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Deaths
which occurred on a 02 November:
2004 Theo
van Gogh, 47, filmmaker shot while cycling in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, in the morning. Together with liberal Dutch politician Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee, van Gogh had recently made a short feature
on with violence against Islamic women, titled Submission. Van
Gogh then received death threats in Amsterdam, according to eyewitnesses.
Van Gogh had just finished a movie about the May 2002 assassination of the
populist right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn. Theo van Gogh sometimes claimed
to be the great great grandson of Theo van Gogh [01 May 1857 – 25
Jan 1891], brother of the painter Vincent van Gogh [30 Mar 1853 –
29 Jul 1890]. His murderer, Mohammed
Bouyeri [08 Mar 1978~], is, on 26 July 2005, sentenced to life in prison.
2004 Four civilians, by car bomb targeting the military
convoy of Iraqi general Rashid Feleih, who is unhurt, in Mosul, Iraq. Among
the wounded are seven Iraqi soldiers.
2004 Nine persons, including
suicide car bomber, at the concrete barriers around the Education
Ministry, in the Azamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Some 30 persons
are wounded.
2004 Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
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2004 Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan
[photo >], born in 1918, president of the United
Arab Emirates and emir of Abu Dhabi. His eldest son, Sheik Khalifa
bin Zayed Al Nahayan, succeeds him as emir and is elected president
of the U.A.E. by the federal council of the seven emirates.
Zayed was raised as a desert nomad and was governor of Abu Dhabi's
Eastern Province from 1946 to 1966, when he deposed his brother Sheikh
Shakhbut ibn Sultan and became emir. Zayed was the principal architect
of the federation of the seven old Trucial States and became president
of the renamed U.A.E. as it became independent from Great Britain
in December 1971. In 1973 he reorganized the U.A.E.'s federal structure,
bringing most of Abu Dhabi's ministries into the federal Cabinet.
Zayed's second term as president, beginning in 1976, brought more
reforms, including the integration of the emirates' defense forces
and increased budgetary contributions from member emirates. One of
Zayed's primary achievements as emir and president was to use oil
revenues to raise the standard of living and the international importance
of the U.A.E. When a new Cabinet was sworn in in 1977, Zayed attempted
to further tighten the structure of the federation, maintaining that
its government would reflect the available administrative talent rather
than the prerogatives of separate emirates. Zayed was reelected president
of the federation in 1981.
The United
Arab Emirates (in Arabic: Dawlat Al-Imarat al-'Arabiyah al-Muttahidah)
is the federation of seven tiny emirates along the eastern Persian
Gulf coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Formerly known as the Trucial
States, Trucial Oman, or the Trucial Sheikhdoms, they are bordered
by Qatar to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west and south, and
Oman to the east and northeast. Nearly nine-tenths of the union's
83'600 square km are occupied by Abu Dhabi, the one emirate stretching
along the Trucial Coast of the Persian Gulf. The six other, much tinier
emirates are clustered on the Musandam Peninsula, which separates
the Persian Gulf from the Gulf of Oman; they are Dubai, Ajman, Sharjah,
Umm al-Qaiwain, and Ra's al-Khaimah on the Persian Gulf side and Fujairah
on the Gulf of Oman side. The city of Abu Dhabi was chosen as the
national capital when the union was formed in 1971. |
THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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2003 Walter High, who, early after midnight, has just left
a nightclub in Seattle and is standing in the street next to a parked car,
talking with passengers, when is was hit by the car driven by Troy Hagen,
29, of Olympia, high on methamphetamine. High is throws him on the hood
of Hagen's car and propelled headfirst through the windshield. Hagen drives
for more than four blocks before stopping. He removes High's body and leaves
it in the street, then drives another 11 blocks before calling 911 on his
cell phone to report the accident.
2003 Fifteen US Army soldiers in a Chinook CH-47 helicopter which
is shot down near the village Hasai, a few kilometers south of Fallujah,
Iraq, by a ground-to-air missile. 27 US soldiers are wounded, of which one,
Sgt. Paul F. Fisher, dies on 06 November 2003. They were on their way for
leave outside Iraq. Today's 15 dead are:
— 6 men serving in
the 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, III Corps Artillery:
Spc. Steven D. Conover, 21, of Wilmington OH.
Sgt. Keelan L. Moss, 23, of Houston TX.
Sgt. Joel Pérez, 25, of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
Sgt. Ross A. Pennanen, 36, of Oklahoma.
