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1998—Charlotte Burks [D] is elected to succeed her late husband, Tennessee Senator Tommy Burks. Without campaigning, she gets 95 percent of the votes cast. Byron Low Tax Looper, a Republican who murdered Burks two weeks earlier, gets five percent. 1986—A Lebanese newspaper reveals that the U.S. has been selling arms to the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran. 1979—Communists are fired on by Klansmen and Nazis in Greensboro, N.C.. Five die and 11 are wounded, but three trials yield no convictions. 1969—In a speech which proves to be fatally effective, Richard Nixon conjures up his “Silent Majority.” 1964—Lyndon Johnson is elected as the peace candidate. 1956—Israeli Defence …

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2005—The Washington Post reveals that the CIA is protecting democracy by running a secret gulag. 2004—Warren Co., Ohio officials say a “terrorist threat” is why they’re counting votes behind locked doors. 2002—“We know he [Saddam Hussein] has chemical weapons,” says George W.[MD] Bush. (He doesn’t.) 2001—“A month into the war on Afghanistan, the hand-wringing has already begun over how long this might last,” writes the N.Y. Times’s Thomas L. Friedman. “Give war a chance.” 2000—TV in Maine reveals George W.[MD] Bush’s 1976 DUI bust. 1972—The Seafarers International Union [SIU] gives $100K to Nixon’s campaign. The Justice Dept. drops an indictment of the SIU for making …

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2001—George W.[MD] Bush signs an Executive Order conveniently hiding his father’s misdeeds as Veep. 1981—“[T]elevision is just another appliance—it’s a toaster with pictures,” says FCC Chair Mark Fowler. 1972—The Piscataqua Bridge opens. 1968—At My Tho, two limpet mines kill 26 aboard the U.S.S. Westchester County—the Navy’s deadliest single incident of the Vietnam War. 1966—Lyndon Johnson, lying, tells U.S. troops in Korea that his great-great grandaddy died at the Alamo. 1963—Generals in Saigon lay seige to the Presidential Palace—with U.S. government approval, of course. 1955—Angry with his mother, who left him in an orphanage, Jack Graham kills her and 43 other people. He’s only charged for …

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2016—Chris Sununu claims Democrats bus voters in from Mass. He’s lying, but D. Trump adopts the line. 1973—Ex-Veep Spiro Agnew pays a $10,000 fine for not paying taxes on the bribes he took in office. 1967—Gov. Ronald Reagan denies a “homosexual ring” is operating out of his office in Sacramento. 1963—“I can safely say,” says Gen. Paul Harkin, U.S. commander in South Vietnam, “that the end of the war is in sight.” 1941—The destroyer U.S.S. Reuben James is sunk by a U-Boat while on convoy duty on the North Atlantic. 1939—FDR moves the date of Thanksgiving ahead by one week to boost Christmas retail sales. …

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2017—President Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates are arrested on a slew of charges by the FBI. 2012—For the first time since the Ice Age, public access to the sea at Sanders Poynt in Rye is cut off by would-be Senator Bill Binnie. 2005—Pastor Kyle Lake, 33, standing in water to perform a baptism before 800 people at a Waco, Texas Baptist church, reaches for a microphone and is electrocuted. 1995—Quebec nearly votes to secede. 1990—For the first time since the Ice Age, England and Europe are connected; this time by chunnel. 1970—California Governor Ronald Reagan’s education advisor says, “We are …

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2004—Osama bin Laden explains: 9/11 was retaliation for the U.S. backing Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. 1984—New York City policemen kill African American Eleanor Bumpurs, 66, with two rounds from a 12 gauge. She was behind in her rent. 1981—A British Parliamentarian asks Maggie Thatcher whether European governments were “free to veto [a] push on the final button by that incoherent cretin President Reagan?” 1979—On Wall Street, 1,000 people are arrested for disrupting business on the 50th Anniversary of the Crash. 1969—Chicago 8 defendant Bobby Seale is gagged and bound to a chair. 1969—ARPANET goes live—two computers communicate for the first time—10,166 days later, SKYNET …

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