Today in History - November 11
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Nov 11, Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate
emperor of Rome (306-07), died.
(MC, 11/11/01)
397 Nov 11, Martinus (81), (St
Martin), Roman bishop of Tours, died. [see Nov 8]
(MC, 11/11/01)
511 Nov 11, Clovis (45), king of
Salische France and founder of Merovingians, died. [see Nov 27]
(MC, 11/11/01)
1050 Nov 11, Henry IV, Holy Roman
Emperor, was born.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1158 Nov 11, Emperor Frederik I
Barbarossa declared himself ruler of North Italy.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1417 Nov 11, Martin V was elected
pope and was regarded as the legitimate pontiff by the church as a
whole.
(www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/CONSTANC.HTM)
1493 Nov 11, Columbus discovered
Saba, North Leeward Islands (Netherland Antilles).
(WUD, 1994 p.1257)(MC, 11/11/01)
1572 Nov 11, A supernova was
observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia. Tycho Brahe, Danish
astronomer, discovered a nova in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It is
described in detail in his book "De Nova Stella." The light eventually
became as bright as Venus and could be seen for two weeks in broad
daylight. After 16 months, it disappeared.
(V.D.-H.K.p.197)(www.seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1572.html)(AP,
12/4/08)
1620 Nov 11, Pilgrims aboard the
Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a
"body politick." 102 Pilgrims stepped ashore. 41 men signed the compact
calling themselves Saints and others Strangers. One passenger died
enroute and 2 were born during the passage. Their military commander
was Miles Standish. In 1945 George Willison authored "Saints and
Strangers." In 2006 Nathaniel Philbrick authored “Mayflower: A Story of
Courage, Community and War.”
(AP, 11/11/97)(SFEM, 11/15/98, p.8,23)(AM, 11/00,
p.17)(Econ, 5/6/06, p.82)
1640 Nov 11, John Pym, earl of
Strafford, was locked in Tower of London.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1647 Nov 11, Massachusetts passed
the 1st US compulsory school attendance law.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1690 Nov 11, Gerhard Hoffmann,
composer, was born.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1696 Nov 11, Andrea Zani,
composer, was born.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1714 Nov 11, A highway in Bronx
was laid out. It was later renamed East 233rd Street.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1725 Nov 11, Georg F. Handel's
opera "Tamerlano," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1744 Nov 11, Abigail Smith Adams,
2nd 1st lady (1797-1801), was born.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1745 Nov 11, Bonnie Prince
Charlie's army entered England.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1771 Nov 11, Ephraim McDowell,
surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery), was born.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1778 Nov
11, British redcoats, Tory rangers and Seneca Indians in central New
York state killed more than 40 people in the Cherry Valley Massacre. A
regiment of 800 Tory rangers under Butler (1752-1781) and 500 Native
forces under the Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant (1742-1807), fell upon
the settlement, killing 47, including 32 noncombatants, mostly by
tomahawk.
(www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Cherry-Valley-Massacre)(AP, 11/11/07)
1790 Nov 11, Chrysanthemums were
introduced into England from China.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1794 Nov 11, The Treaty of
Canandaigua was signed at Canandaigua, New York, by fifty sachems and
war chiefs representing the Grand Council of the Six Nations of the
Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy (including the Cayuga, Mohawk,
Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca and Tuscarora tribes), and by Timothy
Pickering, official agent of President George Washington. The
Canandaigua Treaty, a Treaty Between the United States of America and
the Tribes of Indians Called the Six Nations, was signed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Canandaigua)
1821 Nov 11, Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoevsky (d.1881), Russian novelist who wrote “Crime and Punishment”
and “The Brothers Karamazov,” was born. “Originality and a feeling of
one’s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.”
(AP, 12/9/97)(HN, 11/11/98)
1831 Nov 11, Nat Turner was hanged
and skinned in Southampton county, Va. Hysteria surrounded this
rebellion and over 200 slaves, some as far away as North Carolina, were
murdered by whites in fear of a generalized uprising. A martyr to the
anti-slavery cause, Turner's actions had the adverse effect of
virtually ending all abolitionist activities in the south before the
Civil War.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html)(HN,
11/11/98)
1851 Nov
11, Alvan Clark of Cambridge, Massachusetts, patented a telescope.
Clark, a portrait painter interested in astronomy, had made several
small lenses and mirrors as a hobby. The fact that he could detect the
small residual errors in one of the best lenses Europe could offer
convinced him that he could make them as well. After he gained a
reputation in Europe the American orders started to come in. The Alvin
Clark Company became one of the foremost producers of some of the
largest lenses for telescopes in the 1800's.
(www.todayinsci.com/)
1855 Nov 11, Soren A. Kierkegaard
(b.1813), Danish philosopher and theologian, died. In 2005 Joakim Garff
authored “Søren A. Kierkegaard: A Biography.”
(www.connect.net/ron/kierkegaard.html)(WSJ, 2/3/05,
p.D8)
1855 Nov 11, The 6.9 Ansei Edo
earthquake hit near Tokyo, Japan. Some 8,000 casualties resulted with
about 14,000 structures destroyed.
(www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/j/gjs4/2008_Shaken%20and%20Rectified.pdf)(Econ,
7/4/09, p.39)
1862 Nov 11, Verdi's Opera "La
Forza Del Destino" premiered in St Petersburg, Russia.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1864 Nov
11, Sherman's troops destroyed Rome, Georgia. Gen. Sherman (1820-1891)
ordered Gen. John Murray Corse’s (1835-1893) troops to destroy Rome,
Georgia, and “everything that could be useful to an enemy.”
(www.civilwarhome.com/shermangeorgia.htm)
1865 Nov
11, Dr. Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, was awarded the
Medal of Honor by Pres. Andrew Johnson for her work as a field doctor,
for outstanding service at the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of
Chickamauga, the Battle of Atlanta, and as a Confederate prisoner of
war in Richmond, Va. Her medal was rescinded 1917 along with 910
others, but restored by President Carter June 10, 1977.
(SFC, 7/17/96, p.E10)(HNQ,
3/12/02)(www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohciv2.htm)
1869 Nov 11, Victor Emmanuel III,
king of Italy (1900-46) and Ethiopia, was born.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1880 Nov
11, Lucretia Mott (née Lucretia Coffin b.1793), US Quaker, died
in Abingdon, Kansas. She co-sponsored the First Woman's Rights
Convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls, NY.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWmott.htm)
1880 Nov 11, In Australia Ned
Kelly (b.1855), outlaw, was hanged. Kelly was hanged at the Old
Melbourne Gaol but documents show his remains and those of 32 other
executed prisoners were exhumed and reburied at Pentridge Prison in
1929.
(WSJ, 9/21/00, p.A8)(SSFC, 1/14/01, BR p.6)(AP,
3/9/08)
1883 Nov 11, Ernest Ansermet,
conductor, was born in Vevey, Switzerland.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1885 Nov 11, George Patton, U.S.
Army commander in World War II, was born.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1887 Nov 11, Albert Parsons,
August Spies, Adolph Fisher and George Engel were hanged for their
participation in the May 4, 1886, Chicago Haymarket riot. As the noose
was placed around his neck, Spies shouted out: "There will be a time
when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle
today."
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAspies.htm)
1889 Nov 11, Washington became the
42nd state of the US.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(AP, 11/11/97)
1890 Nov 11, D. McCree patented a
portable fire escape.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1896 Nov 11, Charles "Lucky"
Luciano, NYC Mafia gangster, was born in Sicily.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1898 Nov 11, Rene Clair, French
film director, was born.
