Return to home
813 Sep 25,
Al-Amin, Arabic Caliph of Islam (809-813), was murdered.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1066 Sep 25, King Harold Godwinson
II marched north and attacked the Vikings at the Battle of Stampford
Bridge in Yorkshire. The King of Norway was killed and Harold’s forces
destroyed the Vikings who returned to Norway in 24 of their 300 ships.
Marching north to face a Norwegian invasion force commanded by King
Harald Sigurdsson, aka Hardraade, and by his usurper brother, Tostig,
Harold Godwinson defended his crown at Stamford Bridge, resulting in a
Saxon victory and the deaths of both Harald and Tostig. Soon afterward,
however, Harold had to march south to face another invading contender
for his throne, Duke William the Bastard of Normandy, who defeated and
killed Harold at Hastings on October 14, and took the English crown as
William the Conqueror.
(TLC, 6/25/95)
1066 Sep 25, Harald III Hardrada
(51), king of Norway and England (1047-66), died in battle. Herald was
later laid to rest in Waltham Abbey.
(MC, 9/25/01)(AP, 1/3/03)
1396 Sep 25, A Christian crusade,
led jointly by John the Fearless of Nevers and King Sigismund of
Hungary, ended in disaster at the hands of Sultan Bajezid I's Ottoman
army at Nicopolis.
(HN, 9/25/98)(PCh, 1992, p.137)
1492 Sep 25, Crew members aboard
one of Christopher Columbus' ships, the Pinta, shouted that they could
see land, but it turned out to be a false sighting.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1493 Sep 25, Christopher Columbus
set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his 2nd
voyage to the Western Hemisphere. He was accompanied by 13 clerics;
Alvarez Chanca, a physician who left valuable accounts of the voyage;
Juan Ponce de Leon; Juan de la Cosa, a cartographer; and Columbus’s
younger brother Bartholomew.
(AP, 9/25/97)(AM, 7/97, p.58)
1513 Sept 25, Vasco Nunez de
Balboa, Spanish explorer, crossed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed the
Pacific Ocean for Spain. He was named governor of Panama and the
Pacific by King Ferdinand. In 2004 Hugh Thomas authored “Rivers of
Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire from Columbus to Magellan.”
(HFA, '96, p.38)(TL-MB, 1988, p.10)(SFEC, 9/21/97,
p.C7)(WSJ, 6/2/04, p.D12)
1525 Sep 25, Johannes Pistorius,
[Bakker], Roman Catholic pastor and church reformer, was burned at age
26. [see Sep 15]
(MC, 9/25/01)
1555 Sep 25, The Religious Peace
of Augsburg compromised differences between Catholics and Protestants
in the German states. Each prince could chose which religion would be
followed in his realm. Lutheranism was acknowledged by the Holy Roman
Empire. The Peace of Augsburg was the first permanent legal basis for
the existence of Lutheranism as well as Catholicism in Germany. It was
promulgated as part of the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire. Charles V's
Augsburg Interim of 1548 was a temporary doctrinal agreement between
German Catholics and Protestants that was overthrown in 1552.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.19)(PCh, 1992, p.189)(HNQ, 2/8/99)
1598 Sep 25, In Sweden, King
Sigismund was defeated at Stangebro by his Uncle Charles.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1627 Sep 25, Jacques-Benigne
Bossuet, theologian, was born.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1639 Sep 25, The 1st printing
press in America began operating.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1644 Sep 25, Olaus Rímer,
1st to accurately measured speed of light, was born in Denmark.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1680 Sep 25, Samuel Butler
(b.1612), poet and satirist, died.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1683 Sep 25, Jean-Philippe Rameau,
composer, was born in Dijon, France.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1690 Sep 25, One of the earliest
American newspapers, “Publick Occurrences,” published its first and
last edition in Boston. The colonial governor and council disallowed
the pamphlet due to its contents.
(AP, 9/25/00)(WSJ, 3/8/06, p.D14)
1714 Sep 25, Jean-Benoit Leclair,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1775 Sep 25, British troops
captured Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga, when he and a handful of
Americans led an attack on Montreal, Canada.
(AP, 9/25/97)(HN, 9/25/98)
1777 Sep 25, English general
William Howe conquered Philadelphia. [see Sep 26]
(MC, 9/25/01)
1780 Sep 25, American General
Benedict Arnold joined the British.
(MC, 9/25/01)(ON, 11/01, p.5)
1789 Sep 25, The first United
States Congress [proposed] adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution
and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of the amendments
became the Bill of Rights. 14 copies were hand written and 13 were sent
to the individual states.
(WUD, 1994, p.1703)(AP, 9/25/97)(HN, 9/25/98)(SFC,
1/20/02, p.A11)
1804 Sep 25, The 12th Amendment
was ratified. It required electors to vote separately for the president
and vice-president.
(HN, 9/25/98)(WSJ, 10/27/99, p.A16)(WSJ, 12/11/00,
p.A18)
1829 Sep 25, There was a failed
assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1832 Sep 25, William Le Baron
Jenney, US, architect and "father of the skyscraper," was born.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1846 Sep 25, American General
Zachary Taylor's forces captured Monterey, Mexico. [see May 24]
(HN, 9/25/98)
1847 Sep 25, Vinnie Ream, who
sculpted President Abraham Lincoln from life shortly before he was
assassinated, was born.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1849 Sep 25, Johann Baptist
Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky March), died at 45.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1861 Sep 25, Secretary of US Navy
authorized the enlistment of slaves.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1866 Sep 25, (Leonard W) Jerome
Park opened in Bronx for horse racing.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1867 Sep 25, Congress created the
1st all black university, Howard Univ. in Wash DC.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1888 Sep 25, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles."
(MC, 9/25/01)
1888 Sep 25, The Royal Court
Theatre, London, opened.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1890 Sep 25, President Benjamin
Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park. Sequoia
National Park, the nation’s 2nd oldest, was created by Congress. The
army was assigned park patrol duty.
(AP, 9/25/99)(SFC, 7/21/96, p.T3)(SFC, 2/1/03, p.A15)
1890 Sep 25, Congress established
California’s Yosemite National Park.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1890 Sep 25, Wilford Woodruff,
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, issued a
Manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy. The Mormons
renounced the practice of polygamy after six decades in exchange for
statehood for Utah. Smith’s revelation that God authorized polygamy
remained in Article 132 of the church’s Doctrine and Covenants.
(SFC, 8/6/98, p.A11)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)(SSFC,
2/25/07, p.A4)(AP, 9/25/07)
1897 Sep 25, William Faulkner
(d.1962), American author, was born in New Albany, Miss. His books were
mostly set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. and include “The Sound
and The Fury” and “Intruder in the Dust.” "The poet's voice need not
merely be the record of man; it can be one of the props, the pillars to
help him endure and prevail."
(AP, 9/25/97)(HN, 9/25/98)
1903 Sep 25, Mark Rothko, [Marcus
Rothkovich] US émigré painter (Green on Blue), was born.
He came to the US in 1913. His work included “Subway” (1936/1939),
“Street Scene” (1936/1938), “Untitled” (1942), “Untitled” (1942/1943),
“Phalanx of the Mind” (1945), “The Source” (1946), “Sacrificial Moment”
(1946), “Number 18” (1948), and “Untitled” (1945-1946).
