Today in History - July 7
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1124 Jul 7, Tyre [Tyrus] surrendered to the Crusaders.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1307 Jul 7, Edward I (b.1239), King (Longshanks) of England (1272-1307), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England)
1456 Jul 7, Joan of Arc was acquitted, even though she had already been burnt at the stake on May 30, 1431.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1550 Jul 7, Chocolate was introduced (Europe).
(MC, 7/7/02)
1585 Jul 7, King Henri III & Duke De Guise signed the Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lost all freedoms.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1607 Jul 7, "God Save the King" was 1st sung.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1690 Jul 7, Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1713 Jul 7, The 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" & "Jubilate."
(MC, 7/7/02)
1742 Jul 7, A Spanish force invading Georgia ran headlong into the colony's British defenders. A handful of British and Spanish colonial troops faced each other on a Georgia coastal island and decided the fate of a colony.
(HN, 5/3/98)(HN, 7/7/99)
1753 Jul 7, English parliament granted Jews English citizenship.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1754 Jul 7, King's College in New York City opened. The school was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1752 Jul 7, Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the first loom that could weave patterns, was born.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1770 Jul 7, The entire Ottoman fleet was defeated and destroyed by the Russians at the 3-day battle of Chesme [Cesme] on the Aegean Sea. The Ottoman fleet was commanded by Kapudan Pasha Mandalzade Hüsameddin, in the fourth ship from the front (north end) of the line, with Hasan Pasha (1713-1790) in the first ship, Real Mustafa, and Cafer Bey in the seventh.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chesma)(WSJ, 4/29/99, p.A24)
1777 Jul 7, American troops gave up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1791 Jul 7, Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones founded the Non-denominational African Church.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1795 Jul 7, Thomas Paine defended the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1797 Jul 7, The US House of Representatives exercised its constitutional power of impeachment, and voted to charge Senator William Blount of Tennessee with "a high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public duty and trust as a Senator." Blount had financial problems which led him to enter into a conspiracy with British officers to enlist frontiersmen and Cherokee Indians to assist the British in conquering parts of Spanish Florida and Louisiana.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1798 Jul 7, Napoleon Bonaparte's army began its march towards Cairo, Egypt, from Alexandria.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1801 Jul 7, A new constitution, drafted by a committee appointed by Toussaint Louverture (L’Ouverture), went into effect and declared the independence of Hispaniola. The constitution made him governor general for life with near absolute powers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_L'Ouverture)(WSJ, 3/1/04, p.A16)
1802 Jul 7, The first comic book was published in Hudson, NY. "The Wasp" was created by Robert Rusticoat.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1807 Jul 7, Napoleon I of France and Czar Alexander I of Russia signed a treaty at Tilsit ending war between their empires. It divided Europe among themselves and isolated Britain.
(HN, 7/7/98)(AP, 7/7/07)
1814 Jul 7, Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverly was published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet.
(HN, 7/7/01)
1815 Jul 7, After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies marched into Paris.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1846 Jul 7, U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after Commodore Sloat reached Monterey and claimed California for the US.
(HFA, '96, p.48)(AP, 7/7/97)
1856 Jul 7, In California the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors held their 1st meeting at the general store of John Vogan on Main Street in Redwood City. The county had just recently been created.
(Ind, 2/3/01, 5A)(SFC, 5/18/13, p.C2)
1860 Jul 7, Gustav Mahler, conductor of the Vienna State Opera House, was born in Kalischat, Bohemia, Austria.
(HN, 7/7/98)(MC, 7/7/02)
1863 Jul 7, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reported his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1863 Jul 7, The 1st military draft was called by the US. It allowed exemptions for $100.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1863 Jul 7, Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant were revoked.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1865 Jul 7, The trap doors of the scaffold in the yard of Washington's Old Penitentiary were sprung, and Mary Surratt, Lewis Paine, David Herold and George Atzerodt dropped to their deaths. The four had been convicted of "treasonable conspiracy" in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and had learned that they were to be hanged only a day before their execution. Shortly after 1 p.m. the prisoners were led onto the scaffold and prepared for execution. The props supporting the platform were knocked away at about 2 p.m. Assassin John Wilkes Booth had been killed on April 26, 12 days after Lincoln's assassination. Other convicted conspirators--Edman Spangler, Dr. Samuel Mudd, Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlin--were imprisoned.
(AP, 7/7/97)(HNPD, 7/7/98)
1875 Jul 7, Jesse James robbed a train in Otterville, Missouri.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1879 Jul 7, George Caleb Bingham (b.1811), artist and legislator, died in Kansas City, Mo. His paintings included “The Jolly Flatboatmen," which became a best-seller in 1846 after it was chosen by the American Art Union for its annual engraving.
(WSJ, 11/3/07, p.W16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Caleb_Bingham)
1884 Jul 7, Lion Feuchtwanger, German philosopher, writer (Jud Suss), was born.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1887 Jul 7, Marc Chagall (d.1985), French painter and designer, was born in Vitebsk, Belarus, Russia, as Moishe Shagal. He left there in 1907 to attend art school in St. Petersburg. He was sent to Paris by a benefactor and befriended Chaim Soutine and Alexander Archipenko and stayed until 1914. "From late cubism he adopted a manner of making forms and space interpenetrate." His work included "Les Amoureux" (The Lovers - 1916), a portrait of himself and his wife. In 1996 it sold for $4.2 mil. In 1997 Mikhail Guerman published "Marc Chagall: The Land of My Heart - Russia."
(SFC,7/2/96,p.E3)(WSJ,10/8/96,p.A20)(SFEC,12/797,Par p.6)(HN, 7/7/01)
1890 Jul 7, In Switzerland Henri Nestlé (b.1814), German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, died in Montreux.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Nestl%C3%A9)
1893 Jul 7, In Bardwell, Ky., C.J. Miller, a black man accused of murdering two white girls, was mutilated, torched and left hanging from a telegraph pole. Ida Wells (1862-1931) was commissioned to investigate the story by the Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper and published her findings under the title “History Is a Weapon."
(WSJ, 3/8/08, p.W8)(www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/wellslynchlaw.html)
1893 Jul 7, Guy de Maupassant (42), writer, died.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1896 Jul 7, The Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago. The National Democratic Party formed to run a slate of candidates in 1896 because the Democratic Party had been taken over by the free-silver faction, which called for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the 16 to 1 ratio. They also condemned trusts, monopolies, high protective tariffs and the use of injunctions against labor. The “sound money" or gold Democrats withdrew from the party convention, organized the National Democratic Party and nominated John M. Palmer of Illinois its presidential candidate. The gold plank in the Republican Party caused a similar split, with free-silver Republicans bolting the party and forming the National Silver Republicans, who endorsed the Democratic Party candidate for president, William Jennings Bryan. Republican William McKinley won the presidential election.
(AP, 7/7/97)(HNQ, 8/23/99)
1898 Jul 7, The United States annexed Hawaii.
(HFA, '96, p.34)(AP, 7/7/97)
1899 Jul 7, George Cukor (d.1983), film director, was born in New York City.
(AP, 7/7/99)(MC, 7/7/02)
1905 Jul 7, The International Workers of the World founded their labor organization in Chicago. The IWW was formed by William Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners, Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party and Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party. Members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were also known as Wobblies. The Wobblies were formed partly in response to the American Federation of Labor’s opposition to the unionization of unskilled labor. As an organization that advocated sabotage, they were suppressed and prosecuted by the federal government from 1917-18 and were driven underground by the "Red Scare" that started in the United States in 1919. Ideological disputes with the newly formed U.S. Communist Party dissipated their remaining energies so that they ceased to be a force of any significance past the mid-1920s. In 1969 Melvyn Dublfsky authored its definitive history "We Shall Overcome."
(HNQ, 10/16/00)(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A24)(HN, 7/7/01)
1906 Jul 7, Leroy "Satchel" Page, baseball pitcher for the Negro Leagues and the Major League, was born.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1906 Jul 7, In England Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), British politician and statesman and the former mayor of Birmingham (1873-1876), led an 80-car rally in the city for 17 miles to celebrate his July 8, 70th birthday.
(http://tinyurl.com/z4b89k5)(Econ, 8/6/16, p.45)
1907 Jul 7, Robert Heinlein (d.1988), science-fiction author, was born in Butler, Miss. "Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil."
(V.D.-H.K.p.383)(AP, 5/25/99)(AP, 7/7/07)
1908 Jul 7, Great White Fleet left SF Bay.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1908 Jul 7, The Democratic National Convention opened in Denver.
(AP, 7/7/08)
1911 Jul 7, Gian-Carlo Menotti, composer (Amahl & Night Visitors), was born in Italy.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1912 Jul 7, At the Stockholm Olympics Native American Jim Thorpe won a gold medal in the men's pentathlon. On July 15 Thorpe won another gold medal in the men's decathlon
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_1912_Summer_Olympics)
1913 Jul 7, British House of Commons accepted Home-Rule Law.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1919 Jul 7, William Moses Kunstler, defense attorney (Chicago 8), was born.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1919 Jul 7, The U.S. Army’s First Transcontinental Motor Train left Washington, D.C., bound for San Francisco. The 62-day journey crossed 3,250 miles. In 2002 Peter Davies authored "American Road," an account of the trip.
(HN, 3/7/01)(WSJ, 7/19/02, p.W9)
1920 Jul 7, A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1922 Jul 7, Pierre Cardin, fashion designer (Unisex), was born in Paris, France.
(AP, 7/7/02)(MC, 7/7/02)
1925 Jul 7, Afrikaans was recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1927 Jul 7, Doc Severinson, [Carl], bandleader, trumpeter (Tonight), was born in Arlington, Or.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1927 Jul 7, Christopher Stone became the first British ‘disc jockey’ when he played records for the BBC.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1930 Jul 7, Construction began on Boulder Dam on the Colorado River. It is now known as Hoover Dam.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1930 Jul 7, Arthur Conan Doyle (b.1859), British novelist, died. His work included 4 Sherlock Holmes mystery novels and 56 short stories about Holmes. Doyle was an eye doctor. In 1999 Daniel Stashower published "Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle." In 2007 Andrew Lycett authored “Conan Doyle: The Man who Created Sherlock Holmes."
(SFEC, 6/13/99, Par p.12)(www.sherlockian.net/acd/)(ON, 3/06, p.12)(Econ, 10/6/07, p.98)
1937 Jul 7, A conflict between troops of China and Japan came to be known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The incident occurred near the Marco Polo Bridge outside of Beijing and eventually escalated into warfare between the two countries and was the prelude to the Pacific side of World War II.
(HNQ, 9/22/99)
1940 Jul 7, Ringo Starr, drummer for the Beatles, was born. He went on to a solo career and acting.
(HN, 7/7/99)
1941 Jul 7, Although a neutral country, the United States sent troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany's hands.
(WUD, 1944, p.1683)(HN, 7/7/98)
1941 Jul 7, Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovno, Lithuania.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1943 Jul 7, Adolf Hitler made the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1943 Jul 7, In the 3rd day of battle at Kursk the Germans occupied Dubrova. Erich Hartmann shot 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1944 Jul 7, Brendan Bracken, the British Minister of Information, charged that the Germans are setting up "public slaughterhouses" into which thousands of Jews are being herded to their deaths.
(SSFC, 7/7/19, DB p.43)
1944 Jul 7, Bomber Command dropped 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1944 Jul 7, Hungary’s regent Miklos Horthy issued an order suspending Nazi deportations of Hungarian Jews.
(ON, 10/20/11, p.1)
1944 Jul 7, There was a heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1945 Jul 7, Matti Salminen, operatic basso (King Philip-Don Carlos), was born in Turku, Finland.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1946 Jul 7, William Durkin (1916-2006) rescued Howard Hughes (1905-1976) from the fiery wreckage of an XF-11 reconnaissance plane that Hughes was testing over Beverly Hills.
(SFC, 5/1/06, p.B8)
1946 Jul 7, Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint. She was the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
(AP, 7/7/97)(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A18)
1947 Jul 7, A made-up photo in Life magazine featured a biker in Hollister, Ca. In 1997 bikers returned to Hollister for a 50-year anniversary and began an annual tradition. [see Jul 4]
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A18)
1948 Jul 7, Six female reservists became the first women to be sworn into the regular U.S. Navy.
(AP, 7/7/98)
1949 Jul 7, The police drama "Dragnet," starring Jack Webb and Barton Yarborough, premiered on NBC radio. It became a TV series in 1951 and 1967.
(AP, 7/7/99)(MC, 7/7/02)
1950 Jul 7, South Africa’s Population Registration Act commenced. It required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid. It was repealed by section 1 of the Population Registration Act, Repeal Act No 114 of 1991.
(http://africanhistory.about.com/od/apartheidlaws/g/No30of50.htm)
1952 Jul 7, The American ocean liner SS United States, known as "the Big U," crossed the Atlantic in record 82:40, while on her maiden voyage.
(USAT, 1/20/04, p.14A)
1956 Jul 7, The Douglas Moore and John Latouche opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premiered.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1956 Jul 7, Seven Army trucks loaded with dynamite exploded in middle of Cali, Columbia, killing 1,100-1,200. 2000 buildings were destroyed.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1954 Jul 7, Elvis Presley made his radio debut as Memphis, Tennessee, station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That’s All Right (Mama)."
(AP, 7/7/00)
1958 Jul 7, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill. Alaska became the 49th state in January 1959.
(AP, 7/7/07)
1961 Jul 7, James R. Hoffa was elected president of Teamsters.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1962 Jul 7-1962 Jul 17, Operation Sunbeam was a series of four nuclear tests conducted at the United States of America's Nevada Test Site.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Sunbeam)
1962 Jul 7, In Burma Sein Lwin headed the army unit that shot dead Rangoon University students protesting Ne Win's rule.
(AP, 4/10/04)
1965 Jul 7, Moshe Sharett, Israel’s 2nd prime minister (1954-1955), died.
(Economist, 9/22/12, p.93)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Sharett)
1966 Jul 7, The U.S. Marine Corps launched Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1967 Jul 7, Beatles' "All You Need is Love" was released.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1967 Jul 7, Vivian Leigh (53), actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), died.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1969 Jul 7, The first U.S. troops to withdraw from South Vietnam left Saigon.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1969 Jul 7, J.S. Furnivall (b.1878), British anthropologist, died in Cambridge. He coined the term “plural society" while working as colonial servant in Burma.
(Econ, 3/10/12, p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sydenham_Furnivall)
1969 Jul 7, Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1969 Jul 7, Der Spiegel revealed Munich's Bishop Defregger as a war criminal. Charges against Defregger were dropped in 1970.
(http://tinyurl.com/5f8qts)(http://tinyurl.com/okdpc3w)
1972 Jul 7, In Japan Kekuei Tanaka (1918-1993) began serving as prime minister.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuei_Tanaka)
1972 Jul 7, Athenagoras (b.1886), 268th patriarch of Constantinople, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Athenagoras)
1974 Jul 7, In San Francisco Klaus Christmann was found dead. He was the 3rd of at least five gay victims stabbed to death by a serial killer, dubbed the Doodler.
(SSFC, 6/6/21, p.S2)
1975 Jul 7, Philippines’ President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Presidential Decree No. 742 and Letter of Instruction 290 creating Western and Central Mindanao regions in Mindanao and establishing the Office of the Regional Commissioner in both regions.
(http://www.armm.gov.ph/armm-history/)
1976 Jul 7, The US 94th Congress amended the Flag Code.
(SFC, 6/14/11, p.E6)(http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/04C1.txt)
1976 Jul 7, The 1st female cadets enrolled at the West Point Military Academy in NY. West Point Military Academy admitted 119 women out of a class of 1367. Four years later 62 women graduated.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5159)(SFEC, 2/16/97, p.A12)
1977 Jul 7, Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998), British composer, premiered his 4th opera "The Ice Break," which featured a race riot and a psychedelic sequence.
(www.michael-tippett.com/operaintroibreng.htm)
1978 Jul 7, China cut off all aid to Albania after a dispute and left it completely isolated.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(CO, GAAE/Albania)
1978 Jul 7, The Solomon Islands gained independence from Britain.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(www.worldstatesmen.org/Solomon_Islands.html)
1981 Jul 7, President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 7/7/97)(HN, 7/7/98)
1981 Jul 7, The 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crossed the English Channel flying 163 miles from Paris to Canterbury. It was created by Dupont and Paul MacCready.
(www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-054-DFRC.html)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.88)
1983 Jul 7, Samantha Smith (11) of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1985 Jul 7, Boris Becker of Germany shook up the tennis world at Wimbledon when, as an unseeded player, he became the then youngest-ever male Grand Slam champion at the age of 17, defending the trophy the following year.
(http://tinyurl.com/ycc7tyvn)(AFP, 6/19/18)
1986 Jul 7, The US Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law.
(www.answers.com/topic/gramm-rudman-act)
1986 Jul 7, Jordan’s government shut down all 25 offices of al-Fatah, the mainstream group in the divided Palestine Liberation Organization.
(http://tinyurl.com/ycprwn)
1987 Jul 7, Lt. Col. Oliver North began his long-awaited public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one," without authorization.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1988 Jul 7, Russia’s PHOBOS 1 Mars Orbiter and lander was launched. Contact was lost on September 2, 1988.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)(www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mars/space_missions.html)
1988 Jul 7, The European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning brutalities against Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
(www.armeniaforeignministry.com/pr_04/040227sumgait.html)
1988 Jul 7, The candidate of Mexico's ruling party, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, claimed a "national victory" one day after presidential elections that opponents charged were riddled by fraud.
(AP, 7/7/98)
1989 Jul 7, The US Labor Dept. reported that unemployment rose 0.1% in June to 5.2%.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1990 Jul 7, President Bush welcomed fellow leaders of the Group of Seven countries, who were gathering in Houston for their 16th annual economic summit.
(AP, 7/7/00)
1990 Jul 7, Martina Navratilova captured a record-breaking ninth women’s title at Wimbledon, outplaying Zina Garrison, 6-4, 6-1.
(AP, 7/7/00)
1991 Jul 7, Responding to President Bush’s call for stepped-up efforts on arms control talks, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev told the White House he was sending Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh and other officials for talks with Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third.
(AP, 7/6/01)
1991 Jul 7, Michael Stich defeated Boris Becker, 6-4, 7-6, 6-4, to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon.
(AP, 7/7/01)
1991 Jul 7, IRA members Pearse McAuley (b.1965) and Nessan Quinliven escaped from an English jail, shot a Canadian tourist and took his car during their getaway. They had been awaiting trial on charges relating to a suspected plot to assassinate former brewery company chairman, Sir Charles Tidbury.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearse_McAuley)(SSFC, 2/26/17, DB p.50)
1991 Jul 7, Jordan’s king abolished most provisions of martial law.
(AP, 1/23/13)
1992 Jul 7, Group of Seven leaders meeting in Munich, Germany, condemned the carnage in former Yugoslavia and warned Serb-led troops that U.N. military force would be used if needed to keep relief operations going.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1993 Jul 7, The Group of Seven nations, on the first day of their economic summit in Tokyo, unveiled a long-sought agreement on world trade. Prior to the summit opening, President Clinton delivered a speech at Waseda University.
(AP, 7/7/03)
1993 Jul 7, Mia Zapata (27), a rising punk-rock star, was last seen alive in Seattle. In 2003 Jesus C. Mezquia (b.1965), who lived in Seattle at the time of the rape and murder, was arrested in Florida on DNA evidence. On March 25, 2004, a jury convicted Florida fisherman Jesus Mezquia of her murder and he was sentenced to 36 years in prison.
(SSFC, 1/12/03, p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Zapata#Death)
1994 Jul 7, President Clinton, visiting Poland, assured the parliament that the U.S. would "not let the Iron Curtain be replaced by a veil of indifference."
(AP, 7/7/99)
1994 Jul 7, Panama withdrew its offer to the United States to accept thousands of Haitian refugees.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1995 Jul 7, The space shuttle "Atlantis" landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, bringing back American astronaut Norman Thagard, who’d spent three and a-half months aboard the Russian space station "Mir."
(AP, 7/7/00)
1995 Jul 7, UN military observers in Bosnia appealed to the UN to "stop the carnage and damage in a UN declared safe zone."
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1996 Jul 7, Dutch tennis player Richard Krajicek won the Wimbledon men's title, defeating American MaliVai Washington 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1996 Jul 7, President Clinton delivered more Whitewater trial testimony before video cameras, this time testifying in the case of two Arkansas bankers accused of making political contributions with bank funds; a jury later acquitted Herby Branscum Jr., and Robert M. Hill of four counts and was deadlocked on seven other counts. Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr decided against retrying the bankers
(AP, 7/7/97)
1996 Jul 7, The average cost of a Big Mac in the US was $2.36. In Germany it was $3.22.
(SFC, 7/7/96, Par, p.17)
1996 Jul 7, In Ecuador lawyer Abdala Bucaram, aka El Loco, was elected president with 54% of the vote. He led the center-left Roldosista party.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.A8)
1997 Jul 7, Montgomery Wards, the nation’s largest privately owned retailer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
(SFC, 7/8/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 7, It was reported that toxic waste was being used across the country in fertilizers with no regulation. Substances being recycled in fertilizer included low level radioactive waste from a uranium processing plant in Gore, Okla.; lead-laced waste from a pulp mill in Camas, Wash.; and toxic byproducts from steel-making in Moxee City, Wash.
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.A2)
1997 Jul 7, In California it was reported that the state’s million plus cows were churning out $3 billion worth of milk and leaking harmful nitrates into the ground water of the Central Valley. Years ago the Chino basin was forced to write off vast quantities of tainted ground water due to dairies.
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 7, Three days after landing on Mars, the Pathfinder spacecraft yielded what scientists said was unmistakable photographic evidence that colossal floods scoured the Red Planet's now-barren landscape more than a billion years ago.
(AP, 7/7/98)
1997 Jul 7, In Chile the government agreed to back the 670,000 acre nature preserve of Doug Tompkins, founder of the Esprit clothing chain.
(SFC, 7/8/97, p.A7)
1997 Jul 7, Abdul Rashid Wani (30) disappeared in Srinagar, Kashmir, while running an errand on the day of his niece’s wedding.
(SSFC, 12/2/07, p.A17)
1997 Jul 7, In Kenya 9 people died during protests for constitutional reform.
(SFC, 7/8/97, p.A8)(SFC, 7/12/97, p.A10)
1998 Jul 7, The American League defeated the National League 13-8 in baseball's All-Star Game, played in Denver.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1998 Jul 7, A jury in Santa Monica, Calif., convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1998 Jul 7, The American League defeated the National League 13-8 in baseball's All-Star Game, played in Denver.
(AP, 7/7/08)
1998 Jul 7, The US Court of Appeals ruled that condemned prisoners have the option to choose death by lethal injection or by gas in San Quentin’s death chamber. The gas chamber was shut down in 1994.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A17)
1998 Jul 7, A jury in Santa Monica, Calif., convicted Mikhail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery. Markhasev was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
(AP, 7/7/08)
1998 Jul 7, In Texas 2 Border Patrol agents were killed in a gun battle with Ernest Moore who was suspected of killing a woman and her daughter. Moore soon after died of wounds at a hospital.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A2)
1998 Jul 7, In Angola 16 policemen were killed in an ambush by Unita.
(WSJ, 7/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 7, In Australia the Senate passed a law that scaled back Aboriginal land rights under threat by Prime Minister John Howard to dissolve both houses and call for new elections.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 7, Britain sent more troops to Northern Ireland to help quell the rioting.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 7, In Indonesia troops battled protestors on Irian Jaya who demanded independence.
(WSJ, 7/8/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 7, In Italy Silvio Berlusconi, media tycoon and former prime minister, was sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison for bribing tax officials.
(WSJ, 7/8/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 7, Mexican courts ordered the attorney general’s office to rehire more than half the 826 agents dismissed 6 months ago for failed drug tests and alleged corruption.
(SFC, 7/10/98, p.A16)
1998 Jul 7, In Nigeria opposition leader Moshood Abiola (60) died of a heart attack while still in prison and his death sparked rioting in Lagos that left at least 19 people dead. Gen’l. Abubakar dissolved his cabinet, inherited from Abacha, but left intact the Provisional Ruling Council. He called the death a tragedy and appealed for calm.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A1)(SFC, 7/9/98, p.A1)(AP, 7/7/99)
1998 Jul 7, In Puerto Rico a general 2 day strike was called against the sale of the phone company and the San Juan Int’l. Airport was blocked for a short time.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A3)
1998 Jul 7, The UN voted to grant the Palestinian delegation nearly the same rights as given to independent states.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A10)
1999 Jul 7, In NYC "The Peony Pavilion," a 22-hour Chinese opera, opened at the LaGuardia Theater.
(WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A20)
1999 Jul 7, President Clinton became the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to visit an Indian reservation as he toured the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
(AP, 7/7/00)
1999 Jul 7, In the first class-action lawsuit by smokers to go to trial, a jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for making a defective product that causes emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/7/00)
1999 Jul 7, In Bahrain the top dissident, Sheik Abdul-Ameer al-Jamri, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $15 million after he was convicted of spying and inciting unrest. He was freed the next day with an amnesty.
(WSJ, 7/8/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 7, Britain and Libya announced a resumption of diplomatic relations.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A8)
1999 Jul 7, From China it was reported that flooding on the Yangtze River since late June had killed 240 people and caused over $3 billion in damage.
(WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 7, In Iran the parliament approved general outlines for new press restrictions.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 7, From Kazakstan it was reported that a rocket carrying a telecom satellite blew up and that launches at Baikonur would be suspended.
(WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 7, Pres. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone signed a peace accord with rebel leader Foday Sankoh in Togo. Sankoh was given the vice-presidency and the rebels were promised 4 ministerial and 4 deputy ministerial posts.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A8)
2000 Jul 7, The 4th installment of the "Harry Potter" series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," by J.K. Rowling went on sale.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, In Denver Episcopal bishops approved an alliance with the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A3)
2000 Jul 7, President Clinton postponed the first federal execution since 1963 so that death row inmate Juan Raul Garza could ask for clemency under guidelines being updated by the government. Garza was executed June 19, 2001.
(AP, 7/7/01)
2000 Jul 7, A$100 million US test missile failed to hit a dummy warhead from another missile. It was the 2nd failure of 3 tests.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, In West Virginia 2 teenagers (17) in Grant Town confessed to killing Arthur Warren Jr. (26), a gay man. They beat him to death and then drove over his body several times to make it look like a hit-and-run.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A4)
2000 Jul 7, Stock car driver Kenny Irwin was killed when his car slammed into a wall during practice at New Hampshire International Speedway; he was 30.
(AP, 7/7/01)
2000 Jul 7, In Austria the parliament approved a $415 million fund to compensate Nazi-era victims of forced labor.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.C14)
2000 Jul 7, The East African Community (EAC), founded in 1967, was resurrected following its collapse in 1977. The regional club included six members: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In 2005 members agreed on a customs union and in 2010 they agreed on a common market.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Community)(Econ, 6/11/16, p.51)
2000 Jul 7, Three days of torrential rains over central China left at least 22 people dead in Sichuan. Thousands of buildings, 17 bridges and 7 hydroelectric power stations were damaged. In Guangxi Zhuang a bus fell into the Liujiang River in Liuzhou and at least 65 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.D8)(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A9)
2000 Jul 7, German drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim said it would donate nevirapine, a drug to help prevent the transmission of AIDS from mothers to infants, to every nation in the developing world that asks for it.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, In Fiji supporters of George Speight seized up to 30 hostages at Korovou.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 7, In Nicaragua another earthquake struck and at least 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 7, Typhoon Kai Tak killed at least 39 people in the Philippines and moved on to Japan.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A11)(WSJ, 7/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, The World Bank cancelled its Chinese resettlement project for Tibet. China then withdrew its request for a $40 million loan and vowed to proceed with its own development program.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A10)
2001 Jul 7, Bolivia’s Pres. Banzer (75) was reported to be hospitalized in Washington DC with cancer in his lung and liver.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.B1)(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 7, It was reported that China had executed 1,781 people over the last 3 months.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 7, In Croatia PM Ivica Racan announced that citizens indicted by the UN War Crimes tribunal could be extradited to the Hague.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 7, In Bradford, England, 80 police officers were injured in race riots, later known as the “Bradford riots." They began after a rally by the far-right National Front was banned. Asian and white youths ran amok in the streets armed with firebombs and baseball bats. The Manningham Labor Club was firebombed.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A16)(AP, 7/6/02)(Econ, 3/5/11, p.63)
2001 Jul 7, In Jamaica a police crackdown began in Kingston following 2 months of fighting between gangs that killed 37 people. The murder rate for the country had reached 530 for the half year.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 7, In the Gaza Strip a Palestinian boy was shot and killed and 2 others injured by Israeli soldiers. Palestinian militants were said to have been shooting in the Raffah refugee camp area.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Jul 7, In Puerto Rico Parmenio Medina (62), a Colombian-born journalist, was gunned down in his car. He ran a radio program called "La Patada," or "The Kick," which denounced fraud at a religious radio station. In 2007 a court convicted Omar Chaves, a businessman, of ordering the murder of the journalist. Chaves also got a 12-year prison sentence on a fraud count. His partner, Father Minor de Jesus Calvo, was acquitted of the killing, but was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 15 years in jail.
