Today in History November 10
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461 Nov 10, Leo I
the Great, Pope (440-61), died.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1444 Nov
10, During the Hungarian-Turkish War (1444-1456) , Sultan Murad II beat
the Crusaders in the Battle at Varna on the Black Sea.
(DoW, 1999, p.217)
1483 Nov 10, Martin Luther, leader
of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Eisleben, Germany. He was a
monk in the Catholic Church until 1517, when he founded the Lutheran
Church. He died in 1546.
(V.D.-H.K.p.163)(Voruta #27-28, Jul 1996, p.10)(SFC,
7/21/97, p.A11)(AP, 11/10/97)
1493 Nov 10, Christopher Columbus
discovered Antigua during his second expedition.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1556 Nov 10, The Englishman
Richard Chancellor was drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a
second voyage to Russia.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1566 Nov 10, Robert Devereux, 2nd
earl of Essex, cousin and lover of Elizabeth I, was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1567 Nov
10, In the Battle at St. Denis the French government army faced the
Huguenots. Catholic duke François I of Condé (1530-1569)
managed to sustain his position against a numerically larger force of
Huguenots (French Protestants). The Huguenots had started a second War
of Religion in France with the Conspiracy of Meaux led by Condé
and Duke Anne of Montmorency (1493?-1567). Montmorency lost his life at
St. Denis.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.21)(DoW, 1999, p.390)
1630 Nov 10, In France there was a
failed palace revolution against Richelieu government.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1647 Nov 10, The all Dutch-held
area of New York was returned to English control by the treaty of
Westminster.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1668 Nov 10, Francois Couperin,
composer and organist (Concerts Royaux), was born in Paris, France.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1674 Nov 10, Dutch formally ceded
New Netherlands (NY) to English. [see 1664]
(MC, 11/10/01)
1683 Nov 10, George II, king of
England (1727-60), was born. [see Nov 10]
(MC, 11/10/01)
1697 Nov 10, William Hogarth,
English caricaturist, was born.
(HN, 11/10/00)
1730 Nov 10, Oliver Goldsmith,
playwright, was born. His work includes “She Stoops to Conquer.”
(HN, 11/10/00)
1759 Nov 10, Johann Christoph
Friedrich von Schiller (d.1805), playwright, dramatist, historian and
poet, was born. "A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own
existence." [He was a friend of Goethe.] "Die Weltgeschichte ist das
Weltgericht." (The history of the world is the verdict of the world).
(WUD, 1994, p.1277)(AP, 8/2/98)(AP, 3/13/99)(HN,
11/10/00)
1775 Nov 10, The US Marines were
organized under authority of the Continental Congress. Congress
commissioned Samuel Nicholas to raise two Battalions of Marines. That
very day, Nicholas set up shop in Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern. He
appointed Robert Mullan, then the proprietor of the tavern, to the job
of chief Marine Recruiter serving, of course, from his place of
business at Tun Tavern.
(AP,
11/10/97)(www.usmcpress.com/heritage/usmc_heritage.htm)
1782 Nov 10, In the last battle of
the American Revolution, George Rodgers Clark attacked Indians and
Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1793 Nov 10, France outlawed the
forced worship of God.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1801 Nov 10, Samuel Gridley Howe
(d.1876), educator of the blind, was born. He was the husband of Julia
Ward Howe, author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
(NH, 6/96, p.20)(HN, 11/10/00)
1801 Nov 10, Kentucky banned
dueling.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1821 Nov 10, Andreas J Romberg
(54), German violinist and composer (Der Rabe), died.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1827 Nov 10, Alfred Howe Terry
(d.1890), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1834 Nov 10, HMS Beagle with
Charles Darwin sailed from Valparaiso.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1836 Nov 10, Charles Louis
Napoleon (1808-1873), nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, failed in an
attempted coup at Strasbourg and was exiled to the US by the government
of Louis Philippe.
(www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0859871.html)
1861 Nov 10, Robert T.A. Innes,
astronomer (Proxima Centauri), was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1864 Nov
10, Kingston, Ga., was burned as the first act of Sherman's March to
Sea. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had made the city his headquarters
as he planned to lay waste the south over the next six weeks.
(www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/chronpop/2606)
1865 Nov
10, Captain Henry Wirz (b.1822), commandment of Camp Sumter, Ga.,
(known as “Andersonville” by the North) was hanged outside Washington,
D.C., after being found guilty of war crimes.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWwirz.htm)(AHHT,
10/02, p.22)
1871 Nov 10, Journalist-explorer
Henry M. Stanley found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in
Central Africa at Ujiji near Unyanyembe on Lake Tanganyika. Stanley
delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Livingstone replied: "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to
welcome you." The two explored Lake Tanganyika, but did not find the
source of the Nile. When Stanley left on March 14, 1872, he begged the
doctor to return to England with him, but Livingstone refused. He died
in May 1873. Stanley returned to Africa a year later, the first of many
subsequent African explorations.
(HFA, '96, p.42)(AP, 11/10/97)(HN, 11/10/98)(HNQ,
6/2/98)(HNPD, 11/10/98)
1879 Nov 10, Vachel Lindsay, poet,
was born. His work included “Rhymes to be Traded for Bread.”
(HN, 11/10/00)
1879 Nov 10, Little Bighorn
participant Major Marcus Reno was caught window-peeping at the daughter
of his commanding officer--an offense for which he would be
court-martialed.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1880 Nov 10, Jacob Epstein,
sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel), was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1882 Nov 10, Frances Perkins,
first US woman cabinet member--Secretary of Labor, was born.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1885 Nov 10, Paul Daimler, son of
Gottlieb Daimler, became the first motorcyclist when he rode his
father's new invention on a round trip of six miles.
(HN, 11/10/99)
1887 Nov 10, Arnold Zweig, German
antifascist and author (Erziehung vor Verdun), was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1888 Nov 10, Andrej N. Tupelov,
Russian aircraft builder, was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1891 Nov 10, The 1st Woman's
Christian Temperance Union meeting was held in Boston.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1891 Nov 10, Granville T. Woods
patented an electric railway.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1891 Nov 10, J.N. Arthur Rimbaud
(b.1854), French poet and arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), died in
Marseille after doctors amputated his leg. In 1961 Enid Starkie
authored a biography. In 2000 Graham Robb authored "Rimbaud." Rimbaud
stopped writing poetry at age 21 and ended his last years in Africa as
an arms dealer. In 2008 Edmund White authored “Rimbaud: The Double Life
of a Rebel.”
(WUD, 1994 p.1234)(HN, 10/20/00)(SFC, 2/12/02,
p.D3)(Econ, 10/11/08, p.115)
1895 Nov 10, John Knudsen
Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air), was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1898 Nov
10, A race riot in Wilmington, NC, left many blacks killed. Reports
vary from a coroner’s total of 14 to unconfirmed eyewitness reports
claiming scores of deaths. The “riot” was caused by blacks attempting
to vote in the city elections.
(http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/afro/riot.htm)(WSJ,
1/22/02, p.A11)
1905 Nov 10, Sailors revolted in
Kronstadt, Russia.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1909 Nov 10, Ludvig Schytte (61),
composer, died.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1911 Nov 10, President Taft ended
a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour.
