Today in History - October 14
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0530 Oct 14,
Dioscurus, anti-Pope (530), died.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1066 Oct 14, King Harold and his
army locked into a massive shield wall and faced Duke William, William
the Conqueror, and his mounted knights near the town of Hastings,
Battle of Hastings. Duke William planned a three point attack plan that
included a)heavy archery b)attack by foot soldiers c)attack by mounted
knights at any weak point of defense. The bloody battle gave the name
Sen Lac Hill to the battle site. The Normans won out after Harold was
killed by a fluke arrow. This placed William on the throne of England.
(AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)
1536 Oct 14, Garcilaso de la Vega,
Spanish poet and diplomat, died in battle.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1542 Oct 14, Abul-Fath
Djalal-ud-Din, 3rd Mogul emperor of India (1556-1605), was born.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1582 Oct 14, This day was one of
ten skipped to bring the calendar into sync. by order of the Council of
Trent. Oct 5-14 were dropped.
(K.I.-365D, p.97)(NG, March 1990, J. Boslough)
1585 Oct 14, Heinrich Schutz,
German royal chaplain master and composer (Daphne), was born. [see Oct
8]
(MC, 10/14/01)
1586 Oct 14, Mary, Queen of Scots,
went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen
Elizabeth the First. Mary was beheaded in February 1587.
(AP, 10/14/06)
1631 Oct 14, The ship Our Lady of
Juncal set sail from the Gulf coast port of Veracruz, as part of a
19-ship fleet bearing described only as "a valuable shipment of the
goods obtained by the king's ministers to feed the Spanish empire."
Most of the fleet never made it.
(AP, 2/17/09)
1633 Oct 14, James II Stuart, king
of England and Scotland (James VII) (1685-88), was born.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1644 Oct 14, William Penn, founder
of Pennsylvania, or Penn's Woods, was born.
(HN, 10/14/98)
1651 Oct 14, Laws were passed in
Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress.
(HN, 10/14/98)
1705 Oct 14, The English Navy
captured Barcelona in Spain.
(HN, 10/14/98)
1734 Oct 14, Francis Lightfoot
Lee, US farmer and signer of the Declaration of Independence), was born.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1773 Oct 14, Britain's East India
Company tea ships' cargo was burned at Annapolis, Md.
(HN, 10/14/98)
1806 Oct 14, The forces of French
Emperor Napoleon I defeated the Prussians in the twin battles of Jena
and Auerstadt.
(AP, 10/14/07)
1832 Oct 14, Blackfeet Indians
attacked American Fur Company trappers near Montana’s Jefferson River,
killing one.
(HN, 10/14/98)
1871 Oct 14, Alexander von
Zemlinsky (d.1942), composer (Schneeman), was born in Vienna, Austria.
His work included “Frulingsbegrabnis” (a cantata from 1897), “Die
Seejunbfrau” (1902-1903), “Eine Florentinische Tragodie” (an opera from
1914-1915), “Symphonic Songs” (1929), and “Der Zwerg” (The Dwarf, an
opera from 1921) and 7 other operas.
(WSJ, 6/11/98, p.A20)(MC, 10/14/01)
1871 Oct 8-14, In Peshtigo, Wisc.,
over 1,200 people were killed in the nation’s worst forest fire, which
burned across six counties and into Michigan.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(MC, 10/8/01)
1880 Oct 14, Apache leader
Victorio was slain in Mexico by the Mexican army. [see Oct 15]
(HN, 10/14/98)(MC, 10/14/01)
1882 Oct 14, Eamon DeValera,
Taoiseach and President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59), was born in
NY.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1884 Oct 14, Transparent
paper-strip photographic film was patented by George Eastman. He had
invented a flexible paper-backed film that could be wound on rollers.
To encourage amateur photography and film sales, Eastman developed a
simple black box camera that cost $25 and came already loaded with a
100-exposure roll of film. When the roll was used up, the entire No. 1
Kodak camera was shipped back to Eastman's factory for developing and
reloading, at a cost of only $10. Eastman's photographic improvements
proved successful, with 13,000 cameras sold in 1888. The roll holder
was designed by William Hall Walker. Eastman renamed his corporation
the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company.
(HN, 7/12/99)(HN, 10/14/00)(ON, 3/05, p.11)
1888 Oct 14, Katherine Mansfield,
short story writer, was born.
(HN, 10/14/00)
1890 Oct 14, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
34th president of the United States (1953-1961), was born in Denison,
Texas.
(AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)
1894 Oct 14, e.e. cummings
(d.1962), American poet, was born. "To be nobody but myself -- in a
world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody
else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can
fight, and never stop fighting."
(AP, 10/14/98)(HN, 10/14/98)
1896 Oct 14, Lilian Gish, American
actress, was born.
(HN, 10/14/98)
1899 Oct 14, Morning Post reporter
Winston Churchill departed for South Africa. Shortly after his arrival
he was caught in an ambush and taken prisoner in Pretoria from whence
he escaped. In 1999 his granddaughter Celia Sandys authored "Churchill:
Wanted Dead Or Alive."
(WSJ, 12/29/99, p.A12)(MC, 10/14/01)
1901 Oct 14, Justin Huntly
McCarthy's "If I Were King," premiered in NYC (Francois Villon).
(MC, 10/14/01)
1905 Oct 14, Eugene Fodor,
Hungarian-born travel writer, was born.
(HN, 10/14/00)
1906 Oct 14, Hannah Arendt,
historian (Origins of Totalitarianism), was born in Germany.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1908 Oct 14, The E.M.
Forster novel "A Room With a View" was first published.
(AP, 10/14/08)
1908 Oct 14, The Chicago Cubs won
the World Series as they defeated the Detroit Tigers in Game 5, 2-0, at
Bennett Park.
(AP, 10/14/08)
1911 Oct 14, Le Duc Tho (d.1990),
North Vietnamese representative at Paris peace talk (1970-72), was
born. He declined the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
(AP, 10/16/98)(MC, 10/14/01)
1911 Oct 14, John Marshall Harlan
(b.1833), US Supreme Court Justice, died after serving 34 years. A
memoir written by his wife, Malvina, was later discovered and published
in 2002: "Some Memories of a Long Life (1854-1911)"
(WSJ, 5/28/02,
p.D7)(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/44/)
1911 Oct 14, Revolution in China
began with a bomb explosion and the discovery of revolutionary
headquarters in Hankow. The revolutionary movement spread rapidly
through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the last
Ch'ing emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi. [see Oct 10]
(HN, 10/14/98)
1912 Oct 14, Theodore Roosevelt,
former president and the Bull Moose Party candidate, was shot at close
range by anarchist William Schrenk while greeting the public in front
of the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee while campaigning for the
presidency. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and still
managed to give a 90 minute address in Milwaukee after requesting his
audience to be quiet because “there is a bullet in my body.” Schrenk
was captured and uttered the now famous words "any man looking
for a third term ought to be shot."
(WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A10)(AP, 10/14/97)(WSJ, 8/5/96,
p.A10)(HN, 10/14/98)(MC, 10/14/01)
1913 Oct 14, An explosion in a
coal mine in Cardiff, Wales, killed 439.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1916 Oct 14, C. Everett Koop, U.S.
Surgeon General (1981-1989), was born.