(AP, 12/19/07)
2002 Jul 7, Lleyton Hewitt crushed David Nalbandian in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, in the Wimbledon final to win his second Grand Slam title.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2002 Jul 7, Texas Gov. Rick Perry saw by helicopter the devastation days of torrential rain had brought to central and southern Texas.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2002 Jul 7, Afghanistan's vice president, Abdul Qadir, was buried with full military honors one day after being assassinated.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2002 Jul 7, Nearly two dozen people were killed and thousands left homeless as torrential monsoon rains lashed large parts of Asia over the weekend, worsening floods and triggering fresh storms and landslides. Monsoon flooding killed at least 11 in Bangladesh.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)(Reuters, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 7, In southern China 13 people were killed when a wall being demolished at a vegetable market crumbled after heavy rain, burying vendors and workers under a mound of rubble.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 7, In Hong Kong tens of thousands of civil servants staged a huge street protest against a government plan to pass a law that would cut their pay by up to 4.42 percent.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 7, In Indonesia 53 people burned alive or jumped to their deaths when fire ripped through a crowded Palembang karaoke bar on Sumatra island but the final death toll could be double that.
(AP, 7/8/02)(Reuters, 7/9/02)(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 7, In Northern Ireland Protestant hard-liners battled riot police after being barred from parading through the main Catholic section of Portadown.
(AP, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 7, The 14th Int'l. AIDS Conference opened in Barcelona. Estimates said AIDS had claimed 20 million lives to date and threatened 40 million currently infected. African cases were estimated at 28.5 million.
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A6)
2002 Jul 7, In eastern Ukraine rescue workers found the bodies of 35 miners killed in one of two fires over the weekend in mines.
(AP, 7/7/02)(AP, 7/8/02)
2003 Jul 7, Hilary Lunke won the U.S. Women's Open.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2003 Jul 7, Pres. Bush departed for a 5-country African tour. In 2007 Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary, said he had lunch with Scooter Libby on this day and was told by Libby that Ambassador Wilson had been sent to Africa by his wife, Valerie Plame, who worked for the CIA. Wilson had criticized the Bush administration the previous day for the way it used intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.
(SFC, 7/7/03, p.A8)(SFC, 1/30/07, p.A3)
2003 Jul 7, A federal judge approved a settlement fining WorldCom $750 million for its $11-billion accounting scandal.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2003 Jul 7, A chunk of foam insulation fired at shuttle wing parts blew open a gaping 16-inch hole, yielding what one member of the Columbia investigation team said was the "smoking gun" proving what brought down the spaceship on Feb 1.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2003 Jul 7, The CDC confirmed the year's 1st case of West Nile Virus, which killed 284 in the US in 2002.
(SFC, 7/8/03, p.A6)
2003 Jul 7, NASA's 2nd Mars Lander, named Opportunity, was launched.
(SFC, 7/8/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 7, In Corsica explosions rocked vacation homes owned by mainland French in new nationalist violence a day after Corsicans rejected a plan designed to set up a single executive body to run Corsican affairs.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2003 Jul 7, In Indonesia gunbattles between soldiers and rebels in Aceh province left 18 insurgents dead, and the bodies of five civilians were discovered in the region.
(AP, 7/8/03)
2003 Jul 7, In northwestern Tanzania a bus rolled several times after one of its front tires burst, killing at least 19 people and injuring 23 others.
(AP, 7/8/03)
2004 Jul 7, Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay was indicted on criminal charges related to the energy company's collapse.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2004 Jul 7, Jeff Smith (65), a white-bearded minister who became public television's popular "Frugal Gourmet" (1983-1997) before a sex scandal ruined his career, died.
(AP, 7/9/04)
2004 Jul 7, The Iraqi government issued a long-anticipated package of security laws to help crush insurgents, including a provision allowing interim PM Iyad Allawi to impose martial law. 4 Iraqi National Guard soldiers were killed and 20 injured from a gunbattle in central Baghdad.
(AP, 7/7/04)(SFC, 7/8/04, p.A15)
2004 Jul 7, In Russia the board of Guta Bank approved its sale to the state-owned Vneshtorgbank. A day earlier Guta had announced a suspension of payments.
(Econ, 7/10/04, p.66)
2004 Jul 7, In Sri Lanka a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police station, killing herself and 4 officers.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2004 Jul 7, It was reported that fighting between Arab and African tribes has killed at least 70 people and displaced thousands more this week in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
(Reuters, 7/7/04)
2005 Jul 7, Morgan Stanley disclosed that Philip Purdell had been given an exit package worth an estimated $113.7 million. 2 days earlier John Mack was signed on as CEO on a contract worth as much as $25 million a year.
(SFC, 7/8/05, p.C1)
2005 Jul 7, Gustaf Sobin (69), American-born writer and poet, died in France. His work included the 2000 novel “The Fly-Truffler."
(SFC, 7/13/05, p.B7)
2005 Jul 7, A Human Rights Watch report said numerous officials in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government are implicated in war crimes that took place at the start of the country's bloody civil war in the early 1990s.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, In Pale, Bosnia-Herzegovina, NATO troops arrested Aleksandar Karadzic, the son of top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic, who is wanted for alleged genocide including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
(AFP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Four blasts rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour, sending bloodied victims fleeing. 52 were killed in the subway blasts, including 13 on the bus, and London hospitals reported more than 700 wounded. A group calling itself "The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe" posted a claim of responsibility, saying they were in retaliation for Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2007 British police arrested 3 suspects. [see ref URL for CNN timeline on the bombing] In 2008 a jury failed to convict 3 Britons accused of helping the suicide bombers. In 2009 three men were found not guilty of helping to plan the suicide bombings, although two were convicted on lesser charges.
(AP, 7/7-8/05)(http://tinyurl.com/dxvlb)(AP, 7/11/05)(WSJ, 3/23/07, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/2/08, p.A6)(AFP, 4/28/09)(AFP, 1/19/15)
2005 Jul 7, Al-Qaida in Iraq said in a Web statement that it has killed Ihab al-Sherif, Egypt's top envoy in Iraq, posting a video of the blindfolded diplomat identifying himself.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Egypt recalled its staff to Cairo and said it will temporarily shut its diplomatic mission in Iraq.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Hurricane Dennis, a Category 4 storm with 135-mph winds, left 10 people dead in Haiti and some 100 missing.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2005 Jul 7, The 150-ton KMP Digul sank off Papua province, Indonesia, while en route from the port town of Merauke to Tanah Merah. As many as 200 were feared dead.
(AP, 7/9/05)(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 7, Iraq's president called for national unity as mortar attacks killed 4 civilians in the northern city of Mosul and police opened fire on demonstrators in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit, wounding 4.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, About 600 US Marines and Iraqi soldiers launched Operation Scimitar near Fallujah, the fourth counterinsurgency operation in less than a month.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2005 Jul 7, Ali Shakir, the head of Iraq's karate union, was kidnapped south of Baghdad.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2005 Jul 7, Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer quit the Iraqi dictator's Jordan-based legal team, saying some of the team's American members were trying to control the defense and tone down his criticism of the U.S. presence in Iraq.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker asked his citizens to pass a referendum in favor of the EU Constitution.
(WSJ, 7/8/05, p.A5)
2005 Jul 7, In Pakistan 2 masked gunmen opened fire on an intelligence officer in a remote northwestern tribal region, killing him before fleeing.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Romania's PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu said his Cabinet would resign and early elections would be called after a court blocked essential justice reforms required by the EU.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, In Scotland world leaders united in a show of solidarity to condemn the deadly bombings in London as an attack on all nations and vowed to defeat the terrorists responsible.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2006 Jul 7, The Arkansas state board barred Dr. Randeep Mann from prescribing narcotics after officials said 10 of his patients died from a lethal mix of drugs or an overdose of prescription medicines.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Louisiana joined 21 other states in banning Internet hunting, the practice of using a mouse click to kill animals on a distant game farm.
(www.livescience.com/othernews/060707_internet_hunting.html)
2006 Jul 7, Oil hit a fresh record high of $75.78 a barrel, boosted by strong demand in the US and global tension ranging from Iran's nuclear work to North Korea's missile tests.
(Reuters, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Fighting in southern Afghanistan killed a US-led coalition soldier and at least eight suspected Taliban militants.
(AP, 7/8/06)
2006 Jul 7, Syd Barrett (60), a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died at his home in Cambridge, England. The band’s first album was “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn."
(Reuters, 7/11/06)(SFC, 7/12/06, p.B7)(Econ, 7/22/06, p.83)
2006 Jul 7, In Canada 2 Mounties were wounded near the Saskatchewan community of Spiritwood as they investigated what appeared to be a family dispute. Constables Robin Cameron (29) and Marc Bourdages (26) died from their wounds on July 15 and 16.
(AP, 7/17/06)
2006 Jul 7, In northern China a fire ignited explosives at a home in Dongzhai, a village in the coal-mining province of Shanxi, killing at least 47 people, many of them neighbors who had rushed to the scene to battle the flames. A seven-story apartment building collapsed in the major city of Zhengzhou in central China, killing at least two people and burying an unknown number of others.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, UN peacekeepers in Haiti found the bodies of 16 people believed killed in a surge of gang violence.
(AP, 7/8/06)
2006 Jul 7, Iraqi forces backed by US aircraft battled militants in a Shiite stronghold of eastern Baghdad, killing or wounding more than 30 fighters and capturing an extremist leader who was the target of the raid. Residents claimed up to 11 civilians died. A series of bombs and a mortar round targeting the main Islamic weekly service struck four Sunni mosques in the Baghdad area and a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, killing 17 people and wounding more than 50.
(AP, 7/7/06)(AP, 7/8/06)
2006 Jul 7, Israel launched an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said three Palestinians were killed. The Israeli military said the attack on the town of Beit Lahiya targeted a group of militants. Palestinians said 32 people had died in days of Gaza fighting.
(AP, 7/7/06)(WSJ, 7/8/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 7, Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi was ordered to stand trial following an investigation into the sale of television rights at Mediaset SpA.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, The first batch of Japanese troops began pulling out of Iraq.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, North Korea announced a scientific breakthrough. State-run media boasted that researchers developed a new cosmetic agent to make skin supple.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Pakistan's president amended a controversial Islamic law so that women facing charges for adultery and other minor crimes can be released on bail. The much-awaited amendment by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to the Hadood Ordinance will initially affect 1,300 female prisoners.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, In the Philippines 6 fugitive military officers linked to a failed 2003 mutiny against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo were arrested.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Officials said Russian authorities have dramatically curtailed the number of stations broadcasting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America news programs, sending an unsettling signal about the state of press freedoms in Russia.
(AP, 7/8/06)
2006 Jul 7, A Spanish judge charged two former Guatemalan dictators with genocide and issued international warrants for their arrest. National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued warrants on charges of genocide, torture, terrorism and illegal detention against Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores and six other men.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Spain’s Agriculture Ministry said it has recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu. The deadly strain was found in a water fowl in a marsh area outside the northern city of Vitoria.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, The UN General Assembly unanimously approved a series of reforms that were welcomed by the US as a long overdue step toward greater efficiency and accountability. A two-week UN conference reviewing efforts to fight the illegal weapons trade ended in failure, with nations too divided on too many contentious issues to agree on the best way to combat a scourge that fuels conflict worldwide. Japan introduced a draft UN Security Council resolution to sanction North Korea for test-launching a series of missiles. The Council unanimously adopted a compromise resolution on July 15.
(AP, 7/8/06)(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, The 24-hour Live Earth music marathon reached the Western Hemisphere with rappers, rockers and country stars taking the stage at Live Earth concerts to fight climate change.
(SSFC, 7/8/07, p.A4)(AP, 7/7/08)
2007 Jul 7, A Big Mac in the US cost an average $3.41. At current exchange rates the cheapest Big Mac was in China at $1.45, and the most expensive in New Zealand at $5.89.
(Econ, 7/7/07, p.74)
2007 Jul 7, Wildfires in California consumed 17,000 acres in Inyo National Forest and 7,500 acres in Los Padres National Forest. An 8,000-acre wildfire forced hundreds of people in the town of Winnemucca to leave their homes, one of more than a dozen blazes that charred a combined 55 square miles in northern Nevada. In Utah a 160,000-acre wildfire forced evacuations at Cove Fort and the Blundell Geothermal Power Plant. Wildfires also burned in Colorado, Arizona, Oregon and Washington states.
(AP, 7/8/07)(SSFC, 7/8/07, p.A5)
2007 Jul 7, In Oregon Kent Couch (47) in his lawn chair with some snacks and a parachute rose to the sky under 105 large helium balloons. Nearly 9 hours later the gas station owner came back to earth in a farmer's field near Union, 193 miles from home. In September he had gotten off the ground for six hours.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 7, A global poll picked the Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, India's Taj Mahal, Peru’s Macchu Picchu, Jordan’s Petra, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer and Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid as the new seven wonders of the world. The campaign to name the new wonders was launched in 1999 by the Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber.
(AP, 7/8/07)
2007 Jul 7, Barton Shackelford, former president of PG&E (1979-1985), died in Kentfield, Ca.
(SFC, 7/16/07, p.C6)
2007 Jul 7, In Kandahar province Taliban fighters ambushed police traveling in between Ghorak and Mawiwand, sparking a six-hour battle. About 20 Taliban fighters were wounded in the engagement, and several police were missing. Taliban fighters beheaded two civilians they accused of being spies for the government or NATO. A roadside blast struck a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan and wounded four alliance soldiers.
(AP, 7/7/07)(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 7, A court in Algeria's Kabylie region sentenced Said Sahnoun, a correspondent for newspapers in sub-Saharan Africa, to 10 years in prison for spying for Israel.
(Reuters, 7/8/07)
2007 Jul 7, Algeria's state oil and gas company and KBR Inc., a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary, signed a $2.88 billion deal for a liquefied natural gas plant.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Britain’s PM Gordon Brown pledged 14 million pounds in extra aid for parts of northern England hit by floods which killed at least four people.
(AFP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Jack Odell (b.1920), British creator of the Matchbox miniature toys (1953), died. The toys were made by Lesney Products, founded by Leslie and Rodney Smith in 1947. The company went public in 1960 and bankrupt in 1982, when it was sold to Hong Kong’s Universal International Ltd. In 1997 Mattel acquired Matchbox.
(WSJ, 1/14/07, p.A4)
2007 Jul 7, German scientists said a genetically engineered herpes virus, designed to kill cancer cells but leave normal tissue unharmed, has shown early promise in clinical tests.
(Reuters, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Authorities said floods in eastern India have left nearly a million people stranded from torrential monsoon rains.
(AFP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, In Iraq a bombing in Armili, a farming town of 26,000, mostly Shiites from Iraq's ethnic Turkoman minority, killed over 130 people. Another car bomb attack against a military checkpoint in Baghdad killed at least 3 people and wounded 10. British troops came under heavy attack by militants in Basra, killing one soldier and wounding 3. An American soldier was killed in combat in Salahuddin province.
(AFP, 7/7/07)(AP, 7/8/07)
2007 Jul 7, In Indian-controlled Kashmir protesters clashed with police in Srinagar a day after a teenager was killed when police fired on a crowd protesting alleged human rights abuses.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, In Indonesia a speeding bus carrying a group of junior high school students and their teachers plunged into a 30-foot ravine on the main island of Java, killing 14 people. Poisonous fumes from the Indonesia’s Salak volcano killed six teenagers who were camping on the mountain.
(AP, 7/7/07)(AP, 7/8/07)
2007 Jul 7, Nepal's king celebrated his 60th birthday with a lavish ceremony at his palace that set off protests in the streets of Katmandu.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, President Pervez Musharraf told Islamist militants barricaded in a mosque to surrender or die, while concern grew for hundreds of women and children inside the besieged compound in the Pakistani capital.
(Reuters, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Pope Benedict XVI removed restrictions on celebrating the old form of the Latin Mass in a concession to traditional Catholics, but he stressed that he was in no way rolling back the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Zimbabwe's government announced a new law making it an offense to defy steep price cuts ordered in an effort to control runaway inflation and a growing economic crisis.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2008 Jul 7, Tropical storm Bertha strengthened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, Bruce Conner (b.1933), SF-based artist, died. His collages and prints looked back to classics of surrealism. His work was later said to look like a bridge between the Beat generation and postmodernism.
(http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006353.html)(SFC, 7/8/08, p.B5)(SFC, 5/4/09, p.E3)
2008 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a car bomb detonated by a suicide bomber ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul, killing 41 people in the deadliest attack in the capital since the fall of the Taliban.
(AP, 7/7/08)(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, Austria’s ruling coalition crumbled and new elections were expected as early as September. The left-right alliance broke up after 18 months in office.
(WSJ, 7/8/08, p.A12)(Econ, 7/12/08, p.63)
2008 Jul 7, In central Bangladesh 2 passenger buses collided head-on, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, The Church of England's ruling body voted its support for women to become bishops without giving traditionalist supporters of male-only priesthood the concessions they had sought.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, In China Diana O'Brien (22), a Canadian model, was found murdered in her Shanghai apartment. On Jul 11 police arrested Chen Jun (18), who confessed to killing the woman during a robbery.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Colombia a rose-laden US cargo plane headed for Miami crashed before dawn near Bogota, killing a father and son in their home on the ground. It was the second time in six weeks that a Boeing 747 flown by Ypsilanti, Michigan-based Kalitta Air has crashed.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Congo (DRC) unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle belonging to the World Wildlife Fund in Virunga national Park, killing two people and wounding three others.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 7, Police in East Timor's capital fired tear gas to disperse students protesting a plan by lawmakers to buy themselves new cars with state funds.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Egypt smugglers killed a police officer during a shootout on the border with Israel.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, A court in Equatorial Guinea convicted former British officer Simon Mann on of being the key player in a failed 2004 coup plot in this Central African nation and sentenced him to 34 years and four months in prison.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, European Union nations gave their backing to a French-drafted pact calling for tightening immigration and asylum rules across the 27-nation bloc.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Germany war crimes suspect Callixte Mbarushimana, a former UN employee wanted for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, was arrested in Frankfurt.
(AFP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, Germany’s Fresenius SE said it has agreed to buy US generic drug maker APP Pharmaceuticals for $3.7 billion in cash in a deal that will give the health care company more opportunities in the North American market for drugs administered intravenously.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, PM al-Maliki said Iraq has proposed a short-term memorandum of understanding with the US rather than trying to hammer through a formal agreement on the presence of US forces. A roadside bomb near a dress shop in Baqouba killed a woman and injured 14 others.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, Israeli troops in jeeps swooped down on the West Bank town of Nablus, shutting down a girls' school, a medical center and two other facilities of a Hamas-affiliated charity. Palestinian militants fired a mortar shell at a border crossing with the Gaza Strip. Israel's military said it had begun digging up the bodies of Lebanese fighters after the government struck a deal with Hezbollah guerrillas to swap five living prisoners and dozens of bodies for two Israeli soldiers captured in 2006.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, Israeli Lt. Col. Omri Borberg was caught on video holding the arm of Ashraf Abu Rahmeh while he was shot in the foot with a rubber-coated bullet in the West Bank village of Naalin. On Jan 27, 2011, an Israeli military court sentenced two soldiers, convicted in the close-range shooting of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian man, but spared them jail time.
(AP, 1/27/11)(http://tinyurl.com/45ufwxq)
2008 Jul 7, In Italy transport workers went on strike, forcing the cancellation of thousands of bus, tram and subway lines and snarling traffic across the country.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Japan G8 leaders raised the prospect of more sanctions against Zimbabwe unless quick progress is made to end a political crisis after a violent election that extended President Robert Mugabe's 28-year rule. The G8 met with seven African leaders at its annual summit. African leaders urged the Group of Eight nations to tackle spiking oil and food prices. Japan included 5 “outreach" countries (Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa) for brief discussions with the G8.
(Reuters, 7/7/08)(AFP, 7/7/08)(Econ, 7/5/08, p.33)
2008 Jul 7, In Indian Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad, the chief minister said he was stepping down following protests over the government’s handling of the transfer of government land to the Shiri Amarnath Shrine Board, a trust running the revered Hindu shrine.
(WSJ, 7/8/08, p.A12)
2008 Jul 7, Mexican police found six charred bodies on a Tijuana street following a bloody weekend that left 14 people dead.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Pakistan a total of seven small blasts left 43 people wounded in the commercial capital of Karachi.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, Serbia's parliament approved a new government that includes a pro-Western group and the political party of the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, The South African Reserve Bank said 5 million coins featuring a smiling Nelson Mandela will go into circulation on July 18, the former president's 90th birthday.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, Sudan's parliament approved a new electoral law, a crucial step towards scheduled national elections and a democratic transition laid out in peace arrangements after a 21-year civil war.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, A UNESCO official said that an 11th century temple that sits on Cambodia's disputed border zone with Thailand has been designated as a world heritage site. Hindu-themed Preah Vihear reflects the beliefs of the kings who ruled what was then the Angkorean empire.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2009 Jul 7, Google announced its new operating system, Google Chrome OS, which would initially target low cost netbooks.
(SFC, 7/9/09, p.C1)
2009 Jul 7, Ron Nicolino (b.1939), artist and former resident of Point Richmond, Ca., died of cancer. He had attempted to string a collection of bras across the Grand Canyon in the mid-1990s, but was unable to get federal permission. Instead he and Ellen Duffy concocted the creation of a bra ball. A dispute led each one to create their own versions. Nicolino’s 1,600 pound “Big Giant Bra Ball" was left with his mother in Washington state.
(SFC, 7/16/09, p.D7)
2009 Jul 7, In eastern Afghanistan a hand grenade thrown at a police vehicle exploded in a crowd, killing one civilian and wounding 28 others in Khost province. A British soldier died in an explosion in Helmand province. He was the 7th British soldier killed in Afghanistan in a week. Hundreds of insurgents attacked police posts and a government building in eastern Nuristan province. The attacks continued into the next day leaving 6 policemen and 21 insurgents dead. (AP, 7/7/09)(AP, 7/8/09)
2009 Jul 7, British officials unveiled a memorial of 52 steel pillars in a London park, one for each victim of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city's transit system.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, The Cameroonian newspaper Le Jour said five Chinese workers were abducted off the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula in Cameroon near the border with Nigeria.
(AFP, 7/8/09)
2009 Jul 7, Canadian officials said they had identified yet another new flu virus, this one a mixture of human and swine influenzas, in two farm workers in Western Canada.
(Reuters, 7/8/09)
2009 Jul 7, In China mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang region. The government imposed a curfew as it tried to stem communal violence. The official Xinhua News Agency said that 1,434 suspects had been arrested, and that checkpoints had been set up to stop rioters from escaping.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, In Egypt 22 people were killed in two separate accidents on the notoriously dangerous road between the capital Cairo and the southern city of Minya.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, Ethiopia's parliament adopted a new anti-terrorism bill despite criticism by rights groups that the legislation violates civil liberties.
(AFP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, In India at least 16 people were killed and 25 injured after a fire tore through a firecracker factory in Madurai.
(SFC, 7/9/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 7, In Italy Matteo Salvini, a member of the often xenophobic, anti-immigrant Northern League party, resigned his seat in the lower chamber of Parliament after being filmed singing a racist chant about Naples and its residents.
(AP, 7/8/09)
2009 Jul 7, In northern Mexico an anti-crime activist and a neighbor were killed by gunmen believed linked to a drug cartel. Anti-crime activists said the slaying of Benjamin LeBaron, a US citizen, in Chihuahua state was the first time one of their own had been killed for denouncing crime and called it a chilling warning. Jose Rodolfo Escajeda, a lieutenant and one of the main operators of the Juarez cartel, was later presumed responsible for the killing of LeBaron and a neighbor near Nuevo Casas Grandes.
(AP, 7/8/09)(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Jul 7, In Pakistan a US missile strike pulverized a compound in a stronghold of Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, killing 16 foreign and local militants in South Waziristan. Two paramilitary soldiers were killed and nine security personnel wounded in three bomb attacks in North and South Waziristan. The military said that four militants were killed, including a brother of Ibn-e-Amin, one of the most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley.
(AFP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, In the Philippines a crude bomb hidden on a motorcycle exploded in a port city on southern Jolo island where al-Qaida-linked militants are active, killing at least two people and wounding 24.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, In Moscow President Barack Obama asked the Russian people to "forge a lasting partnership" with the US, but he acknowledged after talks with PM Vladimir Putin that on divisive issues there won't be "a meeting of the minds anytime soon.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, Spanish police arrested Jorge Alberto Soza (72), an ex-Argentine police official suspected of human rights abuses committed during the South American country's dirty war. Soza was wanted in Argentina in connection with 18 cases of kidnapping and torture between 1975 and 1977 when he was an assistant Federal Police commissioner and chief delegate in the southern Argentine city of Neuquen.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 7, Pope Benedict XVI called for a radical rethinking of global economy in “Caritas et Verite" (Charity in Truth) his 3rd encyclical.
(SFC, 7/8/09, p.A2)
2010 Jul 7, At a US military tribunal Ibrahim Gitmo detainee Ahmed Mahmoud, a Sudanese man who was said to have worked in Afghanistan as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, driver, cook and paymaster, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.
(Econ, 7/31/10, p.23)
2010 Jul 7, In Philadelphia, Pa., a 250-foot barge collided on the Delaware River with a stalled amphibious sightseeing boat. 2 visitors from Hungary were killed. In 2011 tug pilot Matt Devlin agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter following evidence that he was talking on a cell phone during the accident.
(AP, 7/9/10)(SFC, 7/15/11, p.A7)
2010 Jul 7, In Brazil Bruno Souza, a star goalkeeper and captain of defending club champion Flamengo, surrendered to police to face questioning in connection with the disappearance and suspected death of his ex-lover, Eliza Samudio, last seen alive on June 7. Police believed Bruno was in a home near Belo Horizonte home with Samudio at the time of her murder, and that her body was later cut into pieces, some of which were fed to dogs in a bid to cover the murder.
(AFP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 7, Police in northeast England detained Abid Naseer (24), the alleged ringleader of an al-Qaida bomb plot, at the request of the US government. He was among 12 people arrested last year in raids across northern England. All were released without charge.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, In Britain scientists at a top research unit embroiled in a row over climate research were cleared of dishonesty, but their lack of openness was criticized. The Independent Climate Change Email Review found nothing in the emails to undermine reports from the United Nations' climate change panel.
(AFP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, China executed the former top justice official in the southwestern city of Chongqing, the highest ranking person caught in a massive crackdown on violent gangs and corrupt officials who protect them. Wen Qiang (55), former director of the Chongqing Municipal Judicial Bureau, was convicted in April of corruption charges involving organized crime.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, Cuba promised the Roman Catholic Church it will free 52 political prisoners, slashing the number held by nearly a third in what would be the communist-led island's largest release of dissidents since Pope John Paul II visited in 1998.
(AP, 7/8/10)
2010 Jul 7, East Timor's Pres. Jose Ramos Horta said he supports in principle an Australian plan to turn his country into a regional center for processing asylum seekers but does not want his tiny, impoverished nation to become an "island prison."
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, European Union lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to cap bankers' short-term cash bonuses from next year, a move that European leaders hope other parts of the world will follow.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, A French court convicted Manuel Noriega of money-laundering and sentenced Panama's former dictator to seven years in jail after he spent two decades in a US prison.
(AFP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, Germany's interior minister Thomas de Maiziere said his country plans to take in two inmates from the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, Iranian media reported that the Veil and Modesty Festival, a fashion organization, has issued a new list of culturally appropriate haircuts for men, possibly indicating a new crackdown on male attire after years of strict rules for women, Iranian media reported.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, In Iraq militants targeted the homes of security forces west of Baghdad, blowing them up and killing three family members despite heightened security around the capital for a Shiite religious occasion. In a separate attack in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Dora in southern Baghdad, police Maj. Abdul-Rahman Sobhi was killed when a bomb attached to his car detonated as he drove to work. Nearly 60 people were killed in attacks in and around Baghdad, including 35 by a suicide bomber who targeted pilgrims heading to a mosque in northern Baghdad. Two people were killed near Ramadi, when insurgents blew up the houses of three policemen.
