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487BC Sep 23,
Greek dramatist Euripides, was born. He wrote "Medea" and "The Trojan
Women." His plays used a device called "Deus ex Machina," literally
"God from a machine." Today the term 487BC
Sep 23, Greek dramatist Euripides, was born. He
wrote "Medea" and "The Trojan Women." His plays used a device called
"Deus ex Machina," literally "God from a machine." Today the term
refers to sudden events that come from nowhere to advance the plot.
[see 484-406, 480-406]
(MC, 9/23/01)
63BC Sep 23, Caesar Augustus
(63BC-14AD) was born in Rome. Augustus, first emperor of Rome, ended
the era of the Roman Republic and introduced the Pax Romana, the era of
peace. Augustus held power but shared administrative tasks with the
Senate, consuls, and tribunes who continued to be elected: "Make haste
slowly."
(V.D.-H.K.p.63)(AP, 9/23/97)(AP, 11/20/97)(HN,
9/23/98)
53BC Sep 23, Augustus, the first
Roman emperor, or Caesar, was born. His ascension to the title of
emperor marked the end of true Roman democracy, even though the Senate
survived for generations. [see 63BC]
(MC, 9/23/01)
951 Sep 23, Otto I, the Great,
became king of Italy.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1553 Sep 23, The Sadians defeated
the last of their enemies and establish themselves as rulers of Morocco.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1561 Sep 23, Philip II of Spain
gave orders to halt colonizing efforts in Florida. The French took
advantage of the opportunity.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.20)(HN, 9/23/98)
1570 Sep 23, The Turks began their
attack on Famagusta, Cyprus, which was fortified by Venetian commander
Marcantonio Bragadino (1523-1571).
(http://historicbiography.blogspot.com/2008/01/marcantonio-bragadin.html)(WSJ,
7/21/08, p.A11)
1577 Sep 23, William of Orange
made his triumphant entry into Brussels, Belgium.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1641 Sep 23, Adrian "Aart" van
Wijck, theologian, was born. He fought Jansenism.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1642 Sep 23, Giovanni Maria
Bononcini, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1642 Sep 23, Harvard College in
Cambridge, Mass., held its first commencement.
(AP, 9/23/97)
1667 Sep 23, Slaves in Virginia
were banned from obtaining their freedom by converting to Christianity.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1703 Sep 23, Jean-Marie Leclair,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1719 Sep 23, Liechtenstein
declared independence from German empire.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1739 Sep 23, The Austrians signed
the Treaty of Belgrade after having lost the city to the Turks.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1779 Sep 23, During the
Revolutionary War, the American navy under John Paul Jones, commanding
from Bonhomie Richard, defeated and captured the British man-of-war
Serapis. An American attack on a British convoy pitted the British
frigate HMS Serapis against the American Bon Homme Richard. The
American ship was commanded by Scotsman John Paul Jones, who chose to
name the ship after Benjamin Franklin's “Poor Richard’s Almanack.”
Fierce fighting ensued, and when Richard began to sink, Serapis
commander Richard Pearson called over to ask if Richard would surrender
and Jones responded, "I have not yet begun to fight!"--a response that
would become a slogan of the U.S. Navy. Pearson surrendered and Jones
took control of Serapis. The Bonhomie Richard sank 2 days after the
battle. In 1959 the film Jean Paul Jones starred Robert Stack.
(TVM, 1975, p.294)(AP, 9/23/97)(HN, 9/23/98)(HNPD,
9/23/98)(Arch, 9/02, p.17)
1780 Sep 23, British spy John
Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold's plot
to surrender West Point to the British.
(AP, 9/23/97)
1788 Sep 23, Louis XVI of France
declared the Parliament restored.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1795 Sep 23, A national plebiscite
approved the new French constitution, but so many voters sustained that
the results were suspect.
(HN, 9/23/99)
1795 Sep 23, Conseil of the
Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), formed in Paris.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1800 Sep 23, William Holmes
McGuffey, educator, was born. He is famous for his book "Eclectic
Readers" (McGuffey Readers).
(HN, 9/23/98)
1803 Sep 23, British Major General
Sir Arthur Wellesley defeated the Marathas at Assaye, India.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1805 Sep 23, Lieutenant Zebulon
Pike paid $2,000 to buy from the Sioux a 9-square-mile tract at the
mouth of the Minnesota River that would be used to establish a military
post, Fort Snelling.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1806 Sep 23, The Lewis and Clark
expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest over three
years after its departure. In 2004 Larry E. Morris authored “The Fate
of the Corps,” a look at what happened to all the members of the
expedition.
(AP, 9/23/97)(HN, 9/23/98)(WSJ, 7/2/04, p.W10)
1817 Sep 23, Leon Charles Francois
Kreutzer, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1835 Sep 23, HMS Beagle sailed to
Charles Island in the Galapagos archipelago.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1838 Sep 23, Victoria Chaflin
Woodhull (d.1927), American presidential candidate (1872), was born
into a family of charlatans in Ohio. Woodhull, a militant suffragist,
advocated free love and was Wall Street's first female broker after
attracting Cornelius Vanderbilt. She was the first woman to address
Congress. Her story is documented in “The Woman Who Ran for President:
The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull” by Lois Beachy Underhill. In 1998
Mary Gabriel published "Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria
Woodhull, Uncensored. In 1998 Barbara Goldsmith published "Other
Powers--The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria
Woodhull."
(WSJ, 7/25/95, p.A-10)(SFEC, 2/22/98, BR p.5)(SFEC,
3/8/98, Par p.14)(HNPD, 4/28/00)
1844 Sep 23, Count Alexander von
Benckendorff (b.1783), Russian Lieutenant General and statesman, died.
He was Adjutant General of the Svita and a commander in Patriotic War
of 1812 and is best remembered for having established the Gendarmes in
Russia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Benckendorff)
1846 Sep 23, The planet Neptune
was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. Neptune was
discovered after John Couch Adams of England and Urbain Jean Leverrier
of France independently figured out where it should be.
(HFA, ‘96, p.38)(AP, 9/23/97)(SFEC, 5/30/99, Par
p.13)(ON, 9/01, p.9)
1849 Sep 23, Mikhail Mikhaylovich
Ivanov, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1852 Sep 23, William Stewart
Halsted, was born. He established the 1st US surgical school.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1857 Sep 23, The Russian warship
Leffort disappeared in the Finland Gulf in a storm; 826 died.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1862 Sep 23, Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation was published in Northern Newspapers.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1863 Sep 23, Mary Church Terrell,
educator, political activist, and first president of the National
Association of Colored Women, was born in Memphis, Tennessee. An 1884
graduate of Oberlin College, America's first college to admit women and
amongst the first to admit students of all races, Terrell was one of
the first American women of African descent to graduate from college.
She earned her master's degree from Oberlin in 1888.
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html)
1863 Sep 23, The Confederate siege
of Chattanooga began.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1864 Sep 23, Confederate and Union
forces clashed at Mount Jackson, Front Royal and Woodstock in Virginia
during the Valley campaign.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1864 Sep 23, Battle of Athens, Va.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1865 Sep 23, Emmuska Orczy
(d.1947), baroness and writer, was born in Tarnaors, Hungary. Her
family moved to London in 1880. Her books included "The Scarlet
Pimpernel" (1905).
(HN,
9/23/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroness_Orczy)
1868 Sep 23, Grito de Lares
proclaimed Puerto Rico's independence. It was crushed by Spain.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1869 Sep 23, Edgar Lee Masters,
poet and novelist (Spoon River Anthology), was born.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1870 Sep 23, Prosper Merimee (66),
French playwright (Carmen), died.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/merimee.htm)
1879 Sep 23, Richard Rhodes
invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1889 Sep 23, William Wilkie
Collins, English writer (Moonstone), died.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1889 Sep 23, Walter Lippmann,
journalist, was born in NYC. He was one of the founders of The New
Republic Magazine in 1914. His political writings included "Men of
Destiny."
