Today in History - October 3
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1226 Oct 3, St.
Francis of Assisi (b.1182), founder of the Franciscan order, died. He
was canonized in 1228 and entombed in the St. Francis Basilica in 1230.
In 1983 Olivier Messiaen premiered his opera “Saint Francis d’Assise.”
In 2001 Adrian House authored “Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary
Life;” Valerie Martin authored “Salvation: Scenes From the Life of St.
Francis.” In 2002 Donald Spoto authored “Reluctant Saint: The Life of
Francis of Assisi.” [see Oct 4]
(AP, 10/3/97)(SFEC, 7/25/99, DB p.32)(SSFC, 3/25/01,
BR p.1,6)(SSFC, 9/29/02, p.D2)(SFC, 10/3/02, p.A19)
1430 Oct 3, Jews were expelled
from Eger, Bohemia.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1564 Oct 3, Christophorus
Fabritius, [Christoffel Smit], Calvinist vicar, was burned at the stake.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1569 Oct 3, Battle of Montcontour
the Duke of Anjou beat the Huguenots.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1650 Oct 3, The English parliament
declared its rule over the fledgling American colonies.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1656 Oct 3, Myles Standish,
Plymouth Colony leader, died (birth date unknown).
(MC, 10/3/01)
1691 Oct 3, English and Dutch
armies occupied Limerick, Ireland.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1728 Oct 3, Charles G Chevalier
d'Eon de Beaumont, French duelist, spy and transvestite, was born.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1739 Oct 3, Russia signed a treaty
with the Turks, ending a three-year conflict between the two countries.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1776 Oct 3, Congress borrowed five
million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the
colonies.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1778 Oct 3, Capt. Cook anchored
off Alaska.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1789 Oct 3, George Washington
proclaimed the 1st national Thanksgiving Day to be Nov 26.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1789 Oct 3, George Washington
proclaimed the 1st national Thanksgiving Day to be Nov 26.
(MC, 10/3/01)
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge
the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for
His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and
Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee,
requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of
public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with
grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially
by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of
government for their safety and happiness:"
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday,
the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these
States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the
beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be;
that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble
thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country
previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold
mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the
course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of
tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the
peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish
constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and
particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and
religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of
acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the
great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and
supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to
pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether
in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative
duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a
blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise,
just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and
obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially
such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good
governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice
of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and
us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal
prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
(Ihub, 11/27/03)
1790 Oct 3, John Ross, Chief of
the United Cherokee Nation from 1839 to 1866, was born near Lookout
Mountain, Tennessee. Although his father was Scottish and his mother
only part Cherokee, Ross was named Tsan-Usdi (Little John) and raised
in the Cherokee tradition. A settled people with successful farms,
strong schools, and a representative government, the Cherokee resided
on 43,000 square miles of land they had held for centuries.
(LCTH, 10/3/99)
1800 Oct 3, George Bancroft,
historian, known as the "Father of American History" for his 10-volume
A History of the United States, was born.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1803 Oct 3, John Gorrie, inventor
of the cold-air process of refrigeration, was born.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1814 Oct 3, Mikhail Yurevich
Lermontov (d.1841), Russian poet and writer (Demon), was born.
(WUD, 1994 p.822)(MC, 10/3/01)
1854 Oct 3, William Crawford
Gorgas (d.1920), US Surgeon-Gen, was born. He helped cure yellow fever.
He served as the chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal (1904-1913).
(WUD, 1994 p.610)(MC, 10/3/01)
1862 Oct 3, At the Battle of
Corinth, in Mississippi, a Union army defeated the Confederates.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1863 Oct 3, President Lincoln
declared the last Thursday in November, Thanksgiving Day. Credit for
establishing Thanksgiving as a national holiday is usually given to
Sarah J. Hale, editor and founder of the Ladies' Magazine in Boston.
Her editorials in the magazine and letters to President Lincoln urging
the formal establishment of a national holiday of Thanksgiving resulted
in Lincoln's proclamation, which designated the last Thursday of
November as Thanksgiving Day. Later presidents followed this example,
with the exception of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in 1939 proclaimed
Thanksgiving Day a week earlier--on the fourth, not the last, Thursday
of November--in effort to encourage more holiday shopping. In 1941
Congress adopted a joint resolution, permanently setting the date of
Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November.
(AP, 10/3/97)(HN, 11/26/98)(HNPD, 11/26/98)(HN,
11/25/99)
1867 Oct 3, Pierre Bonnard
(d.1947), French painter and illustrator, was born. He wrote that he
wanted to “show what one sees when one enters a room all of a sudden.”
He married Marthe de Meligny in 1925 and during his life painted some
384 images of her. In 1998 John Elderfield and Sarah Whitfield
published “Bonnard.”
(WSJ, 6/24/98, p.A16)(SFEC, 8/2/98, BR
p.9)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_H_AseJpss)
1867 Oct 3, Elias Howe, one of the
inventors of the sewing machine, died. In 1968 Grace Rogers Cooper
authored “”The Invention of the Sewing Machine.”
(ON, 11/00, p.9)(HNQ, 2/27/02)
1872 Oct 3, Bloomingdale's
department store opened in NYC.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1873 Oct 3, Captain Jack and three
other Modoc Indians were hanged in Oregon for the murder of General
Edward Canby.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1876 Oct 3, John L. Routt, the
Colorado Territory governor, was elected the first state governor of
Colorado in the Centennial year of the U.S.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1882 Oct 3, Gunther von Kluge,
German field marshal, was born.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1896 Oct 3, William Morris
(b.1834), English artist and writer, died. In 1995 Fiona MacCarthy
authored the biography: “William Morris.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris)(WSJ,
1/21/07, p.P9)
1899 Oct 3, J.S. Thurman patented
a motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1900 Oct 3, Thomas Wolfe (d.1938),
American author (Look Homeward Angel), was born. "All youth is bound to
be 'misspent'; there is something in its very nature that makes it so,
and that is why all men regret it." "Loneliness ... is and always has
been the central and inevitable experience of every man."--From "You
Can't Go Home Again.”
(AP, 7/28/97)(AP, 9/18/98)(HN, 10/3/98)
1900 Oct 3, Edward Elgar, Cardinal
John Henry Newman's oratorium, premiered in Birmingham.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1902 Oct 3,
President Theodore Roosevelt met with miners and coal field operators
in an attempt to settle the anthracite coal strike, then in its fifth
month. The country relied on coal to power commerce and industry and
anthracite or “hard coal” was essential for domestic heating.
Pennsylvania miners had left the anthracite fields demanding wage
increases, union recognition, and an eight-hour workday. As winter
approached, public anxiety about fuel shortages and the rising cost of
all coal pushed Roosevelt to take unprecedented action. A presidential
commission awarded the workers a 10% wage increase and a shorter work
week. [see May 12]
(LCTH, 10/3/99)(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A17)
1906 Oct 3, The first conference
on wireless telegraphy in Berlin adopted SOS as warning signal.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1909 Oct 3, Herblock (Herbert
Block, d.2001), political cartoonist, was born.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1913 Oct 3, A 1% US federal income
tax was signed into law. [see Oct 13]
(MC, 10/3/01)
1916 Oct 3, James Herriot
(d.1995), Yorkshire veterinarian and author, was born in Sunderland,
England. His books include "All Creatures Great and Small." [see Mar 10]
(HN, 10/3/00)
1919 Oct 3, The Serbian, Croatian
& Slavic (Yugoslavia) parliament agreed on an 8 hr work day.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1922 Oct 3, Rebecca L. Felton,
D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. Mrs.
Felton had been appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen.
