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Nov 1 1530
Holland's dikes fail, drowning 400,000.
Nov 1 1755
An earthquake and resultant fire in Lisbon kills 50,000. The jail was damaged, and escaped prisoners were looting, setting fires, and committing mayhem. Gallows had to be erected around the city to restore order.
Nov 1 1896
Tits appear for the first time in National Geographic, starting a trend of providing masturbation material to youth for decades. The tits are attached to a Zulu woman.
Nov 1 1939

A rabbit that was born of artificial insemination is shown to the world. History does not record why anyone felt that rabbits needed any help in the procreation department.
Nov 1 1948
A Chinese merchant ship with as many as 6,000 people aboard explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria, killing all aboard.
Nov 1 1950
Attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists to assassinate President Truman at Blair House fails, leaving one of them dead with a bullet in the head.
Nov 1 1951
US Soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for the first time in training exercises, at Desert Rock, Nevada. Participation was not voluntary and served both to train and indoctrinate.
Nov 1 1990
A New York City civil jury awards Sandra Miller $100 for battery after an incident in which boxer Mike Tyson grabbed her breasts, insulted and propositioned her. The jury found Tyson's behavior "not outrageous". Mike certainly has a way with women.
Nov 1 1994
A group of South Korean cannibals known as the Chijon Family are sentenced to death for murdering and eating five people. The group was founded in 1993 by ex-convict Kim Ki Hwan and several other prisoners, in solidarity against the wealthy. Eat the rich.

 

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Nov 2 1974
The Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns, killing 78. Six of the victims jumped six floors to their deaths. After the fire started, club officials barred the doors, suspecting a ruse by customers to avoid paying.
Nov 2 1984
Velma Barfield, convicted of killing her mother, her boyfriend and two others with rat poison in their food was put to death by lethal injection in Raleigh, N.C. Barfield was the first female executed in the US since 1962.
Nov 2 1988
The Internet Worm is released by Cornell grad student Robert Morris. His ingenious program was meant to explore the Internet harmlessly, but due to a bug, it crashed some 6,000 computers. Spaf parlays the incident into a career.
Nov 2 1991

Jermaine Jackson's single "Word to the Badd!" is leaked to radio station KPWR in Los Angeles. The song attacks his brother Michael, with lyrics that include the lines

Reconstructed
Been abducted
Don't know who you are...
Once you were made
You changed your shade
Was your color wrong?
Could not turn back
It's a known fact
You were too far gone
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While upsetting to Michael, it may have been a relief to him that the lyrics do not mention homosexuality or pedophilia at all. Nov 2 1995
The image of Jesus Christ appears to many people in a photo taken by the Hubble space telescope, depicting a gigantic gas plume 7000 light years from Earth. Some CNN viewers pointed out the image resembles Gene Shalit more than the Lord Saviour.

 

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Nov 3 1755
The colony of Massachusetts offers a 20 pound bounty for scalps of indian boys or girls under the age of 12. Warrior scalps fetch a slightly higher price, 30 pounds.
Nov 3 1913
Income tax law signed.
Nov 3 1957

Laika the dog becomes the first living creature in space. She asphyxiated when oxygen in the Soviet Sputnik 2 ran out. However, some western researchers speculate that Laika roasted when the satellite's heat shields were detached.
Nov 3 1979
Diff'rent Strokes premieres on NBC. The cast's child actors have gone on to bigger and better things: Todd Bridges (arrests: drug possession, 1983; attempted murder, 1989; knife stabbing in self defense, no arrest, 1993; assault with a deadly weapon, 1997); Dana Plato (armed robbery, 1992, then a porno centerfold; dead of a drug overdose in 1999); Gary Coleman (a short, pudgy gun nut who plays Nintendo games; 2003 gubernatorial candidate).

 

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Nov 7 1783
A man convicted of forgery is the last public hanging at London's Tyburn site, ending a gallows tradition begun in 1196.
Nov 7 1872
The cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, never reaching Genoa. Four weeks later it is found completely abandoned, whereabouts of the ten man crew unknown. The ship's cargo was alcohol, so you decide.
Nov 7 1918

A ship from New Zealand brings the 1918 influenza epidemic to Western Samoa, killing 7542 -- about twenty percent of the population by the end of the year. Perhaps 20,000,000 people are killed from the epidemic globally, including half a million Americans.
Nov 7 1965
The Pillsbury Doughboy makes its first appearance. It (we refer to the creature as "it"; marketing may call it a Doughboy but there is no evidence of genitals) has had a long and uneventful career, but the puffy pastry is now in serious trouble as he recently shit a croissant in front of god and everybody.
Nov 7 1983
A bomb explodes inside the US Capitol building. The structure was damaged but there were no deaths or injuries.
Nov 7 1991
Magic Johnson announces that he is an AIDS victim. Perhaps the basketball player's condition has something to do with his sleeping promiscuously with thousands of women.

