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Deaths
which occurred on a 06 March:
2008 Paulos Faraj Rahho [20 Nov 1942–] [photo >],
Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mossul, Iraq, dies captive of terrorists
who, on 29 February 2008, abducted him from his car, while killing his driver,
Faris Gorgis Khoder, and his bodyguards; Ramy and Samir. Together with subdeacons
Basman Yousef Daud, Wahid Hanna Isho, and Gassan Isam Bidawed, the archbishop's
secretary Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni [20 Jan 1972–] had been murdered
on 03 June 2007. Rahho was ordained a priest on 10 June 1965 and consecrated
a bishop on 16 February 2001. —(080313)
2007
Some 120 Shi'ah Muslim
pilgrims and two joint suicide bombers in Hilla, Iraq. Some 160
are wounded. The crowd of pilgrims was traveling on foot to attend in Karbala
on 09 March 2007 the massive celebration of Arba'in
al Husayn, for the grandson of Muhammad
[], Husayn
ibn Ali [626 – 10 Oct 680 = 03 Sha'ban 4 HE – 10 Muharram
61 AH] who was killed in the Battle
of Karbala which crystallized the division between Sunni
and Shi'a
Islam, and is commemorated on Ashurah,
the start of a 40-day mourning period for Husayn which ends on Arba'in.
—(070306)
2007 Some 200 persons in magnitude
6.3 earthquake at 10:50 (03:50 UT) with epicenter 30km deep at 0º32'
S 100º30' E, 50 km NNE of Padang, in southern Sumatra, Indonesia, followed
by a magnitude 6.1 aftershock at 12:49 (05.49 UT) with epicenter just 4km
away, and lesser aftershocks later. —(070306)
2006 (approximate date) Thomas William “Tom”
Fox [07 Jul 1951–], Quaker peace activist murdered after
torture by the terrorists who, on 26 October 2005, took him hostage together
with his fellow peace activists James Loney, 41; Harmeet Singh Sooden [24
Mar 1973~]; and Norman Kember [27 March 1931~]. —(060312)
2006 Munir Abu Suker, 30; Iyad Abu Shaouf; and two passers-by;
as an Israeli missile fired from an aircraft hits its target, Suker's car,
traveling in the Sajaya neighborhood of Gaza City. Suker was a senior Islamic
Jihad commander involved in bomb attacks against Israeli security forces
and in the firing of Kassam rockets at Israeli civilian targets. He was
also involved in smuggling weapons and operatives back and forth between
Gaza and Sinai in order to facilitate their crossing into Israel to launch
terror attacks. Shaouf, also an Islamic Jihad member, was in the car with
him. 7 passers-by, including two children, are wounded. —(060306)
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2005 Hans Albrecht Bethe,
US theoretical physicist born on 02 July 1906 in Strasbourg, in Alsace-Lorraine,
which had been French since 1681, but which Germany, after defeating
France in 1871, had annexed. (Strasbourg, besieged since 10 August
1870, had capitulated on 28 Septembre 1870) and which France recovered
after World War I. French troops led by Général Gouraud liberated
Strasbourg 11 days after the 11 November 1918 armistice. In World
War II, Strasbourg was occupied by Nazi Germany only on 18 June 1940,
after the complete defeat of France. Annexed again to Germany, Strasbourg
was liberated on 23 November 1944 by the 2ème Division Blindée of
Général Leclerc. This explains why Bethe was born German in a French
city. But by 1944 he had been a naturalized US citizen for three years.
Bethe helped to shape classical physics
into quantum physics and increased the understanding of the atomic
processes responsible for the properties of matter and of the forces
governing the structures of atomic nuclei. He received the Nobel Prize
for Physics in 1967 for his work on the production of energy in stars.
Moreover, he was a leader in emphasizing the social responsibility
of science.
Bethe studied physics
at the University of Frankfurt and did research in theoretical physics
at the University of Munich, where he obtained the doctorate in 1928.