(HN, 10/14/00)(MC, 10/14/01)
1918 Oct 14, In France the
American 32nd division was sent to engage German troops on the Dame
Marie, while the 5th and 42nd Divisions under Gen. Douglas MacArthur
swept in pincer movements to occupy Cote de Chatillon. The objectives
were taken in 3 days of tough fighting. In 2008 Robert H. Ferrell
authored “The Question of MacArthur’s Reputation: Cote de Chatillon,
October 14-16, 1918.”
(WSJ, 11/24/08, p.A17)
1922 Oct 14, The 1st automated
telephones began service at the Pennsylvania exchange in NYC.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1926 Oct 14, Son Thomas, blues
guitarist and singer, was born.
(HN, 10/14/00)
1926 Oct 14, The book
"Winnie-the-Pooh" by Alan Alexander Milne (d.1956) was released.
Milne wrote this and other stories, centering the tales around his
little son, Christopher Robin, and Christopher's stuffed animals, like
the honey-loving Pooh Bear, Eeyore (the donkey), Piglet and Tigger. The
geography was based on real places in 14,000 acres of Ashdown Forest,
in the northwest corner of East Sussex, England.
(Hem., 8/96, p.107)(MC, 10/14/01)
1927 Oct 14, Roger Moore, actor
(Alaskans, Maverick, Saint, 007), was born in London, England.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1930 Oct 14, Robert Parker, US
saxophonist and soul singer (Barefootin'), was born.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1930 Oct 14, Singer Ethel Merman
stuns the audience when she held a high C for sixteen bars while
singing "I Got Rhythm" during her Broadway debut in Gershwin's Girl
Crazy.
(HN, 10/14/00)
1933 Oct 14, The Geneva
disarmament conference broke up as Germany proclaimed withdrawal from
the disarmament initiative, as well as from the League of Nations,
effective October 23.
(AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)
1938 Oct 14, John Dean III, former
White House counsel (Watergate figure), was born.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1938 Oct 14, Nazis planned Jewish
ghettos for all major cities.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1939 Oct 14, Ralph Lauren, fashion
designer (Chaps), was born.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1939 Oct 14, The German U-47,
commanded by Kapitan Gunther Prien, sank the British battleship HMS
Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, Scotland, and 833 people were killed. This
prompted Churchill to order the creation of concrete barriers at the
eastern entrance of Scapa Flow.
(SFEM, 10/10/99,
p.49)(http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hoy/scapa/)
1941 Oct 14, The 1st mass
deportations took place at Kovno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1943 Oct 14, US 8th Air Force lost
60 B-17 bombers during assault on Schweinfurt.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1943 Oct 14, In Germany Rev. Max
Josef Metzger was sentenced to death for treason by Roland Freisler,
chief judge of the Nazi’s People’s Court. He had written a letter to
the British government that denounced the Nazis and called for a German
state based on Christian democratic and legal principles. He was
exonerated by a Berlin court in 1997
(SFC, 5/3/97, p.A10)
1943 Oct 14, Some 300 of 600
prisoners escaped from the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp in Poland. The
event was later documented in the book "Escape from Sobibor" by Richard
Rashke (1982) and the film of the same name with Alan Arkin. Josef
Vallaster, an Austrian guard, was among 11 SS officers and 11
Ukrainians killed in the escape. Most of the escaped prisoners were
killed as they fled. Only 50 prisoners survived the war. Vallaster had
operated the motor that funneled gas into Sobibor’s shower rooms.
(HC, 5/30/98)(SFC, 7/11/03, p.A19)(SSFC, 2/17/08,
p.A8)
1944 Oct 14, Allied troops landed
in Corfu, Greece.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1944 Oct 14, German Field Marshal
Rommel (52), suspected of complicity in the July 20th plot against
Hitler, was visited at home by two of Hitler's staff and given the
choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chose suicide and it
was announced that he died of wounds.
(AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)
1945 Oct 14, British Chief Justice
Geoffrey Lawrence was elected president of the Int’l. Military Tribunal
for the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Drexel A. Sprecher
(d.2006), a prosecutor during the trial, later edited the official
15-volume work on the 4-year trial.
(http://tinyurl.com/pnk7h)(SFC, 4/11/06, p.B5)
1947 Oct 14, Air Force test pilot
Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager (24) flew the experimental Bell X-1 [Bell
XS-1] rocket plane aircraft and broke the sound barrier to Mach 1.07
for the first time over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., which was then
called Muroc Army Air Field. The area has the largest dry lake bed in
the world, a 44-square mile area known as Rogers Lake. Suspended from
the belly of a Boeing B-29, Glamorous Glennis was dropped at 10:26 a.m.
from a height of 20,000 feet. Yeager (who had broken two ribs in a
riding accident the night before) fired the four rocket motor chambers
in pairs, breaking through the sound barrier as he increased airspeed
to almost 700 mph and climbed to an altitude of 43,000 feet. The XS-1
remained at supersonic speeds for 20.5 seconds, with none of the
buffeting that characterized high-speed subsonic flight. The 14-minute
flight was Yeager's ninth since being named primary pilot in June 1947.
The Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (the
forerunner of NASA) did not make the event public until Jun 10, 1948.
(SFC, 8/5/96, p.A3)(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A7)(AP,
10/14/97)(HNPD, 10/14/98)
1948 Oct 14, Large scale fighting
took place between Israel and Egypt.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1949 Oct 14, Leaders of the
American Communist Party were convicted of conspiracy to advocate the
violent overthrow of the US government. They were sentenced with fines
and imprisonment.
(EWH, 1968, p.1207)(MC, 10/14/01)
1949 Oct 14, Pat Valentino
(1920-2008), SF boxer, was knocked out by Ezzard Charles in the 8th
round at the Cow Palace in a boxing heavy-weight match before a crowd
of 19,950.
(SFC, 8/8/08, p.B5)
1949 Oct 14, The Chinese Red army
occupied Canton.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1949 Oct 14, In Czechoslovakia the
government assumed full control over Church affairs and required all
clergy to swear an oath of loyalty to the state. Most of the lower
clergy complied.
(EWH, 1968, p.1187)
1950 Oct 14, In Washington state
westbound traffic opened on the new fortified bridge over the Tacoma
Narrows. The new design was approved after a model passed wind tunnel
tests designed by engineering Prof. Frederick Burt Farquharson.
(ON, 6/09,
p.8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge)
1950 Oct 14, Chinese Communist
Forces began to infiltrate the North Korean Army.
(HN, 10/14/98)
1950 Oct 14, Rev. Sun Young Moon
was liberated from Hung Nam prison (Korea).
(MC, 10/14/01)
1951 Oct 14, The Organization of
Central American States formed.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1953 Oct 14, Ike promised to fire
as communists any federal workers taking the 5th amendment.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1953 Oct 14, Ariel Sharon, who had
formed the elite Israeli commando unit "101" to fight Palestinian
guerrillas, led it in a raid against the Jordanian village of Qibya
killing some 70 civilians.
(SFC, 10/10/98, p.A8)(Econ, 12/16/06,
p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibya_massacre)
1954 Oct 14, American Samoa
Government's vessel Manu'atele sighted William Willis's raft The Seven
Little Sisters, and towed it into Pago Pago Harbor. William Willis
(1893-1968) sailed a raft from Peru to Samoa. In 2006 T.R. Pearson
authored “Seaworthy: Adrift With William Willis in the Golden Age of
Rafting.”
