Tag: Volume 266| No. 7 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, 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. 1957—The U.S.A.F. and AEC begin work on a nuclear ramjet cruise missile which could would fly for months—and leave a radioactive wake. 1880—Elmer J. McCurdy is born in Washington, Maine. He robs banks and trains before he’s shot dead in 1911, then becomes as a sideshow attraction and …

Fri, 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. 1974—What a coincidence! Two columns defending the CIA’s illegal spying on U.S. citizens share a dateline. [Their writers, Bill Buckley and Tom Braden, are both covert CIA assets.] 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 …

Wed, 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 …

Tues, 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 …

Mon, Dec 27

1986—In San Diego, Cara Evelyn Knott is strangled by on-duty Highway Patrolman Craig Alan Peyer. 1981—Supreme Court AssociateJustice William H. Rehnquist checks into a hospital to kick his Placidyl™ habit and end the hallucinations. 1953—Mass. bans EC Comics’ version of “The Night Before Christmas.” Illustrated by Will Elder, it features a just-divorced Santa driving a Cadillac sled and giving away poison. 1900—Carrie Nation hatchets-up her first saloon, at the Carey Hotel, in Wichita, Kan. 1895—In Bill Curtis’s St. Louis saloon, William “Billy” Lyons foolishly—and fatally—grabs “Stagger Lee” Shelton’s brand new Stetson hat. 1827—Georgia proclaims “the lands of Georgia belong to her absolutely. The Indians are …

Sun, Dec. 26

2010—H. Kissinger apologizes for having told R. Nixon in 1973, “[if the Soviets] put Jews into gas chambers…it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.” 2002—Americans learn a new euphemism from the Washington Post: “extraordinary rendition” means kidnapping and torture. 1996—Of 1,500 candidates, JonBenet Ramsey is named “most important child murdered this year in the U.S.” 1991—The Supreme Soviet meets one last time and dissolves the USSR. 1971—Disgruntled Vietnam veterans occupy the Statue of Liberty. 1969—Having fought a shifting cargo of bombs, missiles, and mines for nine days in heavy seas, the crew of the freighter S.S. Badger State abandons ship in mid-Pacific …