(HN, 9/23/00)
1889 Sep 23, Louise Nevelson,
sculptor, was born.
(HN, 9/23/00)
1896 Sep 23, Louis-Gilbert Duprez,
composer, died at 89.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1897 Sep 23, The 1st frontier days
rodeo celebration in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was held. By 1998 it had become
the world’s largest outdoor rodeo.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, p.T3)(MC, 9/23/01)
1902 Sep 23, John Wesley Powell
(68), US explorer and geologist, died. He led expeditions down the
Green and Colorado rivers (1869 & 1871), through the Grand Canyon
even though he had lost the lower part of his right arm in the Battle
of Shiloh during the Civil War. Powell, a geographer and ethnologist,
held a number of positions after resigning from the army in 1865, many
for government agencies such as director of the U.S. Geographical
Survey. [see 1891] In 2001 Donald Worster authored "A River Running
West: the Life and Times of John Wesley Powell."
(HNQ, 10/13/00)(SSFC, 4/1/01, BR p.6)(MC,
9/23/01)(ON, 5/02, p.5)
1907 Sep 23, Jarmila Novotna,
soprano (Met Opera) and president of Czechoslovakia (1957-68), was born.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1908 Sep 23, One of baseball's
most famous blunders occurred in a game between the New York Giants and
the visiting Chicago Cubs. With the score tied 1-1 in the bottom of the
ninth and two runners out, the Giants batted in what should have been
the winning run. However, Fred Merkle, who was on first base, began to
leave the field apparently without bothering to tag second; the Cubs
then claimed to have forced Merkle out. Merkle was eventually ruled
out, negating the winning run and leaving the game tied. The Cubs won a
rematch game on Oct. 8 and with it, the National League pennant;
Chicago then went on to win the World Series.
(AP, 9/23/08)
1910 Sep 23, Elliot Roosevelt, son
of FDR and writer (Murder in the Oval Office), was born.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1911 Sep 23, Second International
Aviation Meet opened in New York.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1912 Sep 23, Mack Sennett's first
Keystone Cops short subject "Cohen collects a Debt", a split-reel of
two comedies starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling, was released.
(AP, 9/23/97)(HN, 9/23/01)
1913 Sep 23, Serbian troops
marched into Albania.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1915 Sep 23, Clifford G. Shull,
physicist, was born. He improved techniques for exploring the atomic
structure of matter.
(HN, 9//00)
1920 Sep 23, Mickey Rooney, actor,
was born Joe Yule, Jr. in Brooklyn, NY.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, DB p.61)
1926 Sep 23, John Coltrane,
influential jazz saxophonist, was born..
(HN, 9/23/00)
1926 Sep 23, Gene Tunney
(1897-1978), an ex-marine, defeated Jack Dempsey for the World
Heavyweight Boxing championship. Tunney defeated Dempsey again in a
1927 rematch and retired undefeated in 1928. In 2006 Jack Cavanaugh
authored “Tunney: Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great
Jack Dempsey.”
(Smith., 5/95, p.12)(SFC, 10/19/99, p.A22)(WSJ,
11/17/06, p.W6)
1930 Sep 23, Ray Charles (d.2004),
rhythm ‘n’ blues piano player and singer best known for "Hit the Road
Jack" and "Georgia on My Mind" was born in Albany, Georgia. Stuart
Gorrell wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Georgia on My Mind" in 1930
with music by Hoagy Carmichael. It was declared the state song of
Georgia on April 24, 1979.
(HN, 9/23/98)(WSJ, 2/2/00,
p.W8)(www.promotega.org/vsu00011/georgia_book.htm)
1938 Sep 23, A time capsule, to be
opened in the year 6939, was buried on the grounds of the World's Fair
in New York City. The capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe
& 1,100' of microfilm. [see Apr 30, 1939] Westinghouse coined the
term "time capsule" when it buried a torpedo shaped vessel at the 1939
NY fair.
(AP, 9/23/98)(SFEC, 1/2/00, p.D4)(MC, 9/23/01)
1938 Sep 23, British premier
Neville Chamberlain flew to Munich.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1939 Sep 23, Sigmund Freud
(b.1856), founder of psychoanalysis, died in London. He had escaped
from Vienna in 1938. His work “Moses and Monotheism” was published this
year. In 1986 Frederick Crews, a skeptic on Freud's work, published
"Skeptical Engagements." Crews also published "The memory wars: Freud's
Legacy in dispute" and "Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a
Legend." Freud's last days were dramatized in 1999 by Terry Johnson in
the play "Hysteria."
(SFEM, 1/10/99, p.4)(AP, 9/23/99)(WSJ, 12/23/99,
p.A16)
1941 Sep 23, Germans staged an air
raid on the Russian naval base at Kronstadt. The battleship Marat sank.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1942 Sep 23, At Auschwitz Nazis
began experimental gassing executions.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1942 Sep 23, The Russian counter
offensive at Stalingrad began.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1943 Sep 23, Julio Iglesias De la
Cueva, Spanish singer (To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before…), was born
in Madrid.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Iglesias)
1943 Sep 23, Benito Mussolini
formed a rival fascist government in Italy.
(www.cifr.it/Chapter_05.html)
1945 Sep 23, The first American
died in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to French forces.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1947 Sep 23, Nikola Petkov, leader
of Bulgaria party, was hanged.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1949 Sep 23, US Pres. Truman
announced evidence of the USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation thus
breaking the US atomic monopoly.
(WUD, 1994, p.1684)(MC, 9/23/01)
1950 Sep 23, Congress adopted the
Internal Security Act, which provided for registration of communists.
The Act was ruled later unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. US
Sen. Pat McCarran (Nevada) legislated the Internal Security Act, which
included a jumble of restrictions on speech and association. Pres.
Truman attempted an unsuccessful veto of the McCarran Act, which gave
the government unprecedented powers.
(WSJ, 3/18/99, p.W17)(MC, 9/23/01)(WSJ, 10/13/04,
p.D18)
1950 Sep 23, US Mustangs
accidentally bombed British troops on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1952 Sep 23, Rocky Marciano became
the world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jersey Joe
Walcott in the 13th round, in Philadelphia PA. It was Rocky’s 43rd
consecutive victory. This was the 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of
a sports event.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1952 Sep 23, Republican
vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to
deliver what came to be known as the "Checkers" speech as he refuted
allegations of improper campaign financing. Nixon denied that he
maintained a private slush fund and all financial allegations except
for the gift of a cocker spaniel dog named Checkers from a Texan who
heard that his daughters wanted a puppy. Nixon, then a candidate for
Vice President stated that he would not give back a gift, whether it
had political ties or not, because it was a present for his daughter.
Some 30 million television viewers watched as Nixon, Dwight
Eisenhower‘s running mate in the upcoming presidential elections, made
a plea for sympathy and vindication in light of charges he was living a
lifestyle beyond the means of his $12,500 Senate salary. In 1997 plans
were underway to exhume the dog and rebury it near the former
president.
(TMC, 1994, p.1952)(SFC, 4/28/97, p.A5)(AP,
9/23/97)(HNQ, 10/12/99)
1953 Sep 23, The 20th-Century Fox
film "The Robe," the first movie filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen
process, premiered in Hollywood, a week after opening in New York.
