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2015—It snows so hard in Portsmouth that mail carriers fail to make their appointed rounds.

2008—The NSA warns that a malfunctioning, bus-size spy satellite will fall out of orbit soon.

2005—Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney wears a down parka and ski cap to an Auschwitz memorial ceremony.

2005—Salon reveals that hack writer Michael McManus has been paid $10,000 to promote Bush programs.

2000—“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family,” says George W.[MD] Bush in Nashua.

1987—Gorbachev announces the new policy of glasnost.

1973—Eleven hours before a cease fire between the U.S. and North Vietnam takes effect, an artillery shell makes Col. William B. Nolde the last official American combat casualty of the Vietnam War.

1972—White house “plumber” G. Gordon Liddy presents Attorney General John Mitchell with a plan to disrupt the Democratic Convention using “mugging squads, kidnapping teams, and prostitutes.” The plan is rejected—because it’s too expensive.

1970—Nixon’s Palace Guard gets new uniforms: white with gold buttons and aiguillettes, topped by comic opera hats. They last two weeks.

1967—A fire in the Apollo capsule kills three astronauts.

1957—Martin Luther King’s home is bombed for the second time.

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