July 14, 2003 — Valerie Plame is outed as a spy
In one of the more astonishing displays of the Bush administration’s belief that it was above the law, Valerie Plame...
August 9, 2013
Crime & Law
February 5, 2004 — Undocumented workers drowned in Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay is located in Lancashire, England, and is the site of a traditional cockle picking area. But as with...
August 4, 2013
February 25, 2004 — Niyazov bans beards in Turkmenistan
Just in case there was any remaining doubt that he was a raving loony, Saparmurat Niyazov, President For Life of...
July 29, 2013
June 27, 2005 — Bunny Greenhouse testifies regarding Halliburton’s corruption
Bunny Greenhouse was a rising star in the United States Army Corps of Engineers until the year 2000. Suddenly, under...
June 4, 2013
August 29, 2005 — Hurricane Katrina destroys much of New Orleans
At 6:10AM on the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made a landfall on the Louisiana coast near Buras-Triumph....
May 29, 2013
December 13, 2005 — Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams executed
Tookie Williams wasn’t anyone’s idea of a nice guy. He was one of the leading members of the notorious Crips...
May 24, 2013
June 6, 2013 — The Guardian and The Washington Post report on PRISM surveillance
Edward Snowden became a household name when he leaked a series of explosive documents detailing the NSA’s PRISM program, which...
March 29, 2012
October 5, 2014 — Robert Kennedy Jr. dumps the corpse of a brown bear in Central Park
While Robert Kennedy Jr. has done some weird things in his time, this is probably the weirdest. This entry is...
March 25, 2012
December 11, 2015 — George Pell “too unwell” to appear before Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Cardinal George Pell’s legal team communicated to the Royal Commission on this date that he was too unwell to travel...
March 19, 2012
April 30, 2024 — Police “restore order” at Cal Poly Humboldt
Cal Poly Humboldt was only one of the many, many universities across the world that saw students protest the Israeli...
August 24, 2011
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