2009 -- Nashua-born news anchor Ernie Anastos tells a weatherman, on air, "Keep fucking that chicken."
2001 -- Dick "Dick" Cheney vows to work on "the dark side" -- his only side.
1992 -- Rudy Giuliani uses a bullhorn to lead 10,000 cops in a riot protesting a civilian police review board.
1976 -- Nelson Rockefeller, Veep, is photographed "giving the finger" to students at SUNY Binghamton.
1975 -- After winning by 355 votes, losing a recount by ten votes, and winning a ballot appeal by two votes, notorious Red-baiter Louis Wyman [R] -- an appointed but not-seated Senator for three days -- loses a special election to the droll John Durkin [D].
1968 -- Richard M. Nixon appears on "Laugh-In" and says, "Sock it to me" -- which, eventually, they do.
1932 -- Peg Entwhistle's dramatic career comes to an abrupt end at the foot of the Hollywoodland sign.
1920 -- A bomb in a horse-drawn-wagon explodes in front of the J.P. Morgan building on Wall Street, killing 38 and wounding 400.