Today in History - October 1
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331BCE Oct 1, Alexander the Great
decisively shattered King Darius III's Persian army at Gaugamela
(Arbela), in a tactical masterstroke that left him master of the
Persian Empire.
(HN, 10/1/98)
290CE Oct 1, [Christian] Bacchus,
Roman soldier and martyred saint, was killed.
(MC, 10/1/01)
0976 Oct 1, Al-Hakam II, the
caliph of Cordoba, died.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1207 Oct 1, Henry III, king of
England (1216-72), was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1207)
1273 Oct 1, Rudolf of Hapsburg was
elected emperor in Germany.
(HN, 10/1/98)
1507 Oct 1, Italian architect
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola was born.
(AP, 10/1/07)
1529 Oct 1-3, Martin Luther met
with Huldrych Zwingli.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1549 Oct 1, Anna of H Bartolomaeus
was born. She was a Flemish prioress and founded a nunnery.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1574 Oct 1-2 A storm broke a
Leiden dike and 20,000 Spanish soldiers drowned. Spanish forces in the
Netherlands besieged Leyden, but William the Silent (Willem of Orange)
breached the dykes to flood the land. This allowed his ships to sail up
to the walls and lift the siege.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.22)(PCh, 1992, p.198)(MC, 10/1/01)
1608 Oct 1, Some 200 new settlers
arrived at the Jamestown colony, including Dutch and Polish
glass-makers, artisans and the first European women in the colony.
(http://spuscizna.org/spuscizna/1608.html)(AH, 6/07,
p.27)
1644 Oct 1, Jean Rousseau,
composer, was born.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1644 Oct 1, Alessandro Stradella,
Italian violinist and composer, was born.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1653 Oct 1, Russian parliament
accepted annexation of Ukraine.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1661 Oct 1, Yachting began in
England; King Charles II outsailed his brother James. [see Sep 1]
(MC, 10/1/01)
1684 Oct 1, Pierre Corneille,
French lawyer and dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), died at 42.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1688 Oct 1, Seven British noblemen
sent a letter to Prince William of Orange inviting him to invade
England and rescue the country from James’ “popery.” William accepted.
(Econ, 2/4/06, p.77)(ON, 7/06, p.10)
1708 Oct 1, John Blow, composer
(Venus & Adonis), died at 59.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1746 Oct 1, Bonnie Prince Charlie
fled to France. [see Sep 20]
(MC, 10/1/01)
1768 Oct 1, English troops under
general Gage landed in Boston.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1781 Oct 1, James Lawrence, naval
hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!"), was born.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1791 Oct 1, In Paris, the National
Legislative Assembly held its first meeting.
(HN, 10/1/98)
1800 Oct. 1, Spain ceded Louisiana
to France in a secret treaty.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1833 Oct 1, Charles Darwin reached
Rio Tercero, Argentina.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1837 Oct 1, Robert Gould
Shaw was born to a prominent abolitionist family. He became commander
of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first unit of black soldiers in
the Civil War. He was later asked by the governor of Massachusetts to
organize the first regiment of black troops in a Northern state. Shaw
recruited free blacks from all over New England. On May 13, 1863, the
54th Massachusetts Regiment was mustered into service in the Union Army
with Shaw as its commanding officer. After leading the regiment in a
handful of smaller actions, Shaw and the 54th joined two brigades of
white troops in an assault on Confederates holding Battery Wagner on
the South Carolina coast. Although the action was unsuccessful and Shaw
himself died leading the charge, the courage of black troops under fire
was proven beyond any doubt. This Kurz and Allison print honors Shaw
and the 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner.
(HNPD, 10/1/98)(HN, 10/1/98)
1837 Oct 1, A treaty was made with
the Winnebago Indians.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1838 Oct 1, Lord Auckland, British
governor general in India, issued the Simla Manifesto, setting forth
the necessary reasons for British intervention in Afghanistan. This led
to the 1st Anglo-Afghan War.
(Econ, 10/7/06,
p.18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Anglo-Afghan_War)
1839 Oct 1, The British government
decided to send a punitive naval expedition to China.
(HN, 10/1/98)
1847 Oct 1, Maria Mitchell (29),
American astronomer living on Nantucket Island, discovered a new comet
that was named after herself. In 1848 she was elected to the American
Academy of Arts, the first woman to be so honored. Frederick VI, the
King of Denmark awarded her a gold medal for her discovery.
(HN, 10/1/98)(ON, 2/07, p.9)
1853 Oct 1, Robert Schuyler, the
president and general transfer agent of the New York & New Haven
Railroad Company, began issuing, shares of stock beyond the capital
limited by its charter.
(http://tinyurl.com/dbok8a)(http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/111/111.US.156.html)
1856 Oct 1, The first installment
of Gustav Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary (Emma Bovary) appeared in the
Revue de Paris after the publisher refused to print a passage in which
the character Emma has a tryst in the back seat of a carriage. It was
later considered as the first novel of a liberated woman in modern
literature. In 1998 Dacia Maraini published "Searching for Emma." A TV
version for Masterpiece Theater was shown in 2000.
(HN, 10/1/00)(SFEC, 6/28/98, Par p.18)(WSJ, 2/4/00,
p.W6)
1863 Oct 1, 5 Russian warships
were welcomed in NYC.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1864 Oct 1, The Condor, a British
blockade-runner, was grounded near Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
(HN, 10/1/98)
1865 Oct 1, Paul Abraham Dukas,
composer (Sorcerer's Apprentice), was born in Paris, France.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1867 Oct 1, Karl Marx' "Das
Kapital," was published.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1868 Oct 1, Rama IV, [Phra
Chomklao Chaoyuhua], died at 63. He served as king of Thailand from
1851-68.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1869 Oct 1, Austria issued the
world's first postal card. The first postal card was suggested by Dr.
Emanuel Herrmann and was accepted by the Hungarian government in the
same year. The first regularly printed card appeared in 1870, a
historical card, produced in connection with the Franco-German War. The
first advertising card appeared in 1872 in Great Britain. The first
German card appeared in 1874. Cards showing the Eiffel Tower in 1889
& 1890 gave impetus to the postcard heyday a decade later. A
Heligoland card of 1889 is considered the first multi-colored card ever
printed.
(http://shilohpostcards.com/webdoc2.htm)
1878 Oct 1, General Lew Wallace
was sworn in as governor of New Mexico Territory. He went on to deal
with the Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid and wrote Ben-Hur.
(HN, 10/1/98)
1880 Oct 1, John Philip Sousa
became the new director of US Marine Corps Band. [see Oct 1, 1892]
(MC, 10/1/01)
1885 Oct. 1, Special delivery mail
service began in the United States.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1888 Oct 1, National Geographic
magazine published for 1st time. The National Geographic Society was
founded by Gardiner Hubbard, the father-in-law of Alexander Graham
Bell. In 1997 Charles McCarry edited: “From the Field: A Collection of
Writing from National Geographic.”
(NG, Nov. 1985, p. 657)(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.T13)(SFEC,
7/18/99, Z1 p.8)(MC, 10/1/01)
1890 Oct 1, Congress created the
Weather Bureau.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1890 Oct. 1, Congress passed the
McKinley Tariff Act, which raised tariffs to a record level.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1890 Oct 1, Yosemite National
Park, created by Congress, was dedicated in California.
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Z1 p.4)(HN, 10/1/98)
1892 Oct 1, John Philip Sousa
started his 12-year tour as director of the US Marine Band. He
premiered many of his marches and produced the first commercial
phonograph recordings. [see Oct 1, 1880]
(SFC, 5/20/96, p.A-3)
1892 Oct 1, The University of
Chicago opened.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1893 Oct 1, In the 3rd worst
hurricane in US history 1,800 people were killed in Mississippi.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1895 Oct 1, Romanians in
Constantinople were massacred.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1896 Oct. 1, The U.S. Post Office
established Rural Free Delivery, with the first routes in West Virginia.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1898 Oct 1, Jews were expelled
from Kiev, Russia.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1900 Oct 1, Oldham, England,
announced that Winston Churchill had won the election as the town's
second MP, beginning Churchill's long career in the House of Commons.
(www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=304)
1903 Oct 1, The Pittsburgh Pirates
defeated the home team Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox), 7-3, in the first
World Series game. Boston, however, went on to win the series, five
games to three.
(AP, 10/1/03)
1904 Oct 1, Vladimir Horowitz,
Russian-born American virtuoso pianist, was born in Kiev, Ukraine.