(WSJ, 6/24/06,
p.P12)(www.asg-gov.net/026HISTORICALCAL_OCTOBER.htm)
1954 Oct 14, An Israeli act of
revenge in Qibiya, Jordan, killed 53.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1955 Oct 14, A new US Navy
6-story, windowless structure was dedicated at the SF Naval Shipyard at
Hunters Point, Ca. The $8 million laboratory was to be devoted
exclusively to the development of defense against radiation.
(SFC, 4/8/05, p.F2)
1956 Oct 14, Charles Ives'
overture "Robert Browning," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1957 Oct 14, Lester Bowles Pearson
(1897-1972, former president of the UN General Assembly (1952-1953) and
later Canadian PM (1963-1968) won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in
defusing the Suez crisis.
(www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/un_milestones.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/ojxcz)
1958 Oct 14, Paul Osborn's "World
of Suzie Wong," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1958 Oct 14, Brendan Behan's
"Hostage," premiered in London.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1959 Oct 14, Errol Flynn (b.1909),
Tasmania-born US actor, died of heart attack. His death ended a 2-year
romance with Beverly Aadland (17). They had appeared together in 3
films. His autobiography, “My Wicked, Wicked Ways,” was published
shortly after his death and contains humorous anecdotes about
Hollywood. According to one literary critic, the book "remains one of
the most compelling and appalling autobiographies written by a
Hollywood star.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn)(SSFC,
10/18/09, DB p.46)
1960 Oct 14, The idea of a Peace
Corps was first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F.
Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan.
(AP, 10/14/97)
1961 Oct 14, "How to Succeed in
Business" opened at 46th St NYC for 1415 performances.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1962 Oct 14, The CIA U-2 mission
detected Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. Air Force pilot Maj.
Richard Heyser and CIA contract pilot James Barnes Jr. (d.1999 at 70)
identified missile sites in separate flights.
(SFC, 9/17/97, p.A3)(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A19)
1964 Oct 14, Civil rights leader
Rev. Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
advocating a policy of non-violence.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.C6)(AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)
1964 Oct 14, Philips began
experimenting with color TV.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1966 Oct 14, 175 US airplanes
bombed North Vietnam.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1966 Oct 14, The World Bank’s
International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) came
into force. It was established under the Convention on the Settlement
of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Centre_for_Settlement_of_Investment_Disputes)
1968 Oct 14, The Beatles "White
Album" was completed at the Abbey Road Studios.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_(album))
1968 Oct 14, The first live
telecast from a manned US spacecraft was sent from Apollo 7.
(AP, 10/14/98)
1970 Oct 14, San Francisco’s
Golden Gate Park Conservatory was added to the National Register of
Historic Places.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places)
1973 Oct 14, US Air Force
"Operation Nickel Grass" began resupply missions to Israel for a full
month, until November 14.
(www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_ykwar_course.php)
1973 Oct 14, In Thailand thousands
demonstrated against the military dictatorship and some 77 people were
killed.
(www.prachatai.com/english/news.php?id=531)
1973 Oct 14, In Turkey the CHP
replaced the AP as the most popular party, although it did not achieve
a parliamentary majority. The CHP and MSP formed a coalition government
under Bulent Ecevit. The National Salvation won 11.8% of votes in
general elections, winning 48 seats in the 450-member Parliament.
(http://tinyurl.com/4hkxfc)(AP, 11/4/02)
1975 Oct 14, South Africans
secretly launched Operation Savannah when the first of several South
African columns (task force Zulu) crossed into Angola from Namibia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola_(1975-1991))
1976 Oct 14, Deborah Gardner (23)
was stabbed (22 times) to death in Tonga by Dennis Priven (24), a
fellow Peace Corps volunteer. In 2004 Philip Weiss authored “American
Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps.”
(http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2024230.html)
1977 Oct 14, Bing Crosby (b.1903),
singer and actor, died on a golf course outside Madrid at age 74. In
2001 Gary Giddins authored “Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The
Early Years: 1903-1940.”
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.E4)(AP, 10/14/97)(SSFC, 1/21/01, DB
p.33)
1979 Oct 14, In Washington, DC,
some 100,000 gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and supporters marched in
celebration of gay pride and demanded equal rights for homosexuals
under the law.
(SFC, 10/15/04, p.F13)
1980 Oct 14, Pres. Carter signed
the Staggers Act, which deregulated the railroads and allowed them to
set their own prices.
(WSJ, 6/18/96, p.A17)(Econ, 10/30/04,
p.69)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggers_Rail_Act)
1980 Oct 14, Republican
presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promised that, if elected, he would
name a woman to the US Supreme Court. He later nominated Judge Sandra
Day O’Connor of Arizona.
(AP, 10/14/00)
1980 Oct 14, Hambrecht & Quist
took Genentech Corp. public at $35 per share which soared to close at
$89 per share.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.D1)(http://tinyurl.com/3y3m9r)
1981 Oct 14, Hosni Mubarak, the
new president of Egypt, was sworn in to succeed the assassinated Anwar
Sadat. Mubarak pledged loyalty to Sadat's policies.
(AP, 10/14/06)
1982 Oct 14, Some 6,000
Unification church couples were wed in Korea.
(www.tparents.org/library/unification/topics/traditn/history-bless.htm)
1983 Oct 14, Cecil Parkinson,
British Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, resigned following a
highly publicized extra-marital affair.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.62)(http://tinyurl.com/bfvue)
1986 Oct 14, Holocaust survivor
and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel in the US was named winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize.
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/97)
1987 Oct 14, A real-life drama
began in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet
down an abandoned well at a private day care center. Hundreds of
rescuers worked 58 hours to free her.
(AP, 10/14/97)
1988 Oct 14, The US government
reported that wholesale prices had risen a moderate 0.4% in September.
(AP, 10/14/98)
1989 Oct 14, Colombia extradited
three suspected drug traffickers to the United States as part of a war
on the cocaine cartel.
(AP, 10/14/99)
1990 Oct 14, Leonard Bernstein
(b.1918), American composer and conductor, died in New York City. In
2009 Barry Seldes authored “Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an
American Musician.”
(AP, 10/14/97)(Econ, 5/30/09, p.85)
1991 Oct 14, Burmese opposition
leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for
her non-violent promotion of democracy. Her award was accepted by her
husband, Michael Aris (d.1999 at 53) and their sons. A collection of
her writings is titled "Freedom From Fear."
(SFC, 5/22/96, p.C-1)(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.D6)(AP,
10/14/01)
1992 Oct 14, The Nobel Prize for
chemistry went to American Rudolph A. Marcus; the prize for physics
went to George Charpak of France.
(AP, 10/14/97)
1992 Oct 14, Russia's worst serial
killer, Andrei Chikatilo, was convicted of mutilating and killing 52
women and children. He was executed in 1994.
(AP, 10/14/97)
1993 Oct 14, U.S. helicopter pilot
Michael Durant and a Nigerian peacekeeper were freed by Somali fighters
loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
(AP, 10/14/98)
1993 Oct 14, In Haiti, gunmen
assassinated Justice Minister Guy Malary, a supporter of ousted
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
(SFEC, 10/13/96, p.A15)(AP, 10/14/98)
1994 Oct 14, The Nobel Peace Prize
was awarded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/99)
1994 Oct 14, Nobel Prize-winning
writer Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was stabbed several times in the neck
by a 21-year-old assailant on a Cairo street. Muslim militants were
blamed in the attack. The wound resulted in the paralysis of his
writing hand.
