Today in History - November 19
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498 Nov 19,
Anastasius II, Pope (496-98), (Dante Inferno XI, 8-9), died.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1493 Nov 19, Christopher Columbus
discovered Puerto Rico on his 2nd voyage.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1521 Nov 19, Battle at Milan:
Emperor Charles V's Spanish, German, and papal troops beat France and
occupied Milan. An eight year war between France and the Holy Roman
Emp., Charles V, began after the French supported rebels in Spain.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.12)(MC, 11/19/01)
1530 Nov 19, Augsburg Emperor
Karel I demanded the Edict of Worms.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1600 Nov 19, Charles I of England
was born. Charles I, ruled Great Britain from 1625-1649. He was
executed by Parliament in 1649.
(WUD, 1994, p.249)(HN, 11/19/98)
1620 Nov 19, The Pilgrims reached
Cape Cod.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1630 Nov 19, Johann Hermann Schein
(44), German composer (Opella Nova), died.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1696 Nov 19, Louis Tocque, French
painter, was born.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1703 Nov 19, The “Man in the Iron
Mask,” a prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, died.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1709 Nov 19, Pierre Leclair,
composer, was born.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1752 Nov 19, George Rogers Clark,
frontier military leader in Revolutionary War, was born.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1770 Nov 19, Albert Bertel
Thorvaldsen, sculptor (Dying Lion), was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1793 Nov 19, The Jacobin Club was
formed in Paris. Robespierre (1758-1794), Jacobin leader: “Terror is
nothing but justice, prompt, severe and inflexible.”
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.C5)(MC, 11/19/01)
1794 Nov 19, The United States and
Britain signed the Jay Treaty, which resolved some issues left over
from the Revolutionary War. This was the 1st US extradition treaty.
(AP, 11/19/97)(MC, 11/19/01)
1797 Nov 19, Sojourner Truth
(d.1883), abolitionist and women's rights advocate, was born. “Religion
without humanity is a poor human stuff.” [see Nov 18]
(HN, 11/19/98)(AP, 10/29/00)
1798 Nov 19, Theobald Wolfe Tone,
Irish nationalist (United Irishmen), died.
(MC, 11/19/01)(WSJ, 9/12/02, p.D8)
1805 Nov 19, Ferdinand de Lesseps,
French diplomat and engineer (built Suez Canal), was born.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1828 Nov 19, Franz Schubert
(b.1797), Austrian composer, died of syphilis in Vienna. In this he
composed his song cycle "Schwanengesang." His work included the C-Major
Symphony, string quartets, 3 piano sonatas, and the C-Major String
Quartet. Otto Erich Deutsch catalogued his work [hence the "D" numbers]
and wrote a documentary biography. In 1997 Brian Newbould wrote
"Schubert: The Music and the Man."
(SFEC, 2/2/97, DB. p.32)(WSJ, 4/16/97, p.A16)(WSJ,
5/13/97, p.A21)
1831 Nov 19, James A. Garfield
(d.1881) the 20th Pres. of the US, was born in Orange Township, Ohio.
(WUD, 1994, p.584)(AP, 11/19/08)
1835 Nov 19, Fitzhugh Lee
(d.1905), Major General (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1850 Nov 19, Lord Tennyson became
the British poet laureate.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1859 Nov 19, Mikhail Mikhayl
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian musician (Armenian Rhapsody), was born.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1861 Nov 19, Julia Ward Howe wrote
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while visiting Union troops near
Washington. [see Nov 18]
(HN, 11/19/00)
1863 Nov 19, President Lincoln
delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at
the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. Lincoln had been
asked to deliver a few "appropriate remarks" to the crowd at the
dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His address was almost ignored in the wake of
the lengthy oration by main speaker Edwin Everett, the former governor
of Massachusetts. In fact, Lincoln's speech was over before many in the
crowd were even aware that he was speaking. Lincoln concluded his
speech with this vow: "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth
of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth."
(http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~brixr01/theTIMEMACHINE.html)(AP,
11/19/97)(ON, 8/07, p.1)
1864 Nov 19, Confederate commander
Nathan Bedford Forrest joined Gen. Hood at Gunter’s Landing on the
Tennessee River in northern Alabama.
(AH, 10/02, p.41)
1866 Nov 19, The sailing ship
Coya, a Welsh coal ship out of Sidney with passengers bound for SF,
wrecked near Pigeon Point, Ca. 26 people perished and 3 survived.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A13)
1868 Nov 19, William Sidney Mount
(b.1807), American genre painter, died. His work included: “Eel
Spearing at Setauket” (1845).
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9054008/William-Sidney-Mount)
1873 Nov 19, James Reed and two
accomplices robbed the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw
Nation.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1874 Nov 19, Karl Adrian Wohlfart,
composer, was born.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1874 Nov 19, William Marcy "Boss"
Tweed of Tammany Hall (NYC) was convicted of defrauding city of $6M and
sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1885 Nov 19, Bulgarians, led by
Stefan Stambolov, repulsed a larger Serbian invasion force at
Slivinitza.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1887 Nov 19, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective."
(MC, 11/19/01)
1887 Nov 19, Emma Lazarus (38), US
poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), died in NY.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1895 Nov 19, Frederick E.
Blaisdell patented the pencil.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1896 Nov 19, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire."
(MC, 11/19/01)
1897 Nov 19, The Great "City Fire"
in London.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1899 Nov 19, Allen Tate, Southern
novelist, poet and critic, was born.
(HN, 11/19/00)
1900 Nov 19, Anna Seghers, [Netty
Radvanyi-Reiling], German author (7th Cross), was born.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1901 Nov 19, Louis Kahn (d.1974),
architect, was born in Saarama, Estonia. His designs included the
capital building of Bangladesh, completed in 1983.
(PBS, Internet)
1903 Nov 19, Carrie Nation
attempted to address Senate.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1905 Nov 19, Tommy Dorsey, band
leader, was born in Shenandoah, Pa.
(AP, 11/19/05)
1905 Nov 19, 100 people drowned in
the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sank.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1911 Nov 19, New York received the
first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1915 Nov 19, Billy Strayhorn
(d.1967), composer, arranger and pianist, was born. He wrote "Take the
A Train."
(HN, 11/19/00)
1915 Nov 19, Joe Hill, Labor
leader and songwriter, was executed for murder. Joe Hill (Joseph
Hillstrom) was executed after being convicted of killing two men in a
holdup in Salt Lake City in 1914. He claimed the charges against him
were trumped up and won worldwide support, including that of President
Woodrow Wilson. Nevertheless, Hill was tried, convicted and executed by
firing squad. Hill, born Joel Haggelund in Sweden in 1879, went to the
United States in 1902 and soon joined the revolutionary Industrial
Workers of the World (the Wobblies).
(HNQ, 10/25/99)(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A21)(MC, 11/19/01)
1915 Nov 19, The Allies asked
China to join the entente against the Central Powers.
(HN, 11/19/00)
1917 Nov 19, Indira Gandhi was
born in Allahabad. She served as prime minister of India from 1967 to
1977 and 1978 to 1984, when she was assassinated by her own guards.
(HN, 11/19/00)(AP, 11/19/07)
1919 Nov 19, The US Senate
rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor to 39
against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.
(AP, 11/19/97)
1919 Nov 19, Gillo Pontecorvo
(d.2006) was born in Pisa, Italy. He one of 10 children of a wealthy
Jewish industrialist and grew up to become a prominent film maker.
