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2020—“Just stay calm,” says Dolt #45. “It [Covid] will go away.” 2004—Pres. George W.[MD] Bush is surprised to learn that 1) his Terrorist Surveillance Program expires that day, 2) his lawyers won’t renew it, and 3) his A.G., who will renew it, has been in the ICU for a week. In a bedside standoff, Bush’s team loses. 1993—A Florida man stands up for the sanctity of life by putting three fatal slugs in Dr. David Gunn’s back. 1974—With police corruption “systematic at all levels,” Philly Mayor Rizzo tries to block an investigation. 1968—At remote Lima Site 85 in Laos, 13 radarmen die: the greatest single …

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2007—Newt Gingrich admits, as he runs for president, that he committed adultery while impeaching B. Clinton. 1992—Donald Trump files his second bankruptcy in eight months. 1986—Divers locate the crew compartment of the Shuttle Challenger. 1982—It’s revealed that the Contras have gotten $19 million in covert aid. 1969—Terrified CBS execs nix the Vietnam drama “Sticks and Bones.” 1969—Terrified CBS execs cancel “The Smothers Brothers.” 1965—Racists fatally beat Boston minister James Reeb in Selma, Ala.; a white jury soon acquits the suspects. 1954—WMUR-TV does it live. 1954—Ed Murrow dismantles Joe McCarthy on CBS. The network assures nothing like that happens again. 1941—Writer Sherwood Anderson dies of peritonitis …

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1985—A joint U.S./U.K./Saudi operation detonates a 440 lb. car bomb in Beirut; 83 innocent civilians die. The target—also innocent—is unscathed. 1983—Ronald Reagan runs the phrase “evil empire” up the flagpole. 1973—President Nixon gripes to Al Haig, “What the hell’s Agnew doing? He’s never spoken up once on this Goddamn [Watergate] thing.” 1971—The Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI breaks into the Bureau’s Media, Pa. office, obtaining 1,000+ documents revealing COINTELPRO. The Bureau fails to find the perps. [See 1956.] 1965—The first U.S. combat troops—U.S. Marines—hit the beach at Danang ready to fight. Vietnamese girls greet them with flowers. 1956—At a meeting of the National Security …

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1981—Stabbed at Disneyland, Mel C. Yorba becomes the Magic Kingdom’s first murder victim, because Disney employees feared the consequences if they called an ambulance. 1965—Civil rights marchers en route to Montgomery try to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. They’re mercilessly beaten by law enforcement officers and deputized goons. 1960—In front of the Union Leader building, JFK deftly paints the paper as irresponsible and its publisher as a liar. Next day he wins the primary. 1953—Newark, N.J. officials publicly burn allegedly lewd photos, movies, and books valued at $100,000. 1932—Dearborn, Mich. cops fire on Ford hunger marchers; five die. 1908—In Cincinnati, Mayor Mark Breith …

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2011—After heavy rains, the Hooksett water treatment plant disgorges two million two-inch plastic discs into the Merrimack. By August they’re at Campobello Island and Rhode Island Sound, in 2014, the English Channel. 2007—Dick “Dick” Cheney’s Chief of Staff “Scooter” is found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. 2003—President George W.[MD] Bush claims Saddam Hussein has “biological and chemical agents” that move “every 12 to 24 hours…in vehicles…in residential neighborhoods.” 1991—President George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush claims that his defeat of Saddam Hussein has ushered in a “new world order.” 1974—Russian crank Ayn Rand addresses West Point cadets on the topic, “Philosophy — Who Needs …

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