(HN, 11/11/00)
1899 Nov 11,
Stuart-Rubens-Boyd-Jones' "Floradora," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1901 Nov 11, Maurice Ravel
composition "Jeux d'eau" premiered.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1904 Nov 11, Alger Hiss, State
Department official who hid papers in a pumpkin, was born.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1909 Nov 11, Robert Ryan, actor
(Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1909 Nov 11, Construction began on
the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1909 Nov 11, J.M. Synge's
"Tinker's Wedding," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1912 Nov 11, Joseph Wieniawski
(75), composer, died.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1914 Nov 11, Howard Fast,
screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus), was born in NYC.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1915 Nov 11, William Proxmire, US
Senator-D-Wi, 1957-88 (Golden Fleece Awards), was born.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1917 Nov 11, Lydia Kamekeha
Lili’uokalani, the last queen of the Hawaiian Islands, died. She wrote
the song “Aloha ‘Oe” and the book “Hawaii’s Story By Hawaii’s Queen.”
(WUD, 1994, p.830)(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1918 Nov 11, At ten minutes past
five in the morning, German and Allied negotiators placed the final
signatures on the armistice that would end World War I six hours later.
After the signing, French General Ferdinand Foch sent all Allied
commanders the following message: "Hostilities will cease on the entire
[Western] front November 11 at 11:00 a.m." Even as the hour approached
9 of 16 commanders of US divisions on the Western Front ordered a final
assault that left an additional 11,000 casualties. Although the Allies
had not invaded Germany and there was no clear military victory, the
Germans were forced to sign the armistice because of insurmountable
problems. German troops, pushed past their limits of endurance by five
years of fighting, faced a fresh stream of well-equipped American
soldiers. Germany's allies, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and
Bulgaria, had already ceased fighting and mutinies increased as German
soldiers and sailors refused to carry out suicidal missions. Food
shortages, both at home and at the front, had reached crisis levels.
The costs of the First World War were astronomical with 7.5 million
dead and more than 35 million total casualties. The US Armistice Day
holiday was changed to Veteran’s Day after the Korean War. It was
celebrated as “Veteran’s Day” for the first time in the US in Emporia,
Kansas, on November 11, 1953. In 2004 Joseph E. Persico authored
“Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918,
World War I and Its Violent Climax.”
(SFC, 11/9/96, p.A16)(SFC,11/8/97, p.A11)(HNPD,
11/11/98)(SFC, 12/28/04, p.D1)
1918 Nov 11, The Second Polish
Republic declared its independence.
(SFC, 11/13/96, p.C2)(AP, 11/11/08)
1919 Nov 11, The first 2-minutes’
silence was observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the
Great War.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1921 Nov 11, President Harding
dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National
Cemetery. The unknown soldier was buried in Virginia’s Arlington
National Cemetery on Armistice Day. He had been taken from an American
cemetery in France.
(SFC, 5/27/96, p.B8)(AP, 11/11/97) (HN, 11/11/98)
1922 Nov 11, Kurt Vonnegut,
American author who wrote “Slaughterhouse Five,” was born.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1922 Nov 11, Canada’s Vernon
McKenzie urged fighting U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1923 Nov 11, Eternal flame was lit
for the tomb of unknown solder at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1925 Nov 11, Jonathan Winters,
comedian, was born.
(HN, 11/11/00)
1925 Nov 11, Louis Armstrong
recorded 1st of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings. [see Nov 12]
(MC, 11/11/01)
1925 Nov 11, Robert Milliken
announced the discovery of cosmic rays.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1928 Nov 11, Carlos Fuentes,
Mexican novelist, was born.
(HN, 11/11/00)
1933 Nov 11, The first of the
great dust storms of the 1930s hit North Dakota.
(HN, 11/11/00)
1935 Nov 11, Albert Anderson and
Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they
floated to 74,000 feet in a balloon.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1937 Nov 11, Messerschmidt
ME-109V13 flew to a world record 610.4 kph.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1938 Nov 11, Mary Mallon, also
known as “Typhoid Mary,” died of a stroke on North Brother Island. She
had been quarantined there since 1915 after spreading typhus for years
while working as a cook in the New York area.
(AH, 2/06, p.26)
1938 Nov 11, German and Austrian
Jews suffered 1 billion Mark damage in the Nov 9 Nazi Kristallnacht;
Jews forced to wear Star of David.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1938 Nov 11, Ismet Inonu (b.1884)
became president of the Turkish republic on the death of Kemal Ataturk.
He continued in office until 1950.
(WUD, 1994, p.1682)
1940 Nov 11, Willys unveiled its
General Purpose vehicle, the "Jeep." The Willys Quad, featuring 4-wheel
drive, was one entry in a US government competition for a small
military utility vehicle.
(MC, 11/11/01)(WSJ, 9/16/05, p.W12)
1940 Nov 11, Blizzard struck
midwestern US killing over 100.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1940 Nov 11, Britain’s Royal Navy
attacked the Italian fleet at Taranto.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1942 Nov 11, 745 French Jews were
deported to Auschwitz.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1942 Nov 11, Germany completed its
occupation of France.
(AP, 11/11/04)
1943 Nov 11, In Lebanon the French
voiced their dissent by arresting Bishara al-Khuri and most of the
government. An insurrection, British diplomatic efforts and one
more crisis in 1945 finally left the government restored.
(HNQ, 12/24/00)
1944 Nov
11, Private Eddie Slovik was convicted of desertion and sentenced to
death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of
Operations. [see Jan 31, 1945]
(HN, 11/11/00)
1945 Nov 11, Jerome Kern (60), US
composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), died.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1953 Nov 11, The Polio virus was
identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1955 Nov 11, Jigme Singye Wangchuk
was born. He became king of Bhutan in 1972.
(SSFC, 3/17/02, p.C10)(www.worldwhoswho.com)
1959 Nov 11, The 1st episode of
"Rocky & His Friends" aired on TV.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1961 Nov 11, Congolese soldiers
murdered 13 Italian UN pilots.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1961 Nov 11, Molotov, Malenkov
& Kaganovich were kicked out of Russia's communist party.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1961 Nov 11, Stalingrad was
renamed Volgograd.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1964 Nov 11, Murray Schisgal's
"Luv," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1965 Nov 11, Rhodesia (later
Zimbabwe) under PM Ian D. Smith (d.2007) proclaimed its independence
from Britain.
(AP, 11/11/97)(SFC, 11/23/07, p.B14)
1966 Nov 11, Methodist Church and
Evangelical United Brethren Church united as United Methodist Church.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1966 Nov 11, Gemini 12 blasted off
from Cape Kennedy, Fla., with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin
"Buzz" Aldrin Jr.
(AP, 11/11/97)(HN, 11/11/98)
1968 Nov 11, The Maldives became a
republic for a 2nd time with Ibrahim Naseer (Nasir) as President.
(www.pjsymes.com.au/articles/Maldives(article).htm)(Econ, 12/23/06,
p.54)(AP, 11/11/08)
1970 Nov 11, Stevie Wonder sang
"Heaven Help Us All" on the Johnny Cash show.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0063919/episodes)
1971 Nov 11, Neil Simon's
"Prisoner of Second Avenue," premiered in NYC.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0072034/)
1972 Nov 11, The US Army turned
over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing
the end of direct US military involvement in the Vietnam War.
(AP, 11/11/97)
1973 Nov 11, Israel and Egypt
signed a cease-fire.
