Today in History - October 15
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70BC Oct 15,
Virgil [Vergil] (Publius Vergilius Maro), Roman poet, was born in
Mantua. He wrote about the mythical founding of Rome in the Aeneid,
which told the legend of Rome‘s founder and was considered a national
epic.
(V.D.-H.K.p.60)(HN, 10/15/98)(AMNHDT, 5/98)
1501 Oct 15, English crown prince
Arthur married Catharina of Aragon. [see Nov 14]
(MC, 10/15/01)
1520 Oct 15, King Henry VIII of
England ordered bowling lanes at Whitehall.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1522 Oct 15, Emperor Charles named
Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1529 Oct 15, Ottoman armies under
Suleiman ended their siege of Vienna and head back to Belgrade. The
Ottomans siege of Vienna was a key battle of world history. The Ottoman
Empire reached its peak with the Turks settled in Buda on the left bank
of the Danube after failing in their siege of Vienna.
(WSJ, 3/27/96, p.A-16)(TL-MB, 1988, p.13)(HN,
10/15/98)
1581 Oct 15, Commissioned by
Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine," was
staged in Paris.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1582 Oct 15, The Gregorian (or New
World) calendar was adopted in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal; and
the preceding ten days were lost to history. This day followed Oct 4 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)(HN,
10/15/98)
1598 Oct 15, Spanish general
strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupied Fort Rhine.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1655 Oct 15, Jews of Lublin,
Poland, were massacred.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1660 Oct 15, Asser Levy was
granted a butcher's license for kosher meat in New Amsterdam.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1674 Oct 15, Robert Herrick,
British poet (Together), was born in Mass.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1762 Oct 15, Samuel Adams Holyoke,
composer, was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1777 Oct 15, Tory Maj. James
Graves Simcoe was appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers to combat
American rebels.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1783 Oct 15, Francois Pilatre de
Rozier (Jean Piletre de Rozier) made the first manned flight in a hot
air balloon. The first flight was let out to 82 feet, but over the next
few days the altitude increased up to 6,500 feet. [see Jun 5]
(HN, 10/15/98)(MC, 10/15/01)
1789 Oct 15, George Washington
went to New England on the 1st presidential tour.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1794 Oct 15, US moneymakers minted
some 2,000 silver dollars of which 1,750 were deemed good enough to go
into circulation. The press initially used was designed for a smaller
coin and large scale production on a bigger press began a year later.
(SFC, 7/27/05, p.C8)
1817 Oct 15, Tadeusz AB Kosciusko
(b.1746), Polish Lt-Gen. and American Revolution freedom fighter, died.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1818 Oct 15, Irvin McDowell
(d.1985), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1820 Oct 15, Florence Nightingale
(d.1910), English hospital reformer and nursing pioneer, was born.
"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world
would never reach anything better."
(AP, 11/12/97)(HN, 10/15/98)
1822 Oct 15, Alfred Meissner,
Austrian physician and writer, was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1827 Oct 15, Charles Darwin
reached Christ's Counsel, Cambridge.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1830 Oct 15, Helen Maria Hunt
Jackson (d.1885), writer and poet, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Her 1881 non-fiction work, "A Century of Dishonor," raised concerns
about the treatment of Native Americans. Jackson, a lifelong friend of
Emily Dickinson, worked on a government investigation of the treatment
of Mission Indians. Her 1884 novel Ramona was also about the plight of
Indians in California. "Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt;
and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride
carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field
unfurls it in another." “It is the weakness and danger of republics,
that the vices as well as virtues of the people are represented in
their legislation.”
(AP, 5/24/97)(HN, 10/15/98)(HNQ, 12/20/99)(AP,
2/17/00)
1842 Oct 15, Karl Marx became
editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1844 Oct 15, Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche (d.1900), German philosopher, poet, and critic, was born. He
wrote 13 books and was driven to madness by a number of factors, but
one was the bland, dishonest complacency of his contemporaries, who
ignored him while honoring writers who seem like comic book figures
today... He shrilled against Christianity and its empty moral claims.
In 1998 two biographies were published: “Nietzsche in Turin: An
Intimate Biography” by Lesley Chamberlain; and “The Good
European: Nietzsche’s Work Sites in word and Image” by David Farell
Krell and Donald L. Bates. In 2000 Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M.
Higgins authored “What Nietzsche Really Said.” “No one is such a liar
as the indignant man.” "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in
groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." “The time for me
hasn’t come yet. Some are born posthumously.”
(V.D.-H.K.p.279)(SFEC, 2/8/98, BR p.9)(AP,
3/19/98)(HN,10/15/98)(AP, 12/3/98) (SFEC, 4/23/00, BR p.4)
1858 Oct 15, John L. Sullivan,
heavyweight boxing champ (1882-92), was born in Mass.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1858 Oct 15, The seventh and final
debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
Douglas took place in Alton, Ill.
(ON, 4/08, p.2)(AP, 10/15/08)
1860 Oct 15, 11-year-old Grace
Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate
Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing
a beard.
(AP, 10/15/01)
1861 Oct 15, The British steamship
Fingal, purchased by James D. Bulloch for the US Southern Confederacy,
ran into the Austrian brig Siccardi, which sank with her load of coal
in England’s Holyhead harbor. The Fingal quickly sailed for Savannah.
The Fingal was later converted to an ironclad and renamed Atlanta.
(ON, 7/01, p.6)
1863 Oct 15, For the second time,
the Confederate submarine H L Hunley sank during a practice dive in
Charleston Harbor, S.C, this time drowning its inventor along with
seven crew members.
(HN, 10/15/98)
1864 Oct 15, Confederate troops
occupied Glasgow, Missouri.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1866 Oct 15, A great fire in
Quebec destroyed 2,500 houses.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1874 Oct 15, A US child labor law
took 12 year olds out of work force.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1878 Oct 15, Thomas A. Edison
incorporated Edison Electric Light Co.
(HN, 10/15/98)(MC, 10/15/01)
1880 Oct 15, Victorio, feared
leader of the Minbreno Apache, was killed by Mexican troops in
northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. [see Oct 14]
(HN, 10/15/98)
1881 Oct 15, Pelham Grenville
Wodehouse (d.1975), British writer and humorist, was born in Guildford,
Surrey, England. He produced 93 books and countless articles and short
stories. He was the creator of the two great comic characters: Bertie
Wooster and his valet, Jeeves.
(Hem., 10/’95, p.109)(HN, 10/15/00)
1892 Oct 15, US government
convinced the Crow Indians to give up 1.8 million acres of their
reservation (in the mountainous area of western Montana) for 50 cents
per acre. Presidential proclamation opened this land to settlers.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1892 Oct 15, An attempt to rob two
banks in Coffeyville, Kan., ended in disaster for the Dalton gang as
four of the five outlaws were killed and Emmet Dalton was seriously
wounded. [see Oct 5]
(HN, 10/15/98)
1893 Oct 15, The NY Times declared
Coney Island “Sodom-by-the-Sea” for the thrilling rides that let men
and women clutch each other.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.28)(http://tinyurl.com/39yjht)
1894 Oct 15, Captain Alfred
Dreyfus (1859-1935), a Jewish army officer in France, was arrested for
allegedly betraying military secrets to Germany.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Dreyfus)
1897 Oct 15, Aaron and Samuel
Bloch carried the 1st US Mail Pouch.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1900 Oct 15, Boston’s Symphony
Hall, one of the world's most highly regarded concert halls, was
inaugurated. It was the 1st to be built in known conformity with
acoustical laws described by Harvard physicist Wallace Sabine.
(www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/BSO.htm)(WSJ, 4/24/02,
p.D9)
1901 Oct 15, Bernard von Brentano,
German writer (Big Cats), was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1901 Oct 15, Hermann Abs, director
(Deutsche Bank) and Hitler's advisor, was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1905 Oct 15, Charles P. Snow
(d.1980), English novelist (Death Under Sail), was born. He pointed out
that the university’s separate worlds have ceased to talk to one
another. The “uni” in the university has become meaningless as the
institution, possessing more and more power as government funds were
pumped into it for research, turned into a loose confederation of
disconnected mini-states, instead of an organization devoted to the
joint search for knowledge and truth.
