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1857 â The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
1941 â The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
1954 â The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
1967 â Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
1991 â Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1995 â Microsoft releases Windows 95 to the public in North America.
1998 â First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2006 â The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
2016 â Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, is discovered by the European Southern Observatory.
2023 â Japan officially begins discharging treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking international concerns and condemnation.
Funny, the feds included them. One of them was the first person shot.
The bad choice that triggered all this? Cutting 2 shotgun barrels (allegedly) 1/4" shorter than the legal minimum without paying for tax stamps. The only crime Weaver actually served time for was for missing a court dateâand you can see the chain of events that led to that here. I'll agree that those are bad choices and stupid reasons to kill people and put the survivors in prison, but I doubt that's what you meant.
I don't have to defend Randy Weaver's beliefs to defend his right to live without feds framing him for a crime and killing his wife and child to prosecute it. Even people you don't like deserve to be left alone. He never hurt anyone and was never a threat to anyone; the violence that devatated his family was instigated by the federal government.
You're free to condemn him as a bad person for what he believed; I condemn the government that tried to kill him for what it did.
Sure, and Al Capone only served time for tax evasion. Weaver was a white nationalist with ties to the Aryan Nations, the Feds certainly did entrap him (completely improper), but it's not like he was just a guy hanging around. I'm not super versed in this, but I think his wife was also pretty into the Aryan Nations stuff. All this is tied up in the Turner Diaries/Neo-Nazi/wannabe revolutionary movement that was especially active in the region at the time. Strictly illegal - No, but not without merit for some extra oversight.
Are our Federal government goons a bit mad about keeping their own power? Sure. Do they have too much leeway? yep. Did they overreach on that already stretched leeway here? Absolutely. Does that make Weaver any less of a jerk? Not to me. He certainly didn't deserve anything that happened to him, but he's hardly an innocent bystander (like his kids were, due to his actions). Weaver himself eventually expressed regret over his actions and said - "I'm not totally without fault in this." (Warning: NYTimes link https://timesmachine.nytimes.c...).
So a slight modification to my previous statement. Every Adult involved with this deserves condemnation. No one deserved to get shot over any of this.
I wouldn't include the kids in the bad people count. But all of the adults made some pretty bad choices for some pretty stupid reasons.
Funny, the feds included them. One of them was the first person shot.
The bad choice that triggered all this? Cutting 2 shotgun barrels (allegedly) 1/4" shorter than the legal minimum without paying for tax stamps. The only crime Weaver actually served time for was for missing a court date—and you can see the chain of events that led to that here. I'll agree that those are bad choices and stupid reasons to kill people and put the survivors in prison, but I doubt that's what you meant.
I don't have to defend Randy Weaver's beliefs to defend his right to live without feds framing him for a crime and killing his wife and child to prosecute it. Even people you don't like deserve to be left alone. He never hurt anyone and was never a threat to anyone; the violence that devatated his family was instigated by the federal government.
You're free to condemn him as a bad person for what he believed; I condemn the government that tried to kill him for what it did.
1775 â American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1831 â Nat Turner's rebellion of enslaved Virginians is suppressed.
1927 â Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1966 â Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1975 â The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration.
1989 â Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the VilniusâTallinn road, holding hands.
1991 â The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
Four of those people were childrenâone was an infantâand three of them survived. One of Randy Weaver's daughters wrote about their experiences and their lives after. Those stories don't fit your image.
I wouldn't include the kids in the bad people count. But all of the adults made some pretty bad choices for some pretty stupid reasons.
No good people in this incident. And there is a throughline from here to today's mess.
Well, you're half right.
Four of those people were children—one was an infant—and three of them survived. One of Randy Weaver's daughters wrote about their experiences and their lives after. Those stories don't fit your image.
1858 â Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1920 â The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
1938 â Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
1940 â In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
1975 â Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1977 â Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1998 â The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1692 â Salem witch trials: In Salem, province of Massachusetts Bay, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., John Proctor, John Willard, and clergyman George Burroughs are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1839 â The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
1927 â Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1934 â The German referendum of 1934 approves Adolf Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer.
1953 â Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
2004 â Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq.
2005 â The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
1920 â The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1958 â Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1977 â Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest, bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
1876 â Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
1945 â The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.
1970 â Soviet Union Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1998 â Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
1876 â Richard Wagner's Siegfried, the penultimate opera in his Ring cycle, is premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
1920 â Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Next day, Chapman will become the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
1939 â The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1965 â The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
1969 â The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in Bethel, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
1977 â The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
1935 â Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
2023 â Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.
1876 â A performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold opens the first Ring cycle at the first Bayreuth Festival.
1918 â Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is established as a public company in Germany.
1942 â Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
1969 â The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York City.<16> That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1942 â Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.
