Yemen and US in joint security operation
2000 - Yemeni and United States security forces turned the port city of Aden into a fortress amid tense US investigations into the blast on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors. Checkpoints have been set up throughout the city and around hotels since the explosion. Heavily armed Yemeni troops in orange fatigues have besieged the main international watering hole. The top three floors of Aden’s Moevenpick Hotel have been commandeered by the US Navy to house incoming reaction and investigation teams, as well as the US Ambassador to Sana’a, Barbara Bodine. Yemen hit back after the US said that part of the country was a “safe haven” for terrorists. “Yemen has never been a haven for terrorists,” a Yemeni Foreign Minister spokesman said.
October 14
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the US presidency, is shot in the chest in Milwaukee.
1922 - The first automated telephone exchange begins operating in New York City.
1933 - Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1939 - A German submarine sinks the British battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow with loss of 833 lives.
1944 - British and Greek troops liberate Athens from Germany.
1947 - US Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than sound as he tests a rocket-powered research plane over California.
1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes Leader of the Soviet Union, replacing Nikita Khrushchev.
1968 - The first live telecast from a manned US spacecraft is transmitted from Apollo 7.
1981 - Vice-President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt.
1994 - Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
1998 - More than 45 people die when a bus in central India plunges off a bridge into the Karam River.
1998 - Amartya Sen, an Indian expert on welfare, wins the Nobel Prize for Economics.
1999 - Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies at 77 of leukemia.
2008 — Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport is officially opened.
2009 - The 27km Shaikh Khalifa Bridge connecting Abu Dhabi Island and Shahama District is opened to the public.
2012 - Austrian Felix Baumgartner make history when his jump reaches supersonic speed 39 kilometres from the ground.
