Return to home
48 BC Sep 28,
On landing in Egypt, Pompey was murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy
of Egypt.
(HN, 9/28/98)(MC, 9/28/01)
855 Sep 28, The Emperor Lothar
died in Gaul, and his kingdom was divided between his three sons.
(HN, 9/28/98)
929 Sep 28, Wenceslaus I, duke of
Bohemia, was murdered.
(www.stfrancisvernon.org/stwenceslaus.htm)
1066 Sep 28, William the Conqueror
invaded England to claim the English throne.
(AP, 9/28/97)(HN, 9/28/98)
1106 Sep 28, King Henry I of
England defeated his brother Robert Curthose of Normandy at the Battle
of Tinchebrai and reunited England and Normandy. Robert remained a
prisoner until he died in 1134.
(HN, 9/28/98)(PC, 1992, p.90)
1238 Sep 28, James of Aragon
retook Valencia, Spain, from the Arabs.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1521 Sep 28, Turkish sultan
Suleiman I's troops occupied Belgrade.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1528 Sep 28, A Spanish fleet sank
in Florida hurricane; 380 died.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1542 Sept 28, Juan Rodriguez
Cabrillo, Spanish explorer, stepped ashore at the present day harbor of
San Diego and named it San Miguel. He went on to explore the coast of
California. The tip of Point Loma in San Diego is the home of the
Cabrillo National Monument, the second most visited monument in the US
after the Statue of Liberty. The island of Coronado was named in honor
of the Four Crowned Martyrs, Los Quatro Martires Coronados, on whose
feast day it was discovered.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.16)(AAM, 3/96, p.52)(NPS-CNM,
4/1/97)(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)
1565 Sep 28, Alessandro Tassoni,
political writer (Rape of Bucket), was born in Modena, Italy.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1573 Sep 28, Caravaggio (d.1610),
painter, was born in Italy. His emphasis on the play of light and
shadow invoked greater realism and set a new trend in painting. His
paintings included “Boy Bitten by Lizard.” In 1999 Helen Langdon
published "Caravaggio, A Life." [see 1565-1609 & 1571-1610]
(SFEM, 8/31/97, p.8,13)(SFEC, 7/11/99, BR p.6)(MC,
9/28/01)
1607 Sep 28, Samuel de Champlain
and his colonists returned to France from Port Royal Nova Scotia.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1678 Sep 28, "Pilgrim's Progress"
by John Bunyan (b.1628) was published. [see Feb 18]
(MC, 9/28/01)
1781 Sep 28, American forces in
the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, began their siege of
Yorktown Heights, Va.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1787 Sep 28, Congress voted to
send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state
legislatures for their approval.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1687 Sep 28, Venetians took Athens
from the Turks.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1704 Sep 28, Maryland allowed
divorce if a wife displeased the clergyman or preacher.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1708 Sep 28, At the Battle at
Lesnaya the Russian army captured a Swedish convoy.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1745 Sep 28, Bonnie Prince Charlie
became "king" of Scotland.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1781 Sep 28, American forces in
the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, began their siege of
Yorktown Heights, Va. 9,000 American forces and 7,000 French troops
began the siege of Yorktown.
(AP, 9/28/97)(MC, 9/28/01)
1785 Sep 28, Napoleon Bonaparte
(16) graduated from the military academy in Paris. He was 42nd in a
class of 51.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1789 Sep 28, Richard Bright,
physician (Bright's Disease, nephritis), was born in England.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1794 Sep 28, The
Anglo-Russian-Austrian Alliance of St. Petersburg, which was directed
against France, was signed.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1803 Sep 28, Prosper Merimee
(d.1870), archeologist and playwright (Carmen-1845), was born in Paris,
France.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/merimee.htm)(www.nndb.com/people/584/000107263/)
1815 Sep 28, Joachim Murat's fleet
sailed from Corsica to Naples.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1820 Sep 28, Fredrich Engels,
socialist who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto
and Das Kapital, was born.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1825 Sep 28, George Stephenson
operated the first locomotive to pull a passenger train in England. The
British engineers Richard Trevithick and George Stevenson were the
first innovators of the technology. The first passenger train in
America was the Baltimore and Ohio railway which opened in 1830.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1829 Sep 28, Walker's Appeal, a
racial antislavery pamphlet, was published in Boston.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1833 Sep 28, Lemuel Haynes,
Revolutionary War veteran, died at 88.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1839 Sep 28, Frances E.C. Willard,
founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, was born in NY.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1841 Sep 28, Georges Clemenceau,
premier of France during World War I, was born. He served as premier
from 1906-09 and 1917-1920.
(HN, 9/28/98)(MC, 9/28/01)
1848 Sep 28, Lajos Kossuth,
finance minister, assumed control of the revolution in Hungary.
(www.thenagain.info/WebChron/EastEurope/Kossuth.html)
1850 Sep 28, Flogging was
abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1858 Sep 28, Donati's comet became
the 1st to be photographed.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1864 Sep 28, Union General William
Rosecrans blamed his defeat at Chickamauga on two of his subordinate
generals. They were later exonerated by a court of inquiry.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1864 Sep 28-30, The Battle of Fort
Harrison Va. (Chaffin's Farm New Market Heights).
(MC, 9/28/01)
1868 Sep 28, In the Opelousas
Massacre at St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, 200 blacks were killed.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1874 Sep 28, Colonel Ranald
Mackenzie (d.1889) raided a war camp of Comanche and Kiowa at the
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, slaughtering 2,000 of their horses.
(HN, 9/28/98)(SFCM, 3/11/01, p.53)
1891 Sep 28, Herman Melville
(b.1819), writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), died at 72. In 1921 Raymond
Weaver authored a pioneering study of Melville. In 2002 Hershel Parker
authored "Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2." In 2005 Andrew
Delbanco authored “Melville: His World and Work.”
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.M5)(SSFC, 10/2/05, p.F6)(WSJ,
10/6/05, p.D8)
1895 Sep 28, Louis Pasteur, French
bacteriologist (Pasteurization), died at 72.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1901 Sep 28, Ed Sullivan,
television host was born. [see Sep 28, 1902]
(HN, 9/28/00)
1901 Sep 28, At Balangiga on Samar
Island, Philippine villagers surprised a the US military Company C, 9th
Infantry Regiment. Church bells, used to signal the attack, were taken
by the Americans. 38 of 74 US soldiers were killed and all the rest but
6 were wounded. Philippine casualties were estimated at 50-250 with 48
American soldiers killed.
(WSJ, 11/19/97, p.A6)(SFC, 10/18/03, p.A18)
1902 Sep 28, Ed Sullivan,
television host, was born. He was also a newspaper columnist and radio
host. “The Ed Sullivan Show” first aired in 1948. His show had
many debut acts including Lewis and Martin, Elvis, the Beatles and the
Rolling Stones. [see Sep 28, 1901]
(MC, 9/28/01)
1902 Sep 28, Emile Zola (b.1840),
novelist (Nana, Germinal, J'accuse), died by asphyxiation in his Paris
apartment at age 62. In 1895 he began taking photographs and took some
7,000 pictures before his death.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.C6)(MC, 9/28/01)
1904 Sep 28, A woman was placed
under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York's Fifth Avenue.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1906 Sep 28, US troops reoccupied
Cuba. They stayed until 1909.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1909 Sep 28, Al Capp (Alfred
Gerald Caplin), cartoonist, was born in New Haven, Ct. From 1934 until
1977, Capp wrote and drew the cartoon, "Li’l Abner", with its cast of
wonderful characters, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, their son Abner, the
lovely Daisy Mae, Fearless Fosdick and the lovable Schmoos. Al Capp
even invented a holiday, Sadie Hawkins Day. "Don't be a pal to your
son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?"
