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2007—China executes its Director of the State Food and Drug Administration for taking bribes that resulted in 40 deaths. Hmmm… . 2001—A Phoenix FBI agent sends a memo to FBI HQ warning of “an inordinate number” of suspicious characters in local flight schools, possibly as part of a bin Laden plot. It’s ignored. 2001—CIA boss George Tenet tries to warn George Bush and Condi Rice about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, but can’t get their attention. 1985—French secret police in the South Pacific blow up Greenpeace’s boat, Rainbow Warrior. 1985—Seventy-seven days after announcing New Coke, Coca-Cola announces Old Coke, aka Coke Classic. 1972—Water being used …

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2018—Trump nominates Kavanaugh for SCOTUS. Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon gloat via text: Chevron doctrine is dead, and thus the EPA. 1993—To prove it’s unbreakable, Toronto lawyer Garry Hoy hurls himself against a 24th floor window. It pops from its frame; he falls to his death. 1986—Ed “Meese is a Pig” Meese publishes a 1,960-page report on pornography packed with obscene titles. 1964—Senator Strom Thurmond [D-S.C.], 61, wrestles Senator Ralph Yarborough [D-Texas], also 61, to the floor to prevent a committee quorum. 1958—A 1,700-foot mega-tsunami hits Lituya Bay, Alaska. 1951—For his reticence, the House Un-American Activities Committee sentences Dashiell Hammett, the tubercular, 57-year old author …

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2022—Ex-PM and Moonie-enabler Shinzo Abe is assassinated with a home-made gun; its maker’s family went broke giving to the “church.” 2016—Police in Dallas kill a suspected cop-killer with a robotic bomb. 1981—“I think every good Christian ought to kick (Jerry) Falwell right in the ass,” says Sen. Barry Goldwater. 1976—The State of New York yanks Richard Nixon’s law license. 1969—The U.S. begins withdrawing troops from Vietnam. 1962—The U.S. detonates a nuke 250 miles up, knocking out phones in Hawaii, 900 miles to the east, and crippling seven satellites. 1959—VC attack Bien Hoa air base, killing two U.S. advisors as they watch the film noir “The …

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1986—Reagan’s A.G., Ed Meese, finagles quasi-legislative status for Presidential Signing Statements, which previously had had little impact, merely by persuading West Publishing to include them in law books. 1972—Near Danang, Battery B of the 82nd Field Arty. takes out four men from the 196th Inf. Bde. in the last major friendly fire incident of the war. 1967—His Tet Offensive plan OK’d by the Politburo, Gen. Nguyen Chi Thanh, 53, parties himself to death. 1954—As puppet Premier Diem arrives in Saigon, U.S. Gen. John W. O’Daniel, says “the war in Vietnam can be won without bringing in one single American soldier to fight.” 1950—FBI Chief J. …

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2013—A runaway fuel train derails and burns, destroying half of downtown Lac Megantic, Quebec. 2001—Ex-FBI Special Agent, devout Catholic, patron of strippers, and exhibitionist Robert Hanssen pleads guilty to selling U.S. secrets to the U.S.S.R., then to the Russians. 1971—President Nixon sets up a “Plumbers Unit” to stop leaks. 1962—To test its dirt-moving capacity, the AEC sets off a buried nuke in Nevada. It creates Sedan Crater—the nation’s biggest—and irradiates more Americans than any other test. 1924—Democrats “deplore and condemn…religious or racial dissension” during the longest convention ever held, but balk at naming the Klan. 1916—Major Douglas MacArthur, newly-appointed censor at the War Department, says …

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1984—The Miami Herald exposes Rex 84, a gummint plan to jail thousands of citizens if they get too unruly. 1968—Khe Sanh, where 737 Marines died in a 78-day siege, is abandoned. 1968—Congress tramples on the First Amendment while falsely claiming it’s somehow “protecting” the flag. 1960—Isabel “Dimples” Cooper, 46, is buried in Culver City, Calif., a suicide. The former showgirl had become the mistress of Gen. “Dugout Doug” MacArthur in Manila in 1930, but her later Hollywood career had stalled. 1950—Ill-trained, poorly equipped, and outnumbered, Task Force Smith is decimated by North Koreans at Osan. Gen. “Dugout Doug” MacArthur blames the troops for his loss. …

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