2020—“Just stay calm,” says Dolt #45. “It [Covid] will go away.”
2004—Pres. George W.[MD] Bush is surprised to learn that 1) his Terrorist Surveillance Program expires that day, 2) his lawyers won’t renew it, and 3) his A.G., who will renew it, has been in the ICU for a week. In a bedside standoff, Bush’s team loses.
1993—A Florida man stands up for the sanctity of life by putting three fatal slugs in Dr. David Gunn’s back.
1974—With police corruption “systematic at all levels,” Philly Mayor Rizzo tries to block an investigation.
1968—At remote Lima Site 85 in Laos, 13 radarmen die: the greatest single U.S.A.F. combat loss of the war.
1966—Seeing a fellow A-1 pilot crash land at A Shau’s A-Team camp, as two NVA battalions are overruning it, Maj. Bernard Fisher lands under fire, picks up the pilot, and flies out.
1952—Fulgencio Batista, a favorite of U.S. politicians and gangsters, stages a military coup in Cuba.
1951—Genial old Ike says America might try a first-strike nuclear attack.
1950—Turned down once,Gen. Douglas again requests permission to nuke Korea. Bomb parts are gathered.
1945—Curtis LeMay’s napalm-laden B-29s visit the deadliest six hours of WWII on Tokyo, Japan.
1945—Japan shuts down plutonium production for the Nagasaki bomb when its balloon-firebombs down electric wires in Hanford, Wash.