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Several Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants across the United States pull their powdered donuts from shelves due to the ongoing anthrax panic.

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) gives a speech on the House floor in a full burqa to demonstrate the repressive conditions women and girls face under Sharia Law in places like Afghanistan.

George W. Bush’s Madame Tussaud’s Times Square wax statue is placed outdoors to raise the morale of New Yorkers.

A frustrated Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania mother trying to convince loan office Sallie Mae that her debtor-son is, in fact, deceased, mails the agency spoonfuls of the departed’s ashes, causing a lockdown for potential anthrax exposure.

Mike Mansfield, U.S. Congressman (D-MT) from 1943 to 1953; U.S. Senator (D-MT) from 1953 to 1977; and U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988 dies in Washington, DC. He was 98. At age 14, after achieving only a middle school education, Mansfield enlisted in WWI and served in the US Navy throughout the war, and then he served in the Army and Marines until 1922, when he retired from military service aged 19. He married his wife, Maureen, in 1932, and they remained married for 68 years until her death last year.

The U.S. Supreme Court suspends former President Bill Clinton’s license to practice law in Arkansas after he failed to complete continuing legal education requirements.

Gloria/Gregory Hemingway, hunter, physician, and child of Ernest Hemingway, dies in jail in Key Biscayne, Florida. He/she was 69. On the day of his/her death, Hemingway was due in court on charges of indecent exposure and resisting arrest. Like Ernest, Gloria/Gregory suffered from alcoholism for many years. The child was born Gregory Hemingway in 1931, but cross-dressed throughout childhood. Ernest Hemingway was almost entirely ambivalent about his child’s cross-dressing, and commented “this clothes business is something that I have never been able to control.” In 1993, Gloria/Gregory underwent surgery, but did not identify as a woman. In 1999, the surgery was reversed and Gloria/Gregory began calling him/herself “Greg” full-time, but continued cross-dressing. At the time of his/her death, Gloria/Gregory identified as both a man and a woman but did not identify as transgender.