Thomas E. Watson.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1922 Oct 3, The 1st facsimile
photo (fax) was sent over city telephone lines in Washington, DC.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1925 Oct 3, Gore Vidal, writer
(Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln, DC, Burr), was born in West Point, NY. He
was named Eugen Luther Gore Vidal. His first book at age 20 was titled
"Williwaw." A memoir of his 1st 39 years was titled "Palimpsest." In
1999 some collected essays were published under the title "Sexually
Speaking: Collected Sex Writings." In 1993 a collection of essays was
titled "United States: 1952-1992".
(SFEC, 11/7/99, BR p.5)(HN, 10/3/00)
1929 Oct 3, The Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of
Yugoslavia. It included the regions of Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia,
Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Macedonia. King Alexander I renamed
the Balkan state called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes,
Yugoslavia. The Kingdom had been formed on December 1, 1918 and was
ruled by the Serbian Karageorgevic dynasty. It included the previously
independent kingdoms of Serbia and Macedonia, the Hungarian-controlled
regions of Croatia and Slovenia, the Austrian province of Dalmatia,
Carniola and parts of Styria, Carinthia and Istria.
(AP, 10/3/97)(HN, 10/3/98)(HNQ, 3/26/99)(LCTH,
10/3/99)
1931 Oct 3, Carl August Nielsen,
composer, died at 66.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1932 Oct 3, Iraq became
independent after a hundred years of direct foreign rule. Created as a
British mandate after World War I, Iraq received its full independence
when it was admitted into the League of Nations.
(NH, 9/96, p.14)(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)(HNQ,
6/20/99)(MC, 10/3/01)
1935 Oct 3, Italy invaded
Ethiopia.
(DoD, 1999,
p.237)(www.onwar.com/aced/data/india/italyethiopia1935.htm)
1940 Oct 3, U.S. Army adopted
airborne, or parachute, soldiers.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1940 Oct 3, In France the Vichy
government passed a law that placed great restrictions on French Jews.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A9)(MC, 10/3/01)
1941 Oct 3, The film "Maltese
Falcon," starring Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade, opened. It
was directed by John Huston (34).
(HN, 10/3/00)(SFCM, 2/6/05, p.10)
1941 Oct 3, Adolf Hitler declared
in a speech in Berlin that Russia is "broken" and would "never rise
again."
(AP, 10/3/97)
1941 Oct 3, Nazi's blew up 6
synagogues in Paris. [see Oct 2]
(MC, 10/3/01)
1941 Oct 3, All elderly Jewish men
of Kerenchug, Ukraine, were killed by SS.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1942 Oct 3, President Roosevelt
established the Office of Economic Stabilization and authorized
controls on farm prices, rents, wages and salaries.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1942 Oct 3, In Germany the
rocket-development team of Werner von Braun conducted the 1st
successful test flight of an A-4/V-2 missile from the Peenemunde test
site. It flew perfectly over a 118-mile course to an altitude of 53
miles (85 km). The 13-ton, 46-foot long V2 rocket was the world’s 1st
long-range ballistic missile.
(HN, 10/3/98)(AM, 5/01, p.63)(WSJ, 2/21/09, p.A5)
1944 Oct 3, During World War II,
U.S. troops cracked the Siegfried Line north of Aachen, Germany.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1944 Oct 3, German troops
evacuated Athens, Greece.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1947 Oct 3, The 1st telescope lens
200" (508 cm) in diameter completed.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1951 Oct 3, Bobby Thompson won the
pennant for the New York Giants by hitting a home run off of Ralph
Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers at the New York Polo Grounds before
20,000 empty seats. Outfielder Bobby Thomson hit a home run in the
bottom of the ninth inning, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4 to win the
National League pennant. In 2001 the WSJ confirmed roomers that the
Giants had concealed an electric buzzer and a telescope to steal the
signals of the opposing catchers. In 2006 Joshua Prager authored ”The
Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the
Shot Heard Round the World.”
(HN, 10/3/00)(WSJ, 6/21/05, p.B1)(WSJ, 9/19/06, p.B1)
1952 Oct 3, The situation comedy
"Our Miss Brooks," formerly a radio show, premiered on CBS with Eve
Arden again in the title role. Robert Rockwell played her love
interest, the biology teacher
(AP, 10/3/02)(SFC, 1/28/03, p.A15)
1952 Oct 3, The 1st video
recording on magnetic tape was made in LA, Ca.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1952 Oct 3, The British detonated
their 1st atomic bomb, a 25-kiloton device, in the Monte Bello Islands
off Australia. In 1998 a visit to the islands was limited to one hour
due to lingering radiation.
(SFC, 1/2/99, p.A14)(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A26)(AP,
10/3/08)
1953 Oct 3, Arnold Edward Trevor
Bax, British composer (Coronation March), died at 69.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1954 Oct 3, Al Sharpton, 2004
Democrat presidential candidate, was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SSFC, 2/29/04, p.D2)
1955 Oct 3, “Captain Kangaroo”
with Bob Keeshan began its run on CBS TV. The show ended in 1993.
(WSJ, 3/6/97, p.B1)(AP, 10/3/00)
1955 Oct 3, The Disney sponsored
Mickey Mouse Club began on ABC TV and ran to 1959.
(AP, 10/3/00)(SFC, 11/30/98, p.A8)
1957 Oct 3, The comedy series "The
Real McCoys" premiered on ABC-TV. Richard Crenna began playing the
married Luke on "The Real McCoys." The 6-year series starred Walter
Brennan as head of a West Virginia clan that moves to the LA San
Fernando Valley.
(SFC, 1/20/03, p.B4)(AP, 10/3/07)
1957 Oct 3, Willy Brandt was
elected mayor of West Berlin.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1960 Oct 3, "The Andy Griffith
Show" premiered on CBS. It ran to 1968. Don Knotts (d.2006 at 81)
played the bumbling Deputy Barney.
(WSJ, 1/16/98, p.A1)(AP, 10/3/00)(AP, 2/26/06)
1961 Oct 3, “The Dick Van Dyke
Show,” also starring Mary Tyler Moore, made its debut on CBS.
(AP, 10/3/01)
1962 Oct 3, "Stop the World"
opened at Shubert NYC for 886 performances.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1962 Oct 3, The SF Giants beat the
LA Dodgers to win baseball's National League Pennant.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.E9)
1962 Oct 3, Astronaut Wally
Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Sigma 7 on a
nine-hour flight.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1963 Oct 3, Meredith Wilson’s
Broadway musical “Here’s Love,” featuring Dom DeLuise, opened at the
Shubert Theater. The show close on July 25, 1964.
(SFC, 5/6/09,
p.A9)(www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3024)
1964 Oct 3-4, East Berliners dug a
470-foot tunnel, Tunnel 57, to the West and 57 people escaped.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.T5)(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A27)
1967 Oct 3, William J. Knight
(d.2004), US Air Force test pilot, set a speed record in a
rocket-powered X-15-2A that reached 4,520 mph. Knight later served as a
California state senator (1996-2004).
(SSFC, 5/9/04, p.B7)
1967 Oct 3, Woody Guthrie
(b.1912), born as Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, folksinger, died from
Huntington’s disease. In 1998 Billy Bragg and the band Wilco released a
new album based on Guthrie’s lyrics: "Mermaid Avenue." In 1998 a Woody
Guthrie archive was opened on W. 57th St. in NYC. In 2002 Elizabeth
Partridge authored "This Land Was made for You and Me: The Life and
Songs of Woody Guthrie." In 2004 Ed Cray authored "Ramblin' Man: The
Life and Times of Woody Guthrie."
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)(SFEC, 6/21/98, DB p.38)(SFC,
11/27/98, p.C11)(SFC, 11/23/00, p.C5)(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.M3)(SFC, 3/30/04,
p.E1)
1967 Oct 3, Malcolm Sargent,
English conductor (Last Night of Proms), died at 72.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1968 Oct 3, The Howard Sackler
play, "Great White Hope," starring James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander,
opened on Broadway.
(AP, 10/3/08)
1968 Oct 3, American Independent
Party presidential candidate George Wallace tapped retired Air Force
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay to be his running mate.
