Tag: Volume 265 | No. 7 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, Jan 2

1996—At Bill Clinton’s invitation, Monica Lewinsky drops by the Oval Office. Sequestered in the bathroom, they violate his marriage vows. 1972—During a one-hour interview on CBS, Richard Nixon tells Dan Rather that the bombing in Southeast Asia had been“very, very effective.” Next day in a note to Hank Kissinger, he tells the truth: “The result = zilch.” 1970—The Supreme Court nixes Gen. Hershey’s effort to reclassify all draft protestors as 1-A, or draftable. 1967—In Florida, 72 men are arrested, thwarting an invasion of Haiti financed by CBS in exchange for exclusive film rights of the landing. 1962—Outnumbered four to one, vastly outgunned, without helicopters or …

Fri, Jan 1

2006—Speaking to amputee vets of his Iraq War, George W.[MD] Bush says “I have an injury myself [from] combat with a cedar. I eventually won.” 1994—NAFTA screws unions, farmers, and the environment, but the Zapatistas stand up to fight back. 1975—Nixon cronies H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and John Mitchell are convicted of felonies. 1959—Castro’s commies take Cuba. 1880—Elmer J. McCurdy, a miner, soldier, and bank and train robber, is born in Washington, Maine. Shot dead in 1911, he then begins a longer career as a sideshow attraction and movie extra. He’s buried in 1977. 1877—Three Medal of Honor recipients, Claron Windus, Adam Paine, and Isaac …

Thurs, Dec 31

1997—Quaker Oats pays $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit over their secret feeding of radioactive oatmeal to developmentally-disabled kids. 1995—Bill and Monica enjoy their third tryst in a White House study. 1970—Congress repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. 1970—Associated Milk Producers, Inc. gets $100 million in price supports in exchange for its $2 million donation to the Nixon campaign. 1969—Hitmen hired by United Mine Workers President Tony Boyle murder his rival,Joseph “Jock” Yablonski, along with his wife and daughter. 1952—The Tuskeegee Institute reports that for the first time since 1881, a year has passed without a lynching. 1947—The Israeli paramilitary outfit Haganah kills 20 to …

Wed, Dec 30

2015—At the North Pole, the temperature rises above 32° for six hours. 2006—Saddam Hussein’s inelegant demise is captured by cellphone. 1994—In Brookline, Mass., John Salvi lives out his “pro-life” creed by killing two health care workers. 1978—A House Select Committee concludes that conspirators “probably” helped kill JFK and MLK. 1971—Daniel Ellsberg is indicted for having set free the truth. 1970—An unsafe Kentucky coal mine explodes, killing 38 miners. 1969—American coal miners get protection for their lives and safety through a law signed by R. Nixon. 1947—Irgun fighters kill six Arabs and wound 42 in a grenade attack at a Haifa oil refinery. Arabs retaliate by …

Tues, Dec 29

2006—The UK pays off its $100,000,000 WW II debt to the U.S. 1989—Playwright Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia. 1975—Eleven people are killed and 74 wounded when a bomb explodes in a storage locker at LaGuardia Airport. The crime remains unsolved. 1972—Operation Linebacker II, which R. Nixon will call “my terrible personal ordeal,” ends. U.S. losses: 15 downed B-52s, 12 other aircraft, 43 KIA, & 49 POWs. 1930—Fred Newton arrives at New Orleans after swimming 1,826 miles down the Mississippi. 1916—Poisoned, stabbed, beaten, shot three times, and thrown unconscious into the freezing Neva River, the Russian Tsarina Alexandra’s favorite faith-healer Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin dies by …

Mon, Dec 28

2013—Congress ends long-term unemployment benefits to 1.3 million Americans, damaging the economy to the tune of an estimated 240,000 jobs. 1986—Terry Dolan, Republican critic of gay rights, dies of AIDS. 1983—Dr. George Graham, of President Reagan’s Task Force on Food Assistance, says Black children are “probably the best-nourished group in the U.S.”—citing athletes as proof. 1973—In space, the crew of Skylab goes on strike to protest over-work and micro-management. NASA meets the demands of the astronauts. 1973—The Akron, Ohio Chamber of Commerce denounces the Soap Box Derby as a cheat and a fraud. 1971—At the White House, 88 ’Nam vets are busted for protesting their …