Today in History - October 5
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578 Oct 5,
Justinus II, Byzantine emperor (565-78), died.
(MC, 10/5/01)
610 Oct 5, Heraclitus' fleet took
Constantinople.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1285 Oct 5, Philippe III, the
Stout, King of France (1270-85), died.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1450 Oct 5, Jews were expelled
from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1568 Oct 5, The Conference of York
began in the trial against Mary Stuart.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1568 Oct 5, Willem of Orange's
army occupied Brabant.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1572 Oct 5, The Spanish army under
Duke of Alva's son Don Frederik plundered Mechelen (Flanders).
(MC, 10/5/01)
1582 Oct 5, The Gregorian calendar
was introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries. Nothing happened.
This day was skipped and became Oct 15 to bring the calendar into sync
by order of the Council of Trent. In 1998 David Ewing Duncan published
“Calendar: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate
Year.” In Bohemia the anti-Gregorian astronomer Michael Mestlin
proclaimed that the pope was stealing 10 days from everyone’s life.
[see Sep 3, 1752]
(K.I.-365D, p.97)(NG, March 1990)(SFEC, 9/27/98, BR
p.5)(MC, 10/5/01)
1703 Oct 5, Jonathan Edwards
(d.1758), US, theologian and philosopher (Original Sin), was born. He
helped promote the “Great Awakening” of religious fervor that broke out
in Protestant churches in New Jersey in the 1720s and spread to New
England in the 1730s.
(WUD, 1994, p.454)(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.B5)(MC, 10/5/01)
1713 Oct 5, Denis Diderot
(d.1784), French encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclopedique), was born
in Langres, Champagne, France. Age of Enlightenment philosopher, writer
who with his friend Voltaire, scoffed at organized religion, ultimately
bringing on the French Revolution.
(www.nndb.com/people/914/000082668/)
1750 Oct 5, Carlo Goldoni's "Il
Teatro Comica," premiered in Venice.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1762 Oct 5, Gluck's opera “Orfeo
ed Euridice” had its premiere at Vienna’s Burgtheater on the namesday
of Emp. Francis I. Gluck revised "Orpheus and Euridice" in 1774 for the
Paris Royal Opera.
(WSJ, 4/11/96, p.A-16)(WSJ, 10/21/99, p.A20)(MC,
10/5/01)
1762 Oct 5, The British fleet
bombarded and captured Spanish-held Manila in the Philippines.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1795 Oct 5, The day after he
routed counterrevolutionaries in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte accepted
their formal surrender. Napoleon takes charge.
(HN, 10/5/99)
1804 Oct 5, Robert Parker Parrott
(d.1877), Inventor (Parrot Gun- 1st machine gun), was born.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1804 Oct 5, The Nuestra Senora de
las Mercedes, a Spanish galleon, was sunk by the British navy southwest
of Portugal with more than 200 people on board. In May 2007, Odyssey
Marine Exploration announced that it had discovered a wreck in the
Atlantic and its cargo of 500,000 silver coins and other artifacts
worth an estimated $500 million. Spain claimed this was the Nuestra
Senora de las Mercedes. In 2009 Peru pushed claims to the silver coins
arguing that they were minted in Lima.
(AP,
5/8/08)(www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/24/usa.spain)(AP, 1/29/09)
1813 Oct 5, The Battle of
Moraviantown was decisive in the War of 1812. Known as the Battle of
the Thames in the United States, the US victory over British and Indian
forces near Ontario at the village of Moraviantown on the Thames River
is know in Canada as the Battle of Moraviantown. Some 600 British
regulars and 1,000 Indian allies under English General and Shawnee
leader Tecumseh were greatly outnumbered and quickly defeated by US
forces under the command of Maj. Gen. William Henry Harrison. Tecumseh
(45) was killed in this battle.
(HN, 10/5/98)(PC, 1992 ed, p.378)
1821 Oct 5, Greek rebels captured
Tripolitza, the main Turkish fort in the Pelponnese area of Greece.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1823 Oct 5, Carl Maria von Weber
visited Beethoven.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1829 Oct 5, the 21st president of
the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, was born in Fairfield, Vt. Some
sources list 1830.
(AP, 10/5/07)
1863 Oct 5, Confederate sub David
damaged the Union ship Ironsides.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1864 Oct 5, At the Battle of
Allatoona, a small Union post was saved from Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's
army. 1/3 of Union troops died repulsing Southern forces.
(HN, 10/5/98)(MC, 10/5/01)
1864 Oct 5, Calcutta, India, was
denuded by a cyclone and some 70,000 people were killed.
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1865 Oct 5, George Calvert Yount
(b.1794), founder of Yountville, died in Napa Valley, Ca.
(www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/vets.html)
1877 Oct 5, Nez Perce Chief Joseph
and 418 survivors were captured in the Bear Paw mountains and forced
into reservations in Kansas. They surrendered in Montana Territory,
after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada fell 40 miles short. Nez Perce
Chief Joseph surrendered to General O.O. Howard and Colonel Nelson
Miles at the Bear Paw ravine in Montana Territory, saying, "Hear me, my
chiefs, my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will
fight no more, forever." The retreat had lasted three months and left
120 Nez Perces dead. Miles had found and surrounded the Nez Perce camp
with the help of Sioux and Cheyenne scouts. Many whites, including
Howard, admired the Nez Perces' fighting ability and Chief Joseph
himself, who was considered humane and eloquent. He died in 1904.
(HFA, '96, p.40)(SFC, 6/13/97, p.A13)(HNPD,
10/5/98)(HN, 10/5/98)
1880 Oct 5, The first ball-point
pen was patented on this day by Alonzo T. Cross.
(HN, 10/5/00)
1880 Oct 5, Jacques Offenbach,
German-French composer (La Belle Helene, Orpheus, Tales of Hoffman),
died at 61.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1882 Oct 5, Robert Goddard
(d.1945), American rocket scientist, was born. He received 214 patents
for rocket systems and components.
(HN, 10/5/98)(ON, 1/01, p.5)
1882 Oct 5, Outlaw Frank James
surrendered in Missouri six months after brother Jesse's assassination.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1892 Oct 5, The Dalton Gang,
notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while
attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kan. They were trying
to rob the Condon National Bank and the First National Bank
simultaneously in their hometown. They were recognized by home town
citizens who sounded the alarm and then armed themselves. A fierce gun
battle ensued in which four citizens and four members of the Dalton
Gang lost their lives.
(AP,
10/5/97)(www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/daltons.htm)
1902 Oct 5, Ray Croc was born. He
founded the McDonald’s hamburger franchise in 1955.
(HN, 10/5/00)
1905 Oct 5, Orville and Wilbur
Wright's "Flyer III" flew 38.5 km in 38.3 minutes.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1908 Oct 5, Joshua Logan, stage
and film director ("Picnic," "Bus Stop," "South Pacific"), was born in
Texarkana, Texas.
(AP, 10/5/08)
1911 Oct 5, Flann O’Brien
(d.1966), Irish novelist and playwright, was born. His work included
“The Hard Life” and “The Third Policeman.”
(HN, 10/5/00) http://www.omnium.com/flann.html
1911 Oct 5, Italian troops
occupied Tripoli.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1915 Oct 5, Germany issued an
apology and promises for payment for the 128 American passengers killed
in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1916 Oct 5, Corporal Adolf Hitler
was wounded in WW I.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1921 Oct 5, The World Series was
broadcast on radio for the first time. By series' end, the NY Giants
had beaten the NY Yankees five games to three in the best-of-nine
contest.
(AP, 10/5/06)
1923 Oct 5, Philip Berrigan,
militant priest (Chicago 7), was born.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1924 Oct 5, 1st Little Orphan
Annie strip appeared in NYC Daily News. [see Aug 5, 1924]
(MC, 10/5/01)
1926 Oct 5, Gottfried Michael
Koenig, composer, was born.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1931 Oct 5, Clyde Pangborn and
Hugh Herndon, Jr. belly landed Miss Veedol, a Bellanca CH-200
monoplane, in Wenatchee, Wa., to complete the first nonstop flight
across the Pacific Ocean from Japan. They won a $25,000 prize from the
Japanese Ashi Shimbun newspaper. Panghorn sent apple cuttings from
Wenatchee's Richard Delicious apples to Japan which were soon
distributed across Japan.
(ON, 1/03,
p.10)(www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7495)
1936 Oct 5, Václav Havel,
Czech dissident dramatist, was born. He became the first freely elected
president of Czechoslovakia in 55 years (1989-92).
(HN,
10/5/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel)
1937 Oct 5, Saying, "the epidemic
of world lawlessness is spreading," President Roosevelt called for a
"quarantine" of aggressor nations.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1940 Oct 5, Silvestre Revueltas,
Mexican composer: Cuauhnahuac/Planos, died at 40.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1941 Oct 5, Former Supreme Court
Justice Louis D. Brandeis (b.1856), the first Jewish member of the
nation's highest court (1916-39), died in Washington at age 84. In 2009
Melvin Urofsky authored “Louis D. Brandeis: A Life.”
(AP, 10/5/99)(Econ, 9/26/09, p.97)
1942 Oct 5, 5,000 Jews of Dubno,
Russia, were massacred.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1944 Oct 5, Joseph B "Aristide"
Maillol, French sculptor and graphic artist, died.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1947 Oct 5, In the first
televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to
refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help
stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1953 Oct 5, California Gov. Earl
Warren (1891-1974) was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United
States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson. He was named by Pres. Eisenhower as
chief justice of the US. Warren retired in 1969. In 2000 Lucas A. Powe,
Jr., authored "The Warren Court and American Politics."
(SFEC, 6/8/97, BR p.1)(AP,
10/5/97)(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/88/)
1955 Oct 5, A stage adaptation of
"The Diary of Anne Frank" opened at the Cort Theatre in New York.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1958 Oct 5, Racially desegregated
Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn., was mostly leveled by an early
morning bombing.
(AP, 10/5/08)
1959 Oct 5, Maya Lin, American
architect who designed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., was
born.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1960 Oct 5, A Lockheed Electra
turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor and 62 people died. The plane had
flown into a flock of starlings.
(MC, 10/5/01)(SFC, 8/16/03, p.A21)
1962 Oct 5, The Beatles' first
hit, "Love Me Do," was first released in the United Kingdom.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1965 Oct 5, U.S. forces in Saigon,
South Vietnam, received permission to use tear gas.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1966 Oct 5, A sodium cooling
system malfunction caused a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi
demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit, Mich. Radiation was
contained.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1968 Oct 5, Catholic demonstrators
in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, clashed with police.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)(MC, 10/5/01)
1969 Oct 5, Monty Python's Flying
Circus made its debut on BBC Television. It ran on British TV until
1974.
(WSJ, 6/16/98, p.A17)(AP, 10/5/98)
1969 Oct 5, Lieutenant Eduardo
Guerra Jimenez, a Cuban defector, entered US air space undetected and
landed his Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami,
Florida, where the presidential aircraft Air Force One was waiting to
return President Richard M. Nixon to DC.
(www.missilesofkeywest.bravepages.com/penetrated.htm)
1970 Oct 5, National Educational
Television (NET), the forerunner of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS),
commenced broadcasting following its merger with station WNDT Newark,
New Jersey, to form WNET. In 1973 it merged with Educational Television
Stations.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS)
1970 Oct 5, British trade
commissioner James Richard Cross was kidnapped in Canada by militant
Quebec separatists; he was released the following December.
(AP, 10/5/00)
1974 Oct 5, Eugene McQuaid, a
Catholic civilian, was killed near a British army checkpoint on
Northern Ireland's border on the main Belfast-Dublin road. In 2006 the
IRA leadership offered its sincere apologies to the McQuaid family for
the death of Eugene and for the heartache and trauma that the IRA
actions caused.
(AP, 4/14/06)
1974 Oct 5, in Chile Miguel
Enriquez (b.1944), physician and founder (1965) of the Movimiento de
Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), was shot dead by Pinochet’s security
forces.
(Econ, 5/30/09,
p.39)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Enriquez)
1976 Oct 5, Researcher Alan
Dickinson warned the British Medical Research council that their human
growth hormone program was susceptible to contamination from infected
pituitary glands.
(SFEC, 5/21/00, p.A14)
1977 Oct 5, Seamus Costello
(b.1939), founder of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), was
shot to death by an Irish Republican Army member in Dublin.
(AP,
10/11/09)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Costello)
1978 Oct 5, Isaac Bashevis Singer
(1902-1991), Polish-born American author, was named winner of the Nobel
Prize for literature.
(AP, 10/5/98)
1981 Oct 5, President Ronald
Reagan signed a resolution granting honorary American citizenship to
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving about 100,000
Hungarians, most of them Jews, from the Nazis during WW II. He became
the second honorary American. Winston Churchill was the first.
(AP, 10/5/01)
1983 Oct 5, The TV show “Whiz
Kids” was produced by Philip DeGuere Jr. and ran for one season.
(SFC, 2/1/05,
p.B7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_(TV_series))
1983 Oct 5, Lech Walesa, Polish
Solidarity founder, was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)(AP, 10/5/08)
1983 Oct 5, Earl Tupper (b.1907),
a Massachusetts tree surgeon, inventor and founder of Tupperware
[see 1938], died in Costa Rica. In 2008 Bob Kealing authored
“Tupperware: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers.”
(WSJ, 2/18/04,
p.A9)(www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/tupper.htm)(WSJ, 7/30/08,
p.A13)
1986 Oct 5, American Eugene
Hasenfus was captured by Sandinista soldiers after the weapons plane he
was flying in was shot down over southern Nicaragua.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1987 Oct 5, Supreme Court nominee
Robert H. Bork suffered new setbacks as Senate Democratic Leader Robert
Byrd and Republican Sens. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. of Connecticut and John
H. Chafee of Rhode Island declared they were opposed to his
confirmation.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1988 Oct 5, Republican Dan Quayle
and Democrat Lloyd Bentsen clashed in the only vice-presidential debate
of the 1988 campaign. In a memorable moment, Bentsen lambasted Quayle,
who had suggested a parallel between himself and John F. Kennedy, by
telling him, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
(AP, 10/5/98)
1988 Oct 5, Grandma Prisbrey, born
as Thresie (Tressa) Luella Schaefer (1896), died in California. During
her life she constructed her bottle village in Simi Valley including 3
bottle structures to house her collection of 17,000 pencils. In 1981
the site was named a California State Historical Landmark and in 1996
was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
(WSJ, 10/21/08,
p.D9)(www.agilitynut.com/h/prisbrey.html)
1988 Oct 5, The Chilean population
agreed at referendum their opposition to the Pinochet regime.
(http://tinyurl.com/ew36c)
1988 Oct 5, Israel banned Meir
Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism.
(http://tinyurl.com/zzkte)
1989 Oct 5, The Dalai Lama, the
spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, was named winner of the Nobel
Peace Prize.
(WSJ, 12/2/98, p.A22)(AP, 10/5/99)
1989 Oct 5, A jury in Charlotte,
N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker on all 24 counts of
fraud and conspiracy. He used his television show to defraud followers.
