Tag: Volume 266 | No. 19 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, June 18

2009—Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta steps over a man with a leg broken in a brawl to exit the Fish & Game Social Club before EMTs arrive. 1989—RIP I.F. Stone, legendary journalist who said, “Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” 1965—Operation Arc Light begins: 27 B-52s fly from Guam to bomb the ’Nam. Two collide and crash due to navigational errors, a third goes down after in-flight refueling fails. 1959—Louisiana Gov. Earl Long is committed to a mental hospital; his governance continues unabated. 1954—Alabama State Attorney candidate Alfred Patterson [D], who’d vowed to rid Phenix City of vice, is …

Fri, June 17

2020—“[T]he numbers are very minuscule compared to what it was,” says Dolt #45, “[Covid is] dying out.” 2017—Brass on the U.S.S. Fitzgerald get their nimble destroyer rammed by a container ship; 7 enlisted sailors die, three are injured, repairs bill: $367M. 2015—Oxymoronic white “supremacist” murders nine in Charleston, S.C. 1972—A Black Vietnam veteran catches Nixon’s Watergate spies. 1971—“I want it implemented on a thievery basis,” President Nixon tells aides. “Goddamn it, get in [to the Brookings Institution] and get those files [that might reveal my treasonous interference with the Paris Peace talks]. Blow the safe and get it.” 1967—Defense Secretary Robert Strange McNamara commissions a …

Thurs, June 16

2020—The Wall Street Journal publishes Mike Pence’s op-ed, “There Isn’t a Coronavirus Second Wave.” 2019—“Last Call” at The Hammer. 2015—For $50 each, 240 actors cheer on cue in the lobby of Trump Tower as the star of a (cancelled) TV show announces he’s running for President. 2000—The Energy Department finds missing top-secret computer hard drives in a location which had already been searched twice. 1992—Caspar Weinberger, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Defense, is indicted for lying to Congress. 1991—Otis Nixon steals six bases. 1966—Stokely Carmichael, continuing the March Against Fear as James Meredith recuperates from an assassination attempt, introduces “Black Power” to the nation’s lexicon. 1944—South …

Wed, June 15

2006—Over Justice Souter’s dissent, the Supreme Court rules that evidence seized by cops breaking “no knock” rules can still be used as evidence. 2002—High class accounting firm Arthur Anderson is convicted of obstructing justice by impeding an investigation into G.W.[MD] Bush’s top financial contributor, Enron. 1967—Calif. Gov. Ronald Reagan signs a bill liberalizing abortion laws. 1920—A mob of thousands drags three Black circus workers from the Duluth, Minn. jail; arrested for a rape that didn’t happen, they’re lynched. 1917—Woodrow Wilson signs the Espionage Act. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman are promptly arrested for conspiring to “induce persons not to register” for the draft. 1913—At Bud …

Tues, June 14

2016—Lane Graves, 2, is killed by an alligator at Disney World. In response, Disney installs signs warning that alligators are present. 2001—Dennis Koslowski throws a $2.1 million party on Sardinia for his wife Karen’s 40th birthday. Half the cost is covered by Tyco International. 1954—Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. 1951—Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Booze) accuses President Eisenhower and General George Marshall of serving the policies of the Kremlin. 1949—The U.S. sends Albert II, a rhesus monkey, into space. 1943—The Supreme Court rules that children cannot be forced to salute the flag if it offends their religious beliefs. …

Mon, June 13

2005—Congress apologizes for having failed to pass 200 anti-lynching bills between 1882 and 1968. 1999—In Kosovo, British Lieut. Gen. Mike Jackson refuses NATO Commander Wesley Clark’s orders to take the Russian-occupied Pristina airport, saying, “I’m not going to start the Third World War for you.” 1983—Pioneer 10 exits the solar system. 1971—The Pentagon Papers arepublished. Because they cover only the Kennedy and Johnson years, Kissinger and Nixon laugh in the Oval Office. 1968—A U.S. attack helicopter accidentally kills Saigon’s Chief of Police. 1966—The Supreme Court rules that cops can’t make you talk. 1944—News reports say Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Penn.) gave FDR a letter-opener made …