2023—Canada’s Parliament gives a standing ovation to “Ukrainian hero” Yaroslav Hunka—an SS vet of WW II.
2003—“A year from now,” Richard Perle says, “I’ll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush.”
1987—Navy Reserve Capt. Timothy J. Dorsey shoots down a Navy plane during a training exercise. Its crew survives with injuries. Dorsey’s career is unscathed: daddy’s an Admiral.
1975—’Nam vet Oliver Sipple deflects Sarah Jane Moore’s shot, saving Jerry Ford. Harvey Milk outs him; newspapers report he’s gay. He dies at 47, drunk, disowned, and alone.
1970—President Nixon demands more FBI spies for college campuses.
1959—Air-raid sirens celebrate the White Sox’s pennant win. Some Chicagoans mistakenly assume it’s signaling war with the Russkies.
1950—Truman vetoes the McCarran Act, but Congress overrides him. Commies must now register; the gov’t can preventively detain “threats.”
1922—American Capitalists form “Sentinels of the Republic,” a front group for the fascist American Liberty Lobby; 11 years later many of them join a plot to overthrow FDR.
1906—Two Atlanta newspapers, both run by racist Democratic candidates for governor, publish unsubstantiated stories 10,000 whites use as an excuse to attack Blacks in Atlanta. Death toll: 25 Blacks and two whites.