Mon, June 8
1995—By chance, Russian mobster Vyacheslav Ivankov is arrested at his girlfriends Brighton Beach apartment, not his Trump Tower condo. 1991—Constitution Ave. is wrecked by tanks in a “victory celebration.” 1967—Israeli planes and boats attack the unarmed U.S. spy ship Liberty with rockets, machine guns, and napalm; 34 sailors are killed, 171 wounded. 1966—Five U.S.A.F. jets fly in formation over Barstow, Calif., for a photo requested by GE marketers. Two crash, including the Valkyrie, worth $5 billion in today’s money. Two pilots die. 1956—Tech. Sgt. Richard B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. becomes the first U.S. serviceman to die in Vietnam. He’s murdered by a fellow American airman. 1952—“I …