Here is your Today in History -
International Women's Day is March 8. That also happens to be the birthday of Kathy Ireland (born in 1963), best known for looking really good when half-naked. Kathy is not the daughter of Patricia Ireland, former president of the National Organization of Women, because there was already enough irony in the world at the time of her birth.
On March 8, 1950, the Soviet Union announced that it had possession of the atomic bomb. This baffled the western powers, who were sure they had left it somewhere safe. 33 years later, on this date, the ever swift President Ronald Reagan gets around to calling the Soviets, "an evil empire".
March 8, 1968 -
The Soviet submarine, K-129, sinks in the Pacific Ocean, killing all 97 crewmembers aboard. Later in the year a U.S. submarine secretly retrieves an encryption machine, codebooks, and nuclear warheads from the Soviet vessel. A further bold attempt is made in 1974 to bring up the entire submarine using the CIA ship Glomar Explorer, built by Howard Hughes. That mission supposedly fails, and is made public by the Los Angeles Times to the great embarrassment of the Agency.
March 8, 1973 -
Paul McCartney is fined 100 pounds for growing marijuana at his farm on the Mull of Kintyre. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
March 8, 1997 -
Chad Lamansky and Daniel Myers, a pair of teenagers in Davis County, Iowa, slip into an animal shelter at night and beat 16 cats to death with a baseball bat. A jury later determined that the cats had a value less than $30 each, ruling out the possibility of a felony conviction.
March 8, 1998 -
In Ladson, South Carolina, Daniel Rudolph -- brother of Olympic Games bombing and abortion clinic bombing suspect Eric Rudolph (a fugitive) -- videotapes himself severing his own hand with a power saw in order to "send a message to the FBI and the media". Mmmm, inbreeding?
March 8, 1999 -
Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. And did you leave your Mr. Coffee machine on?
And so it goes.
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