(AP, 10/3/08)
1968 Oct 3, In Peru the military
seized power in a coup. Pres. Belaunde was overthrown by Gen. Juan
Velasco.
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.B4)(WUD, 1994, p.1687)(SFC,
6/5/02, p.A23)
1970 Oct 3, "Coco" closed at Mark
Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances.
(www.playbill.com/news/article/117071.html)
1970 Oct 3, Baseball umpires
called their 1st strike. A one-day strike of the first game of the
championship playoffs, the first by umpires in major league history,
prompted the league presidents to recognize the Association and
negotiate a labor contract that set a minimum salary of $11,000 and
raised the average salary to $21,000.
(www.sdabu.com/history_main.htm)
1974 Oct 3, Frank Robinson was
named major-league baseball's first black manager as he was placed in
charge of the Cleveland Indians.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1977 Oct 3, In India Indira Gandhi
(1917-1984) was arrested for political corruption. She was released the
next day.
(http://tinyurl.com/2xq3bt)
1978 Oct 3, Ayatollah Khomeini
(1902-1989) left Iraq for Kuwait after the Shah sought his deportation.
He was refused entry in Kuwait and moved to Paris.
(www.iranchamber.com/history/rkhomeini/ayatollah_khomeini.php)
1981 Oct 3, IRA prisoners at Maze
Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended a seven-month hunger strike
in which 10 men died. Imprisoned Irish Republic Army leader Bobby Sands
initiated the protest on March 1, the fifth anniversary of the British
policy of "Criminalization" of Irish political prisoners. Many of these
prisoners did not have trials.
(AP,
10/3/97)(http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/hstrike/chronology.htm)
1985 Oct 3, Charles Collingwood
(b.1917), CBS newscaster, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Collingwood_(journalist))
1987 Oct 3, Negotiators for the
United States and Canada reached agreement in Washington D.C., on a
framework to eliminate all tariffs between the world's two largest
trading partners.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1987 Oct 3, Jean Anouilh (77),
French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), died.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/anouilh.htm)
1988 Oct 3, Discovery completed a
four-day mission, the first American shuttle flight since the
Challenger disaster.
(AP, 10/3/98)
1988 Oct 3, Generoso Pope
(b.1927), owner of the National Enquirer, died. His wife, Lois Pope,
began a career of philanthropy. In 2008 Jack Titek authored “The
Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer.”
(SFEC, 7/30/00, Par p.10)(WSJ, 8/12/08, p.A19)
1988 Oct 3, Franz Josef Strauss
(b.1915), German defense minister (1956-62), died at 73.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strau%C3%9F)
1988 Oct 3, Lebanese kidnappers
released Indian educator Mithileshwar Singh, who'd been held captive
with three Americans for more than 20 months.
(AP, 10/3/98)
1989 Oct 3, Art Shell became the
first African-American to coach a professional football team, the Los
Angeles Raiders.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1989 Oct 3, In a move to stem the
flow of refugees to the West, East Germany suspended unrestricted
travel to Czechoslovakia.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1989 Oct 3, Troops loyal to
Panamanian leader General Manuel Noriega crushed a coup attempt by
rebel mid-level officers. The officers, including Maj. Moises Giroldi,
who led the failed coup against Noriega were later executed. Noriega
was convicted in absentia in 1995 and in 1999 Panama sought his
extradition to face trial.
(AP, 10/3/99)(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A1)(SFC, 1/25/07, p.A14)
1990 Oct 3, West Germany and
East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation
of a new unified country. Formal reunification took place after a
unification treaty was ratified by the Federal Republic‘s Bundestag and
the German Democratic Republic‘s People‘s Chamber in September.
(AP, 10/3/97)(HN, 10/3/98)(HNQ, 11/10/99)
1990 Oct 3, Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein made his first known visit to Kuwait since his country seized
control of the oil-rich emirate.
(AP, 10/3/00)
1991 Oct 3, Arkansas Gov. Bill
Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
(AP, 10/3/01)
1991 Oct 3, South African author
Nadine Gordimer was named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, BR p.3)(AP, 10/3/01)
1992 Oct 3, President Bush vetoed
a measure to re-regulate cable television. Congress overrode the veto
two days later.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1992 Oct 3, Sinead O'Connor, Irish
rock singer, ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night
Live.
(www.notbored.org/sinead.html)
1992 Oct 3, William Gates, the
college-dropout founder of Microsoft, headed the Forbes magazine 400
list of the richest Americans with a net worth of 6.3 billion dollars.
His assets reached 51 billion in 2005.
(http://tinyurl.com/8ex5w)(www.forbes.com/lists/2005/54/BH69.html)
1993 Oct 3, President Clinton
expressed sorrow at the deaths of American soldiers in Somalia, but
reaffirmed that U.S. forces would stay in the African nation.
(AP, 10/3/98)
1993 Oct. 3, Eighteen US Rangers
and Delta Force specialists died in a botched raid in Somalia and over
70 were wounded. In 1999 Mark Bowden published "Black Hawk Dawn," an
account of the failed attempt to capture Mohammed Farrah Aidid. At
least 500 Somalis were killed and 1,000 injured.
(WSJ, 10/23/95, p.A-18)(WSJ, 3/11/99, p.A20)(SFEC,
3/28/99, BR p.3)(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A1)
1993 Oct 3, Boris Yeltsin declared
a state of emergency in Moscow, as fighting erupted in the streets
between pro- and anti-Yeltsin forces. 62 people died in the violence,
that ended two days later when the rebel vice president and speaker of
parliament surrendered. A battle at the TV station Ostankino, Moscow,
killed as many as 100 people. Cameraman Rory Peck (b.1956) was shot
dead by members of the "Vitez" special forces unit of the Russian
Interior Ministry while filming the storming by opposition supporters
of the Ostankino TV Center.
(AP,
10/3/98)(http://tinyurl.com/8cg4r)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Peck)
1994 Oct 3, U.S. soldiers in Haiti
raided the headquarters of a hated pro-army militia.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1994 Oct 3, US Agriculture
Secretary Mike Espy announced his resignation because of questions
about gifts he had received.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1994 Oct 3, South African
President Nelson Mandela addressed the United Nations, urging the world
to support his country's economy.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1995 Oct 3, A public government
report cited US government biological and chemical experiments and
called the events “a dark period in our history.”
(SFC, 2/21/98, p.A15)
1995 Oct 3, The jury in the O.J.
Simpson murder trial found the former football star innocent of the
1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald
Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in a civil proceeding. The
verdict, reached Oct 2, was announced Oct 3.
(AP, 10/3/97)(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-1)(SFEC, 9/8/96, BR
p.1)
1995 Oct 3, In Texas three young
crooks stole a suitcase from a walk-in storage locker in North Austin.
The suitcase contained some $80,000 in coins stashed by Gary Karr,
David Roland Waters and Danny Raymond Fry, who were implicated in the
disappearance of atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A7)
1995 Oct 3, Pres. Gligorov, leader
of Macedonia, was critically hurt in a car bomb attack in Skopje,
Macedonia.
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-1)
1995 Oct 3, The Sri Lankan army
claimed to have killed 200 Tamil Tiger rebels on the northern Jaffa
peninsula.
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-1)
1996 Oct 3, A report found 25% of
all 4,025 known species of mammals to be at risk of extinction. This
included nearly half of all monkeys and apes.
(SFC, 10/4/96, p.A1)
1996 Oct 3, Wislawa Szymborska,
Polish poet, won the Nobel Prize for poetry. Her work included the
transl. collection: “View With a Grain of Sand,” her debut collection
“That’s Why We Are Alive” (1952), Salt (1962), “The People on the
Bridge” (1986), and “The End and the Beginning” (1993).
(AP, 10/3/97)(WSJ, 10/4/96, p.A7)
1997 Oct 3, Attorney General Janet
Reno said Justice Department investigators had no evidence President
Clinton violated the law with White House coffees and overnight stays
for big contributors. However, Reno did extend a probe of Vice
President Al Gore's telephone fund-raising.