(V.D.-H.K.p.362)(SFC,1/21/97, p.B1,2)(MC, 9/25/01)
1904 Sep 25, A New York City
police officer ordered a female passenger in an automobile on Fifth
Avenue to stop smoking a cigarette. A male companion was arrested and
later fined two dollars for "abusing" the officer.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1905 Sep 25, Red Smith,
sportscaster and columnist, was born in Green Bay Wisc.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1906 Sep 25, Dimitri Shostakovich
(d.1975), Soviet composer who wrote 15 symphonies, was born. His work
included the Violin Concerto No. 2. [see Sep 12]
(WUD, 1994, p.1320)(SFC, 1/30/98, p.E5)(HN, 9/25/98)
1907 Sep 25, Jean Sibelius' 3rd
Symphony premiered.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1909 Sep 25, The first National
Aeronautic Show opened at Madison Square Garden.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1911 Sep 25, Italy declared war on
Turkey.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1915 Sep 25, An allied offensive
was launched in France against the German Army.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1915 Sep 25, At the Battle at
Loos: 8,246 British and 0 German casualties.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1918 Sep 25, John Ireland, Irish
and US archbishop of St Paul, died at 80.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1918 Sep 25, Brazil declared war
on Austria.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1919 Sep 25, Pres. Wilson
collapsed in Pueblo, Colorado. An ailing President Woodrow Wilson was
faced with the possibility that the Senate might not ratify the
Versailles Treaty ending World War I without substantial changes.
Wilson embarked on a grueling railroad tour of America to sway public
opinion in favor of his version of the Treaty, delivering 40 speeches
in less than a week. He warned America that without the Treaty, "there
will be another world war" within a single generation. He was rushed
back to a White House sickroom but there suffered a stroke on October
2. For the five weeks Wilson's life was in danger, his doctor and Mrs.
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, kept the president isolated, but did not
declare him unfit to perform his presidential duties. By November 1,
Wilson once again governed the country, although he was left partially
paralyzed, weak and demoralized. In March 1920, the Senate finally
rejected the Treaty of Versailles.
(AP, 9/25/97)(HNPD, 9/25/98)
1926 Sep 25, Henry Ford announced
8 hour, 5 day work week.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(MC, 9/25/01)
1926 Sep 25, The Convention to
Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery, an international treaty created
under the auspices of the League of Nations, was first signed in Geneva
to be effective March 9, 1927.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_Slavery_Convention)
1931 Sep 25, Barbara Walters,
television news personality best known for her one-on-one interviews
with famous personalities, was born.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1932 Sep 25, Glenn Gould, concert
pianist best known for his Bach interpretations, was born.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1933 Sep 25, 1st state poorhouse
opened in Smyrna, Georgia.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1933 Sep 25, The 5th
"extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1935 Sep 25, Maxwell Anderson's
"Winterset," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1936 Sep 25-1936 Oct 13, The
Tripartite Agreement between the US, the UK, and France established
that the subscribing nations agree to buy and sell gold freely with
each other in exchange for their own currency.
(www.reserveasset.gold.org/monetary_history/key_documents/after/)
1937 Sep 25, In China Lin Biao
masterminded the ambush and annihilation of more than 1,000 Japanese
troops, at Pingxiangguan pass in Shanxi province.
(AP, 7/16/07)
1937 Sep 25, German Chancellor
Adolf Hitler met with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini in Munich.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1938 Sep 25, President Franklin
Roosevelt urged negotiations between Hitler and Czech President Benes
over the Sudetenland.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1939 Sep 25, German Luftwaffe
struck Warsaw with fire bombs.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1939 Sep 25, Andorra and Germany
finally signed an official treaty ending WW I. The 1919 Versailles
Peace Treaty failed to include Andorra.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1940 Sep 25, German High
Commissioner in Norway set up the Vidikun Quisling government.
(SFC, 6/25/97, p.A10)(MC, 9/25/01)
1940 Sep 25, Luftwaffe bombed the
Spitfire factory in Southampton. [see Sep 24]
(MC, 9/25/01)
1942 Sep 25, The War Labor Board
ordered equal pay for women in the United States.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1943 Sep 25, The Red Army retook
Smolensk from the Germans who were retreating to the Dnieper River in
the Soviet Union.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1944 Sep 25, Michael Douglas,
actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile), was born in New Jersey.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1945 Sep 25, Bela Bartok,
Hungarian composer, died at 64. [see Sep 26]
(MC, 9/25/01)
1948 Sep 25, Iva Toguri D'Aquino
(b.1916), a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio
propagandist "Tokyo Rose," arrived in SF aboard the General Hodges and
was taken away by FBI agents. On Sep 9, 1949, she was found guilty of
speaking into a microphone concerning the loss of US ships. She was
sentenced to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. She was released in
1956 and pardoned by Pres. Ford in 1977.
(AP, 9/5/99)(AH, 10/02, p.28)
1952 Sep 25, Christopher Reeve,
actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), was born in NYC.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1952 Sep 25, The American
Federation of Labor broke a 71-year precedent and endorsed Democratic
candidate Adlai Stevenson.
(SFC, 9/20/02, p.E6)
1954 Sep 25, Francois "Doc"
Duvalier won the Haitian presidential election.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1955 Sep 25, Patty Berg won the
LPGA Clock Golf Open.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1956 Sep 25, The first
trans-Atlantic telephone cable went into service.
(AP, 9/25/06)
1957 Sep 25, With 300 members of
the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division standing guard, nine black
children forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock,
Ark., because of unruly white crowds, were escorted to class. Vice
principle Elizabeth Huckaby (d.1999 at 93) escorted the children and in
1980 published "Crisis at Central High."
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.D5)(AP, 9/25/07)
1958 Sep 25, John B Watson, US
psychologist and behaviorist, died.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1959 Sep 25, President Eisenhower
and Soviet Premier Khrushchev began Camp David talks.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1959 Sep 25, Cosmopolitan editor
Helen Gurley (37) & David Brown (43) wed.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1960 Sep 25, Emily Post (b.1873),
etiquette expert, died at 86. A 1941 profile of Emily Price Post called
her "the American dictator of correct behavior," an apt description
since her book on etiquette sold more than 650,000 copies in its first
20 years. Born into high society, Post wanted to write novels but she
turned to etiquette when she discovered the poor quality of existing
books on the subject. For her, however, "nothing is less important than
the fork you use"--rather, etiquette was the art of making other people
feel comfortable. Post delivered her message with wit and style in
radio broadcasts and a daily column printed in 160 newspapers. A
1941 profile of Emily Price Post called her "the American dictator of
correct behavior," an apt description since her book on etiquette sold
more than 650,000 copies in its first 20 years. In 2008 Laura Claridge
authored “Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American
Manners.”
(HNPD, 8/17/00)(WSJ, 10/16/08, p.A13)
1962 Sep 25, Sonny Liston knocked
out Floyd Patterson in round one to win the world heavyweight title at
Comiskey Park in Chicago.
(AP, 9/25/02)
1962 Sep 25, A Black church was
destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1965 Sep 25, 60 year old Satchel
Paige of the Kansas City A's pitched 3 scoreless innings.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1966 Sep 25, Dmitri
Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premiered in Moscow.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1970 Sep 25, Erich M. Remarque
(b.1898), German writer, died. His books included “Im West Nichts
Neues” (All Quiet on the Western Front), 1929.