(V.D.-H.K.p.142)(HN, 10/15/00)(MC, 10/15/01)
1905 Oct 15, Claude Debussy's "La
Mer," premiered.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1905 Oct 15, US President Grover
Cleveland wrote an article for "Ladies Home Journal", joining others in
the US who opposed women voters. The president said, "We all know how
much further women go than men in their social rivalries and
jealousies... sensible and responsible women do not want to vote."
(MC, 10/15/01)
1908 Oct 15, John Kenneth
Galbraith, economist, writer and diplomat, was born in Canada. His work
included "A History of Economics" and "Affluent Society" (1958). He won
the Hillman Award in 1958. In 2005 Richard Parker authored the
biography “John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His
Economics.”
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R50)(HN, 10/15/00)(WSJ, 2/22/05,
p.D10)
1910 Oct 15, Torbjorn Oskar
Caspersson, Swedish cytologist and geneticist, was born.
(HN, 10/15/00)
1913 Oct 15, Klaus Barbie, gestapo
chief (Lyon), was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1914 Oct 15, ASCAP (American
Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1914 Oct 15, Congress passed
President Wilson signed the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which labor leader
Samuel Gompers called "labor's charter of freedom." It strengthened
previous anti-monopoly legislation. The act exempted unions from
anti-trust laws; strikes, picketing and boycotting became legal;
corporate interlocking directorates became illegal, as did setting
prices which would effect a monopoly.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.D2)(HN, 10/15/98)(AP, 10/15/08)
1914 Oct 15, Aleksander Rozycki,
composer, died at 69.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1917 Oct 15, Arthur Schlesinger,
Jr., historian and author, was born in Ohio. He won the 1946 Pulitzer
Prize for his book “Age of Jackson.”
(HN, 10/15/00)(MC, 10/15/01)
1917 Oct 15, Mata Hari (b.1876),
the woman whose name has become synonymous with a seductive female spy,
was executed by the French outside Paris on charges of spying for the
Germans during World War I. The daughter of a prosperous Dutch
merchant, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle married a colonial army officer
named MacLeod in 1895. The couple lived for five years in Java and
Sumatra before the marriage failed. By 1905, Mrs. MacLeod was calling
herself Mata Hari--said to be Malay for "eye of the day"--and creating
a sensation as an exotic East Indian dancer in Europe. Among her many
lovers were military officers and, although the facts surrounding her
espionage activities are still unclear, Mata Hari was arrested by the
French as a German spy in February 1917. After a two-day trial before a
military court, Mata Hari was sentenced to death for espionage. In 2002
Richard Skinner authored “The Red Dancer,” a novel based on her life.
(WSJ, 1/16/97, p.A16)(AP, 10/15/97)(HNPD,
10/15/98)(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.M4)
1920 Oct 15, Mario Puzo, novelist
and screenwriter, was born. His work included “The Godfather.” [see Oct
15, 1921]
(HN, 10/15/00)
1921 Oct 15, Mario Puzo, novelist
(Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake), was born in NYC. [see Oct 15,
1920]
(MC, 10/15/01)
1923 Oct 15, Italo Calvino
(d.1985), Italian novelist (Winter's Night a Traveler), was born in
Cuba.
(HN, 10/15/00)(MC, 10/15/01)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.M4)
1924 Oct 15, Lee A. Iacocca, CEO
(Chrysler Corp), was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1924 Oct 15, Pres Coolidge
declared the Statue of Liberty a national monument.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1924 Oct 15, German ZR-3 flew 5000
miles, the furthest Zeppelin flight to date.
(HN, 10/15/98)
1926 Oct 15, Evan Hunter, [Ed
McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle), was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1926 Oct 15, Karl Richter,
composer and conductor, was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1928 Oct 15, The German dirigible
Graf Zeppelin landed in Lakehurst, N.J., on its first commercial flight
across the Atlantic.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1937 Oct 15, The Ernest Hemingway
novel "To Have and Have Not" was first published.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1938 Oct 15, Robert Sherwood's
"Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1939 Oct 15, The New York
Municipal Airport was dedicated. It was the largest, most advanced
commercial airport in the world. Its new terminal featured innovative
design that kept arriving and departing passengers separated on two
levels for greater efficiency. It was also terminals adorned with Art
Deco details and fine restaurants and a rooftop viewing promenade as
well as many technological details that made flying safer and less
expensive. On Mar 31, 1940, the new airport was rechristened
LaGuardia Airport after the mayor, who had been a bomber pilot in World
War I and whose interest in aviation lasted throughout his lifetime,
barely a month after it opened.
(www.arcadiapublishing.com/news_article.html?id=1816)(AP, 10/15/97)
1940 Oct 15, London's Waterloo
Station was bombed by Germans. 2 days of Heavy German bombing on London
killed 400 people.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1941 Oct 15, The 1st mass
deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1941 Oct 15, The Japanese Tojo
regime was formed. [see Oct 17]
(MC, 10/15/01)
1941 Oct 15, Odessa, a Russian
port on the Black Sea which had been surrounded by German troops for
several weeks, was evacuated by Russian troops.
(HN, 10/15/98)
1942 Oct 15, Dirk Bannink, nurse
and local councilor Deventer, Netherlands, was executed.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1944 Oct 15, Philip Mechanicus,
journalist, was executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1945 Oct 15, The former Vichy
French Premier Pierre Laval was executed by a firing squad for his
wartime collaboration with the Germans.
(AP, 10/15/97)(HN, 10/15/98)
1946 Oct 15, Nazi war criminal
Hermann Goering poisoned himself hours before he was to have been
executed.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1948 Oct 15, China's Red army
occupied Chinchov.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1949 Oct 15, Laszlo Rajk,
Hungarian Sec. of State and Foreign minister, was hanged.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1950 Oct 15, President Harry
Truman met with General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island to discuss
U.N. progress in the Korean War.
(HN, 10/15/98)
1950 Oct 15, John Jacob Raskob
(b.1879), former General Motors executive and developer of the Empire
State Building, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Raskob)
1951 Oct 15, The situation comedy
“I Love Lucy” premiered on CBS. It ran through to 1961. Lucille Ball
and Desi Arnaz bought their television studio, Desilu, from Howard
Hughes.
(SFEC, 10/20/96, T8)(AP, 10/15/97)(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB
p.37)(WSJ, 5/29/98, p.W9)
1951 Oct 15, Dr. Carl Djerassi
(27), Prof. of chemistry at Stanford Univ., developed the birth control
pill in Mexico City while working for Palo Alto based Syntex Corp. He
synthesized norethindrone, a steroid oral contraceptive. In 2001 Carl
Djerassi authored “This Man’s Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of
the Pill.” Djerassi synthesized a key hormone in the pill in Mexico
City in 1951. Serle won FDA ok to market the pill May 11, 1960.
(SJSVB, 4/8/96, p.8)(SSFC, 10/14/01, Par p.13)(SSFC,
10/21/01, p.R6)
1953 Oct 15, John Patrick's
"Teahouse of the August Moon," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1954 Oct 15, Hurricane Hazel
struck US and Canada and 348 people died. 81 people were killed in
Ontario where damages were estimated at $24 million.
(AP, 10/16/04)
1955 Oct 15, Richard Martin
Theiler (28) was in the front seat of the Lockheed-Martin T-33A that
went missing just after takeoff from the Los Angeles International
Airport. In 2009 aviation archaeologist G. Pat Macha and a group of
volunteers found the plane underneath 100 feet of water.
(AP, 9/30/09)
1956 Oct 15, Pres. Eisenhower
appointed William J. Brennan Jr. to the Supreme Court. He served until
1990. In 1997 a collection of essays on Brennan was edited by
Rosenkranz and Schwartz titled: “Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan’s
Enduring Influence.”
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(WSJ, 7/24/97, p.A16)(MC,
10/15/01)
1956 Oct 15, Pan Am Flight 943,
enroute to Hawaii from San Francisco crash landed in the ocean. All 31
aboard were rescued by the Coast Guard cutter Pontchartrain.
(SFC, 1/24/09, p.A1)
1959 Oct 15, Sarah Ferguson, the
Duchess of York, aka 'Fergie,' was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1959 Oct 15, The TV show "The
Untouchables" premiered with Robert Stack (d.2003) as Eliot Ness. It
was produced by Bert Granet (d.2002 at 92) and ran to 1963.
