Send a Message to Donald Sterling at the Clippers Game on 4/29/2014
Every single fan who has a ticket for tomorrow's playoff game at the Staples Center between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Golden State Warriors should show up.
Once there, send a message to the bigoted billionaire. Don't give him a single red cent. Don't wear Clippers gear. Don't spend any money at any of the food stands. Don't buy any souvenirs.
If you are a season seat holder, make a sign that reads "Former Clippers Season Ticket Owner" and hold it up with pride. In smaller letters below, write something to indicate you'll buy your tickets back the moment the racist real estate magnate is no longer owner/operator of the team.
Hopefully, long before you walk into the arena, the NBA will have done what needs to be done and suspended Sterling indefinitely.
* * *
Suddenly, the internet is being flooded with claims that the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic, which is a fancy word that means caused by medical treatment. One of the "papers" I read is labeled as having been authored by a Ph.D. and several MDs.
But for some reason the mainstream media isn't reporting this story. Is that because it isn't true, or because of some vast conspiracy to hide this fact because the implementation of Obamacare would be damaged by a crisis in our confidence in healthcare providers? I suspect neither.
Preliminary data from the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) for the year 2011 show that the top seven causes of death in the U.S. are unchanged from the prior year.
1. Diseases of heart
2. Malignant neoplasms
3. Chronic lower respiratory diseases
4. Cerebrovascular diseases
5. Accidents (unintentional injuries)
6. Alzheimer’s disease
7. Diabetes mellitus
So should we be worrying about suffering from iatrogenesis? Recent news indicates that some caution and investigation are in order. Take the story of Rachael Rapreager for instance. While she hasn't caused any deaths that we know of (yet), she put hundreds of women at risk. Rapreager was working as the lead radiological technologist at a hospital in Georgia when she decided to falsify the results of nearly 1,300 mammograms. She just "pencil-whipped" the evaluation of these vital tests with a computer, to get the huge backlog off of her desk. Every mammogram was shown as "clear" even though at least ten of the women being tested had abnormalities or actual cancer in their breasts at the time.
Members of Congress want to look into allegations that as many as 40 veterans may have died while waiting for care at the VA facility in Phoenix. A doctor who worked there for 25 years provided documentation of how administrators at that hospital kept two sets of records, to avoid the excessive wait times from coming to light. He went on to allege that millions of pages of medical records are missing. There are reports of veterans suffering through extreme waits to be seen in VA Emergency Rooms.
I can't speak to what went on in Phoenix. I can tell you about my experiences with the VA system since I re-entered it in mid 2011. All of the charting is done by computer. Every provider I've been treated by had access to my entire medical history from my first VA appointment. I've been unfortunate enough to need to visit the ER there on several occasions and no matter what time of day/night it is, or which day of the week; I've never seen a huge crowd waiting to be treated. That is merely anecdotal and must be viewed as such.
My mother's second husband's death might or might not have been iatrogenic. He was severely injured in an auto accident but seemed to be recovering well enough. I've been told it was poor care on the part of the facility where he was being treated, because they didn't pay any attention to his chronic conditions. I've also been told that the autopsy revealed that he didn't have long to live anyway, due to a previously undetected illness. One individual's death is proof of little. That doesn't mean it isn't suggestive though.
Suggestive of what's really wrong with our system of healthcare. You can blame it on the profit motive, doctors, insurers, lawyers, whoever you'd like. The problem is that we've become a society where healthcare is a "defensive" process. Do that which exposes you in the least, rather than first doing no harm. Avoid risky procedures. Over-test when the patient can afford it, or has great insurance. Squeeze in as many patients per hour as you can, in order to defend against the ever-increasing overhead costs involved in being a doctor.
Proving that a death was truly due to care is tough. The deceased may well have died no matter what healthcare they received. However, every single preventable death should be prevented.
* * *
In Massachusetts there is a breaking story regarding the loss of over 300 jobs from an Air Force Reserve base, as half of the base's 16 plane fleet of C-5 aircraft are being moved to Texas. Locals are upset at the loss of jobs this represents.
I wonder how many of the people complaining about the loss of jobs in the area, and the blow they mean to that area's economy are in favor of cutting government spending. How many of them are not supporters of the military, until cuts in military spending hit them in the wallet.
