Guest guest Posted December 29, 2004 Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 Dear List Members, This is the rectified chart of: GHANA Mar 6, 1957 12:00 AM +00:00 GMT Accra Longitude: 0W13 Latitude: 5N33 Lahiri Ayanamsha: 23:15 Current Period: RA/JU/SA Planet Deg Sign Speed SA Nakshatra Lord ================================================ Asc 19:10 Sco Jyeshtha Me Sun 21:54 Aqu +01:00:05 ST P.Bhadra Ju Moon 10:11 Ari +12:28:33 WK Aswini Ke Mars 29:16 Ari +00:37:35 FM Krittika Su Merc 09:19 Aqu +01:42:36 CM Shatbisha Ra JuptR 05:07 Vir -00:07:23 WK U.Phalguni Su Ven 11:54 Aqu +01:14:50 FM Shatbisha Ra Sat 20:46 Sco +00:01:48 ST Jyeshtha Me Rahu 28:33 Lib -00:02:41 FM Vishakha Ju Ketu 28:33 Ari -00:02:41 FM Krittika Su True Node 365.25 Day Year - Internet Time: 42 beats Day: Wednesday Sunrise: 6:14 AM Tithi: Shukla Panchami Yoga Pt: 5:25 Ge Yogi:Ma AviYogi:Ke Dup Yogi: Me Dagha Rashis: Gem Vir Rashi Chart ******************************************************* ** 9 * * 7 ** *10* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * RA 28:33* * * * * AS 19:10 * * * * * 8 SA 20:46 * 6 JUR05:07* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** ME 09:19 * * ** *11 VE 11:54 * 5 * ** SU 21:54 * * ** *12* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 2 * 4 * * * * * * * * MO 10:11* * * * * * KE 28:33 * * * * * * MA 29:16 * * * * * * * * * * ** 1 * * 3 ** ******************************************************* Navamsha ******************************************************* ** 10 * * 8 ** *11* * * * * * * * * * * * * VE * * * * * SA * AS * * * * * * MA * * * *JUR * 9 ME * 7 * * * * KE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * ** *12 * 6 * ** * * ** *1 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *SU * 3 RA * 5 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * MO * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** 2 * * 4 ** ******************************************************* Some of the events used in the rectification: Top 10 Natural Disasters in Ghana sorted by numbers of people killed and affected Disaster Date Killed Epidemic 13-Feb-1997 1,270 Flood 6-Jul-1995 145 Epidemic Feb-1984 103 Epidemic Oct-1998 67 Flood Sep-1999 52 Epidemic 28-Apr-1997 30 Epidemic 16-Oct-1991 20 Earthquake 22-Jun-1939 17 Epidemic May-1988 15 Flood 27-Jun-2001 12 Disaster Date Affected Famine 1982 12,500,000 Flood 6-Jul-1995 700,000 Flood Sep-1999 324,602 Flood 27-Jun-2001 144,025 Flood Jul-1968 25,000 Epidemic 13-Feb-1997 13,592 Drought 1971 12,000 Epidemic 1-Jan-1977 6,558 Flood 16-Jul-1991 4,500 Flood 25-Aug-1989 2,800 Top 10 Technological Disasters in Ghana sorted by numbers of people killed and affected Disaster Date Killed Misc Accident 9-May-2001 123 Transport Accident 18-Apr-2002 102 Transport Accident 20-Mar-1984 67 Transport Accident 24-Dec-1991 61 Transport Accident 26-Apr-1990 60 Transport Accident 4-Jun-1999 60 Transport Accident 2-Feb-1993 30 Transport Accident 25-Mar-1991 23 Transport Accident 22-Jan-2002 22 Transport Accident 21-Apr-2001 21 Disaster Date Affected Misc Accident 9-May-2001 93 Transport Accident 22-Jan-2002 40 Misc Accident May-1978 35 Transport Accident 2-Feb-1993 9 Transport Accident 20-Mar-1984 0 Transport Accident 26-Apr-1990 0 Transport Accident 24-Dec-1991 0 Transport Accident 25-Mar-1991 0 Transport Accident 4-Jun-1999 0 Transport Accident 24-Jun-2000 0 date type registration operator fat. location pic cat 27-JAN-1944 Douglas DC-4 41-37292 USAAF 0 Ghana A1 09-OCT-1944 Curtiss C-46 42-3655 USAAF 0 Ghana A1 24-APR-1969 Douglas DC-3 9G-AAF Ghana Airways 1 Ghana A1 22-JAN-1971 HS-748 9G-ABW Ghana Airways 0 Ghana A1 11-MAR-1981 Fokker F-28 9G-ACA Ghana Airways 0 Ghana A1 25-SEP-1983 Boeing 707 5N-ARO RN Cargo 0 Ghana O1 05-JUN-2000 Fokker F-27 G 524 Ghana Airlink 7 Ghana A1 21-AUG-2003 Fokker F-27 G525 F Ghana AF 0 Ghana A2 1957 Mar 6, The former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana. Ghana, led by Kwame Nkrumah, gained independence from Britain. Martin