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Two county commissioners drink tainted water at Rajneeshpuram; both fall ill

Rajneeshpuram followers planned to sicken Wasco County voters before the November election.

Rajneeshpuram's leaders wanted control of Wasco County, Oregon, and they had already been denied the building permits they needed to keep expanding. On August 29, 1984, two visiting Wasco County commissioners were handed glasses of water laced with Salmonella bacteria during a visit to the commune. Both men grew sick. It was an early test of a delivery method the group's followers would use on a far larger scale weeks later, when contaminated salad bars sickened hundreds of residents of The Dalles…

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Farmers under arms close the Northampton court before it can sit

They call themselves Regulators and say the courts have become the enemy of the people who fought the Revolution.
1958

1,145 cadets trade Lowry's barracks for a half-built campus in Colorado Springs

Some buildings still lack finishing touches, but the Air Force Academy finally has a permanent home.
2005

Katrina comes ashore at Buras; hours later, New Orleans is drowning

Fifty-three levee and floodwall breaches put 80 percent of the city underwater by nightfall.
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Nearly 7,825 men fight to a standstill after the French fleet sails off and leaves the Americans alone.
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1962

AEC detonates 'Sedan' 636 feet underground at Yucca Flat; 12 million tons of earth go skyward

The radioactive cloud is already drifting east, and early tracking puts fallout exposure across the Midwest at more than 13 million people.
1958

Eisenhower signs Alaska into the union; the territory has waited forty years for this moment

The House voted 210-166, the Senate 64-20; Alaska is cleared to become the 49th state, though formal admission is not yet complete.
1962

AT&T's Telstar 1 rides a Delta rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral

The 88-centimeter sphere is now circling Earth; AT&T says it is built to carry live television across the Atlantic.
1962

NASA picks lunar orbit rendezvous as its path to the Moon

A command ship will hold orbit while a separate lander descends to the surface, and one Saturn V rocket can carry the whole mission.
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