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History
1791 African American astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker sends a copy of his first almanac to Thomas Jefferson to disprove Jefferson's belief that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites.
1848, the New York Herald reported the discovery of gold in California.
1883, Coco Chanel, real name Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (1883-1971), French fashion designer and one of the leaders of haute couture (high fashion), whose name was synonymous with elegance and chic. She was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire. In 1914 Chanel opened a millinery shop in Paris. By the mid-1920s she had launched the classic Chanel look, consisting of a casual but extremely well-cut wool jersey suit with straight, collarless cardigan jacket and short, full-cut skirt, worn with art deco costume jewelry and a sailor hat over short hair. Her Chanel No. 5, one of several perfumes she created, became world famous. Chanel designed nothing during World War II and its aftermath, but she successfully revived the understated Chanel look in 1954. The American musical Coco (1969) by Alan Jay Lerner and André Previn is based on her life.
1909 Howard Swanson is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He will become a
classical composer who will study in the United States and
Paris, France, and will write music for orchestra, solo voice,
piano, and chamber ensembles.
1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.
1934 Roberto Clemente is born in Puerto Rico. He will win the Gold
Glove award TWELVE consecutive years and play in twelve All-Star
games. He will be the National League's Most Valuable Player
(MVP) in 1966, the MVP in the 1971 World Series, win four separate
National League batting titles, post a .317 career batting average,
and play eighteen seasons, amassing 3,000 hits and hammering 240
home runs. He will join the ancestors at the age of 38, on a
mercy mission to deliver relief supplies to the victims of a
Nicaraguan earthquake. Tragically, his plane, carrying food,
clothing and medical supplies, will crash moments after takeoff
from San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 31, 1972.
1935 Rafer Johnson is born in Hillsboro, Texas. He will become an
Olympic athlete, winning a gold medal in the decathlon in the
1960 Summer Games in Rome and lighting the torch in the 1984
Games in Los Angeles.
1941 Matt Snell is born. He will become a professional football player
(running back for the New York Jets). He will be one of the key
players in the Jets victory in Super Bowl III over the Baltimore
Colts.
1942 about 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering about 50-percent casualties.
1953 Royalist forces acting on behalf of Reza Shah Pahlavi, with the aid of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, overthrow Iranian premier Mohammad Mossadegh.
1954 James E. Wilkins becomes the first African American to attend a U.S.
presidential cabinet meeting. He is Assistant Secretary of Labor
and attends because the Secretary and Under-Secretary are away.
1960 a tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.
1963 James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from
the University of Mississippi.
1964 South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games because of its
apartheid policies.
1970 Malcolm-Jamal Warner is born. He will become an child actor and will
star on the "The Cosby Show" as Theodore "Theo" Huxtable. He will
also star as "Here and Now's" Alexander James and "Malcolm and Eddie's"
Malcolm.
1973 Georgios Papadopoulos, leader of the Greek ruling junta since a 1967 coup, abolishes the monarchy and declares Greece a presidential republic. Papadopolous is overthrown later in the year.
1974, U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus.
1976 Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr. assumes command of the U.S. Third
Fleet.
1977 Steven Biko, one of the most influential black student leaders in South
Africa, is arrested in Port Elizabeth on charges of fomenting unrest
among blacks in the city through his writings. Biko will join the
ancestors in police detention less than a month later, as a result of
a beating by the police.
1977 Comedian Groucho Marx, the best known of the Marx Brothers, dies in Los Angeles, California.
1980, 301 people aboard a Saudi Arabian L-1011 died as the jetliner made a fiery emergency landing at the Riyadh airport.
1981 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of the University of Georgia,
takes out an insurance policy with Lloyd's of London. The All-American
is insured for one million dollars.
1987 Earl Campbell, the 'Tyler Rose', announces his retirement from
professional football. Campbell, the 1977 Heisman Trophy winner,
played eight seasons in the National Football League -- and was a star
for the Houston Oilers.
1991 Communist hard-liners attempt a coup in the Soviet Union, putting Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest and declaring a state of emergency. The coup fails two days later.
2003 A suicide bomber destroys the United Nations compound in Baghdād, Iraq, killing 23 people including a high UN official.
Missing in Action
1968 COLLINS THEOTHIS ASBURY PARK NJ
1968 HOFFMAN TERRY ALAN DANVILLE IN REMAINS RETURNED BURIED 1994
1969 BOHLIG JAMES RICHARD CROCKETT CA
1969 FLANIGAN JOHN N. WINTER HAVEN FL REMAINS RETURNED 1989 ID'D 06/26/97
1969 MORRISSEY RICHARD THOMAS UNIONDALE NY CACCF/CRASH/AIRCREW/10 YRS USMC/QUANG TIN VMFA 115 MAG 13 WITH RICHARD BOHLIG REFNO 1483
1969 SMITH ROBERT N. TRUCKSVILLE PA
1972 BEHNFELDT ROGER ERNEST DEFIANCE OH REMAINS RETURNED 09/24/87
1972 SHINGAKI TAMOTSU MAUI HI 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
Haaretz
IDF digs trench to keep Palestinians out of Gush Katif
By Nir Hasson and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents
Israel Defense Forces on Friday began digging eight-meter-deep trenches around the evacuated Gush Katif settlements in the Gaza Strip in a bid to prevent Palestinians from reaching the settlement bloc prior to its complete evacuation.