 

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Nov 16 1906
Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act committed in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo. He pinched the bottom of a woman described as "pretty and plump", causing outrage amongst New York high society. Caruso claimed a monkey pinched the lady's bottom.
Nov 16 1957

Serial killer Ed Gein kills his final victim, Bernice Worden, a storeclerk in her 50's. Her decapitated body is later found outdoors hanging from a block and tackle, gutted. Some parts were unaccounted for.
Nov 16 1981
Actor William Holden dies after a fall, hitting his head on a table. He is too fucking drunk to telephone for assistance; instead he bleeds to death while dabbing his serious wound with kleenex.
Nov 16 1989
A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops slaughters six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
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Nov 30 1731
100,000 dead when a massive quake strikes Peking, China.
Nov 30 1900
Celebrated Irish author/sodomite Oscar Wilde, dies in Paris of meningitis. Wilde had been charged three times with indecency, specifically "the seduction and corruption of young men." Evidence admitted against him included testimony about fecal stains on his sheets.
Nov 30 1929
Dick Clark, the American Bandstander, born. We heard a rumor about extensive facial plasticizing treatments in the early 1970's. While this rumor remains unverified we must note that the man no longer ages and may not even be human.
Nov 30 1954
At 1 pm, an 8.5 pound stone meteorite falls from the sky and strikes Elizabeth Hulitt Hodge from Sylacauga, Alabama. The housewife was seriously bruised but survived, although the meteorite destroyed her radio.
Nov 30 1985

Frankenchrist released by the Dead Kennedys. More controversial than the album itself was the packaging: The Shriners filed suit regarding the cover (pictured were some of the ridiculous little cars they drive); and a poster by H.R. Giger included in the album sparked an obscenity trial in Los Angeles.
Nov 30 1991
In Costa Mesa, California, battered wife Omeima Nelson kills her abusive husband and then proceeds to cook him. "I did his ribs just like in a restaurant. It's so sweet, it's so tender and delicious. I like mine tender."

 

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Dec 6 1793
Guillotining of Mme. du Barry, mistress of Louis XV. "She screamed, she begged mercy of the horrible crowd that stood around the scaffold, she aroused them to such a point that the executioner grew anxious and hastened to complete his task."
Dec 6 1917
At 9:05 AM, the munitions ship Mont Blanc explodes in Halifax harbor after being struck by another ship. It is the largest explosion before the atomic age. The ship was carrying 200 tons of TNT, 61 tons of gun cotton, 35 tons of Benzyl, and 2,300 tons of picric acid; the explosion destroys 325 acres of the city, leaving 1,900 people dead and injuring over 9,000.
Dec 6 1969
A concert by the Rolling Stones at Altamont ends in the death of a fan at the hands of the Hells Angels, who were hired for security.
Dec 6 1980

Televangelist Jim Bakker of the PTL ministry has a 15 minute quickie in a motel room with Jessica Hahn. The minister uses the line "When you help the shepherd, you're helping the sheep". Baaaa. PTL later pays Hahn hush money, but seven years later the incident becomes public and Bakker resigns in disgrace.
Dec 6 1987
Three teenagers in Missouri beat a friend to death and blame the incident on heavy metal inspired satanism. The jury didn't buy their story, instead finding a pattern of drug use among the youths and evidence of animal torture during childhood by their ringleader.
Dec 6 1989

Marc Lepine kills 14 women at Ecole Polytechnic, University of Montreal, and injures 15 others. It is the worst mass murder in Canadian history. On him is a suicide letter explaining his actions as being specific revenge against 19 "feminists who have ruined my life... I have decided to put an end to those viragos."
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Dec 9 1783
Executions begin at Newgate Prison, London, replacing the previous gallows at Tyburn.
Dec 9 1942
Birthday of Dick Butkus!
Dec 9 1967
Jim Morrison, vocalist for the Doors, arrested for immoral exhibition at one of his concerts. The arrest was due to him upsetting police -- he was maced, then made the error of badmouthing police onstage -- not for exposing his weenie.
Dec 9 1971
Indian air force bombs an orphanage in Pakistan, killing 300 children. Way to go!
Dec 9 1994
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders dismissed after suggesting discussion of masturbation in school classes on sexuality. This gives rise to the euphemistic term "firing the surgeon general."
Dec 9 1997

Actor Christian Slater sentenced to 90 days in jail for battery and being under the influence of a controlled substance. He was arrested August 11 after a cocaine and heroin binge ending with him assaulting an officer. Slater's credits include made-for-TV movie "Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story".
Dec 9 1999
President Bill Clinton signs legislation outlawing "crush videos," which generally involve women stomping frogs, mice, or other small animals with high heels. This fetish is definitely a niche market.