(AP, 10/5/99)
1990 Oct 5, The US House of
Representatives rejected a $500 billion budget agreement forged by
congressional leaders and the Bush administration.
(AP, 10/5/00)
1990 Oct 5, A jury in Cincinnati
acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming
from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1990 Oct 5, Meir Kahane (58),
founder of Jewish defense league, was assassinated in NYC by an Arab
extremist.
(www.adl.org/extremism/jdl_chron.asp)
1991 Oct 5, The San Jose Sharks
opened local play at the Cow Palace in Daly City while they awaited the
building of an arena in San Jose, Ca.
(SFC, 2/28/08,
p.A11)(www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nhl/sanjose/sharks.html)
1991 Oct 5, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced sweeping cuts in nuclear weapons in
response to President Bush's arms reduction initiative.
(AP, 10/5/01)
1992 Oct 5, Both houses of
Congress voted to override President Bush's veto of a measure to
re-regulate cable television companies.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1993 Oct 5, US Army Gen. John
Shalikashvili was confirmed by the Senate to head the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
(AP, 10/5/98)
1993 Oct 5, China set off an
underground nuclear blast, ignoring a plea from President Clinton not
to do so.
(AP, 10/5/98)
1994 Oct 5, 48 members of a secret
religious doomsday cult were found dead in apparent murder-suicides
carried out simultaneously in two Swiss villages; five other bodies
were found in a sect apartment in Montreal, Canada.
(AP, 10/5/99)
1995 Oct 5, Seamus Heaney won the
Nobel Prize in literature. His poetic works portray the pain of
sectarian strife and growing up in a Roman Catholic farming family. His
works include: “Death of a Naturalist” (1966), “Door into the Dark”
(1969), “North” (1975), “Field Work” (1979), “The Spirit Level” (1996)
and the Nobel lecture “Crediting Poetry.”
(WSJ, 10/6/95, p.A-1)(SFEC, 8/25/96, BR p.8)
1995 Oct 5, Pres. Clinton
announced that a cease-fire was agreed on in Bosnia to start on Oct 10,
and that combatants would attend talks in the US. Bosnia’s combatants
agreed to a 60-day cease-fire and new talks on ending their three and
a-half years of battle.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 10/5/00)
1995 Oct 5, Hurricane Opal killed
15 people in the Florida Panhandle and caused $1.8 bil in insured
property damages.
(WSJ, 10/6/95, p.A1)
1995 Oct 5, In Xaman village,
Guatemala, 11 war refugees were killed by government soldiers. In 1999
25 soldiers were convicted for homicide. 12 soldiers were sentenced to
5 years in prison and the rest to 4 years already served. In 2004 an
officer and 13 soldiers were each sentenced to 40 years in prison for
the Xaman massacre of recently returned civil war refugees.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.C1)(AP, 7/9/04)
1996 Oct 5, Already under fire for
his drug policies, President Clinton revealed that a secret FBI
memorandum said the government's anti-drug strategy "had never been
properly organized." Clinton argued that the problems predated his
administration.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1996 Oct 5, Irving Fatt, professor
of chemistry at UC Berkeley, died. His work was centered on the flow of
fluids through small pores and played an essential role in the
development of soft and gas permeable contact lenses.
(SFC, 10/23/96, p.C2)
1996 Oct 5, A bomb exploded in the
mayoral offices of French Prime Minister Alain Juppe. There were no
casualties. A Corsican separatist group later claimed responsibility.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, A12)(SFEC, 10/8/96, A10)
1996 Oct 5, In Guatemala an
ongoing program to de-activate some 200,000 citizen soldiers included
ceremonious weapons returns.
(SFEC, 10/20/96, A14)
1996 Oct 5, It was reported that
the a new Hawaiian island, Loiihi, was rising 17 miles southeast of the
big island of Hawaii. Its summit was 3,000 feet below the surface and
its base was 15,000 feet below that. It was estimated to break surface
in about 50,000 years.
(SFC, 10/5/96, p.A9)
1997 Oct 5, The White House
released videotapes of President Clinton greeting supporters at 44
coffee klatches. Republicans claimed the tapes as proof that Clinton
had raised campaign donations at the White House in violation of the
law.
(AP, 10/5/98)
1997 Oct 5, David Scott Ghantt
(27) disappeared with $15-17 million in a Loomis, Fargo & Co. van
in Charlotte, N.C. 21 people, later charged in the heist, purchased
over 1000 items with the money. In 1999 an auction was held to dispose
of the property with the proceeds going to insurer Lloyds of London.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A7)(SFEC, 2/21/99, p.A2)
1997 Oct 5, In Algeria armed men
attacked a school bus near Blida. The driver attempted to run their
roadblock but crashed and 16 children were killed by the attackers.
(SFC, 10/6/97, p.A11)
1997 Oct 5, In Montenegro Momir
Bulatovic, a Milosevic ally, led pro-Westerner challenger Milo
Djukanovic but did not receive a 50% majority due to other candidates.
A runoff was scheduled for Oct 19.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A15)
1997 Oct 5, In Serbia a runoff
election was held with Zoran Lilic of the Socialist Party facing
Vojislav Seselj of the Radical Party for control of the 25-seat
parliament. Seselj defeated Lilic but the turnout was less than 50% and
a new election was scheduled in 2 months.
(SFC, 9/23/97, p.A10)(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A15)
1998 Oct 5, A House committee
voted along hardened partisan lines 21-16 to begin an open-ended
impeachment inquiry into 15 possible charges against Pres. Clinton.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A1)(AP, 10/5/99)
1998 Oct 5, The US House of
Representatives directed the Pentagon to channel $97 million in overt
military aid to Iraqi rebel groups seeking to bring down Pres. Saddam
Hussein. The Clinton administration committed to the transfer of
military surplus equipment May 14, 1999.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A8)(SFC, 5/25/99, p.A6)
1998 Oct 5, Michael Carneal
pleaded guilty but mentally ill to shooting to death three fellow
students and wounding five other people at Heath High School in West
Paducah, Ky. Carneal was later sentenced to life in prison without the
chance of parole for 25 years.
(AP, 10/5/99)
1998 Oct 5, The federal government
agreed to pay SF $176.6 million for 59 Italian-made Breda streetcars.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A15)
1998 Oct 5, Rick Wagoner became
the president of General Motors.
(WSJ, 3/30/09, p.A5)
1998 Oct 5, From Belize it was
reported that Orange Walk, a town of 14,000, was overrun by crack
cocaine addicts known as “sprungheads.”
(SFC, 10/5/98, p.A8)
1998 Oct 5, China signed the 1976
Int’l. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights bringing the number of
signatories to 140. The signing still required parliamentary approval.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct 5, In Congo rebels under
Arthur Mulunda said they were within 12 miles of Kindu. The rebels were
backed by troops and equipment from Rwanda and Uganda.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Oct 5, In Iran the Islamic
authorities told a group of writers to give up efforts to reactivate an
independent association of authors.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Oct 5, Federico Zeri, Italy’s
leading art critic and historian, died at age 77. He had cataloged in 4
volumes the Italian paintings in New York’s Metropolitan Museum.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A22)
1998 Oct 5, In Kenya teachers went
on a nationwide strike over failed pay raises. 7 million students were
idled.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Oct 5, In south Lebanon
pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas killed 2 Israeli soldiers with a
roadside bomb.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Oct 5, Libyan leader Moammar
Khadafy was reported to have turned his face to Africa rather than a
pan-Arab unity: “”I would like Libya to become a black country. Hence,
I recommend to Libyan men to marry only black women, and to Libyan
women to marry black men.”