(HN, 10/1/98)(MC, 10/1/01)
1907 Oct 1, The Plaza Hotel opened
in NYC at 5th Av and 59th Str.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)(AP, 10/1/07)
1908 Oct 1, The Ford Model T, the
first car for millions of Americans, hit the market. Each car cost
$825. Over 15 million Model Ts were eventually sold, all of them black.
The Model T automobile cost $850 when it was first introduced to the
public. Ford lowered the price of automobiles—previously regarded as a
toy of the rich—by maintaining control of raw materials and using new
mass production techniques. The price of this two-seater,
affectionately known as the “tin Lizzy,” fluctuated over the years,
dipping below $300 in 1924. Electric lights and an optional electric
starter were among the few improvements over the years. The model was
discontinued in 1927 after more 15,000,000 had been produced.
(CFA, ‘96, p.56)(AP, 10/1/97)(HN, 10/1/98)(HNQ,
7/11/00)
1910 Oct 1, Mass. 1st state fair
was the Berkshire Cattle Fair in Pittsfield.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1910 Oct 1, The Los Angeles Times
building at 1st and Broadway was bombed killing 21 nonunion pressman
and linotype operators. A new Los Angeles Times building was completed
in 1935. In 2008 Howard Blum authored “American Lightning: Terror,
Mystery, The Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century.”
(WSJ, 9/16/08,
p.A23)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_bombing)
1914 Oct 1, Daniel Joseph
Boorstin, author (Empire of Czar), was born. He won a Pulitzer Prize in
1974 .
(MC, 10/1/01)
1918 Oct 1, Damascus (Syria) fell
to Arab forces as Turkish Ottoman officials surrendered the city.
(ON, 10/05, p.9)(AP, 10/1/08)
1919 Oct 1, In baseball’s World
Series the Chicago White Sox faced the Cincinnati Reds in a best of 9
games. The White Sox intentionally threw the series to satisfy gamblers
in what became known as the Black Sox Scandal. 8 players were banned
from baseball for life. In 1963 Eliot Asinof described the events in
his book “Eight men Out.” The 1988 baseball film "Eight Men Out" was
directed by John Sayles.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR p.8)(SFC, 7/14/96, DB p.33)(AH,
10/04, p.14)
1919 Oct 1, Black sharecroppers
gathered at Elaine, Arkansas, to secure a more equitable price for
their products. When a white deputy sheriff and a railroad detective,
arrived at the church, a fight broke out between them and the guards in
which the railroad detective was killed and the deputy sheriff was
wounded. This led to 3 days of fighting and the killing of 5 white men
and close to 200 black men, women and children. The Arkansas state
court later sentenced 12 sharecroppers to death and a 5-year legal
battle ensued. In 2008 Robert Whitaker authored “”On the Laps of Gods:
The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a
Nation.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Race_Riot)(SSFC, 7/27/08, Books
p.1)
1924 Oct 1, Jimmy Carter (James
Earl), 39th president of the U.S. (1977-1981), was born in Plains,
Georgia.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, Z3 p.3)(HN, 10/1/98)(MC,
10/1/01)
1924 Oct 1, William Rehnquist was
born in Milwaukee. He served as Supreme Court Justice (1972-86) and US
Chief Justice (1987- ).
(USAT, 1/7/99, p.2A)(MC, 10/1/01)
1924 Oct 1, Paavo Nurmi ran a
world record 4 mile (19:15.4) and 5 miles (24:06.2).
(MC, 10/1/01)
1927 Oct 1, Tom Bosley, actor
(Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1929 Oct 1, In NYC demolition
began of the Waldorf-Astoria to make way for the new Empire State
Building.
(ON, 12/08, p.11)
1930 Oct 1, Philippe Noiret, actor
(Soleil, Les Milles, Il Postino), was born in Lille, France.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1931 Oct 1, Spain established
general female suffrage.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1932 Oct 1, Albert Collins,
guitarist, was born.
(HN, 10/1/00)
1932 Oct 1, Oswald Mosley formed
the British Union of Fascists.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1934 Oct 1, Adolph Hitler expanded
the German army and navy and created an air force, violating Treaty of
Versailles.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1935 Oct 1, Julie Andrews (Julia
Elizabeth Wells), actress and singer, was born. Her films include “Mary
Poppins” and “The Sound of Music.”
(HN, 10/1/00)
1936 Oct. 1, General Francisco
Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1937 Oct 1, Pullman Co. formally
recognized Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. [see Aug 25]
(MC, 10/1/01)
1938 Oct 1, Germany annexed
Sudetenland (1/3 of Czech Republic).
(MC, 10/1/01)
1939 Oct 1, Churchill called the
Soviets a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
(MC, 10/1/01)
1940 Oct 1, The first section of
the Pennsylvania Turnpike, 160 miles in length, was opened to the
public.
(AP, 10/1/00)
1942 Oct 1, Bell P-59 Airacomet
fighter, 1st US jet, made its maiden flight.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1942 Oct 1, Little Golden Books
(children books) began publishing.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1942 Oct 1, The German Army ground
to a complete halt within the city of Stalingrad.
(HN, 10/1/98)
1943 Oct 1, Allied forces captured
Naples during World War II. British troops in Italy entered Naples and
occupied Foggia airfield.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(AP, 10/1/97)(HN, 10/1/98)
1943 Oct 1, Germans attacked Jews
in Denmark.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1944 Oct 1, The U.S. First Army
began the siege Aachen, Germany.
(HN, 10/1/98)
1945 Oct 1, The US Army Air Corps
founded the RAND Corporation less than 2 months after bombs were
dropped on Japan. Gen. Arnold and others met at Hamilton Field,
California, to set up Project RAND under special contract to the
Douglas Aircraft Company. In 2008 Alex Abella authored “Soldiers of
Reason: The RAND corporation and the rise of the American empire.”
(SSFC, 6/8/08, Books
p.4)(www.rand.org/about/history/)
1946 Oct 1, Tim O’Brien, novelist,
was born. His work included “The Things They Carried” and “In the Lake
of the Woods.”
(HN, 10/1/00)
1946 Oct 1, Twelve Nazi war
criminals were sentenced to be hanged at Nuremberg trials-- Karl
Donitz, Hermann Goring, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Ernst
Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachin von Ribbentrop, Fritz Saukel,
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, and Alfred Rosenberg. Karl
Donitz was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(HN, 10/1/98)(http://uboat.net/men/doenitz.htm)
1948 Oct 1, The California Supreme
Court voided a state statue banning interracial marriages.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1949 Oct 1, Communist Party
Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) raised the first flag of the People's
Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing (National Day).
(AP, 10/1/97)
1949 Oct 1, Republic of China
(Taiwan) was formed on island of Formosa. The Nationalists under Chiang
Kai-shek had been defeated and fled to Taiwan and took control. Chiang
Kai-shek established the “temporary” government of the Republic of
China in Taipei and established martial law.
(SFC, 6/9/97, p.A8)(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A9)
1951 Oct 1, 1st treaty signed by
woman ambassador, Eugenie Anderson.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1951 Oct 1, The US 24th Infantry
Regiment, last all-black military unit, was deactivated.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1957 Oct 1, The motto "In God We
Trust" began appearing on US paper currency.
(AP, 10/1/07)
1957 Oct 1, B-52 bombers began
full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1958 Oct 1, America’s National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was inaugurated [See Apr 2,
Jul 29].
(SFC, 10/2/07, p.A6)
1958 Oct 1, American Express
launched its first credit card.
(www.bostonapartments.com/loans/american_express_credit_card.html)
1958 Oct 1, Britain transferred
Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1960 Oct 1, Nigeria gained
independence from Britain (National Day).
(WSJ, 11/13/95, p.A-10)(WSJ, 10/14/95, p.A-1)(EWH,
1st ed., p.1172)
1961 Oct. 1, Roger Maris of the
New York Yankees hit his 61st home run off of Tracy Stallard during a
162-game season. It compared to Babe Ruth's 60 home runs during a
154-game season. The ball was caught by Sal Durante (19) who offered it
to Maris. Maris declined and Durante sold it for $5000 to a
restaurateur named Sam Gordon, who donated the ball to the Baseball
Hall of Fame.
(AP, 10/1/97)(WSJ, 9/4/98, p.B1)(MC, 10/1/01)
1961 Oct 1, A believed extinct
volcano erupted in Tristan da Cunha.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1962 Oct 1, Johnny Carson
succeeded Jack Paar as regular host of NBC's "Tonight" show. Carson
received an on-air introduction from Groucho Marx; the guests on his
debut program were Joan Crawford, Rudy Vallee, Tony Bennett, Mel
Brooks and The Phoenix Singers.
