Today in History - September 30
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1199 Sep 30,
Rambam (Maimonides) authorized Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate “Guide of
Perplexed” from Arabic into Hebrew.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1207 Sep 30, Jalal ud-din Rumi
(Jelaluddin Rumi, d.1273), Persian poet and mystic was born in the area
of Balkh, Afghanistan. He later fled the Mongol invasions with his
family to Konya (Iconium), Anatolia. His work “Mathwani” (Spiritual
Couplets) filled 6 volumes and had a great impact on Islamic
civilization. He founded the Mevlevi order of Sufis, later known as the
“whirling dervishes.” In 1998 a film was made about the Sufi poet’s
influence on the 20th century. In 1998 Kabir Helminski edited “The Rumi
Collection” with translation by Robert Bly and others. His work also
included the “Shams I-Tabriz” in which he dismissed the terminology of
Jew, Christian and Muslim as “false distinctions.” The poet Rumi was
also known as Mowlana.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.B5)(SFEC, 9/20/98, DB p.50)(SFEC,
10/25/98, BR p.6)(WSJ, 9/7/01, p.A14)(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.B7)(SSFC,
4/1/07, p.E3)
1399 Sep 30, British Parliament
accepted Richard II's "Cession and Renunciation." [see Sep 29]
(HN, 9/30/98)
1520 Sep 30, Suleiman I succeeded
his father Selim I as sultan of Turkey.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1555 Sep 30, Oxford Bishop
Nicholas Ridley was sentenced to death as a heretic.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1568 Sep 30, Eric XIV, king of
Sweden, was deposed after showing signs of madness. The Swedes declared
Eric XIV unfit to reign and proclaimed John III king.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.21)(HN, 9/30/98)
1572 Sep 30, Francisco Borgia,
Jesuit theologian and saint, died at 61.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1630 Sep 30, John Billington, one
of the original pilgrims who sailed to the New World on the Mayflower,
became the first criminal in the American colonies to be executed for
murder. He was hanged for having shot John Newcomin following a quarrel.
(HN, 9/30/01)(MC, 9/30/01)
1659 Sep 30, Robinson Crusoe was
shipwrecked (according to Defoe). [see Feb 12, 1709]
(MC, 9/30/01)
1659 Sep 30, Peter Stuyvesant of
New Netherlands forbade tennis playing during religious services (1st
mention of tennis in US).
(MC, 9/30/01)
1703 Sep 30, The French, at
Hochstadt in the War of the Spanish Succession, suffered only 1,000
casualties to the 11,000 of their opponents, the Austrians of Holy
Roman Emperor Leopold I.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1715 Sep 30, Etienne B. de
Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism, Cours d'etudes), was born.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1755 Sep 30, Francesco Durante,
composer, died at 71.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1777 Sep 30, The Congress of the
United States, forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces,
moved to York, Pennsylvania.
(AP, 9/30/00)
1791 Sep 30, Mozart's opera "The
Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna, Austria.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1805 Sep 30, Napoleon's army
entered the Rhine valley.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1841 Sep 30, Samuel Slocum
patented the stapler.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1846 Sep 30, Dentist William
Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time on a patient in
Boston, (Charleston) Massachusetts.
(AP, 9/30/97)(HN, 9/30/01)
1852 Sep 30, Charles Villiers
Stanford, Irish organist and composer, was born.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1861 Sep 30, William Wrigley, Jr.,
founder of the Wrigley chewing gum empire and owner of the Chicago Cubs
baseball team, was born.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1863 Sep 30, Reinhard von Scheer,
German admiral who commanded the German fleet at the Battle of Jutland,
was born.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1864 Sep 30, Black Soldiers were
given the Medal of Honor. [see Sep 29-30]
(MC, 9/30/01)
1864 Sep 30, Confederate troops
failed to retake Fort Harrison from the Union forces during the siege
of Petersburg.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1864 Sep 30, Battle of Preble's
Farm Va. (Poplar Springs Church).
(MC, 9/30/01)
1866 Aug 31, In Korea the US trade
ship USS General Sherman ignored demands to turn back on the Taedong
River, took hostages and fired on civilians. A 4-day battle followed in
which all of the crew were killed.
(AH, 10/07,
p.57)(www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/General_Sherman_incident)
1880 Sep 30, Henry Draper took the
1st photograph of the Orion Nebula.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1888 Sep 30, "Jack the Ripper"
butchered 2 more women, Elizabeth Stride (45), aka Long Liz, and Kate
Eddowes (45).
(MC, 9/30/01)
1898 Sep 30, Felix Kersten,
Baltic-German-Finnish masseuse and confidant of Heinrich Himmler, was
born.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1898 Sep 30, The city of NY was
established with five boroughs.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1905 Sep 30, British director
Michael Powell ("The Red Shoes") was born in Bekesbourne, Kent, England.
(AP, 9/30/05)
1908 Sep 30, David Oistrakh,
violinist and professor at the Moscow Conservatory, was born in Odessa,
Russia (Ukraine).
(HN, 9/30/00)(MC, 9/30/01)
1911 Sep 30, Italy declared war on
Turkey over control of Tripoli.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1912 Sep 30, The Columbia School
of Journalism opened in NYC. Joseph Pulitzer bequeathed $2 million to
start the school.
(ON, 4/03, p.2)
1915 Sep 30, Lester Garfield
Maddox, (Gov-D-Ga) restaurant owner and ax handle wielder
segregationist, was born.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1918 Sep 30, Bulgaria pulled out
of World War I.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1924 Sep 30, Truman Capote, author
and playwright whose works include “Breakfast at Tiffany's” and “In
Cold Blood,” was born in New Orleans, La.
(HN, 9/30/98)(MC, 9/30/01)
1924 Sep 30, Allies stopped
checking on the German navy.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1927 Sep 30, W.S. Mervin, Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet, was born.
(HN, 9/30/00)
1927 Sep 30, Babe Ruth hit his
60th homerun of the season off Tom Zachary in Yankee Stadium, New York
City, to break his own major-league record.
(AP, 9/30/97)(HN, 9/30/98)
1928 Sep 30, Elie Wiesel,
Holocaust survivor, writer (Souls on Fire), best known for his first
book “Night” about his own experiences in concentration camps, was born
in Romania. He won the Nobel Prize in 1986.
(HN, 9/30/98)(MC, 9/30/01)
1929 Sep 30, The 1st manned rocket
plane flight was made by auto maker Fritz von Opel at Frankfurt-am-Main
[see May 29, 1928].
(http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/OPEL%20ROCKET%20VEHICLES.htm)
1930 Sep 30, "Death Valley Days"
became one of radio's biggest hits.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1935 Sep 30, Johnny Mathis, singer
famous for “Misty” and “Wonderful Wonderful,” was born.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1935 Sep 30, George Gershwin’s
opera Porgy and Bess opens at the Colonial Theatre in Boston.
(HN, 9/30/00)
1936 Sep 30, Pinewood Studios
opened in Buckinghamshire England.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1938 Sep 30, A day after
co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of
Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain praised the accord on his return home, saying, "I believe
it is peace for our time."
(AP, 9/30/06)
1939 Sep 30, The first college
football game to be televised was shown on experimental station W2XBS
in New York as Fordham University defeated Waynesburg College, 34-7.
(AP, 9/30/98)
1939 Sep 30, The French Army was
called back into France from it's invasion of Germany. The attack, code
named Operation Saar, only penetrated five miles.
