Tag: Volume 266 | No. 12 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Wed, March 9

2007—Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich admits he committed adultery while impeaching Bill 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—Activists march again in Alabama; racist goons severely beat Boston minister James Reeb. 1954—WMUR-TV does it live. 1954—Ed Murrow dismantles Joe McCarthy on CBS. The network assures nothing like it happens again. 1941—Writer Sherwood Anderson dies of peritonitis after swallowing a toothpick at a party in …

Tues, March 8

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 …

Mon, March 7

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 …

Sat, March 5

2007—In Bloomington, Ill., Dee Riddle is startled by a meteorite crashing through her bedroom window. 2003—Dixie Chick Natalie Maines says she’s ashamed that George W.[MD] Bush is a Texan. 2001—A Nor’easter begins which will dump 40 inches of snow on New Hampshire’s Rockingham County. 1963—Patsy Cline, singer of “I Fall to Pieces,” dies when her plane crashes. 1960—Alberto Korda takes a particularly popular photo of Che Guevara. 1953—Car thief and armed robber Pearlie Miller, on the lam since an escape in 1948, on the FBI’s most wanted list for one day, is arrested at a diner in Somersworth, N.H. 1953—Everybody dies; this time, to the …

Fri, March 4

2001—Fox broadcasts a “Lone Gunman” show in which U.S. agents remotely hijack an airliner and try to crash it into the World Trade Center. 1987—Ronald Reagan admits trading arms to Iran for hostages. 1964—FBI agents stake out Frank Wilkinson’s home in Los Angeles; they expect the activist to be assassinated but do not warn him. 1960—La Coubre, a French munitions ship, explodes in Havana harbor. Between 75 and 100 people die. CIA involvement is “suspected.” 1937—The UAW wins a sit-down strike in Flint, Mich. 1933—“We have nothing to fear,” says FDR, “but fear itself.” 1929—Oscar Stanton de Priest [R-Ill.] becomes the first African-American to take …

Wed, March 2

2016—Dolt #45 asserts on live TV that his genitalia are adequate. 1991—LAPD cops savagely beat Rodney King—on tape, it turns out. 1981—Burlington, Vt. elects a new mayor: Socialist Bernie Sanders. 1969—An under-manned company of the 4th Division is sent after a crack NVA battalion west of Kontum; result: 47 percent end up KIA or MIA. 1934—John Dillinger busts out of the Crown Point, Ind. jail with a hand-carved wooden pistol and drives off in the sheriff’s new V-8 Ford. 1931—In Laredo, Texas, 17-year old Harlon Carter murders Ramón Casiano, 15, with a shotgun. Sentenced to three years, Carter does two; 46 years later he takes …