(HN, 11/10/00)
1911 Nov 10, Andrew Carnegie
formed the Carnegie Corp. for scholarly & charitable works.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1911 Nov 10, The Imperial
government of China retook Nanking.
(HN, 11/10/99)
1913 Nov 10, Carmen Miranda,
singer and actress (4 Jills in a Jeep, Down Argentine Way), was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1917 Nov 10, Forty-one US
suffragettes were arrested for picketing in front of the White House.
(AP, 11/10/07)
1917 Nov 10, The assault on
Flanders, begun July 11, finally ground to a halt. The British
Expeditionary Force (BEF) had suffered losses of 300,000 men and German
losses were around 200,000--for a total gain of four miles and the
occupation of Passchendaele. The battle was later described by Edwin
Campion Vaughan in “Some Desperate Glory” (1981).
(HN, 6/7/98)(HNQ, 11/2/98)(WSJ, 10/7/06, p.P12)
1917 Nov 10, New Soviet government
suspended freedom of the press.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1918 Nov 10, Retired German Kaiser
Wilhelm II fled to the Netherlands.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1919 Nov 10, The American Legion
held its first national convention, in Minneapolis.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1919 Nov 10, Moise Tshombe was
born. He became Pres. of Katanga and then premier of the Congo (Zaire).
(MC, 11/10/01)
1920 Nov 10, George Bernard Shaw's
"Heartbreak House," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1925 Nov 10, Richard Burton, Welsh
actor famous for his roles in “The Spy who Came in From the Cold” and
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” was born.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1928 Nov 10, Japanese Emperor
Hirohito was enthroned, almost two years after his ascension.
(AP, 11/10/07)
1933 Nov 10, Black Blizzard
snowstorm-dust storm raged from SD to Atlantic.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1938 Nov
10, Pearl Buck (1892-1973), pen-name of Pearl Walsh, née
Sydenstricker, received the Nobel for literature for her rich and truly
epic descriptions of peasant life in China (“The Good Earth”), and for
her biographical masterpieces.
(http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1938/index.html)
1938 Nov 10, Kate Smith first sang
Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on her CBS radio program, which
aired Thursdays.
(AP, 11/10/06)
1938 Nov 10, Fascist Italy enacted
anti-Semitic legislation.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1938 Nov 10, Kemal Ataturk (57),
[Mustafa Kemal], marshal and president Turkey, died of cirrhosis of the
liver. He was succeeded by Ismet Inonu (d.1973).
(WSJ, 11/6/97, p.B1)(EWH, 4th ed, p.1088)(Econ,
3/19/05, Survey p.4)
1940 Nov 10, Arthur Neville
Chamberlain (71), British premier (1937-40), died.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1941 Nov 10, Freedom House was
founded by a group of prominent individuals, including Eleanor
Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie. It emerged from an amalgamation of two
groups that had been formed, with the quiet encouragement of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, to encourage popular support for American
involvement in World War II at a time when isolationist sentiments were
running high in the United States.
(www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=249)
1941 Nov 10, Churchill promised to
join the U.S. "within the hour" in the event of war with Japan.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1942 Nov 10, US and British troops
occupied Oran, Algeria.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1942 Nov 10, Winston Churchill
delivered a speech in London in which he said, "I have not become the
King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British
Empire."
(AP, 11/10/02)
1942 Nov 10, Admiral Jean Darlan
ordered French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the
Anglo-American forces. Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, leader of the
armed forces of Vichy France, was assassinated in Algiers in 1942.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1946 Nov 10, Baldassare
Forestiere, creator of the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno,
Ca., died in Fresno.
(WSJ, 8/28/08,
p.D11)(www.forestiere-historicalcenter.com/Forestierebio.html)
1950 Nov 10, Spanish dictator
Generalissimo Francisco Franco ended war in Gibraltar.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1951 Nov 10, Direct-dial,
coast-to-coast telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of
Englewood, N.J., called his counterpart in Alameda, Calif.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1952 Nov 10, U.S. Supreme Court
upheld the decision barring segregation on interstate railways.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1952 Nov 10, San Francisco
columnist Stanton Delaplane introduced Irish coffee to America at the
Buena Vista Cafe at the end of the Hyde St. cable line. He discovered
the drink at Shannon Airport in Ireland, served by Joe Sheridan and
perfected it with the help of Buena Vista owners Jack Koeppler and
George Freeberg.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W30)(SFC, 11/16/02, p.A1)(SSFC,
11/9/08, p.B6)
1952 Nov 10, Trygve Halvdan Lie
resigned as 1st secretary-general of UN.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1954 Nov 10, The US Marine Corps
Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in
1945, was dedicated by President Eisenhower in Arlington, Va.
(AP, 11/10/08)
1954 Nov 10, Lt. Col. John Strapp
traveled 632 MPH in a rocket sled.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1956 Nov 10, Gene de Paul's and
John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1956 Nov 10, Billie Holiday
returned to the New York City stage at Carnegie Hall after a three-year
absence.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1961 Nov 10, Andrew Hatcher was
named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1962 Nov 10, Eleanor Roosevelt was
buried.
(HN, 11/10/00)
1964 Nov 10, Australia began a
draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1969 Nov 10, Sesame Street, a
children’s show, premiered on the National Education Television network
(NET), which later became PBS. Jim Henson, Jeffrey A. Moss (d.1998 at
56) and Joe Raposo were the among the creators. Moss created the Cookie
Monster character and wrote such songs as "I Love Trash." Kermit Love
(1916-2008) worked as the costume designer for the show.
(AP,
11/10/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street)(SFC, 6/27/08,
p.B9)
1969 Nov 10, The SF Chronicle
received a letter from the Zodiac killer containing detailed plans for
a "death machine" to blow up a school bus.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19)
1970 Nov 10, The Soviet Union
launched Luna 17, an unmanned space mission of the Luna program,
towards the moon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_17)
1971 Nov 10, Two women were tarred
and feathered in Belfast for dating British soldiers, while in
Londonderry, Northern Ireland a Catholic girl was also tarred and
feathered for her intention of marrying a British soldier.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1972 Nov 10, Three black men
successfully hijacked a Southern Airways DC-9 after a stopover in
Birmingham, Ala., and flew to multiple locations in the United States
and one Canadian city and finally to Cuba with $2 million (actual cash,
Presidential "grant" totaled $10 million) and 10 parachutes. Co-pilot
Halroyd was wounded; they threatened to crash the plane into one of the
Oak Ridge nuclear installations; at McCoy Air Force Base, Orlando, the
FBI shot out the tires; they forced pilot William Haas to take off. The
plane finally landed in Havana; two were sentenced in Cuba to 20 years,
one to 15 years. They returned to Alabama in 1980 and received 20-25
year sentences.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cuba-US_aircraft_hijackings)(USAT,
6/11/03, p.2B)(http://cuban-exile.com/doc_176-200/doc0180.html)
1973 Nov 10, In China Henry
Kissinger (b.1923) briefed Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) in the Great
Hall of the People about the Soviets and said that it was in the
interests of the US to prevent a Soviet nuclear attack on China.
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.A18)
1975 Nov 10, The ore-hauling,
729-foot ship "Edmund Fitzgerald" broke in half and sank during a storm
at the eastern end of Lake Superior and its crew of 29 perished.
