Today in History - September 27
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70CE Sep 27, The
walls of upper city of Jerusalem were battered down by Romans.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1259 Sep 27, Ezzeline III da
Romano, gentleman of Verona, "cruel monster", died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1404 Sep 27, William of Wykeham,
chancellor and Bishop of Winchester, died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1540 Sep 27, The Society of Jesus,
a religious order under Ignatius Loyola, was approved by the Pope. The
Jesuits were recognized by Pope Paul III. They were to become the chief
agents of the Church of Rome in spreading the Counter-Reformation.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.16)(HN, 9/27/98)
1601 Sep 27, Maria de Medicis
(1575-1642), the 2nd wife of King Henry IV of France, gave birth to
Louis XIII, who later became king of France (1610-43). Henry IV, in
honor of the birth, revived a tapestry scheme by poet Nicholas Houel
and artist Antoine Caron, that had been conceived in honor of Caterina
de Medici (1519-1589). Louis ascended to the throne at the age of nine
following the assassination of his father. At 17, he seized control of
the empire from his mother Marie de' Medici. Louis XIII proved to be a
strongly pro-Catholic ruler.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de%27_Medici)(Econ, 11/1/08, p.98)
1660 Sep 27, St. Vincent de Paul,
Vincentian founder, died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1696 Sep 27, Alfonsus M. de'
Liguori, Italian theologian, bishop, and religious order founder, was
born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1722 Sep 27, Samuel Adams
(d.1803), American propagandist, political figure, revolutionary
patriot and statesman who helped to organize the Boston Tea Party, was
born. He was Lt. Gov. of Mass from 1789-94.
(AHD, 1971, p.14)(HN, 9/27/98)(MC, 9/27/01)
1777 Sep 27, At the Battle of
Germantown the British defeated Washington's army. English General
William Howe occupied Philadelphia. [see Sep 25,26]
(MC, 9/27/01)
1779 Sep 27, John Adams was named
to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1787 Sep 27, The US Constitution
was submitted to states for ratification. [see Sep 28]
(MC, 9/27/01)
1791 Sep 27, Jews in France were
granted French citizenship. Jews were granted religious and civic
rights in 1791.
(HN, 9/27/98)(WSJ, 8/7/00, p.A13)
1792 Sep 27, George Cruikshank,
London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist), was born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1803 Sep 27, Samuel Francis DuPont
(d.1865), Rear Admiral (Union Navy), was born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1809 Sep 27, Raphael Semmes
(d.1877), Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), was born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1821 Sep 27, The Mexican Empire
declared its independence. Revolutionary forces occupied Mexico City as
the Spanish withdraw.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1825 Sep 27, The first locomotive
to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
[see Sep 28]
(AP, 9/27/97)
1831 Sep 27, Joannis Capodistrias
(55), Greek governor of Troezen, was murdered.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1833 Sep 27, Charles Darwin rode a
horse to Santa Fe.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1834 Sep 27, Charles Darwin
returned to Valparaiso.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1840 Sep 27, Alfred T. Mahan, navy
admiral, was born. He wrote “The Influence of Seapower on History” and
other books that encouraged world leaders to build larger navies.
Although a brilliant naval historian and noted theorist on the
importance of sea power to national defense, Alfred Thayer Mahan hated
the sea and dreaded his duties as a ship's captain.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1840 Sep 27, Thomas Nast,
caricaturist, was born. He created the Democratic donkey and the
Republican elephant.
(HN, 9/27/00)
1852 Sep 27, "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
premiered in Troy, NY.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1854 Sep 27, The first great
disaster involving an ocean liner in the Atlantic occurred when the
steamship Arctic sank off the coast of Newfoundland with 300 people
aboard. It had collided in heavy fog with the French ship Vesta.
(AP, 9/27/97)(Arch, 7/02, p.7)(Arch, 9/02, p.6)
1855 Sep 27, George F. Bristow's
"Rip Van Winkle," 2nd American opera, opened in NYC.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1862 Sep 27, Louis Botha,
commander-in-chief of the Boar Army against the British and first
president of South Africa, was born.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1863 Sep 27, Jo Shelby's cavalry
in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1864 Sep 27, Confederate guerrilla
Bloody Bill Anderson and his henchmen, including a teenage Jesse James,
massacred 20 unarmed Union soldiers at Centralia, Mo.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1864 Sep 27, Battle at Pilot Knob
(Ft Davidson), Missouri. 1700 were killed or injured.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1869 Sep 27, Wild Bill Hickok,
sheriff of Hays City, Kan., shot down Samuel Strawhim, a drunken
teamster causing trouble.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1870 Sep 27, Henry T.P. Comstock
(50), Canadian silver prospector, died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1892 Sep 27, Book matches were
patented by Diamond Match Company.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1896 Sep 27, Sam Ervin,
(Sen-D-NC), Watergate committee chairman, was born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1898 Sep 27, Vincent (Miller)
Youmans, songwriter, was born. He is best known for “Tea for Two” and
musical scores such as “No, No Nanette” and “Flying Down to Rio.”
(HN, 9/27/00)(MC, 9/27/01)
1910 Sep 27, 1st test flight of a
twin-engined airplane was made in France.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1912 Sep 27, W C Handy published
"Memphis Blues," the 1st Blues Song.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1916 Sep 27, 1st Native American
Day celebrated, honoring American Indians. [see May 13]
(MC, 9/27/01)
1916 Sep 27, Constance of Greece
declared war on Bulgaria.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1917 Sep 27, Louis Auchincloss,
novelist, was born in Lawrence, NY. His work included “Portrait in
Brownstone, The Embezzler,” and ”Watchfires.
(HN, 9/27/00)(MC, 9/27/01)
1917 Sep 27, Hilaire Germain Edgar
Degas (b1834), French impressionist painter died in Paris. His
fascination with horses was covered in the 1998 book "Degas at the
Races" by Jean Sutherland.
(WSJ, 10/2/96, p.B5)(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR
p.8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas)
1918 Sep 27, President Woodrow
Wilson opened his fourth Liberty Loan campaign to support men and
machines for World War I.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1919 Sep 27, British troops
withdrew from Archangel.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1919 Sep 27, Adelina [Adela JM]
Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), died at 76.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1920 Sep 27, Eight Chicago White
Sox players were charged with fixing the 1919 World Series. [see Sep 28]
(HN, 9/27/98)
1921 Sep 27, Engelbert
Humperdinck, German opera composer (Hansel & Gretel), died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1924 Sep 27, Bud Powell, jazz
pianist, was born.
