1926: Harry Houdini dies in Detroit from the effects of a ruptured appendix.
1938: A day after his "War of the Worlds" radio adaptation scared the crap out of thousands, Orson Welles said he was sorry, but couldn't believe what a bunch of gullible fucking saps Americans are. (Not an exact quote.)
1941: The destroyer
U. S. S. Reuben James was torpedoed off Iceland by a Kraut U-Boat, killing some 100 American sailors. This over a month before the United Snakes was pulled into WWII (The Big One) by the Nipponese.
1984: Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh security guards.
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