2010 -- After calling for civility in the Primary, ex-Gov. John H. Sununu tells the N.Y. Times, "I came in [as N.H. GOP Chair] to clean the vermin [Democrats] out, then I'll leave."
2005 -- Two weeks after the catastrophe, George W.[MD] Bush admits the Federal response to Hurricane Katrina was less than ideal.
2001 -- Reverend Jerry Falwell says "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for [9/11]." Reverend Pat Robertson replies, "I totally concur."
1981 -- William Loeb, alleged newspaperman, goes to his eternal torment.
1971 -- Staties blast Attica with 2,200 rounds in nine minutes; the dead include 29 prisoners and ten guards.
1971 -- In the Oval Office, Dick Nixon says to Bob Haldeman, about Attica, "You know what stops them? Kill a few." Haldeman replies, "Sure."
1970 -- The New York Times Magazine publishes Milton Friedman's article, "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits." Capitalists read it as a license to pillage.
1945 -- U-3008, now USS U-3008, motors into Portsmouth harbor.
1926 -- The KKK parade in Washington, D.C. has only 15,000 marchers -- less than half the size of last year's. The Illinois Grand Dragon's recent conviction for rape and murder is blamed.
1913 -- Mary, an elephant who had killed her cruel, untrained trainer the day before, is hanged from a railroad crane in Erwin, Tenn.