(SFC, 5/12/96, Par, p.14)(MC, 10/15/01)(SFC,
11/25/02, p.A15)(AP, 5/15/03)
1962 Oct 15, Byron R. White
(1917-2002) was appointed to the US Supreme Court by Pres. Kennedy.
(MC, 10/15/01)(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A5)
1963 Oct 15, Stanley Milgram of
Yale Univ. published his groundbreaking article “Behavioral Study of
Obedience” in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. His experiments,
begun in 1960, created a paradigm for considering how cruel people can
be when they are obeying orders.
(SSFC, 7/4/04, p.M6)(SAM, 10/08, p,24)
1964 Oct 15, St. Louis Cardinals
in their home park beat the New York Yankees in game 7 of Baseball’s
World Series (7-5). In 1994 David Halberstam authored “October 1964,”
an account centered on the series.
(www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1964ws.shtml)(WSJ,
9/24/05, p.P12)
1964 Oct 15, Cole Porter (73),
renowned lyricist and composer, died. His work included “Still of the
Night,” “I've Got You Under My Skin,” and hundreds of other classics.
Cole Porter music crossed all musical style and format boundaries
throughout his long and rich career.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1964 Oct 15, It was announced that
Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was
succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party
secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.
(TMC, 1994, p.1964)(AP, 10/15/97)
1966 Oct 15, President Johnson
signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation (DOT).
(AP, 10/15/97)
1966 Oct 15, US Congress passed
the Endangered Species Preservation Act. It was expanded in 1973 as the
Endangered Species Act. The Devils Hole Pupfish of Death Valley were
among the first species protected. By 1972 only 124 remained. By 2007
only 42 were left.
(www.fws.gov/endangered/1966listing.html)
1966 Oct 15, The Black Panthers
wrote their Ten Point Program at the Office of Economic Development
Corp. in Oakland, Ca. It called for adequate housing, jobs, education
and an end to police brutality. The Black Panther Party was founded by
Merritt College students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. In 2006 Flores A.
Forbes authored “Will You Die With Me: My Life and the Black Panther
Party.”
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W31)(SSFC,
7/9/06, p.M1)
1969 Oct 15, Peace demonstrators
staged activities across the US, including a candlelight march around
the White House, as part Vietnam Moratorium Day.
(AP, 10/15/97)(TMC, 1994, p.1969)
1969 Oct 15, The $100-million,
52-story Bank of America World Headquarters at 555 California St. in
SF, was dedicated. In 1985 it was sold to Walter Shorenstein for $660
million. In 2005 a Hong Kong group offered $1.05 billion.
(http://continuumacg.net/moody2.html)(SFC, 9/23/05,
p.C1)
1970 Oct 15, Anwar Sadat
(1918-1981) succeeded the late Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of
Egypt. Sadat had worked with Nasser to overthrow Egypt‘s monarchy and
was imprisoned during World War II for his ties to the Germans. After
the revolution in 1952, he held key posts under Nasser including that
of vice president (1964-66 and 1969-70). In 1973, he led Egypt into a
war with Israel, but five years later negotiated the Camp David Accords
with Israeli premier Menachem Begin for which both men received the
1978 Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated by Muslim extremists in
1981.
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A19)(HNQ,
7/30/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat)
1973 Oct 15, Russell E. Train, the
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, announced final
transportation control measures to lower air pollution levels in
several of the nation's largest cities. The action marked a final step
in developing the transportation controls required under the Clean Air
Act of 1972, although several urban plans were yet to be finalized.
(www.epa.gov/history/topics/caa70/10.htm)
1973 Oct 15 Israeli tanks under
General Ariel Sharon crossed the Suez Canal and began to encircle two
Egyptian armies.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War)
1974 Oct 15, Pres. Ford signed
legislation limiting campaign spending by political parties. Congress
amended the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971 to set limits
on contributions by individuals, political parties and PACs.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/6zvcpc)
1974 Oct 15, Nobel prize for
chemistry was awarded to Paul J. Flory of Stanford Univ. for his work
on macro molecules.
(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1974/press.html)
1974 Oct 15, National Guard
mobilized to restore order in Boston school busing.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1975 Oct 15, Iceland moved its
intl. boundary for fishing rights from 50 to 200 miles.
(www.american.edu/ted/ice/CODWAR.htm)
1976 Oct 15, In the first debate
of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F.
Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1976 Oct 15, Carlo Gambino
(b.1902), US gangster, died at his summer home in Long Island.
(www.gambino.com/bio/carlogambino.htm)
1976 Oct 15, French-Argentine
citizen Marianne Erize (22) was kidnapped and disappeared. In 2008
retired army major Jorge Antonio Olivera was arrested for the "forced
disappearance, kidnapping and torture" of Erize when Olivera was a
lieutenant in the 22nd Mountain Infantry Regiment. In August 2000,
Olivera was detained in Italy at the request of French authorities, but
was freed after presenting what was later found to be a falsified death
certificate saying Erize had died on Nov. 11, 1976 — 26 days after
being illegally detained.
(AP, 11/4/08)
1982 Oct 15, The federal Centers
for Disease Control warned that a new epidemic was impacting Americans
and that over 200, mostly gay young men, had died from AIDS. In 2001
Jon Cohen authored “Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS
Vaccine.”
(SSFC, 2/4/01, BR p.4)
1983 Oct 15, One US marine was
killed and another wounded when Marine positions at Beirut
International Airport came under sniper fire from neighboring Shiite
Moslem quarters.
(http://tinyurl.com/2oux37)
1984 Oct 15, The Central
Intelligence Agency's Freedom of Information Act was signed into law by
Pres. Reagan.
(www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=453)
1985 Oct 15, Shelley Taylor of
Australia made the fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it
in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds.
(www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi?askmonth=10&askday=15)
1986 Oct 15, Harvard Univ. agreed
to buy 1.35 million shares of Harken Energy for $2 million and to
invest $20 million in Harken projects. George W. Bush served as a
Harken board member and paid consultant.
(WSJ, 10/9/02, p.A4)
1987 Oct 15, Lanford Wilson's
"Burn This," premiered in NYC.
(http://allstarz.hollywood.com/~malkovich/nyburnthis.html)
1987 Oct 15, Frantic efforts
continued in Midland, Texas, to save 18-month-old Jessica McClure, who
had fallen 22 feet down an abandoned well the day before. Jessica was
freed the following evening.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1987 Oct 15, In Burkina Faso
Blaise Compaore (b.1951), trained in Gadhafi's guerrilla camps, seized
power in a bloody takeover. Libya and Burkina Faso later denied
repeated accusations of gunrunning to West Africa hot spots.
(SFC, 2/19/00, p.A10)(AP,
12/16/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Compaor%C3%A9)
1988 Oct 15, Shapurji Sorabji
(b.1892), British composer (Leon Dudley Sorabji), died. His work
included "Opus clavicembalisticum" (1930), an elaboration of Ferrucio
Busoni’s 1921 "Fantasia conatrappuntistica," itself a metamorphosis and
completion of Bach’s "The Art of Fugue."
(WSJ, 12/12/00,
p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaikhosru_Shapurji_Sorabji)
1989 Oct 15, The NHL's Wayne
Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings surpassed Gordie Howe's scoring record
of 1,850 points, in a game against the Edmonton Oilers.
(AP, 10/15/99)
1989 Oct 15, South African
officials released eight prominent political prisoners, including
Walter Sisulu, a leader of the African National Congress.
(AP, 10/15/99)
1990 Oct 15, Soviet Union
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was named the winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize.
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)(AP, 10/15/97)
1990 Oct 15, South Africa’s
Separate Amenities Act, which barred blacks from public facilities for
decades, was formally scrapped.
(AP, 10/15/00)
1991 Oct 15, Despite sexual
harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirmed the
nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52 to 48. Jane
Mayer and Jill Abramson later published "Strange Justice," which was
made into a 1999 Showtime TV movie.