The evacuation forces will renew operations on Sunday as activity was halted for the Sabbath.
Defense officials said that the evacuation of the remaining Gaza settlements will be completed by next Tuesday, but IDF forces will remain in the Strip for several weeks to complete the removal of outposts and the demolition of the settlements.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/614836.html
German Jewish leader asks Pope to open Vatican archives
By Reuters
A German Jewish leader touched a sore spot in relations with Catholics on Friday when he urged Pope Benedict to open up all the Vatican's archives dealing with World War Two and the Holocaust.
Welcoming him on a historic visit to a synagogue in Cologne, Abraham Lehrer told the German-born pontiff he had a special responsibility to open files that critics say would show how much Pope Pius XII knew about the Nazi slaughter of Jews.
Jewish groups accuse Pius of turning a deaf ear to the Holocaust. The Vatican says he worked behind the scenes to save them and refrained from condemning the Nazis openly for fear of sparking reprisals across Europe.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/614877.html
Worshippers find pig's head in yard outside Jaffa mosque
By Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondent
Worshippers found a pig's head Friday in the yard outside the Hassan Bek mosque, between Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Mosque employees alerted the police, and officers launched an investigation.
The pig's head was wrapped in a keffiyeh with the word Mohammed written on it.
Investigators will check whether the incident is linked to other attempts to sabotage the mosque. Rocks have been hurled at the mosque recently, and windows have been broken.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/614894.html
Israel seeks annual UN Holocaust memorial day
By Reuters
UNITED NATIONS - Israel is urging the United Nations to establish an annual international holocaust memorial day, a top Israeli diplomat said on Thursday.
An Israeli draft resolution, which it hopes will be adopted by the 191-member General Assembly during its 60th session opening next month, proposes Jan. 27 as a day to commemorate holocaust victims, marking the day in 1945 when Russian troops liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp.
More than 30 European countries support Israel's plan, British Deputy Ambassador Adam Thomson said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Assembly President Jean Ping made public on Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/614572.html
The Middle East Times
Spanish witnesses say helicopter was attacked
AFP
August 17, 2005
SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS: International peacekeepers are seen near the wreckage of the Spanish helicopter which crashed on August 16 in the western province of Herat, Afghanistan. It is still unclear whether the crash that killed all 17 Spanish soldiers on board was the result of an accident or an insurgent attack.
(REUTERS)
MADRID -- The crash of two Spanish military helicopters in Afghanistan killing 17 soldiers and injuring five was more likely caused by gusting winds than a rebel attack, Spanish Defense Minister Jose Bono said Wednesday.
But eyewitnesses quoted in the press said the aircraft had been attacked, and the Afghan defense minister said the two aircraft probably had collided - a hypothesis that Bono rejected as "absolutely impossible."
The two aircraft were over different valleys at the time of the crash, he said.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050817-014229-7355r
Hundreds of abandoned animals at risk as Gaza settlements evacuate
Amelia Thomas
Middle East Times
August 18, 2005
TEL AVIV -- In the midst of the uproar surrounding the ongoing disengagement of Israeli settlements from Gaza and the West Bank, one group of residents has been largely forgotten. They don't have loud voices, they can't wave banners; yet their fate hangs in the balance even more than the settlers who are currently being pulled from their homes. These are the domestic animals that roam the settlements, mostly hundreds of cats either abandoned by their owners, or strays living on the streets.
Israel's Cat Welfare Society is currently engaged in a desperate struggle to save these animals, fearing that once disengagement is complete, they will die from starvation and lack of available drinking water in the empty residential areas.
Indeed, says the society, on first inspection of the largely emptied West Bank settlements of Ganim and Kadim, Northern Samaria, many cats had already succumbed to the fierce summer temperatures. In the last week prior to the start of the disengagement, however, volunteers in Ganim and Kadim have worked tirelessly to trap, vaccinate and remove to animal shelters more than 140 cats from these two settlements alone.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050818-072414-5950r
The Arab News
Police Lied in Menezes Case
Mushtak Parker, Arab News
LONDON, 19 August 2005 — Scotland Yard was yesterday accused of lying and a cover-up and trying to delay an independent police inquiry into the tragic fatal shooting by anti-terror police of 27-year-old Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes on a tube train at Stockwell station on the day after the failed 7/21 bomb attacks in London.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=68672&d=19&m=8&y=2005
Accidental Anarchists. They sure don't seem to believe in world order.