Oglebay Norton Co., the ship's Cleveland-based owner, filed for Chapter
11 bankruptcy in 2004. In 2005 Michael Schumacher authored “Mighty
Fitz,” an examination of debates over what happened.
(AP, 11/10/97)(SFC, 2/24/04, p.B2)(WSJ, 11/5/05,
p.P8)
1975 Nov 10, The UN General
Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism. However,
the world body repealed the resolution in December 1991.
(AP,
11/10/97)(www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/bg851.cfm)
1975 Nov 10, The UN General
Assembly adopted Resolution 3237 that conferred on the PLO the status
of observer in the Assembly and in other international conferences held
under UN auspices.
(www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_plo_un_1975.php)
1976 Nov 10, The Utah Supreme
Court gave the go-ahead for convicted murderer Gary Gilmore to be
executed, according to his wishes. The sentence was carried out the
following January.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1980 Nov 10, News anchor Dan
Rather refused to pay his Chicago cabbie and CBS paid the $12.55 fare.
(http://mediamatters.org/items/200501130005)
1981 Nov 10, Abel Gance (b.1889),
French movie director, died in Paris. In 1919 he achieved international
recognition for his 3 hour epic “J’Accuse,” a powerful anti-war film
which included location filming of battles shot towards the end of
World War I. His films also included “Napoleon” (1927).
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0018192/)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Gance)
1981 Nov 10, In South Africa
Durban human rights attorney Griffiths Mxenge was found slain. Mxenge
was stabbed 46 times by a police death squad that included Dirk
Coetzee. In July 1985 his wife Victoria Mxenge was attacked by four men
in the driveway of her home in Umlazi, Durban. She was stabbed and shot
shortly after disembarking from a family friend’s vehicle.
{South Africa, Murder}
(SFC, 7/18/96,
p.E3)(http://campus.ru.ac.za/index.php?action=category&category=932)
1982 Nov 10, The newly finished
Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in
Washington, D.C.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1982 Nov 10, IMF lent Mexico $3.8
billion due to threatened bankruptcy. The Mexican economy began to be
run under the guidance of the World Bank and the Int’l. Monetary Fund.
(SFC, 9/16/96, p.A21)(MC, 11/10/01)
1982 Nov 10, In Russia Soviet
leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75 and the Kremlin command passed
to Yuri Andropov. He had suffered from arteriosclerosis of the brain.
See the 1997 book by Michel Dobbs “Down with Big Brother, The Fall of
the Soviet Empire.”
(TMC, 1994, p.1982)(SFEC, 2/2/97, BR. p.1)(AP,
11/10/97)
1983 Nov 10, The US Federal
government shut down.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1986 Nov 10, President Ronald
Reagan refused to reveal details of the Iran arms sale.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1986 Nov 10, Camille Sontag and
Marcel Coudari, two Frenchmen who had been held hostage in Lebanon,
were released.
(AP, 11/10/06)
1987 Nov 10, President Reagan,
seeking to shore up the embattled U.S. dollar, declared the currency
had fallen far enough and that his administration was "not doing
anything to bring it down."
(AP, 11/10/97)
1988 Nov 10, The Department of
Energy announced that Texas would be the home of a $4.4 billion
atom-smashing super collider. However, support for the project declined
as cost estimates soared, and Congress finally voted in October 1993 to
kill it.
(AP, 11/10/98)
1989 Nov 10, In Bulgaria Communist
ruler Todor Zhivkov was thrown out of office after a 35-year
dictatorship. The ouster was led by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov who
later became president.
(SFC, 11/29/96, p.B3)(SFC, 5/2/97,
p.A14)(www.bulgaria.com/history/rulers/zhivkov.html)
1989 Nov 10, Workers began
punching a hole in the Berlin Wall, a day after East Germany abolished
its border restrictions.
(AP, 11/10/99)
1990 Nov 10, Secretary of State
James A. Baker the Third returned to Washington, claiming success in
his weeklong diplomatic tour aimed at shoring up the anti-Iraq
coalition.
(AP, 11/10/00)
1990 Nov 10, Chandra Shekhar was
sworn in as India’s new prime minister.
(AP, 11/10/00)
1991 Nov 10, Publishing magnate
Robert Maxwell was buried in Israel, five days after his body was
recovered off the Canary Islands.
(AP, 11/10/01)
1992 Nov 10, President Bush
dismissed State Department official Elizabeth Tamposi for her role in a
pre-election search for passport records of his rivals, Democrat Bill
Clinton and Ross Perot.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1993 Nov 10, "Joseph & the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" opened at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223
performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4581)
1993 Nov 10, The U.S. House of
Representatives passed the so-called "Brady Bill," which called for a
five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
(AP, 11/10/98)
1993 Nov 10, A jury in Manassas,
Va., acquitted John Wayne Bobbitt of marital sexual assault against his
wife, Lorena, who'd sexually mutilated him. Mrs. Bobbitt was later
acquitted of malicious wounding.
(AP, 11/10/98)
1994 Nov 10, Officials said the
United States would lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian
government, despite opposition of the U.N. Security Council.
(AP, 11/10/99)
1994 Nov 10, Louis Nizer (b.1902),
prominent London-born attorney, died in New York. Nizer is best known
for “My Life in Court,” a best seller describing some of his own cases.
(www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_BNIZ.HTM)
1994 Nov 10, Iraq, hoping to win
an end to trade sanctions, recognized the independence and boundaries
of Kuwait.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)(AP, 11/10/99)
1994 Nov 10, In Russia Colonel
Mikhail Likhodey chairman of the Afghan War Invalids Fund was killed by
a bomb blast outside his apartment. The Fund had been granted lucrative
tax exemptions on the import and export of alcohol and tobacco with an
estimated value of $800 million.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A13)(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A11)
1995 Nov 10, Dario Kordic,
ex-chairman of the Croatian Party in Bosnia, and Gen’l. Tihomir
Blaskic, former leader of the Bosnian Croat militia, were indicted for
genocide by the UN War Crimes Tribunal for commanding forces
responsible that killed hundreds of Muslims in Central Bosnia in
1992-93.
(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A15)
1995 Nov 10, Searchers in
Katmandu, Nepal, rescued 549 hikers after a massive avalanche struck
the Himalayan foothills, killing 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese.
(AP, 11/10/00)
1995 Nov 10, In Nigeria the
execution by hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight other members of the
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People was supervised by
military govt. Col. Dauda Musa Komo. This prompted the threat of
economic sanctions by the US and the European Union.
(WSJ, 11/13/95, p.A-1)(WSJ, 1/2/98, p.8)
1996 Nov 10, In Miami the Carnival
Destiny from Carnival Cruise Lines will debut. The ship at 102,000 tons
will be the largest ever made. It will be able to carry 3,350
passengers.
(SFC, 9/22/96, p.T3)
1996 Nov 10, Major Gen. Pero
Colic, the Bosnian Serbs' new military commander, was sworn in, just a
day after Gen. Ratko Mladic, a war crimes suspect, was dismissed.