(www.amichai.com/war/process/73talks.html)
1973 Nov 11, The Soviet Union was
kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2481)
1975 Nov 11, Angola proclaimed
independence from Portugal. Civil war began following the 14-year fight
for independence. The Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)
proclaimed unilateral independence. Jonas Savimbi led UNITA and the
FLNA was backed by Zaire.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A10)(SFC, 12/26/98, p.A12)(SFC,
4/19/00, p.A10)
1975 Nov 11, Sir John Kerr,
Australia’s governor-general, fired PM Edward Gough Whitlam. He was the
1st elected PM removed in 200 years.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)(http://whitlamdismissal.com/)
1976 Nov 11, Alexander Calder
(78), US sculptor, died. He invented the mobile as a new format for
sculpture. He also designed toys , jewelry, some wallpaper and
decorated DC-8s for Braniff Airlines. David Bourdon (d.1998 at 63)
wrote a study of Calder in 1980.
(SFC,11/15/97, p.C1,6)(SFC, 4/4/98, p.A24)(MC,
11/11/01)
1976 Nov 11, In Argentina
journalist Claudio Adur (26) disappeared. This marked the beginning of
a large number of journalists who disappearing following the March
military coup.
(www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16842)
1978 Nov 11, Veteran's Day,
originally know as Armistice Day, became a national US holiday in 1938.
It was changed back by Congress in this year to this day rather than
the 4th Monday of October, which had been set in 1968.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.A21)
1981 Nov 11, Stuntman Dan Goodwin
scaled the outside of the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago in
nearly six hours.
(AP, 11/11/97)
1982 Nov 11, Susan Cooper's and
Hume Cronyn's "Foxfire," premiered in NYC.
(www.thelostland.com/playsfilms.htm)
1982 Nov 11, Space shuttle
Columbia launched for its first operational flight. The 4-man crew
successfully used a remote manipulator arm.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia)
1982 Nov 11, West German
authorities captured Brigitte Mohnhaupt, a member of the Red Army
Faction, as she went to an arms cache in woods near Frankfurt. She was
convicted in 1985 of involvement in nine murders, including those of
West German chief federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and of
Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the head of the country's industry federation.
Mohnhaupt (57) was released in 2007 after serving 24 years of a life
sentence.
(AP, 2/12/07)
1982 Nov 11, Solidarity leader
Lech Walesa (b.1943) was let out of jail in Poland.
(www.answers.com/topic/lech-walesa)
1983 Nov 11, President Reagan
became the first U.S. chief executive to address the Diet, Japan's
national legislature.
(AP, 11/11/03)
1984 Nov 11, The Rev. Martin
Luther King Sr. (84), father of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr., died in Atlanta.
(AP, 11/11/04)
1987 Nov 11, Following the failure
of two Supreme Court nominations, President Reagan announced his choice
of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who went on to win confirmation.
(AP, 11/11/97)
1987 Nov 11, Vincent Van Gogh’s
painting "Irises" was bought from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson by
Alan Bond, an Australian businessman, for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in
New York.
(HN, 11/11/98)(Econ, 11/18/06, p.79)
1987 Nov 11, Boris Yeltsin
(1931-2007), who had criticized the slow pace of Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev's reforms, was dismissed as Moscow Communist Party chief for
criticizing the slow pace of reform.
(AP, 11/11/07)(http://tinyurl.com/38s7ew)(Econ,
4/28/07, p.98)
1988 Nov 11, Oldest known insect
fossils (390 million yrs) was reported in Science.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1988 Nov 11, Police in Sacramento,
Calif., found the first of seven bodies buried on the grounds of a
boardinghouse. Landlady Dorothea Puente was later charged in the deaths
of nine people; she was convicted of three murders and sentenced to
life in prison in 1993.
(AP, 11/11/98)(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A21)
1989 Nov 11, In a telephone
conversation with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, East German
leader Egon Krenz ruled out any possibility reunification.
(AP, 11/11/99)
1990 Nov 11, Stormie Jones, the
world’s first heart-liver transplant recipient, died at a Pittsburgh
hospital at age 13.
(AP, 11/11/00)
1991 Nov 11, The United States
stationed its first diplomat in Cambodia in 16 years to help the
war-shocked nation arrange democratic elections.
(AP, 11/11/01)
1992 Nov 11, By letter, Russian
President Boris Yeltsin told U.S. senators that Americans had been held
in prison camps after World War II and some were "summarily executed,"
but that others were still living in his country voluntarily.
(AP, 11/11/97)
1992 Nov 11,The Anglican Church
and the Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
(AP, 11/11/97)
1993 Nov 11, A bronze statue
honoring the more than 11,000 American women who had served in the
Vietnam War was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 11/11/98)
1993 Nov 11, In Sri Lanka Tamil
Tiger forces overran Pooneryn army camp. Some 600 servicemen were
killed or captured. The army put the rebel death toll at 500.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1994 Nov 11, President Clinton set
out for an Asian trade conference.
(AP, 11/11/04)
1994 Nov 11, Bill Gates, founder
of Microsoft Corp., purchased a 72-page document by Leonardo da Vinci
that he renamed the “Codex Leicester” for $30.8 million. The work was
written in backwards-mirror with illustrations of the author’s theories
on the movement of water and air.
(WSJ, 5/14/96, p.A-18)(NH, 5/97, p.11)
1994 Nov 11, Eddie Polec (16), a
Fox Chase high school student, died after being clubbed to death by
students of Abington High School. On March 20, 1996, Carlo Johnson (20)
and Bou Khathavong (18) – believed by prosecutors to be the ring
leaders in the assault, although neither beat Polec – received maximum
five- to 10-year sentences for conspiracy. Prosecutors believe the two
organized the rumble and provided the baseball bats. Anthony Rienzi and
Nick Pinero, both 18, were sentenced to the maximum 15- to 30-year
terms for third-degree murder and conspiracy. Thomas Crook (19) sobbed
and apologized to his family before receiving 14.5 years to 30 years on
the same charges. Dawan Alexander (18) who was convicted of
manslaughter for kicking Polec, received an eight- to 20-year term.
Seventh defendant Kevin Convey (19) had pleaded guilty earlier to
third-degree murder in exchange for testifying against the others. In
February he had been sentenced to five to 20 years. In 2000 Bryn
Freedman and William Knoedelseder authored "In Eddie’s Name: One
Family’s Triumph Over Tragedy."
(SFEC, 5/14/00, BR
p.12)(www.cnn.com/US/9603/teen_sentencing/)
1994 Nov 11, A suicide bomber
killed three soldiers at an Israeli military checkpoint in Gaza. The
Islamic Jihad took responsibility.
(AP, 11/11/99)
1995 Nov 11, With a partial
government shutdown looming, President Clinton and Republican
congressional leaders clashed over Medicare and bickered over who to
include in compromise budget talks.
(AP, 11/11/00)
1995 Nov 11, Charles Scribner Jr.
(b.1921), publisher, died.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112303)
1995 Nov 11, Choi Jong, a South
Korean adventurer, began a walking trip across the Sahara Desert from
Nouakchott, Mauritania.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A12)
1995 Nov 11, In Sri Lanka 2 rebel
suicide bombers killed 15 people in Colombo in an unsuccessful attack
on army headquarters.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1996 Nov 11, The Army reported
getting nearly 2,000 calls to a hot line set up after revelations of a
sex scandal at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Meanwhile, a
Pentagon official said the Army was ready to take action in another
case of alleged sexual misconduct at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
(AP, 11/11/97)
1996 Nov 11, Phan Thi Kim Phuc
laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. John
Plummer, Vietnam era helicopter pilot, met with Phan Thi Kim at the
Vietnam Memorial in Washington in reconciliation. Phan Thi Kim had
suffered severe napalm burns after a napalm bombing of her village in
Jun 1972.