(WSJ, 2/20/98, p.A16)(AP, 10/14/04)
1994 Oct 14, Israeli soldier
Nachshon Wachsman, kidnapped on Oct 9, was killed when Israeli
commandos raided the hideout of Islamic militants in Jerusalem. An
Israeli soldier and 3 kidnappers were also killed in the ensuing
firefight. In 2006 his family files suit against Iran for providing
training and support to Hamas. In 2009 a US judge awarded a $25 million
settlement to the family.
(AP, 10/14/99)(SFC, 3/28/09, p.A9)
1995 Oct 14, The Atlanta Braves
won the National League pennant by beating the Cincinnati Reds, 6-to-0,
to complete a four-game sweep.
(AP, 10/14/00)
1995 Oct 14, An armed gunman
seized a bus carrying South Korean tourists in Moscow’s Red Square.
Commandos stormed the bus the next day, killing the gunman and freeing
four remaining hostages.
(AP, 10/14/00)
1996 Oct 14, Pop singer Madonna
gave birth to a daughter, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon.
(AP, 10/14/97)
1996 Oct 14, The Dow Jones
industrial average closed above 6,000 for the first time, ending the
day at 6,010.
(WSJ, 12/16/96, p.C1)(AP, 10/14/97)
1996 Oct 14, In the US the Archer
Daniels Midland Co. agreed to pay an anti-trust fine of $100 million
and plead guilty to two charges of price fixing on lysine and citric
acid.
(SFC, 10/15/96, p.A3)(AP, 10/14/97)
1996 Oct 14, In Bolivia bilateral
agreements with the US held that 12,000 to 19,000 acres of coca
production be eradicated. Failure to do so would cause a suspension of
foreign aid and approval of funds from agencies such as the World Bank.
(SFC, 10/14/96, p.A13)
1997 Oct 14, The Booker Prize for
literature went to Indian writer Arundhati Roy for her book: “The God
of Small Things.”
(SFC,10/15/97, p.D4)
1997 Oct 14, The nominal world
premiere of the symphonic poem “Standing Stone” by Paul McCartney was
performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and chorus at Royal Albert
Hall.
(WSJ, 11/18/97, p.A20)
1997 Oct 14, The Florida Marlins
won the National League championship, defeating the Atlanta Braves 7-4
in game six.
(AP, 10/14/98)
1997 Oct 14, Ray Fred Smith (78)
and Perry L. Adkinson (68) were awarded the World Food Prize for their
work on integrated pest management (IPM).
(SFC, 10/15/97, p.A15)
1997 Oct 14, Myron Scholes of
Stanford, and Robert Merton of Harvard won the Nobel Prize in Economics
for their work on valuing stock options and other investments.
(SFC, 10/15/97, p.A1)(AP, 10/14/98)
1997 Oct 14, Pres. Clinton met
with Brazil’s Pres. Cardoso. They signed an agreement for a partnership
to improve education cooperation and a $10 million US contribution to
improve conservation in the Amazon.
(SFC,10/15/97, p.C4)
1997 Oct 14, The US Supreme Court
rejected the appeals of those who sought to block the Oregon voter
approved law on assisted suicide.
(SFC, 10/15/97, p.A1)
1997 Oct 14, Harold Robbins,
novelist, died at age 81 in Palm Springs, Calif. He wrote “adventure”
and “desperation” novels that included: “Never Love a Stranger,”
“Carpetbaggers,” Dreams Die First,” “Spellbinder,” “Never Leave Me,”
“The Raiders,” and “The Betsy.”
(SFC,10/15/97, p.C4)(AP, 10/14/98)
1997 Oct 14, In Algeria 54 people
were massacred near the main oil and gas center. Four leading human
rights organizations called on world leaders to take steps to halt the
crises in Algeria.
(SFC,10/15/97, p.C2)
1997 Oct 14, In Chile an
earthquake that measured 6.8 left 8 dead and 100 injured.
(SFC,10/15/97, p.C3)(WSJ, 10/16/97, p.A1)
1997 Oct 14, Aydin Dikmen (60),
Turkish art dealer, was arrested in Germany for selling antiquities
plundered from Cyprus since 1974.
(http://turkeyhumanrights.fw.bz/religion/TurkThief.htm)(AM, 11/04, p.13)
1997 Oct 14, In the Republic of
Congo Pres. Lissouba fled the presidential palace in Brazzaville.
Premier Bernard Kolelas fled the Republic of Congo when militia
fighters loyal to Sassou-Nguesso toppled President Pascal Lissouba.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/05)
1997 Oct 14, In Rwanda assailants
killed 37 people and wounded 14 in the Mutura commune northwest of
Kigali.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A14)
1997 Oct 14, In Spain a separatist
guerrilla group killed a policeman while trying to bomb the new
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Jose Maria Aguirre was killed when he
helped foil the ETA attack. One of three gunmen, Kepa Arronnategui, was
captured.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A14)(SFC,10/18/97, p.A10)
1997 Oct 14, On St. Kitts
legislators from Nevis voted to withdraw from the federation with St.
Kitts.
(SFC,10/15/97, p.C3)
1998 Oct 14, Amartya K. Sen (64),
a philosophy and economics researcher from India, won the Nobel Prize
in Economics for his work in exploring the causes of poverty and
famine. He had just left Harvard Univ. to take over Trinity College in
Cambridge, England.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.A2)(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.B1)
1998 Oct 14, The San Diego Padres
won the National League championship over the Atlanta Braves, 5-0, in
Game 6 of their championship series.
(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A1)(AP, 10/14/99)
1998 Oct 14, The UN for a 7th year
called for an end to the US economic embargo against Cuba. Only the US
and Israel cast negative votes.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.C4)
1998 Oct 14, Cleveland Amory,
author and animal rights pioneer, died at age 81 in Manhattan. His work
included the trilogy on social history: “The Proper Bostonians,” “The
Last Resorts,” and “Who Killed Society.”
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D4)(AP, 10/14/99)
1998 Oct 14, Frankie Yankovic
(83), the Polka King from Cleveland, died in Tampa, Fla. He played a
Slovenian-style polka on the accordion with clarinet and saxophone as
opposed to the Polish style which uses the accordion with trumpets and
has a faster beat. His hits included “In Heaven There Is No Beer.”
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.C6)(AP, 10/14/99)
1998 Oct 14, In Canada the finance
minister said that the first budget surplus in 28 years would be used
to pay down debt, reduce taxes, and invest in health care.
(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 14, China and Taiwan held
their first talks since 1993 and said they were working toward
reunification.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.A12)
1998 Oct 14, In Colombia Saul
Albaraz (29), a journalist, was shot to death in Medellin.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D3)
1998 Oct 14, Germany’s new
government proposed to scrap the 1913 citizenship law based on blood
ties. The coalition agreed to promote controlled distribution of heroin
to long-term addicts and to work for expanded rights for gay couples.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.A13)
1998 Oct 14, In the Philippines
Typhoon Zeb killed 21 people and forced some 31,000 from their homes.
The death toll went up to 70. It moved on to Taiwan where 20 people
were killed and Japan where 12 died.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.C4)(WSJ, 10/19/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 14, In Russia Premier
Primakov said that the government has created a $600 million emergency
food reserve.