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Dec 21 1937
Jane Fonda's birthday. Jane, an anti-war activist, also holds the title "Miss Army Recruiting" of 1965.
Dec 21 1945
World War II General George Patton dies in a car accident at Heidelberg, Germany.
Dec 21 1970

President Nixon meets with prescription drug addict Elvis Presley at the White House to discuss The King's becoming a special drug enforcement agent. He presents Nixon with a pistol, and receives a special DEA badge in return.
Dec 21 1971
Former Nazi Kurt Waldheim chosen to serve as United Nations Secretary General, the fourth to serve in that position (but the first Nazi). He paves the way for a New World Order.
Dec 21 1975
Terrorist Carlos the Jackal takes hostage the 11 oil ministers at an OPEC meeting in Vienna. The ministers are released after a ransom is paid, and Carlos escapes. The Jackal is not captured until he enters a Sudanese hospital in 1994 for a testicle operation.
Dec 21 1978
John Wayne Gacy arrested in Des Plaines, IL after remains of some of the 33 men and boys he had killed are discovered on his land.
Dec 21 1988
Pan Am flight 103 detonates over Lockerbie Scotland, by means of a remote control radio bomb. All 259 aboard are killed as well as 11 on the ground struck by falling detritus. The PFLP faction of the PLO was responsible, assisted by Libyan sponsorship.
Dec 21 1991

Charles Barkley arrested on charges of battery and disorderly conduct, Milwaukee. He had punched a heckler, but was acquitted.
Dec 21 2012
The Mayan "long count" calendar is based on great cycles of 5125 years, the current cycle ending on this day in 2012. Endings of cycles are punctuated by cataclysmic singularities on a deluge scale, so be prepared. This is the end of time!

 

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Today in History 28 January
1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1909 - United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
1918 - Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of World War I.
1922 - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
1932 - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1934 - The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
1935 - Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1938 - The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1941 - French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1958 - The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

1980 - USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 - Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity under the Red Brigades.
1985 - Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1986 - Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.

 

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Dec 23 1888
After an argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh takes a razor and removes a portion of his left ear. Their quarrel regarded the prostitutes in Arles who seemed to prefer Gauguin over Van Gogh; the painter delivered his ear to one Rachel, who preferred Van Gogh. She fainted.
Dec 23 1948
Japanese Premier Tojo and 6 others hanged by the War Crimes Commission at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, for the crime of starting an aggressive war.
Dec 23 1968
The first US incident of motion sickness in orbit. Was it Borman, Lovell, or Anders?
Dec 23 1972
Magnitude 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die.
Dec 23 1975
Leftist members of November 17 faction murder Athens CIA station chief Richard Welch.
Dec 23 1985

In a school playground, James Vance presses a shotgun to his chin and pulls the trigger. He and cohort Raymond Belknap had forged a suicide pact while listening to Stained Class by Judas Priest. But where Belknap succeeded, Vance fails. The dumbshit survives, destroying his face. He later uses his disfigurement to his advantage, terrorizing small children on his bicycle. Both kids' parents file suit against the band, but a judge ultimately rejects their subliminal message theory. Vance dies from painkillers on Thanksgiving three years later.
Dec 23 1994
Actor/dumbass Christian Slater arrested while trying to board a plane with a semiautomatic firearm. Community service, boy.
Dec 23 1995
Bodies of 16 members of the Solar Temple cult who had commited suicide are found on a plateau in the French Alps. Their bodies are charred and arranged in a star formation. Causes of death included stabbing, asphyxiation, gunshot, and poisoning. In 1994, 53 other members had suicided in similar fashion.
Dec 23 1997
Mayor Craig Johnson of Snow Hill, MD is arrested on two counts of misconduct in office, after he allows the squad car issued to him to be photographed for a pornographic Internet website "Wetlands". One of the pictures shows Cherie Messner, wife of the Wetlands operator, apparently urinating on the squad car in question.

