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1999—A U.S. B-2 drops five “smart” bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade: three dead, 27 wounded. 1998—Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan successfully quash an effort to regulate credit default swaps. 1997—Alan Dershowitz argues in the L.A. Times that the age of sexual consent should be lowered to 15. 1985—New York City throws a ticker tape parade for 25,000 Vietnam veterans. Better late than never. 1970—In Quang Nam Province, 1st Force Recon Marine Sgt. Robert Phleger is killed in the night by a tiger. 1955—Black voting activist Rev. George W. Lee is gunned down in Midnight, Miss. No charges are …

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2010—An imaginary bus bomb inspires panic in Portsmouth, N.H. 2010—A Londoner scamming from his parents’ basement gives The Invisible Hand of the Market™ jitters: the Dow drops nine pct. in five minutes. 1996—Former CIA boss William Colby, missing for nine days, turns up in Chesapeake Bay, dead but fresh-looking, 20 feet from where his canoe had been found eight days earlier. Verdict: a routine drowning. 1982—LAPD Chief Darryl Gates explains “some blacks [die in choke holds because] the veins or arteries do not open up as fast as they do in normal people.” 1978—In Chicago, First Lady Rosalynn Carter shakes hands with Polish Constitution Day …

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1985—In Bitburg, Germany, Republican President Ronald Reagan lays a wreath at a cemetery full of Nazis. 1981—Bobby Sands dies of hunger in Maze Prison, defiant to the last. 1970—On the first day of a national student strike, three of the Chicago 7 speak at UNH. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin smoke a joint onstage. 1961—New Hampshire’s own Alan Shepard prays, “Please, dear God, don’t let me f__k up.” Prayer answered, he’s the 1st American in space. 1960—Gary Powers is a “civilian employed by Lockheed” piloting a “weather research plane,” says the U.S. 1955—U.S. TVs show a mock suburb complete with mannequins hit by a real …

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1990—Six-inch flames shoot from Jesse Joseph Tafero’s head as Florida’s “Old Sparky” takes three jolts and seven minutes to kill him. 1989—Ollie North is found guilty for four Iran-Contra felonies. He later skates because Congress screwed up. 1981—“Inchon!” premieres in D.C. Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who funded the flick, claims MacArthur endorsed it from the grave. It flops anyway. 1970—In Haymarket Square, Chicago, a new cop statue replaces one destroyed by a bomb months earlier. This one gets blown up, too, months later. 1970—Ohio National Guard troops fire on a crowd of protestors at Kent State; 13 are hit, four of them die. 1961—The Freedom …

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2020—Dolt #45 desecrates the Lincoln Memorial with a campaign event. 2016—Lindsey Graham tweets, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it.” 2016—After accusing Ted Cruz’s father of being tied to the JFK assassination, Donald Trump wins Indiana and clinches the GOP nomination. 2003—The Old Man of the Mountain is busted by the Law of Gravity. 1995—Alabama Governor “Fob” James brings back the chain gang. 1971—Cops in D.C. set a record: 7,000 protestors arrested in one day [12,000 over five days]—no food, no water, no toilets. Most charges are dropped, many arrestees recoup damages. 1968—French students protest; administrators call cops. Big mistake. …

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2011—After outliving the Administration of G.W.[MD] Bush, Osama bin Laden is whacked by its successor. 2006—With stereotypical inefficiency, state workers in Lucasville, Ohio jab Joseph Clark 19 times over 86 minutes to kill him by lethal injection[s]. 2003—Richard Perle gloats his Iraq War is over, “without the quagmire [his critics had correctly] predicted.” 1972—Proving that only the good die young, J. Edgar Hoover croaks at 77. 1971—John Dean revokes a permit and tells 40,000 protesters to leave D.C. Some do, but many reply, “If the government won’t shut down the war, we’ll shut down the government.” 1967—Gov. Reagan says “There is absolutely no reason why…a …

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