Tag: Volume 270 | No. 24 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, 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 …

Fri, Aug 21

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 Salvadorans at El Calabozo. 1976—A two-day occupation of the Seabrook, N.H. nuke site begins. 1969—Traffic on Boston’s Southeast Expressway is held up: three Penn Central engines cross the roadway. 1963—Ngo Dinh Nhu’s secret police kill hundreds of Buddhist protestors across Vietnam—for democracy. 1939—Five Black men, reading quietly in Alexandria, Va.’s public library, are arrested for disorderly conduct. …

Thurs, 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 Edmond, 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 …

Wed, 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 …

Tues, 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.” 1966—China’s Cultural Revolution gets a big boost when a million Red Guards arrive at Beijing to spend the day schmoozing with Chairman Mao. 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. 1945—The …

Mon, Aug 17

2008—Confederate widow Maudie Hopkins dies in Arkansas at 93. She married William M. Cantrell in 1934, when he was 86 and she was 19. 2002—U.S. Generals admit that the U.S. assisted Iraq during its war against Iran knowing that Saddam Hussein would “use chemical weapons against his own people.” 1998—“It depends,” President Clinton tells a Grand Jury, “on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” 1988—A Pakistani C-130 explodes in mid-air killing President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. General Pervez Musharraf, also scheduled to be on-board, somehow misses the flight. 1988—J. Danforth Quayle informs the Republican National Convention, “in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward …