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Deaths in September

27 Tsai Wan-lin
24 Françoise Sagan
20 Brian Clough
18 Russ Meyer
15 Johnny Ramone
12 Fred Ebb
11 Peter VII of Alexandria
8 Richard Girnt Butler
7 Gerard Piel
2 Joan Oró
Other recent deaths

Ongoing events

Ansari X-Prize competition
2004 Atlantic hurricane season
US Presidential Campaign
Bush military service questions
Nader ballot access disputes
Presidential debates
UK Liberal Democrats Convention
USA 9-11 Commission
Same-sex marriage debates
AIDS epidemic
Abu Ghraib investigation
Liberal Party (Canada) funds scandal
Ryanggang (North Korea) explosion

Ongoing armed conflicts

War on Terrorism
Iraqi resistance
Afghanistan timeline September 2004
Darfur conflict in Sudan
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Conflict in Russia (Chechnya)
Ongoing wars

Upcoming events

November 20: Jr. Eurovision Song Contest
October 4: SpaceShipOne flight

Upcoming elections

December 11: Taiwanese legislative
November 2: U.S. President, Congress
October 22: Irish presidential
October 9: Afghan presidential
October 9: Australian legislature
October 3: 2nd round of Serbian local
October 3: Slovenian parliamentary

Election results in September

20: Indonesia: President
12: Hong Kong: Legislative Council

Ongoing trials

ICTY: Slobodan Milošević
Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
Saddam Hussein, among others
USA: Scott Peterson
USA: Michael Jackson
USA: Zacarias Moussaoui
Canada: Ripudaman Singh Malik, Ajaib Singh Bagri
Iran: Yazdi, Iranian National Front party head

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September 27, 2004

  • Arab-Israeli conflict:
    • Jewish settlers in Gaza line a bridge and pelt passing Palestinian cars with rocks, forcing the Israeli army to close the only road from the north into the Gaza Strip. (The Guardian) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1314384,00.html)
    • In the Gaza Strip, four Palestinians kidnap Riad Abu Ali, an Israeli citizen working for CNN. Two other CNN employees were beaten and their equipment stolen. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6344981) (Haaretz) (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/482510.html)
    • The Israeli army raids the West Bank city of Jenin, taking over a hospital and several other buildings, making a number of arrests, and reportedly wounding three Palestinians. Several other violent incidents occurred in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (The Australian) (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10896625%255E1702,00.html) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3692838.stm)
    • A 'senior' Israeli security source has told several news organizations (Including the BBC, Haaretz and the AP) that it was Israel who killed a senior figure of Hamas, Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, who died in a car bomb yesterday, September 26 in Damascus. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3692858.stm) (Dispatch) (http://www.dispatch.co.za/2004/09/27/Foreign/aisrael.html) (Haaretz) (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/482037.html) (Gulf Daily News) (http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=92678&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27191)
  • Conflict in Iraq:
    • Fereidoun Jahani, an Iranian diplomat who was kidnapped in Iraq in early August, is freed; he was held by a militant group that also claims to be holding two French journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3694236.stm) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6342133)
    • The U.S. military carries out air strikes on several suspected militant positions in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, killing at least five people and wounding 46, according to a local hospital official. The U.S. military disputes that total. (AP) (http://www.boston.com/dailynews/271/world/Insurgents_press_offensive_to_:.shtml) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3692624.stm)
    • Two separate car bombs kill at least seven Iraqi national guardsmen in Mosul and Fallujah, while mortars are fired at a police academy in Baghdad, with no reported casualties. (AP: 1 (http://www.boston.com/dailynews/271/world/Car_bomb_kills_four_Iraq_Natio:.shtml), 2 (http://www.boston.com/dailynews/271/world/Insurgents_press_offensive_to_:.shtml))
  • The Virgin Group announces that it will create the world's first commercial space-flight company, to be called Virgin Galactic, using SpaceShipOne technology licensed from Mojave Aerospace Ventures. Virgin hopes to begin commercial space flight within five years. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3693020.stm)
  • The Université de Montréal announces that a Quebec researcher has discovered a lost play by Alexandre Dumas, titled Les voleurs d'or ("The Gold Thieves"), in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). (Herald Sun) (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10904968%255E1702,00.html)

