Squatters celebrated the reappropriation ofCan Masdeu after a 3-day standoff with the Spanish national police resulting in the one of few successful attempts to resist a squat eviction in recent history.
Recent celebrity deaths: In theNetherlands, controversial right wing politicianPim Fortuyn is shot dead when leaving a radio studio, nine days before the general election for the lower house of parliament.
As a result of an ongoing lawsuit from theWorld Wildlife Fund over the use of the initials 'WWF,' the company formerly known as the World Wrestling Federation is forced to change its name toWorld Wrestling Entertainment.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A Palestiniansuicide bomber kills 15 and wounds 58 in a billiards and gambling club inRishon LeZion at approximately11 p.m. local time, while Ariel Sharon is meeting with President Bush in Washington D.C.
Israel calls up additional reserve forces and moves tanks into position for an expected incursion into theGaza Strip in retaliation for the most recent suicide bombing.
Politics of the Netherlands: General elections for the lower house of parliament were held. TheLijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF) was the great winner, the party gained 26 of the 150 seats, a historic achievement for a new party. The CDA (Christen Democratisch Appèl) led byJan Peter Balkenende became the greatest party (43 seats). The great losers were the coalition parties of the ruling "purple coalition" (PvdA, labour party;VVD, liberals;D'66, leftist liberals). These parties were diminished to half of their former size.Ad Melkert (PvdA) resigns as political leader of his party.
An article in the journalScience reports that a new naturally occurringamino acid has been found in a certain type of archaicbacteria.Scientists are calling this new amino acidPyrrolysine.
September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack: A wordlessceremony at the World Trade Center site marks the end of therecovery effort. In the ceremony, which started at10:29 a.m. with the tolling of a firemen's bell, a stretcher with anAmerican flag, symbolizing the victims whose remains were not recovered or yet identified was carried up the 500-foot ramp to anFDNY ambulance, which slowly left the site, as did the flatbed truck carrying the last steel beam to be removed. The ceremony included the playing ofAmerica the Beautiful by theNYPD pipe-and-drum corps, a flyover by five NYPD helicopters, and the playing of taps by a NYPD and FDNY bugler. The ceremony was attended by hundreds of rescue and recovery workers, family members of victims, and New York politicians.
TheUnited States Department of State issues a travel warning advising all Americans except for essential diplomatic personnel (about 60,000 people) to leave India because "conditions along India's border withPakistan and in the state ofJammu andKashmir have deteriorated."