(AP, 10/15/97)(WSJ, 8/23/99, p.A13)
1992 Oct 15, The US State
Department acknowledged that it had improperly handled requests for the
passport file of Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1992 Oct 15, NYC Subway motorman
Robert Ray was convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he
fell asleep drunk while in control of train on Aug 28, 1991.
(http://tinyurl.com/bk4uq)
1993 Oct 15, President Clinton
sent six warships to the waters off Haiti to enforce trade sanctions in
the face of defiant Haitian military rulers.
(AP, 10/15/98)
1993 Oct 15, Nelson Mandela and
F.W. de Klerk were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their
efforts to end apartheid.
(AP, 10/15/98)
1994 Oct 15, Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to his country, three years after being
overthrown by army rulers. The U.N. Security Council welcomed
Aristide's return by voting to lift stifling trade sanctions imposed
against Haiti. The US had led an invasion, Operation Restore Democracy,
to restore Pres. Aristide. Emmanuel “Toto” Constant left Haiti for the
US when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was reinstated as president. The US
invasion was described in 1999 by Bob Shacochis in "The Immaculate
Invasion." Shacochis served there for 18 months as a Special Forces
noncombatant.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A10)(SFC, 6/21/96, p.A14)(SFEC,
2/14/99, BR p.1)(WSJ, 2/18/99, p.A20)(AP, 10/15/99)
1995 Oct 15, Six Israeli soldiers
were killed in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon in an ambush blamed on
the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.
(AP, 10/15/00)
1996 Oct 15, CSX Corp. announced
plans to buy Conrail Inc. for $8.4 billion to create the nation's
third-largest railroad.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1997 Oct 15, The Cleveland Indians
won the American League championship, defeating the Baltimore Orioles
1-0 in game six.
(AP, 10/15/98)
1997 Oct 15, The Nobel Prize in
Physics was awarded to Steven Chu of Stanford, William D. Phillips of
the Nat’l. Institute of Standards and Technology, and Claude
Cohen-Tannoudji of the France. Their work centered on slowing the speed
of gaseous atoms using lasers. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded
to Paul D. Boyer of UCLA, John E. Walker of Britain, and Jens C. Skou
of Denmark for work on how ATP works to store energy in living cells.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A1,15)(AP, 10/15/98)
1997 Oct 15, The US CIA disclosed
that its annual budget for spy services totaled $26.6 billion.
(WSJ, 10/16/97, p.A1)
1997 Oct 15, The US set a deadline
for three Japanese shipping companies to pay some $4 million in fines.
The fines were imposed based on discriminatory Japanese harbor
policies. The deadline was missed and the US threatened to block
Japanese shipping from US ports. An agreement was later reached. The
problem was with the Japan Harbor Transportation Association (JHTA),
which was said to have ties with the Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate. A
settlement was approved on Oct 27.
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/21/97, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/28/97, p.A1)
1997 Oct 15, Former rep Dan
Rostenkowski was released from custody for mail fraud.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1997 Oct 15, A British jet-powered
car driven by pilot Andy Green broke the land speed record with an
average run of 763.035 mph at Gerlach, Nevada. The Thrust SSC was
powered by two 110,000-horse-power Rolls-Royce Spey 205 engines. The
vehicle was 54 feet long, 12 feet wide, and weighed 10.2 tons.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A3)(AP, 10/15/98)
1997 Oct 15, NASA's
plutonium-powered Cassini spacecraft rocketed flawlessly toward Saturn.
The $3.3 billion Cassini-Huygens Mission was scheduled to arrive on
July 1, 2004.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A3)(AP, 10/15/98)(SSFC, 6/27/04,
p.A1)
1997 cOct 15, The CD-ROM computer
game “Riven,” a sequel to “Myst,” was scheduled for release.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.E3)(SFEC, 8/10/97, DB p.33)
1997 Oct 15, In Brazil Pres.
Clinton spoke on free trade at the Mangueira school, a multi-use
training facility for some 2,000 children sponsored by Xerox Corp.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A13)
1997 Oct 15, Regarding Burma it
was reported that only 2 of the 31 in the elite Junta have university
degrees and that Chinese business people had virtually taken over in
Mandalay, which had been the heart of Burmese culture.
(SFC,10/15/97, p.C2)
1997 Oct 15, In the Republic of
the Congo rebel forces loyal to the former Marxist dictator Denis
Sassou-Nguesso, backed by as many as 1000 troops from Angola, gained
full control of Brazzaville, the capital and Pointe Noire, the 2nd
largest city.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A13)(SFC,12/12/97, p.B4)
1997 Oct 15, In Sri Lanka 18
people were killed in a series of bomb blasts in downtown Colombo and
some 110 were injured. The blasts occurred at the 39-story World Trade
Center. 15-20 youths were said to have taken part in the attack. The
Liberation Tigers were reported to be led by Velupillai Prabhakaran,
the son of a fisherman.
(SFC,10/15/97, p.C4)(SFC,10/17/97, p.A12)(SFC,
1/26/98, p.A9)
1998 Oct 15, Pres. Clinton opened
the Mideast summit talks in Maryland between Arafat and Netanyahu in
Washington that resulted in the Wye River land-for-peace agreement..
(WSJ, 10/16/98, p.A1)(AP, 10/15/99)
1998 Oct 15, The US Congress and
Pres. Clinton agreed to a $500 billion budget that included funds for
100,000 new teachers and emergency funds for farmers and $18 billion
for the IMF. This ending a week of election-season budget brinkmanship.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.A3)(AP, 10/15/99)
1998 Oct 15, The Federal Reserve
made surprise cuts in the discount rate and the overnight loan rate of
banks by .25%. The move pushed the Dow Jones up 331 points.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.A1)(AP, 10/15/99)
1998 Oct 15, Pope John Paul marked
his 20th anniversary with a new encyclical “Fides et Ratio,” or Faith
and Reason with the basic message of: Be not afraid of human reason.
The 40,000 word treatise emphasizes spiritual truth over technology.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.A17) (WSJ, 10/16/98, p.A13)
1998 Oct 15, In Colombia some
200,000 people marched on the 8th day of a strike against the
government’s planned austerity program.
(WSJ, 10/16/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 15, In France over
200,000 high-school students protested overcrowded classes, a shortage
of teachers, over-loaded schedules, and ill-equipped, unsafe schools.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D2)
1998 Oct 15, In Germany the
coalition parties agreed to open talks next year on a timetable for
closing the country’s 19 nuclear power plants.
(WSJ, 10/16/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 15, From Indonesia it was
reported that machete-wielding gangs have killed at least 153 people in
Banyuwangi in recent months. The dead were accused of dabbling in black
magic and denounced as evil sorcerers. The killings were reported to be
spreading to the neighboring districts of Jember, Pasuruan, Situbondo,
and the island of Madura.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/16/98, p.A13)
1998 Oct 15, In Lebanon the
parliament approved Gen’l. Emile Lahoud as president.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D2)
1998 Oct 15, In Norway up to 1 1/2
million workers were expected to strike for 2 hours to protest a
government proposal to cut the annual vacation allowance by one day to
4 weeks.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.A17)
1998 Oct 15, The Contact Group in
Paris approved the Kosovo agreement. In Vienna the 54-nation
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe agreed to oversee
the 2,000-member ground verification mission. Serbian authorities
suspended the Nasa Borba newspaper.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.A14)
1998 Oct 15, Sudanese Foreign
Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said that Sudan will allow the UN to
investigate any site alleged to be making chemical weapons.
(WSJ, 10/16/98, p.A13)
1999 Oct 15, The US stock market
Dow Jones average dropped 266.9 points, 2.6%, to 10,019.71. It was the
largest % drop since Oct 13, 1989.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct 15, The French
organization "Doctors Without Borders" (Medecins Sans Frontieres) won
the Nobel Peace Prize.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct 15, Hurricane Irene hit
southern Florida and 5 people were electrocuted by down power lines in
Miami.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 15, In China The People's
Daily published an order that demanded that "foreign organizations or
individuals using encryption products or equipment containing
encryption technology in China must apply" for permission by Jan 31.
(WSJ, 1/25/00, p.A10)
1999 Oct 15, In Indonesia
thousands of anti-Habibie demonstrators fought police and pressured the
official assembly to go forward with reforms.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A14)
1999 Oct 15, Irish tenor Josef
Locke, whose life inspired the 1992 film “Hear My Song,” died in County
Kildare, Ireland, at age 82.