(HN, 9/30/99)
1939 Sep 30, Germany and Russia
agreed to partition Poland.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1939 Sep 30, 41 U-boats were sunk
this month.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1940 Sep 30, 47 German aircrafts
were shot down above England.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1941 Sep 30, 3,721 Jews were
buried, some still alive, at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine. [See
Sep 26,29]
(MC, 9/30/01)
1941 Sep 30, 53 U-boats sunk this
month.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1943 Sep 30, The Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps became the Women's Army Corps, a regular contingent of
the U.S. Army with the same status as other army service corps.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1944 Sep 30, Calais was reoccupied
by Allies.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1946 Sep 30, An international
military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders
guilty of war crimes. Ribbentrop and Goering were sentenced to death.
American psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn interviewed many of the
participants and in 2004 the interviews were published as “The
Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist’s Conversations with the
Defendants and Witnesses.”
(AP, 9/30/99)(SSFC, 1/30/05, p.A13)
1949 Sep 30, The Berlin airlift
ended its operation after 277,264 flights. Through accidents 31
Americans lost their lives in support of the airlift. The Berlin
Airlift, which began on June 26, 1948, and lasted 321 days, consisted
of 272,264 flights by British and American airmen. They transported
some 2.3 million tons of food to supply the 2.1 million residents of
the blockaded portion of the city. The operation ended after 278,288
flights and delivery of 2,326,406 tons of supplies.
(EWH, 1968, p.1180)(AP, 9/30/97)(SFC, 5/12/98,
p.A14)(HNQ, 7/9/98)
1950 Sep 30, Radio's "Grand Ole
Opry" was broadcasted on TV for 1st time.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1950 Sep 30, U.N. forces crossed
the 38th parallel separating North and South Korea as they pursued the
retreating North Korean Army.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1952 Sep 30, The motion picture
process Cinerama -- which employed three cameras, three projectors and
a deeply curved viewing screen -- made its debut with the premiere of
"This Is Cinerama" at the Broadway Theater in New York City.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1953 Sep 30, Robert Anderson's
"Tea & Sympathy," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1953 Sep 30, Pres. Eisenhower
named California Gov. Earl Warren (62) as Chief Justice of the US
Supreme Court. Lt. Gov. Goodwin J. Knight succeeded Warren.
(SFC, 9/26/03, p.E8)
1953 Sep 30, Auguste and Jacques
Piccard dove with their bathysphere to a record 3150 m.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1954 Sep 30, "Boy Friend" opened
at the Royale Theater NYC for 483 performances.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1954 Sep 30, The first
atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus, was commissioned by the
Navy in Groton, Connecticut. It was launched Jan 21.
(AP, 9/30/97)(AP, 1/21/98)(HN, 9/30/98)
1954 Sep 30, NATO nations agreed
to arm and admit West Germany.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1955 Sep 30, Actor James Dean,
best known for his role as a restless teen in Rebel Without a Cause,
died in a high-speed two-car collision at the corner of Highways 46 and
41 in Cholame, near Paso Robles, Ca. In 1950, he had made his acting
debut in a Pepsi commercial, for which he was paid $30. Dean gained
fame after a lead role on Broadway in 1952 and appearances on
television and in movies. His first major film role was in East of Eden
in 1954. Just days after filming Giant the next year, Dean was driving
his silver Porsche, called "Little Bastard," to a race in Salinas with
his mechanic when he collided head-on with another car. He was 24 years
old.
(SFC,1/22/97, p.E1)(AP, 9/30/97)(HNPD, 9/30/98)(HN,
9/30/98)
1956 Sep 30, In Algiers a blast at
the Milk Bar cafe together with another device set off nearby, killed
three people and wounded 60, including children. Several people lost
limbs sliced off by flying glass. Zohra Drif (20) set one device as a
reprisal for a big French bombing that killed dozens in the Casbah
weeks earlier. Captured soon afterwards, she was sentenced to death and
spent five years in French prisons.
(Reuters, 9/28/06)
1956 Sep 30, An Israeli delegation
presented France with a fabricated reason for war in Egypt. The details
were agreed on at a secret meeting in Sevres. Israel proposed to invade
Egypt and then let France and Britain come in as peacekeepers and
occupy the Suez Canal.
(Econ, 7/29/06, p.24)
1958 Sep 30, The police drama
"Naked City" debuted on ABC-TV.
(AP, 9/30/08)
1960 Sep 30, Flintstones
premiered. It was the 1st prime time animation show.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1960 Sep 30, The last “Howdy Doody
Show” (b.1947) with Buffalo Bob Smith was broadcast. Clarabelle finally
talked and said "Goodbye Kids."
(SFC, 9/9/96, p.A18)(MC, 9/30/01)
1960 Sep 30, Mensa, the high IQ
society founded in the UK in 1946, held its 1st meeting in the US at
the Brooklyn home of Peter and Ines Sturgeon with 5 other pioneer
members.
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.E10)
1960 Sep 30, Fifteen African
nations were admitted to the United Nations.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1961 Sep 30, A bill for the 1773
Boston Tea Party was paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon. He wrote a check
for $196, the total cost of all tea lost.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1962 Sep 30, Black student James
Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the
University of Mississippi. He became the first black to enroll at Old
Miss Univ. and 13,500 Federal troops were required to back him up. U.S.
Marshals escorted James H. Meredith into the University of Mississippi;
two died in the mob violence that followed. Meredith was also noted for
starting the "March Against Fear" to encourage voter registration by
Southern African Americans. While on the march he was hit with a
snipers bullet. Other Civil Rights leaders including MLK continued the
march. Meredith was able to complete the march in Jackson, Mississippi.
(TMC, 1994, p.1962)(AP, 9/30/97)(HN, 9/30/98)
1964 Sep 30, Ingrid Thais,
historical and genealogical researcher, was born in New York.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1965 Sep 30, President Lyndon
Johnson signed legislation that established the National Foundation for
the Arts and the Humanities.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1965 Sep 30, In Indonesia
procommunist military officers, calling themselves the September 30
Movement (Gestapu), attempted to seize power.
(http://countrystudies.us/indonesia/21.htm)
1966 Sep 30, The Republic of
Botswana, a Texas sized country, declared its independence from Britain.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 9/30/06)
1966 Sep 30, Nazi war criminals
Albert Speer, the German minister of armaments, and Baldur von
Schirach, the founder of the Hitler Youth, were freed at midnight from
Spandau prison after serving twenty-year prison sentences. In 2002
Joachim Fest authored the biography: "Speer: The final Verdict."
(www.weymouthhistoricalsociety.org/September.htm)(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.M3)
1968 Sep 30, The 1st Boeing 747
was rolled out of the Everett, Wa., assembly building.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747)
1969 Sep 30, In North Carolina a
tax on soft drinks went into effect. A soft drink excise tax is hereby
levied and imposed on and after midnight, September 30, 1969, upon the
sale, use, handling and distribution of all soft drinks, soft drink
syrups and powders, base products and other items referred to in this
section. An excise tax of one cent (1¢) is levied on each bottled
soft drink.
(http://tinyurl.com/kp2saa)
1969 Sep 30, Nazi war criminals
Albert Speer, the German minister of armaments, and Baldur von
Schirach, the founder of the Hitler Youth, were freed at midnight from
Spandau prison after serving twenty-year prison sentences. In 2002
Joachim Fest authored the biography: "Speer: The final Verdict."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer)(SSFC,
10/6/02, p.M3)
1971 Sep 30, The Washington
Senators baseball team played their last game before leaving DC for
Texas.
