Today in History - September 24
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768 Sep 24, Pepin
the Short (54) of Gaul died. His dominions were divided between his
sons Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman.
(PC, 1992, p.67)
786 Sep 24, Al-Hadi, Arabic caliph
of Islam (185-86), died.
(MC, 9/24/01)
787 Sep 24, The 2nd Council of
Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opened in Asia Minor.
(http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_672.asp)
1501 Sep 24, Gerolamo Cardano,
mathematician, was born. He authored “Games of Chance,” the first
systematic computation of probabilities.
(HN, 9/24/00)
1541 Sep 24, Philippus Aureolus
Paracelsus (b.1493), Swiss alchemist, physician and theologian, died.
The 1835 poem "Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim" by Robert Browning
was based on the life of Paracelsus. In 2006 Philip Ball authored ”The
Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the Renaissance World of Magic and
Science.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus)(Econ,
1/21/06, p.81)
1545 Sep 24, Albrecht von
Brandenburg, archbishop, monarch, founder of The Brandenburg Concerts
of Mainz, died at 55.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1583 Sep 24, Albrecht Eusebius
Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general, was born.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1625 Sep 24, The Dutch attacked
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1657 Sep 24, The 1st autopsy and
coroner's jury verdict was recorded in the state of Maryland.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1667 Sep 24, Jean-Louis Lully,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1683 Sep 24, King Louis XIV
expelled all Jews from French possessions in America.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1716 Sep 24, Medici Grand Duke
Cosimo III passed a law limiting and regulating the area of wine
production in Tuscany, thus creating the 1st "Appelation Controlee"
wine.
(Carmignano, 1997)
1717 Sep 24, Horace Walpole
(1797), son of Robert Walpole, author and Fourth Earl of Orford, was
born. He was a life time collector of bibelots and authored one of the
first Gothic novels: "The Castle of Otranto" (1764). "The whole secret
of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand
things well." Wilmarth Lewis (d.1979) later edited Yale's 48-volume
edition of Walpole's correspondence. He created the Gothic novel genre.
(AP, 1/13/98)(WSJ, 10/19/99, p.A24)(HN, 9/24/00)
1732 Sep 24, 21 homosexuals were
burned in South Horn.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1739 Sep 24, Grigorij A. Potemkin
(d.1791), Monarch of Tauris and friend of Catherine II, was born. [see
Sep 13]
(MC, 9/24/01)(WSJ, 2/14/02, p.A18)
1742 Sep 24, The Faneuil Hall in
Boston opened to public.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1748 Sep 24, Philipp Meissner,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1755 Sep 24, John Marshall, fourth
chief justice of the Supreme Court (1801-35), and U.S. secretary of
state, was born.
(HN, 9/24/98)(MC, 9/24/01)
1788 Sep 24, After having been
dissolved, the French Parliament of Paris reassembled in triumph.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1789 Sep 24, President George
Washington appointed John Jay as the 1st Chief Justice.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1789 Sep 24, The US Federal
Judiciary Act was passed. It created a six-person Supreme Court and
provided for an Attorney General.
(AP, 9/24/97)(AH, 10/04, p.14)
1813 Sep 24, Andre-Ernest-Modeste
Gretry, composer, died at 72.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1848 Sep 24, Branwell Bronte,
brother of the Bronte sisters and the model for Hindley Earnshaw in
Emily's novel "Wuthering Heights," died of tuberculosis.
(www.bronte.info/brontes/Patrick_Branwell_Bronte.asp)
1852 Sep 24, Henri Giffard, a
French engineer, flew over Paris in the 1st dirigible flight.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/AVgifford.htm)
1856 Sep 24, John Marsh, Harvard
graduate and pioneer California settler, was murdered on the road
between Pacheco and Martinez while traveling to SF. Marsh was the 1st
non-Hispanic to live in Contra Costa County. He had made a fortune
attracting settlers to Contra Costa and selling them land. His new
7,000 stone mansion in Brentwood was later made the center-piece of the
John Marsh/Cowell Ranch State Park.
(SSFC, 9/24/06, p.B3)
1862 Sep 24, President Abraham
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus against anyone suspected of
being a Southern sympathizer.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1862 Sep 24, The Confederate
Congress adopted the confederacy seal.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1865 Sep 24, James Cooke walked a
tightrope from the San Francisco Cliff House to Seal Rocks.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1869 Sep 24, Thousands of
businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic, dubbed Black Friday,
after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold
market.
(AP, 9/24/97)(Econ, 9/5/09, p.91)
1870 Sep 24, George Claude, French
engineer, was born. He invented the neon light.
(HN, 9/24/00)
1876 Sep 24, Mary Newton (2), the
daughter of US Army Engineer Lt. Col. John Newton, triggered a huge
blast to clear rocks in the Hell Gate channel of the East River. Newton
had been authorized to begin work to deepen the channel in 1867.
(ON, 2/08, p.8)
1881 Sep 24, Henry Morton Stanley
signed a contract with Congo monarch. [see May 8]
(MC, 9/24/01)
1894 Sep 24, E. Franklin Frazier,
first African-American president of the American Sociological Society,
was born.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1896 Sep 24, American author F.
Scott Fitzgerald (d.1940) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He wrote
about the "Jazz Age" between World War I and World War II. He published
his first novel in 1920, "This Side of Paradise," and gained instant
acclaim and celebrity, marrying Zelda Sayre shortly afterward. In 1924,
Fitzgerald wrote what has become his best-known novel, "The Great
Gatsby." Although it was not especially popular at the time, as more
readers began to appreciate the novel for its perspective of how
materialism drives people, it became an American classic. As years
passed, Fitzgerald battled alcoholism and his wife sought treatment for
her mental illness. He died in Hollywood at age 45 in 1940. "If you're
strong enough, there are no precedents."