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(Straits Times) (http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,4390,272941,00.html) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6247725) (Resolution requesting representation [PDF]) (http://www.mofa.gov.tw/public/Attachment/49116494958.pdf)

  • Canada's federal government and its provincial and territorial leaders reach an accord to increase funding for the country's national health care system. In exchange for an increase in federal funding of CAD 18 billion over the next six years, provincial and territorial leaders agree to reforms intended to reduce patient waiting times. (Toronto Star) (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1095242707797&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154)
  • In a report released today, the U.S. State Department for the first time places the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its list of "countries of particular concern" (CPCs) that engage in "particularly severe violations" of religious freedom. A designation as a CPC requires the State Department to take whatever steps are necessary — up to the level of sanctions — to increase religious tolerance in the designated country. (CNN.com) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/15/us.saudi.religious.rights.ap/index.html) (State Department report) (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/)
  • Six Palestinian gunmen and four others are killed, including an 11 year old girl by Israeli troops. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6246681) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3657652.stm)
  • In Afghanistan, three Americans are sentenced to up to 10 years imprisonment for illegally detaining and torturing Afghans, and for running an illegal private jail in Kabul. The defiant Americans — Jonathan Idema, Brent Bennett, and Edward Caraballo — say they intend to appeal the decision. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/15/afghan.prison/index.html)
  • A Countryside Alliance rally outside Britain's Parliament buildings, in opposition to a bill that would ban fox-hunting, descends into violence as protesters and police clash. Some protesters successfully breach security and enter the floor of the House of Commons. The bill later passes 339–155. (BBC: 1 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3656524.stm), 2 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3660294.stm))
  • Five crew members of an Irish yacht, who had been adrift in a liferaft for seven days after abandoning their ship, are rescued by helicopter off the Cornwall coast of Britain. The crew members ran out of water on Monday and were running low on food when rescued. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3658528.stm) (RTÉ) (http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0915/rescue.html)
  • Both the European Union and the government of the United States express concern about Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement that, as a means of responding to terrorism, he would significantly alter Russia's political system. The Russian government rejects the United States' concerns as inappropriate interference in Russia's internal affairs. (Reuters: 1 (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=583655&section=news), 2 (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PK1I2MCEA22IUCRBAE0CFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=583654&section=news))
  • In Southern California, the radio system linking air traffic controllers to high-altitude planes breaks down at 17:00 local time, Tuesday (0000 UTC September 15), prompting the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to halt outgoing flights for three hours at Los Angeles International and several other airports. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/09/14/lax.stoppage/)
  • 2004 Atlantic hurricane season:
    • As of 13:00 local time (1800 UTC September 15), the center of Hurricane Ivan is located about 275 km (170 miles) south of the coast of Alabama and is moving northward at about 23 km/h (14 mph). The hurricane is now projected to make landfall along the Gulf Coast of the United States very early on Thursday. Forecasters now predict that there is little risk that the hurricane will pass over New Orleans. A hurricane warning is in effect for the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to the Florida Panhandle. (NOAA/NHC) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2004/pub/al092004.public_a.053.shtml?) (Washington Post) (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23454-2004Sep15.html)
    • As Hurricane Ivan approaches the Gulf Coast of the United States, an estimated 1.9 million people, including 1.2 million residents of metropolitan New Orleans, are advised to evacuate. The situation is particularly dangerous for New Orleans, since a direct or close hit by the hurricane could breach the levees around the city, causing its streets to fill with a mixture of floodwater, raw sewage, gasoline, and chemicals. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/14/ivan.gulfcoast.ap/)