Yes, I know I rail and rail about wasteful federal, state and local spending. If you want to know or read more on that topic, go here: http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=e7359436-1572-414e-8acc-0222cad1c7d5. I'm more interested in mindset.
The mindset of people that they are entitled to have the government funnel spending into their backyard in order to sustain their businesses has to change. If someone builds a business outside the gates of a military installation, the chance will always exist that reductions at, or the wholesale elimination of that facility will remove their main source of business. It's a risk when you make the choice to go into a business that is dependent on military and civilian employees of the Defense Department as the main source of revenue.
I'll pose the same question I've asked before. If these aren't the cuts to be made, then where? Our federal government continues to spend in excess of $500 billion more than it takes in, annually. The bill will come due, probably in your lifetime if you're more than a few years younger than I. So where do we cut?
* * *
Random Ponderings:
How dumb do you have to be to say that Kasey Kasem was the voice of "Scooby Doo" when everyone knows he was the voice of "Shaggy?" Nathan Francis of www.inquisitr.com I am talking to you. BTW you don't say someone "was" known for their work while they are still alive.
You'd think that after 15 DNA tests can't find the father(s) of her kids, this one particular mother would stop going back to Maury. I think she'd be really tired of hearing "...you are NOT the father." That there are so many men who could possibly be the father might also be a good reason to seek privacy.
Are the tapes that are purportedly from V. Stiviano, the ex-GF of Clippers owner Donald Sterling any less valid in the wake of her prior DUI arrest coming to light? No.
Rather than send the captain of that South Korean ferry to prison, he should be sentenced to spend 10,000 hours walking the streets of Seoul wearing gigantic still images of him from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6fQsV3nqVA. As he walks, he should collect donations for the victims and their families.
What TMZ spinoff will come after www.tmzsports.com ??
Does State Farm pulling their ads from the L. A. Clippers mean that Donald Sterling isn't "like a good neighbor" anymore?
Bank of America making errors in capital ratios in stress tests isn't just an "oops excuse me" thing. Someone's head needs to roll.
I guess when Craig Ferguson got passed over in favor of Stephen Colbert as the replacement for David Letterman, Ferguson's days with CBS were numbered.
Former GoDaddy.com executive Christine Jones is running for Governor in Arizona. At first glance she sounds like a younger, prettier Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Rather than being a Donald Sterling apologist, Donald Trump should shut up and worry about his own mistresses.
Why does Country Music Television keep showing the original version of "Footloose?" There's almost no country music in it.
The mainstream media shouldn't be as sexist as it is in covering the "potential" presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton. "President or grandmother" is not an appropriate headline.
On a related note, which one of the Republican Super-PACs will be using this video in general election campaign commercials in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVEkcZcTclM, with a deep-voiced announcer asking "what will she do as President of the United States when she's 'sleep-deprived?'" Undoubtedly one funded by the Koch Brothers and/or Sheldon Adelson.
* * *
April 28th in History:
357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
1952 – Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.
1999 – In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting.
2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
2008 – A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Otho, Emperor of Rome.
James Monroe
Lucy Booth
Lionel Barrymore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxmJzOYMYY)
Heinrich Muller
Jan Oort
Oskar Schindler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDumJVv6GP8)
Harper Lee (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N3_wsjW7AY)
James Baker
Carolyn Jones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjcK5tWov-k)
Brownie Ledbetter
Saddam Hussein
Madge Sinclair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZY6yuRFlOk)
Ann-Margaret (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiJ7uQfogKA)
Marcia Strassman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVAUXbQ3dIM naturally, Gabe Kaplan and John Travolta were too "busy" for this)
Bruno Kirby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Ty3fggeBA and he indeed was)
Jay Leno (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OjCPZdgz_8)
Mary McDonnell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgbzAi47ksw)
Elena Kagan
Barry Larkin (a correct answer the other night at trivia)
L'Wren Scott
Kari Wuhrer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyLnvjS2e2M one of my favorite game shows, and my favorite category was "Dead or Canadian")
Bridget Moynahan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB6eISxAd98)
Elisabeth Rohm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulEjJX39N2s)
Jessica Alba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z46pm8WMh5w)
Once there, send a message to the bigoted billionaire. Don't give him a single red cent. Don't wear Clippers gear. Don't spend any money at any of the food stands. Don't buy any souvenirs.