(HFA, ‘96, p.38)(AP, 9/24/97)(HNPD, 9/24/98)(HN,
9/24/98)(AP, 8/16/99)
1898 Sep 24, Howard W Florey,
pathologist, was born in Australia. He purified penicillin and won a
Nobel Prize 1945.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1904 Sep 24, Sixty-two died and
120 were injured in head-on train collision in Tennessee.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1906 Sep 24, Victor
Herbert's musical "Red Mill," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1906 Sep 24, Devils Tower, the
first US National Monument, was designated by President Theodore
Roosevelt. Devils Tower is a volcanic rock formation, rising 867 feet
over a base of gray igneous rock at 1,700 feet, located in the Black
Hills of Wyoming.
(SSFC, 6/18/06, p.G5)(www.nps.gov/deto/)
1911 Sep 24, Konstantin Chernenko,
president of the Soviet Union 1984-1985, was born.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1914 Sep 24, In the
Alsace-Lorraine area between France and Germany, the German Army
captured St. Mihiel.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1915 Sep 24, Bulgaria mobilized
troops on the Serbian border.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1922 Sep 24, Cornell MacNeil, US,
operatic baritone (La Traviata), was born.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1924 Sep 24, Boston,
Massachusetts, opened its airport.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1929 Sep 24, U.S. Army pilot Lt.
James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane over Mitchel Field
in New York in the first all-instrument flight.
(AP, 9/24/97)(HN, 9/24/98)
1930 Sep 24, G. Kaufman & M.
Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premiered in NY.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1930 Sep 24, Noel Coward's comedy
“Private Lives” opened in London starring Gertrude Lawrence and Coward
himself.
(HN, 9/24/00)
1931 Sep 24, Anthony Newley, actor
(Dr Doolittle, Garbage Pail Kids, Stop the World) and composer, was
born in England.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1931 Sep 24, The DJIA dropped 7.1%
(SFC,10/17/97, p.B2)
1934 Sep 24, Babe Ruth made his
farewell appearance as a regular player with the New York Yankees in a
game against the Boston Red Sox. The Sox won, 5-0.
(AP, 9/24/04)
1936 Sep 24, Jim Henson,
Greenville Miss, muppeteer, was born. Puppeteer Henson created the
"Muppets" in 1954. (Sesame Street, Muppet Show)-18 Emmys, 17 Grammys, 4
Peabody Awards and 5 Ace Awards (National Cable Television Association)
The famous voice of Kermit the Frog, died suddenly in May 1993.
(HN, 9/24/98)(MC, 9/24/01)
1940 Sep 24, Luftwaffe bombed the
Spitfire factory in Southampton.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1941 Sep 24, There was a bomb
explosion in German headquarters in Hotel Continental in Kiev.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1943 Sep 24, Soviet forces
reconquered Smolensk. [see Sep 25]
(MC, 9/24/01)
1947 Sep 24, The World Women's
Party met for the first time since WW II.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1948 Sep 24, Mildred Gillars,
accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist "Axis Sally," pleaded
innocent in Washington, D.C., to charges of treason. (Gillars ended up
serving 12 years in prison.)
(AP, 9/24/97)
1950 Sep 24, In "Operation Magic
Carpet" all Jews from Yemen moved to Israel.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1951 Sep 24, The Soviet Union
conducted its 2nd nuclear test.
(http://zvis.com/nuclear/ndb/ussrnuks.shtml)
1955 Sep 24, President Eisenhower
suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver. The illness didn't
prevent Eisenhower from being re-elected to a second term the following
year.
(AP, 9/24/97)(MC, 9/24/01)
1956 Sep 24, The first
transatlantic telephone cable system from Newfoundland to Scotland
began operation.
(HN, 9/24/98)(MC, 9/24/01)
1957 Sep 24, The Brooklyn Dodgers
played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh
Pirates 2-to-0.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1957 Sep 24, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower sent federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect
nine black students entering its newly integrated high school.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1958 Sep 24, "The Donna Reed
Show" premiered on ABC-TV.
(AP, 9/24/08)
1960 Sep 24, The USS Enterprise,
the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport
News, Va.
(AP, 9/24/97)(HN, 9/24/98)
1962 Sep 24, US Circuit Court of
Appeals ordered James Meredith admitted to the Univ. of Miss. The
University of Mississippi agreed to admit James Meredith as the first
black university student, sparking more rioting.
(HN, 9/24/98)(MC, 9/24/01)
1963 Sep 24, The U.S. Senate
ratified a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union limiting nuclear
testing.
(AP, 9/24/99)
1964 Sep 24, The TV situation
comedy "Munsters" premiered on CBS with Al Lewis (d.2006) as the family
patriarch.
(AP, 9/24/04)(SSFC, 2/5/06, p.A2)
1968 Sep 24, The CBS news magazine
"60 Minutes" premiered on CBS-TV on a Tuesday night. Don Hewitt created
and produced the TV news show “60 Minutes.” He wrote his book “Minute
by Minute” in 1985.
(SFEM, 2/8/98, Par p.26)(AP, 9/24/98)
1968 Sep 24, The TV show "Mod
Squad" premiered on ABC and continued to 1973. It was about 3 hip young
cops who worked undercover in LA. A film version was begun in 1998.
(AP, 9/24/98)(SFC, 8/27/99,
p.C14)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0062589/)
1969 Sep 24, The trial of the
"Chicago Eight" (later seven) began. Demonstrations began outside the
court house, with the "Weatherman" group proclaiming the "Days of Rage"
in protest of the trial. The Chicago Eight staged demonstrations at the
Democratic National Convention in Chicago to protest the Vietnam War
and its support by the top Democratic presidential candidate, Vice
President Hubert Humphrey. These anti-Vietnam War protests were some of
the most violent in American history as the police and national
guardsmen beat antiwar protesters, innocent bystanders and members of
the press. Five defendants (Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin,
David Dellinger, Rennie Davis) were convicted of crossing state lines
to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; the
convictions were ultimately overturned. In 1970 Harold Jacobs authored
"Weatherman." In 2004 Jeremy Varon authored "Bringing the War Home: The
Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction and Revolutionary Violence in
the Sixties and Seventies."