Staff Sgt. Paul A. Velazquez, 29, of California.
Staff Sgt. Joe N. Wilson, 30, of Michigan.
— A man and a woman serving in the 16th Signal Battalion:
Pfc. Anthony D. Dagostino, 20, of Waterbury CT.
Pfc. Karina S. Lau, 20, of Livingston CA.
— 4 men serving in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment:
Spc. Darius T. Jennings, 22, of Cordova SC, in its
2nd Squadron.
Sgt. Ernest G. Bucklew, 33, of Enon Valley PA, in its
Support Squadron.
Staff Sgt. Daniel A. Bader, 28, of Colorado Springs
CO, in its Air Defense Artillery Battery, 1st Squadron.
Spc. Brian H. Penisten, 28, Fort Wayne IN, Air Defense
Artillery Battery, 1st Squadron.
— 2 men serving in Company F, 106th Aviation Battalion, Army
National Guard:
1st Lt. Brian D. Slavenas, 30, of Genoa IL F Company,
106th Aviation Battalion, Army National Guard.
Chief Warrant Officer Bruce A. Smith, 41, of West Liberty
IA, of its Detachment 1
— A woman serving in the 151st Adjutant General Postal Detachment
3:
Spc. Frances M. Vega, 20, of Fort Buchanan, Puerto
Rico.
2003 A US soldier of the 1st Armored Division, by a roadside
bomb in Baghdad.
2003 Two US civilians working for the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, by a roadside bomb in Fallujah, Iraq.
2003 Some 70 persons by drowning and by being hit by rocks and
tree logs in a 10-minute 21:30 flash flood in Bohorok, near Medan,
Sumatra, Indonesia. The dead include 5 foreigners: a German, an Australian,
two Chinese and a Singaporean. The flood, consequence of massive logging
in the nearby Leuser National Park, destroyed cheap guesthouses for the
tourists who come to visit the Orangutan Reserve in Bohorok.
2003 Sharifbhai, Zakir Allarakha, and Zakir Yusuf; all
three of the same Muslim family, shot by Purushottam Jadhav, a former
municipal councilor, in Virangam town, 70 km from Ahmedabad {now you know
why it isn't named Ahmedagood}, India. A few youths of the Muslim minority
community were playing cricket in the Chand Fadi neighborhood of Virangam,
the ball entered a place of worship, and a riot ensued. Jadhav, who was
passing by, abused the youths who beat him up, and followed him to his
home from where he called the police and informed them that a mob was
gathering outside his house and throwing stones. He and his friends then
fire on the mob. Jadhav, along with 24 others, is arrested. Forty persons,
including three teen-aged boys, are injured.
2002 Selden Rodman, born on 19 February 1909, poet, critic,
promoter of Haitian
and other folk
art. author of more than 40 books including Mortal Triumph and
Other Poems (1932), New Anthology of Modern Poetry (1938),
1947 Horace Pippin, a Negro Painter in America (1947) Mexican
Journal (1958).
2001 Yasser Asira, by a missile fired from an Israeli
helicopter, as the Hamas militant, from Tell, West Bank, was en route
to a terrorist attack (according to the Israelis).
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2001 Mona Fandey, her husband Mohamed Affandi Abdul Rahman,
and their helper Juraimi Hussin, hanged.
They go to the gallows in Malaysia after
exhausting all appeals for the murder of Mazlan Idris in 1993. The
three were sentenced to death in 1995 after a sensational trial
which heard how they approached Mazlan with promises of building
his career and fortune, then chopped his body into bits and went
on a shopping spree with his money.
The murder story was among the most bizarre in the country's history.
A US-educated lawmaker in Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's United
Malays National Organization (UMNO), Mazlan sought supernatural
help to climb up the party ladder. Before his killing, he was made
to lie on a floor, close his eyes and wait for money to "fall from
the sky." He was then beheaded with an axe, skinned and chopped
into 18 parts before being buried in a hole and covered over with
cement.