(AP, 10/3/98)
1997 Oct 3, US Defense Sec.
William Cohen ordered the Nimitz Carrier Battle Group to the Persian
Gulf as a warning to Iran and Iraq to stop incursions into the
US-enforced “no-fly” zone in southern Iraq.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A8)
1997 Oct 3, In Humboldt County,
Ca., 2 protestors attached themselves to bulldozers of the Pacific
Lumber Company. Sheriff’s deputies applied pepper spray directly to the
eyes of the protestors using cotton swabs and Q-tips.
(SFC,10/31/97, p.A15)
1997 Oct 3, In Idaho the US Forest
Service arranged a land swap with the Riley Creek Lumber Co. to
preserve an ancient cedar grove at Upper Priest Lake. Riley Creek paid
less than $2 million in 1992 for the grove and obtained $8.7 million
worth of federal land in exchange.
(SFC, 10/6/97, p.A3)
1997 Oct 3, Alfred Leslie Rowse,
British historian, died at 93.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064257)
1997 Oct 3, In Algeria armed men
killed 38 people at the village of Mahelma. Throats of the victims were
slit, heads were cut off and houses were set on fire. In Blida 10
people were killed and 20 wounded by assailants with homemade rockets
and bombs. Another group of attackers killed 75 others including 34
children. In the village of Ouled Benaissa armed men killed 37 people
including 22 children.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A10)(SFEC, 10/5/97, p.A22)
1997 Oct 3, From Brazil it was
reported that tuberculosis has killed at least 27 members of the
Guarani-Kaiowa tribe in the past 15 months.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B5)
1997 Oct 3, In Columbia a
paramilitary group hired to protect a cocaine shipment killed 11
judicial officials near the town of San Carlos de Guaroa.
(SFC, 10/6/97, p.A11)
1997 Oct 3, UN officials reported
that Congo has ordered int’l. refugee agencies to leave part of eastern
Congo and was expelling Rwandans who have fled there to escape fighting
in Rwanda.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Oct 3, In Japan an
experimental magnetically levitated train, the MLX01, set a world speed
record when it reached 279.6 mph on a test track.
(SFC, 10/6/97, p.B8)
1997 Oct 3, Turkish jets bombed
escape routes used by Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. Over the last 13
days the army reported 415 rebels dead vs. 6 of its own soldiers.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A10)
1998 Oct 3, The G-7 finance
ministers agreed to explore Pres. Clinton’s proposed strategy for early
IMF intervention to support weak economies. Masaru Hayami, governor of
the Bank of Japan, said that capital supporting 19 major banks had
dwindled to dangerously low levels. The Finance Ministers and Central
Bank Governors commissioned Dr Hans Tietmeyer, President of the
Deutsche Bundesbank, to recommend new structures for enhancing
co-operation among the various national and international supervisory
bodies and international financial institutions so as to promote
stability in the international financial system. This led to the
formation of the Financial Stability Forum on Apr 14, 1999.
(SFEC, 10/4/98, p.A1)(SFC, 10/5/98,
p.A3)(www.fsforum.org/about/genesis_of_the_fsf.html)
1998 Oct 3, Actor Roddy McDowall
died at age 70. His films included “Lassie Come Home,” and “Cleopatra.”
(SFEC, 10/4/98, p.B10)
1998 Oct 3, In Australia
parliamentary elections were scheduled. The conservative coalition of
John Howard won re-election by a narrow margin.
(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 10/4/98, p.A17)
1998 Oct 3, In Chechnya 4 men
working to install a cellular phone system were kidnapped by 20 men.
The severed heads Darren Hickey, Rudolf Petschi, Stanley Shaw and
Peter Kennedy were found Dec 8. Their bodies were found Dec 26 in
Chernorechiye.
(SFC, 10/5/98, p.A9)(SFC, 12/9/98, p.A9)(SFC,
12/28/98, p.B1)
1998 Oct 3, In Croatia Pope John
Paul II beatified Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, the World War II
archbishop of Zagreb and a controversial figure because many Serbs and
Jews accused him of sympathizing with the Nazis.
(SFEC, 10/4/98, p.A22)(AP, 10/3/99)
1998 Oct 3, In Italy Communists
voted to reject Prime Minister Prodi’s budget.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A1,22)
1998 Oct 3, In Latvia voters
approved a referendum to ease citizenship requirements for Russians
left there following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Voters also
selected members for the 100 seat unicameral parliament.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A1)(BN, 10/98, p.1)
1998 Oct 3, Turkey sent some
10,000 troops into northern Iraq to attack Kurdish rebels.
(SFEC, 10/4/98, p.A11)
1999 Oct 3, Sony co-founder Akio
Morita, the entrepreneur, engineer and savvy salesman who helped give
new meaning to the words “Made in Japan,” died in Tokyo at age 78.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.C7)(AP, 10/3/00)
1999 Oct 3, The far-right Freedom
Party (the Blues) led by Joerg Haider (49) won 2nd place behind the
Social Democrats, who won with 33% of the vote. The conservative
People’s Party (the Blacks) fell to 3rd place with 27%.
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A12)(SFC, 10/4/99, p.A12)(Econ,
11/24/07, SR p.6)
1999 Oct 3, Flooding in Central
America left 21 dead in Honduras, 10 dead in Nicaragua, and 11 dead in
El Salvador and thousands were forced to flee their homes.
(SFC, 10/4/99, p.A13)
1999 Oct 3, In India the elections
ended and the Bharatiya Janata Party under PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee was
expected to return to power with an alliance of 21 other parties. The
BJP was expected to gain 34 seats to 287. The BJP won a projected 296
of 545 seats. The Congress Party won 114 seats.
(SFC, 10/4/99, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/4/99, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/8/99, p.A1)(Econ, 4/4/09, p.45)
1999 Oct 3, In Peru 9 soldiers
were killed in a weekend clash with some 60 Maoist guerrillas in the
central jungle.
(SFC, 10/6/99, p.C16)
1999 Oct 3, Veselin Boskovic, the
brother-in-law of former deputy PM Vuk Draskovic, was killed when a
truck swerved in front of a convoy of cars 25 miles southeast of
Belgrade. A 2nd car with bodyguards hit the truck and exploded. The
truck driver escaped. Draskovic was not injured and called the accident
an assassination attempt.
(WSJ, 10/7/99, p.A22)
1999 Oct 3, In Sierra Leone Foday
Sankoh returned home with former junta leader Johnny Paul Koroma and
met with Pres. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. Sankoh gave a radio speech and
pleaded for forgiveness.
(SFC, 10/4/99, p.A16)
2000 Oct 3, Vice Pres. Al Gore and
Gov. George W. Bush engaged in their 1st presidential debate, a 90
minute match at the Clark Athletic Center of the Univ. of
Massachusetts. “Bush may have won by not losing.” Gore and Bush clashed
over tax cuts, Medicare prescription drug benefits and campaign finance.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/3/01)
2000 Oct 3, The Natuna Sea, a
Panama-registered tanker, went aground between Indonesia and Singapore
and spilled some 2 million gallons of crude oil.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 3, In the Dominican
Republic an arms depot exploded and 2 civilians were killed in San
Cristobal.
(WSJ, 10/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 3, In Indonesia Hutomo
Mandala Putra, aka Tommy Suharto, admitted that he was guilty of
corruption and asked for clemency.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 3, A cease-fire between
Israel and the Palestinians quickly crumbled and the death toll climbed
to at least 54. Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat planned to meet in Paris
to seek an end to the conflict.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A10)
2001 Oct 3, Pres. Bush endorsed a
$60-75 billion stimulus package to pull the US out of recession.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 3, The Senate approved an
agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2001 Oct 3, Apple introduced the
iPod, a breakthrough MP3 music player that packs up to 1,000 CD-quality
songs into an ultra-portable, 6.5 ounce design that fits in your
pocket, at a cost of $399.