(AP, 10/1/02)
1962 Oct 1, Barbra Streisand
signed her 1st recording contract with Columbia.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1962 Oct 1, James Meredith became
1st black at U of Mississippi. [see Sep 30]
(MC, 10/1/01)
1962 Oct 1, Ludwig Bemelmans
(1898), Austrian-born writer of children’s books, died in NYC. His 1st
Madeline book was published in 1939.
(www.kidsreads.com/series/series-madeline-author.asp)
1963 Oct 1, Mark McGwire was born.
He later became a baseball 1st baseman, AL rookie of year 1988, Oakland
A's, Cards, 70 home run record.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1964 Oct 1, The Free Speech
Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.
Mario Savio (1943-1996), UC Berkeley physics student, began the Free
Speech Movement to fight prohibitions against students distributing
political brochures and other materials such as civil rights. The
incident began when police arrested Jack Weinberg for setting up an
unauthorized table in Sproul Plaza. Students surrounded the police car
in a standoff that lasted 32 hours. In 1998 a Free Speech Movement Cafe
was planned. In 2002 Robert Cohen and Reginald E. Zelnik edited “The
Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s.”
(SFC, 11/6/96, p.B2)(AP, 10/1/97)(SFC, 4/30/98,
p.A18)(SSFC, 12/29/02, p.M5)
1964 Oct 1, Ernst Toch (b.1887),
Vienna-born composer, died in Los Angeles. He authored “The Shaping
Forces in Music.” His last stage work “The Last Tale” (1962), was
adapted from the well-known plot of One Thousand and One Nights
(Arabian Nights).
(www.operaworld.com/special/lasttale.shtml)
1965 Oct 1, In Indonesia a small
force of junior military officers abducted and killed six generals in
the early morning hours and seized several key points in the capital
city of Jakarta. Gen. Suharto crushed the coup and soon seized power
from Pres. Sukarno.
(www.namebase.org/scott.html)
1968 Oct 1, The cult horror movie
"Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.
(AP, 10/1/98)
1968 Oct 1, The US Senate refused
to shut down a filibuster against President Lyndon B. Johnson's
nomination of Abe Fortas to be US chief justice. Fortas withdrew the
next day.
(AP, 10/1/08)
1968 Oct 1, The US Congress
created the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area in Wyoming.
(www.utah.com/nationalsites/flaming_gorge.htm)
1969 Oct 1, Guernsey & Jersey
begin issuing their own postage stamps.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1969 Oct 1, The prototype Concorde
001, designed by the British and French, broke the sound barrier during
a test flight. Commercial service began in 1976.
(WSJ, 7/26/00, p.B1)(MC, 10/1/01)
1969 Oct 1, The Channel Islands of
Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_postage_in_Great_Britain)
1969 Oct 1, The prototype Concorde
001, designed by the British and French, broke the sound barrier during
a test flight. Commercial service began in 1976.
(WSJ, 7/26/00,
p.B1)(www.concordesst.com/history/events/events1.html)
1971 Oct 1, Walt Disney
Productions opened its Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida.
(AP,
10/1/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Kingdom)
1971 Oct 1, As of this day divorce
in the Netherlands could only be granted on the ground of the
irretrievable breakdown of the marriage (Article 1:151 of the Dutch
Civil Code).
(http://www2.law.uu.nl/priv/cefl/Reports/pdf/Netherlands02.pdf)
1972 Oct 1, Louis Leakey (b.1903),
Kenyan archeologist and naturalist, died in London. He was flown home
and interred at Limuru, Kenya, near the graves of his parents.
(SFC, 12/10/96,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Leakey)
1973 Oct 1, An East German border
order to border guards from the Ministry for State Security, or Stasi,
said: “Do not hesitate with the use of a firearm, including when the
border breakouts involve women and children, which the traitors have
already frequently taken advantage of." The order was made public in
2007.
(AP, 8/11/07)
1974 Oct 1, Five Nixon
aides--Kenneth Parkinson, Robert Mardian, Nixon’s Chief of Staff H.R.
Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell--
went on trial for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation.
(HN, 10/1/98)
1975 Oct 1, Muhammad Ali beat Joe
Frazier after 14 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title in Manila.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrilla_in_Manila)
1979 Oct 1, The 1977 Panama Canal
Treaties entered into force. The US returned the Canal Zone, but not
the canal, to Panama after 75 years.
(http://mexico.usembassy.gov/bbf/bfdossier_PanamaCanal.htm)
1979 Oct 1, Pope John Paul II
arrived in Boston for the start of a U.S. tour.
(AP, 10/1/99)
1979 Oct 1, Henry Ford II stepped
down as Ford’s chairman and CEA and was succeeded by Philip Caldwell
(b.1920).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Caldwell)
1982 Oct 1, EPCOT Center opened in
Orlando, Florida.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epcot)
1982 Oct 1, West Germany's
Parliament ousted Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl. Kohl, head of the
Christian Democratic Union, became Chancellor following the collapse of
the Social Democratic led coalition. He served until 1998.
(Hem., 3/97, p.121)(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A6)(WSJ, 1/19/00,
p.A18)
1984 Oct 1, Gary Trudeau's
Doonesbury comic strip resumed after a 2-year hiatus.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doonesbury)
1985 Oct 1, Israeli forces staged
an air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis and 68 people were killed.
Yasser Arafat narrowly escaped death.
(WSJ, 11/12/04, p.A11)
1985 Oct 1, E. B. White (Elwyn
Brooks White, b.1899), writer, author of “Charlotte's Web” and “The
Elements of Style,” died in Maine.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebwhite.htm)
1986 Oct. 1, Former President
Jimmy Carter's presidential library and museum were dedicated in
Atlanta with help from President Reagan.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1987 Oct. 1, Eight people were
killed when an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale and an
aftershock measuring 5.3 struck the Los Angeles area.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1988 Oct 1, In a continuing
shake-up of the Soviet leadership, Mikhail Gorbachev was confirmed as
president, succeeding Andrei A. Gromyko.
(AP, 10/1/98)
1989 Oct 1, Gen. Colin Powell was
appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the US Dept. of
Defense.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.A14)
1989 Oct 1, The San Francisco
Health Department reported the first two documented cases in which men
became infected with the AIDS virus through oral sex.
(http://ww5.aegis.org/news/ap/1990/AP901005.html)
1989 Oct 1, Thousands of East
Germans received a triumphal welcome in West Germany after the
communist government agreed to let them leave for the West.
(AP, 10/1/99)
1989 Oct 1, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, 11 homosexual couples were married. It was the first time any
country allowed such marriages.
(SFC, 5/26/96, Z1 p.6)(SFC, 12/12/98, p.B3)
1990 Oct 1, President Bush,
addressing the UN General Assembly, again condemned Iraq’s takeover of
Kuwait, but also suggested an unconditional military withdrawal could
help speed an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
(AP, 10/1/00)
1990 Oct 1, Curtis E. LeMay (83),
Air Force General and VP candidate, died at March Air Force Base,
California.
(AP, 10/1/00)
1991 Oct 1, President Bush
strongly condemned the military coup in Haiti, suspending U.S. economic
and military aid and demanding the immediate return to power of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
(AP, 10/1/01)
1992 Oct. 1, The U.S. Senate voted
93-to-6 to approve the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1992 Oct 1, Texas billionaire Ross
Perot jumped back into the presidential race.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1992 Oct 1, Petra Kelly (b.1947),
founder of the German Green Party, was shot dead in Bonn.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Kelly)
1993 Oct 1, The US federal tax on
gasoline was raised to 18.3 cents per gallon.
(www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/Transportation/trans-24.cfm)
1993 Oct 1, In Petaluma, Ca.
12-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her bedroom while playing
with two girl friends by a knife-wielding intruder; her body was found
more than two months later. 60 days later Richard Allen Davis was
arrested for the kidnap and murder of Polly. He was later convicted and
sentenced to death.
(SFC, 4/24/96, p.A-1)(AP, 10/1/98)
1993 Oct 1, The Church of
Scientology secured tax-exempt status for its main branch in a
settlement with the IRS in which it paid $12.5 million. The church
agreed to drop thousands of suits against the IRS. The details were
only made public in 1997.
(WSJ, 12/30/97, p.A1)
1994 Oct 1, National Hockey League
team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
(AP, 10/1/99)
1994 Oct 1, The United States and
Japan reached a series of trade agreements, averting a threatened trade
war.
(AP, 10/1/99)
1995 Oct 1, Sheik Omar
Abdel-Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric accused of leading a "war of
urban terrorism" against US cities, was convicted with nine other
defendants of seditious conspiracy by a federal jury in New York.