His grisly death led
to calls for a ban on witchcraft, which remains a fairly common
practice among superstitious Malays. The murder trial also became
a media circus because Fandey performed various theatrics in court
and wore jazzy outfits and smiled for press photographers. The voodoo
woman — said to be a member of royalty, a pop singer and water
ballet artiste before turning to witchcraft — testified she
had also given talismans and charms to other UMNO politicians to
make them more appealing to voters. The court heard she used Mazlan's
money for plastic surgery and she also bought a Mercedes Benz. Her
husband, in his defense, said Mazlan owed him two million ringgit
($526'000) for a "magic cane," talisman and a traditional hat said
to have belonged to former Indonesian president Sukarno. |
2001 Epifanio Irizarry Jusino, 86, in his native Ponce,
Puerto Rico, impressionist painter.
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2000 More die in al-Aqsa intifada
Threatening an early morning truce agreement, a car bomb
kills two Israelis in the afternoon as it exploded near
an open-air market that was a favorite target of Islamic groups
during previous waves of terrorism. A tremendous boom resounded
through downtown Jerusalem as black plumes of smoke curled into
the sky. On the narrow one-way street where the explosion took place
lay the charred, mangled remains of the car. In an alleyway, sheets
draped the two victims, one the daughter of a former cabinet
member.
After two
relatively explosion-free years, Israelis hoped that terrorism belonged
to the past. But in the last month, the peace effort has been sliding
backward into violence.
In
the morning, Israelis and Palestinians agreed to put the brakes
on their violent confrontation and steer their societies back toward
the path of peace. After a bloody day yesterday, they establish
a series of steps to end the conflict. Even after the afternoon's
bombing, the two sides reiterate their commitments. Like the broken
truce agreements behind them, though, this latest one was immediately
tested by events. As agreed, for instance, the Israelis pulled back
their tanks this morning from certain junctions between Israeli-controlled
and Palestinian- ruled territories in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian
youths still marched to the Beit El junction near Ramallah, however,
and began throwing stones. At first, they lobbed the rocks into
a void; there was no longer any Israeli target there. By day's end,
though, the Israeli soldiers had returned, and the familiar confrontations
resumed. Similarly, despite the cease-fire pact, Palestinian gunmen
opened fire once more tonight on Gilo, the southeastern Jerusalem
neighborhood, and Israeli troops returned machine-gun fire toward
the shooting in the Palestinian town of Beit Jala.
Even as the day began, a 17-year- old Palestinian was shot dead
in a clash in the village of Hizme near Jerusalem. In a phone call,
Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel extended condolences about the
death to Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, his office said.
And an 18-year-old Palestinian was shot in the heart after an emotional
funeral in Al Khader, near Bethlehem. The death toll from the monthlong
conflict rose to 168.
No one
expected immediate results from the overnight decision, considering
the patterns of conflict established over many weeks. But the Israeli
and Palestinian leaders contributed to the skepticism when they
hesitated to deliver simultaneous, joint appeals for calm. The appeals
were scheduled for 14:00. Israeli Channel One and Channel Two went
live from the Defense Ministry, where Mr. Barak was expected to
speak. In her home in Gilo, with her shutters pulled low as an extra
layer to guard against bullets, Tami Reuveni sat on her couch and
waited. She waited while television reporters filled the time with
banter and speculations. She got up, washed a few dishes and then
returned to wait some more. At the sound of gunfire, her 10-year-old
daughter shouted, "Mom, they're shooting at us again." But Mrs.
Reuveni told her not to worry; the shooting sounded as if it was
in Bethlehem. "That's it," Mrs. Reuveni said finally, clicking off
the doily-covered set at 14:40. "They're not going to bother with
making empty promises. There's no chance of peace, no chance for
cease-fire even." The appeals were delayed when Mr. Arafat refused
to appear before cameras, and Mr. Barak declined to go first. They
tentatively decided that they would both go on the radio instead
at 16:00.
But before that,
the car, a Mazda packed with 10 kg of explosives, blew up near the
Mahane Yehuda Market. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group claimed
responsibility for the attack. "The Jerusalem Brigades, the military
arm of the Islamic Jihad movement, affirms that this action came
as part of our response to the crimes of the Israeli enemy against
our defenseless Palestinian people," the group said in a statement
faxed to news organizations. One of those killed was the 28-year-
old daughter of Yitzhak Levy, leader of the National Religious Party,
which represents the settlers and religious Zionists. Mr. Levy served
as housing minister under Mr. Barak until his party quit the government
last summer in protest against expected concessions to the Palestinians.
He identified the body of his daughter, Ayelet Hashachar.