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A14)
1998 Oct 5, In Russia some 1,000
mail cars with up to 18 tons of letters were sidetracked due to the
inability of the post office to pay the country’s 17 railways.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A14)
1998 Oct 5, In Sweden Prime
Minister Goran Persson of the Social Democrats reached a 3-party
agreement with the Left and the Greens.
(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A12)
1999 Oct 5, It was announced that
MCI WorldCom Incorporated had agreed to pay $115 billion for Sprint
Corporation.
(AP, 10/5/00)
1999 Oct 5, Initial indictments in
the Russian money-laundering scheme were handed up. A former bank of NY
vice president, her husband, and a Russian business associate were
accused of conspiracy to transmit about $7 billion illegally.
(WSJ, 10/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct 5, In London 2 morning
commuter trains collided near Paddington Station and 31 people were
killed. At least 70 people were later feared dead and some estimates
reached over 100. It was later confirmed that one train ran a red
light. 64 people remained unaccounted for.
(SFC, 10/6/99, p.A10)(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A15)(SFC,
10/9/99, p.A10)(AP, 10/5/04)
1999 Oct 5, In Chechnya Russian
troops seized the northern third of the country. A suspected Russian
artillery shell hit a busload of people and killed 40 people, mostly
women and children.
(SFC, 10/6/99, p.A10)(SFC, 10/8/99, p.A12)
1999 Oct 5, Kofi Annan presented a
UN plan to take full control of East Timor and guide the territory to
nationhood over 2-3 years.
(SFC, 10/6/99, p.A10)
1999 Oct 5, In Kosovo at least one
Serb was killed when ethnic Albanians attacked a Russian-Serb convoy.
The Albanians had gathered for the funeral of 18-28 countrymen found in
a mass grave the previous week.
(SFC, 10/6/99, p.C16)
1999 Oct 5, In Mexico flooding
from Tropical Depression No. 11 killed at least 83 people in ten states
including 42 in Puebla after 7 rivers overflowed following heavy rains.
The death toll soon reached at least 342. A large mudslide in Teziutlan
left 72 confirmed dead and 30 people missing. The Catholic Church
expected the toll to reach near 600.
(SFC, 10/6/99, p.A16)(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A15)(SFC,
10/8/99, p.A1)(SFC, 10/9/99, p.A10)(SFC, 10/11/99, p.A12)(SFC,
10/12/99, p.A11)
2000 Oct 5, “The Beatles
Anthology,” a $60 oversize volume with 1,200 photos, went on sale.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.E1)
2000 Oct 5, In the only debate of
presidential running mates during the 2000 campaign Dick Cheney and Joe
Lieberman, the vice-presidential candidates, debated over national TV
from Centre College in Danville, Ky. Republican Cheney and Democrat
Lieberman disagreed firmly but politely about military readiness, tax
cuts and the future of Social Security.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/5/01)
2000 Oct 5, The European Central
Bank (ECB) raised interest rates by a quarter % to 4.75%.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.B2)
2000 Oct 5, Israeli tanks pulled
back from forward positions and Palestinian security forces cleared
stone throwers from the streets in the 1st steps of a US-brokered
cease-fire.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A17)
2000 Oct 5, In western Japan a 7.3
earthquake struck and at least 106 people were injured.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.D6)(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A8)(SFEC,
10/8/00, p.A18)
2000 Oct 5, Nigerians from Libya
arrived home on repatriation flights and bore tales of a pogrom by
youths resentful of economic immigrants.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 5, In the Philippines
Pres Estrada presided over the surrender of 600 Muslim rebels.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 5, Vojislav Kostunica
spoke from the balcony of City Hall as several hundred thousand
protestors, led by workers from Cacak, took over Belgrade, the
parliament building and TV station. The state Tanjug news agency
switched allegiance to Vojislav Kostunica.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A1,16)(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A8)
2000 Oct 5, In Sri Lanka a suicide
explosion near an election rally left 13 people dead in Medawachchiya.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.D4)
2000 Oct 5, In Tanzania 18 people
died and 39 were injured as a bus swerved to avoid a presidential
motorcade and hit a crowd of people.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
2001 Oct 5, Barry Bonds of the SF
Giants hit his 71st and 72nd record home runs at Pacific Bell Park off
of pitcher Chan Ho Park of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers won
11-10. This broke the record of 70 held by Mark McGwire.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.F1)
2001 Oct 5, Moses Malone was
inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
(AP, 10/5/02)
2001 Oct 5, Pres. Bush urged
Congress to pass $60 million in tax cuts to revive the economy.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 5, The US received
permission from Uzbekistan to set up a base of operations against
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 5, The US Labor Dept.
reported that 199,000 jobs were lost in September.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 5, In Alaska Daniel
Carson Lewis (37) was arrested for shooting a hole into the oil
pipeline, which cause the leakage of up to 280,000 of gallons. Some
285,600 gallons spewed out for 3 days until the leak was plugged Oct 6.
The cleanup cost was $7 million.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 5, Georgia’s Supreme
Court ruled that electrocution is an unconstitutionally cruel and
unusual punishment. 441 Georgia inmates had died in the electric chair
since 1924.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.E1)
2001 Oct 5, Mike Mansfield (98),
former Montana Senator and ambassador to Japan, died in Washington, D.C.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.E1)(AP, 10/5/02)
2001 Oct 5, George P. Brockway,
former president of W.W. Norton publishing house, died at age 85. He
created the Norton Anthology series in the 1950s.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.E2)
2001 Oct 5, Bob Stevens (63),
photo editor for the Sun tabloid, died of anthrax. Anthrax spores were
later found on his computer keyboard in Lantana. This was the 1st of a
series of cases in Florida, New York, New Jersey and Washington.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A10)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D7)(AP,
10/5/02)
2001 Oct 5, In Israel PM Sharon
ordered the largest military assault in a year and 5 Palestinians were
killed in Hebron.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)
2002 Oct 5, Addressing police and
National Guardsmen in New Hampshire, President Bush warned that Saddam
Hussein could strike without notice and inflict "massive and sudden
horror" on America.
(AP, 10/5/03)
2002 Oct 5, The Pacific Maritime
Assoc. and dockworkers agreed to open Hawaii and Alaska to shipments of
needed perishable supplies.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 5, Foreign ministers from
six Pacific nations (Australia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, New
Zealand and East Timor) ended a day of talks in Indonesia's ancient
royal capital Yogyakarta, vowing to fight terrorism together but said
little about how they would do it.
(Reuters, 10/5/02)
2002 Oct 5, In Bosnia elections
the centrist Muslim Party for Democratic Action reported the party was
in the lead following a 55% turnout. Bosnia's three nationalist parties
beat moderates in the country's first self-organized elections since
the 1992-1995 war. Postwar Bosnia is made up of two mini-states, the
Serb republic and the Muslim-Croat federation. The two have wide powers
and are linked by a joint parliament and government. Elections provided
winners with four years in office instead of two.
(AP, 10/6/02)(AP, 10/5/03)
2002 Oct 5, Israeli soldiers
enforcing a curfew shot Amer Hashem, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in
Nablus, during clashes with stone-throwing protesters. It was the eve
of an international round of peace diplomacy.
(AP, 10/5/02)(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A8)(SSFC, 10/6/02,
p.A18)
2002 Oct 5, In Latvia the
pro-business New Era party appeared set to win the most seats in
parliamentary elections to choose the government that will lead this
ex-Soviet republic into the European Union and NATO. Einars Repse led
polls for election as prime minister.