(AP, 9/23/03)
1954 Sep 23, East German police
arrested 400 citizens as U.S. spies.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1957 Sep 23, "That'll Be Day" by
Buddy Holly & Crickets reached #1.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1957 Sep 23, Nine black students
who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced
to withdraw because of a white mob outside. Pres. Eisenhower signed
Executive Order 10730 to send Federal troops to maintain order and
peace while the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR,
took place.
(AP,
9/23/97)(www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=89)
1962 Sep 23, "The Jetsons," a TV
animated Hanna-Barbera cartoon series about a Space Age family,
premiered as the ABC television network's first color program. It was a
futuristic mirror image of the Flintstones. Penny Singleton (1908-2003)
was the voice of Jane Jetson.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D7)(AP, 9/23/02)(SFC, 11/15/03,
p.A23)
1962 Sep 23, New York's
Philharmonic Hall, since renamed Avery Fisher Hall, formally opened as
the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Opening
ceremonies included the premier of Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto by
John Browning (d.2003) and the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf.
(AP, 9/23/97)(SFC, 1/30/03, p.A17)
1967 Sep 23, The regime of Greek
Colonels freed ex-premier Georgios Papandreou. [see Dec 24]
(MC, 9/23/01)
1967 Sep 23, Soviets signed a pact
to send more aid to Hanoi.
(HN, 9/23/98)
1968 Sep 23, The TV western "The
Outcasts" premiered. The one season show featured Otis Young (d.2001 at
69) and Don Murray working together as post Civil War bounty hunters.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.E2)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0062596/)
1969 Sep 23, The 1st broadcast of
"Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV. The drama with Robert Young continued to
1976.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Welby,_M.D.)
1973 Sep 23, Juan Peron was
re-elected president of Argentina after being overthrown in 1955. His
second wife, Isabel, became vice president, the first woman vice
president in Latin American history. She succeeded him when he died 10
months later.
(AP, 9/23/97)(HN, 9/23/98)
1973 Sep 23, Pablo Neruda
(b.1904), Chilean Nobel laureate poet, died of leukemia. One of his
last works, "The Book of Questions," was published in an English
translation in 1991. In 2003 Ilan Stavans edited "The Poetry of Pablo
Neruda." In 2004 Matilda Urrutia’s “My Life With Pablo Neruda” was
translated into English.
(SFEC, 6/25/00, BR p.2)(WUD, 1994 p.959)(SSFC,
8/31/03, p.M3)(SSFC, 10/31/04, p.M4)
1974 Sep 23, The 1959
Broadway show "Gypsy" reopened on Broadway with Angel Lansbury
(b.1925), following a 1973 run in London.
(SFEC, 12/8/96, Par
p.18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy:_A_Musical_Fable)
1974 Sep 23, Cliff Arquette
(b.1905), TV actor, died. He invented the character of Charley Weaver
for a 1959 appearance on Jack Paar’s “The Tonight Show,” and in 1962
became a regular on “The Roy Rogers Show.”
(SFC, 2/21/07,
p.G3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Arquette)
1975 Sep 23, California’s Gov.
Jerry Brown signed the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA).
It imposed limits on attorney fees and capped jury awards in medical
malpractice suits for “noneconomic” damages to $250,000.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A7)(WSJ, 7/13/04,
p.D4)(http://tinyurl.com/m852rv)
1979 Sep 23, The ABC TV show "The
Associates" premiered as a comedy about lawyers. It lasted for
one season.
(SFC, 12/3/98, p.E1)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0078563/)
1981 Sep 23, The Reagan
administration announced plans for what became known as Radio Marti.
(AP, 9/23/97)
1981 Sep 23, Home Depot went
public in an IPO offering of $3 million of stock. The company was
founded by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, formerly of the Handy Dandy
hardware chain. The 1st know case of backdating stock options took
place this year with Home Depot. In 1999 they authored "Built From
Scratch" ghost-written by Bob Andelman. In 1999 Chris Roush published
"Inside Home Depot."
(WSJ, 5/4/99, p.A20)(WSJ, 12/27/06,
p.A6)(http://ir.homedepot.com/lookup.cfm)
1981 Sep 23, Chief Dan George
(b.1899), actor, died at 82 in British Columbia, Canada. His films
included “Harry & Tonto” (1974) and “Little Big Man” (1970). He was
born Geswanouth Slahoot on a First Nations Reserve in North Vancouver.
His English name was Dan Slaholt. His last name was changed to George
when he entered a residential school at the age of 5.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Dan_George)
1983 Sep 23, The so-called Law of
National Pacification was issued two weeks before the election that
brought President Alfonsín to power. Argentina’s military regime
gave a blanket amnesty to military and political killers and torturers.
(www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/83.84.eng/chap.4.htm)
1986 Sep 23, The US Congress
selected the rose as the US national flower.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1986-9/1986-09-23-ABC-25.html)
1987 Sep 23, Delaware Sen. Joseph
Biden withdrew from the Democratic presidential race following
questions about his use of borrowed quotations and the portrayal of his
academic record.
(AP, 9/23/97)
1987 Sep 23, Bob Fosse (b.1927),
choreographer (All the Jazz), died at age 62.
(www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=4563)
1988 Sep 23, Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze concluded two days of talks in
Washington with Secretary of State George P. Shultz on the subjects of
arms control and human rights.
(AP, 9/23/98)
1989 Sep 23, President Bush,
saying he was "very pleased" with talks between Secretary of State
James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, told
reporters there would be a superpower summit later in the year.
(AP, 9/23/99)
1990 Sep 23, PBS began an 11 hour
miniseries by Ken Burns on the American Civil War.
(www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/civilwarth/civilwarth.htm)
1990 Sep 23, Iraq threatened to
destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried
to force it from Kuwait.
(AP, 9/23/00)
1990 Sep 23, South African
President F.W. de Klerk arrived in the US for talks with President
Bush.
(AP, 9/23/00)
1991 Sep 23, President Bush
addressed the United Nations, urging the world body to rescind its
resolution equating Zionism with racism.
(AP, 9/23/01)
1991 Sep 23, UN weapons inspectors
in Baghdad discovered documents detailing Iraq's secret nuclear weapons
program and said Iraq was close to building a bomb. This triggered a
standoff with Iraqi authorities.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)(AP, 9/23/01)
1992 Sep 23, Plans for a
presidential debate fell apart, with President Bush continuing to
object to a single-moderator format proposed by a bipartisan
commission; it was the second such cancellation.
(AP, 9/23/97)
1992 Sep 23, Bernice Gera, the 1st
female baseball umpire (1969 NY-Penn League) died at age 61.
(www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/1992SEPTEMBER.stm)
1993 Sep 23, Seattle’s City
Council passed a sit/lie ban affecting the downtown area between 7 am
and 9 pm. The law was upheld by the US Court of Appeals in 1996.
(http://tinyurl.com/ybahqyp)(SSFC, 3/28/10,
p.A16)(www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=1277)
1993 Sep 23, Sydney, Australia,
was selected to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, beating Beijing.
(AP, 9/23/98)
1993 Sep 23, The Israeli
parliament ratified the Israel-PLO accord.
(AP, 9/23/98)
1993 Sep 23, The South African
parliament voted to allow blacks a role in governing.
(AP, 9/23/98)
1994 Sep 23, The White House
announced a shakeup involving two dozen staff members.
(AP, 9/23/99)
1994 Sep 23, John van Damme (59),
Dutch businessman, was hanged in Singapore for drug trafficking.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_Singapore)
1994 Sep 23, The U.N. Security
Council rewarded Yugoslavia for sealing its border with Bosnia by
easing sanctions in sports, cultural exchanges and air traffic.
(AP, 9/23/99)
1995 Sep 23, In a wide-ranging
interview aboard Air Force One, President Clinton admitted he had
tended in the past to get hung up on details, and pledged to do a
better job in providing reassuring leadership to Americans confused by
tumultuous times.