(AP, 9/24/99)(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A5)
1970 Sep 24, The Soviet Luna 16
landed in Kazakhstan, completing the first unmanned round trip to the
moon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16)
1976 Sep 24, US District Judge
William Orrick sentenced newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst to seven
years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. She was released
after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Carter.
(SFC, 9/21/01, WB p.5)(AP, 9/24/07)
1976 Sep 24, In California Frances
Mays was kidnapped at knifepoint by Richard Allen Davis at the South
Hayward Bart station. She was able to break free and flagged down a
passing patrol car. Harris was caught and served five years. He later
kidnapped Polly Klaas on 10/1/93.
(SFC, 5/16/96, p.A-15)
1977 Sep 24, ABC launched the TV
series “The Love Boat.” The series continued to 1986 with Gavin MacLeod
as the commander of the Pacific Princess.
(www.tvland.com/shows/loveboat/main.jhtml)(SSFC,
3/9/08, p.D3)
1979 Sep 24, CompuServe began
operation as the 1st computer information service.
(www.businesshistorybooks.com/Computers.htm)
1979 Sep 24, Hilla Limann
1934-1998) was elected president of Ghana. She served until 1981.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilla_Limann)
1979 Sep 24, Russian ice skaters
Protopopov and Belousova asked for asylum in Switzerland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludmila_Belousova)
1981 Sep 24, Four Armenian gunmen
seized the Turkish consulate in Paris, holding 60 hostages for 15 hours
before surrendering.
(AP 9/24/01)
1982 Sep 24, US, Italian and
French peacekeeping troops began arriving in Lebanon. Some 400,000
Israelis gathered at the first of many demonstrations to protest the
Lebanon War.
(www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/usmnf.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/2o8vkl)
1982 Sep 24, British PM Margaret
Thatcher visited Beijing. Deng refused her request for continued
British administration of Hong Kong after 1997, but agreed to open
negotiations on handover.
(www.china.org.cn/english/China/213898.htm)
1982 Sep 24, Sarah Churchill
(b.1914), actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), died. She was the
2nd daughter of Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill: the third
of the couple's five children.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Churchill_(actress))
1987 Sep 24, President Reagan
rebuffed congressional calls to limit U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf,
and defended the recent U.S. attack on an Iranian mine-laying vessel.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1988 Sep 24, Members of the
eastern Massachusetts Episcopal diocese elected Barbara C. Harris the
first female bishop in the church's history.
(AP, 9/24/98)
1988 Sep 24, In Burma Aung San Suu
Kyi formed the National League for Democracy party.
(SFC, 5/7/02, p.A9)
1988 Sep 24, Canadian sprinter Ben
Johnson won the men's 100-meter dash in 9.79 seconds at the Seoul
Summer Olympics. He was disqualified three days later for using
anabolic steroids.
(AP, 9/24/98)(Econ, 8/2/08, SR p.15)
1989 Sep 24, Residents of
Charleston, S.C., attended church services as they faced a third day of
recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Hugo. Hugo caused 56
deaths in the Caribbean and 29 in the United States. The storm hit
Guadeloupe, Montserrat, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico before
striking South Carolina.
(AP, 9/24/99)(AP, 9/11/04)
1990 Sep 24, South African
President F.W. de Klerk met at the White House with President Bush.
(AP, 9/24/00)
1990 Sep 24, East Germany signed a
treaty with the Soviet Union ending its membership in the Warsaw Pact.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact)
1990 Sep 24, The Supreme Soviet
voted to give preliminary approval to a plan for switching the Soviet
Union to a free-market economy.
(AP, 9/24/00)
1991 Sep 24, Children's author
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died in La Jolla,
Calif., at age 87.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1991 Sep 24, Kidnappers in Lebanon
freed British hostage Jack Mann after holding him captive for more than
two years.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1992 Sep 24, Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Clinton promised to press for a national
health-care system for all Americans; the Bush campaign countered that
the plan would be too expensive for average Americans.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1992 Sep 24, Acting US Navy
Secretary Sean O'Keefe stripped three admirals of their jobs for
failing to investigate aggressively the Tailhook sex abuse scandal.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1993 Sep 24, Addressing the United
Nations, Nelson Mandela asked the world community to lift economic
sanctions against South Africa, saying huge foreign investments would
help prevent unrest and build a multiracial democracy.
(AP, 9/24/98)
1993 Sep 24, Norodom Sihanouk was
reinstalled as king of Cambodia.
(HN, 9/24/98)(MC, 9/24/01)
1993 Sep 24, The 1st Israeli was
killed by Islamics after PLO signed the peace accord.
(http://tinyurl.com/dcf7e)
1993 Sep 24, Imelda Marcos, wife
of the late Ferdinand Marcos, former dictator of the Philippines, was
sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after being found guilty on charges
of widespread corruption. Imelda was also noted for her vast shoe
collection.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/philipp.htm)
1994 Sep 24, A firefight erupted
between U.S. Marines and a group of armed Haitians outside a police
station in the northern coastal city of Cap-Haitian; 10 of the Haitians
were killed.
(AP, 9/24/99)
1995 Sep 24, Israel’s Rabin and
the PLO under Arafat, signed a pact, Oslo II, in Taba, Egypt, ending
nearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities. They
scheduled a 9/7/97 date for Israel’s departure from the West Bank,
except for Jewish settlements and certain military locations. A final
accord was scheduled for 5/7/99.
(SFC, 1/9/96, p.A10)(AP, 9/24/00)(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A8)
1995 Sep 24, A 16-year-old boy in
Cuers, France, killed 13 people before turning a gun on himself.
(AP, 9/24/00)
1996 Sep 24, The United States,
represented by President Clinton, and the world's other major nuclear
powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear
weapons.
(AP, 9/24/97)
1997 Sep 24, Garth Brooks was
named best entertainer by Country Music Association.
(AP, 9/24/98)
1997 Sep 24, President Clinton
urged the annual convention of the AFL-CIO not to try to punish
Democratic lawmakers who stood with him on his request for stronger
authority to negotiate new free-trade treaties.
