Tag: Volume 270 | No. 14 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, April 4

1989—In her Porsche, reaching for her cellphone while speeding to the bank she owns, Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton hits and kills Oleta Hardin, a 50 year-old Arkansas cannery worker. Walton is not charged. 1984—Congress nixes Contra funding. President Reagan sells arms to the Ayatollah to make up the difference. 1975—Operation Babylift begins with a C-5A flight out of Tan Son Nhut. It crashes into a nearby rice paddy killing 154, including 78 kids. 1970—On the National Mall, 50,000 followers of a radio televangelist hold a “March for Victory,” protesting the Vietnamization of the Vietnam War. 1968—Martin Luther King, Jr. is murdered in Memphis, perhaps by …

Fri, April 3

2014—Sen. Jerry Moran [R-Kan.], whose top contributor is Koch Industries, reads into the Congressional Record a Wall Street Journal op-ed in which Charles Koch defends his right to spend millions buying elections. 2004—Asked to name his biggest mistake, George W.[MD] Bush is unable to supply an answer. 1996—Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski is arrested in his Montana cabin. 1974—Hit by 148 tornadoes, 13 states lose 315 people; 5,484 are injured. 1973—The first mobile phone call is made, on a 2.4 lb. device, by a Motorola employee to a rival at AT&T. 1968—“I may not get there with you,” Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. says, to Memphis sanitation …

Thurs, April 2

2025—Liberation Day! Americans get a bunch of new tariffs taxes! 2014—In McCutcheon, SCOTUS makes sure rich folks have more electoral influence than mere proles. 1982—Hours after the Falklands invasion, UN Amb. Jeanne Kirkpatrick dines at the Argentine embassy. 1974—Governor Ronald Reagan’s former speechwriter Robert Opel streaks the 46th Oscars ceremony. 1969—President Dwight D. Eisenhower is buried in an $80 G.I. coffin. 1963—Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a voter registration drive in Birmingham, Ala. Police Chief “Bull” Connor responds with dogs and fire hoses. 1958—San Francisco columnist Herb Caen introduces his readers and the world to the term “beatnik.” 1942—Three soldiers, two black and one white, …

Wed, April 1

2013—In Portsmouth Harbor, the tanker Harbour Feature allides with the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge. 2004—Britain declassifies “Blue Peacock,” a 1957 plan to bury nukes in Germany with live chickens keeping the electronics warm. [No, this isn’t a joke.] 2003—Bush administration propagandists claim Special Forces have “rescued” PFC Jessica Lynch. It’s a lie. 1994—Steve Bannon, accompanied by federal marshals, arrives via limo to manage Biosphere 2, an ecological experiment in the Arizona desert. A break-in, lawsuits, and failure ensue. 1982—Top suits at Exxon get a memo saying that use of their oil was jacking up CO2 in the atmosphere, which might irreversibly damage the climate. 1974—Sitka, …

Tues, March 31

2016—Darcie Rae Hall, 36, of Troy, N.H., is arrested in Keene for selling “Donald Trump” brand heroin. 2009—Laid off Caterpillar workers in Grenoble, France take four bosses hostage. They get better severance. 2004—Four American contractors are ambushed and killed in Fallujah, their bodies displayed from a bridge. 1980—The American banking industry is deregulated with bipartisan support. What could possibly go wrong? 1969—By his orders, the body of Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower is carried by baggage car, like any other G.I., to its final resting place in Abilene, Kan. 1968—LBJ says he won’t run for re-election. Millions rejoice, having no inkling of who will replace him. …

Mon, March 30

2023—An ex-U.S. President is indicted for paying hush money to a porn star without declaring it as a campaign expense, which it clearly is. 2016—School bus mechanics in Virginia discover plastic explosives inadvertently left behind by the CIA. 2003—Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces “we know where” Iraq’s WMDs are: “the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.” 2000—Fred Trump III, whose son is chronically ill and needs special care, learns his family’s health care is being terminated by his uncle Donald. 1981—John Hinckley Jr. empties a six-shooter at Pres. Ronald Reagan. A richochet off the armored limo hits Ronnie. …