(AP, 7/7/10)(AP, 7/8/10)
2010 Jul 7, Israel said that its moves to ease its blockade on Gaza do not include relaxing regulations on Palestinians looking to travel out of the enclave. Israel's military released maps and aerial photographs showing what it described as a network of Hezbollah weapons depots and command centers inside villages in south Lebanon, near the Israeli border.
(AFP, 7/7/10)(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, A Tokyo court convicted a New Zealand activist of assault and obstructing Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic Ocean, and sentenced him to a suspended prison term. Peter Bethune (45) was also found guilty on three other charges: trespassing, vandalism and possession of a knife. Bethune was deported 2 days later.
(AP, 7/7/10)(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 7, In Indian Kashmir 2 people were killed and anger increased when security forces beat people in funeral processions.
(Econ, 7/10/10, p.42)
2010 Jul 7, In Mexico a judge acquitted Juan Llaca Diaz, a man charged with dealing in precursor drug chemicals and allegedly linked to the bust of a Chinese-Mexican businessman who hid $205 million at his Mexico City mansion.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 7, A Mexican air force helicopter crashed in the western state of Jalisco, killing three military personnel on board.
(AP, 7/10/10)
2010 Jul 7, Royal Dutch Shell said it has begun production at a major project in Nigeria that should eventually provide up to 70,000 barrels of oil per day and help boost electricity for the power-starved nation.
(AFP, 7/8/10)
2010 Jul 7, The UN WHO said at least 2,000 lead-poisoning victims in northern Nigeria may require treatment to remove brain-damaging lead. The poisoning was believed to be related to the processing of lead-rich ore for the extraction of gold.
(SFC, 7/8/10, p.A4)
2010 Jul 7, A Peruvian judge halted the expulsion of Paul McAuley (62), a British religious activist. He was accused by the government of inciting unrest among indigenous groups protesting environmental damage to the Amazon rain forest.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, In the Philippines officials said Nicanor Faeldon (44), a rebel soldier accused of leading two failed coup attempts, has turned himself in to authorities after 3 years on the run. Faeldon, a former bomb making trainer with the marines, was accused of helping lead 300 soldiers in taking over the upscale Oakwood Hotel and a nearby shopping center in Manila's financial district of Makati in July 2003, rigging the area with bombs.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, In Poland Warsaw district court Judge Tomasz Calkiewicz ordered that Uri Brodsky, a Mossad agent, be extradited to Germany on charges of forgery. Brodsky was suspected of helping fake a German passport that was used by a member of a hit squad believed to be behind the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, Thailand police said Russian pianist and composer Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev, founder of the Russian National Orchestra, has been charged with raping a 14-year-old boy at a beach resort.
(SFC, 7/8/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 7, A Yemeni court convicted two al-Qaida militants for the killing of senior police and army officers and sentenced them to death. Mubarak el-Shabawni (23) and Mansour Salem (18), arrested last December, denounced the verdict and shouted 'God is Great' afterward.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2011 Jul 7, In Michigan Rodrick Shonte Dantzler (34) killed seven people in a bloody rampage that ended when he shot himself in the head during a hostage standoff with police. Police said Dantzler had targeted two former girlfriends.
(Reuters, 7/7/11)(SFC, 7/9/11, p.A5)
2011 Jul 7, In Texas Humberto Leal (38), a Mexican national, was executed for the rape-slaying of a teenager after the US Supreme Court turned down an appeal to spare him that was supported by Mexico and the White House. He was sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda.
(AP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Wyoming Everett E. Conant III opened fire inside a mobile home in Wheatland killing his three sons and a brother. His wife was wounded. He surrendered without incident and was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, battery and a weapons violation.
(AP, 7/9/11)
2011 Jul 7, Rupert Murdoch caused astonishment when he killed off the 168-year-old News of the World after it was dogged by allegations that it hacked the voicemails of a teenage murder victim and the families of dead soldiers. This was widely seen as a way to quell the scandal and save the bid by his News Corp. for control of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, on which the British government is due to decide.
(AFP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a roadside bomb killed 8 Afghan policemen on a patrol in the northern district of Fayz Abad. A NATO service member died as a result of a non-battle related injury in the south. In the east a NATO helicopter crashed in Parnwan province, but the crew was recovered. Up to 13 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in a NATO air strike in the eastern province of Khost.
(AP, 7/7/11)(AFP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, British officers arrested Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui (44), a suspected Basque separatist, in connection with a 1997 attempted assassination of Spain's King Juan Carlos. The arrest came a day after the arrest of ETA suspect Daniel Derguy on terrorism charges in Cahors, France.
(AFP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Canada formally ended its combat mission in Afghanistan after years of being on the front lines of the fight against Taliban insurgents in the south.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Canada Richard Oland (69), part of the family that owns Moosehead Breweries, was found dead in a pool of blood in his office. His body bore numerous stab and blunt-force wounds to the head, neck and hands. Police said his son was the last person to see him alive.
(AFP, 12/20/15)
2011 Jul 7, Ash from a Chilean volcano grounded flights across much of South America again, disrupting travel for thousands of people just as the continent's premier football tournament got going in Argentina.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In China 4 miners were killed in a gas explosion in a mine in the western-most Xinjiang region. The death toll in a mine that flooded on July 2 in Guangxi province rose to four, with 18 still trapped. In eastern Shandong province, the number of miners trapped in a coal mine in Zaozhuang city dropped to 28 following a fire the previous evening. 23 miners remained trapped in a coal mine in southwest Guizhou province that also flooded on July 2.
(AFP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, A CongoDRC colonel known as Kifaru, accused of mass rapes last June in volatile eastern Congo, surrendered with 106 others.
(AP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's personal photographer was arrested on suspicion of espionage, along with his wife and two other photographers.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In northern India a train hit a stopped bus at a railway crossing, killing at least 35 people returning from a wedding party in Uttar Pradesh state.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Iraq a roadside bomb killed 2 US soldiers outside the main American military base in Baghdad.
(SFC, 7/8/11, p.A2)
2011 Jul 7, An Israeli tank hit a roadside bomb that was planted by Palestinian militants along the border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. A soldier was slightly injured in the incident.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Ivory Coast's government named Gen. Soumaila Bakayoko, a former rebel leader, as the new army chief, replacing Gen. Philippe Mangou, who served under the former strongman Laurent Gbagbo.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Kenya police tear gassed several hundred protesters marching toward the offices of Kenya's president and prime minister to demand action over a growing hunger crisis.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Lebanese lawmakers voted to approve the newly formed Hezbollah-dominated Cabinet after a contentious debate over the government's position in confronting the Islamic militant group.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, A senior Libyan official accused NATO of intensifying its bombing campaign and backing foreign mercenaries to lay the groundwork for an advance by rebels.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Libya the International Organization for Migration (IOM) began an operation to return home around 2,000 Chadian migrants, mostly women and children, trapped in Libya.
(AP, 7/9/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Malaysia a man carrying a machete barged into a kindergarten and held children and teachers hostage for six tense hours before police shot him in the head. The unidentified man was in hospital after sustaining a single bullet wound to the head.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Mexican judges convicted four men, Juan Alfredo Soto, Aldo Fabio Hernandez, Jose Dolores Arroyo and Heriberto Martinez, of killing 15 people in the Jan 30, 2010, Ciudad Juarez attack, known as the Villa Salvarcar massacre. The attack prompted President Felipe Calderon to alter the government's anti-drug strategy in the area. On July 11 the 4 men were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
(AP, 7/7/11)(AP, 7/11/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Mexico’s western state of Michoacan presumed drug gang members shot at federal officers, who repelled the attack and killed four alleged criminals and wounded another in the city of Apatzingan. Police said the gunmen were members of the Knights Templar, a criminal organization that split off from La Familia cartel.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In the Netherlands a large section of the roof of a soccer stadium collapsed during off-season construction work in Enschede, killing one person and leaving 10 hospitalized.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Nigeria motorcycles were completely banned in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, wracked by violence blamed on the Boko Haram Islamist sect.
(AFP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Pakistan gunmen shot up a bus and opened fire in several neighborhoods of Karachi, killing at least 22 people. 49 other people were killed in the city in sporadic shootings over the last 3 days.
(AP, 7/7/11)(SFC, 7/8/11, p.A2)
2011 Jul 7, Ricardo Alegria (90), a Puerto Rican scholar, died. He was known for his pioneering studies of the island's native Taino culture and is credited with preserving the capital's colonial district.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Swedish officials said a man (36) with tracheal cancer has received a new lab-made wind pipe seeded with his own stem cells in the first successful attempt of its kind.
(SFC, 7/8/11, p.A2)
2011 Jul 7, Syrian protesters hurled stones and set roadblocks of burning tires against government forces trying to enter Hama, a key opposition city, where Syrian troops had killed 23 civilians since July 5. Around a hundred families fled Hama fearing a military crackdown.
(AP, 7/7/11)(AFP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Turkmenistan a series of mysterious blasts severely damaged hundreds of houses in the town of Abadan, 12 miles (20 km) from the capital, Ashgabat. Exiled Turkmen activists said a munitions dump was the source of the blast and that many people have been killed.
(AP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, Yemen’s Pres. Saleh appeared on state TV late in the day, a first since flying to Saudi Arabia a month ago to treat wounds sustained in an attack on his palace. The video showed the leader with casts on his arms and visibly weakened after a series of operations, reinforcing speculation that he won't return to Yemen soon.
(AP, 7/9/11)
2012 Jul 7, The Obama administration declared Afghanistan the United States' newest "major non-NATO ally," an action designed to facilitate close defense cooperation after US combat troops withdraw from the country in 2014. Afghanistan was the 15th such country to receive the designation.
(AP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, Thousands of visitors climbed aboard the USS Iowa as the storied WWII and Cold War battleship opened as a museum at the port of Los Angeles.
(Reuters, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Massachusetts Democratic Representative Barney Frank wed his longtime partner, James Ready, becoming the first sitting congressman to enter into a same-sex marriage.
(Reuters, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, The US Border patrol said agents had opened fire along the Rio Grande border after being pelted by rocks. A Mexican citizen was fatally shot at the Los Tomates-Veterans int’l. bridge in Brownsville, Texas.
(SFC, 7/10/12, p.A4)
2012 Jul 7, Philip L. Fradkin (b.1935), environmental journalist and historian, died at his home in Point Reyes, Ca. His 13 books included “A River No More" (1981), about the taming of the Colorado River and “Wallace Stegner and the American West" (2008).
(SFC, 7/11/12, p.C5)
2012 Jul 7, A video obtained by Reuters showed a man shooting dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul. Provincial Governor Basir Salangi said the video was shot a week ago in the village of Qimchok in Shinwari district. Salangi said two Taliban commanders were sexually involved with the woman, either through rape or romantically, and decided to torture her and then kill her to settle a dispute between the two of them.
(Reuters, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a roadside bomb ripped through a pickup truck in the Chora district of Uruzgan province killing six people. Another bomb exploded in the Gereshk district of Helmand province, killing one child and wounding another. A rocket attack targeting the governor's office in Farah province killed one civilian and wounded 26 others. A NATO service member was killed in southern Afghanistan in a roadside bomb explosion.
(AFP, 7/7/12)(AP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Burkina Faso West African presidents (ECOWAS) met with civil leaders from Mali in a bid to secure a national unity government to tackle a crisis in the north where Islamists have enforced Sharia law.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In China the Rev. Thaddeus Ma Daqin was consecrated as auxiliary bishop of Shanghai. Ma announced that he would no longer work for the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CCPA), the government body that oversees Catholics in China.
(SFC, 7/11/12, p.A6)(Economist, 9/8/12, p.42)
2012 Jul 7, East Timor's voters went to the polls in parliamentary elections seen as a key test for the young and fragile democracy and likely to determine if UN peacekeepers can leave by the end of the year. Preliminary results showed resistance hero Xanana Gusmao to be set for a new term as premier after his party won most seats in parliamentary polls, but will have to form a coalition.
(AFP, 7/7/12)(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, Egyptian border guards arrested 68 Eritreans and Ethiopians trying to sneak across the border into Israel.
(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, Thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv to call on the government to require all sectors of society to participate in national service.
(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Libya hundreds of protesters burned ballots to demand greater representation although most residents of the Mediterranean city of Benghazi voted in historic elections. Acts of sabotage, mostly in the east of the country, prevented 101 polling stations from opening. 80 seats were set aside for party lists, while the remaining 120 were for individual independent candidates. In Benghazi the liberal National Forces Alliance took 95,733 votes against 16,143 for the Islamist Justice and Construction Party (JCP). The National Forces Alliance, a liberal coalition led by wartime prime minister Mahmud Jibril, gained 39 of 80 seats open to parties in the General National Congress. The Justice and Construction Party, which was launched by Libya's Muslim Brotherhood, took only 17 seats. The remainder of party seats went to a constellation of smaller, lesser-known parties.
(AFP, 7/7/12)(AP, 7/8/12)(AFP, 7/11/12)(AFP, 7/17/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Mexico tens of thousands of people marched in Mexico City to protest Enrique Pena Nieto's apparent win in the country's presidential election, accusing his long ruling party of buying votes.
(AP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, Myanmar authorities released all of the student leaders detained in the country's biggest crackdown on activists since the dissolution of the junta. At least 20 people were detained ahead of today’s commemoration a 1962 crackdown, sparking calls for their immediate release.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Nigeria assailants launched "sophisticated attacks" on several villages near Jos. At least 80 people were killed and more than 300 displaced people from the attacks. Similar raids have been blamed on Muslim herdsmen in the past.
(AP, 7/8/12)(AFP, 7/9/12)
2012 Jul 7, An explosion injured five Palestinian children in the central Gaza Strip, a hospital said, blaming Israeli tank fire. Witnesses said, however, that there were no Israeli tanks in the area at the time and that the explosion might have been caused by an old bomb.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In the Philippines presidential palace said President Benigno Aquino has signed a long-delayed executive order revamping the mining industry.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Russia overnight rains dumped as much as 28 cm (about 11 inches) of water on parts of the Krasnodar region. Water rushed into the hard-hit town of Krymsk with such speed and volume that residents said they suspected that water had been released from a reservoir in the mountains above. Federal investigators acknowledged that water had been released from the reservoir, but they insisted it did not cause the flooding and the dam had not been breached. The death toll in the southern Black Sea region soon reached 171.
(AP, 7/7/12)(AP, 7/8/12)(AP, 7/9/12)
2012 Jul 7, Somali security forces said they had detained over 500 people in a two-day operation in the Mogadishu area who were either Islamist rebel fighters or had have links to them.
(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, Sudan and South Sudan pledged to cease hostilities along their disputed oil-rich border but stopped short of actually signing an agreement.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Sudan Kamal Omar, head of the politburo in the opposition Popular Congress Party, was taken from his home by suspected agents of the National Intelligence and Security Service. Omar was to fly to Qatar on July 9 for an appearance on Al-Jazeera satellite news channel.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, Syria's military began large-scale exercises simulating defense against outside "aggression." Activists struggling to topple the regime reported fierce government offensives to try to retake rebellious areas outside of Aleppo and near Damascus. Shells fired from inside Syria killed 2 Lebanese civilians and injured 10 others. 77 people were killed across Syria, among them 39 civilians, 25 soldiers and 13 rebels.
(AP, 7/7/12)(AP, 7/8/12)(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, Taiwanese residents of the offshore island of Matsu voted in favor of opening Taiwan's first legal casino.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Ukraine a bus carrying Russian religious pilgrims crashed killing 14 of 45 people onboard near Chernihiv.
(SSFC, 7/8/12, p.A4)
2012 Jul 7, In Yemen 2 protesters were killed and one man was left "clinically dead" and several people were shot and wounded, including three police, as a separatist march in Aden turned into a gunbattle. In the town of Seyun in Hadramawt province, one protester was killed and four others were wounded.
(AFP, 7/7/12)(AFP, 7/8/12)
2013 Jul 7, In Alaska an air taxi crashed after takeoff from Soldotna killing the pilot and all 9 passengers.
(SFC, 7/8/13, p.A4)
2013 Jul 7, In Montana Cody Lee Johnson (25) died in Glacier National Park. Jordan Lynn Graham (22), his newly-wed wife of 8-days, later admitted that she pushed her husband off a cliff and then lied about his death. On Dec 12 Jordan pleaded guilty to pushing her husband. On March 27 she was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
(SFC, 9/11/13, p.A4)(SFC, 12/13/13, p.A15)(SFC, 3/28/14, p.A14)
2013 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a roadside bomb seriously wounded Fazil Ahmad, the High Peace Council’s chief in Ghazni province. His driver was killed. The government said fighting over the previous 24 hours killed 14 Afghan soldiers and 64 Taliban militants.
(SFC, 7/8/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 7, Bahrain said twin attacks have left a policeman dead and three injured in the latest sign of targeted strikes by anti-government factions.
(AP, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric once called "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe," was deported from Britain to Jordan. Qatada pleaded innocent to terrorism charges in Jordan.
(AP, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, In India a series of 10 bombs exploded in and around the Mahabodhi Temple complex, a revered Buddhist site at Bodh Gaya in Bihar state. This is where Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained enlightenment.
(Econ, 7/27/13, p.35)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodh_Gaya_bombings)
2013 Jul 7, The president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, visited Baghdad for the first time in more than two years, in a step towards resolving long-running disputes between the central government and the autonomous region over land and oil.
(Reuters, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, Israel's cabinet approved a draft law to abolish wholesale exemptions from military duty granted to Jewish seminary students, stoking ultra-Orthodox anger over the break with tradition.
(Reuters, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, In Mexico an election for mayor of Fresnillo, Zacatecas state, was won by Benjamin Medrano (47). He became the first openly gay mayor ever elected in Mexico and was scheduled to take office in September.
(SFC, 7/19/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 7, North and South Korea agreed to take steps to reopen a jointly run industrial park, including facilities inspections, after the two rivals staged a marathon meeting lasting more than 16 hours to arrange details.
(Reuters, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, Gaza's Hamas authorities said they have broken up a counterfeiting ring that had printed millions of dollars worth of fake Israeli currency. Authorities uncovered the ring last week.
(AP, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, In Somalia journalist Liban Abdullahi Farah was gunned down in Galkayo, Puntland province. He was the 6th journalist to die violently in Somalia this year.
(Econ, 8/3/13, p.44)(http://tinyurl.com/oafs6e7)
2013 Jul 7, In Spain several thousand thrill-seekers tested their bravery by dashing alongside six fighting bulls through the streets of of Pamplona on the first day of the running of the bulls at the annual San Fermin festival. Only four people were treated for injuries and no one was gored.
(AP, 7/7/13)
2014 Jul 7, National Nude Recreation Week began in the US.
(Econ, 7/5/14, p.27)
2014 Jul 7, Chicago authorities said the Fourth of July holiday weekend brought an explosion of gunfire to the city, with more than 50 people shot and nine killed.
(Reuters, 7/8/14)
2014 Jul 7, In southern California drivers in a long-running labor dispute with three trucking companies at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began what they said would be an indefinite strike.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses.
(SFC, 7/8/14, p.A5)
2014 Jul 7, In Afghanistan former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai led in the disputed presidential election, according to a preliminary tally. Ghani had about 4.5 million votes while Abdullah had 3.5 million votes. The Independent Election Commission acknowledged that vote rigging had occurred and promised to launch a more extensive investigation before final results are released.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In northern Afghanistan a rocket fired by insurgents hit a home, killing five children in Kunduz province. Gunmen killed five policemen in a separate attack in Herat province.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Australia's government confirmed that it had handed over a boatload of asylum seekers to Sri Lankan authorities in a transfer at sea, drawing outrage from human rights groups who fear those on board could be persecuted in their home country.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Bahrain ordered US diplomat Tom Malinowski to leave the country after he met with a leading Shiite opposition group.
(AP, 7/7/14)(Econ, 7/12/14, p.42)
2014 Jul 7, In the Central African Republic Muslim fighters attacked St. Joseph’s Cathedral compound in Bambari killing at least 17 people.
(SFC, 7/9/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 7, Chile’s Pres. Michelle Bachelet announced that her government objects to the Int’l. Court of Justice’s jurisdiction to hear Bolivia’s suit over a land dispute that goes back to the 1879-1884 War of the Pacific.
(SSFC, 7/13/14, p.A4)
2014 Jul 7, China’s state media said authorities have taken down more than 40 groups called "violent terror gangs" and arrested more than 400 people in the restive western region of Xinjiang since the government began a crackdown in May.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In an open letter, more than 190 neuroscience researchers on called on the EU to put less money into the effort to "build" a brain, and to invest instead in existing projects. The 10-year $1.6 billion Human Brain Project is largely funded by the European Union.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Eduard Shevardnadze (86), a former president of Georgia and Soviet foreign minister, died in Georgia after a long struggle with illness.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Germany's transport minister announced plans to introduce a car toll that seeks to make money off foreign drivers for the maintenance of its roads.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, India’s Supreme Court ruled that Islamic courts have no legal authority in India, saying Muslims cannot be legally subject to a parallel religious authority.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In Iraq Major General Najm Abdullah al-Sudani, the commander of the army's 6th division, was killed by hostile shelling in Ibrahim bin Ali in the Abu Ghraib area, just west of Baghdad. At least 7 people including four policemen were killed in northern Baghdad when a suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives at a checkpoint.
(AFP, 7/7/14)(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, An Israeli official said three suspects (ages 29,17,17) in the July 2 vigilante-style killing of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir have confessed to the crime.
(AP, 7/7/14)(Reuters, 7/14/14)
2014 Jul 7, Italy’s navy said its search and rescue mission saved more than 2,600 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, as the number reaching Italy from Africa this year surged to a record.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In Kenya thousands of people rallied in Nairobi against President Uhuru Kenyatta's rule, with some calling for him to step down because he had failed to improve the lives of Kenyans more than a year after he came to office.
(AP, 7/8/14)
2014 Jul 7, A Kuwaiti court freed prominent opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak on bail after police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a fifth straight night of demonstrations demanding his release.
(AFP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Lebanon charged 28 people with planning to carry out suicide bomb attacks and belonging to the militant group Islamic State. Seven of the 28 charged by prosecutors were in custody.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, A magnitude-6.9 earthquake on the Pacific Coast jolted a wide area of southern Mexico and Central America. At least 5 people were killed, 2 in Guatemala and 3 in Mexico.
(AP, 7/7/14)(SFC, 7/9/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 7, Militants in the Gaza Strip unleashed dozens of rockets on southern Israel late today, setting off air raid sirens and forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to stay indoors as the military rushed more forces to the border and warned that even heavier fighting looked likely. 8 Palestinian militants were killed in fighting, the highest death toll yet. Among the dead were 6 Hamas militants who Israel said were killed in an accidental blast in a tunnel packed with explosives.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)(AP, 7/8/14)
2014 Jul 7, In Saudi Arabia three mortar bombs landed near Arar, close to the northern border with Iraq, where Islamist militants have grabbed land in a lightning advance.
(Reuters, 7/8/14)
2014 Jul 7, Syrian troops advanced in and around Aleppo in what appeared to be an attempt to lay siege to rebel-held parts of the city.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Thailand's navy inaugurated a state-of-the-art headquarters and training center for its submarine squadron, even though it has no subs to command.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In Ukraine three bridges on key roads leading into the Donetsk were blown up in an apparent attempt to slow down any possible assault by government forces on the rebel-held stronghold.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Pope Francis begged forgiveness in his first meeting with Catholics sexually abused by members of the clergy and vowed to hold bishops accountable for their handling of pedophile priests.
(SFC, 7/8/14, p.A4)
2014 Jul 7, A Vietnamese military helicopter on a parachute training mission crashed 24 miles west of to Hanoi, killing 16 people on board and critically injuring five others. 2 of the injured soon died.
(AP, 7/7/14)(AP, 7/8/14)
2015 Jul 7, In Washington, DC, Pres. Obama met with Nguyen Phu Trong, the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party. Obama said that despite differences over political philosophy the two countries are deepening cooperation on health, climate and other issues.
(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A2)
2015 Jul 7, A US defense officials said the US Army said it will cut 40,000 soldiers from its ranks over the next two years at home and abroad. Some 17,000 civilians working for the Army will also be laid off.
(AFP, 7/8/15)
2015 Jul 7, The US CDC reported that the death rate from heroin overdoses nearly quadrupled to 2.7% between 2002 and 2013.
(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A9)
2015 Jul 7, In San Francisco a lawsuit was filed in which the SEC accused Luca Int’l. Group, led by Binqing Yang of Fremont, of conducting a Ponzi-like scheme and fraudulently raising $68 million from hundreds of investors in the US and Asia.
(SFC, 7/9/15, p.D2)
2015 Jul 7, the South Carolina Senate gave final approval to a bill for removing the Confederate flag from a pole in front of the State House. The proposal still needed to pass the state House.
(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A8)
2015 Jul 7, In South Carolina an F-16 fighter jet smashed into a Cessna 150 killing 2 people in the small plane. Maj. Aaron Johnson ejected safely.
(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A9)
2015 Jul 7, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said he had sent a delegation to Pakistan to meet Taliban representatives, his first acknowledgement of official talks with insurgents who are fighting to topple the government in Kabul. The Taliban staged two separate suicide bombings in Kabul, killing at least one person and wounded three, including a NATO soldier.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Afghanistan Shahidullah Shahid, a former member of the Pakistani Taliban, was killed along with 5 militants. He had defected to the Islamic State and was operating in Afghanistan. Shahid was killed in the same strike that killed Islamic State number two in Afghanistan Gul Zaman, along with 49 militants in the eastern Achin district of Nangarhar province. One other commander was also killed.
(Reuters, 7/9/15)
2015 Jul 7, Trading in over 90% of the 2,774 shares listed in Chinese exchanges was suspended or halted. Shares had fallen by a third in less than a month.
(Econ, 7/11/15, p.13)
2015 Jul 7, Cuba and Norway called for restraint in Colombia as they helped facilitate peace negotiations in Havana between Colombia and FARC rebels.
(AP, 7/8/15)
2015 Jul 7, The EU extended the suspension of sanctions on Iran until July 10 to allow ongoing talks on a long-term nuclear agreement with it to succeed.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, A French court jailed a woman for conning thousands of Chileans into buying a kit to make "magic cheese" they could sell back to French cosmetics firms for use in luxury beauty products. Gilberte Van Erpe (74) was given a six-year prison sentence -- three years suspended -- and a 250,000-euro ($270,000) fine for her scam. The scam. Which began in 2005, collapsed in July 2006 and Van Erpe was arrested in the French Riviera city of Nice in 2008, but it was not possible to extradite her.
(AFP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Greek authorities said a sailboat carrying migrants sank in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece and at least 17 people were missing.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Iraq and Syria the United States and its allies staged 25 air strikes on Islamic State targets with 14 in Iraq and 11 in Syria.
(Reuters, 7/8/15)
2015 Jul 7, Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power Co. began loading fuel into a nuclear reactor where operations are scheduled to resume next month in the country's first restart under safety requirements set following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In northeast Kenya al Shabaab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers as they slept in Soko Mbuzi village, Mandera County, in an early morning attack on a residential complex targeting Christians.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A6)
2015 Jul 7, Malaysian authorities said they have frozen six bank accounts as part of an investigation into allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars were transferred from a state investment fund to the personal accounts of PM Najib Razak.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari approved a bailout of more than $2 billion for states to resolve a crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid for months. Eighteen of Nigeria’s 35 states had unpaid workers.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In northern Nigeria at least 25 people were killed when a bomb blast ripped through a packed government office in Zaria.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, A Norwegian court sentenced four former top executives at Yara, the world's biggest nitrate fertilizer maker, to prison for paying bribes in Libya and India.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Pakistani paramilitary forces killed 3 suspected Sunni militants, including a senior commander, in Quetta.
(AFP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Pakistani rescuers say flash floods caused by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 5 people in Islamabad.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, The Philippines asked an international tribunal at The Hague to declare China's claims to virtually all the South China Sea invalid.
(AP, 7/8/15)
2015 Jul 7, Spanish police arrested a woman on the Canary Islands suspected of recruiting girls and teenagers for the Islamic State group.