 

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Today in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 10 1863[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]

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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Midgets Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren married in a ceremony promoted and orchestrated by P.T. Barnum, reception tickets $75 (adjusted for inflation, $1250 in today's dollars). Commodore Nutt served as best man. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 10 1920[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Major League Baseball bans the spitball. Pitchers who had been throwing spitballs could continue, and the practice ended completely in 1934 when the last one, Burleigh Grimes, retired. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 10 1981[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Eight people were killed, 198 injured, when fire broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino. (A busboy was later found guilty of setting the fire.) [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 10 1993[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]In a TV interview, former negro Michael Jackson tells Oprah Winfrey that he suffers from a skin disorder causing it to whiten. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Yesterday in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 9 1909[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The first federal law prohibiting the importation of opium is enacted, aimed not particularly at the ravages the drug was having on American society (none: white people weren't using opium), but at the hated Chinee. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 9 1950[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Senator Joseph McCarthy announces he has a list of 205 State Department employees who are Communist Party members. He did not mention that J. Edgar Hoover likes to wear garters and pumps. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 9 1968[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]"Planet of the Apes" opens. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 9 1979[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Serial killer Ted Bundy abducts, rapes, and murders twelve year old Kimberly Leach of Lake City, Florida. He takes her from her junior high school, where she had been elected runner-up Valentine Queen the day before. Kimberly's remains aren't found for eight weeks. It is for this murder that Ted Bundy is sent to the Electric Chair ten years later.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 9 1989[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Officials for the World Wrestling Federation testify before the New Jersey Senate that their matches are actually rigged. Say it ain't so! [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 9 1990[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Singer Del Shannon commits suicide with a .22 rifle. He is most remembered for his 1961 hit, Runaway. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Wait there's more[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 8 1910[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]

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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Boy Scouts founded by Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a man who enjoyed seeing naked boys swimming just a little too much. It is odd that such a homophobic organization would be founded by a repressed homosexual. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 8 1924[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Gee Jong is the first man to die in the gas chamber, at Nevada State Prison in Carson City. A pound of sodium cyanide crystals was lowered into a vessel of diluted sulfuric acid, producing hydrogen cyanide gas which asphyxiated Jong. "At first there is evidence of extreme horror, pain, and strangling. The eyes pop. The skin turns purple and the victim begins to drool." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 8 1960[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Beer heir Adolph Coors III (who was ironically allergic to beer), killed after a failed kidnapping attempt in Colorado. By October, Joseph Corbett Jr. is arrested in Canada after an national manhunt. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 8 1990[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]After "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney expresses his view that "blacks have watered down genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children", he is suspended for a month by CBS. Rooney claims the remarks are fabricated. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 8 1994[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]During an argument Jack Nicholson destroys the windshield of a car with a golf club, screaming "You cut me off!" Charges were dismissed on May 2 after the matter was settled privately. Nicholson did this one month before he was to host the annual Los Angeles Police-Celebrity Golf Tournament. D'oh! [/FONT]

 

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Today in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 14 [/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The eve of the Roman feast of Lupercalia. Naked youths would run through Rome, anointed with the blood of sacrificed dogs and goats, waving thongs cut from the goats. If a young woman was struck by the thong, fertility was assured. Pope Gelasius I decided this was a bit too much, and co-opted the Roman holiday to be the Feast of St. Valentine in 484 A.D. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 14 1779[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]English explorer Captain James Cook and some of his crew are slaughtered by angry Hawaiian islanders, after he tried to take a Hawaiian chief hostage over a dispute regarding a stolen boat. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 14 1929[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The Capone gang kills six members of the "Bugs" Moran gang and one other person at the S.M.C. Cartage company in Chicago, in an event known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Bogus police officers were used so that it appeared to be a routine police bust. Except for all the bodies. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 14 1979[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Walter Carlos, the musician who created "Switched on Bach" and the score of "A Clockwork Orange", reveals to the world that he has had a sex change operation and is henceforth to be referred to as Wendy. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 14 1989[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Ayatollah Khomeini issues a takfir against Salman Rushdie, for his writings in the Satanic Verses. The act propels the otherwise uninteresting book into a bestseller. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Yesterday in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 13 1917[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mata Hari is arrested for spying. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 13 1945[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]An estimated 135,000 people, mostly women and children, die in the firebombing of the 13th-century city of Dresden, a revenge bombing that had no real military justification. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 13 1953[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Transsexual Christine (formerly George) Jorgenson arrives in New York with much fanfare. She had had sex change operations performed in Denmark by Dr. Christian Hamburger, becoming the first successful surgical transgender. Upon return, she becomes a cabaret actress. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 13 1959[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The first Barbie Doll is introduced by Mattel in California. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 13 1985[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Japan's New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act comes into effect. The law brings an end to Japan's innovative sex businesses (i.e., glory holes, strip bars, and public bondage), while protecting the traditional brothel industry. That's an improvement? [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 13 1990[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Male prostitute Kevin Lee Kite accuses Rev. Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House (a place for wayward boys) and a respected member of the Meese commission on Pornography, of paying for homosexual sex. An internal investigation by Covenant House reveals a pattern of sexual misconduct with underage boys going back 20 years, and revealed a relationship with a 15 year old boy going back 14 months. Superiors at the Franciscan Order had been aware of Ritter's behavior patterns for some years, but did nothing. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Wait there's more[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 12 1554[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]