The other person killed was Hanan Levy, 33, a lawyer. Yaakov Hasson,
a shopkeeper who is also a medic, said he struggled to pull a woman's
body, apparently Mrs. Hashachar's, from the flames. Mr. Hasson,
whose trousers were stained with blood, said that he realized quickly
that the woman was dead, her legs blown off by the blast. Mrs. Hashachar
was in the process of moving from a settlement near Ramallah to
Jerusalem. Several hundred people attended her funeral late tonight,
including a Who's Who of the Israeli right wing, among them Benjamin
Netanyahu, the former prime minister, and Ariel Sharon, the Likud
Party leader. The rabbis' speeches repeatedly said that she was
killed "because she was a Jew." Among the 10 wounded in the bombing
were six members of a family from Gilo called Or. They had escaped
from their tense neighborhood to their grandmother's home near the
market, only to find themselves in the epicenter of a terror attack.
"We ran away from Gilo, came to the heart of the city and were hit
by an attack here," said Rinat. Or, a young girl who was lightly
wounded. "I guess we're going back to Gilo."
The police presence near the market had been high because of a terror
alert. Police investigators suggested that the bombers were heading
for the congested center of the market, but took side roads when
they saw the officers. Their car got stuck behind a moving van on
narrow Shomron Street. They apparently jumped out and fled on foot,
detonating the car as they ran. "Somebody wanted to make a big disaster
in the center of city," said Yehuda Wilk, the Israeli police commissioner.
"They certainly didn't intend to let the bomb explode in a small
narrow street." At first, as a crowd began gathering at the site,
word traveled that it was the bombers who were killed. " When it
became clear that the two killed were Israelis, fury passed through
the rapidly growing crowd. A senior Palestinian official, Nabil
Shaath, said he had called Mr. Barak's chief of staff, Gilad Sher,
to express sorrow over the bombing.
Mr. Barak suggested in a statement that he held the Palestinian
government responsible for the attack since it recently released
suspected terrorists from prison and "loosened the reins." But Shimon
Peres, the former prime minister, brushed away this accusation as
counter-productive. It was Mr. Peres who had traveled to Gaza on
Wednesday night to reach the truce agreement with Mr. Arafat. "We
don't know who carried out the attack, but we do know that we have
to return to negotiations," Mr. Peres said. By late tonight, neither
leader had gone on the air to issue a declaration of a cease-fire,
as stipulated in their early morning agreement. Mr. Sher, however,
said he believed that the Palestinians had made a concerted effort
to quiet the streets today, which he did not believe that they had
done after the truce agreement reached in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt,
two weeks ago.
The Palestinians
released a statement calling on their people "to continue their
popular expressions through peaceful means." But the Israelis criticized
the statement for not making an explicit call for the violence to
stop. The Israeli government released a text of what it said was
the joint declaration that Mr. Barak and Mr. Arafat were to have
read. It said, in part, "I hereby call all forces and parties to
refrain from violence, incitement and the use of force in order
to restore peace and calm." Islamic resistance groups, which have
been talking with the Palestinian Authority about forming a unity
government, denounced the cease- fire agreement this morning. The
Hamas organization led a march of thousands in Gaza protesting against
a truce and a return to peace talks. A Hamas statement said Palestinians
should seek instead "to transform the land under the feet of the
occupiers into flames and a volcano." |
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1984 Margie Velma Barfield, executed for murder.
In North Carolina, Margie Velma Barfield
becomes the first woman to be executed in the modern era of the
death penalty in the US. Capital punishment, banned in 1972, was
reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. Women on death row in 1972
had had their death sentences commuted to life, and a woman had
not been executed since 1962. The fifty-two-year-old private nurse
and former Sunday school teacher was convicted of lacing her fiancée's
food with rat poison, and later admitted to poisoning three others,
including her mother. In prison, Barfield became known as "Death
Row Granny," and considered herself a born-again Christian who had
repented for her crimes. Despite opposition to her death sentence
by several national and international groups, North Carolina carried
out the execution |
1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, director cinematográfico, novelista
y poeta, asesinado en Ostia (Italia).
1970 Besicovitch,
mathematician
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1963 Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu,
murdered during coup approved by US.
