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an August 15: 2002 On the New York Stock Exchange the stock of Aquila Inc. (ILA) drops from its previous close of $4.95 to an intraday low of $2.22 and closes at $2.40. It started trading on 29 September 1997 at $20.55, rose to a peak of $37.55 on 21 May 2001, and, as recently as 17 April 2002 traded at $25.23. [5~year price chart >]. Aquila runs two lines of business: Regulated: (operates electric utilities and provides appliance repair and servicing) and Aquila Energy (markets wholesale energy, transports and processes natural gas). 2001 Ley de Derechos y Cultura Indígena, a Mexican constitutional amendement for Amerindian rights takes effect. It falls short of what the Amerindians were promised. 2001 Captain Strasser...has been facing embarrassment by some members of the public throwing stones at him as well as booing him the government of Sierra Leone (independent since 27 April 1961), announces, urging people to stop harassing Valentine Strasser, 34, who became Africa's youngest head of state (dictator) when he seized power in April 1992 and was overthrown in a bloodless military coup on 16 January 1996. After being overthrown, Strasser went to study in Britain. But he lost the right to stay in the former colonial power after dropping his studies and was refused entry last November after a trip to Gambia. Strasser's coup failed to end the civil war that broke out in 1991. One more cease-fire was reached in November 2000. Captain Strasser's forces were accused of torture and murder during his four-year rule, and on 26 May 2000 Amnesty International demanded that he be brought to justice for crimes against humanity. 2000 British Airways joined Air France in grounding its Concorde supersonic jets in the wake of the 25 July crash near Paris that claimed 113 lives. 2000 A group of 100 separated family members from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century; a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North. Birthdays in History for Wed, August 15 Cooking expert Julia Child is 89. Actress Dame Wendy Hiller is 89. Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly is 77. |
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1991 The UN Security Council, by a vote of 13-1, authorized
Iraq to export $1.6 billion worth of oil in a tightly controlled sale
to pay for desperately needed food and medicine. 1991 El Comité de Descolonización de la ONU reafirma el derecho de Puerto Rico a la libre determinación de independencia. 1990 President Mikhail Gorbachev restores Soviet citizenship to 1970-Nobel Prizewinning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 71, expelled to the West in 1974 for his harrowing novels attacking Stalinism. He wrote (translated titles): One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), The First Circle (1968), Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), The Gulag Archipelago (1973 Part I, 1974-75 Parts II and III), Lenin in Zurich: Chapters (1975), The Oak and the Calf (1980), The Mortal Danger (1980), In 1983 an expanded version of August 1914 appeared as the first part of a projected series, The Red Wheel, which included also October 1916, March 1917, April 1917. 1990 El gobierno de Mozambique, tras abandonar el marxismo-leninismo, legaliza el multipartidismo. 1989 Restrictions are lifted on the export of certain personal computers, such as the IBM PS/2 Model 30 and the Apple Macintosh Plus, to Soviet bloc countries, because many similar products were already available in Soviet bloc countries. This had been decided in July by the international Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls. 1986 The US Treasury Department enters the computer age with the digital “Treasury Direct” system. 1979 Andrew Young (black) resigns under pressure as UN ambassador after unauthorized meeting with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The controversy would further divide the Black and Jewish communities. 1975 Joanne Little (Black) acquitted of murdering a White jailer with an ice pick on 27August 1974. She was defending herself against sexual assault.. 1974 South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination. |
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1950 Two US divisions are badly mauled by the North Korean Army
at the Battle of the Bowling Alley in South Korea, which rages on for
five more days. 1948 Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
1942 The Japanese submarine I-25 departs Japan with a floatplane in its hold which will be assembled upon arriving off the West Coast of the United States, and used to bomb US forests on 09 September. 1931 Roy Wilkins joins NAACP as assistant secretary 1918 US and Russia sever diplomatic ties 1917 Deposed Tsar Nicholas II, family, and a few servants, are moved by Bolsteviks from their residence at Tsarskoe Selo to further imprisonment in Siberia. |
1872 The first ballot voting in England is conducted 1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed 1867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England 1864 Off New England coast, Confederate raider Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners 1863 Siege of Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina continues 1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars 1862 Skirmish at Clarendon, Arkansas
