2002—Donald Rumsfeld predicts the Iraq War will last “five days or five weeks or five months…[no] longer….”
1968—In Quang Tri, Marine PFC Frank Baldino, 19, is killed by a tiger.
1965—The First Cav, choppering into the Ia Drang Valley, is surprised to discover six battalions of NVA.
1943—USS W.D. Porter accidentally launches a torpedo—in the direction of USS Iowa. FDR, aboard Iowa en route to Cairo, is amused.
1942—Seaman Calvin L. Graham is wounded at Guadalcanal. He’s 12.
1932—Nison Miller is denied U.S. citizenship due to his “ignorance.” His grandson Stephen is later named immigration policy czar by Dolt 45.
1927—Workmen in Pittsburgh, using an open flame blowlamp to fix a leak in the world’s largest gasometer, ignite 5 million cubic feet of natural gas, clearing one square mile and killing 28.
1925—D.C. Stephenson, ex-Grand Dragon of the Indiana KKK, is convicted of rape, torture, and murder.
1917—Forty workhouse guards follow orders to brutally beat 33 women jailed for advocating women’s suffrage in front of the White House.
1909—“A great American [whose] stature will grow with the passage of time,” according to N.H. Sen. Styles Bridges: Joe McCarthy is born.
1908—Chief of the Imperial Military Cabinet Dietrich Graf von Hülsen-Haeseler dies as he dances before Kaiser Wilhem II in a pink tutu.