(HN, 9/27/00)
1825 Sep 27, The Stockton and
Darlington rail line opened in England. The first locomotive to haul a
passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England. The
British engineers Richard Trevithick and George Stevenson were the
first innovators of the technology.
(AP,
9/27/97)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonG.htm)
1927 Sep 27, Red Rodney,
trumpeter, was born.
(HN, 9/27/00)
1928 Sep 27, The United States
said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government. [see Sep 28]
(AP, 9/27/97)
1930 Sep 27, Igor Kipnis,
harpsichordist and professor (Fairfield), was born in Berlin, Germany.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1936 Sep 27, Franco troops
conquered Toledo.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1937 Sep 27, The 1st Santa Claus
Training School opened in Albion, NY.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1938 Sep 27, Ocean liner Queen
Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow. The RMS Queen Elizabeth, the
largest passenger liner built to that date, boasted a
200,000-horsepower engine and beautiful art deco style. The elegant
ocean liner was named to honor Queen Elizabeth, a consort of King
George VI of England and mother to Queen Elizabeth II.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1938 Sep 27, Jewish lawyers were
forbidden to practice in Germany.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1938 Sep 27, League of Nations
declared Japan the aggressor against China.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1939 Sep 27, Germany occupied
Warsaw. Poland surrendered after 19 days of resistance to invading
forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland had endured a
brutal 3 day bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe.
(AP, 9/27/97)(HN, 9/27/98)
1940 Sep 27, Black leaders
protested discrimination in US armed forces.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1940 Sep 27, 55 German aircrafts
were shot down above England.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1940 Sep 27, Nazi-Germany, Italy
and Japan signed a formal alliance called Tripartite Pact, a 10 year
military and economic alliance strengthening the Axis alliance.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1942 Sep 27, Glenn Miller and his
Orchestra performed together for the last time, at the Central Theater
in Passaic, N.J., prior to Miller's entry into the Army.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1942 Sep 27, The S.S. Stephen
Hopkins, a Liberty Ship with an all-San Francisco crew, engaged the
German raider Stier and her tender, Tannenfels. It shelled and brought
down the Stier and hit the Tannenfels before it was sunk. Of a crew of
58, only 15 survived. They reached the shore of Brazil after a 31-day
voyage in an open lifeboat.
(SFC, 9/27/96, p.B1)
1942 Sep 27, Australian forces
defeated the Japanese on New Guinea in the South Pacific.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1942 Sep 27, Heavy German assault
in Stalingrad.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1942 Sep 27, Reinhard Heydrich,
"Butcher of Prague," was appointed SS-general.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1943 Sep 27, Bing Crosby, the
Andrews Sisters and the Vic Schoen Orchestra recorded "Pistol Packin'
Mama" and "Jingle Bells" for Decca Records.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1944 Sep 27, Aimee Semple
McPherson (b.1890), Canadian and US evangelist and faith healer, died
at age 53.
(www.answers.com/topic/aimee-semple-mcpherson)
1944 Sep 27, Aristide Maillol,
French sculptor and graphic artist, died in car crash at 82.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1944 Sep 27, Thousands of British
troops were killed as German forces rebuffed their massive effort to
capture the Arnhem Bridge across the Rhine River in Holland.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1945 Sep 27, Misha Dichter,
pianist (Tchaikovsky 2nd prize-1966), was born in Shanghai, China.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1945 Sep 27, Stephanie Pogue,
artist and art professor, was born.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1949 Sep 27, HUAC held hearings on
alleged communist infiltration of the Radiation Laboratory at UC
Berkeley.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F2)
1950 Sep 27, U.S. Army and Marine
troops liberate Seoul, South Korea.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1951 Sep 27, Persian troops
occupied oil refinery at Abadan.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1953 Sep 27, A typhoon destroyed
1/3 of Nagoya, Japan.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1954 Sep 27, "Tonight!" hosted by
Steve Allen, made its debut on NBC-TV.
(AP,
9/27/97)(www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show-experience/timeline/)
1956 Sep 27, Mildred E "Babe"
Didrikson Zaharias (b.1911), track and field gold medalist (1932)
and Hall of Fame golfer, died in Galveston, Texas. Six years earlier
the Associated Press had named her the Greatest Female Athlete of the
First Half of the 20th Century.
(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/2/)(AP, 9/27/06)
1956 Sep 27, The U.S. Air Force
Bell X-2, the world's fastest and highest-flying plane, crashed,
killing the test pilot.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1956 Sep 27, Gerald Raphael Finzi,
composer, died at 55.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1959 Sep 27, Beth Heiden, 3000m
speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1980), was born in Madison, Wisc.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1959 Sep 27, Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev concluded his visit to the United States. During the visit
he debated with Richard Nixon. He also saw the filming of Can Can and
the found the dance immoral. Bassetts produced 50 tubs of borscht
sorbet in honor of Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Philadelphia.
(TMC, 1994, p.1959)(SFEC, 9/15/96, C10)(WSJ, 8/1/00,
p.A24)(AP, 9/27/00)
1959 Sep 27, Typhoon Vera battered
the main Japanese island of Honshu, killing nearly 5,000 people.
(AP, 9/27/97)(MC, 9/27/01)
1960 Sep 27, Europe's 1st "moving
pavement," (travelator), opened at Bank station.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1960 Sep 27, Sylvia Pankhurst,
feminist, died. She with her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst, had
established the militant Women's Social and Political Union in 1903.
These British suffragettes employed controversial, even violent methods
to win the right to vote. In 1918, women over thirty were granted the
vote, and in 1928, the voting age was lowered to 21, the voting age of
men.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1961 Sep 27, Hilda Doolittle
(b.1886), American poet, died in Zurich. In 1984 poet Barbara Guest
(d.2006) authored the biography “Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her
World.”
(SFC, 2/20/06,
p.B3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.D.)
1963 Sep 27, Lee Harvey Oswald
visited the Cuban consulate in Mexico.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1963 Sep 27, At 10:59 AM census
clock, the US population was recorded at 190,000,000.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1964 Sep 27, The Warren
Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy, announced that according to its findings Lee Harvey Oswald
acted alone as did Jack Ruby in the assassination. Later evidence
indicated a Mafia contract killing. In 1965 Harold Weisberg (d.2002)
authored “Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report.”