Luther King attended the independence ceremony. (SFC, 12/6/96, p.B1)(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.15)(AP, Internet, 3/6/98) 1957 Oct 10, President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant. (AP, 10/10/97) 1960 Jul 1, Ghana became an independent republic within the British Commonwealth and Kwama N. Nkrumah became the 1st president. (PC, 1992, p.973) 1961 Mar 1, President Kennedy established the Peace Corps. The first volunteers were sent to Ghana. (TMC, 1994, p.1961)(SFC, 8/7/96, p.A15)(AP, Internet, 3/1/98) (SFC, 3/21/98, p.A13) 1961 John Wilson (d.1999 at 80) published " Ghana's Handicapped Citizens. " Wilson, himself blind, and his wife Jean lived in Ghana in 1950 and began treating people who were blinded from an infection, ocular onchocerciasis, caused by a buffalo gnat. (SFC, 12/7/99, p.B4) 1961 W.E.B. Du Bois, Black American writer and reformer, renounced his American citizenship and spent his last remaining years in the West African country of Ghana. Born in Massachusetts on February 23, 1868, Du Bois earned three degrees at Harvard, including a Ph.D., and taught history at Atlanta University from 1896-1910. He took a militant position on race relations, founded the Niagara Movement, edited the Crises magazine, was a longtime official in the NAACP and author of numerous important works. Du Bois died in Accra, Ghana, August 27, 1963. (HNQ, 5/11/99) 1964 The Volta River was dammed and the Lake Volta was created. (SFEC, 11/22/98, p.T10) 1966 Mar 3, Kwame Nkrumah fled Ghana to Guinée. (SC, 3/3/02) 1970 Jul 27, Otumfuo Nana Opoku Ware II, the king of the Ashanti people and born as Matthew John Kwaku Adusei-Poku, ascended to the Golden Stool to become the 18th King of Ashanti. (SFC, 3/1/99, p.A19) 1972 Apr 27, Kwame Nkrumah (62), president of Ghana, died. (MC, 4/27/02) 1972 Jul 9, Kwame Nkrumah was re-buried in Nkroful, Ghana. (MC, 7/9/02) 1978 Jul 5, In Ghana Gen’l. Acheampong resigned as head of state. He was succeeded by Lt.-Col. Fred W.K. Akuffo. (WUD, 1994, p.1691) 1979 Jun, Jerry J. Rawlings (32) and junior officers toppled the military government. (SFC, 12/6/96, p.B1) 1979 Sep, Hilla Limann (d. 1998 at 64) was elected president. (SFEC, 1/25/98, p.A22) 1981 Dec 31, Lt. Jerry Rawlings, a young fighter pilot toppled Pres. Hilla Limann. (SFEC, 1/25/98, p.A22) 1982 The Rawlings Marxist regime imposed stringent economic controls and market women who violated price controls were stripped, whipped, their heads shaven and wares confiscated. (WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18) 1985 American CIA clerk in Ghana Sharon Scranage pleaded guilty to disclosing the names of US agents to her Ghanaian boyfriend. (SFC, 11/19/96, p.A17) 1992 A ban on political parties was lifted and former president Hilla Limann formed the People’s National Convention Party. Limann ran for the presidency but finished a distant 3rd. (SFEC, 1/25/98, p.A22) 1992 J.J. Rawlings was elected with 59% of the vote in disputed elections. (SFC, 12/6/96, p.B1)(SFC, 12/9/96, p.A18) 1993 The World Bank pumped $4 billion into Ghana and called it an “African economic star.” (WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18) 1995 May 5, Over 100,000 Ghanaians demonstrated in the streets of Accra for the repeal of an 18% value-added tax. 4 people were killed from gunfire by government hired thugs. (WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18) 1995 George B.N. Ayittey is a native of Ghana and an associate professor of economics at the American Univ. in Washington. He is also the president of the Free Africa Foundation. (WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A-16) 1996 Jul, The per capita income was $410. (WSJ, 7/18/96, p.A10) 1996 Dec 8, Jerry Rawlings defeated John Kufuor and his Great Alliance Party in elections 57% to 40%. (WSJ, 12/12/96, p.A13) 1996 Dec 13, The UN Security Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana as the next Secretary-General. (SFC, 