(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 14, In Serbia police shut
down the Danas newspaper, as well as the independent Dvevni Telegraph
in Belgrade. NATO positioned warplanes in Italy for a possible attack.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.A12)
1998 Oct 14, In Turkey the draft
budget was unveiled and it was admitted that IMF targets would not be
reached. Inflation for 1999 was targeted to 35% after reaching 100% in
early 1998. 1998 growth was measured at 4.5%.
(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A20)
1998 Oct 14, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Robert Mugabe that he will meet with Kabila to discuss support against
the rebels in Congo.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.A15)
1999 Oct 14, President Clinton
accused Senate Republicans of recklessness and irresponsibility for
defeating the nuclear test ban treaty, and pledged the United States
would refrain from testing despite the treaty’s rejection.
(AP, 10/14/00)
1999 Oct 14, At Cape Canaveral,
Florida, Launch Complex 41, built in 1945, was destroyed to make way
for Atlas V rockets.
(SFC, 10/15/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 14, Hurricane Irene
drenched Cuba and proceeded to the Florida keys.
(SFC, 10/15/99, p.D4)
1999 Oct 14, In Bosnia 4 NATO
soldiers were injured as they attempted to seize weapons in the divided
city of Mostar.
(SFC, 10/15/99, p.D3)
1999 Oct 14, In Chechnya the
Russians pressed an offensive below the Terek River as the Chechens
rallied in Grozny.
(WSJ, 10/15/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct 14, In Indonesia Pres.
Habibie gave a speech lauding his accomplishments as security forces
fought back demonstrators.
(SFC, 10/15/99, p.A14)
1999 Oct 14, Israel released 151
Palestinian prisoners as part of the interim peace accord signed Sept.
4.
(SFC, 10/15/99, p.D3)
1999 Oct 14, Japan’s Sumitomo and
Sakura Banks announced merger plans. In 2001 they fused into Sumitomo
Mitsui.
(WSJ, 10/15/99, p.A10)(Econ, 5/20/06, Survey p.22)
1999 Oct 14, Former Tanzanian
Pres. Julius Nyerere (77) died in London from a massive stroke. He was
called Mwalimu, the Swahili word for teacher.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A14)(SFC, 10/15/99, p.D7)
2000 Oct 14, Angelo Perez Baraquio
(24), Miss Hawaii, was crowned Miss America in Atlanta City, NJ.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A2)
2000 Oct 14, Six San Francisco Bay
Area people associated with the Flying Doctors aid group were killed
when their plane crashed in Ensenada, Mexico.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 14, In Belarus
parliamentary elections were held. Authorities hand-picked most
candidates and those with known anti-Lukoshenko views were barred from
running. The average salary in Belarus was $50 per month.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A22)
2000 Oct 14, In Indonesia police
arrested Alip Agung Suwondo, Pres. Wassid’s masseur, on suspicion of
trying to steal $4 million in state funds.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 14, Philippine troops
arrested 36 suspected supporters of Abu Sayyaf rebels and 6 others
surrendered on Jolo Island.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 14, A London-bound Saudi
jetliner was hijacked with over 100 people. It was taken to Syria and
then landed in Baghdad where the 2 hijackers were arrested.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A10)(AP, 10/14/01)
2000 Oct 14, In Somalia Pres.
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan returned from Djibouti.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 14, In Switzerland a
mudslide in the Alpine village of Gondo left 18 people missing. 13
people were killed.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A20)(AP, 10/14/01)
2000 Oct 14, In Uganda it was
reported that at least 35 people of the northern Gulu district had died
in recent weeks of a hemorrhagic fever possibly caused by the Ebola or
Marburg virus.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A16)(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A12)
2001 Oct 14, President George W.
Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin
Laden to a third country, saying, "They must have not heard. There's no
negotiations."
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/14/02)
2001 Oct 14, US warplanes hit
Afghanistan targets around Kabul and knocked out the overseas telephone
exchange. Bombs also hit the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar,
Jalalabad and Heart. Abu Baseer al-Masri, al Qaeda fighter and Egyptian
militant, was killed near Jalalabad.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A8)(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 14, Unions in Minnesota
reached a deal with the state to end a walkout by some 23,000
government workers.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E3)
2001 Oct 14, In Argentina
Elections for Congress were held. Rev. Luis Farinello led the Social
Pole Party with an anti-globalization message. The midterm elections
handed a decisive defeat to Pres. Fernando de la Rua’s coalition. The
Peronist Party led nationwide results.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.D4)(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E3)
2001 Oct 14, An Israeli sniper
shot and killed Abed Rahman Hamad, a Hamas leader, hours before the
government announced that it would withdraw troops from Hebron and ease
Palestinian travel restrictions.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E2)
2001 Oct 14, In Nigeria weekend
anti-American protests left 13-200 people dead in Kano.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A5)(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 14, In Pakistan thousands
of Muslims clashed with police in Jacobabad and at least 1 protester
was killed.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A3)
2002 Oct 14, The SF Giants won the
National League Championship with a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis
Cardinals.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 14, President Bush called
recent attacks in Kuwait, Indonesia and Yemen part of a grim pattern of
terror, and said, "We've got a long way to go" to defeat Osama bin
Laden's global network.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2002 Oct 14, In New Mexico VP
Cheney met with representatives of Bajagua, a start-up waste processing
firm targeting waste water in Tijuana, Mexico. Waste from Tijuana
flowed into San Diego County and its Tijuana River estuary. Bajagua
spent $585,000 in lobbying efforts from 2001-2006. Estimates of costs
to the US ranged from $580-780 million. A 1999 environmental impact
statement called the Bajagua plan not feasible.
(WSJ, 1/27/06, p.A15)
2002 Oct 14, Linda Franklin (47)
of Arlington, Va., was shot in the head and killed as she and her
husband loaded packages into their car outside a Home Depot at the
Seven Corners Shopping Center. She had worked as an analyst for the FBI.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A1)(AP, 10/15/02)
2002 Oct 14, Britain suspended
Northern Ireland's power-sharing government after a spying row threw
the fledgling peace process into its worst political crisis since the
Good Friday peace accord was signed in 1998.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 14, A Costa Rica
investment operation called The Brothers Fund (Ofinter Foreign Exchange
SA) collapsed and siblings Luis Enrique (63) and Osvaldo Villalobos
(58) were held responsible.
(WSJ, 12/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 14, Gen. Adel Labib, gov.
of Qena Province in southern Egypt, ordered a ban on shisha (water
pipe) smoking.
(SSFC, 10/27/02, p.F7)
2002 Oct 14, Israeli troops killed
2 Islamic Jihad militants outside Jenin.
(WSJ, 10/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 14, In Kenya Pres. Moi
anointed Uhurru Kenyatta (41), the son of former 1st Pres. Jomo
Kenyatta, as his successor. Tens of thousands gathered to protest his
decision.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 14, In Serbia Pres.
Kostunica protested that some 630,000 ghost voters inflated the number
of voters.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A8)
2003 Oct 14, In Game Six of the
National League Championship Series, a Cubs fan inadvertently deflected
a foul ball away from the outstretched glove of Chicago outfielder
Moises Alou; the Florida Marlins, down 3-0 at the time, rallied to win
the game and went on to win Game 7 and advance to the World Series,
where they beat the New York Yankees.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2003 Oct 14, The US vetoed a U.N.
Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel for
building a barrier that cut into the West Bank.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2003 Oct 14, John Allen Muhammad
pleaded innocent to murder as the first trial in the deadly
Washington-area sniper rampage got under way in Virginia Beach, Va.
Muhammad was later convicted and sentenced to death for killing Dean
Harold Meyers.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2003 Oct 14, It was reported that
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers proposed an elevator
reaching 62,000 miles into the sky to launch payloads into space.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 14, Ben Metcalfe, the 1st
chairman of the Greenpeace Foundation (1970), died in BC, Canada.
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.A31)
2003 Oct 14, Afghan soldiers
backed by U.S. troops and helicopters killed 7 Taliban and captured 12
others during a 2-day raid in southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 10/15/03)
2003 Oct 14, In Bolivia
demonstrations called for the resignation of Pres. Gonzalo Sanchez de
Lozada and the death toll grew to 50 after 4 days of clashes. 30,000
marched in La Paz.
(SFC, 10/15/03, p.A11)(Econ, 10/18/03, p.38)
2003 Oct 14, China's ruling
communists closed a secretive 4-day meeting aimed at pushing ahead with
market reforms and said a revision to the country's constitution had
been endorsed.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 14, In St. Marc, Haiti,
protesters hurled rocks at police and blocked streets with flaming tire
barricades for a 2nd day, demanding President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's
resignation.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 14, Across Honduras
thousands of protesters blocked streets and burned tires to demand the
government not renew a debt-payment agreement with the IMF.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 14, In Baghdad a suicide
bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near the Turkish Embassy,
killing the driver and wounding more than a dozen others.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 14, In Liberia
businessman Gyude Bryant was sworn in as leader of the post-war
government, taking up a 2-year term.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 14, In Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, hundreds took to the streets demanding reforms, the first
large-scale protest in this conservative kingdom where demonstrations
are illegal.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2004 Oct 14, The US Treasury
reported that the federal deficit surged to $413 billion in 2004.
(SFC, 10/15/04, p.A3)
2004 Oct 14, NY Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer in a civil suit accused insurance broker Marsh &
McLennan of cheating corporate clients. Marsh faces $500 million in
penalties.
(WSJ, 10/27/04, p.C1)(WSJ, 10/28/04, p.C1)
2004 Oct 14, General Motors Europe
said it plans to shed 12,000 jobs, almost 20 percent of its work force,
in order to halt chronic losses.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, Google Inc.
introduced a program that quickly scours hard drives for documents,
e-mails, instant messages and past Web searches.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, Light crude oil for
November closed in NYC at a record $54.76 per barrel.
(SFC, 10/15/04, p.C1)
2004 Oct 14, The US Army announced
that up to 28 U.S. soldiers face possible criminal charges in
connection with the deaths of two prisoners at an American-run prison
in Afghanistan two years ago.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, In southern
Afghanistan a homemade bomb killed 2 American soldiers and wounded 3
others.
(AP, 10/16/04)
2004 Oct 14, In Brazil Pres. da
Silva signed an executive order permitting farmers to plant genetically
modified soybeans.
(SFC, 10/16/04, p.A3)
2004 Oct 14, In Cambodia Prince
Norodom Sihamoni, retiring King Norodom Sihanouk's son, a former ballet
dancer and U.N. cultural ambassador, was officially confirmed to
succeed his father on the throne.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, In Chile Cardinal
Juan Francisco Fresno (90) died. He played a key role in efforts to
restore democracy in Chile during the military dictatorship of Gen.
Augusto Pinochet.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 14, German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder arrived in Libya for an official visit during which
he is to hold talks with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, Insurgents struck
deep inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, setting off bombs
at a market and a popular cafe that killed at least 10 people,
including four Americans.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, In Iraq up to 19
members of the 343rd Quartermaster Company were detained for refusing
to deliver fuel under conditions that they deemed unsafe.
(SFC, 10/16/04, p.A1)
2004 Oct 14, A video that appeared
on an Islamic Web site showed militants in Iraq beheading a man
identified as a kidnapped Turkish driver.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, Israel’s PM Ariel
Sharon said all 8,200 Jewish settlers will be pulled out of the Gaza
Strip starting next summer.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, The Muslim fasting
month of Ramadan began.
(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A3)
2004 Oct 14, Nigerian unions
called off a general strike which had jeopardized oil supplies from the
world's seventh largest exporter for four days.
(Reuters, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, Pakistan's lower
house of parliament passed a bill to allow President Pervez Musharraf
to stay on as army chief despite his pledge to give up the job by the
end of the year.
(Reuters, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, Pakistani special
forces attacked kidnappers holding two Chinese engineers near the
Afghan border, killing all five of the al-Qaida-linked militants. One
of the hostages was killed in the raid, while the other survived.
(AP, 10/14/04)
2004 Oct 14, Thousands of
Paraguayans took to the streets to protest increasing crime, spurred on
the two high-profile kidnappings.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2005 Oct 14, The US Treasury
Department reported that the federal deficit hit $319 billion for the
budget year just ended, down from the previous year, but still the
third highest.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2005 Oct 14, Rain fell for an
eighth straight day around the waterlogged Northeast US, pushing people
from their homes in the middle of the night and leaving train tracks
littered with fallen trees.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, Dernae Wysinger (22)
and his 2-year-old son were shot to death in San Francisco’s Potrero
Hill district. Police soon issued an arrest warrant for suspect Joseph
Stevens (22). This marked the 64th and 65th homicides in SF this year.
In 2007 Stevens (23) was convicted for the murders, which were
apparently done in retaliation for another slaying.
(SSFC, 10/16/05, p.B1)(SFC, 3/21/07, p.B3)
2005 Oct 14, Blond,
blue-eyed British actor Daniel Craig was named the new James Bond.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2005 Oct 14, Insurgents staged a
series of attacks, killing a pro-government cleric, two police and
blowing up eight fuel tankers parked outside a US-led coalition base in
southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, Bulgaria adopted a
new penal procedure to remedy a judiciary system that has been
criticized for failing to jail well-known criminals.
(AP, 10/26/05)
2005 Oct 14, Lucio Gutierrez,
former Ecuador president who was ousted from office, returned to
Ecuador in a bid to regain power, but he was arrested moments after his
plane landed.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 14, Sunni insurgents
launched five attacks against the largest Sunni Arab political party on
the eve of Iraq's crucial referendum, bombing and burning offices and
the home of one of its leaders in retaliation after the group dropped
its opposition to the draft constitution.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, Italy's culture
industry pledged to shut down theaters, cinemas and cancel concerts
throughout the country for the day to protest planned cuts to the art
budget.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, Italy’s Alitalia
airline, 62.3% owned by the government, approved a revised corporate
plan for 2005-2008.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.70)
2005 Oct 14, Dutch police detained
seven suspects in an anti-terrorism operation in three cities,
including the capital, aimed at thwarting a suspected plot to attack
politicians and a government building.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, A consortium led by
South Africa’s Sheltam Trade Close won the privatization bid for the
rail line linking Mombassa, Kenya, and Kampala, Uganda. Nicknamed since
1895 as the “lunatic express,” it was renamed the Rift Valley Railways.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.68)
2005 Oct 14, In Nicaragua
Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega announced that he has broken a
political pact with opponents of President Enrique Bolanos, a move that
could end a political crisis that threatened the country's presidency.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 14, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, In Nalchik Russian
security forces in an armored personnel carrier smashed through the
wall of a store to rescue two hostages held by suspected Islamic
militants as authorities tried to clear out the last pockets of rebel
resistance after more than a day of fighting that killed 139 people
including 92 militants.