(HN, 9/28/98)(AP, 11/11/99)(MC, 9/28/01)
1912 Sep 28, W.C. Handy’s “Memphis
Blues” was published. It was the first published blues composition.
[see Sep 27]
(HN, 9/28/98)(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)
1912 Sep 28, The SS Kichemaru
disappeared in a storm off the Japanese coast and 1,000 died.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1913 Sep 28, Race riots in
Harriston, Mississippi, killed 10 people.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1915 Sep 28, Ethel Rosenberg, who,
with her husband Julius, became one of the first American civilians
executed for espionage, was born.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1915 Sep 28, At the Battle of
Kut-el-Amara the British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1920 Sep 28, 8 White Sox players
were indicted for throwing the 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal).
[see Sep 27]
(MC, 9/28/01)
1922 Sep 28, Mussolini marched on
Rome.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1923 Sep 28, William Windom, actor
(Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote), was born in NYC.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1924 Sep 28, Marcello Mastroianni
(d.1996), Italian actor, was born. His films included “La Dolce Vita”
and “8 ½.”
(HN, 9/28/00)
1924 Sep 28, Two US Army planes
landed in Seattle, Wash., having completed the first round-the-world
flight in 175 days. Three U.S. Army aircraft arrived in Seattle,
Washington, after completing a 22 day round-the-world flight.
(AP, 9/28/97)(HN, 9/28/98)
1925 Sep 28, Seymour Cray (d1996),
computer expert, was born. His computers were all designed along RISC
lines (Reduced Instruction Set Computing), for which credit is often
given to IBM design work in the 1970s. He invented “vector processing”
which involved chaining together long series of calculations in
specialized hardware to expedite solutions.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, C12)
1928 Sep 28, Prussia forbade a
speech by Adolf Hitler.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1930 Sep 28, Lou Gehrig's
errorless streak ended at 885 consecutive games.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1931 Sep 28, In Peking some
200,000 demonstrators demanded a declaration of war on Japan.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1934 Sep 28, Brigitte Bardot,
French film actress, sex kitten (And God Created Women), was born in
Paris.
(HN, 9/28/00)(MC, 9/28/01)
1937 Sep 28, FDR dedicated
Bonneville Dam on Columbia River in Oregon.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1938 Sep 28, Ben E. King, was
born. He was the lead singer of The Drifters and composer of “Spanish
Harlem” and “Stand by Me.”
(HN, 9/28/00)
1938 Sep 28, Koko Taylor, blues
singer, was born.
(HN, 9/28/00)
1939 Sep 28, The Boundary and
Friendship Treaty between the USSR and Germany was supplemented by
secret protocols to amend the secret protocols of Aug 23. Among other
things Lithuania was reassigned to the Soviet sphere of influence.
Poland’s partition line was moved eastwards from the Vistula line to
the line of the Bug. Germany kept a small part of south-west Lithuania,
the Uznemune region. A separate Soviet mutual defense pact was signed
with Estonia that allowed 25,000 Soviet troops to be stationed there.
(DrEE, 9/28/96, p.3)(DrEE, 10/26/96, p.4)(DrEE,
10/26/96, p.4)(AP, 9/28/97)
1941 Sep 28, Ted Williams ended
the baseball season with .406 batting avg.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1942 Sep 28, Luftwaffe bombed
Stalingrad.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1943 Sep 28, J.T. Walsh, actor
(Col. Frank Bach, Dark Skies), was born.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1944 Sep 28, At the Battle of
Arnhem the Germans defeated the British airborne in Netherlands.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1949 Sep 28, "My Friend Irma" was
1st of 12 films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1953 Sep 28, The "Bob & Ray
Show," TV Variety, last aired on NBC.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1953 Sep 28, Edwin P. Hubble
(b.1889), astronomer, died at age 63. He discovered that the more
distant a galaxy seemed to be, the more its light was shifted toward
the lower frequencies. This is know as the Doppler red shift, named
after C.J. Doppler, an Austrian Physicist (1803-1853).
(WUB, 1995, p.426)(MC, 9/28/01)
1954 Sep 28, Patrick McCarran
(b.1876), Nevada US Senator since 1932, died in Hawthorne, Nevada. In
2004 Michael J. Ybarra authored “Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat
McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt.”
(www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/mccarran.htm)
1956 Sep 28, RCA Records reported
Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1958 Sep 28, Voters in the African
country of Guinea overwhelmingly favored independence from France.
(AP, 9/28/08)
1959 Sep 28, Explorer VI, the U.S.
satellite, took the first video pictures of earth.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1959 Sep 28, Gerard Hoffnung,
artist, humorist, musician, died.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1960 Sep 28, "Millionaire," last
aired on CBS-TV.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1960 Sep 28, "Sunrise at
Campobello" premiered at Palace theater.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1961 Sep 28, “Dr. Kildare,”
starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, and “Hazel,” starring
Shirley Booth, premiered on NBC TV.
(AP, 9/28/01)
1963 Sep 28, "New Phil Silvers
Show," debuted on CBS-TV.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1963 Sep 28, Murray The K, a NY DJ
played "She Loves You" on the radio.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1964 Sep 28, Harpo [Arthur] Marx,
comedian (Marx Bros), died at 75.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1965 Sep 28, A volcano exploded on
Luzon, Philippines; 500 killed.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1967 Sep 28, Moon Zappa, singer,
was born. Valley Girl, actress: Dark Side of Genius, Heartstopper,
Spirit of '76, The Boys Next Door; daughter of the famous singer, Frank
Zappa.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1967 Sep 28, Walter E. Washington
(d.2003) took office as the first mayor of the District of Columbia. He
had been appointed mayor-commissioner by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and
won by election in 1974.
(AP, 9/28/97)(SFC, 11/1/03, p.A20)
1968 Sep 28, Beatles' "Hey Jude"
single went #1 and stayed #1 for 9 weeks.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Jude)
1969 Sep 28, The Murchison
Meteorite crashed into Australia. It was found to contain amino acids
and frozen ice.
(TMP, KCTS-Video,
1987)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite)
1970 Sep 28, John Roderigo Dos
Passos (b.1896), US writer (Manhattan Transfer), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dos_Passos)
1970 Sep 28, In Egypt Pres. Gamal
Abdul Nasser (b.1918) died of a heart attack. He became president in
1953. Anwar Sadat replaced Nasser.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser)
1971 Sep 28, Cardinal Josef
Mindszenty (1892-1975) of Hungary, who had spent 15 years in refuge in
the US Embassy in Budapest, ended his exile and flew to Rome.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Mindszenty)
1972 Sep 28, Japan and Communist
China agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1974 Sep 28, First lady Betty Ford
underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland,
following discovery of a cancerous lump in her breast.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1976 Sep 28, Muhammad Ali kept his
world heavyweight boxing championship with a close 15-round decision
over Ken Norton at New York's Yankee Stadium.