(www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/oct/23ipod.html)(Econ, 10/4/08, p.14)
2001 Oct 3, Near Manchester,
Tennessee, Damir Igric (29), a Croatian passenger on a Greyhound bus,
slit the throat of the bus driver and caused a roll over that killed 7
people including Igric.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C16)(AP, 10/4/06)
2001 Oct 3, In Chechnya rebels
killed 9 federal troops in a number of clashes that included 4 dead
from land mines. 4 militants were also killed.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C8)
2001 Oct 3, Israeli forces in Gaza
cleared a half mile buffer zone and killed 6 Palestinians when tank
shells ripped their cars.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 3, Pres. Putin said
Russia is ready to reconsider its opposition to Nato expansion if the
alliance assumes a broader political identity in which Moscow can be
involved.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 3, In South Africa ANC
leader Tony Yengeni was charged with corruption, forgery and perjury
linked to the country’s $6 billion arms deal with Europe.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C4)
2002 Oct 3, The United States
forgave two-thirds of Yugoslavia's debt on in a sign of improving
relations with the country's reformist leadership.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, The annual Ig Nobel
prizes were awarded in Cambridge, Mass. 10 prizewinners from 10 nations
included the corporate directors of Enron, Adelphia, Global Crossing,
Qwest, Tyco, WorldCom and 21 other companies for adopting imaginary
numbers for use in the business world.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 3, Police hunted for a
"skilled shooter" who murdered five random victims over 16 hours with a
high-powered rifle in Montgomery County, Maryland, just a short
distance from Washington DC. A 6th victim was killed in DC. James
Buchanon (39), Premkumar Walekar (54), Sarah Ramos (34), Lori Ann Lewis
Rivera (25) and Pascal Charlot (72) became the 2nd to 6th victims.
(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A3)(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A3)(SSFC,
10/12/02, p.A4)(NW, 10/21/02, p.28)
2002 Oct 3, Hurricane Lili gave
Louisiana's coast a 100 mph battering.
(AP, 10/3/03)
2002 Oct 3, Int'l. teams of
scientists declared that the genetic code of Plasmodium falciprum, the
parasite that causes most human malaria, has been identified along with
the genetic code of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito most responsible
for human malaria transmission.
(SFC, 10/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 3, Wu-chi Liu (95),
China-born scholar, died in Menlo Park, Ca. His books included "A Short
History of Confucian Philosophy" and "An Introduction to Chinese
Literature." He was also the senior editor of "Sunflower Splendor," an
anthology that encompassed 3,000 years of Chinese poetry in translation.
(SFC, 10/18/02, p.A26)
2002 Oct 3, Canada said it planned
to create 10 huge new national parks and five marine conservation areas
over the next five years to protect unique landscapes and animals.
(Reuters, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, In France tens of
thousands of public workers marched through Paris to protest plans to
sell off parts of state-owned companies.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, In Guatemala Col. Juan
Valencia was found guilty of ordering the killing of human rights
activist Myrna Mack in 1990 and sentenced to a maximum 30 years in
prison. But two other military officials were acquitted.
(AP, 10/4/02)
2002 Oct 3, India said it had
killed eight Islamic militants trying to enter Indian Kashmir from
Pakistani territory as the state battles a surge in rebel violence just
days before the end of a disputed election.
(Reuters, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, NATO and European
Union called on Croatia to cooperate with the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal,
urging the government to hand over indicted war crimes suspect Gen.
Janko Bobetko.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, Turkey formally
commuted Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan's death sentence to
life in prison after parliament abolished capital punishment two months
ago in a bid to join the European Union.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2003 Oct 3, In Las Vegas a tiger
attacked magician Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy during a performance.
It was Horn's 59th birthday.
(SFC, 10/4/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 3, William Steig (95), an
illustrator for The New Yorker who was known as the "King of Cartoons"
for his award-winning, best-selling children's books including "Shrek,"
died.
(AP, 10/4/03)
2003 Oct 3, Afghan civilians
accidentally set off an explosive inside a home near Bagram Air Base
American military headquarters, killing seven people and wounding six
others.
(AP, 10/3/03)
2003 Oct 3, The first tanker set
off the Cameroon port of Kribi with crude oil from a massive $3.7
billion, 665-mile pipeline from the landlocked nation of Chad.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 3, Oswaldo Paya, top
democracy activist, launched a new challenge to Fidel Castro's
government as part of the Varela Project, turning in more than 14,000
signatures of people seeking a human rights referendum just six months
after a crackdown on the opposition.
(AP, 10/4/03)
2003 Oct 3, In Iraq US Army Spc.
Jeremy C. Sivits began photographing Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib
prison. He was under instruction from MP Cpl. Charles A. Graner to not
say anything. In 2007 Lt. Col. Steven Lee Jordan (50), who ran the
interrogation center at Abu Ghraib, was court-martialed on 8 charges
including cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners. In 2008 Philip
Gourevitch and Errol Morris authored “Standard Operating Procedure” and
produced a documentary film covering the Abu Ghraib abuses. [See Jan
13, 2004]
(SFC, 5/14/04, p.A12)(SFC, 1/27/07, p.A9)(Econ,
5/17/08, p.102)
2003 Oct 3, Pakistan test-launched
a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, saying it was the
first in a series of tests scheduled for the next few days.
(AP, 10/3/03)
2003 Oct 3, In Karachi, Pakistan,
gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Shiite Muslim employees of
Pakistan's space agency, killing six and wounding at least six others.
(AP, 10/3/03)
2003 Oct 3, In Sri Lanka the US
Embassy said it has re-designated the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist
organization, despite an ongoing peace process between the Sri Lankan
government and the rebels.
(AP, 10/4/03)
2004 Oct 3, National security
adviser Condoleezza Rice, interviewed on ABC's "This Week" program,
defended her characterization of Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities
in the months before the Iraq invasion.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2004 Oct 3, Janet Leigh (77),
actress in Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho," died in Beverly Hills,
Ca.
(AP, 10/4/04)
2004 Oct 3, The party of Brazil's
left-leaning president emerged stronger from nationwide municipal
elections but did not come in first in the Sao Paulo.
(AP, 10/4/04)
2004 Oct 3, In southwest Colombia
suspected drug dealers opened fire on a rival gang at a ranch, killing
at least 10 people, including a toddler and a pregnant woman.
(AP, 10/4/04)
2004 Oct 3, In northeast India
suspected separatists in Assam state bombed a crowded market, a tea
plantation and other sites, killing seven people in a second day of
explosions and gun attacks that have left at least 57 dead and more
than 100 wounded.
(AP, 10/3/04)
2004 Oct 3, Iraqi security forces
and U.S. troops claimed success in wresting control of Samarra from
Sunni insurgents in fierce fighting.
(AP, 10/3/04)
2004 Oct 3, An Israeli aircraft
fired two missiles at a group of Palestinians who launched a homemade
rocket at Israel, killing two militants.
(AP, 10/3/04)
2004 Oct 3, Serbs voted for mayors
and other municipal posts in runoff elections.
(AP, 10/3/04)
2004 Oct 3, Slovenians voted in
parliamentary elections. Janez Jansa’s right-leaning party won weekend
elections and promised to maintain Slovenia's pro-Western course after
taking power from the Liberal Democrats.
(AP, 10/4/04)(WSJ, 10/4/04, p.A1)
2004 Oct 3, Two of Spain's most
wanted alleged terrorists and at least 16 other suspected members of
the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured in a vast
French-Spanish police operation. Mikel “Antza” Albizu Iriarte was
arrested with his girlfriend Soledad Genetxea.
(AP, 10/3/04)(Econ, 10/9/04, p.48)
2004 Oct 3, In central Thailand a
huge explosion at a fireworks factory killed eight workers and injured
three others.
