Volume 270 | No. 18

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. 1989—Vice President Dan Quayle says, “I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy—but that could change.” 1980—The U.S. tells South Korea it’s OK to move two paratrooper brigades from the DMZ to Gwangju to “restore order” among unruly civilians. 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 …

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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. 1952—Blacklisted actor John Garfield dies of a heart attack at 39. 1946—A screwdriver slips; the same plutonium core that killed Harry Daghlian the previous August gives Louis …

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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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 2017—Big game hunter Theunis Botha, 51, dies in Zimbabwe when an elephant shot by a client falls on him. 1956—A 15-megaton bomb test in the South Pacific raises radiation levels in the U.S. to 10 times normal. 1954—The U.S.P.O. OKs HTLINGUAL, a CIA mail-opening op. 1953—Fallout from our dirtiest-ever nuke test, Upshot-Knothole Harry, hits St. George, Utah—H. Hughes’s location for The Conqueror a year later. 1950—Four barges carrying 467 tons of ammo explode in South Amboy, N.J., killing 30 and injuring 350. 1945—U-234 arrives at Portsmouth carrying cargo the Nazis intended for Japan; 1,232 lbs. of uranium eventually does arrive—at Hiroshima, on 8/6. 1943—U.S. submarine-chaser …

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