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1967: Ballet Superstars Busted Jul 11, 2019

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A complaint in the Haight leads to the cops breaking up a hippie pot party. Among those under arrest: Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn. Rudy pouts and tells reporters, "You're all children!"

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1925: The Scopes Monkey Trial Jul 10, 2019

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The nation is captivated as Clarence Darrow battles William Jennings Bryan over evolution in a — but very real — trial. "Do you think about things you DO think about?"

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1893: A Medical Moses Jul 09, 2019

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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who ran the first African American-owned hospital in the U.S., was sure he'd performed the first successful open-heart surgery. It was actually the second, but he was still a giant.

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1987: Oliver North Testifies Jul 08, 2019

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The Reagan administration was trading arms for hostages in the Middle East and supporting right-wing rebels in Nicaragua. North's idea was to put the two together, and that was Iran-Contra.

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Best of NYC: You'll Get No Theme and You'll Like It! Jul 05, 2019

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More of our favorite episodes for your longer-form holiday listening, with stories about banana-smoking hippies, Evel Knievel, Randy Shilts and Herb Caen.

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Best of NYC: True Crime! Jul 04, 2019

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From the SFPD bunko scandal to the possibly imaginary criminal element of North Beach's topless joints, revisit our favorite law-and-order tales.

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1995: Talking With the Unabomber Jul 03, 2019

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"I'm just very fortunate that I'm not dead," UC Berkeley professor Tom Tyler said after receiving a letter from the Unabomber. It was his manifesto, not a mail bomb. And Tyler wrote back.

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1937: Amelia Earhart Disappears Jul 02, 2019

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The press called her Lady Lindy. She looked a little like Charles Lindbergh, but she was also a record-seeting flyer in her own right — an aviatrix, they called her. Now, an around-the-world flight almost done, she went missing.

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1946: The A-Bomb at Bikini Atoll Jul 01, 2019

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For the first time, the world knows about a nuclear weapon being detonated before it happens. Some of the most brilliant scientists and engineers in the world ... have no idea what they're doing.

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1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated Jun 28, 2019

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Gavrilo Princip was pouting in a cafe after missing his chance to assassinate the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Then the archduke's driver took a wrong turn down a narrow street — right in front of Princip.

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