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Feb 2, 1979: Sid Vicious Dies of a Drug Overdose in New York City

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Facebook To the New York City Police Department and Medical Examiner’s Office, he was John Simon Ritchie, a 22-year-old Englishman under indictment for murder but now dead of a heroin overdose in a Greenwich Village apartment. To the rest of…

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Feb 1, 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini Returns to Iran

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On February 1, 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic…

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Jan 29, 1979: School Shooting in San Diego

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Brenda Spencer kills two men and wounds nine children as they enter the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. Spencer blazed away with rifle shots from her home directly across the street from the school. After 20 minutes of…

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Dec 24, 1979: Soviet Tanks Roll Into Afghanistan

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. As midnight approached, the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three…