September 14, 2004

  • The China Times reports that the People's Republic of China has deployed heavily armed troops to guard the Three Gorges Dam from a possible terrorist attack. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3654772.stm)
  • An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), by a vote of 15-8, recommends that warnings be added to antidepressants, stating that the medications can be linked to suicidal behavior in some children. The FDA is not required to follow the recommendations of its advisory panels, but usually does so. (FOX News) (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132338,00.html) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=6235839&section=news)
  • In the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person yet tried in the U.S. in relation to the 9/11 attacks, the court refuses to allow Moussaoui to call Camp X-Ray detainees as witnesses, but does allow him to use written evidence from some of the detainees. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Massaoui, who admits to being a member of al-Qaeda but denies involvement in the 9/11 plot. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3653994.stm)
  • At least 45 people are killed and over 100 others are injured when a car bomb explodes in central Baghdad, Iraq. The blast leaves a three-meter (10 ft) crater in the road in a busy shopping area; many of the dead are Iraqi job-seekers who were queuing up outside a nearby police station. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3654176.stm)
  • The United States lifts its siege of the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar after Turkey threatens to end all cooperation with the U.S. in Iraq if the attacks, which had killed many civilians in the largely Turkmen city, continue. (Xinhua) (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/15/content_1983154.htm)
  • The Ontario Superior Court permits the first divorce of a same-sex couple in Canada (and perhaps the first in the world), declaring that the portion of Canada's Divorce Act that excludes same-sex marriages from the act's effects is unconstitutional. (Globe and Mail) (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040913.wdivor0913/BNStory/National/) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=583372&section=news)
  • 2004 Atlantic hurricane season:
    • Hurricane warnings are issued for Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands in anticipation of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which is expected to become a hurricane by tomorrow. (NOAA/NHC) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT1+shtml/142117.shtml?)
    • As of 13:00 local time (1800 UTC September 14), Hurricane Ivan is located about 650 km (405 miles) south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and is moving along a north-northwest path at about 9 mph (14.5 km/h). The hurricane is now projected to make landfall along the Gulf Coast of the United States on Thursday morning. (NOAA/NHC) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2004/pub/al092004.public_a.049.shtml?)
    • As of 23:00 local time (0300 UTC September 14), Ivan is located about 60 km (40 miles) west-northwest of the western tip of Cuba. Forecasters are predicting landfall somewhere between eastern Louisiana and the panhandle of Florida late Wednesday. (NOAA/NHC) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2004/pub/al092004.public.047.shtml?)
    • The center of Hurricane Ivan passes over the Guanahacabibes peninsula on the western tip of Cuba, flooding coastal areas, ripping roofs off houses, and knocking down trees and power lines, but sparing Cuba its worst effects. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CIC5MLMQSRTC2CRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=6225759)

September 13, 2004

  • Following Time Warner's withdrawal, the management of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer accepts a take-over offer from Sony worth just under US$3 billion. (National Post) (http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=83c1e613-222e-4895-b476-644565c6116c)
  • A Fathers 4 Justice protester dressed as Batman breaches security at Buckingham Palace and scales a wall. He remains on a balcony for five hours before being arrested by police. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/13/britain.palace/index.html)
  • United States Secretary of State Colin Powell says that he saw no direct connection between Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq and the September 11, 2001 attacks. During an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Powell also said he believes that if John Kerry were president at the time of a terrorist attack he would respond in a "robust" way. (Washington Post) (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16707-2004Sep12.html)
  • The "pre-election offensive" against the Iraqi resistance continues in the rebel-held city of Fallujah, with air-strikes killing at least 16, including women and children. Joint U.S.-Iraqi forces say that they are targeting Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is linked to al-Qaeda. The U.S. military says it is investigating an incident that occurred September 12th in Baghdad in which five people, including an al-Arabiya journalist broadcasting live, were killed in a helicopter attack. (Reuters) (http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6216912) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3650762.stm)
  • In Afghanistan, 22 insurgents believed to be members of the Taleban and al-Qaeda are killed in the province of Zabul. Zabul Province is widely regarded as a Taleban stronghold. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/3651202.stm)
  • Former UDA member Ken Barrett pleads guilty to the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989 — one of the most controversial murders of Northern Ireland's Troubles. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=582279&section=news) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3650842.stm)
  • 2004 Atlantic hurricane season:
    • Hurricane Ivan, still at Category Five strength, continues to travel northward, causing damage throughout the western Caribbean. As of 23:00 local time (0300 UTC September 13), it is located about 285 km (175 miles) southeast of the western tip of Cuba, and it is predicted that the eye of Ivan will pass over that part of the island Monday afternoon or evening. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=581889&section=news) (NOAA/NHC) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2004/mar/al092004.fstadv.043.shtml?)
    • The Cuban government evacuates between 800,000 and 1.3 million people from coastal cities and developed areas. Cubans have begun calling the hurricane "Ivan the Terrible". (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=581889&section=news) (New York Times) (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/national/13storm.html) (NOAA/NHC) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2004/mar/al092004.fstadv.043.shtml?)
    • A storm surge from Hurricane Ivan travels at least 1 km (0.6 mile) inland on Grand Cayman, the largest of the three islands of the Cayman Islands, forcing residents to seek shelter on their house roofs.