(WSJ, 4/7/99,
p.B1)(www.sportsecyclopedia.com/al/wastex/senators61.html)
1974 Sep 30, Argentina passed the
economic-subversion law that provided prosecutors with a legal umbrella
to pursue anyone suspected of undermining public disorder. It was
repealed in 2002 under IMF pressure.
(WSJ, 5/31/02,
p.A7)(www.glin.gov/view.action?glinID=93488)
1974 Sep 30, Gen. Carlo Prats, a
former Chilean army chief, was killed with his wife by a car bomb in
Buenos Aires. In 2000 an Argentine judge called for the extradition of
Augusto Pinochet for the slaying. In 2000 Enrique Arancibia Clavel was
sentenced in Argentina to life in prison for his role in the murder.
(SFC, 10/28/00, p.A14)(SFC, 11/22/00, p.C6)
1974 Sep 30, In Portugal Marshal
de Spinola (1910-1996) resigned as head of state in protest against
rushed attempts to dismantle the colonial empire.
(SFC, 8/15/96,
p.C4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Sp%C3%ADnola)
1975 Sep 30, In Rome Donatella
Colasanti (17) was found bloodied and battered, but alive in the boot
of a car. Beside her was the dead body of her friend Rosaria Lopez
(20). Both had undergone hours of torture before Lopez was finally
drowned in a bath. Colasanti had escaped the same fate only by playing
dead. Andrea Ghira was found guilty in the "Circeo Massacre," named for
the town near Rome where two girls were held captive for 36 hours and
then left wrapped in plastic in a car trunk, where one girl died. He
was convicted in absentia for the slaying. In 2005 his body was found
in a cemetery in a Spanish enclave in Morocco, where he was buried in
1994.
(AP,
10/29/05)(http://rome.wantedineurope.com/articles/complete_articles.php?id_art=559)
1976 Sep 30, The US House of
Representatives passed the Hyde Amendment 207-167, with no exceptions
for health or life endangerment, even though a similar but weaker
measure had been voted down two years earlier. Henry Hyde (1924-2007),
freshman Congressman from Illinois, had sponsored the amendment to cut
federal funding for abortions by women on Medicaid.
(Econ, 4/23/05, p.32)(SFC, 11/30/07,
p.A6)(www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue42/Fried42.htm)
1978 Sep 30, Huey Newton
(1942-1989) was convicted in Oakland, Ca., on weapons charges and
launched into a 40 minute harangue calling SF Superior Court Judge
Joseph Koresh (1909-1996) "a renegade Jew."
(SFC, 6/21/96,
p.E2)(www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificapanthers.html)
1978 Sep 30, Edgar Bergen
(b.1903), American actor and ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), died in
Las Vegas. He was born as Edgar John Bergren in Chicago, Illinois, to a
Swedish family and grew up in Decatur, Michigan.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bergen)
1982 Sep 30, The situation comedy
"Cheers" premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 9/30/07)
1982 Sep 30, The London
International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) opened for
trading. It provided a range of products designed to help manage equity
investment risk. In 2002 Euronext, a Paris-based exchange, took over
LIFFE.
(www.futuresindustry.org/fi-magazine-home.asp?a=607)
1985 Sep 30, Maxxam Corp. made a
tender offer for Pacific Lumber at $36 a share. The same day it
demanded and received a 50% cut in fees due to Drexel Burnham Lambert.
During the summer the Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert and
Maxxam Corp. had hired a timber consultant to fly over the holdings of
Pacific Lumber and estimate their worth. Charles Hurwitz announced his
intention to acquire Pacific Lumber and had Michael Milken of Drexel
arrange junk bond financing. Control of Pacific Lumber passed to
Hurwitz of Texas-based Maxxam by the end of the year. The bonds were
sold to United Savings Association, a Texas S&L whose parent
corporation was owned by Charles Hurwitz. The thrift failed in 1988 and
taxpayers were stuck with a $1.6 billion bailout.
(SFC, 9/4/96,
p.A4-5)(www.mcn.org/e/iii/politics/hurwitzm.htm)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter)(SSFC, 1/21/07,
p.M3)
1985 Sep 30, Charles Richter
(b.1900), American seismologist, died. He developed the Richter Scale
for measuring the amplitude of earthquakes. In 2007 Susan Elizabeth
Hough authored “Richter’s Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a
Man.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter)(SSFC, 1/21/07,
p.M3)
1985 Sep 30, Simone Signoret,
German-French actress (Room at Top, Gina), died at 64.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0797531/)
1986 Sep 30, The US released
accused Soviet spy Gennady Zakharov, one day after the Soviets released
Nicholas Daniloff.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1986 Sep 30, Israeli Mossad agents
snatched Mordechai Vanunu in Rome. The Israeli nuclear technician had
recently divulged Israel's nuclear secrets to the London Sunday Times.
(SFC, 4/22/04, p.A3)
1987 Sep 30, Two top campaign
aides to Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis resigned after one of
them, campaign manager John Sasso, admitted leaking an attack videotape
that helped bring down the presidential candidacy of Delaware Sen.
Joseph Biden. Sasso returned to the campaign a year later.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1988 Sep 30, Pictures of the solar
corona first appeared on the cover of Science Magazine. Prof. Arthur
Walker (d.2000 at 64) of Stanford Univ., used X-ray and thin-film
telescopes to capture the pictures.
(SSFC, 5/6/01, p.A27)
1988 Sep 30, Joachim Prinz
(b.1902), author and Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), died in New Jersey.
(www.joachimprinz.com/biography.htm)
1988 Sep 30, Mikhail S. Gorbachev
retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other
old-guard leaders in a Kremlin shake-up.
(AP, 9/30/99)
1989 Sep 30, Virgil Thomson
(b.1896), US composer and critic, died at age 92. His work
included “4 Saints in 3 Acts” (1934) and "The Mother of Us All,"
products of the collaboration between the closeted gay composer and the
extroverted lesbian poet, Gertrude Stein. In 1997 Anthony Tommasini
wrote "Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle."
(www.glbtq.com/arts/thomson_v.html)(SFEC,10/19/97,
Par p.18)
1989 Sep 30, Thousands of East
Germans who had sought refuge in West German embassies in
Czechoslovakia and Poland began emigrating under an accord between
Soviet bloc and NATO nations.
(AP, 9/30/99)
1990 Sep 30, President Bush and
congressional leaders forged a $500 billion five-year compromise
package of tax increases and spending cuts.
(AP, 9/30/00)
1990 Sep 30, Serbs in Croatia
proclaimed autonomy.
(http://tinyurl.com/q8lrk)
1991 Sep 30, In Haiti the military
under Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the
country's first freely elected president. He was later returned to
power. The Prime Minister, Rene Preval, managed to escape to the French
embassy hidden in the trunk of a car.
(WSJ, 12/14/95, p.A-10)(AP, 9/30/01)(ST, 3/2/04,
p.A1)
1992 Sep 30, George Brett of the
Kansas City Royals reached 3,000 career hits during a game against the
California Angels.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1992 Sep 30, The Bush and Clinton
campaigns opened negotiations for a series of presidential debates.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1992 Sep 30, Ling-Ling, the giant
panda from China, died at the Washington National Zoo.
