December 21
The precise moment of the 2005 solstice will be December 21, 2005 at 1:35 P.M. EST (18:35 UT)
1919
Amid a strike for union recognition by 395,000 steelworkers, the “Red Scare” is launched with the deportation of Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, and some 250 other radicals. They were deported to Russia aboard the S. S. Buford (“The Soviet Ark”) from the “Land of the Free.”
J. Edgar Hoover, heading the Justice Department’s General Intelligence Division, advanced his career by implementing to the fullest extent possible the government’s plan to deport all foreign-born radicals.
1969
Seven hundred supporters visited jailed Vietnam War resisters at Allenwood Federal Penitentiary, Pennsylvania.
1989
Vice President Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Christmas cards with the word beacon misspelled”beakon.”
“May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.”
— The Quayles’ 1989 Christmas card.
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