Volume 267 | No. 3

2017—President Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates are arrested on a slew of charges by the FBI. 2012—For the first time since the Ice Age, public access to the sea at Sanders Poynt in Rye is cut off by would-be Senator Bill Binnie. 2005—Pastor Kyle Lake, 33, standing in water to perform a baptism before 800 people at a Waco, Texas Baptist church, reaches for a microphone and is electrocuted. 1995—Quebec nearly votes to secede. 1990—For the first time since the Ice Age, England and Europe are connected; this time by chunnel. 1970—California Governor Ronald Reagan’s education advisor says, “We are …

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2004—Osama bin Laden explains: 9/11 was retaliation for the U.S. backing Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. 1984—New York City policemen kill African American Eleanor Bumpurs, 66, with two rounds from a 12 gauge. She was behind in her rent. 1981—A British Parliamentarian asks Maggie Thatcher whether European governments were “free to veto [a] push on the final button by that incoherent cretin President Reagan?” 1979—On Wall Street, 1,000 people are arrested for disrupting business on the 50th Anniversary of the Crash. 1970—Ronald Reagan’s education advisor Roger A. Freeman warns “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. … That’s dynamite!” 1969—Chicago 8 defendant Bobby …

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2016—Disregarding advice from Justice Dept. lawyers, Director James Comey announces that the FBI has re-opened its investigation of the Democratic Presidential candidate 10 days before the election. 2015—A $2.7 billion Spy Blimp® drifts from Maryland into Pennsylvania, dragging a mile-long tether whichknocks out power for 20,000. 2003—Iraq is “a little tougher that I thought it was going to be,” says Sen. Trent Lott [R-Miss.], but “if we have to, we just mow the whole place down [and] see what happens.” 1989—Congress passes a new, improved Flag Protection Act; 227 days later it’s struck down by the Court. 1980—With help from a stolen briefing book given …

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2004—The Red Sox take their first Series since 1918 from the Cards. 1972—Richard Nixon pocket vetoes a bill to raise the veterans’ health care budget by $85 million. 1969—To convince the Soviets he’s dangerously unstable, Richard Nixon secretly orders eighteen B-52s armed with H-bombs to spend the next three days flying around the North Pole. 1967—Rev. Philip Berrigan and three friends pour duck blood on draft records in Baltimore, Md. 1965—In a letter to the N.Y. Times, Richard Nixon writes, “We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost…the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.” 1962—ICBMs go on …

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2016—Bloomberg reports that Frederick Trump, Donald’s grandpa, once ran a brothel in British Columbia. 2010—Arizona kills Jeffrey Landrigan, using drugs imported illegally. 2003—Iraqi resistance fighters nearly get Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz with a rocket in Baghdad. 1972—Four years after helping to scuttle peace talks and get Richard Nixon elected, Henry Kissinger announces that “Peace is at hand.” 1971—Governor Reagan, calling the White House, refers to “those monkeys from those African countries…damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes,” which President Nixon finds hilarious. 1966—Aboard the carrier U.S.S. Oriskany off Vietnam, a sailor throws an accidentally-ignited flare into a locker full of warheads. Explosions ensue, 44 …

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