2021—Dolt #45 tries to replace Acting AG Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, who’s more likely to back his coup.
2006—Hotshot Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to three felony counts for defrauding Indian tribes and bribing officials.
1967—Jack Ruby conveniently dies in prison while awaiting retrial.
1966—Ronald Reagan runs for Governor of California, which, he says, leads in bankruptcies and has unemployment 40% higher than the rest of the country. Neither factoid is true.
1966—Navy vet and civil rights activist Samuel L. Younge, Jr., 21, is murdered in Tuskeegee, Ala., by a white, 68-year-old gas station attendant who is later acquitted by an all-white jury.
1961—In Idaho, three enlisted military technicians are killed in a steam explosion at a nuclear reactor.
1955—The U.S. government announces that more than 3,000 federal employees have been sacked to quell Joe McCarthy’s paranoia.
1943—SSgt. Alan Magee falls 22,000 feet from a doomed B-17 without a parachute and crashes through the roof of a St. Nazaire railroad station. He dies in 2003 at 84.
1931—Fearing insurrection, merchants in England, Ark. hand over food to a mob of 500 hungry people.
1924—British brigand Howard Carter loots Tutankhamen’s tomb.
1891—L. Frank Baum calls for “total extermination” of Native Americans.