Tag: Volume 269 | No. 24 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, Aug 23

2010—Gareth Williams, money-laundering investigator for MI6, is found dead inside a locked gym bag in a London “safe house.” Metropolitan Police rule he died accidentally, alone. 2000—The 2nd Circuit Court rules that aspiring cops can be denied a job on grounds that they’re too smart. 1985—San Francisco cops wince as Mayor Dianne Feinstein reveals their evidence in the “Night Stalker” case. 1971—Future Supreme Court Justice Powell releases The Memo: it exhorts billionaires to conspire and, using propaganda, negate the New Deal. 1968—Yippees nominate Pigasus J. Pig for President, saying, “if we can’t have him in the White House, we can have him for breakfast.” 1966—Robert …

Fri, Aug 22

2016—The lift span of the Sarah Long Bridge is raised for the last time. 2008—On a tip from an Afghan, a U.S. AC-130 gunship shoots up Azizabad. The Afghan’s rival is among the 91 dead; the rest are mostly civilian women and children. Embedded in this bloody fiasco is Fox’s Ollie North, who calls it a great victory. 2002—The Bush Administration announces trade sanctions on North Korea, with which we do not trade. 1992—An FBI sniper wounds Randy Weaver and kills his wife Vicki at Ruby Ridge in Idaho. 1991—Derick Lynn Peterson’s obstinate heart continues beating for ten minutes after his electrocution, so Virginia officials …

Thurs, Aug 21

2017—As an aide tells him, “Don’t look,” President Trump takes off his protective glasses and stares at the sun as it is being eclipsed. 2017—The Navy destroyer USS McCain collides with a freighter in the Gulf of Molucca; ten sailors die. Just 65 days before, the destroyer USS Fitzgerald hit a freighter off Honshu, killing seven aboard. 2017—Taxpayers fund a $27,000 trip so Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Sen. Mitch McConnell can visit Fort Knox and fondle some gold. 1992—Samuel Weaver, 14, and U.S. Marshal W.F. Degan die in a shootout at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Troubles ensue. 1982—The U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion murders more than 200 …

Wed, Aug 20

2018—Greta Thunberg strikes, demanding action on the climate crisis. 1998—Days after admitting he’d lied about sex with an intern, Bill Clinton throws 13 Tomahawk missiles at Sudan’s only pharmaceutical factory. 1986—Former Marine Patrick Sherrill “goes postal” in Edmonds, Okla.; he kills 14 co-workers and wounds six. 1975—A bomb explodes in front of San Francisco Mayor Joe Alioto’s home. Top suspects? City cops, who are conducting an illegal strike. 1965—Keene, N.H. seminary student & civil rights worker Jonathan Daniels is murdered in Nayneville, Ala. White jurors acquit his killer. 1945—Ex-puppet Emperor Bao Dai warns Charles de Gaulle, if France tries to rule Vietnam, “each village will …

Tues, Aug 19

1999—The FBI adds the name of James “Whitey” Bulger—its partner in crime—to its “Most-Wanted” list. 1997—Anti-regulation fanatic Carl Drega murders two cops, a selectman, and a judge in Colebrook, N.H. The carnage inspires Vin Suprynowicz, future Signed Member of the Free State Project, to write an essay and a book sympathizing with the killer. 1953—Despite setbacks four days earlier, the CIA’s coup succeeds in Iran. All will be well now, right? 1950—Called “blind,” “stupid,” and “pig-headed,” Rep. Clarence Cannon, [D-Mo.], shouts “I’ve taken all I’m going to” as he rushes Sen. Kenneth McKellar [D-Tenn.]. Senators wrest the gavel from McKellar, 81, before he can apply …

Mon, Aug 18

1996—The U.S. prison population hits 1,600,000, double what it had been just 10 years earlier. 1988—Accepting the GOP nomination, George H.[H.]W. Bush solemnly vows, “Read my lips: no new taxes!” 1980—Ronald Reagan, thanking the VFW for its endorsement, rebrands a criminal war as a “noble cause.” 1960—Ike tells the CIA to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, PM of the Congo. 1959—Sailors aboard the USS Wasp bring a severe fire under control, barely averting the need to flood the ship’s nuclear weapons storage space. 1950—Climbers atop the Matterhorn (14,692 feet) encounter a ten-month-old black and white kitten from the Hotel Belvedere (10,820 feet). 1933—Germany introduces the Peoples’ Radio, …