(AP, 9/23/00)
1995 Sep 23, Guillermo Gaede, an
Intel engineer, was arrested in Phoenix. He had used his computer to
tap into plans for the Pentium & 486 chip manufacturing process and
video taped the information in May 1993. He sent the info to his former
employer Advanced Micro Devices who notified federal authorities. He
claimed to have been double-crossed by the FBI and also to have passed
info from AMD to Cuba, China, North Korea and Iran.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A23)
1996 Sep 23, Ross Perot sued the
bipartisan commission that voted to keep him out of the presidential
debates, arguing that excluding him would deepen public cynicism and
cause his campaign "incalculable damage."
(AP, 9/23/97)
1996 Sep 23, California governor
Wilson signed a bill to open the sale of electricity to the free market
and became the first US state to do so. A 20% drop in rates by 2003 was
guaranteed.
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 23, Space shuttle
Atlantis left Russia's orbiting Mir station with astronaut Shannon
Lucid, who ended her six-month visit with tender goodbyes to her
Russian colleagues.
(AP, 9/23/97)
1996 Sep 23, In Armenia Pres.
Levon Ter-Petrossian claimed victory in elections as did his opponent
former Prime Minister Vazgen Manukian. The next day the Pres. claimed
victory with 52% and the PM claimed fraud with 41%. Int’l. observers
claimed serious irregularities.
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.A14)(WSJ, 9/25/96, p.A1)(SFC,
9/26/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 23, The European Union
awarded the Aristeion Prize for literature to Salmon Rushdie for "The
Moor’s Last Sigh" and to Christoph Ransmayr for "Morbus Kitahara." A
prize for translation went to Thorkild Bjoernvig for his translation of
poetry by German poet Rainier Marie Rilke.
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.E3)
1996 Sep 23, In Jiangsu Province,
China, the American Dream Park was scheduled to open. It is a
70-acre-mini Disneyland and admission will cost 100 yuan, about 2 weeks
wages for the average Chinese worker.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 23, In England police
killed one man and seized 10 tons of explosives during raids of
suspected IRA hideouts.
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.A12)
1996 Sep 23, Ethiopian forces
exchanged fire with Somali militiamen.
(SFC, 9/25/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 23, Iran expected
delivery of its 3rd Russian-made submarine within 6 months, as part of
its navy buildup in the Persian Gulf.
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 23, In Mexico financing
was expected to enable the start of the $551 million channel project, a
272-mile Tamaulipas Intracoastal Waterway on the east coast to link
Mexico to US cargo channels.
(WSJ, 9/23/96, p.A17)
1996 Sep 23, In Pakistan gunmen
attacked a Sunni Muslim mosque and killed 16 and wounded 45 people. The
attack followed the killing of a Shiite leader the night before in
Bahawalpur.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A12)
1996 Sep 23, In Singapore the
government announced that there will be enough bomb shelters for
everyone. All new dwellings will be required to have bomb shelters with
concrete walls and a steel door.
(SFC, 9/25/96, p.A9)
1996 Sep 23, In South Africa 2
days of ethnic fighting among gold miners at Buffeslfontein left 18
people dead.
(WSJ, 9/24/96, p.A1)
1997 Sep 23, The White House
awarded the $10,000 National Heritage Fellows awards to a dozen
Americans that included Chinese singer Hua Wenyi, and Ali Akbar Khan,
composer of North Indian music.
(SFC, 9/24/97, p.A17)
1997 Sep 23, The Gilmore Artist
Award, a $300,000 prize given every 4 years to a classical pianist, was
awarded to Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes at the Irving S. Gilmore
Int’l. Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, Mich.
(SFC, 9/24/97, p.E5)
1997 Sep 23, The Senate Finance
Committee opened hearings into reports of alleged abuses by the
Internal Revenue Service.
(AP, 9/23/98)
1997 Sep 23, Kevin (18) and Tilmon
Golphin (19) of Virginia shot and killed Patrol Troopers Ed Lowry and
David Hathcock on I-95 in North Carolina after they were pulled over in
a stolen car. The 2 brothers were sentenced to death May 13, 1998.
(SFC, 5/14/98, p.A6)
1997 Sep 23, In Algeria the
government reported that 85 people were killed, while eyewitnesses
counted more than 200 bodies in the Bentalha neighborhood of the Baraki
suburb of Algiers. Armed men raided an Algerian village, killing at
least 200 people in one of the worst massacres since Algeria's Islamic
insurgency began.
(AP, 9/23/98)(SFC, 9/24/97, p.A10)
1998 Sep 23, In Milwaukee Sammy
Sosa hit his 64th and 65th home runs against the Brewers, tying Mark
McGwire for the single-season record.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A18) (AP, 9/23/99)
1998 Sep 23, Federal regulators
approved the merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group.
(AP, 9/23/99)
1998 Sep 23, Federal Reserve
Chairman Greenspan hinted that the central bank is prepared to cut
interest rates and the Dow went up 257.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 23, Joan Kroc, the
heiress to McDonald’s, donated $80 million to the Salvation Army.
(USAT, 9/24/98, p.3A)
1998 Sep 23, Scientists reported
two more planets beyond our solar system. One in the constellation
Cygnus and the other in Aquarius.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A2)
1998 Sep 23, Actress Mary Frann,
who played Bob Newhart's wife on TV's "Newhart," died in Beverly Hills,
Calif., at age 55.
(AP, 9/23/99)
1998 Sep 23, The death toll from
hurricane Georges reached 110. 17 people were killed in Haiti and 17 in
the Dominican Republic as the storm hit Cuba.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A12)(WSJ, 9/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 23, In Cambodia a rocket
attack intended for Huns Sen killed 4 people including 2 children.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 23, Transparency Int’l,
an int’l. good-government advocacy group, said that Cameroon is viewed
as the most corrupt of the 85 countries rated. Nigeria, Tanzania,
Honduras and Paraguay filled out the bottom five. Denmark, Finland and
Sweden were seen as having the cleanest political systems.
(WSJ, 9/23/98, p.B17)
1998 Sep 23, In Congo Hutu
militiamen attacked a military post manned by ethnic Tutsis and 56
people were killed.
(WSJ, 9/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 23, In Ecuador
demonstrations in Quito erupted over the devaluation of the sucre.
Unions called for a national strike for Oct 1.
(SFEC, 10/4/98, p.T11)
1998 Sep 23, In Lesotho 9 South
Africans and 40 rebels were killed since the SADC (Southern African
Development Community) task force entered the country to restore the
government of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 23, In Pakistan Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif said that he would sign the nuclear test ban
treaty within the year. Sharif also met with Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee of India and agreed to resume talks on Kashmir.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A12)(WSJ, 9/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 23, Philippine Airlines
(b.1941) cancelled its last flight from San Francisco and shut down
operations due to financial problems. On Sep 28 Pres. Estrada announced
that the airline could reopen following a management agreement with its
largest union for a proposed rehabilitation plan.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A19)(SFC, 9/29/98, p.D1)
1998 Sep 23, In Thailand the
economy was expected to contract by 7-10%. Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai
called for an investigation into the sale of medical supplies and 3
prominent academics published the book "Guns, Girls, Gambling and
Ganja."
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 23, The Turkey high court
jailed Istanbul Mayor Tayyip Erdogan.
(WSJ, 9/24/98, p.A13)
1998 Sep 23, The U.N. Security
Council adopted a resolution demanding a cease-fire in Kosovo and
threatened further action if fighting continued.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A12)(AP, 9/23/99)
1999 Sep 23, Pres. Clinton vetoed
the $792 billion GOP proposed 10-year tax cut calling it "too big, too
bloated."