(AP, 10/3/04)
2004 Oct 3, Twenty-two would-be
immigrants drowned and 42 were missing after a boat that was to have
carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the
Tunisian coast.
(AFP, 10/4/04)
2005 Oct 3, President Bush
nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers (b.1945) to the Supreme
Court, turning to a lawyer who has never been a judge to replace Sandra
Day O'Connor and help reshape the nation's judiciary. She withdrew
three weeks later after criticism over her lack of judicial experience
and Republican concerns about her conservatism.
(AP, 10/3/05)(SFC, 10/4/05, p.A1)(AP, 10/3/06)
2005 Oct 3, Representative Tom
DeLay, a powerful ally of President George W. Bush, was indicted on a
new charge of money laundering as his lawyers moved to dismiss a
previous conspiracy indictment filed last week.
(AP, 10/4/05)
2005 Oct 3, The US search for
bodies due to Hurricane Katrina ended with a toll of 964.
(WSJ, 10/4/05, p.A1)
2005 Oct 3, Stellar Management of
NY and Rockpoint Group announced their purchase of the Villas
Parkmerced complex in SF. The 115-acre, 3,221-unit complex sold for an
estimated $700 million. Carmel Properties and JP Morgan had purchased
the property in 1999 for $324 million.
(SFC, 10/4/05, p.C1)
2005 Oct 3, A Russian space
capsule with American tourist Gregory Olsen aboard docked with the
international space station.
(AP, 10/4/06)
2005 Oct 3, The UN ambassadors of
Britain, France and the US sent a letter emphasizing their continued
opposition to a proposal to create a nuclear-weapons free zone in
Central Asia. The letter, sent to the UN ambassadors of the five
Central Asian nations, says that a draft treaty to create the zone
still does not address their biggest concerns and that further
discussions are needed. It calls for consultations "very soon." The
five nations agreed to the draft text for a Central Asian nuclear-free
zone in February. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and
Turkmenistan had originally put forward a proposal for a nuclear-weapon
free zone in 1997, but divisions both internal and external over the
text have stalled progress. Moscow claims that a 1992 treaty that
Russia signed with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan could allow
missiles to be deployed in the region.
(AP, 10/4/05)
2005 Oct 3, Australians Barry J.
Marshall and Robin Warren won the 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine for
showing that bacterial infection, not stress, was to blame for painful
ulcers in the stomach and intestine.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, In southeastern
Bangladesh several bombs went off in crowded court buildings in
Chittagong, Chandpur and Laxmipur towns. 2 people were killed and at
least 25 wounded.
(AP, 10/4/05)
2005 Oct 3, Bishop Luiz Flavio
Cappio (59), a Catholic bishop on a hunger strike to protest plans to
alter the course of a river to irrigate parts of Brazil's arid
northeast, said he was "ready to die" if the project goes forward.
Pres. Lula da Silva, who was born in one of the drought stricken
regions that would benefit from the altered course of the Sao Francisco
River, wrote the bishop a letter saying the $2 billion project will
help 18 million people in northeastern Brazil.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, Singer Emilinha Borba
(82), the queen of Brazil's golden age of radio, died of a heart
attack. In 1939, Borba recorded her first record, "Pirulito," or
"Lollipop," launching her career as a radio singer. Between 1939 and
1964, Borba recorded over 200 songs.
(AP, 10/4/05)
2005 Oct 3, The boards of
pharmaceutical distributor Alliance UniChem PLC and drugstore chain
Boots Group PLC said they had agreed to merge.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, In Colombia a bomb
packed inside a pickup truck and apparently meant to target government
forces killed 3 members of a family, including two children, when it
exploded as they passed by in Florida County, a FARC stronghold.
(AP, 10/4/05)
2005 Oct 3, EU nations reached a
tentative agreement on pursuing full membership talks with Turkey,
diplomats said. A spokesman for the Turkish prime minister denied
reports that Ankara had agreed to the deal.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, The EU imposed an arms
embargo on Uzbekistan, cut aid, and suspended a cooperation accord to
punish the increasingly isolated country for refusing to investigate
the violent suppression of an uprising in May.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, In El Salvador heavy
rains triggered landslides that killed at least 31 people, while rising
rivers forced the evacuation of dozens of people there and in
neighboring Guatemala.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, In France a widespread
transit strike expected to touch on nearly all modes of public
transportation began late at night in protest of the center-right
government's economic and labor policies.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, Munich's two-week
Oktoberfest drew to a close, and organizers said more people visited
this year but they drank less beer than in 2004.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, India and Pakistan
signed a deal requiring them to notify each other of plans for
ballistic missile tests.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, In central India at
least 16 people were killed and dozens injured when six cars of a
speeding passenger train derailed.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, In western Iraq 2 US
soldiers and a Marine were killed.
(AP, 10/4/05)
2005 Oct 3, More than 300 Africans
tore through a razor-wire fence separating Morocco from the Spanish
enclave of Melilla, clashing with police in the latest wave of
undocumented immigrants seeking a foothold in Europe.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, The Palestinian
parliament voted that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas must form a new
government within two weeks.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, In northern and
central Portugal 11 wildfires burned out of control amid the country's
worst drought on record.
(AP, 10/4/05)
2005 Oct 3, In Russia Orthodox
priests chanted prayers and believers lighted candles as Patriarch
Alexy II led reburial rites for Gen. Anton Denikin, who fought against
the Red Army during Russia's civil war and is now cast as a patriot.
Denikin, who died in exile in the United States in 1947, was laid to
rest together with Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin and the wives of the
two men in the historic Donskoy Monastery in central Moscow.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, In Sangju, South
Korea, concertgoers trying to enter a packed stadium sparked a
stampede, killing 11 and injuring 72 others.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, Sudan's government and
rebels from the war-ravaged Darfur region agreed to sit down for
face-to-face talks after a week of bickering that had put discussions
on hold.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 3, Switzerland decided to
extradite Russia's former nuclear minister to the US on charges of
stealing up to $9 million that was intended to improve security of
nuclear plants. Russia has been fighting the US extradition request for
Yevgeny Adamov out of fear that he could reveal nuclear secrets while
facing the charges in the United States.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2006 Oct 3, Americans John C.
Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics for work
that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe and deepen
understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, Federal agents raided
8 locations in SF and Oakland, Ca., and arrested 15 people including
Sparky Rose (36), head of the New Remedies Cooperative. Nearly 13,000
plants were seized along with $125,000 in cash.
(SFC, 10/4/06, p.B2)
2006 Oct 3, A federal grand jury
indicted Colma City, Ca., Councilman Philip Lum Jr. for allegedly
taking gifts from the owner of the Lucky Chances Casino and then voting
on matters that benefited the cardroom.
(SFC, 10/4/06, p.B1)
2006 Oct 3, In California
Cambodian and US representatives signed a sister park accord between
Samlaut Park and Sequoia National Park.
(SFC, 10/4/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 3, Jeannik Mequet
Littlefield donated $35 million to the SF Opera. She had married Edmund
Littlefield in 1945 and he went on to head the Utah Construction Co., a
family firm that had built the Hoover Dam.
(SFC, 10/4/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 3, The DJIA rose 56.99 to
11,727.34, to close at a new record high above one set on Jan 14, 2000.
Nasdaq rose 6.05 to 2,243.
(SFC, 10/4/06, p.C1)
2006 Oct 3, Earl Stefanson (41)
was arrested in Hayward, Ca, following a police chase through Oakland.
He was wanted for the slaying of Leslie Lamb (36) who died Aug 26
following a severe beating. Police had found a torture chamber in
Stefanson’s Oakland home with bloodstains from Lamb and 2 other
apparent victims. In 2008 Stefanson was convicted of 1st degree murder
and other charges. He was sentenced to 2 life terms in prison.