(SFC, 4/16/97, p.C14)(HN, 4/16/98)
1993 Sep 30, US Treasury
Department issued a report sharply criticizing top officials at the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for their handling of the
February raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
(www.carolmoore.net/waco/waco-treasury-report1.html)
1993 Sep 30, Gen Colin Powell (56)
stepped down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a retirement
ceremony at Fort Myer, Va.
(AP, 9/30/98)(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.A14)
1993 Sep 30, MS Dos 6.2 was
released.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1993 Sep 30, An estimated 10,000
(28,000) people were killed when an earthquake measuring a magnitude of
6.0-6.4 struck Latur in southern India. Its epicenter was about 350
miles southwest of Jabalpur.
(SFC, 5/22/97, p.C4)(AP, 9/30/98)(SFC, 3/30/99,
p.F2)(AP, 6/22/02)
1994 Sep 30, The space shuttle
Endeavour and its six astronauts roared into orbit on an 11-day
mission.
(AP, 9/30/99)
1994 Sep 30, Roberto Viola
(b.1924), Argentine general and president (1981), died. In 1983 he was
arrested and sentenced to 17 years in prison for human rights
violations committed by the military junta during the Dirty War.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Viola)
1995 Sep 30, US envoy Richard
Holbrooke, trying to negotiate a Bosnian cease-fire, ended inconclusive
talks with the Sarajevo government and headed for Belgrade to try his
luck with the Serbs.
(AP, 9/30/00)
1996 Sep 30, With just hours to
spare before the start of the fiscal year, the Senate passed and
President Clinton signed a $389 billion spending bill.
(AP, 9/30/97)
1996 Sep 30, In South Korea
another infiltrator was killed. That brought the total to 22 agents
killed since the grounding of the N. Korean submarine.
(SFC, 10/1/96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 30, In India the capital
city of Tamil Nadu changed its name from Madras to Chennai.
(SFC, 10/1/96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 30, In Sri Lanka
government troops seized a guerrilla stronghold and climaxed an 8-day
battle that left 900 dead.
(WSJ, 9/30/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 30, In Vanuatu the
parliament passed a vote of no confidence in prime Minister Maxime
Carlot.
(SFC, 10/1/96, p.A14)
1997 Sep 30, The Rolling Stones
album “Bridges to Babylon” was scheduled for release.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, DB p.35)
1997 Sep 30, Hooters agreed to pay
$2 million in discrimination suits.
(http://www.spcnetwork.com/mii/1997/971004.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/7n8v9)
1997 Sep 30, In Waterbury, Conn.,
Todd Joseph Rizzo (18), recently discharged from the Marines,
bludgeoned to death Stanley Edwards IV (13) to see what it felt like to
kill. In 1999, a jury sentenced him to die. In 2003, the state Supreme
Court overturned that sentence because Judge William Holden had not
properly instructed the jury.
(SFC, 10/3/97,
p.A6)(www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1407662/posts)
1997 Sep 30, In Louisiana the
Flamingo riverboat casino closed. It was the last riverboat casino in
downtown New Orleans and the 4th to open and close in the last 4 years.
One floating casino was left on Lake Pontchartrain.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A4)
1997 Sep 30, In an unprecedented
act of repentance, France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its
silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by
the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
(AP, 9/30/98)
1997 Sep 30, In Serbia Zoran
Djindjic, mayor of Belgrade, was ousted in a coup by nationalist
extremists and some former allies. The city assembly voted to oust
Djindjic and the TV editors. Some 20,000 demonstrators protested in
downtown Belgrade. Senior editors of Studio B television, the only
opposition to Milosevic’s state television, were also ousted.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A10)(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 30, On St. Kitts island
Leyoca Browne (20) and her mother, Violet (36), were murdered by Bertil
Fox, a former Mr. Universe bodybuilder. He was found guilty and
sentenced to death on 5/23/98.
(SFC, 5/26/98, p.A8)
1997 Sep 30, In Thailand the
cabinet officially scrapped the $3.2 billion rail and road system under
construction by Hopewell Holdings. The Bangkok Elevated Rail and
Transport System known as Berts was one fifth built and several years
behind schedule.
(WSJ, 10/1/97, p.A18)
1998 Sep 30, Both President
Clinton and Republicans claimed credit for news that the government
would have a surplus of about $70 billion in the current fiscal year
following 3 decades of deficits.
(SFC, 10/1/98, p.A1)(AP, 9/30/99)
1998 Sep 30, The General
Accounting Office reported that Kenneth Starr and Robert Fiske had
spent more than $40 million to investigate President Clinton's
Whitewater land deals in Arkansas and later the Monica Lewinsky affair.
(AP, 9/30/99)
1998 Sep 30, In California Gov.
Wilson signed legislation to require the use of safety needles to
protect health care workers from accidental needle sticks.
(SFC, 10/1/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 30, Government
researchers said there was a likelihood that low-frequency electric and
magnetic fields may be linked to childhood leukemia.
(SFC, 10/1/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 30, Obesity researchers
found a human gene mutation that appears to signal the body to make and
fill more fat cells.
(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 30, Gerhard Schroeder
visited with Socialist leaders in France and endorsed controls on
capital flows.
(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 30, In Israel the army
sent reinforcements to Hebron after an assailant threw grenades at
troops guarding a central square. 13 soldiers and 11 Palestinians were
wounded.
(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 30, In Peru some 5,000
workers marched in Lima to protest a congressional vote that quashed
calls for a referendum over whether Pres. Fujimori could run for
re-election. 300 workers stormed the parade ground of the presidential
palace.
(SFC, 10/1/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 30, In Portugal the end
of Expo ‘98 in Lisbon.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.T6)
1999 Sep 30, The SF Giants played
their last game at Candlestick/3Com Park before a crowd of 61,389 fans.
The Los Angeles Dodgers won, 9-to-4.
(SFC, 10/1/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/30/00)
1999 Sep 30, Gunter Grass, German
novelist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature and cited his 1959 novel
"Tin Drum" for restoring honor to German literature.
(SFC, 10/1/99, p.A2)
1999 Sep 30, Defense Secretary
William Cohen ordered a top-level investigation of accounts of mass
killings of Korean civilians by US soldiers at No Gun Ri in 1950.
(AP, 9/30/00)
1999 Sep 30, Donald Trump proposed
himself as president in a WSJ editorial. A week later he appointed an
exploratory committee to help him decide to run as a nominee of the
Reform Party.
(WSJ, 9/30/99, p.A26)(SFC, 10/8/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 30, The Buck Institute in
Marin County, Ca., officially opened its doors, the first research
facility in the country to respond to the Institute of Medicine’s call
for research centers focused on aging and age-related diseases.
(www.buckinstitute.org/site/)
1999 Sep 30, It was reported that
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy (53), a Hungarian-American and president of the
largest aircraft leasing company, planned to donate $60 million to the
National Air & Space Museum.
(SFC, 9/30/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 30, Ecuador defaulted on
a $44.5 million Brady bond interest payment. Debt restructuring plans
were underway.
(WSJ, 10/1/99, p.A13)
1999 Sep 30, In Japan 3 workers
were hospitalized with radiation poisoning following an accidental
20-hour nuclear reaction at the JCO Co. nuclear processing plant in
Tokaimura, 80 miles northeast of Tokyo. Area residents were told they
could resume normal activity the next day. Production pressure was
later cited as the cause of the accident. Sumitomo Metal Mining Co.,
the owner of JCO, promised to pay damages to victims of the accident.