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/23/00)
1999 Sep 23, The $125 million Mars
Climate Orbiter was presumed lost after it hit the Martian atmosphere.
The crash was later blamed on navigation confusion due to 2 teams using
conflicting English and metric units.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 23, In Chechnya Russian
fighter jets bombed targets in and around Grozny. The Chechen
government said that it does not support Islamic militants and that it
would retaliate against Russian attacks on its territory.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.A16)
1999 Sep 23, In Indonesia protests
erupted after parliament passed army-backed security legislation that
would revoke civil liberties during emergencies.
(WSJ, 9/24/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 23, In Italy the cloned
bull Galileo was unveiled at the dairy cattle show in Cremona. The
Health Ministry confiscated the bull the next day due to the 1998
decree forbidding cloning issued by Health Minister Rosy Bindi.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A22)
1999 Sep 23, In Kenya police
reported that 23 people in Embu were killed by methanol liquor
disguised as whiskey.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 23, In Taiwan the death
toll passed 2100 but the number believed to be trapped was reduced to
300. Chip production was expected to resume in 10 days.
(WSJ, 9/24/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 23, In Zimbabwe Defense
Minister Moven Mahachi announced that Zimbabwe’s and Congo’s armies had
set up a joint diamond and gold venture to help finance the war in
Congo.
(WSJ, 5/30/00, p.A22)
2000 Sep 23, At the Sydney
Olympics, Marion Jones won the women's 100-meter final in 10.7 seconds;
Maurice Greene (news - web sites) took the men's 100 in 9.87 seconds.
(AP, 9/23/01)
2000 Sep 23, Carl Rowan,
prize-winning black journalist, died at age 75. His 8 books included
"Wait Till Next Year," a biography of Jackie Robinson, "Dream Makers,
Dream Breakers," a biography of Thurgood Marshall, and "The Coming Race
War in America" (1996). His autobiography was titled "Breaking
Barriers.’
(SFEC, 9/24/00, p.D15)
2000 Sep 23, World Bank and IMF
leaders gathered in Prague for a summit amidst protests. They issued a
communiqué on currency markets and oil prices.
(SFEC, 9/24/00, p.d15)
2000 Sep 23, In Indonesia police
arrested 25 people in connection with the recent bombings in Jakarta.
(SFEC, 9/24/00, p.A6)
2001 Sep 23, President George W.
Bush returned the American flag to full staff at Camp David,
symbolically ending a period of national mourning.
(AP, 9/23/02)
2001 Sep 23, Thousands gathered at
New York's Yankee Stadium to offer prayers for the victims of
terrorism; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani pledged that "our skyline will rise
again."
(AP, 9/23/02)
2001 Sep 23, US Sec. of State
Colin Powell vowed the US would give allies evidence detailing Osama
bin Laden’s connection to the Sep 11 attacks.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 23, The NYC missing # was
raised to 6,453 with 252 accounted dead. On Nov 20 the official count
was reduced to just below 3,900. [see Dec 19]
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.A3)(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A2)(SFC,
12/20/01, p.A15)
2001 Sep 23, In Hillsborough
County, Florida, Randolph Standifer (21) was arrested for the rape and
attempted murder of a 9-month-old baby that was kidnapped and abandoned
a day earlier.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 23, NASA reported that
its Deep Space I craft took pictures of the comet Borrelly.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 23, Four coal miners were
killed in an explosion at the Blue Creek Mine Number Five in Brookwood,
Ala. 9 miners who rushed to their aid also died. The mine is the
deepest in North America at 2,140 feet below the surface.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A14)(AP, 9/23/06)
2001 Sep 23, Osama bin Laden
issued a statement that called for Muslim brothers to resist the
"Christian-Jewish crusade led by the big crusader Bush under the flag
of the Cross…"
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 23, In Colombia 2 men
were arrested in connection with a plot to assassinate Pres. Pastrana
in July in the town of Armenia.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C2)
2001 Sep 23, In Congo rebel leader
Adolphe Onusumba acknowledged peace talks with Zimbabwe’s Pres. Mugabe.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 23, Israel’s PM Sharon
cancelled talks with Yasser Arafat after Palestinians fired 3 mortar
shells in the Gaza Strip, 2 of which hit Jewish settlements and the 3rd
fell inside Israel. There were no injuries.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 23, In Macao pro-Beijing
and business candidates won a majority of the 10 directly chosen 27
legislative seats. Pro-democracy candidates won 21% of the total vote,
the highest won by any group.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 23, The 6-member Persian
"Gulf Cooperation Council" (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
UAR) met in Jidda and pledged support for an int’l. coalition against
terrorism.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 23, Elections were held
in Poland and the Democratic Left Alliance, composed of former
Communists, won with 41% of the popular vote. Leszek Miller became the
new PM.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B1)(Econ, 2/19/05, p.49)
2002 Sep 23, The Bush
administration asked a federal appeals court to strike down Oregon's
assisted-suicide law.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 23, A 24-count indictment
charging conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud was filed against
the founding family and two executives of bankrupt cable company
Adelphia Communications Corporation.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2002 Sep 23, Governor Gray Davis
signed a law making California the first state to offer workers paid
family leave.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A1)(AP, 9/23/03)
2002 Sep 23, Hong Im Ballenger, a
beauty shop manager in Baton Rouge, La., was shot to death. Her murder
was later attributed to John Allen Muhammed, the Washington area sniper.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 23, Rachel Burkheimer
(18) of Marysville, Wa., was shot to death by her boyfriend John
Anderson. On Oct 5 Matthew Durham led police to her body. 8 people were
later arrested for her murder. In 2004 Yusef Jihad, head of a gang
involved in the killing, was convicted of 1st degree murder. Anderson
was convicted of aggravated 1st degree murder on May 19, 2004. In 2004
Tony Williams (22) was sentenced to 9 years in prison and Maurice Rivas
(20) to 26 years.
(ST, 4/6/04, p.B5)(ST, 5/20/04, p.B1)(ST, 7/29/04,
p.B1)
2002 Sep 23, In Inner Mongolia,
China, a staircase guardrail gave way at a school, killing 21 students.
(Reuters, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 23, Georgia's president
sought to defuse an explosive war of words with Russia, offering to let
Moscow send unarmed military observers to the mountain valley where
Russia says terrorists are operating.
(AP, 9/23/02)
2002 Sep 23, War fever drove U.S.
oil prices to a new 19-month high as dealers took fright at the growing
threat of a U.S. assault on Iraq.
(AP, 9/23/02)
2002 Sep 23, Twenty five leaders
from Asia and the European Union gathered for a two-day summit expected
to focus on North Korea, the fight against international terrorism and
economic cooperation.
(AP, 9/23/02)
2002 Sep 23, Hurricane Isidore
left two dead and 300,000 homeless in Mexico's Yucatan and moved toward
the U.S. Gulf coast.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 23, In Kashmir Muslim
separatists killed 10 people in grenade attacks on polling stations to
frighten voters.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A13)
2002 Sep 23, Nepali troops fought
a fierce battle with Maoist rebels and killed 24 guerrillas. The death
toll from the fighting took the number of insurgents killed in the last
five days to 143.
(Reuters, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 23, A defiant Yasser
Arafat dug in at his besieged West Bank compound, rejecting Israel's
demand to hand over the names of all those holed up inside.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2002 Sep 23, A Palestinian gunman
opened fire on visitors attending Jewish holiday celebrations In
Hebron, killing a man and wounding three of his sons.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2003 Sep 23, Speaking at the
United Nations, President Bush rejected calls from France and Germany
to hasten the transfer of power in Iraq, insisting the shift to
self-government could be "neither hurried nor delayed."