(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A3)(SFEC, 4/13/97, p.A1,12)(AP,
11/11/01)
1996 Nov 11, An explosion occurred
at the Texaco oil refinery near Los Angeles harbor. No injuries were
reported.
(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A9)
1996 Nov 11, In the Czech Republic
Stanislav Devaty, chief of the secret service, resigned after being
accused of spying on government officials. He denied the charges.
(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A12)
1996 Nov 11, Gen’l. Roberto
Letona, the Guatemalan military attaché in Washington, was
ordered home after being linked to the Moreno smuggling operation that
cheated the government out of some $2.7 billion in taxes and duties
over 15 years.
(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A12)
1996 Nov 11, In Guatemala Pres.
Alvaro Arzu and the rebel alliance separately announced a peace
agreement to be signed Dec 29.
(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A13)
1996 Nov 11, Poland’s return to
independence after WW I was celebrated and hundreds of skinheads and
right-wing activists staged demonstrations against Jews and foreigners.
(SFC, 11/13/96, p.C2)
1997 Nov 11, Retired Gen. Colin
Powell announced he would not seek the Republican presidential
nomination or any other office in 2000, saying he lacked "the passion"
for political life.
(AP, 11/11/98)
1997 Nov 11, Photography giant
Eastman Kodak announced it was cutting 10,000 jobs because of fierce
competition from Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co.
(AP, 11/11/98)
1997 Nov 11, The EU high court
upheld hiring and promotional preferences for women.
(SFC,11/12/97, p.C2)
1997 Nov 11, In the Dominican
Republic troops clashed with marchers at the start of a general strike
and one demonstrator was left dead. The strike was called to protest
low wages, power outages, closed schools and closed businesses.
(WSJ, 11/12/97, p.A1)
1997 Nov 11, In Pakistan 4
American oil company employees and their driver were shot dead in
Karachi. It was believed to be a retaliation for the conviction of Amil
Kasi for the 1993 murder of 2 CIA employees. [see Nov 12]
(SFC,11/12/97, p.C14)
1998 Nov 11, President Clinton
ordered warships, planes and troops to the Persian Gulf as he laid out
his case for a possible attack on Iraq. Iraq, meanwhile, showed no sign
of backing down on its refusal to deal with U.N. weapons inspectors.
(AP, 11/11/99)
1998 Nov 11, It was reported that
the Packard Foundation planned to dispense $375 million over the next 5
years to slow population growth.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.A8)
1998 Nov 11, It was reported that
Pfizer and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation initiated a $66 million
effort to attack trachoma, a disease of the eye caused by chlamydia. A
one-gram dose of zithromax given once a year would treat the disease.
Focus was to be on Ghana, Mali, Morocco, Tanzania and Vietnam.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.D6)
1998 Nov 11, Argentina and
Kazakstan pledged to abide by the treaty to cut emissions of gases that
cause global warming. This put a crack in a united front of developing
nations opposed to cuts before 2012.
(WSJ, 11/12/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 11, Carlos Cabal Peniche
(42), accused of making some $700 million in loans from his banks to
companies he owned, was arrested in Melbourne, Australia. He had
vanished from Mexico in 1994 just days before his Grupo Financiera
Cremi-Union was seized by the government for fraud and mismanagement.
(SFC, 11/12/98, p.C18)
1998 Nov 11, China and the UN
planned to sign an agreement to turn the Lop Nur nuclear test site into
a sanctuary for Bactrian camels. The barren area is about the size of
Germany.
(SFEC, 11/8/98, p.A13)
1998 Nov 11, Israel’s government
narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with conditions that
included alteration of the PLO charter to strike calls for Israel’s
destruction.
(WSJ, 11/12/98, p.A1)(AP, 11/11/08)
1998 Nov 11, In Turkey a
businessman linked to organized crime said that Prime Minister Yilmaz
rigged the privatization of a state-run bank in his favor. This led to
a no-confidence motion by the Republican People’s Party of the ruling
coalition.
(SFC, 11/13/98, p.A16)
1998 Nov 11, A one-day general
strike was held in Zimbabwe and soldiers killed one protestor.
(WSJ, 11/12/98, p.A1)
1999 Nov 11, The computer virus
dubbed Bubbleboy was reported to spread through electronic mail without
attachments.
(WSJ, 11/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 11, Argentine journalist
Jacobo Timerman died in Buenos Aires at age 76.
(AP, 11/11/00)
1999 Nov 11, A car bomb ripped
through a Bogota commercial district, killing at least eight people,
but President Andres Pastrana defiantly signed extradition orders for
three suspected drug traffickers.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.A16)(WSJ, 11/12/99, p.A1)(AP,
11/11/00)
1999 Nov 11, In Britain the House
of Lords voted to strip hereditary peers of their 700-year-old right to
sit in Parliament's Upper House. 92 peers still kept seats under a
compromise.
(WSJ, 11/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 11, In India a bomb
exploded on a passenger train traveling from Jammu to New Delhi and 14
people were killed with 50 injured.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.D2)
1999 Nov 11, In Foggia, Italy, a
6-story apartment building collapsed from structural flaws and over 50
people were feared dead. An investigation blamed the collapse on cheap
materials and slipshod construction.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.A16)(AP, 11/11/00)
1999 Nov 11, In Malaysia Prime
Minister Mahathir dissolved parliament and planned early elections
(SFC, 11/11/99, p.A24)
1999 Nov 11, Javed Iqbal (40)
killed his 87th victim, Mohammad Imran (15). Iqbal dissolved the bodies
in vats of chemicals and left photos and notes that described his
victims. The story became public in Dec. when his killings reached 100
and he made his story public. Iqbal surrendered in Lahore, Pakistan, on
Dec 30. He was found strangled with bed sheets in his cell on Oct 7,
2001.
(SFC, 12/7/99, p.B2)(WSJ, 12/31/99, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/10/01, p.A1)
2000 Nov 11, Pres. Clinton led
groundbreaking ceremonies in Washington DC for the National WW II
Memorial.
(AH, 4/01, p.14)
2000 Nov 11, Republicans went to
court, seeking an order to block manual recounts from continuing in
Florida's razor-thin presidential election.
(AP, 11/11/01)
2000 Nov 11, Lennox Lewis won a
unanimous 12-round decision over David Tua in Las Vegas to retain his
WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.
(AP, 11/11/01)
2000 Nov 11, In Austria a fire
consumed a cable car crammed with skiers and snowboarders in an Alpine
tunnel at Kitzsteinhorn mountain near Kaprun. 155 people, mostly
children and teenagers, were killed. In 2008 a settlement provided
relatives of the people who died a share of euro13.9 million (US$21.5
million) in compensation.
(WSJ, 11/15/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/16/00, p.A1)(AP,
11/11/05)(AP, 6/17/08)
2000 Nov 11, General elections
were held in Bosnia.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A24)
2000 Nov 11, A Dagestan Airlines
jet was hijacked. The Russian plane was forced to and in Israel with 58
people aboard. Pres. Barak, enroute to Washington, returned to handle
the crises. The hijacker surrendered and the plane was returned to
Moscow.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A22)(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 11, Fighting in the West
Bank left 8 Palestinians dead along with 1 Israeli soldier.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A19)
2000 Nov 11, In Indonesia at least
27 people were killed when police cracked down on tens of thousands of
protestors in Aceh.