(AP, 11/10/97)
1996 Nov 10, China announced a ban
on selected US goods in response to a US cut in import quotas of
textiles.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A10)
1996 Nov 10, In Chiapas, Mexico,
police and federal soldiers killed 3 protestors during a clash over
corn prices.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A10)
1996 Nov 10, A bomb ripped through
a crowd of mourners in a Moscow cemetery, killing 14 people and
wounding nearly 50. It came during a memorial service for Colonel
Mikhail Likhodey, chairman of the Afghan War Invalids Fund, who was
killed by a bomb in 1994. Authorities later charged the head of an
Afghan war veterans fund with masterminding the bombing, saying the
target was a rival veterans group.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A1)(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A11)(AP,
11/10/97)
1997 Nov 10, Congress chose not to
support the fast track free trade proposal of Pres. Clinton.
(SFC,11/11/97, p.A1)
1997 Nov 10, Judge Hiller Zobel in
Cambridge, Mass., reduced Louise Woodward's murder conviction to
manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to the 279 days she'd
already served in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
(SFC,11/11/97, p.A1) (AP, 11/10/98)
1997 Nov 10, A jury in Fairfax,
Va., convicted Mir Aimal Kasi of one count of capital murder, one count
of first-degree murder and eight additional charges stemming from a
shooting attack outside CIA headquarters in January 1993.
(AP, 11/10/98)
1997 Nov 10, The U-2 surveillance
flights over Iraq were resumed by the UN. The plane flew out of range
of Iraqi gunners.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.A1)
1997 Nov 10, It was reported that
the 1997 Pentagon budget was around $250 billion.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.A3)
1997 Nov 10, WorldCom Inc. and MCI
Communications Corp. agreed to a $37 billion merger.
(AP, 11/10/98)
1997 Nov 10, It was reported that
IBM has a new 16.8-gigabyte disk drive for $895. It surpassed the
recently unveiled 12-gigabyte drive by Quantum.
(WSJ, 11/10/97, p.B6)
1997 Nov 10, It was reported that
US heart researchers had used genetic treatments to help patients grow
blood vessels around blockages in their legs.
(WSJ, 11/10/97, p.A1)
1997 Nov 10, A report on the Black
Sea told of the disappearance of 20 0f 26 commercial fish species since
1970. Industry, agriculture and fishing practices caused a collapse of
the Black Sea ecosystem in the late 1980s. The Monk seal was reported
near extinction, dolphins and porpoises were reported down to 250,000
from 1 million in the 1970s, and blue mussels were in serious decline
due to pollution.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.A12)(SFEC,12/797, p.A22)
1997 Nov 10, In Canada classes
resumed in Ontario following settlement of the teacher’s strike.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.A13)
1997 Nov 10, In China Pres.
Yeltsin began talks with China’s Pres. Jiang Zemin. They settled a
border dispute and authorized agreements on trade and protection of
Manchurian tigers.
(WSJ, 11/10/97, p.A1)(SFC,11/11/97, p.A12)
1997 Nov 10, In Kenya Pres. Moi
dissolved parliament in preparation for general elections. The National
Convention Assembly denounced the move as illegal.
(SFC,11/11/97, p.A12)
1997 Nov 10, In Somalia a month of
rains blamed on El Nino caused flooding in the Juba River Valley and
left some 800,000 people homeless and at least 23 dead. The death toll
increased to 564.
(WSJ, 11/10/97, p.A1)(SFC,11/14/97, p.D3)
1998 Nov 10, The US military moved
warships into the Persian Gulf in anticipation of a possible attack on
Iraq over cancellation of weapons inspections.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.A10)(AP, 11/10/99)
1998 Nov 10, The SF police
arrested Joshua Rudiger (21) of Oakland for the recent throat-slashing
attacks in the city. Rudiger claimed to be a 2,000-year-old vampire.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.A17)
1998 Nov 10, A heavy snow storm
hit the northern Midwest. Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas suffered
loss of power, heavy snow and violent winds.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.A3)
1998 Nov 10, In St. Joseph, Mo.,
police officer Bradley Thomas Arn (27) was killed and 3 others were
wounded by a gunman who was then killed by other officers. The gunman
was later identified as William Lattin Jr. (33) of St. Joseph.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.A3)(SFC, 11/12/98, p.C3)
1998 Nov 10, A 160-nation
conference on global warming met in Argentina.
(WSJ, 11/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 10, From Bangladesh it
was reported that an estimated 18 million people were slowly poisoning
themselves by drinking from groundwater contaminated with trace amounts
of arsenic. 85 million people were at risk.
(SFC, 11/10/98, p.A14)(SFC, 5/29/00, p.A10)
1998 Nov 10, Chile announced the
promotion of Brig. Gen’l. Sergio Espinoza Davies to Inspector Gen’l. of
the Chilean Army. This followed his departure as chief of the UN
military observer mission in India and Pakistan due to his role in
human rights abuses during the Pinochet dictatorship.
(SFC, 11/13/98, p.D2)
1998 Nov 10, From Colombia it was
reported that right-wing death squads had killed at least 17 peasants.
(WSJ, 11/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 10, India and Pakistan
negotiated disputes as 3 Indian soldiers were killed in border fire
across the Kashmir cease-fire line.
(SFC, 11/13/98, p.D6)
1998 Nov 10, In Indonesia student
protestors demanded that Suharto be brought to trial and that a probe
of human rights abuses be initiated, while rulers initiated a 4-day
meeting to dismantle past laws and plot a democratic future.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Nov 10, In Nigeria the family
of Gen’l. Sani Abacha was reported to have handed back over $750
million in state funds illegally amassed by the late dictator.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.D4)
1998 Nov 10, Serbia took control
of Radio Index, a student-run radio station. Also police raided the
Dnevni Telegraf Daily newspaper and impounded 100,000 copies for
failure to pay a $120,000 fine for breaching a restrictive media law.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.D4)
1998 Nov 10, From Tajikistan it
was reported that over 200 people died in 5 days of fighting with
rebels and the government claimed that the rebels were driven from the
Aini district north of Dushanbe.
(WSJ, 11/10/98, p.A1)
1999 Nov 10, President Clinton
decided to delay and shorten a trip to Greece in reaction to growing
security concerns and the prospect of violent anti-American
demonstrations.
(AP, 11/10/00)
1999 Nov 10, The California Budget
Project reported that raising a family in the Bay Area cost $53,736.
The Bay Area per-capita income was $38,300 and the federal poverty
level was $16,700.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 10, In Flint, Michigan, a
boiler exploded at the Clara Barton Convalescence Center. 5 people were
killed and over 20 injured.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.A9)
1999 Nov 10, Investigators said
the flight data recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 showed things were
normal until the autopilot mysteriously disconnected and the Boeing 767
began what appeared to be a controlled descent.
(AP, 11/10/00)
1999 Nov 10, In Morocco King
Mohammed VI dismissed Driss Basri, the minister of interior and
communications.
(SFC, 11/17/99, p.B3)
1999 Nov 10, In Serbia allies of
Pres. Milosevic passed new laws aimed at curbing the authority of local
governments.
(SFC, 11/11/99, p.A18)
2000 Nov 10, The battle over
Florida's disputed presidential election continued, with George W.
Bush's camp pressing Al Gore to concede without pursuing multiple
recounts, and Democrats pressing ahead with protests, determined to
find enough votes to erase Bush's razor-thin lead in initial counting.
