Sat, Aug 29

2013—Thanks to Edward Snowden, Americans learn that the “Black Budget” of the “Intelligence Community” is $52.6 billion a year. 2007—Due to careless accounting, an Air Force B-52 at Minot AFB in North Dakota is loaded with six live nukes, then left unguarded overnight. 2006—George W.[MD] Bush tells NBC interviewer Brian Williams, “I’ve got an ek-a-lec-tic reading list.” 1996—Clinton gets the nod for a second term. His advisor Dick Morris resigns because it’s been revealed he paid $200 an hour to suck a woman’s toes. 1977—Memphis cops nab three people trying to steal Elvis’s corpse. 1968—A week-long rebellion erupts at the Long Binh Jail in Vietnam. …

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Fri, Aug 28

2005—Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans and the levees break. 1968—Police preserve disorder at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. 1963—At the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, Jr. calls for freedom to ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire … . 1955—During a visit to family in Money, Miss., fourteen year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is murdered by whites for speaking to a white woman. 1951—Killed in Korea, John R. Rice is denied burial at a Sioux City cemetery because he’s a Native America. 1947—In Linares, Spain, the fifth bull of the day helps even the score a little by fatally goring Manolete. 1922—WEAF in New York …

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Thurs, Aug 27

2014—Arthur T. Demoulas gets the OK to buy Market Basket. 1991—An ABA panel rates Clarence Thomas: none find him “well-qualified” for the Supreme Court; two find him “not qualified.” 1984—Ronald Reagan announces that he will put a teacher in space. 1980—After evacuating Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Nevada, FBI agents explode an extortionist’s 600 lb. bomb, leaving a 50 by 30-foot crater. 1979—The IRA uses a radio-controlled bomb to assassinate Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten aboard his fishing boat off County Sligo. A baroness and two boys die as well. 1975—Veronica and Colin Scargill complete a 18,020-mile tandem bicycle ride around the world. 1960—Whites in …

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Wed, Aug 26

2016—Colin Kapernick registers his protest against racial injustice by sitting as the National Anthem plays. 2005—The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard gets a stay of execution. 1980—Ex-Luftwaffepilot John Birges, trying to recoup his gambling losses, plants a half-ton bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nev. 1969—The New Hampshire National Guard’s 197th Field Artillery, just weeks before leaving Vietnam, loses five men in a single incident. 1968—Mayor Richard Daley welcomes Democrats to the 1968 Democratic National Convention while his cops prepare to bust heads outside. 1967—Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” is released escapes. 1967—Burt Munro, a 68-year old Kiwi on a 1920 Indian, sets the under-1,000 cc speed …

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Tues, Aug 25

1999—The FBI admits, six years after the fact, that the tear gas canisters it fired into David Koresh’s compound in Waco were incendiary—but still denies they started the fatal fire. 1995—In Athens, Ga., zany House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) announces his new policy for winning the drug war: executing “27 or 30 or 35 people at one time.” 1985—Ronald Reagan admits that, as head of the Screen Actors Guild, he ratted on its members to the FBI. 1967—J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI sets out to “expose, disrupt, misdirect [and] discredit” the Black Panthers. 1967—George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is shot dead by …

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Mon, Aug 24

1970—Graduate student Robert Fassnacht is killed and three others are injured when peaceniks blow up a physics lab at the U. of Wisconsin. 1967—Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin scatter 300 one-dollar bills on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Bedlam erupts as capitalists scramble. 1964—I.F. Stone reports the U.S. government and press “have kept the full truth about the Tonkin Bay incidents from the American public.” 1963—The State Dept. orders Amb. Lodge to encourage Vietnamese generals to stage a coup. 1954—Genial old Ike signs the first U.S. law banning a political party—the Communist Party, of course. 1936—After a 12-year hiatus, J. Edgar Hoover gets the …

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