(SFC, 10/14/06, p.B5)
1921 Nov 19, Roy Campanella,
baseball star, was born.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1923 Nov 19, Oklahoma Governor
Walton was ousted by state senate for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1926 Nov 19, Trotsky and Zinoviev
were expelled from Politburo in the USSR.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1928 Nov 19, The 1st issue of Time
magazine featured Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1930 Nov 19, Bob Mathias,
decathlon athlete (Olympics-gold-48), was born in Tulare, Calif.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1932 Nov 19, Shaft and Thyssen
demanded that Hitler become German chancellor.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1936 Nov 19, Dick Cavett, talk
show host, was born Kearney, Neb.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1938 Nov 19, Ted Turner,
broadcasting mogul, owner of the Atlanta Braves, America's Cup winner,
was born in Cincinnati.
(www.infoplease.com)
1940 Nov 19, A German air raid on
Birmingham failed.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1941 Nov 19, The ship HMAS Sydney
was sunk off the west coast of Australia in a battle with the German
raider Kormoran, with the loss of all 645 on board. The Kormoran also
sank, but 318 of the German vessel's crew of 397 were rescued. The
9,500 ton Kormoran had been disguised as a Dutch merchant ship when it
opened fire on the Sydney. The government banned all media from
reporting the news for 12 days as it scrambled to explain what
happened. In March, 2008, the wrecks of the Kormoran and the Sydney
were found. In 2009 a military inquiry said Navy Capt. Joseph Burnett
made "errors of judgment" in the tragedy.
(AFP, 8/10/07)(AP, 3/16/08)(Reuters, 4/8/08)(AP,
11/19/08)(AP, 8/12/09)
1942 Nov 19, Calvin Klein, fashion
designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK), was born in Bronx, NYC.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1942 Nov 19, Sharon Olds, poet,
was born. Her work included “The Dead and The Living” and “The
Gold Cell.”
(HN, 11/19/00)
1942 Nov 19, Bruno Schulz
(b.1892), Polish writer and graphic artist, was shot dead by a German
officer, a rival of his German protector. In 1992 Theatre de Complicite
created their play “The Street of Crocodiles” based on the life and
work of Schulz.
(Econ, 9/1/07,
p.76)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Schulz)
1942 Nov 19, During World War II,
Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans
along the Don front. Soviet forces took the offensive at Stalingrad
(AP, 11/19/97)(HN, 11/19/98)
1943 Nov 19, U-536 sank in
Atlantic Ocean.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1947 Nov 19, A 200" mirror arrived
at Mt. Palomar observatory.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1949 Nov 19, Ahmad Rashad, [Bobby
Moore], NFL receiver (Minn Vikings) and sportscaster, was born.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1949 Nov 19, James Ensor (b.1860),
Belgian artist, died. His paintings included “”The Scandalized Masks”
(1883), "Ensor and General Leman Discussing Painting" (1890), and
“Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring” (1891).
(WSJ, 6/5/01, p.A23)(Econ, 7/4/09,
p.82)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ensor)
1949 Nov 19, Prince Ranier III was
crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco, six months after he succeeded his
grandfather, Prince Louis the Second. Rainier III came to power and saw
the future in banking, real estate and a more diverse economy with
industries such as pharmaceuticals and plastics.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.C1)(HN, 11/19/98)(AP, 11/19/00)
1950 Nov 19, US General Eisenhower
became supreme commander of NATO.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1952 Nov 19, Scandinavian Airlines
opened a commercial route from Canada to Europe.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1953 Nov 19, US Supreme Court
rules (7-2) that baseball is a sport not a business.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1953 Nov 19, US VP Richard Nixon
visited Hanoi in Vietnam.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1955 Nov 19, William F. Buckley
Jr. (1925-2008) published the first issue of the National Review a
conservative political journal. In 1995 its circulation reached
250,000. A biography of Buckley titled "William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron
Saint of the Conservatives" was written by John B. Judis in 1995.
(WSJ, 11/10/95, p.A-14)(SFC, 2/28/08, p.A2)
1959 Nov 19, Ford Motor Co.
announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel. Ford
discontinued the Edsel after selling less than 110,000 cars.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(AP, 11/19/97)
1962 Nov 19, S.N. Behrman's "Lord
Pengo," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1962 Nov 19, Fidel Castro accepted
the removal of Soviet weapons.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1967 Nov 19, In Vietnam, the
Tiger Force, an elite US Army unit of the 101st Airborne Division,
achieved their 327th kill. The unit had killed hundreds of civilians in
Hanh Thien, a Central Highland area, over the last seven months. US
Army Lt. Col. Gerald Morse had called for 327 kills to match the name
of the 327th infantry regiment. In 2006 Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss
authored “Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War.” It was based on
secret documents from Henry Tufts (d.2002), former head of the Army’s
Criminal Investigations Command (CID).
(AP, 10/25/03)(SSFC, 5/14/06, p.M1)
1968 Nov 19, In Mali a coup
deposed Pres. Modibo Keita (1915-1977), the country’s first president.
(WUD, 1994,
p.1687)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modibo_Ke%C3%AFta)
1969 Nov 19, Apollo 12 astronauts
Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon and
became the 3rd and 4th humans there.
(AP, 11/19/97)(HN, 11/19/98)
1969 Nov 19, The Benny Hill Show
premiered in Britain. It ran on Thames Television (ITV) from 1969-1989.
(www.tv.com/the-benny-hill-show/show/3329/summary.html)
1972 Nov 19, Willy Brandt's SPD
won West German elections. Willy Brandt was the 1st German chancellor
to seek early elections via a vote of confidence.
(http://tinyurl.com/bs7oe)(Econ, 6/11/05, p.49)
1973 Nov 19, Saudi Arabia, Libya
and other Arab states proclaimed a total ban on oil exports to the
United States. Gasoline prices quadrupled from twenty-five cents per
gallon to over one dollar. The New York stock market took its sharpest
drop in 19 years.
(HN,
11/19/98)(www.bullnotbull.com/archive/market-01222006.html)
1975 Nov 19, Elizabeth Taylor
(b.1912), English writer, died of cancer. Her work included 12 novels
and 5 short story collections.
(SFC, 7/25/06, p.E3)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0852331/)
1976 Nov 19, Patty Hearst was
freed on $1.5 million bail. She returned to her family’s home at 1001
California St.
(HN, 11/19/98)(SFC, 11/16/01, WB p.G4)
1976 Nov 19, George Harrison
(1943-2001) released his album "Thirty Three & 1/3."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Three_%26_1/3)
1977 Nov 17, The "Elephant Man,"
by Bernard Pomerance (b.1940), premiered in London.
(www.answers.com/topic/1977)
1977 Nov 19, The Libyan flag was
adopted, after Libya left the Federation of Arabs Republic, which
consisted of Libya, Egypt and Syria.
(www.worldflags101.com/l/libya-flag.aspx)
1977 Nov 19, Egyptian Pres. Anwar
Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. Peace talks began
in the Middle East with Sadat going to Israel.
(TMC, 1994, p.1977)(AP, 11/19/97)
1977 Nov 19, A cyclone and tidal
wave hit Andhra Pradesh, India. Entire villages were submerged by tidal
waves with an estimated 10-20 thousand people killed.
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)(SFC,
11/1/99, p.A11)(AP, 11/21/02)
1980 Nov 19, The film "Heaven's
Gate," directed by Michael Cimino, was released.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855/)
1980 Nov 19, The musical “Dunbar”
won the Best Musical of the Year at the Audelco Awards ceremony in NYC.
It was based on poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(SFC, 11/18/05, p.F2)
1980 Nov 19, CBS TV banned Calvin
Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields (b.1965).