(AFP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Spain two Americans and a Briton were gored and eight other people were injured as thousands of daredevils dashed alongside fighting bulls through the streets of Pamplona on the first bull run of the annual San Fermin festival.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Syria intense clashes broke out in the northern city of Aleppo after militants attacked a government-held neighborhood there, capturing several buildings.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Turkey's army said it had detained 768 people trying to cross illegally from Syria, including three suspected Islamic State militants, after bolstering security in border areas near where the radical Islamists hold ground.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Abdulaziz al-Ghurair, the son of wealthy Emirati businessman Abdullah al-Ghurair, said his father is giving away a third of his assets, or more than a billion dollars, to educate Arab youth.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Yemen at least 30 soldiers were killed in coalition air raids and clashes after troops attempted to defect to Iran-backed rebel ranks near the border with Saudi Arabia. A car bomb exploded outside a mosque in Sanaa, killing at least one person and wounding five. 4 rebels were killed and 10 wounded in a suicide car bombing that targeted a police station in rebel-held Baida.
(AFP, 7/8/15)
2016 Jul 7, The US government gave tentative approval for scheduled commercial airline service to Havana from 10 American cities, advancing President Barack Obama's effort to normalize relations with Cuba.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, The United States said it was returning about $1.5 million to Taiwan that came from the sale of US properties the government alleges were bought with the proceeds of bribes paid to the family of former Taiwan President Chen Shui-Bian.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, The US State Department said the US will provide nearly $23 million in additional humanitarian aid to help people affected by the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, A US government regulator said Elizabeth Holmes, the head of blood-testing startup Theranos, would be barred from owning or running a laboratory for two years. In June Walgreens ended its three-year partnership with Theranos following news of flaws in the company’s blood testing.
(Econ, 7/16/16, p.55)
2016 Jul 7, Maryland prosecutors dropped a misconduct charge in the bench trial of Lt. Brian Rice in the case of Freddie Gray, who died on April 19, 2015, from injuries suffered while shackled in a Baltimore police van. Rice still faced other charges.
(SFC, 7/8/16, p.A6)
2016 Jul 7, In Dallas, Texas, Micah Johnson (25), a US Army reservist who served in Afghanistan, gunned down 5 officers before being killed in a standoff with police. Seven more officers were wounded in the attack that ended when police used a robot bomb to kill Johnson, who told them he wanted to kill white officers. Police took three people into custody.
(Reuters, 7/8/16)(AFP, 7/9/16)
2016 Jul 7, Australia's greyhound industry was reeling after New South Wales, the country's most populous, state banned the sport following a string of scandals including "live baiting" and the slaughter of tens of thousands of dogs.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In Bangladesh militants attacked police guarding the country's biggest festival marking the end of Ramadan, killing 3 people and wounding 14 in Kishoreganj town, days after Islamic State claimed a major attack in the capital. Two attackers were reported killed and three arrested.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Brazilian police seized documents and questioned suspects to investigate Panama's FPB Bank in connection to a sweeping graft probe of political corruption at state-run companies.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Britain jailed four former Barclays bankers for manipulating the key inter-bank Libor interest rate, with the highest sentence being 6.5 years.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Five men were crushed to death when a concrete wall collapsed at a metal recycling site in Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, A British court awarded a £53 million (62 million euro, $69 million) divorce settlement to Christina Estrada (54), a former model, who had demanded £196 million from Sheikh Walid Juffali (61), her Saudi billionaire husband, including £1 million a year just for clothes.
(AFP, 7/8/16)
2016 Jul 7, Cambodia dismissed accusations by anti-corruption pressure group Global Witness that PM Hun Sen and his family have amassed $200 million in business interests including some with links to land grabs and environmental destruction.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)(Econ, 7/9/16, p.31)
2016 Jul 7, Cambodia said tourists showing cleavage or wearing skimpy clothes will be banned from the famed Angkor temple complex, after a slew of photos emerged of scantily-clad visitors at the sacred site.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, France-based Danone, the world’s largest yogurt maker, agreed to buy WhiteWave Foods, a natural-food group, for $12.5 billion.
(Econ, 7/9/16, p.53)
2016 Jul 7, The German parliament passed a landmark "no means no" rape law, broadening the definition of sex crimes and making it easier to deport migrants and refugees who commit them.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In Iraq a triple suicide attack late today near a Shi'ite mausoleum north of Baghdad killed 37 people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
(AP, 7/8/16)
2016 Jul 7, In Kazakhstan a Russian space capsule was launched beginning a two-day trip to the International Space Station. The Soyuz capsule carried Russian Anatoly Ivanshin, NASA's Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi of Japan’s space agency JAXA.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, The Niger Delta Avengers attacked more oil infrastructure in southern Nigeria, ignoring a call for unity from Pres. Muhammadu Buhari.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Philippine troops, backed by rocket-firing helicopters and artillery fire, killed up to 9 Abu Sayyaf extremists in fighting after the new military chief warned of a "shock and awe" offensive to wipe out the militant group known for its brutality.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, The Philippines ordered the suspension of operations at two nickel ore mines for environmental violations and halted the issuance of exploration permits as a nationwide crackdown led by a new mining minister begins.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Poland's parliament rushed through legislation governing the Constitutional Tribunal, an attempt to address international concerns about the rule of law a day before Pres. Obama and other Western leaders arrive in Warsaw for a NATO summit.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a package of controversial anti-terror amendments dubbed "Big Brother" measures by critics that may cost internet companies billions.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Russian officials said at least 7 militants and one law enforcement officer have been killed in clashes in Dagestan in the North Caucasus region.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In South Korea Shin Young-ja, the daughter of the founder of the Lotte Group conglomerate, was arrested on charges including breach of trust and embezzlement.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In South Sudan 5 government soldiers were killed in a shootout late today between opposing army factions in the capital. The UN mission reported an attack on a senior official in the Tomping area of Juba.
(AP, 7/8/16)
2016 Jul 7, The Syrian army advanced within firing range of the rebels' sole supply route to Aleppo in heavy fighting despite its announcement of a ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday. Saudi-backed rebel group Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) said four of its fighters were killed trying to stop the army from cutting the Castello Road, the only route into rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In Taiwan an explosion hit a commuter train in Taipei injuring at least 24 people.
(SFC, 7/8/16, p.A2)
2016 Jul 7, A Vatican court declared it had no jurisdiction to prosecute two journalists for having published confidential information. A Vatican monsignor and an Italian communications expert were convicted for having conspired to pass documents to the journalists.
(SFC, 7/8/16, p.A2)
2017 Jul 7, President Donald Trump, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, said the United States is making very good progress on trade issues with Mexico, after a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, but he also repeated a pledge to make the southern neighbor pay for a border wall
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Georgia, police shot and killed Brian Easley (33), said to be homeless Marine Corps veteran inside a bank in Marietta following an hours-long standoff. Easley had claimed to have a bomb.
(SFC, 7/8/17, p.A5)
2017 Jul 7, In Pennsylvania three young men went missing in suburban Philadelphia. A 4th had gone missing two days earlier. Links between the men were being investigated.
(SFC, 7/11/17, p.A6)
2017 Jul 7, In Virginia Kevin Mallory (60), a former covert CIA case officer, was ordered held without bond after being caught earlier this year with $16,500 in undeclared cash on a flight from Shanghai. He was charged with violating the Espionage Act.
(SFC, 7/10/17, p.A4)
2017 Jul 7, Western Canada's British Columbia declared its first state of emergency in 14 years late today as dozens of wildfires spread throughout the rural interior of the province, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. CBS News said 138 new fires were started in the province.
(Reuters, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Egypt Islamic militants launched their latest attack on the military, unleashing a suicide car bomb and machine gun fire on two checkpoints in northeastern Sinai that killed at least 23 security troops. Family members said three Egyptians who worked at a building site in the Western Desert were killed earlier this week by an airstrike from a military aircraft in what appears to have been an accident.
(AP, 7/7/17)(AP, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Egypt Capt. Ibrahim Azazi was gunned down while heading to a mosque in the Nile Delta province of Qalyoubiya, part of Greater Cairo. The Hasm militant group claimed responsibility.
(AP, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, Paris police moved out nearly 2,771 migrants who had been living rough in the north of the city, in the latest operation to ease strains caused by a human influx to Europe. They were taken mainly to school gymnasiums that have become available during the summer holidays.
(AFP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Germany far-left protesters wrought chaos in Hamburg ahead of US President Donald Trump's first face-to-face talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at a G20 summit facing divisions among Western nations and tensions over North Korea.
(AFP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, German prosecutors said they have arrested a former employee of the Volkswagen unit Audi in connection with the company's diesel scandal.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Greece Bakari Henderson of Austin, Texas, was killed early today on the island of Zakynthos following a fight at a bar in the rowdy tourist district of Lagana.
(AP, 7/11/17)
2017 Jul 7, In India Tashi Bhutia (31), a supporter of Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), was killed during a protest. Violence followed and two people were killed in the protests over Bhutia’s killing.
(Reuters, 7/9/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Iraq Islamic State militants attacked the village of Imam Gharbi south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists. A major Islamic State group counterattack along the northern edge of Mosul's Old City neighborhood pushed Iraqi Army forces back some 75 meters (82 yards) and threatened recent gains in other Old City fronts.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, the head of the ruling Democratic Party, said Italy should allow only a "fixed number" of migrants into the country as it grapples with a wave of people arriving by sea from North Africa.
(AFP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Italy part of a four-storey apartment block in Torre Annunziata, near the port city of Naples, collapsed. Over the next 24 hours eight bodies were pulled from the rubble.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)(AP, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, Japanese rescuers searched for victims of freak rains that have killed at least 11 people and left hundreds cut off from the outside world by landslides. Public broadcaster NHK said 14 people were still unaccounted for.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Mongolia held its runoff presidential election. Voter data the next day from the General Election Commission said Khaltmaa Battulga, populist former martial arts star and businessman, won the presidential run-off election with 50.6% of the vote.
(Reuters, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, A spokesman for Pakistan's oil and gas regulatory body said the agency has ordered a local subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell to pay about 250 million rupees ($2.4 million) in compensation and damages for the June 25 fuel truck fire that killed 215 people.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump that Moscow had not meddled in the US elections, and Trump accepted it, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Trump and Putin engaged in a conversation during a G20 dinner.
(Reuters, 7/8/17)(SFC, 7/19/17, p.A4)
2017 Jul 7, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from jail after serving 25 days for organizing a wave of protests.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Spain Two Americans and a Spaniard were gored during the first running of the bulls of this year's San Fermin festival at Pamplona.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Sweden three men with ties to the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement were sentenced to up to eight and a half years in prison for bomb attacks in western Sweden over the past year.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Syrian government forces carried out heavy bombardment of a rebel-held district on the eastern edge of Damascus in support of advancing troops. At least 11 regime fighters and 19 rebels have been killed in Ain Terma and Jobar since the army began escalating operations there on June 20.
(AFP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, A separate truce for southern Syria, effective as of July 9, was brokered by the US and Russia. It was meant to help allay growing concerns by neighboring Jordan and Israel about Iranian military ambitions in the area.
(AP, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Syria Islamic State militants fought to repel the advance of US-backed Syrian forces, days after they inched closer to the heart of the extremist group's de facto capital of Raqqa.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Turkey's main opposition leader said his three-week "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul had helped Turks "cast off a shirt of fear" under emergency rule, and vowed to stiffen his party's challenge to the government once the protest ends.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency said police detained overnight 29 suspected Islamic State militants in Istanbul, 22 of them foreign nationals, believed to be preparing to travel to Syria.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, At the UN 122 nations approved a treaty to outlaw nuclear weapons. The meeting was boycotted by all NATO members, except the Netherlands and all nine nuclear-armed nations. The Netherlands was opposed and Singapore abstained.
(SFC, 7/8/17, p.A4)
2017 Jul 7, A week of UN-mediated talks in the Swiss Alps to end the partition of Cyprus collapsed in acrimony, throwing the prospect of any reunification between Greek and Turkish Cypriots into disarray.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, described Hebron's Old City as a "Palestinian heritage site," prompting a walkout by Israel's ambassador to the organization.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Vietnam the mother of Tran Hoang Phuc (23) said she was informed last week that her son was arrested in Hanoi for storing material and using the internet to spread propaganda videos against the government.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2018 Jul 7, The Trump administration said it is suspending a program that pays billions of dollars to insurers to stabilize health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act.
(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A11)
2018 Jul 7, Officials said US and Afghan Special Forces are completing an operation to clear Islamic State fighters from a remote district in Nangarhar, the eastern province where they have their main stronghold in Afghanistan.
(Reuters, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, In California the Klamathon fire, which broke out two days earlier near the border with Oregon, grew to 22,000 acres and was 20% contained.
(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A13)
2018 Jul 7, In southern Colorado firefighters contained about 45% of a 167-square-mile fire. In the southwest an 85-square-mile fire north of Durango was 50% contained.
(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A13)
2018 Jul 7, In Chicago thousands of anti-violence demonstrators marched along an interstate shitting down traffic to draw attention to the gun violence that has claimed hundreds of lives in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A11)
2018 Jul 7, It was reported that researchers from half a dozen states in West Africa have joined together in a battle against what one expert calls a root crop "Ebola" -- a viral disease that could wreck the region's staple food and condemn millions to hunger. The Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), a virus that strikes cassava, was first discovered in Tanzania eight decades ago. The root in some of the region's countries is consumed by as many as 80 percent of the population.
(AFP, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a district chief was killed in a roadside bomb blast in western Ghor province. In eastern Ghazni province Taliban fighters ambushed a police convoy, killing four police and wounding six others. Six insurgents were also killed and seven others wounded in the gun battle in Waghez district. The US-led coalition confirmed that a US service member has been killed in an apparent insider attack.
(AP, 7/7/18)(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A4)
2018 Jul 7, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and a contingent of Royal Marines joined tens of thousands of people celebrating Britain's LGBT community at a massive parade. The event was the first pride march that had uniformed Marines as official participants.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In eastern Congo DRC ten people were burnt to death in ethnic attacks in South Kivu. In North Kivu the Ugandan navy fired on Congolese fishermen overnight and seven people were missing in Lake Edward.
(AFP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Egyptian prosecutors ordered the country's top media regulator to be summoned for questioning over his decision to issue a gag order on corruption allegations made against a children's cancer hospital.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, A Cairo court sentenced Lebanese tourist Mona el-Mazboh (24), arrested last month, to eight years in prison for posting a video on Facebook complaining of sexual harassment and conditions in Egypt. An appeal was set for July 29.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, France's CMA CGM, one of the world's biggest cargo shippers, announced it was pulling out of Iran for fear of becoming entangled in US sanctions. Pres. Hassan Rouhani demanded that European countries to do more to offset the US measures.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Germany demonstrators marched in Berlin and several other cities in support of the private aid ships that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Haiti's President Jovenel Moise called on protesters to "go home," saying the about-face on prices had "corrected what had to be corrected." PM Jack Guy Lafontant called for calm and patience from residents amid deadly protests in several cities over an unpopular fuel price rise.
(AFP, 7/7/18)(AFP, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, Indian police charged five people, including the brother of a lawmaker from the ruling party, in relation to the death of the father of a teenage girl raped last year. The rape victim's father died in April while in the custody of police in northern Uttar Pradesh state. Police arrested Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a BJP member of the state legislature of Uttar Pradesh, in April in connection with the rape of the teenager.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Iran's oil minister accused US President Donald Trump of insulting OPEC by ordering it to increase production and reduce prices, adding that Iranian output and exports had not changed as a result of US pressure.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Iran announced that it has executed eight men convicted over the June 7, 2017, Islamic State attack on parliament and the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founding ayatollah. Over a dozen others remained on trial over the attack.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Iraq two Filipina women were kidnapped after their car broke down on a road connecting Baghdad to oil city Kirkuk.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In southern Italy Pope Francis led a summit of Christian leaders In Bari on how to promote peace in the Middle East and said building walls, occupying territories and religious fanaticism would not resolve conflict in the region.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said 49 people have been killed and 48 are unaccounted for in western and central Japan as torrential rain pounded the area, with more than 1.6 million evacuated from their homes.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Japan a 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit outside of Tokyo this evening, swaying buildings in the capital, but no tsunami warning was issued.
(AFP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Kashmir two young men and a teenage girl were killed when government forces fired at anti-India protesters who disrupted a military-led operation against rebels.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In southeastern Libya suspected Islamist militants killed two workers and kidnapped two others at a water plant early today, the second attack targeting water facilities in two days.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Mexico a female US tourist (27) was killed by what appeared to be a stray bullet in a shooting at a restaurant in Mexico City.
(SFC, 7/10/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 7, North Korea said that high-level talks with a US delegation led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were "regrettable" and accused Washington of trying to unilaterally pressure the country into abandoning its nukes.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Pakistan Serge Dessureault, the Canadian leader of an international mountaineering expedition, fell to his death on K2 mountain, often considered the world's most difficult to climb.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In the Philippines van-riding assailants gunned down the vice mayor of a small city south of Manila, the third such brazen killing of a local official in the past week. Vice Mayor Alexander Lubigan of Trece Martires city and his driver were riding in a pickup van when they were shot and killed in front of a hospital in his city in Cavite province.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, A eastern Romanian air force MiG-21 Lancer fighter jet crashed during an airshow killing its pilot.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Russia was eliminated in a penalty shootout after its quarterfinal match against Croatia in Sochi was tied 1-1 after regulation and 2-2 after extra time.
(AP, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, Thousands of South Korean women gathered in Seoul to demand stronger government action to fight the spread of intimate photos and video taken by hidden cameras.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Spain a man who was gored and three others who were trampled in the first running of the bulls of this year's San Fermin festival.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Somalia militants from Somalia's al Shabaab group set off two bombs in central Mogadishu and stormed a government building. A least nine people were killed in the attack on the interior ministry. Security forces killed all three attackers after a two-hour gun battle inside the ministry.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Thousands of displaced Syrians headed home after rebels and the government reached a ceasefire deal in the south following more than two weeks of deadly bombardment.
(AFP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, The United Arab Emirates extended compulsory military service for Emirati men from 12 to 16 months, amid a three-year involvement in Yemen's war.
(Reuters, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, Yemeni officials said fighting over the last two days between a Saudi-led coalition and the Shiite rebels along the country's west coast has killed more than 165 people from both sides.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2019 Jul 7, The US urged Germany to send ground troops to Syria as Washington looked to withdraw from the region. This led to discord in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition.
(AFP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, The US women's soccer team claimed a fourth World Cup in a 2-0 win over Netherlands.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.C1)
2019 Jul 7, In southern California a head-on collision of two motorcycles, each carrying a passenger, killed four people on Santiago Canyon Road in Orange County.
(SFC, 7/9/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 7, In Georgia sheriff's Deputy Nicholas Dixon (28) was shot and killed in Gainesville as deputies tried to stop a stolen vehicle. Hector Garcia was arrested and charged with felony murder.
(SFC, 7/9/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 7, A Tennessee man infected with a flesh-eating bacteria during a trip to a Florida beach died just 48 hours after his last swim. The man did have a compromised immune system due to cancer treatments and that may have put him at greater risk.
(AP, 7/15/19)
2019 Jul 7, In central Afghanistan a Taliban suicide attack killed 12 people and wounded more than 150 others in Ghazni.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 7, Britain warned Iran to "immediately stop and reverse all activities" violating the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
(AP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, Britain's Mail newspaper reported that Kim Darroch, a career diplomat who’s been his country’s top representative in Washington since 2016, described Trump as “inept" and “incompetent" in diplomatic cables and briefing notes to his bosses. The UK government soon launched an investigation into who leaked the diplomatic memos from the UK ambassador in Washington.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A3)
2019 Jul 7, The French government said it will not trigger the Iran nuclear deal's dispute resolution mechanism for now, instead giving itself one week to try to get all parties talking again after Iran decided to enrich uranium above limits agreed in 2015.
(Reuters, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, Germany's struggling Deutsche Bank announced that it will cut 18,000 jobs by 2022 in a sweeping restructuring aimed at restoring consistent profitability and improving returns to its shareholders.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 7, In Greece the New Democracy party of conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis (51) won 39.8% of the vote in parliamentary elections compared to 31.5% for the left-wing Syriza party of PM Alexis Tsipras (44).
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A3)
2019 Jul 7, In Hong Kong tens of thousands of protesters took their message to a new audience, mainland Chinese tourists, as coverage of the anti-government movement have been heavily censored by Beijing authorities.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 7, Iran announced it will increase its uranium enrichment to an unspecified level beyond the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, breaking another limit set under the accord and furthering heightening tensions with the US.
(AP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, It was reported that a new law in Iran could see the organs of convicts on death row pre-sold to buyers if the prisoners agree before their executions.
(The Telegraph, 7/8/19)
2019 Jul 7, Iraq's security and paramilitary forces began a military operation along the border with Syria aimed at clearing the area of Islamic State group militants.
(AP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, Mali PM Boubou Cisse ended a five-day tour of the restive central region where he has vowed to beef up security, days after the UN humanitarian coordinator decried the "drastic toll" from violence there.
(AFP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, The long sought-after African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which African leaders hope will become the world's largest free trade zone by cutting trade tariffs and barriers between 1.2 billion people, was officially launched at an African Union (AU) summit in Niger.
(AFP, 7/8/19)
2019 Jul 7, In Papua New Guinea 16 women and children were killed by assailants armed with rifles in the village of Karida in Hela province. Two of the victims were pregnant. Police and soldiers were soon sent to the area to provide security amidst the tribal violence.
(SFC, 7/11/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 7, In Spain three people were gored by bulls after the opening of the Fermin festival in Pamplona.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 7, Sudan's top general said the military council that assumed power after the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April will be dissolved with the implementation of a power-sharing deal reached with protesters last week.
(AP, 7/8/19)
2020 Jul 7, The US State Department and the UN said that the Trump administration had formally notified the UN that the United States would leave the WHO next year.
(AP, 7/8/20)
2020 Jul 7, It was reported that a Washington, DC federal court has ordered the Islamic Republic of Iran to pay $879 million in its decision after finding the Iranian defendants directed the 1996 terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia where US forces were housed.
(PR Newswire, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, US Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt announced his agency will not conduct the environmental impact statement needed to move forward with the idea to reintroduce grizzly bears to the forested mountains in and around North Cascades National Park in north central Washington state.
(AP, 7/11/20)
2020 Jul 7, California to date had 283,750 cases of coronavirus and 6,569 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 30,940 cases and 621 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 2,948,397 with the death toll at 130,430.
(sfist.com, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, San Francisco-based Sunrun, the nation's largest residential solar company, said that it is acquiring Vivint Solar, a Utah-based leading competitor. The deal would form one of the world's largest providers of solar equipment.
(SFC, 7/8/20, p.C1)
2020 Jul 7, It was reported that a local health department In southwestern Missouri revealed earlier this week that an overnight summer camp has seen scores of campers, counselors and staff infected with the coronavirus.
(AP, 7/8/20)
2020 Jul 7, Researchers reported that a recently discovered species of seaweed is killing large patches of coral on once-pristine reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and is rapidly spreading across one of the most remote and protected ocean environments on earth. The new species of red algae has been named Chondria tumulosa.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, In Washington state Mary Kay Letourneau (58), a teacher who was convicted of raping Vili Fualaau (12) in 1996, died of cancer. The case that drew international headlines. Letourneau and Fualaau married on May 20, 2005, in Woodinville, Washington, after her release from prison.
(AP, 7/8/20)
2020 Jul 7, It was reported that the US government has awarded Novavax Inc $1.6 billion to cover testing and manufacturing of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus in the United States, with the aim of delivering 100 million doses by January.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said that the US government has signed a $450 million contract with the company for its potential COVID-19 antibody cocktail.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Florida reported 7,347 new cases, with the total number of diagnosed cases now at 213,794. The state's death toll has reached 3,943.
(Good Morning America, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, The New York Department of Financial Services said Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $150 million in penalties over its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as part of a consent order with regulators in New York.
(Good Morning America, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, NYC police said 64 people were shot over the weekend in a surge of shootings. The city surpassed 400 shootings in the first half of the year for the first time since 2016, with 528 by the end of last month.
(NY Times, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Work crews In Richmond, Va., took down a monument to Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the third major statue to be cleared away in less than a week as the Confederacy's former capital rushes to remove symbols of oppression in response to protests against police brutality and racism.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a suicide bomber targeted a police convoy in Nangarhar province killing four officers.
(SFC, 7/8/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 7, Brazil's Pres. Jair Bolsonaro said he has tested positive for COVID-19. Sources close to the president said that Bolsonaro began exhibiting symptoms of the virus July 4.
(Good Morning America, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Doctors reported that a Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Britain said it would resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia, halted last year after a UK court ruling over the Gulf kingdom's bombing campaign in neighboring Yemen.
(AFP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Britain's GSK said that an injection of its cabotegravir drug given every two months was found to be 66% more effective in preventing HIV infections than Gilead's Truvada daily oral pills.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, UK-based Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc said that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved use of its Lysol Disinfectant Spray against COVID-19.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, China and Russia vetoed a UN resolution that would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s mainly rebel-held northwest for a year. Russia immediately circulated a draft Security Council resolution that would authorize the delivery of aid through a single crossing point from Turkey for six months.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, In China a bus careered into a lake in the city of Anshun in the southwest province of Guizhou, killing 21 people. Five students heading to their university entrance exams were among those killed. It was later reported that the bus driver, upset that his home would be demolished, had been drinking at the wheel before plunging his vehicle into a reservoir.
(The Telegraph, 7/14/20)
2020 Jul 7, Colombia's leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels asked the government late today to "agree a bilateral 90-day ceasefire" in response to a call from the United Nations to reduce violence and conflicts during the coronavirus pandemic.
(AFP, 7/8/20)
2020 Jul 7, Dubai allowed tourists back into the country following a COVID-19 shutdown.
(Econ., 8/1/20, p.37)
2020 Jul 7, German prosecutors in the town of Zwickau seized servers that hosted thousands of sensitive police documents published as part of the BlueLeaks data dump. The publisher was not given an explanation. Prosecutors behind the seizure were acting at the request of the US government. The takedown came after DDoSecrets, the publisher that hosted the BlueLeaks files after they were obtained by an anonymous hacker, was permanently banned from Twitter.
(AFP, 7/9/20)
2020 Jul 7, In India 467 people have died from the coronavirus in the last day, bringing the nation's death toll to 20,160. Authorities reported a one-day increase of 22,252, bringing India's total number of coronavirus cases to 719,665.
(Good Morning America, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Iraq partially reopened its southern Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran after more than three months of closure to combat the spread of the new coronavirus.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s ruling party adopted a resolution urging the government to cancel a visit to Japan by Chinese President Xi Jinping following Beijing's imposition of a new national security law for Hong Kong.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, It was reported that all schools in Kenya will remain closed until next January because of the coronavirus pandemic. Kenya has confirmed more than 8,000 cases of coronavirus with at least 164 deaths along with a recent surge in new infections.
(BBC, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Kenyan police fired tear gas and detained scores of protesters demanding an end to police brutality. About 100 people took part in demonstrations across the capital, Nairobi.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, In Russia former journalist Ivan Safronov, who worked as an adviser to the director of Russia's state space corporation, was detained on charges of passing military secrets to a Western nation, accusations that many of his colleagues dismissed as absurd. Dozens of prominent journalists protested and were promptly detained.
(AP, 7/7/20)(Econ., 7/18/20, p.42)
2020 Jul 7, South Africa has confirmed 159,333 total cases of the coronavirus and 2,749 deaths.
(BBC, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Turkish authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle 276 migrants to Europe on board a ship, and detained eight suspected smugglers.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Turkey detained another 41 people, many of them soldiers, for being suspected members of the Gulen community (cemaat), an Islamist movement the Pres. Erdogan blames for an attempted 2016 coup.
(Econ., 8/15/20, p.48)
2020 Jul 7, The United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings concluded that the US drone strike that killed Iran's top general Qasem Soleimani was "unlawful." Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, concluded it was an "arbitrary killing" that violated the UN charter.
(AFP, 7/7/20)
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1124 Jul 7, Tyre [Tyrus] surrendered to the Crusaders.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1307 Jul 7, Edward I (b.1239), King (Longshanks) of England (1272-1307), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England)
1456 Jul 7, Joan of Arc was acquitted, even though she had already been burnt at the stake on May 30, 1431.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1550 Jul 7, Chocolate was introduced (Europe).
(MC, 7/7/02)
1585 Jul 7, King Henri III & Duke De Guise signed the Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lost all freedoms.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1607 Jul 7, "God Save the King" was 1st sung.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1690 Jul 7, Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1713 Jul 7, The 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" & "Jubilate."