(AP, 10/15/00)
1999 Oct 15, In Kosovo Some 100
people were injured as they tried to force their way against NATO
forces across a bridge in Mitrovica to the Serb half of town.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A12)
1999 Oct 15, In Pakistan Gen'l.
Pervaiz Musharraf declared a state of emergency and suspended the
constitution.
(SFC, 10/15/99, p.A1)
2000 Oct 15, President Clinton
left Washington for emergency talks in Egypt with Israeli and Arab
leaders.
(AP, 10/15/01)
2000 Oct 15, New York Times movie
and drama critic Vincent Canby died at age 76.
(AP, 10/15/01)
2000 Oct 15, 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. An opposition
call for a boycott failed due to rural government support.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A22)(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 15, The Palestinian
Hezbollah seized an Israeli colonel, Elchanan Tennenbaum, in
Switzerland.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 15, Two rival Solomon
Island militia groups signed a peace agreement in Australia.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 15, At least 31 people
were killed as landslides due to heavy rains continued in the Alps of
Switzerland and Italy. 23 died in northern Italy and 8 in southern
Switzerland
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A14)(SFC,
10/19/00, p.C4)
2001 Oct 15, US warplanes carried
out their heaviest bombings in 9 days over Afghanistan. The Pentagon
called in the slow moving AC-130 Spectre gunships to targets around
Kandahar.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, Anthrax in a letter
to a Reno Microsoft office was reported to be from Malaysia. 2
anthrax-tainted letters were reported to have been mailed from Trenton,
New Jersey and 2 postal employees there showed symptoms. Anthrax spores
were in a letter deliver to a Senate office. Officials announced that a
letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle had tested positive
for anthrax, and that the infant son of an ABC News producer in New
York had developed skin anthrax.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A16)(AP,
10/15/02)
2001 Oct 15, In Texas the last 2
of 5 escaped convicts were captured after one shot another and freed a
farm couple that was held hostage.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 15, Bethlehem Steel filed
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.D1)
2001 Oct 15, Britain’s PM Tony
Blair said his country favors “a viable Palestinian state, as part of a
negotiated and agreed settlement” during a news conference with
visiting Yasser Arafat.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 15, China executed 2
Muslim separatists in Yili, Xinjiang province.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 15, It was reported that
Croatian officials had suspended the use of Baxter Int’l. filters for
kidney dialysis machines after 23 patients died in a week. A similar
incident in Spain killed 10 people but tests seemed to rule out the
filters.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, India shelled
Pakistani posts along their line in Jammu Kashmir for aiding Islamic
militants. One woman was killed and 25 civilians wounded.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 15, In Indonesia riot
police fought protesters outside the Parliament in what had become
daily battles over US bombing in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, In Israel a hardline
nationalist party withdrew from PM Sharon’s coalition government.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, Japan’s PM Koizumi
visited South Korea and expressed his remorse at Sodaemun Independence
Park for suffering inflicted by Japan’s colonial rule.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 15, It was reported that
Sheik Hamoud bin Uqlaa al-Shuaibi (80), a militant Wahhabi in Buraydah,
Saudi Arabia, called on Muslims to wage jihad on supporters of the US
military action in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Oct 15, Russian troops
claimed to have killed 20 Chechen rebels with a loss of 5 of their own
men.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, In South Africa
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, was
indicted for fraudulent loans of more than $100,000.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 15, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe announced the abandonment of market-based economics and a return
to a socialist-style economy.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2002 Oct 15, Former New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will be paid $4.3 million plus expenses for a
one-year contract to advise Mexico City's mayor on reducing crime.
(AP, 10/15/02)
2002 Oct 15, ImClone Systems
founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty in New York in the biotech company's
insider trading scandal.
(AP, 10/15/03)
2002 Oct 15, Illinois opened
hearings on 140 death row cases.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A3)
2002 Oct 15, The DJIA rose 378 to
8,255. Nasdaq rose 61.9 to 1,282.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.B1)
2002 Oct 15, It was reported that
duct tape is effective in removing warts when worn over the wart for a
number of days.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A2)
2002 Oct 15, A listeria outbreak
blamed for at east 7 deaths in the northeast was traced to a Wampler
Foods plant in Franconia, Pa.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A5)
2002 Oct 15, Allied planes bombed
a military command facility in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq after
taking fire from Iraqi forces.
(AP, 10/15/02)
2002 Oct 15, In Canada a man
facing workplace discipline shot and killed two co-workers at a
provincial office in Kamloops, British Columbia, before taking his own
life.
(Reuters, 10/16/02)
2002 Oct 15, Yaacov "Zeev" Farkas
(b.1923), called the founder of the political cartoonist's art in
Israel, died. He was born in Hungary and survived the Nazi
concentration camp at Dachau.
(AP, 10/16/02)(SFC, 10/17/02, p.A28)
2002 Oct 15, In Iraq Saddam
Hussein won the presidential referendum for another 7-year term. He
claimed a 100% victory the next day.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 15, In Italy a heavily
armed man fatally shot his ex-wife and six other relatives and
neighbors and then killed himself in Chieri, a suburb of Turin.
(AP, 10/15/02)(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A16)
2002 Oct 15, In Jamaica 3 people
were shot dead outside Kingston.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A17)
2002 Oct 15, In Japan 5 citizens
snatched by North Korean agents in 1978, returned home for a visit.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 15, In northern Russia a
Soyuz-U rocket carrying a EU research communications satellite exploded
several seconds after liftoff from a launch pad, killing one soldier.
(AP, 10/16/02)(WSJ, 10/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 15, Sudan's government
signed an agreement with rebels to suspend fighting during talks to end
their 20-year-old war.
(AP, 10/15/02)
2002 Oct 15, A judge opened a
criminal case against embattled Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, a
day after U.S. and British experts began investigating allegations that
he approved the sale of a radar system to Iraq.
(AP, 10/15/02)
2003 Oct 15, The Florida Marlins
defeated the Chicago Cubs 9-6 in game 7 for the National League pennant.
(WSJ, 10/16/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 15, FCC officials raided
San Francisco Liberation Radio, a low-power FM station, and confiscated
its equipment.
(SFC, 10/21/03, p.D1)
2003 Oct 15, In Florida
tube-feeding stopped for Terri Schiavo (39), brain-damaged since 1990,
based on a court decision for its removal. Death was expected within 2
weeks. The tube was reinserted six days later after the Florida
Legislature rushed through "Terri's Law," which was recently struck
down by the Florida Supreme Court
(Econ, 10/18/03, p.31)(AP, 10/15/04)
2003 Oct 15, A Staten Island ferry
pilot lost consciousness before the vessel slammed into a pier, killing
at least 10 people and injuring 42, including 3 who lost limbs. Pilot
Richard J. Smith fled the scene and attempted suicide. Smith later
pleaded guilty to 11 counts of manslaughter. In 2006 Smith was
sentenced to 18 months in jail. Patrick Ryan, the ex-ferry director
received a one year sentence.
(AP, 10/16/03)(SFC, 10/16/03, p.A1)(AP,
10/15/04)(SFC, 1/10/06, p.A5)
2003 Oct 15, Azerbaijan held
presidential elections.
(WSJ, 10/15/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 15, In China Shenzhou 5
launched into orbit with air force Lt. Col. Yang Liwei (38) aboard,
making China the third nation to put a human in space on its own, after
the former Soviet Union and the United States. His capsule landed in
Mongolia the next day.
(AP, 10/15/03)(SFC, 10/16/03, p.A3)(SSFC, 7/15/07,
p.D5)
2003 Oct 15, In the Gaza Strip a
remote-controlled bomb exploded under a US diplomatic convoy, ripping
apart an armored van and killing three Americans.
(AP, 10/15/03)
2003 Oct 15, Japan pledged $1.5
billion in reconstruction aid next year for Iraq and more down the line
despite economic woes at home.
(AP, 10/15/03)
2003 Oct 15, In Iraq the new dinar
was launched graced with the likeness of an ancient ruler and a 10th
century mathematician. The Iraqi central bank had no tools to regulate
currency value. Exchange of the old currency was set to end Jan 15.
