Today in History - November 9
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694 Nov 9,
Spanish King Egica accused Jews of aiding Moslems and sentenced them to
slavery.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1520 Nov 9, Swedish King Christian
II executed 600 nobles.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1526 Nov 9, Jews were expelled
from Pressburg, Hungary, by Maria of Hapsburg.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1541 Nov 9, Queen Catharine Howard
was confined in the London Tower.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1580 Nov 9, Spanish troops landed
in Ireland.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1623 Nov 9, William Camden (72),
English historian: Brittania Annales, died.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1681 Nov 9, Hungarian parliament
promised Protestants freedom of religion.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1731 Nov 9, Benjamin Banneker was
born in Maryland and grew up a free black man. From his farm near
Baltimore, Banneker spent much of his time studying the stars. Although
he lacked much of a formal education, he taught himself with borrowed
books and became a noted mathematician, astronomer and inventor.
Carving its gears with a pocket knife, he built a wooden clock in 1770
that was believed to have been the first built in America. Banneker
began publishing scientific almanacs in 1791 after accurately
predicting a solar eclipse. President George Washington appointed him
to the District of Columbia Commission in 1789 to help survey the new
capital city of Washington, D.C. Banneker, who died in 1806, also
corresponded with Thomas Jefferson about his views against slavery.
(HNPD, 11/9/98)
1760 Nov 9, Henri-Philippe Gerard,
composer, was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1778 Nov 9, Giovanni Battista
Piranesi (58), Italian etcher, died.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1799 Nov 9, Napoleon Bonaparte
participated in a coup and declared himself dictator, 1st consul, of
France.
(HN, 11/9/98)(MC, 11/9/01)
1801 Nov 9, Gail Borden (d.1874),
inventor of condensed milk, was born in New York.
(ON, 5/04, p.4)(Internet)
1801 Nov 9, Carl Philipp Stamitz,
composer, died.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1802 Nov 9, Elijah P. Lovejoy,
American newspaper publisher and abolitionist, was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1812 Nov 9, Paul Abadie, French
master builder (renovated Notre Dame), was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1817 Nov 9, Edward Richard Sprigg
Canby, Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1818 Nov 9, Ivan Turgenev, Russian
author, was born. His work includes “Fathers and Sons” and “A Month in
the Country.”
(HN, 11/9/00)
1821 Nov 9, The 1st US pharmacy
college held 1st classes in Philadelphia.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1825 Nov 9, Ambrose Powell Hill
(d.1865), Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1841 Nov 9, Edward VII, King of
England, was born. He succeeded his mother Victoria and served from
1901-1910.
(HN, 11/9/00)
1848 Nov 9, The first U.S. Post
Office in California opened in San Francisco at Clay and Pike streets.
At that time there were only about 15,000 European settlers living in
the state.
(HN, 11/9/98)
1850 Nov 9, Lewis Lewin, German
toxicologist and father of psycho-pharmacology, was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1853 Nov 9, Stanford White,
architect, was born. His designs include Madison Square Garden and
Washington Arch.
(HN, 11/9/00)
1854 Nov 9, Franz Liszt's
"Fest-Long," premiered.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1857 Nov 9, Atlantic Monthly
magazine was 1st published.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1858 Nov 9, NY Symphony Orchestra
made its 1st performance.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1861 Nov 9, During the Civil War,
soldiers of the Illinois 11th, 18th, and 29th Regiments, after forcing
the Confederates south, set up camp in Bloomfield, Missouri. Upon
finding the newspaper office empty, they decided to print a newspaper
for their expedition, relating the troop's activities. They called it
the Stars and Stripes.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and_Stripes_(newspaper))
1862 Nov 9, General US Grant
issued orders to bar Jews from serving under him. The order was quickly
rescinded.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1864 Nov 9, Sherman designed his
"March to the Sea."
(MC, 11/9/01)
1872 Nov 9, Fire destroyed nearly
800 buildings in Boston.
(AP, 11/9/08)
1818 Nov 9, Ivan Turgenev, Russian
author, was born. His work includes “Fathers and Sons” and “A Month in
the Country.” [see Oct 28]
(HN, 11/9/00)
1886 Nov 9, Ed Wynn, actor and
comedian, was born.
(HN, 11/9/00)
1900 Nov 9, Russia completed its
occupation of Manchuria.
(HN, 11/9/98)
1903 Nov 9, Gregory Pincus,
inventor (birth control pill), was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1904 Nov 9, 1st airplane flight to
last more than 5 minutes.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1905 Nov 9, Erika Mann, German-US
author (Other Germany) and daughter of Thomas Mann, was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1906 Nov 9, President Theodore
Roosevelt left Washington D.C. for a 17 day trip to Panama and Puerto
Rico, becoming the first president to make an official visit outside of
the U.S.
(HN, 11/9/98)
1906 Nov 9, Arthur Rudolph,
Nazi-turned-American rocket engineer, was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1910 Nov 9, France, Spain, Norway,
Belgium, Germany, Russia, and Great Britain established diplomatic
relations with the new republic of Portugal.
(HN, 11/9/98)
1912 Nov 9, The football team of
Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian School, with running back Jim Thorpe,
defeated the Army team, with Dwight D. Eisenhower as linebacker, 27-6.
In 2007 Sally Jenkins authored “The Real Americans: The Team That
Changed a Game, a People, a Nation.”
(WSJ, 1/7/07,
p.P9)(www.footballfoundation.com/news.php?id=242)
1913 Nov 9, Storm "Freshwater
Fury" sank 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1914 Nov 9, Lt. Captain Hellmuth
Karl von Mucke (1892-1957) led a squad of men in 3 small boats from the
German cruiser Emden to destroy the British telegraph station at
Direction Island in the Cocos archipelago. Separated from the Emden von
Mucke commandeered the old schooner Ayesha and led his men to Padang,
where he sunk the Ayesha and took command of the German merchant SS
Choising. They reached Yemen on Jan 8, 1915.
(ON, 4/05, p.4)
1914 Nov 9, The Australian light
cruiser HMAS Sydney wrecked the German cruiser Emden, forcing her to
beach on a reef on North Keeling Island in the Indian Ocean.
(HN, 11/9/99)
1918 Nov 9, Florence Chadwick,
swimmer (Hall of Fame 1970), was born in San Diego, Calif.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1918 Nov 9, Spiro Agnew (d.Sep 17,
1996) was born. He later became governor of Maryland and 39th
vice-president of the US under Nixon (1968-1973) until convicted of tax
evasion.
(SFC, 9/18/96, p.A7)(HN, 11/9/98)
1918 Nov 9, Choi Hong Hi (d.2002),
one of the founders of the South Korean Army (1946), was born in North
Korea. He developed the tae kwon do (to kick with the foot, to strike
with the fist, art) martial arts style in the 1940s and named it in
1955.
(SFC, 7/2/02, p.A17)
1918 Nov 9, Germany was proclaimed
a republic. Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate. He then
fled to the Netherlands.
