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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
April 15:
1989 - Students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy
protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang;
the protests culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre.
April 16:
1992 - The House ethics committee listed 303 current and
former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.
April 17:
1996 - Encryption software export law challenges
On this day in 1996, a federal judge ruled that
a software company had the right to challenge laws restricting export
of encryption-security technology.
Fearful that powerful encryption software could
be a dangerous asset to terrorists, the government prohibited the export
of all but the least powerful encryption codes. In 1995, a graduate
student at the University of California at Berkeley sued the government
for prohibiting him from posting his encryption code on the Internet
for discussion.
The government requested that the lawsuit be dismissed.
However, the judge ruled that computer code qualifies as "speech"
protected by the First Amendment and that the lawsuit was valid. The
computer industry, lobbying for encryption export rights-which could
generate some $60 billion and 200,000 jobs-applauded the ruling.
However, a conflicting decision in a similar but
unrelated 1998 encryption lawsuit put the issue in question again, and
the government and software industry continued to wrestle with the issue.
(History Channel)
April 18:
1989 - Thousands of Chinese students take to the streets in Beijing
to protest government policies and issue a call for greater democracy
in the communist People's Republic of China (PRC). The protests grew
until the Chinese government ruthlessly suppressed them in June during
what came to be known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
April 19:
1993 - The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco,
Texas, ended when fire destroyed the structure after federal agents
began smashing their way in. Dozens of people, including leader David
Koresh, were killed. FBI agent Bob Ricks said the fire appeared to be
a mass suicide.
April 20:
1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace.
April 21:
1986 - Big fat waste of time organized by The Man - Geraldo Rivera
opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing.
April 22:
1954 - The televised Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.
April 23:
1985 - Coca Cola Bottling Co. announces that it has changed the formula
for Coke, and will start marketing the recipe of The Man called "New
Coke".
April 24:
1989 - Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
April 25:
1901 - New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1
fee)
April 26:
1968 - Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1986 - Like nobody would find out?! Chernobyl nuclear accident reported
by the USSR, after Scandinavian countries reported unusual amounts of
radiation.
1991 - Michigan judge Francis Bourissea tells a reporter for the Ludington
Daily News that he did not approve of abortion "except in cases
of rapes of whites by blacks" or victims of incest. He wins lots
of new friends!
April 27:
1986 - Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts
HBO
April 28:
1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army &
stripped of boxing title
April 29:
1992 - An all-white jury in the Los Angeles suburb of
Simi Valley acquits four police officers who had been charged with using
excessive force in arresting black motorist Rodney King a year earlier.
The announcement of the verdict, which enraged the black community,
prompted widespread rioting throughout much of the sprawling city. It
wasn't until three days later that the arson and looting finally ended.
The events claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage.
April 30:
1955 - A few University of Iowa men students released
a little pent-up energy. What did they do? They conducted panty raids
at women’s dorms. Some say the Hawkeyes were still celebrating
their February 28th basketball win (72-70) over the Golden Gophers of
the University of Minnesota. Others think the men were celebrating the
fact that enough snow had melted after the long winter to make it possible
to find the women’s dorms again. In any case, panty raids became
the in thing to do at colleges everywhere. Now that colleges have coed
dorms, the raids have become a part of collegiate history along with
the swallowing of goldfish.
1967 - Muhammad Ali stripped of Heavyweight Boxing Title
for refusing to kill people in Vietnam
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