(WSJ, 10/2/95, P.A-3)(AP, 10/1/00)
1995 Oct 1, France detonated
another nuclear device, 5 times more powerful than the last one, on
Fangatouga Atoll in the South Pacific.
(WSJ, 10/2/95, P.A-1)
1995 Oct 1, An earthquake in
southwestern Turkey killed about 90 people.
(AP, 10/1/00)
1996 Oct 1, A federal grand jury
indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in 1994 mail bomb slaying
of an ad executive. He was later sentenced to 4 life terms plus 30
years.
(AP, 10/1/06)
1996 Oct 1, The first phase of a
US minimum wage 50-cent increase to $4.75 took effect. Phase 2 to $5.15
was scheduled for Sep 1, 1997.
(SFC, 10/1/96, p.A4)(AP, 10/1/97)
1996 Oct. 1, NASA began turning
over day-to-day shuttle operations to private industry.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1996 Oct 1, In Haiti it was
confirmed that a plot to undermine the government was squelched. The
Committee of Soldiers’ Demands, representing former soldiers, had
plotted to destabilize the government. More US trained Haitian-American
police officers and money from the IMF was expected before the
expiration of the current UN mandate.
(SFC, 10/2/96, p.A7)
1996 Oct. 1, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met at
the White House.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1997 Oct 1, The US Senate approved
a $3,100 cost-of-living congressional pay raise, the first in 5 years,
in a 55-45 vote. The inflation related adjustment was instituted in
1993 but denied until this year.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A13)
1997 Oct 1, US FBI Director Louis
J. Freeh warned that Russian organized crime networks were growing and
that they posed a menace to US national security. Russian crime
syndicates were described to be forging ties with the Italian Mafia and
the Columbian drug cartels.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A3)
1997 Oct 1, Paula Jones announced
a new legal team from Texas to pursue her suit against Pres. Clinton.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A3)
1997 Oct 1, The Center for
Nonverbal Studies (CNS), a private, nonprofit research center located
in Spokane, Washington, began operations. The Center's mission is to
advance the study of human communication in all its forms apart from
language. The Center's goal is to promote the scientific study of
nonverbal communication, which includes body movement, gesture, facial
expression, adornment and fashion, architecture, mass media, and
consumer-product design.
(http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/index.htm)
1997 Oct 1, WorldCom Inc. bid $30
million to take over MCI Communications.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A1)
1997 Oct 1, In Pearl, Mississippi,
Luke Woodham (16) stabbed his mother Mary (50) to death and went to
school and killed his former girlfriend and another student and wounded
7 others. Later Grant Boyette (18) was identified as the leader of the
Kroth cult, a Satanist group with a plan of destruction and
killing. Woodham was found guilty in 1998 of killing 2 classmates and
was sentenced to 2 life sentences plus 20 years. He was also found
guilty in the murder of his mother in a separate trial and the sentence
was raised to 3 life sentences plus 140 years.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A3)(SFC, 10/15/97, p.A6)(SFC,
6/2/98, p.A3)(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A3)(AP, 10/1/07)
1997 Oct 1, Asian currencies dived
in foreign exchange markets in part because of comments by Malaysian
Prime Minister Mahathir: “I would like to suggest that we do away with
trade in currency as a commodity.”
(WSJ, 10/2/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 1, From Angola it was
reported that Unita was demobilizing its soldiers and getting the UN to
return them to Unita-held territory, where they could again be
mobilized.
(WSJ, 10/1/97, p.A16)
1997 Oct 2, In Azerbaijan a
helicopter with 20 passengers crashed near an offshore oil platform and
no survivors were found.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Oct 1, In Bosnia NATO seized
4 key Bosnian Serb television transmitters.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A1)
1997 Oct 1, Congo’s Pres. Kabila
ordered troops into the Congo Republic after 2 days of cross border
shelling that killed as many as 31 in Kinshasa.
(WSJ, 10/2/97, p.A1)
1997 Oct 1, Israel freed Sheik
Ahmed Yassin (61), the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas. The ill
Yassin was taken to Jordan and hospitalized. As part of the deal an
antidote for the chemical used on last week’s Meshaal attack was
demanded by Jordan and Israel requested the release of the Meshaal
attackers. This secured the release of two Mossad agents arrested in
Jordan following a botched assassination attempt against Hamas
political leader Khalid Mashaal.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A10)(AP, 10/1/98)
1997 Oct 1, In Serbia It was
reported that Albanian students in Kosovo planned to demonstrate in the
streets for equal access to the university on par with the Serb
students at Pristina. Some 20,000 students protested and were attacked
by Serb police. At least 30 students were injured. 500 students were
attacked by Serbian police.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A10)(SFC, 10/2/97,
p.A12)(SFC,12/10/97, p.C2)
1997 Oct 1, In Belgrade, Serbia,
riot police attacked thousands of marchers who protested the firing of
mayor Djindjic and the removal of editors of the independent TV station.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 1, In Sri Lanka a
government clash with Tamil Tigers left at least 70 combatants dead in
Puliyankulam.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A3)
1997 Oct 1, The UN withdrew its
human rights investigators from Congo pending a clarification by the
Kabila government on its policy.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A12)
1998 Oct 1, The US Dept. of
Defense said that it would spend an estimated $50 million this year to
provide Viagra to soldiers, sailors, fliers, retirees and their
dependents.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.A8)
1998 Oct 1, Gordon and Betty
Moore, announced a $35 million contribution to Conservation Int’l., an
environmental group for biodiversity. The funds would be used for a new
Washington DC Center for Applied Biodiversity Science. Moore was a
co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corp. He donated $12.5 million
to Cambridge Univ. for the most advanced science and technology library
in Europe.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.B6,D1)
1998 Oct 1, In Washington state
the Makah Indian gray whale hunting season opened. The tribe had
recently won the right to kill up to 5 whales a year over the next 4
years.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.A6)
1998 Oct 1, CollaGenex
Pharmaceuticals announced FDA approval of Periostat, a pill to help
fight gum disease. The drug suppresses the enzyme responsible for gum
and tooth breakdown during inflammation.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.A2)
1998 Oct 1, The IMF and the World
Bank were negotiating an emergency loan package for Brazil of some $30
billion. Since the collapse of the ruble, edgy investors have taken $30
billion out of Brazil. The government in the mean time pushed up the
interest rate to 40%.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.A16)(WSJ, 10/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 1, Guatemala sold 95% of
its phone monopoly for $700 million to Luca, a consortium of Guatemalan
and Central American financial institutions.
(WSJ, 10/2/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct 1, In central Mexico a
flooded irrigation canal killed 12 people when it washed away tin and
cardboard homes along its banks.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.B3)
1998 Oct 1, The UN sent a new
warning to Pres. Milosevic of Serbia over the atrocities in Kosovo.
Seeking to head off threatened NATO attacks, Yugoslavia's Serb
leadership invited foreign experts to investigate massacres in Kosovo.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.A1)(AP, 10/1/99)
1999 Oct 1, South Korean activists
thanked the US government for promising to investigate an Associated
Press report that US forces allegedly killed several hundred refugees
at the start of the Korean War. But the protesters also demanded the US
punish some of the veterans involved and compensate the victims’
relatives.
(AP, 10/1/00)
1999 Oct 1, In Thailand the
Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors took 38 diplomats as hostages at the
Burmese Embassy in Bangkok. Two Thai officials were exchanged for the
hostages and 12 [5] students were reported to have flown to the
Thai-Burma border by helicopter, where they were released. The students
demanded the release of political prisoners, dialogue between the
military and Aung San Suu Kyi and an elected parliament.
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A12)(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A25)
1999 Oct 1, In China the
celebration for the 50th anniversary of Communism included 50 approved
slogans for the masses to chant and 61 approved songs to sing. Central
TV had already aired a 16-part documentary on the past 50 years.
(WSJ, 9/30/99, p.A18)
1999 Oct 1, In Indonesia the new
national Assembly met for the first time in the post-Suharto period.
The assembly elected Amien Rais as speaker and chose Oct 20 as the date
to select the next president.
(WSJ, 10/1/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct 1, Israel planned to
implement the Wye River accord and pull troops from the West Bank.
(WSJ, 8/2/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct 1, Joao da Silva Tavares,
a militia leader in West Timor, said he planned to lead 12,000 fighters
back to 6 western districts of East Timor.
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.C1)
1999 Oct 1, In Pakistan gunmen
attacked Shiites in Karachi and killed 9 people in a mosque. A
retaliatory attack on a Sunni Muslim school left 4 dead. Another 5
people were killed in eastern Punjab.