(AP, 10/4/02)(AP, 10/6/02)
2002 Oct 5, Rwanda withdrew its
last troops from neighboring Congo, with some 1,100 soldiers marching
in single file out of the war-ravaged country.
(AP, 10/5/02)
2003 Oct 5, The Chicago Cubs won
their first postseason series since 1908 when they beat Atlanta 5-1 in
the decisive Game 5 of the National League playoffs.
(AP, 10/5/04)
2003 Oct 5, The MacArthur
Foundation named 24 winners of its annual fellowship award. Historians
Eve Troutt Powell (42) of the Univ. of Georgia and Anders Winroth (38)
of Yale Univ. were among the winners.
(USAT, 9/22/03, p.7D)
2003 Oct 5, In Atlanta, Georgia,
Shelia Chaney Wilson (43), shot and killed her mother, minister and
herself in the sanctuary of the Turner Monumental AME Church.
(SFC, 10/6/03, p.A3)
2003 Oct 5, Elections organized by
Moscow were held in Chechnya. Some 200,000 dead Chechens remained on
the electoral lists. Akhmad Kadyrov, chief of the pro-Russian
administration enjoyed a 13% popularity.
(WSJ, 10/2/03, p.A16)(AP, 10/5/03)
2003 Oct 5, In Port-Au-Prince,
Haiti, landslides caused by heavy rains swept down on poor areas of the
capital, killing at least 12 people and leaving dozens of others
homeless.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 5, Israeli warplanes
bombed the Ein Saheb base northwest of Damascus, Syria, in retaliation
for a suicide bombing at a Haifa restaurant. Israeli military called it
an Islamic Jihad training base. Residents later told the Associated
Press the camp was abandoned years ago.
(AP, 10/5/03)(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 5, Ministers of the
10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met ahead of a
leaders' summit on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, with leaders of
China, India, Japan and South Korea joining the bloc to sign trade and
security accords.
(AP, 10/5/03)
2003 Oct 5, In Malaysian Borneo
armed kidnappers riding in a speedboat raided a remote resort, seizing
six people before escaping.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 5, Valentina Matvienko
was elected gov. of St. Petersburg. Turnout was under 30%.
(Econ, 10/11/03, p.54)
2003 Oct 5, Pope John Paul II
declared three missionaries to be saints: Daniele Comboni, an Italian;
Arnold Janssen, a German; and Josef Freinademetz, an Austrian.
(AP, 10/5/03)
2003 Oct 5, In Somalia
Annalena Tonelli (60), an Italian aid worker who dedicated 33 years of
her life to helping Somalis, was shot and killed outside the hospital
she founded to treat tuberculosis patients.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2004 Oct 5, Americans David J.
Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in
physics for their explanation of the force that binds particles inside
the atomic nucleus. Their theory of quantum chromodynamics explained
who quarks behave.
(AP, 10/5/04)(SFC, 10/6/04, p.A2)
2004 Oct 5, The US vetoed an
Arab-backed UN Security Council resolution demanding that the Jewish
state immediately end military operations and called the resolution
"lopsided and unbalanced." 11 of 15 voted in favor with 3 abstentions.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 5, US Vice Pres. Dick
Cheney and Sen. John Edwards slugged it out over jobs, judgment and
Iraq in a hard-hitting debate.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 5, A Louisiana state
judge threw out the new constitutional amendment banning gay marriage
because it also banned civil unions.
(SFC, 10/6/04, p.A3)
2004 Oct 4, Tiger Woods married
Swedish model Elin Nordegren in Barbados.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2004 Oct 5, Supermarket janitors
in California won a $22.4 million settlement against 3 grocery chains
and a cleaning contractor in a class-action suit over failure to pay
for overtime.
(SFC, 10/6/04, p.B3)
2004 Oct 5, The first Web 2.0
Conference opened for a 3-day session at the Hotel Nikko in San
Francisco.
(Econ, 3/21/09,
p.71)(http://conferences.oreillynet.com/web2con/)
2004 Oct 5, Light crude oil for
November closed at a record $51.09 per barrel.
(SFC, 10/6/04, p.C1)
2004 Oct 5, Rodney Dangerfield
(82), comedian and film actor, died in LA. He was best known for his
line: "I don't get no respect."
(AP, 10/6/04)(SFC, 10/6/04, p.A2)
2004 Oct 5, Texas executed Edward
Green despite pleas by Houston’s police chief for a moratorium because
of suspect work by the city’s crime lab.
(WSJ, 10/6/04, p.A1)
2004 Oct 5, Britain pulled the
license of a Liverpool factory responsible for manufacturing half of
Chiron Corp.’s US flu vaccine supply due to contamination by the
bacteria serratia.
(SFC, 10/6/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/7/04, p.B6)
2004 Oct 5, The Canadian submarine
HMCS Chicoutimi went adrift in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast
of Ireland since a blaze onboard caused a loss of power. Lieutenant
Chris Saunders, one of nine crew members hurt in the fire, died after a
British helicopter flew him to a hospital in Ireland.
(AP, 10/7/04)
2004 Oct 5, In Chechnya Maj. Gen.
Alu Alkhanov was sworn in as president.
(AP, 10/5/04)
2004 Oct 5, New data showed
unemployment in Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, is continuing
to rise and could even reach five million by the winter.
(AP, 10/5/04)
2004 Oct 5, In India at least 10
people were killed and seven wounded in a fresh bout of militant
violence in the restive northeastern state of Assam.
(AFP, 10/5/04)
2004 Oct 5, Iran said its missiles
now have a range of more than 1,200 miles, a substantial extension of
their previously declared range.
(AP, 10/5/04)
2004 Oct 5, Interim Prime Minister
Ayad Allawi said negotiators hammered out the basis for an agreement to
end fighting with followers of radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr. 2 car bombs exploded in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi,
killing four Iraqis and prompting clashes between U.S. troops and
gunmen. 10 Iraqi policemen, including a lieutenant colonel, were killed
in two separate attacks south of Baghdad.
(AP, 10/5/04)
2004 Oct 5, An Israeli aircraft
launched a missile at a car in Gaza City, killing at least 2 militants
and wounding three others. A helicopter strike in Gaza killed Bashir Al
Dabash (42), a senior Islamic Jihad leader, as well as his bodyguard.
Iyman Hams, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl, was shot and killed by
Israeli forces, which soon prompted an investigation. In 2005 an
Israeli military court acquitted an army captain who was charged with
intentionally killing the Palestinian girl, saying she was already dead
when he shot her.
(AP, 10/5/04)(SFC, 10/6/04, p.A17)(SFC, 10/13/04,
p.A14)(AP, 11/16/05)
2004 Oct 5, A Russian cargo plane
crashed in war-ravaged southern Sudan, killing all four people onboard.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 5, In Belgrade, Serbia, 2
soldiers were killed guarding the entrance to a secret complex. It was
soon revealed that a 2-square-mile complex, dubbed a "concrete
underground city" by the local media, had been built deep inside a
rocky hill in a residential area in the 1960s on the orders of
communist strongman Josip Broz Tito.
(AP, 11/19/04)
2005 Oct 5, Defying the White
House, US senators voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would
prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2005 Oct 5, Americans Robert H.
Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock and Yves Chauvin of France won the Nobel
Prize in chemistry for their work in metathesis, a technique for moving
groups of atoms from one molecule to another. Their discoveries let
industry create drugs and advanced plastics in a more efficient and
environmentally friendly way.
