Today in History

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1968 W Bush

took the

Air Force officer and pilot qualification tests, scoring 25%, the

lowest

possible passing grade on the pilot aptitude portion. Yet on May 27, after

just six

weeks of basic airman training, the son of HW Bush

received

a commission as a second lieutenant by means of a 'special appointment'

by the

commanding officer of his squadron, with the approval of a panel of

three senior

officers. This achievement normally required eight full semesters of

college

ROTC courses or eighteen months of military service or completion of

Air Force

officer training school.

"Speaker of the House

in Texas at the time, Ben , admitted he had received a request

from a longtime Bush family friend, Sidney Adger of Houston, to help

Bush get into the Air National Guard. further testified that he

contacted the head of the Texas Air National Guard, Brig. Gen.

Rose." Source:

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1968 Eartha Kitt

created a stir when she protested against poverty and the Vietnam War

at a White House

dinner.

1970

USA: Jerry

Rubin addressed an overflow Seattle crowd of 4,000 at the

University

of Washington Student Union Building.

1973 Ferdinand

Marcos became 'President for Life' of the Philippines.

1975

Bob

Dylan releases Blood on the

Tracks,

often considered one of his best albums.

1977 Convicted

murderer

Gilmore was executed by a firing squad in Utah as an

example to our children that killing is wrong,

ending a ten-year moratorium on the death

penalty in the United States.

1982 'Cold

Sunday' in the United

States saw temperatures fall to their lowest levels in more than

100 years

in numerous cities.

1985 British

Telecom announced the retirement of Britain's famous red

telephone boxes.

1985

The Washington Post ran a piece recapping the

sleazy glories of the ‘Rat Pack’. When reporters tried to interview

Sinatra later, he was not happy. "You read The Post

this

afternoon?" he snarled, eyes blazing and index finger waving. "You're

all dead, every one of you. You're all dead."

1988 The

Sandinista leader in Nicaragua,

Ortega,

offered a

ceasefire to the Contras.

1989 A

crazed gunman killed five children and injured 30 in a

Stockton, California school playground.

1991

Gulf

War: Iraq

fired 8 Scud

missiles into Israel in an

unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.

1991 Harald V

became King of

Norway

on the

death of his father, Olav V.

1992 Punk

rock band Green Day

released their second full-length album, Kerplunk.

1994 Los

Angeles experienced an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the

Richter Scale, with the loss of 34 lives.

1995

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called 'the Great

Hanshin

earthquake' occurred near Kobe, Japan, causing great

property

damage and killing more than 6,400 people.

1996 The Czech

Republic applied for membership of the European Union.

1996

Bowie,

Tom Donahue, The Jefferson

Airplane,

Gladys Knight and the Pips, Pink Floyd,

Pete Seeger,

The Shirelles and

the Velvet Underground were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of

Fame.

1997 New Zealand:

Twenty activists were arrested for

trespass at the Waihopai spy station.

1998 Mexico: More

than 2,000 indigenous Tzeltals and Tojolbals from the state

of Chiapas occupied the military barracks of the 39th

Military Zone in protest

over Mexican Army incursions into their communities.

1998 a

accused USA President

Bill

Clinton of sexual harassment

(yawn).

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