September 12, 2004

  • The Hong Kong Legislative Council election, 2004 receives record turnout. In the direct election, the pro-democracy parties gain one seat and receive 60 percent of the vote while the pro-government parties unexpectedly gain seven seats. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3648568.stm)
  • At least 110 Iraqis are killed in a day of widespread violence, as the U.S. engages in new offensives to retake insurgent-held areas before the January elections. An al-Arabiya journalist is killed during a live broadcast when attack helicopters fire at a crowd gathered around a burning Bradley vehicle in Baghdad. Helicopters and tanks fire on residential areas in rebel-occupied Ramadi. More fighting takes place in Tal Afar and Hilla. (Reuters) (http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6212585) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3648786.stm)
  • 40,000 demonstrators protest in Jerusalem against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plans to force all Israeli Jews to leave the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. (Haaretz) (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/477191.html)
  • Vojislav Kostunica, Prime Minister of Serbia, reverses the earlier decision by Serbian Minister of Education Ljiljana Colic to suspend the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in Serbian schools for the current school year. Colic had declared that the suspension would continue until schools could give equal weight to the ideas of Creationism. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6201322) (news.telegraph) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/09/wdarw09.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/09/ixworld.html)
  • Ryanggang explosion:
    • The South Korean news agency Yonhap reports that on September 9th (or possibly 8th) there was a explosion in the North Korean province of Ryanggang massive enough to produce a mushroom cloud 3.5–4.0 km (2.0–2.5 miles) in diameter. National security officials worldwide are hesitant to classify it as a nuclear explosion (Yonhap) (http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20040912/320000000020040912130313E0.html) (AP) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040912/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_explosion) (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/12/nkorea.blast/index.html)
    • U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says specifically that the explosion "does not appear to be a nuclear event." (VOA) (http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=A10D4DFC-CB69-4B79-ACA90471B796E987&title=Powell%3A%20North%20Korean%20Explosion%20Probably%20Not%20Nuclear%20&catOID=45C9C78B-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=Asia%20Pacific)
  • The government of Saudi Arabia announces that the first nationwide elections in the kingdom's history will occur early next year. This is the biggest step toward reform the Gulf state has ever taken, although the government has been promising to hold elections since October (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3188310.stm) of 2003. The first ballots will be cast on February 10, 2005, for council seats in the Riyadh capital district. It is not known if women will be allowed to vote in the elections. (MSNBC.com) (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5970996/)

