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On a March
07: 2003 UAL Corp., the bankrupt parent company of United Airlines, announces that sales of 3.9 million shares of UAL by the company’s employee benefit plans (authorization by the IRS announced on 04 March) have lowered employee ownership in those plans below 20%, thereby triggering the "Sunset" provisions contained in the company’s certificate of incorporation that affect UAL’s corporate governance structure. The changes that have occurred due to "Sunset" include: 2003 The Pope accepts the resignation of Tucson's bishop Manuel D. Moreno [27 Nov 1930~], who has prostate cancer, is in the early stages of Parkinson's disease, and whose diocese is in financial difficulties after the failure of its television network 20 years earlier ($32 million debt) and sexual abuse suits ($14 million and counting) since January 2002, for which 19 priests (of the 83 active and 31 inactive) of the diocese were suspended in 2002. Moreno is succeeded by his coadjutor (appointed on 30 Oct 2001) Bishop Gerald Frederick Kicanas [18 Aug 1941~]. [Moreno's 06 March 2003 retirement letter to diocese] 2003 Joseph Menconi escapes from the prison of Borgo (Haute-Corse), France, where he was held after his 03 January 2003 arrest in Les Yvelines, accused of three murders. He had already escaped from the same prison in 1998. 2002 Saudi surgeons' attempt to be on the cutting edge of progress: the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics reports on the world's first uterus transplant, performed by Dr. Wafa Fageeh, Dr. Hassan Raffa, Dr. Hussain Jabbad and Dr. Anass Marzouki, of the King Fahd Hospital and research center in Jidda, Saudi Arabia in April 2000. Before operating, the team practiced on 16 baboons and 2 goats. The operation is difficult because the blood vessels that have to be sewn together are tiny, much smaller than those in other organ transplants. In fact the blood circulation failed and the uterus had to be removed after 99 days. The advisability of such an operation is questionable, because: 1 it is not a life-saving procedure; 2 a transplanted organ requires potent anti-rejection drugs which might be harmful to a foetus.
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2000 President Hafez Assad of Syria has the govenment
of Mahmoud el-Zouebi resign and names Mohammed Mustafa Miro, governor of
Aleppo province, as the new prime minister, charged with forming a new government.
2000 The Nasdaq composite index goes above 5000 intraday. 1999 El partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial (PDGE), del presidente Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, consigue 75 de los 80 escaños de la Cámara de Representantes de Pueblo, en las segundas elecciones legislativas desde la independencia del país. 1999 El Gobierno de Ucrania decide poner en marcha el tercer reactor de la central nuclear de Chernóbil, con la consiguiente preocupación de Occidente, temeroso de sufrir un nuevo desastre nuclear. 1999 Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez, candidato a la presidencia de El Salvador por la derechista Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA), vence en las elecciones presidenciales con un 51,98% de los votos. 1998 En medio de las protestas de los ciudadanos y de los partidos políticos en Chile, el criminal general Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte es nombrado "comandante en jefe benemérito" del Ejército, en reconocimiento a su mando dictatorial de más de 24 años. 1997 Estados Unidos veta el borrador de una resolución del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU elaborado por la UE contra los planes israelíes de construir un barrio judío en Jerusalén oriental.
