him to stand barefoot in the snow and didn't allow him to sleep
for days. Jawed Ahmad (21), who worked primarily for CTV, a Canadian
television network, was handed over to Afghan authorities on Sep 21.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, in Australia 400
sheep died in a road accident, prompting animal rights activists to
repeat their call for an end to the long distance transportation of
livestock for slaughter.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, In southern Brazil 5
hooded gunmen killed 15 people on an alleged drug trafficker's ranch.
The suspected trafficker and two of his sons were among the 15 dead.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, The number of Chinese
infants sick in hospital after drinking tainted milk formula doubled to
nearly 13,000 and the country's top quality regulator resigned in the
latest blight on the "made-in-China" brand.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, The UN appealed for
$460 million to feed some 10 million Ethiopians hit by drought and high
food prices. In southeastern Ethiopia two expatriate staff for French
aid group Medecins du Monde were kidnapped in the rebellious Ogaden
region.
(AP, 9/22/08)(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, Georgian forces shot
down a Russian drone near the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, The death toll from
heavy monsoon rains and flooding across India reached 119 in the past
three days.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, Iraq and Royal Dutch
Shell PLC signed a deal to establish a joint venture that will tap
natural gas in southern Iraq. A mortar round apparently aimed at an
Iraqi military base missed its target and slammed into a house in
northwestern Baghdad, killing one man and wounding four others. A car
bomb struck a mainly Shiite area in central Baghdad. Police said two
men and a woman were killed and seven people wounded. In Mosul a bomb
hidden under trash killed at least 5 children playing soccer.
(AP, 9/22/08)(SFC, 9/23/08, p.A10)
2008 Sep 22, A driver plowed a BMW
into a group of soldiers at a busy intersection near Jerusalem's Old
City, injuring 13 of them before he was shot to death. The driver was a
Palestinian resident of east Jerusalem who apparently acted alone.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, Brash conservative
Taro Aso easily won the presidency of Japan's struggling ruling party,
virtually ensuring his election as prime minister later this week amid
political and economic turmoil.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, Mozambique's former
interior minister Almerino Manhenje was arrested in connection with the
disappearance of millions of dollars during his time in office. He
served as home affairs minister in the Joaquim Chissano administration
between 1996 and 2005.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, North Korea asked the
UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) to remove seals and surveillance equipment
from the Yongbyon nuclear reactor.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, In Pakistan gunmen
kidnapped Abdul Khaliq Farahi, Afghanistan's ambassador-designate, and
killed his driver in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.
(AP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 22, In the Philippines 16
gold miners went into shafts during a typhoon that rapidly flooded the
tunnels in Benguet province. 2 bodies were retrieved on Sep 25, 3
miners were rescued on Sep 29, 3 more on Sep 30, and 3 more on Oct 1.
Two bodies were recovered on Oct 2 and one miner remained missing. The
last of the miners was rescued on Oct 3. He was then arrested by
police, who had a warrant for his arrest on unrelated theft and robbery
charges.
(AP, 9/29/08)(AP, 9/30/08)(AP, 10/1/08)(AP,
10/2/08)(AP, 10/4/08)
2008 Sep 22, In Somalia mortar
rounds slammed into a market in Mogadishu, killing up to 30 people
including children and overwhelming hospitals with dozens of wounded in
the worst fighting in months.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, In South Africa ANC
members of parliament said the ruling African National Congress will
name party deputy head Kgalema Motlanthe as South Africa's caretaker
leader after the ousting of President Thabo Mbeki. His resignation will
take effect Sep 25.
(Reuters, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, In northern Spain a
car bomb killed a soldier in the third attack in just over 24 hours by
the Basque separatist group ETA.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, In Sri Lanka some 26
Tamil Tigers were killed in ground fighting across the across the
embattled regions of Weli Oya, Kilinochchi and Vavuniya, where troops
were trying to wrest control of the rebel capital of Kilinochchi.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, Unicef said Ugandan
rebels kidnapped 90 children in eastern Congo and that fighting has
forced 100,000 people to flee the area.
(WSJ, 9/23/08, p.A1)
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