(WSJ, 5/17/95, p.A-18)(AP, 9/27/97)(HN,
9/27/98)(HC)(SFC, 2/25/02, p.B6)
1967 Sep 27, Felix F. Yussupov,
litigious Russian monarchist and slayer of Rasputin, died at 80.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1968 Sep 27, Portugal’s President
Americo Thomaz replaced PM Antonio de Oliveira Salazar with Marcelo
Caetano after Salazar suffered a major stroke, caused by his falling
from a chair in his summer house.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar)
1971 Sep 27, Pamela Churchill
Harriman (1920-1997), English-born socialite, married her former lover
and former New York Governor Averell Harriman (79). She was the former
wife (1939-1946) of Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston Churchill.
From 1993-1997 she served as the US ambassador to France.
(SFC, 10/23/96,
p.E6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Harriman)
1977 Sep 27, Japan Airlines Flight
715, a DC-8, crashed into a hill in bad weather while attempting to
land at the Kuala Lumpur Subang Airport. 34 people, including 8 of the
10 crew members and 26 of the 69 passengers, were killed when the
aircraft broke on impact.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines)
1979 Sep 27, Congress gave final
approval to forming the Department of Education, the 13th Cabinet
agency in U.S. history.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1981 Sep 27, In Iran the Mojahedin
used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers against units
of the Pasdaran. Smaller left-wing opposition groups, including the
Fadayan, attempted similar guerrilla activities.
(www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-6395.html)
1985 Sep 27, Hurricane Gloria,
having come ashore at North Carolina with winds of 130 mph, proceeded
to head up the Atlantic coast toward New England.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1986 Sep 27, The US Senate joined
House of Reps voting for "sweeping tax reforms."
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3SUR/is_v67/ai_5012957)
1987 Sep 27, Football fans
suffered through their first Sunday without football since players went
on strike. NFL owners soon organized games with replacement and
nonstriking players.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1988 Sep 27, Canadian sprinter Ben
Johnson left for home in disgrace 3 days after placing first in the
men's 100-meter dash at the Seoul Summer Olympics. He was stripped of
his gold medal by officials who said he had used anabolic steroids.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1988 Sep 27, Grand jury evidence
showed Tawana Brawley fabricated her rape story.
(http://tinyurl.com/jjlua)
1989 Sep 27, Columbia Pictures
Entertainment Inc. agreed to a $3.4 billion buyout by Sony Corporation.
(AP, 9/27/99)
1990 Sep 27, The US Senate
Judiciary Committee approved the Supreme Court nomination of David H.
Souter.
(AP, 9/27/00)
1990 Sep 27, The deposed emir of
Kuwait delivered an emotional address to the UN General Assembly in
which he denounced the “rape, destruction and terror” inflicted upon
his country by Iraq.
(AP, 9/27/00)
1991 Sep 27, President Bush
announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating all
U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the Soviet Union to
match the gesture.
(AP, 9/27/01)
1991 Sep 27, The US Senate
Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence
Thomas to the US Supreme Court.
(AP, 9/27/01)
1991 Sep 27, Oona Chaplin
(b.1926), daughter of Eugene O'Neill and wife of Charlie Chaplin, died
in Switzerland at age 66.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0152253/)
1992 Sep 27, Texas billionaire
Ross Perot spoke with his supporters in Dallas on the eve of a meeting
with representatives of President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton, both
of whom were hoping Perot would stay on the campaign sidelines.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1993 Sep 27, Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison, R-Texas, was indicted on charges that, as Texas state
treasurer, she'd misused state facilities and employees. The indictment
was dismissed for technical reasons; Hutchison was reindicted and later
acquitted.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1993 Sep 27, Retired Gen. James H.
Doolittle died in Pebble Beach, Calif., at age 96.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1994 Sep 27, More than 350
Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the
Capitol to sign the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they
pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
(AP, 9/27/99)
1995 Sep 27, The US government
unveiled its redesigned $100 bill, featuring a larger, off-center
portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1995 Sep 27, At the O.J. Simpson
trial, the prosecution and defense presented dueling summations.
(AP, 9/27/00)
1995 Sep 27-1995 Oct 6, Hurricane
Opal caused at least 50 deaths in Guatemala and Mexico and 20 deaths in
the United States. The storm hit Central America before striking
Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina.
(AP, 9/11/04)(www.wunderground.com)
1996 Sep 27, Texan Charles Hurwitz
of Maxxam Inc. agreed to exchange his hold on the Headwaters forest in
California in exchange for cash, land or other government assets.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 27, John G. Bennett Jr.,
head of the defunct Foundation for New Era Philanthropy since 1989, was
indicted on 82 counts of fraud, money laundering, tax crimes and false
statements. He was allegedly responsible for bilking charities of $135
million in a scheme that collapsed in 1995. In 1997 he was sentenced to
12 years in prison. He helped to reduce losses from 100 to 20 million
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A3)(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A3)(SFC,
9/23/97, p.A2)
1996 Sep 27, US Defense Sec.
William Perry said the 3 Baltic nations would not be among the first
new NATO members drawn from Eastern Europe.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 27, The Taliban militia,
a band of former seminary students, forced President Burhanuddin
Rabbani and his government out of Kabul.
{Afghan}
(AP, 9/27/97)(www.afghan-web.com/history/)
1996 Sep 27, In Gambia Yahya
Jammeh defeated 3 civilian rivals in national elections. Observers said
that the elections were severely flawed. Jammeh’s government had
outlawed opposition parties, muzzled the press, forbade meetings
between rival candidates and foreign diplomats, and used soldiers to
attack opposition rallies.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A11)
1996 Sep 27, In Milan, Italy,
50,000 metal workers marched on strike.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 27, In Japan the Prime
Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto dissolved the parliament and set new
elections for Oct. 20.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 27, In Mexico PRI
deputies presented a final report on government corruption and voted to
end the commission of corruption. A separate government panel said
$1.34 billion was missing from the 1990 privatization of Telefonos de
Mexico.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A9)
1996 Sep 27, Rwandan Pastor
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana (73) was charged with ordering the slaughter of
hundreds of Tutsis in Kibuye in 1994. It was charged that he had
arranged that they seek refuge in his Seventh Day Adventist Church,
whereupon he called in Hutus to kill them.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A11)
1997 Sep 27, The space shuttle
Atlantis, docked with the problem-plagued Russian Mir station to drop
off American David Wolf and pick up Michael Foale.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1997 Sep 27, In Algeria witnesses
said armed men killed 11 female teachers at Ain Adden School in Sfisef
while shouting “Blood, blood, blood, destruction, destruction,
destruction,” the rallying cry of the Armed Islamic Group.
