Volume 269 | No. 11

1982—Nancy Reagan says, via an aide, she’ll no longer accept “loaned” threads from big name designers because she’s “really…tired of people misinterpreting what she was doing.” 1978—The first computer bulletin board goes online in Chicago. Uh-oh. 1976—The Village Voice publishes excerpts from the House-suppressed Pike Report; among other sins, the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA have been illegally spying on U.S. citizens. 1964—A week after security in Saigon is “tightened,” a V.C. bomb in an American movie theater kills three U.S. soldiers and wounds another 50. 1962—A two-day anti-nuclear march on Washington, D.C. begins. 1959—Fidel Castro is sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba. …

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2003—It’s the largest demonstration in history—up to ten million people, in 600 cities around the world, say “No” to Bush 43’s Iraq War. 1989—After just a little over nine years in-country, quick-thinking Soviets pull out of Afghanistan. 1988—Environmentalists, supporting striking workers, storm Int’l. Paper’s Jay, Maine plant 10 days after scabs create a huge chlorine leak. 1978—On his first day at the Hillsboro, N.H. Messenger, our current editor is told, “Get over to Henniker; last night the cop shop was fire-bombed.” 1973—Nixon to Joint Chiefs: POWs’ return is “an invaluable opportunity to revise the history of this War.” 1966—In place of Senate hearings on the …

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2016—A cargo jet linked to the CIA lands in Harare, Zimbabwe carrying 67 tons of South African currency and the decomposing body of a Black man. 2016—With wind blowing 20 m.p.h., and the thermometer at -13°, the wind chill in Portsmouth falls to -38°. 2015—Another 18 inches of snow fall on Portsmouth, making nearly eight feet in under three weeks. 2004—The White House releases some of George W.[MD] Bush’s military records, but they fail to prove he was present for duty. 1973—The first American POWs released from North Vietnam arrive at Travis AFB, Calif. [See tomorrow.] 1971—Nixon’s secret taping system is installed in the White …

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2013—Justice Antonin Scalia goes to his final judgment. 2008—The Senate tells the CIA to cool it with the waterboarding. 2007—An Al-Qaeda tape calls George W.[MD] Bush a drunk gambler. 2002—Donald Rumsfeld’s ex-assistant Ken Adelman predicts the Iraq War will be a “cakewalk.” 1991—A super-accurate, laser-guided U.S. bomb kills some 400 Iraqi civilians in a bunker in Baghdad. 1983—Radicalized by anti-Semite Henry Ford, decorated WW II vet and anti-tax crank Gordon Kahl and son Yorie Von Kahl murder two U.S. Marshals and wound three other lawmen in a shootout near Medina, N.D. 1981—Hexane gas illegally discharged from a Purina plant fills the Louisville, Ky. sewer system. …

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2004—USA Today reports that former top Texas Air National Guard officers say files were “cleansed” to protect George W.[MD] Bush. 1999—N.H.Senators Gregg and Smith notwithstanding, the Senate finds President Clinton not guilty. 1983—SS Marine Electric, a rusted, beat-up hulk whose lying owners faked inspections, sinks off Virginia; three survive from a crew of 34. 1976—The New World Liberation Front bombs Hearst Castle. 1968—LBJ puts the kibosh on Westy’s plan to nuke the NVA. 1962—Bill Lancaster is discovered in the Sahara, mummified alongside his biplane, 29 years after disappearing. 1947—Sixty antiwar protesters burn draft cards in New York City. 1946—Black combat vet Isaac Woodard gets his …

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2017—The U.S. President and the Japanese Prime Minister confer and read classified documents about a North Korean missile launch while surrounded by diners at Mar-a-Lago. 2014—An FEC report confirms what his mom and sis said: U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta lied, that $355,000 wasn’t his. 2013—Bad news today from KRTV in Great Falls, Mont.: “the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living.” 2006—Dick “Dick” Cheney becomes the second sitting Vice President to shoot a man when he “peppers” his pal Harry Whittington in the face. 1992—“I’d like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me,” says …

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