(AP, 10/14/05)(WSJ, 10/17/05, p.A1)(Econ, 7/15/06,
p.25)
2005 Oct 14, Somalia's PM Ali
Mohamed Gedi called on neighboring countries to send warships to patrol
his nation's waters after pirates seized a 3rd cargo vessel delivering
food aid.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, At the Ibero-American
Summit in Spain UN Sec.-General Kofi Annan called for greater progress
in trade talks on farming.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, A Turkish court
convicted two brothers for the "honor killing" of their sister and
sentenced one to life in prison and the other to more than 11 years
behind bars.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, President Viktor
Yushchenko dismissed Ukraine's top prosecutor less than a week after he
launched investigations against a presidential ally, deepening the
confusion in the former Soviet republic.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2005 Oct 14, A researcher said
bird flu virus found in a Vietnamese girl was resistant to the main
drug that's being stockpiled in case of a pandemic, a sign that it's
important to keep a second drug on hand as well.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2006 Oct 14, Pres. Bush dedicated
the new $30 million US Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va. The
memorial, designed to evoke the “bomb-burst maneuver of the
Thunderbirds, was the last major work of architect James Ingo Freed
(d.2005).
(SSFC, 10/15/06, p.A16)
2006 Oct 14, The Detroit Tigers
won the American League baseball pennant race in 4 games over Oakland,
Ca.
(SSFC, 10/15/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 14, Freddy Fender
(b.1937), Tex-Mex singer born as Baldemar Huerta, died in San Benito,
Texas. His hit songs included “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” and
“Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (1975).
(SFC, 10/16/06, p.B6)
2006 Oct 14, Former US Rep. Gerry
Studds (69) died at Boston Medical Center, several days after he
collapsed while walking his dog. He was the first openly gay person
elected to Congress (1972-1997).
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 14, In Bonaparte, Iowa,
Shawn Bentler (22) killed his parents and 3 sisters (14,15,17) at their
home.
(SFC, 10/16/06, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/07)
2006 Oct 14, In southern
Afghanistan Gabriele Torsello, an Italian freelance photographer, and
his Afghan translator were abducted were abducted by five armed men. In
eastern Afghanistan a roadside bomb exploded outside a provincial
governor's compound. The governor was not hurt but another official was
killed.
(AP, 10/14/06)(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 14, French leader Jacques
Chirac told Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan he is sorry French lawmakers
approved a bill making it a crime to deny Armenians were victims of
genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks.
(Reuters, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 14, in southwestern
Germany 2 female US soldiers died after they were hit by a train at
Neckarsteinach station, east of Heidelberg.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 14, Thousands of
low-caste Hindus converted to Buddhism and Christianity on in protest
against new laws in several Indian states that make such changes of
religion difficult.
(Reuters, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 14, A spokesman said the
ministry in charge of Iraq's police force will change top commanders
and has already fired some 3,000 employees accused of corruption or
rights abuses. Suspected Shiite militiamen killed at least 27 Sunni
Arabs in Balad in apparent retaliation for the slayings of 17 Shiites,
whose decapitated bodies were found in an orchard on the town's
outskirts a day earlier. South of Baghdad three women and four men were
killed in drive-by shootings in the predominantly Shiite village of
Wahda. A US Marine was killed in combat in Anbar province. 3 US
soldiers died in a roadside bombing south of Baghdad.
(AP, 10/14/06)(AFP, 10/14/06)(AP, 10/15/06)(SSFC,
10/15/06, p.A20)
2006 Oct 14, Israeli troops killed
six Palestinian gunmen in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip and set up a
makeshift detention center just outside the territory.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 14, Two Italian tourists,
freed in Libya after being kidnapped in August in Niger, denounced
their captors as bandits and said they were mistreated during their
ordeal.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 14, The UN election chief
in Ivory Coast said the war-divided nation's long-delayed vote would be
postponed for another year and should be held before October 2007.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 14, In Mexico at least
one man opened fire on protesters manning a roadblock in Oaxaca
paralyzed by months of conflict, killing one demonstrator and wounding
another.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 14, In northwestern Spain
vandals freed over 15,000 minks from breeding farms.
(SFC, 10/16/06, p.A3)
2006 Oct 14, The Sudanese
government signed a peace deal with a group of rebels from eastern
Sudan, ending a deadly strife that has been overshadowed by the
conflict in the country's western Darfur region.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 14, Maria Borelius,
Sweden's trade minister, resigned over allegations of tax evasion after
just one week in office, saying media pressure has made her life
impossible.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6051220.stm)
2006 Oct 14, Thailand's
military-installed premier Surayud Chulanont visited Vientiane on the
first stop of a weekend tour aimed at reassuring neighbors Laos and
Cambodia that Bangkok won't pull any more surprises.
(AFP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 14, Ukrainian nationalist
fighters who battled both Soviet and Nazi forces during World War II
rallied in their country's capital, demanding the same financial and
moral recognition as Red Army veterans.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 14, The UN Security
Council gave unanimous approval to sanctions against North Korea for
its purported nuclear test. The US-sponsored resolution demanded that
North Korea eliminate nuclear weapons, but expressly rules out military
action against the country.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2007 Oct 14, US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice opened an intense round of Mideast shuttle diplomacy.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2007 Oct 14, In California Gov.
Schwarzenegger signed legislation banning toys that contain toxic
plastic softeners, i.e. phthalates, becoming the first state in the US
to do so.
(SFC, 10/16/07, p.A1)
2007 Oct 14, In southern
Afghanistan a mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a
suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family's home that
killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 14, In Egypt at least six
people drowned and 15 others were reported missing after the gangplank
on their Nile ferry collapsed.
(AFP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 14, In a northern Indian
an explosion ripped through a crowded cinema, killing at least five
people in the industrial city of Ludhiana. The area around the Shingar
Cinema has a large Muslim population. At least 12 Hindu devotees were
trampled to death on a narrow path crowded by thousands heading to a
temple in western India. Another eight people were injured.
(Reuters, 10/14/07)(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 14, A parked car bomb
struck worshippers heading to a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing at
least 10 people with 18 injured as Iraqis celebrated the end of
Ramadan. An Iraqi soldier was killed and four others were wounded when
a roadside bomb targeted their patrol in Khan Bani Saad, just northeast
of Baghdad. Near the southern town of Hilla, a police officer was
fatally shot by gunmen from a speeding car. Salih Saif Aldin (32), an
Iraqi journalist who was shot while on assignment for The Washington
Post in Baghdad. A US soldier died from a roadside bomb during combat
operations in southern Baghdad.
