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S&P +10.79 Gold -1.0 NAS +23.06 USD +0.28 DOW +99.02 CRB -0.50 |
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Insurgents attack the tent enclosed dining hall of Camp Merez, a U.S. and Iraqi forward operating base in Mosul. Fatalities, including both Americans and Iraqis number 24 with 60 wounded. Initially, and rocket or mortar attack is reported, but a day later it becomes apparent that the attack is a ... |
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Amid increasing violence in the run-up to Iraqi elections, British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a surprise visit to Baghdad for tallks with interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. |
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The ACLU charges that military interrogators at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay posed as FBI agents, and abused detainees by various methods including inserting lit cigarettes in their ears. |
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Cisco Systems announces that it is buying privately held Protego Networks of Sunnyvale, CA for $65 Million. Protego provides tools for security monitoring and threat management used in enterprise and small-to-medium business networks. |
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Santy Worm penetrates phpBB websites. |
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The Nihon Keizai Shimbun announces, without citing sources, that Sony plans to withdraw from the plasma television business in the first half of 2005 and devote its flat-panel TV operations to liquid crystal display versions. Sony denies the assertion. |
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Militants in Iraq free French journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot, who were taken hostage on the 20th of August. Spokespersons for the Islamic Army in Iraq said they had been freed because of France's anti-war stance. |
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Cuban students rally outside the US mission in Havana to protest a lighted US display counting the number of Cuban dissidents arrested. Speakers at the government sponsored protest protrayed current US foreign policy as "fascist" and US diplomats in the capital as "subversive". |
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Boeing's new heavy-lift Delta 4 rocket finally lifts-off from Cape Canaveral after several days of delay. The 230 foot vehicle places a dummy payload and two university research satellites into orbit on its maiden voyage. |
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The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 97.83 to 10,759.43, jumping 0.9 percent to its highest level since June 2001 after pushing past its closing high for 2004 of 10,737.70, set in mid-February. Johnson & Johnson the lone loser among the 30 index components. |
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Fannie Mae, the US Mortgage financing giant, dismisses CEO Franklin Raines and CFO Timothy Howard in a scandal associated with accounting errors that require a complete restatement of earnings. |
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Raises the color-coded Threat Level to Orange or High. |
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TIME Magazine Names New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer "Crusader of the Year" |
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US VP Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Christmas cards with the word beacon spelled as "beakon." |
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Drexel admits guilt in securities felonies, and pays a fine of $650 million. |
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Top London store Harrods is bombed, but there are no fatalities |
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The Grumman F-14A Tomcat makes its first flight. |
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Southern Japan experiences an earthquake which kills 1,046 people. |
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The British sloop HMS Deptford and the corvette Samphire sink U-567 in the North Atlantic. |
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Ronald Reagan is drafted into the U.S. Army. His nearsighted vision relegates him to the Motion Picture Army Unit in Culver City California where he makes training and propaganda films. |
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Adolf Hitler names Adolf Eichmann to lead "Referat IV B," which dealt with Jewish affairs and evacuation. He is transferred to Gestapo of the Reich Main Security Office. For next six years, Eichmann's office is HQ for the "Final Solution." |
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First flight of the prototype German Junkers Ju 88 bomber airplane. |
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Nepal changes status from a British protectorate to an independent nation. |
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Us Explorer Robert E. Peary is first to reach North Pole. |
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Charles Darwin and the rest of the HMS Beagle sails into the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. |
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