(http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/anniversary/35th/n_8554/)
1981 Nov 19, US Steel agreed to
pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1982 Nov 19, An antenna tower
collapsed during construction in Missouri City, Texas, and 5 riggers
were killed.
(http://ethics.tamu.edu/ethics/tvtower/tv3.htm)
1983 Nov 19, Angela Bugay (5) was
abducted in Antioch, Ca., [see Nov 26].
(SFC, 5/29/02, p.A18)
1984 Nov 19, Near Mexico City,
Mexico, 5 million liters of liquefied butane exploded at a storage
facility killing some 500 people.
(HSAB, 1994, p.46)(AP, 11/19/07)
1985 Nov 19, Herb Gardner's "I'm
Not Rappaport," premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Not_Rappaport)
1985 Nov 19, President Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began
their summit in Geneva.
(AP, 11/19/97)
1985 Nov 19, Stepin Fetchit (83),
born as Lincoln Perry, 1st black film star, died of pneumonia. His
films included “Miracle in Harlem” (1948). In 2005 Mel Watkins authored
“Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry.”
(www.nndb.com/people/913/000091640/)
1987 Nov 19, Congressional budget
negotiators finished all but the final details of a two-year, $75
billion deficit reduction pact, but not in time to avert spending cuts
mandated by the Gramm-Rudman Act.
(AP, 11/19/97)
1987 Nov 19, Christopher Wilmarth
(b.1943), minimalist sculptor, died of suicide in Brooklyn. His work
used glass, steel and bronze to explore translucency and the textural
effects of the materials.
(WSJ, 10/23/01,
p.A24)(www.bettycuninghamgallery.com/CWexhibition.html)
1988 Nov 19, Michaela Joy Garecht
(9) was kidnapped outside a market in Hayward, Ca., and has not been
seen since.
(www.geocities.com/farmgirl1032001/michaela_garecht.html)
1988 Nov 19, Shipping heiress
Christina Onassis (37) died in Buenos Aires of pulmonary edema. Her 4th
marriage to Thierry Roussel had recently broken up.
(SFEC,11/16/97, Par p.2)(AP, 11/19/98)
1988 Nov 19, Benazir Bhutto was
elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
(SFC, 1/30/97, p.A9)
1989 Nov 19, Funeral services were
held in El Salvador for six Jesuit priests slain by uniformed gunmen.
(AP, 11/19/99)
1990 Nov 19, The pop duo Milli
Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy Award because other singers had
lent their voices to the "Girl You Know It's True" album.
(AP, 11/19/98)
1990 Nov 19, Leaders of 16 NATO
members and the remaining six Warsaw Pact nations signed treaties in
Paris making sweeping cuts in conventional arms throughout Europe and
pledging non-aggression toward one another. The Treaty on Conventional
Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was signed by the United States and 21
other NATO and WTO countries at a CSCE summit in Paris.
(AP,
11/19/00)(www.fas.org/nuke/control/cfe/chron.htm)
1991 Nov 19, The U.S. House of
Representatives sustained President Bush's veto of a bill that would
have lifted his ban on federally financed abortion counseling.
(AP, 11/19/01)
1992 Nov 19, President-elect
Clinton paid a call on Congress.
(AP, 11/19/97)
1992 Nov 19, President Bush's
mother, Dorothy, died in Greenwich, Conn., at age 91.
(AP, 11/19/97)
1993 Nov 19, President Clinton met
in Seattle with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
(AP, 11/19/98)
1993 Nov 19, The U.S. Senate
approved a sweeping $22.3 billion anti-crime measure.
(AP, 11/19/98)
1993 Nov 19, Kenneth Burke
(b.1897), American writer and critic, died. In 2005 David R.
Godine/Black Sparrow published “Here & Elsewhere: The Collected
Fiction of Kenneth Burke.”
(WSJ, 11/26/05,
p.P10)(www.home.duq.edu/~thames/kennethburke/chrono2.htm)
1994 Nov 19, The U.N. Security
Council, anxious to stop Serb attacks on the "safe area" of Bihac in
northwest Bosnia, authorized NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking
from neighboring Croatia.
(AP, 11/19/99)
1994 Nov 19, Julian Symons
(b.1912)), British detective writer (Death's Darkest Face), died.
(http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/Whodunit__writers.html)
1995 Nov 19, The Clinton
administration and Republican congressional leaders reached a deal to
end a six-day budget standoff and resulting partial government shutdown.
(AP, 11/19/00)
1995 Nov 19, A suicide bomber
self-destructed in the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad and killed 15
others. 59 were wounded. Islamic militants opposed to the Cairo regime
claimed responsibility.
(WSJ, 11/20/95, p.A-1)(MC, 11/19/01)
1995 Nov 19, In Poland former
Communist Alexander Kwasniewski won the presidency by a narrow margin
over Pres. Walesa with 51.7% of the vote.
(WSJ, 11/7/95, p.A-1)(WSJ, 11/21/95, p.A-1)
1996 Nov 19, The US voted
alone against the other 14 members of the UN Security Council
against the re-election of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.C2s)(AP, 11/19/97)
1996 Nov 19, Robert Citron, former
treasurer of Orange County, was sentenced to a year in jail and fined
$100,000.
(WSJ, 1/2/97, p.R2)
1996 Nov 19, A federal judge ruled
in favor of CSX in its acquisition of Conrail.
(WSJ, 1/2/97, p.R2)
1996 Nov 19, The space shuttle
Columbia lifted off with the oldest crew member to date, 61-year-old
Story Musgrave.
(AP, 11/19/97)
1996 Nov 19, Fourteen people were
killed when a commuter plane collided with a private plane at Baldwin
Municipal Airport in Quincy, Ill.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.A4)(AP, 11/19/97)
1996 Nov 19, In Bosnia the
Muslim-Croat government fired Deputy Defense Minister Hasan Cengic. His
ties to Iran interfered with a $100 million US disbursement of arms. He
was replaced by an executive order of Kresimir Zubak, president of the
Muslim-Croat federation.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.C6)
1996 Nov 19, Two Israeli border
policemen were arrested after a videotape showed them beating and
kicking Palestinian laborers.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.C2)
1996 Nov 19, In Romania Victor
Ciorbea, mayor of Bucharest, was named by the Peasant Party the next
prime minister.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.C4)
1996 Nov 19, In Yugoslavia the
Zajedno (Together) opposition coalition claimed victory in 44
municipalities across Serbia.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.C2)
1997 Nov 19, In Iowa seamstress
Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to 4 boys and three girls, septuplets, the
2nd such birth in the US. She had used the fertility drug Pergonal.
(SFC,11/20/97, p.A1)(AP, 11/19/98)
1997 Nov 19, In Denver Oumar Dia,
a black man, was gunned down at a bus stop, and a nurse, Jeannie
Vanvelkinburgh, who tried to help him, was shot in the back and left
paralyzed. One of 2 suspects was arrested and described himself as a
skinhead and said that he shot Dia because he was black.
(SFC, 11/29/97, p.A3)
1997 Nov 19, The space shuttle
Columbia zoomed into orbit on a two-week science mission.
(SFC,11/20/97, p.A8) (AP, 11/19/98)
1997 Nov 19, In Texas Michael
Eugene Sharp became the 35th condemned killer to be put to death this
year. He used the Internet to distribute his last words. He had
abducted a woman and her 2 young daughters, sexually abused them, and
fatally stabbed the mother and youngest daughter.
(SFC,11/20/97, p.A3)
1997 Nov 19, 45,000 Canadian
postal workers went on strike after Canada Post ordered staffing levels
cut.
