Men in History (9th, March)

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Men in History (9th, March)

By James Hughes

1897        Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (b.1838), itinerant Islamic activist and British intelligence agent, died in Istanbul. He is considered as one of the founders of Islamic modernism and an advocate of pan-Islamic unity. 1914        US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demanded the “Cubanisation of Mexico.” 1916        Pancho Villa led 1,500 horsemen in a night raid on Columbus, New Mexico. 18 US soldiers and citizens were killed as the town was looted and burned. PresidentWoodrow Wilson responded by ordering General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing to “pursue and disperse” the bandits. Wilson called out 158,664 National Guard members to deal with the situation.1932        Eamon De Valera was elected Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland and pledged to abolished all loyalty to the British Crown. 1934        Uri Gregarin (Yuri Gagarin), first man to orbit the Earth, was born. 1943        Bobby Fischer (d.2008), first American world chess champion (1972-1975), was born. He later authored “Bobby Fischer’s Games of Chess.” 1953        U.S. vs. Reynolds was a landmark ruling that formally established the government’s “state secrets” privilege, a privilege that has enabled federal agencies to conceal conduct, withhold documents and block troublesome civil litigation, including suits by whistle-blowers and possible victims of discrimination. It provided a fundamental basis for much of the Bush administration’s response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, including the USA Patriot Act and the handling of terrorist suspects. 1956        British authorities arrested and deported Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus to the Seychelles. He was accused of supporting terrorists. 1960       In Seattle, Wa., Clyde Shields (39), was implanted with the 1st kidney dialysis shunt developed by Dr. Belding H. Scribner (d.2003) and engineer Wayne Quinton.The process was 1st developed in the 1940s by Dr. Willem J. Kolff, but had been restricted to operating rooms. Shields lived for 11 more years. 1972        Edwin W. Edwards began serving as governor of Louisiana and continued to Mar 10, 1980. 1974        Mar 9, Officer Hiroo Onoda (d.2014), the last Japanese soldier operating in the Philippines, surrendered, 29 years after World War II ended. The Japanese intelligence officer and WWII holdout, came out of hiding in fatigues patched many times over, on Lubang island in the Philippines on his 52nd birthday. 1977        Admiral Stansfield Turner took office as head of the CIA under Pres. Carter. 1981        Dan Rather made his debut as principal anchorman of “The CBS Evening News.” 1995        Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman took the stand at the O.J. Simpson murder trial, denying ever meeting a woman who had accused him of making racist remarks. 1997       In Los Angeles black Gangsta rapper Christopher G. Wallace (24), The Notorious B.I.G. or aka Biggie Smalls, was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting. He had been accused of being involved in a 1994 robbery in which Tupac Shakur was shot and robbed of $40,000. In 1999 Amir Muhammad, aka Harry Billups, was named as the suspected gunman. Muhammad was suspected to have been hired by former LAPD officer David A. Mack. In 2005 a judge declared a mistrial when large numbers of LAPD documents were found that hadn’t been turned over to the court. 1999        French police arrested Javier Arizcuren-Ruiz, aka Kantauri, leader of the military wing of the Basque ETA along with 5 other ETA members. 2002       Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown (58), was convicted by an Atlanta jury for the murder of a sheriff’s deputy on Mar 16, 2000. Brown was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Mar 13. 2003      Renee Zellwegger, lead actress in “Chicago,” won the top Screen Actors Guild Award along with Daniel Day-Lewis, for his role in “Gangs of New York.”2004        In Haiti Gerard Latortue (69), a lawyer and economist, was named as interim prime minister. 2005        Dan Rather (73) made his final news broadcast with CBS Evening News. 2009        President Barack Obama signed an executive order reversing the US government’s ban on funding stem-cell research today and pledge to “use sound, scientific practice and evidence, instead of dogma” to guide federal policy. 2013        In Renton, Washington, Robert Taylor (82) and his wife Norma (80) were killed in an overnight attack. Michael Boysen (26), their grandson recently released from prison, was suspected of their murder. Boysen was captured with a self-inflicted cut in a hotel room on March 12. 2014        Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (50) assumed command of the Int’l. Space Station (ISS). 2014        In Syria Ali Moustafa, a Canadian freelance photographer, was killed alongside 7 other people after government aircraft dropped two explosive-laden containers in the rebel-held Hadariyeh area of Aleppo.

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