South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh
Nhu are murdered during a coup by dissident generals of the South
Vietnamese army. In the early afternoon hours of 01 November 1963,
the dissidents seized key military installations and communications
systems in Saigon, secured the surrender of Nhu's Special Forces,
and demanded the resignation of Diem and Nhu. The president and
his brother first believed the attack to be the opening of a countercoup
engineered by Nhu and General To That Dinh, who controlled nearly
all forces in and around Saigon, but Dinh had joined the insurgent
generals. Diem was unable to summon any support, so he and Nhu escaped
the palace through an underground passage to a Catholic church in
the Chinese sector of the city. From there, Diem began negotiating
with the generals by phone. He agreed to surrender and was promised
safe conduct, but shortly after midnight he and his brother were
brutally murdered in back of the armored personnel carrier sent
to pick them up and bring them back to the palace.
President Kennedy, who was aware that the generals were planning
a coup and had sent word that the United States would not interfere,
was nonetheless shocked at the murder of Diem and Nhu. Few in South
Vietnam shared his surprise, though, as Diem had been very unpopular,
particularly with the Buddhists. In fact, many in Saigon rejoiced
at his death. The Soviet newspaper Izvestia expressed satisfaction
at Diem's end while asserting that, "...new American puppets have
come to power." US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge called the insurgent
generals to his office to congratulate them and cabled Kennedy that
the prospects for a shorter war had greatly improved with the demise
of Diem and Nhu.
Following
the overthrow of his government by South Vietnamese military forces
the day before, President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured
and killed by a group of soldiers. The death of Diem caused celebration
among many people in South Vietnam, but also lead to political chaos
in the nation. The United States subsequently became more heavily
involved in Vietnam as it tried to stabilize the South Vietnamese
government and beat back the communist rebels that were becoming
an increasingly powerful threat. While the United States publicly
disclaimed any knowledge of or participation in the planning of
the coup that overthrew Diem, it was later revealed that US officials
met with the generals who organized the plot and gave them encouragement
to go through with their plans. Quite simply, Diem was perceived
as an impediment to the accomplishment of US goals in Southeast
Asia. His increasingly dictatorial rule only succeeded in alienating
most of the South Vietnamese people, and his brutal repression of
protests led by Buddhist monks during the summer of 1963 convinced
many US officials that the time had come for Diem to go. Three weeks
later, an assassin shot President Kennedy. By then, the United States
was more heavily involved in the South Vietnamese quagmire than
ever. Its participation in the overthrow of the Diem regime signaled
a growing impatience with South Vietnamese management of the war.
From this point on, the United States moved step by step to become
more directly and heavily involved in the fight against the communist
rebels. |
1961 James Grove Thurber, 61, humorist (The Male Animal)
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1950 George Bernard Shaw.
Shaw was born on 26 July 1856. In his work, Shaw supported socialism
and decried the abuses of capitalism, the degradation of women,
and the ill effects of poverty, violence, and war. His writing was
filled with humor, wit and sparkle, as well as reformist messages.
In 1925, Shaw won the Nobel Prize
for literature.
— MORE
SHAW ONLINE: |
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1949 Paul Michel Dupuy, French artist born on 22 March
1869
1931 Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, poeta uruguayo.
1927 Rodolphe Wytsman, Belgian artist born on 11 March
1860.
1920 Louise Imogen Guiney, author. GUINEY ONLINE: A
Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses, A
Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses.
1919 Edgar Stanton Maclay, editor of The
Journal of William Maclay, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-1791
1917 First US soldiers killed in combat in WW I
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1916 More casualties as French retake forts Douaumont and
Vaux at Verdun.
During the
First World War Verdun was a fortified French garrison town
on the River Meuse 200 km east of Paris. In December 1915, General
Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of Staff
of the German Army, decided to attack Verdun. Although he admitted
he would be unable to break through at these point on the Western Front, he argued that in defending
Verdun, the Germans would "bleed the French army white".
The German attack on Verdun started
on 21 February 1916. A million troops, led by Crown Prince Wilhelm, faced only about 200'000
French defenders. The following day the French was forced to retreat
to their second line of trenches. By 24 February the French had
moved back to the third line and were only 8km from Verdun.
On 24th February, General Henri-Philippe Pétain was appointed
commander of the Verdun sector. He gave orders that no more withdrawals
would take place. He arranged for every spare French soldier to
this part of the Western Front. Of the 330 infantry regiments
of the French Army, 259 eventually fought at Verdun.
The German advance was brought
to a halt at the end of February. On 6 March, the German Fifth
Army launched a new attack at Verdun. The Germans advanced 3km
before they were stopped in front of the area around Mort Homme
Hill. The French held this strategic point until it was finally
secured by the Germans on 29 May, and Fort Vaux fell on 7th June,
after a long siege.