If you are a season seat holder, make a sign that reads "Former Clippers Season Ticket Owner" and hold it up with pride. In smaller letters below, write something to indicate you'll buy your tickets back the moment the racist real estate magnate is no longer owner/operator of the team.
Hopefully, long before you walk into the arena, the NBA will have done what needs to be done and suspended Sterling indefinitely.
* * *
Suddenly, the internet is being flooded with claims that the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic, which is a fancy word that means caused by medical treatment. One of the "papers" I read is labeled as having been authored by a Ph.D. and several MDs.
But for some reason the mainstream media isn't reporting this story. Is that because it isn't true, or because of some vast conspiracy to hide this fact because the implementation of Obamacare would be damaged by a crisis in our confidence in healthcare providers? I suspect neither.
Preliminary data from the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) for the year 2011 show that the top seven causes of death in the U.S. are unchanged from the prior year.
1. Diseases of heart
2. Malignant neoplasms
3. Chronic lower respiratory diseases
4. Cerebrovascular diseases
5. Accidents (unintentional injuries)
6. Alzheimer’s disease
7. Diabetes mellitus
So should we be worrying about suffering from iatrogenesis? Recent news indicates that some caution and investigation are in order. Take the story of Rachael Rapreager for instance. While she hasn't caused any deaths that we know of (yet), she put hundreds of women at risk. Rapreager was working as the lead radiological technologist at a hospital in Georgia when she decided to falsify the results of nearly 1,300 mammograms. She just "pencil-whipped" the evaluation of these vital tests with a computer, to get the huge backlog off of her desk. Every mammogram was shown as "clear" even though at least ten of the women being tested had abnormalities or actual cancer in their breasts at the time.
Members of Congress want to look into allegations that as many as 40 veterans may have died while waiting for care at the VA facility in Phoenix. A doctor who worked there for 25 years provided documentation of how administrators at that hospital kept two sets of records, to avoid the excessive wait times from coming to light. He went on to allege that millions of pages of medical records are missing. There are reports of veterans suffering through extreme waits to be seen in VA Emergency Rooms.
I can't speak to what went on in Phoenix. I can tell you about my experiences with the VA system since I re-entered it in mid 2011. All of the charting is done by computer. Every provider I've been treated by had access to my entire medical history from my first VA appointment. I've been unfortunate enough to need to visit the ER there on several occasions and no matter what time of day/night it is, or which day of the week; I've never seen a huge crowd waiting to be treated. That is merely anecdotal and must be viewed as such.
My mother's second husband's death might or might not have been iatrogenic. He was severely injured in an auto accident but seemed to be recovering well enough. I've been told it was poor care on the part of the facility where he was being treated, because they didn't pay any attention to his chronic conditions. I've also been told that the autopsy revealed that he didn't have long to live anyway, due to a previously undetected illness. One individual's death is proof of little. That doesn't mean it isn't suggestive though.
Suggestive of what's really wrong with our system of healthcare. You can blame it on the profit motive, doctors, insurers, lawyers, whoever you'd like. The problem is that we've become a society where healthcare is a "defensive" process. Do that which exposes you in the least, rather than first doing no harm. Avoid risky procedures. Over-test when the patient can afford it, or has great insurance. Squeeze in as many patients per hour as you can, in order to defend against the ever-increasing overhead costs involved in being a doctor.
Proving that a death was truly due to care is tough. The deceased may well have died no matter what healthcare they received. However, every single preventable death should be prevented.
* * *
In Massachusetts there is a breaking story regarding the loss of over 300 jobs from an Air Force Reserve base, as half of the base's 16 plane fleet of C-5 aircraft are being moved to Texas. Locals are upset at the loss of jobs this represents.
I wonder how many of the people complaining about the loss of jobs in the area, and the blow they mean to that area's economy are in favor of cutting government spending. How many of them are not supporters of the military, until cuts in military spending hit them in the wallet.
