This Day In History

Monday, March 01, 2010

Today is Monday, March 1, the 60th day of 2010. There are 305 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight

2004: Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide claims he was forced to leave Haiti by US military forces. Aristide, in a phone interview said that he was abducted from Haiti by US troops who accompanied him on a flight to the Central African Republic.

Other Notable Events

1562: Some 1,200 French Huguenots are slain at Massacre of Vassy, provoking first War of Religion in France.

1692: The Salem Witch trial begins in the American colony of Massachusetts.

1829: Brig Gen Juan Manuel de Rosas is sworn in as governor of Buenos Aires and rules Argentina until 1852.

1919: Korean independence is declared in Seoul and 2 million people rally, leading to brutal Japanese repression.

1954: First conference of Organisation of American States opens in Caracas, Venezuela.

1961: US President John F Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.

1966: Soviet Union lands one-tonne spacecraft on planet Venus after three-and-a-half month flight.

1985: Julio Sanguinetti is sworn in as constitutional president of Uruguay, ending nine years of military rule.

1988: South African government introduces bill to outlaw foreign funding of political activity.

1989: UN General Assembly approves $416 million for UN's one-year plan to free Namibia from 74 years of South African rule.

1991: Colombia's third largest rebel group, the Popular Liberation Army, formally lays down its arms.

1992: Muslims and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina vote for independence from Yugoslavia, enraging Serb nationalists.

1993: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin closes the occupied Gaza Strip "for a number of days" after a Gaza Palestinian stabs to death two Israelis and wounds nine others.

1994: Israel releases more than 500 Palestinian prisoners to coax the Palestinian Liberation Organisation back to peace talks.

1997: About 5,000 neo-Nazis march through Munich to protest an exhibit on the army's involvement in World War II atrocities.

1998: Serbian police sweep through ethnic Albanian villages in the troubled Kosovo province while the Albanians' leader appeals to the West to stop the violence. Twenty-four Albanians are killed by Serbian security forces in a few days.

1999: Rwandan Hutu rebels, claiming they oppose American and British support of the Tutsi government in Rwanda, abduct eight foreign tourists from camps in the Ugandan rain forest and hack them to death.

2003: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described planner and organiser of the September 11 attacks is captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

2006: Authorities regain control of Afghanistan's most notorious prison after four days of rioting allegedly sparked by al-Qaeda and Taliban convicts. Six inmates are reported killed in the revolt.

2007: Japan's nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denies Tokyo's military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II, backtracking from a past government apology.

2008: Prince Harry returns to Britain after his secret deployment with the military in Afghanistan was cut short after 10 weeks by disclosures in the media on February 28.

2009: Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resigns after the country's attorney general informs him that he plans to indict him on suspicion of illicitly taking cash-stuffed envelopes from a Jewish-American businessman.

Today's Birthdays

Frederic Chopin, Polish romantic pianist and composer (1810-1849); Theophile Delcasse, French statesman (1852-1923); Giles Lytton Strachey, English author (1880-1932); Yitzhak Rabin, former Israeli prime minister (1922-1995); Harry Belafonte, US singer/actor (1927-); Dirk Benedict, US actor/director (1945-); Ron Howard, US director/actor (1954-); Roger Daltrey, British singer/songwriter (1944-); Javier Bardem, Spanish actor (1969-).

--AP

PIC saved as Aristide in Monday's TO FIX

Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, seen here with his wife Mildred, says the US military forced him out of Haiti.

Belafonte in Monday's TO FIX

American musician and actor Harry Belafonte, whose father was Jamaican, celebrates 83 years today.

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