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A13)
1999 Oct 1, In Russia Prime
Minister Putin cut ties with the elected government of Chechnya.
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A12)
2000 Oct 1, Stanley Kunitz (95)
succeeded Robert Pinsky as the USD poet laureate.
(SFEC, 10/22/00, BR p.2)
2000 Oct 1, On the last day of the
27th Olympics in Sydney, the U.S. men's basketball team beat France for
the gold medal. The United States led the way in the final medal tally,
collecting 97 (39 gold, 25 silver and 33 bronze); Russia was second
with 88 (32, 28 and 28), China third with 59 (28, 16, 15) and host
Australia was fourth, with 58.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/2/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/1/01)
2000 Oct 1, Robert Allen,
composer, died at age 73. His songs included “Chances Are,” “Moments to
Remember,” and “Home for the Holidays.”
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.D5)
2000 Oct 1, Pope John Paul II
canonized as martyrs 87 Chinese believers and 33 European missionaries
killed between 1648 and 1930. He also canonized Mother Katherine Drexel
(d.1955), a Philadelphia heiress, who became a nun.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 1, In Brazil some 110
million voted in municipal elections with advances by the Workers
Party. A tilt to the left was seen as a response to corruption.
(WSJ, 10/3/00, p.A23)
2000 Oct 1, In China Falun Dafa
staged one of the biggest Tiananmen Square protests since it was banned
14 months earlier.
(WSJ, 10/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 1, In India officials in
West Bengal state said 997 people had died due to flooding over the
past 3 weeks. 45 people were reported killed in Bangladesh.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 1, Israeli forces fought
Palestinian rioters for a 3rd day and at least 12 Palestinians were
killed. The fighting spread from the West Bank and Gaza to towns and
cities inside Israel.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A1)
2001 Oct 1, New York City Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani, in an impassioned speech to the United Nations, said
there was no room for "neutrality" in the global fight against
terrorism and no need for more studies or vague directives.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2001 Oct 1, The Supreme Court
suspended former President Clinton from practicing before the high
court.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2001 Oct 1, The US reported that
some $6 million and 50 bank accounts were blocked as suspected
terrorist assets.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 1-2, The US gave Nato
“clear and compelling” evidence that Osama bin Laden orchestrated the
Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A4)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D7)
2001 Oct 1, Zayd Hassan Abd
al-Latif Masud Al Safarini, jailed in Pakistan for 15 years, arrived in
Alaska and was expected to face a 1991 indictment for the 1986
hijacking of a Pan Am jet in which 22 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 1, In Minnesota some
28,000 state workers went on strike over wage disputes.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 1, Conde Nast said it
would its Mademoiselle (b.1935) fashion magazine would be published for
the last time in November.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 1, Calvin C. Hernton,
black scholar, critic and poet, died at age 69. His books included “Sex
and Racism in America,” “White Papers for White Americans,” and “The
Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers.”
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E4)
2001 Oct 1, The opposition
Northern Alliance of Afghanistan met in Rome with ex-king Zahir Shah
and agreed to form a broad-based government open to cooperation with
the West
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 1, Elections in
Bangladesh for 299 seats in parliament were held pitting Sheikh
Hasina’s allies against those of longtime foe Khaleda Zia. Zia’s
coalition appeared to be headed for a landslide win. Over 150 people
were killed in the weeks prior to the elections. A coalition led by the
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) came to power.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.C12)(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A1)(Econ,
9/30/06, p.54)
2001 Oct 1, Indonesia’s Supreme
Court threw out its corruption conviction of Hutomo Mandala Putra, i.e.
“Tommy Suharto.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 1, In Srinagar, capital
of Jammu and Kashmir, a Pakistani-based suicide squad struck at the
Legislative Assembly and 38 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A17)(AP,
10/1/06)
2001 Oct 1, In the Philippines the
trial of former Pres. Estrada had a brief start and was postponed to
Oct 17. Estrada showed up against his will, without his legal team and
clad in slippers.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 1, Russia claimed to have
killed Abu Yakub, a top aide to an Arab commander allied with rebels in
Chechnya.
(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 1, In Spain suspected
Basque militants exploded a car bomb in Vitoria that caused much damage
to the city center.
(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2002 Oct 1, The West Coast
dockworker lockout continued.
(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 1, The DJIA rose 346 to
7,938. Nasdaq rose 41 to 1,213.
(SFC, 10/2/02, p.B1)
2002 Oct 1, New Jersey Democrats
chose former Senator Frank Lautenberg to be on the November ballot in
place of scandal-tainted Senator Robert Torricelli.
(AP, 10/1/03)
2002 Oct 1, Walter H. Annenberg
(94), media tycoon, philanthropist and former ambassador, died in
Wynnewood, Pa. Biographies included "Legacy: A Biography of Moses and
Walter Annenberg" by Christopher Ogden and "The Annenbergs" by John
Cooney.
(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A2)
2002 Oct 1, The French bolstered
their forces in Ivory Coast, flying in reinforcements and establishing
a tactical command post for military action in its embattled former
colony.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2002 Oct 1, German police found
the body of Jakob von Metzler, 11-year-old heir to a Frankfurt family
banking fortune, bundled under a lakeside dock, days after the boy was
kidnapped and a nearly million-dollar ransom was paid. In 2003 Magnus
Gaefgen (28) told the Frankfurt state court that he had not intended
the Sept. 27 kidnapping to end in death.
(AP, 10/1/02)(AP, 4/11/03)
2002 Oct 1, Two Indian naval
reconnaissance planes taking part in a ceremonial flypast collided in
mid-air over the western state of Goa, killing 15 people.
(Reuters, 10/1/02)(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A10)
2002 Oct 1, In Indian Kashmir
gunmen killed 9 people on a bus and attacked several polling stations
as voters shunned the third round of elections in the troubled state's
separatist heartland. 6 paramilitary troopers were killed when their
vehicle exploded south of Srinagar.
(Reuters, 10/1/02)(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A12)
2002 Oct 1, Allied aircraft
launched an airstrike in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq after Iraqi
aircraft penetrated the restricted area. Iraq agreed to a plan for the
return of UN weapons inspectors for the first time in nearly four
years, but ignored US demands for access to Saddam Hussein's palaces
and other contested sites. Iraq said it expected an advance party in
Baghdad in two weeks.
(AP, 10/1/07)(AP, 10/2/02)
2002 Oct 1, Rwanda began pulling
out 6,000 troops from a Congo border province, the latest stage in a
withdrawal of all its forces that it hopes to complete by week's end.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2002 Oct 1, In South Africa tens
of thousands of workers blew whistles and sang protest songs as they
marched in a nationwide strike protesting the government's
privatization plans.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2003 Oct 1, The United States took
over the month-long presidency of the U.N. Security Council at a time
when it was campaigning for approval of a new resolution aimed at
getting more countries to contribute troops and money to Iraq.
(AP, 10/1/04)
2003 Oct 1, Conservative
commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN, three days after saying
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated because the
media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.
(AP, 10/2/03)
2003 Oct 1, US officials
identified Abu Hazim al-Sha'ir (29), a Yemeni ex-bodyguard of Osama bin
Laden, as al Qaeda's new terror chief.
(WSJ, 10/2/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 1, A federal judge in
Texas ruled that former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay and Northern Trust
Corp., can be sued for allegedly failing to protect the Enron employee
pension plan.
(WSJ, 10/2/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 1, California state car
license fees increased $150 from $73 to $223.
(SFC, 9/29/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 1, Thousands of postal
workers in London began a 24-hour strike that was expected to cause
huge disruption to mail deliveries.
(AP, 10/1/03)
2003 Oct 1, Burkina Faso arrested
12 people in connection with an alleged coup plot.
(AP, 10/7/03)
2003 Oct 1, In southern Chechnya
gunmen opened fire on a car carrying the mayor of a town, killing the
local leader and his son, who was a police officer.
(AP, 10/2/03)
2003 Oct 1, In China new rules
took effect that eliminate a requirement for couples to get the
permission of their employers before they tie the knot.
(AP, 10/1/03)
2003 Oct 1, Prime Minister Bertie
Ahern said Ireland will ban smoking from all workplaces, including
pubs, in January despite rising opposition from lawmakers and business
owners.
(AP, 10/1/03)
2003 Oct 1, In Liberia West
African forces traded their camouflage helmets Wednesday for the blue
ones of the UN. Hours later clashes flared between rebels and loyalist
forces in Monrovia, leaving three civilians dead.
(Reuters, 10/1/03)
2003 Oct 1, In Rwanda the ruling
party of President Paul Kagame won nearly three-fourths of the vote the
multiparty legislative elections since independence from Belgium in
1962.