An unofficial tally gave Bush a 327-vote lead.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/10/01)
2000 Nov 10, The US Nasdaq market
fell 171 points to 3,028.99, its lowest reading since Nov 3, 1999.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.B1)
2000 Nov 10, In Burma some 125
Karen guerrillas overran a Burmese military camp near the Thai border.
30 escaped and one soldier was killed.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.C18)
2000 Nov 10, In Colombia a car
bomb in Cali injured 11 civilians. The ELN was blamed.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.C18)
2000 Nov 10, In Indonesia hundreds
of thousands of people began converging on Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh
province, for demonstrations on independence.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 10, Israel sealed
Bethlehem and Ramallah. Israeli troops killed 5 Palestinians in clashes
in the West Bank and Gaza. One Israeli soldier was killed in shooting
following a funeral for militia commander Hussein Abayat.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 10, In Montenegro Pres.
Djukanovic called for international recognition as an independent state
from Serbia. He threatened a referendum on seceding from Yugoslavia
unless their union is radically revamped.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 10, In the Philippines, a
landslide buried 11 children in Kabugao, Apayao province.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.C18)
2000 Nov 10, In Zimbabwe the
Supreme Court ruled that the government’s land reform plan and
occupations of white-owned farms were illegal.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A16)
2001 Nov 10, Pres. Bush made his
1st address to the UN. He warned that all nations were possible
targets of terrorism and urged them to join with the United States in a
campaign to prevent more attacks. Bush also met with Gen. Musharraf of
Pakistan and pledged to boost aid there.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/10/02)
2001 Nov 10, Traces of anthrax
were reported in offices of the Hart and Longworth government buildings
in Washington DC.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 10, Ken Kesey (b.1935),
author, died in Eugene, Oregon. His books included "One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest" (1962) and "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964).
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Nov 10, Percy Ross,
millionaire columnist, died at age 84. His 1983-1999 “Thanks a Million”
newspaper column helped him hand out an estimated $30 million. He was
the son of poor immigrants from Latvia and Russia and made his fortune
producing plastic film and trash bags.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A28)
2001 Nov 10, In day 35 of US
attacks in Afghanistan the Northern alliance claimed the capture of the
provincial capitals of Shibarghan, Meimanah, and Aybal. Taliban forces
were surrounded near Taloqan and Kunduz.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 10, Algeria found itself
caught in a fierce 36-hour storm that killed an estimated 886 people.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2001 Nov 10, In Australia
conservative PM Howard faced Labor’s Kim Beazley in elections. Howard
and his conservative government won a 3rd term. Howard’s Liberal Party
won 68 seats of the 150 in the lower house. The coalition National
Party won 12 seats. Labor won 67 and independents won 3.
(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 10, China officially
joined the WTO after ministers in Qatar approved its membership.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 10, In Colombia AUC
paramilitary killed 12 villagers in El Choco for collaboration with the
ELN.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 10, In Kashmir Indian
forces battled suspected Islamic militants and 18 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A14)
2002 Nov 10, Bush administration
officials promised "zero-tolerance" if Saddam Hussein refused to comply
with international calls to disarm.
(AP, 11/10/03)
2002 Nov 10, U.S. warplanes flying
from an aircraft carrier in the Gulf struck missile sites in southern
Iraq in response to hostile acts.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 10, A series of
pulverizing storms barreled through more than a half-dozen US states
including Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi and Pennsylvania,
killing at least 36 people. More than 100 were injured.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A4)(AP, 11/10/07)
2002 Nov 10, In Jordan police
clashed with a gang of alleged smugglers led by a Muslim extremist who
escaped from custody 10 days ago, and several people were killed.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2002 Nov 10, A car carrying two
Palestinians exploded as Israeli police moved to stop the vehicle near
Israel's border with the West Bank.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2002 Nov 10, A Palestinian gunman
crawled under a security fence at the Kibbutz Metzer communal farm,
burst into a home and shot dead a mother and her two children as she
was reading them a bedtime story. The gunman then killed two more
Israelis before escaping in the dark.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 10, In Slovenia PM Janez
Drnovsek, who has pushed to align the tiny alpine nation closer with
Western Europe, finished 1st in presidential elections but will have to
face a runoff.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2003 Nov 10, Democrat John Kerry
shook up his faltering presidential campaign, replacing campaign
manager Jim Jordan with Mary Beth Cahill.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2003 Nov 10, Federal regulators
allowed customers to switch home phone numbers to their cell phones.
(AP, 11/10/04)
2003 Nov 10, A World Trade
Organization panel upheld a ruling that U.S. duties on steel imports
were illegal.
(AP, 11/10/04)
2003 Nov 10, Irv Kupcinet (91),
Chicago newspaper columnist and TV personality, died.
(AP, 11/10/04)
2003 Nov 10, The US State Dept.
distanced itself from a congressional push to capture toppled Liberian
leader Charles Taylor in Nigeria via a $2 million reward.
(SFC, 11/15/03, p.A9)
2003 Nov 10, In Burundi Hutu
rebels bombarded the capital with rockets, killing 5 people, destroying
part of the Chinese Embassy and striking the home of a U.S. military
attache.
(AP, 11/10/03)
2003 Nov 10, With 20 percent of
the vote counted, former Guatemala City Mayor Oscar Berger had 47.6
percent of the vote compared with 26.4 percent for center-left
candidate Alvaro Colom and 11.2 percent for retired Gen. Efrain Rios
Montt.
(AP, 11/10/03)
2003 Nov 10, A top Iranian
official said that his country had suspended its enrichment of uranium
and sent a letter to the IAEA accepting additional inspections of its
nuclear facilities.
(AP, 11/10/03)
2003 Nov 10, PM Junichiro
Koizumi's ruling party clawed its way back to a simple majority in
parliament following elections that strengthened the main opposition
party.
(AP, 11/10/03)
2003 Nov 10, Canaan Sodindo Banana
(b.1936), the first black president of Zimbabwe (1980-1987), died after
a long illness. In 1998, Banana was sentenced to 10 years in prison for
his role in a gay sex scandal, but served only 6 months.
(AP, 11/11/03)(Econ, 11/29/03, p.85)
2004 Nov 10, Bush named Alberto
Gonzales, White House Counsel, to be attorney general. In 2006 Bill
Minutaglio authored “The President’s Counselor: The Rise to Power of
Alberto Gonzales.” In 2006 Bill Minutaglio authored “The President’s
Counselor: The Rise to Power of Alberto Gonzales.”
(WSJ, 11/11/04, p.A1)(SSFC, 7/2/06, p.M1)
2004 Nov 10, The US Federal
Reserve raised the overnight federal-funds interest rate a quarter
point. Another raise was expected Dec 14.
(SFC, 11/11/04, p.C1)
2004 Nov 10, Microsoft unveiled a
preview of its new Internet search engine.
(SFC, 11/11/04, p.C1)
2004 Nov 10, A gas station in
Washington DC became the first in North America to have a hydrogen
dispensing pump.
(AP, 11/10/04)
2004 Nov 10, Bosnian Serb
authorities apologized for the first time to relatives of around 8,000
Muslims killed by Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's
worst atrocity since World War II.
(AP, 11/10/04)
2004 Nov 10, Chile confronted the
grim legacy of abuses under the 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto
Pinochet completing a lengthy report on torture and political
imprisonment with testimonies from some 35,000 victims. The commission
concluded that torture was a habitual practice of the armed forces and
police throughout Pinochet’s dictatorship.
