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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review The Man and the fight against
Him in history:
October 1:
1989 - U.S. issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as
a brontosaurus.
October 2:
1967 - Right on! Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood
Marshall, the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief
counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) in the 1940s and '50s, Marshall was the architect and
executor of the legal strategy that ended the era of official racial
segregation.
1967 - Police raid the Haight-Ashbury residence of the
Grateful Dead, busting all six members for possession.
October 3:
1995 - You can get away with murder... At the end of a
sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of
the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson,
and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson's
"dream team" of lawyers employed creative and controversial
methods to convince jurors that Simpson's guilt had not been proved
"beyond a reasonable doubt," thus surmounting what the prosecution
called a "mountain of evidence" implicating him as the murderer.
Simpson had no alibi for the time frame of the murders. Some 40 minutes
after the murders were committed, a limousine driver sent to take Simpson
to the airport saw a man in dark clothing hurrying up the drive of his
Rockingham estate. A few minutes later, Simpson spoke to the driver
though the gate phone and let him in. During the previous 25 minutes,
the driver had repeatedly called the house and received no answer.
A single leather glove found outside Simpson's home matched a glove
found at the crime scene. In preliminary DNA tests, blood found on the
glove was shown to have come from Simpson and the two victims. After
his arrest, further DNA tests would confirm this finding. Simpson had
a wound on his hand, and his blood was a DNA match to drops found at
the Brentwood crime scene. Nicole Brown Simpson's blood was discovered
on a pair of socks found at the Rockingham estate. Simpson had recently
purchased a "Stiletto" knife of the type the coroner believed
was used by the killer. Shoe prints in the blood at Brentwood matched
Simpson's shoe size and later were shown to match a type of shoe he
had owned. Neither the knife nor shoes were found by police. (History
Channel)
October 4:
1988 - Televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted on federal
charges of mail and wire fraud and of conspiring to defraud the public.
The case against the founder of Praise the Lord (PTL) Ministries and
three of his aides exploded in the press when it was revealed that Bakker
had sex with former church secretary Jessica Hahn.
 October
5:
1990 - Censorship doesn't jive. Cincinnati jury acquits
art gallery of obscenity in displaying Robert Mapplethorpe photos.
2001 - Do you hate ice breakers and team building exercises
at work? You should. The Man is behind them. Don't believe me?
On this date a dozen Burger King marketing execs
suffer first- and second-degree burns while walking over hot coals
as part
of a team-building retreat.. One of the injured, a VP for
product marketing aptly named Dana Frydman, tries to put a positive
spin on having her feet flame-broiled like so much ground chuck. "It
made you feel a sense of empowerment and that you can accomplish anything," she
tells the Miami Herald. (More
Info)
October 6:
1992 - While discussing the terms of the vice-presidential
debate, Quayle's aide suggested that "props" be allowed, mainly
because the Vice-President wanted to read directly from Al Gore's book
on the environment, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit.
Gore's people agreed, saying that the Senator would then use a potato
as a prop. Quayle quickly abandoned the proposal. -- (reported in The
NY Times, 10/6/92)
October 7:
1999 - Win one for the people - American Home Products Corp. resolved
one of the biggest product liability cases ever by agreeing to pay up
to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination
caused dangerous heart valve problems.
October 8:
In 1982, all labor organizations in Poland, including
Solidarity, were banned. (More
Info)
October 9:
1919 - The Chicago White Sox lose the World Series, after
accepting bribes to throw the games.
1951 - Damn The Man! RKO Corporation asks Marilyn Monroe
to wear panties under her dress while working.
 October
10:
1973 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest
to one count of federal income tax evasion, and resigned his office.
October 11:
2000 - "I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort
against racial profiling, which is illiterate children." - George
Bush during the second presidential debate.
October 12:
1518 - Sticking it to The Man, 1500's style - Summoned
before Cardinal Thomas Cajetan, German reformer Martin Luther, 35, refused
to recant the 95 theses he had posted the previous October on the chapel
door at Wittenberg Castle.
1995 - David McLean, who appeared in many Marlboro television
and print advertisements starting in the early 1960s, died of cancer
at age 73.
 October
13:
1988 - The Bishop of Turin, Italy announced that the Shroud
of Turin, long believed to be Christ's burial sheet, did not withstand
scientific testing. It dated back only to 1280, and not to the time
of Jesus' crucifixion. This does not stop the shroud's continued veneration.
(More Info)
October 14:
1964 - Right on! Civil rights leader Martin Luther King
Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 15:
1990 - South Africa's Separate Amenities Act, which had
barred blacks from public facilities for decades, was formally scrapped.
1991 - The Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of
Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48. He was nominated despite
opposition from the NAACP, the National Bar Association, and the Urban
League. Plus, testimony from Anita Hill, who charged that Thomas harassed
her with inappropriate discussion of sexual acts and pornographic films
after she rebuffed his invitations to date him. (More
Info)
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