(AP, 9/24/98)
1997 Sep 24, The Islamic Salvation
Army (AIS) declared a truce and blamed recent killings on a splinter
fundamentalist group, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
(WSJ, 9/25/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/27/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 24, It was reported that
drought has destroyed crops across the Indonesian archipelago and could
force up to 1 million villagers into a famine diet. Forest and scrub
fires continued to burn out of control. 750,000 acres of bush land had
burned. It was the worst drought in 50 years.
(SFC, 9/24/97, p.A12)(SFC, 9/25/97, p.A11)(SFC,
7/6/98, p.A8)
1997 Sep 24, In the Republic of
the Congo it was reported that the Cobras, the private militia of
former military dictator Gen’l. Denis Sassou-Nguesso, had taken control
of more than three-quarters of the country.
(SFC, 9/24/97, p.A10)
1998 Sep 24, The US government
began releasing the new, harder-to-counterfeit $20 bill.
(SFC, 8/5/98, p.A6)(AP, 9/24/99)
1998 Sep 24, Eddie DeBartolo,
co-owner of the SF 49ers, struck a deal with federal prosecutors to
keep out of jail. He will pay a fine and testify against former
Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards.
(SFC, 9/25/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 24, Long Term Capital
Investment, a hedge fund, received a $3.5 billion bailout by fifteen
financial institutions orchestrated by the Federal Reserve.
(WSJ, 9/25/98, p.A8)
1998 Sep 24, NATO instructed its
generals to begin preparing for air strikes on Yugoslavia unless pres.
Milosevic ends his attacks on ethnic Albanians.
(SFC, 9/25/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 24, Hurricane Georges
charged toward Florida Keys. The death toll from Hurricane Georges
reached 443. The Dominican Republic toll was later set at 265; 172 in
Haiti; 6 in Cuba; 11 in Puerto Rico; 2 in Antigua; 4 in St. Kitts and
Nevis and 1 in the Bahamas.
(SFC, 9/25/98, p.A16)(WSJ, 9/28/98, p.A1)(SFC,
10/3/98, p.A11)(SFC, 10/7/98, p.A12)(AP, 9/24/99)
1998 Sep 24, French doctors
performed a hand transplant on a New Zealand man, Clint Hallam (48). He
had lost his hand in a sawing accident in a New Zealand prison where he
was serving a 2-year sentence for fraud.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D2)
1998 Sep 24, In Sierra Leone
troops from the ECOMOG peacekeeping force killed at least 50
traditional Kapra hunters after the hunters opened fire on them. The
hunters claimed to have mistaken the troops for rebels.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A10)
1999 Sep 24, Oregon teenager Kip
Kinkel, who killed his parents and gunned down two classmates at
school, abandoned an insanity defense and pleaded guilty to murder. He
was later sentenced to 112 years without parole.
(AP, 9/24/00)
1999 Sep 24, In Burundi the
government reported that Hutu rebels had hacked to death 11 civilians
in 2 separate attacks.
(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 24, In Chechnya tens of
thousands of civilians fled Grozny as Russian planes continued to bomb
the capital to wipe out Islamic militants accused of terrorizing Russia.
(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A13)
1999 Sep 24, In Honduras two weeks
of torrential rain left 6 people dead and flood gates were opened to
save the El Cajon dam.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A21)
1999 Sep 24, In Indonesia the
government suspended a new law that gave the armed forces expanded
emergency powers following serious protests and 2 days of rioting in
Jakarta. The Parliament recommended that a number of officials tied to
the Golkar Party be yanked from office over the disappearance of some
$70 billion from Bank Bali.
(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A16)
1999 Sep 24, A jury acquitted
former Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti of the 1979 killing of a
journalist.
(AP, 9/24/00)
1999 Sep 24, In Japan typhoon Bart
hit wreaked havoc in the south and killed at least 26 people.
(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 24, In Serbia some 30,000
protested in Belgrade against Pres. Milosevic.
(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A14)
2000 Sep 24, Janice Brustlein,
painter aka Biala, died in Paris at age 97.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A24)
2000 Sep 24, In Bangladesh
flooding forced some 60,000 to flee their homes and at least 9 people
sere killed.
(WSJ, 9/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 24, In France voters
approved a reduction in the presidents term of office to 5 years from 7.
(SFC, 9/25/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 24, In India 6 days of
rain left 370 people dead or missing.
(WSJ, 9/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 24, Vladimiro Montesinos,
Peru’s ousted spy chief, fled to Panama.
(SFC, 9/25/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 24, For the first time
the citizens of the Yugoslav federation, Serbia and Montenegro, voted
directly for president. Supporters of opposition candidate Vojislav
Kostunica declared victory the next day, but the election commission
said a runoff was needed, prompting massive protests that toppled
President Slobodan Milosevic.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A1)(AP 9/24/01)
2001 Sep 24, President Bush
ordered a freeze on the assets of 27 people and organizations with
suspected links to terrorism, including Islamic militant Osama bin
Laden, and urged other nations to do likewise.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1,9)(AP, 9/24/02)
2001 Sep 24, The US rewarded
Jordan for its role in the anti-terrorist coalition with the passage of
a free trade treaty.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 24, The US received from
Russia an essential go-ahead to use 3 former republics as bases for
attacks on Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1,6)
2001 Sep 24, The US agreed to pay
$582 million in overdue dues to the UN.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 24, US crop-dusters were
grounded for a 2nd day amid fears of a terrorist chemical attacks.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 24, In Maryland 2 college
students, sisters, were killed by tornadoes at College Park. Gov.
