Monday, Sept. 7th, 2020 – Labor Day
Monday, Sept. 7th, 2020
The number of hospitalizations in New York drops to 410, their lowest since March 16. (Times Union)
Hundreds of people protested against police violence and racial injustice in Portland, Oregon in demonstrations that have now lasted over 100 days since George Floyd was killed. Molotov cocktails were thrown in the street sparking a large fire and prompting police to declare a riot. Tear gas was again deployed to clear protesters. (CP24)
The fourth night of protests in Rochester, New York, over the death of Daniel Prude, becomes the largest so far, and again it ends with pepper balls, tear gas, and fireworks. Rochester Police Department arrests nine people, including two on felony charges. Three officers are also treated at the hospital for injuries. A U-Haul truck is set on fire in a parking lot before firefighters arrive to put it out. (The Democrat & Chronicle)
Harris predicts scientists, health experts won’t have last word on vaccine efficacy In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash that’s set to air Sunday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), the Democratic vice presidential nominee, was asked if she would receive a coronavirus vaccine approved before the November election. Harris responded by saying she “would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about.” The senator added that she doesn’t think scientists and public health experts will have the last word on a vaccine’s efficacy. “If past is prologue than they will not, they’ll be muzzled, they’ll be suppressed, they will be sidelined,” she said. “Because [Trump’s] looking at an election coming up in less than 60 days and he’s grasping to get whatever he can to pretend he has been a leader on this issue when he is not.” Source: CNN
The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has stockpiled 2,105 kilograms (4,641 lb) of enriched uranium, violating the 300 kilograms (660 lb) limit under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. (DW)
The death toll in Iran exceeds 22,000. (Al Arabiya)
Hawaii County closes their beaches and shoreline parks through September 19 in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
South Africa is expected to begin a trial of the NVX-CoV2373, a vaccine candidate produced by Novavax. Around 2,904 volunteers are expected to be selected, who are aged from 18 to 64 years. (MyJoyOnline)
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that the vaccine trials for Pfizer might have results by October. (CNBC)
GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi announces that they will start vaccine trials. (BBC)
The government designates 28 mainland and overseas departments as “red zones” as the nation’s test positivity rate increased to 4.7 per cent. (CNA)
The United Kingdom reports 2,988 cases, their highest since May 23. (Reuters)
Evacuations are issued in San Diego County, California after the Valley Fire, which was ignited southeast of Alpine, reaches 4,000 acres and consumes 10 structures. (East Bay Times)
Protests continue in Portland, Hong Kong, Belarus, Israel A myriad of protests continued or are set to continue this weekend both in the United States and across the world. In Portland, Oregon, demonstrations against police brutality continued for the 100th consecutive day. Portland police declared a riot Saturday night after protesters hurled Molotov cocktails in the street, sparking a fire. In Hong Kong, demonstrators returned to the street Sunday to protest the city’s national security law and the government’s decision to delay Legislative Council elections for a year. At least 90 people were arrested. Meanwhile, thousands of Israelis on Saturday again gathered outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence, calling for his resignation over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and corruption charges. And, in Belarus on Sunday, despite a show of force from authorities, protesters set out to pressure President Alexander Lukashenko to step down after his disputed re-election. Source: The Associated Press
New York AG to set up grand jury in Daniel Prude case New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Saturday that she would set up a grand jury to consider evidence in the death of Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who suffocated in Rochester, New York, after police officers placed a hood over his head and pinned him to the ground during an arrest in March. Prude’s family has accused officials of trying to cover up the death, and protests have erupted in Rochester since the case garnered public attention last week. The county medical examiner determined the death a homicide caused by asphyxiation in a prone position, but police treated the death as a drug overdose for months, pointing to PCP found in Prude’s system. Now, James says, her office, which became aware of Prude’s death in April, “will immediately move to empanel a grand jury as part of our exhaustive investigation into this matter.” Source: The New York Times
Jacob Blake shares video message from hospital bed Jacob Blake delivered a video message to the public from his hospital bed Saturday night as he recovers from injuries he sustained after he was shot seven times by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August. The shooting left Blake paralyzed from the waist down. In the video, which was posted to Twitter by Blake’s attorney Ben Crump, Blake said he has staples in his stomach and back and is in constant pain, adding that it hurts to breathe, sleep, eat, and move side to side. “You do not want to have to deal with this,” he said, noting that his case exemplifies how people’s lives can be drastically altered in an instant. He went on to urge people to “change your lives out there” and “stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people.” Source: CNN
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September 7th in History
1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf: Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1228 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre, Israel, and starts the Sixth Crusade, which results in a peaceful restoration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.[1]
1652 – Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
1812 – French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory.
1857 – Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.
1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
1936 – The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1940 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1977 – The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
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