(AP, 11/10/04)(Econ, 12/4/04, p.38)
2004 Nov 10, Dutch police mounted
a major anti-terror raid against suspects holed up in an apartment in
The Hague. 2 North African men were arrested following a daylong siege.
(AP, 11/10/04)(SFC, 11/11/04, p.A12)
2004 Nov 10, France and the UN
began evacuating thousands of French and other expatriates in Ivory
Coast.
(AP, 11/10/04)
2004 Nov 10, Kidnappers abducted
two members of PM Ayad Allawi's family in Baghdad and said they would
be beheaded in two days if militant’s demands were not met. US forces
bottled up insurgents in a narrow strip of Fallujah after a stunningly
swift advance that seized control of 70 percent of the militant
stronghold. Insurgents said 20 Iraqi soldiers were captured. Explosions
shook the center of Ramadi and US troops clashed with insurgents.
(AP, 11/10/04)(WSJ, 11/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 10, An Islamic court in
northern Nigeria threw out a death by stoning sentence against a
pregnant 18-year-old girl who had been condemned for adultery.
(AP, 11/10/04)
2004 Nov 10, Japan's navy went on
alert when a submarine was detected in Japanese waters between the
southern island of Okinawa and Taiwan. Japan soon determined that it
was Chinese nuclear submarine and incident strained relations between
two of Asia's biggest economic and military powers.
(AP, 11/13/04)
2004 Nov 10, The Scottish cabinet
voted to ban smoking in public.
(Econ, 11/13/04, p.61)
2004 Nov 10, In Siberia a fire in
a wooden apartment building left at least 26 dead in the Tuva region
capital, Kyzyl.
(AP, 11/13/04)
2004 Nov 10, Sudanese police
raided a camp in Darfur for the second time this month, destroying
makeshift homes, firing into the air and shouting at terrified
villagers.
(AP, 11/11/04)
2004 Nov 10, Taiwan's leader,
making a new appeal to China to hold talks, urged the communist giant
to ban the development and use of weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 11/10/04)
2004 Nov 10, After a delayed final
tally Reformist opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko edged the prime
minister in the first round of Ukraine's presidential vote.
(AP, 11/10/04)
2004 Nov 10, The Pacific island of
Vanuatu withdrew a Nov 3 communique signed in Taipei to establish ties
with Taiwan, handing Beijing a diplomatic victory over its arch rival.
(AP, 11/11/04)
2004 Nov 10, A WTO dispute panel
published its decision that old American laws prohibiting gambling over
wires that cross state lines violate global trade rules for the
services sector.
(Econ, 11/20/04, p.66)
2005 Nov 10, The US Senate added
an amendment to a Defense Dept. budget bill allowing the Bush
administration discretionary power to treat accused terrorists
according to its wishes by withdrawing their right to appeal their
detention in the civilian justice system, a move that is worrying
judicial experts.
(AFP, 11/13/05)
2005 Nov 10, The US Postal Service
honored 4 Marine heroes with commemorative stamps. They included Lt.
Gen. Lewis “Chesty” Puller (1898-1971), Lt. Gen. John Lejeune
(1867-1942), Sgt. Maj. Dan Daly (1873-1937) and Gunnery Sgt. John
Basilone (1916-1945). The release coincided with the Marine Corps’
230th anniversary.
(www.medalofhonor.com/)(SSFC, 11/6/05, Par
p.10)(SFC, 11/11/05, p.B3)
2005 Nov 10, The US Commerce
Department reported that the deficit jumped to $66.1 billion in
September, 11.4 percent higher than the $59.3 billion imbalance
recorded in August.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, Chris Carpenter of
the St. Louis Cardinals won the National League Cy Young Award.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2005 Nov 10, Fernando Bujones
(b.1955), ballet virtuoso, died in Miami. In 1974 he won ballet’s gold
medal at Varna, Bulgaria.
(SFC, 11/12/05, p.B5)
2005 Nov 10, A Boeing Co. jet
arrived in London from Hong Kong, breaking the record for the longest
nonstop flight by a commercial jet. The journey of more than 13,422
miles broke the previous record, when a Boeing 747-400 flew 10,500
miles from London to Sydney in 1989.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 10, China reported that
its trade surplus surged to $12 billion in October, the highest monthly
total this year, as exports continued to outpace imports.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, Authorities in China
said they have quarantined 116 people in northeastern Liaoning province
after two new outbreaks of bird flu there.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, Egypt's ruling party
secured the most seats in the first stage of parliamentary balloting,
but the banned Muslim Brotherhood made its mark as well, sending 42
candidates to run-off elections.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, Violence in France
fell sharply overnight after the government toughened its stance by
imposing emergency measures and ordering deportations of foreigners
involved in riots that have raged for two weeks. The national police
said 8 French police officers had been suspended for their suspected
role in the beating of a young man in a Paris suburb.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, Senior officials said
the US and Europe are ready to compromise with Iran over its nuclear
program and have tentatively approved a plan that would allow it to
make the gas used in producing enriched uranium.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani met with Pope Benedict XVI amid tight security that closed
down the main boulevard leading to the Vatican.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, In Iraq 2 suicide
bombers blew themselves up in a restaurant frequented by police,
killing 35 people and seriously injuring 25. A car bomb killed seven
army recruits in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
(AP, 11/10/05)(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 10, In western Iraq 3
American troops were killed, including one along the Syrian border
during a major push to take control of the frontier from insurgents. US
forces raided an insurgent cell responsible for suicide bombings in
which seven men were killed, including one wearing a vest loaded with
explosives.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 10, A UN agency said
thousands of contaminated industrial and military sites left over from
wars in Iraq must urgently be cleaned up to stop them from further
harming people's health and the environment.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, After Jordanians took
to the streets to call for terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to
"burn in hell," an al-Qaida manifesto said the Grand Hyatt, the
Radisson SAS and the Days Inn, were used by NATO as a rear base "from
which the convoys of the crusaders and the renegades head back and
forth to the land of Iraq where Muslims are killed and their blood is
shed."
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, A senior official
said Kuwait has detected two cases of bird flu in birds but it was not
clear if the virus strain was the deadly version that has devastated
poultry in Asia.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, In Liberia Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf, a former finance minister and Harvard graduate, edged
closer to becoming Africa's first elected female leader, while her
soccer star opponent alleged fraud in the presidential runoff. With 80%
of votes counted, Johnson-Sirleaf had 58% and her opponent, George
Weah, had 42%.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, Mexican prosecutors
announced they have filed kidnapping and organize crime charges against
seven police officers accused of protecting hit men working for the
feared Tijuana-based Arellano Felix drug cartel.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 10, Talks on North
Korea's nuclear programs turned sour as Pyongyang demanded that
Washington lift sanctions against firms suspected of weapons
proliferation and stop accusing the North of counterfeiting U.S. money.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2005 Nov 10, Russia captured the
world chess team championship with a last-minute, come-from-behind
victory over the surprised Chinese team.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 10, In South Africa the
southern hemisphere's largest single optical telescope with the power
to study the most distant galaxies was inaugurated. The giant eye in
the sky, that took five years to build, cost $20 million.