(http://kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm)
1971 Sep 25, Over 100 Russian
officials were expelled from Britain for spying. Information from Oleg
Lyalin, supposedly a member of the USSR's trade delegation in the UK,
led to the expulsion of 105 Soviet officials from Britain.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/30/newsid_2523000/2523669.stm)
1973 Sep 25, The three-man crew of
the U.S. space laboratory Skylab Two splashed down safely in the
Pacific Ocean after spending 59 days in orbit.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1974 Sep 25, Scientists warned
that continued use of aerosol sprays will cause ozone depletion, which
will lead to an increased risk of skin cancer and global weather
changes.
{Environment, USA, Cancer}
(HN, 9/25/98)(www.todayinsci.com/9/9_25.htm)
1978 Sep 25, In Calif. 144 people
were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Boeing 727 and a
Cessna private plane collided over San Diego.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(AP, 9/25/97)
1978 Sep 25, Jacobo Timerman was
released by Argentina’s ruling junta under international pressure. His
citizenship was stripped, his newspaper confiscated and he was put on a
plane for Israel.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.D6)
1979 Sep 25, The musical "Evita"
opened on NYC’s Broadway for 1568 performances.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1981 Sep 25, Sandra Day O'Connor
was sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 9/25/97)(HN, 9/25/98)
1982 Sep 25, Pennsylvania prison
guard George Banks killed 13 people including 4 that were his own
children.
(www.internationaljusticeproject.org/illnessGBanks.cfm)
1983 Sep 25, In the 35th Emmy
Awards the winners included Hill St Blues, Cheers, Ed Flanders and
Shelley Long.
(http://tinyurl.com/2wxcpr)
1983 Sep 25, Leslie Michelle
English (2) was raped and murdered in Griffin, Georgia. Her uncle,
Eddie Albert Crawford was convicted of the murder and sentenced to
death. After 20 years on death row Crawford was executed July 19, 2004.
(SFC, 7/19/04, p.A4)
1983 Sep 25, In Northern Ireland
Jimmy Smythe escaped from the Maze prison near Belfast along with 37
other prisoners. He made his way to San Francisco where he was arrested
and released on bail in 1992. Kevin Barry Artt, Terence Kirby, and Pol
Brennan also escaped and made their way to California. The were
arrested in the 1990s and held in a federal prison in Pleasanton, CA.
(http://larkspirit.com/ipow/hb4/kbabio.html).
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A20)(SFC, 10/10/98, p.A8)
1985 Sep 25, The Tyrell Museum of
Paleontology was opened to the public. It is located 140 km. northeast
of Calgary at Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
(CFA, '96, p.63)
1987 Sep 25, The US Senate
unanimously approved the nomination of Judge William S. Sessions to be
the new director of the FBI.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1988 Sep 25, Republican George
Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis clashed over deficits, drugs and the
Pledge of Allegiance in their first presidential debate.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1988 Sep 25, Former first brother
Billy Carter died in Plains, Ga., at 51.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1988 Sep 25, Florence Griffith
Joyner won the women's 100-meter dash at the Seoul Olympics.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1989 Sep 25, President Bush,
addressing the UN General Assembly, offered to slash American stocks of
chemical weapons by more than 80%, provided the Soviets did the same.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1990 Sep 25, In a videotaped
message to Americans, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein warned that if
President Bush launched a war against his country, “it would not be up
to him to end it.”
(AP, 9/25/00)
1990 Sep 25, The UN Security
Council voted 14-to-1 to impose an air embargo against Iraq. Cuba cast
the lone dissenting vote.
(AP, 9/25/00)
1991 Sep 25, A national commission
faulted the government for a lack of leadership in the fight against
AIDS.
(AP, 9/20/01)
1991 Sep 25, The UN Security
Council unanimously passed Resolution 713 that imposed a worldwide arms
embargo against Yugoslavia and all its warring factions.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10)(AP,
9/20/01)
1991 Sep 25, Nazi war criminal
Klaus Barbie died in Lyon, France, at age 77.
(AP, 9/20/01)
1992 Sep 25, A judge in Orlando,
Fla., ruled in favor of Gregory Kingsley, a 12-year-old boy seeking a
"divorce" from his biological parents. He took the name Shawn Russ.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1992 Sep 25, Some four dozen San
Francisco bicycle riders began to ride up Market Street in a group
called "Commute Clot." It grew to become Critical Mass bike ride held
on the last Friday of each month.
(SFC, 7/30/97, p.A13)(SFC, 9/26/02, p.A25)(SFC,
9/28/07, p.A1)
1992 Sep 25, The Mars
Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the red planet. The
probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in August 1993.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1993 Sep 25, Three U.S. soldiers
in Somalia were killed when their helicopter was downed by a
rocket-propelled grenade.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1994 Sep 25, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin began a five-day swing through the United States as he
arrived in New York, hoping to encourage American investment in his
country's struggling economy.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1994 Sep 25, Swiss voters approved
a ban on racist propaganda. The law became effective Jan 1,1995.
(http://natall.com/national-vanguard/114/freedom.html)(www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n4p-2.html)
1995 Sep 25, Ross Perot announced
he would form a new Independence Party that would field its own White
House candidate and would try to be the swing vote in congressional
races.
(AP, 9/25/00)
1995 Sep 25, A New Zealand
volcano, Mt. Ruapehu, erupted with ash and steam spewed 12 miles high.
There was some discussion over the radio whether this event was a
direct result of the nuclear tests by France cited on 9/8/95.
(WSJ, 9/27/95, p.A-16)
1996 Sep 25, NATO generals were
ordered to prepare plans for an extension of allied military force in
Bosnia beyond the Dec. 20 deadline.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A12)
1996 Sep 25, In Afghanistan rebel
forces moved into Kabul. A 100 fighters were killed on both sides.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 25, In Columbia rebels
attacked an oil pipeline in Arauca province and pumping of 220,000
barrels a day was suspended.
(WSJ, 9/26/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 25, Violence began in
Jerusalem when Israelis opened a tunnel along the west wall of the old
city in opposition to Palestinian sentiments. Seven Arabs were killed.
Resulting riots left 69 Palestinians dead along with 16 Israelis.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A10)(AP, 9/25/97)(Econ, 2/17/07,
p.48)
1996 Sep 25, In the Netherlands a
DC-3 aircraft went into the North Sea near Den Helder and killed all 32
people on board.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A11)
1996 Sep 25, In Sri Lanka the
military said it killed or wounded 500 Tamil rebels with a loss of 58
government troops and 115 wounded since Sunday when their offensive
began near Kilinochchi.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A11)
1996 Sep 25, Turkey said its
troops killed 47 Kurdish rebels in the eastern provinces.
(WSJ, 9/26/96, p.A1)
1997 Sep 25, The NBC prime-time
drama "ER" did its season premiere live for the Eastern United States,
then repeated the performance live for the West Coast.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1997 Sep 25, President Clinton
pulled open the door of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., as he
welcomed nine blacks who had faced hate-filled mobs 40 years earlier.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1997 Sep 25, Sportscaster Marv
Albert ended his trial in Arlington, Va., by pleading guilty to assault
and battery charges; within hours, NBC fired him. The network later
rehired him.
(AP, 9/25/07)
1997 Sep 25, In the town of Scotia
in Humboldt County, Ca., 7 protestors settled in the company office of
Pacific Lumber. Sheriff’s deputies applied pepper spray directly to the
eyes of the protestors using cotton swabs and Q-tips.
