JUNE 4 — 1997 Terry Nichols gets life improsonment for role in Oklahoma Bombing; 1963 JFK signs act allowing Treasury to issue silver certificates; 2004 Sea of Alaska records highest acidity levels; 2014 Gerdy Scheuers of Rion, WI records world’s largest Smurf collection
JUNE 4
1997 – Terry Nichols gets life term for Oklahoma Bombing role.
The judge called in an enemy of the Constitution, and sentenced Nichols life in prison for his role as an accomplice to Terry McVeigh’s 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building which killed 168 people. Born April 1, 1955, Nichols grew up on a farm in Michigan. He briefly attended Central Michigan U, and then met his future wife Lana Walsh through a real estate transaction.
Several years later Nichols enlisted in Army and was stationed at Ft. Benning, where he met Timothy McVeigh. Nichol’s marriage with Lana was on the rocks, and he was discharged to take care of their son Josh. He tried marriage again, this time with a 17-year old Filipino mail order bride. After keeping in touch with McVeigh, the two decided to go into business in 1992 selling military surplus. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh rolled up in a rental van to the Oklahoma City Federal Building with a 4,000 pound homemade bomb at 9 a.m., when most of the workers had shown up for the day. It was to that point the worst domestic terrorist attack on US soil.
.Two days after the bombing, Nichols turned himself into the pot pos. During the investigation, the police found enough ammonia, fertilizer, blasting caps, and other evidence in Nichol’s apartment to convict him as an accomplice in planning and preparation. On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was sentenced to death. But the jury was deadlocked on Nichols, who instead received life in prison.
After the state trials, he was convicted of one life sentence per every death in the bombing, and one extra one for an unborn child that perished. Terry Nichol’s total life sentences would be a world’s record 161, more than any single person in the history of mankind. Nice going, a-hole.
1942 – Battle Midway begins.
…Japanese Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto south to draw the US Pacific Fleet into a battle where he could overwhelm and destroy it. To accomplish this he planned an invasion of Midway Island which would provide a base for attacking Hawaii. Midway, located about 1300 miles northwest of Hawaii, was a key island was a key to the Pacific defense.
Using decrypted Japanese radio intercepts, Admiral Chester Nimitz was able to counter this offensive. The decryption was led by Lt. Col. Joseph Rochefort, who was able to provide an outline of the Japanese plan of attack as well as the forces involved.
On June 4, 1942, at 04:30 VADM Chuichi Nagurmo, commanding the Japanese carriers, launched 108 planes to attack Midway Island as well as seven scout planes to locate the American fleet. A scout plane was sent out and surprise! US aircraft flying from USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, led by Adm. Raymond Spruance and USS Yorktown led by RADM Frank J. Fletcher showed up with TBD Devastator torpedo bombers from Hornet and Enterprise but didn’t hit any targets.
It did however pull the Japanese combat air patrol out of position, leaving the fleet vulnerable. At 10:22, American SBD Dauntless dive bombers approaching from the southwest and northeast struck the carriers Kaga, Soryu, and Akagi. In less than six minutes they reduced the Japanese ships to burning wrecks.
In response, the remaining Japanese carrier, Hiryu, launched a counterstrike. Arriving in two waves, its planes twice disabled Yorktown. Late that afternoon, American dive bombers located Hiryu and sank it, completing the victory, forcing Yamamoto to withdrawal. This would mark the turning point of WWII in the Pacific.
In August 19742, the great US counteroffensive began at Guadalcanal and did not stop until Japan’s surrender three years later.
Like a boss!
4 1963 Kennedy signs EO11110 and possibly his death warrant.
This Executive Order allowed the Secretary of the Treasury to issue silver certificates for so President John Fitzgerald Kennedy fazing them out to replace them with Federal Reserve notes.
This might be one of the most misunderstood Executive Orders in American history, as Jim Mars’s Book Crossfire and L. Fletchers Prouty’s The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy has completely misrepresented it. Mr. According to these authors, Kennedy was on his way to putting the Federal Reserve Bank of New York out of business.
If enough of these silver certificates were to come into circulation they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve notes.” But that is just not true; it appears these authors didn’t even read the bill. I blame the Fed on a lot of things, including its unlimited funding for every war since WWI, but to blame EO 11m110 on his assassination just doesn’t make sense, since Kennedy was not, despite what the book suggests, trying to demonetize the Fed, he was actually enhancing it. It simply transferred the authority to issue silver certificates from the President to the Secretary of the Treasury, and said nothing about increasing its value.
It didn’t kill Kennedy, sorry conspiracy theorists.
1919 – Happy birthday 19th amendment
…is passed by Congress, later to be ratified on August 18, 1920. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest.
Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.
1974 – Ten Cent beer night!
The Cleveland Indians were playing against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Stadium on Tuesday, June 4 1974.
The idea behind Cleveland’s promotion was to attract more fans by offering 12 oz cups of 3.2% beer for 10 cents each instead of the whole 65 cents with a limit of six per purchase, although there was no limit on the number of purchases made during the game. You’ll never guess what happened!
People got drunk! No way.
The fact that the Rangers led early in the game 5-1 didn’t help. The bases were stolen. Literally by fans coming out on the field with knives, chains and parts of their stadium chars that they had torn apart. The players came out with bats.
I think the most incredible part about that story was that there was a time
2004 — Beautiful Sea of Alaska records highest level of acidity in ocean waters.
Probably the main reason climate change is so highly debated is because different scientists say different things about it, many times depending on who’s paying them. There are even scientists that believe global warming is happening on Mars also, and if there is I doubt my SUV has anything to do with it. Especially since I don’t even have one.
The question in this situation is how does carbon dioxide affect our oceans? According to the UK’s University of Southampton, CO2 combines with water molecules to make a weak acid called carbonic acid. According to National Geographic, carbonic acid is suspected of causing deformities in marine animals. Finding out how much gas is being dissolved; measurements on the pressure of the gas are taken. The higher of the quantity of gas dissolved, the higher the pressure.
On this day in 2004, a sample showed 3.79 micro atmosphere, or about 10 times higher than the average. Meanwhile, the climate change debate rages on.
you could go and 65 cents was the regular rate for beer.
2014 – Gerda Scheuers of Ripon WI, wins the record for largest Smurf memoriabilia, 6,320.
Congratulations, Gerda. She started collecting them as a child in the 70s. She wanted to paint the house blue, but her husband stepped in and said, honey, how about one of the rooms instead. Truth is, Gerda has way more than 7,000 smurfs. She would get more, but they have a mortgage to pay off. True story, she actually admitted that to the Ripon Press. Which by the way, they could get assistance by visiting theresalovesrealestate.com. ‘
Incidentally, these cute little guys should not be confused with a computer smurf attack, which is something IT folks like me run into from time to time, and it’s a distributed denial of service attack on a large scale and can get uglier that Gargamel’s big white butt.
1984 – Born in the USA is released.
…Yeah because I really wanted to see Bruce Springsteen’s butt in front of red and white stripes. Anyway, it was the biggest album of 1985, selling 15 million copies and the best part is that it sold 30 million worldwide. Because it’s alw3ays a good thing when the rest of the world can appreciate America’s greatness.