(SFC, 9/30/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 27, In Indonesia two
cargo ships collided in the strait of Malacca and at least 28 crew
members were missing. Smog from fires impacted visibility.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A21)
1997 Sep 27, In Hong Kong
lawmakers approved an election law that reduced the number of people
who could vote and increased the power of big business.
(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 27, In North Korea Kim
Jong Il ordered the establishment of the “9-27” camps for orphaned and
homeless children to “normalize” the country.
(SFC, 9/30/98, p.A10)
1997 Sep 27, In Thailand the
parliament passed a constitution intended to fight government
corruption and rejected a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister
Chavilit.
(WSJ, 9/29/97, p.A1)
1998 Sep 27, In Holmdel, N.J., the
nation’s first Vietnam Museum opened as the Vietnam Era Educational
Center.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A7)
1998 Sep 27, St. Louis Cardinal
Mark McGwire hit his 69th and 70th home runs in his last game of the
season against the Montreal Expos at Busch Stadium. The ball was later
sold at auction for $3.005 million to Todd McFarlane, creator of
"Spawn" comic books.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A1)(SFC, 2/9/99, p.A2)
1998 Sep 27, Gerhard Schroeder and
his Social Democrats won national elections in Germany, following 16
years of conservative rule under Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A1) (AP, 9/27/99)
1998 Sep 27, In Malaysia about
10,000 people gathered in Kuala Lumpur to protests a crackdown on
dissent by the Mahathir regime.
(WSJ, 9/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 27, Serbian troops
bombarded and burned villages in southern Kosovo.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 27, In Slovakia
opposition leaders claimed victory after 2 days of elections for a new
parliament. Prime Minister Meciar’s Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
won 27% of the vote. Slovak Democratic Coalition leader Mikulas
Dzurinda was seen as Meciar’s successor
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A9)
1998 Sep 27, In Sri Lanka
government troops clashed with Tamil rebels and at least 49 people were
killed.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A10)
1999 Sep 27, Tiger Stadium closed
in grand fashion after 87 years as the Tigers beat the Kansas City
Royals, 8-to-2.
(AP, 9/27/00)
1999 Sep 27, Senator John McCain
of Arizona officially opened his campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination, the same day former Vice President Dan Quayle
dropped his White House bid.
(WSJ, 9/28/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/27/00)
1999 Sep 27, Afghanistan's rulers
protested a UN decision to reseat the former Rabbani government, which
was driven from Kabul in 1996.
(WSJ, 9/28/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 27, In Algeria attackers
killed 7 people at a fake roadblock at Hamman Salhine.
(SFC, 9/30/99, p.D14)
1999 Sep 27, In Chechnya Russian
jets dropped bombs for a 5th day and thousands of civilians fled to
towns and villages in the region. Some 300 people were reported killed
in the air strikes around Grozny.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 27, In South Africa a bus
of British tourists overturned as it approached Lydenburg and 27 people
were killed.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.C16)
2000 Sep 27, In Sydney, Australia,
the U.S. Olympic baseball team beat Cuba 4-0 to capture its first
baseball gold medal.
(AP, 9/27/01)
2000 Sep 27, Venus Williams became
only the second player to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Olympics
in the same year with her 6-2, 6-4 victory over Elena Dementieva. The
first was Steffi Graf, in 1988.
(AP, 9/27/01)
2000 Sep 27, It was reported that
the Asian swamp eel, Monopterus albus, was within a mile of the fragile
Florida Everglades National Park.
(WSJ, 9/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 27, In China an explosion
at the Muchonggou Coal Mine in Shuicheng, Guizhou province, killed 118
miners.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 27, In the Czech Republic
IMF and World Bank officials ended their meetings a day early due to
disruptions by protestors. Some 600 demonstrators were arrested from an
estimated total of 12,000.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Sep 27, In Egypt Shereef
Fawzi Mohammad el-Falali (35), a civil engineer, was arrested in
Heliopolis for providing intelligence information to Israel.
(SFC, 11/29/00, p.C7)
2000 Sep 27, Jordan planned a
flight to Iraq regardless of clearance from the UN sanctions committee.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A15)
2000 Sep 27, In the Philippines
Jolo Island villagers in Lapu dumped 3 Abu Sayyaf rebel bodies at a
police station. 3 villagers were also killed in the fight with rebels.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Sep 27, In the Philippines 10
people died after some 50 rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
attacked farmers and soldiers in Carmen village, North Cotabato
province.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 27, In Syria 99
intellectuals published a demand for more democracy and freedom of
expression.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D5)
2000 Sep 27, OPEC’s top leaders
gathered in Caracas for a 2-day meeting. OPEC speakers called on
Western countries to reduce taxes levied on oil to ease prices.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A1)
2001 Sep 27, Pres. Bush announced
enhanced airport security measures that included national guard
soldiers at checkpoints and armed air marshals on planes as a first
step toward federal control of airline security.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/27/02)
2001 Sep 27, US and British
warplanes struck 2 artillery sites in Iraq’s southern no-fly zone.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D6)
2001 Sep 27, Def. Sec. Donald
Rumsfeld displayed the new Medal for the Defense of Freedom to be
awarded to all Defense Dept. civilian employees killed or wounded in
the sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 27, The WTO issued a
blueprint for a new round of talks scheduled for Nov 9 in Qatar. It
called for concessions from the US, EU and Japan in opening markets for
textiles, steel and agriculture.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 27, In Afghanistan the
Taliban said it had delivered an official request for Osama bin Laden
to leave the country.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep, 27, In India the central
government banned the Student’s Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). This
triggered a day of riots and led to 4 deaths in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
(WSJ, 10/1/01, p.A21)
2001 Sep 27, Israeli-Palestinian
fighting left 5 Palestinians dead. Israel demolished some houses in a
Gaza camp in response to a Hamas attack.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 27, In Jakarta,
Indonesia, protesters burned US flags outside the US Embassy and
threatened to kill Americans.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 27, In Macedonia ethnic
Albanian rebels declared that they had formally disbanded and were
returning to civilian life.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D4)
2001 Sep 27, In Romania Gellu
Naum, surrealist poet, playwright and translator, died at age 86. His
work included 20 poetry books, of which the 1st was “The Incendiary
Traveler” (1936) and the novel “Zenobia” (1985).
