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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
June 16:
1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard "Gun Happy" Goetz
acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths
who tried to rob him.
June 17:
1954 - Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends.
1957 - Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city
stores).
June 18:
1815 - It is stories like this that remind you why you
can't put faith in the leadership of The Man... The Battle of Waterloo
- Contributing to Napoleon's defeat was his inability to properly survey
the battlefield due to his aggravated hemorrhoids. What a pain in the
ass! (More
Info)
1872 - Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile
Liberty Hall.
1873 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote
for President.
June 19:
1964 - This one has nothing at all to do with the Establishment,
but it is wonderful news - The first topless bar in the United States
opens on this date, in San Francisco.
1967 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction
in U.S. Army.
June 20:
1988 - The Man put it in her way....
Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera.
June 21:
1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by
Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican
heliocentric views.
June 22:
1990 - Damn The Man! Florida passes
a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit.
June 23:
1970 - Chubby gets pinched - Rocker
Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana pocession.
1972 - Nixon & Haldeman agree to
use CIA to cover up Watergate.
June 24:
1977 - IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid
no taxes in 1976.
1982 - Equal Rights Amendment goes
down to defeat.
June 25:
 1876
- Got what was comin' to 'em - Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by
Sioux & Cheyenne at Little Big Horn. Why was he asking for it? Custer
had divided his forces into three parts in order to maximize the number
of indian casualties.
2002 - The National Association of Securities Dealers
fined U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray and a managing director a total of
$300,000 for allegedly telling a drug company the securities firm would
drop research coverage if the firm was not used as a stock offering
underwriter. (More
Info)
June 26:
1968 - Pope Paul VI declares that the
bones of Apostle and first Pope, Saint Peter, were found underneath
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The bones are now housed in plexiglass
containers near where they were found, but some of them are clearly
those of domesticated animals.(More
Info )
1999 - U.S. government acknowledged
for the first time that thousands of workers were made sick while making
nuclear weapons and announced a plan to compensate many of them.
June 27:
1973 - John W. Dean tells Watergate
Committee about Nixon's "enemies list".
June 28:
1971 - Supreme Court overturns draft
evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
2002 - Xerox was forced to restate earnings to reflect
$1.4 billion less in pre-tax profits over the past five years as part
of a settlement with the SEC which also included a $10 million penalty.
June 29:
1949 - South Africa begins implementing
apartheid; no mixed marriages.
June 30:
1986 - The Supreme Court ruled 5-4
that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1994 - The U.S. Figure Skating Association
stripped Tonya Harding of the 1994 national championship and banned
her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
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