Tuesday, November 6, 2007 — We’ve now established a category for these Page Sixteen posts, and, in the process, re-written their headlines. We do hope that isn’t a violation of netiquette.
1984—It’s mourning in America as Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale.
1977—A dam owned and modified by the Toccoa Falls Bible Institute in Georgia fails, and kills 39 people.
1975—The Sex Pistols perform in public for the first time.
1971—The Atomic Energy Commission explodes a 5-megaton H-bomb—the largest ever exploded in the U.S.—one mile below Amchitka Island in Alaska, about 87 miles from a Soviet naval base in Siberia.
1963—Laura Welch—later Bush—runs a stop sign in Midland, TX, with fatal results.
1961—A three day fire begins in Bel Air, CA, destroying 447 homes including those of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Dick Nixon.
1928—Herbert Hoover beats Alfred E. Smith for president.
1922—An explosion kills 77 coal miners in Spangler, Penn.
1918—Shipyard workers revolt in Kiel and Hamburg.
1917—After three months of fighting in thick mud, the Third Battle of Ypres ends when Canadians take Passchendaele; Allies have advanced a full five miles at a cost of 250,000 total casualties.
1913—Gandhi leads the Great March into Transvaal, South Africa.