(AP, 11/10/05)
2006 Nov 10, Pres. Bush dedicated
the new National Museum of the Marine Corp. in Virginia.
(SFC, 11/11/06, p.A4)
2006 Nov 10, Jack Palance
(b.1919), film and TV star, died in southern California. He appeared in
some 100 films that included: “Sudden Fear” (1952) and “Shane” (1953).
(SFC, 11/11/06, p.B6)
2006 Nov 10, Asian nations reached
their first international agreement to implement what has been dubbed
the "Iron Silk Road." Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, China, Indonesia,
Iran, Kazakhstan, Laos, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and seven other
nations agreed to meet at least every two years to identify vital rail
routes, coordinate standards and financing and plan upgrades and
expansions, among other measures. The UN first conceived the
Trans-Asian Railway Network in 1960.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, Chevron Corp.
unveiled the Clio field, one of Australia’s biggest natural gas
discoveries.
(WSJ, 11/11/06, p.A4)
2006 Nov 10, In the Central
African Republic the rebel Union of Democratic Forces for the Rally
(UDFR) seized the town of Ouadda Djalle on after heavy fighting with
government troops who were forced to retreat.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, Chinese central bank
governor Zhou Xiaochuan said China will diversify its $1 trillion
foreign exchange reserves across different currencies and investment
instruments, including in emerging markets. In southwest China about
2,000 people mobbed a hospital in Guang'an City where a young boy died
after his grandfather was sent away to raise money for the child's
treatment. At least 10 people were injured in fighting with police.
(AP, 11/10/06)(AP, 11/12/06)
2006 Nov 10, Congo’s incumbent
Joseph Kabila retained a commanding lead in the presidential runoff
with about two-thirds of the vote counted.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, Iran's state media
paid scant attention to an Argentine's judge request for the arrest of
former President Hashemi Rafsanjani and other officials for the 1994
bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, A new recording
attributed to the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq (Abu Hamza al-Muhajir)
mocked President Bush as a coward whose conduct of the war had been
rejected at the polls, and challenged him to keep US troops in Iraq to
face more bloodshed. Al-Qaida claimed to be winning the war faster than
expected, saying it had mobilized 12,000 fighters. 6 Iraqi soldiers
were killed and 10 wounded when a suicide bomber drove his
explosives-rigged car into an army checkpoint in the northern city of
Tal Afar. Three members of a family were killed by gunmen who stormed
their home near Baqouba. At least 59 Iraqi civilians were killed or
found dead.
(AP, 11/10/06)(SFC, 11/11/06, p.A12)(AP, 11/10/07)
2006 Nov 10, Israel's gay
community braved vehement opposition from religious fundamentalists and
held a large rally in Jerusalem, complete with live rock music, dancing
and declarations of pride. A group of gay Palestinian Americans
canceled a planned pride march in East Jerusalem after one of them was
beaten unconscious by a man from the Waqf Muslim religious authority.
(AP, 11/10/06)(SFC, 11/11/06, p.A3)
2006 Nov 10, Suspected militants
hurled a grenade into a crowd outside a mosque in a village in Indian
Kashmir, killing at least five people and wounding nearly 30.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, Kazakhstan's
President Nursultan Nazarbayev said the ruling Otan Party would merge
with the pro-government Civic Party in what the opposition described as
part of efforts to ensure his grip on power in upcoming parliamentary
elections.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, A first batch of
Indonesian troops arrived in Beirut to join a UN peacekeeping force,
whose commander warned of growing tensions in south Lebanon.
(AFP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, Italian police said
they arrested 13 people, including a judge accused of ties with the
Mafia, as part of a crackdown on organized crime in southern Italy.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, In Mexico Misael
Tamayo Hernandez, editor of El Despertar de la Costa, was found dead in
a hotel room in Zihuatanejo, a day after running stories about
organized crime and corruption in the city government. Hector Gaxiola,
a district police chief in the border city of Tijuana, was shot and
killed a day after surviving another attempt on his life. His brother
was found next to him. Both had been shot dozens of times.
(AP, 11/11/06)
2006 Nov 10, in Morocco 3 former
detainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were
convicted for creating a criminal group and forging documents.
(AP, 11/11/06)
2006 Nov 10, In northern New
Zealand oil refinery workers helped rescue 40 beached pilot whales, but
another 37 of the whale pod died on the sandy beach.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, A Norwegian refugee
group said it is closing down its humanitarian operations for nearly
300,000 people in Darfur because it is impossible to work in the
Sudanese region.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, In Pakistan a
roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying a prominent pro-government tribal
elder in a volatile region near the Afghan border, killing him and
eight other people.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, Hamas leader Ismail
Haniyeh said he would step down as Palestinian prime minister if that
would persuade the West to lift debilitating economic sanctions.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, Igor Sergeyev (68),
former Russian defense minister (1997-2001), died.
(AP, 11/10/06)(Econ, 11/25/06, p.89)
2006 Nov 10, In Sri Lanka Nadaraja
Raviraj, a prominent Tamil legislator, was assassinated in Colombo. The
government navy said it killed six rebels in an attack on Tamil Tiger
boats.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, The UN announced it
would postpone a decision on the future status of Serbia's breakaway
Kosovo province, hours after Serbia said it would hold an early general
election in January.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, A report launched by
the UN Human Development Program (UNDP) highlighted how more than 2.6
billion people do not have access to proper sanitation and how dirty
water claims more lives than AIDS or conflicts. According to the UN 78%
of Mozambique's 17 million people earn less than two dollars a day and
more than 20,000 children die every year from water-borne diseases.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, In Vietnam 3
Vietnamese-Americans were convicted on terrorism charges after being
accused of trying to take over radio airwaves and call for an uprising
against Vietnam's communist government. A judge sentenced the Americans
and four Vietnamese to 15 months in prison, with credit for time served.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2007 Nov 10, Miami ended its
70-year stay at the famed Orange Bowl with the biggest shutout loss in
the stadium's history, a 48-0 rout to Virginia.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2007 Nov 10, A stagehands strike
shut down most Broadway shows, with curtains rising again 19 days later.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2007 Nov 10, In Vallejo, Ca., the
last LCS (Landing Craft Support), which served in 1944 the invasion of
Okinawa, went on display. LCS 102 was one of 130 identical gunboats
that served in the Pacific. The Royal Thai Navy retired the ship in May.
(SFC, 11/10/07, p.B1)
2007 Nov 10, Laraine Day (b.1920),
film actress, died. She was best remembered as Nurse Mary Lamont in the
Dr. Kildare film series from 1938-1941.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
2007 Nov 10, Norman Mailer (84),
writer, died. The macho prince of American letters reigned for decades
as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as
"The Naked and the Dead" (1948) and "The Executioner's Song" (1979).
(AP, 11/10/07)(SSFC, 11/11/07, p.A7)
2007 Nov 10, In Afghanistan’s
eastern province of Khost, police patrolling on foot were hit by a
land-mine blast that killed one officer and wounded two civilians.
Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint near Qalat city in Zabul
province. The ensuing gun battle left two policemen dead and one
wounded. Another policeman was missing. Six US troops died in an
insurgent ambush, making 2007 the deadliest year for American forces in
Afghanistan since 2001.