(AP, 10/1/03)
2003 Oct 1, Solomon Islands
Foreign Minister Laurie Chan said an Australian-led force has broken
the reign of gangsters and warlords terrorizing the Islands, paving the
way for the small South Pacific nation to start battling corruption.
(AP, 10/1/03)
2003 Oct 1, In southwestern
Zimbabwe a bus overturned and crashed after a tire burst, killing 16
people and injuring at least 28 in the second serious bus crash in
Zimbabwe in 24 hours.
(AP, 10/3/03)
2004 Oct 1, G7 ministers met in
Washington DC. Chinese officials were invited to attend for the 1st
time.
(Econ, 10/2/04, p.11)
2004 Oct 1, The U.S. Postal
Service canceled a brief experiment that allowed ordinary people to
make postage stamps using images of their dogs, babies and even, it
turned out, outlaws such as the Unabomber.
(AP, 10/4/04)
2004 Oct 1, The Utah state medical
examiner's office used dental records to identify Lori Hacking's
remains about six hours after they were discovered in a landfill.
(AP, 10/2/04)(SFC, 10/2/04, p.A2)
2004 Oct 1, Mount St. Helens
quieted down after spewing a plume of steam and ash, but only briefly.
Within hours of the eruption, seismic readings suggested pressure was
building again inside the volcano, which had been dormant for 18 years.
(AP, 10/2/04)
2004 Oct 1, Richard Avedon (81),
US fashion photographer, died in San Antonio, Tx.
(SFC, 10/2/04, p.A1)(Econ, 10/9/04, p.81)
2004 Oct 1, Australia’s PM John
Howard promised new legislation if it was needed to fight child
pornography following more than 200 arrests in a major country-wide
crackdown on Internet pornography.
(AFP, 10/1/04)
2004 Oct 1, British PM Tony Blair
reportedly underwent a procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat.
(AP, 10/1/04)
2004 Oct 1, US aid to Egypt for
fiscal 2005 began. The budget request of $535 million was down $40
million from 2004.
(WSJ, 7/14/04, p.A13)
2004 Oct 1, India's Border
Security Force (BSF) asked Bangladeshi authorities to hand over 126
Indian insurgents, including top leaders of guerrilla groups it says
are based in the neighboring country.
(Reuters, 10/1/04)
2004 Oct 1, A violent Maoist rebel
group proposed a seven-point peace agreement to the government of a
southern Indian state at their first-ever talks to end an insurgency in
which thousands of people have been killed.
(AP, 10/1/04)
2004 Oct 1, U.S. and Iraqi forces
launched a major assault to regain control of the insurgent stronghold
of Samarra, trading gunfire with rebel fighters as they pushed toward
the city center. The US said over 100 insurgents were killed.
(AP, 10/1/04)(SFC, 10/2/04, p.A3)
2004 Oct 1, In Iraq hospital
officials said at least seven civilians were killed and 13 wounded
during a US bombing attack in Falluja.
(AP, 10/2/04)
2004 Oct 1, Israel's security
Cabinet approved a large-scale military operation, dubbed "Days of
Penitence," to stop Palestinian rocket fire. Two Palestinians were
killed and three wounded when an Israeli tank fired a shell in the
Jebaliya refugee camp. 8 Palestinians were killed in the northern Gaza
Strip.
(AP, 10/1/04)(SFC, 10/2/04, p.A9)
2004 Oct 1, In Lebanon a car bomb
exploded in central Beirut, wounding a former Lebanese Cabinet minister
in an assassination attempt. The explosion killed the politician's
driver and seriously wounded his bodyguard.
(AP, 10/1/04)
2004 Oct 1, In eastern Pakistan a
suicide attacker detonated a huge bomb inside a crowded Shiite Muslim
mosque during prayers, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens
more.
(AP, 10/1/04)(SFC, 10/2/04, p.A9)
2004 Oct 1, Spain's Socialist
government approved a controversial law that would give gay and lesbian
couples the same right to marry, divorce and adopt children as
heterosexuals.
(Reuters, 10/1/04)
2004 Oct 1, The United Nations
launched a massive voluntary repatriation program to return an
estimated 340,000 Liberian refugees still scattered across West Africa.
(AP, 10/1/04)
2005 Oct 1, The SF Opera premiered
“Doctor Atomic” by composer John Adams. The libretto was by Peter
Sellars.
(SSFC, 10/2/05, p.A17)
2005 Oct 1-2005 Oct 2, In SF
financier Warren Hellman sponsored the 5th annual Hardly Strictly
Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park.
(SFC, 10/3/05, p.C1)
2005 Oct 1, In Connecticut
legislation permitting same-sex civil unions took effect.
(SSFC, 10/2/05, p.A5)
2005 Oct 1, In Norman, Oklahoma,
Joel Henry Hinrichs (21), a Univ. of Oklahoma student, committed
suicide using an explosive attached to his body near the Oklahoma
Memorial Stadium, where 84,000 people watched a football game.
(SFC, 10/3/05, p.A3)(WSJ, 10/13/05, p.B1)
2005 Oct 1, Paul Pena (b.1950), a
blind bluesman, died in SF. The 1999 film "Genghis Blues" won the
audience award at Sundance for best documentary. It was directed by
Roko and Adrian Belic and was about Paul Pena (1950-1955), a blind
bluesman, who journeyed to Tuva to compete in a throat-singing
competition.
(SFC, 10/4/05, p.B5)
2005 Oct 1, A banned Algerian
Islamic group with ties to al-Qaida rejected an amnesty for Islamic
militants, saying in a statement on its Web site that it had no need
for a government peace plan.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Oct 1, It was reported that
Louis Michaud, a Canadian engineer, had developed an “atmospheric
vortex engine” to harness energy from an artificial tornado.
(Econ, 10/1/05, p.76)
2005 Oct 1, Tens of thousands of
Chinese marked the 56th anniversary of Communist rule in Beijing's
Tiananmen Square with the country enjoying the benefits of two decades
of rapid economic growth but still facing deep-seated social problems.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Oct 1, China and Japan ended
2 days of talks with no resolution on their territorial dispute in the
East China Sea, which focused on oil and gas deposits straddling the
border.
(Econ, 10/8/05, p.52)
2005 Oct 1, Riot police forcibly
expelled striking union workers who had blockaded ports in Corsica and
southeastern France for days to protest against the planned
privatization of a state-run ferry operator.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Oct 1, In the Dominican Rep.
1,719 homicides were reported in the first eight months of the year,
compared to 1,513 during the same period in 2004. At least 25 children
have been killed or injured by stray bullets in the same period. Police
estimate guns are used in 75 percent of homicides.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Oct 1, A volcano in western
El Salvador erupted, sending a column of ash 50,000 feet into the air
and killing two farmers buried by chunks of earth and boiling water
that tumbled down the slopes.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 1, In Indonesia bombs
exploded almost simultaneously in two tourist areas of the resort
island of Bali, killing 20 people and wounding nearly 200 others.
Indonesia said suicide bombers carried out the blasts that bore the
hallmark of Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda. In 2006 Abdul Aziz
(30) was sentenced to eight years in prison for harboring the alleged
mastermind of the bombings. Aziz had also helped set up a Web site
calling on Muslims to wage war against "infidels." Mohammad Cholili
(28) was sentenced to 18 years in prison for helping to build the
bombs. Dwi Widiarto (34) was sentenced to 8 years for helping make the
bombers’ videotaped confessions. Anif Solchanudin was sentenced to 15
years in prison.
(AP, 10/2/05)(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/7/06)(AP, 9/14/06)
2005 Oct 1, The US military
released about 500 Iraqi detainees from the notorious Abu Ghraib
prison, completing its plan to free a total of more than 1,000 this
week in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Oct 1, In Iraq US Marines
began a 3-day offensive dubbed Iron Fist that included a sweep of the
insurgency stronghold of Karabila.
(SSFC, 11/13/05,
p.A1)(www.atsnn.com/story/174319.html)
2005 Oct 1, Japan privatized four
debt-ridden public corporations that run the nation's highways, in the
latest of PM Junichiro Koizumi's initiatives to reduce the size of
government.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Oct 1, The outer bands of
Hurricane Otis lashed the coast of western Mexico as the storm crawled
toward the Baja California peninsula, forcing hundreds of families to
evacuate their homes and flooding roads in Cabo San Lucas.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 1, A new Russian "public
chamber" met for the first time aiming to improve ties between
officials and society. A day earlier the Kremlin announced the first 42
members of the chamber, an assortment of religious leaders, Olympic
champions, businessmen, trade unionists and others. The members
discussed who else should be included, since they now have to choose a
further 42 people to join their group. They were also reported to have
started to plan their course of action.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Oct 1, A Russian rocket
roared into space in a burst of flame from Baikonur, Kazakhstan,
launching the world's third space tourist, US millionaire scientist
Gregory Olsen, and a U.S.-Russian crew on a two-day trip to the
international space station.