(SFC, 10/16/03, p.A12)(WSJ, 11/7/03, p.A10)
2003 Oct 15, NATO launched its
elite rapid-reaction force, a prototype unit that will eventually
become a 20,000-member force able to deploy in short notice anywhere in
the world.
(AP, 10/15/03)
2003 Oct 15, In Nicaragua radical
students and teachers drove a truck through a gate and threw rocks and
gasoline bombs at police guarding the legislature as part of a protest
demanding more government spending for education.
(AP, 10/16/03)
2003 Oct 15, Nigerian police
returned 74 child workers to Benin. As young as 4 years old, their skin
broken and palms callused from months of hauling granite, they received
food, clothes and medical care in the West African state of Benin after
being rescued from the traffickers who sold them into heavy labor. On
Sept. 27 authorities brought back 116 children who had been put to work
in the granite quarries of southwest Nigeria.
(AP, 10/16/03)
2004 Oct 15, Former President
Jimmy Carter urged the US and other international lenders to forgive
part of Grenada's debt, saying the Caribbean country needs the money to
recover from the devastation of Hurricane Ivan.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 15, The US State
Department said "restrictions on arms exports" to Haiti remained in
place but promised to "consider requests from the interim government."
(AP, 10/20/04)
2004 Oct 15, A federal judge
struck down a ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton
national parks.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2004 Oct 15, A federal bankruptcy
judge allowed U.S. Airways to cut union workers' pay immediately by 21
percent.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2004 Oct 15, The Food and Drug
Administration ordered that all antidepressants carry strong warnings
that they "increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior" in
children who take them.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2004 Oct 15, Several thousand
people opposed to gay marriage gathered on the National Mall in
Washington to call for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as
being between a man and a woman.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2004 Oct 15, The journal Science
published a report that said 1,856 of 5,743 species of amphibians are
“globally threatened.”
(SFC, 10/15/04, p.A4)
2004 Oct 15, Authorities said the
Northern Snakehead has invaded the Great Lakes. The voracious predator
dubbed the "Frankenfish" can breathe out of water and wriggle across
land.
(Reuters, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 15, In an eastern Afghan
province killed at least three children and a policeman on the first
day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
(AP, 10/16/04)
2004 Oct 15, Craig Murray,
Britain's former ambassador to Uzbekistan, said he is a "victim of
conscience" for having dared to speak out against human rights
outrages. Murray had highlighted the allegedly systematic use of
torture, including the alleged boiling to death of two prisoners, by
Uzbek authorities.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 15, Canada’s Bombardier
Transportation and two joint-venture partners won a $424-million order
to supply 20 high-speed trains to China's Ministry of Railways.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 15, German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder and Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi clashed over Iraq
during their first-ever meeting in Tripoli while German business
leaders touted for business in the oil-rich former pariah state.
Schroeder praised the reforms of Muammar Gaddafi and invited the Libyan
leader to visit Germany.
(AP, 10/15/04)(Reuters, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 15, Indonesian
prosecutors formally charged militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with
ordering his followers to launch a suicide attack on the J.W. Marriott
hotel in Jakarta last year.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 15, US Marines launched
air and ground attacks on the insurgent bastion Fallujah after city
representatives suspended peace talks with the government over PM Ayad
Allawi's demand to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. US
officials said 10 people, including a family of four, were killed when
a car bomb exploded near a Baghdad police station.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 15, Car bombs killed five
US troops in Iraq.
(AP, 10/16/04)
2004 Oct 15, Japan won a two-year
term on the U.N. Security Council along with Argentina, Denmark, Greece
and Tanzania.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 15, The World Trade
Organization (WTO) ruled that the European Union had broken
international trade rules by subsidizing sugar producers.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2004 Oct 15, Zimbabwe opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai was acquitted on treason charges following a
yearlong trial that his party had said was orchestrated by the
government of President Robert Mugabe.
(AP, 10/15/04)
2005 Oct 15, Thousands gathered in
DC at the National Mall for the Millions More Movement to commemorate
the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March organized by Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 15, Marcia and Ken
Powers, a husband-and-wife team, reached the Pacific Ocean on after a
4,900-mile cross-country hike, becoming the first to backpack the
transcontinental American Discovery Trail in one continuous trek. They
had started Feb. 27 at Cape Henlopen in Delaware.
(AP, 10/16/05)
2005 Oct 15, In Toledo, Ohio, a
riot broke out when protesters confronted members of the National
Socialist Movement who had gathered at a city park. More than 100
people were arrested and one officer was seriously injured.
(AP, 10/16/05)
2005 Oct 15, In Texas the
Government Canyon State Natural Area officially opened. The over 8,600
acre area was set aside to protect the Edwards Aquifer, which provided
drinking water for San Antonio.
(LP, Spring 2006, p.55)
2005 Oct 15, Pamela Vitale (52),
the wife of prominent defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel
Horowitz, was found slain in the couple's home in Lafayette, Ca. On Oct
20 police arrested Scott Dyleski (16), a neighbor scheming to grow pot,
as a suspect in the murder. Dyleski was convicted of first-degree
murder on Aug 28, 2006, and faced life in prison.
(AP, 10/16/05)(SFC, 10/21/05, p.A1)(SFC, 8/29/06,
p.A1)
2005 Oct 15, Jason Collier (28),
Atlanta Hawks center, died, possibly of cardiac arrest.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 15-2005 Oct 16, The G20
group of rich and developing nations met in Xianghe, China. They
sounded the alarm over high oil prices but barely touched on the role a
stronger yuan could play in easing world economic imbalances.
(AP, 10/16/05)
2005 Oct 15, Egyptian authorities
ordered the release of a leading Muslim Brotherhood figure, Essam
el-Erian, and three other members of the banned Islamic group.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 15, The European
Commission said tests have confirmed a link between the bird flu found
in Romania and the virus that has devastated flocks in Asia and turned
up in Turkey.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 15, In Iran 2 bombs hit a
shopping center Saturday in Ahvaz, near the southwestern border with
Iraq, killing two people and wounding at least 50.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 15, Iraq's deeply divided
Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds voted under heavy guard Saturday to decide
the fate of a new constitution. A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi
soldiers in northeast Iraq, and seven people were wounded during
attacks by insurgents near five of Baghdad's 1,200 polling stations.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 15, In Iraq 5 American
soldiers were killed by a bomb blast on referendum day.
(AP, 10/16/05)
2005 Oct 15, Israeli painter
Efraim Reuytenberg (91), known for infusing Chinese influences and bold
colors into his work, died in Israel.
(AP, 10/20/05)
2005 Oct 15, A worsening food
crisis threatening millions of people prompted Malawi's Pres. Bingu wa
Mutharika to declare the African nation a "disaster area" and call for
more international aid.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 15, Moroccan authorities
flew 435 illegal immigrants home to Senegal and Mali, starting a second
wave of mass deportations of sub-Saharan Africans who have tried to
slip into Europe through the North African kingdom.
(AP, 10/16/05)
2005 Oct 15, Nigeria and Cameroon
discussed a new program for Nigeria to withdraw from the disputed
Bakassi peninsula, but failed to set a new deadline after two days of
talks in Abuja.
(AP, 10/16/05)
2005 Oct 15, The death toll in
Pakistan's devastating earthquake rose to nearly 40,000, while rain,
snow and frigid temperatures compounded the misery of millions of
homeless victims.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 15, In northeastern
Spanish at least 5 north African men were killed, four were injured and
one was believed still trapped under rubble after a three-storey 17th
century building collapsed in the town of Piera.
(AP, 10/15/05)
2005 Oct 15, Members of a
Venezuelan indigenous tribe criticized President Hugo Chavez's order to
expel a U.S. missionary group he accused of links to the CIA, saying
the decision goes against the interests of their impoverished
communities.
(AP, 10/16/05)
2006 Oct 15, Three members of Duke
University's lacrosse team appeared on CBS' "60 Minutes" to deny raping
a woman who had been hired to perform as a stripper. Collin Finnerty,
Reade Seligmann and David Evans were later exonerated.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2006 Oct 15, UnitedHealth Group
said CEO Dr. William McGuire agreed to leave the company by Dec 1 due
to illegal stock option practices. His walk away package was estimated
at $1.1 billion.