Parris Glendening toured the area the next day.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C3)
2001 Sep 24, In Afghanistan
Taliban officials said they were dispatching 300,000 fighters to defend
their borders. Analysts estimated Taliban strength at 45,000 fighters
with 20,000 in action against the Northern Alliance.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A5)
2001 Sep 24, The Taliban occupied
the offices of the UN World food Program and seized 1,400 metric tons
of food.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 24, In Colombia Consuelo
Araujo (62), the wife of the attorney general, was kidnapped along with
10 others near Valledupar. Araujo was found shot to death on Sep 30.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A12)(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 24, Kazakstan offered air
and military bases to the US for attacks on Afghanistan. Tajikistan and
Uzbekistan were said to be negotiating use of their territory by the US.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 24, It was reported that
at least 16 Syrian, Jordanian and Lebanese citizens were arrested in
Paraguay in the wake of the Sep 11 terrorist attacks in the US.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 24, Russia pledged
support for US efforts and arms for anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 9/25/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 24, The UN announced that
it is withdrawing its int’l. staff from Somalia after losing insurance
coverage on flights in and out of the country.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A12)
2002 Sep 24, The US Census Bureau
reported a rise in the poverty rate to 11.7%, with 32.9 million people
classified as poor. It was the 1st rise in 8 years.
(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 24, The annual $500,00
"genius award" MacArthur grants were given to 24 men and women
including David B. Goldstein, energy specialist at the Natural
Resources Defense Council in SF for his work on energy-efficient
refrigerators.
(SFC, 9/25/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.B1)
2002 Sep 24, The Dow Jones
industrials dropped nearly 190 points to hit a four-year low. The
Federal Reserve voted to keep U.S. interest rates steady for now
despite rare dissent within its ranks.
(AP, 9/24/02)(Reuters, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 24, British Prime
Minister Tony Blair asserted that Iraq had a growing arsenal of
chemical and biological weapons and planned to use them, as he unveiled
an intelligence dossier to a special session of Parliament.
(AP, 9/24/03)
2002 Sep 24, Youssouf Togoimi,
rebel head of the Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad and a
former minister in the government of President Idriss Deby, died from
wounds suffered after his vehicle struck a land mine Aug 28. Togoimi
died in a hospital in neighboring Libya where he was flown for
treatment.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 24, The Danish government
announced that the US will return to Denmark a section of the U.S. air
base at Thule in northern Greenland that was created in 1953.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 24, In India commandos
stormed the Swaminarayan Hindu temple in Gandhinagar to try to flush
out gunmen who killed 32 Hindus and wounded over 70. Two attackers were
killed the next day after a 14-hour siege.
(Reuters, 9/24/02)(SFC, 9/25/02, p.A11)(WSJ,
9/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 24, Iraq dismissed a
British government report that said Saddam Hussein is pursuing
chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 24, Allied aircraft
struck Iraqi air defense facilities again in a double strike at two
southeastern installations. Precision-guided weapons were aimed at a
radar facility near Al Amarah about 165 miles southeast of Baghdad and
a defense communications facility at Tallil, about 170 miles southeast
of the capital.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 24, Israel defied a
U.N. Security Council demand to end its six-day siege of Yasser
Arafat's devastated West Bank headquarters. 9 Palestinians were killed
in an Israeli strike against alleged munitions factories and other
targets in Gaza City. Israeli troops demolished three houses of
Palestinian terror suspects, while Jewish settler leaders inaugurated a
new Jewish settlement near the Palestinian city of Nablus.
(AP, 9/24/02)(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 24, In Spain a
booby-trapped sign bearing the logo of the armed Basque separatist
group ETA exploded, killing one police officer and wounding three
others.
(AP, 9/24/02)
2002 Sep 24, Tropical Storm Lili
unleashed a mudslide that buried a woman and three of her children in
St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2003 Sep 24, After four turbulent
months, three special legislative sessions and two Democratic walkouts,
both houses of the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature adopted
redistricting plans favoring the GOP.
(AP, 9/24/04)
2003 Sep 24, In Cold Spring,
Minn., Jason McLaughlin (15), a high school freshman, shot and killed
senior Aaron Rollins (17) and wounded Seth Bartell (14) before
surrendering. Bartell died from his wounds on Oct 10. On August 30,
2005, McLaughlin was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility
for parole until he’s well over 50. He was convicted of first degree
murder in the shooting death of Bartell and second-degree murder for
killing Rollins.
(SFC, 10/11/03,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocori_High_School_shooting)
2003 Sep 24, Herb Gardner (68),
Tony-winning playwright, died in New York.
(AP, 9/24/04)
2003 Sep 24, In Israel 27 reserve
pilots refused to take part in targeted killings.
(WSJ, 9/25/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 24, India rejected
Pakistan's invitation to negotiate a settlement concerning the disputed
province of Kashmir.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 24, Families of people
killed when US jets bombed Libya urged Tripoli to suspend payments to
relatives of the victims of the 1988 downing of a Pan Am airliner until
they receive compensation from the United States.
(AP, 9/24/03)
2003 Sep 24, Swedish police
arrested a new suspect in the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh,
and released a man they had held for more than a week.
(AP, 9/24/03)
2004 Sep 24, The California Air
Resources Board backed sweeping reductions in auto emissions.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2004 Sep 24, Nova Scotia became
the sixth Canadian province or territory to allow gay marriages when
the provincial Supreme Court ruled that banning such unions was
unconstitutional.
(AP, 9/24/04)
2004 Sep 24, French author
Francoise Sagan (69), who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour
Tristesse" (1954) at the age of 18 and courted controversy throughout
her life, died. She was a longstanding friend of late President
Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs and for tax
evasion.
(Reuters, 9/24/04)(SSFC, 9/26/04, p.B5)
2004 Sep 24, Iraq's interim PM
Ayad Allawi appealed to world leaders at the UN General Assembly to
unite behind his country's effort to rein in spiraling violence,
lighten the foreign debt and improve security ahead of the January
elections. PM Allawi and President Bush declared that Iraq is on the
road to stability, with the Iraqi leader saying elections would be
possible in all but 3-4 of Iraq's 18 provinces.
(AP, 9/24/04)(AP, 9/24/05)
2004 Sep 24, Palestinians shelled
a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip and killed an Israeli-American
woman just ahead of Yom Kippur.