(AP, 11/9/97)(HN, 11/9/98)
1918 Nov 9, Guillaume Apollinaire
(38), [Kostrowitsky], French poet (Alcools), died.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1921 Nov 9, In Italy Mussolini
formed the Partito Nazionalista Fascista.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1923 Nov 9, Dorothy Dandridge,
actress, singer and dancer (Porgy and Bess), was born in Cleveland, Oh.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1923 Nov 9, James Schuyler, poet,
novelist and playwright, was born.
(HN, 11/9/00)
1924 Nov 9, Robert Frank,
photographer, was born.
(HN, 11/9/00)
1925 Nov 9, German Nazis formed
the SS (Schutzstaffel- elite special forces).
(MC, 11/9/01)
1928 Nov 9, Anne Sexton (d.1974),
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was born. “In a dream you are never
eighty.”
(AP, 6/5/00)(HN, 11/9/00)
1932 Nov 9, Nadya Aliluieva (30),
wife of Joseph Stalin, died.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1933 Nov 9, The Civil Works
Administration was created as a short term program designed to carry
the nation over a critical winter while other programs such as the
Federal Emergency Relief Administration were being planned and
developed.
(http://content.lib.washington.edu/civilworksweb/essay.html)
1934 Nov 9, Carl Sagan, American
astronomer and writer, was born in Brooklyn. He was instrumental in
robotic space exploration and who made Cosmos, a documentary about the
universe.
(HN, 11//99)
1935 Nov 9, United Mine Workers
president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee
for Industrial Organization. The Committee for Industrial Organization
(CIO, later renamed Congress of Industrial Organizations) was formed to
expand industrial unionism.
(AP, 11/9/97)(HN, 11/9/98)
1935 Nov 9, Japanese troops
invaded Shanghai, China.
(HN, 11/9/98)
1936 Nov 9, Mary Travers, folk
singer (Peter Paul & Mary), was born in Louisville, Ky.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1936 Nov 9, In China Ruth Harkness
and her party found a 3-lb giant panda cub, eyes not yet open, in a
hollow tree. They named the cub Su-Lin - Chinese for "something very
cute."
(http://femexplorers.com/full_article.php?article_id=17)
1938 Nov 9, Maurice Bavaud (25), a
Swiss theology student, failed in his attempt to shoot Hitler at a Nazi
parade in Munich. Switzerland, which followed a policy of neutrality
toward Germany before and during World War II, failed to intervene on
Bavaud's behalf, and he was guillotined in May, 1941, in Berlin's
notorious Ploetzensee prison.
(AP, 11/8/08)
1938 Nov 9, Kristallnacht took
place in Germany. Nazi leaders heard that a Jew had shot a German
diplomat in Paris and ordered reprisals. Nazis killed 35 Jews, arrested
thousands and destroyed Jewish synagogues, homes and stores throughout
Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht. 30,000 Jews
were sent to concentration camps. The event is depicted by Peter Gay in
his 1998 book “My German Question.”
(HFA, '96, p.18)(TL, 1988, p.111)(AP, 11/9/97)(WSJ,
11/3/98, p.A20) (SFC, 11/10/98, p.A12)(HN, 11/9/00)
1939 Nov 9, "Ninotchka," with
Greta Garbo premiered.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1939 Nov 9, Nobel for physics was
awarded to Ernest O. Lawrence for his work on the cyclotron.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1939 Nov 9, In the Venlo-incident,
German Abwehr killed 2 English agents.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1942 Nov 9, Transport #44 departed
with French Jews to Nazi Germany.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1943 Nov 9, Bernhard Lichtenberg
(67), German clergyman and antifascist, died.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1944 Nov 9, Red Cross won the
Nobel peace prize.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1944 Nov 9, The 455-foot Red Oak
Victory ship was launched from Richmond, Ca. It was named after an Iowa
town with the highest number of casualties per capita in WW II. The
Victory ships were successors of the Liberty ships.
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.A20)
1945 Nov 9, FBI agents staked out
a house in Berkeley, Ca., to watch George Eltenton, a suspected Soviet
spy. In 1946 Eltenton admitted that he had tried to obtain secret data
on Berkeley’s radiation lab. Eltenton moved to Britain in 1947.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F2)
1946 Nov 9, Pres. Truman ended a
wage and price freeze.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1951 Nov 9, Sigmund Romberg (64),
Hungarian-US composer (Blossom Time), died.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1952 Nov
9, Chaim Weizmann (b.1874), Russian-born bio-chemist and 1st president
of Israel (1949-1952), died.
(www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/bios/weiz.html)
1953 Nov 9, The Supreme Court
upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the
scope of federal antitrust laws. President Clinton later signed a bill
overturning the labor relations aspect of the antitrust exemption.
(AP, 11/9/03)
1953 Nov 9, Welsh author-poet
Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39 during his poetry-reading blitz
of the US. In 1955 John Malcolm Brinnin (d.1998 at 81), the man who
brought Thomas to America, published "Dylan Thomas in America."
(SFEC, 5/25/97, p.T5)(AP, 11/9/97)(SFC, 6/29/98,
p.A19)
1955 Nov 9, Michael Gazzo's
"Hatful of Rain," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1961 Nov 9, Paddy Chayefsky's
"Gideon," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1963 Nov 9, Twin disasters struck
Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160
people died in a train crash.
(AP, 11/9/97)
1965 Nov 9, Roger Allen LaPorte a
22 year old former seminarian and a member of the Catholic worker
movement, immolated himself at the United Nations in New York City in
protest of the Vietnam War.
(HN, 11/9/98)
1965 Nov 9, A major power failure
hit the East Coast of the US. New York City experienced a major
blackout just after 5:30 PM. In the great Northeast blackout several US
states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures
lasting up to 13 1/2 hours. Nine Northeastern states and parts of
Canada went dark in the worst power failure in history, when a switch
at a station near Niagara Falls failed.
(HFA, '96,p.42)(SFE,10/1/95, Z1, p.10)(AP,
11/9/97)(HN, 11/9/98)
1967 Nov 9, Rolling Stone
Magazine, co-founded by Jann Wenner in SF, published its debut issue
with a press run of 40,000 copies. Ralph J. Gleason, SF jazz critic,
helped Wenner fund the 1st issue. In 1998 "Rolling Stone: The Complete
Covers 1967-1997" was edited by Holly George-Warren. In 1977 the
company moved its headquarters to NYC.
(SFC,10/28/97, p.E1)(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR p.12)(SFC,
12/23/04, p.E16)(SFC, 4/18/09, p.C1)
1967 Nov 9, NASA (National
Aeronautics and Space Administration) launched Apollo 4 into orbit from
Cape Kennedy with the first successful test of a Saturn V rocket.
(AP, 11/9/97)(HN, 11/9/98)
1970 Nov 9, Charles De Gaulle
(b.1890), former French president (1959-1969), died. In 1996 Daniel
Mahoney published "De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern
Democracy." Michel Droit (d.2000 at 77) authored the 5-volume
“Man of Destiny” (1972), widely regarded as the most thorough
examination of de Gaulle’s life and work.
