1986

The 25th US Space Shuttle mission vehicle “Challenger” explodes a few seconds after take off. The Reagan Administration sells arms to Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran and uses money illegally [i.e., contrary to the so-called Boland Amendment] to fund...

1949

Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong and his supporters gain power in China. George Adamski, grill cook in a roadside hamburger stand, wrote, in his spare time, a document which he called An Imaginary Trip to the Moon, Venus and Mars. He voluntarily listed it...

1943

The U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD, in response to Japan’s full-scale germ warfare program. Donovan recruits the Catholic Church in Rome to be the center of Anglo-American spy operations in Fascist Italy. This would prove to be...