(AP, 9/24/04)
2004 Sep 24, An uprising by some
800 gang members at two Salvadoran prisons ended peacefully on Friday
following government promises to study complaints by inmates.
(AP, 9/24/04)
2004 Sep 24, The UN High
Commissioner for Refugees proposed autonomy for the troubled Darfur
region of Sudan. The government has resisted this but said it would be
willing to discuss it anew in an effort to end the violence that has
killed 50,000 people.
(CP, 9/24/04)
2005 Sep 24, The 184-nation
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank opened their annual
meetings in Washington DC. They were ready to act on a breakthrough
deal that would forgive more than $40 billion owed by the poorest
nations.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 24, The US deficit was
reported to be over $700 billion. The growing deficit put negative
pressure on the dollar causing foreign lenders to demand higher
interest rates.
(Econ, 9/24/05, Sur. p.22)
2005 Sep 24, The anti-war march in
Washington DC drew tens of thousands. In SF an anti-war march from
Dolores park to Jefferson Square drew 20-50 thousand people.
(SSFC, 9/25/05, A1)
2005 Sep 24, The 2nd annual Love
Parade began at Market and Second streets in SF and was followed by a
celebration at the Civic Center Plaza. 24 floats carried some 200 DJs.
(SSFC, 9/25/05, A21)
2005 Sep 24, Hurricane Rita,
reduced to Category 3, made landfall east of Sabine Pass, on the
Texas-Louisiana line, smashing windows, sparking fires and knocking
power out to more than 1 million customers, but largely sparing
vulnerable Houston and already reeling New Orleans. Within hours it
weakened to Category 2.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 24, Thomas Ross Bond
(b.1926), child star, died in Los Angeles. He played Butch the bully in
the "Our Gang" and "The Little Rascals" serials of the 1930s. In the
1940s, Bond played Jimmy Olsen in two Superman movies and appeared as
Joey Pepper in several installments of the "Five Little Peppers" serial.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 24, Monica
Lozada-Rivadineira (26), a immigrant from Bolivia, disappeared in NYC.
Her daughter, Valery, was found in the evening wandering barefoot in
Queens. On Oct 6 Police found her body in a Pennsylvania landfill and
police said she was killed by her boyfriend. In 2006 Cesar Ascarruna
(32) pleaded guilty to manslaughter and reckless endangerment. He was
sentenced to 32 years in prison.
(AP, 10/7/05)(SFC, 3/16/06, p.A3)
2005 Sep 24, Aruba election board
officials reported that the ruling party kept its majority in
parliament in legislative elections for all 21 seats.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 24, Thousands of people
marched through central London demanding that British PM Tony Blair
withdraw British troops from Iraq. Marches also took place in the US
and Europe.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 24, India's western state
of Gujarat was on flood alert after two days of lashing monsoon rains
that killed at least 15 people.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 24, A suicide car bomber
driving at high speed exploded his vehicle near an Iraqi army
checkpoint in downtown Baghdad, killing three soldiers and an Iraqi
civilian.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 24, In Iraq 2 insurgents
from al-Qaida in Iraq were captured during raids in the Baghdad. They
were identified as Walid Muhammad Farhan Juwar al-Zubaydi, also known
as "the Barber," and Ibrahim Muhammad Subhi Khayri al-Rihawi.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Sep 24, Israel killed at
least two Hamas militants in a missile strike and moved artillery
cannons to the Gaza border, launching what it vowed would be a
"crushing" response to a Hamas rocket barrage on Israeli towns. An air
strike caused heavy damage to the Al-Arkam school run by Hamas.
(AP, 9/24/05)(SSFC, 9/25/05, A3)
2005 Sep 24, Turkish scholars at a
twice-canceled conference on the massacre of Armenians in the early
20th century cautiously discussed the politically charged topic,
avoiding inflammatory language as protesters denounced the gathering as
traitorous.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 24, The 35-nation board
of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency approved a resolution that could
lead to Iran's referral to the U.N. Security Council for violating a
nuclear arms control treaty, something the United States has been
urging for years.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2006 Sep 24, In a combative
interview on "Fox News Sunday," former President Clinton defended his
handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, and accused host Chris
Wallace of a "conservative hit job."
(AP, 9/24/07)
2006 Sep 24, Democrats seized on
an intelligence assessment that said the Iraq war had increased the
terrorist threat, saying it was further evidence Americans should
choose new leadership in upcoming elections.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2006 Sep 24, A survey by the Pew
Internet and American Life Project said machines after 2020 will become
intelligent, evolve rapidly, and could end up treating humans as pets.
(SFC, 9/25/06, p.F1)
2006 Sep 24, Residents in
Richmond, Ca., set up a tent city to protest violence, homicides and
drug dealing in their Iron Triangle neighborhood.
(SFC, 10/11/06, p.A7)
2006 Sep 24, Inco, one of Canada’s
two largest mining companies, agreed to be acquired by Companhia Vale
do Rio Doce of Brazil for $17.8 billion.
(www.secinfo.com/dRY7g.v113.d.htm)(WSJ, 4/25/08,
p.A1)
2006 Sep 24, In China Chen
Liangyu, the Communist Party boss of Shanghai, was sacked for
corruption, toppling the highest leader so far in national party chief
Hu Jintao's drive to root out abuse and enforce loyalty.
(Reuters, 9/25/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.49)
2006 Sep 24, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, youths angered at a court decision to evict squatters from a
downtown building hurled stones, bottles and eggs at police during a
protest. More than 200 were detained.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 24, In Ecuador a speeding
bus overturned on a curving mountain road near Quito, killing 47 people
and injuring five children.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 24, India's federal
government called off a six-week truce with separatist rebels in Assam
and ordered the resumption of military operations in the northeastern
state.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, Iraq’s PM Nouri
al-Maliki called for Shiites and Sunnis to use the Islamic holy month
of Ramadan to put aside their differences. Iraq's parliamentary groups
agreed to open debate on a contentious Shiite-proposed draft
legislation that will allow the creation of federal regions in Iraq.
