With the aid of 700 French paratroopers, David Dacko mounts a successful coup against the regime of Jean-Bedel Bokassa in the Central African Republic. Wait there's more Sep 20 1970A jury in Miami (), Florida finds vocalist Jim Morrison () guilty of profanity and indecent exposure for whipping out his cock at a Doors concert in Coconut Grove the previous year.Ī Beechcraft D-18 charter plane crashes into a tree near Natchitoches, Louisiana, killing singer/songwriter Jim Croce, his lead guitarist, and the entire flight crew. The perpetrators claimed they had been trained by Iran, but Iran denied any involvement. The Saudi government beheads 16 Kuwaiti terrorists in public after convicting them of a deadly bombing at the Great Mosque in Mecca two months earlier. And we have talent." Watt is forced to resign 18 days later over these comments. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. Chamber of Commerce: "We have every mixture you can have. Ronald Reagan ()'s Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, describes his staff's racial diversity to the U.S. Horror author Stephen King born in Portland, Maine. He donates the monument to the British state three years later.
Cecil Chubb purchases Stonehenge and 30 acres of land at auction. Yesterday in Rotten History Sep 21 1597The Dean of Guild, William Dun, receives a bonus of 47 pounds, 3 shillings, and 4 pence for "the great number of witches burnt this year." The action results from the ongoing Toxic Shock Syndrome controversy. In a stunning blow to America's feminine hygiene, consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble initiates the largest tampon recall in history, pulling Rely Tampons from store shelves. No government ever claims responsibility for the secret test. The spotlight on his personal life causes him to complain: "My sexual orientation has nothing to do with saving the President's life."Ī two-to-three kiloton nuclear bomb () explodes in the waters off remote Bouvet Island, near Antarctica.
Sipple, a closeted gay man, is later outed by the press. Before she can assassinate () the President, a bystander named Oliver "Bill" Sipple grabs Moore's arm. 38 revolver and points it at Gerald Ford (). Francis Hotel in San Francisco (), Sara Jane Moore pulls out a Smith and Wesson. Edward's wife Isabella had the King's lover, Hugh le Despenser Younger, executed the previous year. Thus have times changed, and not least because of the courage and sacrifice Paul Robeson, singer, actor, activist.Today in Rotten History Sep 22 1327The deposed King Edward II of England is murdered with a red-hot poker shoved up his rectum - a gruesome punishment reserved strictly for homosexuals. The same Robeson who in the 1950s was robbed of his passport, blackballed by a frightened artistic establishment and shunned as a pariah well might be no more than a slightly controversial (but coveted) guest on the talk shows today. But did he? His protests that scandalized Americans in the 1930s and 1940s would hardly cause a ripple today. Frustrated, exasperated, embittered finally, he sometimes seemed to embrace the cause of America's adversaries. It was, pathetically, his rejection by his native land that impelled him to say of Russia, "For the first time I walked the earth in complete dignity there." The proud and passionate man with the deep, melancholy voice said some bitter things about America. He had lived in Russia for a year and, as the Russians lionized him, he disastrously came to regard the Soviet Union as a progressive human experiment rather than as a destroyer of freedom. As the established civil rights movements, notably the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People found him too hot to handle, he almost inevitably drifted toward the extreme left.
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