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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The sixteen year old Lady Jane Grey, puppet Queen of England for nine days, beheaded in the Tower of London. Questions arose as to where to bury this semi-queen, until it was decided to place her among the beheaded former wives of Henry VIII. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 12 1789[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Ethan Allen dies in a drunken sleigh accident while crossing the frozen Lake Champlain, reminiscing with friends and rye. Much of the circumstance remains a mystery. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 12 1967[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Police in London arrest Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, and Marianne Faithfull after they discover amphetamine pills, cannabis resin and Marianne scandalously naked but for a fur rug. The two Rolling Stones received jail sentences which were successfully appealed. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 12 1976[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Actor Sal Mineo killed in the carport of his West Hollywood home. There were rumors of a gay crime of passion but in 1979 it turned out to be a routine mugger who stabbed him for his money. [/FONT]

 

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Today in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 16 1923[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Lord Carnarvon opens King Tut's tomb, revealing one of the most well-preserved treasures from the ancient world. While it has been frequently reported that a curse killed 13 of the 20 people present at the opening of the tomb, there was no curse and no unusual death patterns occurred. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 16 1959[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Failed baseball player Fidel Castro is sworn in as President For Life of Cuba. During his first year of rule 500 are put to the firing squad, an RBI record any dictator would be proud of. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 16 1978[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The first computer bulletin board system goes live on an S-100 motherboard and CP/M, and a Hayes 300 baud modem. Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss's Computerized Bulletin Board System still kinda runs to this day, but the Internet has taken the place that BBS's used to have. And this is why you have no social life, loser. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 16 1988[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Richard Farley, a man obsessed with the lovely and petite Laura Black, entered his former workplace in Sunnyvale, California, and killed 7 employees as he made his way towards Laura's office. A hearing was scheduled regarding her restraining order against him for the following day. Farley fails in his attempt to kill her, leaving Laura critically wounded. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 18 1933[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Yoko Ono born. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 18 1965[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Dre Day: Rapper and hip hop producer Dr. Dre (AKA André Romel Young) born in Los Angeles, California. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 18 1967[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]J. Robert Oppenheimer dies. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 18 1991[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Killer/Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer strangles a 19-year-old man, marking his tenth (of 17) victims. Jeffrey dismembers the body and keeps the skull in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 18 2001[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]During the Daytona 500, NASCAR phenom Dale Earnhardt crashes into the wall and dies instantly. His widow later files a lawsuit to keep his autopsy photos sealed, and Florida subsequently passes a law to prevent them from ever being released. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Yesterday in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 17 1600[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno burned at the stake at Campo di Fiore in Rome, likely because ecclesiastical authorities were alarmed at his rambling and somewhat insane ideas, coupled with rejection of accepted authority. Exactly what the charges against him were are lost to history, but likely involve theological heresies rather than astronomical. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 17 1974[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Forty-nine people trampled to death at a soccer stampede in Cairo, after crowds tear down entry barriers to the Zamalek vs Dukla game. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 17 1989[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The cinematic masterpiece "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure" starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter opened in theaters. Pictured above, Bill and Ted's Excellent Breakfast Cereal. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 17 1993[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]An overcrowded ferry carrying up to 1,500 people sank off Haiti. Only 285 people were known to have survived. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 17 1994[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The decomposing corpse of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of the Republic of Georgia, is exhumed from a temporary grave in Djikhaskari. His wife refuses an autopsy, but western journalists note a bullet wound in the side of Zviad's head. Officially listed as suicide, the wife also claims he was murdered. Another government minister oddly states the death was by cancer with the head shot administered post-mortem. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Today in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 23 303[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Roman Emperor Diocletian issues an edict to suppress Christianity, "to tear down the churches to the foundations and to destroy the Sacred Scriptures by fire". Further edicts require that church officials engage in animal sacrifice to appease traditional Roman gods. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 23 1885[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The British hangman at Exeter Gaol tries three times to hang John Lee of Devonshire, for the murder of Emma Keyse. The trap refused to open. His sentence was commuted to life, and he was eventually released. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 23 1915[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nevada enacts a law reducing the "quickie divorce" residency requirements down to six months, a figure further reduced in 1931 to six weeks. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 23 1942[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The first Japanese attack on the U.S. mainland occurs when an I-17 submarine fires 13 shells at an oil refinery near Goleta, Southern California. $500 damage was inflicted. It was not clear why this target was chosen until much later, when it was found that the commander of this particular submarine had visited the site in the 1930's and stumbled into a field of prickly pear cactus. Captain Nishino never forgave the ridicule he received from his American hosts that day. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 23 1981[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Right wing members of the Civil Guard storm the Spanish Parliament with machine guns, taking every important elected official in the country hostage. The coup collapsed 18 hours later. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 23 1996[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The "Freeway Killer" William G Bonin executed at San Quentin. For his last meal he chose two pepperoni and sausage pizzas, three coffee ice creams, and fifteen cans of Coca Cola totaling a rather unhealthy 6391 calories. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Yesterday in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 22 1987[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]