1994 The Supreme Court rules that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder. 1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland) 1988 Intento fracasado de golpe de Estado contra el Presidente de Santo Tomé y Príncipe por el Santo Tomé y Príncipe (FNRSTP). 1977 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter 1975 The US Senate revises filibuster rule, it now allows 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
1972 In the biggest air battle in Vietnam in 3 years, US jets battle 5 North Vietnamese MiGs and shoot one down 275 km north of the Demilitarized Zone. The 86 US air raids over North Vietnam in the first two months of 1972 equaled the total for all of 1971. 1972 El cardenal Vicente Enrique y Tarancón es elegido presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal Española. 1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire. |
1965 A march by civil rights demonstrators is broken up in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff's posse. ^ 1953 The first division of power is agreed to by the top Soviet leaders, following the death of Joseph Stalin [21 Dec 1879 – 05 Mar 1953]. They find themselves in a predicament: How are they to choose Stalin's successor? How are they to ensure that no one acquires his awesome power? This would put their careers, and even lives, at risk. Collective leadership is the only possibility. Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov [13 Jan 1902 – 14 Jan 1988] becomes chairman of the Council of Ministers (prime minister), and Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria [29 Mar 1899 – 23 Dec 1953] becomes first deputy prime minister and also heads the amalgamated Ministry of State Security and Ministry of Internal Affairs. Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov [09 Mar 1890 – 08 Nov 1986] returns to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is also a first deputy prime minister. Bulganin becomes minister of defense. When Stalin died there was no title that identified the head of the Communist Party. Stalin had given up the title of general secretary of the party in 1934 and was afterward merely described as secretary of the Central Committee Secretariat. Malenkov's name appears at the top of the list of secretaries on 07 March. Hence he has succeeded Stalin as head of government and party. This nice arrangement would break down within a week: there was too much power concentrated in one pair of hands. The main beneficiary would be Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev [17 Apr 1894 – 11 Sep 1971]. His name would be placed at the top of the list of five secretaries of the secretariat. Khrushchev would then be in charge of the party, although he would not formally be made first secretary until September 1953. Malenkov, in choosing to remain prime minister, makes a grave mistake, even though Lenin and Stalin had both occupied the office. Khrushchev now has a power base from which to attack Malenkov and win precedence for the party over the government.
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1941 British troops invade Italian-held Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1931 Los obispos alemanes de la provincia eclesiástica de Colonia advierten de los peligros del nacionalsocialismo. 1930 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi inicia la "marcha de la sal". 1926 First transatlantic radio-telephone call (London-New York) 1925 Mongolia Exterior es ocupada por el Ejército Rojo de la URSS. 1921 Are made cardinals: Juan Benlloch y Vivó [29 Dec 1864 – 14 Feb 1926]
1911 The US sends 20'000 soldiers to the Mexican border as a precaution because of the Mexican Revolution. |
1862 Siege of New Madrid, Missouri continues 1861 Pruebas satisfactorias del submarino de Monturiol "Ictíneo" en aguas de Alicante, aunque el inventor no consiguió apoyo oficial. 1850 In a notorious 3-hour speech to the US Senate, Massachusetts' Daniel Webster [18 Jan 1782 – 24 Oct 1852] endorses the Compromise of 1850 proposed by Kentucky Senator Henry Clay on 29 January 1850, as a means of preserving the Union. It called for California to be admitted as a free state; for the passage of an inhumane Fugitive Slave law; for new territories in the Southwest to he allowed to organize without restrictions on slavery; for protecting slavery in the District of Columbia while abolishing domestic slave trade there; and for a settlement of $10 million to Texas if the state would relinquish claims to one-third of its territory (now in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming). The compromise would be adopted on 09 September 1850. — [1850 portrait of Danier Webster attributed to James Reid Lambdin {1807-1889} >] — [below: Webster's notes for the beginning of his speech: “I wish to speak, today, not as a Mass. man – nor a Northern man – but as an American, & a member of the Senate of the U. S.”] |