1832 Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism 1824 Freed American slaves establish Liberia. 1790 Father John Carroll, 55, is consecrated by Pius VI as the first Roman Catholic bishop (later, in 1811, the first archbishop) of the United States, with his see in Baltimore, freeing US Catholics from English oversight. 1760 Frederick II defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Liegnitz. 1748 United Lutheran Church of US organized 1620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims 1598 Battle of Yellow Ford: Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, leads an Irish force to victory over the British. 1549 The first Christian missionaries to reach Japan land at Kagoshima (on the coast of Kyushu, southernmost of the four main islands of Japan). They were Spanish Jesuits, led by pioneer Catholic missionary Francis Xavier, 43. 1534 The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was founded by Ignatius of Loyola, 43. Created to foster reform within Catholicism, and to undertake education and missionary work, this religious order was formally approved by Pope Paul III in 1540. 1514 Las Casas renounces his encomienda (colonial lands) believing they are an offense to God. 1385 John of Portugal defeats John of Castile at the Battle of Aljubarrota. 1261 Constantinople falls to Michael VIII of Nicea and his army. 1096 The armies of the First Crusade set out from Europe to deliver Jerusalem from the occupying forces of Islamic Turks. Peter the Hermit, contrary to legend, was not its initiator. Pope Urban II had called for the crusade at the Council of Clermont on 27 November 1095. 1057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan 0347 The proconsul of Africa proclaims the Catholic unity of the African Church under Gratus after years of conflict with the Donatists. Donatus withdraws into exile. |
2001 Emad Abu Sneineh, 25, ambushed and shot by Israeli undercover
troops in a parked truck, as he gets out of a car near his home. The
Israelis blamed him of being a militia leader heavily involved in shooting
attacks on Israelis in Hebron. There was no attempt to arrest him. 2001 Whale beached on Bar Beach, Lagos, Nigeria, torn apart for its meat by locals. 1998:: 29 persons by a car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility. 1996 Three engineering professors, shot by Frederick Martin Davidson, a graduate student at San Diego State University (Davidson was later sentenced to three life terms in prison). |
1935 Paul Signac, Parisian pointilliste painter, printmaker, etcher, lithographer, born on 11 November 1863. MORE ON SIGNAC AT ART 4 AUGUST LINKS Sailboats in the Bay Le Soir (La Jetée de Flessingue) Nude figure standing Le vieux port #7 Application du Cercle chromatique Le dimanche parisien Ë Flessingue The Dining Room The Dining Room M. Félix Fénéon Women at the Well Red Buoy The Large Pine, Saint-Tropez Port St. Tropez |
1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post,
in plane crash ^top^ American humorist Will Rogers, 55, and famous aviator Wiley Post, 35, are killed in an airplane accident near Point Barrow, Alaska. The aircraft, piloted by Post, was in the midst of a promotional journey across the North Pole to the USS.R. when it crashed just a few minutes after take-off. Post, a great innovator of long-distance flight, flew around the northern part of the earth in 1931 with pilot Harold Gatty (described in the book Around the World in Eight Days). Two years later, he repeated the feat alone, winning a permanent place in the annals of aviation history. His passenger, the world-renowned humorist Will Rogers, was also an enthusiast of air travel, and had taken several other long-distance flights. An Oklahoma native, Rogers worked as a cowboy in his youth before joining the vaudeville stage as a wisecracking rope-twirler in 1902. In 1915, he became a national sensation when he joined the Ziegfeld Follies, a popular stage revue. In the tradition of Mark Twain, Rogers offered profound observations from behind his rustic facade, and practically invented topical humor. The so-called "cowboy philosopher" gained a wide audience through a syndicated newspaper column, books, the radio, and starring roles in hit movies such as A Connecticut Yankee (1931), State Fair (1933), and David Harum (1934). A philanthropist, a family man, and an old cowboy who never took himself too seriously, he was the model of how Americans liked to think of themselves. Three years after his tragic death in Alaska, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated a memorial to Rogers, praising the humorist's success in keeping in Americans smiling during the hard times of the Great Depression , and for doing it all without saying a disparaging word about anyone (however Rogers had said:"I don't belong to any organized political party I'm a Democrat"). The Will Rogers Memorial, which features a museum and a famous statue of Rogers in a cowboy pose, was built on his property in Claremore, Oklahoma. Rogers, born in 1879 in Oklahoma-before Oklahoma became a state-became an immensely popular entertainer in the early 1900s. An expert rider and rope-twirler since childhood, he traveled abroad with a Wild West show. Later, he appeared at fairs and vaudeville shows, sprinkling his act with his gentle, folksy humor. In 1912, Rogers began appearing in musical comedies, and by 1917 he was starring in the Ziegfeld Follies. His folk wisdom won the hearts of the nation. He appeared in a few early films, but silent movies failed to do justice to his verbal talents. With the dawn of talking pictures in the late 1920s, Rogers became a top box-office draw. His films included Happy Days (1929), A Connecticut Yankee (1929), and Ambassador Bill (1931). In 1930, William S. Paley persuaded Rogers to try radio. Although Rogers was skeptical of the medium and disliked the microphone, his 12-episode show-full of his trademark humor and thoughtful political observations-was a hit. Later, he returned to radio, hosting Gulf Headliners in the early 1930s. Rogers declined a nomination as governor of Oklahoma but later served as mayor of Beverly Hills. Will Rogers' published works include Rogerisms the Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition (1919), Illiterate Digest (1924), and There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia (1927). Will Rogers quotes: |
1922 Boutroux,
mathematician 1909 Laura Alma-Tadema, British painter born in April 1852, second wife of painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. LINKS A Knock at the Door 1874 Henry Bryan Ziegler, British painter born on 13 February 1793. 1873 Fritz Bamberger, German painter born on 17 October 1814.