(SFC,10/31/97, p.A15)
1997 Sep 25, In California it was
reported that traces of toxaphene, banned in 1982, were found in at
least one bird in a southern Tulare County canal where some 1600
western grebes and millions of fish were found dead.
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.A13)
1997 Sep 25, The space
shuttle Atlantis was launched. Astronaut David Wolf scheduled to
replace Michael Foale on the Mir space station.
(www.cnn.com/TECH/9709/25/shuttle.mir/)(SFC,
9/27/97, p.A3)
1997 Sep 25, A British jet car,
Thrust SSC, driven by Andy Green of the Royal Air Force set a land
speed record of 714.144 mph. [see Oct 13]
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A1,7)
1997 Sep 25, From Brazil it was
reported that local transsexuals could get a free sex-change operation
under new rules that classified the surgery as experimental.
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.A14)
1997 Sep 25, Iraq demanded that
Turkey pull back some 15,000 troops who crossed its border in pursuit
of Kurdistan Workers Party guerrillas.
(WSJ, 9/26/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 25, In Jordan Khaled
Mashaal, the political leader of Hamas, was chemically attacked by two
men with forged Canadian passports in Amman. Hamas accused the men of
being Israeli Mossad agents. Jordan's King Hussein intervened, forcing
Israel to send the antidote that saved the Hamas leader's life and
release the group's jailed founder in exchange for the freedom of its
captured agents.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A10)(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B4)(SFC,
10/12/97, p.A17)(AP, 9/25/04)
1998 Sep 25, Mark McGwire hit his
66th home run, just 45 minutes after Sammy Sosa hit his 66th homer of
the season.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1998 Sep 25, Hillary Clinton spoke
on behalf of Barbara Boxer at the SF Hilton. Pres. Clinton also visited
SF and the Bay Area seeking political donations.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 25, Douglas Groat, a
former CIA covert operator, was sentenced to 5 years in prison after
admitting that he attempted to extort $1 million from the agency with
threats to disclose how the US intercepts foreign communications.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 25, It was reported that
the world economic conditions had impacted the price of the Beanie
Babies, the stuffed critters that burst on the toy market in 1994.
Beanie prices were down as much as 45%.
(WSJ, 9/25/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 25, Hurricane Georges
raked the Florida Keys with sheets of rain and 105 mph winds, but
spared Florida the kind of devastation seen across the Caribbean.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1998 Sep 25, Frenchman Benoit
Lecomte reached the Brittany coast after a 72-day swim across the
Atlantic that began Jul 16 at Hyannis, Mass.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A11)
1998 Sep 25, In Liberia the US
transported Roosevelt Johnson out of the country to Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 25, In Malaysia Abdul
Malek was arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA), at the height
of the "Reformasi" (Reforms) demonstrations following the sacking and
arrest of deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim. In 2007 a Malaysian
court awarded Malek 740,000 dollars for his wrongful arrest and assault
in custody. It was the first time that a Malaysian court had awarded
significant compensation for illegal detention and abuse.
(AFP, 10/18/07)
1998 Sep 25, In Morocco a
chartered Spanish airliner crashed and killed all 38 people onboard.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A11)
1998 Sep 25, In Russia Alexander
Shokhin quit as the new top economic official.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A10)
1999 Sep 25, Vice President Al
Gore and former Senator Bill Bradley squared off in back-to-back
speeches to the Democratic National Committee as each sought support
for his 2000 presidential campaign.
(AP, 9/25/00)
1999 Sep 25, In Hawaii a
sightseeing plane crashed on the Mauna Loa Volcano. All ten people
onboard were killed.
(SFC, 9/27/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 25, G7 leaders issued a
joint statement that said it was up to the Japanese to drive down the
value of the yen which had been strengthening against the dollar and
threatened Japanese economic recovery.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 25, In Afghanistan the
Taliban bombed Taloqan and 16 people were killed. At least 40 Taliban
soldiers and 8 opposition soldiers were killed in a battle for
Dasht-e-Archi.
(SFC, 9/27/99, p.A18)
1999 Sep 25, In Chechnya Russian
warplanes knocked out local TV and mobile phones and forced thousands
of civilians to flee Grozny. 7 people were reported killed and 24
wounded. An estimated 100,000 crowded the border crossing to Ingushetia.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A23)
1999 Sep 25, In East Timor 9 to 16
people were reported killed in rural areas while on a mission to aid
refugees.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 25, In India 2 government
ministers were arrested in Bihar and 4 people were killed amid reports
of large-scale election fraud during the 4th round of voting.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A26)
1999 Sep 25, In Indonesia student
riots extended to Medan, on the island of Sumatra, after 6 people were
killed in Jakarta.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 25, From Mexico it was
reported that assaults on trucks had increased from 350 in 1993 to an
estimated 40,000 a year.
(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 25, In Taiwan powerful
aftershocks continued after the government imposed an emergency decree
to speed up relief operations.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A1)
2000 Sep 25, In NYC a US District
court ordered Radovan Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb leader, to pay
$4.5 million in damages for 1992 war atrocities committed by his
soldiers.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A16)
2000 Sep 25, It was reported that
synthetic versions of the natural enzymes superoxide dismutase and
catalase extended the lives of microscopic roundworms by as much as 50%.
(SFC, 9/25/00, p.A6)
2000 Sep 25, In Sydney, Australia,
Cathy Freeman became the first Aborigine to win an individual Olympic
gold medal, capturing the women's 400 meters. Michael Johnson of the
United States became the first man to successfully defend a 400-meter
title.
(AP, 9/20/01)
2000 Sep 25, In Cuba thousands of
protestors joined Fidel Castro to protest US immigration policies.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 25, In Greece a
nationwide truckers’ strike caused fuel shortages.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 25, In Cheju, South
Korea, the North and South Korea defense ministers, Cho Sung Tae and
Kim Il Chul, met and pledged to work for reconciliation.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 25, In Nepal Maoist
rebels killed 12 police officers in Dunai with crude bombs and guns.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 25, In Serbia
(Yugoslavia) Vojislav Kostunica declared victory over Pres. Milosevic.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 25, In Thailand flooding
left 47 people dead.
(WSJ, 9/26/00, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, Former Chicago Bulls
player Michael Jordan, who'd left professional basketball after winning
a half-dozen championship rings, announced he was returning to the game
with the Washington Wizards.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D5)(AP, 9/25/02)
2001 Sep 25, General Motors
announced the 2002 model year would be the last for the Chevrolet
Camaro and Pontiac Firebird.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2001 Sep 25, The US campaign
against terrorism was renamed “Operation Enduring Freedom.”
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, The FAA lifted a ban
on crop-dusting flights.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 25, The Red Cross began
distributing $30,000 grants to families of the victims of the WTC and
Pentagon. $200 million was received in donations.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A5)
2001 Sep 25, Irving Bernstein,
UCLA labor historian, died at age 84. His books included “The Lean
Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933” (1960), “The
Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941” (1970),
and “A Caring Society” (1985).
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 25, Naseer Ahmed Mujahed,
Osama bin Laden’s military chief, faxed a statement to news agencies
that said: “Wherever there are Americans and Jews, they will be
targeted.”
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 25, A Chinese captain
went down with his freighter in the Taiwan Strait as Typhoon Lekima
lashed the area.
(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, Interpol issued a
bulletin for the arrest of Ayman al-Zawahri (50), an Egyptian surgeon
believed to be Osama bin Laden’s closest al Qaeda associate in
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 25, Nato agreed to keep
troops in Macedonia beyond the Sep 26 expiration of its mission.