Deaths
which occurred on a March 07: 2003 Rabbi Eliahu Horowitz, 52, and his wife Dina Horowitz, 50; and two terrorists, of Hamas, dressed as religious Jews (who openly carry weapons), who shoot them at 20:45 and are then shot by Israeli soldiers, in enclave settlement Kiryat Arba, West Bank. The Horowitzes were both from Orthodox Jews from Silver Spring, Maryland; they had immigrated separately to Israel, where they first met. 8 Israelis are wounded. 2003: 11 Palestinians, during an Israeli army (with tanks and helicopters, starting at 23:30 on 06 March) revenge (for the 05 March 2003 suicide bombing of a Haifa bus) attack on the Jabalaya refugee camp next to Gaza City, in order: Muhamed Shahada al-Bian, 61, muezzin at the al-Awda mosque, standing at the entrance of the camp, by a missile from a helicopter. — Muhsein Abu Uda, 30, policeman — Abdul Rahman Makdad, 21, unarmed — Nail Abu Sadu, 30, policeman — and at 06:00 (04:00 UT), seven persons killed by a tank shell as they tried to salvage furniture from a burning carpentry shop (Israelis say that the tank was firing at a terrorist trying to fire a rocket at them, and/or that the explosion was from a Palestinian bomb, which is contradicted by videotapes): Ta'ar Rihan, 14, Ihab Nabahan, 14, Baha Abu Varda, 18, fireman Naji Abu Jalila, 30, Hamdi Obeid, and two children. More than 80 persons are wounded, including four medics who were treating other wounded, as well as two Reuters cameramen, Ahmed Jedallah and Shamas Shama. The only Israeli casualties are two soldiers slightly wounded. 2003 Souvorachak Kayachith, 21, and his wife Melinda Athakhanh, 20, as their car is struck by and slides under a tractor-trailer that slid on ice and crossed the median of Interstate 94 in Wisconsin, in the pre-dawn hours. Of Laotian origin they were traveling from their Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, home to visit relatives in Georgia and Florida. Their daughter Anita Kayachith, 2, who was sleeping in the back seat, suffers hardly a scratch, wanders off across the highway and is discovered hours later, sitting in the snow in freezing weather. [< photo] 2002: 14 Catholics in stampede from prayer meeting about to end when gunmen burst into it, but don't hurt anyone. They were apparently trying to capture or harm Father Ejike Mbaka, who was leading the evening prayer meeting, in the open air on the grounds of a technical college in the eastern Nigeria city of Enugu. Father Mbaka had been repeatedly harassed and sought by Enugu state government officials for questioning. 2002 Five Israeli 18-year-olds: Asher Marcus from Jerusalem, Tal Kurtzweil from Bnei Brak, Ariel Zana from Jerusalem, Eran Picard from Jerusalem, Arik Krobiak from Beit El, and the Palestinian who shoots them at at a pre-military training academy in the Gaza Strip enclave settlement of Atzmona, late in the evening, and is shot dead after a 20-minute gunfight with soldiers and settlers. Twenty-three persons are injured, four of them seriously. [< photos >] 2002 Kamel Salem, an UNRO nurse, Ibrahim Assad, a Red Crescent ambulance driver, late in the day, by gunfire from Israeli troops who had taken control of Tul Karm, as, in separate ambulances they were on their way to treat people wounded by the Israelis . In the same incidents, an addional nurse and doctor were wounded, as were two other Palestinian rescue workers. 2002 Munhad Abu Halel, a member of the Fatah military wing, Hosni Naif, Tarek Abu Jimos, five armed Palestinians, and three civilian Palestinians, killed in a pre-dawn raid by Israeli troops, intending to stay two days, into the Palestinian city of Tul Karm and the two nearby refugee camps of Tul Karm and Nur A-Shams.Electricity was cut off from the entire city as heavy fighting took place around the refugee camps. People were confined to their homes as troops carried out house-to-house searches for terrorist suspects. The roads have been taken over. 2002 Akram Muhammad Ghanayem, 27, and Yousef Muhammad Shehada, 18, by shrapnel from Israeli bombing, and Muhammad Abu Hilal, 27, by Israeli gunfire, all three Palestinians, in Tolkarem. 