The number of people exposed was later raised to 69. Hisashi Ouchi
(30), one of the 3 workers, died from radiation exposure on Dec 21.
Masato Shinohara (40) died Apr 27, 2000.
(SFC, 10/1/99, p.A1)(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A1)(SFC,
10/4/99, p.A12)(SFC, 10/6/99, p.C16)(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A14)(SFC,
12/4/99, p.C1)(SFC, 12/22/99, p.C11)(SFC, 4/28/00, p.D6)
1999 Sep 30, In Kenya Catholic
bishops issued a pastoral letter that warned of civil arrest due to
corruption, poverty and other problems. Pres. Moi was blamed for
stalling constitutional reform.
(SFC, 10/1/99, p.D4)
1999 Sep 30, In Mexico a 7.5 slab
earthquake was centered in Oaxaca state and killed 12 people. The death
toll rose to 20 and 3,850 buildings were reported damaged.
(SFC, 10/1/99, p.A14)(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A12)(SFC,
1/18/01, p.A15)
1999 Sep 30, It was reported that
official graft in Russia cost the state as much as $20 billion a year.
(WSJ, 9/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 30, Russian troops began
a ground offensive into Chechnya aimed at creating a buffer zone to
block the infiltration of Chechen guerrillas.
(SFC, 10/1/99, p.D5)
1999 Sep 30, In Serbia police
clashed with some 40,000 protestors for a 2nd night in Belgrade.
(SFC, 10/1/99, p.D4)
1999 Sep 30, A spot currency
trader in Germany for Electrolux of Sweden amassed losses that totaled
some $28.3 million by this date.
(WSJ, 1/4/00, p.A17)
2000 Sep 30, In Sydney, Australia,
Marion Jones won Olympic gold in the U.S. women's 1,600-meter relay and
bronze with the 400-meter squad, making her the only woman to win five
track medals at one Olympics. In 2007 the IOC stripped Jones of her 5
medals due to use of steroids.
(AP, 9/30/01)(WSJ, 12/13/07, p.A1)
2000 Sep 30, The US and EU reached
an agreement in Brussels to avert a trade war over a US tax-break for
exporters.
(SFEC, 10/1/00, p.A13)
2000 Sep 30, A Catholic priest
crashed his car into a building housing an abortion clinic in Rockford,
Ill., and attacked it with an ax. The Rev. John Earl later pleaded
guilty to damaging property, and was sentenced to 30 months' probation
and two days in county jail.
(AP, 9/30/01)
2000 Sep 30, Jacquelyn Reinach,
writer, died at age 70. Her books included the “Sweet Pickles” series
of children’s stories. She also authored the women’s song “Liberation
Now.”
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.D5)
2000 Sep 30, In Northern Ireland
the last 4 inmates left the Maze prison as part of the Good Friday
Peace agreement. The prison was scheduled for shutdown.
(SFEC, 10/1/00, p.D14)
2000 Sep 30, Palestinians clashed
with Israeli forces across the West Bank and Gaza for a 3rd day and 12
Palestinians were killed with over 500 injured. Mohammed Jamal Aldura
(12) was among the dead and French TV showed him clinging to his father
as they were caught in gunfire. The Israeli Army later said that
Palestinian gunfire may have killed the boy.
(SFEC, 10/1/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A12)(SFC,
11/28/00, p.A16)
2001 Sep 30, Pres. Bush authorized
$100 million in new relief aid to Afghan refugees.
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 30, George Gately (72),
the creator of the "Heathcliff" newspaper comic strip, died in
Ridgewood, N.J.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2001 Sep 30, Dr. John Cunningham
Lilly, dolphin and counter culture researcher, died at age 86. His
books included “Man and Dolphin” and “The Mind of the Dolphin.”
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 30, Leaders of the
Taliban said they had Osama bin Laden “under our control,” but would
release him to the US only if shown proof that he plotted the Sep 11
attacks. Pres. Bush said he would not negotiate.
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 30, Afghanistan’s
Northern Alliance leader Younis Qanooni said he was optimistic about
meeting with King Zahir Shah (86).
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 30, Pashtun chiefs from
both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border met in Quetta to discuss the
crisis brought on by the Sep 11 attacks on the US. The groups included
the Kuchi, Zadran, Ghilzai and Buzdar and were crucial in the Taliban’s
rise to power.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 30, In Chechnya militants
staged raids on army, police and administrative buildings over the
weekend. In Kurchaloi 2 policemen were killed and 14 wounded.
(WSJ, 10/1/01, p.A21)
2001 Sep 30, Israeli troops killed
3 Palestinians in the West Bank. The Palestinian death toll reached 18
since the cease-fire pledge last week.
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A8)
2002 Sep 30, Sen. Robert
Torricelli, D-N.J., withdrew from his race for re-election over
allegations of accepting expensive gifts. NJ law barred parties from
replacing candidates less than 51 days before elections. Gov. James E.
McGreevey announced on Oct 1 that former Sen. Frank Lautenberg (78)
would replace Torricelli. The state Supreme Court ok'd the replacement
Oct 2.
(SFC, 10/1/02, p.A3)(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A7)(SFC,
10/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 30, The DJIA fell 109 to
7591.90. The Nasdaq fell 27.1 to 1,172.
(SFC, 10/1/02, p.B1)
2002 Sep 30, The National
Intelligence Council said China, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and Russia
will have 50-75 million HIV-infected people by 2010, more than any
other 5 countries.
(SFC, 10/1/02, p.A5)
2002 Sep 30, It was reported that
asparagine, a naturally occurring amino acid, formed acrylamide, a
suspected carcinogen, when heated with certain sugars. This reaction
was believed to occur in the making of fried foods such as potato chips
and french fries.
(SFC, 9/30/02, p.A3)
2003 Sep 30, The FBI began a
full-scale criminal investigation into whether White House officials
had illegally leaked the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie
Plame.
(AP, 9/30/08)
2003 Sep 30, Ford planned to cut
some 12,000 jobs world-wide. Chrysler planned to eliminate several
thousand positions.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R12)
2003 Sep 30, Eighteen
accused al-Qaida sympathizers were convicted in Belgium's biggest
terrorism trial. Nizar Trabelsi of Tunisia, who once played
professional soccer in Germany, received the maximum sentence of 10
years in prison from a court that also convicted 17 other men and
acquitted five others.
(AP, 9/30/03)(AP, 9/30/08)
2003 Sep 30, In Colombia assassins
riding a motorbike killed Jose Castillo, a candidate for mayor in
Soledad, marking the 15th candidate killed as elections approach.
(AP, 9/30/03)
2003 Sep 30, Mauritius PM Anerood
Jugnauth resigned and was replaced by his deputy, Paul Berenger.
Jugnauth took up the ceremonial roll of president a few days later.
(Econ, 9/27/03, p.46)
2003 Sep 30, Nigeria lifted its
fuel price cap on petrol, diesel and kerosene throwing the market open
to competition and chaos ensued.
(Econ, 10/18/03, p.46)
2003 Sep 30, Norway's national
film board lifted a ban on hundreds of films that were deemed too
sexually explicit or violent, including 1994's "On Deadly Ground"
starring Steven Seagal and the 1990 gangster epic "Miller's Crossing."