(AP, 9/28/01)
1977 Sep 28, The Japanese Red Army
hijacked a Japan Airlines plane over India. The Douglas DC-8, en route
from Paris to Haneda Airport in Tokyo with 156 people on board, stopped
in Mumbai, India. After taking off from Mumbai, five armed JRA members
hijacked the aircraft and ordered it flown to Dhaka, Bangladesh. The
Japanese government freed 6 imprisoned members of the group and paid $6
million in ransom. On October 2 the hijackers released 118 passengers
and crewmembers. The remaining hostages were freed later.
(SFC, 11/9/00,
p.C2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines)
1978 Sep 28, Rosemary Cobbs (26),
a graduate student at USC in Los Angeles, was beaten and shot to death
by Stevie Lamar Fields (22). Williams had been out of prison for just 2
weeks when he went on a 3-week crime spree. In 2007 a federal appeals
court reinstated his death sentence.
(SFC, 9/11/07, p.D2)(http://tinyurl.com/2osxw8)
1978 Sep 28, Israeli Knesset
endorsed the Camp David accord.
(http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761590224/Camp_David_Accords.html)
1978 Sep 28, Pope John Paul I
[Albino Luciano] died after 33 days as pope. He was found dead the next
day in his Vatican apartment.
(www.prose-n-poetry.com/display_work/10583/)(AP,
9/29/97)
1980 Sep 28, Carl Sagan's 13 part
"Cosmos" premiered on PBS.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0081846/)
1980 Sep 28, Lanford Wilson's
"Balm in Gilead," premiered in Chicago on the Steppenwolf stage. In
1984 it moved to NYC.
(www.tomwaitslibrary.com/Theatre/Balmingilead/balmingilead.htm)
1981 Sep 28, US Pres. Ronald
Reagan designated, October 24, 1981, as United Nations Day. In 2002,
September 21 was declared the annual date for "commemorating and
strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and
peoples."
(AFP,
9/20/09)(www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/92881d.htm)
1985 Sep 28, There was a race riot
in the London area of Brixton.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brixton_riot_(1985))
1987 Sep 28, US Rep. Patricia
Schroeder, D-Colo., announced in Denver that she would not run for the
Democratic presidential nomination.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1987 Sep 28, Mehdi Hashemi,
Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, was shot for treason.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1987-9/1987-09-28-CBS-9.html)
1988 Sep 28, President Reagan
vetoed legislation designed to toughen curbs in textile, apparel and
shoe imports, arguing it would have "disastrous effects" on the economy
at a time when exports were growing.
(AP, 9/28/98)
1989 Sep 28, Deposed Philippine
President Ferdinand E. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii at age 72. He was
the author of 2 books: "The Law of Human Rights in the Philippines" and
"Democracy in the Philippines." Marcos’ corrupt US backed regime in the
Philippines spanned over twenty years. Corazon Aquino was his successor.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A26)(AP, 9/28/97)(SFC, 5/12/97,
p.A18)
1990 Sep 28, The exiled emir of
Kuwait visited the White House, where he told President Bush the Iraqis
were destroying and looting his country.
(AP, 9/28/00)
1991 Sep 28, The quotable former
District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry was sentenced to six months in
prison for possession of crack (a crystalline form of cocaine).
(http://tinyurl.com/ky3hv)
1991 Sep 28, Jazz great Miles
Davis died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 65.
(AP, 9/28/01)
1991 Sep 28, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev praised President Bush's pledge to drastically
reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and promised to “reciprocate.”
(AP, 9/28/01)
1991 Sep 28, U.N. weapons
inspectors ended a five-day standoff with Iraq over documents relating
to Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
(AP, 9/28/01)
1992 Sep 28, Aides to President
Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton met in Dallas with supporters of Ross
Perot, who hinted afterward he might re-enter the presidential race.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1992 Sep 28, Gloria Estefan and a
cavalcade of musicians and comedians raised one-point-three-million
dollars at a hurricane relief concert in Miami.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0002065/)
1992 Sep 28, A Pakistani jetliner
crashed in Nepal, killing all 167 people aboard. The crew had
miscalculated their altitude.
(AP, 9/28/97)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A10)
1993 Sep 28, First lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton went to Capitol Hill to begin selling the
administration's health care plan to Congress.
(AP, 9/28/98)
1993 Sep 28, Peter De Vries
(b.1910), novelist, essayist (New Yorker), died at 83.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_De_Vries)
1994 Sep 28, The film "Ed Wood"
premiered. A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of
Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed "worst movie director of all time."
Director Ed Wood died in 1978.
(www.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink/786936212501IE.html)
1994 Sep 28, CIA Director R. James
Woolsey announced reprimands of 11 senior officers in the wake of the
Aldrich Ames spy scandal.
(AP, 9/28/99)
1994 Sep 28, Harry Saltzman (78),
producer (Dr No, Nijinski), died.
(www.eofftv.com/names/s/sal/saltzman_harry_main.htm)
1994 Sep 28, More than 900 (909)
people died when the ferry Estonia capsized and sank off the Finnish
coast in the Baltic sea. 852 people of 989 onboard were killed. In 1999
evidence was reported that 3 explosive devices had been placed on the
ship's visor-like bow door.
(AP, 9/28/99)(SFC, 12/31/99, p.A16)
1994 Sep 28, In Mexico Jose
Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the No. 2 man of the governing Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI) was murdered. Raul Salinas de Gortari was
later arrested and accused of masterminding the murder. Manuel Munoz
Rocha, a federal congressman, disappeared after the 9/28/94 slaying of
Ruiz Massieu. Prosecutors later said that Salinas and Rocha conspired
to kill Massieu. Raul Salinas was convicted in 1999.
(WSJ, 4/15/96, p.A-15)(SFC, 10/10/96, p.A12)(SFC,
1/22/99, p.A10)
1995 Sep 28, In the US the Freeman
headquarters were moved from Roundup, Mont., to Ralph Clark’s former
ranch near Jordan, Mont.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.A4)
1995 Sep 28, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord
to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
(AP, 9/28/98)
1996 Sep 28, Landmark legislation
to crack down on illegal immigrants in the United States won House
passage as part of a giant federal spending bill.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1996 Sep 28, With the United
States abstaining, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution
indirectly calling on Israel to close an archaeological tunnel in
Jerusalem that had touched off fighting between Israelis and
Palestinians.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1997 Sep 28, Mark McGwire of the
St. Louis Cardinals hit his 58th home run on the final day of the
regular season as his team beat the Chicago Cubs, 2-1.
(AP, 9/28/98)
1997 Sep 28, Newscaster David
Brinkley, 74, retired after 54 years in broadcasting.
(http://tinyurl.com/7dxec)
1997 Sep 28, In California a
wildfire killed livestock and forced the evacuation of some 1500 people
in Yuba County. Scores of homes were burned.
(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 28, From LA it was
reported that Cirildo Chacarito, a 52-year-old Mexican Indian
tribesman, won a 100-mile endurance run along mountain trails in 19 1/2
hours.
(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A23)
1997 Sep 28, In Indonesia an
earthquake measuring 6.0 hit Sulawesi island and at least 7 people were
killed.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A21)
1997 Sep 28, Swiss voters
overwhelmingly endorsed their government's liberal drug policies,
including the controversial state distribution of heroin to hardened
addicts.
(AP, 9/28/98)
1998 Sep 28, Hurricane Georges
plowed into the Gulf Coast, weakening to a tropical storm but pouring
rain at a pace of an inch per hour. President Clinton declared an
emergency late in the day.
(AP, 9/28/99)
1998 Sep 28, Yasser Arafat met
with Benjamin Netanyahu and Pres. Clinton at the White House and agreed
to hold a full-scale summit next month.