2002 Mofeeda Abu Daqa, 47, Palestinian woman, by shrapnel from Israeli shelling of Abassan. 2002 Mahdi Muhammad Suliman Qaisi, 18, Palestinian, by Israeli gunfire while he was returning to his home in Jaljulia on a bypass dirt road, because the Israeli army has interdicted the paved roads. 2002 Sa’ed Ali Sbaih, Palestinian from Alkhader near Bethlehem, from wounds previously sustained and who was already clinically dead, 2002 Muhammad Taysser al-Alanini, 28, Palestinian, beaten to death by Israeli soldiers searching his home in Saleef near Jenin. He was a leader of Islamic Holy War and had tried to shoot at the soldiers when they approached his home. 2002 Muhammad Nafiz Fattouh, 19, Saqer Maher Al Bal, 22, Muhammad Ali Al Sous, 20, Muhammad Abu Khousa, 22, and Ismael Albardini, 27, Palestinians, by Israeli attacks in Gaza. |
1985 Coronel Díaz Arcocha, asesinado por ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna). Era el máximo responsable de la policía autónoma vasca. 1981 Chester Allen Bitterman, Bible translator, from the US, executed by anti-government guerrillas in Colombia, who had kidnapped him and accused him of being a CIA agent. 1981 Karen Barnes, 23, topless dancer, stabbed a dozen times in the face and throat and skull had been crushed, in her Haight-Ashbury apartment, San Francisco, by Suzan and Michael Carson who believed she was a witch. The couple would murder Clark Stephens in April 1982 and John Hellyer in January 1983, when they would be arrested. They would be sentenced to life in prison for the three murders. 1959 Ichiro Hatoyama, 76, in Tokyo, one of Japan's most important post-World War II prime ministers, helped to found the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party. In 1996, his grandsons Yukio Hatoyama and younger brother Kunio Hatoyama, 47 then, jointly started Sakigake opposition party which later became the Democratic Party. But in 2000 Kunio returned to the LDP and the two brothers became bitter political ennemies. 1957 Percy Wyndham Lewis, Canadian British writer and painter, born on a yatch near Amherst, Nova Scotia, on 18 November 1882. MORE ON LEWIS AT ART 4 MARCH with links to images. 1951 Ali Razmara, born in 1901, Prime Minister of Iran, assassinated in Tehran outside the Soltaneh Mosque by a member of the Feda'eyan-e Eslam (“Self-Sacrificers of Islam”), an extremist religious organization with close ties to the traditional merchant class and the clergy. Razmara graduated from the French military academy at Saint-Cyr in 1925. After serving in the pacification campaigns in the Kurdistan and Laristan regions of Iran under Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi), he became director of the Tehran Military Cadet College in 1938. He wrote several books, including a military history of Persia. In 1944, during the Allied occupation of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi's son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi promoted Razmara to general and ordered him to reorganize the nation's military forces. Two years later he was appointed chief of staff and was responsible for the entry of the central government forces into Iranian Azerbaijan to supervise the elections that resulted in the collapse of the Soviet-sponsored government there. In June 1950 the shah appointed Razmara prime minister. Though efficient and hardworking, he had no large personal following, and his efforts to make the rich carry more of the burden of the state earned him many powerful enemies. Despite intense pressure from populist quarters, he opposed the nationalization of Iran's oil industry on the grounds that, at the time, it would have been impossible to run the industry solely with Iranian technicians. Before the end of the month, Mohammad Mosaddeq [1880 – 05 Mar 1967] was appointed Prime Minister, and he nationalized the country's oil industry. |
1940 Day 97 of Winter