(AP, 10/1/03)
2003 Sep 30, A Serbian police
officer went on a shooting spree, killing four of his colleagues and
seriously wounding three others.
(AP, 9/30/03)
2004 Sep 30, President Bush and
Sen. John Kerry held their 1st debate. Neither candidate made the kind
of gaffe that will cost him the election, but Kerry fared slightly
better. Kerry charged Americans had been left with "this incredible
mess in Iraq" and Bush said U.S. troops look at the Democratic
challenger and wonder, "How can I follow this guy?"
(AP, 10/1/04)(AP, 9/30/05)
2004 Sep 30, The US House followed
the Senate in decisively rejecting a constitutional amendment banning
gay marriage.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2004 Sep 30, US fiscal year 2004
ended. The CBO soon estimated a budget deficit for the year of about
$415 billion.
(WSJ, 10/7/04, p.A9)
2004 Sep 30, Officials at US 115
int’l. airports and 14 seaports began photographing and electronically
fingerprinting travelers from 27 industrialized nations.
(SFC, 10/1/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 30, The 14th annual Ig
Nobel prizes were handed out at Harvard. Winners included the late
Frank Smith and his son Donald for their 1977 combover patent; Steven
Stack of Wayne State University and James Gundlach of Auburn University
won for their 1992 report on "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide."
(AP, 10/1/04)
2004 Sep 30, Merck & Co. said
the arthritis drug Vioxx, used by 2 million people around the world,
was being pulled off the market after a study confirmed longstanding
concerns that it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. Global
Vioxx sales in 2003 had reached $2.5 billion. In 2007 Merck agreed to a
$4.85 million settlement.
(AP, 9/30/04)(WSJ, 10/1/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/10/07,
p.A1)
2004 Sep 30, Taliban guerrillas
killed at least 12 Afghan soldiers in the southern province of Zabul.
(WSJ, 10/1/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 30, Bulgaria adopted
changes to its criminal justice system to meet EU demands for joining
the group in 2007.
(WSJ, 10/4/04, p.A15)
2004 Sep 30, In Haiti at least 3
people were killed as Port-au-Prince police battled Aristide backers.
Lack of security kept hurricane aid locked in warehouses.
(WSJ, 10/1/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 30, Three bombs exploded
at a neighborhood celebration in western Baghdad, killing 35 children
and seven adults as US troops handed out candy at a
government-sponsored celebration. Hours earlier, a suicide car bomb
killed a U.S. soldier and two Iraqis on the capital's outskirts. Across
Iraq insurgent attacks left 51 dead.
(WSJ, 10/1/04, p.A1)(AP, 9/30/05)
2004 Sep 30, The Arab news network
Al-Jazeera showed video of 10 new hostages seized in Iraq by militants.
(AP, 9/30/04)
2004 Sep 30, Israeli troops pushed
deep into the largest Palestinian refugee camp after a Palestinian
rocket killed two preschoolers in an Israeli border town. 28
Palestinians and three Israelis, including a woman jogging in a Jewish
settlement and two soldiers, were killed in the fighting in the
northern Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/30/04)(WSJ, 10/1/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 30, In Japan the death
toll from tropical storm Meari rose to 19 after searchers found more
victims.
(AP, 9/30/04)
2004 Sep 30, Two gunmen in
Srinagar shot dead a member of the moderate faction of Kashmir's main
separatist alliance.
(AP, 9/30/04)
2004 Sep 30, Russia's Cabinet
approved the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
(AP, 9/30/04)
2004 Sep 30, Sudan's foreign
minister pledged to allow more African troops and police to help end
the conflict in Darfur, responding to international demands for action
to protect civilians.
(AP, 10/1/04)
2004 Sep 30, A United Nations body
argued that Africa's debt must be completely written off if the
continent is to have a chance of meeting international goals on
reducing poverty.
(AP, 9/30/04)
2005 Sep 30, The US federal
deficit for the fiscal year ending on this day stood at $319 billion,
down from $413 billion in 2004.
(SFC, 10/15/05, p.A7)
2005 Sep 30, The FAA gave Chicago
the go-ahead for a $15 billion expansion of O’Hare Airport. The project
required razing nearly 500 homes, a cemetery the relocating of nearly
200 businesses in the suburbs of Bensenville, Des Plaines and Elk Grove
Village.
(SFC, 10/1/05, p.A10)
2005 Sep 30, Out of jail after 85
days, New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified before a grand
jury investigating the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2005 Sep 30, In Georgia 6 men were
killed in a string of robberies targeting Hispanic immigrants at
trailer parks in and around Tifton. Four suspects were arrested and
charged with murder and other offenses.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2005 Sep 30, New Orleans Mayor Ray
Nagin invited residents of some of the city's most popular
neighborhoods to return at their own risk beginning today, a move that
could bring back about one-third of the city's half-million inhabitants.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 30, Google submitted a
competitive bid to provide SF free wireless Internet access using Wi-Fi
technology.
(SFC, 10/1/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 30, Eugene Beals (86),
inventor of the turkey pop-up timer, died on Thetis Island in BC,
Canada. He led a team that developed a prototype in the late 1960s
under the name Dun-Rite Co., which was sold to 3M in 1973. 3M later
sold it to Volk Enterprises of Georgia.
(SSFC, 10/9/05, p.A32)
2005 Sep 30, Official referendum
results showed Algerians overwhelmingly approved a peace plan that
provides a broad amnesty for Islamic extremists, but which critics
denounced as a whitewash of crimes committed during a bloody internal
war. The Charter on Peace and National Reconciliation granted a broad
amnesty to militants and offered some financial compensation to
families of at least 6,000 “disappeared.”
(AP, 9/30/05)(Econ, 10/8/05, p.56)
2005 Sep 30, Olga de Alaketu (80),
the high priestess of one the oldest temples of the Afro-Brazilian
religion Condomble, was buried. She had died of complications from
diabetes. Alaketu presided over the Ile Maroia Laji "terreiro," as
Candomble temples are known, which was established in 1636, making it
one of the oldest in the coastal city of Salvador da Bahia, where the
religion is based.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Sep 30, The Shanghai Daily
reported that Home Depot had received approval to invest $15.5 million
in stores in China.
(SFC, 10/1/05, p.C1)
2005 Sep 30, Thousands of foreign
militiamen in Congo appeared to ignore this day’s deadline to leave
this central African country or be evicted by force.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 30, The Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Death
threats against the artists soon followed with protest strikes in
Kashmir, condemnation from Muslim leaders worldwide and even criticism
from the UN. The paper refused to apologize for publishing the
drawings, citing freedom of speech, a right cherished in this northern
European country of 5.4 million, that also refused to prosecute an
artist who depicted a crucified Jesus Christ with an erection. Kurt
Westergaard created one of the cartoons, which featured the Prophet
Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. In 2008 Westergaard offered to sell
the cartoon.