(AP, 10/1/05)
2005 Oct 1, In Yekaterinburg,
Russia, 5 teenagers, ranging in age from 12 to 17, were drunk when they
encountered a 21-year-old Jewish man and attacked him. After the man
fell to the ground, the group took a metal cross from a grave headstone
and stabbed him. A Russian court in 2007 sentenced the 5 teenagers to
prison terms of 5-10 years.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2005 Oct 1, In
South Korea Seoul's Mayor Lee Myung-bak led a ceremony for the
re-opening of the Chonggyechon stream buried beneath an elevated
highway for almost 50 years. Work to restore about 6 km of the stream
began in July, 2003, at a cost of around $350 million. The stream flows
through a narrow park that celebrates the history of Seoul.
(Reuters, 10/1/05)
2006 Oct 1, Tiger Woods won the
American Express Championship in Chandler's Cross, England. It was his
eighth victory of the year, making him the first player in PGA Tour
history to win at least eight times in three seasons.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2006 Oct 1, In Afghanistan 5
people were killed in various Taliban attacks and bomb blasts.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2006 Oct 1, Austrians began voting
in national elections that could swing the republic back to the
political center after more than six years of influence by the extreme
right. Without absentee ballots, the Social Democrats won 35.7%, giving
it the largest proportion of parliamentary seats. The People's Party,
led by Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel, came in second with 34.2%,
followed by the Freedom Party, which campaigned on an anti-foreigner
platform, with 11.2%. The Greens came in fourth with 10.5%.
(AP, 10/1/06)(AP, 10/2/06)(Econ, 10/7/06, p.60)
2006 Oct 1, Bosnians voted in
historic general elections that will choose the first government to run
the country without international supervision since the end of the
1992-1995 war.
(AFP, 10/1/06)
2006 Oct 1, Brazil held elections.
Brazil voted for president, the lower house of Congress, a third of the
Senate and all state governors and legislatures. Voter outrage over
alleged corruption and dirty tricks left Pres. Silva facing a tough
runoff for a 2nd term after Geraldo Alckmin, his main rival, staged a
surprise comeback. Silva got 48.6% compared to 41.6% for Alckmin, the
former governor of Sao Paulo state. Silva had seemed assured of a
first-round victory until two weeks ago when Worker Party operatives
were caught allegedly trying to pay $770,000 in cash for information to
incriminate Alckmin's Social Democracy Party. The target of the alleged
smear campaign was Jose Serra, an Alckmin ally who won the race to
become Sao Paulo state's next governor, handily beating the Workers'
Party candidate. Electoral officials said former President Fernando
Collor de Mello, forced from office in a corruption scandal in 1992 and
barred from politics for eight years, has won a seat in Brazil's Senate.
(AP, 10/2/06)(AP, 10/3/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.31)(AP,
10/1/07)
2006 Oct 1, In Britain sweeping
age-discrimination laws went into effect.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.66)
2006 Oct 1, China began its
week-long national day holiday, with rail stations and airports packed
and roads gridlocked around Tiananmen Square and at other major tourist
sites throughout the nation. In the southwestern city of Chongqing a
bus careened off a bridge and plunged nearly 100 feet into a river,
killing 30 people.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Oct 1, India said it will
give Islamabad evidence that Pakistan's spy agency planned the Mumbai
train bombings in July which killed more than 200 people.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Oct 1, In Iraq violence
killed at least 17 people in Baghdad and elsewhere including a woman
and a girl who died in a crossfire during a joint US-Iraqi raid on a
suspected militia member's home. Insurgents fired mortar rounds at
British targets at the Shat Al-Arab hotel in Basra. One landed on a
nearby home, killing a 7-year-old boy and his 3-year-old sister and
wounding a third child. Gunmen kidnapped 26 workers from a refrigerated
food factory in western Baghdad in what appeared to be a new sectarian
attack. The kidnapped workers included Shiites and Sunnis, and they
included 3 women. 7 bodies found in the predominantly Sunni
neighborhood of Dora were identified as victims of the food factory
kidnapping, but the whereabouts of the others were unknown. The
headless bodies of seven people, apparently the victims of sectarian
death squads, were found in Suwayrah, 25 miles south of Baghdad. A US
soldier died when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb west of
Baghdad.
(AP, 10/1/06)(AP, 10/2/06)(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 1, The Israeli army
abandoned positions in Lebanon, withdrawing the last of its troops from
its neighbor and fulfilling a key condition of the Aug. 14 cease-fire
that ended a monthlong war against Hezbollah.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Oct 1, Pakistani police
arrested six Afghan Taliban fighters at a private hospital in
Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Oct 1, Palestinian militiamen
from the ruling Hamas opened fire on government workers protesting
their unpaid salaries, touching off gunbattles with security forces
loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas. Seven people were killed in the
violence.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Oct 1, A reformist party
pulled out of Serbia's ruling coalition because of the government's
failure to capture war crimes suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic, which led to
the suspension of talks on joining the European Union.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Oct 1, In Thailand retired
army commander Gen. Surayud Chulanont (b.1943) was sworn as interim
prime minister following the announcement of a temporary constitution
that reserved considerable powers for the military coup makers.
(AP, 10/1/06)(WSJ, 10/2/06, p.A7)
2006 Oct 1, Typhoon Xangsane was
downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved inland from the central
Vietnam coast. At least 59 people were killed and thousands of homes
damaged. Damage was later estimated at $625 million.
(Reuters, 10/1/06)(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 1, Yemeni anti-terrorism
forces killed Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeie, a suspected al-Qaida member, who
was convicted of an attack on a French oil tanker and escaped from
prison earlier this year. The forces also killed another suspected
al-Qaida member, Mohammed al-Dailami, and arrested two other suspects.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Oct 1, In Zambia rioting
erupted in Lusaka after President Levy Mwanawasa surged ahead in
presidential polls and his principal rival slipped into third place.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2007 Oct 1, The DJIA rose 191.92
to a record 14,087.55, surpassing a mid-July closing record of
14,000.41. Nasdaq rose 39.49 to 2,740.
(SFC, 10/2/07, p.C1)(AP, 10/1/08)
2007 Oct 1, The Shakespeare
Theater Company opened the new Sidney Harman Hall, a 775-seat theater
in downtown Washington, DC.
(Econ, 10/6/07, p.34)
2007 Oct 1, Al Oerter (b.1936),
4-time Olympic gold medal winner in the discus throw, died in Fort
Myers, Fla.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Oerter)
2007 Oct 1, The US military
launched a new "Most Wanted" campaign offering rewards of up to
$200,000 for information leading to the capture of 12 Taliban and
al-Qaida leaders. Three men driving trucks to supply foreign soldiers
in the central province of Wardak were kidnapped.
(AP, 10/1/07)(AFP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, The African Union
began probing an unprecedented attack on one of its bases in Sudan's
war-ravaged Darfur that left 10 peacekeepers dead and 40 missing,
vowing to punish those responsible.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, The Bosnian Serb
parliament approved Igor Radojcic, the government's candidate, as
interim president following the death of President Milan Jelic.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, Britain’s Racial and
Religious Hatred Act came into force. This made it a crime for anyone
to use threatening words or behavior with the intention of stirring up
religious hatred. Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
was created to succeed the Commission for Racial Equality.
(Econ, 10/13/07, p.67)(Econ, 6/27/09,
p.61)(www.out-law.com/page-8512)
2007 Oct 1, The London Stock
Exchange completed its purchase of Borsa Italiana, cementing its
position as Europe's biggest equity market.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, The British
Broadcasting Corp. said it bought a 75-percent stake in the Lonely
Planet travel guides.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, A Canadian judge
acquitted three doctors, a New Jersey company and a former Red Cross
official of criminal charges in a tainted-blood scandal that infected
thousands of Canadians with HIV or hepatitis and resulted in more than
3,000 deaths.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, Ecuador’s Pres. Rafael
Correa announced a plan to wipe out the party system and tighten
government control of the economy after appearing to win a free hand to
overhaul the constitution.