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 27, In Switzerland
Friedrich Leibacher went on a shooting rampage in the local parliament
of Zug, killing 14 people before taking his own life.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D2)(AP, 9/27/02)
2001 Sep 27, In Turkey 2 more
prisoners died from a hunger strike against the new high-security
prisons. This raised the total to 38.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D6)
2002 Sep 27, President Bush said
the UN should have a chance to force Saddam Hussein to give up his
weapons of mass destruction before the US acted on its own against
Iraq, but told a Republican fund-raising event in Denver that action
had to come quickly.
(AP, 9/27/03)
2002 Sep 27, In Washington DC some
1,500-2,000 activists protested the start of the annual meetings of the
World Bank and IMF. About 650 were arrested.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 27, Three U.S. lawmakers,
all Democrats, arrived in Baghdad to gauge the possible effects of war
on ordinary Iraqi citizens. The visit by Rep. Jim McDermott of
Washington and fellow House Democrats David Bonior of Michigan and Mike
Thompson of California followed a Sept. 14 visit by a delegation led by
Rep. Nick Rahall, a West Virginia Democrat.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, The DJIA fell 295 to
7701.45. Nasdaq fell 22.45 to 1199.16.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.B1)
2002 Sep 27, All West Coast ports
shut down when the Pacific Maritime Assoc. locked out some 10,500
longshoremen in retaliation for work slowdowns. Contract negotiations
had recently deteriorated.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 27, The federal
government increased the flow of water into the Klamath River from
Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon following the die-off of some 12,000
salmon in northern California.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A2)
2002 Sep 27, Charles Henri Ford
(94), poet and novelist, died in Manhattan. His work included "The
Young and Evil" (1933), considered by some as the 1st gay novel, and
"Water From a Bucket: A Diary, 1947-1957."
(SFC, 10/1/02, p.A18)
2002 Sep 27, In Australia a
federal judge formally gave control of a remote chunk of the northwest
slightly bigger than Greece to an Aboriginal tribe, marking the end of
six years of negotiations.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, Lord Ashdown (b.1941)
began serving as the international community's High Representative for
Bosnia and Herzegovina. He ended his term May 30, 2006.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown)
2002 Sep 27, East Timor, the first
country to be born in the 21st century, gained a seat at the United
Nations, swelling the membership roll to 191.
(Reuters, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, In Lebanon tens of
thousands marched through the streets of Beirut chanting "death to
Israel" and "death to America," in support of Palestinians' third year
of uprising.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, A Mexican military
court charged three army officers (Gen. Francisco Quiros Hermosillo,
Brig. Gen. Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro and Maj. Francisco
Barquin) with homicide in the killings of 143 leftist activists
and revolutionaries, the first prosecution of soldiers for crimes
committed during the so-called "dirty war" of the 1970s.
(AP, 9/27/02)(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A6)
2002 Sep 27, In Morocco 26
parties, nearly a dozen of them formed in the past two years, contested
parliamentary in elections. A fundamentalist party that wants to apply
Islamic law, performed strongly in elections. The socialists of Prime
Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi finished first with 50 seats, Jettou
said. The conservative Istiqlal Party, the socialists' coalition
partner in the previous parliament, won 48 seats.
(AP, 9/26/02)(AP, 9/28/02)(AP, 9/29/02)(AP, 10/2/02)
2002 Sep 27, Russian troops used
artillery overnight to block suspected rebels from crossing into
Chechnya through a forested part of the republic of Ingushetia after
firefights that left at least 17 Russian servicemen dead.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, In Sudan a thunder
storm killed 26 people in two separate accidents in Khartoum when a
Ferris wheel collapsed and a pleasure boat sank.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2003 Sep 27, President Bush and
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Iran and North Korea to abandon
suspected nuclear weapons programs, but disagreed over how to deal with
both countries; Putin also declined at the end of a two-day summit at
Camp David to pledge any postwar help for Iraq.
(AP, 9/27/04)
2003 Sep 27, Donald O'Connor (78),
film star and composer, died in Calabasas, Calif. His films included
"Singing in the Rain" (1952).
(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 27, The Algerian army
reported that it had killed 150 armed Islamic militants in a two-week
operation in the eastern foothills of this north African country.
(AP, 9/27/03)
2003 Sep 27, Brazil and Cuba
signed $200 million in new business deals in Cuba by private Brazilian
enterprises.
(AP, 9/27/03)
2003 Sep 27, Europe's first
mission to the moon blasted off aboard a European Ariane rocket from
French Guiana. The SMART-1 probe made it to within 3,100 miles of the
moon on Nov 15, 2004, and proceeded to move into an elliptical orbit.
The spacecraft ended its mission Sep 3, 2006, when it crashed into the
lunar surface.
(AP, 9/28/03)(SFC, 11/17/04, p.A3)(SSFC, 9/3/06,
p.A5)
2003 Sep 27, In western Iran a bus
plunged from a mountain road into a river, killing 21 passengers and
injuring 11.
(AP, 9/28/03)
2003 Sep 27, A Palestinian
militant was killed when a bomb he was making blew up on as Israel
maintained a high alert over a New Year holiday weekend.
(Reuters, 9/27/03)
2003 Sep 27, A Russian rocket
brought two Russian and four foreign satellites, including Nigeria's
first, into orbit. Nigeria's $13 million craft, to be used for taking
photos, was built by a British firm.
(AP, 9/27/03)(Econ, 9/13/03, p.42)
2003 Sep 27, In northeast Uganda
rebels of the LRA fighting a 17-year insurgency raided a village,
killing at least 22 people.
(AP, 9/28/03)
2004 Sep 27, President Bush asked
Congress for more than $7.1 billion to help Florida and other
Southeastern states recover from their lashing by four hurricanes.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2004 Sep 27, A US Justice
Department audit said the FBI had a backlog of hundreds of thousands of
hours of untranslated audio recordings from terror and espionage
investigations.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2004 Sep 27, NBC announced that
"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno would be succeeded by "Late Night" host
Conan O'Brien in 2009.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2004 Sep 27, John Kamm (53), the
businessman-turned-rights lobbyist behind the release of scores of
dissidents from Chinese prisons, was one of 24 people awarded
500,000-dollar MacArthur Foundation grants. 7 of the winners, including
Kamm, were from the SF Bay Area.
