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2021—Two Sikh men detained in Glasgow are released after protestors surround a police van for eight hours. 2015—The day after eight die in a Philadelphia derailment, Congress votes to slash Amtrak’s budget. 1985—A Philadelphia police helicopter bombs MOVE headquarters, killing 11 and leaving 250 homeless. 1971—President Nixon tells his flunkies to get a new IRS head: “a ruthless son of a bitch … who will go after our enemies and not go after our friends.” 1957—Ngo Dinh Diem is treated to a ticker tape parade in New York City. 1945—After a brief court martial in Amsterdam—and Germany’s surrender—Bruno Dorfer and Rainer Beck, deserters from the …

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2015—An FEC report says that after denying wrongdoing for years, Rep. Frank Guinta [R-N.H.] has agreed to repay an illegal $355K campaign loan and pay a $15K fine to boot. 1996—Sec. of State Albright tells “60 Minutes” that killing 500,000 Iraqi children with sanctions is “a very hard choice, but…the price is worth it.” 1987—News reports say Oliver North lost a $10 million contribution for the Contras by using the wrong Swiss bank account number. 1984—Philip Abrams, HUD Undersecretary under R. Reagan, says Hispanics live in crowded homes out of “cultural preference,” not poverty. 1975—Khmer Rouge naval forces, using ex-U.S. Swift Boats, seize the U.S. …

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2012—The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission finds George W.[MD] Bush, Dick “Dick” Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair and others guilty of war crimes. 2009—Ex-Gov. J. Ventura says, “You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.” 2006—USA Today reports that the NSA is tapping U.S. phones. 1975—In New York, 80,000 celebrate the end of the Vietnam War. 1969—Huey Cobras mistakenly fire on the 3/187 Battalion HQ on Hamburger Hill; two KIA, 35 WIA. 1969—A fire at the Rocky Flats nuclear bomb plant results in a) the release of plutonium, and b) previously-suppressed news …

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2017—Dolt #45 lets the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ambassador Kislyak into the Oval Office; he divulges classified info, exposes a foreign agent, and says firing the FBI’s boss relieved him of a “great pressure.” 1945—New Hampshire adopts John Stark’s motto, “Live Free or Die.” 1933—Joseph Goebbels rants to a mob as Nazis in Berlin burn the library of the Institute of Sex Research. 1919—In Charleston, S.C., white sailors foment the first of 33 U.S. race riots over a five-month period. 1908—The first Mother’s Day Service is held in W.Va. at the instigation of Anna Jarvis. She will be arrested on Mother’s Day 40 years …

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2017—D. Trump fires J. Comey. 1991—Bush aide John Sununu is told to quit using military planes to visit his dentist in Boston or ski in N.H. 1989—“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind,” says Veep Candidate Dan Quayle, addressing the Negro College Fund, “or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.” 1980—The SS Summit Venture collapses Fla.’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge; a Greyhound on it plunges, killing 35. 1976—German Justice officials announce, before her autopsy by an ex-SS man has begun, that leftist Ulrike Meinhof hanged herself in her cell. 1974—Congress finally begins to ponder impeaching Richard Nixon. …

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2024—RFK Jr. tweets an offer “to eat 5 more brain worms and still beat” Trump and Biden in a debate. 2018—To “prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” Dolt #45 rips up the JCPOA preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. 1970—With flags at half mast for Kent State kids shot by National Guardsmen, students protesting in NYC at Wall and Broad streets are attacked by 200 “hardhats” organized by AFL-CIO leader Peter Brennan. Nixon will make him Sec. of Labor. 1970—At the University of New Mexico, 11 people protesting the Vietnam War are bayoneted by National Guardsmen. 1967—For refusing to be inducted, Muhammed Ali …

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