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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Andy Warhol dies of complications after gallbladder surgery, though the details are hazy. The official cause was listed as cardiac arrhythmia, but speculation includes his fear of hospitals as well as possible Cefoxitin allergy. Warhol's death brings him a bonus 15 minutes of fame. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 22 1993[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The United States Supreme Court rejects a move by singer Chuck Berry to move his case to Federal court. Various women sued Berry alleging he videotaped them going potty in his St. Louis restaurant. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 22 1994[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]CIA agent Aldrich Ames charged with conspiracy to commit espionage. His betrayal, starting in 1985, resulted in the executions of a good number of important undercover agents within the Soviet Union. The CIA knew without doubt there was a mole in its ranks. And though by 1989 Ames had acquired unexplainable wealth from his spying and did very little to conceal the spying, he somehow managed to evade being caught for five more years. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 22 1997[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The first cloning of an advanced mammal, a sheep known as Dolly, is announced in the news media. Dolly was cloned from a mammary cell, her name being taken from the top-heavy Dolly Parton, star of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. [Editor's note: You can never have too many sheep.] [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 22 2001[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Vice-President Dick Cheney meets with Ken Lay and other officials from Enron at the White House as part of his energy task force. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Wait there's more[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 21 1803[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Edward Despard and six co-conspirators were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Horsemonger Lane Gaol for plotting to assassinate England's King George III and to destroy the Bank of England. He is the last person to suffer this punishment. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 21 1885[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]America's greatest phallic symbol, the Washington Monument, is dedicated by President Chester A. Arthur. The shaft towers over 555 feet into the air, and sports an aluminum foreskin. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 21 1916[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Start of the Battle of Verdun, which in nine months yielded 975,000 casualties and almost no change in the front line. It is the bloodiest battle in history, and often the one remarked as having the "highest density of dead per square yard." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 21 1931[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The first attempted hijacking of an airplane occurs when revolutionary soldiers in Peru seize a Ford Tri-motor and demand pilots drop propaganda leaflets over the capital, Lima. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 21 1965[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Malcolm X assassinated in a Manhattan ballroom, probably by fellow black muslims. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 21 1972[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nixon visits Red China, fulfilling the Vulcan proverb. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 21 1988[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart of the Assemblies of God, with tears streaming down his face, confesses sinning with a prostitute in a Louisiana hotel room. A second scandal with yet another prostitute emerges in 1991, further killing his evangelical career. [/FONT]

 

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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 26 1815[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Napoleon Bonaparte slips past guards and escapes from his exile on the island of Elba, returning to France meeting very little resistance. One Hundred Days of rule follow, culminating in his defeat at Waterloo. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 26 1918[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Grandstands at the Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604 spectators. It is the worst disaster in sports history. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 26 1974[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]A U.S. Senate report reveals Ford Motor's involvement in Nazi Germany's war efforts, for which CEO Henry Ford received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Adolf Hitler himself. After the war, the car company was paid nearly $1M reparation by the U.S. government to compensate for one of its plants that was bombed within the Reich. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 26 1985[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]A federal grand jury brings a fifteen count racketeering indictment upon members of "The Commission", a body consisting of all of the major Mafia families in New York City. The indictments were largely made possible by a bug planted in the dashboard of Tony "Ducks" Corallo's black Jaguar. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 26 1991[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Iraqi forces fleeing Kuwait on the "Highway of Death" are caught in a turkey shoot of falling explosives and aerial strafing. It is impossible to say how many people in this column of over 1000 vehicles were killed, but in all as many as 450,000 Iraqis were buried in Kuwait after the war. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 26 1993[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]A bomb explodes on level B2 of the World Trade Center, creating a five story crater and leaving six dead and over 1,042 injured. According to the New York Times, the FBI knew in advance this was going to happen. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Yesterday in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 25 1922[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]