(AP, 12/9/05)(WSJ, 2/29/08, p.A1)
2005 Sep 30, The EU insisted that
governments and the private sector must share the responsibility of
overseeing the Internet, setting the stage for a showdown with the
United States on the future of Internet governance.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 30, In Meghalaya state,
northeastern India, police opened fire on stone-throwing students in
two towns, killing 12 of them protesting a government decision to shift
a state education board to an area dominated by a different tribe.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 30, In India at least 14
people died after drinking illegal home-brewed liquor sold at
unauthorized shops in the remote northeast. The death toll was likely
to rise because 61 others were hospitalized after drinking the noxious
brew in Tezpur, a town 110 miles north of Gauhati, the capital of Assam
state.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Sep 30, In Indonesia riot
police fired tear gas at about 100 rock-throwing students who were
among thousands demonstrating on the eve of drastic fuel price
increases, which President Yudhoyono defended as the only way to stave
off an economic crisis.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 30, Sunni-led insurgents
killed at least nine people with a car bomb in a crowded vegetable
market this Friday, the Muslim day of worship.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 30, Israeli troops killed
two Palestinian militants in a shootout, while Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement made an unexpectedly strong showing
against rival Hamas in local elections in dozens of West Bank towns and
villages.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 30, A bus carrying high
school students on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa, a 14th century
monastery and Poland's most sacred Roman Catholic shrine, collided with
a truck and burst into flames, killing 12 people.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 30, In South Africa Mark
Scott-Crossley, a white farmer convicted in the murder of one of his
former black workers, was sentenced to life in prison. Co-defendant
Simon Mathebula was sentenced to 15 years. In Jan 31, 2004, Nelson
Chisale (41), who had been fired two months earlier for apparently
running a personal errand during work hours, was beaten with machetes,
tied up, driven to a nearby lion reserve, and thrown over the fence.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 30, South American
presidents committed themselves to establishing a continental free
trade zone. The South American summit was attended by the presidents of
Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil and
Argentina.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Sep 30, Catalonia's
parliament approved a new charter that called the wealthy region in
northeastern Spain "a nation," wording that has some worried that the
region is heading toward a break with Spain.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2006 Sep 30, Police in North
Charleston, SC, discovered the bodies of Detra Rainey and her 4
children. Michael Simmons (41), her husband but not the father of the
children, was charged the next day with the murders.
(SFC, 10/2/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 30, Isabel Bigley (80),
Tony Award-winning actress, died in Los Angeles.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2006 Sep 30, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai said that he and the Pakistani president will jointly lead
a series of tribal gatherings along their countries' shared border to
quell attacks by Pakistan-based Taliban rebels. A suicide bomber
detonated his explosives in a pedestrian alley next to the Interior
Ministry in Kabul, killing at least 12 people including a woman and 2
children.
(AP, 9/30/06)(SSFC, 10/1/06, p.A21)
2006 Sep 30, In Canada at least
five people were crushed to death in their cars after the collapse of
an overpass near Montreal.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 30, André
Schwarz-Bart (b.1928), French novelist of Polish-Jewish origins, died
in Guadeloupe. His books included the novel “The Last of the Just”
(1960), based on the Jewish teaching that the fate of the world lies
with 36 just men.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Schwarz-Bart)(WSJ, 12/9/06, p.P12)
2006 Sep 30, India’s PM Manmohan
Singh arrived in South Africa to expand trade links and commemorate the
passive resistance movement initiated by Mahatma Gandhi in the African
nation 100 years ago.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, A.N. Roy, Mumbai's
police chief, said his team had cracked the July 11 bombing case and
found solid evidence as that “the whole attack was planned by
Pakistan's ISI and carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba and their operatives
in India." ISI or the Inter-Services Intelligence agency is Pakistan's
military spy agency while Lashkar is a frontline Islamist group
fighting against Indian rule in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Pakistan and Lashkar rejected the allegations.
(Reuters, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, Baghdad, Iraq, was
put under a day long curfew to help break the cycle of violence. 6
people were killed in scattered violence around the country. Police
found 10 bodies in Baghdad, apparently victims of sectarian death
squads. Two other bodies were turned in to the morgue in Kut.
(AP, 9/30/06)(SSFC, 10/1/06, p.A21)
2006 Sep 30, A Kurdish guerrilla
group declared a new unilateral cease-fire in its war for autonomy in
Turkey's southeast, heeding a call from its imprisoned rebel leader.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, In northwest Nigeria
families were swept away in a torrent of water and scores were feared
dead in flooding from a dam collapse outside Zamfara state's capital
city of Gusau. About 40 people were feared dead and 500 houses were
washed away.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 30, Pakistan and United
States signed a letter of acceptance for a multi-billion dollar package
to supply the Pakistan Air Force with F-16 warplanes.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2006 Sep 30, Thousands of
government employees and security officials filled the streets of Gaza,
burning tires, blocking roads and firing in the air to protest delays
and complications in receiving their long-awaited salaries.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, Russia said that it
has suspended plans for further withdrawal of its troops from Georgia
amid worsening relations between the two neighbors.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, Serbia's parliament
approved a new constitution declaring UN-run Kosovo part of the Balkan
state despite ongoing negotiations on the breakaway province's future.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, In Siberia Enver
Ziganshin, chief engineer for Rusia Petroleum, was found shot dead at
his country home. Rusia Petroleum an affiliate of BP PLC’s Russian
joint venture, faced problems over its license to produce natural gas
at the large Konvykta field.
(WSJ, 10/3/06, p.A6)
2006 Sep 30, In South Africa the
4th annual Homeless World Cup tournament ended. It brought together 500
players from 48 countries in a project aimed at helping homeless people
turn their lives around. The first was held in Austria in 2003 with
just five countries competing.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 30, In Tibet Sergiu
Matei, a Romanian cameraman with an expedition climbing Cho Oyu, shot a
video that shows Chinese forces fatally shooting a Tibetan refugee who
was with a group of people trying to flee to Nepal at the 19,000-foot
Nanpa La Pass. Chinese border guards opened fire on some 75 Tibetans
making their way over a 19,000-foot-high Himalayan pass, killing a
25-year-old Buddhist nun and another person. 32 were caught and
detained. In January Jamyang Samten (15), one of those detained,
escaped to India and provided the first reported account of the fate of
the group. Some 3,000 Tibetans continued to sneak across the border to
Nepal and India every year.
(AP, 10/14/06)(Econ, 11/18/06, p.18)(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, In SF the 24th annual
Folsom Street Fair celebrated leather culture and sexual fetishism.
(SFC, 10/1/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 30, In Burlingame, Ca., a
shooting on Highway 101 killed Londell Wilson (25). Police used a
stoplight photograph from a nearby exit to identify the car and on Oct
24 arrested Doyal “Ali” Malcolm Webber for the shooting.
(SFC, 10/25/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 30, Taylor Bradford (21),
a University of Memphis football player, was fatally shot on campus in
what was believed to be a targeted attack. Classes for the next day
were canceled as a precaution.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Sep 30, So far this year,
according to the Pan American Health Organization, 630,356 dengue cases
have been reported in the Americas, most in Brazil, Venezuela, or
Colombia, with 12,147 cases of hemorrhagic fever and 183 deaths. The
Dominican Republic has reported 25 deaths, while Puerto Rico claimed
5,592 suspected cases and three deaths.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, President Hamid
Karzai's office said that there is "serious debate" among some Taliban
fighters about laying down arms, while a spokesman for the militants
said they will "never" negotiate with Afghan authorities until foreign
troops leave. Two workers with the Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan
Refugees (DACAAR) were abducted in the province of Logar about 50
kilometers (30 miles) south of Kabul. Taliban militants hanged a
teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had US money in his pocket,
and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not
to use dollars. Taliban insurgents in Ghazni province ambushed a police
convoy, killing eight officers.
(AP, 9/30/07)(AFP, 10/1/07)(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Sep 30, Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, a
property tycoon and one of Bangladesh's richest men, his wife and three
sons were sentenced in absentia to five years each in jail as part of a
government anti-corruption drive.