(AP, 9/28/04)(SFC, 9/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 27, Operation Black
Widow, a local, state and federal investigation in San Francisco, ended
as 8 top members of the Nuestra Familia prison gang entered guilty
pleas to federal racketeering charges.
(SFC, 9/28/04, p.B3)
2004 Sep 27, San Francisco renamed
its sports stadium "Monster Park", in a 4-year deal that trades $6
million from an electronics cable company for the name to Candlestick
Park.
(AP, 9/28/04)(SFC, 9/28/04, p.B1)
2004 Sep 27, The body of Maxina
Danner (17), a student at Lincoln High, was found wrapped in a blanket
near Visitacion Ave. and Mansell. She had disappeared that morning on
her way to school. In 2005 Royce Miller (21), a youth councilor at a
group home, was arrested in connection with the murder. In 2007 Miller
was convicted of 2nd degree murder.
(SFC, 9/30/04, p.A1)(SFC, 2/12/05, p.B2)(SFC,
3/21/07, p.B2)
2004 Sep 27, In Brazil a strike by
bank workers entered its 2nd full week.
(WSJ, 9/28/04, p.A20)
2004 Sep 27, In Dubai a wall
collapsed at an airport construction site, killing more than eight
workers and injuring many more.
(AP, 9/27/04)
2004 Sep 27, Galapagos park
rangers ended a 17-day protest after Ecuador's government fired a new
park director the rangers claimed favored commercial fishing over the
islands' unique environment.
(AP, 9/27/04)
2004 Sep 27, U.S. jets pounded
suspected Shiite militant positions in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City,
killing at least five people and wounding 40. Elsewhere, insurgents
detonated car bombs and fired rockets, killing at least 7 National
Guardsmen, in separate attacks.
(AP, 9/27/04)(WSJ, 9/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 27, An Israeli helicopter
fired a missile at a Palestinian vehicle traveling in the southern Gaza
Strip, killing one person and wounding three others. 7 Palestinians
were killed in several incidents across the West Bank and Gaza. In Gaza
City gunmen kidnapped a CNN TV producer and released him the next day.
(AP, 9/27/04)(SFC, 9/28/04, p.A8)(WSJ, 9/29/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 27, Lebanon said Ismail
Katib, a local al Qaeda operative captured a week earlier, died “of a
heart attack” while in police custody.
(WSJ, 9/28/04, p.A1)(Econ, 10/2/04, p.47)
2004 Sep 27, In Nigeria militiamen
trying to wrest control of the oil-rich Niger Delta threatened to
launch a "full-scale armed struggle" on petroleum-pumping operations in
Africa's largest crude oil producing nation.
(AP, 9/28/04)(WSJ, 9/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 27, In Thailand officials
announced that a case of avian-flu was possibly caused by
human-to-human transmission.
(SFC, 9/28/04, p.A3)
2005 Sep 27, Former FEMA director
Michael Brown angrily blamed the Louisiana governor, the New Orleans
mayor and even the Bush White House that appointed him for the dismal
response to Hurricane Katrina in a fiery appearance before Congress; in
response, lawmakers alternately lambasted and mocked the former
official.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2005 Sep 27, New Orleans Police
Superintendent Eddie Compass stepped down from his post 4 weeks after
Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2005 Sep 27, Army reservist
Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her role
in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2005 Sep 27, NASA and other
institutions reported a huge galaxy, HUDF-JD2, dating from about 800
million years after the Big Bang. Odds on the date were given at 75%.
The galaxy was said to be unusually massive and mature for its place in
the young universe.
(SFC, 10/10/05, p.A4)
2005 Sep 27, A research team from
Hong Kong reported that the horseshoe bat is the source of the SARS
virus. A 2nd team from China, Australia and the US reported similar
findings 2 days later. The syndrome 1st appeared in China in 2002 and
killed 774 people worldwide.
(SFC, 9/30/05, p.A12)
2005 Sep 27, In Afghanistan Ali
Ahmad Jalali, the Interior Minister, resigned and said some senior
officials were involved in drugs and corruption.
(SFC, 9/28/05, p.A14)
2005 Sep 27, An American
supervisor for USPI, a Houston-based security firm, allegedly shot to
death his Afghan interpreter after a quarrel. Officials said Noor Ahmad
(37) was shot in the head at a compound of his employer, U.S.
Protection and Investigations, at Tut village in Farah province's
Gulistan district in western Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 27, Australian PM John
Howard won unanimous support from state premiers for tough new
counter-terrorism laws, including detention without charge and
electronic tagging of suspects.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, In Colombia
government spraying of coca plant killer was reported to be driving
growers and traffickers out of their usual territory into national
parks where spraying is banned. Here they are burning thousands of
acres of virgin rain forest and poisoning rivers with chemicals.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, A suicide bomber
attacked Iraqis applying for jobs as policemen in Baqouba, 30 miles
north of Baghdad, killing nine and wounding 21. US and Iraqi
authorities said their forces had killed Abdullah Abu Azzam, the No. 2
official in the al-Qaida in Iraq organization, in a weekend raid in
Baghdad, claiming to have struck a "painful blow" to the country's most
feared insurgent group.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, In Iraq NATO's top
brass opened a long-awaited training academy for the Iraqi military
that the alliance say will significantly increase its role in the
country.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, In southern Iraq
police found the bodies of 22 Iraqi men who had been shot in the head
and dumped in a deserted area of Badrah district northeast of Kut and
100 miles southeast of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, Protestant
politicians rejected the Irish Republican Army's disarmament as
inadequate, and said they would not share power in Northern Ireland's
government with the IRA's political party Sinn Fein for years, if ever.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, Israel hit Gaza with
shells and airstrikes to suppress rocket fire and detained 379 West
Bank militants in an overnight sweep against Hamas and Islamic Jihad
activists.
(AP, 9/27/05)(WSJ, 9/28/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 27, At least 18 people
were killed and 40 others injured when two passenger buses crashed head
on along Peru's coastal Panamerican highway.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, The leader of
Poland's Law and Justice party (PiS) said he would begin talks to form
a new center-right coalition government after the final count confirmed
its election victory. PiS won by promising to uproot the uklad, a
network of ex-spies, corrupt businessmen and political insiders, who
have dominated Poland since 1989.
(AP, 9/27/05)(Econ, 9/29/07, p.54)
2005 Sep 27, In Russia Pres. Putin
fielded questions on live coast-to-coast television and rebuffed the
idea of holding on to the presidency past 2008.