(AP, 9/23/04)
2003 Sep 23, Puerto Rico's
congressional delegate said the United States will close its Roosevelt
Roads Naval Station in eastern Puerto Rico within the next six months.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2003 Sep 23, US forces in Iraq
killed 3 civilians in an aerial attack on a farming village.
(SFC, 9/24/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 23, A federal appeals
court unanimously put California's recall election back on the calendar
for Oct. 11.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2003 Sep 23, In California's Gov.
Gray Davis signed a law to prohibit spam effective Jan 1.
(SFC, 9/24/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 23, Advanced Micro
Devices (AMD) introduced 64-bit computing for PC users. The 1st new
chip is the AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+, which runs at 2 GHz.
(SFC, 9/23/03, p.B1)
2003 Sep 23, Scientists reported
that human bone fragments found in a cave from Aveline's Hole in the
Mendip Hills of southwest England date from 10,200-10,400BCE.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2003 Sep 23, China signed
agreements with Russia and four Central Asian neighbors (Uzbekistan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan) in an effort to strengthen a
7-year-old security alliance and encourage economic links across a
largely undeveloped region.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2003 Sep 23, A power outage struck
the capital of Denmark and southern Sweden, leaving nearly 4 million
people without electricity.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2003 Sep 23, Ivory Coast rebel
leaders said they were abandoning their posts in Ivory Coast's
power-sharing government and halting disarmament.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2003 Sep 23, A raid in Saudi
Arabia on Islamic militants left three suspects dead, including Jubran
Sultan al-Qahtani (aka as Zubayr al-Rimi), an al-Qaida figure wanted by
the US.
(AP, 9/24/03)
2004 Sep 23, President Bush denied
painting too rosy a picture about Iraq, and said he would consider
sending more troops if asked; Iraq's interim leader, Ayad Allawi,
standing with Bush in the White House Rose Garden, said additional
troops weren't needed. Allawi declared that his country is succeeding
in its effort to move past the war that ousted Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 9/23/04)(AP, 9/23/05)
2004 Sep 23, The US Congress voted
to extend 3 tax cuts aimed at the middle class along with a bevy of
business tax breaks.
(SFC, 9/24/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 23, Antarctic researchers
reported that the ice cap’s glaciers are now melting twice as fast as
in the 1990s and raising sea level.
(WSJ, 9/24/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 23, In Belgium a woman
gave birth to a healthy baby after doctors had transplanted ovarian
tissue, frozen since 1997, back into her abdomen.
(SFC, 9/24/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 23, In southern Brazil
seven teenagers were beaten to death and five others were injured in a
rebellion at a juvenile detention center.
(AP, 9/24/04)
2004 Sep 23, Nigel Nicolson (87),
English writer and publisher, died. His mother was Vita Sackville-West.
(Econ, 10/2/04, p.87)
2004 Sep 23, Egypt’s ruling
National Democratic Party ended its annual conference and announced
that income and corporate taxes would be halved with top rates capped
at 20%.
(Econ, 9/25/04, p.61)
2004 Sep 23, Haiti officials said
the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and
could double again.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 23, US warplanes fired on
insurgent targets in the east Baghdad slum of Sadr City. Iraqi doctors
said one person was killed and 12 were injured, many of them children.
Gunmen in Mosul killed a senior official of Iraq's North Oil Co.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 23, A militant group
falsely claimed in a Web posting that two Italian women taken hostage
in Iraq had been killed. [see Sep 28]
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 23, In Iraq kidnappers
seized 2 more Egyptian construction engineers working for the country's
mobile phone company.
(AP, 9/24/04)(SFC, 9/25/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 23, In Latvia lawmakers
rejected a proposal to let nearly 500,000 ethnic Russians vote in local
elections, despite giving the same right to citizens of EU countries
who live in the Baltic state.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 23, In northern Nigeria a
gunbattle between security forces and Islamic militants fighting to
create a Taliban-style state left 29 people dead, most of them
militants.
(AP, 9/24/04)
2004 Sep 23, Three Palestinian
gunmen infiltrated a fog-shrouded Israeli army post at dawn, killing
three Israeli soldiers in a fierce gunbattle before they were shot to
death.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 23, A senior Russian
official said his country’s appetite for counterfeits costs
manufacturers tens of billions of dollars each year: "Billions, tens of
billions of dollars of fake goods are in circulation."
(AP, 9/23/04)
2005 Sep 23, G7 finance ministers
and central bankers concluded a meeting in Washington and agreed to
meet again in December in London and bid farewell to Chairman Alan
Greenspan. They focused their attention on lopsided global economic
progress and rising oil prices.
(AFP, 9/24/05)(WSJ, 9/24/05, p.A4)
2005 Sep 23, Lester Crawford,
commissioner of the US FDA, resigned. He had just been confirmed on
July 18.
(SFC, 9/24/05, p.A2)
2005 Sep 23, Hurricane Rita,
dropped to Category 4, moved toward the Texas and Louisiana coast with
135 mph winds, creating monumental traffic jams along evacuation routes
and raising fears of a crippling blow to the nation's oil-refining
industry.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, In New Orleans water
poured over a patched levee, cascading into one of the city's
lowest-lying neighborhoods and heightening fears that Hurricane Rita
would re-flood this devastated city.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, In Texas a bus
carrying elderly evacuees from Hurricane Rita caught fire and was
rocked by explosions on a gridlocked highway near Dallas, killing 23
people. In 2006 James Maples (65), owner of the bus, was acquitted of a
safety violation but convicted on 2 lesser counts. His company Global
Limo was found guilty on all charges.
(AP, 9/23/05)(SFC, 10/4/06, p.A3)
2005 Sep 23, Scientists reported
that the transplant of the nearly entire human chromosome 21 in mice in
a medical and technical breakthrough that could reveal new insights
into Down's syndrome and other disorders.
(Reuters, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, Arubans voted for a
prime minister and all 21 seats in the parliament in a race that has
focused on immigration and frustration over stagnant salaries lagging
behind inflation.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, A US embassy official
said the US is to help its Caspian Sea ally Azerbaijan build a radar
station on its border with Iran and another near Russia.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, A British convert to
Islam was jailed for 15 years after being convicted in London on two
charges of possessing of articles for use in terrorism. Andrew Rowe
(34), arrested in Oct, 2003, was found guilty of having a book
containing notes on how to fire a mortar bomb, plus details of a secret
communication code. He was jailed for 7½ years for each
charge.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, The People’s Bank of
China said the yuan would be allowed to fluctuate by 3% a day against
the euro, yen and other non-dollar currencies, compared with a 1.5%
previous limit. Movements against the dollar remained limited to 0.3%.
(Econ, 10/1/05, p.71)
2005 Sep 23, Colombia's
2nd-largest rebel group, the ELN, accepted an offer from Venezuela to
host peace talks between the guerrillas and the Colombian government.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 23, Maarike Harro,
director of the National Institute for Health Development said the
World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in every 100 people
in Estonia in the 15 to 49 age group may be infected with HIV.
(AFP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, In Egypt Seoudi Ali
Salem, a Qatari man participating in an informal car race, killed five
people and injured 32 when his speeding car slammed into a crowd
sitting on a grassy median strip on the airport road. Salem fled the
scene with another driver.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 23, In Haiti Dumarsais
Simeus (65), owner of a Texas-based food services company, was rejected
as a presidential candidate because he has US citizenship. Simeus
appealed the decision.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 23, The newly opened Hong
Kong Disneyland said it prefers that its 5,000 workers not unionize as
activists described tough work conditions at the park such as long
hours, harsh turnarounds and lack of breaks.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, A suicide bomber
detonated hidden explosives on a small bus in Baghdad, killing 6
people. 2 American soldiers died in separate attacks. A roadside bomb
killed a US Army soldier whose convoy was patrolling Baghdad.