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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Henri Landru, the notorious French serial killer known as "Bluebeard", guillotined for murdering ten women, and one boy. His motive was purely financial; by placing classified ads Landru lured selected women into his clutches, married them, and disposed of their bodies without a trace. While denying guilt to the end, a drawing given to his attorney had written on the reverse, "I did it. I burned their bodies in my kitchen oven". [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 25 1932[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Austrian Adolf Hitler granted German citizenship, to meet a "minor" technical requirement in order to run for president. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 25 1983[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Playwright Tennessee Williams found dead in his New York hotel room after he choked on a bottle cap during the night. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 25 1986[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Egyptian Military Police enter four luxury hotels near the Pyramids, setting fires and looting. Hotel guests were terrorized. The police were upset over tours of duty that were being extended. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 25 1994[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Baruch Goldstein fires on Palestinians at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, slaughtering 29 of them. Goldstein, born and raised in Brooklyn New York, was a follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane and had been plotting acts of violence for two years. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 25 1996[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Dr. Haing S. Ngor, the Cambodian who won the 1984 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Killing Fields, shot during a robbery attempt in the carport of his Los Angeles apartment. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Wait there's more[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 24 1868[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]

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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]President Andrew Johnson impeached for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, which is fancy talk for removing Secretary of War Stanton. This remains an honor not bestowed again until the blowjob years of the Clinton Administration. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 24 1921[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Abe Vigoda's birthday. Not dead yet! [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 24 1988[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Jerry Falwell loses his appeal to the Supreme Court, regarding an outrageous parody published by Hustler magazine. Falwell was shown as an incestuous drunk. As long as the material is not presented as factual, public figures may be sniped upon. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 24 1990[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Bisexual businessman Malcolm Forbes dead. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 24 1992[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]In a very special episode of Geraldo, daytime talk show host Geraldo Rivera has fat cells removed from from his ass and injected into his forehead. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 24 1998[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]A man "on a mission from God" hijacks a Turkish Airlines jet with 68 on board, claiming to have a bomb in his teddy bear, and attempts to divert it to Iran. Passengers put an end to his plans. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Today in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Mar 1 1815[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Jesse Sharpless is convicted in Pennsylvania of exhibiting a "certain lewd, wicked, scandalous, infamous and obscene painting, representing a man in an obscene, impudent and indecent posture with a woman" in his own house. It is the first obscenity trial in the United States. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 1 1932[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]A man climbs a makeshift ladder to the 2nd floor of Charles Lindbergh's New Jersey home and snatches his twenty-month-old son, Charles Jr. Whoever took the baby left behind a poorly-written ransom note demanding $50,000 in small bills.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 1 1954[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire on House of Representatives from visitors' gallery, wounding five representatives. All four captured by security guards. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 1 1954[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The first hydrogen bomb is detonated at Bikini. Even though the bomb was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb exploded there in 1946, no islanders were evacuated this time. Almost 300 people suffered radiation exposure. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 1 1969[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]While performing with the Doors, Jim Morrison asks the audience "Do you wanna see my cock?" then exposes himself briefly on a Miami stage. For thus showing his peepee Morrison received a sentence of six months hard labor. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 1 1971[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The radical group Weather Underground explodes a bomb in a restroom of the U.S. Capitol building, causing significant damage. The bomb exploded after an intensive search of the building yielded no results. Nobody is ever convicted of the attack. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 1 1978[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The body of Charlie Chaplin is stolen for ransom by Galtcho Ganav (Bulgaria) and Romnan Wardas (Poland) from a cemetery in Corsier, Switzerland. The actor's corpse is recovered two months later. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 1 1999[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Eight tourists at the Buhoma Homestead (including two Intel executives), in Uganda to visit wild mountain gorillas, are kidnapped and hacked to death with machetes by Rwantan Hutus. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Yesterday in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Feb 28 1574[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Two impenitent heretics are burned at the stake in Mexico at a spectacular auto-da-fe comparable to those in Spain. The two are the first victims of the Inquisition in the New World, dying for their heretical crimes of... Lutheranism. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 28 1968[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Singer and early 60's heartthrob Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose next to his syringe, in his grandmother's New York City apartment. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 28 1986[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme assassinated as he left a movie theater in Stockholm. It is unknown who the assailant was, though some suspect a South African death squad. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 28 1993[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco use armed force attempting to serve Branch Davidian leader David Koresh with a search warrant (one with no actual evidence of any illegal activity whatsoever), in what the BATF viewed as a publicity stunt to improve their image. While the agents carefully coordinated the raid with eleven different media outlets, something apparently tipped off Koresh and things do not go well: six Davidians and four ATF agents were killed. The warrant instead could have been served peacefully, while Koresh did his daily morning jog. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Feb 28 1995[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Members of the group "Patriot's Council" in Minnesota are convicted under the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, for manufacturing quantities of the ricin toxin. The substance is nearly indetectible when used as a poison, but is difficult to administer. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Today in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Mar 3 1863[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The National Conscription Act is signed, forcing all men between 20 and 45 years of age into the draft lotteries. Except for rich bastards, who could buy their way out for $300, or hire another man to serve in his place. The inevitable result is the week-long New York Draft Riots. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 3 1931[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]An English beer drinking song becomes the National Anthem of the United States. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 3 1934[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]John Dillinger escapes from an escape-proof jail in Crown Point Indiana, using a wooden pistol he carved himself. It's his second escape. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 3 1967[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The Berkeley Barb reports that banana peels can make you high. Apparently lots of people can be fooled into thinking that the resulting "bananadine" extract is a hallucinogenic Mellow Yellow. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 3 1991[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Los Angles Police officers are filmed beating black motorist Rodney King with nightsticks. Television news stations repeatedly air the film nationwide. Four whites are charged with the beating on March 15, and when they are found not guilty, Los Angeles erupts in riot. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 3 2006[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]British glam rocker Gary Glitter is sentenced to three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting two girls, 10 and 11. His sentence also includes mandatory deportation and payment of 5m Vietnamese dong (about $315.00) to the girls' families. 61-year-old Glitter denies all wrongdoing and claims to be the victim of a tabloid newspaper conspiracy.[/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Yesterday in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Mar 2 1939[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Howard Carter dies of King Tut's curse. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 2 1944[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]A train of mixed military/civilian passengers stalls inside a tunnel outside Salerno, Italy, asphyxiating 426 from fumes. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 2 1968[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Syd Barrett leaves Pink Floyd, after melting his mind with various extremely dangerous drugs. He spends the following years mumbling about pork chops and refrigerators. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 2 1982[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Science fiction author Philip K Dick dies of a stroke in Santa Ana, California. Since 1974 the author had been possessed by a superalien who arrived in his head via a beam of pink light. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 2 1997[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]1st Monkey successfully cloned [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Today in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Mar 6 1836[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Alamo seized by Santa Ana, 3,000 versus 147 not being a fair fight. The holdouts suffered unnecessary deaths, disobeying direct orders by remaining, and losing their arms and cannon to the Mexicans. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 6 1918[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The US naval vessel "Cyclops" vanishes in the Bermuda Triangle. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 6 1978[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Larry Flynt, publisher of the fine magazine Hustler, is shot and paralyzed. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 6 1983[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Cheryl Araujo is gang raped atop a pool table at a tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Other men in the establishment applauded the spectacle. Four men are convicted of the crime in a trial that attracts nationwide attention. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Yesterday in Rotten History[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Mar 5 1770[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The Boston Massacre leaves five colonists dead when British soldiers open fire. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 5 1930[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Danish artist Einar Wegener undergoes a sex change operation in Berlin, making him a soprano. He assumes the identity of Lili Elbe, and has ovaries implanted. However it is speculated that Wegener was actually a hermaphrodite, and the credit for first sex change usually is given to Christine Jorgenson. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 5 1953[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Josef Stalin, born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, dies of a brain hemorrhage at age 73. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 5 1959[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Twenty-one Negro Boys are killed in a fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial Reformatory, Little Rock AR. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 5 1982[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]John Belushi found dead at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood from a cocaine and heroin overdose. A sketchy woman, Cathy Smith, is later charged with administering the fatal injections. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 5 1989[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Michael Anderson Godwin, previously on death row for murder but with sentence commuted to life imprisonment, dies in a toilet-related accident at the Central Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Godwin, sitting on a stainless steel toilet, bit into headphone wires that were connected to his television. He was immediately electrocuted. [Moral: use a porcelain toilet.] [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 5 1998[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]David Asimov, the unemployed son of science fiction author Isaac Asimov, arrested in Santa Rosa, California for felony possession of child pornography. Over 4,000 videos and other items were seized from his residence. Police were alarmed at the quantity he had accumulated, but do not believe he was distributing the material. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Wait there's more[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Mar 4 1861[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The "Stars and Bars" is formally adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 4 1966[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]John Lennon claims that The Beatles are "more popular than Jesus", and that "Christianity will... vanish and shrink". [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 4 1991[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The U.S. Army destroys an Iraqi bunker holding 7 tons of sarin nerve gas. It is later determined that 24,000 troops in the 82nd Airborne may have been adversely affected by this toxin release. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mar 4 1994[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Obese comedian John Candy dies. [/FONT]
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