(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, The Malaysia
government accused Nik Adli Nik Abdul Aziz (34), an Islamic school
teacher, for plotting to overthrow the government. His father served as
the chief minister of Kelantan state. Nik Adli allegedly belonged to
the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia militant group.
(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 25, In Russia Pres. Putin
issued a 72-hour ultimatum to Chechen rebels to show up for peace talks.
(WSJ, 9/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, Saudi Arabia withdrew
diplomatic recognition of the Afghan Taliban government.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/25/02)
2001 Sep 25, Pope John Paul cut
short a speech in Armenia due to symptoms of his Parkinson’s disease.
His visit coincided with celebrations marking the 1,700th anniversary
of Christianity as the state’s religion.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C2)
2002 Sep 25, The annual Alaska oil
dividend was announced to be $1,540.76.
(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A7)
2002 Sep 25, US military C-130s
and US troops landed in Ivory Coast to rescue Americans. American
schoolchildren escaped a rebel-held Ivory Coast city that was under
siege as US special forces and French troops moved in to rescue
Westerners caught in the West African nation's bloody uprising.
(AP, 9/25/02)(AP, 9/25/07)
2002 Sep 25, Tropical Storm
Isidore drenched the Gulf Coast.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2002 Sep 25, Explosives (pentrite)
were discovered on a Moroccan jet after passengers left the flight at
an airport in eastern France. There was no detonator attached to the 3
1/2 ounces of explosives discovered in the passenger section of a Royal
Air Maroc airplane after it landed at the Metz-Nancy-Lorraine airport.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 25, Indian forces killed
five suspected Islamic militants trying to cross into Indian Kashmir
from Pakistan as new tensions were stoked between the nuclear rivals
over an attack on an Indian temple.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 25, Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi urged the United Nations to come up with a "new,
strongly worded, unambiguous and exacting" resolution on Iraq that
could authorize the use of force if Baghdad fails to comply with it.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 25, In Pakistan the
Islamic Martyrs Brigade (Lashkar Fedayan-e-Islami) held a secret
meeting in Peshawar and announced planned suicide attacks against
American troops in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A18)
2002 Sep 25, In Pakistan 2 gunmen
burst into the offices of a Christian welfare organization in the city
of Karachi and opened fire, killing six people, three of them
Christians, and wounding two others.
(Reuters, 9/25/02)(SFC, 9/26/02, p.A22)
2002 Sep 25-2002 Sep 26, Over 800
passengers and crew were believed to have perished when the Senegal’s
crowded MS Joola, a state-run ferry, heaved to its side shortly before
midnight in a storm off the coast of Gambia. There were only 62 known
survivors. The toll was later raised to 1,863 dead. The ship had been
pushed into service while still needing vital repairs.
(WSJ, 9/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/3/03)(SFC, 3/24/06,
p.A12)(Econ, 2/24/07, p.58)
2003 Sep 25, In Nashville, Tenn.,
8 people died in a nursing home fire.
(SFC, 9/27/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 25, In a new French deck
of cards Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gets the honor as ace of
spades. Pres. Bush is the king of diamonds and Osama bin Laden the
joker. Thierry Meyssan, the man behind the French deck, headed the
Voltaire Network, a left-wing association that put the cards on its
Internet site.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, Franco Modigliani
(85), Nobel-winning economist, died in Cambridge, Mass.
(AP, 9/25/04)(Econ, 10/4/03, p.74)
2003 Sep 25, George Plimpton
(b.1927), writer and participatory journalist, died in NYC at age 76.
He helped found the Paris Review in 1953. His books included "Paper
Lion" (1966).
(SFC, 9/27/03, p.A2)
2003 Sep 25, Edward Said (67),
Palestinian American journalist, critic and author, died. His books
included "Orientalism" and "Culture and Imperialism."
(SSFC, 12/28/03, p.E9)(Econ, 10/4/03, p.84)
2003 Sep 25, In France INSERM, the
National Institute of Health and Medical Research, determined that
14,802 people had died in August due to the heat wave.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, A mortar blast tore
through a market in Baqouba, Iraq, killing nine civilians and injuring
more than a dozen others. Townspeople suspected American soldiers
stationed nearby may have been the target. Aquila al-Hashimi (50), the
first member of Iraq's American-picked Governing Council to be targeted
for assassination, died, five days after she was shot in an ambush.
(AP, 9/26/03)(AP, 9/25/03)(WSJ, 9/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 25, Israeli troops killed
4 Islamic militants, including a senior fugitive, in gun battles in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip. One soldier was killed and six were wounded
in the fighting.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, In northern Japan an
8.3 earthquake, the world's most powerful in 2 1/2 years, injured at
least 589 people and knocked out power on Hokkaido.
(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2003/eq_030925/)
2003 Sep 25, In Nigeria an Islamic
appeals court overturned the conviction of Amina Lawal. She had been
sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, Yuri Senkevich (66),
a documentary filmmaker and host of Russia's longest running TV show,
died.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, Sudan's government
and main rebel group signed an agreement on security arrangements for a
six-year political transition in efforts to end their 20-year civil war.
(AP, 9/26/03)
2004 Sep 25, The Lasker Foundation
awarded its prize for clinical research posthumously to Dr. Charles
Kelman, who made cataract removal an outpatient procedure. The $50,000
award for basic research went to Dr. Pierre Chambon, Ronald Evans, and
Elwood Jensen for opening up the field of studying proteins called
nuclear hormone receptors.
(SSFC, 9/26/04, p.A10)
2004 Sep 25, Marvin Davis (79),
oil mogul and former owner of 20th Century Fox, died in Beverly Hills.
(SSFC, 9/26/04, p.B7)
2004 Sep 25, Hurricane Jeanne
lashed the Bahamas with violent winds and torrential rains, making a
direct hit on Abaco island and threatening the country's second-largest
city, Freeport. Late in the day Jeanne hit Florida.
(AP, 9/25/04)(SSFC, 9/26/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 25, Afghan security
forces killed a senior Taliban commander and two of his comrades in
southern Afghanistan. Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, a former inmate at the US
prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died in the gunbattle.
(AP, 9/26/04)
2004 Sep 25, In southwest China a
swollen river swept a bus off a bridge, and about 30 passengers were
missing.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, Ma Chengyuan (77),
former president of the renowned Shanghai Museum, died. He saved
priceless artifacts from marauding Red Guards during the Cultural
Revolution.
(AP, 10/10/04)
2004 Sep 25, US warplanes, tanks
and artillery units struck the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah,
killing at least 8 people and wounding 15. The US military announced
the deaths of four Marines and a soldier. Five mortar shells struck the
Iraqi Oil Ministry headquarters in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, An Internet posting
claimed that an al-Qaida-linked group has killed British hostage
Kenneth Bigley.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, An Israeli helicopter
fired two missiles toward a crowd of Palestinians on the outskirts of a
refugee camp, killing a 55-year-old man and wounding five people.
(SFC, 9/25/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 25, The Israeli army
charged into a Palestinian refugee camp, killing one person and tearing
down 35 homes.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, A film about Iraqi
children victims of war "Turtles can fly" directed by Iranian Bahman
Ghobadi won the Concha de Oro (Golden Shell) at the prestigious San
Sebastian film festival.
