By proposing to ban “assault weapons” as a Constitutional amendment, Newsom is admitting that the only way to ban them is via a Constitutional amendment. Ergo, any attempt to do so currently is unconstitutional if a Constitutional amendment is needed to do so. Talk about self inflicted wound.
June 9
68 – Emperor Nero commits suicide, prompting the Roman civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors; Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian.
721 – Duke Odo of Aquitaine defeats the army of Al-Samh al-Khawlaniin in the Battle of Toulouse, breaking a 3 month long siege and killing over 3000 moors, halting for awhile the further spread of the moslem invasion from Spain into Europe and giving Charles Martel, farther north, time to build an army.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for a colony that becomes the colony and future state of Georgia.
1772 – Chasing the packet ship Hannah –later to be hired by General Washington as the first ship of the Continental Navy – the British customs schooner HMS Gaspee, enforcing British import and export taxes, runs aground in shallow water on the northwestern side of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. She is then attacked by members of The Sons of Liberty, and after a short fight, boarded and burned.
1862 –Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic. The tactics used during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States’ handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania after Wilson sent Germany a note of protest while still a neutral power.
1944 – 99 civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for attacks by the French Resistance during World War II.
1953 – The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak from the midwest to northern states in kills 94 people in Michigan and Massachusetts.
1959 – The first nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine, SSBN-598, USS George Washington is launched at Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut.
1967 – Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.
1972 – Severe rainfall causes the Canyon Lake dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people, mostly In Rapid City, and causes $160 million in damage.
1973 – Winning the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, while setting the current track record of 2:24 for the distance, Secretariat with jockey Ron Turcotte aboard secures the U.S. Triple Crown, the first horse to do so since 1948.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints opens its priesthood to “all worthy men”, ending a 148 year old policy of excluding black men.
1999 – President Clinton, previously frustrated with Serbian intransigence and changing the rules of engagement to include the political leadership, news media and the intellectual underpinning of his enemy’s war effort -accidentally filing suit under the ‘Law of Unintended Consequences’ – causes the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (at the time, Serbia and Montenegro) to end military operations in Kosovo and sign a peace treaty with NATO.
Further update on Dad. He’s feeling pretty good 4 days after surgery. If not for the insurance company, that has to approve his transfer to a skilled nursing facility for him to start rehab, he’d be there as they’ve ready to receive him anytime.
I personally called them today and told them to expedite the approval as they said the ‘normal’ timeframe was 14 DAYS!!
Hopefully we’ll have good new in 24-72 hours……maybe.
Bluegrass Genocide
“They were forced to undergo hysterectomies. Their tubes were tied and they were given vasectomies, sometimes without anesthesia.”
The scientific and political communities in America were solidly behind the project. Those performing the sterilizations were considered humanitarian heroes, and academics who questioned the idea were subject to vilification, loss of employment, and loss of academic funding. The press and political activists formed a solid phalanx to protect the pro-eugenics side. Glenn Reynolds of
PUBLIC HEALTH HAS ALWAYS INVOLVED A LOT OF GROUPTHINK: When Sterilization Was Dogma: Why the Eugenics Movement is Relevant Today. “Eugenicists sought to ‘improve’ the human species in the same way that one would improve cattle or soybeans—and using basically the same techniques.”
Later in the day, Glenn added an update—an excruciatingly poignant email that he had received from a reader:
“After giving birth to me in 1971, just months after turning 18, the rural community hospital staff convinced my mother to have a tubal ligation before she left.
Only decades later did I realize how improper this seemed for a healthy, married, drug-free young woman of 18. But she was in Appalachia, and poor. Was the hospital staff trying to avoid more of “her kind” being born?
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/title-x-family-planning-program-1970-1977
Then I heard of the Family Planning Services Act and began to wonder if there was in 1971 a federally-funded bias toward sterilizing poor young women in Appalachia. Is this why I never had siblings and face being the sole caretaker and provider for my aging mother?
But I can only wonder because I can’t find any research or data or even articles inquiring about changes in birth and sterilization rates among women in Appalachia before/after the Family Planning Services Act took hold.
Maybe the Act didn’t make a difference at all. Or maybe it was a quiet Bluegrass Genocide.
