2018—Donald Trump’s banker’s father announces he’s creating a vacancy on the Supreme Court by retiring.
2015—Bree Newsom scales a pole at the South Carolina State House and removes the Confederate battle flag.
2006—Pinkos in the Senate block a Flag Protection Amendment.®
1995—Days after Rep. John Boehner [R-Ohio] handed out tobacco lobby checks on the floor of the House, tobacco price supports are extended.
1986—Losing Nicaragua v U.S., the U.S. tells the International Court of Justice, “You’re not the boss of me.”
1973—Reading Nixon’s “Enemies List” on-air, Dan Schorr learns he’s on it.
1954—U.S.-backed rebels napalm a British cargo ship while overthrowing Guatemala’s democratic government.
1950—President Syngman Rhee, our ally, orders South Korean MPs to eliminate leftists. Thousands are massacred; Rhee blames commies.
1934—The National Housing Act makes FHA home mortgages affordable—for white Americans only.
1863—Confederate raiders seize the Caleb Cushing, a revenue cutter, from Portland (Me.) Harbor. Union soldiers commandeer steamers, engaging the rebels 20 miles out. The rebs torch the Cushing before surrendering.
1863—“Old Douglas,” a pack camel imported a decade earlier by Jefferson Davis, is killed by a Yankee sharpshooter during the Seige of Vicksburg. Starving rebels eat his remains.