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1994
Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet
1993
Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123 degrees C (record high)
1993
NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1992
Washington Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1989
AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
1988
Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988
ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
1988
New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
1988
Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
1988
Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
1988
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
1988
NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1987
Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
1987
Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart
1986
London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
1986
Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1982
1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1982
New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1981
Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays, AIDS
1981
Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in U.S. history
1977
Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb
1976
Government halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis
1976
Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow
1975
University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance
1975
Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1975
French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
1974
John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City
1974
Expert panel reports 18 -m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
1973
New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1973
VP Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign (Right!)
1971
New York Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music
1971
Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of U.S. soldiers in SE Asia
1970
New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance
1969
New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause
1969
University of Arizona reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)
1968
China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji
1968
Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover
1968
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks
1967
China reports downing of 2 U.S. bombers
1967
New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
1964
US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
1963
Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move Kansas City A's to Oakland
1962
Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
1962
North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1962
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1960
Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
1959
France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
1958
U.S. reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM
1958
Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
1956
RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records
1954
President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb, done in 1952
1953
Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb
1953
Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
1952
Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
1951
New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found
1951
Senate committee reports of at least 2 major U.S. crime syndicates
1950
New York Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain
1950
General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1948
Chicago Tribune reports: "Dewey beats Truman"
1948
Columbia U reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
1945
Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
1942
German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
1942
Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
1941
Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
1933
Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Washington D.C.
1930
NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
1930
Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1929
U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1926
Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated)
1920
New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
1918
United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1917
AP reports Mexico and Japan will allie with Germany if U.S. enters WW I
1916
General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits"
1914
German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
1906
NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo
1904
Boston Herald again refers to New York baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913
1901
Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
1893
The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
1858
Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1849
New York Herald reports gold discovery in California
1790
Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
1783
Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1686
Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1683
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reports existence of bacteria
1677
King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
1666
Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
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