(AFP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, Sudanese authorities
accused an opposition party of plotting to kill more than three dozen
senior government officials and blow up key sites in the capital.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2005 Sep 25, Pres. Bush said
Congress should consider giving the Defense Dept. the lead role in
responding to natural disasters. Houston began a staggered re-entry
plan following Hurricane Rita and commercial flights resumed to the
area.
(WSJ, 9/26/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 25, In Washington DC a
landmark agreement to forgive billions of dollars of debt for poor
countries sailed toward final approval by finance ministers after the
IMF agreed how to pay for it.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, It was reported that
US Senate leader Bill Frist sold HCA stock worth $12 million between
January and June this year. The assets were allegedly in a blind trust,
but Frist was kept informed of account activities by the trust
administrators. The stock dropped following the sales when HCA warned
it would not meet expectations.
(SSFC, 9/25/05, A3)
2005 Sep 25, The 22nd annual
Folsom Street Fair, a homage to leather fetishists, took place in SF
and drew an estimated 300,000 people.
(SFC, 9/26/05, p.B3)
2005 Sep 25, M. Scott Peck
(b.1936), psychiatrist and author of “The Road Less Traveled” (1978),
died at his home in Warren, Conn.
(SFC, 9/28/05, p.B7)
2005 Sep 25, Don Adams (82), TV
star born as Donald James Yarmy, died in LA. He played Maxwell Smart on
the “Get Smart” TV show from 1965-1970 along with co-star Barbara
Feldon.
(SFC, 9/27/05, p.B5)
2005 Sep 25, A US Chinook
helicopter crashed in remote mountains of southern Afghanistan, killing
all five crew members on board.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, In Australia 20
high-tech solar-powered cars from 10 countries set off on a 3,000
kilometer (1,860 mile) race across the vast outback in the 8th World
Solar Challenge. The Nuna team of the Delft University of Technology
from the Netherlands scored a hat-trick with their third victory in a
row; their Nuna 3 won with a record average speed of 103 km/h.
(AP,
9/25/05)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge)
2005 Sep 25, In Britain Rochelle
Holness (15) vanished after she let home to call her boyfriend from a
telephone box. Her mutilated body was later found in five black plastic
bin bags near a rubbish chute in Catford, south London. In 2006 John
McGrady (48), a convicted rapist and former butcher, was sentenced to
life in prison for the killing.
(AFP, 5/16/06)
2005 Sep 25, The partially-clothed
body of Sally Anne Bowman (18), whose was found lying in the driveway
of her home in Croydon, south London. In 2008 a jury at London's
Central Criminal Court found Mark Dixie (37) guilty of killing the
aspiring model. A judge recommended he serve at least 34 years.
(www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/22/ukcrime3)
2005 Sep 25, China’s government
said it is imposing new regulations to control content on its news Web
sites, another step in its ongoing effort to police a rapidly expanding
Internet population.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, In Germany Porsche
announced that it plans to take a stake of around 20% in VW in a move
that would help shield Europe's biggest car maker from a hostile
takeover.
(AFP, 9/26/05)
2005 Sep 25, A group of
pro-democracy lawmakers from Hong Kong crossed into mainland China for
the first time since being barred for criticizing Beijing after the
Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989. They put their case for electoral
reform directly to a Chinese communist leader for the first time, but
complained that they were rebuffed.
(Reuters, 9/25/05)(AFP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A magnitude 5.6
undersea earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia, but there were no
immediate reports of damages or casualties.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, Iran rejected a
resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog agency that put it one step away
from Security Council referral, calling the move "illegal and
illogical" and orchestrated by the United States.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A suicide car bomber
struck an Interior Ministry convoy in Baghdad, killing seven police
commandos and two civilians. Earlier, a bomb mounted on a bicycle blew
apart a music store in Hillah, south of the capital, killing one. US
forces in Sadr City killed at least eight Shiite gunmen and wounding
five. In western Iraq a US soldier was killed when his vehicle rolled
over during a patrol.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, Iraqi and US
authorities killed Abdullah Abu Azzam (Abdullah Najim Abdullah Mohamed
Al-Jawari), the No. 2 official in the al-Qaida in Iraq organization, in
a raid in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 25, Israeli aircraft
blasted suspected Palestinian weapons facilities in Gaza and
authorities arrested hundreds of militants in the West Bank, launching
an offensive against the Islamic group Hamas after it bombarded Israeli
towns with rockets. Hamas announced it would no longer use Gaza Strip
as a staging ground for attacks against Israel.
(AP, 9/25/05)(SFC, 9/26/05, A4)
2005 Sep 25, Italy's government
stripped Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio of his authority to
represent the country at a World Bank meeting.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A bomb rigged to the
car of May Chidiac, a prominent journalist for an anti-Syrian
television station, exploded severing her arm and leg in the latest in
a string of targeted explosions in Lebanon.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A 7.0 earthquake hit
northern Peru, near Moyobamba, causing power outages and cutting phone
service throughout much of the region. 4 people were reported killed in
Lamas.
(AP, 9/26/05)(SFC, 9/26/05, A3)
2005 Sep 25, Polish voters cast
their ballots in a parliamentary election expected to deal a crushing
defeat to an ex-communist government plagued by scandal and high
unemployment and lead to a coalition government between two
conservative parties. Voters embraced two center-right parties that
have promised tax cuts and clean government.
(AP, 9/25/05)(AP, 9/26/05)
2005 Sep 25, Some 774 Rwandans
convicted by community courts for their role in the 1994 genocide began
excavating stones for road construction as punishment for their role in
the killings of more than a half-million people in this small central
African nation. The convicts were tried by the newly established
community courts, known as Gacaca. At least 760,000 Rwandans were
accused of committing crimes during the genocide.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, Sudanese President
Omar al-Beshir met with King Abdullah in the Saudi city of Jeddah to
discuss cooperation between their countries and regional developments.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A majority of the
Swiss electorate voted to allow citizens of the 10 new EU member states
to work in Switzerland, according to the final results of a national
referendum.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2006 Sep 25, US air safety
officials eased restrictions on liquids in carry-ons.
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 25, It was reported that
the gap in between US debt payments and return from investments abroad
had reached $2.5 billion in the 2nd quarter of 2006. This amounted to a
quarterly debt payment of about $22 for each American household.
(WSJ, 9/25/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 25, A US federal judge
granted class action status to tens of millions of "light cigarette"
smokers for a potential $200 billion lawsuit against cigarette makers.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills to bar the state's massive
pension funds from investing in companies in Sudan and to indemnify the
University of California system from liability from divesting its
investments in the country.
(Reuters, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Murphy Oil agreed to
pay $330 million to settle a class-action suit filed by victims of
Hurricane Katrina whose homes and businesses were inundated when
floodwaters carried nearly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil from a
company storage tank.
(WSJ, 9/26/06, p.A12)
2006 Sep 25, The Louisiana
Superdome, a symbol of misery during Hurricane Katrina, reopened for a
New Orleans Saints game. The Saints defeated the Atlanta Falcons, 23-3.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2006 Sep 25, In Afghan 2 gunmen on
a motorbike killed Safia Hama Jan, the provincial director of the
Ministry of Women's Affairs, outside her home in apparent retribution
for her efforts to help educate women. In Khost province a bomb killed
2 policemen and a coalition soldier was injured in a suicide attack. 2
men believed to be suicide attackers were killed when the car they were
in blew up on a road often used by the US-led coalition and Afghan
forces. In Paktika province six suspected rebels were killed when they
were escorting a suicide bomber whose explosives detonated early.