(AP, 11/9/97)(WSJ, 1/19/98,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle)(SFC, 6/23/00,
p.D5)
1972 Nov 9, The "Trail of Broken
Treaties" caravan, an Indian protest, ended in vandalism and chaos at
the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. The story is told in
the 1996 book "Like A Hurricane, The Indian Movement From Alcatraz to
Wounded Knee" by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, BR
p.8)(http://siouxme.com/lodge/treaties.html)
1976 Nov 9, Smokey the Bear (26)
died at the Washington DC National Zoo.
(www.capitanlibrary.org/research/smokey-bear.htm)
1976 Nov 9, The UN General
Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa,
including one characterizing the white-ruled government as
“illegitimate.”
(AP, 11/9/00)
1979 Nov 9, Robert Taylor
(d.2002), British forester, allegedly encountered a UFO in the woods of
Dechmont Law. He took police to the scene 2 days later and evidence was
gathered that gave some support to his claims.
(Econ, 3/31/07, p.95)
1981 Nov 9, In Mauritania the 1980
decree by Pres. Haidalla outlawing slavery was translated into law,
however the legislation failed to criminalize it.
(Econ, 5/5/07,
p.62)(http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engAFR380032002!Open)
1983 Nov 9, Alfred Heineken, beer
brewer from Amsterdam, was kidnapped and held for a ransom of more than
$10 million. Heineken was freed Nov 30. Cor van Houton, the kidnapper,
was shot to death in 2003.
(HN, 11/9/98)(AP, 1/24/03)
1984 Nov 9, The Vietnam Veterans
statue, “Three Soldiers” by Frederick Hart (1943-1999), was unveiled in
Washington DC on Veterans Day.
(http://www.440.com/twtd/archives/nov09.html)(SFC,
8/18/99, p.C4)
1985 Nov 9, Gary Kasparov became
the world chess champion. He was born in 1963 in Azerbaijan to an
Armenian mother and a Jewish father.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov#Early_career)
1986 Nov 9, Israel said it was
holding Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technician who had vanished
after providing information to a British newspaper about Israel's
nuclear weapons program. Vanunu was convicted of treason and sentenced
to 18 years in prison. Mordechai Vanunu was later convicted of giving
data on Israel’s nuclear program to a newspaper and put into solitary
confinement until Mar 12, 1988.
(WSJ, 3/13/98, p.A1)(AP, 11/9/99)
1987 Nov 9, Senate Minority Leader
Bob Dole formally announced a bid for the Republican presidential
nomination during a visit to his hometown of Russell, Kan.
(AP, 11/9/97)
1988 Nov 9, John N. Mitchell
(b.1913), former Attorney General under Pres. Nixon, died in
Washington. He was a major figure in the Watergate scandal and served
19 months at a federal prison in Alabama (1977-1979) for his role in
the scandal. In 2008 James Rosen authored “The Strong Man: John
Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate.”
(AP, 1/19/98)(AP, 11/9/02)(WSJ, 5/24/08, p.W8)
1989 Nov 9, The Berlin Wall was
broke open. Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing
citizens to travel freely to the West. Joyous Germans danced atop the
Berlin Wall. Over its 28-year history at least 136 people were
confirmed killed trying to cross the Wall into West Berlin, according
to official figures. However, a prominent victims' group claimed that
more than 200 people were killed trying to flee from East to West
Berlin. Peter Wyden in this year authored "Wall: The Inside Story of
Divided Berlin." In 2004 William F. Buckley authored "The Fall of the
Berlin Wall."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall)(SFC,
5/30/96, p.A12)(AP, 11/9/97)(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A27)(WSJ, 3/18/04,
p.D10)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.25)
1989 Nov 9, Turgut Ozal became the
8th president of Turkey elected by the Grand National Assembly of
Turkey.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgut_%C3%96zal)
1990 Nov 9, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a historic non-aggression treaty with
Germany, winning praise from German leaders in Bonn for his role in the
peaceful fall of the Berlin Wall.
(AP, 11/9/00)
1991 Nov 9, President Bush
returned from a four-day European trip that included a NATO summit.
(AP, 11/9/01)
1991 Nov 9, Police in Hong Kong
forcibly repatriated 59 Vietnamese boat people, carrying them onto a
transport plane.
(AP, 11/9/01)
1991 Nov 9, Singer-actor Yves
Montand died near Paris at age 70. His body was exhumed in 1998 for DNA
tests in a paternity suit filed by Aurore Drossard (22).
(SFC, 3/13/98, p.A17)(AP, 11/9/01)
1992 Nov 9, Visiting London,
Russian President Boris Yeltsin appealed for help in rescheduling his
country's debt, and urged British businesses to invest.
(AP, 11/9/97)
1992 Nov 9, Charles Fraser-Smith,
English inventor (man who never was), died. He was the gadget-designing
genius on whom the character "Q" in the James Bond novels and movies
was modeled.
(http://tinyurl.com/9aukm)
1993 Nov 9, Vice President Al Gore
and Ross Perot debated the North American Free Trade Agreement on CNN's
Larry King Live.
(AP, 11/9/98)
1993 Nov 9, Edward J. Rollins, who
had managed New Jersey Governor-elect Christine Todd Whitman's
campaign, set off a furor by asserting New Jersey Republicans had paid
money to curb black voter turnout, a claim denied by Whitman and later
retracted by Rollins.
(AP, 11/9/98)
1993 Nov 9, In Bosnia after two
days of concentrated cannon fire at point-blank range, the bridge at
Mostar finally collapsed into the river. Bosnian Serb armed militia
(BSA) fired on a school in Sarajevo and 9 children died.
(www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/killing.html)(www.hri.org/docs/USSD-Rights/93/Bosnia93.html)
1994 Nov 9, A day after
Republicans won majorities in both the House and Senate, President
Clinton and the GOP pledged cooperation, even as they started forming
battle lines over irreconcilable differences.
(AP, 11/9/99)
1995 Nov 9, In a pair of telephone
interviews, O.J. Simpson told Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch
that people have supported rather than shunned him since his acquittal,
and that he has learned that fame and wealth are illusions: “The only
thing that endures is character.”
(AP, 11/9/00)
1995 Nov 9, Yasser Arafat made a
secret trip to Israel to offer condolences to the widow of assassinated
PM Rabin.
(SFC, 11/11/04, p.A18)
1996 Nov 9, Evander Holyfield
upset Mike Tyson to win the WBA heavyweight title in an 11-round fight
in Las Vegas.
(AP, 11/9/97)
1996 Nov 9, President Clinton used
his weekly radio address to condemn the decision of the nation's
distillers to end their voluntary ban on airing hard-liquor ads,
calling it "simply irresponsible."
(AP, 11/9/97)
1997 Nov 9, Poet Anthony Hecht,
74, received the $100,000 1997 Tanning Prize given by the Academy of
American Poets. His works include: “Flight Among the Tombs,” The
Transparent Man,” “The Venetian Vespers,” and “Millions of Strange
Shadows.”
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.E3)
1997 Nov 9, A Boeing 707 jetliner
carrying First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was forced to return to
Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington after a sensor indicated an
engine fire, which turned out to be a false alarm. Mrs. Clinton left
the following day for a tour of Central Asia.