(WSJ, 11/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 11, In Lebanon two
4-story apartment buildings collapsed and at least 9 people were killed
and 27 injured.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A19)(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A14)
2001 Nov 11, The US costs for the
war in Afghanistan were estimated at $1 billion a month.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 11, In Afghanistan
Northern Alliance forces with help from US warplanes and advisers
captured Taloqan and some 200 Taliban were reported killed. Local
warlords accepted a payment to change allegiance.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 11, Two French radio
reporters and a German magazine journalist were killed when they came
under Taliban fire in Afghanistan.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2001 Nov 11, A 36-hour storm hit
Algeria and 337 people were reported killed. It was the worst flooding
in 20 years. The death toll reached 580.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 11/12/01, p.A1)(SFC,
11/17/01, p.A24)
2001 Nov 11, In Indonesia Theys
Eluay (64), an independence movement leader in Irian Jaya, was found
strangled in his wrecked car and riots erupted. He had spent the
previous evening at dinner with local army commanders. In 2003 7
members of the Indonesia special forces were convicted for involvement
in the murder. Their maximum sentence was 31/2 years.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A12)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A3)(SFC,
4/22/03, A7)
2001 Nov 11, In Mexico Lazaro
Cardena of the leftist PRD won 42% of the votes for governor in
Michoacan state vs. 37% Alfredo Anaya of the PRI.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 11, A Pakistani newspaper
(Ausaf) published the second part of an interview in which Osama bin
Laden was quoted as saying he had nothing to do with the anthrax
attacks in the United States, and declared he would never allow himself
to be captured.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2001 Nov 11, Taiwan officially
joined the WTO after ministers in Qatar approved its membership.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A14)
2002 Nov 11, Bill Gates of
Microsoft pledged $100 million to fight AIDS in India.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A11)
2002 Nov 11, A two-seat crop
sprayer crammed with eight members of a Cuban family, including a baby,
landed at the Key West airport in an apparent bid for asylum by those
aboard.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 11, In Afghanistan police
shot and killed at least 2 students during protests over poor housing
conditions at a dormitory in Kabul.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A11)(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A16)
2002 Nov 11, In the CAR a
baggage-laden roof of an overloaded river taxi near Kouango collapsed
on passengers, crushing 58 people.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 11, Jorge Enrique
Jimenez, one of Latin America's leading bishops, was kidnapped along
with Rev. Desiderio Orejuela as they went to hold a religious service
in central Colombia.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 11, Colombian soldiers
killed 4 members of a right-wing paramilitary group and seven leftist
rebels during fighting in separate incidents.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 11, Pres. Joseph Kabila
has suspended every official accused in a U.N. report on the plunder of
Congo's gold, diamond and other riches.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 11, Iraqi lawmakers
denounced a new UN resolution on weapons inspections as dishonest,
provocative and worthy of rejection. But the Iraqi parliament said it
ultimately would trust whatever President Saddam Hussein decided.
(AP, 11/11/03)
2002 Nov 11, Islamic militants in
Kashmir killed 13 police in a bomb attack.
(WSJ, 11/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 11, Nepal security forces
killed at least 10 rebels as guerrillas called for a 30day strike.
(WSJ, 11/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 11, In the Philippines a
Fokker passenger plane, trailing smoke from its left engine, plunged
into Manila Bay shortly after taking off from Manila, with 18 of the 34
people aboard killed or missing and presumed dead.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 11, Russian troops
ambushed Chechen rebels near Grozhny and 6 guerrillas were reported
killed. [see Apr 29, 2004]
(WSJ, 11/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 11, UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan presented Greek and Turkish Cypriots with a plan to unite
their divided island into a single country modeled on Switzerland, with
two equal states.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 11, Border police in
Zimbabwe shot and killed Richard Gilman (58), a Connecticut man
who was on a humanitarian mission in Africa.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 11, Zimbabwean journalist
and publisher Mark Chavunduka (37), whose arrest and subsequent torture
helped expose his government's increasing repression of dissent, died
after a prolonged illness.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2003 Nov 11, President Bush's top
foreign advisers summoned L. Paul Bremer, Iraq's U.S. administrator,
for hurried White House talks focused on their growing frustrations
with the Iraqi Governing Council and a logjam in transferring political
power to Iraqis.
(AP, 11/11/04)
2003 Nov 11, It was reported that
gene scientists had determined that a genetic variation helped slowed
the creation of bad cholesterol and helped explain why some people
lived longer. [see 1974]
(WSJ, 11/11/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 11, Toronto's Roy
Halladay won the American League Cy Young Award.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2003 Nov 11, In Galveston, Texas,
Robert A. Durst, NY multimillionaire who admitted to butchering his
neighbor Morris Black, was acquitted of the man's murder.
(SFC, 11/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 11, An Afghan soldier
fired on a coalition convoy at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan,
killing 1 Romanian soldier and wounding a convoy member before escaping.
(AP, 11/12/03)
2003 Nov 11, The British
government said it wants to introduce compulsory identity cards to
protect against illegal immigration, welfare fraud and terrorism.
Implementation is years away.
(AP, 11/11/03)
2003 Nov 11, In Beijing former
President Clinton called on China and the US to overcome their
differences on trade, saying the two powers must learn to work together
to conquer common threats like AIDS, terrorism and global warming.
(AP, 11/11/03)
2003 Nov 11, Colombia's housing
and environment minister stepped down, becoming the 3rd member of
President Alvaro Uribe's Cabinet forced out in a week.
(AP, 11/11/03)
2003 Nov 11, The commander of the
Colombian National Police and five other senior police officers
resigned following evidence that the lawmen in Medellin dined in the
most exclusive restaurants, bought expensive jewelry and staged lavish
parties, all on government money.
(AP, 11/12/03)
2003 Nov 11, In Colombia a radio
talk show host was shot dead outside her home in the coastal city of
Santa Marta.
(AP, 11/11/03)
2003 Nov 11, Dominican Republic
police fired rubber bullets at rock-throwing protesters during a
general strike. At least 6 people were reported killed and 60 injured.
(AP, 11/12/03)
2003 Nov 11, In Iraq US troops
opened fire on a truck carrying live chickens near the tense town of
Fallujah, killing 5 civilians aboard the vehicle, including a father
and his two sons.
(AP, 11/12/03)
2003 Nov 11, In Iraq an explosion
on a road frequently used by British troops killed 6 civilians in
Basra. The military detained about 20 people suspected of links to
al-Qaida.
(AP, 11/11/03)
2003 Nov 11, The Kurdish guerrilla
group that battled the Turkish army for some 15 years announced that it
was dissolving itself and was planning to form a new group that would
likely would pursue Kurdish rights through negotiations. The Kurdistan
Workers Party changed its name to the Congress for Freedom and
Democracy in Kurdistan, or KADEK, last year.
(AP, 11/11/03)
2003 Nov 11, Maldives Pres.
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (65) was sworn in for a record sixth term,
becoming the longest-serving head of state in Asia.
(AP, 11/11/03)
2003 Nov 11, Mexican diplomat
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (1949-2005), gave a speech to students at Mexico
City's Ibero-American University, in which he claimed that the
political and intellectual class of the United States sees Mexico as "a
country whose position is that of a back yard" (patio trasero) and that
Washington was only interested in "a relationship of convenience and
subordination" and "a weekend fling" (un noviazgo de fin de semana).
