From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix:zehntel!sytek!menlo70!hao!seismo!harpo!npoiv!alice!id!wizard Newsgroups: net.misc Title: 1983 (an alternate view) Article-I.D.: id.83 Posted: Fri Dec 31 19:03:33 1982 Received: Mon Jan 10 01:08:05 1983 Sun Jan 16 1920 Prohibition begins (1979) Sat Feb 12 1969 Santa Barbara oil leak Mon Feb 14 1945 bombing of Dresden Wed Feb 16 1804 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli Mon Feb 21 1965 Malcolm X assassinated Wed Feb 23 1971 Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina Mon Mar 14 1907 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US Fri Mar 25 1911 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire Mon Apr 4 1968 Martin Luther King assassinated Tue Apr 12 1861 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter Wed May 4 1970 Kent State murders Sun May 8 1972 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor Tue May 17 1974 6 SLA members killed in televised gun fight Mon May 30 1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua Fri Jun 17 1972 4th Watergate break-in interrupted by police, leads to Nix res Sun Jun 19 1953 Rosenbergs executed at Sing Sing Wed Jun 22 1964 3 civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi Mon Jul 4 1776 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote Tue Jul 19 1692 5 Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft Mon Sep 5 1961 Kennedy order resumption of underground nuclear tests Sat Sep 10 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train Fri Oct 7 1974 police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water Mon Oct 10 1973 Agnew resigns Sun Oct 30 1938 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast Mon Nov 7 1837 abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P Lovejoy murdered by mob Thu Nov 10 1865 Cpt Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged Thu Nov 24 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby Thu Dec 15 1890 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest Sat Dec 24 1865 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn Thu Dec 29 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre