Volume 269 | No. 18

2020—A white cop in Minneapolis murders George Perry Floyd, Jr. 2007—As U. Mass. hands an honorary degree to Andrew Card, George W.[MD] Bush’s ex-Chief of Staff, students and faculty howl and boo. 1988—Evicted from his crypt, Peter Lawford’s ashes are scattered at sea; the National Enquirer covers the cost of the boat—none of his children will. 1986—“Hands Across America” ends hunger and homelessness. Well done! 1981—Kennebunkport native Dan Goodwin, 25, scales Chicago’s Sears Tower while dressed as Spiderman. 1979—Sitting in “Old Sparky,” waiting for the juice, John Spenkelink says, “Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.” 1953—At the Nevada Test Site, the U.S. …

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2005—“See,” mansplains G.W.[MD] Bush, “in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” 1989—Being killed by Texas state employees, Stephen McCoy has a violent drug reaction. A male witness faints, knocking over another witness. 1978—Looking to spring skyjacker Garrett B. Trapnell, Barbara Ann Oswald tells Allen Barklage, at gunpoint, to land his helicopter in the Marion, Ill. prison. Barklage grabs her gun and shoots her dead instead. 1976—Formerly-oppressed drug companies are liberated by SCOTUS: now they can advertise all they want. 1971—After a ski pole …

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2012—A mentally-unstable PNSY employee sets a fire that destroys the billion-dollar USS Miami. 1999—Wrestler Owen Hart drops 78 feet to his death in the ring; 15 minutes later, the show resumes. 1976—The Washington Post reports that Rep. Wayne L. Hays’ (D-Ohio) mistress, on his payroll at $14,000 a year, admits she “can’t type…can’t file, [and] can’t even answer the phone.” 1971—Nixon meets with the milk cartel. His campaign gets $2 million, they get a $100 million price hike. 1969—Sgt. Paul Meyer steals a C-130 from Mildenhall, UK and heads for Langley, Va. He crashes into the English Channel—possibly shot down. 1950—The Treaty of Detroit gives …

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2022—Southern Baptists reveal their leaders have been conspiring for years to protect hundreds of sex abusers. 2004—Portsmouth’s Leftist Marching Band debuts in Market Square. 1980—Jimmy Carter gives South Korean dictator Chun Doo Hwan the OK: use military force against civilians to “restore order” in Gwangju. 1977—Gun rights fanatic Harlon Carter takes over the NRA—46 years after murdering Ramón Casiano, 15. 1968—Scorpion, its nuclear torpedos, and 99 crewmen are lost at sea. 1962—Thomas G. Doty buys dynamite and flight insurance, then boards Flight 11, which explodes. Instead of $300K, his wife gets a $3.00 refund. 1949—Ex-Defense Secretary James Forrestal ambiguously defenestrates from a 16th floor hospital …

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2016—In Houston, hundreds rally to support Islam. Hundreds more rally, armed, to oppose it. Both sides have been duped by a Russian troll farm. 2001—GAO refutes the GOP: Dems did not vandalize the White House. 1981—The Senate OKs $20 billion to resume full-scale production of nerve gas and other chemical weapons. 1980—In Gwangju, Korea, students using weapons looted from armories drive troops from downtown. 1975—Responding to a FOIA request, the CIA debuts its “neither confirm nor deny” non-response. 1968—Students protest the Vietnam War in West Berlin, Paris, Peking, Berkeley, and New York. 1952—Blacklisted actor John Garfield dies of a heart attack at 39. 1946—A screwdriver …

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2009—The FBI entraps four Muslim men in a bogus Bronx bomb plot. 2004—U.S. and Iraqi troops raid the home and offices of Ahmed Chalabi, formerly the neo-cons’ most trusted source of Iraqi intelligence. 1978—Mavis Hutchinson, 53, arrives in New York City after running across America in 69 days. 1973—The Camden 28, who broke into a draft board office, are acquitted. 1969—After 11 bloody assaults in 10 days, American troops take Hamburger Hill at a cost of 70 dead and 372 wounded. It’s abandoned 16 days later. 1937—George Orwell takes a bullet in the throat while fighting against Franco’s fascists in Spain. 1927—Charles Lindbergh leaves Long …

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