(MC, 7/7/02)
1742 Jul 7, A Spanish force invading Georgia ran headlong into the colony's British defenders. A handful of British and Spanish colonial troops faced each other on a Georgia coastal island and decided the fate of a colony.
(HN, 5/3/98)(HN, 7/7/99)
1753 Jul 7, English parliament granted Jews English citizenship.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1754 Jul 7, King's College in New York City opened. The school was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1752 Jul 7, Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the first loom that could weave patterns, was born.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1770 Jul 7, The entire Ottoman fleet was defeated and destroyed by the Russians at the 3-day battle of Chesme [Cesme] on the Aegean Sea. The Ottoman fleet was commanded by Kapudan Pasha Mandalzade Hüsameddin, in the fourth ship from the front (north end) of the line, with Hasan Pasha (1713-1790) in the first ship, Real Mustafa, and Cafer Bey in the seventh.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chesma)(WSJ, 4/29/99, p.A24)
1777 Jul 7, American troops gave up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1791 Jul 7, Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones founded the Non-denominational African Church.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1795 Jul 7, Thomas Paine defended the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1797 Jul 7, The US House of Representatives exercised its constitutional power of impeachment, and voted to charge Senator William Blount of Tennessee with "a high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public duty and trust as a Senator." Blount had financial problems which led him to enter into a conspiracy with British officers to enlist frontiersmen and Cherokee Indians to assist the British in conquering parts of Spanish Florida and Louisiana.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1798 Jul 7, Napoleon Bonaparte's army began its march towards Cairo, Egypt, from Alexandria.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1801 Jul 7, A new constitution, drafted by a committee appointed by Toussaint Louverture (L’Ouverture), went into effect and declared the independence of Hispaniola. The constitution made him governor general for life with near absolute powers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_L'Ouverture)(WSJ, 3/1/04, p.A16)
1802 Jul 7, The first comic book was published in Hudson, NY. "The Wasp" was created by Robert Rusticoat.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1807 Jul 7, Napoleon I of France and Czar Alexander I of Russia signed a treaty at Tilsit ending war between their empires. It divided Europe among themselves and isolated Britain.
(HN, 7/7/98)(AP, 7/7/07)
1814 Jul 7, Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverly was published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet.
(HN, 7/7/01)
1815 Jul 7, After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies marched into Paris.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1846 Jul 7, U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after Commodore Sloat reached Monterey and claimed California for the US.
(HFA, '96, p.48)(AP, 7/7/97)
1856 Jul 7, In California the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors held their 1st meeting at the general store of John Vogan on Main Street in Redwood City. The county had just recently been created.
(Ind, 2/3/01, 5A)(SFC, 5/18/13, p.C2)
1860 Jul 7, Gustav Mahler, conductor of the Vienna State Opera House, was born in Kalischat, Bohemia, Austria.
(HN, 7/7/98)(MC, 7/7/02)
1863 Jul 7, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reported his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1863 Jul 7, The 1st military draft was called by the US. It allowed exemptions for $100.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1863 Jul 7, Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant were revoked.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1865 Jul 7, The trap doors of the scaffold in the yard of Washington's Old Penitentiary were sprung, and Mary Surratt, Lewis Paine, David Herold and George Atzerodt dropped to their deaths. The four had been convicted of "treasonable conspiracy" in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and had learned that they were to be hanged only a day before their execution. Shortly after 1 p.m. the prisoners were led onto the scaffold and prepared for execution. The props supporting the platform were knocked away at about 2 p.m. Assassin John Wilkes Booth had been killed on April 26, 12 days after Lincoln's assassination. Other convicted conspirators--Edman Spangler, Dr. Samuel Mudd, Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlin--were imprisoned.
(AP, 7/7/97)(HNPD, 7/7/98)
1875 Jul 7, Jesse James robbed a train in Otterville, Missouri.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1879 Jul 7, George Caleb Bingham (b.1811), artist and legislator, died in Kansas City, Mo. His paintings included “The Jolly Flatboatmen," which became a best-seller in 1846 after it was chosen by the American Art Union for its annual engraving.
(WSJ, 11/3/07, p.W16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Caleb_Bingham)
1884 Jul 7, Lion Feuchtwanger, German philosopher, writer (Jud Suss), was born.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1887 Jul 7, Marc Chagall (d.1985), French painter and designer, was born in Vitebsk, Belarus, Russia, as Moishe Shagal. He left there in 1907 to attend art school in St. Petersburg. He was sent to Paris by a benefactor and befriended Chaim Soutine and Alexander Archipenko and stayed until 1914. "From late cubism he adopted a manner of making forms and space interpenetrate." His work included "Les Amoureux" (The Lovers - 1916), a portrait of himself and his wife. In 1996 it sold for $4.2 mil. In 1997 Mikhail Guerman published "Marc Chagall: The Land of My Heart - Russia."
(SFC,7/2/96,p.E3)(WSJ,10/8/96,p.A20)(SFEC,12/797,Par p.6)(HN, 7/7/01)
1890 Jul 7, In Switzerland Henri Nestlé (b.1814), German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, died in Montreux.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Nestl%C3%A9)
1893 Jul 7, In Bardwell, Ky., C.J. Miller, a black man accused of murdering two white girls, was mutilated, torched and left hanging from a telegraph pole. Ida Wells (1862-1931) was commissioned to investigate the story by the Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper and published her findings under the title “History Is a Weapon."
(WSJ, 3/8/08, p.W8)(www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/wellslynchlaw.html)
1893 Jul 7, Guy de Maupassant (42), writer, died.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1896 Jul 7, The Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago. The National Democratic Party formed to run a slate of candidates in 1896 because the Democratic Party had been taken over by the free-silver faction, which called for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the 16 to 1 ratio. They also condemned trusts, monopolies, high protective tariffs and the use of injunctions against labor. The “sound money" or gold Democrats withdrew from the party convention, organized the National Democratic Party and nominated John M. Palmer of Illinois its presidential candidate. The gold plank in the Republican Party caused a similar split, with free-silver Republicans bolting the party and forming the National Silver Republicans, who endorsed the Democratic Party candidate for president, William Jennings Bryan. Republican William McKinley won the presidential election.
(AP, 7/7/97)(HNQ, 8/23/99)
1898 Jul 7, The United States annexed Hawaii.
(HFA, '96, p.34)(AP, 7/7/97)
1899 Jul 7, George Cukor (d.1983), film director, was born in New York City.
(AP, 7/7/99)(MC, 7/7/02)
1905 Jul 7, The International Workers of the World founded their labor organization in Chicago. The IWW was formed by William Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners, Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party and Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party. Members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were also known as Wobblies. The Wobblies were formed partly in response to the American Federation of Labor’s opposition to the unionization of unskilled labor. As an organization that advocated sabotage, they were suppressed and prosecuted by the federal government from 1917-18 and were driven underground by the "Red Scare" that started in the United States in 1919. Ideological disputes with the newly formed U.S. Communist Party dissipated their remaining energies so that they ceased to be a force of any significance past the mid-1920s. In 1969 Melvyn Dublfsky authored its definitive history "We Shall Overcome."
(HNQ, 10/16/00)(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A24)(HN, 7/7/01)
1906 Jul 7, Leroy "Satchel" Page, baseball pitcher for the Negro Leagues and the Major League, was born.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1906 Jul 7, In England Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), British politician and statesman and the former mayor of Birmingham (1873-1876), led an 80-car rally in the city for 17 miles to celebrate his July 8, 70th birthday.
(http://tinyurl.com/z4b89k5)(Econ, 8/6/16, p.45)
1907 Jul 7, Robert Heinlein (d.1988), science-fiction author, was born in Butler, Miss. "Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil."
(V.D.-H.K.p.383)(AP, 5/25/99)(AP, 7/7/07)
1908 Jul 7, Great White Fleet left SF Bay.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1908 Jul 7, The Democratic National Convention opened in Denver.
(AP, 7/7/08)
1911 Jul 7, Gian-Carlo Menotti, composer (Amahl & Night Visitors), was born in Italy.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1912 Jul 7, At the Stockholm Olympics Native American Jim Thorpe won a gold medal in the men's pentathlon. On July 15 Thorpe won another gold medal in the men's decathlon
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_1912_Summer_Olympics)
1913 Jul 7, British House of Commons accepted Home-Rule Law.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1919 Jul 7, William Moses Kunstler, defense attorney (Chicago 8), was born.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1919 Jul 7, The U.S. Army’s First Transcontinental Motor Train left Washington, D.C., bound for San Francisco. The 62-day journey crossed 3,250 miles. In 2002 Peter Davies authored "American Road," an account of the trip.
(HN, 3/7/01)(WSJ, 7/19/02, p.W9)
1920 Jul 7, A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1922 Jul 7, Pierre Cardin, fashion designer (Unisex), was born in Paris, France.
(AP, 7/7/02)(MC, 7/7/02)
1925 Jul 7, Afrikaans was recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1927 Jul 7, Doc Severinson, [Carl], bandleader, trumpeter (Tonight), was born in Arlington, Or.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1927 Jul 7, Christopher Stone became the first British ‘disc jockey’ when he played records for the BBC.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1930 Jul 7, Construction began on Boulder Dam on the Colorado River. It is now known as Hoover Dam.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1930 Jul 7, Arthur Conan Doyle (b.1859), British novelist, died. His work included 4 Sherlock Holmes mystery novels and 56 short stories about Holmes. Doyle was an eye doctor. In 1999 Daniel Stashower published "Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle." In 2007 Andrew Lycett authored “Conan Doyle: The Man who Created Sherlock Holmes."
(SFEC, 6/13/99, Par p.12)(www.sherlockian.net/acd/)(ON, 3/06, p.12)(Econ, 10/6/07, p.98)
1937 Jul 7, A conflict between troops of China and Japan came to be known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The incident occurred near the Marco Polo Bridge outside of Beijing and eventually escalated into warfare between the two countries and was the prelude to the Pacific side of World War II.
(HNQ, 9/22/99)
1940 Jul 7, Ringo Starr, drummer for the Beatles, was born. He went on to a solo career and acting.
(HN, 7/7/99)
1941 Jul 7, Although a neutral country, the United States sent troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany's hands.
(WUD, 1944, p.1683)(HN, 7/7/98)
1941 Jul 7, Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovno, Lithuania.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1943 Jul 7, Adolf Hitler made the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1943 Jul 7, In the 3rd day of battle at Kursk the Germans occupied Dubrova. Erich Hartmann shot 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1944 Jul 7, Brendan Bracken, the British Minister of Information, charged that the Germans are setting up "public slaughterhouses" into which thousands of Jews are being herded to their deaths.
(SSFC, 7/7/19, DB p.43)
1944 Jul 7, Bomber Command dropped 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1944 Jul 7, Hungary’s regent Miklos Horthy issued an order suspending Nazi deportations of Hungarian Jews.
(ON, 10/20/11, p.1)
1944 Jul 7, There was a heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1945 Jul 7, Matti Salminen, operatic basso (King Philip-Don Carlos), was born in Turku, Finland.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1946 Jul 7, William Durkin (1916-2006) rescued Howard Hughes (1905-1976) from the fiery wreckage of an XF-11 reconnaissance plane that Hughes was testing over Beverly Hills.
(SFC, 5/1/06, p.B8)
1946 Jul 7, Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint. She was the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
(AP, 7/7/97)(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A18)
1947 Jul 7, A made-up photo in Life magazine featured a biker in Hollister, Ca. In 1997 bikers returned to Hollister for a 50-year anniversary and began an annual tradition. [see Jul 4]
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A18)
1948 Jul 7, Six female reservists became the first women to be sworn into the regular U.S. Navy.
(AP, 7/7/98)
1949 Jul 7, The police drama "Dragnet," starring Jack Webb and Barton Yarborough, premiered on NBC radio. It became a TV series in 1951 and 1967.
(AP, 7/7/99)(MC, 7/7/02)
1950 Jul 7, South Africa’s Population Registration Act commenced. It required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid. It was repealed by section 1 of the Population Registration Act, Repeal Act No 114 of 1991.
(http://africanhistory.about.com/od/apartheidlaws/g/No30of50.htm)
1952 Jul 7, The American ocean liner SS United States, known as "the Big U," crossed the Atlantic in record 82:40, while on her maiden voyage.
(USAT, 1/20/04, p.14A)
1956 Jul 7, The Douglas Moore and John Latouche opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premiered.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1956 Jul 7, Seven Army trucks loaded with dynamite exploded in middle of Cali, Columbia, killing 1,100-1,200. 2000 buildings were destroyed.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1954 Jul 7, Elvis Presley made his radio debut as Memphis, Tennessee, station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That’s All Right (Mama)."
(AP, 7/7/00)
1958 Jul 7, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill. Alaska became the 49th state in January 1959.
(AP, 7/7/07)
1961 Jul 7, James R. Hoffa was elected president of Teamsters.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1962 Jul 7-1962 Jul 17, Operation Sunbeam was a series of four nuclear tests conducted at the United States of America's Nevada Test Site.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Sunbeam)
1962 Jul 7, In Burma Sein Lwin headed the army unit that shot dead Rangoon University students protesting Ne Win's rule.
(AP, 4/10/04)
1965 Jul 7, Moshe Sharett, Israel’s 2nd prime minister (1954-1955), died.
(Economist, 9/22/12, p.93)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Sharett)
1966 Jul 7, The U.S. Marine Corps launched Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1967 Jul 7, Beatles' "All You Need is Love" was released.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1967 Jul 7, Vivian Leigh (53), actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), died.
(MC, 7/7/02)
1969 Jul 7, The first U.S. troops to withdraw from South Vietnam left Saigon.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1969 Jul 7, J.S. Furnivall (b.1878), British anthropologist, died in Cambridge. He coined the term “plural society" while working as colonial servant in Burma.
(Econ, 3/10/12, p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sydenham_Furnivall)
1969 Jul 7, Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1969 Jul 7, Der Spiegel revealed Munich's Bishop Defregger as a war criminal. Charges against Defregger were dropped in 1970.
(http://tinyurl.com/5f8qts)(http://tinyurl.com/okdpc3w)
1972 Jul 7, In Japan Kekuei Tanaka (1918-1993) began serving as prime minister.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuei_Tanaka)
1972 Jul 7, Athenagoras (b.1886), 268th patriarch of Constantinople, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Athenagoras)
1974 Jul 7, In San Francisco Klaus Christmann was found dead. He was the 3rd of at least five gay victims stabbed to death by a serial killer, dubbed the Doodler.
(SSFC, 6/6/21, p.S2)
1975 Jul 7, Philippines’ President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Presidential Decree No. 742 and Letter of Instruction 290 creating Western and Central Mindanao regions in Mindanao and establishing the Office of the Regional Commissioner in both regions.
(http://www.armm.gov.ph/armm-history/)
1976 Jul 7, The US 94th Congress amended the Flag Code.
(SFC, 6/14/11, p.E6)(http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/04C1.txt)
1976 Jul 7, The 1st female cadets enrolled at the West Point Military Academy in NY. West Point Military Academy admitted 119 women out of a class of 1367. Four years later 62 women graduated.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5159)(SFEC, 2/16/97, p.A12)
1977 Jul 7, Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998), British composer, premiered his 4th opera "The Ice Break," which featured a race riot and a psychedelic sequence.
(www.michael-tippett.com/operaintroibreng.htm)
1978 Jul 7, China cut off all aid to Albania after a dispute and left it completely isolated.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(CO, GAAE/Albania)
1978 Jul 7, The Solomon Islands gained independence from Britain.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(www.worldstatesmen.org/Solomon_Islands.html)
1981 Jul 7, President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 7/7/97)(HN, 7/7/98)
1981 Jul 7, The 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crossed the English Channel flying 163 miles from Paris to Canterbury. It was created by Dupont and Paul MacCready.
(www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-054-DFRC.html)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.88)
1983 Jul 7, Samantha Smith (11) of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1985 Jul 7, Boris Becker of Germany shook up the tennis world at Wimbledon when, as an unseeded player, he became the then youngest-ever male Grand Slam champion at the age of 17, defending the trophy the following year.
(http://tinyurl.com/ycc7tyvn)(AFP, 6/19/18)
1986 Jul 7, The US Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law.
(www.answers.com/topic/gramm-rudman-act)
1986 Jul 7, Jordan’s government shut down all 25 offices of al-Fatah, the mainstream group in the divided Palestine Liberation Organization.
(http://tinyurl.com/ycprwn)
1987 Jul 7, Lt. Col. Oliver North began his long-awaited public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one," without authorization.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1988 Jul 7, Russia’s PHOBOS 1 Mars Orbiter and lander was launched. Contact was lost on September 2, 1988.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)(www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mars/space_missions.html)
1988 Jul 7, The European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning brutalities against Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
(www.armeniaforeignministry.com/pr_04/040227sumgait.html)
1988 Jul 7, The candidate of Mexico's ruling party, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, claimed a "national victory" one day after presidential elections that opponents charged were riddled by fraud.
(AP, 7/7/98)
1989 Jul 7, The US Labor Dept. reported that unemployment rose 0.1% in June to 5.2%.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1990 Jul 7, President Bush welcomed fellow leaders of the Group of Seven countries, who were gathering in Houston for their 16th annual economic summit.
(AP, 7/7/00)
1990 Jul 7, Martina Navratilova captured a record-breaking ninth women’s title at Wimbledon, outplaying Zina Garrison, 6-4, 6-1.
(AP, 7/7/00)
1991 Jul 7, Responding to President Bush’s call for stepped-up efforts on arms control talks, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev told the White House he was sending Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh and other officials for talks with Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third.
(AP, 7/6/01)
1991 Jul 7, Michael Stich defeated Boris Becker, 6-4, 7-6, 6-4, to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon.
(AP, 7/7/01)
1991 Jul 7, IRA members Pearse McAuley (b.1965) and Nessan Quinliven escaped from an English jail, shot a Canadian tourist and took his car during their getaway. They had been awaiting trial on charges relating to a suspected plot to assassinate former brewery company chairman, Sir Charles Tidbury.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearse_McAuley)(SSFC, 2/26/17, DB p.50)
1991 Jul 7, Jordan’s king abolished most provisions of martial law.
(AP, 1/23/13)
1992 Jul 7, Group of Seven leaders meeting in Munich, Germany, condemned the carnage in former Yugoslavia and warned Serb-led troops that U.N. military force would be used if needed to keep relief operations going.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1993 Jul 7, The Group of Seven nations, on the first day of their economic summit in Tokyo, unveiled a long-sought agreement on world trade. Prior to the summit opening, President Clinton delivered a speech at Waseda University.
(AP, 7/7/03)
1993 Jul 7, Mia Zapata (27), a rising punk-rock star, was last seen alive in Seattle. In 2003 Jesus C. Mezquia (b.1965), who lived in Seattle at the time of the rape and murder, was arrested in Florida on DNA evidence. On March 25, 2004, a jury convicted Florida fisherman Jesus Mezquia of her murder and he was sentenced to 36 years in prison.
(SSFC, 1/12/03, p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Zapata#Death)
1994 Jul 7, President Clinton, visiting Poland, assured the parliament that the U.S. would "not let the Iron Curtain be replaced by a veil of indifference."
(AP, 7/7/99)
1994 Jul 7, Panama withdrew its offer to the United States to accept thousands of Haitian refugees.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1995 Jul 7, The space shuttle "Atlantis" landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, bringing back American astronaut Norman Thagard, who’d spent three and a-half months aboard the Russian space station "Mir."
(AP, 7/7/00)
1995 Jul 7, UN military observers in Bosnia appealed to the UN to "stop the carnage and damage in a UN declared safe zone."
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1996 Jul 7, Dutch tennis player Richard Krajicek won the Wimbledon men's title, defeating American MaliVai Washington 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1996 Jul 7, President Clinton delivered more Whitewater trial testimony before video cameras, this time testifying in the case of two Arkansas bankers accused of making political contributions with bank funds; a jury later acquitted Herby Branscum Jr., and Robert M. Hill of four counts and was deadlocked on seven other counts. Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr decided against retrying the bankers
(AP, 7/7/97)
1996 Jul 7, The average cost of a Big Mac in the US was $2.36. In Germany it was $3.22.
(SFC, 7/7/96, Par, p.17)
1996 Jul 7, In Ecuador lawyer Abdala Bucaram, aka El Loco, was elected president with 54% of the vote. He led the center-left Roldosista party.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.A8)
1997 Jul 7, Montgomery Wards, the nation’s largest privately owned retailer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
(SFC, 7/8/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 7, It was reported that toxic waste was being used across the country in fertilizers with no regulation. Substances being recycled in fertilizer included low level radioactive waste from a uranium processing plant in Gore, Okla.; lead-laced waste from a pulp mill in Camas, Wash.; and toxic byproducts from steel-making in Moxee City, Wash.
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.A2)
1997 Jul 7, In California it was reported that the state’s million plus cows were churning out $3 billion worth of milk and leaking harmful nitrates into the ground water of the Central Valley. Years ago the Chino basin was forced to write off vast quantities of tainted ground water due to dairies.
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 7, Three days after landing on Mars, the Pathfinder spacecraft yielded what scientists said was unmistakable photographic evidence that colossal floods scoured the Red Planet's now-barren landscape more than a billion years ago.
(AP, 7/7/98)
1997 Jul 7, In Chile the government agreed to back the 670,000 acre nature preserve of Doug Tompkins, founder of the Esprit clothing chain.
(SFC, 7/8/97, p.A7)
1997 Jul 7, Abdul Rashid Wani (30) disappeared in Srinagar, Kashmir, while running an errand on the day of his niece’s wedding.
(SSFC, 12/2/07, p.A17)
1997 Jul 7, In Kenya 9 people died during protests for constitutional reform.
(SFC, 7/8/97, p.A8)(SFC, 7/12/97, p.A10)
1998 Jul 7, The American League defeated the National League 13-8 in baseball's All-Star Game, played in Denver.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1998 Jul 7, A jury in Santa Monica, Calif., convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1998 Jul 7, The American League defeated the National League 13-8 in baseball's All-Star Game, played in Denver.
(AP, 7/7/08)
1998 Jul 7, The US Court of Appeals ruled that condemned prisoners have the option to choose death by lethal injection or by gas in San Quentin’s death chamber. The gas chamber was shut down in 1994.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A17)
1998 Jul 7, A jury in Santa Monica, Calif., convicted Mikhail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery. Markhasev was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
(AP, 7/7/08)
1998 Jul 7, In Texas 2 Border Patrol agents were killed in a gun battle with Ernest Moore who was suspected of killing a woman and her daughter. Moore soon after died of wounds at a hospital.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A2)
1998 Jul 7, In Angola 16 policemen were killed in an ambush by Unita.
(WSJ, 7/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 7, In Australia the Senate passed a law that scaled back Aboriginal land rights under threat by Prime Minister John Howard to dissolve both houses and call for new elections.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 7, Britain sent more troops to Northern Ireland to help quell the rioting.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 7, In Indonesia troops battled protestors on Irian Jaya who demanded independence.
(WSJ, 7/8/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 7, In Italy Silvio Berlusconi, media tycoon and former prime minister, was sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison for bribing tax officials.
(WSJ, 7/8/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 7, Mexican courts ordered the attorney general’s office to rehire more than half the 826 agents dismissed 6 months ago for failed drug tests and alleged corruption.
(SFC, 7/10/98, p.A16)
1998 Jul 7, In Nigeria opposition leader Moshood Abiola (60) died of a heart attack while still in prison and his death sparked rioting in Lagos that left at least 19 people dead. Gen’l. Abubakar dissolved his cabinet, inherited from Abacha, but left intact the Provisional Ruling Council. He called the death a tragedy and appealed for calm.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A1)(SFC, 7/9/98, p.A1)(AP, 7/7/99)
1998 Jul 7, In Puerto Rico a general 2 day strike was called against the sale of the phone company and the San Juan Int’l. Airport was blocked for a short time.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A3)
1998 Jul 7, The UN voted to grant the Palestinian delegation nearly the same rights as given to independent states.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A10)
1999 Jul 7, In NYC "The Peony Pavilion," a 22-hour Chinese opera, opened at the LaGuardia Theater.
(WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A20)
1999 Jul 7, President Clinton became the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to visit an Indian reservation as he toured the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
(AP, 7/7/00)
1999 Jul 7, In the first class-action lawsuit by smokers to go to trial, a jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for making a defective product that causes emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/7/00)
1999 Jul 7, In Bahrain the top dissident, Sheik Abdul-Ameer al-Jamri, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $15 million after he was convicted of spying and inciting unrest. He was freed the next day with an amnesty.
(WSJ, 7/8/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 7, Britain and Libya announced a resumption of diplomatic relations.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A8)
1999 Jul 7, From China it was reported that flooding on the Yangtze River since late June had killed 240 people and caused over $3 billion in damage.
(WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 7, In Iran the parliament approved general outlines for new press restrictions.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 7, From Kazakstan it was reported that a rocket carrying a telecom satellite blew up and that launches at Baikonur would be suspended.
(WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 7, Pres. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone signed a peace accord with rebel leader Foday Sankoh in Togo. Sankoh was given the vice-presidency and the rebels were promised 4 ministerial and 4 deputy ministerial posts.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A8)
2000 Jul 7, The 4th installment of the "Harry Potter" series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," by J.K. Rowling went on sale.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, In Denver Episcopal bishops approved an alliance with the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A3)
2000 Jul 7, President Clinton postponed the first federal execution since 1963 so that death row inmate Juan Raul Garza could ask for clemency under guidelines being updated by the government. Garza was executed June 19, 2001.
(AP, 7/7/01)
2000 Jul 7, A$100 million US test missile failed to hit a dummy warhead from another missile. It was the 2nd failure of 3 tests.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, In West Virginia 2 teenagers (17) in Grant Town confessed to killing Arthur Warren Jr. (26), a gay man. They beat him to death and then drove over his body several times to make it look like a hit-and-run.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A4)
2000 Jul 7, Stock car driver Kenny Irwin was killed when his car slammed into a wall during practice at New Hampshire International Speedway; he was 30.
(AP, 7/7/01)
2000 Jul 7, In Austria the parliament approved a $415 million fund to compensate Nazi-era victims of forced labor.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.C14)
2000 Jul 7, The East African Community (EAC), founded in 1967, was resurrected following its collapse in 1977. The regional club included six members: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In 2005 members agreed on a customs union and in 2010 they agreed on a common market.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Community)(Econ, 6/11/16, p.51)
2000 Jul 7, Three days of torrential rains over central China left at least 22 people dead in Sichuan. Thousands of buildings, 17 bridges and 7 hydroelectric power stations were damaged. In Guangxi Zhuang a bus fell into the Liujiang River in Liuzhou and at least 65 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.D8)(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A9)
2000 Jul 7, German drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim said it would donate nevirapine, a drug to help prevent the transmission of AIDS from mothers to infants, to every nation in the developing world that asks for it.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, In Fiji supporters of George Speight seized up to 30 hostages at Korovou.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 7, In Nicaragua another earthquake struck and at least 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 7, Typhoon Kai Tak killed at least 39 people in the Philippines and moved on to Japan.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A11)(WSJ, 7/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, The World Bank cancelled its Chinese resettlement project for Tibet. China then withdrew its request for a $40 million loan and vowed to proceed with its own development program.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A10)
2001 Jul 7, Bolivia’s Pres. Banzer (75) was reported to be hospitalized in Washington DC with cancer in his lung and liver.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.B1)(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 7, It was reported that China had executed 1,781 people over the last 3 months.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 7, In Croatia PM Ivica Racan announced that citizens indicted by the UN War Crimes tribunal could be extradited to the Hague.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 7, In Bradford, England, 80 police officers were injured in race riots, later known as the “Bradford riots." They began after a rally by the far-right National Front was banned. Asian and white youths ran amok in the streets armed with firebombs and baseball bats. The Manningham Labor Club was firebombed.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A16)(AP, 7/6/02)(Econ, 3/5/11, p.63)
2001 Jul 7, In Jamaica a police crackdown began in Kingston following 2 months of fighting between gangs that killed 37 people. The murder rate for the country had reached 530 for the half year.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 7, In the Gaza Strip a Palestinian boy was shot and killed and 2 others injured by Israeli soldiers. Palestinian militants were said to have been shooting in the Raffah refugee camp area.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Jul 7, In Puerto Rico Parmenio Medina (62), a Colombian-born journalist, was gunned down in his car. He ran a radio program called "La Patada," or "The Kick," which denounced fraud at a religious radio station. In 2007 a court convicted Omar Chaves, a businessman, of ordering the murder of the journalist. Chaves also got a 12-year prison sentence on a fraud count. His partner, Father Minor de Jesus Calvo, was acquitted of the killing, but was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 15 years in jail.