(WSJ, 11/20/97, p.A1)
1997 Nov 19, In India a car bomb
exploded in Hyderabad at a gala kickoff for a new movie and 23 people
were killed. Police suspected rivals of producer Paritala Ravi, who is
also a lawmaker in Andhra Pradesh state.
(SFC,11/20/97, p.B7)
1997 Nov 19, In Israel a Jewish
seminary student was killed and another wounded near the Damascus Gate
in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s walled Old City.
(SFC,11/20/97, p.B7)
1997 Nov 19, In Mexico members of
the elite Zorro police unit protested the arrest of their comrades for
the Sep 8 killing of 6 youths. They ended their standoff after 14 hours
and allowed the questioning of 14 officers.
(SFC,11/20/97, p.B2)(SFC,11/21/97, p.D6)
1997 Nov 19, Edmundo Tasinnari,
head of the Mexico City anti-kidnapping unit, and Humberto Salgado, his
deputy, were kidnapped with their driver. The driver was later found
beaten and wandering in a daze.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.C5)
1997 Nov 19, In Taiwan Chen
Chin-hsing surrendered to police after releasing his hostages in Taipei.
(SFC,11/20/97, p.B7)
1998 Nov 19, Pres. Clinton began a
5-day trip to Asia and in Japan suggested that current efforts to end
an 8-year economic downturn may not be enough.
(SFC, 11/20/98, p.A16)
1998 Nov 19, The US Air Force
tested the Centurion flying wing, a 206-foot battery powered robotic
craft. Solar panels were planned to replace the batteries.
(SFC, 11/20/98, p.A7)
1998 Nov 19, Independent Counsel
Kenneth Starr laid out his evidence for the impeachment hearings
against Pres. Clinton. He defended his investigation under withering
questions from Democrats, during a daylong appearance before the House
Judiciary Committee.
(SFC, 11/20/98, p.A1,3) (AP, 11/19/99)
1998 Nov 19, Alan Pakula (70),
film director, was killed in a car crash on Long Island Expressway
after a metal bar crashed through his windshield causing him to crash
into a fence. He had made 23 movies, 4 as a writer, 18 as a producer,
and 16 as a director.
(SFC, 11/20/98, p.C10)(SFEC, 4/25/99, Par p.18)
1998 Nov 19, A Van Gogh
self-portrait sold at auction for $71.5 million.
(WSJ, 11/20/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 19, In Israel the Cabinet
voted 7 to 5 to go ahead with a troop withdrawal from Palestinian land
in the West Bank, and to free 250 Palestinian prisoners,
(SFC, 11/20/98, p.A16)(WSJ, 11/20/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 19, Turkey arrested the
head of the main legal Kurdish party.
(WSJ, 11/20/98, p.A1)
1999 Nov 19, In Greece some 10,000
people demonstrated as Pres. Clinton rode through Athens under tight
security and proclaimed a “profound and enduring friendship.” The Greek
government ran into a storm of opposition and media criticism for
failing to prevent a rampage through Athens by leftists hostile to
visiting President Clinton.
(SFC, 11/20/99, p.A1)(Excite, 11/20/99)(AP, 11/19/00)
1999 Nov 19, In Bolivia a 5-day
Conference of American Armies ended. Discussions centered on new roles
for the Latin armies such as defending democracy, fighting poverty and
eradicating drug smuggling.
(SFC, 11/20/99, p.C1)
1999 Nov 19, In Germany officials
announced an amnesty program for some 20,000 foreigners seeking asylum.
A cut off date of Jul 1, 1993 was set for eligible families.
(SFC, 11/20/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 19, In Ramallah, West
Bank (Reuters), Israeli security forces fired tear gas and
rubber-coated metal bullets at stone-throwing Palestinians demanding
the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israel's jails.
(Excite, 11/20/99)
1999 Nov 19, In Hyderabad, India
(Reuters), an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis has killed 133 people,
all of them children, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh,
health officials said after reporting 10 new deaths.
(Excite, 11/20/99)
1999 Nov 19, In Lahore, Pakistan
(Reuters), an explosion ripped through a market in Lahore, the capital
of Punjab province, on Saturday, killing at least three people and
injuring 12, rescue workers said.
(Excite, 11/20/99)
1999 Nov 19, In Turkey the
54-nation summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) closed with a treaty that restricted the number of tanks,
planes and artillery of every army across Europe.
(SFC, 11/20/99, p.A10)
2000 Nov 19, Pres. Clinton ended
his historic 3-day visit to Vietnam.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/19/01)
2000 Nov 19, US negotiators at the
Hague agreed to limit the use of forest projects to reach targets for
green house gases at global warming talks aimed writing the fine print
for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 19, Attorney Charles
Ruff, who represented President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky
scandal and his impeachment trial, died in Washington, D.C., at age 61.
(AP, 11/19/01)
2000 Nov 19, In Austria 4 skiers
died in avalanches in the Tyrol.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A10)
2000 Nov 19, In Chechnya 7 Russian
soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in some 2 dozen attacks by Chechen
rebels.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A10)
2000 Nov 19, In Colombia weekend
clashes with leftist rebels left at least 28 dead.
(WSJ, 11/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 19, India announced a
1-month unilateral cease-fire in Kashmir.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A9)
2000 Nov 19, Israeli troops killed
a 14-year-old stone thrower in Gaza. One other Palestinian was killed
and 9 wounded.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 19, In Jordan an Israeli
envoy was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 19, In Tokyo Peru’s Pres.
Fujimori said he would resign within 48 hours.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A1)
2001 Nov 19, Barry Bonds became
the first baseball player to win four Most Valuable Player Awards.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2001 Nov 19, Pres. Bush signed
airport security legislation that required programs for the inspection
of air travel checked baggage within 60 days. "Safety comes first." It
included a requirement for security screeners to be US citizens within
a year.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.A1)(SFC,
1/18/02, p.A16)(SSFC, 12/7/03, p.D6)
2001 Nov 19, The United States
accused Iraq and North Korea of developing germ warfare programs.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2001 Nov 19, 4 foreign journalists
and their Afghan guide were killed in an ambush between Jalalabad and
Kabul: Harry Burton of Australia (Reuters), Azizullah Haidari, Afghan
photographer (Reuters), Julio Fuentes of Spain (El Mundo, Madrid), and
Maria Grazia Cutuli of Italy (Corriere della Sera, Milan). In 2004
Afghan judges sentenced Reza Khan to death for his role in the ambush.
Khan said he was under orders from militia commander Mohammed Agha.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A3)(SSFC, 11/21/04, p.A10)
2001 Nov 19, It was reported that
400 Afghan Taliban soldiers were killed while trying to defect last
week. Gen. Dostum led Northern Alliance troops in the area. Defectors
continued to stream out of Kunduz as US war planes continued to bomb
Taliban positions.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/1/02, p.A12)
2001 Nov 19, Some Taliban began
secret negotiations for the surrender of Kandahar. They said outside
forces had taken over their movement and named: the int’l. drug mafia,
int’l. terrorists, the puritanical Wahabi school of Sunni Islam, and
Pakistan intelligence.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 19, In Colombia the
right-wing AUC militia said that it held 6 mayors hostage in Antioquia
state. The mayors were released Nov 20.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 19, Egypt and Syria
confirmed the extradition of Rifai Ahmed Taha, a former aide to Osama
bin Laden, from Syria to Egypt.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 19, In the Philippines
Moro rebels attacked the army near Jolo town. 4 soldiers were killed
along with 51 rebels in a counterattack.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 19, A Russian airliner
crashed 90 miles north of Moscow and all 24 on board were killed. The
Ilyushin-18 was chartered by Israero and was from the Siberian city of
Khatanga.