President Fox requested his resignation on 18 November.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Aguilar_Z%C3%Adnser)
2004 Nov 11, Delta Air Line pilots
accepted over $1 billion in annual pay cuts and agreed to forgo raises
through 2009.
(SFC, 11/12/04, p.C2)
2004 Nov 11, It was reported that
Beijing this month cancelled its bicycle registration requirements, a
move viewed by the state press as highlighting the nation's full
fledged entry into "car society" and the demise of the bicycle as a
"transportation tool."
(AFP, 11/11/04)
2004 Nov 11, It was reported that
large swathes of southern and eastern China are in the grip of their
worst drought in more than 50 years, prompting calls from the countries
top leaders for better management of water conservation.
(AP, 11/12/04)
2004 Nov 11, Indian PM Manmohan
Singh announced a reduction in troops in disputed Kashmir in a fresh
initiative to push forward a fraying peace process with Pakistan.
(AP, 11/11/04)
2004 Nov 11, Iraqi security
forces, backed by US troops, arrested Sheik Mahdi al-Sumaidaei, a
hardline Sunni cleric and about two dozen others, after a raid of his
Baghdad mosque uncovered weapons caches along with photographs of
recent attacks on American troops. In Mosul guerrillas attacked at
least five police stations and political party offices there in what
could be a bid to relieve pressure on their allies in Fallujah.
(AP, 11/12/04)
2004 Nov 11, US and Iraqi forces,
backed by an air and artillery barrage, launched a major attack into
the southern half of Fallujah squeezing Sunni fighters into a smaller
and smaller cordon. The military estimated 600 insurgents killed thus
far in the offensive. Insurgents in Mosul overwhelmed several police
stations and clashed with U.S. and Iraqi troops.
(AP, 11/11/04)
2004 Nov 11, Israeli police
commandos stormed a Jerusalem church compound and arrested nuclear
whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu for allegedly revealing classified
information, seven months after he completed an 18-year prison sentence
for treason.
(AP, 11/11/04)
2004 Nov 11, Israeli troops,
backed by tanks and helicopter gunships raided a Gaza Strip town,
killing 3 Palestinians and wounding at least 9 others.
(AP, 11/11/04)
2004 Nov 11, Lithuanian lawmakers
ratified the newly signed EU constitution, making one of the bloc's
newest members the first country to approve the historic document.
(AP, 11/11/04)
2004 Nov 11, Yasser Arafat (75),
Palestinian leader, died in Paris. He triumphantly forced his people's
plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong
quest for statehood. Arafat's body was flown back to the Mideast for
funeral services in Egypt. Internment was to be in Ramallah.
(AP, 11/11/04)(SFC, 11/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 11, Mahmoud Abbas, a
former PM and veteran peace negotiator, was elected chairman of the
Palestine Liberation Organization. Rauhi Fattouh, Palestinian
parliament speaker, was set to serve as president until elections in
about 60 days.
(AP, 11/11/04)(WSJ, 11/11/04, p.A1)
2005 Nov 11, President Bush
strongly rebuked congressional critics of his Iraq war policy, accusing
them of being "deeply irresponsible."
(AP, 11/11/06)
2005 Nov 11, A new poll said most
Americans say they aren't impressed by the ethics and honesty of the
Bush administration, already under scrutiny for its justifications for
an unpopular war in Iraq and its role in the leak of a covert CIA
officer's identity.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, Students in
Kalamazoo, Mich., learned that an anonymous group of benefactors will
offer scholarships for at least the next 13 years to nearly all
Kalamazoo high school graduates, good at any of Michigan’s public
universities or colleges.
(SFC, 11/12/05, p.A2)
2005 Nov 11, Scientists reported
the discovery of an appetite suppressing hormone, obestatin, that
counters the appetite boosting hormone ghrelin.
(SFC, 11/11/05, p.A7)
2005 Nov 11, A scientific
partnership in high-tech cloning between US and South Korean
researchers broke up over the ethics of obtaining human egg cells.
(WSJ, 11/14/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 11, It was reported that
a rare 1,400-pound meteorite was recently discovered seven feet
underground in southern Kansas by Steve Arnold of Kingston, Ark., in an
area long known for producing prized space rocks.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, Peter Drucker
(b.1909), Austria-born management visionary, died in California. His 39
books included “The Effective Executive” (1966). In 2007 Elizabeth Haas
Edersheim authored “The Definitive Drucker.”
(SFC, 11/12/05, p.B5)(WSJ, 11/14/05, p.B1)(WSJ,
2/28/07, p.D9)
2005 Nov 11, In Afghanistan
militants pulled Namatullah Yusuf Zai, a deputy provincial governor,
from his car and shot him dead. Militants also killed a former district
chief while he prayed in a mosque in Helmand province.
(AP, 11/12/05)
2005 Nov 11, In Afghanistan
a Pakistani-owned plane carrying cargo for the US-led coalition crashed
into mountains near Kabul, killing at least eight people.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, In an elaborate,
nationally televised gala at a Beijing sports arena to mark the
1,000-day countdown until the Games, senior Chinese leaders introduced
their Olympic mascots: cartoon renditions of a panda, fish, Tibetan
antelope, swallow and the Olympic flame, each one the color of one of
the Olympic rings.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, In Beijing the US and
North Korea urged each other to make concessions as a round of
six-nation talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear programs concluded
with no sign of progress or a date to meet again.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, Colombia's highest
court approved a law that clears the way for popular President Alvaro
Uribe to run for a second term next year.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, In Colombia a man in
a wheelchair who hijacked a Colombian airliner using hand grenades was
sentenced to eight years of house arrest.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, Forces tightened
security in central Paris, stationing riot police and bomb squads along
the Champs-Elysees as more than two weeks of arson and vandalism
persisted near the French capital.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, Germany's biggest
political parties reached a deal to form a coalition government,
sealing an accord that makes Angela Merkel the nation's first female
chancellor.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, Automaker
DaimlerChrysler AG ended its ill-fated involvement with Japan's
Mitsubishi Motors Co., selling its 12.4 percent stake in the company to
Goldman Sachs for an undisclosed price.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, on a surprise visit to Iraq, pressed for unity among
the country's religious factions. In Baghdad gunmen opened fire on the
compound of the Embassy of Oman, killing two people and wounding two
others. 3 Iraqi police officers were killed when their vehicle was
ambushed near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
(AP, 11/11/05)(AP, 11/11/06)
2005 Nov 11, Al-Qaida in Iraq
claimed that four Iraqis, including a husband and wife, carried out the
Nov 9 suicide bombings against three Amman hotels, and police arrested
120 Jordanians and Iraqis in the hunt for anyone who might have aided
them.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, An Internet report
said Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking leader still at-large
from Saddam Hussein's regime, died. The report was not validated.
(AP, 11/12/05)(AP, 11/13/05)
2005 Nov 11, An Italian prosecutor
said that the Milan prosecutor's office has asked for the extradition
of 22 purported CIA operatives in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric
in 2003.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, An Italian newspaper
reported that a long-awaited Vatican document, to be released Nov 29,
says practicing gays, those with "deeply rooted" homosexual tendencies
or those who support gay culture cannot be admitted to the priesthood.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, The Japanese
government announced that Yoshifumi Nishikawa, the former president of
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., will lead preparation of the
privatization of Japan's mammoth postal corporation. The privatization
begins October 2007.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, In Jordan Moustapha
Akkad, the Syrian-born producer of the "Halloween" horror films, died
from wounds sustained in the triple hotel bombings.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, Police fired on a
rally in Mombasa against Kenya's draft constitution, fatally wounding
four men. Police broke up the rally because President Mwai Kibaki, who
has supported the proposed constitution ahead of a referendum on Nov.