(AP, 11/9/98)
1997 Nov 9, In Alaska a family of
7 and the pilot of a commuter plane died in a crash in Barrow.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.A4)
1997 Nov 9, In Lansdowne, Pa.,
some 200 people picketed in front of the home of Jonas Stelmokas (81)
to protest delays to his deportation. He was accused of being a former
member of the Lithuanian police force that helped Nazis kill Jews
during WW II.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.A4)
1997 Nov 9, Carl Hempel (b.1905),
German-born philosopher, died in New Jersey. His work included “The
Function of General Laws in History” (1942). He is also remembered for
formulating the raven paradox, also called Hempel’s paradox.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hempel)
1997 Nov 9, In Algeria attackers
disguised as policemen slit the throats of 28 civilians in 2 separate
attacks in the northwest.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.A13)
1997 Nov 9, In Thailand former
Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai formed a new government with a coalition
of 8 parties.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.A12)
1998 Nov 9, The age of digital and
interactive TV opened with a PBS documentary special, "Chihuly Over
Venice." This was the first high definition digital TV broadcast.
(SFC, 9/2/98, Z1 p.6) (AP,
11/9/99)
1998 Nov 9, A federal judge in New
York approved the richest antitrust settlement in U.S. history, a
promise by leading brokerage firms to pay $1.03 billion to investors
who had sued over a price-rigging scheme for stocks listed on the
Nasdaq market.
(AP, 11/9/99)
1998 Nov 9, US customs officials
found 1,600 pounds of cocaine on one of Bogota’s C-130 in Florida.
Colombia’s air force chief resigned the next day.
(WSJ, 11/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 9, In Bangladesh a
general strike began and police clashed with strikers. An alliance of 7
opposition parties protested alleged attempts by police to kill their
leader, Khaleda Zia.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.D4)
1999 Nov 9, The flight data
recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean
and shipped to a National Transportation Safety Board laboratory in
Washington.
(AP, 11/9/00)
1999 Nov 9, In Congo government
forces bombed Nkembe. Rebel spokesman Kien-Kiey Mulumba said he would
no longer honor the peace accord after the government killed 100
civilians in 4 days of fighting.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A14)(SFC, 11/12/99, p.D2)
1999 Nov 9, With fireworks,
concerts and a huge party at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, Germany
celebrated the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
(AP, 11/9/00)
1999 Nov 9, In Mexico a TAESA DC-9
jet exploded in flight near Uruapan and all 18 people onboard were
killed.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 9, Russia’s PM Vladimir
Putin named Dmitry Medvedev first deputy chief of staff to prime
minister.
(WSJ, 2/28/08, p.A14)
1999 Nov 9, In Sri Lanka Pres.
Chandrika Kumaratunga said 4,000 people were driven from their homes by
the rebels and that the military had suffered 101 dead and 743 wounded.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 9, In Tanzania Mikaeli
Muhimana, an ex-Rwandan official in Kibuye, was arrested in Dar es
Salaam for his role in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsis.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A13)
2000 Nov 9, George W. Bush's lead
over Al Gore in all-or-nothing Florida slipped beneath 300 votes in a
suspense-filled recount, as Democrats threw the presidential election
to the courts, claiming “an injustice unparalleled in our history.”
(AP, 11/9/01)
2000 Nov 9, Pres. Clinton met with
Yasser Arafat in Washington in an effort to end the bloodshed between
Israel and Palestine.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 9, Pres. Clinton
established the 293,000-acre Vermillion Cliffs in northern Arizona as a
national monument. He also ordered 661,000 acres of federal land added
to the 54,400-acre craters of the Moon National Monument in central
Idaho.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A6)
2000 Nov 9, William Leonard
Pickard (55) and Clyde Apperson (45) of California were indicted by a
grand jury in Kansas City for running a massive LSD laboratory inside a
decommissioned nuclear missile silo in Wamego, Ka. Leonard was
sentenced on November 25, 2003 to two concurrent life sentences without
parole. Apperson was sentenced on November 24, 2003 to 30 years of
imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
(SFC, 12/7/00,
p.A1)(http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/313/pickard.shtml)
2000 Nov 9, It was reported that
Cancer drug tests showed that endostatin cut blood to tumors. It was
also reported that statin cholesterol drugs might cut the risk of
dementia as in Alzheimer’s disease.
(WSJ, 11/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 9, Hundreds of thousands
of Germans marched to condemn a wave of right-wing violence in an
“Uprising of the Upright.”
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 9, Israeli helicopter
gunships fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle and killed Fatah
militia leader Hussein Abayat along with 2 nearby women.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 9, In Kosovo 4 Gypsies
were killed in an ambush.
(WSJ, 11/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 9, Mozambique
police killed 10 opposition demonstrators in Maputo. In Montepuez
Renamo opposition supporters stormed a prison and freed 93 inmates. 7
police officers and 18 civilians died in election protests.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.D2)(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D4)
2000 Nov 9, In Russia the
government announced plans to shrink the 3 million member armed forces
by 600,000.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.D6)
2001 Nov 9, A federal panel
ordered Amtrak to come up with a liquidation plan.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 9, The US Federal
Election Committee voted 6-0 to recognize the Green Party as a national
committee.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 9, In Afghanistan
Northern Alliance forces under Gen. Rashid Dostum claimed the capture
of Mazar-e-Sharif. Looting and killings were reported.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/14/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 9, Hutu rebels in Burundi
abducted 80 teenage boys and 4 teachers from 3 schools in Ruyigi.
Forced recruitment was believed to be the reason. Hundreds of youths
escaped and at least 3 were left dead.
(WSJ, 11/8/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 9, An Israeli settler was
shot and killed in her car and a Palestinian was shot and killed as he
approached an Israeli army position. In Gaza a 12-year-old Palestinian
boy was wounded and died 3 days later.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A12)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 9, Jordan’s King Abdullah
II said his country would consider sending troops to Afghanistan to
help the anti-terrorism coalition.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 9, In Morocco negotiators
of over 160 countries reached agreement on a climate control treaty and
set mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 9, A Pakistani newspaper
published a Nov 7 interview with Osama bin Laden in which he claimed to
have chemical and nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 9, In Pakistan police in
Dera Ghazi Khan shot and killed 4 protesters during a strike called by
extremist religious parties.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 9, A WTO meeting was
scheduled to start in Qatar. A Sep 27 blueprint called for concessions
from the US, EU and Japan in opening markets for textiles, steel and
agriculture.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A12)
2002 Nov 9, President Bush said in
his radio address that Saddam Hussein faced a final test to surrender
weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 11/9/03)
2003 Nov 9, In California Shirley
Muldowney (63), 3-time Top Fuel champion, ended her 30-year racing
career with a loss in the 2nd round of the Auto Club NHRA Finals at
Pomona Raceway.
(AP, 11/9/08)
2002 Nov 9, Allan Chu (17) of
Saratoga, Ca., won top honors in a Siemens Westinghouse competition for
his work on a new algorithm to compress Internet data.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A17)
2002 Nov 9, In London Rabah
Chehaj-Bias (21), Karim Kadouri (33) Rabah Kadre (35) were arrested and
charged under the Terrorism Act with possessing materials for the
"preparation, instigation or commission" of terrorism.
