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2024—A former U.S. President wishes a “Happy Memorial Day to all, including the Human Scum… .” 1986—The DOE calls off its search for a site to dump high-level nuclear waste from power plants; southwestern N.H. had been a candidate. 1972—Third time’s a charm: Nixon’s “Plumbers” finally break into DNC HQ in the Watergate Office Building. 1962—The stock market plummets 5.7 percent, the worst drop since 1929. 1946—Workers in Rochester, N.Y. stage a general strike in support of municipal workers fired for unionizing. One day later they’ve won. 1946—The Pentagon begins working on a long-range bomber to be powered by a nuclear reactor; 15 years and …

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1994—Charles Rodman Campbell does his best to dodge it, but Washington State’s hangman finally manages to get a noose around his neck. 1980—Peace returns to Gwangju, South Korea the old fashioned way: troops kill thousands of civilians. 1972—Nixon’s “Plumbers” fail for a second time to break into Democratic National HQ at the Watergate. 1962—Centralia, Pa. officials set a fire to clear an underground landfill. The fire spreads to a coal seam; the town is later abandoned. The fire is expected to burn another 250 years. 1959—NBC’s Today Show reports straight-faced on the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals’ satirical campaign to clothe quadrupeds. 1944—NBC censors …

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2004—The NY Times admits that its pre-war Iraq coverage was “not as rigorous as it should have been.” 1972—Nixon’s “Plumbers” fail to break into Democrats’ Watergate HQ. 1970—The FBI’s L.A. office writes a memo: give intel on Black Panthers to rivals; with luck they’ll be killed. 1970—The destroyer USS Richard B. Anderson’s departure for Vietnamis delayed due to sabotage by the crew. 1947—An FBI memo duly notes that It’s a Wonderful Life  is communistic. 1937—Ford’s thugs beat hell out of Walter Reuther and three union colleagues in the “Battle of the Overpass.” 1924—Congress sets immigration quotas: Nordic? Cool. Eastern European? Maybe…. “Oriental”? Nope. 1916—Louis Thomas …

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2020—A white cop in Minneapolis murders George Perry Floyd, Jr. 2007—As U. Mass. hands an honorary degree to Andrew Card, George W.[MD] Bush’s ex-Chief of Staff, students and faculty howl and boo. 1988—Evicted from his crypt, Peter Lawford’s ashes are scattered at sea; the National Enquirer covers the cost of the boat—none of his children will. 1986—“Hands Across America” ends hunger and homelessness. Well done! 1981—Kennebunkport native Dan Goodwin, 25, scales Chicago’s Sears Tower while dressed as Spiderman. 1979—Sitting in “Old Sparky,” waiting for the juice, John Spenkelink says, “Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.” 1953—At the Nevada Test Site, the U.S. …

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2005—“See,” mansplains G.W.[MD] Bush, “in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” 1989—Being killed by Texas state employees, Stephen McCoy has a violent drug reaction. A male witness faints, knocking over another witness. 1978—Looking to spring skyjacker Garrett B. Trapnell, Barbara Ann Oswald tells Allen Barklage, at gunpoint, to land his helicopter in the Marion, Ill. prison. Barklage grabs her gun and shoots her dead instead. 1976—Formerly-oppressed drug companies are liberated by SCOTUS: now they can advertise all they want. 1971—After a ski pole …

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2012—A mentally-unstable PNSY employee sets a fire that destroys the billion-dollar USS Miami. 1999—Wrestler Owen Hart drops 78 feet to his death in the ring; 15 minutes later, the show resumes. 1976—The Washington Post reports that Rep. Wayne L. Hays’ (D-Ohio) mistress, on his payroll at $14,000 a year, admits she “can’t type…can’t file, [and] can’t even answer the phone.” 1971—Nixon meets with the milk cartel. His campaign gets $2 million, they get a $100 million price hike. 1969—Sgt. Paul Meyer steals a C-130 from Mildenhall, UK and heads for Langley, Va. He crashes into the English Channel—possibly shot down. 1950—The Treaty of Detroit gives …

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