(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.A1)
2002 Nov 19, It was reported that
Ruth Lilly (87), great-grandchild of pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly,
had given Poetry Magazine, founded in Chicago in 1912, a $100 million
endowment.
(SFC, 11/19/02, p.A3)
2002 Nov 19, The US Senate voted
90-9 to create a Homeland Security Department.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2002 Nov 19, The US Dept. of
Energy awarded IBM a contract to develop a 100 teraflop computer (ASCI
Purple), the estimated speed of the human brain. This followed the
recent development of a Japanese NEC computer that was clocked at 36.5
teraflops, trillions of floating point operations a second, more than 4
times the fastest US computer. Completion was expected in 2004.
(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.B1)
2002 Nov 19, It was reported that
the Holland America cruise ship Amsterdam was in its 4th week of
battling the Norwalk gastrointestinal virus.
(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.B1)
2002 Nov 19, It was reported that
Ken Thomson, billionaire media baron and Canada's richest man, will
donate his C$300 million ($190 million) art collection to the Art
Gallery of Ontario.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2002 Nov 19, In Red Bluff, Ca.,
police officer David Mobilio (31) was shot to death at a gas station.
On Nov 25 Andrew Hampton McCrae (23), an ex-soldier and drifter, posted
a message on the Internet admitting the murder. On Nov 26 McCrae was
arrested in Concord, NH.
(SFC, 11/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 19, Singer Michael
Jackson made an appearance outside his Berlin hotel and briefly held
his youngest child, Prince Michael II, over a fourth-floor balcony in
front of dozens of fans waiting below.
(AP, 11/19/03)
2002 Nov 19, UN weapons inspectors
wrapped up a two-day visit to Iraq.
(AP, 11/19/03)
2002 Nov 19, Italian newspapers
reported that the 'ndrangheta, the Calabrian version of the Sicilian
Mafia, received 3 percent of the multimillion dollar contracts for work
on stretches of the highway that passed through their "territory."
(AP, 11/20/02)
2002 Nov 19, In Mozambique Manuel
dos Santos Fernandes told Judge Augusto Paulino that he and two of his
fellow accused had killed top investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso
in return for a promise of $20,000 from President Joaquim Chissano's
son Nhimpine.
(AP, 11/20/02)
2002 Nov 19, Five Palestinians
died when Israeli soldiers swept through the West Bank town of
Tulkarem, one a leading militant and another a teenager who had climbed
on top of an Israeli armored vehicle.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2002 Nov 19, The Prestige oil
tanker, carrying 20 million gallons of fuel oil, broke in two and sank
in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Spain. It leaked up to 1.02
million gallons of oil and threatened a spill nearly twice as big as
the Exxon Valdez in 1989. Leakage continued at some 33,000 gallons per
day and could drain until 2006. Spain later put the estimated cost of
the Prestige oil tanker spill at least $1.05 billion.
(AP, 11/19/02)(WSJ, 12/11/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/15/03)
2003 Nov 19, Shirley Hazzard won
the US National Book Award for her novel "The Great Fire." The
non-fiction prize went to Prof. Carlos Eire of Yale for "Waiting for
Snow in Havana," a memoir of his family living under Castro in Cuba.
(SFC, 11/20/03, p.A2)
2003 Nov 19, In London, Pres. Bush
urged Europe to put aside bitter war disagreements with the US and work
to build democracy in Iraq or risk turning the nation over to
terrorists.
(AP, 11/19/04)
2003 Nov 19, A US-Canadian
investigation found that the Aug. 14 blackout should have been
contained by operators at Ohio's FirstEnergy Corporation. Investigators
also faulted Midwest regional monitors.
(AP, 11/19/04)
2003 Nov 19, The 2-year-old
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) held a banquet at the
Grand Hyatt in Washington DC that cost $461,745 for some 600 honorees
and as many guests.
(SFC, 10/15/04, p.A7)
2003 Nov 19, An American guided
missile frigate sailed into Ho Chi Minh City flying the US and
Vietnamese flags, becoming the first US warship to dock in the
communist country since the Vietnam War.
(AP, 11/19/03)
2003 Nov 19, Rebel holdouts in
Burundi clashed with government troops in a capital slum, killing 11
people, mainly noncombatants caught in the crossfire.
(AP, 11/20/03)
2003 Nov 19, In Canada Justice
Minister Martin Cauchon has ordered fugitive banker Rakesh Saxena to
surrender to Thailand to face allegations that he looted a Bangkok bank.
(AP, 11/19/03)
2003 Nov 19, In Ramadi, Iraq, a
car bomb exploded late outside the home of a pro-American tribal
leader, killing one child.
(AP, 11/19/03)
2003 Nov 19, A Jordanian truck
driver fired on a crowd of tourists crossing into Israel, killing one
and wounding four, in an attack near the Red Sea resort of Eilat. The
gunman was killed by Israeli security personnel.
(AP, 11/19/03)
2003 Nov 19, South Africa said it
would provide free AIDS drugs.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R12)
2003 Nov 19, Turkish authorities
arrested six people in connection with the suicide bombings of two
Istanbul synagogues.
(AP, 11/19/03)
2004 Nov 19, Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan warned about spiraling deficits and the impact
on the declining dollar. The Dow Jones fell 115 to 10456.9.
(SFC, 11/20/04, p.C1)
2004 Nov 19, In Auburn Hills,
Mich., players and fans exchanged punches in one of the worst NBA
brawls ever. Indiana Pacers’ Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson charged
into the stands and fought with fans and forced an early end to the
Pacers' 97-82 win over the Pistons win with 45.9 seconds left.
(AP, 11/20/04)
2004 Nov 19, Intel Corp., the
world's largest computer chip maker, said it would spend $40 million to
expand in the southern Indian city of Bangalore over the next two years.
(AP, 11/19/04)
2004 Nov 19, Martin Edward Malia,
historian and leading specialist on Russia who taught at the University
of California, Berkeley, for more than three decades, died. “History’s
Locomotives,” his last book, was published posthumously in 2006.
(www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/11/23_malia.shtml)
2004 Nov 19, Terry Melcher (62),
record producer and son of Doris Day, died. He co-wrote the Beach Boy
song “Kokomo” and produced his mother’s “The Doris Day Show”
(1968-1972).
(SSFC, 11/21/04,
p.A25)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Melcher)
2004 Nov 19, APEC, the
Asia-Pacific Economic cooperation summit, opened in Chile.
(Econ, 11/20/04, p.40)
2004 Nov 19, Cuba and Panama
agreed to restore consular relations, taking a step toward renewal of
full diplomatic ties at a meeting on the sidelines of an Ibero-American
summit.
(AP, 11/19/04)
2004 Nov 19, Iraqi forces, backed
by US soldiers, stormed one of the major Sunni Muslim mosques in
Baghdad after Friday prayers, opening fire and killing at least 3
people. A suicide car bomber rammed into a police patrol in Baghdad,
killing one policeman.
(AP, 11/19/04)
2004 Nov 19, Israel’s Yediot
Ahronot newspaper published photos of Israeli soldiers posing with dead
Palestinians. Allegations of abuse followed.
(SFC, 11/20/04, p.A16)
2004 Nov 19, Myanmar's junta freed
Student democracy leader Min Ko Naing, the nation's number two
political prisoner, as part of a release of 3,937 inmates. After 15
years in jail he became head of the “88 Generation students’ Group.”