(SFC, 9/29/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 28, In Albania Prime
Minister Fatos Nano resigned following 2 weeks of rioting. Pandeli
Majko (31), general secretary of the Socialist Party, was the party’s
candidate for prime minister. The opposition called for an interim
government and new elections.
(SFC, 9/29/98, p.A10)(WSJ, 9/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 28, In Germany Gerhard
Schroeder announced that he would form a coalition between his Social
Democrats and the Green Party, which received 6.7% of the vote. The
669-seat parliament would have 298 Social Democrats and 47 Greens.
(SFC, 9/29/98, p.A9)
1998 Sep 28, Two senior Iranian
clerics claimed that the $2.5 million reward for Rushdie’s death was a
fatwa that must be enforced.
(SFC, 9/29/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 28, In central Mexico
heavy rains caused mudslides in Mexico City that left 6 people dead in
the squatter hillsides south of the city.
(SFC, 9/29/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 28, Russia’s Justice
Ministry announced that it would release 115,000 prisoners to ease
over-crowding in its cash-strapped jails.
(SFC, 9/29/98, p.A10)
1999 Sep 28, Groundbreaking was
scheduled for the US National Museum of the American Indian in
Washington DC. The $110 million museum was scheduled to open on the
National Mall in 2002.
(SFC, 7/22/99, p.A5)(SFC, 9/29/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 28, The Supreme Court
agreed to decide whether a state can give visitation rights to
grandparents when, after a divorce or some other family split, the
children’s parents say no. In June, 2000, the court ruled that
Washington state went too far in letting grandparents and others seek
visitation, but it stopped short of giving parents absolute veto power
over who gets to visit their children.
(AP, 9/28/00)
1999 Sep 28, James Wolfensohn (65)
was expected to be re-appointed for a 2nd five year term as head of the
World Bank at the opening of its annual meeting. He was its 9th
president in 53 years.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.C16)
1999 Sep 28, In Afghanistan 30
people were killed a 35 others injured as a truck carrying refugees
skidded off a road and plunged into a river. The refugees were fleeing
the Taliban bombing at Taloqan.
(SFC, 9/29/99, p.C14)
1999 Sep 28, It was reported that
the Burundi army has recently forced over 200,000 villagers into
makeshift camps without food or water and that 100 people had died over
the past week.
(SFC, 9/29/99, p.C14)
1999 Sep 28, In Chechnya 8 people
were killed when a schoolhouse was bombed on the 6th day of Russian air
attacks. Some 60,000 people had reportedly fled to the neighboring
regions of Ingushetia, Dagestan, North Ossetia and Stavropol.
(SFC, 9/29/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 28, In Mexico Cuauhtemoc
Cardenas stepped down as mayor of Mexico City to launch his 3rd bid for
the presidency.
(SFC, 9/29/99, p.A10)
1999 Sep 28, In Kosovo 2 grenades
exploded in a Serb marketplace in the Pristina suburb of Kosovo Polje
and 2 people were killed and 40 others injured.
(SFC, 9/29/99, p.A11)
2000 Sep 28, In Sydney, Australia,
Venus Williams earned her second Olympic gold medal, teaming with
sister Serena in the final of women's doubles to beat Miriam Oremans
and Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands, 6-1, 6-1.
(AP, 9/28/01)
2000 Sep 28, Capping a 12-year
battle, the US FDA approved the French abortion pill, RU-486
(mifepristone). It will be sold as Mifeprex by Danco Laboratories.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 28, In Washington DC a
gay, deaf student at Gallaudet Univ. was beaten to death. Thomas Minch
(18) was later arrested for the death of Eric Franklin Plunkett (19).
Minch was released within 24 hours. In 2002 Joseph M. Mesa Jr. was
convicted of killing and robbing 2 Gallaudet classmates. [See Feb 3,
2001]
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A2)(SFC, 10/5/00, p.A2)(SFC,
5/22/02, p.A9)
2000 Sep 28, Peter Gennaro (80),
choreographer, died.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2000 Sep 28, In Canada Pierre
Elliott Trudeau, 2-time former premier, died at age 80. He led Canada
from 1968-1979 and from 1980-1984.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D7)
2000 Sep 28, In Chechnya Russian
troops reportedly killed Isa Munayev, a rebel military commander.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 28, Danes voted 53-47%
not to join the European Monetary Union.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A18)
2000 Sep 28, In India some 1,000
people were left dead following 10 days of torrential rains.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A20)
2000 Sep 28, In Indonesia a court
dismissed the corruption case against former Pres. Suharto (79) after
doctors concluded he was too ill to stand trial.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 28, Ariel Sharon led an
armed contingent of supporters to the top of Temple Mount in Jerusalem,
the site of 2 mosques, and incited Arab demonstrations. This marked the
beginning of the 2nd Palestinian uprising (Intifada).
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A8)(SFC, 3/23/04, p.A11)
2000 Sep 28, Peru’s Pres. Fujimori
flew to Washington to meet with OAS officials as rumors of a coup
swirled.
(WSJ, 9/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 28, OPEC leaders in
Venezuela signed a united declaration of 20 resolutions and agreed to
meet again in 5 years.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A17)
2001 Sep 28, President George W.
Bush told reporters the United States was in "hot pursuit" of
terrorists behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2001 Sep 28, A Bush administration
official said that small groups of US and British special forces had
entered Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 28, Pres. Bush authorized
$50 million in aid to Pakistan.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 28, The FBI released a
4-page document, handwritten in Arabic, that served as a set of final
instructions for the Sep 11. hijackers. Copies were found in a rental
car, in the suitcase of Mohamed Atta and the wreckage of the UA plane
that crashed in Pa.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A5)
2001 Sep 28, The FAA allowed
airlines to restore curbside checking under new security regulations.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 28, Dr. Kenneth M. Berry
of Pittsburgh filed a patent application for a system responsive to
bioterrorism attacks. In 2004 the FBI probed him in relation to
investigations on letters containing anthrax.
(SSFC, 8/8/04, p.A9)
2001 Sep 28, The UN Security
Council unanimously adopted a US sponsored resolution to oblige all 189
member states to crack down on the financing, training and movement of
terrorists.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 28, The UN Security
Council lifted sanctions against Sudan after the US abstained from
voting.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 28, In Afghanistan
Taliban leader Mohammed Omar told a 9-member Pakistani delegation that
the Taliban would be willing to fight to the death to protect Osama bin
Laden from US military forces.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 28, In Bangladesh 3
people were killed in Barisal, Sandeep and Pabna. Another 4 were killed
in Chiatagong City as elections approached.
(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A17)
2001 Sep 28, It was reported that
clashed in Burundi between government forces and Hutu rebels had killed
at least 19 civilians and 22 soldiers over the last week.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D6)
2001 Sep 28, In China Wu Jianmin,
a Chinese-born American writer, was released from jail and expelled.
The state media said he had confessed to his crimes of spying for
Taiwan.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 28, Israeli-Palestinian
security officials met to work out details for ending the bloodshed as
fighting left at least 3 Palestinians. 1 Palestinian apparently blew
himself up in Hebron while making a bomb. Another 3 Palestinians were
later killed while planting a mine in Rafah.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 28, In Northern Ireland
Martin O’Hagan (51), a Catholic journalist, was killed in a driveby
shooting in Lurgan. O’Hagan had written exposes of Protestant
extremists and their criminal activities. In 2008 police charged 3
suspected members of the outlawed Protestant paramilitary group, the
Loyalist Volunteer Force, with the murder.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.B2)(SFC, 11/23/01, p.D2)(AP,
9/25/08)
2002 Sep 28, In Washington DC the
World Bank and IMF agreed to speed efforts to develop a new "sovereign
bankruptcy" procedure for countries in debt crises. Thousands
demonstrated, but only 5 arrests were reported.