(AP, 9/23/05)(SFC, 9/24/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 23, Sinn Fein and Irish
government leaders said the outlawed Irish Republican Army is ready to
dispose of its stockpiled arms in a long-sought peace move, possibly
within the next week, after their first meeting in eight months.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 23, Lithuania’s defense
minister said the crash of a Russian military jet in Lithuania was
almost certainly accidental and the pilot will be sent home when the
investigation ends, but he criticized Moscow for sending a plane armed
with missiles into the country's airspace.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, North Korean leader
Kim Jong Il ordered his aides to arrange a meeting with a high-ranking
U.S. official, possibly with President Bush.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, Religious schools in
Pakistan agreed to register with the government on condition the
process is approved by parliament and they don't have to reveal their
sources of funding.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, Palestinians took
charge of a border for the first time ever, allowing thousands to cross
between the Gaza Strip and Egypt in a temporary opening of the frontier.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 23, In Gaza’s Jebaliya
refugee camp a truck filled with masked militants and homemade weapons
exploded at a Hamas rally, killing at least 15 Palestinians and
wounding 80, including children. Hamas blamed Israel and unleashed a
barrage of rocket fire that lasted through the night.
(AP, 9/24/05)(SSFC, 9/25/05, A3)
2005 Sep 23, In the southern
Philippines 3 teenagers were killed and at least 8 others wounded when
a retired army sergeant threw a grenade at a group of boys at a town
fiesta.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 23, In Puerto Rico FBI
agents shot and killed Filiberto Ojeda Rios (72), a Puerto Rican
nationalist leader wanted in the 1983 robbery of a Connecticut armored
truck.
(AP, 9/25/05)(Econ, 10/1/05, p.82)
2005 Sep 23, In Puerto Rico real
estate developer Adam Anhang (b.1973), a Canadian businessman, was
killed. Jonathan Roman Rivera (22) spent eight months in maximum
security prison after he was sentenced to 105 years for the slaying.
Rivera was released in June 2008 after another man was indicted for the
murder. In 2009 Rivera sued more than a dozen police officials and
prosecutors for his ordeal, seeking $12 million in damages.
(http://www.121s.com/viewtopic.php?t=594)(AP,
9/17/09)
2005 Sep 23, Police in the
breakaway republic of Somaliland raided houses in the capital,
Hargeisa, where al-Qaida militants were believed holed up and captured
four suspects after a shootout. A fifth suspect was arrested 20 miles
away. Pres. Dahir Riyale Kahnin said the men were mostly locals trained
at a camp outside Mogadishu, Somalia.
(AP, 9/23/05)(Econ, 10/1/05, p.43)
2005 Sep 23, The UN Security
Council extended the peacekeeping mission in Sudan by six months.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2006 Sep 23, Barry Bonds hit his
734th career home run in the Giants' 10-8 loss to the Brewers, breaking
Hank Aaron's NL record.
(AP, 9/23/07)
2006 Sep 23, Two days of high
winds, heavy rain and tornadoes pounded parts of the US Midwest and the
South, killing at least 10 people and stranding others in trees and
shelters while forecasters warned that the stormy weather was expected
to continue.
(AP, 9/23/06)(SSFC, 9/24/06, p.A2)
2006 Sep 23, Three young children
were found dead in an East St. Louis, Ill., apartment, hours after
Tiffany Hall was charged with killing their pregnant mother and her
fetus in a grisly attack. Hall has since been charged with first-degree
murder in the deaths of Jimella Tunstall and her children, as well as
intentional homicide of Tunstall's fetus.
(AP, 9/23/07)
2006 Sep 23, Etta Baker (93),
blues guitarist, died in Fairfax, Va. In 1991 she won a Folk Heritage
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her albums
included a 2004 recording with Taj Mahal.
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.D6)
2006 Sep 23, Afghan and NATO-led
security forces backed by war planes killed 40 rebels in Helmand
province's Greshk district.
(AFP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, In Bolivia 90% of the
country’s productive land was still owned by just 50,000 families.
Four-fifths of the rural population remained poor.
(Econ, 9/23/06, p.41)
2006 Sep 23, Toomas Hendrik Ilves
(52), a Western-leaning former diplomat and journalist, was narrowly
elected Estonia's president, ousting the incumbent who was favored in
the race.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, Russian Pres.
Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac joined German
Chancellor Angela Merkel for a three-way informal summit in a chateau
in Compiegne.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, In northern England
at least 10,000 anti-war demonstrators marched through the city of
Manchester, protesting the presence of British troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, A French newspaper
reported that Osama bin Laden had died in Pakistan on August 23 of
typhoid fever. The report was not confirmed.
(SSFC, 9/24/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 23, Gambian President
Yahya Jammeh easily won a third term and called for a concerted effort
to develop the country socially and economically.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, A square in front of
Hungary's parliament overflowed with demonstrators demanding that PM
Gyurcsany quit in the largest protest yet since a recording was leaked
on which he admitted lying to the people about the economy. Hungary’s
current-account deficit reached 9% of GDP and the budget deficit hit
10%.
(AP, 9/24/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.64)
2006 Sep 23, In Indian Kashmir
suspected militants shot dead a man and a woman near Srinagar. A border
guard hurt in a bomb explosion died the next day.
(AFP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, Indian security
officials in the western desert state of Rajasthan shot dead three
suspected militants who were trying to cross over from Pakistan.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, A bombing in the
Shiite slum of Sadr City killed 38 people and wounded 42 as they
stocked up on fuel for Ramadan. The severed heads of 10 Iraqi soldiers
that were tossed into a crowded market in Beiji by unidentified gunmen.
Minority Sunnis began the fasting month of Ramadan. Police Col. Ismaiel
Chehayyan was killed by gunmen while having his Ramadan fast-breaking
dinner at a friend's house. Iraqi security forces arrested a leader of
the al-Ashreen Brigades, a group responsible for attacks and
kidnappings. The leader along with 7 aides were captured in Kharnabat.
5 apparent death squad victims were turned in to the morgue in Kut. The
victims were blindfolded with their arms and hands bound, and showed
signs of torture.
(AP, 9/23/06)(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, The TV series “The
Renegades,” directed by Najdat Anzour of Syria, began showing in
Lebanon and the rest of the Arab world. It fictionalized the
devastating effects of terrorism on Muslim families.
(SFC, 10/4/06, p.A7)
2006 Sep 23, In Mexico the
governor of Oaxaca state warned 70,000 striking teachers that they
would be replaced and lose their pay unless they immediately returned
to work.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, In Nepal's
mountainous east a helicopter with 24 people aboard went missing.
Searchers found the wreckage on Sep 25. The 24 dead included 2
Americans, Nepalese Forestry Minister Gopal Rai, Finnish Embassy Charge
d'Affaires Pauli Mustonen and Canadian Jennifer Headley, a coordinator
for WWF, several Nepali journalists, government officials and four crew
members, two Russians and two Nepalis.
(AP, 9/23/06)(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 23, In Pakistan at least
8 people were killed and 55 injured when a bus collided with another on
the main highway near the Islamabad. According to official statistics
Pakistan has the world's third highest death rate from road accidents.
(AFP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, Spain's Basque
separatist group ETA has said it will not give up its weapons until
independence for the Basque region is won, fuelling concerns over the
future of a six-month-old ceasefire.
