Tag: Volume 271 | No. 2 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, Oct 17

1999—After confessing she had had a 19-year affair with her father-in-law, George Roche III, the president of Hillsdale College—“the most conservative college in America”—Lissa Roche commits suicide. 1973—OPEC turns off the oil tap. 1967—Lt. Col. Terry Allen Jr. leads two companies of the 28th Infantry, outnumbered 10 to 1, into a VC ambush at Ong Thanh. Casualties exceed 92 percent, 64 are KIA. The U.S. Army calls the catastrophe a victory. 1961—On orders from their top cop—an ex-Nazi collaborator—Paris cops massacre hundreds of Algerians. 1960—The sit-in movement pays off big: several chain stores with locations in 10 southern states desegregate 150 lunch counters in 112 …

Fri, Oct 16

2002—George W.[MD] Bush signs the law he demanded giving him permission to start an unprovoked war. 1973—Fred and Donald Trump are sued by the Justice Dept. for discriminating against minority renters. Their lawyer, Roy Cohn, countersues, claiming the victims are the Trumps. 1973—After Henry Kissinger gets the Nobel Peace Prize, Tom Lehrer declares political satire obsolete. 1968—Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise the Black Power salute. 1962—At breakfast, President John F. Kennedy finds he’s got a Cuban Missile Crisis on his plate. 1946—Inept Army MSgt. John C. Woods hangs ten Nazis at Nuremberg. Heads bash the trap; two choke for 14 minutes, Ribbentrop for 24. …

Thurs, Oct 15

2008—The Dow loses 7.8 percent of its value in its 2nd worst day ever. 2004—Jon Stewart appears on CNN’s “Crossfire” and begs Tucker Carlson to “stop hurting America.” Less than 90 days later CNN announces the show is over. 1987—Socialist Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso and an opponent of the World Bank, is assassinated in a French-backed coup. 1969—In the U.S., two million march in the first Vietnam Moratorium. One demo in Boston draws 100,000. 1966—In Oakland, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale form the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. 1965—David Miller becomes the first American to publicly burn his draft card in Vietnam …

Wed, Oct 14

2018—RIP, Emilio V. Maddaloni. 2011—Weeks after a U.S. drone smites his dad, a U.S. citizen in Yemen, Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki, also a U.S. citizen, meets the same fate. Neither ever got a trial. 1984—KFBK in Sacramento replaces Morton Downey Jr., with someone even worse: Rush Limbaugh. 1976—The U.S., presided over by Gerald Ford, Republican, apologizes to Japan, offended by a Hiroshima re-enactment in which Paul Tibbets flew a B-29 over Harlingen, Texas, creating a [mock] mushroom cloud. 1968—Protestors in the Army’s Presidio stockade sit and sing “We Shall Overcome.” They’re charged with mutiny, which carries the death penalty. 1968—The Pentagon orders 24,000 troops back to …

Tues, Oct 13

2004—Ordered to deliver useless contaminated fuel across hostile Iraqi terrain in un-armored trucks, 19 U.S. Army Reservists wisely say “nope.” 2004—Andrea Mackris sues her ex-boss, Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, for making lewd phones calls. Two weeks later O’Reilly pays her $9M to shut up. 2004—George W.[MD] Bush claims during a televised debate, “Gosh, I don’t think I ever said I’m not worried about Osama bin Laden. That’s kind of one of those exaggerations,” directly contradicting his own statement of March 3, 2002 that he’s “not that much concerned about him.” 1991—A lie detector test suggests Anita Hill is telling the truth about her ex-boss Clarence Thomas. …

Mon, Oct 12

1984—A Provisional IRA bomb in a Brighton hotel kills five, but its top target, Maggie Thatcher, is unscathed. 1972—A race riot aboard the USS Kitty Hawk leaves 47 injured. 1970—Lieut. William Calley is court-martialed for 102 murders. 1968—Navy nurse Susan Schnall drops anti-war leaflets from a plane onto five Bay-area military bases. 1964—JFK’s intimate friend Mary Pinchot Meyer is murdered under the murkiest of circumstances. 1964—Canadian John Watkins, suspected of spying by CIA man James Jesus Angleton, is interrogated to death in a Montreal hotel. 1963—Bone spurs? What bone spurs? Donald Trump leads a drill team in N.Y.C.’s Columbus Day Parade. 1961—The FBI launches a …