(AFP, 9/25/06)(AFP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 25, UCB, a Belgian drug
firm, announced a takeover of Germany’s Schwarz Pharma for €4.4 billion.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.71)
2006 Sep 25, Deutsche Oper, a
leading German opera house, canceled a 3-year-old production of
Mozart's "Idomeneo" that included a scene showing the severed head of
the Prophet Muhammad, unleashing a furious debate over free speech.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 25, In Athens, Greece, a
gang of robbers wielding machine guns stole an estimated $1.9 million
from a casino's security van after ramming the vehicle with a stolen
truck.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Security forces took
over a Guatemalan prison controlled for more than 10 years by inmates
who produced drugs, lived in spacious homes with luxury goods and even
rented space for stores and restaurants. 7 prisoners died when 3,000
police and soldiers firing automatic weapons stormed the Pavon prison
just after dawn.
(Reuters, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Iraq's feuding ethnic
and sectarian groups moved ahead with forming a committee to consider
amending the constitution after their leaders agreed to delay any
division of the country into autonomous states until 2008. In Basra
British forces shot and killed Omar al-Farouq, a leading al-Qaida
terrorist, more than a year after he embarrassed the US military by
making an unprecedented escape from a maximum security military prison
in Afghanistan in July, 2005. A US soldier died of wounds sustained
from enemy fire in Mosul. A US Marine and soldier were killed in action
in western Anbar province.
(AP, 9/25/06)(AP, 9/26/06)(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 25, In Nigeria an
inauguration ceremony in Lagos featured new bailiffs, a corps of 30 men
and women, all graduates, in uniforms of black trousers, ash-colored
shirts, yellow badges and cowboy hats and handcuffs on their belts.
Former Lagos bailiffs had converted their role as enforcer of court
judgments on property into an extortion racket.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 25, Pakistan's President
Pervez Musharraf’s memoir “In the Line of Fire,” was published. He
noted that the CIA has paid Pakistan millions for catching al-Qaida
fighters.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.A3)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 25, Somalia's interim
prime minister called on the UN to partially lift an arms embargo on
his country to allow for the deployment of African peacekeepers, which
he said are necessary to stop the advance of Islamic radicals. A
government order banned human smuggling. Ethiopian troops arrived in
Somalia to support the internationally recognized government in its
faceoff with radicals. The Islamic militia in the seaport of Kismayo
opened fire on thousands protesting the fundamentalists' takeover of
the southern town. Witnesses said a teenager was killed.
(AP, 9/25/06)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A3)(AP, 10/8/06)
2006 Sep 25, The Sri Lankan navy
said it had sunk 11 Tamil Tiger rebel ships loaded with troops and
weapons during a five-hour sea battle, killing around 70 separatists.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, A spokesman for the
AU said the African Union will add 4,000 troops to its extended Darfur
peacekeeping mission, bringing the number of police and soldiers in
western Sudan to 11,000. The UN got its first pledges of troops for a
proposed peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region at a meeting of 49
potential contributing nations.
(AP, 9/25/06)(Reuters, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, The United States
donated patrol boats and electronic equipment to help Tajikistan guard
its borders and stem the flow of heroin from neighboring Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Pope Benedict XVI
told over 20 Muslim diplomats that Christians and Muslims must work
together to guard against intolerance and violence as he sought to
soothe anger over his recent remarks about Islam.
(AP, 9/25/06)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A8)
2006 Sep 25, In Yemen 4 French
tourists kidnapped Sep 10 were freed.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2007 Sep 25, President George W.
Bush announced new US sanctions against Myanmar's military rulers and
urged other countries to follow suit amid Myanmar's biggest
anti-government protests in 20 years.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, In SF Mayor Gavin
Newsom suspended Ed Jew from his seat on the Board of Supervisors and
swore in Carmen Chu (29), a deputy director in his office of policy and
finance, as interim supervisor.
(SFC, 9/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 25, Julian Revilleza
(26), the accused mastermind of a grade-changing scandal at Diablo
Valley College in Pleasant Hill, Ca., and Los Medanos College in
Pittsburg, pleaded guilty to 15 felonies. As many as 400 grades were
changed from 2000-2006. On Nov 26 Jeremy Tato (26) pleaded no contest
to 8 felonies. On Nov 29 15 more people were charged in the scandal
including Liberato Servo, identified as one of the scheme’s
ringleaders. On Dec 14 the final set of charges were filed against 4
current or former students at Los Medanos.
(SFC, 9/26/07, p.B2)(SFC, 11/27/07, p.B1)(SFC,
11/30/07, p.B2)(SFC, 12/15/07, p.B3)
2007 Sep 25, NRG Energy of
Princeton, NJ, submitted permission to build 2 nuclear reactors in
Texas.
(SFC, 9/25/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 25, In northern Plumas
County, California, state Dept. of Fish and Game began poisoning Lake
Davis to rid the reservoir of northern pike. A similar attempt in 1997
failed.
(SFC, 9/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 25, Warren Jeffs, the
leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group, was convicted in St.
George, Utah, of being an accomplice to rape for performing a wedding
between a 19-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl. Jeffs was later
sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2007 Sep 25, A large swath of
coastal land was secured by The Trust for Public Land, paving the way
for the biggest expansion of the US Virgin Islands National Park since
it was created more than 50 years ago. The pristine property on St.
John, known as Estate Maho Bay, will be transferred to the National
Park Service when federal funds become available in 2-3 years.
(AP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, In Afghanistan about
400 villagers blocked a major highway during a protest after two
civilians, a father and son, were killed by international forces who
were conducting a search operation in the Zhari district of Kandahar
province.
(AP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, The US unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) called MQ-9 Reaper began operating in Afghanistan.
It engaged in combat with a successful strike for the first time on
October 27.
(www.defense-update.com/newscast/1107/news/081107_reaper.htm)
2007 Sep 25, The World Health
Organization said 8 more cases of Ebola have been identified in Congo,
raising to 17 the number of people confirmed to have contracted the
deadly illness.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, A jailed Egyptian
militant committed suicide in his cell. Sayed Ragab Abdullah (45) had
been jailed 15 days ago for alleged membership in an Islamic militant
group.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the United Nations, announced "the
nuclear issue of Iran is now closed," and indicated Tehran would
disregard Security Council resolutions imposed by what he called
"arrogant powers."
(AP, 9/25/08)
2007 Sep 25, A suicide car bomber
struck the police headquarters in Basra, killing at least 3 officers
and wounding 20 people. In Baghdad at least 7 people were killed, six
in a car bombing on a shopping street in an eastern neighborhood near a
line of pensioners outside a bank. A US soldier was killed during a
small-arms attack in an eastern neighborhood of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/25/07)(AP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, Israel's largest bank
said it was severing its last remaining ties with Palestinian banks in
Gaza, following the Israeli government's declaration of the coastal
strip as an "enemy entity."
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, Japan’s Parliament
elected Yasuo Fukuda to be the prime minister, thrusting the moderate
political insider into the job of taking on a resurgent opposition and
rebuilding the scandal-scarred ruling party.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, In Indian Kashmir 5
suspected Muslim militants and a policeman were killed in three
gunbattles in Poonch, Kupwara and Kulgam districts.