(AP, 10/5/05)(Econ, 10/8/05, p.87)
2005 Oct 5, In a move meant to
send a message to Uzbekistan, the US Senate voted to block the payment
of $23 million for past use of an air base that the Uzbek government
recently said will no longer host U.S. aircraft and troops.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2005 Oct 5, Lawrence Franklin
(58), a Pentagon employee, admitted in court he provided classified
defense information to an Israeli diplomat and two employees of
(AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobby group in 2003-2004. In 2006 Franklin was
sentenced to over 12 years in prison.
(AFP, 10/6/05)(SFC, 1/21/06, p.A4)
2005 Oct 5, The City Council of
Oakland, Ca., approved a 3 dog limit for city residents. Breeders,
kennels and rescue groups were exempted.
(SFC, 10/6/05, p.B5)
2005 Oct 5, The DJIA dropped
nearly 124 points to 10,317.36 over inflation concerns.
(SFC, 10/6/05, p.C1)
2005 Oct 5, A team of US
researchers announced the successful rebuilding of a replica of the
1918 Spanish flu virus. The genetic blueprint was published on the
Internet. Their success was based on an original sample recovered from
a frozen corpse in Alaska in 1997.
(SFC, 10/6/05, p.A1)
2005 Oct 5, NASA announced that
short burst type of Gamma Ray Bursters involved the collision of either
2 neutron stars or of a neutron star and a black hole. Gamma Ray
Bursters were 1st discovered in 1967 and later 2 types were identified.
The long burst type had previously been explained as radiation from the
collapse of a massive star.
(SFC, 10/6/05, p.A2)
2005 Oct 5, Hurricane Stan knocked
down trees, ripped roofs off homes and washed out bridges in
southeastern Mexico, but it was the storms it helped spawn that were
far more destructive, killing more than 65 people in Central America.
Officials in El Salvador said 49 people had been killed, mostly due to
two days of mudslides sparked by rains. 9 people died in Nicaragua,
including six migrants believed to be Ecuadorians killed in a boat
accident. Four deaths were reported in Honduras, three in Guatemala and
one in Costa Rica.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2005 Oct 5, Daniel Alfredsson
scored twice in the final six minutes of regulation and once during the
first shootout in NHL history, leading Ottawa to a 3-2 win over Toronto.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2005 Oct 5, Iran's foreign
minister met with Omani officials, part of a tour of Gulf countries to
win support for his government's standoff with the West over its
nuclear program.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2005 Oct 5, Iraq's parliament
voted to reverse last-minute changes to rules for next week's
referendum on a new constitution after the UN said they were unfair.
Sunni Arabs responded by dropping their threat to boycott the vote and
promised to reject the charter at the polls.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2005 Oct 5, A bomb exploded at the
entrance of a Shiite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad as hundreds of
worshippers gathered for prayers on the first day of Ramadan and for
the funeral of a man killed in an earlier bombing. At least 25 people
were killed and 87 wounded. In Kirkuk assassins killed Nubiel Sharaf
Aldeen, a retired police official.
(AP, 10/5/05)(SFC, 10/7/05, p.A14)
2005 Oct 5, A video showing two
Iraqi men being beheaded for allegedly spying for the United States was
posted on a militant Islamic Web site, and the Ansar al-Sunnah Army
claimed it had carried out the executions.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2005 Oct 5, Toyota Motor Corp.
said it has agreed to buy an 8.7 percent stake in rival Japanese
automaker Fuji Heavy Industries, the maker of Subaru cars, from General
Motors Corp. for about $315 million.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2005 Oct 5, Some 500 African
immigrants defied increased security and tried to surge across
razor-wire fences separating Morocco and the Spanish enclave of
Melilla, the 5th such rush in a week. The assault in a week prompted
Spain to announce plans to expel the illegal migrants.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 5, Drug agents found
3,904 pounds of cocaine in the steel oxygen tank, one of the largest
drug busts in Puerto Rico's history. The DEA has estimated that as much
as 20 percent of the cocaine that reaches the US moves through the
Caribbean. Traffickers love Puerto Rico because after their drugs
arrive on the island, they can be hidden amid regular cargo and shipped
onward, bypassing routine searches because Puerto Rico is part of the
United States.
(AP, 11/7/05)
2005 Oct 5, In southern Thailand
suspected Islamic insurgents shot and killed five soldiers as they ate
dinner at a military outpost.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2005 Oct 5, The official Herald
newspaper reported Zimbabwe needs to import more grain to feed at least
2.2 million needy people who cannot fend for themselves until the new
harvest next April.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2006 Oct 5, In Miami, Florida,
inauguration ceremonies were held for the Carnival Center for the
Performing Arts.
(Econ, 10/14/06, p.32)
2006 Oct 5, The House ethics
committee opened an expansive investigation into the unfolding
congressional page sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of US
Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla.
(AP, 10/5/07)
2006 Oct 5, Demonstrations took
place in 150 cities across the US, Canada and Switzerland led by the
“World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime” campaign.
(SFC, 10/6/06, p.B7)
2006 Oct 5, Howard Stapleton won
the 2006 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for his "electromechanical teenager
repellant," a device that produces a sound audible only to those 30 or
younger. The device was made famous last May when it was discovered
that teenagers had adopted the sound as a ring tone, so that teachers
couldn't hear them receiving calls in class.
(http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9596_22-6123388.html)
2006 Oct 5, The DJIA rose 16.24 to
11,866.69, to close at record high for the 3rd day in a row. Nasdaq
rose 15.39 to 2,306.
(SFC, 10/6/06, p.C1)
2006 Oct 5, In California a state
appeals court ruled 2-1 that gays and lesbians have no constitutional
right to marry in California.
(SFC, 10/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 5, In Miami, Florida,
inauguration ceremonies were held for the Carnival Center for the
Performing Arts.
(Econ, 10/14/06, p.32)
2006 Oct 5, In Apex, North
Carolina, a fire began at the EQ Industrial Services hazardous waste
plant and a chlorine cloud rose high over the area. The next morning as
many as 17,000 people were urged to flee homes on the outskirts of
Raleigh.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 5, NATO took over eastern
Afghanistan from US-led forces, assuming control of 12,000 American
troops and extending its military role to the entire country.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, Friedrich Karl Flick
(79), Austrian billionaire industrialist, died. His father was
convicted at Nuremburg in 1947 of using slave labor in Nazi Germany. In
1981 Flick became embroiled in a major postwar political party
financing scandal when it surfaced that some of his managers had given
millions of German marks to German political parties. Flick sold his
company to Deutsche Bank in 1985.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 5, In Bolivia rival
miners' groups agreed to a truce after a day of clashes over access to
one of South America's richest tin mines left at least 9 people dead
and 40 injured.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 5, In Brazil
environmentalist Eduardo Veado (46) and his wife, Simone Furtini Abras
(41) died after being run over as they walked along a country road in
Minas Gerais state. Veado had received death threats for denouncing
illegal logging around the town of Ipanema.
(AP, 10/20/06)
2006 Oct 5, Survivors told police
that at least 20 migrants drowned when their boat split while sailing
from Africa to Spain's Canary Islands. 7 adults and 4 children were
picked up by a South African ship some 120 miles south of the Canary
Islands and brought to a port on Gran Canaria island overnight.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, China criticized newly
imposed EU antidumping tariffs on Chinese shoes as unlawful and
threatened possible retaliation.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 5, In Ethiopia Alemayehu
Fantu, a businessman, was arrested and charged with distributing
calendars with pictures of opposition leaders. The calendars called for
non-violent civil disobedience to bring down the government.
