1961 – John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. giving hippies one more thing to incessantly talk about besides weed.

1954 – The US tests the Hydrogen Bomb in the Marshal Islands giving all the Pacific Islander extra arms and noses as an Easter Present.

1978 – Charlie Chaplin’s coffin is stolen in Switzerland and is later found in a shack eating a shoe.

1978 – IRA leader Bobby Sands starts a hunger strike. He died 65 days later from a broken heart.

2005 – Dennis Rader, better known as the BTK killer, was sentenced to 175 years in prison for 10 counts of capital murder. Later when asked if he thought the sentencing was fair, he said that he thought the jury was prejudiced against “fellas with beards.”

1922 – Tornados are invented.

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