Yes, I know I rail and rail about wasteful federal, state and local spending. If you want to know or read more on that topic, go here: http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=e7359436-1572-414e-8acc-0222cad1c7d5. I'm more interested in mindset.
The mindset of people that they are entitled to have the government funnel spending into their backyard in order to sustain their businesses has to change. If someone builds a business outside the gates of a military installation, the chance will always exist that reductions at, or the wholesale elimination of that facility will remove their main source of business. It's a risk when you make the choice to go into a business that is dependent on military and civilian employees of the Defense Department as the main source of revenue.
I'll pose the same question I've asked before. If these aren't the cuts to be made, then where? Our federal government continues to spend in excess of $500 billion more than it takes in, annually. The bill will come due, probably in your lifetime if you're more than a few years younger than I. So where do we cut?
* * *
Random Ponderings:
How dumb do you have to be to say that Kasey Kasem was the voice of "Scooby Doo" when everyone knows he was the voice of "Shaggy?" Nathan Francis of www.inquisitr.com I am talking to you. BTW you don't say someone "was" known for their work while they are still alive.
You'd think that after 15 DNA tests can't find the father(s) of her kids, this one particular mother would stop going back to Maury. I think she'd be really tired of hearing "...you are NOT the father." That there are so many men who could possibly be the father might also be a good reason to seek privacy.
Are the tapes that are purportedly from V. Stiviano, the ex-GF of Clippers owner Donald Sterling any less valid in the wake of her prior DUI arrest coming to light? No.
Rather than send the captain of that South Korean ferry to prison, he should be sentenced to spend 10,000 hours walking the streets of Seoul wearing gigantic still images of him from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6fQsV3nqVA. As he walks, he should collect donations for the victims and their families.
What TMZ spinoff will come after www.tmzsports.com ??
Does State Farm pulling their ads from the L. A. Clippers mean that Donald Sterling isn't "like a good neighbor" anymore?
Bank of America making errors in capital ratios in stress tests isn't just an "oops excuse me" thing. Someone's head needs to roll.
I guess when Craig Ferguson got passed over in favor of Stephen Colbert as the replacement for David Letterman, Ferguson's days with CBS were numbered.
Former GoDaddy.com executive Christine Jones is running for Governor in Arizona. At first glance she sounds like a younger, prettier Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Rather than being a Donald Sterling apologist, Donald Trump should shut up and worry about his own mistresses.
Why does Country Music Television keep showing the original version of "Footloose?" There's almost no country music in it.
The mainstream media shouldn't be as sexist as it is in covering the "potential" presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton. "President or grandmother" is not an appropriate headline.
On a related note, which one of the Republican Super-PACs will be using this video in general election campaign commercials in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVEkcZcTclM, with a deep-voiced announcer asking "what will she do as President of the United States when she's 'sleep-deprived?'" Undoubtedly one funded by the Koch Brothers and/or Sheldon Adelson.
* * *
April 28th in History:
357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
1952 – Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.
1999 – In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting.
2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
2008 – A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Otho, Emperor of Rome.
James Monroe
Lucy Booth
Lionel Barrymore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxmJzOYMYY)
Heinrich Muller
Jan Oort
Oskar Schindler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDumJVv6GP8)
Harper Lee (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N3_wsjW7AY)
James Baker
Carolyn Jones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjcK5tWov-k)
Brownie Ledbetter
Saddam Hussein
Madge Sinclair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZY6yuRFlOk)
Ann-Margaret (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiJ7uQfogKA)
Marcia Strassman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVAUXbQ3dIM naturally, Gabe Kaplan and John Travolta were too "busy" for this)
Bruno Kirby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Ty3fggeBA and he indeed was)
Jay Leno (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OjCPZdgz_8)
Mary McDonnell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgbzAi47ksw)
Elena Kagan
Barry Larkin (a correct answer the other night at trivia)
L'Wren Scott
Kari Wuhrer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyLnvjS2e2M one of my favorite game shows, and my favorite category was "Dead or Canadian")
Bridget Moynahan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB6eISxAd98)
Elisabeth Rohm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulEjJX39N2s)
Jessica Alba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z46pm8WMh5w)
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