Authorities reported that at least 20 people were killed in scattered
violence across the country. Authorities reported that 45 bodies were
received at the morgue, the apparent victims of sectarian death squads.
(AP, 9/24/06)(SFC, 9/25/06, p.A9)
2006 Sep 24, In Indian Kashmir 4
suspected Islamic militants were shot dead by troops in northern Uri
district in a gunbattle with troops. 2 more were killed in nearby
Bandipora.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, In Lebanon Samir
Geagea, an anti-Syrian Christian leader, dismissed Hezbollah's claims
of victory in its war with Israel as tens of thousands of his
supporters rallied in a show of strength that highlighted the country’s
sharp divisions.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, In St. Petersburg,
Russia, attackers stabbed to death Nitesh Kumar Singh, an Indian
medical student, in the latest in a series of hate crimes there.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 24, In Somalia hundreds
of Islamic militiamen in heavily armed trucks took over the southern
town of Kismayo, one of the last seaports that had been outside their
control.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, Swiss voters in a
national referendum backed tougher asylum rules put forth by justice
minister Christoph Blocher, despite fears that the new rules will deny
refugees a fair hearing. 68% approved a new immigration law which was
meant to tackle what authorities say is the lack of integration of many
foreigners into Swiss society.
(AP, 9/24/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.61)
2006 Sep 24, Thailand's military
council issued new orders intended to stave off any possible opposition
to their coup, banning political activities at the district and
provincial levels.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2007 Sep 24, The US Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA) said that its 10-month “Operation Raw Deal”
had resulted in 124 arrests in 27 states and 9 foreign countries. 56
steroid labs were seized along with $6.5 million and 232 kilograms of
steroid powder produced in China.
(SFC, 9/25/07,
p.A1)(www.attorneygeneral.gov/press.aspx?id=2204)
2007 Sep 24, More than 73,000
General Motors Corp workers walked off the job after marathon contract
talks between the United Auto Workers union and GM stalled and the
union called the first national strike since 1970 against the top U.S.
automaker.
(Reuters, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 24, In SF
union-represented security officers at 14 buildings in the Financial
District went on strike protesting contract negotiations that have been
fruitless for 3 months. Workers returned to their jobs on Sep 27
following some progress in negotiations.
(SFC, 9/25/07, p.C1)(SFC, 9/28/07, p.C1)
2007 Sep 24, In Huntsville, Texas,
two inmates wrested guns from guards, stole a pickup truck then ran
over and killed a female guard. John Ray Falk (40) and Jerry Martin
(37) were both arrested within hours following a huge manhunt.
(SFC, 9/25/07, p.A6)
2007 Sep 24, The annual $500,00
"genius award" MacArthur grants were given to 24 men and women. Bay
Area winners included Claire Kremen for her studies on honey bees, and
inventor Saul Griffith for his work to bring corrective eyewear to
people in the Third World.
(SFC, 9/25/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 24, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in NYC for a speech at Columbia University
followed by a scheduled address to the UN General Assembly. Ahmadinejad
defended Holocaust revisionists and raised questions about who carried
out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown at Columbia University.
(AP, 9/24/07)(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 24, Dell Inc. announced a
deal to launch a retail presence in China by selling computers through
the country's biggest chain of electronics stores as it struggles to
capture a bigger share of the booming market.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 24, A US navy MH60
helicopter crashed into a lake on the Pacific island of Guam, killing
one crew member.
(Reuters, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 24, Wolfgang K.H.
Panofsky (b.1919), German-born Stanford physicist, died. He led the
construction of the Stanford Linear Accelerator following approval by
Congress in 1961.
(SFC, 9/26/07, p.B7)
2007 Sep 24, In western
Afghanistan Italian special forces rescued two captive Italian
intelligence agents from a militant convoy, killing at least eight
kidnappers. Both kidnapped Italians were wounded in the raid, but one
died from his wounds in Rome on Oct 4. In southern Afghanistan a
Canadian soldier was killed and four were wounded during a military
operation.
(AP, 9/24/07)(Reuters, 9/25/07)(AP, 10/4/07)
2007 Sep 24, An Australian man was
conscious and spoke to his medical team during life-saving brain
surgery in what doctors are claiming as a world-first procedure with
cutting-edge technology.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 24, Two Congolese troops
and a Ugandan soldier were killed in clashes on the flashpoint border
of Lake Albert where oil was recently discovered. Six civilians were
killed when Ugandan soldiers opened fire on a Congolese passenger boat
on Lake Albert.
(AFP, 9/25/07)(Reuters, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 24, French PM Francois
Fillon warned that the country's public finances were in a "critical"
state and need drastic action to reduce worrying deficits.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 24, Hungarian officials
said that in an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy,
they will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur's permit, a
move that could generate government revenues from an industry worth an
estimated $1 billion annually.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 24, Iran closed major
border crossings with northeastern Iraq to protest the US detention of
an Iranian official the military accused of weapons smuggling. The
International Atomic Energy Agency technical officials began talks with
Iran to resolve remaining issues surrounding the country's
controversial nuclear program. Iran released from jail peace activist
Ali Shakeri, the last of four Iranian-Americans imprisoned in recent
months after being accused of stirring up a revolution.
(AP, 9/24/07)(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 24, Iraq’s Pres.
al-Maliki spoke in NYC at the Council on Foreign Relations. When
asked about the country's various problems, took a jab at the Bush
administration, saying that the build-up of Iraq's forces after the
collapse of Saddam's regime, was not handled properly. A suicide
attacker struck a unity meeting of about 800 people in Baqouba, killing
at least 24, including the city's police chief and other top officials.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 24, Israel’s Supreme
Court gave the country’s main land distributor 3 months to change its
policy of selling property only to Jews.