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  • United States Secretary of State Colin Powell declares that the actions of the Janjaweed Arab militia in Darfur constitute genocide. Powell holds the government of Sudan responsible. Up to 50,000 ethnic Africans have been killed and 2.2 million displaced into refugee camps in neighboring Chad by ethnic Arab militias. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3641820.stm) (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/09/09/sudan.powell/index.html)
  • A car bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 9 people (according to the BBC) and wounding 180. Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian terrorist group connected with Al Qaeda, is believed responsible. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3643264.stm) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6191406) (News.com.au) (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10714565%255E2,00.html)
  • Four (or possibly five) Palestinians, including a 9 year old boy, a Hamas militant, and two young Palestinian men, are killed as Israeli tanks force their way into the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza while receiving gunfire from scores of gunmen opposed to the invasion. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6193620) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3640212.stm)
  • US and Iraqi forces have launched an offensive to drive insurgents out of the northern Iraqi town of Talafar. Hospital sources say at least 17 people have been killed including several women and children. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3640146.stm)
  • Seventy suspected Taliban or Al Qaida terrorists are said to have been killed in a Pakistani air raid close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Several civilians are also believed to have been killed. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3640162.stm)
  • Costa Rica asks the U.S. to remove it from the list of Iraq coalition partners. (NYT) (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/international/americas/10costa.html)
  • Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah of Brunei marries Sarah Salleh. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3640114.stm)
  • 2004 Atlantic hurricane season: Hurricane Ivan strengthens to the first Category 5 hurricane of the season, with sustained wind speeds of 160 mi/h (260 km/h). It is currently forecast to strike Jamaica, Cuba and possibly Florida. The storm has the potential to cause catastrophic damage. (NOAA/NHC) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/090543.shtml?)

September 8, 2004

  • Conflict in Russia (Chechnya): Russian President Vladimir Putin's government offers 300 million rubles (USD 10m) for information leading to the arrest of Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov. Maskhadov was the last democratically elected leader of Chechnya. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3636818.stm) (Guardian) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,1299663,00.html)
  • U.N. officials say a ten-year-old Palestinian girl is in critical condition after being hit by "indiscriminate" gunfire from Israeli forces while sitting in school. Israel alleges that it exchanged fire with militants in the area but says it did not fire at buildings. (UN) (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11841&Cr=palestin&Cr1=) (AP) (http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2271450) (AFP) (http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=26447) (The Scotsman) (http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3468995)
  • 2004 U.S. presidential election:
    • The National Board of the Log Cabin Republicans votes 22-2 against endorsing George W. Bush, citing his support for a constitutional amendment to define marriage in the U.S. The LCR is the largest group of gay men and lesbians in the Republican Party. This is the first time in the group's ten-year history that it has not endorsed the Republican candidate for president. (MSNBC) (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5941189/)
    • US Democrats and Republicans wrangle over Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks about Democratic candidate John Kerry and terrorism. Cheney originally said, "It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States." The Kerry campaign interpreted this remark as a claim that, if John Kerry was elected, America would be hit by a devastating terrorist attack. The next day, Cheney told the Cincinnati Enquirer, "I did not say if Kerry is elected, we will be hit by a terrorist attack." Democrats contend that Cheney's original statement reveals that Republicans "have consciously adopted a strategy of using Americans' justifiable fear of a future terrorist attack as a political tool." Democratic VP candidate John Edwards says that Cheney's remark shows that he and Bush "will do anything and say anything to save their jobs". (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3636852.stm) (The Daily Misleader (http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df09102004.html))
    • CBS News announces the discovery of newly uncovered records of United States President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard. These documents are known as the Killian memos. The Democratic campaign concludes (1) that the records show then Lieutenant Bush disobeyed orders, and (2) that the Bush campaign lied about having made all such records public. (Nashville Tennessean/AP) (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_NATIONAL_GUARD?SITE=TNNAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) Within hours, several bloggers question the authenticity of the memos which initates the public's view of nature of the report for the next several weeks.
  • A federal judge in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, strikes down the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, citing a lack of an exception to protect the health of the mother. This is the third time the controversial law has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge within the last month. It is almost assured that the government will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. (CNN.com) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/08/nebraska.abortion.ap/index.html)
  • Italians outraged by the latest kidnapping in Iraq — of two Italian aid workers — gather to protest outside Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's offices in Rome. (New Zealand Herald) (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=3590013)
  • The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands as its parachute fails to open. The damage to the science instruments and collected samples on board is not yet known. (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3638926.stm)