No one seems to want to ask.”
This writer’s expression, “bluegrass genocide,” is a marvel of imagery, simplicity, and power. Nowhere to be found on the internet (till now), the term lashes an arcadian adjective to a dystopian noun. Just two words and five syllables describe a sweeping saga, imparting both sense of place and sense of horror. It starkly captures the inhumanity that, for the better part of the last century, exerted a vice grip over science, medicine, culture, politics, journalism, and public policy—the notion that experts are entitled to play God with lives in pursuit of their favored social goals. The writer’s addition of “quiet”—”a quiet Bluegrass Genocide”—makes the events described all the more vile.
Success! NYC’s Drug Paraphernalia Machine Cleaned Out in One Night.
If it were a Broadway show, it would have received rave reviews. “A Hit!” “NYC Scores Big in New Debut! “Boffo!” “A Must-See!” “Five Stars and Two Thumbs Up!” “All of Gotham Is Talking!”
Alas, we aren’t talking about the latest play or musical to grace the Great White Way. Nope. We’re talking about the machine that dispenses free drug paraphernalia to users in New York City. But to be fair, it was received extremely well by the target demographic. The machine in question was installed on Monday in Brownsville, Brooklyn. It offers crack pipes, drug test strips, condoms, and Narcan. And lip balm. Patrons can also get tampons and gum.
By 1:00 P.M. Tuesday, a drug prevention program worker was hard at work restocking it. That same worker suspected that it might need to be restocked at least twice a day. For the most part, users were happy with the new amenity. Evelyn Williams told the New York Post, “Yes, I love it. They put it in yesterday, and it’s empty already.” She added, “We have a lot of addicts and heroin users over here. They should re-stock it immediately!” Another man rode by on a bike, gave a thumbs up, and said simply, “Yeah!”
Not everyone was impressed. The paper reported that 56-year-old Minoshi Calpe groused that the crack pipes were not quite up to her standards. She said she preferred the Pyrex pipes, and that the ones in the vending machine had no resale value since they were already available for free. She stated, “The crack pipes are a little too thin now. And every time I pull on [the newer ones], it was burning my lips. I was like, ‘Hell, no! I like my lips too much for this.’”
The machines cost around $11,000 without the contents. In the future, the city may also offer syringes for injection drugs. Charming.
The people in charge of the cluster-**** that has become New York City will undoubtedly tout this as an act of compassion. Actually, this is an act designed to help bureaucrats launder money through the system. And it has the added bonus of increasing poverty, death, and disease. And it should also contribute to the number of citizens getting accosted and assaulted on the streets and pushed onto subway tracks.
I know that Mayor Eric Adams recently gave a speech touting the values of patriotism. It was a nice speech from someone who may view himself as center-left. But a good speech is not going to help a city that is so complicit in its own demolition. If Adams wants to say anything, he should start with admitting that New York City has a left-wing problem. That is, as after all, the first step to recovery.
Biden Pushes Supreme Court to Ban More People From Owning Firearms
The Biden administration wants to grant federal courts the power to ban practically anyone from owning a firearm.
After Zackey Rahimi was convicted in a federal district court of unlawful firearm possession while under a restraining order, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that prohibiting a person from gun ownership while under a civil protective order was unconstitutional. So Joe Biden’s Justice Department stepped in on March 17 to petition the Supreme Court to overturn the appellate court’s decision.
Second Amendment: From the time the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791 until the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868, the United States Supreme Court has interpreted the Second Amendment to mean that the federal government had no jurisdiction over state firearm laws. But after the 14th Amendment passed, the federal government declared certain state laws invalid. This enabled President Lyndon Johnson to sign the Gun Control Act of 1968, which made it illegal for felons to own firearms.
Most Americans don’t have a problem with denying guns to felons, but now the Biden administration is trying to take things a step further by denying guns to those under a civil protective order.
Although Zackey Rahimi is indeed a violent and dangerous person, granting federal district courts the power to ban those under a restraining order from owning firearms makes the Second Amendment meaningless. It is far easier to put a restraining order on someone than to convict him of an actual felony, so liberal judges sympathetic to the Biden administration could suspend someone’s Second Amendment rights on a whim.