(SSFC, 9/29/02, p.A1,9)
2002 Sep 28, U.S. jets raided the
Basra civilian airport for the second time inside a week, targeting its
radar systems and the passenger terminals.
(AP, 9/29/02)
2002 Sep 28, Patsy Mink (74),
12-term Hawaii state representative, died in Honolulu.
(WSJ, 9/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 28, In India at least 14
people died when they thousands stampeded to board a train following a
political rally in Lucknow.
(SSFC, 9/29/02, p.A24)
2002 Sep 28, Iraq rejected a
U.S.-British plan for the United Nations to force President Saddam
Hussein to disarm and open his palaces for weapons searches.
(AP, 9/28/03)
2002 Sep 28, Kuwait closed its
last fiscal year with a $1.94 billion surplus, the National Bank of
Kuwait reported.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 28, In South Africa a
commuter bus veered off a road and flipped several times down a
mountain pass, killing 21 people and injuring 52 in the Eastern Cape.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 28, In South Korea
torches from 44 diverse lands converged and rival South and North
Korean teams marched together as Asia kicked off its biggest festival
of sport.
(Reuters, 9/29/02)
2002 Sep 28, Sri Lanka and Tamil
Tiger rebels exchanged prisoners of war as part of the ongoing peace
process, and the rebels claimed they had no more prisoners in custody.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 28, About 50,000 Taiwan
teachers marched through the capital to demand the right to form labor
unions in the island's biggest protest in years.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2002 Sep 28, In Turkey
paramilitary police reported the seizure of 35 pounds of uranium near
the Syrian border and arrested two Turks who they said planned to sell
the weapons-grade substance. The amount was later changed to 3 ounces
and then found to be inert.
(AP, 9/29/02)(SSFC, 9/29/02, p.A12)(AP, 9/30/02)
2002 Sep 28, Zimbabweans in rural
areas voted in elections for local councils, and the main opposition
party said hundreds of its candidates were barred from running for
office.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2003 Sep 28, In Linden, Texas
Billy Ray Johnson (42) was lured to an all-white party where underage
drinkers fed him alcohol and picked on him. In 2007 a jury awarded $9
million to Johnson, a mentally disabled black man who suffered
permanent brain damage after being beaten and dumped in a field by 4
white men.
(AP, 4/22/07)
2003 Sep 28, Althea Gibson (76),
Wimbledon's 1st black tennis champion (1957), died in New Jersey.
(WSJ, 9/29/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 28, Elia Kazan (b.1909),
Anatolian-Greek-born writer, film and stage director, died. His films
included "On the Waterfront" (1954) and "A Streetcar Named Desire"
(1951). In 2005 Richard Schickel authored “Elia Kazan: A Biography.”
(AP, 9/29/03)(SSFC, 12/4/05, p.M6)
2003 Sep 28, In Colombia a
remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle exploded as revelers left a
disco in a Florencia, killing at least 13 people and wounding 48 others.
(AP, 9/29/04)
2003 Sep 28, Cuba's foreign
minister made an impassioned appeal for the lifting of the trade
embargo against his country, saying the blockade has cost the Caribbean
nation $72 billion in the last 42 years.
(AP, 9/28/03)
2003 Sep 28, In Guinea-Bissau
senior army officers, who staged a recent coup, installed
Henrique Rosa as civilian president and Artur Sanha as prime minister
to govern the West African country until elections. Civil servants
hadn't been paid in nearly a year and teachers hadn't been paid in two.
Soldiers were getting bags of rice instead of paychecks.
(AP, 9/29/03)(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Sep 28, A nationwide power
blackout in Italy hit virtually the whole population in the dead of
night. Power was out for as much as 18 hours. Problems began after a
tree branch hit power lines in Switzerland.
(AP, 9/28/03)(WSJ, 10/1/03, p.A1)(AP, 10/1/03)
2003 Sep 28, Israeli and
Palestinian fatalities over the last 3 years totaled some 3,277 with
860 on the Israeli side and 2,417 Palestinian dead. An additional 60
Palestinians were killed by militants for informing to Israel.
(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.A14)
2003 Sep 28, Pope John Paul II
named 31 new cardinals.
(AP, 9/29/03)
2004 Sep 28, The US Treasury
issued a new $50 bill with touches of red, blue and yellow.
(AP, 9/28/04)
2004 Sep 28, IBM Corp. claimed
unofficial bragging rights as owner of the world's fastest
supercomputer. IBM said its still-unfinished BlueGene/L System, named
for its ability to model the folding of human proteins, can sustain
speeds of 360 teraflops. A teraflop is 1 trillion calculations per
second. BlueGene/L reached full capacity in 2005
(AP, 9/29/04)(SFC, 9/29/04, p.C1)(SFC, 8/29/05, p.E1)
2004 Sep 28, A 6.0 earthquake
shook central California, cracking pipes, breaking bottles of wine and
knocking pictures from walls. The quake was centered about seven miles
southeast of Parkfield, a town of 37 people known as California's
earthquake capital.
(AP, 9/28/04)
2004 Sep 28, Geoffrey Beene (77),
the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and
women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died.
(AP, 9/28/04)
2004 Sep 28, The Pentagon notified
Congress of plans to build five bases in Afghanistan for the Afghan
National Army at a cost of up to one billion dollars.
(AP, 9/28/04)
2004 Sep 28, In southern Argentina
a student (15) drew a handgun and opened fire in a classroom, killing 3
classmates and wounding 5 at the Islas Malvinas Middle School No. 2.
(AP, 9/30/04)
2004 Sep 28, In Iraq kidnappers
released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages. A $1
million ransom was alleged. In 2005 it was reported that Italy's Red
Cross treated four Iraqi insurgents and hid them from U.S. forces in
exchange for the freedom of two Italian aid workers kidnapped in
Baghdad.
(AP, 9/28/04)(WSJ, 9/30/04, p.A1)(AP, 8/25/05)
2004 Sep 28, Kenya said it will
push for an international ban on trade in lion trophies and skins,
expressing concern that the African lion is "under threat."
(AP, 9/28/04)
2004 Sep 28, Virgin Group boss
Richard Branson has signed an agreement with Nigerian President
Olusegun Obasanjo to launch a new airline out of the west African
nation that will be majority owned by Nigerian investors.
(AP, 9/28/04)
2004 Sep 28, Saudi Arabia's
highest religious authority issued an edict barring the use of cell
phones with built-in cameras, blaming them for "spreading obscenity."
(AP, 9/30/04)
2005 Sep 28, President George W.
Bush waived some defense export restrictions on Libya to allow U.S.
companies to participate in destroying Tripoli's chemical weapons and
to refurbish eight transport planes.
(Reuters, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, Tom DeLay, a powerful
political ally of President George W. Bush, stepped down as head of the
Republican majority in the House of Representatives after being
indicted in Texas on a campaign finance charge. He was the 1st House
leader to be indicted in more than a century.