12/14/96, p.A1) 1996 Dec 17, Kofi Annan of Ghana was elected by acclamation as the 7th Secretary-General of the UN. His 5-year term will start Jan 1. (SFC, 12/18/96, p.C2)(AP, 12/17/97) 1996 President Jerry Rawlings brokered a string of cease-fires in Liberia only to see all 13 fall apart. (SFC, 5/8/96, p.A-18) 1997 Nov, It was reported that the Pioneer Food Cannery Ltd., in Tema canned 40,000 tons of raw skipjack and yellowtail tuna a year. The operation was owned by Star-Kist Foods Inc., a unit of H.J. Heinz. This provided Ghana with $60 million in exports. (WSJ, 11/10/97, p.A17) 1998 Jan 23, Former Pres. Hilla Limann (64) died in Accra. (SFEC, 1/25/98, p.A22) 1998 Mar 23, Pres. Clinton was scheduled to visit Ghana, the first nation where Peace Corps volunteers were sent. (SFC, 3/21/98, p.A13) 1998 Nov 11, It was reported that Pfizer and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation initiated a $66 million effort to attack trachoma, a disease of the eye caused by chlamydia. A one-gram dose of zithromax given once a year would treat the disease. Focus was to be on Ghana, Mali, Morocco, Tanzania and Vietnam. (SFC, 11/11/98, p.D6) 1998 Ghana outlawed the Trokosi (wife of the gods) practice, but failed to enforce the ban. The system allowed young women to be given up to priests at shrines for good luck. (SFC, 7/10/99, p.A12) 1998 Juliana Dogbadzi (24) escaped from Trokosi, servitude under a fetish priest, in which she had served for 17 years. She began a speaking campaign against the system. (SFEC, 9/24/00, Par p.7) 1999 Feb 25, Otumfuo Nana Opoku Ware II, the king of the Ashanti people, died at the palace in Kumasi. The Asantehene was born Matthew John Kwaku Adusei-Poku and ascended to the Golden Stool to become the 18th King of Ashanti in 1970. (SFC, 3/1/99, p.A19) 2000 Sep 12, It was reported that Waldron’s red colobus, a loud-mouthed, red-cheeked monkey from Ghana and the Ivory Coast, was last seen in the 1970s and was believed extinct. (SFC, 9/11/00, p.A10) 2000 Dec 7, Presidential elections were held and 10 people died in violence. Representatives for the 200-seat parliament were also chosen. Opposition candidate John Agyekum Kuffuor led Vice Pres. John Atta Mills 48-44% in the 1st round of elections. A runoff vote was planned within 3 weeks. (SFC, 12/7/00, p.C18)(SFC, 12/11/00, p.F8)(WSJ, 12/11/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18) 2000 Dec 28, Runoff elections were held with sporadic violence. John Agyekum Kuffour won with 56.7% of the vote over John Atta Mills. (SFC, 12/29/00, p.B3)(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B9) 2000 The pilot TV show of “Things We Do for Love” premiered and mirrored real-life situations among young people in Ghana. (SFC, 5/20/02, p.A3) 2001 Jan 4, It was alleged that some 40% of World Bank loans and Western aid was squandered or stolen under the 19-year Marxist regime of Jerry Rawlings. (WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18) 2001 May 9, In Ghana a stampede at a soccer match in Accra killed 126 people. Police had use of tear gas to quell fans which caused panic and the stampede. (WSJ, 5/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/10/01, p.A16)(AP, 5/9/02) 2001 Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Manu Herbstein paperback - 450 pages; companion web-site: www.ama.africatoday.com. 2002 Aug 1, In Ghana the government raised the cost of electricity by 60%. (SSFC, 12/8/02, p.D6) 2003 Aug 18, In Accra, Ghana, Liberia's government and rebels signed a peace accord to end 14 years of vicious war with plans for elections in 2 years. (AP, 8/19/03) 2004 Jan 10, In Ghana the United Nations launched a yearlong commemoration of the anti-slavery movement. The International Year for the Commemoration of the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition coincides with the 200-year anniversary of Haiti, the first independent black state in the Western Hemisphere. 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