War: USSR aggression against Finland. ^top^ More deaths due to Stalin's desire to grab Finnish territory. Attacking Russian force destroyed in Sintolanniemi Following preliminary artillery fire, the Soviet force on the Isthmus launches an assault and breaks through the Finnish backline positions in Tali, advancing thereafter in the direction of Tali village. The Soviet troops make several local breakthroughs, which are successfully contained. A new group, the Hamina Group, is formed to give added strength to the defence of Viipurinlahti bay. The command of the new group is entrusted to Major-General E. Hanell, who is to be directly responsible to Commander-in-Chief Mannerheim. In Taipale, an enemy battalion attacks the Terenttilä stronghold. Finnish losses on this comparatively quiet day in Taipale are 10 dead and 35 wounded. The attacking Russian force in the Sintolanniemi sector is completely destroyed. In Ladoga Karelia, Detachment Alfthan cuts the supply lines of the Soviet troops in Lavajärvi village. The enemy launches yet another attack in the Kollaa sector. The 69th Infantry Division nevertheless manages to hold its ground. In the far north, a Red Army regiment overruns the Finnish defensive positions at Nautsi in Petsamo. Nautsi's one and only house is raised in the Soviet Union's war bulletin to the status of "the town of Nautsi". Detachment Pennanen's losses in Petsamo total 33 dead, 87 wounded and 67 missing in action. Abroad: Finland's delegation to the Moscow peace talks arrives in the Russian capital in the early evening. British volunteers swear their oath to Colonel Kermit Roosevelt in the Finnish Aid office in London. Venäläiset hyökkääjät tuhotaan Sintolanniemen lohkolla Talvisodan 99. päivä, 07.maaliskuuta.1940 ^top^ Neuvostojoukot aloittavat hyökkäyksen tykistön rumputulella ja tunkeutuvat taka-aseman läpi Talin kannaksella ja alkavat edetä Talin kylän suuntaan. Neuvostojoukot tekevät lukuisia sisäänmurtoja, jotka saadaan rajoitetuiksi. Viipurinlahden puolustustaistelujen tehostamiseksi perustetaan suoraan ylipäällikkö Mannerheimin johtoon uusi yhtymä, Haminan Ryhmä, jonka komentajaksi määrätään kenraalimajuri E. Hanell. Taipaleessa pataljoonan vahvuinen vihollinen hyökkää Terenttilän tukikohtaa vastaan. Suomalaistappiot Taipaleessa jäävät rauhallisen päivän aikana 10 kaatuneeseen ja 35 haavoittuneeseen. Venäläiset hyökkääjät tuhotaan Sintolanniemen lohkolla. Osasto Alfthan katkaisee Lavajärven kylässä olevien neuvostojoukkojen huoltoyhteydet. Kollaan alueella vihollinen aloittaa jälleen uuden hyökkäyksen. JR 69 kykenee pitämään asemansa. Neuvostoarmeijan rykmentti valtaa Nautsin puolustusasemat Petsamossa. Nautsin ainut talo korotettiin Neuvostoliiton sotatiedotuksessa "Nautsin kaupungiksi". Osasto Pennasen tappiot Petsamon taisteluissa ovat kaikkiaan33 miestä kaatuneina, 87 miestä haavoittuneina ja 67 miestä kadonneina. Suomen rauhanneuvotteluvaltuuskunta saapuu Moskovaan illansuussa. Ulkomailta: Brittiläiset vapaaehtoiset vannovat valansa eversti Kermit Rooseveltille Suomen Avun toimistossa Lontoossa. Ryska inkräktare förintas på avsnittet i Sintolanniemi Vinterkrigets 99 dag, den 07 mars 1940 ^top^ De ryska trupperna inleder ett anfall med trumeld av artilleriet och tränger igenom den bakre ställningen på Tali näs. Därefter rycker de fram mot Tali by. De ryska trupperna lyckas göra flera inbrytningar, som finnarna dock lyckas begränsa. För att effektivera försvarsstriderna vid Viborgska viken grundas en ny grupp, Fredrikshamnsgruppen, som lyder direkt under överbefälhavare Mannerheim. Generalmajor E. Hanell utnämns till kommendör för gruppen. I Taipale anfaller fienden med en bataljon mot basen i Terenttilä. De egna förlusterna i Taipale är 10 stupade och 35 sårade denna lugna dag. Ryska inkräktare förintas på avsnittet i Sintolanniemi. Avdelning Alfthan skär av de ryska truppernas försörjningsförbindelse i Lavajärvi by. Vid Kollaa inleder fienden en ny offensiv. JR 69 lyckas hålla positionen. Ett regemente i den ryska armén erövrar försvarsställningen i Nautsi, Petsamo. Den enda byggnaden i Nautsi beskrivs i en rysk krigsrapport som "Nautsi stad". Avdelning Pennanens förluster i Petsamostriderna är inalles 33 stupade, 87 sårade och 67 försvunna soldater. Finlands fredsförhandlingsdelegation anländer till Moskva på kvällen. Utrikes: Brittiska frivilliga svär eden inför överste Kermit Roosevelt på Finlandshjälpens kontor i London. |
1938 788 hombres, en el hundimiento del crucero Baleares,
durante la Guerra civil española. 1932 Aristide Briand, estadista francés. 1931 Theo van Doesburg, Dutch Neo-Plasticist painter born in 1883 LINKS Composition XI Composition XXII Countercomposition Simultaneous Countercomposition 1908 Manuel Curros Enríquez, escritor español. 1890 Claudio Moyano Samaniego, político español. 1868 George St. Leger Grenfel, 68, former Confederate colonel, cellmate Johnny Adare, a prison guard, and two other inmates, as they escape from the Fort Jefferson prison, off Florida's Gulf Coast, in a small fishing boat into a storm in which they disappeared forever.