21, was visiting the port city at the time.
(AP, 11/12/05)
2005 Nov 11, In Kuwait an
agricultural official said the deadly strain of bird flu has been
detected in a flamingo, the first known outbreak of the virus in the
Gulf region.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, Mexican agents
arrested Ricardo Garcia Urquiza, a former medical student, who seized
control of the remnants of the Juarez cartel.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 11, In Morocco police
arrested 17 members of a terrorist network, including two former
prisoners at the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba. At least some of the
suspects were linked to al-Qaida in Iraq.
(AP, 11/20/05)
2005 Nov 11, In Russia a senior
prosecutor said Rasul Kudayev, who was held at the US military prison
at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, has been detained on suspicion of
involvement in the Oct 13 attacks on police in southern Russia. He was
said to have been involved in preparing and carrying out attacks on
government and law enforcement offices in Nalchik.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, The World Trade
Organization (WTO) approved Saudi Arabia's bid to become the 149th
member of the global group, winding up a 12-year negotiating process
slowed by the country's participation in the Arab League boycott of
Israel.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, The Hague war crimes
tribunal turned up the heat on Serbia, telling it to deliver top
fugitive Ratko Mladic by the end of this year or face "excommunication."
(Reuters, 11/11/05)
2005 Nov 11, Zimbabwean war
veterans demanded that US ambassador Christopher Dell leave the
country, accusing him of trying to cause unrest and threatening to
demonstrate against him if he stays.
(AP, 11/11/05)
2006 Nov 11, President Bush marked
Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery by praising US troops who
had fought oppression around the world, yet spoke only briefly about
Iraq, where US commanders were re-evaluating strategy.
(AP, 11/11/07)
2006 Nov 11, The US vetoed a UN
Security Council draft resolution that sought to condemn an Israeli
military offensive in the Gaza Strip and demand Israeli troops pull out
of the territory.
(AP, 11/12/06)
2006 Nov 11, Bangladesh
authorities banned demonstrations and barricades ahead of a deadline
set by a 14-party political alliance for the removal of the chief
election commissioner over allegations of bias.
(AP, 11/11/06)
2006 Nov 11, It was reported that
British scientists had invented an artificial stomach at a cost of $1.8
million.
(SFC, 11/11/06, p.A6)
2006 Nov 11, In Beijing, China,
demonstrators angry at a crackdown on dogs staged a noisy protest,
decrying police killings of dogs and new limits on pet ownership.
(AP, 11/11/06)
2006 Nov 11, At this time about
35% of Bermuda’s population was white.
(Econ, 11/11/06, p.46)
2006 Nov 11, In Congo gunfire and
explosions boomed through Kinshasa in a new round of fighting between
forces loyal to two presidential candidates awaiting the results of a
runoff election meant to secure an end to years of war.
(AP, 11/12/06)
2006 Nov 11, In Haiti 2 UN
peacekeepers from Jordan were shot to death in Port-au-Prince after
coming under attack by gunmen. Jordan counted about 1,500 troops in the
force of some 8,800 peacekeepers. Nine peacekeepers have been killed
since the force arrived in June 2004.
(AP, 11/11/06)
2006 Nov 11, Tyler Walker
Williams, a US citizen and a student of India's national language
Hindi, became the first foreigner to win a student election at India's
prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University after mounting a campaign
critical of US foreign policy.
(AP, 11/11/06)
2006 Nov 11, In Iraq a pair of car
bombs tore through a downtown shopping district in the capital, killing
8 people, while a Slovak and Polish soldier were reported killed
overnight by a roadside bomb south of the capital. Police special
forces said they killed two suspected insurgents and arrested 10 others
during an overnight search for those behind a suicide bombing a day
earlier that killed six Iraqi soldiers in Tal Afar. A suicide bomber
drove a car rigged with explosives into the police station in the
northern town of Zaganya, killing the police chief, setting four
vehicles on fire, and badly damaging the building. In Baqouba a staffer
with the local agriculture directorate, Zuhair Hussein Alwan, was shot
and killed. 2 bodies that had been bound and shot in the head and chest
were pulled from the Tigris River in Suwayrah. At least 52 people were
killed or found dead across Iraq. 3 US soldiers were killed in combat
in Anbar province.
(AP, 11/11/06)(SSFC, 11/12/06, p.A5)(AP, 11/13/06)
2006 Nov 11, In Italy police
arrested 3 more thieves plaguing the railways for weeks by stealing
copper electrical conductors from the tracks. Among the 22 suspects
arrested since Oct 15 were 18 Romanians, three Italians and the one man
from Mali.
(AP, 11/13/06)
2006 Nov 11, Sony Corp. launched
its new PlayStation 3 (PS3) in Japan.
(Econ, 11/18/06, p.63)
2006 Nov 11, In Lebanon 5 Shiite
ministers backed by Hezbollah resigned from the government. PM Fuad
Saniora refused to acknowledge the resignation.
(SSFC, 11/12/06, p.A21)
2006 Nov 11, In Myanmar senior UN
official Ibrahim Gambari met detained opposition leader Aung San Suu
Kyi and the ruling junta's top leader.
(Reuters, 11/11/06)
2006 Nov 11, Palestinian students
filled schools that had been empty for months, happily greeting friends
as classes resumed after a 70-day teachers' strike that interrupted
studies across the West Bank and Gaza.
(AP, 11/11/06)
2006 Nov 11, Sudanese armed forces
deliberately attacked civilians in western Darfur killing 11, including
a woman burnt to death in her home. African Union sources later claimed
30 people were killed and 40 injured, blaming Khartoum-backed Janjaweed
militia.
(Reuters, 11/13/06)(AFP, 11/24/06)
2007 Nov 11, Marking his fifth
Veterans Day since the invasion of Iraq, President Bush honored US
troops past and present at a tearful ceremony in Texas.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2007 Nov 11, The new War Memorial
Community Center at 6655 Mission St. in Daly City, Ca., held its grand
opening. The structure included the new John Daly Library.
(www.ci.daly-city.ca.us/city_news/fogcutter/fall_2007.htm)
2007 Nov 11, Delbert Mann,
television and film director, died in Los Angeles. His films included
“Marty” (1955) and “That Touch of Mink” (1962).
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
2007 Nov 11, Animal rights
activists attacked as inhumane an Australian state government's plans
to shoot more than 10,000 wild horses to protect the environment.
(AP, 11/11/07)
2007 Nov 11, In western
Afghanistan unknown gunmen on motorbikes shot dead six pro-government
tribal elders as they headed to a prayer service. In southern
Afghanistan a suicide attacker on foot blew himself up near a NATO
convoy in Helmand province, seriously wounding 3 civilians, while two
separate attacks left 3 policeman dead elsewhere in the country. US-led
coalition troops battling suspected militants in the Garmser district
of Helmand lobbed a grenade that destroyed a house and killed 15
militants as well as a woman and two children. A service member with
the US-led coalition died of wounds suffered during a gun battle a day
earlier near the Tagab Valley of Kapisa province.
(AFP, 11/11/07)(AP, 11/11/07)(AP, 11/12/07)
2007 Nov 11, Israeli police raided
more than 20 government buildings and private offices, searching for
evidence in a series of criminal investigations of Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert.
