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2017—D. Trump fires J. Comey. 1999—Two students win second place in a University of Chicago scavenger hunt by building a plutonium-producing reactor from found junk. 1991—Bush aide John Sununu is told to quit using military planes to visit his dentist in Boston or ski in N.H. 1989—“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind,” says Veep Candidate Dan Quayle, addressing the Negro College Fund, “or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.” 1980—The SS Summit Venture collapses Fla.’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge; a Greyhound on it plunges, killing 35. 1974—Congress finally begins to ponder impeaching Richard Nixon. 1971—Major General …