(AFP, 11/20/04)(Econ, 8/25/07, p.39)
2004 Nov 19, Rebel officials and
the Sudanese government committed themselves to ending the 21-year
civil war in southern Sudan before January, signing an agreement at a
special meeting of the UN Security Council in Kenya.
(AP, 11/19/04)
2004 Nov 19, UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan urged leaders of Africa's blood-soaked Great Lakes region to
implement a peace plan that could herald a "new era" for millions of
Africans.
(AP, 11/19/04)
2004 Nov 19, In Caracas a truck
owned by a prosecutor pressing charges against supporters of
Venezuela's failed 2002 coup exploded. Prosecutor Danilo Anderson was
inside. In 2005 a court convicted 3 men in the murder of Anderson, who
had been investigating opponents of Pres. Chavez and sentenced them to
up to 30 years in prison. In 2008 Giovanny Vasquez, a star witness,
recanted his testimony saying he testified against suspects after
receiving $500,000 from a government official.
(AP, 11/19/04)(AP, 12/21/05)(AP, 4/9/08)
2005 Nov 19, Bush and other
Pacific Rim leaders in South Korea urged Europe to show new flexibility
on farm subsidies, an issue that has stalled global trade negotiations.
The 21 APEC leaders promised to boost cooperation on fighting terrorism
and preparing for a possible flu pandemic. They endorsed a roadmap for
lifting trade barriers across APEC member countries and launched an
initiative to protect intellectual property.
(AP, 11/19/05)(SFC, 11/19/05, p.A8)
2005 Nov 19, President Bush
arrived in Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders following the APEC
meeting in South Korea. A US official said China will buy 70 Boeing 737
airliners as President Bush arrived on a visit expected to include
discussion of Beijing's surging trade surplus with the US.
(AP, 11/19/05)(AP, 11/19/06)
2005 Nov 19, Tropical Storm Gamma
deluged the coast of Central America.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2005 Nov 19, Thousands of people
gathered in a Baku square as Azerbaijan's opposition parties protested
against disputed parliamentary elections, the latest rally in a
campaign that has made little headway.
(AP, 11/19/05)
2005 Nov 19, Brazil's president
ordered the intelligence service to make dictatorship-era documents
public by the end of the year.
(AP, 11/20/05)
2005 Nov 19, In Cairo, Egypt,
Shiite and Kurdish delegates stormed out of an Iraqi reconciliation
conference, halting the effort to patch over ethnic and religious fault
lines threatening to drag the country into a full civil war.
(AP, 11/19/05)
2005 Nov 19, India and Pakistan
opened their disputed border in Kashmir for the first time in 58 years,
a temporary measure to allow divided families to check on each other
after the region's devastating earthquake.
(AP, 11/19/05)
2005 Nov 19, A car bomb exploded
among shoppers at an outdoor market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in
southeast Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding about 20 others. A
suicide bomber detonated his car in a crowd of Shiite mourners north of
Baghdad, killing at least 50 people. 5 US soldiers were killed and 5
others were wounded in a pair of roadside bombings in northern Iraq. An
ambush on a joint US-Iraqi patrol northwest of Baghdad left 15
civilians, 8 insurgents and a US Marine dead from a roadside bomb and
the firefight that followed. It was later reported that Marines killed
24 civilians including women and children in retaliation for the death
of a Marine in a roadside bombing in Haditha. In 2006 4 Marines were
charged with murder and 4 officers were charged with crimes related to
their alleged failure to investigate and report the slayings. The four
Marines charged with murder for the Haditha deaths were: Staff Sgt.
Frank D. Wuterich; Sgt. Sanick P. Dela Cruz; Lance Cpl. Justin L.
Sharratt; and Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum. In 2007 murder charges were
dropped against Sgt. Dela Cruz after he agreed to provide testimony in
the case. All charges against Sharratt and Stone were dropped on Aug 9.
In 2008 charges of involuntary manslaughter against Tatum were dropped.
In 2008 Charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, who was accused of
failing to investigate the killings, were also dismissed.
(AP, 11/20/05)(Econ, 6/3/06, p.27)(SFC, 12/22/06,
p.A1)(AP, 1/6/07)(SFC, 4/18/07, p.A9)(SFC, 8/10/07, p.A7)(SFC, 3/29/08,
p.A3)(WSJ, 6/18/08, p.A2)
2005 Nov 19, Iraqi and US forces
raided a farmhouse in northern Iraq at dawn, searching for suspected
members of al-Qaida in Iraq. Eight insurgents and four Iraqi policemen
were killed. In Mosul 2 US soldiers were killed by small-arms fire.
(AP, 11/19/05)(SFC, 11/23/05, p.A3)
2005 Nov 19, Pope Benedict XVI and
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi discussed relations between the
Catholic Church and Italy, amid accusations that the church interferes
in the country's domestic affairs.
(AP, 11/19/05)
2005 Nov 19, It was reported that
the Nipah virus, naturally found in bats, had moved to Malaysian pigs.
It killed about 40% of the 265 people it had infected.
(Econ, 11/19/05, p.85)
2005 Nov 19, Prince Albert II
formally ascended to Monaco's throne in ceremonies that mixed royal
pomp with an emotional remembrance for his late father, Rainier III.
(AP, 11/19/05)
2005 Nov 19, In Peru Fernando
Zevallos, the founder of an airline that was Peru's largest until he
landed on Washington's list of "drug kingpins," was arrested on cocaine
trafficking and homicide charges.
(AP, 11/19/05)
2005 Nov 19, Sudanese troops and
rebels clashed in the western Darfur region clashed and a rebel group
said 14 civilians and eight insurgents had been killed in the past 48
hours.
(Reuters, 11/20/05)
2005 Nov 19, Pope Benedict XVI
curbed the independence of Franciscan friars running the famed St.
Francis Basilica in Assisi, decreeing they must now get permission for
their activities from the local bishop.
(AP, 11/20/05)
2006 Nov 19, President Bush in
Vietnam sought Chinese President Hu Jintao's help on dual fronts,
aiming to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions and encourage the
Chinese people to buy more US goods. Pacific Rim leaders urged North
Korea to take concrete steps to live up to its commitments to stop
developing nuclear weapons.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, Henry Kissinger,
former US Secretary of State, said in a television interview that
military victory is no longer possible in Iraq.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, In Denver, Colorado,
tens of thousands of people turned out for a celebration to welcome the
city's newest addition to its mass transit system: a train. The new
19-mile-long commuter rail line, projected to carry at least 38,000
passengers each day, officially opened.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, Blackstone Group, a
US private-equity firm, bid a record $36-billion, including debt, to
buyout Equity Office Properties Trust.
(www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=22934)(Econ, 11/25/06, p.74)
2006 Nov 19, Nintendo's new Wii
video game console debuted, the final entrant in the three-way scramble
for dominance in the $30 billion global game market.
(Reuters, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, Jeremy Slate (80), TV
and film actor, died in Los Angeles.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2006 Nov 19, In Bolivia 6
governors of 9 departments announced a break with central government.
The 2 main opposition parties walked out of the Senate, leaving it
inquorate. The governors opposed moves by Pres. Morales to centralize
power, a bill to scrutinize governors’ accounts, and details of voting
power of a new Constituent Assembly.