September 7, 2004

September 6, 2004

  • Conflict in Iraq: Near the Sunni city of Fallujah, seven U.S. Marines and three Iraqi soldiers are killed in an ambush. Elsewhere, U.S. troops, backed by U.S. planes and Iraqi forces, raid the city of Najaf. The U.S. military tells residents to flee, mounts a pincer movement to trap the Mahdi army in the city center, and raids Moqtada al-Sadr's house again. (News Interactive [Australia]) (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10681861%255E401,00.html) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3630966.stm)
  • The heart bypass surgery being performed on former United States President Bill Clinton is successfully completed. Clinton will spend the night in the intensive care unit of New York-Presbyterian Hospital before being moved to the general care unit tomorrow. Full recovery from the surgery could take a month. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/06/clinton.bypass/index.html)

September 5, 2004

  • Two large earthquakes strike western Japan, the first measuring 6.9 and the second 7.3 on the Richter scale. Tsunamis 1–2m (3–7 ft) are expected to hit the Pacific coast. (Reuters) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=716&e=15&u=/nm/20040905/ts_nm/quake_japan_dc)
  • Women on Waves, a group that provides abortions in international waters for women in countries where the procedure is outlawed, is denied access to Portuguese territorial waters. The Portuguese government has placed warships in the vicinity to enforce the decision. (Indymedia) (http://www.indymedia.org/or/2004/09/111778.shtml)
  • Iraqi officials now say that contrary to earlier reports, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the deputy commander of Iraq's armed forces during the rule of Saddam Hussein, has not been captured. Medical tests now show that the man who had been identified as al-Douri is actually one of his relatives. Seventy of al-Douri's supporters are now dead and 80 have been captured. Al-Douri is number six on the U.S.'s list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis. (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/06/iraq.main/index.html) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6158502)
  • Hurricane Frances, a Category Two Hurricane, moves across Florida. Insurance claims for damages are estimated to be between USD 2 and 10 billion. At least two deaths are attributed to Frances in the Bahamas, and one in Gainesville, Florida. (NOAA/NHC) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT1+shtml/) (MSNBC) (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5921725/)

September 4, 2004

September 3, 2004

  • The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China criticizes Chen Shui-bian's recent suggestion that "Taiwan" is the best abbreviation for the Republic of China, characterizing it as an attempt to promote Taiwan independence. (Taiwan News) (http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/2004/09/04/1094265768.htm) (People's Daily) (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200409/04/eng20040904_155873.html) (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6150137)
  • At the request of Syria, and in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559, Lebanon amends its constitution to allow President Émile Lahoud to serve an additional term. (NYT) (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Lebanon-President.html)
  • Former United States President Bill Clinton is to receive urgent heart bypass surgery as early as Monday. He was admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital on Friday after an angiogram showed lesions in multiple coronary arteries. (AP) (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040903/D84SANK01.html) (CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/03/clinton.tests/index.html)
  • Beslan school hostage crisis:
    • The hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia ends violently as fighting erupts in the early afternoon between the hostage-takers and Russian special forces. Special forces teams storm the school, in attempt to save the remaining hostages, after two explosions are heard and the hostage-takers fire on a medical team attempting to remove dead bodies. Several hundred people die in the ensuing battle; the hostage-takers shoot some hostages are shot in the back as the hostages attempt to flee.
    • Official reports list 335 confirmed dead, including 156 children, and more than 700 wounded; 176 remain missing. Some of the hostage-takers briefly escape, but eventually all are reported killed or captured by Russian authorities. (BBC: 1 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3624024.stm), 2 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3624024.stm), 3 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3624024.stm)) (Interfax: 1 (http://www2.interfax.ru/eng/news/politics/040903/64859/story.html), 2 (http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10699281))

September 2, 2004

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