(AFP, 9/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, Milan Jelic (51),
president of Bosnia's Serb Republic died of a heart attack after less
than a year on the job.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Sep 30, It was reported that
China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras,
figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist government's
latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it calls social
pollution.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, The people of Ecuador
voted on electing a constitutional assembly to rewrite the
constitution. Supporters of Pres. Correa won some 70 of the 130
assembly seats.
(WSJ, 10/2/07, p.A8)(Econ, 10/6/07, p.40)
2007 Sep 30, Haile Gebrselassie of
Ethiopia broke the world record in winning the Berlin Marathon in two
hours, four minutes and 26 seconds.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, Gunmen in the main
northern Iraqi city of Mosul sprayed the car of a Sunni politician with
bullets, killing him and three bodyguards. Iraqi soldiers killed 44
"terrorists" over the past 24 hours. The operations were centered in
Salahuddin and Diyala provinces and around the city of Kirkuk.
(AFP, 9/30/07)(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Sep 30, Myanmar's government
unexpectedly allowed the country's leading opposition figure, Aung San
Suu Kyi, to leave house arrest briefly and meet with a UN envoy trying
to persuade the junta to ease its crackdown against a pro-democracy
uprising. Thousands of troops locked down Myanmar's largest cities, and
scores of people were arrested overnight. In Mandalay, Myanmar's second
largest city, security forces arrested dozens of university students
who staged a street protest.
(AP, 9/30/07)(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Sep 30, A trade union
affiliated with former communist rebels attacked Nepal's largest
newspaper office, destroying property and forcing a halt to
publication. The Kantipur Publication, which publishes the privately
run Nepali language newspaper Kantipur and English edition The
Kathmandu Post, was attacked by supporters of the All Nepal Printing
and Publication Workers' Union.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Sep 30, Negotiators at North
Korea's disarmament talks tentatively agreed to a draft plan on
disabling the country's nuclear facilities by year's end.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, Pakistan's key
opposition parties vowed to lodge a last-ditch Supreme Court challenge
aimed at stopping President Pervez Musharraf standing for re-election
on October 6. Pakistani journalists protested against police violence
against colleagues covering a protest against President Pervez
Musharraf in Islamabad a day earlier.
(AFP, 9/30/07)(Reuters, 9/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, Scores of Palestinian
militants who had been stranded in Egypt since Hamas seized Gaza in
June returned to the territory.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, Garry Kasparov,
former world chess champion, entered Russia's presidential race,
elected overwhelmingly as the candidate for the country's beleaguered
opposition coalition.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, Taiwan's ruling party
passed a resolution asserting the island's separate identity from rival
China and calling for a referendum on Taiwan's sovereignty, the latest
in a series of moves aimed at strengthening the island's de-facto
independence.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2007 Sep 30, Thailand's General
Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who led last year's coup, stepped down as head of
the nation's junta, paving the way for him to join the cabinet.
(AFP, 10/1/07)
2007 Sep 30, Ukrainians began
voting in an early parliamentary election meant to bring an end to a
months-long political standoff between the nation's two feuding
leaders. Victor Yushchenko’s party earned only about 16% of the
parliamentary vote. PM Viktor Yanukovych, had about 30% of the vote.
Yulia Tymoshenko’s bloc was leading with 33%.
(AP, 9/30/07)(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Sep 30, A volcanic explosion
rocked Yemen’s tiny Jabal al-Tair island in the Red Sea, spewing lava
and ash hundreds of feet into the air and forcing Yemeni authorities to
evacuate a military base. 8 soldiers were missing.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2008 Sep 30, President Bush warned
that failing to pass a financial rescue plan would bring severe
consequences to the US economy. "Congress must act," he declared in an
appeal that John McCain and Barack Obama echoed.
(AP, 9/30/08)
2008 Sep 30, A new US law took
effect as part of the 2008 Farm Bill requiring food retailers to label
or display the country of origin for meat, produce and certain kinds of
nuts.
(WSJ, 12/27/08, p.A7)
2008 Sep 30, The Cayman Islands
announced plans to scuttle a decommissioned US Navy ship to create an
underwater attraction for scuba divers and snorkelers.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Sep 30, In the Dominican
Republic a Hummer truck registered to New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix
Burgos struck pedestrians Josefina Minaya Martinez (38) and Angely Fana
(29). They died later at a hospital. An arrest warrant for Burgos was
issued on Oct 3.
(AP, 10/4/08)
2008 Sep 30, Bank rescues spread
in Europe and some investors expressed faith that the US Congress would
eventually pass a $700 billion bailout plan for the financial sector.
(AP, 9/30/08)
2008 Sep 30, Former Nepalese
Gurkha soldiers won a legal test case on their bid for the right to
settle in Britain.
(AFP, 9/30/08)
2008 Sep 30, China’s state media
reported that police in northern China have arrested 27 people in their
probe into tainted milk that has sickened 53,000 children and tarnished
China's reputation abroad.
(AP, 9/30/08)
2008 Sep 30, Zhou Yongjun (41),
former student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy
movement, was seized and secretly imprisoned as he sought to re-enter
China to visit his parents. When he tried to return to China in 1998,
he was sentenced to three years of "re-education through labor" and
returned to the United States in 2002. In May 2009 he was charged with
fraud.
(SFC, 5/14/09, p.A2)(http://tinyurl.com/p6mcno)
2008 Sep 30, In western India
thousands of pilgrims panicked by false rumors of a bomb stampeded at a
Hindu temple in Jodhpur, killing at least 224 people in the crush to
escape.
(AP, 9/30/08)(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Sep 30, An American soldier
was killed by small-arms fire in northern Baghdad, one of only eight US
deaths during fighting in September. At least 159 Iraqi police,
soldiers and Sunni armed guards who have joined forces with the
Americans against al-Qaida in Iraq were killed in September. At least
503 Iraqis were killed in September, a more than 50 percent drop
compared with 1,023 reported last September.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Sep 30, In Ingushetia a
suicide bomber attacked the motorcade of Ruslan Meiriyev, the top
police official. Meiriyev was unhurt, but a bystander was killed along
with the attacker.
(AP, 8/17/09)
2008 Sep 30, Italian police
arrested scores of suspected mobsters, including three top fugitives
believed linked to the gangland-style slaying of six African immigrants
near Naples.
(AP, 9/30/08)
2008 Sep 30, In Mexico 20 heavily
armed men in Sinaloa state stole five small planes that the army had
seized in anti-drug operations. Officials on Oct 3 said the planes were
found on a ranch in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa, a hotbed of
drug trafficking.
(AP, 10/1/08)(AP, 10/4/08)
2008 Sep 30, In Mexico Ramiro
Guillen Tapia (65), leader of a farmers' group seeking government
mediation in a dispute over 620 acres (250 hectares) of land in the
Gulf coast state of Veracruz, set himself on fire. Tapia died the next
day with third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Sep 30, A late night missile
strike by a suspected US drone killed at least six people in a
Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Sep 30, Alexander Lebedev, a
Russian billionaire said he is teaming up with former Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev to form a new political party that will challenge the
country's recent steps away from democracy.
(AP, 9/30/08)
2008 Sep 30, Tropical Storm
Mekkhala slammed into Vietnam's central coast before moving to Laos
later the same day. At least 8 people were killed with 8 more missing.
(AP, 10/2/08)
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