(AFP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, Soldiers, including
an army division that took part in the brutal suppression of a 1988
uprising, converged on Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, after thousands
of monks and sympathizers defied government orders to stay out of
politics and protested once again. The Buddhist monks marched out for
an eighth day of peaceful protest despite orders to the Buddhist clergy
to halt all political activity and return to their monasteries.
Military leaders imposed a nighttime curfew and banned gatherings of
more than 5 people.
(AP, 9/25/07)(WSJ, 9/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 25, Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega accused the US of imposing a worldwide dictatorship and
defended the right of Iran and North Korea to pursue nuclear technology
in a speech before the UN General Assembly meeting.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, Pakistan’s the
attorney general said President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will stay on as
army chief if he is not re-elected president, as the Supreme Court
prepared for a ruling that could decide the fate of his bid for another
five-year term.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, Haidar Abdel Shafi
(88), medical doctor and founding member of the Palestine Liberation
organization (PLO), died at his home in Gaza City. He had founded and
directed the Gaza branch of the Red Crescent.
(Econ, 10/6/07,
p.101)(www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/26/africa/obits.php)
2007 Sep 25, Poland began
publishing a list of public figures who either collaborated with or
were spied on by its old secret police before 1989.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, In South Africa a
two-week strike by some 50,000 workers that had halted output at
Volkswagen AG , DaimlerChrysler (DAIGn.DE) and other car makers ended.
(Reuters, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, Darfur rebel leader
Khalil Ibrahim said he would carry on fighting during upcoming peace
talks until a final settlement is reached to end the conflict in
western Sudan.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon told global leaders the world faces "a daunting array of
challenges" in the coming year, from combating global warming and
fighting poverty to ending the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region and
promoting Mideast peace. He spoke at the opening of the UN General
Assembly's annual ministerial meeting.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, The UN Security
Council unanimously passed a French resolution endorsing sending a
European Union-UN force to Chad and the Central African Republic to
protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2008 Sep 25, The Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp. seized Seattle-based Washington Mutual Inc., and then
sold the thrift's banking assets to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.9
billion. WaMu, founded in 1889, became the largest bank to fail by far
in the country's history. Its $307 billion in assets eclipse the $40
billion of Continental Illinois National Bank, which failed in 1984.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, In Oakland, Ca., the
dedication ceremony for the new Cathedral of Christ the Light took
place at the northwest tip of Lake Merritt.
(SFC, 9/26/08, p.B6)
2008 Sep 25, Dinwiddie Lampton Jr.
(b.1914), former head of American Life and Accident Insurance Co. of
Kentucky, died.
(WSJ, 10/11/08, p.A9)
2008 Sep 25, In Afghanistan a bomb
targeted a bus full of police trainers in Kandahar city, killing a
civilian passerby. The bomb missed the bus. The bullet-riddled bodies
of four police officers were found dumped in Ghazni province.
(AP, 9/25/08)(AFP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 25, Britain unveiled its
new biometric identity card which the government says will be vital in
fighting illegal immigration and terrorism, while critics call it an
expensive attack on civil liberties.
(Reuters, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 25, China successfully
launched a three-man crew into space to carry out the country's first
spacewalk, beginning the nation's most challenging space mission since
it first sent a person into space in 2003. The Shenzhou VII spacecraft
was launched on a Long March II-F rocket in western Inner Mongolia.
(AP, 9/25/08)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.60)
2008 Sep 25, The Czech
counterintelligence service said Russian spies operating in the Czech
Republic have tried to increase public opposition to a planned US
missile defense facility. Most Czechs oppose the base, according to
recent polls. The Czech Republic's government has approved the missile
defense treaty, but it still requires the approval of the Czech
parliament, where it faces strong opposition.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 25, The EU banned imports
of baby food containing Chinese milk as tainted dairy products linked
to the deaths of four babies turned up in candy and other Chinese-made
goods that were quickly pulled from stores worldwide. More than a dozen
countries have banned or recalled Chinese dairy products as melamine
was found in milk products from 22 Chinese dairy companies.
(AP, 9/25/08)(SFC, 9/25/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 25, A joint statement
said India's PM Singh met with Pakistan's Pres. Zardari at the UN in
New York and they agreed to boost a faltering peace process between the
nuclear-armed neighbors.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 25, In India about 50
Christians armed with knives, sticks and stones hacked a Hindu man to
death in the eastern state of Orissa in the latest outburst of
sectarian violence that has left 27 people dead. In a 2nd incident
about 500 Hindus attacked and burned about 50 Christian homes and two
prayer halls in Beherasahi village.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, Iraq's Health
Ministry reported that a total of 327 cholera cases had been confirmed
in central and southern Iraq since an outbreak of the disease last
month. A roadside bomb killed an American soldier south of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/25/08)(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, A pipe bomb exploded
outside the home of a prominent Israeli scholar and outspoken critic of
Jewish West Bank settlements, lightly wounding him in what police
suspect was an attack by Jewish extremists.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 25, Mexican federal
prosecutors in Apatzingan, a drug stronghold in the western state of
Michoacan, arrested three drug gang members accused of throwing
grenades into crowds of Independence Day revelers. They belonged to a
group of infamous Gulf Cartel hit men known as the Zetas.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 25, In southeastern
Mexico storms flooded hundreds of people out of their homes and caused
the death of a woman and 4 children whose car plunged into a swollen
irrigation ditch in Nanchital, Veracruz state.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, Pirates seized the
530-foot, Ukrainian cargo vessel, MV Faina, with 21 people aboard off
eastern Somalia. Russia's navy soon sent a warship to Somalia's coast a
day after pirates seized the Ukrainian vessel loaded with 33 tanks,
ammunition and 3 Russian crew members. The ITAR-Tass news agency said
the military equipment had been sold to Kenya. It was later reported
that the arms were destined for southern Sudan and that Kenya’s
cooperation would be rewarded in the future with cheap oil. The shipped
was released on Feb 5, 2009, following a ransom of $3.2 million. Viktor
Pinchuk, A top Ukrainian businessman, paid the "lion's share" of the
ransom.
(AP, 9/26/08)(SFC, 9/27/08, p.A5)(Econ, 10/4/08,
p.49)(AP, 2/5/09)(AP, 3/3/09)
2008 Sep 25, South Africa's
parliament elected Kgalema Motlanthe, former trade unionist, freedom
fighter deputy leader of the ruling ANC, as interim president of a
country gripped by the worst political crisis since the end of
apartheid. He was expected to step aside after elections next year,
when Jacob Zuma was expected to become president. Motlanthe, within
hours of taking office , won instant praise by announcing that Manto
Tshabalala-Msimang would be removed as health minister and given a
lesser post in his office. She had promoted nutritional supplements
instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV.
(AP, 9/25/08)(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, In Sri Lanka fighting
in Kilinochchi left at least 24 Tamil Tiger soldiers dead, with two
killed on the government side. Troops also killed nine rebels in
separate attacks along the northern front of Vavuniya and Weli Oya.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, Turkish warplanes
bombarded Kurdish rebel territory in northern Iraq, damaging a school
and wounding three people.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, Typhoon Hagupit hit
northern Vietnam. Floods triggered by the storm left at least 41 people
dead and at least $65 million in damages.
(AP, 9/27/08)(AP, 9/28/08)(AP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 25, Zimbabwe's central
bank chief said nearly 600 shops had been licensed to sell goods in
foreign currency to fight the world's highest inflation rate and
critical shortages of basic goods.
(AFP, 9/25/08)
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