(Econ, 11/25/06, p.38)
2006 Nov 19, Fellow dissidents
said Col. Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB and Federal Security
Service (FSB) poisoned in Britain and now gravely ill and under guard
in the hospital, may have been targeted for his outspoken criticism of
former colleagues in Moscow. He accused his country's secret service
agency of staging apartment-house bombings in 1999 that killed more
than 300 people in Russia and sparked the second war in Chechnya.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, British PM Tony Blair
acknowledged the West had changed strategy in the fight against
terrorism, telling Pakistan's president that brokering a broad Mideast
peace deal was now as crucial as using force to battle militants.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, India successfully
test-fired a medium-range nuclear-capable missile, days after its rival
Pakistan launched a similar missile.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, Iran’s official
Islamic Republic News Agency reported that President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has demanded more ties with North Korea and urged for
nuclear disarmament in Korean peninsula.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, In Iraq Syria's
foreign minister called for a timetable for the withdrawal of American
forces to help end Iraq's sectarian bloodbath, in a groundbreaking
diplomatic mission that came amid increasing calls for the US to seek
cooperation from Syria and Iran. A suicide bomber in a minivan lured
day laborers to his vehicle with promises of a job then blew it up,
killing 22 people and wounding 44 in the mainly Shiite southern city of
Hillah. At least 112 people were killed nationwide.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, An Israeli aircraft
fired a missile at a car traveling in Gaza City, wounding 6 people,
including two Hamas militants. Militants from the ruling Islamic group
Hamas fired two rockets from the Gaza Strip at the Israeli town of
Sderot. Israel canceled airstrikes on the houses of Gaza militants
after Palestinians formed human shields around them.
(AP, 11/19/06)(WSJ, 11/20/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 19, Japan's PM Shinzo
Abe, fresh after his first Asia-Pacific summit, kicked off his official
visit to Vietnam as business chiefs unveiled plans to invest more than
700 million dollars.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, In Lebanon Sheik
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, urged his followers to prepare
for mass demonstrations to topple the government if it ignores the
militant group's demand to form a national unity coalition.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, Mauritanians voted
for a national parliament in the first election since a military junta
seized control in 2005.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, In Mexico a public
defender died of his injuries after being shot by inmates who took a
group of lawyers hostage near the central Mexican city of Morelia,
bringing the death toll in the incident to five.
(AP, 11/20/06)
2006 Nov 19, Mexican Gen.
Francisco Quiros, imprisoned for drug trafficking and implicated in the
disappearance of leftists during Mexico's "dirty war," died from
cancer. In 2005 a judge ordered Quiros arrested for the 1974 kidnapping
of singer Rosendo Radilla, who disappeared after being seized by
soldiers at a roadblock.
(AP, 11/20/06)
2006 Nov 19, In northeastern
Nicaragua a giant tree fell on an evangelical church while Rev. Larry
Wayne Poll (64), an American pastor, was delivering his sermon, killing
11 people including the clergyman.
(AP, 11/20/06)
2006 Nov 19, In Pakistan the
decapitated body of Maulana Hashim Khan (45) was found. Militants had
beheaded the Islamic school teacher, accusing him of spying for the US
in North Waziristan.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, Lima's mayor Luis
Castaneda was returned to office in nationwide regional elections
expected to give major gains to independents as Peruvians shunned
traditional political parties.
(AP, 11/20/06)
2006 Nov 19, Russia and the US
signed a key trade agreement, removing the last major obstacle in
Moscow's 13-year journey to join the World Trade Organization.
(AP, 11/19/06)
2006 Nov 19, It was reported that
Terracom was building a fiber optic network throughout Rwanda’s
11,000 square miles. An Internet connection in Kigali was now available
for $70 per month, down from $1500 5 years ago.
(SSFC, 11/19/06, p.G6)
2006 Nov 19, In Somalia Islamic
fighters used land mines and ambushed an 80-vehicle Ethiopian military
convoy headed to Baidoa killing 6 soldiers and injuring 20.
(SFC, 11/20/06, p.A3)
2006 Nov 19, Darfur rebels said
the Sudanese government has launched a major offensive in North Darfur
despite an agreement to hold new talks among all parties to the
conflict.
(AP, 11/19/06)\
2006 Nov 19, Zimbabwean President
Robert Mugabe left on a four-day state visit to Iran to beef up trade
and political ties.
(AP, 11/20/06)
2007 Nov 19, President Bush
announced that Fran Townsend, the leading White House-based terrorism
adviser, was stepping down.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2007 Nov 19, The US and Russia
announced an agreement on how to safely dispose 34 metric tons of
Russian weapons-grade plutonium.
(SFC, 11/20/07, p.A11)
2007 Nov 19, Researchers said the
number of Americans in prison has risen eight-fold since 1970, with
little impact on crime but at great cost to taxpayers and society. This
was part of a report produced by the JFA Institute, a Washington
criminal-justice research group, calling for a major justice-system
overhaul.
(Reuters, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 19, California Sec. of
State Debra Bowen sued Election Systems and Software, a Nebraska voting
machine company, for allegedly selling nearly 1,000 uncertified
machines to San Francisco and 4 other counties. Bowen sought
reimbursements of nearly $15 million.
(SFC, 11/20/07, p.D1)
2007 Nov 19, Amazon.com began
selling its Kindle electronic book reader, the size of a paperback, for
$399. It was able to hold 200 volumes.
(WSJ, 11/20/07, p.B1)(Econ, 10/25/08, SR p.11)
2007 Nov 19, The FBI reported hate
crime incidents rose nearly 8 percent in 2006.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2007 Nov 19, Milo Radulovich (81),
the Air Force Reserve lieutenant championed by CBS newsman Edward R.
Murrow when the military threatened to decommission him during the
anti-communist crackdown of the 1950s, died in Vallejo, Calif.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2007 Nov 19, Actor Dick Wilson
(91), who played the fussy, mustachioed grocer who told customers,
"Please, don't squeeze the Charmin," died in Woodland Hills, Calif.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2007 Nov 19, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber struck outside a governor's residence, killing six
policemen and wounding 14 people in southwestern Nimroz province. Gov.
Ghulam Dastagir Azad said his son was among those killed.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 19, The death toll from
the Nov 15 cyclone in Bangladesh passed 3,100, and officials said that
number could reach 10,000 once rescuers get to outlying islands.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 19, In Cambodia a
UN-backed tribunal arrested Khieu Samphan (76), the former Khmer Rouge
head of state. He was the fifth senior official of the brutal regime to
be rounded up ahead of a long-delayed genocide trial. In his book
"Reflection on Cambodian History Up to the Era of Democratic
Kampuchea," which was released last week, Khieu Samphan says the Khmer
Rouge only wanted what was best for Cambodia.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 19, It was reported that
Chinese regulators in recent weeks have ordered commercial banks to
freeze lending through the end of the year. PM Wen Jiabao acknowledged
that vast amounts of currency were flowing out of China through illegal
channels. This followed the recent arrest of To Ling (43), a Hong Kong
resident, whose black market foreign exchange business handled
transactions worth more than $1 million a day.
(WSJ, 11/19/07, p.A1)(Econ, 11/24/07, p.78)
2007 Nov 19, In France a "large
majority" of rail workers voted to keep up the train strike.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 19, In Iraq 3 officers
were killed in an ambush on their checkpoint northeast of Baghdad. Ten
people, most of them women and children, were wounded when a car bomb
exploded in front of a police officer's house farther north in
Albu-Jawari village, on the northern outskirts of Beiji. Muntadhar
al-Zaidi (28), an Iraqi television reporter who was kidnapped in
Baghdad last week, was freed. In Baghdad a convoy belonging to Almco, a
US-contracted Dubai firm, was involved in a shooting that left a woman
wounded. Iraqi troops detained 43 contract workers.