(AP, 11/18/02)
2002 Nov 9, In Colombia a teenager
(17) hurled a grenade at a bar in Medellin, killing two people and
injuring 18 others.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2002 Nov 9, Iyad Sawalha, a senior
member of the militant Islamic Jihad group, was killed in an overnight
army operation in the West Bank.
(AP, 11/9/02)
2002 Nov 9, Some 450,000 marched
through Florence in a protest against globalization and U.S. policy in
Iraq.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2002 Nov 9, A dry winter and a wet
summer ravaged Italy's grapevines, causing the worst harvest in half a
century. Some regions were spared the disasters, like the area in
Tuscany where Chianti is produced and parts of southern Italy.
(AP, 11/9/02)
2002 Nov 9, Singapore opposition
leader Chee Soon Juan was released from prison after serving 5 weeks
for trying to hold a May Day rally without a permit at the entrance to
the grounds of the President's official residence.
(Reuters, 11/9/02)
2003 Nov 9, Endpcnoise.com, a
Vancouver, Washington-based custom outlet, was reported to specialize
in creating nearly silent PCs. These PCs can drop their noise levels to
25 or 26 decibels, while a human's lowest hearing threshold is
generally considered to be about 20 decibels. A busy road is about 80
decibels and a quiet bedroom at night is about 30 decibels.
(Reuters, 11/9/03)(www.endpcnoise.com)
2003 Nov 9, Art Carney (b.1918)
died in Chester, Conn. He played Jackie Gleason's sewer worker pal Ed
Norton in the TV classic "The Honeymooners" and went on to win the 1974
Oscar for best actor in "Harry and Tonto."
(AP, 11/11/03)(SFC, 11/12/03, p.A2)
2003 Nov 9, Gordon Onslow (90),
abstract painter, died in Inverness, Ca.
(SFC, 11/13/03, p.A19)
2003 Nov 9, In Sao Paulo, Brazil,
87 inmates attempted a prison escape through a 390-foot tunnel. 48 were
captured and 8 died when the tunnel collapsed.
(AP, 11/10/03)
2003 Nov 9, Martha Lucia Ramirez,
Colombia's first woman defense minister, resigned and she refused to
take questions from reporters.
(AP, 11/10/03)
2003 Nov 9, Guatemala held
presidential elections. Polls showed that former Guatemala City Mayor
Oscar Berger (57) was statistically tied with center-left engineer
Alvaro Colom (52).
(AP, 11/7/03)
2003 Nov 9, In central Iran a
crowded bus collided with a truck and a second truck then smashed into
the wreckage of the two vehicles, killing 36 people and wounding 7
others.
(AP, 11/9/03)
2003 Nov 9, In Iraq a US military
police soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack south of
Baghdad. In Sadr City Muhanad al-Kaabi, a US-appointed district
chairman, was shot dead following an argument with a US soldier
guarding his council's headquarters.
(AP, 11/10/03)(WSJ, 11/12/03, p.A16)
2003 Nov 9, Israel's Cabinet
narrowly approved a hotly contested prisoner swap with Lebanese
Hezbollah guerrillas, by a 12-11 vote.
(AP, 11/9/03)
2003 Nov 9, Japanese PM Junichiro
Koizumi's ruling bloc won a majority in the country's parliamentary
elections. The opposition made big gains, narrowing the ruling
coalition's majority on parliament and dampening its hopes for a strong
mandate to carry out ambitious economic and political reform.
(AP, 11/9/03)(AP, 11/9/08)
2003 Nov 9, In Mauritania armed
security forces arrested Mohamed Ould Khouna Haidalla, the top losing
challenger from presidential elections in this Arab-dominated desert
nation, detaining him after an overnight standoff at his campaign
headquarters.
(AP, 11/9/03)
2003 Nov 9, Palestinian PM Ahmed
Qureia announced the formation of a Cabinet and said he will present it
to parliament this week. It left Yasser Arafat in control of security
forces.
(AP, 11/9/03)
2003 Nov 9, Former Gov. Pedro
Rossello won Puerto Rico's pro-statehood nomination for governor in a
primary, clearing the way for him to run again in the territory's
elections next year.
(AP, 11/9/03)
2003 Nov 9, In South Korea labor
activists and students battled riot police in one of the most violent
protests in years. Dozens were injured. Protesters, estimated by police
at 35,000 and by the labor confederation at 100,000, rallied in central
Seoul to protest damages lawsuits that managers have filed against
union leaders accused of staging illegal strikes.
(AP, 11/9/03)
2003 Nov 9, Pope John Paul II in
St. Peter's Square beatified two Spaniards, an Italian, a Belgian and a
Frenchwoman.
(AP, 11/9/03)
2003 Nov 9, I was reported that
Tuvalu officials were searching nearby islands for relocation due to
rising sea water. They planned to use some $45 million acquired by
selling the .tv internet suffix.
(SSFC, 11/9/03, p.C6)
2004 Nov 9, Kenny Chesney won the
US Country Music Association album of the year award for "When The Sun
Goes Down" as well as entertainer of the year.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2004 Nov 9, Baseball star Roger
Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young Award.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2004 Nov 9, US Attorney Gen’l.
John Ashcroft and Commerce Sec. Don Evans resigned their posts with the
Bush administration.
(SFC, 11/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 9, It was reported that
repeated injections of paromomycin, a low cost antibiotic, could cure
the parasitic disease black fever, also known as visceral leishmaniasis.
(SFC, 11/9/04, p.A6)
2004 Nov 9, Iris Chang (b.1968),
author of the 1997 book "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust
of WW II," died by suicide in California. In 2007 Paula Kamen authored
“Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition and the Loss of an
Extraordinary Mind.”
(Econ, 11/27/04, p.91)(SFCM, 4/17/05, p.5)(SSFC,
11/11/07, p.M1)
2004 Nov 9, Ed Kemmer (b.1921), TV
star, died at Roosevelt Hospital in NYC. He played the heroic Cmdr.
Buzz Corry on the 1950s children's science-fiction television program
“Space Patrol.”. After “Space Patrol,” Kemmer broke the heroic mold by
playing villains in episodes of “Perry Mason,” “Gunsmoke,” and
“Maverick.” He spent 19 years as a regular on “The Edge of Night,” “As
the World Turns,” “All My Children,” “Guiding Light,” and other soaps.
(SFC, 11/17/04, p.B8)
2004 Nov 9, Iraqi authorities
imposed the first nighttime curfew in more than a year on Baghdad and
surrounding areas. US Army and Marine units thrust through the center
of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, fighting bands of guerrillas
in the streets and conducting house-to-house searches on the 2nd day of
a major offensive. Some US artillery used white phosphorous rounds that
melted skin. At least 10 American and 2 Iraqi soldiers were killed in
the assault. In 2008 a civilian jury acquitted former Marine Jose Luis
Nazario Jr. of voluntary manslaughter in the killings of 4 unarmed
Iraqi detainees during the Fallujah battle. In 2009 Marine Sgt. Ryan
Weemer was acquitted of murder charges in the killing of an unarmed
detainee in Fallujah.
