Third of 12—INDEPENDENCE DAY: Deborah Foley, of Martinsville, virginia fatally shoots Robert J. Preston, who had physically attacked her for the second time in one day.

       [added 2/24/2024] Thanks to Chuck McGlawn for this entry.

       DEPENDENCE DAY: While the United States Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,”  retired Air Force Lieutenant General James R. Clapper, Jr., Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, in an interview with Katherine Shrader, of Associated Press, boasts of his agency’s record of satellite surveillance of the nation: “This was kind of a direct payback to the taxpayers for the investment made in this agency over the years, even though in its original design it was intended for foreign intelligence purposes.”

       [added 8/22/2020] Thanks to Matt Drudge for this entry.