(SFC, 10/5/06, p.B3)(SFC, 4/8/08, p.B3)(SFC, 7/2/08,
p.B5)
2006 Oct 3, Austria's government
resigned, two days after the center-right coalition lost parliamentary
elections. It will remain in office until a new government is formed.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, In the Democratic
Republic of Congo one person was killed and two injured when a Belgian
drone from the EU force crashed in Kinshasa.
(AFP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, The Czech Republic
edged closer to early elections after PM Mirek Topolanek's rightist
minority government was toppled in a parliamentary confidence vote.
(Reuters, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, A top Iranian nuclear
official proposed that France create a consortium to enrich uranium in
Iran, saying that could satisfy international demands for outside
oversight of Tehran's nuclear program.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, Iraqi lawmakers across
party lines endorsed the prime minister's new plan for stopping
sectarian killings, but Shiite and Sunni leaders still must work out
details of how to put aside sharp divisions and work together to halt
the bloodshed. A suicide bomber unleashed a blast in a Baghdad fish
market and two Shiite families were found slain north of the capital as
violence across Iraq claimed at least 53 lives. A raid killed four
terror suspects in the western Iraqi town of Haditha. The US command
captured 28 suspected terrorists in a raids in southeastern Baghdad. A
US soldier was killed in a shooting in Baghdad. A second died from
gunfire in Kirkuk.
(AP, 10/3/06)(AP, 10/4/06)(AP, 10/5/06)(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 3, OPEC President Nigeria
called on its fellow OPEC countries to make deeper output cuts as
prices tumbled to an 8-month low below $59 a barrel and the tide showed
no sign of turning.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, North Korea said it
will conduct a nuclear test in the face of what it claimed was "the
U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war," ratcheting up tensions amid
international pressure to return to negotiations on its atomic program.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, Gunmen linked to
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement threatened to
assassinate leaders of the rival Hamas group, heightening tensions from
three days of fighting that has killed 10 Palestinians.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, In the Philippines
Bishop Alberto Ramento of Tarlac, former Obispo Maximo of the Iglesia
Filipina Independiente (IFI), was found stabbed to death at his
rectory. He was a noisy critic of government security forces.
(Econ, 10/14/06, p.46)
2006 Oct 3, Russia suspended all
transport and postal links with Georgia until further notice, sharply
escalating their dispute. The blockade caused economic problems for
Armenia, Georgia's landlocked southern neighbor, since Russia is its
main trading partner.
(AP, 10/3/06)(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 3, Sri Lanka's Tamil
Tiger rebels agreed to unconditional talks with the government but
warned they will pull out of a 2002 cease-fire if the government
persists with its military campaign.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, Thailand's deposed
premier Thaksin Shinawatra resigned from his once all-powerful party in
a letter faxed from London.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 3, A Turkish Airlines
plane carrying 113 people from Albania to Istanbul landed in Italy
where a Turkish man surrendered and released all the passengers
unharmed. The Turkish army deserter who hijacked the airliner sought
asylum because he feared persecution in his Muslim homeland after his
conversion to Christianity and wanted Pope Benedict XVI's protection.
(AP, 10/4/06)(AP, 10/3/07)
2006 Oct 3, In Venezuela 2 boys,
Renzo Festa (9) and Domenico Festa (12), were abducted along with their
mother, Nathaly Gotera de Festa, as she drove them to school. Gotera
(35) was married to Italian-Venezuelan businessman Domenico Festa and
was in the process of obtaining her Italian citizenship.
(AP, 10/7/06)
2007 Oct 3, President Bush, in a
sharp confrontation with Congress, vetoed a bipartisan bill to
reauthorize and dramatically expand SCHIP, a children's health
insurance begun in 1997.
(AP, 10/3/07)(Econ, 10/6/07, p.34)
2007 Oct 3, US federal authorities
said they had rounded up more than 1,300 illegal immigrants in Southern
California during the past two weeks in the largest sweep of its kind.
(AP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, Tony Ryan (b.1936),
Irish-born aviation entrepreneur and co-founder of Ryanair (1985), died.
(WSJ, 10/6/07,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair)
2007 Oct 3, Afghan troops backed
by NATO-led forces clashed with suspected Taliban fighters in southern
Afghanistan, leaving 20 militants dead.
(AP, 10/4/07)
2007 Oct 3, Four former officials
of Albania's state-controlled oil company, Albpetrol, were arrested on
suspicion of theft and abuse of office.
(AP, 10/4/07)
2007 Oct 3, PM John Howard
said Australia will not take any more refugees from Africa until at
least the middle of next year. He said Australia's 13,000-a-year
refugee intake was being "rebalanced" from Africa to the Middle East
and Asia where the need was more acute.
(AFP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, Li Heping, an
outspoken Chinese lawyer, said he was abducted and beaten for hours on
Sep 29, and accused of causing unrest by representing clients with
complaints of official corruption and police abuse. Li said he wasn't
sure if he would be able to continue working. He returned to his office
the day after the attack and found his lawyer's license was missing. A
portable hard drive and his computer memory had been wiped clean.
(AP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, Police in East Timor
arrested Vicente "Railos" da Conciecao, the suspected head of a hit
squad. He was linked with Rogerio Lobato, a former interior minister
convicted of giving weapons to civilians during a wave of violence last
year.
(Reuters, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel arrived in Ethiopia overnight at the start of a tour of
African countries that will also take in South Africa and Liberia.
(AFP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, In India at least 13
elderly women traveling to a Hindu festival were trampled to death and
42 others were injured in a northern railway station when two trains
arrived on adjacent platforms in Mughalsarai.
(AP, 10/4/07)
2007 Oct 3, Nearly two dozen
previously unknown Iraqi insurgent groups announced a new coalition to
fight foreign occupation but it also set conditions for talks with the
US in a statement on a Web site affiliated with the country's deposed
Baath party. The 22 groups said their leader is Izzat al-Douri, the
highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's former ruling party. The
Polish ambassador to Iraq was slightly wounded and two civilians,
including a bodyguard, were killed in a roadside bomb attack in
downtown Baghdad. About 900 Polish troops are stationed training Iraqi
personnel and 21 have died during the conflict. The US military said it
had discovered a list of some 500 al Qaeda militants recruited to fight
in Iraq from a range of European, Middle East and north African
countries. The WHO said the toll of people in Iraq infected with
cholera has risen to 3,315.
(AP, 10/3/07)(Reuters, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, Soldiers said they
were hunting pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar's largest city and the
top US diplomat in the country said military police had pulled people
out of their homes during the night. The European Union agreed in
principle to punish the junta with sanctions.
(AP, 10/3/07)(AFP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, A Dutch court rejected
a prosecution appeal against the release of Philippine communist leader
Jose Maria Sison, accused of being involved in murders in the
Philippines.
(AFP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, Local media said
police in southwest Nigeria have arrested five politicians for
allegedly raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl. The suspects, all members of
the west African giant's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), were
arrested for the offence in Ilesha. An opposition Action Congress (AC)
spokesman said the rape victim was among eight supporters of the party
who were abducted two weeks ago in the town. At least 38 people were
killed and 48 reported missing after two ferries collided on a river in
northern Nigeria's Kebbi State.
(AP, 10/3/07)(AFP, 10/5/07)
2007 Oct 3, An Islamic court in
northern Nigeria banned a play written by a civil rights activist which
satirizes the implementation of Sharia law in 12 mainly Muslim states.
The upper Sharia court in the Tudun Wada neighborhood of the northern
city of Kaduna issued the order restraining Shehu Sani from selling or
circulating his play, "Phantom Crescent."
(AFP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 3, The six nations
involved in disarmament talks said North Korea agreed to provide a
complete list of its nuclear programs and disable its facilities at its
main reactor complex by Dec. 31, 2007. However, North Korea has since
said it would move to restore its nuclear reactor, saying the United
States had failed to follow through with promised incentives.