His doctoral thesis, on the theory of electron diffraction, remains
of fundamental value in understanding observational data. His work
on term splitting in crystals in 1929 showed how the symmetrical electric
field by which an atom in a crystal is surrounded affectsits energy
states. In 1931 he worked with Enrico Fermi in Rome. He returned to
Germany and served as a lecturer at the University of Tübingen
until 1933. After a stay in Manchester, Eng., he immigrated to the
United States and became, in 1934, a lecturer at Cornell University
in Ithaca, N.Y., which remained his home. He was a professor there
from 1937 to 1975, when he became professor emeritus.
In 1939 Bethe calculated the Sun's energy production, which results
from the fusion of four hydrogen atoms (each of mass 1.008) into one
helium atom (mass 4.0039). No direct fusion is possible, but Bethe
showed that the probabilities of the four steps of the “carbon
cycle” can account for the energy output. A carbon isotope of
mass 12 reacts successively with three hydrogen nuclei (protons) to
form the nitrogen isotope of mass 15; energy is produced through the
fusion of a fourth hydrogen nucleus to release a helium nucleus (alpha
particle) and the original carbon isotope.
Bethe became a US citizen in 1941. At the beginning of World War II,
Bethe had no US clearance for military work. But, after reading in
the Encyclopædia Britannica that the armor-piercing mechanism
of grenades was not well understood, he formulated a theory that became
the foundation for research on the problem. His work, unpublished
except in classified reports, illustrated his faculty for developing
highly mathematical theories to the point that their numerical results
could be compared with the actual measurements.
After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the
development of radar, Bethe headed the Theoretical Physics Division
of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos NM. The development of the
atomic bomb and the dropping of it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki created
a strong feeling of social responsibility in Bethe and other Los Alamos
physicists. Hewas one of the organizers and original contributors
to The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Moreover, he lectured
and wrote on the nuclear threat in order to increase public awareness
of it.
Bethe was awarded the Max
Planck Medal in 1955 and the US Atomic Energy Commission's Enrico
Fermi Award in 1961. He became, in 1957, a foreign member of the Royal
Society of London, as well as a member of the National Academy of
Sciences in Washington DC.
The
discovery of neutron stars led Bethe back to fundamental research
in astrophysics in 1970. Although his main interest was in the rapidly
developing subjects of atomic and nuclearprocesses, he also applied
classical mathematical methods to the calculation of electron densities
in crystals, the order–disorder states in alloys, the operational
conditions of reactors, the ionization processes in shock waves, and
the detection of underground explosions from seismographic records.
Bethe's later works include Elementary
Nuclear Theory (1948), a discussion of the experimental evidence
concerning the forces acting inside the atomic nucleus, and Intermediate
Quantum Mechanics (2nd ed. 1968), a theoretical description of
atomic structure. |
2005 Five persons when a passenger train derails near Sheikhupura,
Punjab province, Pakistan. 25 persons are injured.
2004 Mohammed
Abu-Diyeh, 18, of Hamas; 3 other Palestinian terrorists; and Palestinian
policemen Bashir Abu-Omrein, 28, and Hussam Aliwah, 28, in a botched
large-scale attack by militants at the Erez crossing between the Gaza Strip
and Israel in the morning. The attackers used three jeeps in the attack,
with at least one disguised as an Israel Defense Forces military vehicle
with forged license plates. The first jeep, laden with explosives, was detonated
near a Palestinian police outpost, likely due to the policemen's refusal
to allow the jeep to cross the checkpoint into Israel. At least one militant
and the two policemen were killed. The second jeep was detonated farther
north on the Palestinian side of the border crossing. A militant who drove
the jeep was killed in the explosion. The two militants in the third jeep,
disguised as an Israeli military vehicle, approached the southernmost IDF
position, near the V.I.P crossing. The jeep crashed into the IDF position's
gate; one militant, dressed in an IDF uniform and armed with an AK-47 assault
rifle, exited the vehicle and fired at the Israeli troops, which returned
fire and killed the two militants. Abu-Diyeh was from Gaza City's Rimal
neighborhood. The Palestinian policemen apparently confronted the militants,
in an attempt to prevent them from crossing with their vehicles into Israel.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah called their joint attack a "self-sacrifice
operation" in a message posted on the Hamas web site.