(Econ, 10/28/06, p.56)
2006 Oct 5, The European Central
Bank, sticking to its tough line on inflation, raised its key interest
rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 3.25% and hinted that
another rate increase is in the offing before next year.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, EU ministers endorsed
a plan to make permanent joint patrols that pick up migrants on the
high seas, moving to end internal divisions over dealing with a surge
of illegal immigration from Africa.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, Georgians voted in
municipal elections seen as a crucial test for President Mikhail
Saakashvili during a diplomatic crisis with Russia.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, In Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, a fire raged through a building housing abused women and
their families, killing three adults and six children.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice visited Baghdad, where she warned Iraqi leaders they
had limited time to settle their differences. A car bomb exploded in
the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Hurriyah in Baghdad, killing two
people and wounding two more. Another bomb struck a group of laborers
waiting for work at a downtown square in the capital, killing two and
wounding 26. Bombings and shooting in and around Baqouba left seven
dead. Mohammed Ridha Mohammed, a Kurdish lawmaker, was kidnapped and
shot to death and Shiite militias were held responsible for killing.
Mohammed was a member of the Islamic Group, a conservative Sunni party
in the Kurdish Alliance. One person was killed and four wounded in a
double bombing outside a neighborhood power generator in Baghdad’s
Qahira district. Police found the bodies of five men in their 30s, the
apparent victims of sectarian death squads, their hands and feet bound
and signs of torture on their bodies. Police found 7 bodies floating in
the area of Suwayrah. Gunmen killed Naseer Shamil (37), a former Iraqi
national volleyball player and a Shiite, in his shop in Baghdad. One
American soldier with the 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, died
near Beiji.
(AP, 10/6/06)(AP, 10/7/06)(AP, 10/5/07)
2006 Oct 5, In Oaxaca, Mexico, a
teacher was hacked to death. A colleague claimed the man was killed for
opposing a teachers' strike. Jaime Rene Calva Aragon was on his way to
a meeting when he was killed by two assailants wielding hefty ice picks.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 5, Researchers in Norway
announced the discovery of the remains of a short-necked plesiosaur, a
prehistoric marine reptile the size of a bus, that they believe is the
first complete skeleton ever found. The 150 million year old remains of
the 33-foot ocean going predator were found in August on the remote
Svalbard Islands of the Arctic.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, In northwestern
Pakistan a gunbattle between rival Sunni and Shiite Muslims left at
least 13 people dead and seven wounded in a remote tribal area.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 5, Russia froze
Georgians’ work permits and nearly doubled its gas bill.
(WSJ, 10/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 5, In Sri Lanka relatives
and aid workers said the K-faction, a feared militia on Sri Lanka's
volatile eastern coast, has abducted hundreds of men and boys, some as
young as 12, to fight in the country's civil war, with the government's
consent. The Karuna faction split from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam in 2004.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, The US called
emergency UN Security Council consultations after Sudan warned nations
considering troops for Darfur that their action was a "prelude to an
invasion."
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, In Suriname a homeless
man was slain by an ax-wielding assailant in Paramaribo. It was the 4th
killing this year of homeless men while they slept on the streets of
Suriname's capital. Police wondered if a serial killer is on the loose.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 5, Thai coup leaders
agreed to talk with southern rebels reversing Thaksin’s confrontational
approach to the insurgency.
(WSJ, 10/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 5, US-based Human Rights
Watch (HRW) said the EU's decision to abandon a trade pact with the
reclusive Central Asian state of Turkmenistan was a "landmark move
against tyranny."
(Reuters, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, The Latvian and Thai
candidates dropped out of the race to become the next U.N. chief on
Thursday, leaving South Korea's foreign minister as the lone remaining
contender and near-certain successor to Kofi Annan.
(AP, 10/5/06)
2006 Oct 5, In Uzbekistan a court
sentenced Ulugbek Khaidarov, an independent rights activist and
journalist, to six years in jail for extortion amid a sweeping
government crackdown on dissidents in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet
state.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2007 Oct 5, It was reported that
approval ratings for Pres. George Bush had dropped to 31%. Approval for
Congress’s performance fell to 22%. Bush defended his administration's
methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects, saying they
were successful and lawful.
(WSJ, 10/5/07, p.A1)(AP, 10/5/08)
2007 Oct 5, The US EPA approved
methyl iodide as a new agricultural pesticide to replace methyl
bromide, despite protests from over 50 scientists, who noted that it
was a known carcinogen and neurotoxin.
(SSFC, 10/7/07, p.A18)
2007 Oct 5, Marion Jones (31),
three-time Olympic gold medalist, pleaded guilty in White Plains, NY,
to lying to federal investigators when she denied using
performance-enhancing drugs, and announced her retirement. Jones said
she took steroids from September 2000 to July 2001 and said she was
told by her then-coach Trevor Graham that she was taking flaxseed oil
when it was actually "the clear." Jones also pleaded guilty to a second
count of lying to investigators about her association with a
check-fraud scheme.
(AP, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 5, Topps Meat Co. of
Newark, NJ, founded in 1940, said a massive meat recall has forced it
out of business. Government scientists have yet to determine the source
of the E. coli contamination that appears to have sickened 32 people
who ate its hamburgers.
(AP, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 5, Afghan and US-led
coalition troops clashed with insurgents during a raid in eastern
Afghanistan, and civilians as well as militants were killed. In the
country's volatile south, a suicide bomber approaching NATO and Afghan
forces blew himself up prematurely in Helmand province's Sangin
district, killing two children.
(AP, 10/5/07)
2007 Oct 5, Chinese medical
officials agreed not to transplant organs from prisoners or others in
custody, except into members of their immediate families. The agreement
was reached at a meeting of the World Medical Association in Copenhagen.
(AP, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 5, Colombia’s
Constitutional Court ruled that gays may add their partners to health
insurance plans.
(SSFC, 10/7/07, p.A5)
2007 Oct 5, Europe's .eu Internet
domain registrar EURid said the Internet address www.sex.asia is likely
to be the domain name most in demand next week when dot Asia Web sites
are launched.
(AP, 10/5/07)
2007 Oct 5, Finland’s justice
ministry said PM Matti Vanhanen is suing his ex-girlfriend for
revealing details of their relationship in a tell-all book published
earlier this year.
(AP, 10/5/07)
2007 Oct 5, Nearly 300
participants started twisting and turning a small multicolored cube on
the first day of the Rubik's Cube World Championships in Budapest, the
birthplace of the cult puzzle.
(AFP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 5, US forces backed by
attack aircraft killed at least 25 Shiite militia fighters north of
Baghdad in an operation targeting a cell accused of smuggling weapons
from Iran. An Iraqi army official claimed civilians, including seven
children, were among those killed in the raid. A Shiite militia leader
accused of forcibly removing Sunnis from their homes north of Baghdad
was captured in a raid. 3 Americans were killed in roadside bombings in
Baghdad and near Beiji to the north.
(AP, 10/5/07)(AP, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 5, Japan put its first
satellite into orbit around the moon, placing the country a step ahead
of China and India in an increasingly heated space race in Asia.
(AP, 10/5/07)
2007 Oct 5, Record floods, that
have wreaked havoc across Africa, killed at least 20,000 wildebeests
making their way to Kenya during their annual “great migration.” The
animals, also known as gnus, were swept away by a river that broke its
banks in southern Kenya's Maasai Mara park. Kenya Wildlife Service on
Oct 13 said floods that have wreaked havoc across Africa killed 5,000
wildebeests, and not tens of thousands, blaming tourists for
exaggerating the toll.