Natural Rights: The English Bill of Rights of 1689 protected the right of Protestant subjects to bear arms for self-defense. And the U.S. Bill of Rights took things further by removing the religious requirement. English philosopher John Locke and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson argued that individuals have a God-given right to protect their lives, liberty and property.
Locke and Jefferson knew a lot about human nature, but you do not have to know as much to realize why Biden’s gun control proposals are dangerous. Nazi Germany, Communist Cuba, the Soviet Union and many other dictatorships all relied on the most proven form of suppression to control people. And the radical left in America shows the same tendency to force its will on the public.
Prophecy says: In his article “Saving America From the Radical Left—Temporarily,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry highlighted how gun control is part of an organized attack on America:
The mindset behind the radical Democrats is exposed when you look at their handling of another issue: gun control. Every time there is a school shooting, even before any facts about the situation come out, they immediately begin pushing for gun bans.
After the most recent shooting, they funded student groups and encouraged students to revolt against authorities. They don’t just want to raise the buying age or to restrict the sale of a few types of guns; they want to eliminate all guns. They hate the Second Amendment and want to destroy the Constitution. They want a revolution!
This attack is foretold in 2 Kings 14:26-28, which discuss end-time America’s and Britain’s “bitter affliction.” To learn about the lawless mindset behind gun control, illegal immigration and numerous other issues, read America Under Attack, by Gerald Flurry.
Grandstanding:
(from the notion of performing to crowds in the grandstands)
the action of behaving in a showy or ostentatious manner in an attempt to attract favorable attention from spectators or the media:
Political posturing:
also known as “kabuki theatre”
the use of speech or actions to gain political support through emotional or affective appeals, especially to describe politicians suspected of acting insincerely to please their supporters.
Yeah, I think he’s seriously considering running for President if SloJoe goes into vapor lock, or falls, misses his head and breaks something vital.
He knows this is going nowhere, but it’s good political fodder for the demoncrap base in case the opportunity arises.
Newsom proposes constitutional amendment to restrict gun rights
Newsom says a constitutional amendment is needed to enact commonsense gun safety laws supported by the American people
California Democratic Govern. Gavin Newsom wants to change the Constitution to curb gun rights.
Fed up with inaction on gun control, Newsom unveiled a proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution on Thursday that would implement “commonsense” gun safety measures he claims have widespread bipartisan support.
“Our ability to make a more perfect union is literally written into the Constitution,” Newsom said Thursday. “So today, I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to do just that. The 28th Amendment will enshrine in the Constitution commonsense gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and gun owners overwhelmingly support – while leaving the Second Amendment unchanged and respecting America’s gun-owning tradition.”
Newsom’s proposal comes after federal courts have delivered a series of victories for gun rights activists, led by the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last year striking down a century-old New York law that made it difficult to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun.
The Democratic governor’s proposed 28th Amendment would not abolish the Second Amendment, which establishes a right to bear firearms for personal self-defense. However, it would raise the federal minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21; mandate universal background checks to purchase firearms; institute a waiting period for all gun purchases; and ban “assault weapons.”
Newsom’s proposed amendment would also affirm that Congress, states and local governments can enact additional gun control measures.
The Constitution can be amended by either Congress or a convention of states under Article V.
Congress can pass a proposed amendment with a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate, sending it to the states for ratification. With Republicans in control of the House and a 51-49 Democratic majority in the Senate, there is virtually no chance that a constitutional amendment restricting gun rights will have enough support to pass through Congress.
Instead, Newsom is calling for an Article V convention of states to convene and draft his proposed amendment. Two-thirds of the state legislatures must pass a resolution calling for such a convention before it can convene to consider an amendment to the Constitution. If such a convention adopts a proposed amendment, it then heads back to the state legislatures for ratification.
Three-fourths of the states must ratify a proposed amendment for it to be added to the Constitution – a rare and difficult feat that has only been accomplished 27 times in the nation’s history.
Newsom said he will campaign to build grassroots support and lobby other state legislatures to move forward with an Article V convention. A news release from his office included supporting statements from California lawmakers in the state Assembly and Senate.
Gun rights groups were quick to condemn Newsom’s proposal as an attack on the Second Amendment.