1724 Inocencio XIII, Papa. 1274 Saint Thomas Aquinas, 48, applied Aristotle's philosophy to theology. AQUINAS ONLINE: Summa Theologica Corpus Christi Epistola de Modo Studendi De Ente et Essentia De Principio Individuationis (in English translations): Summa Theologica Summa Theologica Of God and His Creatures (abridged Summa Contra Gentiles) On Being and Essence On the Eternity of the World On the Principles of Nature . 0161 Antonino Pío, emperador romano.
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Births
which occurred on a March 07: 1948 Juan Eslava Galán, escritor y profesor español. 1936 Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R., Bolivian Redemptorist ordained priest on 29 July 1962, appointed auxiliary of La Paz on 15 April 1978 and consecrated bishop on 08 June 1978; appointed bishop of Oruro on 09 January 1982 and archbishop of Santa Cruz on 06 February 1991; made cardinal on 21 February 2001. 1933 "Monopoly" game, invented. |
1925 René
Gagnon, Manchester, NH. ^top^ [< young René Gagnon] He would be one of the six flag raisers on top of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on 23 February 1945, immortalized in the famous photo. René Gagnon was the youngest of the three flag raisers who survived the Iwo Jima campaign. He was the man who carried the flag up Mt. Suribachi. He was the first survivor to arrive back in the US. René Gagnon died in Manchester NH on 12 October 1979. [René
Gagnon in later years >] |
1887 Helen Parkhurst, US educator, author, and lecturer who died on 01 June 1973. 1886 Federico García Sanchiz, escritor español. 1885 La vida alegre y muerte triste, del dramaturgo José de Echegaray Eizaguirre, se estrena.
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1872 Pieter
Cornelis Mondriaan Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter,
who carried abstraction to its furthest limits. MORE
ON MONDRIAN AT ART 4 MARCH
with links to images. 1857 Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist (Nobel 1927). He died on 27 September 1940. 1850 Tomas Masaryk, founder and president of Czechoslovakia who died on 14 September 1937. 1811 Giuseppe Ferrari, Italian historian, political philosopher, and politician who died on 02 June 1876. He is best known for his study of Roman and Italian revolutions. [He did not design, manufacture, nor race automobiles, which had not been invented. That was Enzo Ferrari (18 Feb 1898 14 August 1988)]. 1802 Edwin Henry Landseer, English painter specialized in animals. MORE ON LANDSEER AT ART 4 MARCH with links to images.
1744 or 1752 Jean-Louis Demarne (or de Marne), French painter who died on 24 March or January 1829. MORE ON DEMARNE AT ART 4 MARCH with links to images. 1672. Francisco Javier Solchaga, en la ciudad de Querétaro. El habrá de distinguirse como consumado teólogo, orador, filósofo, misionero y hombre de ciencia. Ha de morir en la ciudad de Puebla, el año de 1757. |
What is the technical term for military intelligence? oxymoron. |