(AFP, 9/29/05)(SFC, 9/29/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 28, A newly designed $10
bill was unveiled featuring splashes of orange, yellow and red to go
with the traditional green. The bills will not actually go into
circulation until early next year.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, In NYC a
groundbreaking ceremony unveiled the $3 million memorial design by
Rodney Leon, a Yale-trained architect who has lived in West Africa. As
many as 20,000 slaves and free blacks who helped build New York's
economy from docks to warehouses will be honored with a memorial near
their burial ground. Closed in 1794, the five-acre burial ground was
forgotten as a construction landfill eventually buried it 20 feet
underground. When the cemetery was rediscovered during construction of
a federal office tower in 1991, community pressure prompted the
government to abandon the project.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, It was reported that
General Electric has agreed to pay $100 million for a 7% stake in
China’s Shenzhen Development Bank.
(WSJ, 9/29/05, p.A2)
2005 Sep 28, A high-speed Amtrak
Acela hit a car at a crossing in Waterford, Conn., killing 2 people and
causing major Northeast Corridor delays.
(WSJ, 9/29/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 28, Afghan and US forces
arrested Gafar, a Taliban commander suspected in bomb attacks against
coalition forces, during a raid in the Andar district of Ghazni
province, where he tried to conceal his identity by dressing as a woman.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Sep 28, A suspected suicide
attacker detonated a bomb outside an Afghan military training center in
Kabul, killing nine people and wounding 28.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, Argentina’s Senate
removed Antonio Boggiano from the Supreme Court finding him guilty of
arbitrary, biased and inconsistent rulings. He was last of justices
left from the 1990 Supreme Court additions made under Pres. Menem.
(Econ, 10/8/05, p.46)
2005 Sep 28, In Australia a team
from Holland, known more for its windmills than its sunshine, won a
four-day, 1,860 mile, international solar-powered car race across
deserts, notching up their third straight victory. The "Challenge," to
design and build a car capable of crossing Australia on the power of
daylight, was launched in 1987 and teams and individuals from
corporations and universities throughout the world take part.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 28, Brazilian police
recovered about $4.3 million of the $70 million stolen last month in a
heist from Brazil's Central Bank, making five arrests in one of the
world's biggest bank robberies.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, China announced
color-coded emergency measures to avert or handle an influenza pandemic
amid fears that a deadly strain of bird flu could mutate and infect
millions of people around the world.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, In Colombia a man in
a wheelchair who hijacked an airliner two weeks ago was ordered
released from jail on a court technicality, a decision that sent
officials scrambling to issue a new arrest warrant. Porfirio Ramirez
and his 17-year-old son Linsen armed with hand grenades, seized the
Aires airliner with 24 people aboard on Sept. 12, surrendering five
hours later at a Bogota airport without injuring anyone. A judge
ordered the release saying that prosecutors had presented insufficient
evidence at a hearing to keep holding the man.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 28, Egyptian police in
the Sinai peninsula shot dead two men suspected of organizing bombings
which killed 67 people in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in July.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 28, French police
commandos swooped onto the deck of a ferry seized by striking unionized
sailors in the Mediterranean Sea, recapturing the vessel and steering
it back toward France. Butler Capital Partners, the private investment
firm picked by the government to take over ferry operator SNCM, said
350-400 jobs might be lost in the privatization.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, Germany's outgoing
parliament voted overwhelmingly to keep its troops in Afghanistan for
another year.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, In Haiti Rev. Gerard
Jean-Juste, a jailed Catholic priest who was suspended from his
religious duties for political activities, appealed to church
authorities to reverse a punishment that supporters claim was intended
to halt his growing influence in the Western Hemisphere's poorest
nation.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, A woman strapped with
explosives and disguised as a man blew herself up outside an Iraqi army
recruiting center in the northern town of Tal Afar, killing 7 other
people and wounding at least 35 in the first known attack by a female
suicide bomber in the country's bloody insurgency.
(AP, 9/28/05)(SFC, 9/29/05, p.A12)
2005 Sep 28, In Najaf, Iraq, an
attacker set off an explosion in the home of a bodyguard of radical
Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, killing two people and wounding five
others.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, In Iraq 5 US soldiers
were killed in a roadside bombing in Ramadi.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 28, Widening its five-day
campaign against Palestinian militants, Israel for the first time fired
live artillery shells into the Gaza Strip and shut down 15 West Bank
offices suspected of distributing money to families of suicide bombers.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi said a $5.2 billion project to build flood barriers
to save Venice from its high tides will go forward.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 28, In Indian Kashmir 6
Islamic militants were killed in two shootouts including one near the
border with Pakistan, while suspected rebels killed a civilian. 4
militants were killed in a gunbattle that erupted when police raided a
militant hideout in the northern district of Kupwara near the ceasefire
Line of Control with Pakistan. Two other rebels died in a fierce
gunfight that broke out when soldiers launched a search for militants
in a village in the central district of Budgam.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 28, In Nigeria 2 oil
workers, one Briton and the other from Ireland, were kidnapped in the
southern delta.
(Reuters, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 28, In Pakistan a
security official said agents raided a home near the capital of
Islamabad and arrested Asif Chotto, the reputed head of
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an al-Qaida-linked militant group accused of killing
hundreds of minority Shiites.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, Gazprom, the world's
largest natural-gas producer, signed an agreement to buy a majority
stake in the Sibneft oil company for $13.01 billion from Roman
Abramovitch and associates. The deal will significantly further the
state-controlled company's stature in the oil sector as Russian
President Vladimir Putin moves to recapture government influence in the
lucrative energy industry. Gazprom re-registered Sibneft in St.
Petersburg depriving Chukotka a big chunk of tax revenue.
(AP, 9/28/05)(Econ, 10/1/05, p.57)(WSJ, 1/10/06,
p.A14)
2005 Sep 28, Jan Egeland, UN
humanitarian chief, said escalating violence in the Sudanese region of
Darfur is threatening to halt aid work as increasing numbers of
international staff come under attack.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 28, An unprecedented
attack on a displaced persons' camp in Sudan's embattled Darfur region
reportedly killed 29 people. UN reports said up to 300 armed Arab men
on horses and camels attacked the camp in northwest Darfur and burned
about 80 makeshift shelters.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2006 Sep 28, It was reported that
US federal and state authorities were investigating a mortgage fraud in
Virginia that involved loans totaling about $80 million.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 28, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention warned that travelers to parts of Africa
and Asia are returning with a new mosquito-borne virus. Some people
returning to Europe, the US, Canada, Martinique and French Guyana
reported cases of Chikungunya fever (CHIKV). The virus first emerged in
Tanzania in 1953.
(Reuters 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, It was reported that
Merck saved some $1.5 billion in US taxes by transferring patents and
income to an offshore holding in Bermuda called Project Ryland from
1993-2003. In 2006 the IRS challenged the transactions.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 28, Novartis
Pharmaceuticals Corp., the US unit of Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG, said
that at least three out of four patients given an experimental multiple
sclerosis treatment were free of relapses for more than two years.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, William Whalen (66),
former director of the US National Park Service (1977-1980), died. He
served as the 1st director of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area
(1972-1977). In 1980 he implemented the Alaska Native Lands Claims
Settlement Act, which created 10 national parks in Alaska.
(SFC, 9/30/06, p.B6)
2006 Sep 28, In Bangladesh
thousands of people set fire to power supply offices and attacked
government vehicles Dhaka in protest over electricity shortages.
(Reuters, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Belgian government
officials said the transfer of confidential banking records by a
Belgium-based company to US authorities for use in anti-terrorism
investigations breached Belgian and likely European Union data privacy
rules.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, A leaked UK Ministry
of Defence (MoD) paper said Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI,
indirectly backs terrorism by supporting religious parties in the
country.
