170-166: The Perfect Crime

170: Al Qaeda suicide bombers crash a small craft into the USS Cole killing 17 sailors ft. Former USS Cole Commander Kirk Lippold

169: The last draft lottery for the US military is held

168: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization – a process to strengthen rubber

167: In a crime that outraged the nation, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murder 14 year old Bobby Franks ft Professor of History & Political Science at John Jay College & author of For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago, Simon Baatz

166: The Supreme Court rules that Africans aboard the ship Amistad were taken into slavery illegally