1789 Jacob(II) Bernoulli, mathematician 1758 Bouguer, mathematician 1643 Cornelis-Jacobszoon Delff, Dutch painter born in 1571. 1557 Agnes Prest, burned at the stake in Launceton, Cornwall, for expressing her Protestant convictions. Her husband and children were Catholics.
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Births which occurred on
an August 15:
1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr civil rights activist 1913 Heinz Trökes, German painter who died in 1997. 1901 Arnulfo Arias 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68) 1901 Novikov, mathematician 1893 Harlow H Curtice president of General Motors (1953-8) 1892 Louis-Victor due de Broglie France, physicist (Nobel 1929) 1892 Louis de Broglie, mathematician 1890 Jacques Ibert Paris France, composer (Escales) 1889 Jan Mankes, Dutch painter who died in 1920.
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1863 Aleksei
Krylov, mathematician 1862 Adam Emory Albright, US painter who died in 1957. 1854 Laurits Andensen Ring, Danish painter who died on 10 September 1933. Sommerdag ved Roskilde Fjord 1845 Walter Crane, English painter and illustrator who died on 15 March 1915 Crane the Socialist MORE ON CRANE AT ART 4 AUGUST LINKS full text of The Cuckoo Clock, with Crane's 9 illustrations Danseuse aux Cymbales Reverend Henry Parry The Marquis of Carabas' Picture Book The Hydropult The Quiver of Love The Yellow Dwarf Walter Crane's Picture Book Don Quixote and the Windmills Don Quixote of the Mancha The History of Reynard the Fox The Shepheard's Calendar A Book of Old Songs 1838 Franz Richard Unterberger, German artist who died on 25 May 1902. 1828 Frank Buchser, Swiss painter who died on 22 November 1890. Village Street in Woodstock, Virginia Landscape near Scarborough 1803 Eugène-Napoléon Flandin, French painter who died in 1876. 1795 Léger, mathematician. 1785 Thomas De Quincey Eng, writer. DEQUINCEY ONLINE: Confessions of English Opium Eater, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (another site), Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
1702 Francesco Zuccarelli, Florentine landscape painter who worked principally in Venice and England. He died on 30 December 1788. MORE ON ZUCCARELLI AT ART 4 AUGUST LINKS Bacchanal The Rape of Europa _ detail Women with a Censer The Return of the Holy Family From Egypt 1688 Frederick-William I king of Prussia (1713-1740) 1666 Jean-Pierre Abesch (Joan Petrus von Esch), Swiss painter who died in 1740, 1741, or 1742. 1613 Jeremy Taylor, Anglican clergyman and devotional writer. Two of his works became classic expressions of Anglican spirituality: JEREMY TAYLOR ONLINE: The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living (1650) and The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying. (1651). 1557 Agostino Carracci, Italian printmaker and painter who died on 22 March 1602. MORE ON CARRACCI AT ART 4 AUGUST LINKS Tobias and the Angel Apollo and the Python The Three Graces Satyr Whipping a Nymph Lute Player Holy Family with Saints A Headpiece St. Jerome Omnia Vincit Amor Head of a Faun in a Concave The Annunciation
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