“We’ve always warned those who cherish their God-given liberties that the ultimate goal of anti-gunners was the abolishment of the Second Amendment,” said Erich Pratt, senior vice president of Gun Owners of America (GOA).
“While they often try to hide behind legislative proposals and hush open talk of abolishing the Second Amendment, here we have a potential future presidential candidate now coming out and openly admitting what they’ve wanted to do all along,” Pratt said. “GOA will strongly oppose this proposal as we work to protect and restore the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.”
June 8
452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy from the north.
632 – Muhammad dies in Medina.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
1191 – King Richard the Lion Heart arrives in Acre, beginning his part of the 3rd Crusade.
1776 – American forces commanded by Gen. John Sullivan suffer heavy losses after defeat by British defenders of Trois-Rivières in Quebec.
1789 – Virginia Representative James Madison introduces 12 proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution
1845 – Andrew Jackson dies at his home, the Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee
1861 – Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 –Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1874 – Cochise dies at the Chihuahua Reservation in the southeast corner of Arizona.
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the ‘Art of Compiling Statistics’, which was his punch card calculator.
1906 – President Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1949 – George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in London. It was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
1953 – An F5 force tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116 people, injuring 844 more, and destroying 340 homes.
1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft near Edwards Air Force Base. Test pilots Joseph A. Walker, and Carl Cross are both killed.
An F5 force strikes Topeka, Kansas, killing 16 people and causing over $100 million in damages.
1967 – During the Six-Day War, the USS Liberty, sailing in international water in the Mediterranean, is attacked by Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats, killing 34 sailors and wounding 171 more.
1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested in London.
1995 – U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter is shot down.
2001 – Mamoru Takuma kills 8 people and wounds 15 more in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in Ikeda Japan.
2008 – Tomohiro Katō kills 7 people and wounds 10 more in a mass stabbing at a shopping area in Tokyo.
2009 – American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, of CurrentTV are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea in March and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, but are pardoned 2 months later and return to the U.S.
LEGAL ALERT: A judge has denied the motion for preliminary injunction in our lawsuit challenging Washington's "assault weapon ban," saying that the banned firearms "allow a shooter to fire as fast as they can pull the trigger, unlike previous guns." https://t.co/pE8vgg2puP
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) June 6, 2023
Gun control advocates are letting the mask slip
There will always be debate over gun control, no matter what the courts rule going forward. After all, the Bruen decision doesn’t seem to have slowed any anti-gun lawmakers down one bit. They’re just hoping the laws can go into effect for a few years before they get bounced by the Supreme Court.
Yet through it all, we’re routinely told that no one wants to ban guns, that it’s all about “common sense gun control” initiatives, but that no one wants to take away your right.
Except, that’s not remotely true, as John Lott notes in the Washington Times:
Gun control advocates keep claiming they just want “reasonable” gun control, but self-defense advocates are understandably skeptical.
New York and New Jersey cover their states with gun-free zones to the point of making concealed carry impractical. Hawaii’s Legislature is now proposing to charge permit holders $1,000 in fees. None of that is reasonable. Nor is it reasonable when President Biden keeps talking about banning all semi-automatic guns, which account for about 85% of handguns sold.
ABC News reported in 2013 that former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, who are gun control activists, “just want what they call reasonable gun control.”
(In 2011, Ms. Giffords was shot in the head at point-blank range in a supermarket parking lot. Eighteen other people were also shot, six of them fatally, including federal District Chief Judge John Roll and a 9-year-old girl.)
But at the end of an interview with Time magazine in April, the Democratic former lawmaker from Arizona made her wishes clear: “‘No more guns,’ she said. Peter Ambler, her aide and adviser, tried to clarify that she means no more gun violence, but Ms. Giffords was clear about what she was saying. “No, no, no,’ she said. “Lord, no.” She paused. “Guns, guns, guns. No more guns. Gone.’”
Lott goes on to illustrate just how wrong many of the gun control arguments actually are, and you should most definitely read what he has to say because he’s right.
However, there are other instances we’re seeing of the “no more guns” vibe gaining ground.
For example, we have Sen. John Fetterman’s aide suggesting the senator would support overturning the Second Amendment, which the senator’s office has yet to deny.