(AP, 10/3/07)(AP, 10/3/08)
2007 Oct 3, In Russia workers
rebuilding a 19th century Moscow house dug up the remains of nearly
three dozen people. An estimated 34 people were found. Some of the
remains, which were found under a basement of a house on the estate,
had gunshot wounds to the skull and appeared to date back to the 1930s.
Sergei Buluchevsky, a government investigator, later said preliminary
forensic findings indicated the remains were at least a century old and
that there were no signs of violent death.
(AP, 10/4/07)(AP, 10/18/07)
2007 Oct 3, Russian and US space
chiefs signed agreements in Moscow to cooperate on unmanned missions
that would search for potential water deposits beneath the surface of
the moon and Mars.
(AP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, A pressurized air pipe
snapped at the mine near Johannesburg and tumbled down a shaft, causing
extensive damage to an elevator and stranding 3,200 miners more than a
mile underground. More than 2,000 trapped gold miners were rescued in a
dramatic all-night operation, and efforts gathered speed to bring
hundreds more to the surface. By the next night all the miners had
emerged safely.
(AP, 10/4/07)
2007 Oct 3, President Viktor
Yushchenko ordered Ukraine's feuding parties to strike a deal on a
post-election government, a move likely to aggravate a political
deadlock that has stalled economic reforms. With more than 99% of the
vote counted, Regions Party had 34.3% and its Communist Party ally 5.4.
The Tymoshenko bloc had polled 30.8 and Our Ukraine 14.2%.
(Reuters, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, The UN General
Assembly's ministerial meeting that saw an international outcry over
military repression in Myanmar, new killings in Darfur and Iran's
nuclear program, closed in NYC with a call for global action on climate
change, poverty and terrorism.
(AP, 10/4/07)
2007 Oct 3, President Hugo Chavez
accused the US of trying to spur a military rebellion, saying the CIA
is behind the distribution of leaflets inside army barracks calling for
his ouster.
(AP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, Disaster officials
began evacuating 400,000 people as a typhoon approached Vietnam's
central coast, packing winds up to 83 mph. Typhoon Lekima slammed into
Vietnam's central coast, killing two people, destroying hundreds of
houses and unleashing floods in one of the country's poorest regions.
(AP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 3, Teachers at state
schools across inflation-ravaged Zimbabwe began an indefinite strike to
press for better salaries.
(AP, 10/3/07)
2008 Oct 3, Pres. Bush signed the
Child Soldiers Accountability Act, making it a federal crime in
the US to recruit and use soldiers under 15 years even if they operate
outside the US. Rebel groups and government-armed militias using child
soldiers in the Philippines and 16 other strife-torn countries faced
prosecution in the United States under the new law.
(AP, 10/8/08)
2008 Oct 3, The US House of
Representatives voted 263-171 for the $700 billion economic rescue plan
and Pres. Bush quickly signed the bill. Wall Street fell 157 points to
10,325.38, its lowest close since October 2005, as more economic bad
news was made public. The $700 billion represented about 6% of American
GDP.
(AP, 10/4/08)(WSJ, 10/4/08, p.B1)(Econ, 9/27/08,
p.17)
2008 Oct 3, United States
Protection and Investigations, a Houston security company, was indicted
on charges of defrauding the US government for work done during the
Afghanistan war and rebuilding efforts.
(AP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 3, Thomas Petters (51),
founder of Petters Co., was arrested in Minnesota on charges of mail
and wire fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice. Over 20
investors and investment groups were thought to have been bilked of
over $100 million and losses claimed by funds could top $2 billion.
(WSJ, 10/4/08, p.B7)
2008 Oct 3, O.J. Simpson was found
guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las
Vegas hotel room on Sep 13, 2007. This was 13 years to the day after
being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles. Four
other men charged in the case struck plea bargains that saved them from
potential prison sentences in return for their testimony.
(AP, 10/4/08)
2008 Oct 3, Wachovia said it
agreed to be acquired by San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co. in a
$15.1 billion all-stock deal. But Citigroup demanded that Wachovia
abide by the terms of its earlier deal to buy Wachovia's banking
operations.
(AP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 3, In Alabama a collision
on a rural highway between an 18-wheeler and a state van killed 6
applicants for prison jobs and their driver.
(SFC, 10/4/08, p.A3)
2008 Oct 3, NATO launched an
airstrike near the Afghan border with Pakistan. A jet fighter bombed
two houses in different parts of Datta Khel. Intelligence officials in
the region said 2 women and one child were killed and 5 men wounded. A
militant attack on a US patrol in eastern Kunar province killed an
Afghan civilian and wounded four others.
(Reuters, 10/3/08)(AP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 3, Soldiers from both
Cambodia and Thailand were wounded in a brief clash along their
volatile border.
(AP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 3, India's Tata Group
announced it was abandoning a plant in eastern India which was slated
to turn out the world's cheapest car after weeks of violent
demonstrations triggered by a land dispute.
(AFP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 3, Iraq's presidential
council officially approved a law that paves the way for US-backed
provincial elections to be held by the end of January. Iraq's
parliament had approved the law unanimously on Sept. 24 following
months of deadlock centering on a Kurdish-Arab dispute over the city of
Kirkuk. Kurdish legislators agreed to the latest proposal after all
sides accepted a UN compromise to put off the vote in Tamim province,
which includes Kirkuk, and form a committee to recommend separate
legislation for elections there by March 31. The US military killed
Mahir Ahmad Mahmud al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, an
al-Qaida in Iraq leader. He was suspected of masterminding the Oct 2
attacks in Baghdad as well as recent bombings and the 2006 videotaped
execution of a Russian official. American troops also killed the man's
wife in a firefight as they tried to capture him in the northern
neighborhood of Azamiyah in Baghdad.
(AP, 10/3/08)(AP, 10/4/08)
2008 Oct 3, Mexican police clashed
with hundreds of villagers who seized the entrance to a Mayan
archaeological site and six protesters were killed. Hundreds of
villagers had occupied the entrance to the Chinkultic ruins for nearly
a month, saying they were protesting excessive entrance fees and a lack
of investment in the area. 2 men were found shot to death in Tijuana in
the same empty lot near the elementary school where the 12 bodies were
found on sep 29.
(AP, 10/4/08)
2008 Oct 3, US missiles hit a
house in Mohammadkhel near the Afghan border. Two Pakistani
intelligence officials, citing reports from field agents and
informants, said 14 Taliban militants and 8 Arabs died in the attack
about 28 miles west of Miran Shah. 2 people wounded in the attack died
later bringing the toll to 24.
(AP, 10/4/08)(AP, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 3, Russian share prices
dropped sharply despite a nearly $200 billion Kremlin rescue plan. Oleg
Deripaska, billionaire tycoon, was reported to have given up his 20%
stake in Magna Int’l., a Canadian auto parts maker, to creditors.
(WSJ, 10/4/08, p.A4)
2008 Oct 3, A car exploded outside
the Russian military's headquarters in South Ossetia, killing 7 people
and wounding 3. The South Ossetian government said a car, that had been
confiscated in an ethnic Georgian village after weapons were found in
it, exploded near a building where leaders of the Russian peacekeeping
force were located.
(AP,
10/3/08)(www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432172,00.html)
2008 Oct 3, The United Nations
said fighting has killed at least 80 civilians in Somalia's capital
over the last two weeks. More than 100 people have been injured. UN
humanitarian office spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said nearly half of
Somalia's 8.3 million people were in need of food and other assistance.
(AP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 3, Sri Lankan air force
jets bombed the offices of the Tamil Tiger political chief Balasingham
Nadesan.
(AP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 3, Fighting between
Kurdish rebels and Turkey's army and air force in southeastern Turkey
and northern Iraq killed 15 soldiers and at least 23 insurgents, in the
deadliest battle between the longtime enemies this year.
(AP, 10/4/08)
2008 Oct 3, Officials said
Vietnam's health ministry has discovered the industrial chemical
melamine in 18 food products imported from China and three other
countries and has ordered them recalled and destroyed.
(AP, 10/3/08)
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