(AFP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, In eastern Turkey
suspected Kurdish guerrillas set off an explosive-laden minibus across
from a police guest house, injuring 17 people.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, Yemen's President Ali
Abdullah Saleh was re-elected with more than 77% of votes in the face
of the strongest challenge since he came to power 28 years ago. Faisal
bin Shamlan won almost 22% of the vote. Opposition parties backing bin
Shamlan immediately rejected the election commission's results,
claiming their candidate won at least 40%.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2007 Sep 23, The 7-part, 15-hour
opus “The War,” by Ken Burns and co-director Lynn Novick, began on PBS.
PBS later estimated 18.7 million viewers saw the airings of "The War,"
the first chapter of Ken Burns' seven-part documentary about World War
II.
(SSFC, 9/23/07, p.A1)(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 23, The campaign group
End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of
Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) said criminal gangs are
trafficking hundreds of children into Britain and forcing them to work
in cannabis factories, with at least one child per week being found by
police.
(AFP, 9/23/07)
2007 Sep 23, In Egypt thousands of
workers at Ghazl el-Mahalla started a strike, demanding 150-day shares
of annual profits, improved industrial safety, and raising the monthly
bonuses. The strike started by 10,000 workers, has gone up to 15,000.
Ghazl al-Mahallah is the biggest textile factory in the Middle East,
with over 27,000 workers comprising its total labor force.
(http://tinyurl.com/2o3aup)
2007 Sep 23, Indian Oil Minister
Murli Deora witnessed the signing of three accords between state-run
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and the state-run Myanmar Oil and Gas
Enterprise at Nay Pyi Taw, the administrative capital of Myanmar.
(AFP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 23, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Tehran for New York to address the United
Nations; state media quoted him as saying the American people were
eager for different opinions about the world, and that he was looking
forward to providing them with "correct and clear information."
(AP, 9/23/08)
2007 Sep 23, The Israeli Cabinet
voted overwhelmingly to release 90 Palestinian prisoners in an effort
to shore up the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in his
power struggle with Islamic Hamas militants.
(AP, 9/23/07)
2007 Sep 23, Yasuo Fukuda, a
veteran moderate, easily won election as Japan's ruling party
president, pledging to keep a pro-US foreign policy and improve ties
with Asia after he almost certainly becomes prime minister later this
week.
(AP, 9/23/07)
2007 Sep 23, In Myanmar some
20,000 people, led by Buddhist monks, protested against the junta. Riot
police and barbed wire barricades blocked hundreds of monks and
anti-government demonstrators from approaching the home of the detained
democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in a new show of force against a
rising protest movement.
(AP, 9/23/07)
2008 Sep 23, The Bush
administration urgently pressed Congress in public and private to move
quickly on a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry as
Democratic and Republican lawmakers vented their anger over a crisis
that pushed the nation's economy to the brink. Congress and treasury
secretary Hank Paulson appeared to have worked out the general
outlines of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
(AP, 9/23/08)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.81)
2008 Sep 23, The US said it has
given Ethiopia 151 million dollars to boost its health and education
services.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 23, California’s Gov.
Schwarzenegger signed a $144.5 billion spending plan. The state budget
was a record 85 days late.
(SFC, 9/24/08, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/24/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 23, Ronald Dominique,
suspected of killing as many as 23 men in southern Louisiana over 10
years, pleaded guilty to killing 8 men. He was sentenced to serve 8
consecutive sentences of life in prison.
(SFC, 9/24/08, p.A4)
2008 Sep 23, Chrysler LLC
disclosed that it had lost $400 million so far this year just hours
after it unveiled prototypes of 3 new electric cars.
(WSJ, 9/24/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 23, Goldman Sachs said it
will get a $5 billion infusion from Warren Buffett and his Berkshire
Hathaway Inc., giving Berkshire roughly 10% of Goldman.
(WSJ, 9/24/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 23, Google and T-Mobile
unveiled the T-Mobile G1, the first phone to use the Google’s Android
operating system.
(SFC, 9/24/08, p.C1)
2008 Sep 23, In China Li Shiming,
a corrupt and rapacious local Communist Party secretary in Shanxi
province, was murdered by Zhang Xuping (18). Shiming had Zhang expelled
from school in 2003 following the imprisonment of his mother, who had
protested along with others the confiscation of land by Shiming.
(Econ, 8/22/09, p.38)
2008 Sep 23, Ecuador expelled a
leading Brazilian construction firm sending in troops to seize projects
worth $800 million. Pres. Correa was battling with the Odebrecht firm
over a dam which the government said was badly built.
(WSJ, 9/24/08, p.A24)
2008 Sep 23, In western Finland
Matti Juhani Saari (22), whose violent YouTube postings made police
bring him in for questioning, opened fire at his trade school, killing
8 women and 2 men before shooting himself.
(AP, 9/23/08)(AP, 9/24/08)
2008 Sep 23, Iran's President
Ahmadinejad addressed the UN General Assembly declaring that "the
American empire" is nearing collapse and should end its military
involvement in other countries.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 23, Two bombs apparently
targeting Iraqi security forces struck different areas in Baghdad,
killing at least one civilian and wounding seven others. US soldiers
accidentally killed Jassim al-Garrout, a US-allied Sunni group leader
in Siniyah.
(AP, 9/23/08)(SFC, 9/24/08, p.A9)
2008 Sep 23, Japan’s Nomura
Holdings said it will buy the European and Middle Eastern equities and
investment banking operations of Lehman Brothers for an undisclosed sum.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 23, The international
organization Transparency International reported that, among 30 member
states of the European Union (EU) and other countries of Western
Europe, only Romania and Bulgaria encounter worse situation than
Lithuania according to the corruption perceptions index.
(www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics/?doc=5411)
2008 Sep 23, Mexico said it plans
to search 10 percent of all vehicles entering the country from the
United States in an effort to curb arms smuggling.
(AP, 9/24/08)
2008 Sep 23, Myanmar's
longest-serving political prisoner, journalist Win Tin, was freed after
19 years behind bars and vowed to continue his struggle to achieve
democracy in the military-ruled country. Altogether Myanmar freed 9,002
prisoners. Win Htein (64), a former aide to Myanmar pro-democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was re-arrested less than 24 hours after being
freed by the military government in the mass amnesty.
(AP, 9/23/08)(SFC, 9/24/08, p.A4)(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 23, Pakistani officials
said security forces, backed by helicopter gunships and artillery, have
killed more than 60 insurgents in the northwest tribal regions in
offensives aimed at denying al-Qaida and Taliban militants safe havens.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 23, The bodies of 2
Palestinian smugglers were pulled from a tunnel that collapsed along
the Gaza-Egypt border. 3 more bodies were removed the next day. The
five were bringing contraband goods from Egypt into Gaza when an
explosion collapsed the tunnel. Three smugglers survived and were
arrested on the Egyptian side.
(AP, 9/24/08)
2008 Sep 23, Portugal's Socialist
government began the roll-out of 500,000 ultra-cheap laptops for school
children in a program that the government said could be extended to
Venezuela. While the Magellan computer will be assembled in Portugal by
a company called JP Sa Couto, it is based on Intel's Classmate PC, a
cheap computer that has been adopted in various formats in countries
such as Brazil and Indonesia.
(Reuters, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 23, Heavy fighting
between Somali insurgents and African Union forces erupted in southern
Mogadishu, leaving at least seven civilians dead.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 23, South Africa's
finance minister resigned along with most leading Cabinet members but
tried to reassure a shaken business community and stock market by
saying he was willing to serve the country's new administration.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 23, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez arrived in China to hold talks with his counterpart Hu
Jintao and sign a deal for combat aircraft in a visit likely to irk the
US. Chavez said Venezuela and China agreed to jointly build 2 oil
refineries, one in each country.
(AP, 9/23/08)(WSJ, 9/24/08, p.A25)
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