(SFC, 10/16/06, p.A13)(WSJ, 10/17/06, p.B1)
2006 Oct 15, A 6.7-magnitude quake
hit Hawaii’s Big Island at 7:07 am, followed by aftershocks. It caused
blackouts and landslides but no reported fatalities. Structural damages
on the Big Island were later estimated at $100 million.
(AP, 10/16/06)(SSFC, 10/22/06, p.G2)
2006 Oct 15, Algerian Energy
Minister Chehib Khelil said that the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries will announce a 1 million barrel a day cut in crude
production during a meeting in Qatar.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 15, Foreign Minister
Alexander Downer said Australia would cut ministerial contacts with its
northern neighbor until an investigation was held into the escape from
Papua New Guinea of a Solomon Islands official wanted on child sex
charges. Julian Moti, now in custody in the Solomons and facing charges
of illegal entry, was wanted in Australia on child sex charges
involving a 13-year-old girl in Vanuatu in 1997.
(AFP, 10/15/06)(Econ, 10/28/06, p.51)
2006 Oct 15, Salah Abdulrahim al
Blooshi, a former detainee in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, returned
home to Bahrain after being held for five years. Two other Bahrain
nationals remain in custody at Guantanamo Bay, where the US holds about
450 men on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 15, Ecuador held
presidential elections. The favorite was Rafael Correa (43), a leftist
pledging to lead a "citizens' revolution" against a political
establishment widely seen as corrupt and incompetent. He faced a strong
challenge from Alvaro Noboa, a banana billionaire who also pushed a
populist line. The elections headed to a 2nd round after Alvaro Noboa,
who favored strong relations with the US, narrowly defeated Rafael
Correa in the first round. A Nov 26 runoff had been expected as none of
the 13 candidates appeared likely to win outright.
(AP, 10/14/06)(AP, 10/16/06)(Econ, 10/14/06, p.39)
2006 Oct 15, At least 83 people
were killed during a two-day spree of sectarian revenge killings.
Suspected Shiite militiamen killed at least 20 more Sunni Arabs in
Balad. A string of bombings in Kirkuk killed 10 people, including two
girls who died when a man detonated explosives strapped to his body in
front of the al-Mallimin girls high school. In Baghdad Interior
Ministry undersecretary Hala Shakir Salim survived a roadside bomb
attack that killed seven others, four bystanders and three bodyguards.
A husband, wife and two of their sons were killed, and two
daughters-in-law critically wounded when gunmen burst into their home
in Mosul. Two US soldiers were killed and two other American soldiers
were wounded on after coming under fire in the province of Kirkuk.
(AP, 10/15/06)(Reuters, 10/16/06)
2006 Oct 15, In Lebanon a small
grenade exploded after it was fired at a building near UN offices in a
downtown Beirut square injuring four people.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 15, Mexican authorities
arrested a soldier accused of opening fire on a street barricade in
Oaxaca, killing one demonstrator and wounding another. Elections in
Mexico’s Tabasco state showed Andres Rafael Granier of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) defeating Democratic Revolution
candidate Cesar Raul Ojeda by 10 points. The next day the PRD accused
its rivals of fraud.
(AP, 10/15/06)(AP, 10/16/06)
2006 Oct 15, Sri Lanka's navy sank
a rebel boat loaded with arms along the west coast, killing at least
five Tamil Tiger separatists.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 15, Uganda's government
and the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group admitted Sunday they had
both violated their recent truce, raising fears the deal to end one of
Africa's longest wars may unravel.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 15, Pope Benedict XVI
gave Catholics four news saints, bestowing the honor on a 19th-century
nun who struggled on the American frontier, a bishop who tended to the
wounded during the Mexican Revolution and two Italian clergy.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2007 Oct 15, It was reported that
3 of America's biggest banks are banding together to set up an $80
billion fund to breathe life back into the commercial paper market. The
Treasury Dept. was urging banks to set up a “Master Liquidity
Enhancement Conduit” to buy assets. On Dec 21 the 3 largest US banks
gave up on the fund.
(www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/video/embed.asp?id=725)(WSJ, 12/22/07, p.A1)
2007 Oct 15,
Americans Leonid Hurwicz (d.2008 at 90), Eric S. Maskin and Roger
B. Myerson won the Nobel economics prize for developing a theory that
helps explain how sellers and buyers can maximize their gains from a
transaction.
(AP, 10/15/07)(SFC, 6/26/08, p.B5)
2007 Oct 15, News Corporation’s
Fox Business Network launched a new cable channel that will focus on
financial markets and global economy news.
(www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec07/fox_10-15.html)
2007 Oct 15, In San Diego, Ca.,
local and federal agents seized over 5,000 trained birds in the largest
cockfighting bust in US history.
(SFC, 10/16/07, p.D12)
2007 Oct 15, In North Carolina
Gov. Mike Easley asked residents to stop washing cars and watering
lawns as the Southeast US experienced a severe drought.
(SFC, 10/16/07, p.A3)
2007 Oct 15, Kathleen
Casey-Kirschling became the first baby boomer to make an early filing
for Social Security benefits. Kathleen Casey became the first official
US baby boomer following her January 1, 1946, birth just after midnight.
(SFC, 10/16/07, p.A8)
2007 Oct 15, Internet addresses
began in 11 languages that do not use the Roman alphabet.
(WSJ, 10/11/07, p.B1)
2007 Oct 15,
Medtronic Inc. said it is stopping distribution of wires that
connect some of its defibrillators to patients' hearts after learning
they may have contributed to five deaths.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 15, Brazil’s President
Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva arrived in the Congolese capital Brazzaville
for a one-day visit, the first by a Brazilian leader to the African
country.
(AFP, 10/16/07)
2007 Oct 15,
In China 2,217 delegates listened as party leader Hu Jintao
pledged to make communist rule more inclusive and better spread the
fruits of China's economic boom. Hu said economic growth must remain
the party’s main task.
(AP, 10/15/07)(WSJ, 10/16/07, p.A1)(Econ, 10/13/07,
p.42)
2007 Oct 15, An army minibus
slammed into a water tanker truck in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing
13 soldiers and the civilian driver.
(AP, 10/16/07)
2007 Oct 15, The EU granted final
approval to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which removes
many restrictions on television product placement. Member states will
have 2 years to adopt the new rules.
(Econ, 11/3/07, p.81)(http://tinyurl.com/3con6l)
2007 Oct 15, European Union
foreign ministers gave their final approval to deploy a 3,000-strong EU
peacekeeping force for one year to help refugees and displaced people
living along Darfur's borders with Chad and the Central African
Republic.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 15,
Airbus finally delivered its first A380 superjumbo jet. Singapore
Airlines took delivery of the double-decker jet, the world's largest
passenger plane, almost two years late.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 15,
In Germany Pres. Putin held talks with German Chancellor Angela
Merkel on the sidelines of a German-Russian political conference called
the Petersburg Dialogue.
(AFP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 15,
Gunmen launched simultaneous mortar and machinegun attacks on two
mainly Polish military bases in Diwaniyah, after Shi'ite militants
vowed to step up pressure on Polish soldiers to force them out. US
helicopters fired back during clashes that killed five Iraqi civilians,
including two children, and wounded 17. Iraqi journalist Dhi
Abdul-Razak al-Dibo (32), a freelance reporter, was killed while
driving his BMW with his guards near Kirkuk.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 15, Montenegro signed a
stabilization and association agreement with the EU, normally a step
towards membership.
(Econ, 10/20/07, p.72)
2007 Oct 15, Moroccan leaders,
after nearly a month of tough negotiations, formed a new government
that includes seven women but no one from the Islamic party that placed
second in September's parliamentary elections.
(AP, 10/16/07)
2007 Oct 15, Russia’s Agriculture
Minister Alexei Gordeyev said that major food producers and retailers
had agreed to fix their prices at the current level following talks
with the government. The prices for basic foods will be fixed until
January 31, 2008, a period which covers parliamentary elections.
(www.prime-tass.com/news/show.asp?topicid=54&id=428507)(Econ,
10/27/07, p.63)
2007 Oct 15, Fresh fighting in
northern Somalia left several combatants dead in an escalating boundary
dispute between the breakaway regions of Somaliland and Puntland.