We also have the smaller-than-desired gaggle of women outside the state capitol of Colorado demanding not gun control, but an executive order banning guns in the state and a mandatory buyback of all firearms. This isn’t about restrictions but a totally unconstitutional gun ban decreed by executive fiat.
The truth of the matter is that gun control supporters have maintained a mask for years. They’ve routinely claimed that they aren’t interested in gun bans and anyone who says they are is just some kind of conspiracy theorist.
Yet what we’re seeing is that a lot of people are letting the mask slip. They’re not hiding it so much anymore. They’re trusting the media to cover them–which is what’s happening, to be sure–so they don’t have to pretend as much as they have in the past.
More and more are saying the quiet part out loud, which is refreshing.
The downside is that they’re not thinking this through because a majority of Americans may want some kind of gun control, but a buttload fewer are willing to accept a ban on guns
June 7
1098 – During the First Crusade, Saracen forces return and besiege the city of Antioch taken 5 days earlier by Crusader forces.
1099 – During the First Crusade, Crusader forces besiege Jerusalem, held by the Saracens.
1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress calling for the colonies’ independence from Great Britain. “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1906 – The Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland.
1942 – The Battle of Midway ends in American victory, the turning point in the war in the Pacific against Japan.
1965 – The Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibits the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1967 – During the Six-Day War, Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
1971 – ATF officers raid the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades, which were later determined to be inert, smoke and practice grenades which are perfectly legal to possess.
1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacks and destroys Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor at the Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Center near Baghdad.
1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public. The tour includes a large storage building containing concert gear and the interior of the house.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts on Luzon island in the Philippines.
2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
En banc! U.S. 3rd Circuit Court (The Bruen decision strikes again)
TLDR:
Range pleaded guilty in 1995 to committing welfare fraud, a misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. As we know, GCA’ 68 bans people convicted of crimes punishable by more than a year and a day in prison – which are usually felonies – from buying guns.
Range sued the government in 2020 saying the ban violated his 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
The appeals court – en banc – ruled that since there were no text, history or tradition of restrictions like this when the 2nd and the 14th amendments were ratified, the restriction was unconstitutional.
Another scene in the opening act of the end of gun control the goobermint has foisted on us
Gun Banners Want to Raise Legal Age for Gun Ownership, But their Logic is Flawed
During an intriguing video discussion between John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, and Frank Miniter, editor-in-chief of NRA’s America’s 1st Freedom Magazine, both men dissected the pipe dream by gun banners to raise the legal age for gun ownership to 21. They questioned the basis of the arguments for the increase and noted the implications for the Second Amendment.
June 6
1755 – Nathan Hale, patriot and Revolutionary War spy, is born in Coventry Connecticut.
1799 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia dies, age 63 at Red Hill Virginia.
1813 – At the Battle of Stoney Creek, a British force under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1844 – The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1889 – In downtown Seattle, an accidentally overturned glue pot in the Clairmont and Company cabinet shop in the basement of the Pontius building starts “The Great Seattle Fire” which destroys 25 city blocks, including the entire downtown business district, 4 of the city’s wharves, and its railroad terminals, but only causing 1 known death
1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the the Western Federation of Miners workers engaged in the Cripple Creek miners’ strike.
1912 – On the Alaskan Katmai peninsula, the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century forms the Novarupta volcano.
1918 – During the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I, while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry, the U.S. Marine Corps suffers 1087 casualties, more than it has taken in total before, and its worst single day’s count until the Battle of Tarawa in 1943.
1925 – The original Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company.
1934 – As part of the ‘New Deal’, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1942 – During World War II, northwest of Midway island, U.S. Navy dive bombers flying off the carriers, Hornet, Yorktown and Enterprise, attack a Japanese invasion force and sink the Japanese navy cruiser Mikuma and 4 carriers; Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu, which had participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor, 6 months earlier.
1944 – During World War II, 155,000 Allied troops begin the invasion of France with landings on Normandy beaches along with airborne parachute and glider assaults further inland.
1971 – Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, collides in midair with a Marine Corps F-4 Phantom jet over the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, killing all 49 passengers and crew aboard the commercial jet and the pilot of the fighter.
1985 – The grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” is opened in Embu, Brazil. The remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”.
2002 – A near Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons of TNT, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.