(SFC, 9/25/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 24, A powerful blast
ripped through a shopping mall in the center of Pristina, Kosovo's
capital, killing two and injuring 10 others.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 24, In Myanmar as many as
100,000 protesters led by a phalanx of barefoot monks marched through
Yangon. The movement has grown in a week from faltering demonstrations
to one rivaling the failed 1988 pro-democracy uprising.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 24, Pakistani police
intensified a crackdown that opposition parties say has left hundreds
of activists in custody while the Supreme Court dismissed three
challenges to the re-election bid of Pakistan's military leader.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 24, Russia’s President
Vladimir Putin named a new government, tapping new economics and health
ministers and retaining his foreign and defense ministers in an
expected but largely cosmetic shuffle before parliamentary and
presidential elections.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 24, A group of UN experts
monitoring Darfur said that serious human rights violations appeared to
be continuing in the strife-torn western Sudanese region.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2007 Sep 24, The Swiss drugmaker
Novartis AG said that the European Commission had approved its Exelon
skin patch to treat Alzheimer's disease.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2008 Sep 24, Pres. Bush went on
national TV to support the economic bailout plan.
(WSJ, 9/25/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 24, A US federal appeals
court ruled Ivory Coast plantation workers, who claimed they were
sterilized by a US-made pesticide, cannot sue the manufacturers and
distributors of the chemical in the US, because they can’t show that
the companies intended them harm. Some 700 workers accused US companies
of genocide for marketing DBCP abroad after the pesticide was banned in
the US.
(SFC, 9/25/08, p.B3)
2008 Sep 24, California’s Gov.
Schwarzenegger began signing bills including legislation that bans text
messaging while driving and a law that forbids companies that do
business with the state from having investments in Sudan.
(SFC, 9/25/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 24, In California a
mercury spill at Searles Valley Minerals in San Bernardino County
released some 90 pounds during a demolition project. Another 90 pounds
was released in a 2nd spill at the site on Oct 10.
(SSFC, 2/8/09, p.A21)
2008 Sep 24, In NYC police Lt.
Michael Pigott ordered a fellow officer to fire a taser at Imam
Morales, who had threatened to kill himself and stood naked on a window
ledge. Morales fell about 10 feet and died. A distraught Pigott
committed suicide on Oct 2.
(SFC, 10/3/08, p.A6)
2008 Sep 24, Google introduced a
$10 million project to reward 5 winners in an Internet competition for
an idea making the world a better place.
(SFC, 9/25/08, p.C1)
2008 Sep 24, Oracle unveiled a
joint project with Hewlett Packard for a storage server for data
warehousing: the HP Oracle Database Machine.
(SFC, 9/25/08, p.C1)
2008 Sep 24, In Afghanistan a bomb
blast in the capital has wounded Kabul's chief criminal investigator.
Gen. Ali Shah Paktiawal was investigating the overnight killing of
three officers at the checkpoint in Kabul's western outskirts when a
blast struck his team. A remote-controlled bomb struck a police vehicle
in Spin Boldak district, killing two officers.
(AP, 9/24/08)(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 24, Britain pledged 26.9
million pounds for drought-hit Ethiopia, where some 9.6 million people
are in need of emergency food aid.
(AP, 9/24/08)
2008 Sep 24, Typhoon Hagupit
plowed into south China, killing at least 13 people, closing schools,
canceling flights, uprooting trees and bringing down billboards in
several cities. Torrential rain isolated more than 20,000 people in an
area of southwest China still recovering from a devastating earthquake
in May. Flash floods and landslides unleashed by heavy rains killed at
least 16 people in Sichuan province.
(Reuters, 9/25/08)(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 24, The European Union
warned that Iran is nearing the ability to arm a nuclear warhead even
if it insists its atomic activities are peaceful.
(AP, 9/24/08)
2008 Sep 24, French power provider
EDF said it has agreed to acquire British Energy Group PLC for about
$23.2 billion in cash in a deal that would create a powerhouse in
nuclear energy.
(AP, 9/24/08)
2008 Sep 24, Iraq's parliament
overwhelmingly approved a provincial elections law, overcoming months
of deadlock and giving a boost to US-backed national reconciliation
efforts. An ambush against Iraqi forces raiding Othmaniyah, a Sunni
village northeast of Baghdad killed 35, most of them commandos sent to
the area as part of a US-backed military crackdown. A suicide bomber
killed a US soldier in Diyala province.
(AP, 9/24/08)(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 24, Taro Aso (68), former
foreign minister and flamboyant conservative of the Liberal Democratic
Party (LDP), took charge as Japan's new prime minister, pledging to
work for a "cheerful" nation by reviving an economy in the doldrums.
(AP, 9/24/08)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.53)(Econ, 11/1/08,
p.51)
2008 Sep 24, In Morocco at least
12 people were killed and 43 injured when a bus overturned in the
southern province of Taroudannt.
(AFP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 24, In Nicaragua Russia's
ambassador to Managua said that his country will replace the Nicaraguan
army's aging weaponry.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 24, North Korea barred UN
nuclear inspectors from its main nuclear reactor and within a week
plans to reactivate the plant that once provided the plutonium for its
atomic test explosion.
(AP, 9/24/08)
2008 Sep 24, The Pakistani army
said it found the wreckage of a suspected US spy plane near the Afghan
border, but denied claims that it had been shot down. A suicide bomber
killed an 11-year-old girl and wounded 11 troops in the frontier city
of Quetta. Security forces killed 20 militants in the Bajur border
region.
(AP, 9/24/08)
2008 Sep 24, Ruslan Yamadayev
(46), a former Russian lawmaker and brother of a Chechen warlord, was
assassinated as he was stopped at a traffic light just outside the
British Embassy in Moscow.
(AP,
9/25/08)(www.newstin.com/rel/us/en-010-005544799)
2008 Sep 24, Sudanese forces were
laying siege to a remote desert hideout where bandits held 19 people
captive, including European tourists, but said they did not plan to
storm the area. Negotiations were continuing with the kidnappers, who
have reportedly demanded a ransom of up to 15 million dollars.
(AFP, 9/24/08)
2008 Sep 24, In Tanzania the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) sentenced Simeon
Nchamihigo, Rwanda’s former deputy prosecutor, to life in prison for
his role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
(Reuters, 9/24/08)
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