(AP, 10/14/07)(SFC, 10/15/07, p.A14)
2007 Oct 14, In Italy projections
showed Rome's mayor overwhelmingly winning a nationwide primary to
become the leader of a new center-left party and the probable candidate
for premier against conservative billionaire Silvio Berlusconi in the
next general election.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 14, Myanmar's ruling
junta restored Internet access but kept foreign news sites blocked,
partially easing its crackdown as a UN envoy headed to Asia to convey
the world's demands for democratic reforms in the country.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 14, Indian PM Manmohan
Singh arrived in the Nigerian capital Abuja in the first state visit by
an Indian premier to the oil-rich west African state in 45 years.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 14, Serb and Kosovo
Albanian officials agreed on a new round of talks later this month to
try to break a deadlock over the future of the breakaway Serb province.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 14, Former rebels from
south Sudan delivered a letter to Khartoum detailing their demands for
resolving a crisis sparked by the southerners' pullout from the unity
government.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 14, Togolese voted in
legislative elections that no opposition members boycotted for the
first time in nearly a decade, a hopeful sign for democracy in this
West African nation that has been ruled by one family for 40 years.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 14, Opiyo Makasi,
reported to be an operations and logistics commander of Uganda's Lord's
Resistance Army, gave himself up along with his wife and they were
transferred to Kinshasa, DRC. On Oct 25 Congolese authorities handed
him to the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUC), which should
prepare his eventual return to Uganda.
(AP, 10/23/07)(AP, 10/25/07)
2008 Oct 14, President Bush
announced a $250 billion plan by the government to directly buy shares
in 9 of the nation's leading banks, saying the drastic steps were "not
intended to take over the free market but to preserve it." Former
Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said the US housing sector faced
more losses and the economy was in recession even as authorities moved
to stabilize the financial system.
(Reuters, 10/14/08)(AP, 10/14/08)(WSJ, 10/14/08,
p.A1)
2008 Oct 14, The US Treasury
revised the 2008 fiscal deficit to $455 billion, as opposed to the $389
billion projected in July. The national debt, at 38% of GDP, was well
below the 1990s peak of 49%.
(Econ, 10/18/08, p.41)(Econ, 10/25/08, p.40)
2008 Oct 14, Key lending rates
between banks in the US and Europe continued to fall slowly in response
to combined pledges from governments to inject money into banks and
guarantee their debt. But rates remained abnormally high, a sign of the
stress in the world financial system.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, A wildfire in
northern Los Angeles covered 13,285 acres.
(SFC, 10/15/08, p.B6)
2008 Oct 14, Ohio executed Richard
Cooey (41), a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer (1986), who had
argued that his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, Gray wolves in the
northern US Rocky Mountains returned to the endangered species list,
thanks to a court victory by environmental groups over the US
government [see Mar 28, 2008].
(AFP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, Reymundo Guerra,
sheriff of rural Starr County, Texas, next to the Mexican border, was
arrested at his office after being indicted on charges alleging he was
involved in a large-scale cocaine and marijuana smuggling operation.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 14, In eastern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb blast killed three NATO soldiers. In the
south, a bomb attack apparently intended for NATO troops exploded
against an Afghan minivan in Uruzgan province, killing nine civilians.
Dost Mohammad Arighistani, head of the government's labor and social
affairs department for the southern province of Kandahar, was killed in
his car with his bodyguard as he traveled to work. Taliban militants
attacked police checkpoints ringing Lashkar Gah. 18 militants were
killed and three police wounded. 6 policemen died after a shootout
among officers inside a police checkpoint about 15 miles north of
Lashkar Gah.
(AP, 10/14/08)(AFP, 10/14/08)(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 14, The prosecution
office of Bosnia's war crimes court said it ordered the arrest of
Milorad Skrbic, 48; Milorad Radakovic, 46; Gordan Djuric, 40; and
Ljubisa Cetic, 39, for allegedly having participated in 1992 in the
wartime execution of 200 civilians.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, Indian author Aravind
Adiga (b.1974) won the 2008 Booker Prize with his first novel: “The
White Tiger.” The book follows Balram Halwai, the son of a rickshaw
puller, who dreams of better things than life as teashop worker and
driver.
(AFP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 14, Burundi said it has
completed its deployment of another 850 soldiers to Somalia, bringing
to about 3,400 the total number of African Union peacekeepers stationed
there. Burundi had already deployed some 850 soldiers to Somalia as
part of AMISOM (African mission in Somalia).
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, Canadians voted in an
election. Conservative PM Stephen Harper, the first Western leader to
face the electorate since the start of the international economic
meltdown, won reelection with a bolstered minority government. Some
59.1% of eligible Canadian voters went to the polls, breaking the
previous record low turnout of just under 61% in 2004. The Liberal
share of the popular vote fell to 26%.
(AP, 10/14/08)(Reuters, 10/15/08)(Econ, 10/18/08,
p.47)
2008 Oct 14, China unveiled a plan
to achieve universal health care. The plan hoped to cover 90% of the
population within 2 years and achieve universal health care by 2020.
State media reported that a ginseng injection contaminated by bacteria
caused the deaths of three people using the medicine to treat
thrombosis and heart disease.
(http://tinyurl.com/5f6fyb)(WSJ, 10/20/08,
p.A12)(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 14, The UN said intense
fighting between the Congolese army and Ugandan rebels have forced over
50,000 people to flee their homes in the north-eastern Democratic
Republic of the Congo's Ituri region.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, Egyptian police shot
dead an African migrant and wounded another as they tried to cross
illegally into Israel.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, An Ethiopian minister
said his country urgently needs US$265 million to feed 6.4 million
people affected by drought.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, Iceland's blue chip
stocks plunged 77 percent when trading reopened on after a near
week-long suspension and an official delegation from the island sought
Russian help in saving the economy from collapse.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, In north and
northeastern India a series of road accidents killed at least 48 people
and injured another 64. 43 of the dead died in 2 bus crashes.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, The Israeli military
troops in the West Bank shot a Palestinian as he prepared to lob a
blazing Molotov cocktail into a Jewish settlement north of Jerusalem.
Troops found another 10 firebombs at the scene ready to be ignited.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, North Korea resumed
steps to disable its nuclear reactor under renewed monitoring, after a
deal with Washington to save the disarmament process from collapse.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, The Hamas government
announced that it will not permit thousands of striking teachers to
return to their jobs, further heightening tensions with its political
rivals in the West Bank. Despite the August 24 strike, Hamas kept
schools running and hired some 2,200 new teachers and administrators.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, The Philippine
Supreme Court threw out a proposed accord to grant minority Muslims
expanded autonomy after Christian protests and renewed fighting
convinced the government to abandon the deal. The accord would have
expanded an existing six-province Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao,
subject to the agreement of local residents.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, Off the Somali coast
a Panamanian-flagged vessel and its 11 crew members, nine Syrians and
two Somalis, were freed after a gunbattle in which one Puntland soldier
was killed and three wounded. The 10 pirates, who had held the ship
since Oct 9, surrendered when they ran out of ammunition.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, The World
Conservation Congress ended in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting was awash
in gloomy forecasts.
(Econ, 10/18/08, p.68)
2008 Oct 14, In Sri Lanka
government forces pounded rebel defenses with airstrikes and ground
assaults. Heavy fighting across the north killed 49 Tamil Tiger
fighters and 7 soldiers. TamilNet reported that 3 soldiers were killed
in the government–controlled east.
(AP, 10/15/08)(SFC, 10/15/08, p.A5)
2008 Oct 14, Syria established
diplomatic relations with Lebanon, ending six decades of
non-recognition of its neighbor's sovereignty in an apparent bid to
curry favor with the West as it pursues indirect peace talks with
Israel.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 14, The UN Security
Council voted unanimously to renew its peacekeeping mission in Haiti
for another year.
(AP, 10/15/08)
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