(AP, 11/9/04)(SFC, 11/10/04, p.A1,14)(AP,
8/29/08)(SFC, 4/10/09, p.A6)
2004 Nov 9, In a backlash over the
Fallujah assault the Iraqi Islamic Party withdrew from the interim
government and a leading group of Sunni clerics called for Iraqis to
boycott nationwide elections.
(SFC, 11/10/04, p.A15)
2004 Nov 9, Israeli troops shot
and killed two Palestinians who entered an unauthorized area in the
Gaza Strip. Israeli troops in Nablus clashed with stone throwing
youths, shooting dead a 22-year-old man and seriously wounding another.
(AP, 11/9/04)
2004 Nov 9, In Ivory Coast French
soldiers killed at least 7 Gbagbo loyalists in a presidential palace
standoff.
(WSJ, 11/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 9, In Slovenia Janez
Jansa (b.1956) took office as prime minister. He continued in office
until 2008.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez_Jan%C5%A1a)
2004 Nov 9, Sudan's government and
rebels agreed to sign fresh accords meant to stop hostilities in Darfur.
(AP, 11/9/04)
2004 Nov 9, Stieg Larsson
(b.1954), Swedish novelist, died of a heart attack. By 2009 his “The
Millennium Trilogy,” published posthumously, had sold more than 12
million copies around the world. The books centered on the heroine
Lisbeth Salander, a tattooed bisexual waif with autistic tendencies, a
profound distrust of authority, as well as astonishing computer skills
and physical courage.
(Econ, 10/31/09,
p.98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stieg_Larsson)
2005 Nov 9, Carolina's Erik Cole
became the first player in NHL history to be awarded two penalty shots
in one game. Cole scored on the first, helping the Hurricanes defeat
Buffalo 5-3.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2005 Nov 9, US oil executives
testified before Congress that their huge profits were justified, but
got a skeptical reaction from lawmakers.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2005 Nov 9, Rebels killed seven
police officers and abducted two after ambushing them on a road in
southern Afghanistan. The bodies of two villagers, abducted 2 days
earlier, were found beheaded.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 9, Argentine prosecutors
said a Hezbollah militant has been identified as the suicide bomber who
flattened a Jewish community center in 1994, killing 85 people in
Argentina's worst terrorist attack. Hussein Berro, a 21-year-old
Lebanese citizen who "belonged to Hezbollah," was driving the van
packed with explosives July 18, 1994. He was identified by friends and
relatives in Detroit, Mich., from a photograph.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, In Azerbaijan Pres.
Ilham Aliev fired two regional governors for interfering with the count
from last weekend's parliamentary elections.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 9, Thousands of people
rallied in Baku, Azerbaijan, to demand free elections, answering a call
by the opposition movement following weekend parliamentary balloting
that international observers said was flawed.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, In Belgium over half a
dozen fires were reported in several cities, including the capital of
Brussels, in the 4th day of vandal attacks, most of which remained
minor. No injuries were reported, and several people were taken into
custody for questioning by police.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 9, Britain’s House of
Commons defeated a crucial provision of the government’s latest
anti-terrorism bill, handing PM Tony Blair his 1st Commons defeat since
he came to power.
(SFC, 11/10/05, p.A12)
2005 Nov 9, In Canada Vancouver
Mayor Philip Owen added his name to the list of those who believe that
marijuana should be decriminalized.
(Econ, 11/12/05,
p.39)(www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11310.shtml)
2005 Nov 9, Chinese President Hu
Jintao met Prime Minister Tony Blair as business leaders signed $1.3
billion in contracts and human rights protesters demonstrated outside
Blair's office.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, Europe's first mission
to Venus was successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan and emitted a first signal at the start of its 163-day
journey to the turbulent planet. The Venus Express aimed to arrive in
April 2006.
(AFP, 11/9/05)(Econ, 11/12/05, p.85)(Econ, 12/1/07,
p.96)
2005 Nov 9, Egyptians cast ballots
in their most robustly contested parliamentary election in more than 50
years, but no one expected the vote to unseat the long-dominant party
of President Hosni Mubarak.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, Ethiopia’s PM Meles
Zenawi said that opposition leaders and newspaper editors under
detention will face treason charges, which carry the death penalty in
Ethiopia, for their alleged roles in protests last week in which at
least 46 people were killed.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, France's storm of
rioting lost strength with a drop of nearly half in the number of car
burnings. But looters and vandals still defied a state of emergency
with attacks on stores, a newspaper warehouse and a subway station.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, K.R. Narayanan (85),
former president of India (1997-2002), died. He was the first
"untouchable" from India's pernicious caste system to occupy the office
in a validation of the nation's democratic roots.
(AP, 11/9/05)(Econ, 11/26/05, p.100)
2005 Nov 9, Azahari bin Husin, one
of southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist suspects, was believed to
have been killed when an elite Indonesian anti-terrorism unit stormed a
suspected militant hideout on Java. He was accused of plotting a series
of deadly bombings in Bali.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, Muriel Degauque, a
Belgian national married to a Moroccan man, detonated explosives
strapped to her body in a failed attack against US troops.
(AP, 12/01/05)
2005 Nov 9, An employee of the
Sudanese embassy in Iraq was shot dead by armed men who opened fire on
his car in the west of Baghdad.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, Archeologists reported
that 2 lines of an alphabet have been found inscribed in a stone in
Israel, offering what some scholars say is the most solid evidence yet
that the ancient Israelites were literate as early as the 10th century
B.C. The stone was found in July, on the final day of a five-week dig
at Tel Zayit, about 30 miles south of Tel Aviv.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 9, Japanese electronics
makers Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. announced they will
jointly develop technology to produce next-generation semiconductors
that are smaller, faster, more efficient and less costly.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, Suicide bombers In
Jordan carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based
hotels in the capital of Amman in what appeared to be an al-Qaida
assault. 2 Americans were among at least 59 people killed and 115
wounded.
(AP, 11/10/05)(WSJ, 11/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 9, Mexico reported that
consumer prices fell to a record low in October and that inflation was
rapidly approaching the central bank’s target of 3%.
(WSJ, 11/9/05, p.A15)
2005 Nov 9, Negotiators trying to
persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions focused on the
contentious details of how the North will disarm and what it will get
in exchange, with the U.S. and North Korean delegations holding a
separate meeting.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 9, In Semdinli, Turkey, 2
government intelligence officers and a PKK informant were caught trying
to blow up a bookshop owned by a PKK sympathizer. The affair was said
to have been organized by the “deep state,” a shadowy coalition of
rogue officers and bureaucrats whose powers were being sapped by
EU-inspired laws.
(Econ, 4/15/06, p.54)(Econ, 1/27/07, p.52)
2006 Nov 9, Champion figure skater
Michelle Kwan was appointed America's first public diplomacy envoy by
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
(AP, 11/9/07)
2006 Nov 9, Virginia Republican
Sen. George Allen conceded his defeat to Democrat James Web. Sen.
Conrad Burns conceded the Montana Senate race to Democrat Jon Tester.
(SFC, 11/10/06, p.A17)
2006 Nov 9, The Nevada Supreme
Court upheld a Las Vegas city regulation barring erotic dancers from
raunchy physical contact with their customers, in a ruling that runs
counter to the gambling city's sinful reputation.