(www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=74600)
2006 Sep 28, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country rejected the suspension of
uranium-enrichment activities by Tehran, "even for one day."
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, An explosion on a
natural gas pipeline outside Bazargan, an Iranian border city, shut
down the flow of gas to Turkey. Officials believed the explosion was an
act of sabotage by separatist Kurdish rebels.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 28, Iraq's Central
Criminal Court said it had convicted 22 suspected insurgents of a range
of crimes, including weapons violations and illegally entering the
country. The bodies of 60 people who been tortured were found in and
around Baghdad in a span of 24 hours. 5 people died from a car-bomb
explosion near a restaurant. Attacks left 21 Iraqis dead. Al-Qaida in
Iraq released an audiotape calling for nuclear scientists to join in a
holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners.
(AP, 9/28/06)(SFC, 9/29/06, p.A12)(WSJ, 9/29/06,
p.A1)
2006 Sep 28, It was reported that
the industrial city of Shymkent, Kazakhstan, was reeling after learning
that at least 63 children had contracted AIDS through medical
negligence many blame on corruption and the illicit sale of blood. At
least five infected toddlers had died after receiving injections or
blood transfusions. Parents said regional health officials were aware
of the outbreak in March, and have been trying to cover it up by
pulling pages from the infected toddlers' treatment records to
eliminate any mention of blood transfusions.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Jailed Kurdish rebel
leader Abdullah Ocalan has appealed to his Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK) to call a ceasefire in its separatist campaign against the
Turkish government.
(AFP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Mexico’s
President-elect Felipe Calderon asked Congress to get tougher on
criminals, create a universal health care system and generate jobs so
millions of Mexicans do not have to migrate to the US to find work.
Calderon also called for reducing the gap between rich and poor and
called for a return to life sentences for hardened criminals, including
violent kidnappers.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Nigeria's vice
president Atiku Abubakar was suspended by his party for three months
because of corruption allegations, preventing him from running for
president on the party's ticket.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Typhoon Xangsane
battered the northern and central Philippines with rains and winds,
killing at least 76 people.
(AP, 9/29/06)(AFP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 28, Russia agreed to
grant Cuba credit worth $350 million and restructure some of its recent
debt during a visit by PM Putin. The two countries also signed a
military cooperation agreement.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Singapore banned the
Far Eastern Economic Review magazine after it failed to comply with
media regulations. The Review, published by Dow Jones & Co Inc., is
being sued by Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong and his father,
Singapore's founding PM Lee Kuan Yew, over a July article about
opposition politician Chee Soon Juan.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Somali police
investigating a car bomb assassination attempt on the president
arrested three suspected members of a fundamentalist Islamic group and
recovered explosives.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, South Korea and the
US agreed on a program to reshape their military alliance and give
Seoul a bigger role in countering any North Korean attack. The two
sides signed new terms for the decades-old alliance after talks in
Washington.
(AFP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 28, European cease-fire
monitors said at least 200 civilians have been killed in two months of
fighting between Sri Lankan soldiers and separatist Tamil rebels, and
both sides are to blame.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Thailand's auditor
general, Jaruvan Maintaka, told reporters that Gen. Surayud Chulanont
(62), a highly regarded retired officer, would lead the country until
promised elections next year. The US suspended $24 million in military
aid due to the coup.
(AP, 9/29/06)(WSJ, 9/29/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 28, Thailand’s new
Suvarnabhumi Airport, built on an area known as "Cobra Swamp,"
officially opened its doors, more than four decades after the project
originated.
(AP, 9/27/06)(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Uganda state media
reported that rebels have walked out of peace talks aimed at ending a
19-year conflict in which thousands of civilians have died.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Zambians voted to
decide whether President Levy Mwanawasa would stay in office for a
second term despite a strong challenge from opposition candidates who
lambasted his economic policies. Voters jammed polling stations after a
national election campaign marked by bitter debate about the
president's effort to increase foreign investment and combat poverty
and corruption.
(AP, 9/28/06)(AP, 9/29/06)
2007 Sep 28, The United States
announced it would spend up to $25 million to pay for 50,000 tons of
heavy fuel oil for North Korea as part of an agreement to dismantle the
North’s nuclear program.
(AP, 9/28/08)
2007 Sep 28, The US government
shut down NetBank Inc., an online bank with $2.5 billion in assets, due
to excessive mortgage defaults.
(SFC, 9/29/07, p.C1)
2007 Sep 28, A federal judge
refused to block a new NYC city rule that requires taxi drivers to
install global positioning systems and credit card machines in their
cabs by Oct 1.
(AP, 9/29/07)
2007 Sep 28, It was reported that
the average American has access to over $418,000 in intangible wealth
as opposed to the average Mexican with $34,000. The World Bank compiled
its measures of intangible wealth based on such factors as trust among
people in a society, an efficient judicial system, clear property
rights and effective government.
(WSJ, 9/29/07, p.A9)
2007 Sep 28, Traveler Carol Anne
Gotbaum of New York died in a holding cell at Sky Harbor International
Airport in Phoenix; authorities say Gotbaum accidentally asphyxiated
herself after being chained to a bench.
(AP, 9/28/08)
2007 Sep 28, Charles Griffith
(1930-2007), screenwriter and director, died. He wrote the screenplay
for the 1960 film “Little Shop of Horrors,” which became a cult classic.
(SFC, 10/12/07, p.B11)
2007 Sep 28, The IMF chose
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France’s former Socialist finance minister, as
its new head, continuing the tradition of a European leading the
organization.
(WSJ, 9/29/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 28, In Algiers an
Arab-language daily reported that Hassan Hattab (40), one of the most
hardline guerrilla chiefs opposed to Algeria's government, has
surrendered. Hattab, aka Abou Hamza, founded the Salafist Movement for
Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in 1998. Al Hayat, based in London,
reported that Hattab was "arrested on September 22 by Algerian security
services.
(AP, 9/29/07)
2007 Sep 28, Australia's Anglican
Church said women can be appointed bishops for the first time, drawing
immediate criticism from conservatives.
(AFP, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 28, Britain's biggest
water supplier was handed a fine of more than 12 million pounds for
"inadequate" reporting to the industry regulator and poor customer
service to its eight million customers.
(AFP, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 28, Britain’s deputy
chief veterinarian said bluetongue disease is circulating in Britain
after being reported in a cow at the weekend in southern England.
(AP, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 28, Thousands of
opposition supporters rallied in Georgia's capital, demanding that the
president step down following the arrest of a former defense minister
who accused the leader of involvement in a murder plot.
(AP, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 28, Iraqi PM Nouri
al-Maliki rejected a US Senate proposal calling for the
decentralization of Iraq's government and giving more control to the
country's ethnically divided regions, calling it a "catastrophe." A
military panel acquitted U.S. Army Spc. Jorge G. Sandoval (22) on
charges he killed two unarmed Iraqis, but it convicted him of planting
evidence on one of the men in attempt to cover up the shooting.
(AP, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 28, Japan suspended
poultry imports from Canada after the H7N3 strain of avian influenza
was found on a Saskatchewan chicken farm.
(Reuters, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 28, In Mexico City more
than 30 federal agents arrested Avila Beltran (46), who allegedly spent
more than a decade working her way to the top echelons of Mexico's
male-dominated drug trade.