(AP, 12/19/07)
2002 Jul 7, Lleyton Hewitt crushed David Nalbandian in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, in the Wimbledon final to win his second Grand Slam title.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2002 Jul 7, Texas Gov. Rick Perry saw by helicopter the devastation days of torrential rain had brought to central and southern Texas.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2002 Jul 7, Afghanistan's vice president, Abdul Qadir, was buried with full military honors one day after being assassinated.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2002 Jul 7, Nearly two dozen people were killed and thousands left homeless as torrential monsoon rains lashed large parts of Asia over the weekend, worsening floods and triggering fresh storms and landslides. Monsoon flooding killed at least 11 in Bangladesh.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)(Reuters, 7/8/02)
2002 Jul 7, In southern China 13 people were killed when a wall being demolished at a vegetable market crumbled after heavy rain, burying vendors and workers under a mound of rubble.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 7, In Hong Kong tens of thousands of civil servants staged a huge street protest against a government plan to pass a law that would cut their pay by up to 4.42 percent.
(Reuters, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 7, In Indonesia 53 people burned alive or jumped to their deaths when fire ripped through a crowded Palembang karaoke bar on Sumatra island but the final death toll could be double that.
(AP, 7/8/02)(Reuters, 7/9/02)(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 7, In Northern Ireland Protestant hard-liners battled riot police after being barred from parading through the main Catholic section of Portadown.
(AP, 7/7/02)
2002 Jul 7, The 14th Int'l. AIDS Conference opened in Barcelona. Estimates said AIDS had claimed 20 million lives to date and threatened 40 million currently infected. African cases were estimated at 28.5 million.
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A6)
2002 Jul 7, In eastern Ukraine rescue workers found the bodies of 35 miners killed in one of two fires over the weekend in mines.
(AP, 7/7/02)(AP, 7/8/02)
2003 Jul 7, Hilary Lunke won the U.S. Women's Open.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2003 Jul 7, Pres. Bush departed for a 5-country African tour. In 2007 Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary, said he had lunch with Scooter Libby on this day and was told by Libby that Ambassador Wilson had been sent to Africa by his wife, Valerie Plame, who worked for the CIA. Wilson had criticized the Bush administration the previous day for the way it used intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.
(SFC, 7/7/03, p.A8)(SFC, 1/30/07, p.A3)
2003 Jul 7, A federal judge approved a settlement fining WorldCom $750 million for its $11-billion accounting scandal.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2003 Jul 7, A chunk of foam insulation fired at shuttle wing parts blew open a gaping 16-inch hole, yielding what one member of the Columbia investigation team said was the "smoking gun" proving what brought down the spaceship on Feb 1.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2003 Jul 7, The CDC confirmed the year's 1st case of West Nile Virus, which killed 284 in the US in 2002.
(SFC, 7/8/03, p.A6)
2003 Jul 7, NASA's 2nd Mars Lander, named Opportunity, was launched.
(SFC, 7/8/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 7, In Corsica explosions rocked vacation homes owned by mainland French in new nationalist violence a day after Corsicans rejected a plan designed to set up a single executive body to run Corsican affairs.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2003 Jul 7, In Indonesia gunbattles between soldiers and rebels in Aceh province left 18 insurgents dead, and the bodies of five civilians were discovered in the region.
(AP, 7/8/03)
2003 Jul 7, In northwestern Tanzania a bus rolled several times after one of its front tires burst, killing at least 19 people and injuring 23 others.
(AP, 7/8/03)
2004 Jul 7, Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay was indicted on criminal charges related to the energy company's collapse.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2004 Jul 7, Jeff Smith (65), a white-bearded minister who became public television's popular "Frugal Gourmet" (1983-1997) before a sex scandal ruined his career, died.
(AP, 7/9/04)
2004 Jul 7, The Iraqi government issued a long-anticipated package of security laws to help crush insurgents, including a provision allowing interim PM Iyad Allawi to impose martial law. 4 Iraqi National Guard soldiers were killed and 20 injured from a gunbattle in central Baghdad.
(AP, 7/7/04)(SFC, 7/8/04, p.A15)
2004 Jul 7, In Russia the board of Guta Bank approved its sale to the state-owned Vneshtorgbank. A day earlier Guta had announced a suspension of payments.
(Econ, 7/10/04, p.66)
2004 Jul 7, In Sri Lanka a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police station, killing herself and 4 officers.
(AP, 7/7/04)
2004 Jul 7, It was reported that fighting between Arab and African tribes has killed at least 70 people and displaced thousands more this week in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
(Reuters, 7/7/04)
2005 Jul 7, Morgan Stanley disclosed that Philip Purdell had been given an exit package worth an estimated $113.7 million. 2 days earlier John Mack was signed on as CEO on a contract worth as much as $25 million a year.
(SFC, 7/8/05, p.C1)
2005 Jul 7, Gustaf Sobin (69), American-born writer and poet, died in France. His work included the 2000 novel “The Fly-Truffler."
(SFC, 7/13/05, p.B7)
2005 Jul 7, A Human Rights Watch report said numerous officials in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government are implicated in war crimes that took place at the start of the country's bloody civil war in the early 1990s.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, In Pale, Bosnia-Herzegovina, NATO troops arrested Aleksandar Karadzic, the son of top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic, who is wanted for alleged genocide including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
(AFP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Four blasts rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour, sending bloodied victims fleeing. 52 were killed in the subway blasts, including 13 on the bus, and London hospitals reported more than 700 wounded. A group calling itself "The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe" posted a claim of responsibility, saying they were in retaliation for Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2007 British police arrested 3 suspects. [see ref URL for CNN timeline on the bombing] In 2008 a jury failed to convict 3 Britons accused of helping the suicide bombers. In 2009 three men were found not guilty of helping to plan the suicide bombings, although two were convicted on lesser charges.
(AP, 7/7-8/05)(http://tinyurl.com/dxvlb)(AP, 7/11/05)(WSJ, 3/23/07, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/2/08, p.A6)(AFP, 4/28/09)(AFP, 1/19/15)
2005 Jul 7, Al-Qaida in Iraq said in a Web statement that it has killed Ihab al-Sherif, Egypt's top envoy in Iraq, posting a video of the blindfolded diplomat identifying himself.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Egypt recalled its staff to Cairo and said it will temporarily shut its diplomatic mission in Iraq.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Hurricane Dennis, a Category 4 storm with 135-mph winds, left 10 people dead in Haiti and some 100 missing.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2005 Jul 7, The 150-ton KMP Digul sank off Papua province, Indonesia, while en route from the port town of Merauke to Tanah Merah. As many as 200 were feared dead.
(AP, 7/9/05)(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 7, Iraq's president called for national unity as mortar attacks killed 4 civilians in the northern city of Mosul and police opened fire on demonstrators in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit, wounding 4.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, About 600 US Marines and Iraqi soldiers launched Operation Scimitar near Fallujah, the fourth counterinsurgency operation in less than a month.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2005 Jul 7, Ali Shakir, the head of Iraq's karate union, was kidnapped south of Baghdad.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2005 Jul 7, Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer quit the Iraqi dictator's Jordan-based legal team, saying some of the team's American members were trying to control the defense and tone down his criticism of the U.S. presence in Iraq.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker asked his citizens to pass a referendum in favor of the EU Constitution.
(WSJ, 7/8/05, p.A5)
2005 Jul 7, In Pakistan 2 masked gunmen opened fire on an intelligence officer in a remote northwestern tribal region, killing him before fleeing.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, Romania's PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu said his Cabinet would resign and early elections would be called after a court blocked essential justice reforms required by the EU.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2005 Jul 7, In Scotland world leaders united in a show of solidarity to condemn the deadly bombings in London as an attack on all nations and vowed to defeat the terrorists responsible.
(AP, 7/7/05)
2006 Jul 7, The Arkansas state board barred Dr. Randeep Mann from prescribing narcotics after officials said 10 of his patients died from a lethal mix of drugs or an overdose of prescription medicines.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Louisiana joined 21 other states in banning Internet hunting, the practice of using a mouse click to kill animals on a distant game farm.
(www.livescience.com/othernews/060707_internet_hunting.html)
2006 Jul 7, Oil hit a fresh record high of $75.78 a barrel, boosted by strong demand in the US and global tension ranging from Iran's nuclear work to North Korea's missile tests.
(Reuters, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Fighting in southern Afghanistan killed a US-led coalition soldier and at least eight suspected Taliban militants.
(AP, 7/8/06)
2006 Jul 7, Syd Barrett (60), a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died at his home in Cambridge, England. The band’s first album was “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn."
(Reuters, 7/11/06)(SFC, 7/12/06, p.B7)(Econ, 7/22/06, p.83)
2006 Jul 7, In Canada 2 Mounties were wounded near the Saskatchewan community of Spiritwood as they investigated what appeared to be a family dispute. Constables Robin Cameron (29) and Marc Bourdages (26) died from their wounds on July 15 and 16.
(AP, 7/17/06)
2006 Jul 7, In northern China a fire ignited explosives at a home in Dongzhai, a village in the coal-mining province of Shanxi, killing at least 47 people, many of them neighbors who had rushed to the scene to battle the flames. A seven-story apartment building collapsed in the major city of Zhengzhou in central China, killing at least two people and burying an unknown number of others.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, UN peacekeepers in Haiti found the bodies of 16 people believed killed in a surge of gang violence.
(AP, 7/8/06)
2006 Jul 7, Iraqi forces backed by US aircraft battled militants in a Shiite stronghold of eastern Baghdad, killing or wounding more than 30 fighters and capturing an extremist leader who was the target of the raid. Residents claimed up to 11 civilians died. A series of bombs and a mortar round targeting the main Islamic weekly service struck four Sunni mosques in the Baghdad area and a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, killing 17 people and wounding more than 50.
(AP, 7/7/06)(AP, 7/8/06)
2006 Jul 7, Israel launched an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said three Palestinians were killed. The Israeli military said the attack on the town of Beit Lahiya targeted a group of militants. Palestinians said 32 people had died in days of Gaza fighting.
(AP, 7/7/06)(WSJ, 7/8/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 7, Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi was ordered to stand trial following an investigation into the sale of television rights at Mediaset SpA.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, The first batch of Japanese troops began pulling out of Iraq.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, North Korea announced a scientific breakthrough. State-run media boasted that researchers developed a new cosmetic agent to make skin supple.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Pakistan's president amended a controversial Islamic law so that women facing charges for adultery and other minor crimes can be released on bail. The much-awaited amendment by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to the Hadood Ordinance will initially affect 1,300 female prisoners.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, In the Philippines 6 fugitive military officers linked to a failed 2003 mutiny against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo were arrested.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Officials said Russian authorities have dramatically curtailed the number of stations broadcasting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America news programs, sending an unsettling signal about the state of press freedoms in Russia.
(AP, 7/8/06)
2006 Jul 7, A Spanish judge charged two former Guatemalan dictators with genocide and issued international warrants for their arrest. National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued warrants on charges of genocide, torture, terrorism and illegal detention against Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores and six other men.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, Spain’s Agriculture Ministry said it has recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu. The deadly strain was found in a water fowl in a marsh area outside the northern city of Vitoria.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 7, The UN General Assembly unanimously approved a series of reforms that were welcomed by the US as a long overdue step toward greater efficiency and accountability. A two-week UN conference reviewing efforts to fight the illegal weapons trade ended in failure, with nations too divided on too many contentious issues to agree on the best way to combat a scourge that fuels conflict worldwide. Japan introduced a draft UN Security Council resolution to sanction North Korea for test-launching a series of missiles. The Council unanimously adopted a compromise resolution on July 15.
(AP, 7/8/06)(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, The 24-hour Live Earth music marathon reached the Western Hemisphere with rappers, rockers and country stars taking the stage at Live Earth concerts to fight climate change.
(SSFC, 7/8/07, p.A4)(AP, 7/7/08)
2007 Jul 7, A Big Mac in the US cost an average $3.41. At current exchange rates the cheapest Big Mac was in China at $1.45, and the most expensive in New Zealand at $5.89.
(Econ, 7/7/07, p.74)
2007 Jul 7, Wildfires in California consumed 17,000 acres in Inyo National Forest and 7,500 acres in Los Padres National Forest. An 8,000-acre wildfire forced hundreds of people in the town of Winnemucca to leave their homes, one of more than a dozen blazes that charred a combined 55 square miles in northern Nevada. In Utah a 160,000-acre wildfire forced evacuations at Cove Fort and the Blundell Geothermal Power Plant. Wildfires also burned in Colorado, Arizona, Oregon and Washington states.
(AP, 7/8/07)(SSFC, 7/8/07, p.A5)
2007 Jul 7, In Oregon Kent Couch (47) in his lawn chair with some snacks and a parachute rose to the sky under 105 large helium balloons. Nearly 9 hours later the gas station owner came back to earth in a farmer's field near Union, 193 miles from home. In September he had gotten off the ground for six hours.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 7, A global poll picked the Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, India's Taj Mahal, Peru’s Macchu Picchu, Jordan’s Petra, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer and Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid as the new seven wonders of the world. The campaign to name the new wonders was launched in 1999 by the Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber.
(AP, 7/8/07)
2007 Jul 7, Barton Shackelford, former president of PG&E (1979-1985), died in Kentfield, Ca.
(SFC, 7/16/07, p.C6)
2007 Jul 7, In Kandahar province Taliban fighters ambushed police traveling in between Ghorak and Mawiwand, sparking a six-hour battle. About 20 Taliban fighters were wounded in the engagement, and several police were missing. Taliban fighters beheaded two civilians they accused of being spies for the government or NATO. A roadside blast struck a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan and wounded four alliance soldiers.
(AP, 7/7/07)(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 7, A court in Algeria's Kabylie region sentenced Said Sahnoun, a correspondent for newspapers in sub-Saharan Africa, to 10 years in prison for spying for Israel.
(Reuters, 7/8/07)
2007 Jul 7, Algeria's state oil and gas company and KBR Inc., a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary, signed a $2.88 billion deal for a liquefied natural gas plant.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Britain’s PM Gordon Brown pledged 14 million pounds in extra aid for parts of northern England hit by floods which killed at least four people.
(AFP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Jack Odell (b.1920), British creator of the Matchbox miniature toys (1953), died. The toys were made by Lesney Products, founded by Leslie and Rodney Smith in 1947. The company went public in 1960 and bankrupt in 1982, when it was sold to Hong Kong’s Universal International Ltd. In 1997 Mattel acquired Matchbox.
(WSJ, 1/14/07, p.A4)
2007 Jul 7, German scientists said a genetically engineered herpes virus, designed to kill cancer cells but leave normal tissue unharmed, has shown early promise in clinical tests.
(Reuters, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Authorities said floods in eastern India have left nearly a million people stranded from torrential monsoon rains.
(AFP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, In Iraq a bombing in Armili, a farming town of 26,000, mostly Shiites from Iraq's ethnic Turkoman minority, killed over 130 people. Another car bomb attack against a military checkpoint in Baghdad killed at least 3 people and wounded 10. British troops came under heavy attack by militants in Basra, killing one soldier and wounding 3. An American soldier was killed in combat in Salahuddin province.
(AFP, 7/7/07)(AP, 7/8/07)
2007 Jul 7, In Indian-controlled Kashmir protesters clashed with police in Srinagar a day after a teenager was killed when police fired on a crowd protesting alleged human rights abuses.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, In Indonesia a speeding bus carrying a group of junior high school students and their teachers plunged into a 30-foot ravine on the main island of Java, killing 14 people. Poisonous fumes from the Indonesia’s Salak volcano killed six teenagers who were camping on the mountain.
(AP, 7/7/07)(AP, 7/8/07)
2007 Jul 7, Nepal's king celebrated his 60th birthday with a lavish ceremony at his palace that set off protests in the streets of Katmandu.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, President Pervez Musharraf told Islamist militants barricaded in a mosque to surrender or die, while concern grew for hundreds of women and children inside the besieged compound in the Pakistani capital.
(Reuters, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Pope Benedict XVI removed restrictions on celebrating the old form of the Latin Mass in a concession to traditional Catholics, but he stressed that he was in no way rolling back the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 7, Zimbabwe's government announced a new law making it an offense to defy steep price cuts ordered in an effort to control runaway inflation and a growing economic crisis.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2008 Jul 7, Tropical storm Bertha strengthened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, Bruce Conner (b.1933), SF-based artist, died. His collages and prints looked back to classics of surrealism. His work was later said to look like a bridge between the Beat generation and postmodernism.
(http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006353.html)(SFC, 7/8/08, p.B5)(SFC, 5/4/09, p.E3)
2008 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a car bomb detonated by a suicide bomber ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul, killing 41 people in the deadliest attack in the capital since the fall of the Taliban.
(AP, 7/7/08)(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, Austria’s ruling coalition crumbled and new elections were expected as early as September. The left-right alliance broke up after 18 months in office.
(WSJ, 7/8/08, p.A12)(Econ, 7/12/08, p.63)
2008 Jul 7, In central Bangladesh 2 passenger buses collided head-on, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, The Church of England's ruling body voted its support for women to become bishops without giving traditionalist supporters of male-only priesthood the concessions they had sought.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, In China Diana O'Brien (22), a Canadian model, was found murdered in her Shanghai apartment. On Jul 11 police arrested Chen Jun (18), who confessed to killing the woman during a robbery.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Colombia a rose-laden US cargo plane headed for Miami crashed before dawn near Bogota, killing a father and son in their home on the ground. It was the second time in six weeks that a Boeing 747 flown by Ypsilanti, Michigan-based Kalitta Air has crashed.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Congo (DRC) unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle belonging to the World Wildlife Fund in Virunga national Park, killing two people and wounding three others.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 7, Police in East Timor's capital fired tear gas to disperse students protesting a plan by lawmakers to buy themselves new cars with state funds.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Egypt smugglers killed a police officer during a shootout on the border with Israel.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, A court in Equatorial Guinea convicted former British officer Simon Mann on of being the key player in a failed 2004 coup plot in this Central African nation and sentenced him to 34 years and four months in prison.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, European Union nations gave their backing to a French-drafted pact calling for tightening immigration and asylum rules across the 27-nation bloc.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Germany war crimes suspect Callixte Mbarushimana, a former UN employee wanted for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, was arrested in Frankfurt.
(AFP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, Germany’s Fresenius SE said it has agreed to buy US generic drug maker APP Pharmaceuticals for $3.7 billion in cash in a deal that will give the health care company more opportunities in the North American market for drugs administered intravenously.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, PM al-Maliki said Iraq has proposed a short-term memorandum of understanding with the US rather than trying to hammer through a formal agreement on the presence of US forces. A roadside bomb near a dress shop in Baqouba killed a woman and injured 14 others.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, Israeli troops in jeeps swooped down on the West Bank town of Nablus, shutting down a girls' school, a medical center and two other facilities of a Hamas-affiliated charity. Palestinian militants fired a mortar shell at a border crossing with the Gaza Strip. Israel's military said it had begun digging up the bodies of Lebanese fighters after the government struck a deal with Hezbollah guerrillas to swap five living prisoners and dozens of bodies for two Israeli soldiers captured in 2006.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, Israeli Lt. Col. Omri Borberg was caught on video holding the arm of Ashraf Abu Rahmeh while he was shot in the foot with a rubber-coated bullet in the West Bank village of Naalin. On Jan 27, 2011, an Israeli military court sentenced two soldiers, convicted in the close-range shooting of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian man, but spared them jail time.
(AP, 1/27/11)(http://tinyurl.com/45ufwxq)
2008 Jul 7, In Italy transport workers went on strike, forcing the cancellation of thousands of bus, tram and subway lines and snarling traffic across the country.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Japan G8 leaders raised the prospect of more sanctions against Zimbabwe unless quick progress is made to end a political crisis after a violent election that extended President Robert Mugabe's 28-year rule. The G8 met with seven African leaders at its annual summit. African leaders urged the Group of Eight nations to tackle spiking oil and food prices. Japan included 5 “outreach" countries (Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa) for brief discussions with the G8.
(Reuters, 7/7/08)(AFP, 7/7/08)(Econ, 7/5/08, p.33)
2008 Jul 7, In Indian Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad, the chief minister said he was stepping down following protests over the government’s handling of the transfer of government land to the Shiri Amarnath Shrine Board, a trust running the revered Hindu shrine.
(WSJ, 7/8/08, p.A12)
2008 Jul 7, Mexican police found six charred bodies on a Tijuana street following a bloody weekend that left 14 people dead.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Pakistan a total of seven small blasts left 43 people wounded in the commercial capital of Karachi.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, Serbia's parliament approved a new government that includes a pro-Western group and the political party of the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2008 Jul 7, The South African Reserve Bank said 5 million coins featuring a smiling Nelson Mandela will go into circulation on July 18, the former president's 90th birthday.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, Sudan's parliament approved a new electoral law, a crucial step towards scheduled national elections and a democratic transition laid out in peace arrangements after a 21-year civil war.
(AP, 7/7/08)
2008 Jul 7, A UNESCO official said that an 11th century temple that sits on Cambodia's disputed border zone with Thailand has been designated as a world heritage site. Hindu-themed Preah Vihear reflects the beliefs of the kings who ruled what was then the Angkorean empire.
(AP, 7/8/08)
2009 Jul 7, Google announced its new operating system, Google Chrome OS, which would initially target low cost netbooks.
(SFC, 7/9/09, p.C1)
2009 Jul 7, Ron Nicolino (b.1939), artist and former resident of Point Richmond, Ca., died of cancer. He had attempted to string a collection of bras across the Grand Canyon in the mid-1990s, but was unable to get federal permission. Instead he and Ellen Duffy concocted the creation of a bra ball. A dispute led each one to create their own versions. Nicolino’s 1,600 pound “Big Giant Bra Ball" was left with his mother in Washington state.
(SFC, 7/16/09, p.D7)
2009 Jul 7, In eastern Afghanistan a hand grenade thrown at a police vehicle exploded in a crowd, killing one civilian and wounding 28 others in Khost province. A British soldier died in an explosion in Helmand province. He was the 7th British soldier killed in Afghanistan in a week. Hundreds of insurgents attacked police posts and a government building in eastern Nuristan province. The attacks continued into the next day leaving 6 policemen and 21 insurgents dead. (AP, 7/7/09)(AP, 7/8/09)
2009 Jul 7, British officials unveiled a memorial of 52 steel pillars in a London park, one for each victim of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city's transit system.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, The Cameroonian newspaper Le Jour said five Chinese workers were abducted off the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula in Cameroon near the border with Nigeria.
(AFP, 7/8/09)
2009 Jul 7, Canadian officials said they had identified yet another new flu virus, this one a mixture of human and swine influenzas, in two farm workers in Western Canada.
(Reuters, 7/8/09)
2009 Jul 7, In China mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang region. The government imposed a curfew as it tried to stem communal violence. The official Xinhua News Agency said that 1,434 suspects had been arrested, and that checkpoints had been set up to stop rioters from escaping.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, In Egypt 22 people were killed in two separate accidents on the notoriously dangerous road between the capital Cairo and the southern city of Minya.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, Ethiopia's parliament adopted a new anti-terrorism bill despite criticism by rights groups that the legislation violates civil liberties.
(AFP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, In India at least 16 people were killed and 25 injured after a fire tore through a firecracker factory in Madurai.
(SFC, 7/9/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 7, In Italy Matteo Salvini, a member of the often xenophobic, anti-immigrant Northern League party, resigned his seat in the lower chamber of Parliament after being filmed singing a racist chant about Naples and its residents.
(AP, 7/8/09)
2009 Jul 7, In northern Mexico an anti-crime activist and a neighbor were killed by gunmen believed linked to a drug cartel. Anti-crime activists said the slaying of Benjamin LeBaron, a US citizen, in Chihuahua state was the first time one of their own had been killed for denouncing crime and called it a chilling warning. Jose Rodolfo Escajeda, a lieutenant and one of the main operators of the Juarez cartel, was later presumed responsible for the killing of LeBaron and a neighbor near Nuevo Casas Grandes.
(AP, 7/8/09)(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Jul 7, In Pakistan a US missile strike pulverized a compound in a stronghold of Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, killing 16 foreign and local militants in South Waziristan. Two paramilitary soldiers were killed and nine security personnel wounded in three bomb attacks in North and South Waziristan. The military said that four militants were killed, including a brother of Ibn-e-Amin, one of the most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley.
(AFP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, In the Philippines a crude bomb hidden on a motorcycle exploded in a port city on southern Jolo island where al-Qaida-linked militants are active, killing at least two people and wounding 24.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, In Moscow President Barack Obama asked the Russian people to "forge a lasting partnership" with the US, but he acknowledged after talks with PM Vladimir Putin that on divisive issues there won't be "a meeting of the minds anytime soon.
(AP, 7/7/09)
2009 Jul 7, Spanish police arrested Jorge Alberto Soza (72), an ex-Argentine police official suspected of human rights abuses committed during the South American country's dirty war. Soza was wanted in Argentina in connection with 18 cases of kidnapping and torture between 1975 and 1977 when he was an assistant Federal Police commissioner and chief delegate in the southern Argentine city of Neuquen.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 7, Pope Benedict XVI called for a radical rethinking of global economy in “Caritas et Verite" (Charity in Truth) his 3rd encyclical.
(SFC, 7/8/09, p.A2)
2010 Jul 7, At a US military tribunal Ibrahim Gitmo detainee Ahmed Mahmoud, a Sudanese man who was said to have worked in Afghanistan as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, driver, cook and paymaster, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.
(Econ, 7/31/10, p.23)
2010 Jul 7, In Philadelphia, Pa., a 250-foot barge collided on the Delaware River with a stalled amphibious sightseeing boat. 2 visitors from Hungary were killed. In 2011 tug pilot Matt Devlin agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter following evidence that he was talking on a cell phone during the accident.
(AP, 7/9/10)(SFC, 7/15/11, p.A7)
2010 Jul 7, In Brazil Bruno Souza, a star goalkeeper and captain of defending club champion Flamengo, surrendered to police to face questioning in connection with the disappearance and suspected death of his ex-lover, Eliza Samudio, last seen alive on June 7. Police believed Bruno was in a home near Belo Horizonte home with Samudio at the time of her murder, and that her body was later cut into pieces, some of which were fed to dogs in a bid to cover the murder.
(AFP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 7, Police in northeast England detained Abid Naseer (24), the alleged ringleader of an al-Qaida bomb plot, at the request of the US government. He was among 12 people arrested last year in raids across northern England. All were released without charge.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, In Britain scientists at a top research unit embroiled in a row over climate research were cleared of dishonesty, but their lack of openness was criticized. The Independent Climate Change Email Review found nothing in the emails to undermine reports from the United Nations' climate change panel.
(AFP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, China executed the former top justice official in the southwestern city of Chongqing, the highest ranking person caught in a massive crackdown on violent gangs and corrupt officials who protect them. Wen Qiang (55), former director of the Chongqing Municipal Judicial Bureau, was convicted in April of corruption charges involving organized crime.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, Cuba promised the Roman Catholic Church it will free 52 political prisoners, slashing the number held by nearly a third in what would be the communist-led island's largest release of dissidents since Pope John Paul II visited in 1998.
(AP, 7/8/10)
2010 Jul 7, East Timor's Pres. Jose Ramos Horta said he supports in principle an Australian plan to turn his country into a regional center for processing asylum seekers but does not want his tiny, impoverished nation to become an "island prison."
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, European Union lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to cap bankers' short-term cash bonuses from next year, a move that European leaders hope other parts of the world will follow.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, A French court convicted Manuel Noriega of money-laundering and sentenced Panama's former dictator to seven years in jail after he spent two decades in a US prison.
(AFP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, Germany's interior minister Thomas de Maiziere said his country plans to take in two inmates from the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, Iranian media reported that the Veil and Modesty Festival, a fashion organization, has issued a new list of culturally appropriate haircuts for men, possibly indicating a new crackdown on male attire after years of strict rules for women, Iranian media reported.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, In Iraq militants targeted the homes of security forces west of Baghdad, blowing them up and killing three family members despite heightened security around the capital for a Shiite religious occasion. In a separate attack in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Dora in southern Baghdad, police Maj. Abdul-Rahman Sobhi was killed when a bomb attached to his car detonated as he drove to work. Nearly 60 people were killed in attacks in and around Baghdad, including 35 by a suicide bomber who targeted pilgrims heading to a mosque in northern Baghdad. Two people were killed near Ramadi, when insurgents blew up the houses of three policemen.
