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2003—Four Air Force generals get sacked after a massive rape scandal. 1997—Florida’s “Old Sparky” sets Pedro Medina on fire as it kills him. 1976—Execs at the Ford plant in Argentina begin doing the new military junta’s bidding. Work incentives include torture, kidnapping, & murder. 1971—For a $427,000 “contribution” towards Dick “Original Dick” Nixon’s re-election, three dairy co-ops get $600 million in milk price supports. 1966—“Of all the forms of inequality,” says MLK Jr., “injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” 1966—Fifteen WW II and Korean War veterans burn discharge papers in NYC to protest the Vietnam War. 1965—In Montgomery, Ala., 25,000 civil …

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2004—A-list broadcast journalists at a black-tie dinner crack up as President George W.[MD] Bush jokes about “his” failed search for WMDs. Less amused: families of the 691 GI’s killed to date in the war he began. 1989—Exxon’s environment policy is made clear by oil gushing through the hull of the Exxon Valdez. 1985—Shot by a Soviet sentry while peeping at an East German tank shed, U.S. Army Maj. Arthur D. Nicholson becomes what the Pentagon calls “the last casualty of the Cold War.” 1972—A gang of burglars breaks through the roof of the United California Bank’s vault in Laguna Niguel, Calif., in an effort to …

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2025—Israeli Defence Forces fire on five Palestinian ambulances in Rafah; the vehicles are crushed and buried, 15 medics are tortured and executed. 2016—Tay, a Microsoft™ AI chatbot, is released on Twitter. She’s pulled 16 hours later for being a Nazi. 2004—In a Senate office building, 19 Members of Congress watch a golden crown being placed on the head of convicted tax cheat and Washington Times owner Rev. Sun Myung Moon. 2003—A lost U.S. Army convoy is ambushed near Nasiriyah, Iraq: 11 KIAs, five WIAs, & six POWs, including Pvt. Jessica Ryan. An Air Force A-10 kills six to 10 U.S. Marines. A U.S. Patriot missile …

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2018—At a UN confab at the Yak and Yeti Hotel in Nepal, the keynote speech is given by robot named Sophia. 2006—MV Queen of the North, a Canadian ferry four miles off course, hits an island at 17 knots and sinks with a loss of two lives. Union reps deny crewmembers were having sex at the time. 2003—The chief officer of RMS Mülheim, getting out of his chair while on watch, catches his trousers on a lever, falls and hits his head, losing consciousness. The ship runs aground at Land’s End in Cornwall, a total loss. 1987—The Mobro 4000, a barge toting 3,168 tons of …

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2006—Twitter takes flight. 2003—Richard Clarke, top counter-intel cop since Bush#41, says Bush#43 ignored al-Qaeda until 9/11. 1981—In Mobile, Ala., two Ku Kluxers conduct the last recorded lynching. RIP: Michael Donald, 19. 1973—“There is a cancer on the Presidency,” White House Counsel John Dean says, speaking to the cancer. 1963—“Gents, this is an educational project,” says condemned murderer Frederick Wood in New York. “You are about to witness the damaging effect electricity has on Wood.” 1960—South African police kill 89 unarmed black protesters in the Sharpeville Massacre. 1952—DJ Alan Freed throws the Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland—the first rock concert. 1947—“Red Scared” by the GOP, Truman …

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2017—FBI Boss Jim Comey tells Congress the Trump campaign and Russia may have colluded. 2012—One of the two loaded .45 pistols Rep. Kyle Tasker [R-Northwood] legally carries in shoulder holsters drops to the floor of a packed hearing room in the N.H. State Capitol. 2003—U.S. troops invade Iraq to protect The Homeland from Saddam’s innumerable WMDs. 1992—UN weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus says Iraq has agreed to destroy its weapons of mass destruction. 1976—Press Baron William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter Patricia, 22, is convicted of bank robbery. 1954—“If the [Vietnamese] Communists continue to suffer the losses they have been taking,” says French Chief of Staff Gen. Paul …

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