(SFC, 9/28/05, p.A10)
2005 Sep 27, Russia’s navy said it
successfully test-launched a newly-developed intercontinental ballistic
missile.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 27, In South Africa Brett
Kebble (41), a mining entrepreneur, African National Congress supporter
and cultural philanthropist, was found shot to death in Johannesburg.
His business dealings had come under scrutiny. Drug trafficker Glen
Agliotti was implicated in the murder. Jackie Selebi, South Africa’s
chief of police, later admitted to being a friend to Agliotti.
(AP, 9/28/05)(Econ, 1/19/08, p.50)
2005 Sep 27, A senior US State
Department official said the president of Uzbekistan made it clear that
American forces must leave their air base in the Central Asian country,
and the U.S. intends to do so "without further discussion."
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, After killing at
least 31 people in China and the Philippines, Typhoon Damrey slammed
ashore in Vietnam, forcing the evacuation of nearly 300,000 people.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2006 Sep 27, President Bush hosted
a peacemaking dinner at the White House for the bickering leaders of
Pakistan and Afghanistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Hamid Karzai.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)(AP, 9/27/07)
2006 Sep 27, Republicans announced
they would hold their 2008 presidential convention in the Twin Cities
of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.30)(AP, 9/27/07)
2006 Sep 27, Jacob "Kobi"
Alexander, the former chief and founder of Comverse Technology Inc.,
was arrested in Namibia, where he awaited extradition to the US to face
criminal fraud charges related to stock options. Alexander had recently
transferred tens of millions of dollars to Namibia. He was released
after 6 days on $1.4 million bail.
(Reuters, 9/27/06)(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)(WSJ,
11/17/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 27, The US FDA approved
Vectibix (panitimumab), a new colon cancer drug developed by Amgen and
Abgenix.
(SFC, 9/28/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 27, In Bailey, Colorado,
Duane Morrison (53) held 6 girls hostage at Platte Canyon High School
for hours before fatally wounding Emily Keyes (16). He sexually
molested the girls and then killed himself as authorities stormed in.
(AP, 9/28/06)(SFC, 9/28/06, p.A3)(AP, 9/29/06)(SFC,
10/6/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 27, In Charleston, South
Carolina, a video store was held up by a group of children, including a
14-year-old girl suspected of wielding a BB gun that looked like a
pistol. City Council member Larry Shirley, reacting later to the video
store holdup, said parents who can't properly care for their kids
should be sterilized.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 27, Afghan security
forces killed 25 suspected insurgents during a clash in southern
Afghanistan, while a suicide bombing targeting a NATO convoy wounded
one civilian.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, British billionaire
Richard Branson proposed changes to aircraft movements at busy airports
and the way planes land under a plan he said would cut the world's
aviation emissions by up to 25%.
(Reuters, 9/27/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.65)
2006 Sep 27, EU air safety
officials backed tightened rules on the amount of liquids and size of
carry-on baggage passengers can bring onto commercial flights.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, France ended a
decades-old system of inequality by bringing lagging pensions of war
veterans from former colonies into line with those of their French
counterparts whose retirement payment is two-thirds higher. The
decision was not retroactive.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 27, A team of French
doctors said they successfully operated on a man in near zero-gravity
conditions on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to
mimic weightlessness.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, Germany opened a
conference in Berlin on opening a 2-year dialogue separating Islamic
fundamentalism from Islam.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.62)
2006 Sep 27, Indonesia’s
government said it will resettle more than 3,000 families whose houses
have been swamped by mud surging from a gas exploration site and will
dump the sludge into the sea to avoid more destruction. The eruption
took place 4 months earlier 150 meters from where PT Lapindo Brantas
was drilling an exploratory well. The company was controlled by the
family of Aburizal Bakrie, Indonesia’s welfare minister.
(AP, 9/27/06)(Econ, 10/7/06, p.51)
2006 Sep 27, In Iraq the US
military said it killed four suspected terrorists and four civilians,
including a pregnant woman, in a raid in Baqouba. An investigation
followed as surviving family members said the attack was unprovoked.
Gunmen killed 10 people near a Sunni mosque at Ramadan prayers.
(AP, 9/27/06)(SFC, 9/28/06, p.A19)(WSJ, 9/28/06,
p.A1)
2006 Sep 27, An Israeli court
released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest ranking
Hamas official to be freed following a crackdown on the Islamic
militant group. But the court temporarily banned him from going to his
government office in the city of Ramallah. Israeli airstrikes on a
house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah killed a 14-year-old
girl and wounded seven other people.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, Jordan's military
court convicted five men of plotting attacks against US troops in Iraq,
including a cousin of slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, At the Hague,
Netherlands, a UN tribunal sentenced Momcilio Krajisnik (61), the
former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, to 27 years in prison
for war crimes, but acquitted him of the harsher charge of genocide.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, In northwestern
Pakistan drive-by gunmen killed two militants and wounded three in
another car. The militants who came under attack were believed to be
loyal to a pro-Taliban tribesman known only as Hanan, who had started a
campaign to oust Uzbek militants living in the Shakai mountain valley
region north of Wana.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, Russia's chief
election body dismissed a petition aimed at allowing President Vladimir
Putin to run for a third term.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, The Sri Lanka
government revealed that Tamil Tigers have agreed to resume
face-to-face negotiations and end a seven-month deadlock in talks.
(AFP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, The Ugandan army
accused rebels of violating the increasingly fragile truce, which was
signed last month, by leaving neutral assembly points.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 27, In Venezuela’s Los
Roques islands Elena Vecoli (34), a newly married Italian woman, was
murdered and her husband, Riccardo Prescendi (46) beaten inside an inn
popular with foreign tourists. Police identified 3 suspects the next
day.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2007 Sep 27, President Bush
promised to take steps to reduce air traffic congestion and long delays
that were leaving travelers grounded.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2007 Sep 27, The US Supreme Court
halted the execution of Carlton Turner Jr. (28), a man convicted of
killing his parents in Texas, after already agreeing to review lethal
injection procedures in Kentucky. Turner was 19 when he shot Carlton
Turner Sr., (43) and Tonya Turner (40) several times in the head.
Turner was executed on Jul 10, 2008.
(AP, 9/28/07)(SFC, 7/10/08, p.A4)
2007 Sep 27, The Cleveland adult
toy firm GVA-TWN said they would acquire Good Vibrations, a SF sex toy
retailer.