(Reuters, 11/11/06)
2006 Nov 9, Perrigo Co., a major
manufacturer of acetaminophen sold by Wal-Mart, CVS, Safeway and more
than 100 other retailers, recalled 11 million bottles of the widely
used pain-relieving pills after discovering some were contaminated with
metal fragments.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 9, Ed Bradley (1941),
former CBS newsman and 60 Minutes journalist, died in NYC of leukemia.
(SFC, 11/10/06, p.A15)
2006 Nov 9, Afghan and US troops
detained six people, four Afghans, an Arab and a Pakistani in the city
of Khost. Later reports said the detainees included Abu Nasir
al-Qahtani, one of four Arab al-Qaida operatives who escaped from the
US prison in Bagram in July 2005.
(AP, 11/9/06)(AP, 11/13/06)
2006 Nov 9, In Algeria 7 members
of the security forces were killed in an ambush during a cleanup
operation in a forest used as a hideout by Islamic extremists, and 13
others were injured, four of them seriously.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 9, Britain’s Economist
Magazine presented its annual Innovation Awards. The winners included
Marvin Caruthers for the development of automated DNA synthesis; Janus
Friis and Niklas Zennstrom of Skype for the development of Internet
file-sharing and telephony using peer-to-peer technology; Johannes
Poulsen for the commercialization of wind energy; Pierre Omidyar for
the development of electronic marketplace technology; Hernando de Soto
for the promotion of property rights and economic development; Sam
Pitroda for pioneering India’s communications revolution; and Nicolas
Hayek for revitalizing the Swiss watch industry.
(Econ, 12/2/06, TQ p.16)
2006 Nov 9, In southern China
police armed with shields, clubs and attack dogs fired tear gas on
thousands of villagers protesting what they called a land grab by
officials of Sanzhou village in Guangdong province.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 9, Colombia's Supreme
Court ordered three legislators arrested for their alleged ties to the
country's far-right paramilitaries.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 9, Markus Wolf (83), who
outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster,
died. Wolf served under Erich Mielke, the hated Stasi chief, from 1956
until the fall of the Berlin Wall. Wolf detailed a string of his sagas
in his 1997 book "Memoirs of a Spymaster."
(AP, 11/9/06)(Econ, 11/18/06, p.90)
2006 Nov 9, Iraq’s health minister
estimated that 150,000 civilians have been killed in the 3 ½
year war. Nearly simultaneous car bombs struck two markets in
predominantly Shiite areas of Baghdad, killing at least 16 people, as
many Iraqis cheered the resignation of US Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld. Iraqi soldiers descended on a building in the city of Rawah,
175 miles northwest of Baghdad, where they arrested local al-Qaida
commander Abu Muhayyam al-Masri, whose name is a pseudonym meaning,
"the Egyptian." 2 aides, Abu Issam al-Libi, or "the Libyan," and Abu
Zaid al-Suri, "the Syrian," were also arrested, along with 9 other
members of the cell. 3 unidentified bodies were found in Muqdadiyah. 2
US soldiers and a Marine were killed, bringing the number of Americans
who have died in the country so far this month to 23.
(AP, 11/9/06)(AP, 11/10/06)(SFC, 11/10/06, p.A20)
2006 Nov 9, Police arrested 50
people across central Italy to break up an organization that allegedly
transported cocaine and heroin from Africa to Europe using couriers who
swallowed drug-filled pellets.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 9, Kyrgyzstan's President
Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed an amended constitution limiting his own
powers in a bid to defuse the deepest political crisis this Central
Asian nation has experienced since the 2005 uprising that carried him
to power.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 9, Mexico City's assembly
passed legislation to legally recognize gay civil unions in the
capital, the first such vote by a legislative body in the history of
the conservative country.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 9, In Mozambique a
regional governor said more than 4,500 foreigners, mostly from
Tanzania, have been expelled for clandestinely mining gold close to its
northern border with Tanzania.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 9, In Nigeria at least 6
hostages escaped from an oil facility where they had been held along
with dozens of other people since armed men raided the Italian-run
pumping station earlier this week.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 9, The UN ranked Norway
as the best country to live in for a sixth consecutive year, prompting
the country's aid minister to tell Norwegians to stop whining about
wanting more.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 9, In Pakistan's part of
Kashmir 5 high-school students who mistook a bomblet for a toy were
fatally wounded when the explosive went off as they played with it in a
field.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 9, Russia’s Supreme Court
overturned the acquittal of three suspects in the killing of US
journalist Paul Klebnikov (2004). The court ordered a new trial with a
new judge.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 9, In Rwanda Theophister
Mukakibibi, a Catholic nun, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for
helping militias kill hundreds of people hiding in a hospital during
the 1994 genocide.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 9, In Sri Lanka at least
9 vessels were destroyed in a naval clash between Tamil rebels and Sri
Lanka's navy off the northern coast. Rebels claimed they killed 26
sailors and captured four others.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2006 Nov 9, In southern Thailand 8
bombs exploded almost simultaneously at car and motorcycle showrooms,
wounding nine people.
(AP, 11/9/06)
2007 Nov 9, In Washington, DC,
Michael Mukasey, a retired federal judge, was sworn in as the 81st US
Attorney General.
(SFC, 11/10/07, p.A3)
2007 Nov 9, Former New York City
police commissioner Bernard Kerik (52) surrendered to face federal
corruption charges, in what could prove to be an ongoing embarrassment
for presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani. The indictment alleges Kerik
made false statements to the White House and other federal officials
during his failed bid to head the Homeland Security department. The
investigation of Kerik arose from allegations that, while a city
official, he accepted $165,000 in renovations to his Bronx apartment,
paid for by a mob-connected construction company that sought his help
in winning city contracts.
(AP, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 9, Merck & Co. said
it will pay $4.85 billion to end thousands of state and federal
lawsuits over its painkiller Vioxx in one of the largest drug
settlements ever.
(AP, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 9, In Newton County,
Missouri, David Spears (24) and another, unnamed, 24-year-old man, were
arrested in the death of Rowan Ford. Rowan had been missing since Nov
3. Her body was found on private land about 10 miles south of the
girl's hometown of Stella.
(AP, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 9, A British soldier
serving in Afghanistan was killed after the vehicle he was traveling in
came off a road and rolled over a bridge. 6 US and 2 Afghan troops were
killed when insurgents ambushed their foot patrol in the high mountains
of eastern Nuristan province. The attack, the most lethal against
American forces this year, put US troop deaths to at least 101 this
year making 2007 the deadliest for US troops in Afghanistan since the
2001 invasion.
(AP, 11/9/07)(AFP, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 9, A Belgian pilot and
three Spanish flight crew were set free by authorities in Chad who had
accused them of complicity in a plot to kidnap 103 children and take
them to France for adoption.
(AP, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 9, In Kumba, Cameroon,
one person died and five were injured after security forces fired on a
crowd protesting after a two-week-long power cut. Locals had taken to
the streets to protest the arrest of four high school students
following an earlier demonstration.
(AFP, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 9, China froze exports of
the "Aqua Dots" bead toy, following recalls of the potentially toxic
toy in the United States and Australia.