(AFP, 10/11/07)(AFP, 10/13/07)
2007 Oct 5, In Myanmar acting
Ambassador Shari Villarosa met with Deputy Foreign Minister Maung Myint
in the remote jungle capital of Naypitaw (Naypyidaw). During her visit,
she was expected to repeat the US view that the regime must meet with
democratic opposition groups and "stop the iron crackdown" on peaceful
demonstrators. The US said it would propose a UN Security Council
resolution imposing sanctions on Myanmar if the government there does
not "respond constructively" to international concern about repression
of pro-democracy protests.
(AP, 10/5/07)(Econ, 4/12/08, p.27)
2007 Oct 5, Nepal's ruling parties
reluctantly agreed to Maoist demands to postpone upcoming elections,
ending one political crisis in the Himalayan nation but still leaving
the two sides deadlocked over other issues. 3 communist rebels shot and
killed Birendra Shah a crusading journalist. The group's leadership
later said they did not order the slaying and that the three men who
took part have been kicked out of the Maoist political party.
(AP, 10/5/07)(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Oct 5, On the eve of
Pakistan's presidential vote the highest court ruled that no election
winner can be declared until it decides whether Pres. Gen. Pervez
Musharraf is an eligible candidate. Musharraf pushed toward an alliance
with a former premier signing an amnesty clearing her of corruption
charges. Pres. Musharraf issued a National Reconciliation Ordnance as
part of a political deal to allow former PM Benazir Bhutto to return
from years of exile to Pakistan. By 2009 over 8,000 government
officials were reported to have benefited from the decree.
(AP, 10/5/07)(SFC, 11/23/09, p.A3)
2007 Oct 5, Abdullah bin
Abdul-Aziz, Saudi Arabia's king, announced an overhaul of the country's
judicial system, fulfilling a pledge he made several months ago to
reform the current heavily-criticized administration.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7029308.stm)(Econ, 10/13/07,
p.51)
2007 Oct 5, Insurgents in Somalia
killed at least 5 people in a grenade attack at the main market in
Mogadishu.
(WSJ, 10/6/07, p.A1)
2007 Oct 5, South African
prosecutors said they had obtained an arrest warrant for national
police chief and Interpol president Jackie Selebi, as one of his
friends appeared in court on murder charges.
(AFP, 10/5/07)
2008 Oct 5, The United States
opened a trade office in Libya to boost economic ties with the oil-rich
state.
(AFP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 5, The Illinois attorney
general's office said that Bank of America was modifying loans for
customers in 11 states.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 5, In northern California
8 people were killed when a passenger bus, carrying 41 senior Laotian,
casino-bound gamblers, ran off a rural road near Williams. Police the
next day arrested driver Quintin J. Watts (52) on suspicion of
driving under the influence. Daniel E. Cobb (68), owner of the bus, was
among the dead. The bus had invalid plates and identification numbers
and a lapsed corporate registration. A 9th victim died on Oct 10.
(SFC, 10/6/08, p.A1)(SFC, 10/7/08, p.A1)(SFC,
10/11/08, p.B3)
2008 Oct 5, Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala
Development Co. and Texas-based ConocoPhillips said they have signed a
deal with Kazakhstan’s national oil company to drill in a potentially
lucrative region in the Caspian Sea.
(SFC, 10/6/08, p.D1)
2008 Oct 5, Afghan and US troops
clashed and called airstrikes on a group of insurgents in southern
Zabul province, killing 43 militants.
(AP, 10/7/08)
2008 Oct 5, Isolated shootings in
Brazil soured municipal elections that President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva's allies hope will give them a leg up on 2010's presidential vote.
(AP, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 5, In Egypt 13 people
were killed and 24 injured when a bus and a truck collided head-on
south of Cairo.
(AP, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 5, Germany joined Ireland
and Greece in guaranteeing all private bank accounts, putting Europe's
biggest economy at odds with calls for a unified European response to
the global financial meltdown.
(AP, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 5, Hong Kong said it
found two Cadbury chocolate products contained considerably more of the
industrial chemical melamine than the city's legal limit in a growing
scandal over Chinese tainted food. China attempted to contain the
fallout from the tainted milk scandal, announcing a new survey of dairy
products showed no traces of melamine and promising to subsidize
farmers hit by the scare.
(AP, 10/5/08)(AFP, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 5, A Georgian Interior
Ministry official said Russian troops have begun dismantling positions
in the so-called security zones inside Georgia that they have occupied
since August's brief but intense war.
(AP, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 5, Iceland’s government
and banks scrambled to rescue the country’s banking system. Its economy
was one of the hardest hit by the global financial crises.
(WSJ, 10/5/08, p.A13)
2008 Oct 5, Clashes between Hindus
and Muslims in Dhule, a western Indian town left at least four people
dead and 80 injured, forcing police to impose a curfew.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 5, Ahmed Abul Gheit, the
first Egyptian foreign minister to visit Iraq in nearly two decades,
arrived in Baghdad and promised to help Iraq face its challenges. 11
people, including women and children, were killed after US forces came
under attack by gunfire and a suicide bomber during a raid in Mosul.
There were no casualties among American forces. Elsewhere in the
northern city, gunmen opened fire on mourners in a funeral tent,
killing 5 people and wounding 7 others. American troops acting on a tip
killed Abu Qaswarah (also known as Abu Sara), the No. 2 leader of
al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul. The Moroccan
was known for his ability to recruit and motivate foreign fighters.
(AP, 10/5/08)(SFC, 10/6/08, p.A3)(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 5, In Israel PM Olmert's
Cabinet agreed to hand over to Russia a small tract known as Sergei's
Courtyard. The area, which once accommodated Russian pilgrims visiting
the Holy Land, now houses offices of Israel's Agriculture Ministry and
the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
(AP, 10/7/08)
2008 Oct 5, A 6.6-magnitude
earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying Nura
village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 75 people including 41
children.
(AP, 10/6/08)(AP, 10/7/08)(SFC, 10/11/08, p.B6)
2008 Oct 5, In southern Mexico 5
state police officers were arrested in connection with a deadly raid to
dislodge protesters from a Mayan archaeological site. Mexican
authorities seized 7 million pills of pseudoephedrine, the main
ingredient used to make methamphetamine, at the Guadalajara airport.
More than 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) of the pills were found packed
in 24 boxes on a shipment from Calcutta, India. Three separate
shipments of more than a ton each were confiscated last month at Mexico
City's airport. Those also originated in Calcutta.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 5, MEND, the main
militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, said it had
released around 19 Nigerian oil workers kidnapped last month but was
still holding two Britons and a Ukrainian.
(Reuters, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 5, In Pakistan a
three-day ultimatum from the government for Afghans living illegally in
Bajur to leave was due to expire today. But of an estimated 80,000
Afghans, only about 15,000 had left.
(AP, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 5, Iba Ndiaye (b.1928),
Senegalese modernist painter, died in Paris.
(SSFC, 10/19/08, p.B6)
2008 Oct 5, Apirak Kosayodhin, the
leader of Thailand's opposition Democrat Party, won re-election as
governor of Bangkok, defeating the ruling party candidate as well as a
one-time sex tycoon. Thai police arrested Chamlong Srimuang, a key
protest leader and one-time Bangkok mayor, on charges of insurrection
in a continuing crackdown against an anti-government movement that
spearheaded the ouster of a prime minister last month.
(AP, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 5, In western Turkey a
truck packed with illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Myanmar
overturned, killing 18 people and injuring 23.
(AP, 10/5/08)
2008 Oct 5-2008 Oct 17, Arab
militia attacked at least 15 Sudanese villages. Aid workers and a
rights watchdog later said the violence near Muhagariya, a south Darfur
flashpoint has displaced 12,000 people and killed more than 40
civilians.
(AP, 10/25/08)
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