(AP, 11/11/07)
2007 Nov 11, In Italy a police
officer accidentally shot and killed a soccer fan while trying to break
up a fight by a Tuscan highway between supporters of rival teams.
Enraged by the killing, hundreds of fans rioted in Rome, attacking a
police station.
(AP, 11/12/07)
2007 Nov 11, Libya began enforcing
new regulations demanding an Arabic translation of passports for
visitors. A Libyan aviation official said the measures were in response
to a decision to prevent Libyans with visas for the EU's Schengen
border-free zone from entering certain European countries, notably
France and Britain.
(AFP, 11/12/07)
2007 Nov 11, Proton, Malaysia’s
national car maker, said it planned to team up with companies in Iran
and Turkey to produce "Islamic cars" for the global market.
(http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/12/news/international/bc.mi.malaysia.islamicc.ap/)
2007 Nov 11, The major Northern
Ireland Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defense Association,
announced it was formally renouncing violence, but a commander said the
group would not surrender its weapons to international disarmament
officials.
(AP, 11/11/07)
2007 Nov 11, Pakistan's military
ruler said elections would be held by January but set no time limit on
emergency rule that has suspended citizens' rights, claiming it was
essential for fighting terrorism and ensuring a free and fair vote.
(AP, 11/11/07)
2007 Nov 11, A severe storm broke
the Volganeft-139, a small Russian oil tanker, in two in the Strait of
Kerch, spilling at least 560,000 gallons of fuel into the strait
between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. A Russian official said it
was an "environmental disaster." 8 seamen were left missing. Two
freighters nearby also sank under 18-foot waves in storm. As many as 10
ships sank or ran aground in the area.
(AP, 11/11/07)(Reuters, 11/12/07)(SFC, 11/12/07,
p.A15)
2007 Nov 11, Tens of thousands of
South Korean farmers and workers clashed with riot police at a massive
rally against a free trade agreement with the United States.
(AP, 11/11/07)
2008 Nov 11, Tim Lincecum, pitcher
for the SF Giants, was named winner of the Cy Young Award.
(SFC, 11/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 11, Suspected Taliban
militants kidnapped Shamsudin Agha, a religious leader in western in
Farah province, after he criticized the use of suicide attacks as a
weapon of war in the country. Authorities recovered Agha's body the
next night.
(AP, 11/14/08)
2008 Nov 11, Bolivian officials
said they have formally asked the US to extradite former President
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who ordered a military crackdown on 2003
riots in which at least 60 people died.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 11, Jack Scott (85),
former British TV sitcom star (On the Buses), died.
(Econ, 12/6/08, p.109)
2008 Nov 11, At least 13 soldiers
were killed in an ambush by rebels at Kabo, near the Central African
Republic's border with Chad, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Bangui.
(AFP, 11/12/08)
2008 Nov 11, The UN reported that
hundreds of Congolese soldiers rampaged through several villages in
eastern Congo raping women and pillaging homes as they pulled back
ahead of a feared rebel advance.
(SFC, 11/12/08, p.A7)
2008 Nov 11, Egypt's chief
archaeologist has announced the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid
in Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis and burial site of the rulers of
ancient Memphis. The new pyramid is the 118th discovered so far in
Egypt.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 11, Armed Bedouin
attacked a security checkpoint in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and seized 11
policemen in a restive area near the border with Israel. The Bedouin
tribesmen were angered by a police shooting a day earlier that killed a
suspected Bedouin smuggler in the area.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 11, French police
arrested 10 people, described as anarchists, suspected for the recent
sabotaging of high-speed trains. In 5 instances since late October iron
rods were jammed into power cables in order to hold up trains.
(WSJ, 11/12/08, p.A12)
2008 Nov 11, The Imams Bridge in
north Baghdad reopened. It had closed 3 years ago after a stampede
during a Shiite procession killed almost 1,000 people. A pair of
roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in east Baghdad during the
morning rush hour, killing 3 people and wounding 14 others. An Internet
monitoring service said 10 Iraqi insurgent groups have agreed to
escalate attacks against US and Iraqi forces to derail the proposed
US-Iraqi security agreement. Hajji Hammadi, a leader of al-Qaida in
Iraq, was killed. He was blamed in the April, 2004, abduction and
murder of Army reservist Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin of Batavia, Ohio.
(AP, 11/11/08)(AP, 11/12/08)(AP, 11/20/08)
2008 Nov 11, Rabbi Meir Porush, an
ultra-Orthodox rabbi, faced off against Nir Barkat (49), a secular
businessman, in Jerusalem's mayoral race. Nir Barkat, a former
paratroops officer, won the election with 52% support.
(AP, 11/11/08)(AP, 11/12/08)
2008 Nov 11, Mohamed Nasheed took
the oath of office as the Maldives' first democratically elected
president. He now leads the flattest nation on Earth, with an average
height of 2.3 meters (7 feet) above sea level, and one considered
particularly vulnerable to the perils of global climate change and
rising sea levels.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 11, In Mexico 21 police
were arrested in the northern border city of Tijuana on suspicion of
working with criminal gangs. The body of a 28-year-old man was dumped
in an empty lot in the beach resort of Rosarito, outside Tijuana.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 11, Myanmar sentenced 23
activists, including 5 Buddhist monks arrested during anti-junta
protests last year to 65 years each in jail, in what rights groups
branded a fresh attempt to stifle dissent. Min Ko Naing, considered as
one of Myanmar's top activists, was among those sentenced.
(AP, 11/11/08)(AFP, 11/14/08)(AFP, 11/15/08)
2008 Nov 11, A Nigerian appeal
court sacked the governor of the southern state of Edo following
complaints of vote irregularities and declared his opponent the winner.
(AFP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 11, Pakistan’s military
said at least 11 Taliban militants were killed and two soldiers wounded
in gunfights with troops in the northwestern Swat valley, rocked by a
violent campaign to introduce Islamic law. A suicide bomber blew
himself up outside the Peshawar Sports Complex, hosting athletes from
around the country, killing at least two people.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 11, Russia’s central bank
widened its target band for the currency’s rate against the dollar by
about 1% in each direction. Weeks of rigid defense had fueled a $112
billion decline in reserves. The central bank also raised interest rate
by 1% in an effort to keep money from flowing out of the country.
(WSJ, 11/12/08, p.A8)
2008 Nov 11, Rwanda expelled the
German ambassador and Pres. Kagame declared that Germany violated his
country's sovereignty when it arrested one of his aides in connection
with an attack that set off Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 11, Swedish truck and bus
maker Volvo AB said it will lay off nearly 1,000 staff at its
powertrain unit in Sweden and the United States as the global financial
crisis continues to weigh on the demand for heavy vehicles.
(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 11, In Taiwan former
Pres. Chen Sui-bian was detained by police after prosecutors sought his
formal arrest on corruption and money laundering charges. He was later
taken to hospital complaining that police had roughed him up.
(SFC, 11/12/08, p.A4)
2008 Nov 11, Uruguay's Senate
voted to depenalize abortion during the first trimester, a rare step in
a Latin American nation. President Tabare Vasquez vetoed the measure on
Nov 14.
(AP, 11/11/08)(AP, 11/14/08)
2008 Nov 11, In Zimbabwe riot
police beat dozens of students and pro-democracy activists marching
through Harare to demand a new government to tackle the country's
worsening economic and political crisis.
(AFP, 11/11/08)
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