(Reuters, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 9, China Merchant Bank,
the country’s 6th largest bank, became the 3rd Chinese bank to win
permission to open a branch in NYC.
(Econ, 11/17/07, p.90)
2007 Nov 9, Egyptian border guards
opened fire on Hana Mohamed (24) of Eritrea after she failed to heed
their warnings to stop south of the Rafah border crossing. The young
woman bled to death after being shot in the legs.
(AFP, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 9, Finland said it will
raise the minimum age for buying guns from 15 to 18 in the wake of the
Nov 7 rampage by a teenage student.
(SFC, 11/10/07, p.A3)
2007 Nov 9, Georgian opposition
leaders said they would end streets protests against President Mikhail
Saakashvili after he called for an early presidential election for
January.
(AP, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 9, In Ingushetia a
special operation to capture alleged terrorists left a child dead after
soldiers fired on a family of five.
(Econ, 11/29/08, SR p.16)
2007 Nov 9, Former insurgents, who
turned against al-Qaida in Iraq, launched an attack against the terror
group near Samarra and killed 18 of its members, asking the US military
to stay away while the battle raged. The US military released nine
Iranians from custody in Iraq, including two accused of being members
of an elite force suspected of arming Shiite extremists. It said they
were no longer considered security risks.
(AP, 11/9/07)(AP, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 9, Pakistani police
placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest, uncoiling
barbed wire in front of her Islamabad villa, and reportedly rounding up
thousands of her supporters to block a mass protest against emergency
rule. A suicide bombing at a government minister's home in the
northwestern city of Peshawar killed four people.
(AP, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 9, Saudi authorities
beheaded Saudi citizen Khalaf al-Anzi in Riyadh for kidnapping and
raping a teenager.
(AP, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 9, In Somalia witnesses
and doctors said heavy fighting between insurgents and Ethiopian troops
backing Somalia's shaky government has killed 50 people and wounded 100
others in the past 24 hours.
(AP, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 9, Turkey's parliament
approved a bill allowing for the construction of nuclear power plants
in the country, despite opposition from environmental groups.
(AP, 11/9/07)
2008 Nov 9, In a record bailout of
a private company the US government scraped its original $123 billion
plan to rescue troubled insurance giant American International Group
(AIG) and replaced it with a new $150 billion financial package,
including $40 billion for partial ownership.
(AP, 11/10/08)(WSJ, 11/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 9, Health experts
presented findings of a study, called Jupiter, that found
Crestor, a cholesterol drug made by AstraZeneca, reduced the risk of
heart-related death, heart attacks and other serious cardiac problems
by 44%.
(WSJ, 11/10/08, p.B1)
2008 Nov 9, In Louisiana Raymond
"Chuck" Foster, 44, shot and killed an Oklahoma woman, who was lured
over the Internet to take part in a Ku Klux Klan initiation, after a
fight broke out when she asked to be taken back to town. The group
tried to cover it up by dumping her body on a rural roadside and
setting her belongings aflame. Foster, the local Klan leader was soon
in jail on a second-degree murder charge, and seven others were charged
with trying to help conceal the crime.
(AP, 11/12/08)
2008 Nov 9, A Taliban suicide
attacker rammed a bomb-filled minivan into a NATO military convoy in
Afghanistan, killing two Spanish soldiers and critically wounding
another. Officials said US coalition forces killed 14 militants who
fired on them in Khost province. The province's governor, Arsallah
Jamal, said the 14 men were civilian construction workers and were not
militants.
(AFP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, A Bahrain-based
Islamic investment bank unveiled plans for a five-billion-dollar energy
sector business hub at Sabratha, Libya.
(AFP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, In Sao Paulo, Brazil,
finance ministers from 20 leading nations (G20) agreed to boost
emerging economies’ role in negotiations to overhaul the international
financial system.
(SFC, 11/10/08, p.D1)
2008 Nov 9, Troubled neighbors
Chad and Sudan exchanged ambassadors, six months after diplomatic ties
were ruptured over tit-for-tat accusations of support for armed rebels.
(AFP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, China announced a $586
billion stimulus package in its biggest move to stop the global
financial crisis from hitting the world's fourth-largest economy.
(AP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, Doctors struggled to
contain an outbreak of cholera in a sprawling refugee camp near Congo's
eastern provincial capital of Goma, as new fighting ignited fears that
infected patients could scatter and launch an epidemic.
(AP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, Hurricane Paloma
leveled hundreds of homes along Cuba's southern coast before rapidly
losing steam over land, weakening from a dangerous Category 4 storm
into a tropical depression in less than a day.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 9, Egyptian authorities
denied entry to one of Osama bin Laden's sons and put him on a plane to
Qatar, becoming the third country to reject the self-proclaimed
"ambassador for peace." Omar Osama bin Laden (27) and his British wife,
Zaina Alsabah (52), arrived at Cairo International Airport over the
weekend after he unsuccessfully tried to seek political asylum in Spain.
(AP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, Rose Kabuye, Rwanda
Pres. Kagame's chief of protocol, was arrested at Frankfurt airport on
an international warrant issued in 2006 by French anti-terrorism judge
Jean-Louis Bruguiere.
(AFP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 9, Indonesia boosted
security after three Islamic militants (Imam Samudra, 38, and brothers
Amrozi Nurhasyim, 47, and Ali Ghufron, 48) were executed for the 2002
Bali bombings that killed 202 people. Emotional supporters thronged
ambulances carrying their caskets through narrow streets, some calling
for revenge.
(AP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, In Iraq a female
suicide bomber blew herself up at a hospital west of Baghdad, killing
three people and injuring five others. 2 women and a 10-year-old girl
were killed in the attack in Amiriyat al-Fallujah near Fallujah. A
roadside bomb in Mosul killed 3 Iraqi soldiers and wounded 4 others. A
bomb attached to a bike in Khalis killed at least 2 people.
(AP, 11/9/08)(SFC, 11/10/08, p.A12)
2008 Nov 9, Israel and the
Palestinians pledged to continue peace talks that President Bush
launched last year even though a possible deal won't be reached until
after he leaves office.
(AP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, Pakistani airstrikes
pounded suspected insurgent hide-outs in the Bajur tribal region
bordering Afghanistan, killing 13 alleged militants. A
remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorcycle killed a passer-by and
wounded five others in a market in Sui town in southwest Baluchistan
province.
(AP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, Southern African
leaders opened a regional summit on Zimbabwe, hoping to break a
deadlock over the allocation of cabinet posts which has prevented
formation of a power-sharing government.
(AP, 11/9/08)
2008 Nov 9, Taiwan’s central bank
cut its key interest rate for the 4th time in less than 8 weeks. The
cut was .25%.
(WSJ, 11/10/08, p.A13)
2008 Nov 9, Kuo Te-tsai (42), a
Taiwanese drug trafficker, was arrested at a Thai beach resort with 229
pounds of heroin worth millions of dollars in a joint operation by
American, Taiwanese and Thai drug enforcement authorities.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 9, Zimbabwe's neighbors
failed to break an impasse on forming a unity government, prompting
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to appeal to the African Union to
step in.
(AFP, 11/9/08)
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