Tuesday, April 20, 2010 — We should note that when we publish these morsels online here, we include some that will not fit into the limited space available on page eight.
2008—The New York Times reveals that many “independent military analysts” appearing on TV are really Pentagon puppets.
2008—Adelir Antonio de Carli, a Brazilian Catholic priest, in a chair suspended from 1,000 party balloons, reaches 19,685 feet before disappearing over the Atlantic.
2004—George W. Bush tells a Buffalo audience that the government doesn’t wiretap without a court order.
2001—The Peruvian Air Force, with some help from CIA “contract workers,” fires on a plane they think is full of dope. Nope. It’s full of proseletyzing American Baptists. Two die.
1979—While canoeing near Plains, GA, Pres. Jimmy Carter successfully defends himself from a deranged swamp rabbit.
1973—The U.S. Supreme Court says New Hampshire citizens can cover up the state motto “Live Free or Die” on their license plates.
1971—Supreme Court Justices, mistaking the National Mall for their lawn, tell Vietnam Veterans Against the War to get off.
1971—Maryland building contractor Lester Matz pays a $2,500 bribe to Vice President and freelance media critic Spiro “Ted” Agnew.
1970—The New York Times says youth groups have adopted a yellow submarine as a religious symbol.
1967—U.S. planes bomb Hanoi for the first time.
1948—Walter Reuther, labor leader, is shot but lives.
1914—National Guardsmen machine gun strikers at Ludlow, CO; 19 die, including 2 women, 12 children.
1725—Lydia Hall, future wife of Daniel Fowle, is born in Boston.