2004 Palestinian
policeman Taher Abu Sariyeh, 19, killed in the early morning by
Israeli troops in the Tul Karm refugee camp, during a clash between Israeli
soldiers and dozens of stone throwers, including many children on their
way to school. Abu Sariyeh was in uniform at the time of his death and carried
a handgun.
2003:: 96 of the 97 passengers and all 6 of the crew
of Air Algérie Flight 6289, a Boeing 737 which crashes, with one
engine on fire, a few minutes after it took off from Tamanrasset, Algeria,
bound for Algiers. The lone survivor, a young Algerian soldier, is critically
injured.
2003 Mitchell Shubert, 39, from injuries suffered
on 20 March 2003 in the fire of The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode
Island, which killed 96 persons immediately. He is the third of the 187
persons injured to die later. He suffered scarring in his lungs from breathing
in smoke and flames and has bad burns on his back, face, hands and one arm.
He was a construction superintendent from Newberry, Florida.
2003
Julian Lawrence Shapiro “John B. Sanford”, 98, US novelist,
historian and memoirist. His memoir of his life from 1904 to 1927, The
Color of the Air: Scenes From the Life of an American Jew, Volume I,
was published in 1985. Four more volumes in the autobiographical series
followed. His career as a writer was hurt by his membership in the Communist
Party and his related blacklisting. He mostly wrote novels until 1975, when
he began collections of historical vignettes as well as autobiographical
and other works. In 1982 his novel A Man Without Shoes, which he
had finished in 1947, was finally published. In all, Sanford published 24
books.
2002 Ralph Rumney, of cancer, English avant-garde
untalented artist born on 05 June 1934. He wrote his autobiography in French:
Le Consul (1999). — links
to two worthless images.
2002 Abdel-Rahman Ghazal,
of the military wing of Hamas, in an explosion at his home in Gaza City.
2002 Abdulghani Abu Daqa, 50, Palestinian, bleeding to
death after being shot by the Israeli soldiers who prevent paramedics from
reaching him for three hours. The al-Aqsa intifada body count is now at
least 956 Palestinians and 313 Israelis.
2002 Jamal Abu Hamad,
29, Palesitinia, killed by Israeli soldiers in an incursion in Abassan.
2002 Alexander Nastarenko, 37, of Netanya, Israeli
reservist corporal, by Palestinian gunmen who crossed the border fence and
ambush his army jeep on the patrol road near Kibbutz Nir Oz.
2002
Three Danish and two German peacekeeping soldiers, in an accidental
explosion while trying to destroy SA-3 anti-aircraft missiles at a munitions
site in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2001: 54 children and teachers,
as four classrooms are destroyed by an explosion in an elementary school
in the village of Fang Lin, Jiangxi province, China. 27 others are injured.
The explosion is in fireworks being assembled by third-graders contracted
by a local business for the benefit of teachers, despite the long-standing
protestations of parents.
2001 Nathan Mitchell, 33,
struck by a train in Biloxi, Mississipi, while he, an animal control officer,
is trying to catch a pitbull dog that had been running loose.
1998
A Connecticut state lottery accountant, and three supervisors and the lottery
chief which he shoots before killing himself.
1997
Michael Norman Manley, político y periodista jamaicano.
1994 Melina Mercouri, born on 18 October 1925, Greek movie
actress and political activist who was the minister of culture in Greece's
first Socialist government (1981). Author of autobiography, I Was Born
Greek (1971).
1992 María Helena Vieira da Silva,
Portuguese-born (13 June 1908) French painter — more
with links to images.
1986 Georgia
O'Keeffe, 98, in Santa Fe.
She had gained worldwide fame for her austere minimalist paintings of the
US southwest.— MORE
ON O'KEEFFE AT ART “4” MARCH
with links to images.
1981 Klaus Grabowski, child
molester, shot by parent.
1973 Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
Buck, US author noted for her novels about China (Good
Earth) born on 26 June 1892. — Premio Nobel 1938.
1964 King Paul I of Hellenes, born on 14 December 1901.
1950
Albert Lebrun, born on 29 August 1871, 14th and last president
(10 May 1932 – July 1940) of France's Third Republic. Author of autobiography
Témoignages (1945).
1944 Alexandr
Petrovich Kotelnikov, 78, university professor of mathematics
(vector calculus in Lobachevsty space) |
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