Bush’s ‘A’ to ‘Z’ of Why America Went to Iraq
Sarah Whalen, sawhalen@xula.com.edu
Would you vote for an anarchist? Oops! If you’re British or American, you very likely did. Yes, real anarchists — people who advocate overthrowing existing, organized government and replacing it with “freedom”, now run America, the UK, and much of the Western and westernized world.
You surely didn’t intend to “vote Anarchist.” Why put into government someone who doesn’t believe in government? But we in the West did just that. Bush and Blair may be accidental anarchists. It’s hard to believe the Iraq debacle was deliberately their own idea. And Bush and Blair are picky anarchists. General anarchists want to destroy all forms of government in “freedom’s” name, whereas Bush and Blair only want to destroy Middle Eastern governments in “freedom’s” name. One state at a time.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=68691&d=19&m=8&y=2005
The Washington Times
Roberts Resisted Women's Rights
1982-86 Memos Detail Skepticism
By Amy Goldstein, R. Jeffrey Smith and Jo Becker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 19, 2005; Page A01
Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. consistently opposed legal and legislative attempts to strengthen women's rights during his years as a legal adviser in the Reagan White House, disparaging what he called "the purported gender gap" and, at one point, questioning "whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good."
In internal memos, Roberts urged President Ronald Reagan to refrain from embracing any form of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment pending in Congress; he concluded that some state initiatives to curb workplace discrimination against women relied on legal tools that were "highly objectionable"; and he said that a controversial legal theory then in vogue -- of directing employers to pay women the same as men for jobs of "comparable worth" -- was "staggeringly pernicious" and "anti-capitalist.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081802041.html
Jury Awards Widow $253.4M in Vioxx Trial
By KRISTEN HAYS and THERESA AGOVINO
The Associated Press
Friday, August 19, 2005; 3:05 PM
ANGLETON, Texas -- A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who took the once-popular painkiller Vioxx.
Jurors awarded Robert Ernst's widow, Carol, $253.4 million in damages, which is a combination of his lost pay as a Wal-Mart produce manager, mental anguish, loss of companionship and punitive damages.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/19/AR2005081900256.html
Here is another incompetent. Iraq is not a matter of being 'against' or 'with' anything. It is about the legitimacy of a war. Invading a sovereign country is not a matter of a popular vote. Cheney is completely incompetent. He knows only how to bludgeon the public into submission to satisfy a personal wealth agenda.
Cheney vs. the Peaceniks
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, August 19, 2005; 12:18 PM
With President Bush kicking back at his ranch, the task of nipping a nascent antiwar movement in the bud fell to Vice President Cheney yesterday, and he went at it with his typical gusto.
To the extent that Cindy Sheehan and other supporters of an Iraqi pullout aim to start a national conversation about American options in Iraq, Cheney made it very clear that as far as he's concerned, that conversation only extends this far: Are you with us or are you against us?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html
U.S. Marine, Afghan Soldier Die in Clash
By AMIR SHAH
The Associated Press
Friday, August 19, 2005; 2:04 PM
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants clashed with coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan, killing a U.S. Marine and an Afghan government soldier, as violence flared ahead of the nation's key legislative elections, the U.S. military said Friday.
The clash, in which four Afghan soldiers were wounded, occurred near Asadabad in the volatile eastern province of Kunar _ the site last month of the heaviest coalition losses since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom, which ousted the hardline Taliban regime in late 2001.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/19/AR2005081900464.html
Doctor: Coretta Scott King Had Big Stroke
By DANIEL YEE
The Associated Press
Friday, August 19, 2005; 12:57 AM
ATLANTA -- Coretta Scott King suffered a minor heart attack and a major stroke that impaired her ability to speak and affected her right side, but she is "completely aware," a doctor said Thursday.
King's daughter said the family expected a full recovery.
Isaac Newton Farris, left, speaks to media, flanked by the Rev. Jesse Jackson outside Piedmont Hospital, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005 in Atlanta. Farris, a nephew of Coretta Scott King, told reporters the hospitalized 78-year-old widow of Martin Luther King Jr. is expected to recover, though he didn't say whether she suffered a stroke, as family friends said. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith) (Gregory Smith - AP)
Dr. Charles Wickliffe, a cardiologist at Piedmont Hospital, where the 78-year-old widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been hospitalized for two days, said a blood clot had moved from King's heart and lodged in an artery in the left side of her brain.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801402.html
D.C. Matriarch Killed at Home By Stray Bullet
Shots Also Fired Nearby Hours Earlier, Injuring 1
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 19, 2005; Page B01
Dorine Fostion was watching television in her Southeast Washington apartment at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday when someone started shooting outside.
Her daughter rushed in from the bedroom when she heard her mother cry out, struck in the side by a stray bullet. Fostion, 46, died an hour later at Washington Hospital Center, becoming the District's 118th homicide victim this year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801139.html
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