(WSJ, 10/2/07, p.A8)
2007 Oct 1, Nokia Corp. said it is
buying US navigation-software maker Navteq Corp. for around $8.1
billion as the world's largest mobile phone maker continues to expand
services and content.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, A suicide car bomber
detonated his explosives just outside the gates of Mosul University,
killing an agriculture professor. An umbrella group for al-Qaida in
Iraq confirmed the death of Abu Osama al-Tunisi, a senior Tunisian
leader linked to the kidnapping and killings of US soldiers last year.
He was killed in a US airstrike south of Baghdad.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, Japan began a 1-year
process of privatizing its postal system, recognized as the world’s
largest bank with over $2 trillion in assets.
(Econ, 9/29/07, p.82)
2007 Oct 1, In Lebanon Nasser
Ismail, a suspected senior commander of the Fatah Islam militant group,
was captured by Palestinian refugees and turned over to the Lebanese
military after he spent weeks in hiding.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, Myanmar's junta leader
stalled a UN envoy for yet another day, delaying his chance to present
international demands for an end to the crackdown on the largest
protests in two decades. A Norway-based dissident news organization,
the Democratic Voice of Burma, said pro-democracy activists estimate
138 people were killed in the recent protests. Shari Villarosa, the top
US diplomat in Myanmar, said her staff had visited up to 15 monasteries
around Yangon and every single one was empty. She put the number of
arrested demonstrators, monks and civilians, in the thousands.
(AP, 10/1/07)(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, A burqa-clad woman
blew herself up and killed at least 16 people at a crowded police
checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan. It was believed to be the first
time a female suicide bomber has struck inside the country. Pakistan's
top court ordered three officials suspended over a crackdown that
wounded dozens of journalists and lawyers during protests against
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid.
(AP, 10/1/07)(AFP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, Dozens of freed
Palestinian prisoners kissed the ground at this West Bank checkpoint
after Israel released them in a gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas
ahead of a US-sponsored Mideast peace conference. Israeli troops killed
two Hamas militants in Gaza in a gunbattle.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, President Vladimir
Putin said he would lead the dominant party's ticket in December
parliamentary elections and suggested he could become prime minister,
the strongest sign yet that he will try to keep power after he leaves
office.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, Fighting broke out
between Somaliland and Puntland in the disputed Sool region and at
least 10 people were killed in a battle for control of Las Anod.
(Econ, 10/6/07, p.56)
2007 Oct 1, Sudan's Pres. Omar
Hassan al-Bashir, during talks with members of a visiting group of
elder statesmen, promised to pay $300 million in compensation to the
country's war-torn Darfur region, tripling a previous pledge. This was
made public 2 days later by former US President Jimmy Carter, one of
the visiting elders.
(Reuters, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 1, Swiss banking giant
UBS warned that the crisis in the US housing market had cost it around
4.0 billion Swiss francs, as it announced a major management shakeup
and plans to cut 1,500 jobs.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, Syria began requiring
visas for Iraqis entering the country, hoping to stem the flow of
refugees fleeing violence in their homeland.
(AP, 10/1/07)
2007 Oct 1, Zimbabwe's central
bank chief warned of "dangers" in a bill approved by legislators which
says that locals must own a majority of foreign-run firms.
(AFP, 10/2/07)
2008 Oct 1, The US Senate voted
74-25 for its version of a $700 billion rescue of the nation’s banking
system. A 2nd House vote was set for Oct 3. The 451-page bill was
larded with earmarks adding billions of dollars in tax breaks with
little to do with restoring confidence in financial markets.
(SFC, 10/2/08, p.A1)(SFC, 10/3/08, p.A1)
2008 Oct 1, The US Senate voted
overwhelmingly in favor of overturning a three-decade ban on atomic
trade with India, allowing American businesses to begin selling nuclear
fuel, technology and reactors in exchange for safeguards and UN
inspections of India's civilian nuclear plants. In response Pakistani
PM Yousaf Raza Gilani said: "Now Pakistan also has the right to demand
a civilian nuclear agreement with America. We want there to be no
discrimination. Pakistan will also strive for a nuclear deal and we
think they will have to accommodate us."
(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Oct 1, Africom, a US command
structure created one year ago, took over all US military operations in
Africa. Many on the continent feared that the program has a hidden
agenda skewed by the war on terror and a self-interested scramble for
resources.
(AP, 9/30/08)(www.africom.mil/AboutAFRICOM.asp)
2008 Oct 1, US officials said they
have seized almost two tons of cocaine from a Panama-flagged cargo ship
in international waters off Puerto Rico. The cocaine was hidden on a
ship, which was loaded with coal and had launched from Colombia.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1, Warren Buffett’s
Berkshire Hathaway agreed to invest $3 billion in preferred shares of
GE and the right to buy another $3 billion in stock at $22.25 a share
for 5 years.
(WSJ, 10/2/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 1, In Oakland, Ca., Mayor
Dellums, officials from developer Shorenstein Co. and the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co. broke ground on a new $240 million, 23-story office
tower. 601 City Center was expected to open in 2 years.
(SFC, 10/2/08, p.B3)
2008 Oct 1, Two days of torrential
rains in the Algerian desert created flash floods. 43 deaths were later
confirmed.
(AP, 10/2/08)(AP, 10/12/08)
2008 Oct 1, In Australia a
7-year-old boy broke into the popular Alice Springs zoo, fed a string
of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to
death with a rock. By the time he was done, 13 animals worth around
$5,500 had been killed, including a turtle, bearded dragons and thorny
devil lizards.
(AP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 1, In Australia a major
report to the government on global warming suggested that Australians
should eat kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1, The Bank of England
offered 40 billion dollars (22.6 billion pounds) to banking
institutions on a one-week tender amid ongoing world economic turmoil.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1, Fifteen more Chinese
dairy companies were identified as producing milk products contaminated
with an industrial chemical, further broadening a scandal affecting
products ranging from baby formula to chocolate.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1, Berhe Gebreegziabher,
the head of Ethiopia’s animal health in the agriculture ministry, said
an outbreak of African horse sickness has killed more than 2,000
horses, mules and donkeys in Ethiopia since March.
(AFP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1, The EU imposed one of
its highest ever cartel fines on a "paraffin mafia" accused of fixing
prices and markets for everyday household products like chewing gum,
tires and candles.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1, EU monitors began
patrolling Georgian territory and Russian troops allowed some of them
into a buffer zone around the breakaway region of South Ossetia despite
earlier warnings from Moscow they would be blocked.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1-2008 Oct 3, In India
over 100,000 Bollywood actors, technicians and cameramen began an
indefinite strike protesting irregular pay and the hiring of non-union
members. The strike was called off Oct 3 after unions and producers
announced they had thrashed out a deal for better pay and working
conditions.
(WSJ, 10/2/08, p.A14)(AFP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 1, The Iraqi government
took responsibility for paying some 54,000 members of Sunni Arab groups
fighting al-Qaeda. A bombing in a car parked outside a kebab restaurant
in the mostly Shiite commercial district of Karradah in central Baghdad
killed at least three people.
(AP, 10/1/08)(WSJ, 10/2/08, p.A14)
2008 Oct 1, In Japan a pre-dawn
fire raged through an adult video theater in the western city of Osaka,
killing at least 15 people and injuring 10 others.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1, Kenyan police arrested
Andrew Mwangura, a maritime watchdog official, on suspicion of criminal
activity just days after the official gave reporters sensitive
information about a hijacked arms freighter off Somalia's coast.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Oct 1, The Russian Supreme
Court declared the last czar and his murdered family to be victims of
political repression, a decision that helps Russia move toward closing
a chapter in its tortured history.
(AP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1, In Somalia at least
seven civilians were killed in a mortar fire exchange that erupted when
an African Union (AU) plane landed at Mogadishu airport in defiance of
a "ban" by an Islamist militia. 28 Somali migrants died after their
boat capsized off the town of Shabwa because of strong wind and high
waves. A Yemen coast guard patrol reached the boat and rescued 23 other
migrants.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Oct 1, Spanish police said
they have staged their biggest ever operation against Internet child
pornography, arresting 121 people suspected of involvement in a network
that reached 75 countries. Some 800 police took part in Operation
Carousel, an investigation that began last year in cooperation with
Brazilian police.
(AFP, 10/1/08)
2008 Oct 1, In central Tanzania a
stampede at an overcrowded dance hall in Tabora killed 20 children and
left 50 others injured as they celebrated the Islamic Eid al-Fitr
festival.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Oct 1, In Venezuela Julio
Soto, a student leader at the University of Zulia, was killed by
unidentified gunmen in the western city of Maracaibo. Assailants
sprayed his vehicle with gunfire and then fled without taking anything.
Soto had helped organize protests against constitutional amendments
proposed by President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 10/1/08)
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