(AP, 7/7/10)(AP, 7/8/10)
2010 Jul 7, Israel said that its moves to ease its blockade on Gaza do not include relaxing regulations on Palestinians looking to travel out of the enclave. Israel's military released maps and aerial photographs showing what it described as a network of Hezbollah weapons depots and command centers inside villages in south Lebanon, near the Israeli border.
(AFP, 7/7/10)(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, A Tokyo court convicted a New Zealand activist of assault and obstructing Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic Ocean, and sentenced him to a suspended prison term. Peter Bethune (45) was also found guilty on three other charges: trespassing, vandalism and possession of a knife. Bethune was deported 2 days later.
(AP, 7/7/10)(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 7, In Indian Kashmir 2 people were killed and anger increased when security forces beat people in funeral processions.
(Econ, 7/10/10, p.42)
2010 Jul 7, In Mexico a judge acquitted Juan Llaca Diaz, a man charged with dealing in precursor drug chemicals and allegedly linked to the bust of a Chinese-Mexican businessman who hid $205 million at his Mexico City mansion.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 7, A Mexican air force helicopter crashed in the western state of Jalisco, killing three military personnel on board.
(AP, 7/10/10)
2010 Jul 7, Royal Dutch Shell said it has begun production at a major project in Nigeria that should eventually provide up to 70,000 barrels of oil per day and help boost electricity for the power-starved nation.
(AFP, 7/8/10)
2010 Jul 7, The UN WHO said at least 2,000 lead-poisoning victims in northern Nigeria may require treatment to remove brain-damaging lead. The poisoning was believed to be related to the processing of lead-rich ore for the extraction of gold.
(SFC, 7/8/10, p.A4)
2010 Jul 7, A Peruvian judge halted the expulsion of Paul McAuley (62), a British religious activist. He was accused by the government of inciting unrest among indigenous groups protesting environmental damage to the Amazon rain forest.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, In the Philippines officials said Nicanor Faeldon (44), a rebel soldier accused of leading two failed coup attempts, has turned himself in to authorities after 3 years on the run. Faeldon, a former bomb making trainer with the marines, was accused of helping lead 300 soldiers in taking over the upscale Oakwood Hotel and a nearby shopping center in Manila's financial district of Makati in July 2003, rigging the area with bombs.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, In Poland Warsaw district court Judge Tomasz Calkiewicz ordered that Uri Brodsky, a Mossad agent, be extradited to Germany on charges of forgery. Brodsky was suspected of helping fake a German passport that was used by a member of a hit squad believed to be behind the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2010 Jul 7, Thailand police said Russian pianist and composer Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev, founder of the Russian National Orchestra, has been charged with raping a 14-year-old boy at a beach resort.
(SFC, 7/8/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 7, A Yemeni court convicted two al-Qaida militants for the killing of senior police and army officers and sentenced them to death. Mubarak el-Shabawni (23) and Mansour Salem (18), arrested last December, denounced the verdict and shouted 'God is Great' afterward.
(AP, 7/7/10)
2011 Jul 7, In Michigan Rodrick Shonte Dantzler (34) killed seven people in a bloody rampage that ended when he shot himself in the head during a hostage standoff with police. Police said Dantzler had targeted two former girlfriends.
(Reuters, 7/7/11)(SFC, 7/9/11, p.A5)
2011 Jul 7, In Texas Humberto Leal (38), a Mexican national, was executed for the rape-slaying of a teenager after the US Supreme Court turned down an appeal to spare him that was supported by Mexico and the White House. He was sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda.
(AP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Wyoming Everett E. Conant III opened fire inside a mobile home in Wheatland killing his three sons and a brother. His wife was wounded. He surrendered without incident and was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, battery and a weapons violation.
(AP, 7/9/11)
2011 Jul 7, Rupert Murdoch caused astonishment when he killed off the 168-year-old News of the World after it was dogged by allegations that it hacked the voicemails of a teenage murder victim and the families of dead soldiers. This was widely seen as a way to quell the scandal and save the bid by his News Corp. for control of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, on which the British government is due to decide.
(AFP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a roadside bomb killed 8 Afghan policemen on a patrol in the northern district of Fayz Abad. A NATO service member died as a result of a non-battle related injury in the south. In the east a NATO helicopter crashed in Parnwan province, but the crew was recovered. Up to 13 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in a NATO air strike in the eastern province of Khost.
(AP, 7/7/11)(AFP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, British officers arrested Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui (44), a suspected Basque separatist, in connection with a 1997 attempted assassination of Spain's King Juan Carlos. The arrest came a day after the arrest of ETA suspect Daniel Derguy on terrorism charges in Cahors, France.
(AFP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Canada formally ended its combat mission in Afghanistan after years of being on the front lines of the fight against Taliban insurgents in the south.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Canada Richard Oland (69), part of the family that owns Moosehead Breweries, was found dead in a pool of blood in his office. His body bore numerous stab and blunt-force wounds to the head, neck and hands. Police said his son was the last person to see him alive.
(AFP, 12/20/15)
2011 Jul 7, Ash from a Chilean volcano grounded flights across much of South America again, disrupting travel for thousands of people just as the continent's premier football tournament got going in Argentina.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In China 4 miners were killed in a gas explosion in a mine in the western-most Xinjiang region. The death toll in a mine that flooded on July 2 in Guangxi province rose to four, with 18 still trapped. In eastern Shandong province, the number of miners trapped in a coal mine in Zaozhuang city dropped to 28 following a fire the previous evening. 23 miners remained trapped in a coal mine in southwest Guizhou province that also flooded on July 2.
(AFP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, A CongoDRC colonel known as Kifaru, accused of mass rapes last June in volatile eastern Congo, surrendered with 106 others.
(AP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's personal photographer was arrested on suspicion of espionage, along with his wife and two other photographers.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In northern India a train hit a stopped bus at a railway crossing, killing at least 35 people returning from a wedding party in Uttar Pradesh state.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Iraq a roadside bomb killed 2 US soldiers outside the main American military base in Baghdad.
(SFC, 7/8/11, p.A2)
2011 Jul 7, An Israeli tank hit a roadside bomb that was planted by Palestinian militants along the border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. A soldier was slightly injured in the incident.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Ivory Coast's government named Gen. Soumaila Bakayoko, a former rebel leader, as the new army chief, replacing Gen. Philippe Mangou, who served under the former strongman Laurent Gbagbo.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Kenya police tear gassed several hundred protesters marching toward the offices of Kenya's president and prime minister to demand action over a growing hunger crisis.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Lebanese lawmakers voted to approve the newly formed Hezbollah-dominated Cabinet after a contentious debate over the government's position in confronting the Islamic militant group.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, A senior Libyan official accused NATO of intensifying its bombing campaign and backing foreign mercenaries to lay the groundwork for an advance by rebels.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Libya the International Organization for Migration (IOM) began an operation to return home around 2,000 Chadian migrants, mostly women and children, trapped in Libya.
(AP, 7/9/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Malaysia a man carrying a machete barged into a kindergarten and held children and teachers hostage for six tense hours before police shot him in the head. The unidentified man was in hospital after sustaining a single bullet wound to the head.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Mexican judges convicted four men, Juan Alfredo Soto, Aldo Fabio Hernandez, Jose Dolores Arroyo and Heriberto Martinez, of killing 15 people in the Jan 30, 2010, Ciudad Juarez attack, known as the Villa Salvarcar massacre. The attack prompted President Felipe Calderon to alter the government's anti-drug strategy in the area. On July 11 the 4 men were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
(AP, 7/7/11)(AP, 7/11/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Mexico’s western state of Michoacan presumed drug gang members shot at federal officers, who repelled the attack and killed four alleged criminals and wounded another in the city of Apatzingan. Police said the gunmen were members of the Knights Templar, a criminal organization that split off from La Familia cartel.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In the Netherlands a large section of the roof of a soccer stadium collapsed during off-season construction work in Enschede, killing one person and leaving 10 hospitalized.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Nigeria motorcycles were completely banned in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, wracked by violence blamed on the Boko Haram Islamist sect.
(AFP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Pakistan gunmen shot up a bus and opened fire in several neighborhoods of Karachi, killing at least 22 people. 49 other people were killed in the city in sporadic shootings over the last 3 days.
(AP, 7/7/11)(SFC, 7/8/11, p.A2)
2011 Jul 7, Ricardo Alegria (90), a Puerto Rican scholar, died. He was known for his pioneering studies of the island's native Taino culture and is credited with preserving the capital's colonial district.
(AP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, Swedish officials said a man (36) with tracheal cancer has received a new lab-made wind pipe seeded with his own stem cells in the first successful attempt of its kind.
(SFC, 7/8/11, p.A2)
2011 Jul 7, Syrian protesters hurled stones and set roadblocks of burning tires against government forces trying to enter Hama, a key opposition city, where Syrian troops had killed 23 civilians since July 5. Around a hundred families fled Hama fearing a military crackdown.
(AP, 7/7/11)(AFP, 7/7/11)
2011 Jul 7, In Turkmenistan a series of mysterious blasts severely damaged hundreds of houses in the town of Abadan, 12 miles (20 km) from the capital, Ashgabat. Exiled Turkmen activists said a munitions dump was the source of the blast and that many people have been killed.
(AP, 7/8/11)
2011 Jul 7, Yemen’s Pres. Saleh appeared on state TV late in the day, a first since flying to Saudi Arabia a month ago to treat wounds sustained in an attack on his palace. The video showed the leader with casts on his arms and visibly weakened after a series of operations, reinforcing speculation that he won't return to Yemen soon.
(AP, 7/9/11)
2012 Jul 7, The Obama administration declared Afghanistan the United States' newest "major non-NATO ally," an action designed to facilitate close defense cooperation after US combat troops withdraw from the country in 2014. Afghanistan was the 15th such country to receive the designation.
(AP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, Thousands of visitors climbed aboard the USS Iowa as the storied WWII and Cold War battleship opened as a museum at the port of Los Angeles.
(Reuters, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Massachusetts Democratic Representative Barney Frank wed his longtime partner, James Ready, becoming the first sitting congressman to enter into a same-sex marriage.
(Reuters, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, The US Border patrol said agents had opened fire along the Rio Grande border after being pelted by rocks. A Mexican citizen was fatally shot at the Los Tomates-Veterans int’l. bridge in Brownsville, Texas.
(SFC, 7/10/12, p.A4)
2012 Jul 7, Philip L. Fradkin (b.1935), environmental journalist and historian, died at his home in Point Reyes, Ca. His 13 books included “A River No More" (1981), about the taming of the Colorado River and “Wallace Stegner and the American West" (2008).
(SFC, 7/11/12, p.C5)
2012 Jul 7, A video obtained by Reuters showed a man shooting dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul. Provincial Governor Basir Salangi said the video was shot a week ago in the village of Qimchok in Shinwari district. Salangi said two Taliban commanders were sexually involved with the woman, either through rape or romantically, and decided to torture her and then kill her to settle a dispute between the two of them.
(Reuters, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a roadside bomb ripped through a pickup truck in the Chora district of Uruzgan province killing six people. Another bomb exploded in the Gereshk district of Helmand province, killing one child and wounding another. A rocket attack targeting the governor's office in Farah province killed one civilian and wounded 26 others. A NATO service member was killed in southern Afghanistan in a roadside bomb explosion.
(AFP, 7/7/12)(AP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Burkina Faso West African presidents (ECOWAS) met with civil leaders from Mali in a bid to secure a national unity government to tackle a crisis in the north where Islamists have enforced Sharia law.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In China the Rev. Thaddeus Ma Daqin was consecrated as auxiliary bishop of Shanghai. Ma announced that he would no longer work for the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CCPA), the government body that oversees Catholics in China.
(SFC, 7/11/12, p.A6)(Economist, 9/8/12, p.42)
2012 Jul 7, East Timor's voters went to the polls in parliamentary elections seen as a key test for the young and fragile democracy and likely to determine if UN peacekeepers can leave by the end of the year. Preliminary results showed resistance hero Xanana Gusmao to be set for a new term as premier after his party won most seats in parliamentary polls, but will have to form a coalition.
(AFP, 7/7/12)(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, Egyptian border guards arrested 68 Eritreans and Ethiopians trying to sneak across the border into Israel.
(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, Thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv to call on the government to require all sectors of society to participate in national service.
(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Libya hundreds of protesters burned ballots to demand greater representation although most residents of the Mediterranean city of Benghazi voted in historic elections. Acts of sabotage, mostly in the east of the country, prevented 101 polling stations from opening. 80 seats were set aside for party lists, while the remaining 120 were for individual independent candidates. In Benghazi the liberal National Forces Alliance took 95,733 votes against 16,143 for the Islamist Justice and Construction Party (JCP). The National Forces Alliance, a liberal coalition led by wartime prime minister Mahmud Jibril, gained 39 of 80 seats open to parties in the General National Congress. The Justice and Construction Party, which was launched by Libya's Muslim Brotherhood, took only 17 seats. The remainder of party seats went to a constellation of smaller, lesser-known parties.
(AFP, 7/7/12)(AP, 7/8/12)(AFP, 7/11/12)(AFP, 7/17/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Mexico tens of thousands of people marched in Mexico City to protest Enrique Pena Nieto's apparent win in the country's presidential election, accusing his long ruling party of buying votes.
(AP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, Myanmar authorities released all of the student leaders detained in the country's biggest crackdown on activists since the dissolution of the junta. At least 20 people were detained ahead of today’s commemoration a 1962 crackdown, sparking calls for their immediate release.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Nigeria assailants launched "sophisticated attacks" on several villages near Jos. At least 80 people were killed and more than 300 displaced people from the attacks. Similar raids have been blamed on Muslim herdsmen in the past.
(AP, 7/8/12)(AFP, 7/9/12)
2012 Jul 7, An explosion injured five Palestinian children in the central Gaza Strip, a hospital said, blaming Israeli tank fire. Witnesses said, however, that there were no Israeli tanks in the area at the time and that the explosion might have been caused by an old bomb.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In the Philippines presidential palace said President Benigno Aquino has signed a long-delayed executive order revamping the mining industry.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Russia overnight rains dumped as much as 28 cm (about 11 inches) of water on parts of the Krasnodar region. Water rushed into the hard-hit town of Krymsk with such speed and volume that residents said they suspected that water had been released from a reservoir in the mountains above. Federal investigators acknowledged that water had been released from the reservoir, but they insisted it did not cause the flooding and the dam had not been breached. The death toll in the southern Black Sea region soon reached 171.
(AP, 7/7/12)(AP, 7/8/12)(AP, 7/9/12)
2012 Jul 7, Somali security forces said they had detained over 500 people in a two-day operation in the Mogadishu area who were either Islamist rebel fighters or had have links to them.
(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, Sudan and South Sudan pledged to cease hostilities along their disputed oil-rich border but stopped short of actually signing an agreement.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Sudan Kamal Omar, head of the politburo in the opposition Popular Congress Party, was taken from his home by suspected agents of the National Intelligence and Security Service. Omar was to fly to Qatar on July 9 for an appearance on Al-Jazeera satellite news channel.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, Syria's military began large-scale exercises simulating defense against outside "aggression." Activists struggling to topple the regime reported fierce government offensives to try to retake rebellious areas outside of Aleppo and near Damascus. Shells fired from inside Syria killed 2 Lebanese civilians and injured 10 others. 77 people were killed across Syria, among them 39 civilians, 25 soldiers and 13 rebels.
(AP, 7/7/12)(AP, 7/8/12)(AFP, 7/8/12)
2012 Jul 7, Taiwanese residents of the offshore island of Matsu voted in favor of opening Taiwan's first legal casino.
(AFP, 7/7/12)
2012 Jul 7, In Ukraine a bus carrying Russian religious pilgrims crashed killing 14 of 45 people onboard near Chernihiv.
(SSFC, 7/8/12, p.A4)
2012 Jul 7, In Yemen 2 protesters were killed and one man was left "clinically dead" and several people were shot and wounded, including three police, as a separatist march in Aden turned into a gunbattle. In the town of Seyun in Hadramawt province, one protester was killed and four others were wounded.
(AFP, 7/7/12)(AFP, 7/8/12)
2013 Jul 7, In Alaska an air taxi crashed after takeoff from Soldotna killing the pilot and all 9 passengers.
(SFC, 7/8/13, p.A4)
2013 Jul 7, In Montana Cody Lee Johnson (25) died in Glacier National Park. Jordan Lynn Graham (22), his newly-wed wife of 8-days, later admitted that she pushed her husband off a cliff and then lied about his death. On Dec 12 Jordan pleaded guilty to pushing her husband. On March 27 she was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
(SFC, 9/11/13, p.A4)(SFC, 12/13/13, p.A15)(SFC, 3/28/14, p.A14)
2013 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a roadside bomb seriously wounded Fazil Ahmad, the High Peace Council’s chief in Ghazni province. His driver was killed. The government said fighting over the previous 24 hours killed 14 Afghan soldiers and 64 Taliban militants.
(SFC, 7/8/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 7, Bahrain said twin attacks have left a policeman dead and three injured in the latest sign of targeted strikes by anti-government factions.
(AP, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric once called "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe," was deported from Britain to Jordan. Qatada pleaded innocent to terrorism charges in Jordan.
(AP, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, In India a series of 10 bombs exploded in and around the Mahabodhi Temple complex, a revered Buddhist site at Bodh Gaya in Bihar state. This is where Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained enlightenment.
(Econ, 7/27/13, p.35)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodh_Gaya_bombings)
2013 Jul 7, The president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, visited Baghdad for the first time in more than two years, in a step towards resolving long-running disputes between the central government and the autonomous region over land and oil.
(Reuters, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, Israel's cabinet approved a draft law to abolish wholesale exemptions from military duty granted to Jewish seminary students, stoking ultra-Orthodox anger over the break with tradition.
(Reuters, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, In Mexico an election for mayor of Fresnillo, Zacatecas state, was won by Benjamin Medrano (47). He became the first openly gay mayor ever elected in Mexico and was scheduled to take office in September.
(SFC, 7/19/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 7, North and South Korea agreed to take steps to reopen a jointly run industrial park, including facilities inspections, after the two rivals staged a marathon meeting lasting more than 16 hours to arrange details.
(Reuters, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, Gaza's Hamas authorities said they have broken up a counterfeiting ring that had printed millions of dollars worth of fake Israeli currency. Authorities uncovered the ring last week.
(AP, 7/7/13)
2013 Jul 7, In Somalia journalist Liban Abdullahi Farah was gunned down in Galkayo, Puntland province. He was the 6th journalist to die violently in Somalia this year.
(Econ, 8/3/13, p.44)(http://tinyurl.com/oafs6e7)
2013 Jul 7, In Spain several thousand thrill-seekers tested their bravery by dashing alongside six fighting bulls through the streets of of Pamplona on the first day of the running of the bulls at the annual San Fermin festival. Only four people were treated for injuries and no one was gored.
(AP, 7/7/13)
2014 Jul 7, National Nude Recreation Week began in the US.
(Econ, 7/5/14, p.27)
2014 Jul 7, Chicago authorities said the Fourth of July holiday weekend brought an explosion of gunfire to the city, with more than 50 people shot and nine killed.
(Reuters, 7/8/14)
2014 Jul 7, In southern California drivers in a long-running labor dispute with three trucking companies at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began what they said would be an indefinite strike.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses.
(SFC, 7/8/14, p.A5)
2014 Jul 7, In Afghanistan former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai led in the disputed presidential election, according to a preliminary tally. Ghani had about 4.5 million votes while Abdullah had 3.5 million votes. The Independent Election Commission acknowledged that vote rigging had occurred and promised to launch a more extensive investigation before final results are released.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In northern Afghanistan a rocket fired by insurgents hit a home, killing five children in Kunduz province. Gunmen killed five policemen in a separate attack in Herat province.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Australia's government confirmed that it had handed over a boatload of asylum seekers to Sri Lankan authorities in a transfer at sea, drawing outrage from human rights groups who fear those on board could be persecuted in their home country.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Bahrain ordered US diplomat Tom Malinowski to leave the country after he met with a leading Shiite opposition group.
(AP, 7/7/14)(Econ, 7/12/14, p.42)
2014 Jul 7, In the Central African Republic Muslim fighters attacked St. Joseph’s Cathedral compound in Bambari killing at least 17 people.
(SFC, 7/9/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 7, Chile’s Pres. Michelle Bachelet announced that her government objects to the Int’l. Court of Justice’s jurisdiction to hear Bolivia’s suit over a land dispute that goes back to the 1879-1884 War of the Pacific.
(SSFC, 7/13/14, p.A4)
2014 Jul 7, China’s state media said authorities have taken down more than 40 groups called "violent terror gangs" and arrested more than 400 people in the restive western region of Xinjiang since the government began a crackdown in May.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In an open letter, more than 190 neuroscience researchers on called on the EU to put less money into the effort to "build" a brain, and to invest instead in existing projects. The 10-year $1.6 billion Human Brain Project is largely funded by the European Union.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Eduard Shevardnadze (86), a former president of Georgia and Soviet foreign minister, died in Georgia after a long struggle with illness.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Germany's transport minister announced plans to introduce a car toll that seeks to make money off foreign drivers for the maintenance of its roads.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, India’s Supreme Court ruled that Islamic courts have no legal authority in India, saying Muslims cannot be legally subject to a parallel religious authority.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In Iraq Major General Najm Abdullah al-Sudani, the commander of the army's 6th division, was killed by hostile shelling in Ibrahim bin Ali in the Abu Ghraib area, just west of Baghdad. At least 7 people including four policemen were killed in northern Baghdad when a suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives at a checkpoint.
(AFP, 7/7/14)(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, An Israeli official said three suspects (ages 29,17,17) in the July 2 vigilante-style killing of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir have confessed to the crime.
(AP, 7/7/14)(Reuters, 7/14/14)
2014 Jul 7, Italy’s navy said its search and rescue mission saved more than 2,600 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, as the number reaching Italy from Africa this year surged to a record.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In Kenya thousands of people rallied in Nairobi against President Uhuru Kenyatta's rule, with some calling for him to step down because he had failed to improve the lives of Kenyans more than a year after he came to office.
(AP, 7/8/14)
2014 Jul 7, A Kuwaiti court freed prominent opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak on bail after police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a fifth straight night of demonstrations demanding his release.
(AFP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Lebanon charged 28 people with planning to carry out suicide bomb attacks and belonging to the militant group Islamic State. Seven of the 28 charged by prosecutors were in custody.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, A magnitude-6.9 earthquake on the Pacific Coast jolted a wide area of southern Mexico and Central America. At least 5 people were killed, 2 in Guatemala and 3 in Mexico.
(AP, 7/7/14)(SFC, 7/9/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 7, Militants in the Gaza Strip unleashed dozens of rockets on southern Israel late today, setting off air raid sirens and forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to stay indoors as the military rushed more forces to the border and warned that even heavier fighting looked likely. 8 Palestinian militants were killed in fighting, the highest death toll yet. Among the dead were 6 Hamas militants who Israel said were killed in an accidental blast in a tunnel packed with explosives.
(Reuters, 7/7/14)(AP, 7/8/14)
2014 Jul 7, In Saudi Arabia three mortar bombs landed near Arar, close to the northern border with Iraq, where Islamist militants have grabbed land in a lightning advance.
(Reuters, 7/8/14)
2014 Jul 7, Syrian troops advanced in and around Aleppo in what appeared to be an attempt to lay siege to rebel-held parts of the city.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Thailand's navy inaugurated a state-of-the-art headquarters and training center for its submarine squadron, even though it has no subs to command.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, In Ukraine three bridges on key roads leading into the Donetsk were blown up in an apparent attempt to slow down any possible assault by government forces on the rebel-held stronghold.
(AP, 7/7/14)
2014 Jul 7, Pope Francis begged forgiveness in his first meeting with Catholics sexually abused by members of the clergy and vowed to hold bishops accountable for their handling of pedophile priests.
(SFC, 7/8/14, p.A4)
2014 Jul 7, A Vietnamese military helicopter on a parachute training mission crashed 24 miles west of to Hanoi, killing 16 people on board and critically injuring five others. 2 of the injured soon died.
(AP, 7/7/14)(AP, 7/8/14)
2015 Jul 7, In Washington, DC, Pres. Obama met with Nguyen Phu Trong, the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party. Obama said that despite differences over political philosophy the two countries are deepening cooperation on health, climate and other issues.
(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A2)
2015 Jul 7, A US defense officials said the US Army said it will cut 40,000 soldiers from its ranks over the next two years at home and abroad. Some 17,000 civilians working for the Army will also be laid off.
(AFP, 7/8/15)
2015 Jul 7, The US CDC reported that the death rate from heroin overdoses nearly quadrupled to 2.7% between 2002 and 2013.
(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A9)
2015 Jul 7, In San Francisco a lawsuit was filed in which the SEC accused Luca Int’l. Group, led by Binqing Yang of Fremont, of conducting a Ponzi-like scheme and fraudulently raising $68 million from hundreds of investors in the US and Asia.
(SFC, 7/9/15, p.D2)
2015 Jul 7, the South Carolina Senate gave final approval to a bill for removing the Confederate flag from a pole in front of the State House. The proposal still needed to pass the state House.
(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A8)
2015 Jul 7, In South Carolina an F-16 fighter jet smashed into a Cessna 150 killing 2 people in the small plane. Maj. Aaron Johnson ejected safely.
(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A9)
2015 Jul 7, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said he had sent a delegation to Pakistan to meet Taliban representatives, his first acknowledgement of official talks with insurgents who are fighting to topple the government in Kabul. The Taliban staged two separate suicide bombings in Kabul, killing at least one person and wounded three, including a NATO soldier.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Afghanistan Shahidullah Shahid, a former member of the Pakistani Taliban, was killed along with 5 militants. He had defected to the Islamic State and was operating in Afghanistan. Shahid was killed in the same strike that killed Islamic State number two in Afghanistan Gul Zaman, along with 49 militants in the eastern Achin district of Nangarhar province. One other commander was also killed.
(Reuters, 7/9/15)
2015 Jul 7, Trading in over 90% of the 2,774 shares listed in Chinese exchanges was suspended or halted. Shares had fallen by a third in less than a month.
(Econ, 7/11/15, p.13)
2015 Jul 7, Cuba and Norway called for restraint in Colombia as they helped facilitate peace negotiations in Havana between Colombia and FARC rebels.
(AP, 7/8/15)
2015 Jul 7, The EU extended the suspension of sanctions on Iran until July 10 to allow ongoing talks on a long-term nuclear agreement with it to succeed.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, A French court jailed a woman for conning thousands of Chileans into buying a kit to make "magic cheese" they could sell back to French cosmetics firms for use in luxury beauty products. Gilberte Van Erpe (74) was given a six-year prison sentence -- three years suspended -- and a 250,000-euro ($270,000) fine for her scam. The scam. Which began in 2005, collapsed in July 2006 and Van Erpe was arrested in the French Riviera city of Nice in 2008, but it was not possible to extradite her.
(AFP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Greek authorities said a sailboat carrying migrants sank in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece and at least 17 people were missing.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Iraq and Syria the United States and its allies staged 25 air strikes on Islamic State targets with 14 in Iraq and 11 in Syria.
(Reuters, 7/8/15)
2015 Jul 7, Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power Co. began loading fuel into a nuclear reactor where operations are scheduled to resume next month in the country's first restart under safety requirements set following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In northeast Kenya al Shabaab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers as they slept in Soko Mbuzi village, Mandera County, in an early morning attack on a residential complex targeting Christians.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A6)
2015 Jul 7, Malaysian authorities said they have frozen six bank accounts as part of an investigation into allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars were transferred from a state investment fund to the personal accounts of PM Najib Razak.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari approved a bailout of more than $2 billion for states to resolve a crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid for months. Eighteen of Nigeria’s 35 states had unpaid workers.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In northern Nigeria at least 25 people were killed when a bomb blast ripped through a packed government office in Zaria.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, A Norwegian court sentenced four former top executives at Yara, the world's biggest nitrate fertilizer maker, to prison for paying bribes in Libya and India.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Pakistani paramilitary forces killed 3 suspected Sunni militants, including a senior commander, in Quetta.
(AFP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Pakistani rescuers say flash floods caused by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 5 people in Islamabad.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, The Philippines asked an international tribunal at The Hague to declare China's claims to virtually all the South China Sea invalid.
(AP, 7/8/15)
2015 Jul 7, Spanish police arrested a woman on the Canary Islands suspected of recruiting girls and teenagers for the Islamic State group.