(AP, 11/19/07)(SFC, 11/20/07, p.A15)
2007 Nov 19, The Israeli Cabinet
approved the release of 441 Palestinian prisoners in a gesture to
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but stopped short of US demands to
halt West Bank settlement construction before a crucial Mideast
conference.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 19, International Mideast
envoy Tony Blair announced four economic projects designed to create
thousands of jobs for Palestinians and bolster peace efforts with
Israel.
(AP, 11/20/07)
2007 Nov 19, Pakistan’s Supreme
Court, hand-picked by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, swiftly
dismissed legal challenges to his continued rule, opening the way for
him to serve another five-year term, this time solely as a civilian
president.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 19, Uzbekistan's
electoral commission said Pres. Karimov (69) has registered as a
candidate in next month's election, even though the constitution bars
him from seeking a third consecutive term.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 19, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez made his fourth trip to Iran in two years, as the two
countries sought to strengthen ties while their leaders exhort the
international community to resist US policies.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2007 Nov 19, President Robert
Mugabe's government published a draft bill forcing mining firms to
transfer majority shareholdings to local owners, including giving the
Zimbabwe government a free 25 percent stake.
(AP, 11/19/07)
2008 Nov 19, FBI agent Sam Hicks
was shot and killed while serving a warrant at a home near Pittsburgh,
during a roundup of drug suspects in the greater Pittsburgh area.
Christina Korbe was charged with homicide. Her husband, Robert Korbe,
was one of 35 people charged in a 27-count drug-trafficking indictment.
(AP, 11/19/08)(SFC, 11/20/08, p.A4)
2008 Nov 19, The US DJIA fell to
levels not seen since 2003. the DJIA closed down 427.47 at 7,997.28.
(SFC, 11/20/08, p.C1)
2008 Nov 19, In NYC the Triborough
Bridge was renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge.
(SFC, 11/20/08, p.A4)
2008 Nov 19, The US Coast Guard
suspended its search for roughly 90 migrants feared dead after their
makeshift boat apparently sank in an often-stormy stretch of water
between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. The boat left the
southeastern Dominican Republic on the night of Nov 12 and a woman
whose boyfriend was on the boat alerted authorities that it was missing
on Nov 16.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, The New Jersey Office
of the Attorney General said online dating service eHarmony has agreed
to create a new website for gays and lesbians as part of a settlement
with a gay man in New Jersey.
(Reuters, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, California state and
federal officials said they have seized 5.2 million marijuana plants
from public and private land during this year’s growing season, half of
which were grown in California.
(SFC, 11/20/08, p.B8)
2008 Nov 19, NASA flight
controllers were revamping plans for the remaining spacewalks planned
during space shuttle Endeavour's visit to the international space
station, after astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost a crucial
tool bag floating out to space during a repair trip. NASA put the value
of the tools at $100,000.
(AP, 11/19/08)(SFC, 11/20/08, p.A2)
2008 Nov 19, In Miami, Florida,
police arrived to find Abraham Biggs (19) dead in his father's bed 12
hours after the Broward College student first declared on a Web site
that he hated himself and planned to die. It was only then that the Web
feed stopped. Some users told investigators they did not take him
seriously because he had threatened suicide on the site before.
(AP, 11/22/08)
2008 Nov 19, John Hayes, Hollywood
screenwriter, died in New Hampshire. His work included “Peyton Place”
(1957) and Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Rear Window” (1954).
(SFC, 11/25/08, p.B4)
2008 Nov 19, The British
government announced plans to make it illegal to pay for sex with women
forced into prostitution and to name men who solicit sex on the
streets, measures that prostitutes say will put more women at risk.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, Chinese President Hu
Jintao promised Cuba at least $78 million in donations, credit and
hurricane relief. Hu also met with a thin-looking Fidel Castro before
leaving for the Asia-Pacific economic summit in Peru. China agreed to
donate $8 million to Cuba and extend the second, $70 million phase of
$350 million in previously agreed-upon credit to renovate Cuban
hospitals.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, China and Peru signed
a free trade agreement.
(Econ, 11/29/08, p.42)
2008 Nov 19, In China Huang
Guangyu, founder and chairman of GOME Electrical Appliances, was
detained for insider trading in shares of Shandong Jintai Group, a
pharmaceutical company controlled by his brother.
(Econ, 11/29/08, p.69)
2008 Nov 19, Georgia and Russia
held their first major, mediated talks since their August war.
(WSJ, 11/20/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 19, Germany extradited to
France Rose Kabuye (47), chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul
Kagame, over an assassination triggering the 1994 genocide, amid mass
anti-European protests in Kigali. Some European investigators feared
that Kabuye deliberately delivered herself to German authorities so her
lawyers could gain access to the case files prepared against her and
other Kagame allies.
(AFP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, Germany chemical
company BASF SE said it is temporarily closing 80 plants worldwide due
to slumping demand and cutting production at 100 more, including
facilities in Texas and Louisiana. Some 20,000 workers are affected.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, In Haiti Max Cosci of
Doctors Without Borders said at least 26 children had died over a
two-week period in the remote, southeastern area of Baie d'Orange. The
UN World Food Program says it is sending medical and food aid to the
region.
(AP, 11/20/08)
2008 Nov 19, The IMF approved a
two-year, $2.1 billion support program for Iceland designed to restore
confidence and stabilize the country's shattered economy.
(AP, 11/20/08)
2008 Nov 19, Iran's official news
agency said Iranian border guards have killed several Kurdish
separatists in a shootout in the western part of the country. The
gunmen were said to be part of the Kurdish separatist group, known as
the PEJAK, the Iranian wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
(AP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, A court in
military-ruled Myanmar sentenced a student activist to 6 1/2 years in
jail, a week after his father received a 65-year prison term for his
own political activities and a decade after his grandfather died in
custody. Di Nyein Lin was one of three student activists sentenced by a
court in a suburb of Yangon for various offenses, including causing
public alarm and insulting religion.
(AP, 11/20/08)
2008 Nov 19, In Pakistan gunmen
shot and killed Ameer Faisal Alvi, a retired Pakistani army general,
and his driver on the outskirts of capital, Islamabad. Alvi had led
military operations against insurgents in the tribal regions. A
suspected American missile bombarded a village in Bannu district, deep
inside Pakistani territory, marking what appears to be the first time
the US has struck beyond the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Six
alleged militants were killed including Abdullah Azam al-Saudi, a
senior member of Osama bin Laden's terror network.
(AP, 11/19/08)(AFP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, Philippine health
officials said at least two people have died and more than 1,500 are in
hospital following a suspected outbreak of cholera in the southern
Philippines.
(AFP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, Vladimir Kuznetsov, a
former UN diplomat convicted in the US of money laundering and fraud,
arrived in Moscow and will serve the last 16 months of his sentence in
a Russian prison. Kuznetsov once chaired the UN's powerful budget
oversight committee.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, Spanish doctors
reported the successful transplant to a woman of a new windpipe with
tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for
anti-rejection drugs.
(AP, 11/18/08)
2008 Nov 19, The UN asked for $7
billion (5.5 billion euros) to fund its humanitarian work around the
world in 2009, almost double last year's appeal as a result of soaring
food prices and crises in Africa, among other factors. The UN's food
agency will slim down its bureaucracy, work to cut costs and make
investments that will improve efficiency as part of a reform plan
adopted by member nations.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2008 Nov 19, The World Food
Program said that it has signed a new food aid deal to allow the UN
agency to provide 350,000 tons of grain to millions in Zimbabwe.
(AFP, 11/19/08)
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