Further attacks continued throughout
the summer and early autumn. However, the scale of the German
attacks were reduced by the need to transfer troops to defend
their front-line at the Somme. The French now counter-attacked and
General Charles Mangin became a national hero when
the forts at Douaumont and Vaux were recaptured by 2 November
1916. Over the next six weeks the French infantry gained another
2 km at Verdun.
Verdun, the longest battle of the
First World War, ended on the 18th December. The
French Army lost about 550'000 men at Verdun.
It is estimated that the German Army suffered 434'000 casualties.
About half of all casualties at Verdun were killed. |
1914 Burkhardt,
mathematician.
1909 William Powell Frith, Britist artist born on 19
January 1819. — MORE
ON FRITH AT ART “4” NOVEMBER
with links to images.
1899 Anna Swanwick, translator of Goethe's Egmont,
Egmont,
Faust.
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The second Afghan War begins: Akbar Khan successfully
revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1841
Alexander Burnes, assassiné, les Anglais chassés de
Kaboul.
Les
Anglais étaient intervenus en Afghanistan pour renverser l’émir
Dost Mohammed, dont ils craignaient qu’il fasse allégeance aux Russes.
Après une marche difficile, l’«armée de l’Indus», forte de 16'500
combattants anglais et indiens, avait pris ses quartiers d’hiver
à Kaboul: parties de polo, soirées mondaines,... Mais les liaisons
entre officiers anglais et femmes indigènes alimentaient le ressentiment
des Afghans. Une émeute éclate le 02 novembre 1841. L’officier Alexander
Burnes, qui n’est pas le moins indifférent au charme afghan et a
imprudemment choisi d’habiter en ville plutôt que dans le cantonnement
militaire, est assassiné.
Craignant un soulèvement général, le commandant de l’expédition
ordonne un repli immédiat sur Jalalabad, à une semaine de marche.
Mais l’hiver s’est installé en force et les cols sont enneigés.
Dès le premier jour, les pillards afghans dépouillent l’armée de
ses bagages. Plus de couvertures ni de tentes. L’hiver ajoute ses
morsures aux attaques des francs-tireurs. C’est très vite la débandade.
Les soldats de la reine Victoria sont massacrés ou réduits en esclavage.
Un seul homme, le chirurgien Brydon, arrive à Jalalabad. Atteinte
dans son prestige par la plus grave défaite de son histoire coloniale,
la Grande-Bretagne organisera sans tarder une expédition punitive.
Celle-ci se contentera de détruire le fastueux Bazar couvert de
Kaboul et d’imposer un vague traité d’allégeance aux Afghans, avant
de se retirer. Jusqu’à la fin du XXe siècle, l'Afghanistan restera
fidèle à sa vocation d’Etat-tampon entre les impérialismes russe
et anglo-saxon. |
1803 Charles Leclerc, of yellow fever at Cap Français,
Saint-Domingue, French general, brother-in-law of Napoléon, who
attempted to suppress the Haitian revolt led by the former slave Toussaint-Louverture,
whom he captured by treachery after having made peace with him..
1781 El Padre Isla, escritor jesuita español.
1753 Candido Vitali (or Vitale), Italian artist born
in 1680.
1739 Charles Jervas, Irish artist born in 1675.
1705 il cavaliere Daniel Seiter (or Soiter, Syder), Italian
artist born in 1647, 1648, or 1649.
1661 Daniel Seghers (or Zeghers), le Jésuite d'Anvers,
Flemish painter born on 05 December 1590. — MORE
ON SEGHERS AT ART “4” NOVEMBER
with links to images.
1624 Cornelis van der Voort (or Voorde, Voerst), Flemish
artist born in 1576.
1600 Richard Hooker, author. HOOKER ONLINE: A
Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and how the Foundation of Faith
is Overthrown
1570 More than 1000 people as a tidal wave in the North
Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland.. |
2001
One more coup attempt in Anjouan.
Jumhuriyat al-Qumur al-Itthadiyah al-Islamiyah (République Fédérale Islamique
des Comores) is an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique
and Madagascar. It was administered by France until independence on 06 July
1975. One of its islands, Mayotte, with a Christian majority, voted to remain
in the French Community. Nevertheless it is claimed by Comoros. The other
3 main islands are Grande Comore (Njazidja), Anjouan (Nzwani), and Moheli
(Mwali).