(AP, 10/4/07)
2007 Sep 28, Hurricane Lorenzo
crashed into Mexico's Gulf coast before dawn, ripping apart shacks,
uprooting trees and sending billboards flying through the air. At least
5 people died.
(AP, 9/28/07)(AP, 9/29/07)
2007 Sep 28, Myanmar soldiers
clubbed and dragged away activists while firing tear gas and warning
shots to break up demonstrations before they could grow, and the
government cut Internet access, raising fears that a deadly crackdown
was set to intensify. The US administration slapped visa bans on more
than 30 members of the Myanmar junta and their families.
(AP, 9/28/07)(AFP, 9/29/07)
2007 Sep 28, Pakistan's Supreme
Court removed the main obstacle to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's
bid for another 5 years in power as it dismissed legal challenges to
his candidacy.
(AP, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 28, Representatives of
Serbia and the Kosovo Albanians opened the first face-to-face talks on
the future of the breakaway Serbian province with international
mediators in NYC.
(Reuters, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 28, Naval attack craft
waged a three-hour sea battle with 20 Tamil Tiger boats off the eastern
coast of Sri Lanka, sinking three of the rebels' vessels and killing
one of their top naval commanders.
(AP, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 28, Turkey and Iraq
signed a counterterrorism pact aimed at cracking down on separatist
Kurdish rebels who have been attacking Turkey from bases in Iraq.
(AP, 9/28/07)
2008 Sep 28, Congressional leaders
and the Bush administration agreed on the main elements of a $700
billion bailout for the financial industry, paving the way for swift
enactment of the largest government intervention in markets since the
Great Depression.
(AP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 28, In San Francisco
hundreds of thousands gathered for the 25th Folsom Street Fair, the
world’s biggest celebration of leather, bondage and sexual fetish.
(SFC, 9/29/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 28, Space Explorations
Technologies (SpaceX) successfully launched its 2-stage Falcon 1 rocket
into orbit with a dummy payload. The South Pacific launch was its 4th
attempt following 3 earlier failures.
(SFC, 9/29/08, p.A5)
2008 Sep 28, In Maryland a medical
helicopter crashed and killed 4 of 5 people on board.
(SFC, 9/29/08, p.A2)
2008 Sep 28, In Afghanistan two
gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed Malalai Kakar (41), a
high-ranking woman police official in Kandahar city. A suicide bomber
killed three police and three civilians in the Spin Boldak district of
Kandahar province. An Afghan police official said a US-led coalition
killed three civilians in an operation apparently targeting a suicide
bomb cell in eastern Afghanistan. That claim was disputed by the
coalition, which said its troops killed two al-Qaida militants. A NATO
soldier and an Afghan policeman were killed in a row that erupted after
a bomb strike. Gunmen opened fire on the head of a provincial council,
near his home in Kandahar city. Mohammad Hashim Granai survived, but 4
of his bodyguards were killed.
(AP, 9/28/08)(AP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 28, In Algeria a
suspected suicide bombing killed three people and wounded six in a
village east of Algiers.
(AP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 28, Austrians voted in
parliamentary elections that analysts say could bolster the standing of
the country's far-right and give the main ruling parties their worst
results in years. The rightist Freedom Party (18%) and the Alliance for
the Future of Austria (11%), capitalized on voter discontent and got a
combined 29%. The voting age had recently been lowered to 16.
(AP, 9/28/08)(AP, 9/29/08)(Econ, 10/4/08, p.16, 56)
2008 Sep 28, Belarussians voted in
parliamentary elections that could determine whether President
Alexander Lukashenko's regime warms to the West or moves deeper into
Russia's orbit. Loyalists of Lukashenko won every seat in the
parliamentary polls that observers said failed Western standards and
had the opposition crying foul.
(AFP, 9/28/08)(AFP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 28, The governments of
Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg took partial control of
struggling bank Fortis NV.
(AP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 28, In England Frank
McGarahan (45), a top Barclays executive, was beaten to death by a
group of youths in Norwich as he tried to stop them attacking a
homeless man.
(AFP, 9/30/08)
2008 Sep 28, Konstantin Pavlov
(b.1933), Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, died. He was among the few
Bulgarian intellectuals who dared to assert their professional
independence during the 1945-89 communist regime. Some of his most
popular volumes of poetry are "Sweet Agony" (1991), "The Murder of the
Sleeping Man" (1992) and "A Long Time Ago..." (1998).
(AP, 9/30/08)
2008 Sep 28, Three Chinese
astronauts made a jubilant return to Earth after successfully
completing the country's first-ever spacewalk, an event the premier
said was "a stride forward" in China's space history.
(AP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 28, Ecuadoreans voted on
a new constitution that would significantly broaden leftist President
Rafael Correa's powers and let him run for two more consecutive terms.
Correa's avowed quest for an "equitable, just" Ecuador won a major
boost as voters approved a new constitution that will help the leftist
president consolidate power and enable him to run for two more
consecutive terms. The new constitution conferred on ecosystems “the
inalienable right to exist, flourish and evolve.”
(AP, 9/28/08)(AP, 9/29/08)(Econ, 10/18/08, p.68)
2008 Sep 28, In Ethiopia 4 people
were killed and 22 injured in an explosion in eastern Somali province.
Police the next day said a suspect had confessed to being a member of
the Al-Ittihad Al-Islamiya operating in the region.
(AFP, 9/28/08)(AFP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 28, In Germany Haile
Gebrselassie of Ethiopia broke the marathon world record for the second
straight year, becoming the first man to run the distance in under two
hours and four minutes. He clocked 2:03.59 in winning his third
straight Berlin Marathon, breaking the mark of 2:04.26 he set last year
over the same flat course.
(AP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 28, In Iraq 3 explosions
in Baghdad killed at least 31 people.
(SFC, 9/29/08, p.A19)
2008 Sep 28, An Israeli official
said the US had installed an advanced American radar system in the
Negev Desert.
(SFC, 9/29/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 28, In Pakistan suspected
militants seized a Polish engineer and killed his Pakistani driver,
guard and assistant in the northwestern city of Attock. A government
official in Bajur said militants attacked security forces in three
places overnight. He said the troops repulsed each attack, killing 11
fighters.
(AP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 28, In Sri Lanka a
suicide attack in Vavuniya killed one civilian and left 8 wounded. A
soldier died form wounds the next day. Troops captured part of a
strategic road in Kilinochchi district after a seven-hour battle that
killed seven rebels and one soldier. Attacks on rebel bunkers and other
scattered fighting killed 11 rebels in the Welioya, Jaffna and Vavuniya
districts. Two other rebels were killed in a brief clash in Ampara in
the east, which the government ousted the rebels from last year.
(AP, 9/28/08)(AP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 28, Sudanese forces
engaged a group of kidnappers in a gunbattle in northwest Sudan who had
been sent out to get gas and food. Six kidnappers were killed in the
fight, and two captured. The two told the authorities where the rest of
the kidnappers and their captives were hiding. The kidnappers were
believed to be armed desert tribesmen. Kidnappers released the
19-member European tour group, abducted on Sep 19, into one car near
the Sudanese-Chadian border. The group drove some 200 miles before
encountering Egyptian special forces and returning safely to Cairo.
(AP, 9/29/08)(AP, 9/30/08)
2008 Sep 28, President Hugo Chavez
said that Russia will help Venezuela develop nuclear energy, a move
likely to raise US concerns over increasingly close cooperation between
Caracas and Moscow.
(AP, 9/29/08)
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