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 War protest.
1963 -- The FBI issues a racist "report" claiming commies were influencing Martin Luther King, Jr. It's all lies.
1942 -- A B-17 slams into New Mexico's North Baldy Peak, which is 200 feet higher than the charts say it is.
1923 -- The Senate begins investigating Albert Fall, the Republican Interior Secretary who suddenly became prosperous after leasing the Navy's Teapot Dome oilfield to a friend.
1910 -- The first in-flight radio message is sent by Melvin Vaniman, aboard the airship America: "Roy, come and get this goddamn cat."
1883 -- The Supreme Court guts the Civil Rights Act of 1875, ushering in the era of the Jim Crow South.