(SFC, 9/28/07, p.C1)
2007 Sep 27, In Oakland, Ca., 4
people were charged with growing marijuana that since 2001 was used in
cookies and other packaged food made by Tainted Inc.
(SFC, 9/28/07, p.B3)
2007 Sep 27, In Florida a
spacecraft named Dawn blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on a
mission to explore two giant asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn
was powered by a trio of solar-powered electric engines that ionize and
expel xenon gas. It could serve as a blueprint for future
interplanetary transport.
(Reuters, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Miles Cooper (27), a
caretaker at a primary school in Cambridge, was convicted of sending a
spate of letter bombs that hurt eight people in England and Wales
earlier this year.
(AFP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, China issued an
evenhanded plea for calm in Myanmar, calling on all sides to show
restraint.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Irakli Okruashvili,
Georgia's hawkish former defense minister, was detained on corruption
charges, days after he alleged that President Mikhail Saakashvili had
ordered him to kill a prominent businessman.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Iran’s President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveled stopped in Bolivia, where he pledged $1
billion in investment. He pledged investment over the next five years
to help the poor Andean nation tap its vast natural gas reserves,
extract minerals, generate more electricity and fund agricultural and
construction projects. He then visited Venezuela to meet President Hugo
Chavez. Chavez embraced the Iranian leader, calling him "one of the
greatest anti-imperialist fighters" and "one of the great fighters for
true peace."
(AP, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 27, Iraq's Sunni vice
president held a rare meeting with the country's top Shiite cleric to
seek support for a 25-point blueprint for political reform. A parked
car bomb struck a predominantly Shiite area in eastern Baghdad, killing
one civilian and wounding two others.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Israeli forces killed
two Gaza militants in a missile strike.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, In Myanmar troops
cleared protesters from the streets of central Yangon, giving them 10
minutes to leave or be shot as the Myanmar junta intensified a two-day
crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years. At least nine people
were killed, including a Japanese national. In December a UN
investigator documented 31 people killed by the end of the crackdown in
October.
(Reuters, 9/27/07)(AP, 12/7/07)
2007 Sep 27, In Nigeria gunmen
disguised as soldiers killed a Colombian oil worker and abducted two
other foreigners in a raid on the construction yard of oil services
company Saipem.
(Reuters, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Pakistan's chief
justice ordered the immediate release of detained opposition members as
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf formalized his disputed candidacy for a
new five-year term.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Somali and Ethiopian
troops ordered thousands to vacate their homes in Mogadishu to allow
the forces to search for arms and insurgents.
(AP, 9/29/07)
2007 Sep 27, In northern Sri Lanka
the military said artillery fire, gunbattles and a bombing had killed
25 rebels, three civilians and a soldier. The civilian casualties
occurred when a remote-control bomb went off in a government-controlled
town.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, A UN tribunal
convicted Mile Mrksic (60), a Serb army officer, of clearing the way
for the torture and killing of 194 Croats seized from a hospital in a
1991 massacre. Veselin Sljivancanin (54), the area's chief security
officer, was sentenced to five years for failing to protect the Croats
from beatings and torture by the local Serb paramilitary forces and
Territorial Defense units. Officer Miroslav Radic (45) was acquitted of
any wrongdoing.
(AP, 9/27/07)(WSJ, 9/28/07, p.A1)
2008 Sep 27, Taliban militants
released the last 30 of approximately 150 Afghan laborers they had
abducted for almost a week after suspecting the workers of being Afghan
soldiers. 118 were released a day earlier. 3 had been released earlier
in the week due to illness.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, According to an
estimate by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), up to A$12 billion
($10 billion) in illicit drug money could be flowing out of Australia
every year.
(Reuters, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, Mission commander
Zhai Zhigang floated, a Chinese astronaut, performed the nation's
first-ever spacewalk, the latest milestone in an ambitious program that
is increasingly rivaling the United States and Russia in its rapid
expansion. Fellow astronaut Liu Boming also emerged briefly from the
capsule to hand Zhai a Chinese flag that he waved for an exterior
camera filming the event. The third crew member, Jing Haipeng,
monitored the Shenzhou 7 from inside the re-entry module.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, It was reported that
the elephant population in Congo’s Virunga National Park had dropped to
under 200, mostly due to poaching. In 1964 there were an estimated
2,900. In 2006 the number had dropped to 400.
(Econ, 9/27/08, p.62)
2008 Sep 27, In India one child
was killed and 18 people were wounded in a bomb attack in a crowded
shopping area in New Delhi. A young boy was killed instantly when he
picked up a bag containing the bomb to return it to suspects who fled
the market before the explosion. A 2nd man died the next day from his
injuries.
(AFP, 9/27/08)(AP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 27, The UN Security
Council unanimously approved a new resolution reaffirming previous
sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program
and offering Tehran incentives to do so.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, Iraqi police fatally
shot Riya Qahtan, a Kurdish politician, in Diyala province, a killing
that underlines the growing tensions between Kurds and Arabs in parts
of the north. The US military arrested five Iranian-backed Shiite
extremists, in 3 separate locations in eastern Baghdad. accused in
recent rocket attacks on Iraqi and American forces. The extremists were
suspected of links to the Hezbollah Brigades, a Shiite extremist group
that the US believes is backed by Iran.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, The AIDS virus was
reported to afflict some 5.5 million of South Africa’s 49 million
population.
(Econ, 9/27/08, p.19)
2008 Sep 27, The population of
Seoul, South Korea, was reported to be about 23 million.
(Econ, 9/27/08, SR p.3)
2008 Sep 27, Sri Lankan fighter
jets bombed a rebel base in Kilinochchi district. The government it
said was used to train suicide bombers. The pro-rebel Tamilnet website
said the bombs fell on a civilian town, killing one person and injuring
two, including a child. Clashes between government soldiers and rebels
left 17 dead in the country's war-ravaged north.
(AFP, 9/27/08)(AFP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 27, In Damascus, Syria, a
car packed with explosives detonated on a crowded residential street,
killing 17 people and wounding more than a dozen others.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, A Ukrainian ship,
sailing under a North Korean flag, sank in the Black Sea and all crew
members were missing. the 5,000-ton Tolstoy was carrying a cargo of
scrap metal to the Turkish port of Nemrut.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, Zimbabwe's main
opposition leader and designated prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai said
it was "urgent" the country form a new government to ensure food
supplies and prevent starvation.
(AP, 9/27/08)
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