(AFP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 15, In northern Sri Lanka
a fierce battle broke out between government troops and Tamil rebels,
leaving 30 guerrillas dead. 4 prominent activists resigned from a
government advisory panel on human rights, saying that officials were
more interested in fighting separatist rebels than protecting human
rights.
(AP, 10/16/07)
2007 Oct 15,
Representatives of seven Darfur rebel groups met in south Sudan
to try to reach a common negotiating position ahead of peace talks with
the government.
(Reuters, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 15, The Security Council
voted unanimously to extend the UN observer mission in Georgia,
expressing "serious concern" at violence that has escalated tensions
between Georgia and the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 15, The UN Security
Council voted unanimously to extend the UN peacekeeping mission in
Haiti for a year, noting significant improvements in security in recent
months but saying the situation remains fragile.
(AP, 10/15/07)
2008 Oct 15, John McCain and
Barack Obama held their final televised debate at Hofstra Univ. in
Hempstead, NY. It was moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS.
(AP, 10/16/08)(SFC, 10/16/08,
p.A1)
2008 Oct 15, The US Commerce
Department reported that retail sales decreased 1.2% last month, nearly
double the 0.7% drop that had been expected. Stocks plunged 733 points
in their second biggest point loss ever.
(AP, 10/15/08)(SFC, 10/16/08, p.C1)
2008 Oct 15, At Camp Pendleton,
California, Sgt. Jan Pietrzak (24) and his wife, Quiana
Jenkins-Pietrzak (26) were found gagged, tied and shot in the head in
the living room of their Winchester home. Investigators said the house
had been ransacked and a fire had been set, an apparent effort to
destroy evidence. 4 Marines were later charged with two counts of
first-degree murder and special-circumstance allegations of committing
multiple murders, committing the crime during a robbery and rape by
instrument.
(AP, 11/21/08)
2008 Oct 15, In Illinois a medical
helicopter crashed just before midnight and killed a desperately ill
1-year-old girl and three crew members when the aircraft clipped a
radio structure's wire and went down in a suburban Chicago field.
(AP, 10/17/08)
2008 Oct 15, A NYC police officer
warned Michael Mineo, a tattoo parlor worker, that if he reported being
sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway station, officers
would lock him up for a felony. Officer Richard Kern (25) was later
charged with aggravated sexual abuse and assault. Fellow Officers Alex
Cruz and Andrew Morales were charged with hindering prosecution and
official misconduct for allegedly covering up the crime.
(AP, 12/9/08)
2008 Oct 15, In Afghanistan
international war planes bombed a gathering of Taliban and other
militants overnight in Barham Chah on the border with Pakistan and
killed up to 70. An explosion in Helmand province killed a British
soldier.
(AFP, 10/15/08)(AP, 10/16/08)
2008 Oct 15, Authorities in
Azerbaijan said turnout was high in a presidential election boycotted
by the opposition and almost certain to return Ilham Aliyev for a
second term in the oil-producing state. President Ilham Aliyev had 89%
of the vote with 70% of precincts reporting.
(AP, 10/15/08)(AP, 10/16/08)
2008 Oct 15, In Barbados 13
Caribbean countries approved a new Economic partnership Agreement (EPA)
with the EU.
(Econ, 10/18/08, p.50)
2008 Oct 15, Nicky Reilly (22), a
convert to Islam, pleaded guilty at a London court to attempted murder
and engaging in preparation for terrorism by researching how to make
bombs. He was arrested shortly after a blast rattled a family
restaurant in the southwest English city of Exeter 200 miles (320
kilometers) west of London on May 22.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, The Shell Anglo-Dutch
group said a Nigerian court has ordered it to hand over land around its
giant Bonny oil terminal to the local population, a key demand of armed
rebels in the volatile region. Shell said ruling was given some months
ago but we have appealed.
(AFP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, Cambodia and Thailand
exchanged fire on the border in a clash over disputed land which left
two soldiers dead and several wounded.
(AFP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, Chile’s President
Michelle Bachelet signed into law a measure that bans all whale hunting
off Chile's 3,400-mile (5,500-kilometer) coast.
(AP, 10/16/08)
2008 Oct 15, EU leaders agreed to
stick to ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2020,
but divisions over how to share out the cuts were widened by fears over
the impact of the financial crisis.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, Iceland moved to
shore up its ravaged economy by slashing borrowing costs and officials
pursued efforts to get help from Russia in tackling the worst financial
crisis in the island's history.
(Reuters, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, Esha Momeni, a
student at California State University, Northridge, was driving on a
highway in Tehran when she was stopped by authorities, who said they
were traffic police, and later taken to Evin prison. Her computer and
other materials related to her research on the Iranian women's movement
were confiscated.
(AP, 10/24/08)
2008 Oct 15, Baghdad and
Washington reached final agreement on a pact requiring US forces to
withdraw from Iraq by 2012. The agreement, reached after months of
difficult negotiations, would allow US troops to remain here after
their UN mandate expires Dec. 31. The US military detained 2 suspected
insurgents in raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq's leadership in the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul. A US soldier died of noncombat causes.
(WSJ, 10/16/08, p.A1)(AP, 10/16/08)(AP,
10/17/08)(SFC, 10/17/08, p.A9)
2008 Oct 15, A Malaysian court
ordered Tuanku Jaafar Tuanku Abdul Rahman (86), the country's former
king (1994-1999), to settle a $1 million debt to a bank in a landmark
verdict that ended a centuries-old tradition shielding the country's
royal sultans from legal prosecution.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, Pakistani President
Asif Ali Zardari reached trade deals with China, raising hopes that
Beijing would help his country through difficult economic and
diplomatic times.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, Armed pirates
hijacked a bulk carrier with 21 crew members in the Gulf of Aden near
Somalia. The ship under a Panamanian flag was operated by the
Philippines.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, In Sri Lanka air
force jets bombed a group of rebels who were building an earthen
embankment as a defense against advancing government forces in
Mullaitivu.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, The foreign ministers
of Syria and Lebanon signed an agreement formalizing diplomatic ties
between the two countries for the first time in their turbulent history.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, Turkish media
reported that a hijacker attempted to commandeer a Turkish Airlines
plane over Belarus but that he was overpowered by passengers.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, The Turkish military
clashed with Kurdish rebels near the Iraqi border in battles in which
four soldiers and five rebels were killed. A Turkish helicopter crashed
during the clash. A soldier was killed and 15 security personnel were
slightly injured in the crash.
(AP, 10/16/08)
2008 Oct 15, The IMF said
Ukrainian authorities have asked the International Monetary Fund for
help in stemming a financial crisis in the country. The government took
emergency measures to rescue banks and stabilize the national currency,
the hryvna, after worried depositors withdrew more than US$1 billion
from their accounts this month.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, A Vietnamese court
sentenced journalist Nguyen Viet Chien (56) to two years in prison,
accusing him of writing inaccurate stories about one of the country's
most high-profile corruption cases. Fellow reporter Nguyen Van Hai (33)
was sentenced on the charges to two years of "re-education without
detention." The reporters were arrested in May for writing about a 2005
scandal in which Transportation Ministry officials were accused of
gambling with allegedly embezzled funds. Police Maj. Gen. Pham Xuan
Quac (62) and investigator Dinh Van Huynh were charged with
"deliberately revealing state secrets," for giving information to the
journalists. Quac, who has retired, was given a warning, while Huynh
was sentenced to one year in prison.
(AP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, Former South African
leader Thabo Mbeki opened a second day of talks with Zimbabwe President
Robert Mugabe and his main rival to save a power-sharing deal that has
floundered over cabinet posts.
(AFP, 10/15/08)
2008 Oct 15, Wang Yung-Ching
(b.1917), founder of Formosa Plastics Group, died leaving a fortune
estimated at $7 billion. He had set up a small PVC plant in 1954 in
Taiwan with money from a US aid program.
(WSJ, 10/18/08, p.A10)
2008 Oct 15, A study by Gaffney
Cline & Associates of a big natural gas filed in Turkmenistan
confirmed the South Yolotan-Osman as the fifth largest in the world.
(WSJ, 10/16/08, p.A9)
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