(AP, 11/11/07)(AP, 11/10/08)
2007 Nov 10, In Algeria 3 people
were wounded when a booby trapped car exploded near a police residence
in the northern town of Mahatmas.
(AFP, 11/11/07)
2007 Nov 10, Some 20,000
demonstrators marched to Argentina's river border with Uruguay to
protest the impending startup of a paper pulp plant they fear will
pollute the environment. The cellulose mill in Fray Bentos was built by
Metsa-Botnia, a Finnish company, at a cost of $1.2 billion.
Construction was completed in October and Uruguay’s Pres. Vazquez
ordered it opened in November despite protests from Argentina.
(AP, 11/10/07)(Econ, 12/8/07, p.44)
2007 Nov 10, In the Czech Rep.
neo-Nazis trying to march through the Jewish quarter of Prague clashed
with groups trying to stop them, and at least 80 people were arrested
in outbreaks of violence around the capital.
(AP, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 10, A top police officer
said the Champs Elysees, held up by France as the most beautiful avenue
in the world, has become blighted by prostitution, racketeering and
violence.
(AP, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 10, German train drivers
ended the country's longest freight train strike, but the labor dispute
is set to continue next week.
(AFP, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 10, Iranian state
television reported that Iran and Pakistan have reached a deal to build
a multi-billion-dollar pipeline to transport natural gas between the
two countries.
(AP, 11/11/07)
2007 Nov 10, Malaysian police
unleashed tear gas and water cannons on protesters as tens of
thousands, wearing canary-yellow shirts, defied a government ban and
rallied in Kuala Lumpur to call for clean and fair elections in the
biggest anti-government street protests in nearly a decade. Some 245
people were detained.
(AP, 11/10/07)(AP, 11/11/07)(Econ, 11/17/07, p.53)
2007 Nov 10, Pakistan announced
plans to lift its state of emergency within one month and allowed
opposition leader Benazir Bhutto to leave her villa following a day
under house arrest. Police blocked opposition leader Benazir Bhutto
from visiting Pakistan's deposed chief justice. Militants abducted 8,
who were stopped at a makeshift roadblock and overpowered.
(AP, 11/10/07)(Reuters, 11/10/07)
2007 Nov 10, Saudi authorities
received a group of 14 Saudis Saturday from the US military prison at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani for drug
trafficking. This execution brought to 131 the number of people
beheaded in the kingdom this year. Saudi Arabia beheaded 38 people last
year and 83 people in 2005.
(AP, 11/10/07)
2008 Nov 10, Citigroup says it is
imposing a moratorium on most foreclosures as part of a series of
initiatives aimed at helping at-risk borrowers remain in their homes,
making Citi the latest big bank to announce sweeping efforts to try to
curtail losses from souring mortgages.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 10, Circuit City Stores
Inc., the second-biggest electronics retailer in the US, filed for
bankruptcy protection but planned to stay open for business as the busy
holiday season approaches.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, George W. Housner
(b.1910), known in his profession as the father of earthquake of
engineering, died.
(WSJ, 11/22/08, p.A11)
2008 Nov 10, Afghan writer Atiq
Rahimi won France's top book prize, the Goncourt, for a novel penned in
French, "Syngue Sabour", or Stone of Patience.
(AFP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, New York Times
reporter David S. Rohde (41) was abducted along with an Afghan reporter
colleague and a driver south of Kabul. Rohde and Afghan reporter Tahir
Ludin (35) escaped captivity in North Waziristan on June 19.
(AP, 6/21/09)
2008 Nov 10, In Brazil bandits
blew up a police station with dynamite after stealing drugs and weapons
in Botucatu city in Sao Paulo state.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, Deutsche Post AG said
it will close all of its DHL Express service centers, cut 9,500 jobs in
the United States and eliminate US-only domestic express shipping by
land and air, citing heavy losses and fierce competition.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, An explosion killed
two Georgian police officers near the disputed region of South Ossetia.
EU monitors called the attack an unacceptable breach of the cease-fire
that ended the Georgia-Russia war.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, Miriam Makeba
(b.1932), the South African folk singer and anti-apartheid activist
fondly known as "Mama Africa," died in southern Italy after performing
at a concert against organized crime.
(AP, 11/10/08)(SFC, 11/11/08, p.B5)
2008 Nov 10, International experts
said in a report that Irish Republican Army splinter groups are
launching more attacks in Northern Ireland than at any time in recent
years, and are increasingly trying to kill police officers.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, In Iraq a suicide
bomber struck in a crowd gathered at the site of an explosion that
moments earlier had damaged a bus filled with schoolgirls. Both blasts
killed 31 people and wounding 71 others. A female suicide bomber
attacked a security checkpoint in Baqouba, killing five people
including a local leader of Sunni group opposed to al-Qaida.
(AP, 11/10/08)(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 10, Iraq and China signed
the final agreement on a $3 billion deal to develop the Ahdab oil field
south of Baghdad over a 22 year-period.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 10, Italian railway and
mass transit workers staged a strike creating chaos for commuters. A
wildcat protest by some of Alitalia’s staff forced the national airline
to scrap dozens of flights.
(SFC, 11/11/08, p.A3)
2008 Nov 10, In Japan a
California-based computer scientist, a Canadian philosophy professor
and a Canadian molecular biologist each received US$500,000 at an
awards ceremony for this year's Kyoto Prizes for achievement in the
arts and sciences.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, Gunmen in northern
Kenya seized two Italian Catholic nuns from a church before dawn and
took them across the border into a Somali region largely controlled by
Islamist insurgents. The nuns were free on February 19, 2009.
(AP, 11/10/08)(AP, 2/19/09)
2008 Nov 10, Malaysia's Scomi
Engineering said its consortium with an Indian company has won a 1.85
billion ringgit ($523 million) state contract to build the first
monorail in India.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, Mexico’s President
Felipe Calderon chose Fernando Gomez-Mont as the new Secretary of the
Interior. 7 people were found dead in a string of gruesome attacks in
the border city of Juarez. Police there chased a truck that opened fire
on a state vehicle, causing a car crash that killed a bystander and
injured four others. In northwestern Mexico 27 farmworkers who were
kidnapped by dozens of heavily armed men wearing military-style
uniforms. Local news media reported that a drug gang may have kidnapped
the men to make them work growing marijuana.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 10, In Nicaragua the
ruling Sandinista party claimed victory in nationwide municipal
elections, but rival parties said the early returns were misleading and
the US government expressed concern about the vote.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 10, Militants in
northwest Pakistan hijacked 13 trucks carrying supplies for Western
forces in Afghanistan as they passed through the Khyber Pass.
(Reuters, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, Pirates near Somalia
hijacked the MT Stolt Strength. a Philippines chemical tanker with 23
crew, bringing the total number of attacks in waters off the African
nation this year to 83.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 10, Sweden's financial
regulator says it has revoked the banking license from troubled
investment bank Carnegie and that Sweden's national debt office will
take control of the bank.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, Taiwan's coast guard
rescued 9 crewmen and searched for 19 missing seamen after their
fishing boat foundered in rough seas.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 10, President Robert
Mugabe said a new Zimbabwe government would be formed "as quickly as
possible" despite his rival Morgan Tsvangirai's rejection of a regional
compromise on a power-sharing deal.
(AP, 11/10/08)
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