(AFP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Spain two Americans and a Briton were gored and eight other people were injured as thousands of daredevils dashed alongside fighting bulls through the streets of Pamplona on the first bull run of the annual San Fermin festival.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Syria intense clashes broke out in the northern city of Aleppo after militants attacked a government-held neighborhood there, capturing several buildings.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Turkey's army said it had detained 768 people trying to cross illegally from Syria, including three suspected Islamic State militants, after bolstering security in border areas near where the radical Islamists hold ground.
(Reuters, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, Abdulaziz al-Ghurair, the son of wealthy Emirati businessman Abdullah al-Ghurair, said his father is giving away a third of his assets, or more than a billion dollars, to educate Arab youth.
(AP, 7/7/15)
2015 Jul 7, In Yemen at least 30 soldiers were killed in coalition air raids and clashes after troops attempted to defect to Iran-backed rebel ranks near the border with Saudi Arabia. A car bomb exploded outside a mosque in Sanaa, killing at least one person and wounding five. 4 rebels were killed and 10 wounded in a suicide car bombing that targeted a police station in rebel-held Baida.
(AFP, 7/8/15)
2016 Jul 7, The US government gave tentative approval for scheduled commercial airline service to Havana from 10 American cities, advancing President Barack Obama's effort to normalize relations with Cuba.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, The United States said it was returning about $1.5 million to Taiwan that came from the sale of US properties the government alleges were bought with the proceeds of bribes paid to the family of former Taiwan President Chen Shui-Bian.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, The US State Department said the US will provide nearly $23 million in additional humanitarian aid to help people affected by the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, A US government regulator said Elizabeth Holmes, the head of blood-testing startup Theranos, would be barred from owning or running a laboratory for two years. In June Walgreens ended its three-year partnership with Theranos following news of flaws in the company’s blood testing.
(Econ, 7/16/16, p.55)
2016 Jul 7, Maryland prosecutors dropped a misconduct charge in the bench trial of Lt. Brian Rice in the case of Freddie Gray, who died on April 19, 2015, from injuries suffered while shackled in a Baltimore police van. Rice still faced other charges.
(SFC, 7/8/16, p.A6)
2016 Jul 7, In Dallas, Texas, Micah Johnson (25), a US Army reservist who served in Afghanistan, gunned down 5 officers before being killed in a standoff with police. Seven more officers were wounded in the attack that ended when police used a robot bomb to kill Johnson, who told them he wanted to kill white officers. Police took three people into custody.
(Reuters, 7/8/16)(AFP, 7/9/16)
2016 Jul 7, Australia's greyhound industry was reeling after New South Wales, the country's most populous, state banned the sport following a string of scandals including "live baiting" and the slaughter of tens of thousands of dogs.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In Bangladesh militants attacked police guarding the country's biggest festival marking the end of Ramadan, killing 3 people and wounding 14 in Kishoreganj town, days after Islamic State claimed a major attack in the capital. Two attackers were reported killed and three arrested.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Brazilian police seized documents and questioned suspects to investigate Panama's FPB Bank in connection to a sweeping graft probe of political corruption at state-run companies.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Britain jailed four former Barclays bankers for manipulating the key inter-bank Libor interest rate, with the highest sentence being 6.5 years.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Five men were crushed to death when a concrete wall collapsed at a metal recycling site in Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, A British court awarded a £53 million (62 million euro, $69 million) divorce settlement to Christina Estrada (54), a former model, who had demanded £196 million from Sheikh Walid Juffali (61), her Saudi billionaire husband, including £1 million a year just for clothes.
(AFP, 7/8/16)
2016 Jul 7, Cambodia dismissed accusations by anti-corruption pressure group Global Witness that PM Hun Sen and his family have amassed $200 million in business interests including some with links to land grabs and environmental destruction.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)(Econ, 7/9/16, p.31)
2016 Jul 7, Cambodia said tourists showing cleavage or wearing skimpy clothes will be banned from the famed Angkor temple complex, after a slew of photos emerged of scantily-clad visitors at the sacred site.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, France-based Danone, the world’s largest yogurt maker, agreed to buy WhiteWave Foods, a natural-food group, for $12.5 billion.
(Econ, 7/9/16, p.53)
2016 Jul 7, The German parliament passed a landmark "no means no" rape law, broadening the definition of sex crimes and making it easier to deport migrants and refugees who commit them.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In Iraq a triple suicide attack late today near a Shi'ite mausoleum north of Baghdad killed 37 people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
(AP, 7/8/16)
2016 Jul 7, In Kazakhstan a Russian space capsule was launched beginning a two-day trip to the International Space Station. The Soyuz capsule carried Russian Anatoly Ivanshin, NASA's Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi of Japan’s space agency JAXA.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, The Niger Delta Avengers attacked more oil infrastructure in southern Nigeria, ignoring a call for unity from Pres. Muhammadu Buhari.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Philippine troops, backed by rocket-firing helicopters and artillery fire, killed up to 9 Abu Sayyaf extremists in fighting after the new military chief warned of a "shock and awe" offensive to wipe out the militant group known for its brutality.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, The Philippines ordered the suspension of operations at two nickel ore mines for environmental violations and halted the issuance of exploration permits as a nationwide crackdown led by a new mining minister begins.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Poland's parliament rushed through legislation governing the Constitutional Tribunal, an attempt to address international concerns about the rule of law a day before Pres. Obama and other Western leaders arrive in Warsaw for a NATO summit.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a package of controversial anti-terror amendments dubbed "Big Brother" measures by critics that may cost internet companies billions.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, Russian officials said at least 7 militants and one law enforcement officer have been killed in clashes in Dagestan in the North Caucasus region.
(AP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In South Korea Shin Young-ja, the daughter of the founder of the Lotte Group conglomerate, was arrested on charges including breach of trust and embezzlement.
(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In South Sudan 5 government soldiers were killed in a shootout late today between opposing army factions in the capital. The UN mission reported an attack on a senior official in the Tomping area of Juba.
(AP, 7/8/16)
2016 Jul 7, The Syrian army advanced within firing range of the rebels' sole supply route to Aleppo in heavy fighting despite its announcement of a ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday. Saudi-backed rebel group Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) said four of its fighters were killed trying to stop the army from cutting the Castello Road, the only route into rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
(AFP, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 7, In Taiwan an explosion hit a commuter train in Taipei injuring at least 24 people.
(SFC, 7/8/16, p.A2)
2016 Jul 7, A Vatican court declared it had no jurisdiction to prosecute two journalists for having published confidential information. A Vatican monsignor and an Italian communications expert were convicted for having conspired to pass documents to the journalists.
(SFC, 7/8/16, p.A2)
2017 Jul 7, President Donald Trump, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, said the United States is making very good progress on trade issues with Mexico, after a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, but he also repeated a pledge to make the southern neighbor pay for a border wall
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Georgia, police shot and killed Brian Easley (33), said to be homeless Marine Corps veteran inside a bank in Marietta following an hours-long standoff. Easley had claimed to have a bomb.
(SFC, 7/8/17, p.A5)
2017 Jul 7, In Pennsylvania three young men went missing in suburban Philadelphia. A 4th had gone missing two days earlier. Links between the men were being investigated.
(SFC, 7/11/17, p.A6)
2017 Jul 7, In Virginia Kevin Mallory (60), a former covert CIA case officer, was ordered held without bond after being caught earlier this year with $16,500 in undeclared cash on a flight from Shanghai. He was charged with violating the Espionage Act.
(SFC, 7/10/17, p.A4)
2017 Jul 7, Western Canada's British Columbia declared its first state of emergency in 14 years late today as dozens of wildfires spread throughout the rural interior of the province, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. CBS News said 138 new fires were started in the province.
(Reuters, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Egypt Islamic militants launched their latest attack on the military, unleashing a suicide car bomb and machine gun fire on two checkpoints in northeastern Sinai that killed at least 23 security troops. Family members said three Egyptians who worked at a building site in the Western Desert were killed earlier this week by an airstrike from a military aircraft in what appears to have been an accident.
(AP, 7/7/17)(AP, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Egypt Capt. Ibrahim Azazi was gunned down while heading to a mosque in the Nile Delta province of Qalyoubiya, part of Greater Cairo. The Hasm militant group claimed responsibility.
(AP, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, Paris police moved out nearly 2,771 migrants who had been living rough in the north of the city, in the latest operation to ease strains caused by a human influx to Europe. They were taken mainly to school gymnasiums that have become available during the summer holidays.
(AFP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Germany far-left protesters wrought chaos in Hamburg ahead of US President Donald Trump's first face-to-face talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at a G20 summit facing divisions among Western nations and tensions over North Korea.
(AFP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, German prosecutors said they have arrested a former employee of the Volkswagen unit Audi in connection with the company's diesel scandal.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Greece Bakari Henderson of Austin, Texas, was killed early today on the island of Zakynthos following a fight at a bar in the rowdy tourist district of Lagana.
(AP, 7/11/17)
2017 Jul 7, In India Tashi Bhutia (31), a supporter of Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), was killed during a protest. Violence followed and two people were killed in the protests over Bhutia’s killing.
(Reuters, 7/9/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Iraq Islamic State militants attacked the village of Imam Gharbi south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists. A major Islamic State group counterattack along the northern edge of Mosul's Old City neighborhood pushed Iraqi Army forces back some 75 meters (82 yards) and threatened recent gains in other Old City fronts.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, the head of the ruling Democratic Party, said Italy should allow only a "fixed number" of migrants into the country as it grapples with a wave of people arriving by sea from North Africa.
(AFP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Italy part of a four-storey apartment block in Torre Annunziata, near the port city of Naples, collapsed. Over the next 24 hours eight bodies were pulled from the rubble.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)(AP, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, Japanese rescuers searched for victims of freak rains that have killed at least 11 people and left hundreds cut off from the outside world by landslides. Public broadcaster NHK said 14 people were still unaccounted for.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Mongolia held its runoff presidential election. Voter data the next day from the General Election Commission said Khaltmaa Battulga, populist former martial arts star and businessman, won the presidential run-off election with 50.6% of the vote.
(Reuters, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, A spokesman for Pakistan's oil and gas regulatory body said the agency has ordered a local subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell to pay about 250 million rupees ($2.4 million) in compensation and damages for the June 25 fuel truck fire that killed 215 people.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump that Moscow had not meddled in the US elections, and Trump accepted it, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Trump and Putin engaged in a conversation during a G20 dinner.
(Reuters, 7/8/17)(SFC, 7/19/17, p.A4)
2017 Jul 7, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from jail after serving 25 days for organizing a wave of protests.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Spain Two Americans and a Spaniard were gored during the first running of the bulls of this year's San Fermin festival at Pamplona.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Sweden three men with ties to the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement were sentenced to up to eight and a half years in prison for bomb attacks in western Sweden over the past year.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Syrian government forces carried out heavy bombardment of a rebel-held district on the eastern edge of Damascus in support of advancing troops. At least 11 regime fighters and 19 rebels have been killed in Ain Terma and Jobar since the army began escalating operations there on June 20.
(AFP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, A separate truce for southern Syria, effective as of July 9, was brokered by the US and Russia. It was meant to help allay growing concerns by neighboring Jordan and Israel about Iranian military ambitions in the area.
(AP, 7/8/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Syria Islamic State militants fought to repel the advance of US-backed Syrian forces, days after they inched closer to the heart of the extremist group's de facto capital of Raqqa.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Turkey's main opposition leader said his three-week "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul had helped Turks "cast off a shirt of fear" under emergency rule, and vowed to stiffen his party's challenge to the government once the protest ends.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency said police detained overnight 29 suspected Islamic State militants in Istanbul, 22 of them foreign nationals, believed to be preparing to travel to Syria.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, At the UN 122 nations approved a treaty to outlaw nuclear weapons. The meeting was boycotted by all NATO members, except the Netherlands and all nine nuclear-armed nations. The Netherlands was opposed and Singapore abstained.
(SFC, 7/8/17, p.A4)
2017 Jul 7, A week of UN-mediated talks in the Swiss Alps to end the partition of Cyprus collapsed in acrimony, throwing the prospect of any reunification between Greek and Turkish Cypriots into disarray.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, described Hebron's Old City as a "Palestinian heritage site," prompting a walkout by Israel's ambassador to the organization.
(AP, 7/7/17)
2017 Jul 7, In Vietnam the mother of Tran Hoang Phuc (23) said she was informed last week that her son was arrested in Hanoi for storing material and using the internet to spread propaganda videos against the government.
(Reuters, 7/7/17)
2018 Jul 7, The Trump administration said it is suspending a program that pays billions of dollars to insurers to stabilize health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act.
(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A11)
2018 Jul 7, Officials said US and Afghan Special Forces are completing an operation to clear Islamic State fighters from a remote district in Nangarhar, the eastern province where they have their main stronghold in Afghanistan.
(Reuters, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, In California the Klamathon fire, which broke out two days earlier near the border with Oregon, grew to 22,000 acres and was 20% contained.
(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A13)
2018 Jul 7, In southern Colorado firefighters contained about 45% of a 167-square-mile fire. In the southwest an 85-square-mile fire north of Durango was 50% contained.
(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A13)
2018 Jul 7, In Chicago thousands of anti-violence demonstrators marched along an interstate shitting down traffic to draw attention to the gun violence that has claimed hundreds of lives in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A11)
2018 Jul 7, It was reported that researchers from half a dozen states in West Africa have joined together in a battle against what one expert calls a root crop "Ebola" -- a viral disease that could wreck the region's staple food and condemn millions to hunger. The Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), a virus that strikes cassava, was first discovered in Tanzania eight decades ago. The root in some of the region's countries is consumed by as many as 80 percent of the population.
(AFP, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a district chief was killed in a roadside bomb blast in western Ghor province. In eastern Ghazni province Taliban fighters ambushed a police convoy, killing four police and wounding six others. Six insurgents were also killed and seven others wounded in the gun battle in Waghez district. The US-led coalition confirmed that a US service member has been killed in an apparent insider attack.
(AP, 7/7/18)(SSFC, 7/8/18, p.A4)
2018 Jul 7, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and a contingent of Royal Marines joined tens of thousands of people celebrating Britain's LGBT community at a massive parade. The event was the first pride march that had uniformed Marines as official participants.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In eastern Congo DRC ten people were burnt to death in ethnic attacks in South Kivu. In North Kivu the Ugandan navy fired on Congolese fishermen overnight and seven people were missing in Lake Edward.
(AFP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Egyptian prosecutors ordered the country's top media regulator to be summoned for questioning over his decision to issue a gag order on corruption allegations made against a children's cancer hospital.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, A Cairo court sentenced Lebanese tourist Mona el-Mazboh (24), arrested last month, to eight years in prison for posting a video on Facebook complaining of sexual harassment and conditions in Egypt. An appeal was set for July 29.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, France's CMA CGM, one of the world's biggest cargo shippers, announced it was pulling out of Iran for fear of becoming entangled in US sanctions. Pres. Hassan Rouhani demanded that European countries to do more to offset the US measures.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Germany demonstrators marched in Berlin and several other cities in support of the private aid ships that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Haiti's President Jovenel Moise called on protesters to "go home," saying the about-face on prices had "corrected what had to be corrected." PM Jack Guy Lafontant called for calm and patience from residents amid deadly protests in several cities over an unpopular fuel price rise.
(AFP, 7/7/18)(AFP, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, Indian police charged five people, including the brother of a lawmaker from the ruling party, in relation to the death of the father of a teenage girl raped last year. The rape victim's father died in April while in the custody of police in northern Uttar Pradesh state. Police arrested Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a BJP member of the state legislature of Uttar Pradesh, in April in connection with the rape of the teenager.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Iran's oil minister accused US President Donald Trump of insulting OPEC by ordering it to increase production and reduce prices, adding that Iranian output and exports had not changed as a result of US pressure.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Iran announced that it has executed eight men convicted over the June 7, 2017, Islamic State attack on parliament and the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founding ayatollah. Over a dozen others remained on trial over the attack.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Iraq two Filipina women were kidnapped after their car broke down on a road connecting Baghdad to oil city Kirkuk.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In southern Italy Pope Francis led a summit of Christian leaders In Bari on how to promote peace in the Middle East and said building walls, occupying territories and religious fanaticism would not resolve conflict in the region.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said 49 people have been killed and 48 are unaccounted for in western and central Japan as torrential rain pounded the area, with more than 1.6 million evacuated from their homes.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Japan a 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit outside of Tokyo this evening, swaying buildings in the capital, but no tsunami warning was issued.
(AFP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Kashmir two young men and a teenage girl were killed when government forces fired at anti-India protesters who disrupted a military-led operation against rebels.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In southeastern Libya suspected Islamist militants killed two workers and kidnapped two others at a water plant early today, the second attack targeting water facilities in two days.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Mexico a female US tourist (27) was killed by what appeared to be a stray bullet in a shooting at a restaurant in Mexico City.
(SFC, 7/10/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 7, North Korea said that high-level talks with a US delegation led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were "regrettable" and accused Washington of trying to unilaterally pressure the country into abandoning its nukes.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Pakistan Serge Dessureault, the Canadian leader of an international mountaineering expedition, fell to his death on K2 mountain, often considered the world's most difficult to climb.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In the Philippines van-riding assailants gunned down the vice mayor of a small city south of Manila, the third such brazen killing of a local official in the past week. Vice Mayor Alexander Lubigan of Trece Martires city and his driver were riding in a pickup van when they were shot and killed in front of a hospital in his city in Cavite province.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, A eastern Romanian air force MiG-21 Lancer fighter jet crashed during an airshow killing its pilot.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Russia was eliminated in a penalty shootout after its quarterfinal match against Croatia in Sochi was tied 1-1 after regulation and 2-2 after extra time.
(AP, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, Thousands of South Korean women gathered in Seoul to demand stronger government action to fight the spread of intimate photos and video taken by hidden cameras.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Spain a man who was gored and three others who were trampled in the first running of the bulls of this year's San Fermin festival.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, In Somalia militants from Somalia's al Shabaab group set off two bombs in central Mogadishu and stormed a government building. A least nine people were killed in the attack on the interior ministry. Security forces killed all three attackers after a two-hour gun battle inside the ministry.
(Reuters, 7/7/18)(AP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, Thousands of displaced Syrians headed home after rebels and the government reached a ceasefire deal in the south following more than two weeks of deadly bombardment.
(AFP, 7/7/18)
2018 Jul 7, The United Arab Emirates extended compulsory military service for Emirati men from 12 to 16 months, amid a three-year involvement in Yemen's war.
(Reuters, 7/8/18)
2018 Jul 7, Yemeni officials said fighting over the last two days between a Saudi-led coalition and the Shiite rebels along the country's west coast has killed more than 165 people from both sides.
(AP, 7/7/18)
2019 Jul 7, The US urged Germany to send ground troops to Syria as Washington looked to withdraw from the region. This led to discord in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition.
(AFP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, The US women's soccer team claimed a fourth World Cup in a 2-0 win over Netherlands.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.C1)
2019 Jul 7, In southern California a head-on collision of two motorcycles, each carrying a passenger, killed four people on Santiago Canyon Road in Orange County.
(SFC, 7/9/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 7, In Georgia sheriff's Deputy Nicholas Dixon (28) was shot and killed in Gainesville as deputies tried to stop a stolen vehicle. Hector Garcia was arrested and charged with felony murder.
(SFC, 7/9/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 7, A Tennessee man infected with a flesh-eating bacteria during a trip to a Florida beach died just 48 hours after his last swim. The man did have a compromised immune system due to cancer treatments and that may have put him at greater risk.
(AP, 7/15/19)
2019 Jul 7, In central Afghanistan a Taliban suicide attack killed 12 people and wounded more than 150 others in Ghazni.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 7, Britain warned Iran to "immediately stop and reverse all activities" violating the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
(AP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, Britain's Mail newspaper reported that Kim Darroch, a career diplomat who’s been his country’s top representative in Washington since 2016, described Trump as “inept" and “incompetent" in diplomatic cables and briefing notes to his bosses. The UK government soon launched an investigation into who leaked the diplomatic memos from the UK ambassador in Washington.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A3)
2019 Jul 7, The French government said it will not trigger the Iran nuclear deal's dispute resolution mechanism for now, instead giving itself one week to try to get all parties talking again after Iran decided to enrich uranium above limits agreed in 2015.
(Reuters, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, Germany's struggling Deutsche Bank announced that it will cut 18,000 jobs by 2022 in a sweeping restructuring aimed at restoring consistent profitability and improving returns to its shareholders.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 7, In Greece the New Democracy party of conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis (51) won 39.8% of the vote in parliamentary elections compared to 31.5% for the left-wing Syriza party of PM Alexis Tsipras (44).
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A3)
2019 Jul 7, In Hong Kong tens of thousands of protesters took their message to a new audience, mainland Chinese tourists, as coverage of the anti-government movement have been heavily censored by Beijing authorities.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 7, Iran announced it will increase its uranium enrichment to an unspecified level beyond the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, breaking another limit set under the accord and furthering heightening tensions with the US.
(AP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, It was reported that a new law in Iran could see the organs of convicts on death row pre-sold to buyers if the prisoners agree before their executions.
(The Telegraph, 7/8/19)
2019 Jul 7, Iraq's security and paramilitary forces began a military operation along the border with Syria aimed at clearing the area of Islamic State group militants.
(AP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, Mali PM Boubou Cisse ended a five-day tour of the restive central region where he has vowed to beef up security, days after the UN humanitarian coordinator decried the "drastic toll" from violence there.
(AFP, 7/7/19)
2019 Jul 7, The long sought-after African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which African leaders hope will become the world's largest free trade zone by cutting trade tariffs and barriers between 1.2 billion people, was officially launched at an African Union (AU) summit in Niger.
(AFP, 7/8/19)
2019 Jul 7, In Papua New Guinea 16 women and children were killed by assailants armed with rifles in the village of Karida in Hela province. Two of the victims were pregnant. Police and soldiers were soon sent to the area to provide security amidst the tribal violence.
(SFC, 7/11/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 7, In Spain three people were gored by bulls after the opening of the Fermin festival in Pamplona.
(SFC, 7/8/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 7, Sudan's top general said the military council that assumed power after the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April will be dissolved with the implementation of a power-sharing deal reached with protesters last week.
(AP, 7/8/19)
2020 Jul 7, The US State Department and the UN said that the Trump administration had formally notified the UN that the United States would leave the WHO next year.
(AP, 7/8/20)
2020 Jul 7, It was reported that a Washington, DC federal court has ordered the Islamic Republic of Iran to pay $879 million in its decision after finding the Iranian defendants directed the 1996 terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia where US forces were housed.
(PR Newswire, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, US Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt announced his agency will not conduct the environmental impact statement needed to move forward with the idea to reintroduce grizzly bears to the forested mountains in and around North Cascades National Park in north central Washington state.
(AP, 7/11/20)
2020 Jul 7, California to date had 283,750 cases of coronavirus and 6,569 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 30,940 cases and 621 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 2,948,397 with the death toll at 130,430.
(sfist.com, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, San Francisco-based Sunrun, the nation's largest residential solar company, said that it is acquiring Vivint Solar, a Utah-based leading competitor. The deal would form one of the world's largest providers of solar equipment.
(SFC, 7/8/20, p.C1)
2020 Jul 7, It was reported that a local health department In southwestern Missouri revealed earlier this week that an overnight summer camp has seen scores of campers, counselors and staff infected with the coronavirus.
(AP, 7/8/20)
2020 Jul 7, Researchers reported that a recently discovered species of seaweed is killing large patches of coral on once-pristine reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and is rapidly spreading across one of the most remote and protected ocean environments on earth. The new species of red algae has been named Chondria tumulosa.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, In Washington state Mary Kay Letourneau (58), a teacher who was convicted of raping Vili Fualaau (12) in 1996, died of cancer. The case that drew international headlines. Letourneau and Fualaau married on May 20, 2005, in Woodinville, Washington, after her release from prison.
(AP, 7/8/20)
2020 Jul 7, It was reported that the US government has awarded Novavax Inc $1.6 billion to cover testing and manufacturing of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus in the United States, with the aim of delivering 100 million doses by January.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said that the US government has signed a $450 million contract with the company for its potential COVID-19 antibody cocktail.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Florida reported 7,347 new cases, with the total number of diagnosed cases now at 213,794. The state's death toll has reached 3,943.
(Good Morning America, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, The New York Department of Financial Services said Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $150 million in penalties over its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as part of a consent order with regulators in New York.
(Good Morning America, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, NYC police said 64 people were shot over the weekend in a surge of shootings. The city surpassed 400 shootings in the first half of the year for the first time since 2016, with 528 by the end of last month.
(NY Times, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Work crews In Richmond, Va., took down a monument to Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the third major statue to be cleared away in less than a week as the Confederacy's former capital rushes to remove symbols of oppression in response to protests against police brutality and racism.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, In Afghanistan a suicide bomber targeted a police convoy in Nangarhar province killing four officers.
(SFC, 7/8/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 7, Brazil's Pres. Jair Bolsonaro said he has tested positive for COVID-19. Sources close to the president said that Bolsonaro began exhibiting symptoms of the virus July 4.
(Good Morning America, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Doctors reported that a Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Britain said it would resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia, halted last year after a UK court ruling over the Gulf kingdom's bombing campaign in neighboring Yemen.
(AFP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Britain's GSK said that an injection of its cabotegravir drug given every two months was found to be 66% more effective in preventing HIV infections than Gilead's Truvada daily oral pills.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, UK-based Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc said that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved use of its Lysol Disinfectant Spray against COVID-19.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, China and Russia vetoed a UN resolution that would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s mainly rebel-held northwest for a year. Russia immediately circulated a draft Security Council resolution that would authorize the delivery of aid through a single crossing point from Turkey for six months.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, In China a bus careered into a lake in the city of Anshun in the southwest province of Guizhou, killing 21 people. Five students heading to their university entrance exams were among those killed. It was later reported that the bus driver, upset that his home would be demolished, had been drinking at the wheel before plunging his vehicle into a reservoir.
(The Telegraph, 7/14/20)
2020 Jul 7, Colombia's leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels asked the government late today to "agree a bilateral 90-day ceasefire" in response to a call from the United Nations to reduce violence and conflicts during the coronavirus pandemic.
(AFP, 7/8/20)
2020 Jul 7, Dubai allowed tourists back into the country following a COVID-19 shutdown.
(Econ., 8/1/20, p.37)
2020 Jul 7, German prosecutors in the town of Zwickau seized servers that hosted thousands of sensitive police documents published as part of the BlueLeaks data dump. The publisher was not given an explanation. Prosecutors behind the seizure were acting at the request of the US government. The takedown came after DDoSecrets, the publisher that hosted the BlueLeaks files after they were obtained by an anonymous hacker, was permanently banned from Twitter.
(AFP, 7/9/20)
2020 Jul 7, In India 467 people have died from the coronavirus in the last day, bringing the nation's death toll to 20,160. Authorities reported a one-day increase of 22,252, bringing India's total number of coronavirus cases to 719,665.
(Good Morning America, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Iraq partially reopened its southern Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran after more than three months of closure to combat the spread of the new coronavirus.
(Reuters, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s ruling party adopted a resolution urging the government to cancel a visit to Japan by Chinese President Xi Jinping following Beijing's imposition of a new national security law for Hong Kong.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, It was reported that all schools in Kenya will remain closed until next January because of the coronavirus pandemic. Kenya has confirmed more than 8,000 cases of coronavirus with at least 164 deaths along with a recent surge in new infections.
(BBC, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Kenyan police fired tear gas and detained scores of protesters demanding an end to police brutality. About 100 people took part in demonstrations across the capital, Nairobi.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, In Russia former journalist Ivan Safronov, who worked as an adviser to the director of Russia's state space corporation, was detained on charges of passing military secrets to a Western nation, accusations that many of his colleagues dismissed as absurd. Dozens of prominent journalists protested and were promptly detained.
(AP, 7/7/20)(Econ., 7/18/20, p.42)
2020 Jul 7, South Africa has confirmed 159,333 total cases of the coronavirus and 2,749 deaths.
(BBC, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Turkish authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle 276 migrants to Europe on board a ship, and detained eight suspected smugglers.
(AP, 7/7/20)
2020 Jul 7, Turkey detained another 41 people, many of them soldiers, for being suspected members of the Gulen community (cemaat), an Islamist movement the Pres. Erdogan blames for an attempted 2016 coup.
(Econ., 8/15/20, p.48)
2020 Jul 7, The United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings concluded that the US drone strike that killed Iran's top general Qasem Soleimani was "unlawful." Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, concluded it was an "arbitrary killing" that violated the UN charter.
(AFP, 7/7/20)
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