1877

The new, fraudulently elected Republican administration uses federal troops to attack union strikers for the first time, as it removes federal troops enforcing Reconstruction in the South.

1974

The Supreme Court unanimously upholds the special prosecutor's subpoena of Nixon tapes.

1983

President Reagan simultaneously issues a televised appeal for a liver donor for a single young girl in Texas while gutting federal participation in the coordination of organ donor services nationally.

1998

After two Capitol policemen are killed keeping a gunman from reaching his office, House majority whip Tom DeLay flies off to a Dallas fundraiser without offering condolences to the officers' families.