Volume 270 | No. 8

1971—George Mellendorf, in Vietnam, mails a letter to the White House complaining of slow mail delivery. His answer arrives in 1978. 1965—Having forced UC Berkeley Regents to drop their ban on political speech, the Free Speech Movement holds a rally that’s legal for a change. 1960—During a Minimum Interval Takeoff at Pease AFB, the second in a flight of three B-47s crashes and burns; four crewmen die. 1958—In a New York cab, ex-Commie, ex-McCarthy aide, and ex-editor of Confidential Howard Rushmore shoots his wife, then himself. 1956—A Senate Internal Security Subcommittee begins investigating newspapers, including the New York Times, for alleged Commie influence. 1955—The U.S. …

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2021—Dolt #45 tries to replace Acting AG Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, who’s more likely to back his coup. 2006—Hotshot Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to three felony counts for defrauding Indian tribes and bribing officials. 1967—Jack Ruby conveniently dies in prison while awaiting retrial. 1966—Ronald Reagan runs for Governor of California, which, he says, leads in bankruptcies and has unemployment 40% higher than the rest of the country. Neither factoid is true. 1966—Navy vet and civil rights activist Samuel L. Younge, Jr., 21, is murdered in Tuskeegee, Ala., by a white, 68-year-old gas station attendant who is later acquitted by an all-white jury. 1961—In …

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2021—Sen. Romney warns Majority Leader McConnell that insurrectionists want to burn down his home and storm the Capitol, and the guy who can stop it is the one who started it. 2021—Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger refuses Dolt #45’s demand that he “find 11,780 votes.” 1996—At Bill Clinton’s invitation, Monica Lewinsky drops by the Oval Office. Sequestered in the bathroom, he violates his marriage vows. 1972—During a one-hour interview on CBS, Richard Nixon tells Dan Rather that the bombing in Southeast Asia had been“very, very effective.” Next day in a note to Hank Kissinger, he tells the truth: “The result = zilch.” 1970—The Supreme …

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2006—Speaking to amputee vets of his Iraq War, George W.[MD] Bush says “I have an injury myself [from] combat with a cedar. I eventually won.” 1994—NAFTA screws unions, farmers, and the environment, but the Zapatistas stand up to fight back. 1975—Nixon cronies H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and John Mitchell are convicted of felonies. 1959—Castro’s commies take Cuba. 1945—Secret mission is kept too secret: German troops mistakenly shoot down 300 German planes. It’s the Luftwaffe’s worst day of the war. 1880—Bank and train robber Elmer J. McCurdy is born in Washington, Maine. He changes careers in 1911, first becoming a sideshow attraction, then a movie prop, …

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1999—Yeltsin hands Putin the keys. 1997—Quaker Oats pays $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit over their secret feeding of radioactive oatmeal to developmentally-disabled kids. 1974—Two syndicated columns appear defending the CIA’s illegal spying on U.S. citizens. Coincidentally, the writers, Bill Buckley and Tom Braden, are both covert CIA assets. 1970—Associated Milk Producers, Inc. gets $100 million in price supports in exchange for its $2 million donation to the Nixon campaign. 1969—Hitmen hired by United Mine Workers President Tony Boyle murder his rival,Joseph “Jock” Yablonski, along with his wife and daughter. 1952—For the first time since 1881, a year has passed without a lynching. 1947—Haganah attacks …

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2019—Health authorities in Wuhan, China send hospitals an alert and begin investigating a rise in pneumonia. 2015—At the North Pole, the temperature rises above 32° for six hours. 2006—Saddam Hussein’s inelegant demise is captured by cellphone. 1994—In Brookline, Mass., John Salvi lives out his “pro-life” creed by killing two health care workers. 1978—A House Select Committee concludes that conspirators “probably” helped kill JFK and MLK. 1971—Daniel Ellsberg is indicted for having set free the truth. 1970—An unsafe Kentucky coal mine explodes, killing 38 miners. 1947—Irgun fighters kill six Arabs and wound 42 in a grenade attack at a Haifa oil refinery. Arabs retaliate by beating …

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